skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Complete disbelief? I thought it was common knowledge that the NSA spies on everyone and has spies working or intercepting shipments from most of the major tech manufacturers in the world.
As one of the creators of A-Frame (and Supercraft above), and there with WebVR near the beginning. I agree, it's still a mess, early, and people love to hype and shout how awesome things are with cool images, GIFs, and videos, when the reality is it's still a ways away

Honestly, I've been using A-Frame all day for the last couple years, and really enjoy its development process. And have developed applications like Supercraft that I think have some value. I do need to make it easier with documentation and stuff. But going to spend the next few years making A-Frame and WebVR worthy for developers and users.

Not even to mention the mess with standards around the lower level APIs and the WebVR/XR specs themselves :) It'll get there though.
Oh wow, scary. Cool, but scary.
Game studio Ready at Dawn switching to Rust for all new development
KiCad has made incredible progress over the last few years and shows no signs of slowing down. Mindshare for kicad is growing
with folks like digikey now offering symbols and footprints in kicad format.
No the city government does not....

The cost for the "free" care people get that can not pay for Emergency room Care is paid for by the people that can pay

This is why a Halls Cough Drop is $15 ea and other common things are 100x more expensive in a Hospital when billed to a insurance company.

the City, the government, does not pay for this care nor is it paid for by the tax payers
I would... to some degree. The issue with 4k is that the display folks are waaaay ahead of the content producers here. Film and media should be reluctant to adopt 4K for several reasons:

* Many folks have not yet migrated from DVDs to Blu-Rays

* Maintaining production lines for DVD, Blu-Ray, and 4K probably would not be offset by customers willing to spend even more above the Blu-Ray pricing for a 4K disc.

* The mainstay product sold by media is a combo package - DVD + Blu-Ray + Digital. Adding a 4th offering to these combos is very difficult.

* Monopolistic ISPs have little incentive to upgrade bandwidth to support 4K streaming, despite Netflix's apparent willingness to provide that content.

Most of the above fortunately does not apply to video games. There is no need to package or sell the "4K" version of a game. (Or is there? OH GOD THE HORROR. Please don't tell EA about that idea.)

However, the late 2010's saw the conjunction of budget 4K displays and the cryptocurrency boom. Although graphics card prices are just starting to normalize, the crypto boom seems to have forced graphics card pricing to be 1-2 years behind the display market.
Microbe breaks 'universal' DNA rule by using two different translations
Then it couldn‘t possibly have been in the 1980s. The 80486 didn‘t exist back then. The 80386 exists since the mid 80s but would have been very expensive.
possibly but I mean that in the 90s AV was a bit pinnacle of tech and sound, now tech == google home. A receiver without a even touchscreen .. not mass market anymore.
I thought federal regulations required the dumping of sewage 12-25 miles from coastline.
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…and more. Switzerland has a vibrant market from what I've seen living here the past few months with pretty competitive in-country shipping (I once got a package via normal post the next day after ordering at 16:00 local time).
Apple confirms MacBook Pro thermal throttling, software fix coming today
> While Apple's not blameless in the matter, this seems to be more of an Intel issue no?

I mean, Apple sourced the chip and shipped the laptop, and you pay Apple. I don't see how you _can't_ blame Apple engineering for this?
Most likely liability. There is 0% chance of recovering data from shredded drives!
In 2016, the US Military Spending was roughly HALF of the Discretionary Spending of the budget, which you are correct, in that it totaled ~1.15 Trillion
> Peskin said, it’s a hope to mitigate the “app culture” of workers who [...] dine in their places of employment [...] depriving them the pleasure of mingling with the rest of The City.

Uh, thanks, I guess.
It's funny, but sad, watching people trying to kill the golden goose by a thousand cuts.
> Following extensive performance testing under numerous workloads, we’ve identified that there is a missing digital key in the firmware that impacts the thermal management system and could drive clock speeds down under heavy thermal loads on the new MacBook Pro. A bug fix is included in today’s macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 Supplemental Update and is recommended. We apologize to any customer who has experienced less than optimal performance on their new systems. Customers can expect the new 15-inch MacBook Pro to be up to 70% faster, and the 13-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar to be up to 2X faster, as shown in the performance results on our website.

Any idea what "digital key" could mean here?
The bus alternator produces up to 80 amps at 20 volts - while the computer needs 12, 5, and 3.3 volts, in the 1-20 amp range. Using a common inverter and a common power supply is the cheapest way to convert the voltage.
Google is actually C++ centric - every other language is a bit of a "second class citizen" when interacting with infrastructure.

Go is still new and Google is "old", so there is surprisingly little Go code at Google - it doesn't make sense to rewrite critical infrastructure just because you have a shiny new language.

The derivative is positive though, and slowly Go is being used for more and more new development.
What if food delivery robots could take away your recycling, too?
Thanks for following up on this. Yeah... we know we have to improve this one way or another. Truth be told, Mandalagaba is more convenient on a tablet with a stylus or on a desktop but I agree that we have to find ways of making it more suitable for smartphones.
Teachers often have no say in wether homework is assigned. The district in which my wife teaches and my son attends had a mandatory homework policy put in place by the school board. In addition to mandating that homework be assigned Monday through Thursday they specify that it should contain at least 10 minutes of reading per grade level (10 for k, 20 for 1st, 30 for 2nd, etc) as well as additional materials for other subjects. The homework load for my son has been as little as 20 minutes per night as his teachers and administrators feel the same way about homework as you but are forced to assign it. My niece and nephew also attend school in this district but at a different school. Their homework averages between 45 minutes and 90 minutes. Their principle mandates additional homework on top of the boards mandate. The new board has since voted to change this policy and leave the decision on homework up to each schools administration meaning there will be wildly different policies at different schools and still likely not within the teachers control.
I think Rhode Island deserves the same rights enjoyed by California, as does Wyoming.

Either everyone should get the ability, or no one should.
for Federal it's a lot higher than that. there are many defense expenditures hidden in other departments/categories.
> I find this response pattern of quote [..] low effort and lacking in substance.

It's a format of online discourse that has been used on mailing lists and usenet groups for decades now. It keeps things on point and makes sure we're addressing the same subjects.

> if you think any of these one liners

"How a society treats its prisoners and pets is also an "emotional decision", as well as a good indication of how civilised a society is."

Your arguments are based on "appeal to rationality," which sounds enticing, but is a form of "appeal to nature" when there is no evidence that "things will blow up in your face in the long run."
This earlier HN thread has all the details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17602146
How does competition between resellers change the wholesale price, from which (AIUI) the manufacturer's margins are derived?
Not to mention the "Butt Head Astronomer" product model name! The best part is when the offended astronomer sued Apple for defamation, but was put in the unenviable position to argue he was the "butt head" in question. Even the court decision (in Apple's favor) was hilarious.
Cloud Build by Google Cloud
One of the reasons I'm not buying a Tesla.
What is the limitation on this? AWS lambda has 250M code size limit, 3G memory limit, 512M temp storage limit, how about this?
> I don't see how you _can't_ blame Apple engineering for this?

Which is why I said "not blameless"
Some US financial institutions are incorporating cybersecurity disclaimers.

Case in point: ETRADE. Just received an update to the customer agreement. The definition of “Force Majeure Event” (unforeseeable circumstances) was updated to include cybersecurity incidents. Also this: ETRADE ... makes no representation or warranty of any kind ... with respect to security.
Avatar Users Saw the “Real You Online” Catastrophe Coming Years Ago
Biodegradable plastic
I’m Afraid I’m Just Not Interested
What technology needs to be developed to get the data on synapses and neurotransmitters? A high-resolution Raman imaging microscope? And is a dead brain sufficient, or would you need a real-time noninvasive scan of a living one?
"Steal the key"? Steal WHAT key?

In the cheap mass-produced FIDO tokens we mostly care about the only keys anybody is storing are 1. a single secret symmetric key inside the token. It has no reason to give this up to anybody, and no API for doing so; 2. _public_ keys used to check credentials

If you're thinking "Wait, that can't be right, where do the corresponding _private_ keys live?" then Bzzzt, time to go read the FIDO/U2F specification before writing anything else on Hacker News.

The whole point of this type of design is that even if the attacker has local code execution you haven't lost. An attacker with local code execution _plus a button press_ gets not a key which can be stolen but a single proof of control of their choice. It's like stealing a single OTP code, it's not _nothing_ but it's very far from everything.
I'm unable to reproduce so far sorry :\ What box are you running this on?
Huge performance difference - how did they not notice before?
Yeah, and if this will make the Macbook run so hot it will bend, Apple needs to be sued first until they will start repairing this under "extended warranty."

Looks like I forgot I am on HN - the Apple fanboy Club.

Just look back how often Apple had to get sued first to get them to admit to an issue and to repair their own fuckup.
Can you please provide the sources for the claim that this compromise has been widely known before?

I've had the gut feeling too, that utility control rooms have been compromised for a long time, but my gut feeling isn't the same as knowing and it isn't newsworthy either.
Incredible... a meaningful risk of doing business in SF is the exposure to socialist / progressive extremists in the city government.
Keep in mind that "Bob" in this threat model is Facebook (because they are one of the entities that tries to track what everyone is doing everywhere). So it only needs to get the Github nonce. Collusion on the part of Github is, I suspect, much more likely than Facebook compromising Github's login flow.

Maybe sites colluding with their ad providers to track people is not part of your threat model, but it definitely is for some people. Yes, I know Github does not host ads, so isn't a good example of this threat model.
I'm replying to myself here. I did a little research and discovered that Einstein was aware Bohm's interpretation, and Einstein seemed to think that it missed the mark. Einstein did die, however, two years before the publication of the Everett Interpretation, and I've seen no evidence that Einstein received any early information on that seminal Interpretation.

It would be very interesting to know how Einstein would have received the Everett Interpretation.

This is what Einstein had to say about Bohm's Interpretation, in a letter that Einstein wrote to Bohm about six months before he died:

"In the last few years several attempts have been made to complete quantum theory as you have also attempted. But it seems to me that we are still quite remote from a satisfactory solution to the problem. I myself have tried to approach this by generalising the law of gravitation. But I must confess that I was not able to find a way to explain the atomistic character of nature. My opinion is that if an objective description through the field as an elementary concept is not possible, than one has to find a possibility to avoid the continuum (together with space and time) altogether. But I have not the slightest idea what kind of elementary concepts could be used in such a theory."

From my reading of this, it seems that Einstein's greatest concern here is that GR and QM had not yet been unified.

There is a sense in which no competent scientist can fully accept either QM or GR, despite their incredible accuracy in making predictions, because we know that they are incompatible with each other, and consequently, both wrong or incomplete in some very important manner.
Also I wonder if the opposite is true, when you consider how intense baby screams are, for a toddler, it must be the equivalent of a deep horror to us, even though it could just be a unknown face in the room or a tiny bump on a table.
from what I understand, there is a similar measure underway in Mountain View as well
Do they think that workplace cafeterias summon fully-prepared meals from the aether? Those places employ cooks and purchase wholesale food just like restaurants do. FFS, San Francisco.
It never ceases to amaze me how people on the street simply know this stuff. Word gets around, rumors leak out.

I was told whenever the government printed a new bill, the street accepted it's value at $5USD (no matter what the numbers on the front said), and therefore everything that came before it went down appropriately. So let's say yesterday the biggest note was $1billion, and then today they print a $10billion note and release it - the street says it's $5USD, so your $1billion note is now worth only 1/10 of what it was yesterday, simply because a new one exists.

How long until they release a $20billion note? (or will it be $50billion?) nobody knows - except the corrupt govt officials who are profiting off the whole thing both ways.

I was told it was common to go to the Mozambique border and see guys exchanging notes that officially didn't even exist yet - the corruption ran so deep the govt. officials would release a $50billion note, but behind the scenes they were already printing and selling $100billion (and maybe even $200 billion) notes to friends and family and business associates to line their own pockets.

Then of course there were the times they would officially announce they were removing 3 (or 6) zeros from everything. So that $100 billion (100 000 000 000) note that was $5 USD is now officially only $100 000, but it's still supposedly worth $5 USD. Then next week they put out a $200 000 note, and what was worth $5 USD last week is now only worth $2.50USD, but it gives them a chance to get rid of a whole bunch of zeros, because, really, what good are a bunch of zeros anyway?

Yes, it really was that nuts. Utter insanity. I stayed with a family who took out a desk draw utterly stuffed with bills ranging from a few hundred million dollars up to the magical $100 trillion bill (the world's single largest bill ever printed). It's monopoly money now, and they even laughed about how it was back then too.

For my first weeks in the country I tried as hard as I could to wrap my head around the whole thing, and wondered endlessly how it all functioned. It felt like MASH or the book Catch 22 - so absurd it simply couldn't be real. But it was.

And while they now have "bond notes" which are supposedly locked to the $USD, I was able to sell mine on the street for ~30% more than face value, and even more if I dived into their digital currency - virtually all of zim runs on a digital currency now (called EcoCash) - I suspect it has one of the highest uptakes of digital currency on the planet because everything else is dysfunctional.

These days there really is an app for that (in reply to lower comment)
Ha, fair enough ;) Fixed
More popular post about this story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17603063
Very intriguing. Does OneGraph support mutations? Or is it read-only data?
The worst that can happen is malware Javascript, phishing re-directs are injected. Of course if the page itself has ad networks those are there by design.
MacOS High Sierra 10.13.6 Supplemental Update for MacBook Pro (2018)
Don't listen to me on this, listen to actual disabled people: https://www.eater.com/2018/7/19/17586742/plastic-straw-ban-d...
The bottleneck there is ISPs. 4K streaming requires 25 Mbps minimum which is uncommon in most households and even provided by many ISPs+region combinations. The national average is 18.7 Mbps [1].

As a tech savvy rural resident that pays extra for faster internet, I just barely got fast enough internet last year for a single 4K video stream (assuming nobody else in the house is browsing Facebook or something).

Although anecdotally that is changing quickly. My ISP (Comcast) has consistently for the last 24 months been increasing my internet speeds roughly bi-annually by about 30% each time. It's hard to tell if this is due to pressure from nearby Google Fiber, which is not available in my area, or something else entirely.

[1] http://fortune.com/2017/06/02/internet-speed-akamai-survey/
Well that's quite nice
I don't think the vast majority of households has ever had any external speakers connected to their TV.
Indeed. Much of what we open sourced in Knative came from what we learned from running GAE and GCF. Which is important: this isn't a side project for us, this is based on real-world experience doing it at scale for huge customers. You don't run a serverless stack for 10+ years without taking away a few lessons. : )
Hmm... I just looked up my projector model online, and apparently it does have lens shift. I never noticed the lever, and I guess I didn't read the instructions well enough. Will try it when I get home!
It seems that ultimately this just subsidizes the commercial real-estate owners.

1) Force companies to not have free cafeterias

2) Workers have to buy lunch from local businesses

3) Restaurant Location becomes more valuable given the large number of workers forced to find lunch and buy it.

4) Raise rents on restaurants because space is now more valuable, since it is basically subsidized by nearby tech companies.

5) Restaurants pay higher rent, landlords make more $$, due to California Property Tax policy, landlords do not have to pay proportional additional property tax on their now more valuable property.

The reason something like this is considered speaks to the power of commercial real estate to shape policy for their own benefit.
To the extent that discouraging this practice is useful, a tax seems more sensible than a zoning ban; a zoning ban, by effectively grandfathering incumbents, is basically a barrier to new entrants competing (if on-site cafeterias didn't have a business function, firms wouldn't spend money on them) with incumbents (whether for talent, or on productivity if food in-house contributes to that.) A tax can internalize whatever negative externalities are seen from the practice in a manner which neither prohibits use of existing investments nor creates an unfair preference for incumbents.
Maybe I should also blog about how I was able to keep the size increase under 50x.
Start with athletic wear. There’s a lot you can do just to avoid getting sweaty and it really does help. For me shirts and socks make a big difference.
Won’t this make it harder for newer businesses to compete for hires? Ie ones that haven’t already built kitchens in the office? It’s a nice benefit to be able to grab a free lunch (saving thousands a year) or take a to-go box home.
also an effort to fuck catering companies or contingent workers who work in these large cafeterias. what an idiotic and arbitrary restriction of the fundamental human right to eat where/what we want
Cold startup time and mitigation strategies like those on AWS?
Isn't the paper decomposing in the landfill still part of the carbon cycle? Landfills break down, shrink, venting gases back into the atmosphere.
Have you used Butterfly v.1 to compare it to? I absolutely hated v.1 with a passion (it's like typing on a flat desk), I absolutely LOVED v.2 with a passion. I'm wondering how I will like v.3...
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Moore’s law is over.
(This was in the 80s/early 90s so none of the mechanisms are needed anymore)

The urgency of payment was handled implicitly by the banks. Salary payment was traditionally done using checks (back in those times, later bank transfer) where one would go personally to the employer's treasury, get a check, and absolutely had to go deposit that check on the same day or lose a non-trivial chunk to inflation. Settlement happened on the same day before midnight. (A system based on physical pieces of paper and signatures moved money faster in the 80's in Brazil than electronic bank transfers in Europe today.)

As for deciding what amount should be paid: there were rules to define by how much salaries would grow month after month, compensating for inflation, so it would even be possible to prepare the checks a few days before pay day. Inflation was high but the inflation rate wasn't that unpredictable month-to-month.
As much as I hate to admit it as a dedicated AV fanatic: this is very much true.

The simple fact is that most people don't really care about sound quality and the 'good enough' sound they get out of TV speakers or a soundbar is plenty.

'Proper' Surround speakers - as in ceiling mounted speakers in a dedicated home theater room with acoustic treatment, as opposed to a soundbar with an atmos badge attached - have always been expensive and cumbersome and have only grown even more so with the proliferation of fancy new formats like ATMOS and DTS:X. Of course, part of the reason they are so expensive is because of price fixing by AVR companies like Denon, making an already niche market even smaller by erecting a taller barrier of entry.
When companies have to resort to underhanded tactics to prop up their margins rather than creating compelling products that people want to buy it is a pretty good sign that the industry is in dire straights.
I applied for an exchange program in the States, that's called Professional Fellows and spent a good 4 months learning US business practices and just being a bit exposed to a different way of doing things. I'm from Zimbabwe btw. Part of my stipend at the time, I saved it to buy a car which I still own to this day. 4+ years with, i'm 29 now. At 25, I was staying on my own and trying my hand at a startup after quitting a job i had been offered with a good salary.

I'd tell my 25 year old self to be more patient and play a more long game, backed with knowing that even good investments justify themselves after a few years down the line.