skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the glimmerglass MEMS product is not really intended for tapping anything. it's a good example of non classified technology. in real world use by telecoms and ISPs it's used as a light-path crossconnect builder for 1 to 1 paths between arbitrary fibers in a meet-me room... something like a labor/time saver for automated testing and lab setups, or to remove the labor and time involved in running a 15 meter two strand fiber crossconnect across a room between two fiber patch panels. If I recall correctly there's four or five companies that make very similar motorized-mirror optical crossconnect boxes similar to it.
Yes. No inside information. Done it myself.
And money. This is what happens when a lot of money is thrown at a problem.
Hi there, is StreamLabs sponsoring Visas?
I agree that alignment and interference are problems if one wants multiple beams. If you're using lasers one way I see is to split each signal beam into a grid so it's many rays in a grid pattern where a few rays will hit the target sensor array. Multiple grids can then be overlaid without interference. The sensor grid at the target must be able to detect which sensor is receiving which beam and adapt over time.

Overall that doesn't sound infeasible to me. But then I don't do optics, so maybe I'm ignorant of a basic limitation.
Why can these amazing things exist in Shenzhen but not here?
I remember the first time I went into Fry's. You could get chips and chips (CPU and potato).
> I'd like to see a social network that limits the number of people you can interact with to ~100. Want to add a new person? Then get rid of an old one.

You can do this on your own if you so care - I use Twitter in pretty close to this way (I follow 158 accounts as of today, and ~10 of them are service status accounts). Anything over that I might also be interested goes on a List and I check them whenever I'm bored (and I also cap lists at ~150 or so accounts, but none of them are even close to that).

I'm of the opinion that software shouldn't build limitations, it should only be a tool for how users want to use it. (It could be a better tool by instead telling users "Hey, you're following a lot of users, things are probably pretty noisy for you huh? Maybe you want to use a list for {these similar accounts} or something?")
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Well, in Chicago you pretty much bike on the good days. The infrastructure isn't great (like noted by OP in his followup to me) - but the density of the city makes it pretty workable if not entirely enjoyable. You can typically get around on bike on the good weather days faster than most other forms of transit - largely because you're only a few miles from anywhere you need to be.

So in Chicago the typical bicycle commuter commutes on the nice days (maybe half the year?) and will take public transit the rest.

In Minneapolis I commuted via bike for financial reasons so it was mostly a "suck it up, buttercup" sort of deal. You brought changes of clothes, outfitted your bike for the weather, and otherwise just made do. Honestly summer was worse than winter because I sweat a lot in heat. I cannot imagine living in that area without a car voluntarily. You just cut yourself off from far too much - but I suppose this was pre-Uber so the situation is a little bit more tenable.

Public transit in Minneapolis is basically for poor folks or those with DUIs - so it's not exactly stellar and usually not an option for most folks living in the metro area.

Edit: The follow up of "maybe 15 bad days" you had is for what most would call hardcore riders. The number of days the casual fair-weather bicycle commuter rides is far, far, less. I feel pretty comfortable saying this considering my family was known as crazies because we'd bike throughout the winter no matter the weather.
i also agree, and apologize for not narrowing it down. the reason is probably that the circumstance overarch the various degrees this term may entail.

but it generally involves throwing blames for mistakes or delays, inconsiderate/provocative language, disorganisation and lack of focus ...
Could this be a boon to the ReactOS and WINE communities? Or is the code too disconnected and old to be useful?
Okay, got it. It’s not the way I see it exactly, but I understand your point! Thanks.
July 1 this year will mark 45 years of an all-volunteer armed forces (meaning no draft, not meaning that people are working without pay).

It seems that the military is able to meet its demand for personnel without a union for the employees, so I'd say there's at least a lower limit on "meet mutually beneficial outcomes".
The private teaching industry does seem to be able to charge a lot of money, e.g. the coding schools and the (human) language schools. It's the research-oriented/public schools that don't have much extra money for teaching or simply don't care.
First amendment is just symbolic of course. Once your speech encroaches on enough profit, it will be brought down in no time by the same forces that prevent campaign finance caps.

In America you can also freely speak slander on the internet and the victim will have to live with it for life.
You should check out these videos, one of them might give you an understanding!

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhHMJCUmq28 | Quantum Computers Explained
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrbJYsep45E | The Mathematics of Quantum Computers
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUwZZaI5u0c | Hacking at Quantum Speed with Shor's Algorithm
- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1826E60FD05B44E4 | A series by the author of the standard textbook

These are videos I particularly like!
This is the best thing I've read about the closing of WSW, because it helps me put the entire situation in perspective. I'm as sad as ever about it all, but considering it in the context of the entire arc of the Silicon Valley story is comforting in some way. Wistful, but at least it's satisfying.

Maybe it's time to consider moving to Shenzhen. There certainly does seem to be a thriving maker and hacker community there.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-and-mpeg-la-settle-long...

So far as I can see, that's the final state. Google ended up having to get a license from the MPEG-LA VP8 patent pool.
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"Most." Which implies a spectacular increase in the risk to the rich, who were previously exceptionally secure.
New york city, the chicago core (probably not greater chicagoland), SF, LA, Portland, Seattle proper would all be excellent candidates.

An e-bike can go 20 miles comfortably which means you could take it to work, lock it up and charge at work, and ride back in the evening for most commutes. I'd guess about 30 minutes is the upper bound average for most commuters that would ride a bike to work. Seattle and SF are perfect for pedal assist e-bikes because hills feel like flat roads, and their public transit system isn't nearly as good as NY
^Probably a large #9 and a Pepsi
No! My favorite place :(
I would also have to recommend "Quantum Mechanics, The Theoretical Minimum" by Leonard Susskind, if you wish to go a little bit further into general quantum mechanics
so we'll just use nullsoft solution. Introducing av5
Heh, I’ve left quite a number of Jaz and Zip drives at weirdstuff!
Where's the demo? It's not unreasonable to expect to see an actual video if the article is about a next generation video.
I came to the same conclusion more or less.

Does Go provide meaningful abstractions for writing and managing state machines? Using gen_fsm or gen_statem in Erlang is a critical tool in writing software in a way which _must_ follow some known protocol correctly. Likewise using Session-Types in Rust to go one better than what I get in Erlang (i.e. compile-time assurances vs. runtime ones).

So I was left thinking that Go may be missing meaningful abstractions or facilities for state machine modelling? Or, perhaps more of nanomsg needs to adhere even further to using state machines to define and operate its internal machinery (e.g. the `inproc` race-i-ness mentioned)?

In either case I was confused as to how the conclusion was that state machines were making everything more confusing and less deterministic. Because the point of them is the opposite of that. However, in languages or tools which have poor support for working with them I'm sure ad-hoc interaction with them can be obfuscating and confusing.
But this was a counter-revolution, not a revolution.
Should not be a problem unless I am missing something? Can what you are talking about run on GNU/Linux?
I have too many interests, and I recently learned how to delegate and use others to enhance my life and give amazing employment opportunities. For instance, I have a junior adventurer whose role is to go places in advance, take photos, tell me a story. This helps me focus my time on the best experiences when I go so I limit my disappointment.
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> The complaints coming out of the US are more about inequality than poverty, although people confuse the two issues (sometimes intentionally).

They aren't distinct; poverty is always in relation to a set of standards, and there are very good reasons to looking to the contemporary context for the most applicable standards.
The former. The rich have more to spend, so in the pricing mechanism their demand counts more than that of the poor. This makes the idea that prices reflect subjective demand highly suspect.
Fry's is selling mattresses and perfume these days. Its a bit sad.
I bought a vintage Apple /// there about 5 few years ago. Still works.
Can someone explain what's so special about these libraries that make then "better" than raw sockets?
It does seem that it would be much much simpler to "hide" in another satellite, i.e., just have a third-party cutout launch a run-of-the-mill communications satellite and piggy-back your top-secret spy shit onboard. That way anyone looking will just see the communications satellite. No need for stealth
Operant conditioning.

Social media is practically a Skinner Box (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinner_Box) with a very tight feedback loop. The randomness of the reward approaches an optimal conditioning schedule.

Listening to pop or reading a magazine doesn't have anywhere near that level of power.
European cities were built before the car.

American cities were built for the car.

African cities are growing rapidly and can be built for the car, the bike, or something else entirely.
It isn't, but it manifests especially strongly in kids
There are people on Reddit claiming they have it working.
These sorts of mental models are pure, pure gold. I spent a lot of time looking at various descriptions of color spaces and while I could do all the calculations, I never had a clear understanding of _what_ I was doing and _why_ it worked.

So in 4 paragraphs you've managed to leapfrog my understanding far more than weeks of formal training.
"Duress" (legal concept) and exploitation (narrower than voluntary) would be better tools for this work. There are of course degrees of exploitation.
The US government recognizes that raising children in a secure environment is a necessity for national continuity and rewards it as such. Every major religion recognizes that raising children within their prescribed belief structure is essential to continuity and honors it as such. Every tribe, ethnicity, and nation that wishes to continue recognizes the absolute necessity of propagation and establishes it's paramountcy as such.

It always flusters me to see just how deeply the insidious ideologies of post-modernism and cultural Marxism have crept into the psyche of the generations of students who have grown up under their reign in academia. One need not know the scale of their contribution to make a contribution. Raising children is a gift to civilization. Only in the last 40 years has this come into question, and only by people living in places of disgustingly lavish excess. I submit that you are not your parents, regardless of similarities, and I would urge you to consider that no child is a carbon copy.
The post doesn't mention hardware or silicon implementations. That's a key requirement for modern market adoption: if a mobile device can't hardware-decode it (which saves precious power!), that's going to be a significant blocker.

I know Google provided a free hardware decode block for VP8, and I assume also for VP9 (since there appears to have been some, though not universal, hardware acceleration for that according the the Wikipedia article). I'm hoping they'll soon (or already) have the same for VP1.

I see Apple, Nvidia, Intel, Allegro, AMD, and a bunch of other silicon vendors are also members of the Alliance for Open Media, so I expect to see hardware acceleration within the next 2-3 years. I'll be impressed if it's earlier.

Edit: maybe hardware acceleration earlier. If the standard was released recently with the collaboration of the silicon industry, it's likely the current in-design/early-production silicon already has an implementation of the important parts of the codec, so we can expect consumer products with at least partial acceleration within 6 months.
The disadvantage of starting alone: picking up the intangibles (seasoning, knowing the basic food prep techniques that are commonly stated without explanation, recognizing what tools/ingredients you need that recipes often omit, etc.), and scaling the ingredients/cooking down. (Better: just cook for 2-4 and have leftovers.)

The advantage of starting alone: you don't have to cater to anybody else's tastes! Pick the most ridiculously delicious thing you can think of that fits your time/skill/price budgets, and cook that.

HN is not precisely known for its culinary excellence, but if you're looking to get started with some particular dish or kind of dish, geeks who cook would probably be happy to give you some more specific pointers!

I might also recommend something like Blue Apron if you want to just have a bunch of food pushed your way with recipes and start just trying stuff out! Not sure what they have in the UK along those lines though.
Electronics (physical things) require prototyping shops, which require physical space. Unfortunately land is at a premium in the Bay Area.

As rents rise beyond oppressive rates, I worry the Bay Area won't be as innovative anymore because startups (software and hardware) won't be able to afford taking risks.
This looks really cool and relevant. Following.
Why are you wherever you live and not Shenzhen?
I don't think this is surprising, but I'm also not surprised that VCs and accelerators still trend toward younger founders.

It makes sense to me that older (successful) founders likely leverage their own experience and network to a greater extent, but this isn't necessarily what seed stage investors are looking for. I think investors are more in the game of betting on people/teams, injecting their own experience and network as leverage. Older founders have less need, therefore less leverage- and older founders without these support networks are poorly positioned anyway.

Theres a big difference between running a successful small business and architecting a tech startup.
> Yeah? Can you point me towards any law that says I have the right to export data I did not enter?

In the case in point, you did approve, i.e. enter, all the relation on your graph so I’m not sure how your question is related.
To your question: GDPR allows you to access any information associated to identifiable information, there are explicitly no limits on whether you entered it, it was scraped, logged or if it was inferred.

>> main use-case that was discussed

I have the notes from my PhD, yeah. Statistics on blogs posts mainly. They are on another computer, but if you really think this is important. The main use case was obviously to have your friends as a feature in social games, music sharing but that was not really discussed — unless, like for Apple Music, the intention appeared to be to build a competing graph.

I probably should have phrased it better, “the most discussed case”.

> The vast majority of people whose data was stolen did not grant ANY access.

Every one of them granted access to their likes and social graph to their friends. Their friends then overlooked how the platform granted them the ability to share that further. That’s the thing about a social graph that hardly anyone seems to notice now: it’s shared personal data. That’s why calling it “ownership” makes it confusing: information isn’t an excludable good.

> So how can I monitor and delete the shadow profile they have build for me?

I don’t think you have a shadow profile. Your friends shared information about you with Facebook, namely that they know socially the person controlling your email address. What you are asking is for you to be able to tell Facebook that the company should not accept, or store, the information that your friends want to connect with whomever ends up connecting using a certain address. But, if you change your mind, Facebook needs to be able to change that too. Storing your intention, or controlling the ability for you to change it, that would be a profile, missing most feature — a ghost or shadow profile, if you wish.

If you want to prevent your friends from sharing your personal information with programatic agents, I’d love to get your take on how to do that. I use Facebook for most of my social life because I know that, because as a central control the tool, they enable me to prevent my friends from abusing my trust (like email would) and they monitor other programatic agents.

> Nobody has said their sold the data.

This is alas a commonly repeated story (like the shadow profile). If you go through the paragraph, it should be fairly clear that I was actually trying less trying to debunk that and more trying to contrast Facebook and data brokers.

> something Facebook did got me sick

If you don’t have a Facebook account, I’m not sure how Facebook or Cambridge Analytica would have been able to hurt you personally.
There is also the danger of microplastic particles acting as endocrine disruptors. This is a rapidly developing field within (eco)toxicology and is of growing concern among environmental scientists.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.6b01441

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026974911...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004896971...
> if a mobile device can't hardware-decode it (which saves precious power!), that's going to be a significant blocker.

A mobile device needs to be able to hardware-encode it as well - countless hours of 4k/60 video are taken on phones.
a 288 strand cable wouldn't really be the best comparison vs satellite, in the context of submarine fiber. long distance submarine fiber is usually 2 to 8 strands maximum. the huge amount of throughput possible is achieved through a combination of high-powered, dense channel spacing, DWDM systems on the terrestrial ends of the fibers (google "ITU 25 GHz DWDM grid"), and modern high density modulation systems like 100/200/400GbE coherent (QPSK, 8PSK, 16QAM + FEC) links.
So uh, why did you design X in such a manner that any client could sniff any other client's events and windows by default, and only later add a (quite inadequate) SECURITY extension?

This is what we mean when we say that the security model of X is obsolete, and an afterthought besides. The threat model was completely different back then: every griefer, troll, thief, and state actor didn't have a pipe straight into your X session through the browser, and for the most part X was used to talk to trusted programs on trusted hosts.

Wayland, by contrast, has a security model for the modern, hostile internet built in from the start.
They're not better than raw sockets, they're simply an abstraction layer on top of them.

For example, building a message queuing service using raw sockets that works on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux is quite the undertaking. With ZeroMQ (and I'm assuming nanomsg as well), it's quite simple.

ZeroMQ and nanomsg are like raw socket toolboxes.
One thing to note is that 'young college drop out makes billions' is a more compelling story than 'middle aged, well educated person with good savings makes billions'.

The former sells more clicks and hence advertising dollars - it conjures the notion that anyone can do it. The latter suggests at least a decade of work experience, probably an education and some money.

It's clear which story is going to end up trending on the news and the public's consciousness.
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>Even if these things were dead simple, I cannot see any of my non-technical friends using products like these. It is simply prohibitively complicated compared to dropbox - that "just works". I even recall a comment on here when Dropbox launched saying something like "why not configure an FTP server to do this". This is that FTP server.

This is the problem with every attempt at decentralized, federated social media as well IMO. To be sure, the privacy concerns of a centralized service will never really go away. But the benefits of centralization on the web are massive from a UX standpoint. This seems like a solvable problem. It seems to me like it shouldn't be too hard for a company to be verifiably private in their handling of your data.
OK so which is more likely to play nice with constantly changing wireless connections? DNS-over-TLS, DNS-over-HTTPS, or DNSSEC? I notice that out of the box, Windows and macOS and Fedora all just defer to the DNS servers that are assigned by DHCP, which come from the local AP. So I'm pretty much stuck, out of the box, with AP specific DNS policy.
I think it's the "fnord" part which you can change to whatever you like?

https://www.amazon.com/dont-cause-a-scene-fellas-nothing-to-...
For those missing Weird Stuff, who haven't been to Halted Electronics, I highly recommend paying their warehouse in Santa Clara a visit. Big warehouse chock full of surplus goods.

Take your kids there if you have 'em, and while they still exist. I have many fond memories of afternoons spent in these places.
the LA i live in (not at the beach) allows me to walk/bike/bus/train to basically anywhere i want to go, most of which is within 5 miles of where i live. when i need to go farther, i can take a lyft or rent a car.

but you gotta get over that perception of sprawl to realize how great LA is for multi-modal transport.
Non paywall version anywhere?
> one of the few constants in California is change

Unless it is property taxes.
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Very briefly though, because it's way easier to leak code than to obtain source material and tools to weaponize a deadly virus.

True, but perhaps AGI would require substantial, non-trivial supercomputing resources as well...
I think this is very important, basically that if you look at the data by something like market cap it would probably skew very young. E.g. AirBnB and Dropbox are (IIRC, may have changed by now) the majority of total valuation for ycom, and those companies were both started by early 20-somethings.
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FPGAs will never be able to compete on size, cost, or performance/watt compared to optimized dedicated silicon. You're not going to find an FPGA capable of being programmed to encode video on a mobile device.
Yeah it's ironic that a few years ago people made fun of the narcissistic side of social media: selfies, pictures of inane events throughout your day. That's actually what I DO want to see from old friends. I don't actually care to see most politics, memes, or order-of-operations problems that actual public school graduates can't seem to get.

> And growing up with screens in their faces

I hadn't thought about that. I definitely grew up with a screen in my face, but I also didn't have regular Internet access until I was an adult and already very sure of who I was and what I valued.
Which leads to situations like this:

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