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I was following closely LightTable and EVE. Very inspiring projects.

> that wall being the limitations of programming languages you outline here

Exactly. I was thinking about the same a while ago. EVE is an attempt to build a new reality where those limitations are gone. But it didn't work quite well -- in order to get support, money, users it should be somehow connected to production.

There is a platform where all this complexety with IO (the mail send in your example) is abstracted quite nicely and can be manipulated/mocked: the BEAM platform (Erlang, Elixir).

You can record IO for particular process (it just messages), replay it if you want.

Also, modules can be compiled in any order, functions in module can be defined in any order. It's much easier to treat function as smallest unit of code. To create a parser that could transform code into data, allow it to manipulate (structured editing and all) and transform it back to text form, to be used by other programmers.

I think if LightTable was aiming at BEAM platform it could go a bit further. Utilize growing popularity of Elixir, and create a new development platform.
Sorry to maybe be off topic..

Gee, almost every day, or multiple times a day, I read mention of Stoicism (usually M Aurelius, occasionally Seneca) on HN. And almost never any other type of philosophy (in the wisdom of life sense).. I guess Ayn Rand a few times. I wonder why that is. It's surprising because I don't think I came across anything about Stoicism more than once every year or two before I came on here.
>for example they can't extract a full genome.

The article says that they did:

"...the ancient skull to obtain a few milligrams of bone powder. From this, they were able to extract a full genome,"
I'm surprised it hasn't been taken down yet
Most big companies will check the PayPal recipient address for country match (yes even for virtual), or an CC avs address match for country, or card BIN lookup. Spotify, Netflix, etc. This is often for compliance, for example VAT collection in EU, or license rights affected by geography. IP Geo is meh, I'd even prioritize your Accept header locale over that.
I’ve seen lots of Japanese girls dressed as grandmas last time I’ve visited the country. The style is actually pretty cute on young girls.
How hard will it be for Apple to patch this?
I'm sorry, I do not understand the alarmist tone.

Yes, in many cases the uses of tech in China are disturbing (like the supposedly planned social credit system).

But this case? It's the job of the police to find people. Facial recognition helps it (although, I suspect, it won't be as flawless as advertised). How is it functionally different from the recognition tech in airports? Because the cops look scarier?
At least one has: https://github.com/ZioShiba/iBoot/tree/master/docs
I think the poster was irritated with the long citation list and other extraneous items.

Just share a link and a part of the abstract, or do a summary.
Hmm, availability heuristic? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic
As an Electrical Engineering student at North Dakota State University I curled. Our team won the North Dakota State Championship. One of my friends was training for the Korean Olympics. It appears that I overlooked the market for brooms...

It's great to see technology being used to make athletes better even if it means changing technique.
I think that goes against the rules of marketing. It's more likely that they'll brand the fixes as something like Intel® Protected Speculation Technology™ (PST).
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That must be pulling a lot of energy out of the power lines huh? I wonder at what point people start complaining...
That is probably due to a culture of fear
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Even the police/government can contain bad actors, some might even like the cover.

The problem is when access to private data goes beyond the need, probabilistically people will abuse it, especially people with an authoritarian slant that are tripping on the power.
Given that some filters may throw the facial recognition off the scent, probably some kind of makeup or a combination of fake scars, different hairstyle, eye bags should be enough.

I saw Facebook misidentifying siblings of different gender with a year difference in age. The bone structure of their faces is similar, all the rest is different.
"Canadians get a discount" I wonder how much money they're passing up on for their curlingist patriotism
Did you happen to see a woman with long blonde hair in his vicinity?
Miss Pao's phenomenoscopic spectacles.

(Neal Stephenson, Diamond Age)
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Hehe thanks, yeah. I meant US billion (10^9 not 10^12). I'm not saying 'gigagram' isn't valid, just I'd never heard it used before so had no sense how big it is. Amounts that big are usually talked about in millions or billions of tonnes or something like that. (1 tonne = 1000kg) Hmm this is harder than I thought, USA doesn't have the "o" sound in "tonne" either, hehe—it rhymes with "pot" for non-US speakers of English, 'on' with a 't' in front.
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So how is it different?

The police can access files online anyway, it's just a matter of convenience. Most likely, the online databases are now accessible on mobiles.
Think of VR as a tool for very emotional, very real advertising that can connect a consumer to the story and culture of a product.
DUTCH STUDENTS INVENT BIOLOGICAL WEAPON DETECTOR TO PROTECT HUMAN BEINGS
Much better, still 18 months old though, how long will it get software updates?
Do we even know what an "outstanding warrant" consists of in China? Granted, I may be naieve about what it represents in the US, but I hope it's something that comes from a reasonably transparent and fair process. In a totalitarian state, it could mean something else.

The question becomes: Who is being rounded up, and why? This seems more important than the specific technology used.

I happen to live in a neighborhood where the very presence of a police officer would attract notice.
To patch what? This isn't a vulnerability. This is leaked source code. Apple can file takedown notices to GitHub since they own the copyright but people can always post it somewhere else.
You could also use Nvidia Geforce Now. Works quite well.
Sounds like a job for Cody of Codyslab. I see "Recovering Mercury From Permafrost" videos in our future...
> Pick a list of ~100 categories to be your “type” system, and optimize over this choice of categories so that they compactly express any entity

So it's not generic then.
The kilogram the SI standard. It's used in kilogram-meter-second reasoning systems as the base of derivative units, such as Newtons (1kg * G) or torque (N*m). (Basing these off of the gram would be... weird. You might protest the gram's the wrong size, but it's too late to change it.) Prefixes are applied as normal to 'gram' despite this (so milligram, microgram, and exotically gigagram) are correct.

Gigagram just seems exotic in the same way that megameter does - it's perfectly correct and understandable, it's just rarely necessary.
There are technologies and programmes intended for good which have resulted in unambiguously bad outcomes.

Good intentions are not enough.
Okay, iPhoneX, $1000.
> in 'Biggest Leak in History'

IDK, the Win2K source leak was pretty big.
So yes you did via the photos
Tesla Model 3, Elon Musk’s Grail, Remains a Costly Pursuit
Reddit bans “deepfakes” and other fake celebrity porn
I still live with my parents and work part-time, and I have come to be obsessed about saving. While I don't have much in savings, I tend to save nearly everything, unless it's for a necessity. I do hope the latter is not the case when I have a professional job. I am thinking about how everyone talks about investing towards your retirement, savings, etc, and it sounds a bit depressing. 10k signing bonus? Go buy that mint 1986 BMW 528e. I suppose I am just trying to get some perspective. What do people tend to do with most of their income? If they are saving more, are they worse off in regards to the so-called good life? I suppose there must be a balance. There's that word again: "balance".
That's one thing I really want to improve...

So right now it's grabbing your entire profile, but then it deletes the oldest entries to get everything to fit on one page.

I'm planning on making it so you can pick and choose what goes on it instead of it doing it automatically.
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"Does the average f2p shovelware author really have the resources to implement a system like the one contemplated in this presentation? I doubt it."

It doesn't matter. Take a look at Summoner's War, the top revenue MMO game right now. I could easily see COM2US (the developers) taking advantage of a lot of those things.

SW has a business model where you can certainly spend thousands a month if you have the money to throw away. I'd be very curious to know what it brings in from the average player per year.
Wasn't that one a partial leak stripped of some interesting bits?
When a mommy sun and a daddy cloud of interstellar gas condense into higher-order matter...
Varying interpretations of the question cast hopeless doubt on their data & conclusions.
>“ICE has for the past decade been keenly interested in joining the Intelligence Community,” Peter Vincent, general counsel for ICE under the Obama administration, told The Daily Beast..."

So basically they've been pushing for this since Obama, rather than the implied "since Trump".
Parking fines are generally on the car, not a person
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No, it's supposed to be used just like others, it just has a prefix at its 'base' unit. Milligram and Megagram would indeed be technically right, but no one uses it (edit: in the case of megagram, thanks daveguy).

I suspect this is because, sort of like length, there's many different names for essentailly different orders of magnitude and you'd first go to the largest (a tonne, 1000 kg) before adding on prefixes. I suspect this many-names factor is in turn because they're such historical things that humans have measured and quantified since prehistory, because distance and mass are the first 'quantities' we begin to encounter.

So instead of 793 gigagrams, I'd say 793 thousand tonnes, or 793 kilotonnes.
Citation? Because that doesn't fit my understanding.
Motivation is overrated:

http://rosstraining.com/blog/2015/12/29/motivation-is-overra...
In the docs directory there is a guide to fuzzing. On the plus side, from my initial read, it looks like most of the important stuff has fuzzing harnesses already which means the code should be free of most low hanging security bugs. It also means that with the harnesses already in place, it will be easy for outsiders to just throw a ton of compute at it and possibly find some of the deeper issues.
You could do the same with wireguard, only the conf file would be about 6 lines of text. And you can understand the obvious purpose of each line.
I don't think it's the number of people that matter, but rather the behavior of those people.

It appears that humanity lived in balance (Lotka-Volterra style) with the rest of the inhabitants of the planet until the invention of agriculture, which is still relatively recent.

The transitions that led from agriculture to walled cities to city-states to modern nation-states all occurred within the past 10,000 years or so. Whereas the oldest known human fossil is something like a million years old. Divide that 10,000 by the million years our species has been on this planet, you get 1%. So for 99% of humanity's time on the planet we probably behaved a lot like most of the other land mammals.

Something happened that led to the changes in our behavior, and we are now facing the consequences of our collective actions for the past thousands of years. It looks like we'll need to change even more before it's too late.
There was (is?)... but it just spits out a super plain resume you can't do much with. My plan with this is to make it super customization, and make themes tailored to a bunch of different professions.
Intel says, "Intel continues to work closely with industry partners to protect customers against the security exploits disclosed by Google Project Zero."

Linus Torvalds says, "They do literally insane things. They do things that do not make sense ... The patches do things that are not sane. WHAT THE F*CK IS GOING ON?"
Oh this is easy:

1. Go back in time and don't go to college

2. Get roommates

3. Don't have internet. Ration electricity.

4. Sell your car and steal a bike.

5. Don't eat.

and finally, move to Montana where your dollar goes further. This all seems to be relatively in the ballpark of what's commonly suggested when people on here rightly complain about CoL.
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She's in the trunc
Interesting. The fourth post from today seems very promising. It gives me increasing confidence that Rust has chosen its code abstractions very well, to know that we can provably solve this problem without heap allocations.

The lifetime binding tricks feel reminiscent of template metaprogramming-fu in C++, though the parts that have to be reasoned about past the standard library seem smaller and cleaner.

In Rust, it feels like we are leveraging our cleverness to accomplish a higher order of expression than what’s possible in other imperative languages today. In 20 years, maybe we’ll be talking about a promising new language concept that reminds of how exciting Rust lifetimes were back in 2018 :)
Somone had to be first. Why not us.
What did you use in the browser for UI and GL?
Eggs are pretty cheap and each one contains about 6 g of high-quality protein.
Some of us are screaming outside as well.
I suspect the audience here on Hacker News aren't familiar with your reference, hence the down votes.

Millionaire tells millennials to stop buying avocado on toast [to save $150,000 for a deposit on a house):
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/may/15/austral...
4chan.
I was hinting at a tipping point when most people will say "I've had enough, I am done with any game that abuses me this way". Abuse is the perfect word here, we might even see a hashtag campaign #abusedbyai from this.
Then how will Nest sell you a high margin locked up gadget?
It is interesting that when I use Chromium 46 (which is newer than Googlebot) I get warnings from Github and Google Docs about an outdated or unsupported browser, and I get plain HTML Github pages without JS. But Google uses even older browser than I. So even Google cannot cope with browser version race and keep their browsers updated although they require this from the users.
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But why not add such capabilities in the standard library and not use them in code running on 4-bit microcontrollers? That's sort of similar to what c11 is doing with its 'safe' variants on stdlib string functions.
https://github.com/h1x0rz3r0/iBoot/tree/master/include/drive...

Now that these drivers have been leaked, would it be possible to run Linux on old iPhones? From my understanding, the main reason it couldn't be done is because nobody had access to the driver source code, and now..
Let's say you have N qubits in a superposition.

A superposition is (a bit of an oversimplification since there are also complex numbers involved and a linear constraint) is in some sense a probabilistic distribution over the possible (classical) values that you get when you measure those N qubits.

E.g. if you measured this N-qubit state many times, which of the 2^(N-1) possible superposition values would you get? Would it be the uniform distribution? Biased towards particular classical bit patterns?

Note that there are 2^(N-1) possible classical bit patterns, so an arbitrary collection of these patterns would take O(2^N) operations to define.

> I'm definitely not saying you get the answer to every problem in a single evaluation step

Yes, but my point is that if your input is an arbitrary collection of classical N-bits, then in general you will require an exponential number of quantum operations to set stuff it into an N-qubit initial state, which means you get zero speedup.

Quantum computers only see speedup on inputs that require a relatively small number of quantum operations to set up. 'Small' could mean polynomial. But it's true that the space of 'easy to set up' initial N-qubit states is much smaller than the space of all possible N-qubit states, which is why a quantum computer cannot simply considered 'a magical computer that computes on 2^N bits at once' without considering how you get those bits in or out of the damn thing.
Probably can be brute forced within milliseconds. With that sort of design decision I would guess there would be other gaping security holes that would make even brute forcing the PIN an overkill.
Milligram is used extensively in biochemistry when defining concentrations milligrams per milliliters or mg/ml. This is the equivalent of g/L, but in biochemistry lab quantities are often measured in mg and ml rather than larger masses and volumes.

Also common: micrograms and microliters.
Awesome. I literally started writing a small tool for managing state yesterday, because we really do need smarter ways to move application datasets around.
It looks like just the headers, not the actual source code.

Also iBoot is basically the "BIOS" of the phone. Just enough to get it up and running and then load iOS into memory and kick it off, so it wouldn't have drivers for things like the touch screen or accelerometer for example.
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I think this is the most reasonable advice. Zero Cater (or something similar) supposedly ran their business for quite a while off of spreadsheets, for example.
Perhaps I don't, but your description doesn't seem to contradict my point that scalability is distinct from competitive with classical computing. Perhaps people also implicitly mean "scales faster than a classical computer", in which case I did indeed misunderstand.

On the topic of whether or not the need for averaging is already accounted for in algorithmic complexity, my understanding is that it is not. This [1] preprint from 2006 seems to support my understanding. If you have evidence to the contrary, I would greatly appreciate a link.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0612077
Intel says the identified stability issues only affect Broadwell and Haswell while they also affect Skylake and IvyBridge.

The microcode updates are also made available to only very few channels and vendors. In turn, vendors are not making the updates available to customers. As an example, SuperMicro didn't release publically an updated BIOS.

So, one month after the end of the embargo, Intel is working very hard to ensure people cannot get properly protected.
From someone traveling in the opposite direction at the moment: the Windows folder selection dialog is the crustiest open/save relic of them all and "open files are locked even to administrators" is a UX catastrophe. Lesser pains: it hurts to have missing consistent "jump to enclosing folder" semantics everywhere (command-click on mac -- only get an equivalent context menu 30% of the time) and to not have the ability to snap open/save dialogs to a particular file or folder with drag and drop.

The door swings in both directions, in other words :)
IPhone source code for iOS 9 posted on GitHub
I saw this a few days ago on a Japanese TV show -- the host was traveling around the world trying to find places that had never been visited by a Japanese person before. He found a small town in Greece, but then was disappointed that there was a Japanese woman living there... but her husband pointed him toward this island, where he had been born and raised.

They made a big deal about the whistling language and even had several live demonstrations. The two I remember are:

1. They ordered drinks at a cafe, then one of the group added on an order for orange juice -- the owner brought out the complete order.

2. The host asked them to whistle some specific things to some people across a valley; when the host went over to question them about the things, they answered correctly.
From oldest to newest:

* In Ukraine sometime in the 90s we had no computer, but the local arcade did. Sometimes my parents would give us "kapeyki" (basically like pennies) and my sister and I would gather then up and then run to the arcade across the street to stand in line to play The Lion King. We were obsessed with both the Disney film and the game. As soon as you died you lost your spot and the wait back in line could be an hour sometimes. I kept dying on the giraffes.

* Later we had a short-lived computer course at School Number 11. We had to come in outside of normal school days (which were Mon-Sat) to participate. I was too young to remember the specifics, but we had to type in programs to play some car racing game. I was really fast at it and always got to play the finished product first - unfortunately the course was short lived.

* When we got our first computer after moving to Alabama and got AOL dial-up I realized "Holy crap you can make things." My mom thought it was a passing phase, but she dutifully went the library with me to check out stacks of books on HTML, CSS, and PHP and brought back video game CDs she spotted at her trips to random stores. One of those games was Creatures 3 and it was what got me interested in life simulations to this day.

* Later I got to work with one of the guys who helped make The Lion King
Intel has really made a mess out of CPUID. It's supposed to be an easy way to query CPU features, and for some things it is, but they keep changing the way it works especially for newer features line AVX2. It's like they cannot even follow their own APIs.
This is just so sad. I'm lucky to have met him briefly about a decade ago when he was consulting the company I worked for. He was just so awesome and smart, and naturally most meetings we had with him pretty quickly turned into storytelling time with John. Those were a few of days I'll never forget. RIP.
Cool idea and great execution. Must also be a fairly small market for such brooms, and competition.
Intel releases new Spectre microcode update for Skylake; other chips remain beta
Scaleway virtual private servers go for 3 euros monthly (US$ 3.68).
Behold, the 157 new emoji for 2018
Cool, so half of your people are above 87-103k, the other half are good and properly fucked in that situation.

Maybe when we're talking about the bottom 10% or 20% I'll care less but having lived in that situation where even one major would have wiped us out I think it's a pretty serious problem that's often overlooked or blamed away.

I'm doing fine now(yay getting out of gamedev) but I'm always shocked how few of my coworkers are aware that most people are just scraping by.
Windows/WSL Interop with AF_Unix
Tesla loses another $675M in Q4, its biggest quarterly loss yet
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Just speculating: maybe atmospheric dust (pollen, etc.), and/or migrating animals contain it and it gets deposited wherever the dust comes down, or the animal dies.

But in permafrost, it is quickly fixed by humidity and ice, and it isn't returned to the oceans by a constant flow of water?
What about Intel® Protected Technology. Speculation Distuption (PTSD)?
I found it..interesting that this very story isn't tagged as being about programming in the pic.

(disclosure: Gödel, Escher, Bach was the first book I really loved.)