skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was no migration story. Usually an API gets more features but in this case they took away a lot of critical stuff. A lot of us write applications that need the full power of the OS and not just a small arbitrarily chosen subset.
Remember that you can select entities like the EFF for charity donations!
> I doubt the lack of big IPC gains for single-core workloads was a voluntary choice.

It seems to me like they voluntarily focused on power consumption over performance. It's a valid choice but it wasn't forced on them, and raw performance is more important for desktops.
There are more yellow fish in my tank than there are red. So when I add food to the tank, yellow fish benefit disproportionately. Therefore, I should feed the red fish separately. Got it.
One of the bots authors participating in SSCAIT (https://twitch.tv/sscait) once sent me this link:

http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/Micro_Training_Maps

They are supposed to be mini maps where your bot can train separate aspects of the game on a much smaller scale.

Extremely useful if you're an aspiring bot author.
For years Apple has released products that are dependent on a feature not yet available. (Apple Pencil, AirPods, etc on the hardware front, and OS features touted for new hardware not available at launch, like Portrait Mode) For those that are heavy consumers of Apple products, years of keynote announcements should have conditioned this expectation.
People avoid thinking too much about things that are working as advertised. How many people wonder about how exactly their cars work or the global financial system works yet they are impacted by both of these. They may reserve curiosity for other things depending on their interests.

And here the problem begins, a lot of software engineers seem to conflate this disinterest to stupidity and think this gives them a right to do whatever they want with other people's data.

There is a fundamental lack of understanding and respect of other people rights and privacy and an easy dehumanization that is disconnected from human society and the evolution of fundamental rights like like the right to privacy. Regulation will catch up and eventually address this as more people become aware but is a troubling reflection of a large part of the software ecosystem.
This is karma for the way they started their 'Windows Smartphone' project, aka 'Stinger' (their internal name).
They partnered with UK-based Sendo, who should have been their go-to-market partner, until Microsoft nicked all the code and gave it to HTC. They, in turn, partnered with Orange to bring out the SPV. How do we know it was Sendo's code? becuase it had Sendo's bugs - the eact version could be determined by which bugs it had and didn't have.

When Microsoft starts out like this, they deserve every little failurethey get!

Refs: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/01/06/microsofts_masterpla...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_SPV
If you want to vent and receive comments about the abuse of the API, you should write a blog post about it and submit that instead of a pretend-ask HN.
No need for a 23AndMe breach. They can just collect your fallen hair after your interview ;)
See my root-level comment in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15437177
Aren't most emoji gender neutral?
I prefer a straight "You we're not accepted." Rather than all the platitudes about how you're awesome but everyone is awesome so it's hard to choose from all the awesome but don't feel too bad etc etc.

I'm a big boy now, just "Sorry you didn't get in." Is less patronizing somehow.
Media Center and Media Player are two different things.
The work they're doing is effectively that. There's nothing stopping Android from running on top of the kernel work they're doing. Think of their work as developing an open source BSP.

It looks like much of the UI work is being punted to whatever phone ui the KDE and Gnome projects churn out.

An Android userland will likely ship in parallel or shortly after. The bits AOSP handles are by and large boring and don't need to be futzed with.
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> They want jobs. They want to contribute. They don't want to leave their homes. They are stuck.

Government should subsidize relocation to a full time job.
The build that I ended up settling on was this:
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/2HBKvV

Not sure if it helps, but that price is under $1k for reasonably similar performance. RAM could be faster though, I guess.

Edit: I just noticed this but the build I linked is also water cooled, while yours looks to be air-cooled?

I think it just takes some looking around to find good bang-for-your-buck.
Is there any special reason why they choose Matrix instead of XMPP?
dnsgate does that: https://github.com/jakeogh/dnsgate
Point taken, but in the meantime there’s a lot of effort being wasted in awkward pairings.
I have to wonder how often the problem is bedtime, rather than wake-up time. In the past year or two I've come to the realization that part of my own inability to get a good night's rest is because my body really does function best when I go to bed at 3am (and consequently wake up at 11), a behavior that I had always thought of as aberrant due to social perception and the realities of maintaining an office job.

I still have the office job and I'm still chronically sleep deprived, but I'm less anxious about allowing myself an extra half hour in the evenings to blow off steam when I "should" be sleeping, now that I think of an early bedtime as one end of a compromise I'm making with myself rather than as a personal virtue that I'm forever failing to uphold.
Unfortunately even under much more noise than the Whatsapp activation patterns, we have seen timing attacks working in incredible reliable ways, with the network in the middle adding random delays, and even when the task at hand was to misure very small differences in time. So I guess that if this attack already seems feasible in certain contexts, it can only get much better using more advanced techniques.
Does Debian have the same support for AWS eccentricities that Ubuntu now does?
"In a lot of ways youre just throwing a party with WINDOWS 7 as an honored guest"
>Until then, it will still be available for the whole world to use, just for a small licensing fee

They don't appear to be selling right to use licenses. Most of the text on their site suggests a cloud based service, which I suspect will be usage based.

All that to say it is perhaps too soon to judge the end user cost as small. Maybe it will be, maybe not.
1 - It depends on the company. I've had some companies ask for my SSN when visiting for an on-site interview, and others that don't ask for it until I've signed an offer.

2 - Will it save the company more money than the potential cost of lawsuits? Is it provably fraud? I'd argue that there is value in knowing for certain that an applicant made $x amount of total compensation in salary, benefits and equity. Having a precise dollar amount could let you implement all sorts of ways to optimize the compensation packages you offer for different employees.

For instance you could check an applicants past three jobs and get the average compensation % increase between each. You could use this to get a well-modeled idea of the minimum you need to offer them based on past trends in order to hire them.

Is this illegal? It should be, but the job market didn't anticipate the Equifax breach. There may not be laws that specifically prohibit this.
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but that logic breaks down when if you factor in competition from other remote companies.

The moment one remote company offers an SF rate compensation outside of SF, then the job candidate's market rate is an SF rate.

I totally understand if a company doesn't have the budget for talent and looks to exclusively hire in non-hub / smaller places in order to keep costs low. But I hate when a company says: we understand you have an SF rate offer and we would normally compete with that if you lived in SF, but, sorry, our excel spreadsheet says we can only lowball you.
Heh, that would be inside information would it not? If nothing else, the Waymo v. Uber lawsuit shows how hotly contested self driving technology is, and LIDAR technology in particular.

I've built a number of mobile robots over the years, and watched many others build them as well as part of a robotics club. One truism is that most robotics problems are pretty easy given ideal sensors and sensors for every variable :-). When I started building robots I quickly understood that 'sensor fusion' is more about trying to tease reality out of a very noisy cloud of data than it is AI or fancy software. I spent a month trying to get a robot to go precisely straight so that my dead reckoning algorithm would work.
Is there an epub of this?
This is super awesome!

Although it's slightly frustrating how closely named it is to the Amazon Athena[1] service. Which also is a SQL-based analytics service, but quite a bit different than Uber's project.

[1]https://aws.amazon.com/athena/
So is it a new stepping? If so that would be remarkably fast for a bug to be fixed in silicon.

Otherwise why couldn't AMD issue a microcode update to fix the issue on older processors of the same stepping?

I guess I'm not understanding how it could be a silicon fix so quickly, or how any other manufacturing defect on the package would cause such an issue.
In other words, there is a theory that seeing strong female role models will change the lower levels and society's conceptions.

It's a perfectly plausible theory, but of course it suffers from the same sexual discrimination "injustice" that causes all the arguments whenever this topic comes up.

Considering the human factor involved in this problem though, using temporary injustice to get through a logjam in an effort to see if that can "prime the pump" and get to a self-sustaining meritocracy seems worth a try, I'd personally prefer we don't pretend it's something other than what it is though (but again, considering this is a human problem, lying to ourselves may be a necessary part of the solution).
So that's Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft that failed with phones.

I think it's safe to say we will never see a viable third option in mobile.

Might as well start thinking of the next great paradigm shift but even there it's hard to see anyone out maneuvering Apple and Google.
This is an admirable effort, but unless tens of thousands of units are put into production it will be very difficult to get the attention of even the smallest Chinese OEMs. It appears they've pre-sold less than 2000 units. I wonder if it would be more fruitful to work from an existing phone with solid build quality and simplifying the process of jailbreaking it and installing FOSS on it.
We are not their customer, we should pressure government to do something about them both federal and local.

It looks like that's the only way, we can't just "vote with our wallet" in this situation.
> And didn't people find a way to break that bot?

According to the player interviews and Reddit discussion threads, the "break" you are talking about was more like being really unpredictable therefore finding a play style that the AI had never encountered.

The players were flailing to find a way to defend against the AI that is learning quicker over time than they are.
I doubt that, I haven't seen hn avoid topics that the users may be coding before.

I think it's more that, at the moment, most people only relate it to low quality sites.

Once it begins to catch on, on more mainstream sites, then it will become more of a topic.
I think a big question now is will Microsoft build a smartphone product on top of Android? This will help them capture existing app ecosystem and enable them to provide "the best of Microsoft" for enterprise mobile customers. The cloud market is so important and it just seems strategically weak to not have a phone platform to connect with that. Google Cloud has Google Play Services and there is lots of opportunity there.
The caption of the last image says: "Visitors can tour the system, which cost $2 billion and was completed in 2006."
I hope that's just a typo.
"Your cancellation request has been submitted " %]
CORS misconfigurations on a large scale
I guess we lost the universal purpose of the original smiley. It's yellow and looks like nobody in particular, so that it could represent anybody...
This feature is a blight upon the web. To disable in Firefox:

https://superuser.com/a/1156927
i have almost no relationship with it, as little or much when i want, whenever or wherever i want

fresh roast 88pt(grade A) usually natural processed 100% Arabica/peaberry, coffees, then immediate cold brew in fruit forward ristretto/espresso/full drip by the gallon, and have it in the fridge with a pump.

a couple seconds to pump the espresso, then add milk, water alcohol vanilla at any temp to taste. takes just seconds

it's naturally sweet black, and has no stomach upset, or jitters...just fades out smoothly.

usually a double shot with breakfast and a other at 11, sometimes one in the pm before a caffeiene nap, and sometimes one in a cockatail ( e..g. irish coffee if i have writing or debugging..helps me get into the zone)

for the road i just put it in a bottle/flask

it's available on etsy under cloud9 brewing systems.
It's not clear why you put "it" in quotes or used the term "it" which generally doesn't refer to a person.
you never know what may happen to GH, they're private property after all.

Options help in keeping all actors sober and sane
Doesn't e-estonia use block chain for identity?
The more important news in my opinion is the cheapest core i3 in the price range of $105 to $125, which is now quad core and reasonable budget workstation competition for the also-quad-core Ryzen 1300X.
$1.5m does seem like a low target for a crowdfunded smartphone, but it's worth bearing in mind that the salaries of those involved will not be propped up solely by a single device. Purism already sell a range of laptops:

https://puri.sm/products/
Yeah and the project plan for PureOS >II looks interesting too. Lets do everything, at the same time!

Nevertheless, I wish them luck and hope they succeed.
That seems to be a trick that all these hot startups use to make you think they actually care about you.

Like how Slack always says stuff along the lines of "we like you" and "I hope you have a great time at work today" every single time you log in.

Or how npm says "we love your boss" - Yeah of course you love my boss because he's the one who's paying for the enterprise license.

In npm's case it's probably more tongue-in-cheek but still, it's a bit disturbing that these services keep telling me that they love me when in fact they wouldn't care if I dropped dead tomorrow... Except maybe for the lost revenue.
It feels like over the past few years most of the XMPP crowd has shifted to Matrix.

XMPP failed to get BOSH out the door quickly enough to maintain traction.
Agreed, especially when it comes to eGPUs. I built a mid-core, 1050-powered eGPU for my 2013 Macbook last year and I couldn't be happier! It feels like magic that I can plug this relatively tiny box into my laptop and boost my performance by 4x.

http://archagon.net/blog/2016/12/31/cheap-and-painless-egpu-...
Is it a Chrome-only feature? I still haven't seen any such dialog.
Why certain text editors make you more productive
If some people 'suck' at negotiating then that must mean there are others who are 'better' at negotiating

If I have a guardian who pays my rent so that i can take 6months to high ball offers to finally find a job that will pay me a high wage does that mean I'm 'better' at negotiating?
I don't think moving every time you get a new job is feasible. You also can't help where your friends and family choose to live.
I do this everyday for the past 10 years.. This is my bread and butter. http://www.jonathanlevin.co.uk
Canonical and Mozilla are too busy virtue signaling and selling their users out for profit.
My surprise wasn't at the fact that someone would give up money due to morals; my surprise was at the fact that helping Microsoft (or putting ads in software, in VLC's case) would be considered a moral wrong. That sounds like quite an exaggeration to me. Microsoft has done a lot of good things too, and so have ads. The fact that they have negative aspects doesn't mean anything less than 90 degrees away from their direction is a moral wrong.
For now, Matrix[0] with the Riot IM app[1]. Also the Wire app[2] for people who wish to use something simpler. I also want to explore Tox[3] sometime soon. All of these support encrypted communication.

Running your own Matrix server isn't so hard. Federated identities allow you to message other users across other Matrix servers. Riot IM is probably the most widespread GUI for Matrix. Works well on both my Android and from Google Chrome. Encrypted voice calls included. Bridges exist to connect it to external services, like IRC. Purism also is working on using Matrix as the basis for secure communication in their upcoming Librem 5 phone.

Wire has no bridges and is more self-contained. It works primarily as a mobile app & has the ability to use your phone's contacts to discover other people who have also set it up. Like Matrix, encrypted voice calls are a feature. Wire is currently centralized, but decentralization is on their road map. The software is noteworthy because it is written in both Rust and Haskell.

Tox I just discovered today - it is used by at least one developer of MenuetOS. It's a P2P chat app that affords privacy, confidentiality, and anonymity.

Cool thread. I hope some interesting answers come up here.

[0] https://matrix.org/
[1] https://riot.im/
[2] https://wire.com/en/
[3] https://tox.chat/
If I can't find my employer, does it mean I'm not affected?
Someone overclocked an i9 to 6 GHz and it consumed a cool 1 kW:

https://youtu.be/_alRb9dMQjQ?t=14m48s
Instead of wasting resources in war, what about creating the next economical and political world giant together?

There could be a window: Europe, USA, Japon, India are not in their best shape. The only worldwide competitor is China.

Oh, and start interplanetary exploitation, indeed.

Welcome to the XXI century.
>what would happen to all credentials once issued to some blockchain, if that blockchain ceases to operate? The raw blockchain data is of course still available and maintains its blockchain structure. Yet the integrity-preserving features of the blockchain disappear as soon as it is no longer actively used.

I'm not sure this is true. Info about the blockchain wouldn't evaporate instantly, it'd be easy to get the legit genesis block header and chain height, wouldn't it require a lot of "work" to produce a convincing counterfeit chain?
Perhaps that's the trick -- if you make an ad look less like an ad, it's 0.1% more likely to convert.

And Google still hasn't figured out how to best their search advertising network business, so I assume that people click on ads, even if I'm not in that demographic.

You should really watch a child play a game that has interstitial ads. It's quite obvious that they often click on ads because they want to learn more (maybe not fully convert, but intentionally click).
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Overall quite good, the system is very stable and the performance is good (probably not the fastest but decent).

The only thing to criticise (to a degree) would be that if the manual isn't followed precisely during the installation you can end up with a busted setup.

For why the choice. It's a solid distributed system, the concepts it uses the same principles as FiFo (masterless setup for high availability). Being written in Erlang means it works flawlessly on SmartOS and FreeBSD plus if you already use erlang gives the advantage to be able to look at the code if needed.

The LeoFS team is very quick to respond, works extremely diligent and takes their work serious (which is a big plus).

Even on the test system which gets brutally shut down (aka plugs pulled) about once or twice a week the installation works flawlessly even after a few month of this torment.

Of cause as always YMMV ;)
JW, but how do you think about taxes? Would an American living in Denmark earn more than a Danish living in Denmark, because the American has much higher tax liability?

Or maybe the American doesn't report the income to Denmark so has very low taxes compared to a danish or American-based co-workers since they qualify for FEIE?

Does the married American with the marriage tax breaks get paid more or less than a single American?
My pet theory is that this is because the dev tools department at Microsoft is not a pure cost centre with the sole task of improving the platform, they have Visual Studio licenses to sell. If there is any truth in that, we should see a slow decline in "API of the year" as non-subscription licenses (where customers are prone to skip an update when it does not have enough "revolutionary must-haves") are slowly phased out.
What stops you from taking the first job you find, and then spending 6 months while working looking for better jobs?

It hardly is THAT hard to get some competing offers. And if you can't be bothered, I guess you don't really want it anyway?
Except in the multicore workloads. Which is why you'd buy a Zen chip.
Its more likely a matter of cost and scale

This is not a trivial matter! Cost is entirely the reason a host of technologically-possible automation hasn't happened outside a lab.
Brazilian here, I probably check Whatsapp +50 times a day and I'm not a heavy user.
Can anyone comment on how this compares to KSQL[1]?

[1] https://www.confluent.io/product/ksql/
Great job Heinz and team!
3nm is hugely smaller than anything else I've heard of. I know Intel is stuck at 14nm, and Samsung is at 10nm for their ARM chips (? someone correct me on that) -- could someone educate me on what 3nm chip technology means? Would it be 3x the speed density/possibility compared to 10nm chips?
Comment on youtube:

>How does Jordi type commands so quickly?﻿

I did wonder while watching the video if I would have thought the same thing if I wasn't coming from this thread. It was a little too subtle I guess.
Using it today for identity management is ridiculous. It's a brand new technology and will take time to fully develop.
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Wow, their laptops look great. Not cheap, but fairly priced. I hope they will still offer updated versions when I have to replace my XPS.
What part do you hope is a typo?
Looks like you got two extra cores, and I assume you're overclocking it with that cooler? What frequency did you manage to get it to run at?

Looking back I probably should have just bought a 1060 6GB, though then I would have been paying for G-Sync instead of FreeSync.
The fact that kernel devs are sticking to their guns does not mean that they are not working hard on AMDGPU, it just means they are not compromising to make it easier for AMD to provide the proprietary part (AMDGPU-pro).

AMDGPU-pro is only necessary for features that AMDGPU does not provide, and for the proprietary implementations of Vulkan, OpenCL, HDMI/DP audio (I'm not sure if that has been fixed yet), OpenGL, etc. AMDGPU-pro has nothing to do with KMS or Wayland. It's also worth noting that AMDGPU provides competitive OpenGL and Vulkan performance, so you are better off using it instead of forcing yourself to run an outdated kernel and Xorg that support AMDGPU-pro.

> I’d rather use proprietary technology.

You are free to your own opinion there, but know that there are many of us who care a great deal about open drivers. I, for one, bought 4 AMD cards, partly because of price, but mostly because of the promise of open drivers.
> "I‘m wondering in what parts the Librem 5 will be more open than a Nexus running CopperheadOS."

The device drivers for one. I'm not aware of any Nexus device with open-source device drivers.