skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was a few things all tied in together:

1) their "device simulators" could not be relied upon

2) certain devices running certain versions of their OSs would have APIs function or not (i.e: a library call may work in one OS version and not in another, but only on one type of device)

3) every time you wanted to run any code on a device, it needed to be signed by blackberry's signing servers - which were often down or slow (waits of 40-60 seconds were common). (it no longer exists, but we had http://isthesigningserverdown.com to help us know)

4) sometimes the devices just restarted, either when you tried to load something or sometimes when you made certain API calls. Blackberry devices took MINUTES to start.

5) logging infrastructure was basically non-existent... logs went to a hidden log page, (ctrl+lglg to access it and view/scroll on the bb device) - we wrote our own network logger lib to basically `tee` to the builtin logger and back to our desktop consoles.

the first 3 points combined meant you often had to iterate on real hardware, waiting 40-60 seconds to deploy each time, only to have it explode in your face by restarting and then frustrating you by not being able to figure out what was going on.

I'm sure i've forgotten much more.
My company owns a /16 and everybody gets an static address for each device, so I currently "own" two global IPv4 addresses. But everything is firewalled to hell and we need to connect through a proxy, so what's the point?
Life is a marathon, not a sprint. The fact he made it big now says nothing about his or your future.
I like that term. Going to try to slip that into conversations every now and then. Thanks for the inspiration.
> What's gets very unclear what happens if someone doesn't have any "center of their life" anywhere.

Ukrainian tax code has similar provisions about “center of life interest” and “staying more than 183 days”, and a backup clause stating that if your tax residency status cannot be clearly determined with the above approach then you are considered a resident if you are a citizen.

I guess this covers the case where you claim that you don't have to pay taxes in Ukraine just because no other country has considered you a tax resident and you never paid any taxes there, so you can't use that to argue that you're a non-resident as far as Ukraine in concerned.
that case is beyond scope of the three body problem
I'd add also: if your friendship is important to both of you it's also up to your friend to handle this properly. If your friend doesn't care, then stop calling it friendship and move on.
That depends on the country and double taxation treaty. E.g. my country (a EU country that is not US) considers me a tax resident since I have 'permanent residence' in the country (weird concept that does not cease when you leave the country, you need to actively go to the bureau and ask it to be terminated, which a lot of people just ignore because they live in other EU country first as students and then they start working etc). You can have this permanent residence even if you haven't lived in the country for 15 years.

Article 4, bullet point 1

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
> No other language has people claiming what the Lisp people claim. Many langs claim to be influenced by Lisp, or try to do things that Lisp can do, or do things that started in Lisp (which is just about everything but OOP). But the Lisp crowd doesn’t see a need to be like other languages. It’s like fat people want to date fit people, but fit people do not want to date fat people.

Considering the whole article is about how to get more users for Racket, maybe they're not doing so well in the dating pool? The author also seems to have forgotten static typing. Isn't Typed Racket precisely the Lisp crowd seeing a need to be like other languages?
As someone who has worked in marketing and communications in tech in the past, I can tell you that this is one of the most frustrating and common parts of the role. When a new product, or an announcement doesn’t go over well, there’s always the refuge for an embattled leader to say the message was broken or not explained properly. I think everyone understands this message perfectly well, Apple. Sorry you didn’t have a second chance to finesse it to the point of it being a lie.
Haha who is getting rich from patents? I started my career at a small R&D company which generated aerospace intellectual property and patents, and in general the process was slow, expensive, and not too lucrative since the patents were very specific!
Classic HN: Kids can't use computers and this is why it should worry you
I have had a couple of my college buddies startup and work on their own and become wealthy, the side effect of this was their attitude change and entitlement and them looking at me differently because i was working a job. At some point, i decided to cut my ties with them because they had utter disregard to my life context and why i had to choose a job over starting up. I still want to work on my own, but my responsibilities,dependencies and life context is different, which is why i continue to work a job to save and buy some time to do things on my own. I will take time, meanwhile they can bask in their glory. Unfortunately, they don’t have a place in my life. Just sharing my experience here.
Thorn isn't claiming that "the database is full of false positives." Once again you are conflating claims of false positives in the origin database with rates of false positives in a perceptual hashing algorithm. You are so catastrophically confused that ongoing dialogue serves no purpose. Goodbye.
Someone here posted a while back the idea that maybe force a patent renewal every few years. Say original patents are good for 5 years and you can renew at an increasing fee each year after up to 15 years.

There are solutions, it just takes the political will. The patent office is funded through patent fees and appears to suffer no consequence for issuing bad patents. So the patent office seems to be encouraged to keep issuing patents good or bad…
Well, Marx will always appear correct from a Sociological perspective. It's at the foundation of that perspective.
Opus – an open source parallel corpus
Does this rule actually make sense? So instead of moving from Spain to e.g. Cayman Islands, you move from Spain to the UK, become UK taxpayer (in something like 180 days), cease being Spanish taxpayer, then move from the UK to Cayman Islands. Saves 4 years!

This is just another example of braindead legislation created by people who are unable to consider the full spectrum of the consequences of the law (beyond just the "intended" effects) and/or their primary motivation is publicity ("look at all these great laws I passed!")
I don't really want to defend Google here, but the best PWA experience for both Android and desktop is actually with Chrome.
Well, according to my question they live in a country where they can :)

And, no, this was not a legal question at all. Can you pinpoint what exactly makes the expectation of friendship and marriage different in this context? Assume both people have full-time jobs, both take care of children the same amount of time, etc.
there is no closed form, like you say, and the additional complexity is around ergodicity, i.e. solutions that start close to each other might end up very far from each other after a certain point. this is also an issue with computer simulations as the error might accumulate and push solutions away. in practice, given the amount of cosmological computations people do on a daily basis, including those for satellites and rockets, this might not necessarily be that big of an issue, but i don't work with that stuff on a daily basis.
This is too real. The ultimate tax is on your time, especially as a foreigner.
IMO 'likes' pushes extreme views more than anything else, for news especially. The majority people in the middle of spectrum are losing their voices. The extreme right and left are pushing their views to everyone, and we lazy people in the middle like regular news stories, but we are too lazy to like it because it is normal. The only way to turn this around is to only allow dislike in social media, so the extreme right to dislike extreme left, and vice versa, we, the normal majority will win because no one bother to dislike a normal view of the world.
Not to say all the other signs of earth those seamonkey tea bag aliens craving for a better future missed with their superior technologies in Alpha Centauris immediate neighborhood.
> Because mechanical engineering isn't only math?

Neither is software: memory constraints, latency, reliability, cpu speed.

Almost the entire cryptography field relies on physical limitations on execution speed. Anyone working on even remotely real time systems has to account for these same limitations and possibly work around them.

Every student learns about runtime and memory complexity of various algorithms. Something that would be entirely irrelevant in a purely mathematical context. At what speed does an ideal Turing machine run? How much memory does it have?
interesting options : )
> I see labor rights part of the human rights

If you think people implying that advancing issues important to powerless people is positive progress is some evil socialist deception, it's strange that you've latched on to the term "human rights" as if it refers to anything that exists or can be enforced.
What the interns have wrought, 2021 edition
Poly Network Offers $500K Reward to Hacker Who Stole and Returned $611M Crypto
Average consumer has no idea how to organize and hire contractors for home improvements. House flippers who do this at scale add a fair amount of value, and also add value for the contractors
I wrote two blog posts about this some time ago:

https://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/ConsideringASphere.html?uh14h...

https://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/VolumeOfASphere.html?uh14hn

Pretty sure I posted them here on HN and they sank without trace, but readers might find them interesting.
Most other countries provide universal health care, private health insurance is optional.
A device should not be unusable even if is not blessed with some security fix, also regular users don't update the phones or CPUs because there is a theoretical security issue(even the Apple fanboys did not exploded now that they know Pegasus exits), probably security issues is a good news since you could maybe get control or your property.
Practically speaking though, wouldn't the Trisolarans still want to leave their home planet for one that didn't have chaotic eras?
Just keep in mind that humanity is in the process of extincting itself due to irreversible climate change and the repercussions of that, and if his startup isn't helping with that, then it doesn't matter.

Also, both you and him, and most of us here, will be dead within a hundred years anyway, so don't get too hung up on what's happening now, as for the most part it'll be as if neither of you ever existed anyway.
If that was a requirement, discussions of determinism would sound awfully one-sided. ;p
My first thought as well. At a basic level this is the age-old problem of comparing oneself to others, which is at once part and parcel of being a social animal, and has high potential for becoming pathological. My answer to these questions is invariably a philosophical endeavor to look inwards and practice the assessment of one's own inherent value independent of social factors and incidental economic structures. Beyond that I completely agree with other commenters who essentially say that jealousy/envy is merely the dark side of ambition/motivation. But it's a good idea to have a sense of one's own intrinsic value, while being aware that economic failure is not necessarily an indictment of one's talent or skill, just as economic success is not necessarily an indication of superior talent or skill.
your cultural relativism is weak. in Xinjiang it's genocide. no other words are needed.
Being ejected from your model is unquestionably a solution of sorts, although it does Raise Questions.
True, but it is a decent argument against "it is just your personal preference".
Hey. Thanks for your response.

Greek letters first. I’m not particularly knowledgeable of American military nomenclature. Where there Alpha, Beta, and Gamma forces first? “Delta” suggests small but vitally important difference to me; think calculus or mechanics (delta-vee FTW). Perhaps my inner nerd is getting the better of me, and I’m reading things into the name that weren’t present in the mind of the originator.

Where these aberrations? Maybe. It seems logical to me that for every outrage gaining notoriety, there are N more that escape attention. My own father said he saw plenty of brutality against civilians while fighting in the British army in North Africa and later Burma (now Myanmar obvs). It has been 50 years since tens of thousands of Catholic refugees crossed the border between the UK and Ireland. It was soldiers and policemen they were fleeing from. Britain had its dirty wars in Malaya, Oman, and Kenya (with some convenient record destruction for the latter). The US seems to have covered itself with less than glory in the prisons of Baghdad, and the black sites in Poland and elsewhere. France’s record in North African is pretty ugly. Italy dealt brutally with Ethiopia. The Russians raped there way to Berlin (yes, and fought bravely against the Nazis). Maybe aberrations aren’t as aberrant after all.

I’m not here to draw (false) equivalence between Delta/the Paras/whatever and the Nazis. But I stand by the idea that there’s something odd about professional soldiering. And not everyone who does it is in the business for there love of democracy and the flag! People who kill other people in the furtherance of national goals, rather than in direct defence of their homes need extra attention, and extra love sometimes, but always extra vigilance.
When we were teens, my brother and I "invited" a very quiet, ex-Delta Force gentleman over to our woods to play paintball against us. We weren't entirely smart, but figured he'd join the other loud mouth, overconfident, just out of airborne school soldiers we'd had over, and he would end up with a big splat of yellow paint in the middle of his facemask a few times. We were bit cocky.

"Sure", he said.

"One two conditions." Pause. "There's no time limit, and no boundaries." Pause for a beat. "I'm going to run off and lie dog for three days. Then I'll get up. Hunt you down. Kill you."

In that moment I achieved enlightenment. Maybe the reason that some people or groups could do far more than others was not some special gifted super-power, but the willingness to put in unthinkable amounts off work for the slightest edge in advantage. Stack this up across all possible advantages, and the results would look impossible.

If you want to read about the Delta Force, I highly recommend the slim book "Leadership and Training for the Fight" by Paul Rowe[0]. It's not technically a history of anything, but it lets you live inside the head of someone with a very different way of viewing the world - almost an alien mindset, and see how they solve problems and function.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Leadership-Training-Fight-Operations-...
You can get your chip fabbed at the Skywater foundry for 10K (can't remember how many dies that buys you), the open source toolchain does support analog if you know what you are doing.
No, it started in the CS laboratory. The first GUIs were immediate, then this concept was quickly abandoned because of the numerous short-comings. Where GUIs mattered, the retained mode ruled supreme.
Odd that a snappier title "became alcoholics" wasn't used. Perhaps it makes their readers feel a bit cosier.
Infection-enhancing anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies recognize both original and Delta
ietf and friends could have made ipv6 only address the shortage but decided to change a bunch of other stuff too
Yes, the UK has abused things like this in the past too.

What's wrong with you? Why are you still with Apple? Are you paid by them?
Engagement Bait Is Boring
Dismissing it just because it’s the active ingredient in heartguard is IMO a bit misguided; after all it is a known antiviral compound and there’s a plausible mechanism of action.

It’s more to the point and less inflammatory to focus on the mounting evidence that it’s just not an effective COVID-19 therapeutic.

Derek Lowe wrote an informative post discussing the lackluster nature of the current body of evidence after the big Egyptian study was retracted for fraudulent data the other week.

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/06/07/iv...
That would encourage people to answer throwaway “write my regex” questions instead of things that will be useful years later.
For me it's the coloured border and horizontal scroll bar.
He is saying you only care about your pet issue. Real issues affecting his life you will never consider because it's not part of your worldview.

Based on your response it seems true. You don't care to respond about issues posing more danger than your pet issue
My son was waiting on a new racket from Head this spring and was told that they lost a number of shipping containers in a storm off the coast of Hawaii.

https://www.wired.com/story/where-shoes-ordered-check-ocean-...
> Especially in a world with growing number of 3rd party hardware extensions to devices, if helps to know that something is Apple certified.

This would be a good news for an Apple fan, he could use his platinum Apple branded cable to charge all his accessories like toothbrushes,stereos, laptops,tablets.
There's also Joseph Weisenbaum's similar sentiments from 1985: http://tech.mit.edu/V105/N16/weisen.16n.html
You are confused because you haven't bothered to read the description of these libraries. They are for synthesis, not recognition.
It's also valuable to co-workers and managers to know if the employee might be engaging in behavior that could get them sick, or if they are looking for another job. So employers should really be able to monitor their employee's own devices, health records, and expenditures.
You probably can't be friends with him anymore. You can be social and "know" him, but the differences between the ultra-rich and the masses impact every aspect of life and preclude a deep social connection.

The good news is that $100M+ is such a ridiculously large number that humans can't really do a good job of imagining what that means, so the psychological impact is less than if you found out your friend was worth $5M.
Yeah but you can do appkit with swift without having to use objc
This is looking very good, thank you!
Given the relative affordability of Skywater's service nowadays, I imagine we will eventually see custom silicon projects on Kickstarter and the like.
When it comes to to usability they are not completely unrelated
>> really you only need to get to $10m and your life is transformed.

I don't think this is as motivational as you believe it is.
Depending on what Device API you want to use, wrapping your webapp using Capacitor is a solid option.
There are those who believe determinism is not only compatible with free will, but required for free will.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibilism
I think this is exactly the opposite of what Tsundoku is...

I believe we all fell for the the new trend of minimalism and belief that owning too much stuff hurts us because a stoic philosopher wrote about it around 3rd century AD.

But I mean, who cares? Nobody should tell you what is right and what is wrong.
- Feel pleasure from stacking books? Do it!
- Don't want clutter, get kindle

As easy as that. I don't really understand the modern pressure of optimising life. It produces anxiety and in the end rather has diminishing returns rather than a calm mind.
I very strongly disagree with this advice.

If my startup had netted me over a hundred million dollars I would start to have real concerns about making new friends. It would be incredibly difficult to know whether someone wanted to be friends genuinely, or if in some way it was really about the money (and celebrity). This would make my pre-existing friendships that much more valuable to me.
Have you tried vanilla Emacs? It doesn't require any configuration to just start using it.
Only if you use iCloud Photo I guess.

And I don't think that would include photos saved in other apps.
What’s It Like to Have Laser Eye Surgery in South Korea?
From start to finish, what is it really like?
The Missing Piece Meets the Big O
Direct link to the blogpost: http://sam.zeloof.xyz/second-ic/
Those in Rojava have apparently managed to do it.
You're a fool and should probably just shut up.
Technically they could have been scanning the photos already to power some AI algorithms or whatever else.

I think this is a nudge for folks to wake up and see the reality of what it means to use the cloud. We are leasing storage space from Apple in this case.

Technically, it’s no different than a landlord checking up on their tenants to make sure “everything is okay.”

And technically, if you do not like iCloud, don’t use it and roll your own custom cloud storage! After all, it’s redundancy and access the cloud provides. And Apple provides APIs to build them.

Hell, with the new Files app on iOS i just use a Samba share with my NAS server (just a custom built desktop with RAID 5 and Ubuntu.)
Colorblind person here:

Can you link them? I usually do firmware/ CLI stuff, so I've never tried them
I’m hitting the paywall so I can’t read the article, but the headline reminds me of something Andrew Huberman talked about in one of his recent podcasts-

https://youtu.be/rW9QKc-iFoY

It’s a small segment at the beginning, about a recent study showing how fermented foods help decrease inflammation possibly through increased gut bacteria diversity.
But that's already happening. In addition the global north currently brain drains the rest of the world who reared and educated their most precious workers. If anything this will allow them to go back, with all the positives that brings
Can you give us a brief idea of what they said?
Given that a huge faction pushing for the Internet and peraonal / personalised computing saw and promoted the technologies as democratising and liberating, Agre is a vitally important contrarian and cautionary voice.

He's not the only one, and I've compiled a list of critical / cautionary voices from the 1980s and earlier here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25124718

That includes Paul Baran, co-inventor of switched-packet networking at RAND, Willis Ware, also RAND, Shoshana Zuboff, Richard Boeth, and others. Agre is conspicuously absent.

The advocacy voices were numerous --- Arthur C. Clarke, Stewart Brand, Howard Rheingold, Kevin Kelley (and much of the rest of the Whole Earth / Wired gang). Adam Curtis's work has focused strongly on this, especially on what he sees as the California / West Coast school of techno-utopianism.

That was my Cool-Aid growing up.
Yesterday i spend 2 hours trying to figure out why i couldn't ping my home router, only to find out this is probably the reason.

Luckily i had created a reverse ssh tunnel on a vps before leaving.
When Delta was founded, the US Special Forces were broken down into three team types.

Alpha Team - (or A-team) was a group of 12 men who would operate in the behind enemy lines together.

Bravo detachment - A similarly sized headquarters group of men who would stay behind and support and communicate with multiple A-teams. (Sort of like a NASA mission control team)

Charlie detachment - An overall administrative headquarters team over multiple A and B groups.

When a new form of special forces was organized with a different focus for the team's capabilities, they just grabbed the next word in the Nato phonetic alphabet - Delta.