skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hardly any of the iPhone is made in China. Taiwan is not China. The same is true about Samsung phones, they've almost entirely eliminated China from their manufacturing process. Three times as many Samsung phones are made in Vietnam as in China at this point. Before another five or six years out, barely any non-domestic smartphones will be made in China.
Some cable systems (Comcast has been migrating I believe) do use H.264, but I don’t know of any OTA usage.
There is “Mobile DTV” AKA ATSC-M/H which uses H264 and is designed for mobile reception, but stations are rare and commercial adoption is nonexistent.
Trump’s been silent on the flu epidemic, despite the spike in cases
True, but that is because every major database is good enough for 99% of people even when run on the cheapest linode available ;).
> The majority of money spend on ads ends up with content creators

Do you happen to have good data on this? I've been wondering how much ends up with various middlemen (including Google) and how much ends up with content creators.

To put numbers to this, according to https://www.statista.com/statistics/237974/online-advertisin... about $194 billion was spent on internet advertising in 2016. Google's revenue in 2016 (not all from ads, but mostly) was ~$89 billion according to https://www.statista.com/statistics/266206/googles-annual-gl... while Facebook's was ~$27 billion according to https://www.statista.com/statistics/277229/facebooks-annual-...

I did check a few other sources and https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/... gives about the same $27b number for Facebook and https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000165204418... lists ~$90b total revenues for Alphabet.

Cross-checking the advertising number is harder; I see numbers around $70b for 2016 from the IAB, but maybe those are US-only.

In any case, just the revenue for Facebook and Google is already 60% of the total ad spend if the numbers above are right. And that assumes there are no other middlemen. So I don't see how the content creators can be ending up with anything like a "majority" of the ad spend.
My country is divided into a very very fine cartesian grid, and each pole is referred to by the grid number, which is also its database reference id for transformers and other hardware... a homegrown GIS. A consistent grid also makes it easy for linemen to find them!
Sure, if your local ARES group doesn't want to use internet repeaters that's totally fine and probably the right call for them(although I'd argue that you can hamWAN any of the internet linked repeaters as well).

The thing that really grinds my gears is the complete dismissal of anything digital/internet connected as not being worth your time in ham radio. It's actively driving away people who would help drive the state of the art of radio forward(97.1b,c,d).
How does a binary blob get around a patent?
> Facebook is a terrible product that can't die fast enough.

For the sake of humankind, I'd rephrase it as "Facebook is a terrible company that can't die fast enough."
Submanifolds of constant entanglement entropy
This is why I hate docsend pitches. I can’t go back a year or two later and look at things - someone will ask me if I know a founder and I search my inbox and find them, but the pitch is gone and I can’t rememeber what they did or what we talked about.
Pole replacement is interesting and full of bureaucracy. At least here in Seattle, the power company doesn't have authority to move communications wires and equipment attached to poles that are being replaced. So often times they'll cut the bottom off the old pole, move it to the side, install a new pole, and then use seemingly whatever they've got lying around to lash the two of them together. Owners of the other equipment eventually get around to moving their stuff (sometimes years later), and the last one removes the pole.

Some examples: http://archive.seattleweekly.com/news/960949-129/whats-up-wi...
It's South Korean.
The graph is apparently derived from John Hennessy's latest textbook revision.
I have this recurring dream that I'm late for a final exam. Long term memory can be evil sometimes.
“This isn’t the end, management teams are expecting lower resource costs and higher return on investment for the technology projects.”

Wow, really? Bit radical assertion there don’t you think? I thought they might want higher resource costs and lower returns on investment.

Maybe there is some good content in there, but I found it difficult to sift through the banalities to find out.
The US government probably worries that Huawei could remotely blew the phone battery should US ever goes into a trade war with China, which is emergent ...

That's the only sense I can make out of this news. I would dump my Huawei if US government can expense it for me. It's hard to find such a high quality phone. [1]

[1]https://www.amazon.com/Huawei-Amazon-Alexa-Leica-Camera/prod...
CSS Tensors.

You heard it here first.
I'm not sure what difference it makes but it was actually Google, not Google Ventures, that made the investment.

> Google is placing a big bet on it: in addition to the funding, Android and Chrome leader Sundar Pichai will join Magic Leap's board, as will Google's corporate development vice-president Don Harrison. The funding is also coming directly from Google itself — not from an investment arm like Google Ventures — all suggesting this is a strategic move to align the two companies and eventually partner when the tech is more mature down the road.

https://www.theverge.com/2014/10/21/7026889/magic-leap-googl...
> "Another problem that must be considered is that utility workers, while highly competent at their profession, are not always great with working on computers."

You're absolutely correct on this point. When I was working as a transmission system operator the older guys (all in the 50s and 60s) would complain all day and night about the new "computer apps" that were introduced in our day to day workflow. They all preferred the old "pen and paper" way of doing things...Like you said, I'd be the who would end up putting the written switching procedures into the application we used since the older guys basically refused to learn it...
Cool, so I can do what I've been doing with WinForms TableLayouts since forever /s
I would say if AI can produce original, deeply meaningful art, that's as good as a turing test. Most humans cannot do this.
The two are related :) I chose displacement because it's a simpler thing to explain visually, and didn't want to cover both.

In the bit with the air molecule grid, the areas where the molecules are clustered together are high-pressure, while the areas with large spaces between them are low. This is caused by the staggered nature of the displacement vibrations.

(I'm sure there's a more sophisticated way to explain this, but that's as I understand it)
Do your system operators us GIS to sectionalize lines and troubleshoot transmission/distribution issues, or are you talking about the engineers/planners?
Ray Kurzweil’s ‘singularity’ prediction supported by prominent AI scientists
> And the distinction between designing an algorithm and designing a machine is kind of arbitrary.

The distinction isn't arbitrary. If you can do something entirely in math/software then you can also hard code it into a physical machine, but the reverse obviously isn't true. There is no calculation you can perform on an abstract Turing machine that will cause it to generate electricity or thrust or refine steel or physically prevent someone from accidentally sticking their hand in a saw blade.
I'm trying to "upgrade" from valgrind and understand the more advanced tools available but I'm having trouble understanding how perf relates to eBPF.

I can't quite makes sense of your description "BPF makes perf tracing programmatic, and takes perf from being a counting & sampling-with-post-processing tracer, to a fully in-kernel programmable tracer"

Are you saying eBPF can make your programs trigger perf tracing on-demand?
Are you a cyborg?
Because you have a God-given right to any show you want to see?

You don't feel bad about pirating because you couldn't find it on your streaming services. The next guy doesn't feel bad about it because the DVDs are overpriced. We can all find rationalizations for pirating the things we deserve to have whenever and however we want them.
It's been heading the same direction. There have been a number of artists that pulled out after the Taylor Swift bit, and the Beetles albums are still iTunes only due to an exclusive deal.

You'll see there are quite a few bitter complaints online: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Content-Questions/WHY-do-yo...
Perhaps (see sibling comments), but I don't think that's what GP was getting at. They take it down because the government (or whoever is in control) wants to control the flow of information amongst their citizens and not some private (likely foreign) company. What good is the Great Firewall if you can just subscribe to Elon's ISP with a dish?

Feasibly, SpaceX would not need to negotiate or conform to any nation-states censorship requirements, because the citizens can just directly access the satellite through private infrastructure.

A capitalist analogy is how hotels used to (and many still do) charge outrageously for internet. When people started using their own infrastructure to connect their laptops to the internet, hotels (like the Marriot[0]) jammed wifi hotspots.

[0] http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/03/travel/marriott-fcc-wi-fi-...
Even though I hate how these companies take advantage of people, I hate restricting freedom even more. I prefer having the freedom to manipulate and be manipulated into these kind of traps instead of sending people to jail because they did something people don't like.

And we have the freedom to not use products that mistreat us, I left facebook a year ago and I'll soon install lineageOS on my cellphone, limiting myself to only open source apps.
It is in the interests of media companies to produce better codecs to drive the efficiency and effectiveness of their primary revenue stream. I mean, look at Netflix - they have a huge driven reason to invest in codec development.

The fact that all these businesses have vested interest and need for the best possible codecs, they have plenty of reason to invest in making new ones for self-serving purposes. No patent revenue potential required.

Look at AOM - an organization formed entirely to circumvent the patent system to produce a royalty free good codec everyone can actually use. When companies look at the patent encumbered codec of the day and reject it because of the patents you have a demonstrable show of how detrimental patents are to innovation.
the wealthy will likely want the creature comforts a personal vehicle affords.
I like the WhatsApp approach:

* Hire smart people

* If a bug is found, investigate and fix it right there and then

* Have a 0 bugs backlog

* Minimal software footprint. Don't put your software you don't need in you stack

* No QA team, no waterfall, no kanbans, scrums

* Lots of small, simple deploys (no one big change the world updates)

Here is Jamshid Mahdavi talking about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW49z8HqsNw&t=323

FB teams apparently approached them asked what practices do you follow as they were impressed by the reliability of the service, especially at their scale and given the number of people they had.
His projects are most likely successful and profitable. The junior devs is probably a comparative catastrophe. I honestly don't get where this junior devs are faster meme is coming from, it sure doesn't represent my experience.
Does anyone know if Project Zero has a policy on submitting issues found to bug bounties? Curious if they get to "double dip"
I use Fastmail in exactly the same manner (catch-all, I use "yourdomain.example@mydomain.example" as the email address for signups). Also, anyone could put a cheap domain name on Migadu with a catch-all for this purpose.

Services need a better way to figure out fraudulent or abusive behaviour than guessing based on the email account's domain name.
We're working on it: widgets (https://github.com/QuantStack/xwidgets)
and bqplot (https://github.com/QuantStack/xplot)

Also in the roadmap, a C+ backend for threejs and ipyvolume.
5 Questions with Max Li, JavaScript Developer
Very interesting insight from a former GPU developer at Magic Leap:

https://imgur.com/a/hIXTQ#e6Vdo3B

He believes they should have focused on making the headset and gone with integrating with a mobile device instead of an integrated SoC...That said there's usually a reason (low-level) engineers are engineers and not product people... but he makes some good points.

The one I most disagree with is "why develop Apps with ML when you could develop apps on Apple (iOS)"

Well one good reason is that a) game developers and VR/AR devs aren't necessarily developing on iOS already yet and b) it's an entirely new (potentially large) new market where you could become a top developer more easily. And they'd still have to build a significant part of their SDK on top of iOS or Android, no?
I understand why Posteo doesn‘t allow you to use your own domain (customer lock-in), but I don‘t find it particularly ethical how they lie about it („technically impossible“).

OTOH, I like that Posteo is not a corporation, but actually run by a natural person with full personal liability.
How would that be "double dipping"?
Because they get full time salaries from Google for bug hunting.
You shouldn't, of course. The FBI is just making people aware of this particular campaign.
Art is what you can get away with.

Andy Warhol
You need to buy it, without license it won't load:

http://www.raspberrypi.com/mpeg-2-license-key/
What doesn't add up is that, in the real world, you can't protect against every threat model. Its their job to protect the best they can. They can't tell Apple to stop building their phones in China, but they can simply say "Don't buy Huawei".

That's easy. And moreover, its a bigger threat. With a Huawei phone, the Chinese government has control over everything from the processor to the userspace software. With a small piece of silicon in a fab, the threat surface is much smaller; they'd have to sneak it in against Apple's will, past all of Apple's American-loyal QA.

In the software world, we tend to think about security as an absolute, because computer logic is absolute. In the real world, security is probabilities. How can you minimize the chance of breach while minimizing costs.
> As much as I hate huge companies and consolidation of companies, this is one area where some consolidation could make it better for customers. I'm not sure if this is the right hope to have though.

This is basically what Hulu is -- NBC, ABC, and FOX consolidating their online streaming content into a single service. (I don't think it would be better for consumers if any of the three corporations that own those networks actually merged.)
My work around is to subscribed to one service at a time for one month. Then I switch to a different and catch up on that service's shows.
> I suspect you and I both have very little insight into how much it actually costs to run Facebook

Sure we do. They're a public company; they routinely publish this information, as required by law.

https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/... says that in 2017 it cost ~$20 billion to run Facebook (see the "Total costs and expenses" line in the "Year Ended December 31, 2017" column). In 2016 it cost ~$15 billion.

According to https://zephoria.com/top-15-valuable-facebook-statistics/ (other places seem to have similar numbers) Facebook has around 2 billion users, which works out to $10/user/year for 2017.

Now many of its users are in poor countries and may not be able to afford $10/year. If we just look at the US, Canada, and Europe, we see ~300 million users in Europe (same source) and about 180 million in the US+Canada, for about 480 million users total. That's $40/user/year, or $3.5/month.

At $10/month, Facebook revenue from just their US+Canada users would more than cover their expenses for 2017.

Now Facebook _does_ have a 50% profit margin in 2017. So if they wanted to keep their revenue, not their expenses, they would need to charge double teh above numbers. That brings us to the lowest number you cite: $20/month if they only charge in the US and Canada. Of course I would expect the number of users to drop a lot of they did that...
I don't get it. All we have so far is a very short spec sheet, and already people are starting to assume so much about how it will work.

Is there any proof that it'll be able to run arbitrary JS? Or that it'll be mutable? Or that there will be no way to turn it off?
I thought this article was just some highbrow whining.

I'm personally rooting for Netflix. I'm really enjoying the content. I thought Bright was a pretty entertaining throw-away action flick. And I love Stranger Things as well as Ozarks. Hell, I even watched the first ep of Queer Eye the other night... I love being able to watch at my convenience, and not be bombarded with ads. I also love that they're not subjected to the same restrictions as the big US networks in terms of their content, just like HBO isn't.

I'm excited that they're investing so much in their content pipeline.
No fucking way. A company whose revenue absolutely depends on user engagement is coercing users into engaging with the platform.

I'm shocked. Shocked to hear about this. I can't possibly imagine how this could've happened. It's time to rethink everything we know, rewrite C in rust, and put the social back in media.
I don't understand. Can you not load the page normally and just not invoke your js interpreter at all? Just don't run any js. How can that take more time than normal loading and running?
Your retort would be more convincing if you linked to some sources.
A "very short spec sheet" is an invitation for people to start assuming things about how it will work. In the absence of details, speculation is inevitable.
Well that’s the key word isn’t it, “meaningful”? I think what makes art interesting is the story behind it, the statement the artist is trying to make. Art made by a machine is simply following an algorithm. I can find the process itself interesting from an academic point of view, but I’d find it difficult to call it “meaningful.” AI has no idea what kind of art it’s generating, no way to discern what is beautiful or not, no understanding of its effect on the viewer, no story to tell, no emotional backdrop. This doesn’t mean the end product can’t be beautiful, but meaningful? Eh.
Yes. Next question.

Edit to expand slightly for down-voters: I mean this very literally; "is it art?" is not a terribly interesting question, because it really doesn't admit very much satisfying discussion. You either think it is or you think it isn't, and it dissolves into metaphysics pretty quickly. I find it much more interesting to just accept that it is and examine the questions that then fall out from that, many of which are brought up in sibling comments here.
That's not really double dipping, that's more of a bonus.
> Why wouldn’t people just use an adblocker st this point?

Because once Google ships their built-in adblocker in Chrome, they plan to start putting up paywalls for users that are using other adblockers (but only on the sites where Chrome itself is not blocking ads). They've made this pretty clear in their communications about the whole thing if you read them carefully.
I think recruit is being used as a verb there.

> to support payroll,

> and recruit for essential positions.
In that sense, all AI is art. :-)
Non Von-Neumann Architectures [pdf]
I think we have plenty of homegrown distrust of intelligence agencies post-Snowden without needing to import it from abroad.
US get extradite people from all around the world quite easily. On the other hand, extraditing a US citizen to another country is very difficult as US is more likely to block such efforts. For this reason it might be safer for US citizens to be listened to by Chinese government instead of US. It's a tradeoff you need to make and it depends on your circumstances of course.
https://www.signalplot.com/what-is-bitcoins-correlation-with...
Only some of this information remains relevant today to someone interested in "finding hidden cameras". For example, I found page 10 very interesting to read about; what is presented there would probably make for a very fun hackathon project or similar.

As for the info on RF detection, nope. Few things use PAL/NTSC now, mostly devices bought by people not doing research buying the tales spun by the cheaper spy shops. If you find something using analog video, I'd treat it as suspicious. If the device isn't obviously doing spy things, it's probably some completely forgotten-about system not connected to anything anymore.

You'd be better served doing analog Wi-Fi RF analysis - whether just figuring out "why is there a gigantic 2.4GHz/5.8GHz/etc signal specifically in the corner of this room", or even seeing whether the camera firmware is vulnerable to the WPA2 attacks. And that's hoping the device uses Wi-Fi; if it uses a LAN, your best bet may be an EM/RF finder (which AFAIK start at $900+ for a basic good one) to try and pinpoint the camera electronics, and hope you don't get distracted with random benign things like in-wall thermometers, chemical sensors, and whatnot.

As for modern camera size, I just did an image search for "phone camera module" and then "tiny camera module" and found items quite a fair bit smaller than what's shown in this PDF.

- This is apparently 1x1mm, and a cursory but careful examination suggests it's _not_ optical: http://www.awaiba.com/product/naneye/

- A bit more looking found this slightly more accessible random option: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/1-12-CMOS-tiny-indust...

- I also found this generic "MC900A" camera that's very small, self-contained and spits out NTSC/PAL: http://spy.tips/shop/super-mini-520tvl-high-resolution-audio... (this is one of the random results, googling the model will find tons of this)

- A bit more searching found the TS5828 5.8GHz A/V transmitter; this is not _tiny_, but it most definitely is very small.

One of my rainy-day-when-I-have-more-money projects is to get a tiny camera like one of the ones above, a transmitter like the one above, and a tiny rechargeable battery, and see how compact I can make the result. I'm putting it off until I have more money because I know I'll obsess about it until it's _really, really small_...

FWIW, what I just described does already exist as a finished product. Here's a 2.4GHz version:
https://www.selfdefensegearco.com/MiniWirelessSpyCamera.htm
Russia, China developing 'destructive' space weapons: US intelligence
You do realize that they design and manufacturer their own modems, right?
I noticed a couple of strange things:

- The chart shows a peak (10 out of 10,000 hospitalized) around Jan 2018 for this season, yet the tweet from the CDC below the chart, and dated Feb 6th claims that "#flu activity continues to increase across the US". It seems that the chart shows that the activity is now decreasing since Jan, not increasing.

- The fun little game that simulates how the flu spreads based on a percentage of vaccination seems to follow rules that bias the results significantly for a dramatic effect. For example, a vaccinated person seems to never get infected ever, even though we know that the vaccine has about 10% efficiency this year. Even if it were another efficiency value, you'd expect to see some amount of vaccinated people get sick. In addition to this, it seems that if you are not vaccinated and you are adjacent to a sick person, you will automatically get the flu guaranteed.

What am I misunderstanding?
The mobile number is the holy grail. You can buy all sorts of evil information from the carriers, and your number is sort of a public key representing you in other contexts.