skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to have little to do with the President, as the same thing happened last year at the Brookings Institute - and if you recall, a different gentleman was President at the time.

From my point of view, it seems that the State Department diplomats and bureaucrats have turned into ball-less, useless functionaries that care more about the feelings of foreign heads of state than the civil rights of US citizens.

If that weren't the case, these people would have been expelled from the US with strongly worded diplomatic requests/suggestions/demands that they be tried for their actions in a Turkish court. That's how it's supposed to work at least.
Announcing bad news as a founder is pretty heartbreaking. The less discussion about it the better, I would imagine.
That's fine.

As long as they don't use me if I don't. Which apparently they are. That's a problem.
A tactic some Uber drivers seem to use to avoid having to cancel (which can get them kicked off the platform if they do it too frequently) is to just drive away from you until you get frustrated and cancel on your end.
You can implement a 68k in an FPGA with plenty of room to spare.
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It's even worse than that. The device manufacturers often can't update the kernel on their own; they need cooperation from their peripheral vendors. I see a lot of Android customers criticizing device vendors for fragmentation and failing to release OS updates. But Google really created the problem by failing to build in stable APIs for a hardware abstraction layer and loadable device drivers. Unfortunately the only ways they could really fix the problem would be by forking Linux or building a new kernel from scratch and those would be huge efforts.
Unethical: lacking moral principles.

Moral: of, relating to, or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong

I think it is "clearly wrong" that Facebook creates shadow profiles, because it is violating the freedom of people who have not signed up for their service, in the same way that it is clearly wrong for me to take away your favorite pet for ritualistic sacrifice against your wishes, even if "everyone" in the community agrees that it has been a consistently effective method for pleasing the Gods.

Of course, you know these analogies are tenuous, and you will eventually go into very precise definitions of words (or worse, you will actually start taking my pet sacrifice analogy and dissecting it). Perhaps you could tell us about something you think is clearly unethical, and we will try and draw the connection for you.
Ask HN: Why not use a higher base than Hex for UUIDs if they're just strings?
If we're storing and sending them as strings, why not take up less space by bumping up the radix to harness more available characters? Going from hex to Base64 alone would be a seemingly obvious place to start, since Base64 is already a well established radix specifically for leveraging the fact that strings have quite a few characters available to them.

With Hexadecimal, we get 4 bits per character. With Base64, we get 6 bits per character. To keep UUIDs at 128 bits, we'd go from 32 to 22 characters in length.

So why do we use hexadecimal representation when it is literally just a string, and could be anything? Even keeping the radix in powers of 2 is kind of unnecessary if these are being stored and transmitted as strings, the radix at that point just becomes a mechanism for allowing additional combinations. We could use any arbitrary number of characters per digit and it would serve that purpose. There are 91 ASCII characters available, so what gives?

Additionally, why the dashes? If we reserve digits for meaning per standard, such as UUIDv1 MAC address + time, why not just go off of digit position? In a string, that dash takes up just as much wasted space as the additional characters which are providing data utility.
I think it is more likely that the market corrects this well before the law. How much longer can the status-quo of online advertising remain intact? Do these targeted ad's really work? There is a ton of time and talent being poured into hyper-advanced targeted advertising systems, how long can this be sustained?
NL?

Never mind, the Netherlands, I am dumb.
I like this comment. I always do a mental check on solutions to see not how they succeed but how they fail.
It is not legal, they have to hand the funds over to the state and file it as unclaimed property. https://ucpi.sco.ca.gov/UCP/
They list the main ones on pages 3-4 of this paper:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx4hafXDDq2EMzRNcy1vSUxtcEk...

It's mainly moving memory around, matrix multiplication, convolution, and applying activation functions (sigmoid, tanh, relu, etc.). Very simple, high-level stuff. This has the handy side-effect of making timing very predictable, which makes the latency a lot more deterministic.
Good article. Booth's Precious Nonsense: The Gettysburg Address, Ben Jonson's Epitaphs on His Children, and Twelfth Night sounds intriguing, too.

"Why do we value literature so? Many would say for the experience it brings us. But what is it about that experience that makes us treasure certain writings above others? Stephen Booth suggests that the greatest appeal of our most valued works may be that they are, in one way or another, nonsensical. He uses three disparate textsthe Gettysburg Address, Ben Jonson's epitaphs on his children, and Shakespeare's Twelfth Nightto demonstrate how poetics triumphs over logic in the invigorating mental activity that enriches our experience of reading. Booth presents his case in a book that is crisply playful while at the same time thoroughly analytical. He demonstrates the lapses in logic and the irrational connections in examples of very different types of literature, showing how they come close to incoherence yet maintain for the reader a reliable order and purpose. Ultimately, Booth argues, literature gives us the capacity to cope effortlessly with, and even to transcend, the complicated and demanding mental experiences it generates for us.

"This book is in part a witty critique of the trendsold and newof literary criticism, written by an accomplished and gifted scholar. But it is also a testimony to the power of the process of reading itself. Precious Nonsense is certain to bring pleasure to anyone interested in language and its beguiling possibilities."
Or lack there of. They're busy getting hysterical over the highly damning allegations of the day that is our current 'NightmareTV' political situation.

Because the Obama admin was implicated in it, the coverage seems to be broad in Republican circles (i.e. Fox News). I wish us non-tribal people could form some common-sense, bipartisan group.

Edit: added less ambiguous descriptors.
Imagine a true hacker phone. Something that could handle Kali? Something a user could take apart, and modify.
And, indeed, they are.
Smartphones only seem to last for two years before the hardware starts to fail.
That's exactly why Apple does things like analyze your photo library locally on the phone - for privacy.
Alone, no, not at all. But no one change was ever going to be enough. Electric cars (and home solar, which, as I mentioned, Tesla is also big into) can both be parts of the larger puzzle.
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Expect the rate of improvement in smartphone hardware to gradually decline over time, just like it already has for desktop and laptop computers. At some point even low-end smartphones will be "good enough" for the vast majority of users, and then device vendors will shift most of their innovation efforts to whatever is the next new hot form factor like AR glasses or whatever.
Tinfoil Hat = paranoid, as in people who believe govt is sending mind control waves, and wear tinfoil hats so as to block them.
I agree with you, but with the caveat that CPUs should be able to run flat-out, indefinitely at rated voltage. In this case, people are over-volting the CPU by up to 40% so running the hardest workloads simply pushes an amount of power (heat) through the CPU that it was never intended to handle.
In regards to AirBnB, there were a lot of concerns that people were simply not renting out to certain races.

Stuff like a black male tries to rent for a certain date, gets denied, and then an hour later a white female tries to rent it for the same date and is approved by the owner.

I believe in the example I'm citing the person affected actually created the second account of the "white female" and tried to keep the language very similar when they booked, so this example was pretty egregious.

There were also cases, although this probably fits in the category of mentally ill and just really mean, of people sending messages like "sorry no Asians" after denying a renters request.

AirBnB did respond though. One of the changes they made was how the profile picture was displayed during the booking process. Either they made it smaller or removed it completely if you were an owner approving people.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14419858
Geeze. I'd almost forgot how a lot of college really is.

Thanks for the reminder.
Entirely depends on the application. The Euclid device might be a little spendy for the 'maker' market, but it includes a fisheye cam + imu combo for SLAM (like Google's Tango tablet) and a 30fps stereo depth cam for densely reconstructing an environment. The target seems perfect for students learning robotics.
I don't think we can take him seriously as a distinguished fellow without at least one head shot of him facing right.
Yes, surely this has no relation to their inability to build reliable cloud products ....
I used it a lot on Outlook for Mac and it's still dreadful software, I could give long list a problems with it but I have to just lump it in with the quality I've come to expect from Microsoft, regardless - from the 50 odd feedback reports I provided, I never received a link to a bug report or any thanks for testing and reporting on their (expensive!) software and 5 years later it still performs terribly, uses an excessive amount of network activity when idle, fails to properly render HTML, inserts bloated HTML junk into emails, crashes, misses basic features, leaks memory and wastes screen realestate.
You are correct, but we're talking about an entirely different magnitude of fpga for AI purposes than the tiny little one in the iPhone 7.
Yeah. The whole article went off the rails when I got there.

Any idea what he is referring to?
>But 100% of all of these actions are on the home country. The host country can do absolutely nothing besides expel them or complain to their home country.

The host country can do anything they want. Whether or not it will cause further problems is based on the balance of power between various nations.

As an obviously ridiculous example: imagine Osama bin Laden showed up in NYC with diplomatic immunity. There is zero chance he would not be arrested, regardless of what some words say.
Ask HN: What information to ask for when doing a contract?
I have taken up my first software contract with a client, and I would love some help with what I should be asking them when we meet tomorrow to discuss the project. I'm not entirely sure what is appropriate to discuss and what things I should ask that may end up being critical down the line but that I can't think of now.

Some things I definitely know I want to cover in the meeting are:

1) Payment, both how much and when

2) What exactly is being expected of me, and any dates associated with various parts of the project

3) What kind of communication is expected, and how they would like to be updated

I have never done anything of this sort before, so any help / advice would be greatly appreciated! For reference, I am being asked to make an iOS app version for a webapp. Thanks!
My phone is basically just Termux at this point. I still use the gui for making and receiving calls and for web browsing but for all other purposes it is just a portable TTY.
The "more people die in car accidents" is a moot argument. Terrorism hits a nerve car accidents or w/e can't.

Here is the thing: When driving a car, you have some level of control of your destinity. Take precaution, use the seat belts, children seat, and so on... You know there is risk involved, but that you also can lower that risk.

Worrying that your next train trip, museum visit, or national day celebration will end up fatally, changes your way of life. You have zero control over that. You worry about those dearest to you.
Facebook can be a force for good, if they remove people's currently trained over-dependence on watching their like/view/reshare counts.

These artificial numbers applied to all social interaction, fuck society up in all kinds of unexpected ways. These numbers are required to keep the advertising revenues flowing and can still be collected and supplied to them without causing social fabric damage.

The fallout and constructive handling of this mess is going to take a while to understand and get right. That said I think Facebook and YouTube and Twitter even though they are responsible for the mess, are also our best bets at figuring this stuff out.

These aren't tech problems. These are social problems requiring expertise from community builders, politicians, sociologists, ecologists, psychologist, lawyers, journalists, law enforcement etc

I think the evolution/next stage of the social network will be driven by such folk much more than the techie. The techie was required to create speed and scale. That job is complete. How we use the scale and speed, understanding it's positive and negative effect on society and utilizing it for the greater good is something tech companies will be hiring a lot of non-tech expertise to figure out.

I would like to see someone like Obama put in charge of Facebook to see what is possible.
You typically don't have to do this with cmake either. The build depends on the CMakeLists.txt file (and the files it depends on itself), which is where the list of source files is stored.
I do find it ridiculous that hikers are allowed to attempt the climb, and that if they die on the climb their bodies are allowed to litter the landscape forever.

When you attempt a climb, it should be required that you pay a deposit that will pay for 1) removal of all trash left by you assuming that everything you carry becomes trash and 2) recovery and removal of your body in case you die on the climb.

Since mostly wealthy people do these climbs it shouldn't be a problem at all.
The only practical way to do it is to have multiple tiers of tech support where tier-1 escalates anything that looks like a potential defect to tier-2/3. And then you have to build your employee compensation structure so that those upper-tier support analysts are at least partly rewarded for the number of valid defects they file, not just for how many support tickets they close.
I don't know what denomination of bills were available back then, but smuggling 1.6 million in cash on a single flight sounds unlikely.
I gave it 3 votes on uservoice for you. Good luck.
I really appreciate you pointing this out.

The media can change though.

A good example of this is how the CDC advised news organizations to cover suicide. It was determined in the 70s that suicide spiked following news coverage of famous individuals deaths which led to these guidelines.

A good example is the headline the NY Times used for Chris Cornell's death. It simply said that he died at 52.

I would really like to see these implemented for mass shootings though. There is an organization called "No Notoriety" I believe that's purpose is to prevent coverage of the perpetrators to deny them any sorts of fame.
> Could you help me understand your reasoning behind not pairing up with or taking advantage of existing projects like Halium or LineageOS?

From the article:

> Of course I am not the only one, that came to this conclusion - especially in the last few weeks with the Halium project rising (greetings!). I am all-in for working together — sharing udev rules, merging Android kernels together, whatever makes sense!

> [...] postmarketOS does not fit the Halium model, as it avoids the Android build system entirely and does not run Android next to GNU/Linux.

> Thanks to Replicant, LineageOS, Halium. Together, we can make the vision of long-lasting, open source smartphone operating systems a reality!

So I see postmarketOS as part of the community. We have multiple projects, that want to provide a more open alternative to Android, on Android devices. This will only work out, if we work together and share, what we can.

postmarketOS differs from the other projects, that it tries to completely cut-off the Android parts. This will be harder for hardware compatibility, but then again, it does not depend on Google's upstream Android code (which does not get developed as a true community project, they only put out the source after they are done developing behind close curtains), and it uses less resources than running Android as second OS next to your regular GNU/Linux.

Regarding kernels and drivers, postmarketOS directly packages LineageOS kernels. Proprietary 3d acceleration will be avoided for now, some tests with "weston-smoke" and other demos showed, that it works fast enough without them. You won't be able to play 3d games, but that's not really in the scope of the project for now.
I feel your pain and too don't want to talk about it, the problem is the software 'corporates' think they should be using isn't what they should be using due to people in non-technical roles making technical decisions.
How do we know Google doesn't do such linking? Perhaps not in a user-visible way, but Google certainly have the data.
As a long time general consumer of anything space related, this article hits the spot.
Yes but having to order from 2 different companies, with food arriving at 2 different times seems a bit hard to deal with. Imagine this in the context of a lunch break.
The trash certainly, but I think there is something appropriate about having to step over bodies on the way.
I've never picked a modern book by its cover because it's a facade that the author/publisher decorates to manipulate you into thinking something. The same applies to putting so much emphasis on looks, it just opens you up to being lied to.

As the sibling comment identifies, you read reviews of trusted people or the masses.
Looks like even science magazines have fallen prey to clickbait titles a la buzzfeed. Which is quite sad considering that it's actually a quality article.
They might be worse. The NSA, after all, is at least ostensibly only after terrorists and such.
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Seems somewhat accurate. I grew up in the East bay, been robbed twice (both at knife) off the Fruitvale, West Oakland stops in high school. Bay Area was much different 10-15 years ago, you wouldn't see random people walking their dogs and drinking a lattee in Oakland (and some parts of SF) back then.

I used to be scared to walk through the Mission, now its just so much different.
Holiday weekend, too, in the US. Lots of folks take today off for a 4-day weekend or more.
My service collects payments as an agent in a two-sided network, and the amounts sit on our balance sheet as a liability. You can't ever book such funds as revenue, any auditor worth their accounting degree would smack you for that, so it can never contribute to income. Quoting a former manager of mine: "it's worse than illegal, it'd be a violation of accounting principles!"

There's also very limited scope for investment. So it's pointless retaining such funds; we try to disburse at the earliest opportunity.

I'd expect any successor entity to Tilt will remain liable. If Tilt are doing anything with the ridiculous "deadline", it's encouraging people to get that liability off their balance sheet. Speculation: perhaps some aspect of their acquisition deal is driving it, such liabilities might reduce TEV.
Agreed that the title is clickbait, but it's also quite clever.
That's the common representation for easy readability and interop. In other words - that's how the standard defines it. You can store the uuids in whatever form you prefer. Even directly as binary chunks in your database.

In practice, saving those few bytes will usually be just noise compared to the rest of the data (unless you're storing primarily uuids, but then you should've chosen a better solution)
But the whole point of this project is to appeal to the mass market, and give smartphones a ten-year life cycle. They're explicitly aiming at a much wider userbase than hackers alone.
Well, it shouldn't amaze you. The telephone was literally invented in Canada, and we have the worst telco situation in North America; and that's really saying something.

I think the problem is inherent in early adoption. The people who buy the first version of the thing are happy to wait another couple versions before upgrading, because they already have something which is substantially similar to the upgrade. You see this with people comparing the telco situation in Ethiopia (which despite a terrible organizational model, and very little capital, is improving rapidly) to anywhere in the developed world doesn't make sense. If you have landlines and a cable TV infrastructure, 4G over the air will have less demand automatically.
Your proposal is basically that on the event of a rich person's death, several poor people should risk their own lives to commemorate the way that he died. Is anyone surprised that isn't how it works?
? You have to upgrade the software on all devices to move to a larger address space. That's understood. What we are discussing here is the added complexity of the configuration. Updating the software is easy by comparison.
Send me your credit card info, I promise not to abuse it.
The biggest issue in trying to have a long running constantly updating OS on a Android phone is the device drivers.

Instead of trying to reverse engineer and make open source drivers, I think you should try a more generic approach something like a rump kernel or some other generic layer for each Linux kernel version which can simulate the interface needed for the particular kernel driver. That way you don't have to keep porting or reverse engineering device drivers.

Your approach of trying to make an open source driver is a losing one, it requires a lot of work and you can't reasonably keep up with it.
And completely consistent with its subject matter.
The cheating method is very interesting, but even the WIRED article leaves a lot of unanswered questions. Even if one knows what PRNG is used (the Mersenne Twister, for example), how in the world do they know how the PRNG is used? Are we generating integers, bits, bytes, do these numbers correspond to probabilities? To specific slots? Etc.

It just seems very unlikely to me that this kind of operation is possible without some kind of inside man that gives the cheaters a look at the source code (or at least an idea of how the slot machines work).
Different categories of diplomatic/consular staff have different levels of diplomatic immunity. Here's a complicated chart that details some of that:

https://www.state.gov/m/ds/c9127.htm

Note in particular that rather a lot of categories allow the offender to be detained or arrested, and to be prosecuted if their actions were not "official acts". (And if "beat up those protesters" were formally affirmed as an official act, I suspect that would have more serious consequences than just prosecuting a few security staff members. Assuming the current administration didn't just give Erdogan a high five, anyway.)
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In Brazil this is very common. The whole internet is reduced to a combination of WhatsApp, Facebook and YouTube.