skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on how you define innovation.

The hard truth is that there is no free lunch. We like to pretend we're using a Turing machine, but the moment you start caring about performance or memory limits, the abstraction breaks down and you realize that physics dictates that we have a finite state machine instead. This was "solved" about as well as it could be many years ago with however many billions were poured into GC R&D for all the people who don't care deeply about the limits, but nothing is going to magic away that fundamental trade-off unless we discover new physics.

Every innovation since then has been about developing workarounds to deal with that trade-off in more or less sophisticated ways.
So how many seconds would it take to leak your password at that rate?
The optics of western human rights advocacy are not really an important thing in a geopolitical sense. Hegemonies don't need to justify themselves to relatively inconsequential entities they dwarf. I am puzzled why you feel this is a key issue to highlight.

The west does consider those things you have mentioned as important, as a subset of freedom and human rights. It also advocates for a wide array of other issues, such as the rights of women, journalists, children, etc. The west, broadly, considers relative freedom quite important, and therefore it is appropriate and internally consistent that it seeks to promote its values abroad. An appropriate criticism of western nations, therefore, is that many have been morally inconsistent by trading so freely with countries in the rest of the world like China which have serious issues around curtailing human rights, but even this can be justified as it was in part perceived that the west could export culture through trade and enrichment of other countries. And, arguably, it has, to an extent.

In regards to Ukraine, advocating for a peaceful agreement that is anything less than unequivocal Russian withdrawal and a reparations plan is endorsement of force over democracy and law (rewarding bad behavior), and at odds with common human values.
A company you might have heard of literally survived and scaled thank to the process of giving a shit impulsed by a CEO they re-hired while the company was on the brink of bankruptcy.

It was Apple.

Giving a shit does scale and it's precisely when apple stop giving shit (keyboard, pro) that they enter the danger zone for theirs reputation.
How much details we can see if based on the wavelength of light and the diameter of the telescope. And if you worked it out, the telescope diameter would have to be enormous.

https://calculator.academy/diffraction-limit-calculator/#f1p...

However gravity can bend light so there is some thought of using the sun as a lens. However the observation would have to be pretty far away from our sun so its just wishful thinking in our lifetime.

https://www.freethink.com/space/gravity-telescope

For now the best we will have to see a dot on image via coronagraphy and maybe understand more about the exoplanet through spectroscopy.
TikTok Hits Pause on Its Most Controversial Privacy Update Yet
It's not the top % of the wealthy. They're fine and structurally fine, unless they screw it up.

It's both 1) a fraction of some of those a few order of magnitude lower who WANT to get to the top, and 2) those who believe only growth can sustain the "world" system (and they are not necessarily wrong, only it's become critical to redefine growth in a radical different way, or we'll all burn).
hmmm, about the size of an asprin tablet or pea at arm's length, seems to agree with somewhat smaller than thumbnail [1]. maybe i should find and measure some sand now :).

in either case, 1/10 the width of the moon is so much easier to comprehend. when is the last time anyone tried holding a grain of sand at arms length? what a weird comparison to make when everyone on earth already has a stable/familiar reference in the sky.

[1] https://astronomy.com/magazine/stephen-omeara/2010/01/stephe...
https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/pc-client-specifi... is the spec for this on PCs.
> the border force girl

Is this phenomenon a psychology trick? Most folks doing bad stuff are guys, so have a hot young woman ask the questions to throw them off and make it harder to lie?

I've wondered whether it's a deliberate tactic employed by some border controls since I stepped off a plane in Canada and saw that every single one of the half-dozen folks doing our "what are you doing in Canada?" Q&A stuff was a very attractive, put-together young woman. Like, that's a hell of a coincidence if it's not intentional.
Thanks, that explains the trouble I was having. I was thinking about it without any consideration to calling-convention.
How Google got to rolling Linux releases for Desktops
I believe according the HN rules original sources should be preferred over journalistic coverage.

But given the fact that probably a minority here will greatly benefit from the academic paper or the patches, I'd say the Arstechnica article is an excellent compromise.

Edit: The article is well-written IMHO, but I nearly did classify "sends scrambling" in the title as clickbait not worth opening.
That is true, but disabling firmware update (should) limit the available persistence for the malware.
I really like the basic concept, but it might be a little weird being at a music festival where everyone is licking their wristbands. Are there sanitary concerns? When the main acts go on at a festival, the crowds get packed like sardines and wristbands are certainly rubbing up against people.

I see so much value in convenient alcohol consumption monitoring though.
>but a consortium should be separate from the business side of it

Who then pays for the consortium?
JWST does have a roll dither mode: https://jwst-docs.stsci.edu/jwst-general-support/jwst-dither... Don't know why they didn't use it. Maybe they were trying to observe as many targets as possible for the initial release of imagery.
I'm trying to understand your post. It seems like you're suggesting that picking out a table isn't that important, but my understanding of the post was that the person selling the table should give a shit, not the person buying the table. In which case I think it depends on if you're selling a commodity or a luxury. If you're selling a commodity focusing on one individual sale may not matter that much, you need to scale. If you're selling a luxury, it may very well be in the CEO's best interest to help sell an $8000 table to a company that is in the habit of buying $8000 tables.
The deal is I want to control the secure boot process so that I can make the OS I choose secure. This is not always an option or possible.
You are saying that down in a thread about how it's much easier to just switch the entire computer...
Ah, OK thanks... Now I see what gravity lensing means!
Also can change with what focus point is used, distance to the subject, focal length (for a zoom). It's a huge source of frustration, and while mirrorless cameras aren't perfect at this, they're so much better than DSLRs. I do still love the shooting experience of an optical viewfinder though.
Ask HN: Help me find the origin story of Android
I keep finding histories of the OS version changes, but I'm more interested in the context of mobile OSes at the time before Android was created. I thought I had read a blog post story from an Android founder's perspective. It detailed the context of how different manufacturers had their own OSs. It may have even included the context of the sale to Google. Thanks.
> So the DSLR, except for maybe a few niche cases is old technology that is superseded in every single way.

This is a one-sided comment, as you describe the advantages of mirrorless but don't discuss the significant disadvantages.

With mirrorless you don't see through the optical lens, you're always looking at an LCD even on the viewfinder. This is not a good thing, it means the camera is always consuming battery. With a DSLR battry life is measured in months (I go on vacations and don't even bother bringing a charger) since the camera doesn't need to consume any power most of the time.
I'm kinda surprised, if you don't mind me asking when roughly did you attend college? Nowadays it feels like almost the reverse. CS at my school is considered a fallback option in the engineering school (CS in general certainly can be hard but my school let you get by pretty light with electives). Not only that but I know several students with ambitions for medical school switch to CS since the money in tech is so good.
The reason ponzi schemes are so insidious is because it's logical to participate in them - as long as you expect there to be a bigger fool to offload to.

This reasoning worked a little better before the Fed raised its rates.
I find a lot of people conflate building and maintaining relationships with people with going to "networking" events and other artificial faux network building.

I've also never thought of myself as deliberately building a network but the (few) jobs I've landed over the past 25 years have been directly through people I knew.
In established society, the defence should be that some of the aggrieved channels take Youtube to court, right? Has that ever happened?
Linux has fallen behind in boot security and anti-tampering because all of the solutions in this area are proprietary and at least initially released under NDA. You're using the effects of this very program to justify itself.
There is no fixed or computable phase relationship in optical wavelengths. But the constellation could operate as an Earth-sized radio telescope pointing all directions at once, probably for a few seconds a day to avoid exceeding downlink bandwidth. There, the phase relationship is anyway computable, in principle.

Probably they have not, yet, because they will be lofting new ones all the time, so have time to get it right. And, it might not really be computable, in practice.
There are companies out there that prey on this kind of good will, unfortunately.
there is certainly loss in the compression of perception to language
I don’t understand why a consortium would need a lot of funding if all it is doing is standardizing something that private companies have put together.
Video chat. It redirects me to Google Meet (yet another app!) and the model that Google Meet uses is completely backwards (create a meeting, then invite people) compared to how I use Hangouts (call someone).

It's a complete pita and the family-acceptable-factor is low.
>>Oh, for sure. The investor should sue, any driver that feels exploited should think about it (but most will be better by simply changing to a competitor), and the government sure as hell should do its work.

So, are you saying that just because someone has recourse that acting immorally is OK, and because that recourse exists, we shouldn't hate on them?

I have an attny friend who took a case against Uber. In a liberal US state with strong worker and consumer protections, it still had to go through multiple layers of appeal to the state's supreme court until they finally got a settlement from Uber. It would have been literally impossible unless the plaintiff was very rich, or the attny hadn't taken the case on contingency/pro bono basis (IDK which he did).

Hordes of unethical people like the Uber executives will fight everything tooth & nail, legally or not.

They do not deserve respect in a civilized society merely because they manage to make money. Any clan of asshats can make money by exploitative and illegal means.

>>They would be squashed (literally) by the taxi mafia.
Just because the "taxi mafia" is bad also does not mean that it is OK to impose bad consequences on everyone else to fight them. If the taxi mafia were the only ones harmed, maybe OK, but that group has harmed a lot of people.
>This doesn't apply to the population at large. Most people are on phones or laptops on WiFi. They're not running 24/7 and in the case of phones a background service isn't even viable.

They don't need to serve 24/7, they just need to be available 24/7. Do people not have their phones on and connected to the internet 24/7 in case they receive a message? For social media, most people just share text posts, pictures or a few small videos. BitTorrent is a worst-case scenario where it would be only used for large files like movies.

>Many people are on CGNAT and can't "serve" data without some intermediary infrastructure.

There are ways to get around CGNAT without STUN/TURN.

>As for retention, that's a pipe dream. A torrent more than a few years old may as well not exist unless it is extremely popular and maintains its popularity. There's innumerable dead torrents with no seeders.

This is desirable behavior in social media. Popular content will have longer retention, unpopular content will have shorter retention. Web forums like this one emulate a "fake" version of this with the weighted voting/time system that favors upvoted posts and disfavors old posts.
You could easily summarize the points in this article by saying: vaping is suffering the effects of prohibition. People want it, and when it's banned they find sometimes dubious, dangerous products. In other words: "vaping has transitioned to the black market".
I agree, but this is a hot take among a lot of free software purists.
Great post!

I often say that most of my career advancements came from knowing the right people (or having the right people know me).

Many of the people that helped me advance found me through something I made (blog post, tutorial, podcast, project, etc).

Creating stuff (and telling people about it) is a great way to connect with more people.
I like the email age flag. I’m probably going to write more about the work we did there, but implementing a trust score system with several inputs was very important too.

Email age wasn’t included, but definitely should have been.
I've used the MPU6050 to build a two-wheel self balancing robot (roughly this: https://www.instructables.com/Arduino-Self-Balancing-Robot-1...). Basically, apply PID to the motor angle to keep the robot level with the gravity vector.

I still think MEMS sensors are very cool and extremely convenient/cheap for what you get.
It would be a reasonable analogy if the point made (low hourly pay combined with lack of guaranteed hours) applied to Heathrow, but it doesn't appear that it does[0]:

* The starting salary for Security Officers at Heathrow is 28% above the UK's minimum wage (12.13/hour vs 9.50/hour).

* They employ people as either full time (40 hours/week) or part time (20 hours/week). For the latter, there are two shift patterns available, but they don't seem to vary week by week.

[0] - https://encd.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperienc...
Are you saying I can outsource my shit-giving activities?

Sign me up. I've been unable to give a shit for quite some time. I wish I could give a shit, but the world has become a pretty ugly place, in large part because of deliberate attempts to demoralize those who give a shit.

You see it all over the place on social media. People do a weak-ass form of shit-giving in the form of "raising awareness", the least conceivable level of effort for something you wish you could give a shit about, but don't actually give a shit.

Of course even if somebody tried to GaSaaS, the space would promptly fill with people giving as few shits as possible for as much money as possible. Too many major charities do that: they'll take your money and spend it mostly on advertising for other people to give their money, too, and very little on the things you'd expect if they actually gave a shit.

I know TFA is more about the business sense of giving a shit, but I'd love to see somebody able to give a shit in a larger sense. Unfortunately, I can't give a shit because it seems nobody gives a shit any more -- except the people who are passionately devoted to making sure other people feel miserable instead.
It’s true, I can attest! The idea of “increasing your luck surface area” is real.

You can create a lot of opportunities for yourself by being public about what you’re up to.

It got me a job working with Taylor Otwell, before his businesses took off, and now working at Fly to help with Laravel adoption.

My side projects have made helped people learn, given me an audience, and earn extra income.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29846715 ?
As someone whose car windows were broken 7 times in 13 months in San Francisco, I hope all the criminals get this device. I never have anything in my car, and the idiots doing the smash and grabs could reduce both our headaches by just investing in this thing.
I have heard the people of Myanmar referred to as “Myanese” many times, in English, in Thailand. Enough that I might guess it’ll establish itself, like Czech people being “from Czech” did in much of Europe (in English).
> I would argue every country hiding a few nukes is better than the current situation with over 13,000 nukes.

Not necessarily. Having "a few nukes" means they will almost certainty used against civilian population centers (coutervalue), because that results in more destruction per nuke. If you have more nukes, it may be sufficiently deterring to only attack military targets (couterforce) and kill fewer civilians.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.2968/057004008:

> The first scenario that NRDC ran involved a counterforce attack against Russian nuclear forces. They believed this scenario to be close to the one fabricated by Stratcom. Using the most comprehensive levels of targeting for Russian aviation and naval sites, the total number of warheads required by the first NRDC plan was 1,289... The result of the “attack” as detailed in the report... Then the fallout would descend, creating lethal conditions over an area larger than 775,000 square kilometers... casualties would be between 11 and 17 million, of which eight to 12 million would be fatalities.

> But what would happen if the United States drastically reduced the number of weapons in its arsenal and abandoned the pretense that one kind of nuclear targeting is more morally acceptable than another? How many nuclear weapons is enough to deter a nuclear attack on the United States, which, according to the NRDC report, is arguably the only reason for continuing to possess nuclear weapons at all?

> To illustrate this, NRDC ran nuclear attack scenarios on Russian cities using either 150 single-warhead, silo-based ICBMs or 192 single-warhead, submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM's), essentially the load aboard a single fully loaded Trident submarine. The results from either scenario, each using less than 3 percent of current U.S. nuclear forces, resulted in more than 50 million casualties [computed casualties totaled 52 million people, including 49 million deaths].
You'd have a tough time defining "there" in images like this, and your eyes are not evolved to see faint, diffuse, glowing gas structures in the infrared.
This is hugely subjective. Today's was instantly recognizable for me allowing me to guess with just the 1s clip. Other days I am familiar with the song but not the opening so I would never be able to guess.

Most days are fun to guess, but some I have no idea. It depends on your personal music history.
Ask HN: What free speech site can put video, can play immediately there
What free speech (repo) website anyone can put video and has feature to be able to play it immediately there, so like advanced public freedom-of-speech bulletin board
Isn't any method of synchronizing clocks likely to be vulnerable to the same sort of counter resynchronization issue that this attack exploits?
Yeah, I totally get that. I think that's why some authors just removed their modules.
The concept of "luck surface area" changed my life, no joke. It's the best framing I've ever heard for it.
Having a profit motive drives a behavior of raising prices as high as the market will bear. That inherently excludes citizens who cannot afford to pay the “most efficient” price, who are often the ones who need the service the most (e.g. busses and other public transport). That reduces the ability for society to operate as a whole. If someone can’t afford to get to school, or to an entry-level job, how will they ever be able to move up in skills and pay? Who will the high-end electronic store sell their products to if people can’t afford them?

Municipal services are meant to serve as many citizens as possible, not to extract as much profit as possible, because it’s an overall benefit to everyone.
The first phone to have Android was the HTC Dream: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Dream

Not sure of the backstory of why Google bought it, but you could probably dig it up with enough searching.
Explain what? There's a telescope in space?
Yep I agree. And unlike where lots of acquisitions die down after years even if they do ok initially, it's taken years but Github finally seems to be increasing the pace of innovation.
Oh damn, that’s something I’ve never even considered before. I didn’t even think of using TikTok as a search engine.

Damn, I was legitimately trying to not sign up for TikTok but if it can actually beat out Google in a search for terms like that, that’s actually huge
> will add as much as 28 percent more overhead to operations.

Yikes. I don't think I'll be enabling that mitigation on my workstation.
That assumes a perfect, friction less economy. I'm going to make some assumptions here, but to hire a baggage handler you'll have to 1) pass a background check 2) Receive training on airport safety, 3) be trained on how to load and balance bags. That will likely to take 2-4 weeks, minimum.

Additionally, Heathrow slots are already sold, they likely can't change the price for the next 2 months anyways.

Finally, labor is a bit different then goods- if you raise the marginal cost of an orange all the oranges you've already bought don't suddenly start costing you more. If raise the wage to attract more workers you'll generally have to raise the wages of existing workers as well to retain them. This is a really bad situation if you have a lot of fixed price orders on the books (as Heathrow likely does with airlines). If you overshoot pay and hiring to fix a short term issue you can end up with a worse problem long term.

Raising prices and pay solves the shortage in the long term, but in the short term it won't fix the problem, so the 2 month cap makes sense.
I've been working with Tableau for around 10 years and the most noticeable thing was making it easier for both developers and end-users to use the platform. Everything from mobile, to toolbar improvements, alerts, the API, etc. seem to have really come together.

Now, these could all have very well been in development before the acquisition, but as a whole, the capabilities have grown tremendously since that time.

Also, it seems like the licensing options for smaller businesses has really been focused on since the acquisition. It's become much more affordable for a small business to get and use Tableau compared to 4-5 years ago.
Well as I see it putting money into stock exchange is just playing game with numbers. Will they go up or down? How much should I leverage?

People does not care what those numbers represent. They are gambling in this casino to make money. Simple.
> In today’s world, we are surrounded by too many distractions, and it is often hard to focus on things.

I don't think that the example of Newton supports this contrast of times. He was an extreme outlier in his day. He ignored distractions like "social activities" and "recreational activities. Extremely few people did that then or do so now. But, I bet there are way more people going to those extreme lengths these days, both in quantity and fraction. For the workaholic outliers, how much our modern society supports specialization is a much greater force than online distractions.
If they have a warrant they can ask the company to decrypt it.

Surely you're not advocating that every company should have to turn over all of its information without a warrant