skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So this is the first I heard of DPL as a GPL equivalent for hardware but it doesn't appear any commercial manufacturers want to get behind it. How feasible is the usage of this technology from a non-commercial/ hobbyist perspective ? It would seem that manufacturing the displays would obviously require an advanced factory so it is probably not realistically something that people without capital and advanced knowledge could iterate on or improve. On a semi-related note does anyone know how one could retrofit a laptop or even raspberry pi to work with one of the still available pixel qi screens. I figure they are missing the interface to HDMI etc and so I've always been curious how one goes about building that sort of interface. I assume it involves a fair amount of electronics engineering and thus not something that could be easily learned by someone with a background mainly in software but perhaps I just don't know or haven't spent enough time researching this.
One interesting analysis shows that if you bought Apple stock in 2009, Apple's earnings per share had equaled what you paid for that share of stock after only three years.

http://www.asymco.com/2012/10/12/what-is-apples-realized-pe-...

Yet the stock's PE ratio was still remarkably low in that period, fluctuating in the 10 to 20 range.
> it's just too developer intensive a task. there is so much work and not to mention IP in just Simplify[] that I don't know why people bother

> the challenge that comes to mind is that undertaken by the teams that contributed to numpy, scipy, and pandas in order to be a viable alternative to Matlab.

I mean, numpy/scipy/pandas are reasonably successful. And to take a larger view, open source software has made great gains in replacing not only Matlab, but SAS, SPSS, Stata and others as well. A large amount of specialized domain knowledge was required to replace those as well. What makes Mathematica out of the reach of the same forces (economic and social) that have pushed open source software into replacing Matlab/SAS/SPSS/Stata/etc.?
Yes that’s exactly what it is. If you business is selling a game that works, ogres not eating other ogres is a requirement for your game to be considered bug free and sell well. (YMMV, depending on who your audience is ogre cannibal feat might also be fun).

This is as opposed to testing that that the eat method on the ogre only accepts an instance of the Human class. If you do that you’ll have a brittle system on your hands, and when your ogres decide to eat horses (business decision) you’ll have to change a lot of tests and will instead procrastinate by writing a blog post about why TDD sucks.
GP is essentially proposing that us programmers should become the low-level fall guys.

Moreover, the tone of the comment is incredibly condescending. It's all well and good to promote criminal accountability because I'm such an excellent "craftsman"... Until I go to prison because I couldn't foresee that there's a race condition on line 56,394 when the internal clock is off by a nanosecond.
Good for you and you should celebrate when you finally close your account. I’ll go so far as to say that anyone who willfully banks with Wells Fargo has blood on their hands. This is an immoral company.

To say that you won’t switch banks because they’re all just as bad is absurd. That’s just a lazy excuse by a lazy person in my opinion. I’ll take downvotes for my negative post but Wells Fargo screwed me any my family over severely during the recession and it took years to dig out of that mess. Not a single Wells Fargo employee so much as feigned an apology.
like to put it out to you to not think of 'fast thinkers' as people who can think on the spot, but actually people who have spent a lot of time and effort thinking ahead of time, so that when a question or situation arises, the remaining effort is simply pattern-matching and recall. the even better ones prepare a logical narrative for the purpose of knowledge diffusion and education even if the opportunity to use these are even harder to come by.

because there are situations that require time-critical decision making and analysis - i speak from a conveniently relevant environment which is the financial markets - and the best of the business here are those who have prepared plan A's to plan Z's well ahead of time.
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I'm pretty comfortable with my assessment of Kocher. It's easy to look up what he's been up to.

Help me understand how exactly someone would get WireGuard's v1 Noise primitives, which bake the v1 construction identifiers and a v1 constant into the derivation of all secrets as the literal first step of the protocol, to generate something that would be comprehensible to a hypothetical v2 of the protocol.
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That's so complicated. You could've just changed the system time or hex timestamps.
We also have this in certain corners of the U.S.:

A: "'sup [man]?"
B: "'sup?"

(It's also stated only has like a half-question or less—the usual question lilt is deemphasized.)
Birding

While recently I've been less involved due to work/family commitments, it's fun to always be on the lookout. I've also enjoyed tallying birds by sound while running outdoors.

http://ebird.org
Also, http://xeno-canto.org (the "mysteries" section can be fun)
I’m trying to wrap my C# brain around this...

Is this similar to the C# construct....

interface IGreeter { void Greet()}

class BaseGreeter :IGreeter
{

public void Greet {Console.WriteLine(“Hello World”)}

public void IGreeter:Greet {Console.Writeline(“sup”)}
}

}

Greeter greet1 = new Greeter();

IGreeter greet2 = greet1();

Console.Writeline(greet1 == greet2)
greet1.Greet()
greet2.Greet()

Would print I believe.

true

Hello World

sup
Well, I've gotten a lot sharper over the past year. And comparing myself to five years ago, the difference is night and day.

Hmm, I see I got downvoted. Whatever.
If you don't mind proprietary solutions, Firechat [1] is one of them. It allows chatting over a mesh network using WiFi or Bluetooth even with no Internet connection.

[1]: https://www.opengarden.com/firechat.html
What about deincentivizing mega-companies and instead putting into law that there is a maximum size a corporation can be and if exceeded demands it to be split into two or more companies?
> Anyway I'm sorry for derailing from the actual point of this post - it's a very cool project!

Yeah cool project, yet if you'll read the issues on github, you might realize, that at some point no one will be able to use it hassle free, when the author stops renewing a code signing certificate. And for a hobby project, I wouldn't blame him. Some people can't use it hassle free now, because of signing issues.

I ceratinly can't install it on my gf's notebook, so that she can play audio over my speakers, because it would stop working after each reboot.
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Does Discovery eventually stop being Action Trek? I watched the first episodes, and it seemed to be grimdark filled with lousy people.

TNG showed an evolved mankind, valuing such obscure things as kindness, non-violent solutions, and generally not being asshole.
Isn't that gcc? ;)

But yes, I ought to have said "global-climate-change-driven". Rather a mouthful, though.
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correct me if I'm wrong but i don't think there is one single place developers can create APIs for. if anything, developers will be picking and choosing which "instance" they want to write for if willing. this is like having thousands of "twitter" clones all acting as their own environment. kind of like how we have thousands of wordpress sites out there.
Ahh, thank you. I was very confused
People still use underscores in front of variables to delineate scope? It's 2018, why are you using notepad to code.

Hilariously, they also use 'var' because that communicates type information to the next guy.
There can also be a large discrepancy between how easy a bug is to spot in advance, and how stupid it makes you look after the fact. Plenty of people on HN were bashing "stupid" mistakes leading to security vulnerabilities in recent months and years, even though those bugs we missed by many smart people.

Really the only way to deal with this is to try to use tools that make it impossible to make certain classes of bugs. But that's really not an individual choice but an institutional one.
It has indeed. I can read all the Usenet I want in my Thunderbird.

Provided, of course, that I have a provider, and can find something still worth subscribing to.
What is a s r? Alt.sex.robots?
Not to mention that Engadget is now an E-mail-address-harvesting site.

UP YOURS, ENGADGET.
Without scrum, if a CTO wanted to ask how an individual developer is doing, they could ask their line manager. With scrum, a CTO could just dig in to some of the many dubious reports that scrum generates. They could look at an individuals burn-down on tasks, and compare them across developers/teams. No matter how stupid this sounds, I've seen this exact thing being done by company Directors.

Decisions are made. Developers are moved to different projects, or given shitty bonuses, or constantly hassled to make their scrum metrics look better.

Just because you don't go to a stand up doesn't mean your not micromanaging, or enabling micromanagement as it is usually the line manager using scrum as an excuse to account for every hour in the day. Sometimes that is due to pressure from up high for various metrics to improve, etc. Other times they are just douchebag managers that don't know what they are doing...
OpenAI Hex was within the 200ms response time
I use my real name on the internet, but there are lots of good reasons not to use real names. Like someone reaching out for advise on what to do about a sensitive subject that there are not ready for the rest of the world to know.

But that is not the point I'm trying to make.

You said it not technically hard to enact a real name policy, but I argue that of the options you said, a real name policy is the by far the hardest, technically speaking.

I can simply say I have a real name policy, but who is validating these names. Hire an army of people to get scans of IDs, and then have no users because no one is going to sign up if the barrier to entry is so high.

Blizzard and Facebook have a real name policies, but they do no validation.

A government could roll out such a program, but the chances of a world wide program are near zero. And such a universal system would bring identify fraud into a new era of awfulness.

It's simply not possible to have a real name system that is valid.
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Just messing up a ship doesn't make it action. For a canonical example, see the Titanic.
Oh man I'd be sucked in. Having geography degrees is a lonely thing in a world that doesn't need a whole lot of us...
I really get where you’re coming from, but you’re far too ahead of yourself; and most importantly your assertion is very dangerous. It may well be popular among your peers, but history will surely drown your confidence in shame. Why? Entropy.

There’s a spectre that haunts Western pyshology which allows for the set of thus considered “scientific” checkboxes to be marked, which are sufficient for the physical sciences. But, physically speaking, the physical sciences are child’s play compared with the material subject of psychology, which is fairly undebatable. On the other hand, the same could be said for the physical sciences at certain points in time, and still to say in particular focuses. So what’s my point??

Psychology as it has so far been instituted in the western world cannot observe, define, or much less control the entropy it contends with. Critical theory, political theory, economics, poetics, cultural studies; truly the entire fields of humanities have a more comprehensive understanding of this entropy than the field of psychology does. Why? Because it cannot. It’s too much. Psychology can “scientific method” it’s heart out all it wants, but it remains to be seen that this method is even the best we’ve got. Mind you again that psychology cannot control for social entropy, and what but it can (debatable) falls off a cliff outside of the lab.

When we speak of social entropy, we cannot ignore politics; the scorpion’s tail of the entire effort which understandably ignores an effort to define either entropy or control but instead blindly accepts the human environment of contemporary ‘normal’ as the aim for dictating constants. This is of course ridiculous, and doing otherwise would be no less so. As such, it’s hard to blame the folks trying, but should be far easier to see how moot their effort is. The humanities has achieved a far more enlightened critique of the field of psychology than the field itself has even begun to. Sociology embraces the entropy whole-hearted and as such admits doubt and is politically marginalized (or privatized) accordingly. The approach of psychology in these respects is again understandable, but if the physical sciences were accused of something at all similar, we would all be up in arms.

On a separate note, the measurable issues with the institutional politics undermining western psychology are however similar to those at play in psysical sciences, but the vaguaries and innate necessity of ignorance in pursuing the task serve as multipliers to corruption. Where to even begin? It’s just too much.

To conclude, the effort in calling is certainly worthy and noble. But, the effort in practice is terribly fraught; deserves loads more criticism and caution than it receives. If the scientific method could be performed in scope (as one might say it is in the humanities) western psychogy remains in hypothetical stages. There’s cause for a few toasts, but not a celebration.
> The thing I never really see from these is about setting up on an existing instance vs running my own.

Mastodon instance admin have the power to block entire other instances. So if you care deeply about who is blocked or whether other instances are blocked at all, that might help to guide your decision.
I can see that angle. We're all used to curated packages from distro maintainers, whereas Windows software is like the wild West, especially for those not so technically competent.
There's also the room in a room concept where one is suspended inside the other. You might add things like ultrasound masking or blocking, too, since it was a known attack vector. From there, I thought about, but can't recall if implemented, some double doorway with buffer in between so opening a door didn't leak sounds/signals. Open one, go in, close it, and then go through other.
Ask HN: What systems allow remote code execution as a feature?
I recently learned of Telescript[1], a programming language, design to allow clients to execute arbitrary code on servers.

SQL databases also have a similar architecture, with the code being executed being much more restrained but still powerful.

What other systems were designed with remote code execution as a feature?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescript_(programming_language) and I got it from this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLF7yfXFmUk
Such a brave and edgy reply.
Sure, but those math profs have probably taught the same course 20+ times. Going through material that many times will permanently burn it into your brain.
Has anyone made a large-format map (or better yet: globe) across which one can scroll to past geographic and political maps?
> but since when did we start (or stop) using a company's products and services based on the company (or individual CEO, founders') moral behavior?

Since forever. At the bottom of this comment I've linked a study saying 50% of people will change their purchasing power on a companies perceived moral.

Brand has always been a massive component of a companies value and sales driver. There's a strong reason companies publicise good acts, donations to charities etc and have been doing this since early days of the modern economy. And this is increasing important the more elastic and comparable a product/service.

>By that notion -- judging a company or service based on moral behavior and deciding to not use them -- one cannot properly function on a day to day basis in the modern world.

This feels all or nothing. People act on what they know. Or what they care about. One does not have to be fully informed to have these decisions. Nor stop using a product where you feel let down by a companies morals. Only use an alternate when a person feels the alternate is a reasonable replacement.

The study I found with a quick search.
https://theamericangenius.com/business-marketing/company-eth...
That hasn't been my experience at all. Indeed, I have gone found static typing to give me superpowers by letting me quickly see what kinds of data and transformations I have access to, constraining out possibilities that I'd otherwise need to test for, and codegenning away boilerplate.
There seems to be a lot of "city" spam. See https://mstdn.io/tags/sydney for example. Its about 80% escort ads.
How are email and ActivityPub different in spirit? If they are so similar, and often compared, then why not use the well-known email stack to build "federated" social/messaging apps? I think "not being gmail-compatible" was the core flaws of Google Wave.
The link from the website to the iOS App Store doesn’t work and I couldn’t find it on the App Store. It also doesn’t seem to be available on Roku or the AppleTV. If I had young kids, I would be interested.
Did the family member know you were doing it, or was it a "present"?
Not unethical, just information asymmetry and arbitrage.
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I think many people have already identified this. Considering spatial movement is dimensional movement (as time is) it isn't hard to imagine this is compensated for similarly. You're already bending space time to move around in time, just keep bending it to move in space.

Big deal that fiction doesn't actually detail this, it adds nothing to the narrative.
The “Disney brand” is about content that is at most PG and family friendly. Hulu would be for there less kid friendly content.
I've been thinking a bit about this phenomenon recently. It seemed like a vague sort of problem I was having in various contexts (first time I noticed it was working on math problems), but there wasn't a good way of stating it without it sounding like unadulterated arrogance (I'm limited because I think of SO MANY POSSIBILITIES! :P)—but I think it's real. I was reading a review for the book "Proofs and Refutations" the other day, which included this bit:

> If you are someone who has trouble reading or writing proofs because you keep thinking of weird edge cases and have to verify that the proof handles all of them, ...

(this is a work on the philosophy of proving things in mathematics, btw, and they go on to recommend it to those with the above affliction.)

I could recognize the pattern being discussed there as exactly the thing I'd perceived myself running into. Interesting to see it repeated again in your comment :)
> I relate to the author of the original article in that I'm a slow thinker.

I was going to say something like this until I saw everyone else saying the same thing. This leads to my theory, and some facts.

The geek population has a high percentage of mild autistics. I firmly believe my lack of social skills, and slow thinking, is related to a mild amount of autism. I can't play any games involving fast thinking but I have reason to believe I'm a genius (just saying).

I heard an interview on NPR with Temple Grandin, an autistic author (I highly suggest reading her stuff). One thing she said was that a high percentage of functional autistics were programmers (I know this doesn't mean the converse is true).

She gave a quick single-question test for people to roughly judge autism. I answered on the autistic side. I was at a company lunch with about 5 programmers and 5 marketing people. I asked everyone the question and all the programmers gave the autistic answer and all the marketing people gave the opposite (I know it was probably a bit of coincidence and only one data point).

The test is "Think of a church steeple". I will give the meaning of the answer in a day or so. You need to think without knowing what any answer means.

EDIT: I figured out a way to give the answer without prejudicing your thinking. Don't read the answer below until you have thought of a steeple. The answer is written in reverse.

.citsitua ton ylbaborp era uoy snaem ti elpeets gnitsixe lautca na fo thguoht uoy fi
My old karate club used to and I'm sure still does run self defense courses twice a year, partially as a way to get new members. One of the instructors used to repeat the same mantra at every course, echoing the old master Gichin Funakoshi, that the best defense is always to be somewhere else.
No, I was never under that impression. I once had a discussion about the creation of the book with one of Federer's students who had also helped proofread it. The book was essentially an outgrowth of his personal and course notes, since of course he couldn't keep all this in his head.

What he likely did have in his head was an index into the contents, that's the crux of my observation. If I am very good at organizing my workshop, I can quickly grab the tools and materials needed for a particular task without breaking my flow of thought. Same basic principle applies to mathematicians and other intellectual workers, just as it does with physical trades.
This is the wrong forum for this kind of ethno-nationalistic trolling.
Are there any applications for this tech that aren't a massive violation of privacy? Seriously... why develop this? It's super creepy.
I would have expected „random number“ or „rng“ to be on that list. For quite some time (much less now) it was like catnip.
Yes, I was more wondering about the "spam instance" problem rather than the "spam user" problem (which that issue is discussing).

From the overview it seems like dedicated spam instances could be quickly spun up in the same way that email domains are?
Like the Roundup pun
I don't love Uber. I use them because cabs are mostly worse, in terms of quality and expense.

"Uber" is German for good, but often "Scheisse" is a much better word.
I mean, without scraping, it basically comes down to whether or not you care enough about the event to be online refreshing the page at exactly 10 AM or whatever. with scraping it becomes about whether you have more money. some artists prefer the audience be more of the former and less of the latter
With companies it's more transparent and the contractors are bound to confidentiality and other codes of conduct. If something goes wrong the issue can be traced and addressed.

When an employee does it without informing the employer or signing an agreement that holds the contractor to the same standards as the employee the chain of trust, transparency and accountability is broken.
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I think you might be taking "business requirement" in too narrow a sense. Maybe a better expression would be "external behavioral requirement", i.e. something your program has to "appear to do" from some outside perspective.