skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scopes and digitizers are actually extremely demanding in terms of throughput, plus they do a lot of specialized processing on the samples. Even mid-range models are using top-grade FPGAs and custom ASICs. Keysight's mid-range scope is capable of 5 gigasamples per second at 8 bit sample depth on 4 channels, that's 20 GB/s of data that needs to be processed, [soft] real time.

Regarding cost, these are expensive, complicated instruments. A bottom of the barrel oscilloscope costs $300 and professional grade units are more like $2-3000. The top grade ones can cost half a million dollars ( https://www.keysight.com/en/pcx-x205212/infiniium-z-series-o... ).
FOSDEM 2018: Major SiFive Reveal in less than 12 hours (RISC-V)
You may have noticed a flurry of activity at SiFive over the past few days, or seen a tweet [0] or two [1] alluding to secretive and mysterious activity from Palmer and Yunsup! Here are the facts:

Palmer and Yunsup are, in fact, in Belgium at the moment
1. The FOSDEM Conference is also in Belgium (Coincidence?)
2. Both Palmer and Yunsup are enthusiastic Quake players
3. RISC-V gossip circles are abuzz like never before
4. What does it all mean?

Tune in to the livestream of our upcoming presentation to find out!
Saturday, 8am PST / 11am EST - Exactly 18 hours from now

Livestream: https://live.fosdem.org/watch/k1105

More:
- https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/riscv/
- https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/riscv_bof/

- - -

[0] https://twitter.com/SiFiveInc/status/959235164571389952
[1] https://twitter.com/SiFiveInc/status/959085220510171141
Feds Say Truckers Over-Counted, Autonomous Tech Threat Overstated
Nope, it's always non-linear. It does appear to hold back some posts from your first load in some kind of idiotic attempt to give you additional things to look at later.
What's bloated about it?

From the UX point of view, it's pretty lightweight for most common operations. Goes into the app, finds the contact, sends message, done. There is virtually no difference between WeChat, WhatsApp, and Apple's own Messages. For many other operations that are less common, WeChat is easier to use and manage (e.g. sending emojis, voice memo, photos).

From an app size point of view, I just checked on my iPhone. WeChat takes up 157.3MB, whereas WhatsApp takes up 105.9MB. The difference seems minor (just a few photos).
Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead.
[Author here]

I don't there's a single answer. The "right" path is usually some combination of soft and hard skills, persistence, and dumb luck. Skill and persistence come into play because to a large extent, you are the master of your destiny, corporate or otherwise: you can settle for what's expected of you in a role, or you can go above and beyond, trying to find and fix pressing problems that others didn't even know they have, trying to help others grow, persuading other groups to give you the tools you need, and balancing it all with the reality of the business... Rinse and repeat enough times and you will probably be noticed for good judgment and the ability to get stuff done.

Now, dumb luck comes into play because to some extent, it's also a matter of being at the right stage of your career at the right time and in the right place. In some companies, especially smaller ones, there might be no way to become a manager or a director until somebody retires or is forced out. And if you miss that window, it might be several years until another opportunity to advance presents itself.

As with any other role, there are also many "wrong" paths, depending on the culture of the company; favoritism, cronyism, political horse-trading, bamboozling people, and so forth. But realistically, such things are less common than most people think. It's just easier to be cynical about others than to acknowledge our own personality flaws. We all have some, they weigh us all down; we just need to find a way to work around them and hope for the best.
Only 2FA app I could find with a search filter
Anyone know if it's safe?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gigabytedevelopersinc.app.CometOTP&hl=en

Made by:
https://www.gigabytedevelopersinc.com/

Github repo only contains image assets:
https://github.com/gigabytedevelopers/CometOTP
perhaps FoundationDB?
Siacoin, filecoin or something like that? The article had very little substance.
We Support Bitcoin Says CEO and Co-Founder of Twitter and Square
Ask HN: Why should USDT or a collapse thereof affect Bitcoin or its price?
You can always buy an asset, bitcoin or whatever when you have money to invest and sell it when you need some to spend and not worry about the price fluctuations. It often works better than chopping about if the asset has good fundamentals. (with hindsight, bkr, amzn, appl shares, bitcoin, etherium etc)
I think it means make your containers 100% width blocks and stack them on top of each other vertically.

I will be taking the approach of creating a "good enough" layout for older browsers and a superior layout to modern browsers using "@supports" feature query.
It would be great if you had a public preview of the content there. I've seen it done before, so there must be some kind of a slack app that lets you do that.

As a remote contractor I sometimes feel that it would be nice to have a chat like that, but a few startup-themed slack channels that I tried out turned out to be no good for me.
From the user to whom you're replying:

> [...] show that general aviation aircraft average nearly seven accidents per 100,000 flight hours, compared with an average of 0.16 accidents per 100,000 hours for commercial airlines.

So the accident rate for GA is over 40 times higher than commercial.

On top of that, around three quarters of these fatal accidents are the result of what could be broadly categorized as pilot error... Which is why the FAA has such a stick up its butt about the licensing status of the TapJets pilots.
awesome. i didn't know about this. thanks!
The last release of ICQ was in 2016. Not in the grave yet. :)
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Just curious: why Slack vs e.g. Discord for these types of communities? I've seen both used but I'm interested to know from a community organizer standpoint where each platform makes more sense.
> If your manager doesn’t listen because they think they have a better solution and you disagree speak up, challenge their idea

What do you do if they then steal your idea?
5 Habits Which Makes Your Kidneys Unhealthy
Godel, Escher, Bach. I hated math for most of high-school, but I read this book between semesters and it changed my career choice.
Meditations. Its passages have become a sort of canon for my life.
Nine Hundred Grandmothers by R.A. Lafferty. Timeless and immortal: http://www.conceptualfiction.com/nine_hundred_grandmothers.h...

Anything on vision therapy/improvement, e.g. https://gettingstronger.org/2016/03/faq-for-vision-improveme...
The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley. Debatable but opened up a new perspective for me.
Change jobs, probably? A toxic environment like this will not make you happy, and you can't easily fire your boss. The good news is that if you're working in IT, you probably have the luxury of being able to go somewhere else with relative ease.

On that topic, I'm a huge believer in a degree of financial independence, a rainy-day fund [1]. When you don't have to worry about having money for next month's rent, it really changes your outlook on things and makes it easier to make decisions that are just or right for you, without stressing over every possible misstep. And it's pretty easy to build such a fund [2].

[1] https://www.thebillfold.com/2016/01/a-story-of-a-fuck-off-fu...

[2] http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/prep/#3.1
Deepfakes explained
An safe investment with a 6% return is a fantasy.

30 year treasuries pay roughly 3% before inflation.
Grit by Angela Duckworth [1].

I wish I read this back in my high school days. It's a different thing learning hard work and grit from a book than the constant "nagging" I get from my parents. The latter came in on my left ear and went out the right ear almost instantly. I was a lazy kid back then despite getting relatively good grades in school. I've learned to become grittier on my current day job (there's always something to fight for, especially as part of a startup riddled with uncertainties), but I kinda wish I could go back and pick this book up if it was available/released back then. Would have helped me better understand college applications too.

[1] - http://a.co/gJnmxfR
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With cars it's generally the dealers that object due to the fees.
"Letters from a Stoic" by Seneca

"The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins

"Deep Work" by Cal Newport

"Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed" by Jared Diamond
I think proposals such as MAST allow secret contracts, up until that part of the contract is executed (if it ever needs to be executed).

https://medium.com/novamining/mast-smart-contracts-on-bitcoi...
I did, thanks
I don't know about life insurance, but I know every travel insurance policy I've ever taken out specifically excludes skydiving and skiing unless you pay extra for a special policy.

Also, motorcycles without helmets!?!?!?!?!?!?!? America, I presume?
I always thought so while watching the show. I'm old enough that I had an account on TSN in the 90s (just the trial since I was a kid).

Side random story: Mackenzie Davis (Cameron Howe) from Halt and Catch Fire walked into my company, Loveseat.com, in LA a couple months ago. I spent about an hour playing furniture Tetris with her trying to figure out how to fit a day bed in her van. She's exactly like her character. I was star struck.
does her book talk down on you? every interview I've heard her on turned me off from wanting to even look at her book. also from her interview she cherry picks a lot of examples.
How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff. How much of what you read is really true?
Yet this is the same type of work people are using to argue that that crabs/fish can feel/experience pain. Proving or disproving consciousness is basically impossible.

E.g. I feel like a lot of people aren't conscious :) Prove me right or wrong?
I understand the differences, however, the term was being used to describe EC2. In another example, I saw Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in an interview refer to "grid computing" as a synonym for EC2 when describing it to a naive audience. Indeed the AMA authors comment about "setting the world on fire" was responding to the first announcement of EC2, not a general discussion of grid computing. He chose to use that term, rightly or wrongly, because like Bezos he saw it as synonymous with EC2.
Could you elaborate on the new perspective for you? What was the previous one?

I was intrigued by the title and looked up the book and found this review, and it seems to bring up some good points.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/102880724?book_show_ac...
I wish I hadn’t ever read Ayn Rand’s books. They were a waste of time and a distraction for too many years. I’ll say this though, I’m glad I grew up and I’m glad that when I got to the end of the Fountainhead I had already figured out what was wrong with her. If not for that, I wouldn’t have recovered.
Supposedly, this is a 51.96 billion market globally.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/270728/market-volume-of-
online-gaming-worldwide/
> It has not happened and it ain't going to happen so let's move on

Bubble versus Not Bubble is a measure on expected returns. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Projecting a half-decade sample of opinions across infinity is absurd.
It wasn’t that. It was rate limiting me... for some reason.
Count of Monte Cristo and East of Eden.

I'm happy to have had the chance to read these books twice (first in my early 20s, again in my late 30s), but I only wish I could compare my experiences with a first reading during my early teens or pre-teen years.
Skype is used a lot by businesses.

When Skype introduced end-to-end encryption the government tried to block it, but the backlash from businesses in China was so big they had to unblock it.
I’ve heard many people say that.
I would like to know what you thought was wrong.
Why don't you actually respond to what I've written instead of trying to appeal to your own authority? I get it, you have experience as a credit card merchant, congratulations on that achievement, now use that experience to form a response to the argument... though I want to reiterate that the credit card companies have nothing to do with this, even if you just examine the headline you will see that this is a story about banks that don't want to underwrite blockchain gambling.
I agree. This book changed my perspective. Up until I read this book, I largely accepted the stories told by my family and religion. It wasn't until I learned the painstaking work and effort that went into scientific research that I began to trust it. This book does a great job of describing some of science's greatest discoveries and the people behind the effort to uncover them. It's also lightweight and sort of fun.
I mean, without a doubt it reduces utilization. I just don't see the trade-off of people foregoing preventative care and the like as worth it.
another Cialdini fan!

You're going to love "How to lie with statistics"
If they pay minimal taxes then who pays for all the infrastructure and services normally funded by taxes?
If you buy booze and clothes you know you won‘t see your money again.
WeChat's success is something I find... strange. I just thought uses don't want everything and the kitchen sink in the same app but we chat success story shows I'm wrong? I still don't get it.

I have that Facebook messenger even has draw over other apps permission on Android. I hate the pop up chat. Am I out of touch?
I’ve heard this, too. For those of us, like myself, that don’t realistically expect to read her books, what was wrong with her and why do you regret reading them?
Slaughterhouse-Five, Galapagos, Sirens of Titan

Basically, any Kurt Vonnegut book that isn't Cat's Cradle (good but overrated).

Bias note: I'm still young, but these shaped me easily.
'Impro' by Keith Jonstone.

It appears, superficially, to be a handbook about the art of improvisation in theatre. But it's actually a book packed with wisdom about the ontology of creativity, the facilitation of learning, and how most human interaction is an interplay of "statua transactions".

The chapter on status is alone worth reading, and something I wish I were aware of as a younger man.
In some jurisdictions the grayness also applies to the "victimless crime" part, because no person was harmed during creation of the video.

But yes, it's a much more complex legal case.
You actually managed to finish them? I couldn't haha
I was so stubborn that any book, even one that foretold my exact future, would not have gotten through to me. Even now I struggle to impart any pearls of wisdom into my daily life.
The Divided Self + The Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise + The Politics of the Family - all by RD Laing

Civilization and its Discontents - Freud

Capitalist Realism - Mark Fisher

Gateless Gate - Mu-men? Very old Chinese mystical text that somehow resonated w me considerably..

Neuromancer - William Gibson

Snowcrash - Neal Stephenson

Inherent Vice (currently reading and enjoying a lot! - loved the movie so much I got the book but I think I enjoy the book way more even) - Thomas Pynchon
I agree -- there are plenty of reasons to use a minimal Ubuntu install. My point was that if size constraints are so tight that you feel trimming kernel modules out is a reasonable use of effort, then Ubuntu starts to be a more awkward fit.
If you constantly have to trim away bits left by the package manager (man pages, examples, extra kernel modules), your time is probably better spent with a distro that allows you to avoid ever laying those into the rootfs to begin with.

Also worth noting:these images are full minimal root filesystems. "installer" images refer to the images containing software --the debian/ubuntu installer for bootstrapping a root filesystem onto a mounted volume. The minimal images from thearticle do not contain this installer, and are stanalone root filesystems.
This links to a lot of good stuff:

https://nintil.com/2016/04/09/why-ayn-rand-is-not-and-ought-...

As a philosophy / ethics person who has studied and read a lot of philosophers and never her, even from basic argument structures of hers there are fallacies galore that show no sign of being addressed.

I think the view is a magnet towards selfish people looking for justification of their views. I think her arguments, when viewed objectively (ironically), have the effect mentioned in the top level comment of pushing people away from the pitfall conclusions she makes.
How big is templeos LTS minimal IMG?
So basically redoing a less useful version of SCTP with the same issues in regards to middle boxes. I wish Microsoft would finally get their thumbs out and put SCTP into Windows.
I read many books on philosophy, sociology, and tons of literature when I was young. I wish I would have read Algebra 1-3, Analysis 1-2, Mathematical Statistics etc.
+1 for The Selfish Gene, one of the best books I've read. If you have any interest in the process of evolution/natural selection, I highly recommend it. It's not as "political" or explicitly atheistic as some of Dawkins' more recent work either, so people who have a negative opinion of that sort of thing shouldn't be turned off by his name being on it.
I suppose you could use either. Slack is positioned for workers, while Discord is positioned for gamers.

* "Where work happens" - https://slack.com/

* "Free Voice and Text Chat for Gamers" - https://discordapp.com/
Thought about this, and agreed that it’s a good idea. I know @levelsio had one for Nomad List’s Slack, but I don’t think he open-sourced the code. If someone knows of a lib to do that, let me know!
Typing Chinese isn't that hard. I can do it easily even with my very, very basic Chinese.

I think voice messaging took off in China mainly because they don't have the same cultural barriers to voice messaging that we do.
This is... the opposite of my impression, well, sortof. There aren't penalties for the business your credit card is stolen from (and I believe your credit card is usually stolen from a business you legitimately did business with.)

However, the thief? once they get that credit card? they use it with a merchant to buy a thing.

For example, last time my card was stolen, I saw a charge for some expensive jewelry from a Florida jeweler on my account. I called my credit card company and they refunded the money to my account... so who is left holding the bag? that jewler in Florda.

When I had a merchant account (selling VPSs) I had a few customers like that; the credit card company simply takes the money back, and it's up to you, the merchant, to try to get back what you just sold to the customer... something that is usually impossible.
I made the transition about 4 years ago. In trying to help my senior engineers level up to leadership positions, I've learned the following:

1. Leadership = Ownership

2. Organizational priorities > engineering purity

3. Tact > undiluted truth

In order to be able to lead more than one person, you need to be able to first lead one person: yourself. Ownership means taking a responsibility assigned to you, understanding why it's important to the organization objectives (rather than blinding executing), driving it to completion and reporting progress without your manager ever having to poll or prod you.

As engineers, our first instinct is to engineer things the best possible way with the best possible technologies. As managers, we'll need to understand that in a non-ideal world, there are tradeoffs. Sometimes you need to be able to prioritize organizational goals ahead of your engineering preferences. E.g. sometimes you'll need to maintain a legacy codebase a little longer even though you know you want to rewrite using the latest tech; sometimes you'll have to prioritize new features over tech debt etc.

As right-brained/logical individuals, we tend to hold objective reality over all else and tend to communicate it in concentrated form. We may want to be efficient in communications, but sometimes in doing so, we end up making the team inefficient by unnecessarily generating negative emotions within the team members. Communication is a local maximum. The global maximum is the team. In other words, sometimes you must suffer fools gladly, you'll need to learn to tell people no without hurting their egos.

If you exhibit these qualities as an engineer, any good manager will mark you as a lead candidate.
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RAP has been abolished in a number of US states I believe, where dynastic trusts can now persist "forever".
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Moby Dick

I'm halfway through it. I'd held off on reading it for years just due to its reputation but I'm finding it incredibly enjoyable, humorous, and in many ways not at all what I was expecting.
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Good question. The chat actually started in Discord, which I think is actually a better tool for community chats (no archive limit, better permission management).

The issue, and in my case, this is specific to the remote Slack, is that a lot of people who use it /already/ have Slack open for their day job.

Lots of people joined the Discord, but no one really chatted. When we moved to Slack it was like an instant adrenaline shot into the daily activity of the group.

Again, I think this is specific to the group — I’m in a couple crypto Discord channels that are SUPER active. It just happens that a lot of the remote workers in the group already have Slack open.
If the template works (is tested with) with a foo (base class), there is no reason it wouldn't work with something derived from foo. (If not, then there is some LSP issue in the foo type hieararchy; the generic as such is working.)

You might intend (without actually testing) that the template works with some bar also, not related to foo; the user tries it and finds otherwise, due to a bug.

With the typed generic, you just declare that it's for foo, and it refuses to work with bar (whether or not it has a bug which would actually prevent that in the absence of the declaration).

All the declaring, checking, instantiation, and the rest of it are all happening in the same time: static time. There is no difference like with static versus dynamic. Static versus dynamic is due to different times: what is done before running the program, versus during.

There is no verification difference between declaring that a template parameter may be of types foo | bar, and writing a typeless template which a test module then instantiates for foo and bar. Both are declarative mechanisms at work, played out statically. Just one way is more open-ended; it's not "sealed" against new instantiations.
This is a mainstay from the original games, but it also serves a useful purpose - there's an RPC that's asking the server if the catch was successful. It does a pretty good job of hiding that latency.
The Four Hour Workweek. It showed me:

1. How to make a business without "experience"
2. A model of how to make an automated business

Changed my life and led me to create a mostly automated business that is still going seven years on.

Note: this book often rubs people the wrong way, and requires caveats.

The four hours refers to maintenance work, in my interpretation. I could maintain my business on four hours. But, it would gradually atrophy. So, I grow it. But, with the liberty to take a lof of time off, when I want.

For those allergic to Tim Ferriss, Start Small, Stay Small by Rob Walling is an excellent read.

But, the four hour week was the book that hit me like a ton of bricks and changed the course of my life.

The business, if anyone is curious: https://lsathacks.com
> What do you do if they then steal your idea?

You pat yourself on the back for a job well done! Your idea got implemented, congratulations.