skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the hint, will do (seems to be iOS specific, hmm)
I had looked up "modulo" in a couple dictionaries and only seen the mathematical definition. I hadn't thought about it as being related to "modality", interesting.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3262727/

> An unauthorized third party can interfere with pump communication and undermine patient safety

> we confirmed this through laboratory experiments by sending commands to an insulin pump using an unauthorized remote programmer at a distance of 100 ft

> Thus, the specifically identified issues are a security breach that could result in:

> (1) changing already-issued wireless pump commands;

> (2) generating unauthorized wireless pump commands;

> (3) remotely changing the software or settings on the device;

> (4) denying communication with the pump device.

People can also attack the blood glucose monitors and the data they report to the pump system.

Scary.
We did it a few weeks ago in Sweden, burned 800 hectare (2000 acres) to slow down the progress of the largest wildfire this year.

Source in Swedish: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/dalarna/800-hektar-skog-sk...
Well games are a trendy area and more fun and challenging to work on than most other software...as long as there is more demand for game development jobs than there are open positions, it will be this way.

Unlike screenwriters, whose alternative is making lattes, game developers who get tired of the chase can go work for a traditional tech company.
Still need to look into it more, but this link may save me a good amount of time. I was just about to build something like this.
How to ensure you get “IT Projects” from your potential clients
Rise of the Stupid Network (1998)
I completely agree with everything you said.

But not everyone can do a triple flip with a half twist while navigating the financial system.

i.e. I think I reworded my original comment in reverse.
Would be interesting to analyze whether their propaganda machine tried to manipulate opinions on HN too
What about the Sonic boom idea?
Bonus: The differential privacy algorithm is so simple. "When you're about to insert some data, flip a coin. If it's heads, insert it as-is. If it's tails, insert a random value."
Is it really a self-driving car if it needs a network connection?
I have no objection to them using aggregate data of that form.

It can be collected from a bunch of other sources (eg. Alexa top domains). It also probably isn't a very good indicator. time.ntp.org probably gets a lot of hits...
There’s already an app called Tandem where you chat with people to learn a language. Just a heads up.
> Revoking citizenship is not a penalty.

Yes, it obviously is.

> Canada already does not grant citizenship to children born to foreign diplomats working in Canada.

Essentially no country recognizing jus soli does that for essentially the same reason that diplomatic immunity exists (and affecting the exact same set of people subject to diplomatic immunity)—the presence of diplomats in a country is a convenience for both the sending and receiving country, which, in the interest of relations between the two countries, died not have the legal effect that that presence would otherwise have for the individuals. Non-diplomats who are employed by a foreign government within a country are but tested the same way.

> It's not clear that simply not declaring your employer makes you immune from the law

Declaration isn't the point. Non-citizens openly working for a foreign country in non-diplomatic roles aren't covered either. The diplomat's unique status as, essentially, a mutually-recognized extension of the foreign state is the point.
Because there is no "don't apply {selector} to this element" tag... If there was, this would be a wonderful UX. But there isn't, so it would complicate customization
Keep in mind that almost all of this was safety checks, if you don't care about that then there were only a few pretty simple steps.
Was that behaviour present also in OS 8 and 9?
How does Xi editor compares to Vi and Emacs?
Conveniently all of your users have 90s era supercomputers in their pants. Shame we're wasting that compute on nonsense.
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With all this new censorship creeping in it would be a constructive innovation to force corporate commenters to reveal their affiliation. Something like an obligatory checkbox: "[] are you posting on behalf of your employer?".

And then make it a punishable offense to "conceal corporate propaganda" if someone didn't check the box.
Why's it under google's namespace in github? Was it there always?
Beijing struggles to defuse anger over China's P2P lending crisis
I wonder where this strong intuition about consciousness comes from.

Your "the current stream of consciousness" idea requires existence of something beyond all the information you have conscious access to and the procedures your brain performs. Namely, some "marker" which makes this particular realization of your consciousness unique, and which cannot be copied in any circumstances.

What do you think this "marker" is?
"The Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book" remains one of my favourite short stories ever since I read it in high school lit class. A truly curious author.
> Post-slavery US behavior is far more favorable and accommodating to human rights than China today.

Asking me to stop will not change facts.

Slavery was abolished in 1865, let us see what other things happened after that and what China is doing to Muslims is a page from the exactly same book.

1. 1882 - US government kicked out Chinese (and Indian) people from USA by enacting purely racist law called "Chinese Exclusion Act". Not only Chinese citizens were kicked out but citizenships were revoked retrospectively. The remenants of this law can be seen even today in green card country wise caps on India and Chinese. Cancellation of H4-EAD is just an example of how US admin has institutional racism against Indians and Chinese people.

2. 1942 - Internment of Japanese Americans. Absolutely disgraceful and yet exactly same as what China is doing to Muslims.

3. Forced sterilisation of people in early 20th century. China at least allowed people to have one child.
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/unwanted-sterilizati...

4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment
US government knowingly decides to let syphilis spread among black males.

5. There is an entire wiki article about other unethical medical experiments USA did on blacks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentatio...

6. The current laws like Civil Asset Forfeiture and Marijuana prohibition targets black families and people from low income families depriving them of their own money and freedom.

I am not even coming to the topic of how USA had destabilised perfectly stable countries like Iraq, killed thousands of innocent people, maimed thousands of people and children, bombed hospitals, killed babies, raped women and children across Afghanistan and Iraq here.
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3. Edge implies a core or origin exists, and maybe it doesn’t need to.

Maybe borrow from physics to call it the Egress Horizon.
Many happy memories of my SE/30 running System 6... (System 7 started to feel a little slow on it.)
Hmm I don't think it's that much of a headache to have some PIN code provided to pilots as an additional measure.

These planes aren't cheap, even a small personal jet is in the low millions. A Boeing 747 or similar is in the hundreds of millions.
USA is probably civilised only in last 60 years or so. Otherwise the country was far too overtly racist and oppressive to minorities.

Uighur muslims are just a million or so and minuscule on larger scale. Also, it might be better to de-radicalize them now before they start bombing your cities. For example if USA had not armed Osama Bin Laden, 9/11 was avoidable. China is taking precautionary measures to avoid future wars and terrorist attacks like 9/11.
I think Google's motivations are likely to include protecting the internet, as they are the incumbent in so many spaces. Problems honestdns solves:

First, outright faking of dns resolution. Maybe to switch ads on internet pages. Maybe to falsify the pages entirely. Remember how internet in hotels worked 10 years ago ?

Second, lying to improve cost metrics for isps. Say, lying to cdns'es about the users location to use the cheapest connection for the isp. Or just lying to give users a bad connection and save on bandwidth.

Third censorship. Mostly dumb organisations' censorship. School networks in early 2000s are a good example.

Fourth, special support for a number of their products. Starting with, of course, their own cdns, but I don't think it'S limited to that.
Which is why Steam would never do that. All they're doing is hosting a few gigabytes of files on their CDN. Why would they ever voluntarily remove a game unless it had broken some kind of law?

Even games that were removed from Steam like Hatred could still be downloaded by people who had already bought it.

I think you overestimate how much people are interested in their old games. People just want to move on to the latest and greatest hit.
I wouldn't exactly call WeWork class A. It's a glass filled cramped place. I much prefer our Regus office compared to the day I spent testing WeWork. Too much visual and auditory distraction.

There's something to say for stodgy.
I think for most cases, "on the edge" means some devices on the sites of those IOT sensors/small collection machine installed. In compare to "on the cloud" which means on the server hosted by Amazon/Azure etc.
It’s not just TV, almost all of the best art is the vision of a single person. The Beatles are the biggest exception.
I got interested in V.S. Naipaul after reading this essay-- well technically a book review of a Naipaul biography-- by Christopher Hitchens-- Cruel and Unusual [0]. It explains and summarizes Naipaul's literary significance as well as the fascinating fact that he acted very badly in his personal life. I read his Middle Passage travelogue after that after I read that and it did not disappoint as far as callousness goes. Although I wouldn't exactly say that it is what we should aspire to I did like it in its own way.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/11/cruel-a...
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Its just a matter of time before that happens. How many gamers who aren't on a plane, in a train or in a base in Fallujah don't have constant broadband access?

I think those instances are being reduced yearly all around the world.

The next generation of consoles will have a low-end version that hosts some of the calculations locally, such as input and collision detection, but all of the detailed rendering etc. on the cloud. All games will be inherently 'online only', distribution of optical disks will become pointless and everything will be linked to an account - no resale.
You can not win these kind of contracts easily. You need to have ex-classmates inside who will make the right introductions. You need to hang out with right people, please them and so on. Race, Sex also plays a big role. For example overwhelmingly white people will chose a white person over an Indian and vice versa.

While the tech work is pretty less, the social engineering involved is hard to scale.
I thought the biggest issue with prefab was lack of demand largely from bad reputation owing to aesthetic or safety concerns - trailers are considered hideous and are often dangerous given lack of sufficient storm anchoring. They were stuck in the role not of a legitimate alternative like siding instead of plaster but 'something to be replaced with a real building as soon as feasible'.

Some of that may be human senses of aesthetics and a sense of uncanny valley with repeats. Just look at video game level generation and the moves to 3D. Preassembled components added more complexity and sense of structure but insufficient amounts of them made the area feel samey and copy pasted.

I'm curious as to how software could be the core instead of merely an optional but useful tool akin to typical usage of CAD for housing schematics.
> “You’re budgeting and trying to imagine, ‘What are we going to need for the last episode of this season that hasn’t been written yet?’ ” he says. “Eventually, it comes and smacks you in the face.”

> Working out the story arc in advance gives a much better sense of what the show requires in terms of sets, locations, cast, and all the other expensive variables that go into creating a fictional world.

Its absolutely crazy US TV is developed in this way: make a pilot knowing nothing about any story arcs, and just hope you can budget and bluff your way to a finale?

It's blindly obvious it has been done this way. Hopefully this change will improve plots.
> that scammers are simply getting hired BY Dell, and then supplementing their hourly wage by trying to con Dell's customers out of hundreds of dollars more.

This, I've bought Dells in the past and one Indian based sales rep charged my payment card for an additional amount, I wonder if they expected me to not spot the extra charge but the card company refunded it. Thing is people deal with call centres so its easier as a criminal to join a large multinational company and operate from within as we assume big companies know what they are doing. Other problem is Intel Vpro/AMT is supplied in a lot of Dell equipment and its switched on by default. Even now, despite it being disabled, its not disabled as its 169992 port is showing up in ipv6 port scans. Intel really have created a hackers paradise with vPro/AMT.
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> They all market their "networking" opportunities and "hip" work spaces. [...] All I need is a quiet office where I'm left alone to work in a private cabin.

I think targeting co-working spaces at people interested in "networking opportunities" increases profitability, because they are much more likely to accept open floor plans.

> I do hope there is a coworking competitor that gives me a no nonsense, quiet place to work in

It has been available for ages and is called Public Library.
The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever. - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Only node.js available in Lambda@Edge
Yeah, a freakin _ignition key_ would have made this whole thing impossible.
One of the things that has had the most profound influence in my life was to apply for and get a fellowship that paid me graduate studies in the US. The only reason I learned of its existence was my mom seeing an ad of it on the newspaper.
It doesn't necessarily have to be due to an ill-decision; thick/thin client cycling can be seen as the obvious result of network/compute cost effectiveness ration swapping. When network is cheaper, thin clients make more sense; when compute is cheaper, then it makes more sense to have it local, and thus thick clients.

And due to diminishing returns + economies of the scale, as the market starts investing in one, the other side starts to make more sense..
Indeed. I make a point of avoiding the c-word entirely, as no two people agree on what it actually means. Plus I started my IT career maintaining a mostly leased line (point to point) network infrastructure, coming into mainframes via FEPs.

The applications delivered by those systems, traversing low-speed (9600bps) links over many hundreds of kilometres felt (and probably were) more responsive than the HTTP-based applications that have, 30 years later, mostly replaced them. Soon after that there was the trend to distribute file & print servers to every branch office, and maintain a breathtakingly large library of desktop applications. A blink later and I was at a Gartner shindig in 2000 where they were convinced the Sun Ray was going to be The Next Big Thing. (It wasn't.) Rinse and repeat.
Google allows it's employees to put their 20% projects on the google github, provided they a disclaimer in the README. It doesn't mean much but perhaps it's good for publicity. Xi has always been in there.
There is no legal requirement in many countries for a company to report it has been hacked and even if there were, if they dont spot the hack how can they report it? See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, problem solved. Beside with so many global businesses employing the best from around the world, how do these companies know they are not employing spooks with excellent fabricated grades? It might explain how Microsofts Win10 source code their crown jewels, was leaked online.
I tried a "buckling spring" keyboard (I think from Unicomp) that was supposed to be the equivalent of one of those IBMs and I was severely disappointed in the electronics. It could not handle multiple keys properly the way a real one would. Basically they had focused completely on the selling point of the springs and neglected to make a usable product.

(I did have a real PS/2 Model M previously, so all I really wanted was a USB equivalent)
TLS 1.3 doesn't eradicate RSA it just says you mustn't use it for key agreement. I'm guessing you knew that but just to be clear for anyone else reading. If your focus is getting rid of RSA entirely actually TLS 1.3 may even allow it to stick around a bit longer by reducing how nervous we are about it. If you care primarily about Forward Secrecy then sure, problem fixed.
Impressions of Azure Logic Apps?
I’ve been considering using Azure Logic Apps for some simple use cases on some personal projects.

How are you using Azure Logic Apps and what strengths/weaknesses have you found?
>> Is that really worth a lot to their clients that they will pay a premium for it?

> Yes, that's one of the major reasons people use WeWork instead of local office space rentals.

Perhaps another reason is that WeWork charges fees which are too low to cover all their expenses, and local competitors do not.
Why does he have an axe to grind with Intel?
Unless of course as an employee he had access to one.
In 1973 I programmed for the oncology department at L.A. County/US Medical Center. We had a Varian Clinac linear accelerator with computer-readable and -drivable motors. The clinicians would manually position the Clinac (with the patient on it) for the first treatment, and the position would be saved in the patient's computerized file and restored on subsequent treatments.

For some treatments, a metal wedge would be placed within the beam to attenuate it more at the thick end of the wedge.
Because of the non-linear attenuation along the length of the physical metal wedge, dosages were difficult to calculate.

Someone got the bright idea of creating a software wedge by slowly moving the treatment couch at the same time as closing the beam aperture, so that there would be 100% exposure at one end of the "wedge" and 0% at the other, with a linearly decreasing distribution across the whole wedge.

I was the programmer for this project, and we had just started testing it with a sheet of X-ray film on the couch when I received an offer I couldn't refuse to go work elsewhere.

I'm glad that I departed before they started using this on live patients.
Why don't they stuff the board? It would probably cost less than packaging the parts and dealing with customer service issues.
I have worked from a few WeWorks and copies thereof in Berlin. Most of the floor area is private offices, and the tenants tend to be quite enterprisey. Think Daimler, Deutsche Bahn, etc.

For the usual startup, WeWork is way too expensive.
150ms is no big deal. That's on par with top-notch human reaction time.

The big deal is the lack of reliability on that connection.
Quick clarification for anyone reading: they included the same GPU in the Wii U in addition to a more modern AMD GPU used for native Wii U games.
You may be right, but I'm wary of the implication that 'the market' is rational.

Also, if the market leans more towards network or compute (I'm not sure that's a useful distinction, but I'll run with it for now) wouldn't the economies of scale necessarily continue to accentuate the initial trend, rather than induce an oscillating pattern?
And also you could just format a disk and drag and drop the System Folder over and it would boot from the copy with no real fuss.
Sounds like a serious Freudian slip that reveals their true character. Like when in the wake of a horrifying scandal the head says that their goal is to restore the trust of the public instead of doing something about the root problem. Or a bad parent's reaction to hearing that their teenaged son was in a high speed crash while borrowing his car was 'is the car okay'? In this case he admits that he has absolutely nothing special or even good to stand out.
Majority of people who work on games are not programmers. They are various artists.
India has a gender imbalance, and no one-child policy.

The problem is a social preference for sons over daughters.

What should happen is that the families of women are given money and houses by their daughter's husbands. Then girls will be seen as more of an investment than boys, and more families - particularly poor ones - will selectively abort males instead of females. Already this is playing out in China.

Unfortunately this also becomes a problem in the West, because migrants from countries like India are predominantly male, and Indian mothers are still selectively aborting females even when they move to countries like the UK.
Had the guy been a terrorist, he could have flown that plane into Seattle or into SeatTac airport itself. They wouldn't get here in time because they were flying in from Portland. We all got lucky this time.
While JSON isn't perfect, I hope they base this around the JSON CRDT[0] so it can handle nested structures well.

Also they might not need tombstones[1].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12303100

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12303467
They could start to save some money by getting rid of their photo system at the entry. Not that it works, you can just bypass it by holding your hand in front of the lens.
> It’s been a while since I read about it

It's in the article you're commenting on.
This article doesn't explain why I dislike looking at the LED backlights in my life whereas I'm fine with looking at my old CCFL backlights for many hours at a time.
> they are almost as casual as taking your laptop to Starbucks and they seem to go out of their way to provide distractions from work too

I tried my first WeWork here in London a month ago, and this is exactly how it felt to me. Maybe that mixed with a college campus vibe. Definitely not a place to go if you want to get serious work done.
Interestingly put, "the Objective-C approach to software quality". There's something in the psychology of a large number of C, Objective-C and C++ programmers that makes them overappreciate execution speed and underappreciate memory safety in particular, but also validation and correctness in general.

One of my goals now is to outline safe ways of using C++ for various projects and I'm not too optimistic. In fact I'm unsure what we'll end up with.
The articles I've read said indicate that a "Taxi Capable" employee would be empowered to start up the aircraft, so it's not even clear whether security precautions would be relevant here.
Haha.

The San Andreas Fault is a sliding fault (don't know the technical term), which means LA and SF will be neighbors at some point in the far future.
Well, require that only pilots have access to the key then.
It's a pretty bad example of that, though. There are enormous problems involved in the idea of remote piloting a car, but a 150ms feedback loop is no big deal. It's slightly better than a human.

Especially if you look at the latency of one-server-per-continent, which is still extremely far from "edge": you get something like 50ms or better. That's easily good enough to control anything a human could control by hand.
How many former game devs are working in your shop?
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