skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think right now Boeing is ahead schedule-wise, but it's a bit of a coin flip for who will launch first. I wouldn't be surprised if they're within 3 months of each other, both for the initial test and the first crewed test.
Alphabet and some other fund (fidelity?) invested $ 1bn in, I think 2016. Could have been 2015 as well. I don't have the numbers ready right now. But I'm rather sure it was the year after a Falcon 9 exploded and they didn't launch for a couple of months.
I enjoyed your comment. But you are looking at the difference in the inertia tensor of an adulterated board from a non-adulterated one. Not the inertia tensor itself. Signal to noise problems with the measurement.
Isn't this or alike chip put all the Chinese hardware other people and enterprises buy too? Or at least in all the SuperMicro mainboards (I use these too!)?
I disagree. You really need "shared nothing" and messages. The only language that really hits the concurrency nail on the head is Erlang, which we use extensively in our business.
I believe it's possible.
This story reminded me about Lenovo's drivers automatic installation:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/12/lenovo_firmware_nas...

And yes, I had the problem with my Lenovo desktop.
Go is also statically typed while Erlang/Clojure are dynamically typed. That seems like another pretty significant difference aside from the syntax.
Where is your farm located?
Crew boards while the rocket is empty, which makes it safe. After that, there is launch escape system ready to take the crew to safety in case anything goes wrong during the fueling or launch.

This is not considered less safe than fueling after the crew has boarded, and NASA agrees.
The original premise was that black marks will be overlooked. I don’t know how to break it to you, but the ones you’ve listed are infamous and hardly overlooked.

Premise: No they won't, it'll be whitewashed in textbooks and only those who study history will know. There's already so many so-called black marks that are worse and already quietly overlooked.

And you just offered a ton of support for the competing hypothesis that our period of history will be infamous along with the ones you’ve listed.
There's a lot of whining from the "traditional organic" farming industry about this.[1] They got disrupted by hydroponic technology.

Here's a major "organic" tomato operation in California.[2] It's indoors. The growing medium is coconut husks with computer controlled drip irrigation. It's more similar to a hydroponic operation than to an outdoor farm.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/11/02/561462293/hy...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ayKz9-FbhA
"Saying nothing" is indeed an extremely common move for Apple PR. "An Apple spokesperson declined to comment" is such a proverbial reaction that it would be considered completely standard operating practice here.
>The whole thing feels like encroachment of some kind of bizarre secular theology into physics. Grandiose and mostly non-falsifiable claims that can't be used to make any specific predictions.

Even though we have disproved many of the fundamental axioms which serve as basis for many religions, the human tendency towards religious thought remains. It's just currently in vogue to portray such tendencies as '(unfalsifiable) science' instead of 'divine word'.
>Yes. Because mainstream is what you should select for when choosing your tools.

Ease of hiring experienced developers should absolutely be a part of selection criteria, but of course it should not be the only one. What good is it going to do you when you picked Elixir/Scala/Rust over Python/Go/Ruby, you need to hire senior engineers who can hit the ground running ASAP, and you have limited resources/budget?

It's going to be harder to find them (especially if you're not in SF), it's a harder/longer initial learning curve if you hire senior engineers without prior experience, it's going to be harder to find non-seniors, you're going to have to pay more to get what you want...the list goes on.
Perhaps these things aren't handled at the level of "company"?

For a national security-related issue, you might just include the minimum number of people that need to know, which would naturally not include your PR team. Then when an article like this comes out, the PR team responds in exactly the way they would if it were an outright fabrication, which is what the goal would be.
How much of an individual user’s data has been compromised? As far as I understand, as long as you’re not using iCloud, you’re pretty well-protected. Is that inaccurate?
This is wonderful!

My first paid programming job was writing a Logo Adventure program for C64 Terrapin Logo. They wanted a simple non-graphical game that showed off Logo's list processing capabilities, and I just used Logo's top level interpreter as the parser! That saved a lot of coding, but it did let you cheat (aka "learn to understand and program and debug Logo").

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/logo-adventure-for-c64-terrap...

Here is the source code to LLogo in MACLISP, which I stashed from the MIT-AI ITS system. It's a fascinating historical document, 12,480 lines of beautiful practical lisp code, defining where the rubber meets the road, with drivers for hardware like pots, plotters, robotic turtles, TV turtles, graphical displays, XGP laser printers, music devices, and lots of other interesting code and comments.

http://donhopkins.com/home/archive/lisp/llogo.lisp
AI Engines, Arm Brains, DSP Brawn. Versal Is Xilinx's Kitchen Sink Edition FPGA
Is the existence of a BASIC-to-Pascal or C-to-Go translator evidence that people would rather write BASIC than Pascal, and C to Go? And there's been both Java-to-C# and C#-to-Java converters, so I guess people there are unhappy no matter which they pick.
One is saying how much computers use of a global resource pool, the other is how much brains use of their host body. They're completely different things so it doesn't make sense to compare those two percentages.

If you wanted to compare them, cite the percent that the CPU uses of its PSU, or cite the percent that human brains use of global energy consumption. Otherwise they're completely different things that have no meaning in relation to each other.
You can get around that firewall if the firewall is compromised as well.
Ahem, my knowledge of cognitive psychology (and psychology in general) are certainly not relevant but I pretend to be a decent reader... Sorry, your font is terrible to read. I spent more time in deciphering it than in understand the written concept.

BTW personally I always found FAR MORE effective to take notes with pen and paper and after transfer them on personal desktop, in org_mode in my case so without any fancy distracting typography. The same for reading: I learn far more reading a printed docs than from an on-screen one. I test many times and techniques from high school to university to work training/conference etc. ALL "PC made from the start" was a fail, including photos and voice recording. Of course I'm not a statistical valid sample but I pretend to be not much different than any other human around.
Well I know, because I wrote (approximately) half of it. :) It was written well in that it was a technically innovative and beautiful game that pushed the boundaries of the PS1 hardware. It was written well in that the shipped code didn't crash or have horrible show-stopping problems. (This was important because there were no streamed patches back in the days of physical media.)

But it was absolutely not written well from the standpoint of maintainability, abstraction, documentation, testability, etc. This is partly due to the insane time constraints we were under, partly due to the primitive nature of the development tools at the time, and partly due to the intrinsically low-abstraction methods required to achieve the necessary performance -- e.g., the entire renderer and collision detection system were written in MIPS assembly (by me).
Yeah, you're probably right...
Which is a pitty, really. But hey, regardless of the result it was fun think about it!
Well, it sounds like it has no chance of passing because both the outgoing and incoming mayor have pledged to veto it. Unless I missed something.
Yep, absolutely. The number of people buying upvotes is so transparent when you think for even 5 minutes, but of course Reddit are not going to stop it because it's good for them.
I agree that Bloomberg is reporting this in good faith, and that they corroborated as much as they could have given the information they received.

The credibility of their unnamed sources, their motives, and so forth, this is all unclear at this point. It may turn out that they are courageous patriots blowing the whistle on something very, very big. One can imagine a cover-up at the highest level, with these six individuals risking their careers and possibly their lives to reveal the truth.

Or one can imagine that there are some trade negotiations coming up, and a coördinated effort to plant a story so that politicians can take credit for swooping in and enacting regulations around the security of technology manufactured outside of the USA.

Who knows? I don't.
> The reason for this is because handwriting is slower than typing, so your mind spends more time thinking about what you're writing

Yeah, but this is about a typeface that's intentionally harder to read, not write.

I agree with the idea that handwriting notes is more beneficial, to a degree. I prefer taking notes by hand, but once I reach a certain threshold (over 3 pages, usually) , I need to organize the notes digitally.
What fraction of the concurrent programming you've done over those years has been in Go?
It's the final battleground.

Control the media conglomerates, lobby as control over the internet, control the sentiment.
> apt for server side programming

Except what part is that? Having to download 4 or 5 projects to build, compile, and run 'basic' pages is too much bloat; not to mention the dependency hell.

It more and more seems to me like node was made 'because we can' instead of providing something. This can be seen with all of the cruft required; a lot made as an after-thought.

Package manager, npm; which itself has proven that... it wasn't designed too well. The reliance of it creates the cruft. Add in the fact that a web server shouldn't be event driven. I (personally) haven't seen any other language do an event-driven web; and I'd say, for good reason (callback hell.)

Javascript itself is okay because it's a requirement today for web pages to the average joe. However, if the Javascript foundation is merging; it'll their motto to use it (Node.)
Other links would be

[1]: http://ftr.fivefilters.org/makefulltextfeed.php?url=https://...

[2]: https://feedex.net/feed/news.ycombinator.com/rss

I suggest reading either of those three feeds on https://inoreader.com/ . If you add the feed there, you will have access to past aggregations since the feed had been submitted.
I wonder how much being pro choice correlates with being pro human gene research in fetuses.

I would think the arguments on the value of the unborn fetus vs the value to society are very similar.

personally - it correlates for me. I’m in favor of both.
This is really funny because that drive was so incredibly slow, and especially the 1540 was unreliable. A tape with fastloader would approximate the speed of the stock drive...

Still, I did the same thing!
These are certainly bad, but generally well-documented historically. I don't formally study history, but have read about most of these.
D-Wave takes quantum computers mainstream with ‘Leap’
>If it's true, it makes absolutely no sense for Apple and Amazon to attack Bloomberg.

It makes a perfect sense to protect from a potential devastating blow to stock price.
Designing Product Experiments
I think I saw this on another thread. You're saying if someone bids that they can do something for a price that's not reasonable, it's my fault for believing their mischaracterization? "Fool me once, shame on me."

I much prefer the other mode of operation: "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."
Not really. The GOOL code was used for character logic and things like the load/save screen. The majority of the code was written in C and MIPS assembly.
I can't tell if you are joking or not. The point of the font is being terrible to read. There's an explanation on the page. Making your brain work harder to get the info makes it more likely to remember the info.
they clearly don't want you to remember their site. If they did they'd be using their font
Agreed, I think you've stated your point better than I have further down in the thread based on my down votes.

The American press is not perfect, but over the years I've been really impressed with the journalistic skill of our major publishers. Just this week the New York Times had an extensive story regarding the president's tax returns, they claim to have access to hundreds of thousands of documents and spoke to dozens of sources. I'm more inclined to believe Bloomberg's journalistic integrity than the denials of Apple, Amazon and China.
They seem more excited about the 6.1[1] than the 7.1...anyone have experience with it?

I'm really disappointed with the Pixel line and have no interest in spending nearly $1000 on a phone so the 6.1 sounds like a nice compromise but wanted to see if anyone had any opinions first.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/07/nokia-6-1-review-the...
I get the whole “drug companies are evil” mentality from the anti-vaxers, but
You do know that they intend to use that data to help find cures and treatments right? I mean they want to make money just like every single company in the world, sure, but it’s not like they are aiming to use your data to produce guns for teenagers.
> There is something really wrong with the world in which we live.

"Something somewhere is wrong."

Undoubtedly.

Could you be more specific about the problem you have in mind?

Because I think you'll find that there isn't a consensus about what the problem is.
Why would a cop drawn their weapon and then not point it at someone? That doesn't make any sense.

You're right I don't have hard citations, only first-hand evidence from someone with 30 years actually doing it.
Who is "heavily debating" slavery? Among whom is it not "universally viewed as black mark in American history"? Not any black people, I bet!
Eh, my brain may be much more efficient at problems that involve processing complex sensory input and making split second decisions - but it’s absolute trash at doing complex, repetitive maths.

Our brains are highly specialized, you’re comparing an ASIC strapped to a Z80 with modern general purpose CPU’s.
Huh? I feel like this article is missing an example of what kind of operation a Chef run would do that requires coordination between hosts. It's incredibly vague right now, I don't feel like I have enough information to determine whether it's even a good idea for this to happen in Chef.

Like even what the two Curl commands would be in the small example there would be helpful.
> CSS doesn't mean no one can see the code or that there aren't third-party audits.

It does mean that there are no meaningful third-party audits. An audit (or benchmark, for that matter) that aims to be approved by the vendor is as useful as a rubber stamp.
Stop producing more humans.
Thanks for the insights. 6 Years without a promotion seems like a long time to stay an SDR.

What type of startup was this? Also, what were your earnings like if you don't mind me asking.
How are nursing home costs handled in other healthcare systems?
Thanks for the responses so far. Not a great sign though when the portfolio site of a designer doesn’t look great and in one case doesn’t display content correctly on iPhone Xs and my existing site (which I want to improve) does. Don’t mean to be overly negative but I want to go forward not backwards!
That's right; avoid doing anything that could block while holding a lock: acquiring another lock, waiting on a semaphore, and so on.

Note how condition variables have an aspect of this built-in: the wait operation gives up the mutex.
I think comparing this to slavery, the Indian wars, Jim Crow, etc. more than a little hyperbolic.

There's a big difference between using violence to control other people, take their land or systemic disenfranchisement and the best healthcare being affordable to a big chunk of the population.

Things that are Really Bad(TM) involve people actively doing things that we consider highly immoral today. Healthcare is just a case of failing to find a workable solution. The situations are very different.
Monthly or faster (if BB issues an out of band fix).

KEY2 is available in the US.
I think it still needs a clause excluding EPL dependencies. I wish clojure didn't go the EPL route because it's a PITA to release gpl code that is compatible with it.
Didn't Apple and/or Amazon (EDIT: not Amazon) categorically deny being involved in PRISM until Snowden's slides showed that to be false?
I was taught the ‘wave (eigenstate) collapse upon measurement’ concept, and in the lab, it’s just silly; the decoherence concept you describe is quite obviously the proper way to think about it, or we wouldn’t have to worry about losses from anything that wasn’t measured.

Simple explanation of QM: a classical object has a vector of properties, but in quantum this is a matrix. Any interaction is a matrix multiplication. After a bunch of matrix multiplications, you end up with a single eigenvalue, and now the quantum property matrix acts just like the classical property vector. The choice of linear operators, and probably the internal linearity among properties as well, is just a simplification, but otherwise we’d be mathematically lost in a world of functions that arbitrarily modify other functions.
It seems that it required internet access to download additional code, if it didn't have that it couldn't do much at all.
Don't disagree with the challenges about other languages being equally applicable. My first thought was also "Erlang does it at least as well as Go". Reasonable challenges on whether Erlang (or Elixir/Pony/...) are mainstream though.

For me the more valuable point is not that Go specifically gets it right: it's that async - as implemented in javascript/python/java/c# and so on - is fundamentally wrong. These two quotes get to the heart of it:

>The core idea is that in the asynchronous model we have to mentally note the blocking nature of every function, and this affects where we can call it from.

>The fundamental issue here is that both Python and C++ try to solve this problem on a library level, when it really needs a language runtime solution.

I've said for a while that async as implemented in javascript et al is the "GOTO" of concurrency - and should be considered equally as harmful as Dijkstra's observation on GOTO, for many of the same reasons [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful
A single modern CPU can crunch more numbers in a second than every person living on earth combined. Sure there may be things that it's not capable of, but most things it is capable of, it's usually 8-10 orders of magnitude more efficient at.
A good read is 'Poorly Made in China'.

The product is different, but the problems are the same.

* They drop changes and problems at the last minute, so you're over a barrel with your customers.

* Relationships take months, maybe years to build. Switching suppliers is a long and costly exercise.

* Often suppliers themselves are in communication, so your attempt to build a new relationship is scuppered by your current (corrupted) supplier before you've got far.

* The new supplier will 100% play the same games.

* Suppliers/factories are often expert at these games - they're not idiots, their bread and butter is manipulating managers and big companies into corners and fleecing them along the way.

* Large suppliers often have strong local/regional government connections. Once you start causing serious problems, they'll have no trouble causing massive, massive problems for your business.

* Are you going to admit to your customers and bosses that your products were faulty and you knew?

It's a poisoned chalice. Companies want low cost manufacturing, and sometimes China is the only place a product can be manufactured competitively. But this kind of behavior is standard for Chinese companies.
>They’d lose billions

This is exactly it. There's no cost to deny, deny, deny until it's impossible, then "oops, after extensive investigations we've found the claims to be true on a limited number of devices...".
I feel like there is a really large opportunity here for some other international supplier...
Worth noting in this discussion: Einstein never took an IQ test, at least none that historians know of. Pretty much any time I see a claim about a historical figure's IQ, it turns out to be an invented figure made on the basis of a totally unscientific "estimate." The tendency of pop writers about intelligence to use these invented historical IQs as a measuring stick makes me doubt the whole enterprise (though I'm not singling out Gladwell here, whose books I generally like).
"But in my experience, Apple PR does not lie. Do they spin the truth in ways that favor the company? Of course. That’s their job. But they don’t lie, because they understand that one of Apple’s key assets is its credibility. They’d say nothing before they’d lie."

As a few people pointed out in the other thread, didn't they pretty explicitly deny they were involved with PRISM?
you dont need to break it to me... ask a group outside of HN and they will come up with a couple if you’re lucky.

try it.
Where are you seeing that? I'm designing the Model 3 right now and with AWD and autopilot it comes to $63k before incentives and $53k after... https://3.tesla.com/model3/design#autopilot
I would have used oleum instead of pinguis, which is more like "grease", I believe:

https://books.google.it/books?id=pdFLAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA85&lpg=PA...
I fear you've misunderstood.

People often murder because of who the victim is, but they sexually attack because of what the person is.

There are contradictions both ways, however.

For example, a rapist attacks a man they met at a club, generally that's because they're looking for a body to use sexually. There are lots of people with those bodies. When they leave prison they can still find many bodies to use sexually; the chance of recidivism is relatively high.

A woman kills her partner after years of abuse, when she leaves prison that person no longer exists and she's unlikely to ever be in a similar situation. The chance of recidivism is relatively low.

TLDR You can't murder the same person again; you can assault another person who fits a general profile.
there's a comment on r/sysadmin that's quite chilling, implying that the state of affairs is far worse than what the report describes:

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9layb7/from_bloom...

I did a penetration test and security assessment for a major electronics manufacturer
whose parts are likely in every smartphone and laptop. I identified almost certain compromise
by the Chinese government with full access to modify the manufacturing specs using the
access paths I identified.

They chose to bury my findings as it would cause a huge stock hit. Sadly, NDA.

I'm not surprised in the slightest.
Here is a demonstration by Christopher Domas where he uses an undocumented processor hidden in an X86 processor to become root: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eSAF_qT_FY
Amazon bids for CIA contracts; Elemental bids for Amazon's contracts; Super Micro bids for Elemental's contracts and the PLA "bids" for Super Micro's contracts. Looks like Ouroboros, the global supply chain episode.
What would lead to more of a loss of trust? Revealing to your customers that you hid a massive hack for a few years (even if the government required you to) or insisting that Bloomberg is lying, when you know all the other relevant players will also insist on the same.