skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you’re talking about is already happening with podcasts. A group of players get together, record their session, and publish. The bills are paid via advertising, donations, and sponsorships.

The two most promenant ones I’m aware of are The Adventure Zone and Critical Role. The first leans heavily on family, personality, and humor; the second leans heavily on structure, characterization, and voice acting (all the players are pro voice actors).

It definitely is a nascent art form, and the first 5-10 episodes of both are somewhat rough, but recent episodes have gotten quite professional.

Personally, my favorite is The Adventure Zone. The first arc, “Here There Be Gerblins,” is clearly pretty raw, but the series gets so much better by the end.

Related: https://www.polygon.com/2018/7/9/17549808/actual-play-critic...
Trouble is, every moral panic since the days of Aristotle has been accompanied by mountains of "harmful effects research." Video gaming, comic books, novels, TV, movies, any number of musical genres and trends... how much of this "research" ever pans out in the long run?
Same! Jenkins master until we get the new thing working that Google released yesterday, then we can drop Jenkins. How do you cache your Dialyzer PLTs? We do triplet of elixir version, erlang version, checksum of lock file and tag a container layer with that tag and also make one called "latest" that is constantly overridden. If there's a new version of one of your dependencies, or you remove one or something, we just grab the latest layer because it's probably close enough.
It's by design. China unveiled their f35 clone when a senior us official was visiting.

But sure lets hope trump fails in his trade wars against china because he says bad words.
I've always felt that analysis of art is the surest way to kill it. Obviously, other people differ in this regard.
Also, whistling.
From what I have read here on HN is that companies are forced to have users opt in to targeted advertising business models which will make almost all advertising business models unprofitable.

Unsurprisingly, companies are deciding that EU users are not profitable customers without targeted advertising and thus not worth serving these users causing them to block all EU users even if some EU users would accept the previously agreed upon terms of targeted advertising in exchange for the content they wish to receive.

This is a terrible precedence of anti-choice in my opinion since the EU has forced upon all EU people the inability to accept a business model of targeted advertising in exchange for content and thus causing many companies to leave the EU altogether.
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May I borrow your crystal ball...
Extensive discussion on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17613442
You can’t recast HN’s comment system as a material security weakness just because you learn that people who disagree with you can also read your public comments.
There’s also astral navigation (how did automatic AN computers work in the 1970s/1980s anyway? CCD and mememy tech was far more primitive, so I really want to know the technical details) - and ground-based radio beacons.
What is this supposed to mean? Can you be more clear about the point you're trying to make?
"None." Got it.
I was coming from the perspective that there is really no such thing as a short term investor, because when you sell, you are dependent on what people think the long term prospects of the stock are.
There's a relativity correction step for communication between Iridium satellites and mobiles. I always thought that was really cool.
Inclusive of all those above groups, I've posted stories and comments in support of them. They are always upvoted.

However, when I post comments that all should have civil liberties, it's sometimes controversial.

Anyways, I'm glad I had the fortune of living in a country where there is at least effort to afford them to everyone.

But I poorly worded my comment. However, it's been the case that America has generally given even the worst scoundrels their liberties--and that is the unfortunate part about defending civil liberties, that those who do end up defending scoundrels.

But today, even to great expense to the taxpayer they are afforded due process. And that's the way it should be. You don't want to live in a nation without due process or free speech or the rest of your rights.
There are 33 GPS satellites, and they are in a medium orbit, not LEO. Which is not to say they are invulnerable, but compared to jamming or spoofing, I think the satellites themselves are considered one of the less likely points of failure (or attack) of the system.
Right on! You may want to look into Sweet Alert, it's super easy to integrate! https://sweetalert2.github.io
Deep learning and free software
A company I worked for was acquired by a huawei partner, and within a couple of months Huawei was selling a complete hardware and software copy of our product.

GPs story definitely rings true.
Extensive discussion of Facebook Q2 results on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17613442
Alphabet may become the Berkshire Hathaway of the internet age
Apparently Galileo, GLONASS and BeiDou don't count, because the backups for this backbone of the global economy have to be American?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLONASS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(satellite_navigation)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeiDou_Navigation_Satellite_Sy...

I do wonder how many of these are supported by common hardware like mobile phones, anybody have a pointer to a compatibility list? I know the Chinese government had been prodding its manufacturers to add BeiDou support pretty hard.
Enhanced Reflection for Go Protocol Buffers
Of course predatory mammals pioneered the West. Like all predatory mammals; we went in search of better hunting, better hunting grounds and better mates.

We still do that today. Imo we will still do that 10,000 years from now... because deep down we are what we are.

Edit: We're even "worse" than I gave us credit for.

"https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34011026"
Here in the Pacific Northwest there's secret project that I estimate thousands of people know about by now based on the scope of it - I found out because I'm doing the IT work for one of the subcontractors. The project is almost done.

There's nothing about it on the internet. Absolutely nothing. Not even a hint.
No, I wouldn't, unless I was somehow building a product that exclusively targeted highly experienced graphics designers. And then, if I had to pay them, I'd scrap the startup before I paid because it was clearly a terrible idea.
Though they've stuck to "no iTunes for Linux", which is just irritating.
~22000 km is far above LEO.
So... to solve this... you want to use what's basically goto?
Science popularizers do some of the same things cranks do, in terms of tone, because they're trying to appeal to the same lay audience.

That doesn't mean they're all equally wrong.
PyCharm 2018.2 now supports Pipenv
I love reddit but they have banned many subreddits.

Nobody has pure free speech not even the US (you cannot say bomb on an airplane nor threaten someone among many other things).

Granted, we do have more free speech than most countries but not pure free speech (which I think is fare as my former 2 examples were cases that bring negative externalities upon others).
~let's have kiki~
For finding parents matching a selector, there’s a fairly recent addition, Element.closest(). There’s not magnificent support for it yet (notably, no IE), so you will probably need a polyfill.
Not surprised, but you might want to delete this. If there's nothing on the internet but this post I would keep quiet.

I use long lasting throwaways but it's trivial to find me. If nobody has heard about something you haven't either. As much as I don't like mysterious technomagic I understand the reasons, I'm just really curious

Edit: just for the luls I'll guess that it's a giant radar/bunker complex. Russian/asian nukes tend to come from the Northwest amiright. Probably in Oregon or maybe Alaska. Either missle defence or early warning
A year after Charlottesville, why can't big tech delete white supremacists?
That MS Store used to be a ghost town. It's pretty crowded on weekends now with people playing with Surface Book, Surface Studio.
I tend to think intent is an outmoded system of morality. It can be faked easily, even to oneself.

It is always better to judge outcomes. Actions, not words..

Lying, then, should be judged not on level of intent, but on severity. And on this metric, all those reporters involved should feel, and be judged, personally responsible for the deaths in the iraq war and aftermath.
> a huge "used-phone" market in India

Nope. Not anymore. It was in early days of iPhone coming to India. Now users just go for a new iPhone or an excellent Android phone usually at a much lower price.
That's fair, there is some line beyond which personal choices affects the entire society so much that being judgmental is reasonable. (That said, not everyone in the world agrees that personal drug use is past that line - but that's besides the point.)

But you draw your line way too aggressively. If merely using an online community like FB is something that you should decide for other people, there's very little personal choice left. I, for one, certainly wouldn't want to live in a society so judgmental over individual choice.

I don't even mention the fact that FB is far less damaging, in any sense, then bad diet, lack of exercise, getting news from tabloids, trusting politicians, and arguably watching most the TV programs in this country.

Now, if you told me you only discourage your own family or close friends from using FB, I'd think you're very reasonable -- just like you can discourage them from eating junk food and spending weekends on the couch. But by imposing your judgment on billions of people, you present a greater evil, IMHO, than the worst of the FB misdeeds.
I'd love to get your feedback on rebar3; I've heard that opinion repeated often, but not really often have I heard specifics that we could address directly.
For some reason I assumed this might include specifics about spectre mitigations.

Heading off on that tangent: the mitigation for browsers was to turn off the time reference or to downsample the resolution, right? What if they do the work to sync up with a remote reference clock? Including characterization of the channel's jitter/RTT/all that cleverness? Could they have high enough precision to deduce speculative execution? Or were there other mitigations that I'm not recalling?

(apologies for the tangent, none of this post is wasm specific)
Hi Adora,

Can you explain if every startup is accepted or not? In the link it states "Last year, over 13,000 companies applied to participate in Startup School, and 95 YC alumni volunteered their time to advise over 2,800 of those companies participating across 141 countries." How many companies will be accepted this year? Or do all applications get accepted?

Thank you!
But sillysaurus3 has a valid complaint about this line of code, that the very next line is completely blocked until multiValuedReturn() completes. A better solution is to not use `await` here, and instead use .then and Promise.all to control execution of several callbacks, while running other code synchronously.

I think the problem sillysaurus3 is facing is that he wants complete convenience of the kind that async/await bring, meaning being able to execute code regardless if it finishes now or later, but always pretending that it finishes now. That's just not possible, and for good reason: some things happen now, and some things happen later, and if you need ultra-fine-grained control over what happens when, then you need to be very explicit about what's happening and how and when. It's messy and ugly, and we're working towards cleaning that up, with async/await being a great step forward, but this is inherent to the concepts of sync/async control flow, and the assembly solution is much more of a hack to solve this (if I even understand the solution correctly) than Promise/async/await/etc.
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This is one of those relatively benign conspiracy theories that's easy to believe, based on what we know about the period, the costs in lives/treasure, the stakes involved, and the people running the world at the time. They needed this win and they needed it to be broadcast on television.

Why not believe this conspiracy now?

Because extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence... or some evidence, at least.
Have tried kmail long time ago, but currently on a gnome based desktop. I'm afraid install kmail would mean that I need to pull a load of dependencies..
"There are many amongst us who would not hesitate to build equipment to compromise the privacy of any given individual provided the price is right. These are the whores of industry. They would not hesitate building systems and devices contrary to the public interest; their only concern is the buck."

Paun Baran, "On the Engineer's Responsibility in Protecting Privacy"

RAND. May, 1968.

https://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P3829.html

One of many prescient insights friom that paper.
They are different. HyperThreading is where one core acts as two by rapidly switching contexts. It isn't actually two hardware threads, and the one core never does two things at once.

SIMD is one thread doing one instruction on multiple pieces of data at the same time.

SIMD can give higher throughout from the CPU, and you must organize your data types to use SIMD.

Symmetric multithreading is where software takes advantage of multiple logical hardware threads to do multiple pieces of work per clock cycle.

SMT can use HyperThreads and/or multiple physical cores, and/or multiple physical CPUs with one or more logical hardware threads each.
On the Huawei point, they are believed to have stolen IP from multiple companies. If you don't believe they have stolen anything that is one thing, but I don't know a pro capitalism view that is ok with stealing from your competitors which is where I think much of the dislike comes from
"By using this service you agree to be filmed. If you do not agree, feel free to use an alternative". Seems like it would work as nobody is forced to Uber, no?

I'm not saying that this is the outcome people want, BTW. Just that it could be the one they get.
So, a group of notorious Republican congressmen are trolls and scammers? that's how you believe Twitter makes decisions?
Indeed, I went looking for the version I was familiar with ("A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.") in order to correctly attribute it, whereupon I discovered the source of that version is unknown, so I quoted the Swift version since I it's centuries older, sourced, and I liked it best after reading them all.
Any ill that would befall GPS could easily also affect those. The issue is "a shocking amount of critical infrastructure depends on positioning/timing information derived solely from a handful of satellites broadcasting weak signals in the 1.whatever GHz band", whoever runs the ground segment for these constellations is immaterial (to first order) and "GPS" is just layman terminology.

Also eLORAN when?
I skirt around this by instead of depending on turn by turn I study the main route and then only go to turn by turn at the endpoint. That way I gain the knowledge of the macro-infrastructure and main roads - I tend to give directions to out of towners even in cities I’ve been in for a week.
If you are interested in the truth, how many of their Democrat colleagues have been shadow banned?

Answer: none. But according to you it "certainly doesn't seem to be based on political affiliation".
> Moreover, the header file is optional, and is never included by the source file.

That is totally opposite to my experience. Example from Linux:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/kernel/smpboot...
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/kernel/smpboot...
It's fine to imagine being badass, but remember that families with children and elderly people rode these things. At my most badass I could cut my way through the deathcanopy with my trusty pocketknife and maybe pull one small child to safety before the whole thing went to the bottom. What if there were three children and two old folks sitting near me? What a nightmare! Tour boats operated for the amusement of the general public must not sink quickly, even in choppy water.
Humpty Dumpty was pushed.

(EDIT: Can't claim credit for this one. It was the top prizewinner in an OMNI Magazine contest for joke conspiracy theories.)
While they're at it, they should request that all government websites with news feeds provide it in RSS format. A lot of agencies do this, I have a list of almost 100 US government feeds - but it's unfortunately absent from some agencies.

They really shouldn't make people to go to twitter or facebook to follow their press releases...
That's sick, and also what I want out of the open crypto networks.
The longer I am alive the more I learn about how much of human civilization depends on good faith and trust. Nearly every major system in use today is chock-full of single points of failure that could have catastrophic consequences but we keep chugging along, rarely stopping to think about the "risk debt" we have accumulated - right up until a catastrophe. I don't know if that should make me feel more secure or terrified.

Take power plants for example: they are all interconnected in large regional grids and deal with such large quantities of power that bringing a power plant online is a dangerous process that has to be coordinated with the rest of the system. You have to spin up the power plant and make sure that you are in phase with the grid before connecting your power output - all while accounting for geographic distribution losses, predicted load changes, and so on. Theoretically, any discrepancies (like power flow being too high due to phase difference) would activate breakers and other safeties should an adversarial actor decide to bring a power plant online online willy-nilly. Unfortunately, the last few decades have shown that those safeties are barely able to handle common scenarios, let alone an attack. There is a serious risk that a single power plant could cause systemic damage to many devices in a region's grid but for the entire history of the US, we have just assumed that anyone with tens of millions of dollars to invest in a power plant is just too profit-driven to pull off anything like that.

If the last few years (decades it seems) have taught me anything, it's that we have to reevaluate many of the assumptions we have been holding about reality and our peers. From the Target/Home Depot/Equifax breaches to Facebook's Cambridge Analytica fiasco, we have just been way too lucky and way too trusting. GPS is just one of many such cases, although a surprising one. I never thought the world would put so much trust in a system created by and for the US armed forces.
The GPS satellites have a period of half a day. This puts them in MEO.
Could you edit/expand on what Slashdot did? I was an occasional visitor of that site when it was popular, and didn't notice much except for the positive and negative points and some thresholds.
I can see the decline in Europe being unsettling, but I'm not really surprised about US/Canada. ~185 million is about 52% of the population of US/Canada [3]. If we assume 35% of the population is simply too young to use it (20% under 14 [2]) or too old to be drawn to it (15% is over 65 [1]), that leaves only 13% of US/Canada's population which are feasible MAUs no being MAU, which is crazy.

[1]: https://www.census.gov/newsroom/facts-for-features/2017/cb17...

[2]: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.0014.TO.ZS

[3]: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=185+million+people+%2F...
> I do wonder how many of these are supported by common hardware like mobile phones, anybody have a pointer to a compatibility list?

iPhone X specs list "GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, and QZSS" [1]. I'm pretty sure they've supported multiple GNSS systems for a few generations.

I know I've seen several GNSS modules from u-blox that support multiple GNSS systems as well. One example, NEO-M8, supports "BeiDou, Galileo, GLONASS, GPS / QZSS." [2]

I know I've also seen several cheap GPS modules that are GPS-only, so multiple GNSS support isn't ubiquitous, but it's probably ahead of IPv6 adoption.

[1]: https://www.apple.com/iphone-x/specs/

[2]: https://www.u-blox.com/en/product/neo-m8-series
It's the opposite. If C++ doesn't cut it for your particular niche you go to rust.
>the backups for this backbone of the global economy have to be American

Where does the article say that?
That's just not possible, and for good reason: some things happen now, and some things happen later, and if you need ultra-fine-grained control over what happens when, then you need to be very explicit about what's happening and how and when.

Green threads. No silver bullet, but sometimes you upgrade your pistol.

JS needs greenthreads. There's no reason you shouldn't just spin up a thread for every blocking context. This is arguably what async/await already does, but you don't have control over the toplevel loop. Point out where your while (userIsOnWebsite) { ... } loop is. :)

Having a toplevel loop is very important for simplicity -- but even moreso for what you mention: having ultra fine-grained control, and not constantly fighting with the underlying scheduler / ecosystem.
I hope people rejected from H1-B will become leaders in STEM in their home countries. IMHO, it is highly questionable whether everyone desiring to work in the US is good for humanity (i.e., most of the world's population).
I bet this has been known about for a while, but kept quiet in case there was a cold war space race...
Once all the GPS (or similar) satellites are knocked out, uh, what are you going to use now fight the war?

On either side?

And anyways, what country has the budget to knock out twenty four satellites in quick succession?

And what if this doesn't work? I'm having a hard time thinking the US Gov. doesn't have a shadow GPS constellation up there, somewhere, but I will concede this is the most wahoo part of my meanderings...

I think knocking out GPS is a rather risky move to even try.
You're thinking of a person who studies physicists.
This is so interesting, thanks.

From my photog background, yep ISO 10 would be very tough to work with.
Motivation Through a Positive Attitude
Not op, but just to counterbalance it, I'd like to mention that rebar3 is great. Thank you for all your time and work you put into it. With a large enough project there will be people who criticize stuff. Those who like it as a rule don't usually say anything, so it might seem like there are all these issues, problems and unhappiness, but it's just because it is an application that is used a lot.
I'm coming from the perspective of having read Apple's annual SEC filings back in the day and noted what a huge amount of cash they had stockpiled even in their doldrums.

Apple would never have survived if they had not been run so conservatively, which speaks to the efforts of people other than Jobs and Gates.

At the end of 1997 their 10-K says they had around $1.4B dollars in cash, and around $900M in long term debt.

The 2000 10-K shows they had $4 billion in cash and short term investments compared to $300 million in long term debt.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1495742
I strongly beg to disagree. It is massively popular, sure. In the end, however, it's just a mediocre story full of holes and inconsistencies, among shoddy worldbuilding. Cannot be put on the same level as a classical epic.