skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference is SF doesn't have a skid row like like San Diego and LA do. I lived in SD for years and almost never saw any homeless because I spent most of my time in the northern parts. The "sketchy" parts of SF where these camps are (SOMA, TL, parts of the Mission) are only a stones-throw from the hot tech companies and million dollar condos.
Block layer or filesystem driver vulnerabilities would be even better – no special hardware needed. Just buy a load of cheap flash drives, copy over your malicious partition table or filesystem, and you're set.
Skepticism is an absolutely appropriate response. However, failing in the way you describe isn't a massive problem, it's just simple failure. It's not the worst-case scenario. And it's appropriate to consider and plan for the worst-case scenario, especially when that scenario reaches the existential-threat level.

I absolutely agree that it's very hard to get to recursive self-improvement. And until you get there, certain classes of failure modes can't really happen.

(Others can, like the grey goo scenario; there are many people who consider carefully built AGI a good idea because the odds of some other existential threat arising approach 1 over time. There's a kind of Moore's law of existential threats: the intelligence and power required to destroy the world drops by some small multiplicative factor every 18 months. What happens when the equipment needed to destroy the world can be built in any well-equipped university lab? Or in a garage?)

The failure modes I'm talking about are that once you do hit recursive self-improvement, it's a lot easier to build something deadly than something safe, let alone something useful.
As far as I know (and I'm not really very high up in the hierarchy, nor do I know much about the Blackphone hardware), the NSA and CIA are buying them because they are secure. I heard they had a list of phones/apps they are allowed to use internally, and SC was pretty much the only app that made the list at the time.

Keep in mind that "an organization using a secure app" and "an organization wanting to spy on people" are pretty independent goals. I haven't poked around in the client source too much (although I have implemented some stuff for the Android client), but:

1) Nothing in the client seemed out of place.
2) I've seen every line of code running on the web backend and there's nothing untoward going on.
3) Given the culture, I think many of the high-level people would quit before they compromised the product. Especially Phil, who has been sued by the US government for exporting strong cryptography before.
Also, let's say hypothetically that Facebook does sue you for the patents covered by React. When to comes time to establish damages, the fact that Facebook is currently giving away the licenses for free can be used to argue in court that their monetary value is zero. So even if you get hit with treble damages for willful infringement, the actual impact might not be as severe as one might otherwise suspect. (IANAL, don't try this at home, etc.)
>It puts much less emphasis on what it calls “long tail” questions, like the ones I’ve cited above, which in some cases, Apple says, number in only the hundreds each day.

And every one of those "hundreds per day" is another person one step closer to disabling Siri. Which is what I did last month. Siri got things wrong so often, it was worse than useless.
I wasn't defending astrology, I was attacking the pseudoscientific thought process being used to attack astrology.
For the next decade or so, communities like this will be fiercely defensive of anything Musk in involved in; not unlike people who would chant "Don't Be Evil" at you if you tried to point out some trouble with Google on the horizon. Just because people are technically inclined and bright, doesn't mean they're not subject to the same human frailties as anyone else, including the desire for heroes.

Then, when those heroes disappoint... outrage.
From what I've read, poverty definitely leads to lifestyles where you're "trapped" in poverty for a long time, or forever. It's like the disability we have in the US: once you're on it, you're very unlikely to ever get off it.

However, it's not just poverty that's the issue. It's mental health, it's drug abuse, and the lack of paths to a sustainable (long-term) lifestyle for these people who are homeless.

That means education: how to manage your money, what's a "good deal" involving various things, and how to take care of yourself.

It's incredibly surprising how many of these people get taken advantage of.

If you have close-to-or-zero skills, how can you possibly sustain yourself? If you have skills but you cannot recognize (because you were never taught) when you're being taken advantage of, how is that sustainable?
Probably I didn't get this, too tired, but would any product trying to take over the system's package manager be destined to fail?
Due to my (very slight) Eurotrash English accent, Siri doesn't even get over the speech recognition hurdle four times out of five.

When it does, it replies 'Here's what I found on the web...'

I try tricking Google's app with unlikely stuff but it gets it right most of the time, and gives a reasonable answer too.
There's no back end code used with this (assuming you mean server side). I've never tried flocking but it looks interesting. The library I wrote, MidiPlayerJS, just emits JSON events and in my demo I'm feeding those into a sound font library (https://github.com/danigb/soundfont-player). But my thought was to switch that out for this singing synth library and see what kind of sounds it can produce.
How many B&W movies have made it to the public domain? Why are companies not streaming public domain movies? There are many classics available for free.
Pascal is a neat language. I am generally in agreement with Kernighan's assessment of it (https://www.lysator.liu.se/c/bwk-on-pascal.html), but most of the problems he lists have since been fixed by many implementations of the language, leaving something quite usable, and a heck of a lot safer than C.

It is unsurprising, in light of this, that the person who submitted this to HN is pjmlp, a well-known fan of Wirth's languages, and a person who notably dislikes C. He's probably also a Unix Hater, although I never asked.

Not that any of this is bad, mind you (I was raised on C/UNIX, and even I'll indulge in some Unix-Hating from time to time (It's probably the Lisp that does it), and whether or not you like the Wirth family, you can't deny it's interesting), but it explains a lot about why this (exceptionally interesting, by the way) project was likely submitted to HN.
If transfer of ownership does not actually occur when a digital product is "purchased", then how can one argue that ownership is lost when a digital product is "stolen"? In both cases, what is happening involves licensed use, not ownership. What is lost when a digital product is pirated is not ownership, AKA property rights; what is lost is potential demand for licensing rights. What is lost when a physical item is stolen is actual possession, which would enable one to use or sell the actual item. Losing actual possession of the item will also cause loss of demand, though, since someone else having possession enables them to use or sell the actual item in competition with the legitimate owner, who is concerned with maintaining market demand for the physical items.
Relative to salaries required to get similar features setup on open source databases with support, yes.

EnterpriseDB which is basically support for PostGres is almost as expensive.
Not quite. Iirc, Bojack has 10-12 episodes per season. If you watch the first three today, you will watch the next three tomorrow. If you watch django unchained today, that's not a guarantee you will rewatch kill bill tomorrow.
That's the exact reason I thought of it [1]. With "large" code base, every character impacts the project, patch size becomes a skill. That said, it's so tempting to fix multiple almost related things in one go.

[1] also, git surgically precise patch mindset helped too.
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They get it wrong. It is not brutalism is back, it modernism in general; what we are witnessing is the end of postmodernism. Postmodernism seem to be in conflict with the faith into progress, both social and technological, yet we've been witnessing tremendous technological progress since early 2000s - nothing revolutionary, but still great advances in mobile, in science etc. So yes, brutalism, as an offspring of modernism, is back.
Yeah, they're likely running RT-11 or RSX-11.

I wonder if the hardware is original and they simply have plenty of spares, or if boards are rebuilt with discrete logic or FPGAs/CPLDs as they break down.
IoT growth may bring trouble for IoT networks in unlicensed spectrum
You'd be surprised how active people are on YouPorn, PornHub, etc. Whole new world. And surprisingly, very civil people.
It is not simply a matter of providing homes. Most of the street people in San Francisco have serious mental illness and drug addiction problems. They cannot take care of themselves. Giving those people a home will not solve their problems.
See also Leonard Susskind's series, [1].

> The Theoretical Minimum is a series of Stanford Continuing Studies courses taught by world renowned physicist Leonard Susskind. These courses collectively teach everything required to gain a basic understanding of each area of modern physics including all of the fundamental mathematics.

[1] http://theoreticalminimum.com/about
There is less critical ambiguity in the triad weapons. HS weapons introduce ambiguity in the above calculus. So with former, the global mafia could (safely) play proxy war in far flung location. Now, they can't do so, safely. All members of the global mafia cartel are concerned, since proxy wars are very good for [(settling)] business.
At hypersonic speeds, hitting the water starts to resemble slamming into the side of a tank. I'm not sure how that could be managed while keeping the warhead intact, and of course, you'd need to lift all of that armoring in the first place, and the drive to make it work underwater and produce cavitation effects.

As to how deep... not that deep, especially for a boomer.
I'm certain in the future that companies that sell third-party data to the government for this type of thing will get limited by large social networks due less to the reputational risk but more to the fear that the knowledge people are being watched will cause them to change or even limit their behavior on the platform. To wit, it behooves Facebook to ensure that the majority of two individuals' social media interactions are captured via platforms they control. Any threat to that is a direct threat to their profit center, ads.
In the DC area enough people have this kind of intelligent routing that Waze seldom saves me much time. And not all of it is intelligent, Waze-style routing; a lot of it is just that people know shortcuts. Even when it claims to have time savings at the beginning, usually it eliminates those time savings from its estimate as I actually drive.

Sometimes Waze gets a shortcut for me that actually saves maybe three or four minutes...but at the expense of driving down dangerous roads and making numerous turns. Typically it's not even worth it.

About the only time Waze is worth it is when there is an extraordinary event, such as a very bad wreck or a closed road. In those circumstances rerouting can save time.

At least Waze is up to date. Apple sometimes gives me impossible routes (e.g. illegal turns) and has some street and highway names that have been out-of-date for at least six months. Google on the other hand has an infuriating way of asking me to confirm reroutes that supposedly save me time, and giving me only a few seconds to do it. But Waze has a muddy, horrible interface. All these services have flaws.
> When I asked, “What is the weather on Crete?” Siri gave me the weather for Crete, Illinois, a small village which — while I’m sure it’s great — isn’t what most people mean

Most of the narrative about Apple's maps products has simply been "Apple bad, Google good" and hasn't looked much deeper than this (with the exception of Justin O'Beirne's cartographic commentary, which is remarkably detailed though much of it is just a matter of taste). But Mossberg really hits on something here:

Apple's geocoding is way below par. The cartography is superb IMO. The routing is very good[1]. The source data isn't bad at all. But the geocoding is really error-prone. I've asked it for directions to Milton Keynes, a town with a population of 250,000 just 40 miles from here, and it won't give me anything other than the nearest branch office (in a completely different town) of a company whose HQ happens to be in MK. I've asked it for directions to the village of Brize Norton and it flat-out refuses, sending me instead to the RAF base of the same name, even if I ask for "Brize Norton village", "Brize Norton School" and so on.

Yes, geocoding is famously hard. But as an OpenStreetMap volunteer I see that for anything other than granular street-level addresses (where we don't have the data), our grassroots geocoder is more reliable than that built by the most valuable company on earth. And as feedback to OSM shows, bad geocoding is the easiest way to make people think your entire map product is no good.

[1] except there's no bike routing... but hey Apple, if you want top-notch bike routing, give me a call ;)
More retirees are leaving sunny states to return to colder climes, says study
Counterexample: you could live where I live (upstate New York) on a tenth of the cost of San Francisco. A homeless person with marginally employable skills that moved from SF to upstate NY could work and afford to live in a home with heat and running water.

But if people choose not to work, I don't see what makes them any more "entitled" to live in a city than the people who work to make rent and pay taxes to support the services the city needs.
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New data challenges the cultural consensus on public housing
Great link; i wish i had this years ago! Thx for this contribution!
that seems a little optimistic, I figure there must be some moderately obscure device drivers that get much less scrutiny.
But what if you don't stop using it?
Am I getting this right? We should be OK with 1 in 20,000 odds of a phone exploding in our hands or burning down the house?

Because that's what 97 in 2 million amounts to.

Besides, that's just in the first couple months of release. Can you guarantee that a device run with a known, faulty, battery issue, wont result in more explosion as it gets used for more time?

It's not like "if you switched it on for the first time and it didn't explode it never will".

If anything time (and wear on battery etc) could be a compounding factor...
Sure, but these ones are definitely box-ticking exercises, I guess some "thought leader" on LinkedIn said all the best companies only hire people with Github, and off the masses went. There are loads of placeholder "tech blogs" too.
An interesting article about how Twitch manages their Postgres cluster of around 100 machines.

Also their approach to use Aws autoscaling to scale read replicas is quite new and novel to me.
In my life, I've lived in a handful of home-owning working class and upper middle class metropolitan areas. Every single one of them has had a "crisis" when developers want to build low income housing. I'm talking putting signs on lawns, knocking on doors, scheduling protests, going to town hall meetings and starting grassroots campaigns to protect their property values under the guise of public safety and "think of the children".

Their stated fear is that crime will increase, but press them with some sympathy towards their anxiety and they'll freely make it known that they view their property as an investment and don't want to be in the presence of people they feel are beneath them.

I also spent a majority of my childhood in the low income housing people are so against. We didn't live in fear of robbery, assault nor was there a rampant drug problem. We frequently left our door and windows unlocked and many neighbors had our key. I had a large and healthy social circle as a kid because of the close vicinity to others the property provided. The sense of community was higher there than any other place I've lived. I've brought this up only to be told that I just don't understand.
If that's the case, that leaves the problem (from the consumer's point of view) of where to get access to a complete(ish) catalog of films. Netflix actually achieved this back in the disc-by-mail days. So we're actually moving backwards.

I'm not particularly ashamed to say I turn to unlicensed torrents for this purpose, but I would prefer if it weren't necessary.
Netflix is now basically an OTT TV channel. This puts to rest the content aggregation platform model for video which, unlike music, is highly differentiated with higher cost, which rules out commoditization.

This basically reduces online video to two categories: user-generated content platforms and commissioned, curated content platforms. In my view there is only room for one player in the former (YT), but in the latter category, it is basically business as usual for the traditional TV networks. ﻿
This website requires many clicks. For intelligable graphs, click here

http://add-for.com/topics/benchmarks/caffe-vs-neon-vs-nvcaff...

Then make sure to change from stacked to grouped.
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Try opening the iframe directly.

Also, complain to your bank.
Choosing GraphQL to build Drift's messaging platform
What they say: "people shouldn't have to live without dignity"

What they mean: "people shouldn't live here without dignity"

What they do: "people without dignity shouldn't live"
The major DSPs in the music space have to license each music company separately. YouTube, Amazon, Soundcloud, Spotify, Apple - all have individual dealings with the majors and with groups of or individual indies. It's definitely not as simple as requesting a blanket license for all music everywhere and paying a single fee.

Sure, there are three major music companies and six major film studios plus a bunch of major tv networks / distributors but it's still a long set of negotiations.

I think the difference is that the music companies understand the value of each service having ubiquitous access to every piece of music. UMG's decision to stop their artists agreeing exclusives with single platforms demonstrates this to some extent.
Having hit the water at 60mph. Can confirm, felt like hitting the side of a tank.
Could you please send me the link where it says that I can get the hobbyist license. I want to give it a try.
You think that blowing carrier battle groups out of the water wouldn't lead to a nuclear strike?
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From eyeball perf/pricing, it looks roughly like the Pascal is 50% faster for twice the price. Which isn't surprising from the mass-market to specialized transition.
I don't think many engineers find something like "the flying coffin" as having a reasonable number of fails...
> but we used to have to run farms of mac minis because we couldn't have jenkins/bamboo trigger more than one xcode test/build run at a time.

As someone who is interested in OSX testing like this - ie, not arguing with you - would it be possible to have a mac mini use virtualbox with real OSX installations running in parallel?

From what i've heard in this thread, Virtualbox/etc support OSX just fine, on OSX machines. Hypothetically, you could parallel-ize on a single machine via virtualbox, no?

I understand Apple is still making it a PITA though. Not disagreeing, just learning why you were only running a single instance per box. :)
You would think so...

In my '13 Hyundai, the navigation UX is pretty good, but I swear that the entertainment part of it was written by a summer intern.
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Again, just a distraction

To be an issue of entitlement the person would have to say something that sets them apart, akin to: it's ok for me to pirate but for everyone else its bad;

Whereas the gp was just describing their process without applying any opinion on the ethics of others doing the same

an excuse is just an excuse, the special treatment is what makes it entitled

Have you ever pirated anything? If you have then your position would make you the entitled one because you are claiming it is wrong for this person to pirate though you have done so yourself

Why offer your opinion with lazy pithy statements and attempts to compartmentalise complex ideas into a single word?

It reads so demonstrative and finite as if these issues lack any capacity for dialogue

I think your perspective is important to this conversation but I'm unable to access it due to how you are presenting it
>I'm not the only one who think Safari is a joke compared to the competition.

How does that opinion survive reality, e.g. Safari being the first browser to reach 100% ES6 compliance?

>I still have flexbox issues on Safari https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136041*

So? All browsers still have Flexbox issues. Here are Chrome's:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list?can=2&q=com...
Sure: https://www.hpe.com/h41268/live/index_e.aspx?qid=24548

Last time I tried (few years ago) I was contacted via email by an HP guy who asked me what architectures I needed licenses for, and then sent me a private FTP login to download all the files.

Some links to get you started:

http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/23

https://www.wherry.com/gadgets/retrocomputing/vax-simh.html

If you want to emulate on SIMH I suggest you compile the latest from source (it's on GitHub).
New undersea cable expands capacity for Google APAC customers and users
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I understand that but not everyone lives in SF or creates a microservice for each function they have hosted in an overpriced ec2-vm inside a subpar docker-container using json-serialization.

You can have (open-source or free) and develop without community (i think like chrome does that).

The question is: is it worth it ? Without vc-money-cash it's a little hard AND time-consuming.
The article is about PDP-11 computers (16-bit, 1M max memory, from the 1970s) which never ran VMS (runs on 32-bit VAXes with 4M+ memory from the 1980s). I don't know why the author mentions OpenVMS in the Updates section because it isn't mentioned anywhere in the article body.
Yeah, I'm sure we are eventually going to see the re-emergence of traditional cable package models, just retooled for the digital age. Netflix is going to become the new Comcast and Amazon Video the new Time Warner. I assume it's only a matter of time before they cross-license content to each other, possibly as a premium add-on a la HBO and Starz.

The engine driving all of this that no one ever discusses is our current copyright regime. This cycle is going to continue to repeat itself as long as copyright remains unchanged. If our copyright laws were more sane, the whole thing would look a lot different.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunker_buster

They've dealt with base penetration problems before and I'm sure there has been progression since.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_Ordnance_Penetrator