skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I noticed that when I moved or looked around, her eyes tracked mine. The cameras inside the Lightwear was feeding her data so she could maintain eye contact."
No, I pay almost exactly a dollar to mine the Bitcoin in China. If I could mine it for substantially less than a dollar, then I could use 1kWh of Bitcoin production to buy more than 1kWh in the Chinese energy market, independent of international energy prices, which (assuming Bitcoin markets are even remotely efficient) would drive BTC prices down until the local arbitrage opportunity disappeared.

I still don't see how the existence of Bitcoin allows anyone, anywhere to exploit the difference in energy prices to come out ahead of where they would otherwise have been.
Actually having lived it for 9 years, I’m not speaking out of my arse.
Giving a grand to Linemen (Engineers) isn't going to help that.
OT but I'm in a situation where I have hundreds of different altcoins on a handful of exchanges. I'm looking to move these into my own wallets but it seems that I will need to get so many different wallets that it's not worth the hassle. Why isn't there a wallet which can handle all kind of cryptocurrencies? The most I've seen in one is like 10.
> block size increase alone is not sustainable

Then they can just implement Segwit. I'm not really seeing the problem here. One version of Bitcoin works today, the other doesn't. It's not really that complicated.
The BIOS update process is usually an afterthought held together by string, and appears to the OS as mysterious peripheral. Every now and again some manufacturer releases hardware where Linux simply trying to probe the hardware bricks the machine.
Maybe your right. Keeping up with all the things they throw out on a daily basis is tiresome, and I don't have time to research all of them.
That is by the design of the content providers
I am not trying to personally attack you here, but most times when people say something like this, what they are actually saying is: "I think I am accomplishing the same thing in C++, but by not facing (and solving) the problems, I am actually creating a program with nasty hidden bugs, that might or might not blow up in my face later".
The claim is unsubstantiated: "...has 50,000 drivers across the country, most of whom work exclusively for Uber." [0]
I very much doubt that drivers would be employed in a regular taxi company while taking Uber calls at the same time.

[0]: https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3020839/uber-loses...
Fine, poor phrasing from me. I should have said "Apple, and most phone makers, have seen that most phones get replaced in 3-4 years and so they have made the decision to glue their batteries in place to get extra capacity" - Apple is a mass market device, there is little upside to them designing for the small niche of people who want to run their phone into the ground and not upgrade.
Indeed great Desktop design!
I believe there is reason for concern w.r.t. modifications of flu viruses, for one thing. That is, they know what makes flu easily transmissible among humans, and they know a bit about how to alter nontransmissible viruses to be more so. Given the belief that things like the 1918 flu are believed to be viruses that made this jump on their own, it's quite reasonable to worry that we could do it in a lab.
Ask HN: What techniques do you think are “unreasonably effective”?
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You don't have to, as Tokio is just a building block for people who're implementing protocols. But those implementations will have great safe, zero-copying characteristics.
> It's possible that it's very difficult to engineer a virus that can do better than anything nature has come up with. Evolution has had billions of years to try all the attack vectors.

The traits desired in a bioweapon aren't particularly beneficial to the long-term propagation of a viral strain and thus would be selected against, or at least not selected for, by natural processes.
It doesn't really matter what OS you use so long as it works for you. In my opinion, the really important thing is keeping your data in open formats, so that you are never trapped.
Maybe.

Evolution selects for virulence, not death toll. After all, your hosts can't spread you if they're dead.
You're right that that can be an issue, and one raised in the article. I intended that particular phrase (which admittedly could have been written better) to mean that others outside of the government are watching the process, such as those commenting in the article. Definitely room for improvement, but I don't think this is something that's being done lightly. This whole thing concerns me, but like with many such topics, it's often more complicated than what is summed up in the headline.
Thanks for your suggestion. So I've tested on a Xubuntu 16.04 installation on VirtualBox, and it takes 3-4 seconds to boot LibreOffice Writer. It has something to do with macOS X...
If you are not an W-2 employee and your business is not incorporated, by default you ARE running your business as a pass thru entity.

BTW - There is no 20% tax. There is a 20% deduction for some pass-thru income.
It's also why all the mega tech companies are looking to diversify their employee concentrations. Amazon is desperate to start expanding outside of Seattle. Google and Facebook have set up several other US campuses. Companies like Oracle and Microsoft already have several locations around the US. I would expect those efforts to go into overdrive in the next decade.
It’s back up now.
This sounds right up my alley. Thanks!
The article begins with the author describing several demos, only after which he is guided to a different room where he has, in his own words, "My first close look at the full Magic Leap hardware."

Rony Abovitz calls the chips supposedly powering his tech "Sea Monkeys."
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>To be fair, those companies are just copying Russian/NASA designs, so maybe the money is semi-useful.

So you are saying the US should throw away $20 billion on the SLS because NASA originally developed a lot of the ideas that the SpaceX Falcon Heavy uses.

Do you happen to work for one of the SLS contractors?
Does Texpad even emacs?
While there are definitely gaps in our understanding, the standard model of physics is one of the best scientific theories... ever.

So we don't yet have a grand unified field theory, but for what we do understand, at reasonably attainable energy levels, there just isn't room to jam in some sort of faster-than-light communication or faster-than-light travel.

If you look at how it all fits together, any sort of magic like that seems highly unlikely.

Nothing we've observed in the sky, dating back billions of years, suggests FTL either. Until I see something that can even hint at FTL, I'm completely discounting it.
This is exactly the kind of comment which confirms my opinion about how useless philosophy is.

I am honestly wondering if you are trolling or actually trying to make a point.
Wouldn't activating wildfire have been a complete disaster in the book?

It's been a long time since I read that. The part about the guy's seizures freaked me out for a while.
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The naive approach to allowing people to develop applications that work both on mobile and on the desktop always fails because in the end the user gets a bad experience on the desktop, on mobile or on both. There is no UI that works on both mobile and the desktop.

Apple could unify UIKit and AppKit so you could more easily share parts of widgets and the backend code, but you'd still have to design the general user interface separately.
I vividly remember being in an airport when this announcement hit the news, waiting to catch a plane to go home for the holidays. And thinking "huh, bad move, they should have bought Be instead."

What can I say, nobody's perfect :-D
The arguments against special taxi licences are the same arguments against occupational licensing in general.

Do you want every entry level job to require a license and put up barriers to getting these jobs for immigrants? Do you think nail technicians, hairdressers and waiters should require a license to do their job too?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_licensing
>download it, organize it but I wouldn't go through the pains of doing that for every pdf I lay my eyes upon.

You don't have to do that. Just set your browser to open the file in a real application. It'll automagically download to some temp dir (ie, /tmp) and you won't have to care about file paths or organization at all (unless you want to).

I have tens of research papers open in my tabs at all times. But for a good experience reading I open the full text in my pdf reader.
You don't have to like democrats to acknowledge the fact that while they have problems, they are orders of magnitude less horrible than republicans. In the current two party system, denouncing both is giving in to a ridiculous false equivalence, as there is a clear rational choice one could make.
An argument could be made around you not being smart enough for C++ either if you are truly unable to write the equivalent program in Rust.

Rust simply makes memory-correctness something the compiler can check. Correct C++ programs are the same as correct Rust programs, the compiler simply isn’t enforcing it.
Don't forget midget darts.
and your taxable income exceeds $315,000 for married individuals filing jointly or $157,500 for individuals. The 20% deduction starts phasing out at those levels.
> One thing Rust's vector guarantees that C++ doesn't is that Rust's vector will not store elements inline; anything (with nonzero size) you push into it will be heap allocated.

Does C++ really not guarantee this? If yes then I probably have written quite a bit of "broken" code, which assumes that element addresses stay constant during moves of the container.

std::vector<A> vec1; // And initialize it
A* a = &vec1[0];
auto vec2 = std::move(vec1);
A* b = &vec2[0];
assert(a == b);
You forgot the one for which D is best suited: scientific/numerical computing. It produces fast code, it is used by small teams/single developers, it integrates well with C, and much of the work is interactive, requiring fast compilation times.
For dang or an other mod: This was probably flagged by accident.
Possible they started doing it already... it should be easy for them. I don't see it happening yet though.
I have never used an Uber, Lyft or any ride share.

If any rule or requirement is needed for any and all ride sharing companies, including taxi services and even bus drivers is they take a road test to at least confirm they understand basic rules of the community or area they service.

I bike or walk everywhere. I don't have a car. The problem I see and have is almost every few minutes while biking in the bike lane in Austin, a Lyft, taxi, or other ride share stops right in front of me in the bike lane to either drop off or pick up people. I've even had honk at me from behind while I'm in the bike lane because they want to use it or make a right turn.

I've talked with a couple people about this and even seen police pull these people over. So, I am pretty sure it's not legal. I wish 2 things: 1) These drivers are required to confirm they know the basic/general rules of the road and 2) Police start enforcing these rules. I won't even bother mentioning that every single driver I see pass me is texting or talking on their phones (not hands free style).
I think that's what Jaxx is trying to do. They don't have hundreds of different coins but they have almost 50. https://decentral.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/218373867-Wh...
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Corporate tax rates get slashed almost in half and employees get a few hundred bucks after taxes. Is this that trickle down economics I keep hearing about? I believe it is. Someone got fucked. And it wasn't AT&T.
I dunno if people worship her as much as they see in her a celebrity who was very relatable and willing to speak about the kinds of problems normal people have. She had real problems, she struggled with them for a long time, and she never really conquered them -- she just learned to live with them. That's how life goes for a lot of people..
Yes, giving $1000 to a low level employee isn't going to help. Giving $200 million to low level employees and saying, "It's because of this great tax bill that the President championed", is going to help. It soothes his ego and induces him to reward the soother. That's how I think Trump's psychology works.
No, you're right. The FCC's Net Neutrality rules excluded private offerings such as MPLS circuits.
I believe you are addressing #8 on the link. This only applies to high income earners. So if you are under those thresholds you don't need to pay any additional employees.
They count on our fatigue and ignorance.
Sorry, I haven't written any API documentation yet. Basically there's a handful of Node + Electron APIs implemented, and a new "microUI" module for managing the UI. The example scripts show pretty much all there is to microUI at this point.

For invoking shell commands, it would probably be best to just implement Node's child_process module?

Adding more APIs is in general not difficult -- it's harder to decide what to prioritize.
The 74,000 figure isn't very meaningful, because most of it is in California.

Show me how many they employ in eg TX, VA, PA, GA. I'm willing to bet it's not more than a couple thousand. If it were 15k-20k across six or seven red states, that would matter politically.
Ask HN: What tech/programming podcasts are you listening to?
This question has been posted before but new podcasts appear every now and then. I recently discovered Indie Hackers and was wondering what other good podcasts are out there.
It's vaporware, plain and simple.

Considering the scope what they are developing (silicon that requires new fab technology), secrecy isn't the priority it would be if the problem was one that others could steal a march on by throwing money and bodies at it.

If they do ship, I predict that the product might very well meet all their technical claims, but will be a miss on their claims for utility and usability.
>I don't understand why this entire field seems so focused on gaming, and not productivity.

Probably for the same reasons that Tesla built expensive sports cars first, before focusing on delivering a (comparatively) more boring commuter sedan.
They really cannot go back and change something for the previous year because of a whole host of issues. The simplest is people / businesses have already been paying this years taxes under this years rules quarterly. Its already going to be a mess for software developers to rush out changes to their payroll customers for a tax plan that goes into effect some 12 days after its passage.
Containers are frequently being used to bundle up an artifact for end users -- this means they're always going to be service/application, as opposed to libraries (which get crammed inside the container). Those libraries still get developed, and still get installed inside the container even if they aren't the "direct" product. Only now, as a sysadmin, I can't easily audit the versions of those packages inside the container, because I have no guarantees on how they were installed. One of the 18 Dockerfiles between `scratch` and `some_application` might install a few bits of software from distro packages from whatever rootfs they decided to base off of. The next layer may download a tarball and extract it over the rootfs to throw down a few more of the app's dependencies.

When using software packaged by a distribution like Debian, I'm given pretty strong guarantees that I can always audit the version and integrity of installed software, and that when a bug is fixed in a common library coughopensslcough, I don't have to spend as much time fretting about the places a vendored vulnerable version might be hiding in my infrastructure.

That said, I don't mean to disparage use of containers in general: I'm a huge fan of them, I just feel pretty strongly they should be a software deployment tool as opposed to a distribution tool. I get a bit uncomfortable when I can't consistently generate an image "FROM scratch".
I wrote the EFI variables filesystem. It was intended to be mounted read/write. Systemd did nothing wrong whatsoever in mounting it read/write, and mounting it read only would have broken all the existing userland that handles EFI variables.
Although corporate insurance for companies the size of AT&T is generally self funded, rather than insured, so the state of the insurance market doesn’t always reflect their premiums.
Unless you set up your business up as a C-corp. Rarely the case for individual consultants because it provides limited benefits and lots of costs.
Maybe they just want to study us. If we discovered an alien race it'd be pretty interesting to watch them evolve. It'd be just like the fun parents have seeing children grow up.

Maybe, but I find that unlikely.

If they do want to pursue those sorts of activities, then can do much more, much faster while closer to home. Why settle for observing one naturally evolved species, when you can make dozens (or thousands) of your own?
I don't understand why you don't want a global optimum. Is this obvious? Does the following paragraph explain it, because I don't see the connection.
Do you want the zombie apocalypse? Because this is how you get the zombie apocalypse.
Apple pay is more about the credit card being in your phone, not about how its an NFC payment option.

I think practically the USA will just skip over chip & pin and go pure NFC payments, kind of like landlines vs cellphones in developing countries.
Capped at 20% of your ordinary income.
> Looks like $35k. No one would risk destroying their reputation over that small sum.

People risk a lifetime in jail over $35k, on a regular basis.
I was wrong and Apple does replace battery for a very reasonable fee of $79 (https://support.apple.com/iphone/repair/battery-power). Hmph. TIL! Can't edit the original post any more so I'll leave this here.
The point is that in the Netherlands there is a huge number of streets that are specifically signed as "one way, except for bicycles", it's a core feature of our urban infrastructure. Google treats them all as one way for everybody, in a country where over a quarter of all journeys is made by bicycle.
That's one big bill (or more likely a lot of smaller bills) I can coast on. A $1,000 would be mighty nice right now.
I think there's a fundamental disagreement on the place of the presumption of innocence in the process as well. I'm arguing that it is of paramount importance, and that even though a preponderance standard as used in civil courts is defensible, that standard is hollow without the extremely important procedural safeguards (cross-examination, discovery, counsel, impartial judge, fair jury, etc.) surrounding it, and the understanding that the party seeking to change the status quo still bears ultimate the burden of persuasion.

I also think that colleges are hopelessly ill-equipped to handle most allegations of sexual assault, which are highly-politicized in the current climate and often boil down to he-said-she-said disputes. A judge is very aware of the kinds of reasoning that are unfair to the defendant, such as categorical claims about men or women, or appeals to political ideology.

And finally, I think there is disagreement as to how tolerable erroneous expulsions are. I would rather err on the side of under-"conviction". Rayiner is arguing that it is just as bad to deny the accuser the right to an education free from such hazards, so we should not favor one over the other. I think the right way of thinking about it is favoring the status quo, unless there is compelling evidence to change it.
What about the additional $1.4T being added to the deficit to pay for them? Is that moving the economy forward? I'm all for a lower tax burden, but like politicians of both parties they're much happier handing out the benefits than paying for them.
Your experience is either imaginary or ridiculously atypical. Its literally not a real thing. Devices with replaceable batteries don't normally fall apart unless you are in the habit of dropping them all the time. This isn't a design consideration or a justification.

Phones are designed without user replaceable batteries because it makes it slightly cheaper to manufacture, generates revenue from users who require replacement, and makes it less desirable to keep an existing device vs buying a new one.
To this day, people still joke that this was a reverse-acquisition of Apple by NeXT, as Apple entirely switched their software to NeXT's.

For the unaware, this is why the macOS/iOS APIs are prefixed with NS (NSObject, NSString...), for NeXTSTEP.

I believe iTunes is still based on WebObjects.
Trial and error isn't great for this kind of stuff but it works great for AI research. Let's create software that can do genetic engineering of viruses right the first time.
Ongoing DDoS on the Tor Network: Status
No one in /r/btc or the Bitcoin Cash community calls it 'bcash'. Totally disingenuous.
Those seem reasonable. It's too bad the DEA can't be bothered to apply similar sound judgment to their drug classification schedules.
It isn't Ubuntu doing it. It is Intel and Lenovo.

Owner of a $3k Lenovo P50 here that was "Linux compatible" but a stake xeon that had been useless on Linux until the latest Fedora.
Ask HN: Advice for new project managers on new projects
In a few weeks, I'll be starting a new job where for the first time in my career I'll be in charge of a project starting from scratch. This will not only be the first time I'm involved in a project which has literally 0 lines of code written when I show up but also the first time when I'll be responsible for both structuring the whole project and actually telling other developers what to do. Basically, it's up to me to make sure the foundation everything will be built on doesn't suck.

Any advice on things I should think of or obvious mistakes I should avoid would be great!
SAP? All other Enterprise Software.
This also how you get ants.
3D is most obvious when it'd used to visualize physical objects or environments.

Abstract information spaces are hard;
being non-physical and having many more dimensions.

The added interface complexity usually doesn't justify the gain, from only throwing away 23 dimensions, instead of 24.

There might be useful ways to represent clusters of information related to a non-physical task effectively; there hasn't been a clearly successful one yet.

and no, if you are trying to jam a bunch of 2D screens in a 3D environment, you are not "representing physical objects or environments" as identified as the core strength above.
"Every town, has its ups and downs. Sometimes ups, outnumber the downs, but not in Nottingham..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2dImprgiB8
I don't know for sure but when I have met with them on zoom it sure doesn't seem private.
Developer here, this is an initial alpha release looking to get some feedback on functionality and see what platforms it works on.
In fairness that parallel supercomputer was built for wrangling absurd numbers of triangles before it turned out to also be good at doing small groups of rectangles.
I still find a lot of joy from messing around in system releases from this time period.

Watching the evolution of NeXTSTEP/Openstep, Yellow Box, Rhapsody and Mac OS X has been just about as rewarding as I had hoped.

The benefit of UNIX overlaid with a friendly, usable UI is as promising now as it was then.

I just wish I had been able to invest more when AAPL was at @ $18.00.
Each fork will need to serve a niche to get attention. That's still a high bar to set. A number of forks have been created that have next to no value or interest.
Great line: "You still get the flypaper even if you don’t get the swatter. A product or service does not magically redesign itself around your goals just because you block it from reaching its own."