skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a fun meta note: I initially authored this blogpost and collaborated on it with my colleagues using repl.it. It's also hosted under https://repl.vc and you can get to the source this way https://repl.vc/__repl

Moreover, lots of people are discovering our jobs (https://repl.it/jobs) page. It's worth noting that it's as part of an ongoing project we're calling repl.run: ship terminal apps as websites. We released it in beta last week and we're already seeing lots of fun apps built with it:

- Text-based rpg game: https://rpg.dtfps.repl.run/

- snake game: https://sssnake.ericqweinstein.repl.run/

- cool interactive terminal animation in ruby: https://key-press-2.theangryepicbanana.repl.run/

- Pure Python Bash Shell: https://ppbs.neocities.org/

- Chatroom: https://chatroom.pyelias.repl.run/

- Our jobs page standalone: https://jerbs.util.repl.run/

More on repl.run: https://repl.it/talk/announcements/BetaExplorers-Announcing-...
I think there might be some retroactive argumentation going on about why they exist which does not go back to the roots of it, but if you look at why and how the CAP was made and how subsidies and price fixing within the countries works, you can still see where it came from.
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The NSA works with the advantages they have, and likewise for China. For example, PRISM involves tapping communications within American service providers like Google and Facebook, which is an advantage to the NSA because these are American companies that are subject to US law, FISA warrants, etc, and yet foreign adversaries still use these services. China's advantage is manufacturing--the manufacturing is in China, within the control of the Chinese government, and yet the manufactured hardware is still exported to China's foreign adversaries--and the way to exploit that is to do something exactly like what Bloomberg is reporting.
That does bring the notion that we can make some assumptions about slavery in prehistoric times; it seems a core part of society in early agricultural societies but we have not observed it so much in hunter-gatherer communities (except sedentary hunter-gatherers with higher population density, which generally do have slavery, so it's more about the settling down rather than food source) - purely for economic reasons; it's practical/useful to keep slaves for farming or mining labor, but not so much for sparse, mobile hunting/gathering parties. Raiding neighbours for "wives" i.e. sex slaves does seem to be a thing even in those societies, though.

It could be a reasonable assumption that the prehistoric agricultural societies had slavery just as early historical agricultural societies, but that the earlier hunter-gatherers, i.e. a major part of those 200,000 years did not have widespread slavery. Well, other than the "intermarriage" with neighbours (often likely not fully voluntarily) which predates modern humans, given the genetic evidence for the partial "assimilation" of neanderthals and other parallel hominids.
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How can you have this article without a mention of Amazon Go, the store that literally allows you to walk out of the store without paying, due to facial recognition?
Last time this was in the up for a vote in California my memory (could be faulty) was three of the biggest opponents of marijuana legalization were pharmaceutical industry, alcohol industry and the prison industrial complex. There is not a citizen push to keep it illegal, it's businesses trying to limit competition.
Unfortunately it's not in their interest to self-correct, it's only in their interests to generate clicks.
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GPU requirements were dropped because the software has gotten a lot better. Here's a presentation from OC5 that highlights some of the more recent improvements (ASW 2.0 is particularly impressive): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbLe7b2pUq0
Just look at your phone.
haven't we all eaten at 7300 Chinese restaurants? i think i have. i wont reveal what i think unless someone with deep pockets flashes me Abraham Lincolns Washingtons and some 50 cent Kennedys in front of me...then pull a chair up, get cozy with a blanket and ill tell u everything i know.
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Or gone to AWS/Apple and club and asked them to investigate before publishing...
I've been watching a lot of those black and white technical videos produced by the US Army/Air Force/Navy/MIT/etc from the 50s-70s. The videos and diagrams are incredibly descriptive and information dense yet easy to digest. The narrator is authoritative and straight to the point. I really haven't find much modern content of the same caliber.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyDbq5HRs0o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFp6pH9XCtY
I'm sorry, I was unclear.

I agree the Minority Report UI was poor. But seeing it, seemed to get people talking. People who normally wouldn't think about possibilities for future UIs. It seemed to fire imagination, to create anticipation. It had random TV news people talking about UI design. My impression is an "Iron Man" UI was similar. So UI demos, at least in blockbuster movies, can create popular interest.

There currently seems an absence of anticipation for VR/AR "office work" screen-replacement UIs. And there is currently a failure to market VR hardware with tradeoffs made with that focus, rather than for gaming. I was speculating that we might get such hardware sooner, by creating a perception of a market worth attending to, by increasing popular anticipation, by making demos.

Because waiting to get it as a side-effect of gaming tech has already cost a year or few, and seems likely to cost more than a couple more. I'd rather not lose a decade unnecessarily waiting. I can't spare one, and it's not clear society can either.

Regards controllers, oh yes. Remember skeuomorphic design for user interfaces? Things should look like their physical counterparts? A calendar app should have a worn leather border? To ease on-boarding of all the new users not yet trained on phones? I suggest VR is in its skeuomorphic design phase. In contrast, my own interest is in expert UIs for all-day every-day use. So as you say, they are minimum-viable-twitch ergonomics. And any resemblance to the physical world, with its many and unmotivated constraints, is a design smell. But people are focused on gaming, training, CAD, and tours, and Reality is even part of the name. While aphysical UIs seem clearly the way to go, for much non-novice use.
What was the company called? Have you heard of Barvision?
Eventually most mobile devices will contain a single chip that supports GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, Beidou, and other smaller regional GNSS's. They all rely on somewhat similar technology so it's mainly a software problem.
It's not supposed to be. It's like proving you can write a hello world. program.
This is only for now. Once they have the data, they can explore other options. Ads on the heads-up display? Ads on your dashboard? Ads on your map display? Audio ads injected into the audio stream from your phone?
Nope, porn (and you would expect TV/movies to follow in their footsteps) will ensure it doesn't disappear and continues to grow, although it's possible it grows slowly.
This is where JS shines (we all have browsers). I think dedicating 10 minutes to ensure `docker run --rm -it -v $PWD:/srv python bash` should suffice, without digging into what it does.
You are missing Google, lots of Google acquisitions in the past.
If you like the 4:3 the 3:2 of SurfaceBook is an okay compromise for something that's a bit easier to source.
Honest question: Why not bundle Tor, instead of relying on a proprietary VPN service? It seems that Tor satisfies the advertised use case ("insecure public WiFi") just as well.
Why is the price $10/month when you can buy the same service directly from ProtonVPN for $8/month?
It's precisely the fear of having navigation turned off that led to nations launching their own GPS alternatives. More satellites is better for critical transportation if one nation (be it China or US) wants to turn disable their system for civilians.
The paleontologists were crushed, and now the geologists are feeling the pressure.
L540s (4 or 5 years old now) used by the dozen in one of the places I teach, the managers have them as portable work machines. They seem reliable, they get a beating. Quite big 15inch screen, thick bezel &c.
This seems like another attempt to acquire a new revenue stream for Mozilla. I'm glad it's through something like providing a user-focused VPN as opposed to increased ads and tracking, but I still feel a bit bummed that Mozilla feels the need to do this.

The other day I came to the realization that Firefox is the only portal to the web that's not affiliated with a tech giant. Microsoft has Edge, Google has Chrome, and Apple has Safari. It's so strange that the web is such a huge, important part of our lives, and we only have four ways[1] to access it, three of which are driven by profit-seeking organizations.

[1] I'm not counting forks since those are largely still the same as the original code base, and none of them have gained a significant amount of traction. I'm also not counting experimental browsers since I'm not aware of any that are both largely-compatible with current web platform features and not based on a fork of one of the primary browser engines.
This is all right and all, but I have one question: why the hell it needs to be inside of a browser? To do what exactly?
I don't care about browsers, I care about applications. I don't want freaking Photoshop in my browser, because I want a browser to die.
This should be a part of the OS, not a freaking browser. Give me a built-in runtime with sandboxing, a delivery method, and an AppStore.
Give me next generation Java/Flash. I tired of a browser as an OS replacement. It is not and it shouldn't be.
I agree with the folks here who pointed out this thing needs a succinct example to communicate what it does.

Came here because I thought maybe someone had finally implemented an idea I had for a two-pane coding IDE where "out-of-band" documentation for the function you're working on is shown/edited on the right. (BTW does that exist?)
But the article points that Apple wanted to protect themselves from some much more widely know threats:

"Building its own servers with motherboards it designed would be the most surefire way for Apple to prevent unauthorized snooping via extra chips.

As we've previously reported, the National Security Agency is known to intercept and modify equipment before it reaches the hands of its intended customers."

...

"The report comes as Apple fights the US government over whether it should have to write new software to help investigators unlock an iPhone used by a terrorist."
Because bundling Tor in Firefox would generate so much traffic it would take down the network. Tor needs to grow significantly before that integration is possible.
>But do we really expect VPN providers to not crunch the same numbers and come to the same conclusions?

Yes, because those numbers are different -- there's actual competition among the providers, which is not so for ISPs. I agree it's still a gamble, and still requires trust, but if/when that trust is broken, there's someone else ready to fill that void.
"Does he have a greater moral directive to do so than us because he has accumulated a great fortune?"

Yup!
There's no need to think so big. The people who thought they might gain might have very well been Bloomberg reporters, who really wanted to believe their story was true because it would have been the scoop of a lifetime. They really should have done their homework properly instead of trying to craft a story.

Of course, if it turns out they deliberately mislead, then that makes it worse, and it was very imprudent thinking that they wouldn't be caught.
> we've found that most people coming through there go through the signup/login flow anyways

This baffles me. Why? Don't people just want to mash something into a REPL quickly (step in between: write the first one or two letters of the language you want to use and press enter)? That's certainly how I use it ...
Is Tor still super slow?
$8/month is the yearly price. Monthly is also $10/month.
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Saying the federal government "subsidizes" contributions seems backwards to me. The state takes its cut (being more local, they provide more services, etc, they should get first off the top). Then the Federal system takes their cut of what's left. Avoidance of double taxation is a long standing principle of taxes.

And if other parts of the country are poorer, the Federal government should address that by its outlays, which it does:

https://wallethub.com/edu/states-most-least-dependent-on-the...
Yeah, my hunch (like yours) is that everyone involved--Bloomberg, Apple, AWS--believes, in good faith, in what they have stated, and have collected more than enough evidence to back those statements. Since there's a contradiction, the truth is probably fairly weird, if it's enough to provide so much conflicting evidence both ways.

The least weird conclusion is that Bloomberg connected too many dots the wrong way around and are embarrassed to admit it.
True. Most of it is marketing BS. Overpromise is the norm. But if you read the comments here, you see that even technical people are buying that. And possibly it will work later, so we can worry now.
This is probably because the cannabis you used had too much THC in it and not enough CBD.
I was curious what Beidou meant, apparently it refers to the "Big Dipper": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeiDou_Navigation_Satellite_Sy...
Somebody get Scott McCloud for comment
Ask HN: How to create a DSL to represent clothing?
I've been thinking about this for a long time. People usually give the advice of "scratch your own itch" to generate ideas: well, when it comes to selecting what to wear I'm not only color blind but also, how to put it, somewhat fashion-challenged. Current solution is to have my wife select stuff and give me the look-over in the morning. I know, pathetic.

In search of a better approach, I thought of creating a list of all clothing items I have with attributes (type:t-shirt, color:green, etc.). I'd like to create a DSL that I can (1) use to describe my whole outfit and (2) "compile" the selected outfit for "errors", e.g. red short doesn't go with brown sweater.

To get me started, what's the best approach to building such a thing?
Because GPS do not rival each other in any practical sense, instead they complement each other. More GPS systems means more satellites means greater accuracy for users.

Let's hope even more countries get into GPS "rivalry."
Commies don't understand economics. You can't throw money at a problem to fix it.
If Bloomberg ends up retracting the story, then the new question, for me, is how did this happen? Was it simply Bloomberg trying to get views? Or is it more interesting, like did their "sources" intentionally give them a fake story in order to hurt their credibility? Or was it to cast doubt on the anti-China stories in general?
I've learned a bit of Rust recently but then started programming in Go. Now that I've learned a decent amount of Go I'm thinking of giving Rust another try, because Go has so many obvious weaknesses.

However, I'm still torn between those languages, which I both consider as fancy alternatives to C++ with a growing amount of libraries and community support. I neither like Go nor Rust, but learn them to keep up to date and because I need something with good tooling and many libraries that creates compact and fast executables. Rust still seems overly complicated to me, though, and I say that as someone who enjoys programming in Ada.
> so in the event of a war the DOD can disable the civilian signal as the M code will work standalone, hence a third party nation cannot rely on GPS.

They also had the option in older satellites of turning on selective availability, which would degrade the civilian location service from 5-meter to 100-meter accuracy without affecting the military service. Purportedly newer GPS satellites don't have the option anymore.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_analysis_for_the_Global_...
Ah, I see. That explains it, thanks
I am one of the founding members of New South Botanicals, which sells CBD oil exclusively because we're not in a marijuana state. Our average customer is aged 55-60 years old.
In Ontario, smoking tobacco or marijuana is illegal at anywhere in any business that the public has regular access to, including outdoor patios, as well as a buffer area around playgrounds.

That mostly eliminates being forced to endure other peoples smoke more than in passing - unless your neighbors smoke heavily in their yard.
But surely there's at least a few thousand of the hacked boards? The article mentioned a data center and entire companies being targeted. All it would take is someone to dig up some junked boards, unless they were intentionally destroyed to hide evidence. Unlike 0 days or other issues, this seems like it would be easy to reproduce. Just need to find the boards.
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> "We are likely to see an increased bifurcation of the world into two camps - 'pro-China' and 'pro-US'", says Blaine Curcio, founder of Orbital Gateway Consulting

Why just two? If our stranglehold on the world breaks, the EU and Russia are easily capable of carving out their sphere of influence.

People really underestimate how populous and wealthy and powerful the EU is.

It's strange how the narrative changes in such a short time period. Just 10 years ago, I remember people talking of "chimerica" as if the US and china were going to merge into a single world ruling entity.
It's easier to put something in orbit than to hit something in orbit.
We are not back in a yo-yo compared to the 19th century. We are two recessions apart from the longest period of continued growth in US history (1990's). Then there was a recession in 2001, and then another in 2008-2009.5.

You should check out the Wikipedia article for "list of recessions in the United States." It spells out recession duration and time since previous recession.
Seeing the rapid tipping point (look at the past 20 years) gives me hope that we me see decriminalization of all substances in more countries (even the US) during my lifetime.

I believe that prohibition just represents an emotional cognitive bias (drugs are bad! drug users are bad!) as any rational evidence based analysis comes to the conclusion that not only does prohibition not work for decreasing drug use, it actually increases both the negative person effects of that use and contributes to externalities like increasing the power/funds of violent drug cartels in various parts of the world.

Portugal was a great experiment. It worked. Let's push for full legalization or at least decriminalization across the board.
I tried opening this on mobile and it was a horrible experience.

We don't use clis during every day life for a reason.
I don't! I think it's a egregious project tbh.
There are plenty of positions in the federal government where you are performing a needed public service and improving the lives of your fellow citizens, while still "working" for Trump in that he's technically at the top of the chain of command. Comparing devs working on healthcare.gov to Nazis on trial is absurd and offensive.

What's more interesting is whether there's precedent for this. I guess conscription? If we had a "cyber war" with China and needed security experts, would we be able to draft workers from Google and other big corps and then return them in a few years? I would think so but I'm not sure.
Sure it could have been, which is why I said "if Dr. Ford was intentionally lying".

If you believe that she was sincere though, I think it's much more likely that Kavanaugh was lying to protect himself than it was that an assault victim randomly mixed him up with her assaulter. From her story she knew him and had fairly prolonged close contact with him. It wasn't like she just caught a glimpse of him from a distance.

The mistaken identity defense was just a way for people to say they didn't believe the story without calling her a liar.
GPS systems are not so much 'owned' as 'paid for'.
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Yes it does; you have a fundamental misunderstanding of one, the other, or both
Yes, but this is better for quickly trying something.
Some problems you can throw money at, and actually fix. Others, you cannot.

And "commies" makes you sound like you're trolling.
I'm afraid to say there's a small correction after I went to the RISC-V BoF tonight[1]. This kernel only boots on QEMU (which I had tested), but still requires a small number of driver patches to boot on the HiFive Unleashed board - I did not get around to testing this because our boards are all consumed building Fedora and it's not very convenient to reboot them. They are expecting these extra drivers will be upstream in 4.20.

[1] https://osseu18.sched.com/event/Fwx7/bof-risc-v-sw-ecosystem...
Definitely agreed on that.
It's certainly not the case that the US government has been above disinformation campaigns aimed at its own citizens even in the recent https://www.wired.co.uk/article/mirage-men https://www.dailygrail.com/2013/06/a-fractured-hall-of-mirro... or very recent https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-prog... past. Though of course there would be much more political risk in lying to Bloomberg News than in using up and throwing away an old ufologist loser like Paul Bennewitz. (Still, it's even a little suprising how, in a country which avows military patriotism as strongly as the USA, the USAF can contribute to the destruction of a patriotic WWII veteran, then publicly gloat about it afterwards, and absolutely no-one gives two shits.)
I'm thinking about everything non-apple that runs on apple desktops. I have no doubt they have the expertise to build the Apple stuff for ARM
I imagine that would be because it takes land prices and shoots them through the floor. This is rather unpopular among people who own land, which in the US is a large portion of the population.
Upon discovery the scientist was heard to exclaim, "it's sedimentary, my dear Watson!"
You just need ONE board to be able to prove it. Surely Bloomberg or their sources can get their hand on a single piece?
Exactly- where are they?! The Bloomberg story made verifiable claims (perhaps not exactly falsifiable due to their nature), so where is the verification?

It's so strange to see people continue running with "they wouldn't have doubled down unless they were really certain, so it must be true".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bXJ_obaiYQ for anyone that missed the reference.
iPhones are hard to use
Have you considered blogging and posting your articles on social media to drive traffic?

Have posted to ProductHunt? There are a ton of things you can try to get some eyes in front of your project.
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Bloomberg claims that there is evidence floating around - unless they're bluffing, they should be able to show evidence of at least one such motherboard, instead of CGI graphics showing how it might look.

Have they seen any actual hard evidence? Noone is disputing that the described attack vector is possible, but if Bloomberg has not properly verified if it actually has happened, then their article becomes a lie; and if they have properly verified it (as opposed to blindly trusting unnamed sources), why are they seemingly unable to show any hard evidence or details to the public?
Rust has definitely made me a better systems engineer overall. But, its not a language I can use for web dev. I hope, it gets easier to integrate rust into python in future.
The alternative to infinite scrolling isn't everything on one page though, it's paging.
Will they name their anonymous sources if it turns out they were played by them?
Make no mistake, Mozilla Corporation is a for-profit entity. They're owned by a nonprofit shell, but I imagine that nonprofit could easily sell them off.

This puts them in the same boat as say, IKEA.