skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm surprised that remote video cameras aren't used by tower controllers.

There are software and hardware/network setups designed to do this now, in fact London City Airport is about to move to a fully virtual control tower, with a bunch of super high res pan/tilt/zoom cameras on a mast instead of an on-site tower.

https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=lon...
> "Companies dont have our interests in mind any more than the government, but we can vote the government out."

I see it differently. Everytime I reach for my wallet I'm voting.

On the other hand, the government "market" has been cornered by two parties. We get to vote for their henchmen & henchwomen who (self) serve their parties - parties that are bought and paid for by forces we can't see nor control - more than the citizens who elected them.

With rare exception, my wallet has more power than your vote. Anyone who tells you otherwise needs a good history book.
And the article waits until late to point out that it is the companies themselves that have explicitly demonstrated that that's how they want it to go: once you lose interest, quit answering the phone.
I guess the answer depends on which country you're talking about. The U.S. government pioneered nuclear power but has done very little with it over the past several decades, and has impeded private efforts. Canada has a regulatory system friendlier to reactor startups than the U.S., and at least one molten salt reactor company (Terrestrial Energy) is making good progress there. China has an aggressive government program developing every type of GenIV reactor, and Terrapower moved there after giving up on the U.S.

This article mainly covers the MIT fusion effort. For years they struggled to keep their government funding, despite their tokamak having the most powerful magnetic field of any in the world. They finally lost that battle, and now private investors are stepping in. It doesn't appear that there was an alternative.

Government can obviously throw more money but it tends to be more conservative about what it funds. And private funding can go pretty far; it was interesting to see that TAE (Tri Alpha Energy, an aneutronic fusion effort) is up to $800 million in funding. They started work in 1999, so long-term fundamental research does seem to be achievable in a startup setting.
s-tui, a good tool for top-down checks like the one in the article.
While you're not wrong from a regulatory standpoint, I think consumer product-wise both Instagram and Snapchat were among the strongest challengers to Facebook as far as insurgent social media networks went. If they had merged- well, the leadership would be dysfunctional, but it would have been very entertaining to see Facebook on the defensive.
Uber settles for $148 mln with 50 U.S. states over 2016 data breach
Your pricing is pretty expensive compared to Bubble.is. How is your product different?

Is there a support community yet for Stacker builders?

Also, here is a good place to submit tutorials if this takes off... www.stakk.co
Except, correct me if I'm wrong. Here it's much MUCH easier to fix/change yourself.
They showed a video of a multiplayer tennis game on stage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNJla9pO9vg
There was some unofficial tool to flash firmware on Linux. When I took my Carbon to IT, they just booted Windows off of an external SSD disk.

Also, LVFS: https://fwupd.org/lvfs/component/1023/all <- to me, personally, this didn't work. I suspect it had to do with UEFI mode.
AT AI TASKS.

Isn’t it common sense that task specific silicone is usually faster than adapting something else?

Isn’t this why Apple and Google have been making their own AI processors instead of using the GP use in their devices?
They ruin other pilots' and crewmembers night vision.

Sokoloff's post just before mine is more articulate on this. I learned the same: strobes on when cleared for takeoff.
Poor white people are significantly less likely to live in cities. This has widespread impact, for example urban populations have more frequent police contact.

ex: "Poor African Americans are four times more
likely than poor whites to live in the central city, and twenty five times more likely to live in high-poverty neighborhoods." https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/67111/...
And then used it to build a tech antitrust Super PAC!
These people ostracize and hassle those who try to do a honest job and point out the issues with their methods. They also drive the people trying to do a good job out of the field because they can't compete with the fake productivity people like Wansink enjoyed.

Also, the unnecessary suffering caused by this behavior is basically unimaginable. Who knows what advances we would have made if 90+% of resources dedicated to science during this golden era of cheap energy hadn't been wasted? We can't even estimate that.

But yea, Wansink is just the tip of the iceberg. I've been saying for awhile that future generations will need to double check everything since about 1940, because the professional researchers have not been checking each others work, and have been using known incorrect methods to draw conclusions (NHST).
The value of a business is not, or should not entirely be, measured by its return on investment. You are making the GP's point for them. That some continue growth, and that's where we choose to invest, doesn't mean all should or that it is beneficial that all do.
How much money would it take to duplicate the offerings and marketing of Stripe.

And shouldn't that be the actual valuation?
Check out coil: https://coil.com
I do speak Russian and I do know what I'm talking about.
Я говорю по-русски и прекрасно знаю, о чем речь.
Current 5th gen user, coming from a MacBook Air 2013, I can’t believe people think the thinkpad is a great laptop. Running Linux on this never even crossed my mind.

(Edit: specified Mac vs thinkpad I don’t like)
I get push notifications on auth on both my debit and credit cards. Weak evidence, but my hunch based on what I see there is that there's some dollar value where they pre-auth (somewhere around $25, I think).
Trying to effect large-scale changes without rectifying fundamental issues is futile. We all want to change the system, but the system is only a large-scale reflection of individuals constituting the system.
Detractors have probably infiltrated the company
`man fwupdmgr` I ran the few commands in the link [1] and it worked just fine, lots of beeping scared my coworkers tho.

Just don't forget to change the Power setting in your BIOS to Linux, as mentioned in the link as well.

[1]: https://github.com/fiji-flo/x1carbon2018s3#via-lvfs
I suspect it's less "bypass" and more "did the extra research/work".
Binaryum a Modern Disassembler
Several hardware manufacturers for LTE last mile fixed wireless, WISP equipment, have announced BTS and CPE equipment for LTE in unlicensed 5150-5850 MHz bands. Baicells and Telrad come to mind.

It's not for around your home but as competition for things like the Cambium PMP450 platform and Ubiquiti's Rocket 5AC gen2 AP radios.
An important point to add to these observations is that WhatsApp made massive inroads with carriers in developing countries to zero-rate their services (unlimited WhatsApp messages as part of a data plan). This is the underreported aspect of the FB acquisition as these arrangements were immediately parlayed into zero-rating for WhatsApp and Facebook. WhatsApp was so far ahead of Facebook in becoming established in these markets that it posed a real threat. And as you said, $1-24 per year paid to WhatsApp would be only a fraction of what even the poorest mobile phone users pay for their plans.
You buy and sell spare parts?
Overlooked factors in the analysis of parole decisions
Deep Bimodal Regression of Apparent Personality Traits from Short Video Seq
It feels like I didn't really get it given your explanation as I still can't understand why doesn't Scala (as a language, I know its actual compiler doesn't handle memoization on itself and won't remember the exact type in many cases (see "type erasure") actually) suit these needs?
> carbohydrates

Are you doing that on purpose?

I don't know if the keto diet is healthy, but making a statement like that is.. pretty much guranteed to step on somebody's toes.
The letter [0] actually argued that "Dragonfly is part of a broad pattern of unaccountable decision making across the tech
industry".

The article seems to have recently been modified to link to it.

[0] https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/328-jack-poulson-dra...
I actually think that having a cooler laptop is advantage and often I would like to be able to make the choice. So to me, this is not a bad thing, wish there was a setting where you can say how cool/hot you would allow your laptop to run.
EU's complaints depend on the TRIPS agreement https://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/whatis_e/tif_e/agrm7_e.... , which appears to be silent on investment as well. If EU obtains a favorable ruling it would likely require China to treat patents owned by foreign entities equally as those owned by the Chinese. However it is unlikely to say how China should regulate foreign investments. Indeed under WTO countries have no obligations to allow foreign investments at all. Plus TRIPS contains this as well: "More precisely, Article 7 (“Objectives”) states that the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights should contribute to the promotion of technological innovation and to the transfer and dissemination of technology, to the mutual advantage of producers and users of technological knowledge and in a manner conducive to social and economic welfare, and to a balance of rights and obligations." https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/trips_e/techtransfer_e....
I love the aesthetic! Great work.

Here's my unsolicited design riff on the "battery indicator." I'm a fan of the concept, but the 100vw element width of the yellow fill was distracting me from the rest of the content. I used DevTools to mock up a narrow version which fits within the right content gutter, right next to the scroll bar. I had to tweak the percentage metric display a bit by stacking the sun above the value and removing the "%" indicator, but feel the end result has increased readability and is still understandable.

https://imgur.com/a/IIPZILz
From a Vertica query plan:

explain select country, count(*) from tablename group by 1

...
+-GROUPBY PIPELINED (GLOBAL RESEGMENT GROUPS) [Cost: 79, Rows: 1] (PATH ID: 1)
| Aggregates: count(*)
| Group By: tablename.country
| Execute on: All Nodes
| +---> STORAGE ACCESS for tablename [Cost: 78, Rows: 14M (1 RLE)] (PATH ID: 2)
...

Note the row count at the top level.

This type of thing only works when the group column is the first in the projection sort order (or for multiple columns, a prefix of it). Generally GROUPBY PIPELINED indicates that the sort order is being used (including RLE).
Corporations aren't people and regulation isn't censorship.
I have been a SAP consultant for the last 25 years - mostly doing ERP. Here are my answers -

1) Considering it is the largest European software company with sales similar to facebook, I am constantly surprised how little people know about SAP - even among IT professionals. Their image is staid and corporate as could be expected from a company whose customers tend to be large organisations. However there are many opportunities for SAP consultants - I have seldom struggled to find work. Due to the complexity of their products, I am still learning new skills everyday.

2) They have tried to follow the trends by adding FP features to ABAP, WebIDE for Fiori and SAPUI5, Leonardo for machine learning, etc but it never really seems to catch on. I think this is because there is no compelling use case in an traditional ERP environment. The most revolutionary change was the migration to HANA in memory database but even this is transparent to the average ERP user. If your heart is set on these areas, I would not recommend SAP.

3) I have not personally worked for SAP but I imagine they are like any other huge multi-national. I went to the Waldorf HQ last year and clearly they employ many smart highly skilled people but it lacks the "we are changing the world" vibe which I could imagine in many younger new technology based companies.

4) Business culture is much slower to change than individual culture. Business skills don't become obsolete so quickly. Social networking may out of fashion 5 years from now but boring old double-entry accounting is still going strong after 500 years.

5) It's good enough. I have worked France and Holland despite issues with my French and Dutch. I notice younger colleagues prefer to communicate more with IM and email which makes English listening and speaking skills less critical for tech workers.
Are You Smarter Than a 19th Century Midshipman?
For a hardware-free option let me plug my little weekend project called DNS Whisperer:

https://github.com/apankrat/dnswhisperer

It's been quietly spinning on our mail server for a couple of years and it works just as you'd expect it to. Block ratio is around 50%, with no notable effects on browsing experience. It also blocks various in-game ads on the iOS devices. I update the blacklist now and then, may be once every 4-5 months if that, but it's largely maintenance-free.
I mean, that's a lot of zeroes. I was going to say commas but that doesn't really reflect the magnitude right :P
It ossifies every layer of the stack below it. Once you have a practical monoculture, user demand effectively cements the entire underlying operating system design to cater to the browser implementation. Fine if you're selling Chromebooks, but fatal for innovation.

Once the operating system is encased in amber, only a massive budget can break new ground -- this is why things like Plan 9 from Bell Labs will never take off. It's why Haiku is importing more and more BSD code instead of pursuing their own paradigms. It's why the only realistic chance for anything new is Google's Fuchsia; they're one of a very few organizations who can afford to innovate in this environment.
It's not really the developers installing their own toolchain you have to worry about here, though. The folks working on the official builds and deployment should be far more aware of what's happening, because that's what has to be supported. If you're letting B&D do things willy-nilly, that's a serious business problem.

I aware they're often the same folks (DevOps), but your senior engineer and/or project manager should be watching what's going out.
blendle.com, which I mentioned earlier in this thread, has this instant-refund feature. I've used it a few times when an article was disappointing, or when there were technical problems (digitized article cut off the second half of the print version).

Seems to work for them, though I don't know their revenue/profit numbers.
Correction: Bayesian, not Baysian.
Show HN: Kconfiglib – A flexible Python Kconfig (make menuconfig) implementation
Hello,

Kconfiglib (https://github.com/ulfalizer/kconfiglib) is a Kconfig
(https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-lang...)
implementation in Python.

If you've used the Linux kernel's make menuconfig interface, you've used
Kconfig. Internally, Kconfig is a language for describing
configuration options and dependencies between them.

Demonstration of Kconfiglib's terminal menuconfig:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ulfalizer/Kconfiglib/scree...

Documentation generated by Kconfiglib:
https://docs.zephyrproject.org/latest/reference/kconfig/inde...

Kconfiglib started out as a helper library (hence the -lib), used by e.g.
U-Boot and Yocto, but now has enough features to work well as a replacement for
the C Kconfig tools. It's used exclusively by the Zephyr project
(https://www.zephyrproject.org/) and by several smaller projects.

Some features not available in the C tools:

- Several Kconfig extensions: Globbed and relative sourcing, direct
references to environment variables (though this is now also standard in
the C tools), "strict" mode, and more.

- Easy to setup and use: The library and the utilities are one file each
(kconfiglib.py, menuconfig.py, oldconfig.py, etc.), and can be installed
from PyPI. Just the Python standard library is used.

- Code that strives to be simple and well-documented: The C tools are
notoriously impenetrable, and I feel a bit masochistic whenever I
contribute to them. :)

- Portable: No *nix-specific features are used.

Kconfiglib also works well alongside the C tools. The test suite compares output
between the two implementations for all architectures and defconfig files in
the kernel.
These are the bad things about early retirement
> This is not meant as negative towards you at all. But I think your post demonstrates the gulf in perception between the savvy PC gamer and others. You say you have no problems, then go on to list a whole bunch of problems.

These are issues that occur rarely. I have less troubles using my PC than some friends do with their consoles.

It helps that Steam truly does update things in the background, and that it is possible to bandwidth throttle updates.

In comparison, a rarely played console will want to potentially spent hours on updates.

A PC has advantages because it is most likely used daily, so the updates have already happened in the background.

Honestly, both consoles and PCs are about an equal pain to keep running now days. PCs have gotten better over the years, and consoles got worse, and they have kind of met in the middle.
How did you come to the conclusion that he misunderstood anything at all? Reading his comment I cant see how you think that.
Deploying Anycast DNS Using OpenBSD and BGP
If the machine is owned it's trivial to dig the cookie jar once you're logged in.
Probably worth mentioning the full date in this case... O:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=57&v=oF7FR7TjnME has an overview shot, showing just how low AC759 got to the airplanes on Taxiway C. (Look at the top of the frame.)
The tower recordings are posted above.

>(storage is cheap, isn't it?)

Not on ancient planes where everything needs a billion certifications from all sorts of regulatory bodies.
DeepMind and Unity will work together on AI research
Even prior to that, WhatsApp did not keep the messages in their servers. Yes, that's not the same as encrypting them. However, they were very clear from the beginning that they won't mine the messages for their ad-value.
Why an edge router over unifi, for smaller setups (Triplebyte is what, 30 office people?)
I can only speak for the US market I guess, but they haven't found a real need for a PC/Mac outside of what a Chromebook can do, so at the end of the day, I don't feel it bodes well for PC/Mac long term.

I'm a developer at work for internal applications (and some external). All of my non-server running things are web applications. They could be accessed by Chromebooks instead of the hp Windows 7 laptops we use now. I doubt we'd switch off PCs due to familiarity at the very least, but we don't need them.
You have no concept of what Google/Alphabet has in mind for expanding into China.

Your ignorant and compartmentalize ideologue view of this with an arrogant undertone is dangerous to a free society.

Schmidt has a track record for tyranny and regime change using google tech; see a joint authored book Schmidt wrote with his state department understudy who developed social agitation mobile technology used to torment the arab spring under Clinton, Jared Cohen out of Stanford.

LMGIFU: https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=eric+sc...

(The same Stanford Balsy Ford works at heading up the C!@ undergraduate internship program. )
The banking reform laws that were billed as curbing the big banks turned out to have been gamed by those banks to give them a huge advantage in home mortgages, driving out the community banks.

Given what lobbying and regulatory capture is like, more government seems as likely to increase the predatory nature of businesses.
Well, ironically, the proposed approach is to have government has censor police within Google, to ensure the opinion is, you know, balanced, left and right.
It's a loop recorder. When that aircraft was certified, only a 30 minute loop was required. If that aircraft was newly certified, it would now require a 2 hour loop.
When Instagram was bought by Facebook I think it had 13 employees. Would they not of had to comply with GDPR then?
Why is it illegal? How would you invest in them if it were legal?
Thanks for the extensions but my idea is more around browsers treating our activity more as multiple projects that we’re working on. Like associated files, they’re associated URLs. Extensions are fool, but you’d think the browser wars would spur greater innovation in this area.
This is so true. The other day I listened to a project manager rant about how Slack is "like a coding tool" because "you need to put stars for bold". She was really quite upset about it.

Another time a friend of mine, who I wouldn't call non-technical, but isn't a programmer, was collaborating with me on a Github wiki for a project we were working on. I was flabbergasted at the way he would copy-paste and edit the source of pages I'd written just to get bold text instead of typing the asterisks himself. He was just really used to WYSIWYG formatting buttons.

This HN comment[1] provides quite an interesting theory about why Markdown in particular has such a different reception by programmers and non-programmers.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4765665
Markdown is supported, but is it required? I know lots of Messenger and Skype users that have never heard of Markdown.
Gay legend might be necessary to divert attention from Skripal poisoning or to explain why their passport numbers are close to each other.
It’s pretty likely that Acton weighed what he could do with the money when it came to pursuing his values post-Facebook. His role in co-founding the Signal foundation and substantial donation to its existence is good evidence of this. A small portion of his fortune could pay for Signal to be free and continue to improve for decades if managed well.
Twitter Proposes Banning Dehumanizing Content
As far as I understand, the thermal limit at 80C and TDP limit at 15W on Linux is what Lenovo actually intended, and the limits on Windows are broken.

At least according to this Ubuntu maintainer: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1763144...
For a few billion dollars, it's pretty easy to see myself doing the same thing.

We're entering a world of a widening disparity between rich and poor. A billion dollars puts you, your children, and their children in the very wealthy side of that line for their entire lives. That's hard to say no to.
No I understand it. I even have at least one book extolling it in business and life.

I just wanted to convey that the sheer act of starting and running any (non evil) business is a Good Thing and worth doing irrespective of your valuation, power laws or not. More power to their elbows. (That is such a flexible word!)

Any way, assuming power laws hold in life is like assuming financial markets have normal distributions - it's gravy while true, but if it ain't so, things can get hairy. :-)
Show HN: Skynet This Week, a bi-weekly digest of top AI news
A LOT. Even in developing countries people paid ₹50 (or the equivalent of a $1). WhatsApp changes this model a bit by partnering with carriers. Unfortunately my memory is not clear on whether that was before or after the acquisition.

Edit: Note: WhatsApp publicly claimed that a billion users paying $1 each is enough for them. Also remember, a lot of the technical complexity, infrastructure requirement and data storage requirements went away in their model of being just a conduit. They had no interest in reading, parsing, mining, storing or monetizing the messages. This let them run it with a lean crew.
So was bellingcat fed this information from a western Intelligence organization and then they parallel constructed it? Seems likely.
Top reasons to invest in Bitcoin – do you agree with #7?
Russia's Aeroflot Docker server lands internal data on public internet
A beefy CPU which quickly hits its thermal limit is pointless.