skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Saying "The Chinese are probably doing something bad" is very different from the very specific accusations that were made; "The Chinese are doing the same thing to us" is not a news story - what was reported by Bloomberg was a news story.

My point is that hand wavy "they have to be spying somewhere" is in no way a defense for the Bloomberg story. My reason why I'm very skeptical of the story is that I think it would be possible that SOMEONE would have physical evidence of it (given that it was a hardware hack) that they could show. So far Bloomberg hasn't really shown anything to back up their story.
I agree with the thrust of your post, but Um Actually...

The current Breitling Emergency (a bulky men's watch, but it wouldn't look out of place on some big out-of-doors type guy's wrist) is a working PLB transmitter.

So that means signals from it can be received not just 21000km up, but 36000km up where Geostationary birds live.

If you activate it, that watch will transmit the digital signal with its unique ID in it, and assuming you filled all the paperwork out soon after somebody from the relevant local emergency response (maybe a coastguard, mountain rescue, that sort of thing) will be phoning your emergency contacts

"Hi, do you know nraynaud? They went flying today? OK, do you know where they were headed? We have an emergency transmission from their beacon so we're going to send somebody to take a look and check they're OK. We'll let you know, thanks".

A "real" beacon would be better, more robust, better battery life, easier and more obvious for random strangers to operate if you're unconscious, not to mention much cheaper. But the Emergency has the advantage that you'll actually have it when shit goes wrong, because it's your watch.
Well-meaning Westerners like to imagine that all one has to do is put on a fair election, get the "good people" in power, and all will be well thereafter. This can be effected by Western occupiers when they want to wash their hands as they exit some troubled spot.

The occupiers don't want to hear that democracy is sustained by values and habits taught by parents to children who are still young enough to listen. Once the boys are old enough to hold a gun, that kind of learning is pretty much over.
Can anyone recommend exercises for learning a new language. For example, something like "implement a class with these methods", or implement a function that does this. Something that is realistic, should only take an hour or two to implement for a competent programmer, requires you to learn more complicated features of a language, yet I can finish before getting bored or frustrated?
Hackference 2018 Recap
Exactly right. And the IS/LM model, which is Hicks's interpretation of Keynes's General Theory, is the basis of current macroeconomic theory.
Boostrapping vs. Venture Financing
You can even get a Tesla without remote connectivity
> So GPUs are the bottleneck?

Not really, no. It's pixel density and refresh rate as always, and that is driven from the display.

> Are there any roadblocks in GPU development we'll hit soon?

We already have. The 2080 is a negligible improvement to the 1080ti platform with regards to compute power.
Hardware hacks have physical evidence. Where is the evidence for this story?
At least with Colorado the rate of increase in accidents was lower than the rate of increase in population resulting from new residents moving there. So per-capita accident rates actually fell.
Aren't GPS satellites geostationary?
The radio industry is going to be a shell of itself (if it isn't already) in the coming years as driverless capabilities reach the point at which people no longer need to watch the road. Then they'll be on their phones and tablets while the car takes them to their destination.
AmigaOS 3.x source was leaked on github a few years back. Quite a few people have copies, though as you note is likely not 100% complete.
Do you have a family to support? Can you handle a cut in pay like this for a long time? What happens if the startup misses a paycheck or two?

Do you need solid healthcare and/or other benefits? Because you're probably not going to get that.

Do you enjoy wearing multiple hats - simultaneously?

The advantage is that I will be get exposure to all the new technologies.

That's the one plus. And that's about it. Unless it's something you can learn at home in your free time.

They say they will add 20% of the salary in stock vesting over some time.

Take some of the cash salary and buy lottery tickets. It's worth about the same "over time".
no, they are not.
Thank god you can just buy a modern Chevy engine and transmission, and bolt it into whatever you want.

https://www.gmperformancemotor.com/category/ENG.html
Perhaps, but Carmack works on things he likes and is best driven by seemingly-impossible technical tasks. It's pretty unlikely he'd be anywhere near as productive in any other space if he truly loves VR.
How to Organize Growth Experimentation
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/kz9xgn/man-who-sold-f-35...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18269763
Wrote a script to start preconditioning when I left my apartment for the garage in the morning (for my Volt)
Once they add GC, threads, polymorphic inline cache, and some sort of stdlib, it will be possible to have popular scripting languages run in the browser without the current problems of download size for the runtime and performance.

So, it may not be completely intentional, but WASM does have roadmap items that may end up competing with JS. WASM starts to look more like a general purpose VM over time.
Yeah, if I was still doing primarily web applications, particularly version 1 apps where you don't know what the final product will actually be, I would probably still be using Rails for that. It's just insanely fast for creating those apps and once you've found the features that are hits that need to scale, you can pull those pieces out into services written in languages like Rust or Go. But since I mostly do lower level stuff now, Rust is looking very compelling.
He is and it seems he's far more interested in the potential of mobile VR over PC-tethered VR.
Classwork for Hickam's Geoscience Period 6
You're very unlikely to get a couple thousand dollars of food over a couple of years out of even a large "box," where the box is approximately the size of a bedroom. This is one of those cases where it's cheaper to simply buy the food from someone who has economies of scale on his side.

It costs even less if you cut out the middlemen (supermarkets, distribution, etc) and buy directly from the farmers where possible.
Ask HN: Is it possible secure and usable email encryption?
My client who is accountant want to establish encrypted email communication with all his contacts. He is not tech savvy neither his contacts are so PGP is out of equation.
Any solution I googled impose to install either some proxy or new email client for encryption or make receiver to change their email workflow in order to read and reply on encrypted email (login in custom portal to read their messages).
That make think is it available any email encryption solution which is both easy and transparent for the user, and secure enough so no hackers and governments can sniff email messages.
What do you think?
Things like Cryptopals (https://cryptopals.com/) are good.

But surely it's going to depend somewhat on the language and what things are easy/hard to do in that language?
Sorry for the late reply, I went road-tripping with the new dashcam. I went with Viofo A119. I think it's pretty reliable and good value for about $90 (plus an SD card). Also ordered a CPL filter got one of the cams, it's not arrived yet.
O2 solubility in Martian near-surface environments:implications for aerobic life
i could see it becoming part of future fashion trends for the elite and/or criminal elements. then again maybe i watch too much cyberpunk.
I had a look at the Icon Bar site [1], and I'm amazed that people are still able to sell software for RISC OS.

I was given an informal (but firm) takedown notice in about 2002, when I uploaded an old game to my website and linked to it from a RISC OS forum. I'd thought RISC OS was dead then.

[1] https://www.iconbar.com/
I totally agree, I think they cobbled together bits and pieces and kind of put it together based on what they could find. The one guy they interviewed who is willing to talk said explicitly that this is what happened to him: https://9to5mac.com/2018/10/09/bloomberg/
I think you confused the words "amoral" and "immoral". OP was talking about "amoral" - lack of concern about moral principles. You seem to be talking about "immoral" - actively breaking moral principles.
Wow. Laws which were put in place by plantation and slave owners wishing to preserve the profit and status quo they created. They controlled most of the machinery of government as well as their little plantation.

Slavery was only ended at the insistence of laws put in place by the state.
The only "talented" people who benefit from lax harassment policies are people whose primary "talent" is harassment.
What part of flash was bad?

- the (bad) sandboxing? WASM uses the same sandboxing model as JS, and thus provides the same security guarantees?

- the requirement of an external plugin? WASM comes preinstalled in all browsers.

- the proprietary aspect? Wasm is an open standard.

- the obfuscated nature? WASM can be decompiled very easily. Besides, js served by modern websotes are already minimized and obfuscated beyond recognition.

What am I missing here? I consider Flash to be a truly great piece of technology. It allowed easy creation of multimedia contents Its flaws were in its implementation, not in what it allowed. I want wasm to succeed as a reincarnated, better flash.
Sorry about the late reply, I've replied here- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18277994
It's on a completely different release schedule. Sure anything can have bugs but this is not going to get bugs introduced through feature-adds. It doesn't get these feature updates. It's stable. This is the entire point. You test and validate before your deploy and then you deploy and it remains stable.
Not really. The iPhone really drove the modern smartphone and, even if the price has tended to increase (but that's partly because of the phasing out of carrier subsidies), it wasn't a low-end device. And Blackberries and Treos weren't cheap either.
For Rust I've seen people reference Rust Koans (https://github.com/crazymykl/rust-koans), but I haven't looked at that myself. I wanted a project that was sizeable enough to force me to use a good number of language features (but not all). I think the interpreter was a pretty good balance there, but it definitely took a time investment.
Basic Developer Human Rights
You're basically saying that putting "SF Dem" in front of anything makes it less evil. Brainwashed.
I don't think that's changed, no.

My hypothesis, incidentally, is that it's really hard for an AI to tell the difference between human and ape facial features at all; they're too similar. It seems easy to us because a big chunk of the human brain is devoted to face processing. The AI pretty much just knew "primate face," and knew that pale primate faces were usually human, but with a dark primate face it could only guess.

(Which doesn't excuse Google for releasing it in that state, of course.)
You think its okay to use WOLVERINE himself in any old demo?
Two Hundred Fifty Things an Architect Should Know
The tool was built on the Mac, though its dependencies are not Mac-specific, and we use CMake to generate necessary build files. Any PRs to get it building on other platforms would be most welcome.
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Huh apparently things shifted some that it managed to drop to number 2 despite it being the status quo for years.

https://www.thebalancesmb.com/top-sources-of-retail-shrinkag...
I believe it's Shark Tank
Multiple implementations, including more than one Open Source implementation.
Why does it need to be AI? One of my neighbors has an Italian tractor that harvests grapes. Just takes one person to drive it along the vines.
"Given the effect Minority Report's UI footage seemed to have on popular imagination, perhaps it might be helpful to have some nice demos?"

Well, I think that might be a more minor contributor to the problem, but definitely a contributor. The Minority Report interface is utter garbage and I seriously doubt anything we build is going to look like that in the end. Vague gestures that even strong AI is unlikely to be able to correctly determine the target for reliably, arms held in positions that are completely impossible to be held in for any period of time, the entire "interface" is a usability nightmare. Screens far more separated than they should be... just because I can spread my workspace out over 210 degrees doesn't mean that's actually going to be a good idea.

But it's not as cool if you have anything conventional in it.

I'm playing the recent Switch The World Ends With You re-release. It has a mode where you nominally point the controller at the screen to control a cursor. But there's no optical component to it; it just centers when you hit a button and uses the accelerometer. So of course I don't sit there like a dope trying to point at the screen. The controller just sits in my hand where ever it is comfortable, and I twitch in the appropriate manner. It may be "pointed" 60 degrees off the actual screen, but it works fine. I have some similar stories for the Wii, where I still may have had to point the remote at the screen, but I certainly didn't play the games like the commercials. I played them in a much less awesome manner... but a much more comfortable one.

The first Wii Golf was the funniest... eventually I settled on holding the remote pointing straight up, and wiggling it back and then forward again for my stroke. It was not exactly a realistic interpretation of how one swings a golf club. Exquisite control compared to trying to do it the "right" way, though. The second Wii Golf got smart enough that didn't work anymore.

What's a real pity is that there probably is a really cool demo waiting for this. It just involves thinking a bit more creatively.
One of the interviewees did speak (though he's not apple or amazon), and said that Bloomberg completely misrepresented what he said to support this theory, which he totally disagrees with: https://9to5mac.com/2018/10/09/bloomberg/
Wrong: he had infinite power to do anything he wants so instead of doubling the food supply in the universe (duh!) he halves the population? Come on!
According to others, the creator is actually a highly religious person. Why are you assuming that it's satire?
I think we agree far more than otherwise. Where we might disagree is with my claim that good, long-form documentation of sources/headers/APIs is better done out-of-line.
Most billionaires have some kind of monopoly over a part of the economy; in maintaining this monopoly, they are having a negative impact over the efficiency of the economy so they need to offset this by giving more.
> it's still federally illegal to distill spirits.

Without a distillery license. Which is not especially expensive, and is wholly reasonable considering the significantly higher technical and safety threshold of operating a distillery. Bathtub gin used to kill people.
Homestar Runner reference?
I would guess, based on the article, that PC headset sales aren't anywhere near what the division needs to stay alive. The cheaper mobile headsets are more affordable and easier to use, even if the technology isn't as advanced as what the PC headset would offer.

If Carmack leaves, then you know Occulus is fucked.
I'm a technical trainer and repl.it has been a godsend. Just this past summer I was running a Python course and due to company policy, I couldn't get my students to download some libs.

Spun up repl.it, did our pip commands, and off we were.
I think you're underestimating how much space it takes to grow food, and overestimating how much bulk shipping costs.
Any good source one can read on this? How does that square with GDPR?
That's fair. I don't mean to imply that the public sector can't do anything well - just look at the Canadian health care system vs the US one - hardly perfect, but substantially better on the whole. However, the public sector often has less pressure to do things efficiently, or they have additional requirements, like we see with NASA splitting contracts up among various states for political reasons.

I don't think semiconductors would be better handled by the public sector - even if one could somehow get political support for that, which seems very unlikely in the US.
You say the bicycle healed in a year, but you didn't measure that (this is a guess, but is seems reasonable). It isn't enough to say the grass appears green, is it as thick and growing as fast as untouched grass nearby.

A single track every 30 meters where nothing grows is less impact on the overall field's growth than 30 tracks every meter where things still grow but not as well.
Improved query fields extraction helper for GraphQL
"Well it sounds like it could be real, so it's probably true" - I'm not sure why anyone thinks this is an acceptable counter-argument.
The damage to Beto’s reputation, however, was the true cost.

If I understand correctly, and if the source is correct and not significantly misleading, he's a murderer, a human trafficker and an influence peddler. This guy should have gotten death sentence.
Awesome! I'm not sure if you saw but we now have a visual package manager that automatically generates requirements.txt for you: https://repl.it/talk/announcements/Announcing-Universal-Pack...
You should indent text by two (or more spaces) to make HN preserve whitespace: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

Let me fix it:

$ protocol "reserved:2,PLLSAI_RDY:1,PLLSAI_ON:1,PLI2S_RDY:1,PLL_RDY:1,PLL_ON:1,Reserved:4,CSS_ON:1,HSE_BYP:1,HSE_RDY:1,HSE_ON:1,HSICAL:8,HSITRIM:5,Reserved:1,HSI_RDY:1,HSI_ON:1"
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0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
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Might not be, actually that commenter has stopped commenting and the last comments are a bit worrying (though not in a personal level)
Taking this idea. What would be the hypothetical flow for the recent Bloomberg chip article? I’m sure it would have been published with the cert since it’s from Bloomberg but later when it turns out to be less than true or more inflammatory than intended. Do they lose their cert? Or maybe just the article has to persist with the cert rating?

I love the idea, just curious how it works logistically.
Archive.is to the rescue:

https://archive.is/EcCkU
Does that mean they're convinced the results would be unsatisfactory, or just that their rustic image is more valuable than increased efficiency?
AFAIK the current WebGL-successor-work happens here, and there's very recent activity:

https://github.com/gpuweb

No idea how long until we can play around with it in browsers though.
Why bother telling people five incorrect estimates for service recovery?

https://twitter.com/sneakdotberlin/status/105434537971655884...

After one or two wrong guesses it just shows that you’re making it up.
Generally sibling comment by IshKebab lists most of the things that were not clear for me. The biggest point, however, is that I wasn't able to get clear picture of what is considered here to be the "documentation". I get what file format is generated, but I have no idea what will be the content and how it will be inferred from my code.
How Did Nature Form This Near-Perfect Rectangular Iceberg?
I wouldn't lump in Magic Leap and Hololens, I think they are targeting a very different market.
A colleague of mine created graph visualization of the entire Marvel ecosystem (content creators) several years back when the marvel API launched: Blog Post: http://allthingsgraphed.com/2015/04/09/a-matter-of-degrees/

Direct Link to generated SVG: http://allthingsgraphed.com/public/images/marvel/avengers.sv...
Just buy a used one - in 10 years today's 4g networks will be turned off and 5g on the way out. In theory your Lincoln is still connected, but in practice there is nothing for it to connect to.
As an atheist, I love this CoC. Because these comments like yours are illuminating the non-inclusive, intolerant, authoritarian ideology taking over the CoC-wielding open source community these days. So yes, I'd be fine with "Allah."
Only illegal to distill spirits if you aren't licensed as done improperly you can make people seriously ill or blind them.
> hardware geeks worldwide searching like it was Willy Wonka's final golden ticket.

The stuff of dreams for security researchers.
Thanks for the msg. Yes, I do have a family, home loan etc to pay for every month. So, it will be tough if they miss a salary. I will have to dig into my savings. They don't have any bonus or other benefits. And i need to travel more for this.

I think I can wear multiple hats. That should not be an issue.

hmm... i will have to think more on this.

The fact is I am not happy with my current job.
Android: A 10-year visual history
It's become a "dog whistle" issue because there is a perception that some activists may use CoC-type documents to deny contributors' ability to freely engage in political speech in other, unrelated, contexts. The worry is that this in turn will lead to either witch hunts or chilling effects, which are viewed as at odds with modern Western political free speech culture.

Many people feel uncomfortable with this as a concept, regardless of whether they agree with the ideas in question. They point out that this effect may well reduce the contributor pool in much the same way that a particularly harsh technical culture (eg LKML) might do, i.e. it ends up substituting one disincentive to participate with another for no net gain.

On the other side, some people argue that the speech they are concerned about is not "political" and that it is right that it should be punished beyond simple disagreement.

At first blush, this might seem rather tangential to the issue at hand. But there are some high profile examples of this actually having happened - see [1], or the example of Brendan Eich at Mozilla.

[1] https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941
I'm a bit concerned by the addition of Garbage Collection to WASM. Is there a way to implement those without favouring some type of language?

It seems to me that GC tuning and memory models are very language-specific. A purely-functional language like Haskell or Closure can make different assumptions about the memory regions but also generate a lot more young generation items compared to OOP languages.
Fair enough, I never said anything about "long form documentation" ;)
Let's say you make 100000 today. They're offering you 75000 plus 15000 (20% of 75000) in equity which is likely vested over four years with a one year cliff.

So, you stay four years. You've earned 300000 and now have 15000 in equity. Yes, they may well offer you more equity over time, but you don't know that today. You've foregone 100000 in income (or more), and the 15000 in equity is, in the best case scenario, worth much more on secondary markets, but only if there is a buyer. In the worst case scenario, the company shuts down some time over the next four years and you are now unemployed, out the equity they granted, and the income you've lost.

There are better ways to learn new technologies than subsidizing a company with your talents.
Maybe a good answer won't rise to the top, but it will go up over time. I answered a question 7 years after it was asked, and at this point my answer is #8 out of 59. I can't argue that the 7 above me aren't better.