skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds interesting but way out there. I wonder if they will prototype the system with a flyby of an asteroid or similar to see if it even works shorter distances.
Freedom is slavery.
Not necessarily

https://vimeo.com/15351476
Paper trail of where it could have ended up maybe? And I mostly mean that if the testifying human isn't impartial, he would require physical evidence to corroborate his testimony, despite the oath.

The reason being sufficient examples and even game-theoretic arguments (mind you, these are 'nerds', they can find someone well-versed in game theory if needed) show a lack of (expected) trustworthiness of a non-corroborated testimony of such a human.
Nonetheless, if such a Tech Workers Union existed, joining as an act of solidarity would benefit all fellow members and offer you a level of protection to insure you never experienced any of the aforementioned scenarios.
It's easy to speculate when there are infinite "what-ifs". If AGI (artificial general intelligence) development is technically possible and if they're really able to recursively self-improve themselves to become semi-gods and if there are really N number of civilizations out there, then there should be N number of AGIs too, it would make sense that we should be able to see their traces of existence across the universe.
I think a tuning is a set of intervals which an instrument is configured to play. A tuning is also a temperament if it is a compromise of another tuning in order to make the configuration technically feasible (or for other convenience reasons). A scale is then some combination of notes within a tuning or temperament?
I don't know, it seemed like they were more concerned with nitpicking words than answering your actual question, which was interesting and not hard to understand.
Curious: do you also have that attitude toward starting a company? Would you do it with no loans, no investments from others?
Sailing around the Mediterranean, then selling your boat two years later and sailing around the Caribbean, then doing it again somewhere else is easily within the reach of middle-class finances.

Having a boat and crew large enough, comfortable and capable enough to sail the open ocean is really the hard part, but you can get most of the pleasure while avoiding that.
That's what's sad about it. The daily grind should be meaningful in and of itself. But if you can't make that meaningful, then there should at least be another place you can go once a day where you do get that feeling.
Nist has the most bang per buck for research in my opinion. I was there for a fellowship this year, and it was really impressive. I was in the itl.
I think it's a bit arrogant for you to decide what should be meaningful for others.
If Chrome outright disables JavaScript's ability to alter the "Back" path, it may brake some (poorly designed) applications. A compromise is to prompt with a warning.
Reached the third day and I feel like a champ!

Damn this is hard.
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As a consumer I feel much safer recommending iPhones to friends and family. Play Store is a minefield and that scares me. But on iPhone my mom can wander around the App Store and I don't have to worry too much about her wrecking her phone because some app couldn't be trusted.

As a developer I hate it :/
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This is a great argument to be against the recent trends of companies moving to subscription models just for the heck of it.
Note that the recently announced T3 instances all have an even number of vCPUs; I wonder if it's related to this issue.
If your procedure have 10 parameters already, it's because what it does is very variable so in the future you will likely keep adding more and more parameters, those are that you are missing now.
Some highlights:

• Robert Smalls (April 5, 1839 – February 23, 1915) was an enslaved African American who escaped to freedom and became a ship's pilot, sea captain, and politician.

• He freed himself, his crew and their families from slavery during the American Civil War by commandeering a Confederate transport ship, CSS Planter, in Charleston harbor, on May 13, 1862, and sailing it from Confederate-controlled waters to the U.S. blockade.

• Smalls guided the ship past five Confederate harbor forts without incident, as he gave the correct signals at checkpoints. The Planter had been commanded by a Captain Relay, and Smalls copied Relay's manners and straw hat on deck to fool Confederate onlookers from shore and the forts. The Planter sailed past Fort Sumter at about 4:30 a.m. The alarm was only raised by the time they were out of gun range.

• In addition to her own light guns, Planter carried the four loose artillery pieces from Coles Island and the 200 pounds of ammunition. Most valuable, however, were the captain's code book containing the Confederate signals, and a map of the mines and torpedoes that had been laid in Charleston's harbor. Smalls' own extensive knowledge of the Charleston region's waterways and military configurations proved highly valuable.

• Immediately following the war, Smalls returned to his native Beaufort, where he purchased his former master's house at 511 Prince St, which Union tax authorities had seized in 1863 for refusal to pay taxes.

• After the American Civil War, he returned home and became a politician, winning election as a Republican to the South Carolina State legislature and the United States House of Representatives during the Reconstruction era. Smalls authored state legislation providing for South Carolina to have the first free and compulsory public school system in the United States.
Functions with a large number of parameters means your code is over-complicated under-designed and hard to maintain. If you are producing a function with 10 parameters, your code is probably so complex you missed the 11th.
IF applied consistently. This is Netflix though. I'll be interested to see how this plays out.
Someone I know well wanted to sail around the world. Learned to sail, and she got to know people with boats who needed crew to take shifts on their sailboards, and were headed somewhere interesting. Then she would repeat the process at the next port. There are also forums for connecting people in this manner. She always got food on board, and sometimes paid a stipend at the end of the trip. After a year and a half of adventure in dream locales I don't think she was out-of-pocket more than a four figure sum.

Certainty, and minimizing risk is expensive, but accepting the opposite can open up a lot of opportunities.
Sorry, I made a mistake: I specifically wanted to make that remark about the equal temperament tuning, not twelve tones in general.
Has the former option ever worked?
Wow, another interesting parallel between music and programming - senselessly overzealous arguments.
I'm still doing bug bounty as my full time job these days and planning to invest some of my bounty for a business in the future :)
> It's deliberately misleading people to ape this terminology to promote software which does not guarantee the fundamental freedoms of open source.

That may be, but the terminology chosen by OSI is easily misunderstood, exacerbating this problem. When I see "open source", I think mostly of the source and can I see it, possibly whether I am allowed to alter it for myself. Like an "open book" (hey, I can freely annotate my own copy).

Whether something is free to sell, or redistribute, or alter and redistribute always seemed like variations on what the easily inferred (even if incorrectly inferred) core meaning of open source.

Interestingly, I think the vast majority of people probably think open source means the source is visible, regardless of whether it's an OSI approved license, and regardless of whether they are happy with the license. If that's true, and common usage is at odds with OSI intention, where does that leave us? I think I could easily argue either side in that case.
Why would they seemingly manually create the panorama instead of using photoshop to create a smoother image? Seems like the vignette and color mismatch would be worth removing?
I agree that it can be frustrating, but you don't know the constraints that the previous programmers were under, or if it's part of the "prototype" phase.

The best thing to do is to gradually rewrite it by always leaving the code in a better state than it was before. For example, you're tasked with a non-trivial adjustment to an API endpoint--instead of adding to the mess, extract the endpoint out into it's own file and rewrite/clean it up. Write tests beforehand if that makes you more comfortable.

Using this technique, my current team has been able to slowly rewrite our codebase from spaghetti JS (read: thousand line JS files) into a more structured TypeScript project. It has a long way to go, but doing an incremental rewrite works wonders.

And like another poster said, being able to read legacy code is a good skill to have. After all, you'll need to understand it before rewriting it.
You can't get the same amount of cross-subsidy out of that because nobody is going to want to pay a ~20% Medicare tax plus $5000/year for $1000 value in supplemental insurance with $4000 in cross-subsidy.
Seems like a waste to tape something out and not make it generally available. Might as well make some money.
Any person? You sure?
It would be interesting if Netflix decided to straight up call Apple's bluff on their revenue restriction. Would Apple risk losing Netflix on the iPhone to enforce their rule about web signup links? Netflix is a ubiquitous expectation, and if it got delisted, Google and Samsung would have a field day talking about how you had to get an Android to get Netflix.
If you're genuinely good at finding vulnerabilities, and you can legally work in the US or Europe, you're pretty eminently hirable, and the impression I have is that the rate you'll command will probably swamp what you make on (ordinary) bounty submissions. I think most people who are really good at this either (a) use bounty programs as a way to liquidate extraordinary vulnerabilities, and are well compensated for it, or (b) do it as a side hustle.
It's true that it would be technically trivial for Apple to censor web access on iPhones. However, they don't do this, and it doesn't seem reasonable to expect them to in the future.
Sandboxing apps / discouraging side-loading are categorically different than going the way of Communist China.
Where is the user value in censoring web sites?
Microsoft abused subcontractors to deny them benefits even though they were de-facto employees. It doesn't matter what bullshit excuses Microsoft or anyone else comes up with, because they treated people like garbage.
> In my floating-point heavy tests on i7 however, there is still a small advantage in leaving HT on, the common wisdom is if you are doing FP, HT is pointless and may actually harm performance, but that doesn't match my observations if your working set doesn't fit into L2 cache. YMMV.

I benchmarked this myself using POV-Ray (which is extremely heavy on floating point) when I first got my i7-3770k (4 cores, 8 threads).

Using two rendering threads was double the speed of one, four was double the speed of two, but eight was only about 15% faster than four.

I don't think I've ever actually seen an example of real-world tasks that get slowed down by HT. Every example I've seen was contrived, built specifically to be slower with HT.
This announcement makes the prior news last year feel downright dishonest:

https://medium.com/make-better-software/introducing-manuscri...
https://www.businessinsider.com/fog-creek-ceo-anil-dash-on-m...

If Fogcreek is dumping Fogbugz, at least they could have made that plain from the start, rather then go through a crap re-branding effort and pretending there was an actual new vision (other than to offload the property).

I guess I'll be investigating new SDLC tools for 2019. It's been a good run of 11 years for Fogbugz (for my team), but I guess the writings on the wall...
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That analogy doesn't work for me. Why would somebody that can cross space stop by us? They don't need to eat exactly, do they?
I don't like the design. It's really ugly. But in principle, this technology could be discreetly put behind the rim of stylish glasses like you'd expect to find at a department store. The technology hasn't been miniaturized to that degree yet, and you'd still have to drive it with something but for non-AR applications it needn't be complex.

At $100 people would be willing to use this for various new applications. Education comes to mind as a particularly good application. Maybe sports commentary? Maybe pop-up AR booths in malls. That would be enough to jump-start an ecosystem, while the hard technical work is done.
like other's mentioned: audience.

i recently switched from my free github pages jekyll blog to posthaven (https://websgrain.com/posthaven).

everytime i sat down to write, i wanted to fix or update something on my blog. it became too distracting. having an environment for just writing with limited customization is really focusing.
On one hand, it’s nice that tech qualifications can be somewhat objectively verified through standardized tests, etc. But I agree the industry seems to rely on these too much, most likely due to insecurities of hiring managers. If you’re hiring experienced top talent, a phone call and glance at their resume should be enough to verify their qualifications.
Hopefully not treading on too many toes, but I would hazard, being part of an in-group rather than idealogies that are being used to as a reason to come together, are closer to what drives Burning man's economy of sharing, than actual altruism.

What you just described is the actual altruism.

I'm positing that people don't go to burning man inherently to do good - they do it for themselves, and that includes the giving and sharing, in the support of a community they identify with.

Let's leave out a few words to get something more universal:

"People don't inherently do good - they do things for themselves, and that includes giving and sharing in the support of a community they identify with."
Does Home Assistant let you make all IOT devices safer? Yes, for a given value of yes!

For starters, you need to ditch all those hubs and apps and that means you need to look into Z Wave and Zigbee. Briefly and in my experience and testing, Z Wave devices are more expensive but more compatible with each other. Z Wave has a longer range without any relays. Both are very well supported but I think Z Wave is better supported. Philips Hue is Zigbee as is Tradfri (Ikea). I've got both USB dongles plugged into a VMWare esxi in a VMware cluster at work and both survive vMotion and are very stable. I'm using this for Z Wave: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00YETCNOE/ref=oh_aui_de... (£43) and people on the forums offer to make up Zigbee USB devices with ready flashed firmware for about £20 or you can buy your own bits from Alibaba and DIY for a bit more for one but a lot less for more than say five.

You should also investigate the MQTT protocol and consider say Mosquitto and proper SSL for it for external stuff like Owntracks. Internal only access can be satisfied by using the built in MQTT broker in Home Assistant.

Also, consider ESP8266 (or ESP32) devices. You can get two for £8 on Amazon with pins etc already to slap in a small breadboard. Note that you can power them using PoE and a PoE to USB converter to get them up to 100m away. You can fit these things inside the sort of wall mount box you might have for a light switch or ethernet ports.

When I've finished testing at work (!) I'll be looking to control my underfloor heating, lights (note that you need three wires (live, neutral, switched neutral) for switch box controls or something like this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fibaro-FGS-213-Single-Switch-Black/... that can go in the light fitting itself. I'm in the UK BTW. Also I'll be putting in window and door open/shut detectors and a fair few of something like this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0141FQDJQ/ref=oh_aui_de... to see what is going on in a room. I aim to defang my Sonos speakers eventually. The TVs already go through Squid with quite a lot of monitoring and a lot of pfSense keeping an eye on things.

ZoneMinder is well supported for cameras.

Proper home automation is not cheap but is very cool if done right. Do your research very carefully. If you have a SO, then be very, very careful and test, test, test otherwise you will be kicked into touch very quickly. I'm aiming to have manual overrides (switches etc) for nearly everything and will be putting in a lot more wifi and UPS, RAID etc along with proper backups. If you are going to do more than a toy lighting system than do it right.

I don't fear my IoT stuff because they live on VLANs with names like THINGS and SEWER (for the really scary ones) but I'm not your average home owner (IT-wise) and am extremely pissed off at the vendors of these things for the frankly cynical approach taken to security and your privacy.
Learning OCaml is something I've wanted to do. I'll add this to the list of reasons to learn it :) Thanks!
I liked that book, but if anything, it made me of the opinion that life in the Centauri system (or any three-body star system) is extremely unlikely.
Android is free, which unequivocally is a net positive for consumers and smartphone manufacturers. Google places some terms of use to their software and suddenly they're being "anti-competitive." Had they made Android a walled garden like Apple, they wouldn't have been fined.
Not sure what country you live in, but the US has no legally mandated vacation time. 23% of private sector workers get 0 days.

https://www.epi.org/publication/millions-of-working-people-d...
Isn't this a developer kit?
A core component of any AR headset for everyday use is going to be that it not only has to be stylish, it has to be chic. I think Apple is the only one of the frightful five that have that kind of brand power. I have serious doubts that ML has a culture that can be molded to produce a product that has that aura around it. I can 100% see ML becoming part of Google, especially considering Google's stake in ML.
Surely nothing can top the latter half of Orson Scott Card's Xenocide.
You could still have app store and side channels. If you want security and Apple stamp of approval just use default app store. If you want cheaper apps, maybe from trustworthy trusted companies, install them as well.

Supporting obligatory 30% tax on any developer work makes my blood boil. If Apple model wins it will be a disaster for innovation and salaries. I will never buy or recommended Apple products for this reason. It's worth it to me a stand even if user experience is temporarily better.
I'm not sure I follow here...

a) Is there an example of a cloud provider adopting or building on top of your existing AGPL code bases? The big 3 all have fairly well known internal policies that forbid AGPL use. Ever wonder why there isn't there a MongoDB service being offered by any of the major cloud providers? AGPL.

All that being said I doubt they would want your modules anyways. Their track record tends to be:

* AWS would grab the core BSD licensed project, ignore your management tooling regardless of license, and build their own management tooling that integrates with their ecosystem. Theres a few exceptions to this like [Chef and AWS on OpsWorks](https://twitter.com/adamhjk/status/1032312528196575234).

* Google. They wont use your software either. If anything they'll build some wizbang redis like protocol and interface on one of their internal proprietary databases. All the software will work the same, but it'll be "better" because its powered by BigTable/Spanner/whatever.

* Microsoft. 50/50 shot they might actually just license your code and partner if they thought customers wanted it.

b) I'm not surprised that large customers aren't AGPL fans. Isn't this where they should come in with a dual-license approach and sell commercial licenses to the software you develop? So whats the win here?
Here's lstopo output on a 4-core AWS instance to illustrate your point: https://instaguide.io/info.html?type=c5.xlarge#tab=lstopo
well in the US it is also illegal to pay tax on income from illicit sources.

so people obfuscate the source and reintegrate into the economy from a new source. if this fails and the government investigates the obfuscation AND finds the source is illicit, then you have the same problem (well actually more crimes to be charged with).

and no, this isn't a civil forfeiture issue, but also not mutually exclusive
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Has there not always been unequal distribution of apps / content across platforms?
I lived there and lived in south korea. try to have a mixed child for instance, try to speak with older people around you, with your coworkers and you will find out stuff. in korea its more obvious as people are generally more expressive of what they feel but in japan its deeper. obviously it is same everhywere on earth. many french people don't mind or like tourist but they won't see immigrants the same way it's an obvious thing...
Yes, you can isolate hyperthread siblings to the same VM but you also need to ensure no host code (userspace or kernel) runs on that core, or the untrusted guest may be able to read values stored in L1 by that code. This is harder to do and likely would result in large performance drops for some workloads (because you are essentially disabling the advantage of locality for data that needs to be accessed from both guest and host environment).
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This is a list of some of the benefits of the App Store. The idea is not that every developer may want/need every feature, but think how much it would cost a developer to implement each one by themselves.

- 24/7 worldwide availability, instant payment/download
- Easy re-install after deletion, you still own the app even if deleted
- Region restriction
- Separate app pricing by region
- Revenues paid to developer from multiple region currencies without conversion fees
- Tax calculation and collection
- Customer refunds
- User rankings and reviews
- App store advertising in category listings
- Video previews of the app in operation
- Packaging of media content allowing developers the ability to load game levels as the user needs them rather than all at once
- App sales stats
I'm in NZ, it's not too common. There is private health insurance, but it mainly is for extra beyond what the state provides and to short circuit wait lists for certain elective medical procedures. It's also pretty cheap, a few companies will pay for it, mostly employees get a discount through their work places. Most small small businesses wouldn't offer it at all. According to stats around 35% of NZ adults ( from 2015 ) have private insurace.
Yes, but it's often a case where deploying finer-grained explicit parallelism works in favor, due to the much longer dependency chains that can be hid by the second thread. There are architectures not impacted by this issue, mostly ones with explicit dependency tagging long enough to handle a dTLB fault, but you need closer to double the registers and interleaving by the compiler to get abotu the same performance as with SMT-2 (aka, hyperthreading).
There would be 5000 car manufacturers
You forgot Samsung
So then you retrain your workforce in order to keep them employed.
Interesting. Under what circumstances are they broken?. Inf, NaN?
People picked up SnapChat though, then used it to send really intimate content. Like I see your point, but I don't think consumers are that smart when they're getting dopamine hits.
I think this may be missing the point of the grandparent comment; rather than interpreting it as an accusation of OpenBSD sabotaging its users' performance, I think we're all just curious at the relative importance of hyperthreading for real-world workloads, on any OS, in grim anticipation of the potential worst-case scenario where hyperthreading's security woes continue to worsen and worsen.
Sorry I meant to add per case, as it is in GDPR.