skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a little complex, but not really. It's depth-N secret-hiding; if you have a true secret that absolutely must be hidden, you hide a disk full of anime at the top level, a smaller disk of furry porn below that, and a hundred pages of terrible erotic fiction below that, as your "deepest darkest secret".

And now you have a "good" justification for using a PDDB to keep your shame hidden, and the layer below _that_ holding the corporate secrets you're trying to auction off can't be proven in any reasonable way (from the disk. I'm sure it's obvious by this point that I'm no expert on corporate espionage, but there are plenty of other ways you'll get caught).

I mean, if you're not the kind of person that would use something like this anyway, then people will always _suspect_ you have something deeper in there (even if you don't). But they won't be able to prove it - that's the goal.
Lol, nice
“having to use a slightly different OS to get a totally better CPU performance”

FTFY
Is Prague's F-35 Move Checkmate for Europe's 4th Gen Fighters?
'Science' seems to be on a 'zoonotic wet market origin' spree just lately?
If they are planning to beat you until you confess, then they have something on you other than that you installed some interesting software.

As for beating torture, there is a technique which Marines headed into battle are taught (heard about it from my brother who served in Vietnam). What you do is pretend to break before you really do, and tell some interesting lies. By the time you ACTUALLY break, you won't know truth from fiction, and will happily add details you can to whatever story that you think they want to hear. Which will very likely be a fantasy built on those lies.

Even if you don't know the technique, this can happen accidentally. The result is that information obtained under torture is unreliable. Which is the biggest reason that most countries stopped using it.
I remember, but that wasn't really a third-party. That was just Ross Perot. I do think the two parties are slightly vulnerable to a strong enough, and rich enough, candidate surrounded by a cult of personality, but even in this case it would have been wiser had Perot simply challenged for the Republican nomination like Trump (another outsider) did 24 years later. He probably could have ousted Bush, and he really might have a won the presidency that way.
More like "I designed my own 16-bit computer system".
> This is why it's so important, especially in the US, for government to begin aggressively enforcing antitrust law again

It already does and it didn’t particularly stop. The problem is that there is no obvious damage to consumers here (what US antitrust law is based on).

GCP and Azure are both significant players with similar offerings. The fact that people use proprietary Amazon APIs to manage stuff isn’t a high enough bar to show a monopoly.

“We are locked into their product because it’s a big engineering expense to move off” isn’t an argument for monopoly busting. It’s a reflection on poor business decisions by the complainer. It has never worked against Oracle/MS in the past, it won’t start now.

A whole generation of engineers is about to relearn the importance of open source that drove everyone to open source stacks 15 years ago.
I disagree, the Pyramid of the Sun is the third largest pyramid after two at Giza, is near Mexico City, and has been well known for longer than the impressive Maya pyramids, which were buried in jungle and remain fairly far from population centers.
Performance is our #2 priority for our engineering team this quarter. We have made some notable gains, but there is much more work to do. Thank you for the feedback and for sticking with us; we are hard at work on it, and expect to deliver more performance wins over the next few months. (If there are tips you want on improving app performance, feel free to reach out to me; we are happy to get an engineer from our side to help debug why things are slow.)
I don't think it's crazy though; I think it reflects that in software / OS development you save a lot of dev & qa time by minimising your hardware fragmentation.

Also that if you have special sauce (eg a tensor chip), you want to give it to all users if you can, or developers won't bother optimising for it.
Meta recently announced a $100 price increase. So they are able to increase prices without lowered supply. It's not entirely clear why but fits the pattern of popular -> price goes up.
As above and 6GB memory not 4GB. The processor is fast enough that it will be good for 5+ years with a battery replacement midway, but the 4GB ram might end up hurting before that.
We'll have that in 3.0; we're shooting for a more advanced splat-like syntax. Simple * wouldn't cut it because one of the principals of EdgeQL is to fetch only what you need, aiming for efficiency. That said, our UI repl has autocomplete and a `*` option in it, that expands it to all fields. We might implement something similar in the command-line REPL too.
A worse offer is a worse offer, a better offer is a better offer. If Gitlab isn't making competitive offers then of course take a better offer elsewhere, but what matters is the bottom line, not the method they used to come up with it.
Pollution is probably the most objectively measurable of externalities. Much more so than say economic externalities/deciding what the exact values should be for tax brackets.

We could just start with the easiest case, which is a product/process that inherently releases pollutants (anything that releases gases) that may have some negative effects on others or the environment (the threshold should be low), then determine the market rate for capturing that pollution back from the environment and tax accordingly. This would also apply to medicines and lotions that don't get metabolized by the users and are inherently are going to end up in the ocean.

It gets trickier when we consider things that directly harm some people nearby, like smoking, and at a certain level of harm, these things should just be banned outright (i.e. you can't really undo lung cancer or mercury poisoning). Or things that aren't inherently pollutants (plastic containers), but in practice end up causing a lot of pollution.

Our government is too incompetent to approach the problem in a first-principles based way like this, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try. Banning individual things after they get out of control and doing complex mental gymnastics like cap and trade are much worse solutions.
I have the iphone 8 - love it. I'm planning to own it for the long haul and make the jump from 8 to 18 (when it comes out).

Thank you Tim for making this a 10 year wait, and not 20
Just hold on to your current phone. I upgraded to the 13 mini from the 7 Plus expecting it to be faster. It isn’t. I’m still glad I upgraded because the mini is smaller than the 7 Plus while giving up only a little bit of screen size, and I can use it without a case because it’s not shaped like a bar of soap.

But this showed me that phone performance is no longer a reason to upgrade, so I’ll probably hold on to this one even longer than I kept the 7 Plus.
IMO, the only thing missing from the SE is the U1 chip for NI
How much have they had to pay in penalties, and how many significant structural changes have there been? That's the standard to use, not number of lawsuits or even number of verdicts.

Antitrust penalties, more often than not, aren't even as big as the extra profit a company made!
I have an Apple TV 4K, series 6 Watch, iPhone 11, a few Homepod Minis, and smart lights. I also have a MacBook Pro. It is astounding to me how much money I've put into the Apple "ecosystem" only to have anything but a seamless experience with Music and Homekit. It is downright pathetic.

Music just doesn't sync well across my devices. Full stop. I can start playing something on my phone, select my Homepods as my speakers via Airplay, and it will play. But if I lock my phone and come back a few minutes later, it'll forget what is currently playing on my HomePods and make me "replace" the music. If I try to control it from my other devices it's the same story. More than once I've had it yell at me for trying to play music in more than one place at a time and try to get me to upgrade to a family plan. I'm single and live alone.

Siri also often misunderstands scene names. I just turned to one of the HomePods and said, "Hey Siri, activate 'Nightlights Only'" (a scene name). She said, "Good night." and did nothing. This happens no matter how well I enunciate (general American accent) or how many times I try.

In the process of messing with it just now to prove my point before sharing, Siri hit a snag and told me to go update my iCloud account in the home app, so I did and ran into the same problem as this user[0] did two years ago (disappearing password prompt). It's wild.

This is not the Apple that made iMessage and Messages in OS X the most seamless text messaging experience I've ever experienced before.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/HomePod/comments/jsw122/homepod_upd...

Edit: I had my iPhone’s wifi off. Apparently I had to be on the same network to resolve the iCloud issue. Why not mention that?
Acting on splitting up the monopolies. Making Amazon/Google/Meta into multiple smaller companies. As antitrust fines have now just become the exepences one pay to run a monopoly now.
I'm not sure where you live and what locale you want, but depending on the LTE bands of your region, the Hisense A9 has a fantastic eink screen. It's a Chinese OS with at parts janky english translation.
Interesting; looks a bit like a modernized CODASYL on top of a Codd model.
I disagree - declining population is a disaster that only ends in a country becoming poor. As you allude to in your response, sub-replacement-rate fertility is what drives population decline, so declining populations are always ageing populations. The economics of ageing populations don't work for obvious reasons - as people get older they need more care and produce less, and with fewer workers to provide that care, the care becomes more expensive in ways that governments never provisioned for (see Japan and many countries in Western Europe for good examples of this in practice).

In the longer term this depresses GDP per capita as resources have to be diverted from productive industries like high-tech manufacturing into extremely unproductive industries like aged care. Again, Japan and many Western European countries provide good examples of this in practice. Finally, as the reality of the broader economic decline sets in, second order effects start to take hold like brain drain - as young workers see higher wages working in more productive economies, they decide to leave, worsening the population pyramid and depriving the government of precious tax revenue needed to pay for aged care. (Japan and many Western European countries are sadly, again, examples of this phenomenon).

The short term effects you're describing of nominal GDP rising and per capita GDP falling is only true when populations are growing through bad immigration policy, which is what we commonly see in the US for example. Growing population organically and sustainably, or through productive immigration that targets gaps in the country's labor force, should never have that effect as the new member of the population should eventually increase GDP by more than the average existing worker today.

At an individual rather than population level of course, having fewer or no children is easier, which is why people are doing it. But this describes a local optimum only, while the true optimum is population growth.
It is always sad when a previously highly rated manufacturer turns to crap. Intel was an extremely solid option back in the earliest days of SSDs.
What makes something a god? I am sure there are business people out there that worship at the altar of Tim Cook and his supply chain prowess.
I used to use it until it was broken 3/4 of the time due to gem this or gem that, ruby is not cut out for command line applications that I want to be portable or reliable or fast. I'd strongly reconsider using vagrant if it was rust or go or C or something else more reliable
This quote gets way too much play on here. I see it being referenced every day, and I don't read most comment sections on HN.

This guy was predicting where things were going based on the principles of capitalism; it's more profitable to charge people in perpetuity than to charge them only once. It is not a conspiracy beyond that.

If you don't like it, then avoid products with continuous payments and favor ones that don't as much as you can. If businesses see there is more appetite for buying things permanently than renting them, then they will sell things. DVD beat DivX.

If you want to own things cancel your streaming service subscriptions and buy movies and TV shows and books and music instead. Stop posting the same tired, worn out quote and do something.
> Cancellations are fined. You may find this useful as a starting point for further reading. [1]

An object lesson on HN comments?

[1] https://www.networkrail.co.uk/industry-and-commercial/inform...

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Thank you for the link. It introduces some good, empirical data to the conversation, and I am grateful for your contribution.

But are they fined the way that latenesses are?

> Each cancellation is worth a certain amount of ‘delay minutes’, which reflects the disruption that passengers face as a result of having to wait for the next train.

That sounds like a formula for exactly what I was talking about (I never said that the cancellation wasn't fined).

> An object lesson on HN comments?

Be nice. That extra line was completely unnecessary, and is, indeed, an object lesson on HN comments.

Here's another link for you: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#comments

Have a nice day.
Single term limits might not be a great idea, since new representatives will have to rely even more on people who've been around Washington a lot (i.e. lobbyists) to write legislation (since part of joining Congress is getting ramped up on a lot of tradition/things you have to learn on the job).

Public funding of elections would help - take the current $2 they ask you about on taxes, and make that $100 or so. Then give proportional time to candidates with publicly funded money.

The other counterintuitive one is to bring back the secret ballot in Congress. Publicizing voting records actually makes lobbying more effective since the lobbyists can measure effectiveness of their $$. If you brought back the secret ballot, people are more free to vote their conscience without having to take the brunt of the blame for it (lobbying really took off after the elimination of secret ballots in the early 70s)
Any cookie notification that has an accept button should also have a reject button.
Where did I put the $100k when I withdrew it from my account? Did I convert it to gold bars and stash it at my buddy Ricky's house? Did I deposit it into my brokerage account? Did I pay my lawyer with some of it and buy a car with the rest?

Let's say I'm buying a rental property, and during the closing process I'm served with this lawsuit. Are you saying it's illegal for me to close that sale?

Only one of those examples would be suspicious to the court, and only if I was attempting to claim insolvency during the proceeding or in dragging my heels on a judgement.
Agreeing with others that this is a lazy take.

Apples AirPod revenue alone in 2020 was more than Twitter, Spotify and Square combined.

Apples ability to create diverse, revenue generating lines of business is unparalleled.
> the same 18 months 4 times

This feels honestly like my whole career. Just get to a point of competence and then get an offer you can't refuse.
You nailed it. They are focused and relentless - something to admire in a world where companies are usually super reactive and don't have confidence in their vision.
Are they really subsidized by carriers?

Yes you pay less upfront, but in exchange for paying more on your monthly phone bill. Less of a subsidy and more of a payment plan.
Why are the only options residing yourself to vendor lock-in or developing everything from scratch? There are plenty of open source tools, components, libraries, etc that can be used to speed up the pace of development without having a situation where you’re at the whim of your vendor because you’re unable to export your work into another form. I love the idea of creating tools that allow less technical people to build software or technical people to build software faster - but why can’t those tools be ones that allow you to export the final product into a universal format?
Isn't it more than that though? It can be used to combine multiple data sources with varying degrees of uncertainty and change the confidence in each sensor on the fly. That's more than a low pass filter.
What evasive double-speak.

"I suspect" = "I really don't know anything."
"many employees" = "I really have no idea." 2? 2k? So if you worked at a company of say, 400 people, and 3 of them had trust funds, this would apply, and by extension, apply to you.

This is literally no better than the comments about Mexico sending over their rapists and murders. Did Central American rapists and murderers cross the border? No doubt. Were they the majority? High improbable. Did they top 10%? If so, given the number of illegal crossings, Central America should be the safest place in the world by now, what with all the criminals now in the US.

I work at a startup with ex-Facebook, ex-Google, etc people. I have yet to see any evidence of trust funds.
While I appreciate that some phones can be supported by the community, I think it's unreasonable to expect that the community continue support in place of OEMs. Especially ones like Google, that can set the tenor for the entire Android ecosystem.
I have a USB mouse with 12 side buttons, and it "just works" because USB HID.
On your second question, there is a zero-trust way of using Retool via our self-hosted version, which installs in a few minutes via Docker (https://retool.com/self-hosted/). If you want, you can even fully airgap your Retool instance such that no data goes in or out. (In the future we are also thinking about how we can integrate with credentials stores!)
That's an interesting take I'll have to give some more thought to. I don't think that it's clear that employers think the economy will grow in a way that yields more abundant and cheaper Goods. Maybe I'm Wrong and we'll see in GDP outpacing inflation from all of the new jobs. Maybe they just haven't had a chance to materialize in real GDP growth
I have this phone and my only gripe with it is the button. It isn't as tactile as previous models so it doesn't feel like you've actually clicked it. I'm assuming this has to do with water resistance but I'm not certain.
What if a homeless person can’t afford the tax on their exhalations, does the government make them stop breathing?
You think there is a better person on this planet than Tim Cook to navigate the global operations and manufacturing challenges you pointed out?

I will bet against that any time.
I honestly wish I knew.
Google has long chosen cheaper, lower-quality camera sensors, knowing that their still image processing is beyond what Apple has on offer and will make up for any deficiencies. Apple tends to go for more expensive, higher-quality camera sensors and less software processing, and that is more clearly visible when shooting video, where image processing requires more processing power than what a phone is currently capable of.
Pixel 5 + GrapheneOS makes me feel the same way about my device as the author.

It's small enough to pocket in a pair of lightweight shorts. It's bland to look at, no branding, symmetrical bezels all around, but stuffed with all the features and functionality I want.
Lambda Labs has (slow, low IOPS) cloud filesystem to persist data between instances. Attached storage does not persist but is high bandwidth and high IOPS, which is a necessity if training small-medium sized models.
Screen size doesn't matter though; the body is within a couple mm of an S22 and thicker.

Same with the Zenfone 9.
Actually the header is read by the shell so it can call the appropriate loader. That may include running the file tool (or an internal equivalent that uses "database" of magic files).
It's actually how congress worked before the "sunshine" act of 1971 which made voting records public.

The vast majority of people don't actually go and look up their senator's/congressperson's voting records, where as lobbyists do. So I think the voter disclosure argument is overblown; I don't think that voters actually need to know the exact voting records of their congressperson. I think voting should be selecting people based on character and rhetoric and then letting those people act as representatives.

It would be less democratic, but more functional (and more akin to what the founders imagined anyway).
Fiber-optic cables may be used to eavesdrop up to 1km away
Thanks for the reply! Sounds like your response to the parent — database connectors in other regions — will help resolve this. So we're happy to stick it out for now
I am still rocking an iPhone SE, first generation. However, it has done a few troubling things as of late and I guess I must prepare myself to get a third generation. I feel like five years is a decent span for a phone. And so I have a screen protector and an Otterbox on order. Finding out that it won't support IOS 16 makes this kind of an inevitable purchase.

TouchID, plus the tiny size, makes it a one-hander if I want, and I like that.

I am unsure what I will do with my original phone.
Love this app! When I'm not using my secondary screen, I just open a new tab and leave it there so I can appreciate the beautiful photo while working! Great work!
I really enjoyed the book. I’m almost always down for some sci-fi dystopia, and as a religious person I enjoyed this particular lens on it.

A couple I highly recommend from another Catholic author, The Lord of the World, and Dawn of All, by Robert Hugh Benson.

Those two are more early 20th century Catholicism in worldview, which I particularly enjoyed.
Not only did they find no benefit from the vaccine, they saw a 4-sigma mortality event associated with vaccination.
> The history of allegations of vote rigging goes back to the 19th century; there were loud, public allegations regarding at least Kennedy, Clinton, Bush, and Obama before Trump.

When Terry McAuliffe became chairman of the DNC, he said that "Katherine Harris, Jeb Bush, Jim Baker, and the Supreme Court ... tampered with the results" of the 2000 election. At the 2004 DNC Convention, he said that Republicans "stole" the 2000 election: https://twitter.com/TeamYoungkin/status/1442488094301822980.

Comparably prominent figures on the Republican side were not saying similar things about Clinton or Obama. Unlike Hilary Clinton said about Trump, McCain and Romney never said Obama was an "illegitimate" President.

> What was notable, of course, about Trump's rigging claims is that they were accompanied by an actual effort to overturn the election, something that has no precedent. That wasn't the "elites"; that was an outsider effort.

Sure. Trump is worse than anything Democrats did from 2000-2018. Certainly individually, possibly in the aggregate.

> Election denialism clearly isn't a reaction to a rejection of institutional norms by elites, unless we're talking about elites during the time of Tilden.

Trump's ability to deny the legitimacy of the election and maintain the support of the same voters who nominated Mittens is absolutely a reaction to elites rejecting institutional norms. For two decades, CNN sanctioned Democrats' election lies instead of condemning them.

Then came 2016, when Democrat-voting federal employees declared war on Trump--the duly elected President--through the "Resistance." If you wanted to convince the American public that the "deep state" exists and that the rules have already been thrown out the window--to make it trivial to draw comparisons between DC and the Capitol from "The Hunger Games"--you could not have picked a better way to do it.