skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something people who have not worked a lot outside of the USA may not realize is: It's not hard for an autocratic regime to crack down on some types of WAN connection. Using currently available geostationary two way satellite technology, there are plenty of countries in the world where if you import and try to build your own Tx/Rx 3.8 meter size, C-band earth station and build a link to a teleport in Germany or France, the government will have a very simple response. A pickup truck with four men armed with guns will come and dismantle your dish.

I don't think this will be very helpful for scenarios like China at all. Or places like Iran where all the ISPs are forced to be downstream of the government ASN.

This will be very helpful for places on the planet that are extremely costly to reach with terrestrial fiber ($2m to $30m build cost) or a hill-to-hill relay of high capacity mountaintop tower sites with PTP microwave ($500k to $3m build cost to get from a major city into the hinterlands of some african nations). Also for places like small pacific islands that can never hope to economically bring a submarine fiber optic cable to them. A lot of these places have already moved off "traditional" geostationary C and Ku band transponder leases and onto o3b. This is basically a similar concept to o3b but applied not only to large backbone links for ISPs, but to individual customer premises rooftop antennas that might have a cost of under $1000.
Because nobody who is anti-anti-vaxxer is claiming that vaccines have never caused harm.
Email represents three important abstractions of the real life:

First, it's a task queue. And you're the worker that processes the tasks. Anything that helps an email service to be that abstraction is very good for users -- prioritizing, postponing, auto-processing, branching, delegating, etc.

Second, it's a log. As the article rightfully says -- an immutable one. Again, anything that helps email be a good log is very good for the user -- search, filtering, archiving, etc.

Third, it's a file storage. This is the most overlooked part, unfortunately. Search, sharing, organizing into collections -- all that would be of great help to users.

Yet, Google pushes that silly AMP :\
"""The rest of the video made my ears bleed. It was the usual Rony doing his hype and buzzword salad trying to fit in as much hype in as he could without really saying anything."""

Hype and buzzword salad, I'm going to be taking that one with me into the future.
Hulu is an absolute failure compared to Netflix with 14.5% paid subscribers and even the absolute free tier gets under 1/2 of Netflix's viewership.

HBO go is struggling and heavily dependent on dwindling cable subscribers to keep HBO viable.

Amazon video is similarly subsidized by Amazon. Treated more as a loss leader than a profit center with ~1/3 million of Netflix's subscribers even though it's included with an Amazon prime subscription.

Netflix does not have total dominance, but with a solid track record of original content and a massive subscriber base they are becoming harder to beat over time.
Reform is also achievable, abolishing not really.
How Micro Is Your Tasking?
Consider trying https://mbasic.facebook.com/

It's a JavaScript-free version :)

Also works with the Tor hidden service https://mbasic.facebookcorewwwi.onion/
I started working with HPC users three years ago and yes, they're the only ones who used "codes" that way.

At least, the only ones in the last 30 years, I'm figuring - there is a reason we call it "code", and it's an old one!
I think the opposite is happening thanks to tainted coins, non-tainted become more valuable as they become scarce. Eg. If you Google 'freshly mined bitcoin' you will see they are quite desirable.
So, literally illegal in Europe, where you have the legal right to be forgotten from the internet? There is a lot to be said for being able to delete data from an internet-connected computer and trust that it is, in fact, deleted. Email definitely falls in that category, but while deletion for email has a fairly obvious value, remote mutability of emails is extremely questionable at best.
If these are intelligence agencies, wouldn't they also consider assassinating you?
Agreed, like Blockbuster
Ha wow I completely forgot about the days of pop-up ads that was such an intrusive nightmare.
It might be just about money... more money stays in the US if you buy from Apple
Not the OP, but:

Yes. What’s so tricky about that?
It would be pretty hard (from the technical and legal perspective of a drinks-the-koolaid network engineer at the Chinese version of the FCC) to build a fully compliant, tamperproof version of the GFW into a standalone CPE rooftop antenna+indoor router combo. The Chinese GFW architecture relies on the government having pretty strict control over the major ISPs (top 20 to 30 AS numbers in the country by size of APNIC v4 and v6 blocks, number of peers, etc) that have capacity in the submarine cables linking china to other southeast asian nations, and directly to the USA. Also on the terrestrial cross border fiber.
No, that's not in fact how basebands work; the baseband is connected to the AP via HSIC, which is an internal USB bus. "Shares a bus with the top-level OS", by the way, is a sequence of words that doesn't really make sense.
I’m so confused. The wikipedia article is basicly an exerpt from a chinese government english language propoganda tabloid. Who are they trying to infuence? The US right wing?
Bah - file storage. Yep, it certainly is. And to a large degree, because it's a log. Once you email something as an attachment (even to yourself) it's like a version control commit. That copy is locked in, and won't change. You can find it and refer back to it later. It has a timestamp on it, and it's probably stored in the cloud somewhere with backups and such.

Hence "memory" - because that's how people use it :)
This is just allowing the author of the proposal to start gathering signatures on a petition at their own expense. Even getting the signatures doesn't make it law. We entertain this kind of nonsense because democracy must allow everyone to speak up, even the people with fringe opinions we sometimes call crazy.
Thanks for this response.

How about requiring patent-holders to show progress on their invention every X years, so that inventors can't just sit on an old and important patent they own?

Or, a more ground-up restructuring: what if owning a patent didn't give you full ownership of the technology, but just X% of profit made from it for X years after filing?

With this setup, you could further incentivize progress by granting an additional X% to the first one able to bring the technology to market.
You don't have to be self-centered or believe you're special to feel awkward when going against social norms. If remote working at cafes was something that happened regularly around where I live and half the tables had laptops on them then I wouldn't feel pretentious at all. But sitting alone at a table with a laptop in a room full of people socializing is a completely different situation and feels weird.
What if they could remotely blow up your battery?
I've actually taught programming / CS.

(And that taught me that SICP is not as awesome as I nostalgically remembered. My students still didn't like the algorithm design manual.)
To be fair, you can find an issue with all sorts of medicine in the past. That doesn't mean we stop taking medicine. Do we also stop using software because some app had a bug? Of course not.

So no, I don't think defending anti-vaxxers with that example is being "fair". I realize you're not really defending their overall position, but even the line of thinking you proposed is deeply flawed.
If you want to try it in VR, we are featuring it in Supermedium, a full VR browser, which makes Origami Simulator easy to access (click a link in VR). It's been one of the more popular VR sites to visit!

https://supermedium.com/
True if it's not used it will be a waste. But the thing that worries me is the resource contention between the countries. So maybe we should have a preemptive "war on division" to try to integrate the cultures before our differences come to a violent head.
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> there is a 16 MB inner loop, which would likely be best if it were run out of RLDRAM3

RLDRAM isn't stocked at Digikey, but it does list some prices. Far more reasonable at only 92x more expensive than commodity DDR4.

Here is a 16 MiB RAM SRAM chip for $169 with lower random-access latency than you're likely to obtain going out to a separate package. As a bonus, it comes with its own CPU cores: AMD RYZEN 5 1500X 4-Core 3.5 GHz (3.7 GHz Turbo) Socket AM4 65W YD150XBBAEBOX

I'd love to be proven wrong. What combination of FPGA and specialty RAM beats that?

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1681911...
Innovation Is About Making Progress, Not Running Experiments
Copyright is the foundation of all FLOSS licenses, from GPL to MIT. You might know that already, but that's a sharp double-edged sword you're swinging.
They’re and their are my personal bugbear. I’m right there with you. :)
The last election showed that you only need to target a small amount of people in a few key states. $100k, coupled with some convenient gerrymandering, could easily reach that many people.
This seems like a problem of trust and the IRS has already chosen whom it trusts based on past work done etc. Seems unfair, but how would you be able to trust someone whom you’ve never done business with earlier? Could these be translated to laws to prevent this type of exclusion?
Fair enough.

But it's discrimination with a higher purpose.
Thank, this was very interesting. You should write a blog post about your understanding of the secondary ticket market, working in that industry. What you've written is an interesting contrast to the underlying assumptions outsiders have about it.

I can't speak to whether you accurately see the underlying trading strategies or not but your writing was interesting. Thanks for taking the time.
Why Would a Tech Journalist Be Friends with a Neo-Nazi Troll?
Thanks! Can I suggest that you might enjoy following my blog regularly? In addition to utility poles, I have also discussed this year: Samuel Johnson's feud with James Macpherson, a fraudulent poet; the panicked history of England in 1533 after Henry VIII's mistress got pregnant; the Slaughter electric needle injector; how plutonium is used to power medical devices; equivalents of "Joe Blow" in Turkish and Hebrew. Also a lot of other stuff more or less random.

https://blog.plover.com/
It's not a new asset class. Most cryptocurrencies are junk bonds. Those have been around for ages.

If the coiners (what do you call this tribe?) accomplish "Permissionless Innovation" though, they will have did something great.
Distribution transformers are not usually thought of as having a winter rating. On the other hand, distributions lines definitely do. Sometimes work on lines can only be done during the winter, because the load has to be shifted to lines that can only handle the increased temporary load during the winter.

There is a science and an art to sizing residential xfmrs. Generally is depends on the square footage, number of bedrooms and type of fuel used to condition the house.

Probably where GP is running into problem(like most electrical utilities) is that the use of electricity per square foot keeps going up.(caused by the increase of electrical devices in the home) So while the xfmr might have been sized correctly when installed 20-40 years ago, it is no longer sufficient. This causes problems.

Source: I was a distribution engineer for 7 years.
I was thinking 3 years, but the USPTO would probably have a tough time actually granting the patent that quickly.

But, yes: the current system is undoubtedly broken. Terms are way to long (for software, at least), and too many patents are clearly violating the novelty bar.
If Apple user visits contribute less to the earnings of a certain class of websites (news sites, for example), then these could lose interest in the visitors and not optimize content for them. This could e.g. lead to websites breaking when visited by Safari.

I believe similar reasons led Firefox to formerly only offer their tracking protection feature in privacy browsing mode. Possibly their analytics showed that it turns out that most people don't activate that feature, so they now offer it in all modes. Privacy-conscious FF users in a way free-ride on the masses who use FF without knowing / caring about the feature.

It will probably go similar for Apple: They make the feature opt-in, most people don't care and leave it off, nobody gets hurt.
I feel like I could use a 3d layout tool today to escape the z-index dance that seems to be in every code base I've worked in. I'm forever bumping z-indexes like it's an arms race or something.
Or Netflix. They got a whole lot worse as they started failing at shipping DVDs. Then BitTorrent ate their lunch.

EDIT: Unfortunately, Tesla is in the business of moving humans around, and they are physical things with mass and volume.
For very narrow values of quality, sure. I also hope to hell that the fragmentation or content distribution doesn’t continue unabated. Someone else posted the phrase earlier today, “Death by a thousand cuts,” and they’re right.

Hulu. Netflix. Amazon. CBS. Disney. FX. YouTube Red. Crunchyroll. And on and on.

It’s only vaguely workable when compared to the totslly unworkable price of American cable tv.
Hopefully you'll survive the upvote I just gave you. :P
GDPR is looking better every day isn't it? Honestly I wouldn't trust Facebook with my cat's name.
Heres a question - is there any evidence we need patents to protect us? Are they actually protecting us? And if so, are the costs (abuse of patents by trolls and global corps) worth the price paid?

Remember that patents were originally just meant to compel inventors to disclose the means by which their inventions work, so that after a finite time they could be publicly used. Do we need public disclosure of "inventions" anymore?
Email, SMS, and actual phone calls satisfy almost all of my communication needs.

The only problem I have is about once every few weeks someone wants me to Skype/Hangout/Facetime/whatever-the-other-video-chat-options-are. I really wish video chat was handled by telecoms in the same way phone calls are. Standard and ubiquitous.
> fully compliant, tamperproof

Of course, but the idea is to simply make the only legal and easily accessible version regulation compliant, and then that is probably what most people will use.
I.MX6 UL based COM/SBC hybrid has FPGA with programmable ZPU core
Capabilities, a short intro
Without copyright, you don't need a license for content to be Free. There may be another edge to the sword, but it ain't the one you are pointing at.
I feel that if some Facebook posts are able to affect the elections to a large degree, we as a people have failed and it doesn't matter what the outcome is since it's just a symptom of a larger problem.

Just like it didn't matter what the exact process by which GW won the contested election. The very fact that the counts were so close means we might as well have tossed a coin.
A small sample. 35 cars from 2017
Trim stuff must have been the majority. Hard to square this with the CR reviews. I am not sure if there was a gas engine dealer conspiracy in action here?
Engine (9%)
Transmission (0%)
Brakes (0%)
Suspension (3%)
Electrical and AC (34%)
How do I make it stop? They’re texting me updates about people I haven’t spoken to in years.
Abolish it entirely.

I'm not really kidding. I think that evidence that patents are beneficial in any field is lacking.

Alternatively, a few major reforms would help. For example:

1. Decrease patent terms to just a few years in most fields.

2. Make it clear that math, in any form, is not patentable. Codec patents, for example, should never have been valid.

3. Eliminate submarine patents. Specifically, require patent holders to notify infringers of their infringement in a timely manner. If you know or should know that my specification, technology, or product is covered by your patent, you must tell me what patent covers it and why. If you give me a list of 700 patents that "might" cover it, you get some appropriate penalty. If you fail to notify me, your patent no longer applies. If my infringing technology is public and you fail to publicly disclose your patent, you cannot enforce your patent against anyone who infringes it using my technology or a derivative thereof. By "should know", I mean that, if an attentive participant in whatever market I'm in would have known of whatever details of my technology infringe on your patent, then you "should know". Even if my technology is still under development by a standards body.

#3 is a big deal. It means that owning and maintaining a patent is a bit expensive. It means that, if you patent some incomprehensible detail that might apply to future technologies, then you must tell people that their future technologies would infringe. This, by itself, would likely blow away most codec patents. And AOM would be spared the expense of their patent search. Simply publish AV1, wait the prescribed time, and AV1 is in the clear.

4. Covenants not to sue and blanket licenses do not waive requirements under #3. If an AOM member wants to give a blanket license of their whole portfolio under defensive terms to users of AV1, they still need to disclose how AV1 infringes their patents or they can't use those patents defensively in the future against AV1.
The point about the quote was when Solaris and BSDs were all doing special treatment of threads (LWPs/LKWT) for M:N threading, Linux since day one started with treating threads just like processes. The changes to special treat threads to solve problems (clean up manager threads hackery, signal handling improvments, clone syscall improvements, PID semantics etc.) came in later with NPTL as you said but by that time Solaris 9 had already adopted a 1:1 threading model.
Cryptojacking attack hits ~4,000 websites, including UK’s data watchdog
Absolutely happened at my first job, too. There was a huge fuss over how much a raise they could give me and how they were capped to a certain limit.

It's great you love my work but it's not enough of a reason that I shouldn't walk across the street to your competitor and get paid 20% more.
I hope and think tokens will democratize access to investments
"The rest of the video made my ears bleed."

UBeam, Theranos, Magic Leap.

The Emperor has no clothes.
Who told the FBI that Feds-only backdoors in encryption are possible?
They're not mutually exclusive.
There was an interesting article/HN story a year ago about the government working Java into an ancient IBM 7074 system: https://thenewstack.io/happens-use-java-1960-ibm-mainframe/

HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13464675
Gender is only one factor. It's what I focused on here because of context. Nationality, native language, childhood population density, and even hobby choices all play a part in experiential makeup.

"Meritocracy" is almost always a flawed idea, because it relies on the principle of those in positions of authority choosing the best candidate for a given role; the key word here is "best." That's a subjective term, and usually favors a small set of criteria over a more holistic view. People, with some exceptions, are bad at seeing the big picture.

With very few exceptions, I will always favor candidates with broader experience over those with narrow strengths.
Own a Surface Book 2 and don't know how to protect it?
(author here) Just wanted to say that I have seen the comments and will address them when I have a chance. My post turned out to be a lot more popular than I anticipated and I was busy yesterday and today. I wrote most of this in summer 2017, so given the popularity I will also provide a refresh with today's state of LLVM.

Please keep corrections to my post coming, the time to determine and influence GC design restrictions in LLVM is now. Before a popular GCed language comes along and then tramples whatever its current GC happens to be into the status quo.
Homebrew seems far behind dpkg/apt in terms of managing complex dependencies and versioning. It's gotten better, but largely by replicating the complexity of those systems.

Last I looked unzip on MacOS still couldn't handle files > 2GB in size. That was a patch submitted about 10 years ago. The version of less is also ancient and compiled without standard features like LESSKEY. At least as of a year or two ago, it's been awhile since I've tried using MacOS.
Did they stop asking for email login passwords?

(I haven't been there in a while, this being just one of the last straws.)
> If the dev didn't handle the case in code they're not going to know to test for it. Fuzzing is a much better approach.

I routinely call myself a proponent of BDT (Bug Driven Tests) over TDD for much a similar reason. That said, tests are HUGELY beneficial for guarding against regressions and ensuring effective refactors. Anecdotal but on my current project tests helped us:

* Catch (new) bugs/changes in behavior when upgrading libraries.

* Rewrite core components from the ground up with a high degree of confidence in backwards compatability.

* Refactor our Object model completely for better async programming patterns.

I don't think tests are particularly good at guarding against future bugs in new features; as your comment about fuzzing hits squarely on.

But I DO think tests are good at catching regressions and improving confidence in the effectiveness of fundamental changes in design or underlying utilities version to version.
Thirty years ago, cable was to network television what Netflix is to cable today.

I have a feeling that this time around, it will take less then 30 years for Netflix to reach the same unwatchable state.
So how is that considered a success when they are still subsidizing rides and losing money. No one knows if Uber has a successful business model until they can start operating at a profit.
tl;dr Alan Sokal, US based physics professor, convinced _Social Text_ , a postmodern-focused academic journal, to publish a fraudulent article in 1995. When appraised, the editors noted that they urged him to let them edit it, as they considered it poorly written. Sokal argued their acquiescence, without consulting another physicist, meant they were asleep at the wheel, despite the discomfort.
China is ruled by a party with "Communist" in its name, that's the only connection with communists. Officially China runs "socialism with chinese characteristics", but as other comments have pointed out, in realistic it's more like state capitalism.

And to answer your question -- yes it's a real word, and is used on Internet a lot. Literally it means white ("bai") liberals ("zuo" -- left).
I think the public disclosure of inventions is still valuable and that, although the cost is perhaps higher than it should be, does not mean that patents are useless or should be removed.

Technology makes the world move faster, and patents haven’t quite adjusted yet.
SpaceX probably could try to do this, but would be faced with a few challenges. As a two way satellite engineer, just off the top of my head:

a) smuggling/importing the rooftop terminal equipment into china

b) if not smuggling, finding a way to use greymarket resources to manufacture the terminals in China

c) making it small enough and easy enough to hide that it can't be obviously spotted/removed from a roof. Google a bit about Iran's periodic and mostly unsuccessful forcible removals of Ku-band TVRO (Rx only) TV satellite dishes for an example. China has a lot more manpower and police-state type resources to deploy to hunt down antennas. If you are faced with the problem of requiring clear unobstructed line of sight to as much of the sky as possible, while also hiding it, you have a technical problem.

d) It is not hard for a police state like China to train relatively unskilled enforcers to use directional spectrum analyzers to hunt down unauthorized rooftop Tx, anywhere from 6 GHz to 80 GHz.