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It kind of reminds me of the use of Navajo as a code by the Americans in WWII. If you don't know the language and no one in your country does, you have no hope of decoding it because words just mean different things and you can't translate a cultural experience and understanding.
Nice Job! Don't be discouraged when people say "What a waste of time, why didn't you just use an Arduino?"

When I went to college I had a choice of majoring in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering (there weren't computer systems degrees at the time). Since I really really wanted to know how to build a computer from the ground up (I had assembled one from a kit already in high school and was hungry to know more!) I chose getting my degree in EE with a minor in CS. I don't know where you are in your studies but if you have the opportunity you might find, as I did, that this path scratches that particular itch.

There are a number of books you might track down which you would find interesting given what you now have learned about computer internals. One is "A DEC view on hardware design" which talks about the minicomputers and their architecture that DEC designed. "Introduction to Computer Systems using the PDP-11 and PASCAL" (McGraw-Hill computer science series). And "Digital Computer Design" by Kline. All are out of print but a good computer science section in a library should have them.

One of the reasons I enjoy the older books on computer design is that they assume you don't know why different paths were chosen and so they explain in more detail why one path is better than another. Modern texts often assume you have learned these best practices elsewhere and so treat these design decisions as given knowledge.

If you ever do decide to pick it up again, the two places that you might find rewarding would be automated co-processing (like DMA controllers) and complex mathematical instructions (like floating point).
No worries, I think I found it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQQTScuApWk

That's awesome.

-ss
Seems to me the article claims there is a fourth (and maybe most influential), "who we think other people think we are"
Ask HN: Opinions on compiler-based JavaScript frameworks like Svelte?
Here's a link to Svelte: https://svelte.technology/

This seems pretty appealing to me as far as reducing framework-bloat and runtime overhead. I'm interested to hear people's takes on Svelte, and the framework-as-compiler concept in general for JavaScript development.
Interesting. I guess it's time for me to pick up another hobby!
One of my favorite songs for helping to explain the importance and differences between time signatures is "Question!" by System of a Down (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENBv2i88g6Y). The intro is 9/8 (as a 3-2-2-2 grouping), followed by a section in 5/4. The verses are the same 9/8, except for regular jumps to 6/8 (during the phrase "Are you dreaming?"). The chorus is 6/4, with repeats of the same 5/4 section from the intro. The bridge is a mash-up of the 5/4 again with jumps between 9/8 and 3/4 and the outro is 4/4 back to a final 9/8 section.

It's not always easy to pick out what specific signature is being played at every point in the song, but the "suspended" feeling of hanging beats as the signature changes is very obvious.
Epic Games provided the following comment from CEO Tim Sweeney:

"Epic genuinely appreciated Google's effort to perform an in-depth security audit [...]

However, it was irresponsible of Google to publicly disclose the technical details of the flaw so quickly, while many installations had not yet been updated and were still vulnerable.

An Epic security engineer, at my urging, requested Google delay public disclosure for the typical 90 days to allow time for the update to be more widely installed. Google refused. You can read it all at https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/112630336

Google's security analysis efforts are appreciated and benefit the Android platform, however a company as powerful as Google should practice more responsible disclosure timing than this, and not endanger users in the course of its counter-PR efforts against Epic's distribution of Fortnite outside of Google Play."
> EFF and R Street’s brief emphasizes the need for the Supreme Court to confirm what should be uncontroversial: to be patentable, inventions must be new.

New is not good enough. In theory patents must be novel and this should be applied to practice as well. The difference between new and novel is the degree of originality. New can mean taking an existing idea and putting a fresh spin on it. Novel means the idea never existed before and the current invention is original opposed to a modification or extension. Normally novelty is documented against an inception date, but inception dates are hard to qualify in court.

Also, while on this subject patents should be limited to inventions deliberately excluding discoveries. An invention is something a person made or formed with some degree of deliberation. A discovery is something that already existed and that a person merely found for the first time. This distinction would invalidate attempts to protect genetic sequences and organic chemicals present in nature. It would continue to allow protection of drugs that are more than merely chemical isolations.
Totally possible. I doubt it will ultimately work, because it will be hard to have enough tagged cattle in proximity to enough actual earthquakes. But it would give an answer to the question what behavioral parameters might change before earth quakes.

It's still possible this is just an illusion.
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It's alive in Toronto, but I was specifically thinking of some places / events in Europe and Asia. I actually have no idea if the art / cool scene has any legs anywhere in America.
But you can reset it periodically with an all-consuming wildfire. I'm not sure how that fits into the analogy though...
I liked solitaire and mine sweeper, i was never really that good at reversi, but the one I probably spent the most time playing, which wasn't mentioned in the article, was free cell. I spent hours playing it after my mom died. I always liked it better than solitaire. Though I play solitaire with real cards. I'm not sure if I could play a game of free cell with a real deck of cards, I i've never been 100% on all the rules.

The windows implementation I felt was an improvement over solitaire in a few ways. There was a lot more automatic card stack management and rather than having to click and drag, you just had to select the top most card, hover over your destination, a handy arrow appeared when the destination was allowed and a single click transferred the whole stack.

I spent far too much time playing free cell and it doesn't really bring back very good memories. I understand the point where the author mentions not feeling very great after wasting time on these games. It was interesting reading this though. I've never thought much about what went into these games, I always kinda took it for granted they were there.

I'm not sure which version of windows they came with, but I also remember a few board games, chess and checkers and such, with online play capabilities I spent time playing when I was young. You would be randomly matched with another player and I even vaguely remember a rudimentary chat system. I might be wrong, but if i remember right, there.was.a bunch of pre-set phrases you could select from to send to the person you were playing with.
I appreciate the explanation, but I do understand at least at a high level how this works. I understand why it's not being done this way. How it's being done is kind of messed up.

WebAuthN is able to tell you that the web page wants you to put a hardware key in. That should be enough to be able to prompt users who've opted into using such a key elsewhere that they can do so here.
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You have a great memory. Thanks for the pointers, very educational.

-ss
Staying Public
The SEC will definitely not be amused.
The developers talked about the bad warding, and it's a combination of them actually being bad at it, and not knowing how to manage their inventory so they'll just plant wards in order to free up inventory space.
Wait, so you can read from an S3 bucket for free using LightSail but egress at LightSail prices?
Twilio, voip.ms, or DIDlogic. Twilio may be for large users, but it works great for tiny ones as well. No minimums, simple wholesale pricing, and they still have free support even if you don't want to spend thousands a month for 24/7/365 phone support with an expert.
Yeah, something like:
"You're not who you think you are. Nor are you what other people think you are. You are what you think other people think you are."

I find some truth in that perspective. We're such social animals, deriving identity from how we believe ourselves to be perceived.
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I was listening to the commentary on Twitch and it was a mess.
Why can't companies that claim to use AI as part of their product actually explain how exactly they are using some kind of AI problem solving strategy? The FAQ says nothing about how AI is used, yet AI seems to be the main thrust of the marketing for this product.

When "Powered by AI" doesn't come with any further details, my first instinct is suspicion. I'm sure developers and people involved in startups that might want to use this would love to learn a little about the details behind the AI at work here.
Original paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/0911.4706.pdf
i assume it means an above median annual salary but a very poor hourly rate. usually these discussions omit a calculation of to what extent the engineers took the job knowing this already and still decided to do so of their own free will, and how much is... not so voluntary.
After wrestling with this linguistic problem for quite some time, the best term I’ve come up with this far is “mental injury”. I strongly prefer it to “illness” because illness connotes a disease of the flesh, and there is no proof that any of the things we typically call mental illness (with a few notable exceptions like alzheimer’s and possibly seizures) are actually based in the body.

In contrast, most of the common “mental illnesses” can be linked to specific forms of psychological trauma or injury. For example, depression and anxiety being caused by emotional abuse. Or PTSD resulting from a traumatic event.

The other term that comes to mind is “fracture” or “break”. Like, I fractured my femur when I was in college. I got surgery, the femur healed. My femur didn’t get an “illness” and I certainly don’t feel any stigma or shame around the experience, other than regretting skiing way too fast.

It would be cool to say the same about the depression I experienced.

“What happened to you?”

“Oh, I fractured my mind after a really bad relationship with an emotionally abusive ex. Yeah, my mind broke pretty good, but thankfully it was a pretty clean break, I got it set right and after a few years of psychoanalysis and some quality entheogens it’s as good as new.”

It’s time to ditch the illness/disease model for mental illness and use terms like injury/fracture/break that both accurately describe the situation and clearly indicate that the situation can be remedied. The idea of chronic and untreatable mental illness is a self fulfilling prophecy and does far more harm than good.
This reads like an article that got half-written before the author said, "fuck it" or ran out of time. The first half is excellent but it gets shaky with "The Hopeful", then falls apart in "The Revisionists" with what sounds like ad copy for a design agency. The worst part is the ending: there isn't one.

It's a shame because I feel like there's a whole article lurking in there somewhere, with some interesting ideas underpinning it.
Every IT system in the world is the worst in the world according to some tech who performs firefighting on it. These tweets apply to nearly every system. Singling out Tesla is pretty unfair!!!
The Ariosa decision involves whether an invention could be said to be publicly disclosed on the date of a provisional patent application. A provisional patent application is unpublished, although, if it ultimately supports a patent claim, it is made available to public. Details of the court case are better explained by Dennis Crouch in the cited article.
>Why do it if you don't like it?

Uhh, because it pays well, has good job security and benefits, doesn't require multiple degrees, is respected socially, isn't physically intensive, etc. etc.

Most all of my non-programmer friends don't really like their jobs all that much, so if you're not passionate about anything else, my question is why not go into software development?
> I think the culprit is "free." Everything has to be "free." As a result, some indirect means must be found to pay for it.

That raises an interesting point... discussion about "free" often distinguishes free-as-in-beer vs free-as-in-speech, but maybe we were mistaken in thinking that it was ever not going to be about money.
I think that may be a teacher by teacher type thing. I went to a public school. I definitely remember something that stood out:

The teacher instructed everyone to move all the desks to the perimeter of the classroom. Then had everyone lie down and pretend their hands and legs were bound together. Pictures of boats like this were also in the text books. Similar classes where we discussed in detail the wars against native americans... now, that all being said, this was in the Silicon Valley (before it was called that collectively). So I can't exactly describe public schools in say, Kansas.
Here's an article by Woodard with a map: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/30/opinion/urban-rural-unite...
How nuts would you have to be to believe animals sense earthquakes?

At least Infowars nuts.

The delusions around this mythology of animals having a 6th sense is so anti-science, it's up there with the hard core false flag people.

Anyways ICARUS is obviously not about magical earthquake magatisms/vibrations/air pressure magic theory it's about studying animals from space, an exciting endeavor -

ICARUS - INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION FOR ANIMAL RESEARCH USING SPACE - https://icarusinitiative.org/about-icarus
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There is also a cost to increasing absolute codebase size, even when people stick around to maintain their contributions.

I admire antirez very much for making it a priority to keep the core small.
Facebook runs the largest deployment of Django in the world -- Instagram.

https://instagram-engineering.com/web-service-efficiency-at-...
$TSLAQ it is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17836641
Is it normal for a public company to be so beholden to the whims of its CEO?
YouTuber in 'suicide smash' as McLaren ploughs into cars at 100mph killing 3
I see. Having no knowledge of Japanese, I found it interesting. Coming from China, I could say that both Mandarin and Cantonese have popular literal translations for the expression, albeit most Chinese find it cheesy and prefer to use English instead.
Under the hardware section the author states:

>"I have built this development board by myself, using wrapping technique, because I couldn’t find any board with 2MB of SRAM arranged in 16bits. I wanted SRAM, instead of DRAM, for the simplicity."

I am have heard the term "wrapping" or "board wrapping" in historical references by Steve Wozniak and the original Home Brew Computer Club as well. Could someone describe what this "wrapping" process entails? Is this essentially translating the verilog into physical wires and pins?
I mean, one takes the point that companies can very much harm people, often in subtle long-term ways, more rarely with direct, brutal violence.

But if you stack up the victims of Ford's security forces next to the victims of various horrifying governments, you literally can't see the Ford victims.
There is not a shred of apology for his tweet that caused havoc on Wall Street - but big and small investors were totally taken aback.
Mine were $50 new at Costco, so it doesn't really sound like much of a savings.
Not to mention the part where he engaged the researchers boss who was completely not a part of this research.
> That said, my belief that there is more than enough funding to take Tesla private was reinforced during this process.

Is this some kind of threat or positioning towards actors somewhere? Is this like someone in a relationship saying, "I know I be with someone else if I wanted to, but this is working out for now."?

What's the point of all of this, besides saying that Tesla has lots of funding options?
I found it somewhat amusing that they mentioned model, manufacturer, IMEI and serial as being a "sensitive information leak" --- if you're in physical possession of the phone, those things can be found without even turning it on.
In this case, they were a bit too large (I have wide feet and need to size up), but the other issue is that I walk around 12-15 km/day and that plus my weight tends to add up to destroy shoe soles fairly quickly. :)

There's a lot of other wear, especially under the balls of my feet, but the heel is the most noticeable bit.
For anyone wondering where IRC users have migrated these days, the answer is Discord.

There are several programming-themed servers with thousands of concurrent users, and many more high population servers for other interest groups.
Elon needs a vacation. Any employee would've been fired for this kind of behavior.
https://customs.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3619/~/...

> Every fruit or vegetable must be declared to a CBP Agriculture Specialist or CBP Officer and must be presented for inspection - regardless of its admissibility status. Fresh fruits and vegetables need to be clean and may be prohibited if they have insects or diseases.

Additionally, durian from China is not allowed to be imported.

https://epermits.aphis.usda.gov/manual/index.cfm?NEW=1&COMMO...
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I mean, George Carlin said this best. Garbage in, garbage out. Maybe something else sucks around here...like the public.

Before this decade, the Internet was by and large an aristocracy of liberal, competent tech workers discussing their career and their interests. Today, it's been democratised enough to allow your racist aunt to ramble on Facebook about how Obama is actually an alien born on Pluto, sent to America to destroy Christianity. The remaining escapes on the Internet devoid of this are vanishing.

We tend to worship democratising institutions without considering whether or not the people recieving these new powers are capable of handling them with the correct values, motivations, and competencies. The Internet has given too much to those who are not curious about the world or have a serious interest in improving it. Like anything else we lose hope on, it will never change until those using it change.
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I deliberately wore hiking boots to my faculty interviews >.>
Well can I interest you in some deathcap mushrooms?
I saw that comment before, and I disagree with it. I don’t care what some sample of their first pass yield is as long as it’s improving and that it hits or exceeds industry norms before they go bankrupt. The mere fact that they have a bad FPY is more indictative of how fast they are scrambling to get this production line going, but if they catch the errors before the cars go out the door then it’s simply an expense they’d damn well be reducing as time goes on. Tesla has had shaky launches on every other platform they’ve released but now they manufacture the S and X platforms effectively. If they can get past the rough period with the Model 3 they will have three high demand platforms they are producing in volume. That’s something I believe they can do, which is why I’m a shareholder.
This past week was about covering the legal angles so that Elon doesn’t go to jail while still attempting to mollify bulls.
Blame the shorts, blah, blah. "I could totally squeeze the shorts at 420 but I won't because I don't care even one bit about the shorts."
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It's almost certainly an attempt to stave off the SEC investigation into misleading statements by Elon when he tweeted originally that funding was secured.
It wouldn’t surprise me if google did this as a sort of backhanded way of saying “see what happens when you don’t use our App Store?“
That's interesting. The Wiktionary definition of "illness" says "an instance of a disease", and their definition of "disease" specifically says "distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired".

If one gets PTSD from a traumatic event, then, is that by definition not mental illness? Wouldn't that literally be a "mental injury"?
It reinforces the narrative that this was his choice about what is best for Tesla, and not a market-driven outcome to remain public in spite of a desire to privatize.
I think he is saying this because of the risk of his going to jail. If it comes out that he was bluffing, statements he made could very well be considered securities fraud since it amounted to an announcement on a public forum and he had cited a specific price. So by reiterating in an official press release that he had adequate funding but just chose not to do it, there's kind of a supporting evidence to defend himself against any SEC investigations.
I don't know if saying no just for the sake of it is the answer lol. My parents were similar to what you were describing and if I wanted something I would have to pay for it myself. Even when I was too young to work, I'd skip lunch in school just to save enough money to purchase the things I'd rarely get otherwise. In the long-term it's turned me into a fiscally responsible adult, but sometimes I think it's made me too frugal in the long run. It may just be the people I hang around who are on the irresponsible end of the fiscal spectrum, but it's always on my mind whether it's me or them.
Then go write back end code for Allstate. (I don't mean any insult to Allstate nor their staff; simply that it'll be a reliable, well paying 9-5).

The things the author complains about (low pay, long hours, uncertain future) are positive things for me, which is why I chose the path I did. It usually includes working with really interesting people.

I'm glad he abandoned it as it sounds like he would not enjoy it. There's no evidence from his article that, say, the Pinterest fellow or the people who'd come home and open their laptops are actually unhappy, except the author himself and the "mid-30s" person in the bunk above him.
It's easy to "just" tell the police you want a lawyer and won't answer any questions, yet every day people waive this right and confess or are caught in lies.

"Ineffective against a clever adversary" and "effective against loads of real-world criminals" are routinely true at the same time.

Still crazy.
All the time :)
If Tesla was actually going private his "Funding Secured" tweet wouldn't be viewed with as much scrutiny. Instead, coupled with his on-going public threats against short sellers, that tweet is now even more likely to be viewed as intentional market manipulation.

This will only continue and reinforce the SEC investigation.
It was a team of five senior level linux sysadmins who oversaw about 2k servers. Lots of arguments for and against pushing blame here or there, but at the end of the day - he fucked up big time and shoulda known better.
Hey, antirez! I don't understand all the recent drama around Redis, I think what you and your crew are doing is absolutely awesome. Thank you for all your hard work. This is your work, and you never have to defend yourself, or give long and deep explanations for what you do with your own work. You don't owe anything to anybody. I hope you become a millionaire :)