skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ossia looks like a fantastic project! I've only spent a few moments looking through the site and github, and see some interesting possibilities for integration into my work. I'd love to connect with you. Let me know where best to reach you, my contact info is in my profile. I'm working on an ecosystem management framework where public art installations serve as monitors, dashboards and signal generators for citizen scientists and artists working to expose environmental impact. We've been looking for a protocol to route messages in and out of MaxMSP, Unity, and the external graph databases, and your use of OSC seems to solve many of our problems. Cheers!
AArch64 has a larger register file and fewer dependencies in general than x86-64 does. For example, most instructions don't set flags. I don't know for sure, but that might be enough to raise the ILP sufficiently.
It's not just the BBC, it's a race to the bottom out there.
Try it through europe vpn. Long list of many pages of third party sharing leeches and dark ui techniques (you only see accept button and have to click on the non underlined normal looking text to see the list of oartners; no “select/deselect all” button means you have to click off each checkbox)
> >I am all-for the FOSS movement but there is no need to go full Stallman and say that everything but GPL is evil

> I did not say that, nor do I believe it, nor is it really related.

Not even Stallman believes this [0]. He has even explicitly endorsed the use of a "lax license" when pragmatic concerns justify it [1].

[0] http://openbsd-archive.7691.n7.nabble.com/Real-men-don-t-att...

[1] http://lwn.net/2001/0301/a/rms-ov-license.php3
Yes, because cellular providers now mostly bill by GB rather than unlimited. If you can suck down a GB in 10 seconds that's a GB of bandwidth they sold in 10 seconds instead of 1 minute.
In fifth grade, our Windows 2000 box was "locked down" so that all you could do was print documents. Turns out, however, that the printer control interface reachable from the print dialog had a "Select PostScript interpreter" button which would launch the specified executable whenever a page was printed.
Yeah that's not hyperbole or anything.
Supermicro has been dealing with some accounting irregularities for the last year or so. This news certainly hasn't helped, but they were already in a shaky position.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/super-micros-stock-set-to-...
Well, it's probably all about details.

If I see rocks I can e.g. drive around them, judge if they're really too big for my car, drive on the sidewalk, etc.. => all these options are really complicated to program.

Current cars don't stop, at least not in Europe - they might break/go slower but it's going to be mixed with steering to avoid whoever is there causing all that fuzz. And if I think that whoever is in front of me is a threat that I might just run over him/her (or "it" for "animal" - a different kind of complexity - e.g. do you stop for 1 frog? 10 frogs? 100 frogs?) , at least partially.
You wouldn't be alone, I doubt automakers would sell a single solitary L4-capable vehicle without locking it down legally first. My guess is that they'll have to assume liability but with exceptions for if the user modifies the device in any way or otherwise breaks the user agreement. If accidents happen they'd have to have some procedure where they treat it like a plane crash and pore over every detail and issue recommendations/updates to some regulatory body.

The downside to this is that these vehicles would likely make even the most cautious myopic octogenarian look like speed racer.
A wake-up call for traditional mattress chains
I actually find the touch latency thing to be really misleading. I have one iOS device (and iPad Pro 9.7"). The touch latency is definitely better than my Pixel 2 XL, but not enough for me to ever care about it in the best case for both devices.

The annoyances come when the responsiveness is below the standard for either device (eg, 1/4second to 1/2 second delays). I see some of those on both devices, tbh.
then just say no. stop falling for the partisan trap and assert your right to have an opinion disconnected from a political identity (even if that opinion more-or-less falls in line with one of those parties).
In one work: throughput. More CPU time spent doing useful work rather than GC scanning. Makes you need less scaling out to handle increasing load.
It's classic divide and conquer. The ultra rich have framed politics as red vs. blue, when in reality it has always been (and always will be): them vs. the rest of us.
Not only that, which base stations don't have Chinese components?

But cpu, baseband, ram etc is certainly more serious consideration... And I don't see how you can get around that. Unless you plan to build a dumb phone around a Motorola 68k or something?
Liability generally goes with the owner of the vehicle, not the manufacturer or the operator (with some exceptions perhaps for proven manufacturing defects).
No I am not a conservative. I have read that book, and the first time I read it I liked it a lot. I thought it was the definitive book on US history. However, I have heard from many reputable sources about the problems that the book has, and Howard Zinn himself has an obvious agenda. Regardless of ideology, a book that paints itself as nonfiction history book should be objective and unbiased. The Peoples History of the United States is undeniably biased in my opinion, and for that reason I do not recommend it except for someone's own personal enjoyment.
California passes law that bans default passwords in connected devices
Note: I wrote the parent comment for this discussion - not the guy you are replying to, but I wanted to chime in.

In line with what I was saying earlier - when I work, I care about what the folks I am working with are like - at work. At home or in their personal time, they can do whatever they please, it is none of my business.

Why has the culture become such that this seems to be everyone's business? Is it because there is more sharing of people's lives on social media? Not everyone is okay with that. Some people want their personal lives and opinions to be their own. Not everyone has put their life out there for likes and reactions - yet it seems to be the default assumption that people are fair game to be judged for what they do on their own time.

In India, where I live, we constantly fight against a culture that is in favor of moral policing. Just last week a Hindu girl got arrested here for spending time with a Muslim man. The cops were eventually suspended, but that is one example (for the sake of this discussion) of the kinds of problems we have in the culture I live in.

These folks you are talking about aren't simply "voicing an opinion" they are working to destroy this executive's career. They may not be detaining him against his will, but they are like those cops in my country - who are taking action against someone who doesn't share their worldviews in their personal life. Why is this ok?
Finally the elites have invented a suicide booth for us miserable opiate addicted masses. Wish it was more affordable though...

I hope the computer comes with a steering "app"
>>> The processor is one of the only thing Apple has a clear lead in over Android flagships.

This is the only thing I do not give a shit about. A much slower CPU would be just fine. The true advantage is the UX. Just try to disable automatic grammar correction on both iOS and Android and count the number of items you had to go through. It is insane how much crap Android has for every single thing. Designed by engineers for engineers mentality is the root cause here. Apple puts the user in charge how an mobile OS should look like or should behave and this is the biggest differentiating factor between iOS vs other platforms.
Missing Saudi writer gets blank column
> Why wouldn’t a company notice any of the outbound traffic using firewalls?

If you deploy several thousand of those backdoor chips, you wouldn't set them up to ping your C&C infrastructure all on its own. Rather, you'd use a magic string as a trigger to activate the backdoor in some few targets to reduce the chance of the outbound traffic being detected.
This. Require auth, it also allows you to add stuff like rate limiting per account to further prevent abuse.
All right, lets go back just a bit further - to Watergate. The House Judiciary Committee voted to impeach Nixon. One member called his wife, said that they had voted to impeach, and then started crying. This was one of the Representatives who voted in favor of impeachment, crying (I believe) because it was a tragedy for the country as a whole that it had come to this.

I can't imagine that, if the Democrats win the election next month, if they vote to impeach Trump, that any of them will cry about it, ever. I can't imagine that the Republicans shed any tears over voting to impeach Clinton, either.
Lottery tickets don't demand that you wear multiple hats and grind for years. Even if you bought a ticket every day it's probably cheaper than quitting your job and eating into your savings for a chance at an indie moonshot.

The hobby project route is pretty much the only way.
I'm going to break the HN code of ethics (oh gosh) and explicitly bump this. All of the solutions I have found just point at the insecure access option.
I do remember some UI inconsistency showing up as soon as you want any software that wasn't written specifically for elementary (like VS Code), but that's inevitable since it's basically rolling its own UI no matter what OS you're on.

Not recalling much repeated terminal intervention, though there were a few safety nets that I immediately turned off the moment I had it installed (I think related to package manager installations?)

Dropbox did not work well.
Interesting point of view - this might be the real end result of the implementation of such automation. Still, some details will be tricky to solve... .
Ok, this is basically what I do with an Ansible script, but I see it as a bit messy and non-standard, which is why I'm attracted to Docker swarm mode and Kubernetes (and maybe Nomad).
What? How was this comment racist? I'm actually curious. Do you disagree that google has a strong jewish presence? I never said anything about them in banks, media, politics. All I did was search "google executive team" and looked through their wikipedia pages.

> what do you think prevents "palestinean voices" from participating in those meritocratic endeavors?

They're under a blockade by the Israelis, that'll do it.
Testing the June Intelligent Oven
Reality admits shades between Humpty Dumpty being right‡ and the Prescriptivist utopia where some ivory tower decides how language works.

‡ In "Through the Looking Glass" Humpty Dumpty asserts that "When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less".

So it matters whether it's, say, one pundit who thinks "Source code available to certain parties under license" (e.g. Microsoft Windows has been handled this way in the past) counts as Open Source, or so common that you can find dozens of erroneous examples in every major software publication of the last five years.

People writing "free reign" when they mean "free rein" might be unsalvageable at this point, whereas people saying "backslash" when they mean a forward slash - probably we can still say those people are just wrong and need to sort it out.
What Makes “The Good Place” So Good?
I have extensively used both, and spent some time using Gnus too. Plus a lot of time on Mutt.

In my opinion, Notmuch is better than Mu because it has a really neat architecture that allows customizing it to embrace any possible email workflow with a few trivial Bash commands.

Notmuch is purely tag based. It will never ever modify your mailbox. It's your task to map tags to imperative mailbox actions (delete, move...) using some shell hooks. Most workflows can be trivially implemented by calling the notmuch backend and piping the output to mv or rm using xargs or parallel.

Since searching in Notmuch is really quick, I recommend never manually assigning tags and tagging everything with rules written in the backend for those repetitive searches that you want a shortcut for. This is not specific to Notmuch, but also applies to Mu.

Mu has a hybrid tag/folder model, and the interface resembles Mutt in some ways. The other key difference with Notmuch is that Mu stores tags using a special header in each message. Notmuch uses a separate database, which is not synced across computers (unless you rsync it explicitly). I prefer the latter approach, as modifying your mailbox to store tags is a bit ugly and slow. I also favor not tagging things manually, but using rules. Then syncing tags becomes unnecessary.
A basic tslint setup goes a long way to catch things like unhandled promises: https://palantir.github.io/tslint/
> Long list of many pages of third party sharing

Aren't they required to do this by European law?
Haha, reminds me of this classic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE5PRW-AR7Q

Also, I remember fondly finding a way to break out of my shared drive into the NAS proper, installing a bunch of warez games and having impromptu LAN parties on the school network. What a time to be alive. That shit might get you arrested or at least expelled at my old high school these days.
I'm not married to the gasoline, but I don't think I'll ever be comfortable in a car that can't be driven manually.
They don't need to be interested in selling off Waymo, because as we see in this very article they are interested in licensing Waymo tech to established players like Honda.
Hi, I run an open source project and it has a CLA. I chose a fairly permissive one (contributors retain ownership/copyright), however it does allow relicensing. One of the main reasons I chose to do this is:

1. I have a put a lot of time into the project. More than anybody. Years of work. At some point, I'd like to be able to make money off of it, and relicensing will give me that option (enterprise installations and all that).

2. iOS. The GPL, from a lot of what I've read, is incompatible with the Apple store. If you want to release a GPL-licensed app on iOS, you need to be able to relicense it. Please prove me wrong here, but I think this is a big deal.

Here's my take. If I ever want to make the project completely closed, the last GPLed version is still available and able to be forked or continued. I can't erase the project from the face of the earth, which is kind of what the author seems to be suggesting.

Secondly, if I was starting a project that blossomed with the help of hundreds of contributors, I'd be much more likely to not want a CLA. That said, this is my project. Sure, anyone can fork it and do what they want with it, but I am the one creating it. And at some point, I want that to pay off. My choice of GPL is not to protect contributors, it's to protect the users. The CLA lets me have a restrictive license while giving me the freedom to relicense as needed.

If that keeps you from contributing, no hard feelings. But having a CLA lets me navigate a lot of issues that would otherwise keep me up at night (or make me not want to maintain the project at all).
tcmalloc cannot compare to allocation performance in HotSpot, where allocation is about 5 or 6 instructions. This is the same size as a function prologue and epilogue.

You're denying that the generational hypothesis holds for Go heap objects. I see no reason why this would be the case. In fact, Go's situation is very close to that of .NET, where the generational hypothesis certainly holds and therefore .NET has a generational garbage collector. This very article is evidence in favor of the generational hypothesis, since much of the optimizations boil down to reducing short-lived heap allocations.
I saw someone criticize self-driving cars by saying that if someone just covered a stop sign, the car wouldn't know to stop. This is different than the status quo how?
Thank you for posting -- I've been super interested in this subject recently after seeing some really great live visuals at a few concerts(1). I'd love to add to my current set of visualizers (2) with something like this.

(1) https://goo.gl/989gYr

(2) http://whoadude.cool
When I started at university, the IT department had just upgraded a load of classic Mac LCs to PowerMac G4s with 10.2 Jaguar. Clearly they’d never encountered OS X before as they locked down the systems in the most ham-fisted way possible.

It was the work of a moment to get round the restrictions. I felt bad about it, but had to be done as I couldn’t actually do my coursework without.
thanks for clarifying that. so, the equity stake was at a much more reasonable price than i initially thought.

elsewhere in the article they mention that JP Morgan valued Waymo at something like $100 billion. also they say that Alphabet has plenty of cash. so, it seems reasonable to assume that Waymo didn't need cash from Honda.

more interestingly, Waymo doesn't seem to place much value on Honda's production capabilities and other expertise.

is Waymo embracing a sort of scorched-earth business plan? does Waymo have any true equity partners?
> I think what's difference now is more and more people are less and less aware of history...

More and more people that other people are listening to are less and less aware of history. The internet has given a platform to many more voices. Some of those new voices have worthwhile things to say. And others are coming from places that are rather disconnected from reality. Before, the only place those people got heard was at the corner bar. Now the whole world can hear them.
Amex giveth, Amex taketh. They'll take their /your umbrella as soon as rain starts.
20 years ago, Clinton tells a lie about his personal life and gets impeached; today, Trump lies about things which have actual life-or-death consequences for US citizens, and that's just ordinary political background noise and you're crazy if you get upset by such a minor thing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don't know where this misconception comes from.

Consent is totally different from contract - and both are part of reasons under the GDPR to use private data.

True, consent requires necessity, but contract is wide open. When you click accept you aren't consenting, you are (theoretically) forming a contract, not consenting.
There's a problem with exfiltrate via BMC network theory.

In a sane setup, your BMC connection cannot access internet. You should build an isolated intranet for it (including VLAN or hardware isolation, not just subnet/IP), and put a VPN in the front gate. As a result, you login to your data center, or go to there if you like metaphors. If nobody’s there via VPN, BMC network is a silent and dark place. No connection to outside, no unknown traffic, just silence. Only exception may be the discovery packets of some BMCs, which can find similar servers and form federations for easier management. Even this needs some setup beforehand.
No doubt politics has always been dirty, but the existence now of a system which, by design, automates the amplification of the most obnoxious of its millions of users, has to have had some effect.
> Shipping something back on Ali Express is basically a total no-go.

My returns with AliExpress have all been full refunds without having to reship the items back to the supplier.

One of my refunds was for a $100+ item, as well.

> Ali Express is 2 weeks minimum.

I've received items in a week or less.

> Shopping on Amazon is still cheap and convenient.

As of late, this hasn't been true. AliExpress, Walmart and even Best Buy have had better deals than Amazon.
I like it. It looks like a good place to browse through different UI elements.

There are a few places where your UI needs a little polish (The bar at the bottom isn't very responsive and can be janky, there's some issues with box overlap, there's a few places where alignment looks off). All in all I think it's a great start and I'm excited to see where you'll take it. If you get around to it could we have something like this for React-Native ;)?
Tesla's other problem: catching up on autonomous tech
Well, hackers are good at filtering, plus the fold thread button works wonders too, it can make some discussions much better for you.
If the manufacturer claims your vehicle is L4 (and even goes to the extent of not adding a steering wheel), then for liability purposes it ought to be L4.

It may fail in practice, but the claim is all that should matter in court.

Yet, I'm sure somebody somewhere is going to be thrown into the lions for protecting some rich company. So I'm certainly not going to be one of the first to buy one.
How to craft the perfect pitch: Whether you've got 60 seconds or half an hour
> Consider that most people never drive more than 10 miles from their home on a given day.

This is simply untrue if you're considering average commute distance of drivers in major cities.

> hefty price of owning, maintaining, and insuring a vehicle

These costs are highly variable, and many reasonable options are quite cheap.

I don't see self-driving cars catching on any time soon in the US. Possibly in Europe. I think they will be limited to smaller vehicles that operate in glorified bike lines, only on known routes.
Lying publicly and on the record about something that should have been disclosed in their financials as a risk is not something the SEC would take kindly to.

Publicly traded companies do not have the same freedom to lie because the truth or falsity of this claim has a direct impact on their stock price. Something we just saw with Musk less than a week ago.
Reminds me of "tourist info" kiosk computers that were installed in our city when I was in high school. It was clearly windows XP based, with a customized locked down browser. Only the city webpage was allowed. It could open PDF files by embedded Adobe Acrobat reader. If I remember correctly, there was a right-click menu that allowed the print dialog to open, where you could select print to file and open an file save dialog. There you could locate cmd.exe or explorer.exe and right-click and open.
Cliche, but Brex thinks that they can outdo banks? If there's money to be made at Brex terms, banks with gazillion more resources surely will jump in.
By clicking flag, which I did on your comment.

`Whites control the banks, the media, tech, politics

What do you think prevents “black voices” from participating in those meritocratic endeavors?”
`

Are you implying that Palestinians are somehow inferior and therefore have less merit for representation?

I’m black and I see white supremacy folks use that sort of logic all the time.
In other words, most automated tests are regression tests.
I think anonymity is a major contributing factor. Here's a data point:

I worked at JPL between 1988 and 2000. Somewhere during that time period -- I don't recall exactly when -- the IT people set up an internal Usenet newsgroup that could be posted to anonymously. The idea was that it would be a forum for people to candidly discuss issues that needed to be addressed by management.

Almost immediately it degenerated into a Lord-of-the-Flies style melee of the sort that is all too familiar today, but which was new and shocking back in the days before the WWW was really a thing. And this was not just random people off the street. These were all JPL employees, of which there were about 7000 back in the day.

It went on for several months until IT decided to disallow anonymous posting, and all the acrimony immediately ceased.
No, this is the most hostile thing they can get away with, but they are absolutely not required to make it as painful for you as possible.
Ask HN: Better CLI tools
I'm sure most of use or have used tools like `htop` instead of `top` and `ncdu` instead of just `du`. I'd be interested in what other alternatives to common CLI tools you all use and why.