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To me, the state of development of open source FPGA tools feels about like the GNU project in the late 1980s.

gcc 1.x and 2.x targeted several Unix platforms and produced working code some of the time. It would work with gas or the vendor's assembler and gld or the vendor's linker, depending on target. It almost always used the vendor's libc and other libraries.

GNU autotools didn't exist but every significant project had its own "configure && make && install" system that worked some of the time.

The vendors mostly ignored the project, though clueful engineers from vendors as well as customers were cheering it on.

I think it will not take Yosys/iCEstorm/SimbiFlow/whatever 20 years to take over the world this time around. At least I hope not.
Core Text rendering issues with macOS 10.14 Mojave
The one thing I've experienced on this front that was clunky was integration between netlify and self-hosted Gitlab. If y'all could come up for a solution for that (which is prettier than "manual" deploy using webhook), I'd love both of your companies even more than I already do.
Bitcoin Miner Revenues Near $5B, but Profitability Dwindles
Great if true, but color me skeptical.

Almost anytime there is a story like this, the fine print is that renewables are only “cheaper” because of government subsidies. Is that the case here?

Also, cheaper in some situations (e.g. hydro power for purchasers right next to a dam) does not mean cheaper when scaled to a whole country. Is that the case here?
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It’s their right to do so b/c of freedom of assembly. But personally, I believe strongly in private property rights. To each his own I suppose.
> They just need them to look good enough on paper to get in the door, and know just enough that someone will take a chance on some percent of them, and rely on the fact that firing is hard

It seems that would be a very bad idea long-term.
Well, I have used it for years, and never encountered any issues. If you want to share a file between sandboxes you can hardlink it. Or use descriptor-passing. Or… But it feels like you are just looking for theoretical flaws in my personal workflow for the sake of coming up with flaws.

Of course, it is silly to sandbox your bread-winning software. I don't sandbox Android Studio. Or ffmpeg. Or VLC. Personally, I believe that nobody has a right to decide, how to sandbox software on other people's computers. I think, that such decision should be left to users of that software. Unfortunately, it looks like Flatpak does not make that easy.
Research is coming along. https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/10/tonight-a-virgin-atl... It's not at the point yet where we can take CO2 out of the air, but we can probably take exhaust fumes from power plants or steel mills and make something useful out of it.
You can use XSL to generate code to which javascript is later attached. I did that a couple times when I was young and foolish. Also, SVG supports JS natively, I believe.

That's not to say I would recommend it. No objection to your other points.
And, apparently, to stop your phone from rapidly pinging multiple towers at lower altitudes.
MongoDB is a document store which has much better querying and update capabilities than PostgreSQL's JSONB/HStore. It's also probably an order of magnitude faster when it comes to updates.

Not sure why you brought up Cassandra it is not a document store and completely irrelevant to this discussion.
In case anyone else was wondering, it appears that MBTA here refers to a Boston transit agency.
> "Individually targeted ads" is intrinsically more relevant to the individual and leads to better click through rate.

It also only works when the advertisers know information about you, and the more they know, the better it works. This presents a perverse incentive to get as much information as possible, even if it's not in the individual's best interest.

To lay it out clearly, it is in an individual's best interest to have relevant ads shown if any ads are going to be shown. It is not in an individual's best interest to have personal, private or even possibly harmful information warehoused at different advertising entities. The tension between these two things is what we're discussing, and I think the harm (or possible harm) from having that personal information aggregated far outweighs the benefits to the individual for targeted advertising. That targeted advertising it also helps the company is of little consequence in this specific equation (that is, should I as an individual want this, but of course matters quite a bit in explaining the status quo).
I've only used Azure for a little while, but it just seems way to slow compared to AWS. It takes forever to spin up and shut down a server, or reconfigure something, and the website in general just feels slow. The AWS portal is less pretty, but feels fairly quick.
It's a secret weapon. Most folks keep their mouth shut!

Stock brokering system in New Zealand
https://dtai.cs.kuleuven.be/CHR/files/Elston_SecuritEase.pdf
The CDN, and the fact that your server is a single point of failure.
They already are less expensive in areas that have the specific resource. For example, in windy parts of the world, wind is the least expensive. In sunny parts, solar is the least expensive. This is without subsidies.

With specific subsidies, the area where they are less expensive is even larger.

Of course, fossil fuels receive considerable direct and indirect subsidies, further complicating answering the question "what's least cost?"
Previous discussions:

2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11193380 (18 comments)

2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4601478 (41 comments)
I might have agreed with you... except the adapter is very cheap and can be easily replaced if it fails.

(And complaining that it's horrible in your pocket is just stupid. If you hate wires in your pocket, you should be first in line to get wireless headphones. I bought QC35s and they've been the best, most used headphones I've ever owned—and I've got some very fancy "high end" cans.)
How can you meaningfully separate subsidies from full costs?

For example if governments fight wars to keep oil supplies running do we count that as a subsidy? Is diplomacy to keep a gas pipeline open a subsidy? Is building roads to transport fossil fuels a subsidy? What about building national grids to transport renewable electricity?

No fuel system on earth operates without infrastructure subsidised by the government.
This metal shells rubbish is a key indicator that the whole story is bogus. Metal is completely normal.
"The stone age did not end for a lack of stone, and the oil age will end long before the world runs out of oil." S. Yamani
I think HAM radio could be more interesting if there were some compromise between "you can use lots of power but you need a license and you're prohibited from doing anything useful except in an emergency" of HAM and "you can use a little bit of power and don't need a license, but you can send whatever traffic you want" of 802.11-type unlicensed spectrum devices.

For instance, I would be more interested in packet radio if there was a shared band that required a proficiency test like HAM radio, but with more permissive rules. For instance, being able to use crypto or relay Internet traffic (which might have music or swear words). The usual argument is that if you let commercial traffic into the HAM bands, it'll just turn into a free-for-all and you'll have a bunch of crowded bandwidth with angry people, but in that case at least the bandwidth will get used by somebody.
Yes, but I think someone might pay to change all the soda cans to Pepsi products, for instance.
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>there’s no such thing as an unethical thought, only unethical actions

Gladly throwing myself in the pedantry to avoid the real discussion, the only reason we listen to other people at all is that their words are related to their thoughts and their actions. So, the reason you'd admonish someone for saying something horrible is that they indicated they were thinking something horrible, which gains status as horrible because it congruent with a mind that would do something horrible.
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Ah I see aws has their own cni that does that via eni. I never realized that it allowed for native pod addressing (and it was never brought up during their pitches). Might be worse performance for big clusters because it’s still using calico (iptables)
Right now I’m managing a team of 10, and still find the time to do some coding. Any more than 10 I need to charge members to be team leaders to take burden off when I know it is too much,

If you manage through stewardship, explain tasks and expectations, trust your report will make the right decisions. Then it’s mostly monitor allowing people good at their jobs to do their job. Then constant conversations individually, stand ups are great, but one on one as well every day.

I still find time to take ease to put down tasks. However most of my time is designing and grooming tasks, directing traffic, and unblocking my development team.

The job of a manager is to get out of the teams way, and to stay on top of roadblocks to keep all the lanes open. I also take responsiblity for watching out for process/workflow improvements to always keep improving, faster, better, less effort as that means more work done in less time and resource strain.
That's not reality at all. Many laptops run ARM CPUs now. Especially on Linux.
I think most people would consider it racist if someone said that they don't want to be mayor of a town that's all old black people. If race determines whether or not you would like to govern a particular area, I think that is racist. Unless they were only worried about the age part, rather than the race part, in which case I guess it makes some sense.
I go camping a lot and sometimes I am ... genuinely sad to come home. There's a certain pain that comes with modern life in the city that's absent in the wilderness. The longing for the wilderness becomes a creeping desire - a desire that will start to haunt you when you do things like ride the bus (that's always late and too crowded), or fight for a decent wifi connection at a coffee shop. You'll pick up some fish at Whole Foods to cook and think about what you caught, and ate, the previous weekend - and when you eat what you bought it just isn't the same.

I respect these nomads, and wish them well.
Tell me where the bus IS, dammit. Why is this rolling out after prediction instead of before?

Why are we "predicting" at all?

Why doesn't every bus have a tracker that tells you exactly where it is at all times?

This is 2018. GPS with refinement isn't rocket science anymore.

Tell me where the bus is and I'll do my own prediction thanks.
There are quite a few phones that will let you unlock the bootloader, but pixels are the only ones with decent security record and ability to self-sign builds for verified boot. Pixel 1 will stop receiving support in a year. So you need to make that call if you want to buy a phone with just a year of security updates left.
You can. An experiment, pick a task you don't feel like doing, and try to do the actions required, for the sake of the experiment (not for the sake of the outcome of the task itself). Obviously, you can make your body do whatever you want.

Now, you might counter this argument by saying you were only able to do it because you "felt" like doing the experiment.

Here, we must acknowledge a distinction between wanting to do something and feeling like doing something. And a further distinction between different reasons for wanting, and the ways you think about those reasons (logical steps, assumptions, context).
Globally, conventional fossil fuels receive greater subsidies (nominally, not $/MWh) than renewable power. Estimated to be up to $6 trillion when considering indirect subsidies [1] and $260 billion when only considering direct cash subsidies [2].

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X1...
[2] https://www.iea.org/newsroom/news/2017/december/commentary-f...
East Wind, and most income-sharing communities, are 501c6 non-profits, which are organized like a monastery.

They pay income tax on the community's income, which is evenly distributed (for taxation purposes, not as actual outlays) to each member, but is not considered wage income, and thus isn't Social Security income.

Since people's taxed 501c6 income generally doesn't require Social Security payments, it's possible to not be eligible for SS at retirement age, but many people worked enough quarters before joining a community, and their SS benefits are contributed as income to the community when they retire.
Explain to me how an analog 1/4 inch jack doesn't "just work." After all, that's what's on the end of my good headphones. I never heard anyone complaining about dongles when it was 1/4 inch to 1/8th inch.
If I'm right, that's exactly what they did. When the BMC chip boots, it checks two flash chips for firmware so the attacker just uploaded their own code to one of a million standard SPI flash chips and plopped it onto the board. They didn't have to incorporate another device into the system, the system was already designed for two flash memory chips. However, to save money on some SKUs, the manufacturer left one of the positions on the board open.

Normally this wouldn't be worth talking about because most active chips are too complicated and too design/supplier specific to carry out an attack like this, but SPI flash is about as standard a footprint/protocol as you can get in EE short of transistors so if you ship a product that could be reprogrammed from unpopulated pads, you're opening yourself up to a large attack surface.

Honestly, after I read the latest BMC chip theory I was like: "Oh, shit. Have I done that?"
Can you push straight to S3 from git? I know you can wire up S3 sync with commit hooks or something similar, but that’s more work.
That's also not what they mayor said. You could interpret it charitably, but normally you have to take what public figures say and subtract some charity, because they are incentivized to hide what they're really thinking to avoid arousing opposition. After all, politicians are the ones that the phrase "being political about it" came from - their profession is to make everything they say as unobjectionable as possible while still indicating their position to their supporters.
I am over impressed with the Mi A2 Lites camera for this price point. Phone has very impressive build quality too.

Bad Sample: https://i.imgur.com/vD2uC9u.jpg
You seem to be under the impression that fossil fuels are not subsidized by governments everywhere.
Well, Flatpak is designed for GUI applications, where the user indicates their intent to grant access to a file by picking it the file chooser (which is magic, runs outside the sandbox, and grants the sandbox access to whatever file the user picked). This is nice because the sandbox can be invisible from the user’s perspective. I think AppV is similar.

For a CLI application like tar, this would be a bit harder because every program has its own command line syntax and you can’t always tell what arguments are supposed to be filenames. Still, you can do reasonably well by just granting access to any argument that looks like a filename. The Plash shell, a forerunner of modern sandbox designs, took this approach, but as an additional security measure only granted read access by default; if you wanted to run a command that writes to a file, you had to use special syntax before the filename [1]. Still reasonably usable, although there are other issues, like the fact that many Unix programs default to reading and/or writing to the current directory…

[1] http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~seaborn/plash/html/shell.html#shell-d...
Sveriges Riksbank is government institution and the world's oldest central bank. The Prize is based on a donation received by the Nobel Foundation. None of that really matters. What Afred Nobel's intentions do not matter either.

What really matters is the prestige and good judgment of those who give it
has created for the award over time. Nobel for economics has much better reputation than literary and peace prices. It's up to par with Nobels in physics and other sciences. They don't give it for people who don't deserve it.

Nobels in physics have more controversies than economics. For example the Nobel committee failed to recognize Albert Einstein's work in Brownian motion, general relativity, special relativity or mass-energy equivalence.
This looks really great! I've never really carried a key with me and am afraid of losing it, but am thinking about giving it a try. How long have you guys been working on this for?
Yes, they would've been swapping batteries every 20-30 minutes perhaps, depending on manoeuvres.

I've had someone say "Drones are so creepy. Someone could photograph me sunbaking nude in my backyard!" despite being the sort of person who would never sunbake, never get nude in their backyard, and not be anyone that someone would want to photograph nude in their backyard. It's a false drama.

People in this thread are talking about drones flying near airports and hitting planes and you want to dob in a real estate photographer in case it's a jackass (when it's probably a hobbyist taking photos of their suburb from a unique angle with similar resolution to satellite photos all over Google Maps). Even with a large format camera, from that distance, you're probably a pixel.

I was photographing a near-empty beach the other month and accidentally caught a guy nude getting changed beside his car after a morning swim at a public beach. Even from absolutely nowhere near 500 metres, you could see 10 pixels of skin tone and nothing more. I deleted the shot and kept editing the others from that set.

If it's a jackass persistently buzzing your house, you watch where it lands and say "Hey, I know it's a fun toy but it's driving my dog crazy. Can you avoid the area on this side? Thanks man!" Call the cops for something serious.

If a drone crashes into your house or car, it has identifying information that you will be able to use to pursue the pilot. "Oh, but what if it was bought caaaash?"

I'm regularly baffled by the reaction to drones. I'm not talking about safety concerns with aircraft, but things like someone standing there raging about a drone that launched and then left the area while a jetski is audible for an hour across an entire bay. National parks talk about the impact on wildlife when, while driving a highway in Australia, you pass a roadkill from cars literally every few metres.

I got a permit to fly in a national park the other month. I launched in the car park and then for 99% of the flight, I would've been inaudible to anyone there, hundreds of metres away from hiking routes. Even someone flying against regulations in that spot (over the canyon) was only audible as background noise for 5 minutes. Same day, 5 sightseeing choppers and planes circled over for much longer and people just ignored them. People take issue with new things.
I think the idea is that the neocortex doesn't multitask. So you can talk and drive a car but not talk and learn abstract algebra.
100% right. The only thing I can add to your comment is that “machine learning” is rapidly beginning to expand to include heavily quantitative model-based work.
Full cost. The investment firm Lazard puts out an annual report on the LCOE (levelized cost of electricity, e.g. subsidies removed), and this past year wind was cheaper than natural gas[1].

[1]: https://www.lazard.com/media/450337/lazard-levelized-cost-of...
That would still be the case if the packages weren't 1-3 years out of date.
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xmpp works as of today. Not sure about which chinese apps. AOSP doesn't come with any. Neither do the phones sold by google in their stock configuration.
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Yes, I had a lot of similar questions. Maybe 'task' is a misnomer? Maybe it's context switching that is the issue. Like talking and driving and having music playing in the background all exist in the same context of operating a vehicle. Just like using a calculator, reading a textbook and writing in a notebook are all different tasks you switch between to study, but are all in the same context of studying.

Side note, Wikipedia claims you can multitask between tasks you are already highly proficient at.
> the logistics system of the web version of the fake plane is in a missile.

To be fair, it could also be a death ray laser. The whole thing looks a lot more like Star Wars than a real plane. It has asymmetrical wings.
The only thing that’s going to fix global warming is making carbon based fuel prohibitively expensive through some kind of carbon tax.

Energy demand is fairly elastic and if energy is free or cheap, people will just use more of it, leaving us just where we started. See how bitcoin miners are abusing subsidized renewable energy for example.
> I have been using a directory-per-program sandboxing setup for several years (and still do).

I'm curious how you do this? What's your setup?
Ground transportation is a much larger component than aviation and has known solutions. If we got to 80-100% electric cars and trucks before converting one turbofan to <unknown alternative> it would still be major progress.

And in the worst case there are always biofuels or synthetic non-fossil liquid fuels, which are a lot more carbon neutral after you convert the energy that goes into their production away from fossil sources.
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I have found a good article on how to design the dataset for the image extraction.
https://www.datasciencelearner.com/design-best-machine-learn...
ES5 has a lot of interesting hoisting bugs.

For example this doesn't print what you expect:

for (var i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
var text = 'number ' + i;
setTimeout(function() {
console.log(text);
}, i * 1000);
}

But flipping var to let will fix it. The bug is that var is not block-scoped so everything refers to the same `text` variable which gets mutated by the next iteration.

I was hoping their demo would be good for explaining this bug but it seems to be broken.
I work as a software for the MBTA but don't speak for the organization.

There are pages on the main site about this project, for example: https://www.mbta.com/projects/better-bus-project

I think the Medium blog was set up for posts intended for a more tech-savvy audience than the broader audience that visits MBTA.com to check schedules, plan trips, view alerts, etc. Maybe at some point it will be merged in.

The website was relaunched ~year ago as an Elixir / Phoenix application and there are still quite a few features and content being added.
I imagine no one would be offended had it been couched in different terms as desiring a more diverse and vibrant community with more of a future.

Agism or not, it's generally true that small towns with a lot of old people are typically towns in their death throes and white enclaves are typically practicing some form of racial exclusion.
Please leave my local cousine alone, even if she is in the cuisine ;-)
Genuine question: what happened to Leah Goodman and the editorial staff of Newsweek after the Satoshi Nakamoto debacle? As far as I can tell, nothing: https://www.newsweek.com/authors/leah-mcgrath-goodman
Every once in a while I start thinking about switching to Android and then I see a comment like this and I wake up.