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> Ain't it great to have a choice?

Heh, yeah, let's go ask the JS frontend community about this one... oh dear.
Does this mean we can have MPV or VLC compiled to WASM?
Are there similar studies on non-US markets? As an Australian 20-something, this seems like an absurdly high number. I'd like to see if this exodus is mainly a US thing.
This is one of the weirdest corner cases I’ve heard of, right up there with the famous 500 mile bug. /u/captaincool diagnosed the issue a few weeks back (confirmed by OP today after talking to apple):

> It's definitely the helium.

> The processor in a modern, high volume device typically has its main clock driven by what's known as a MEMS oscillator. These are barely visible mechanical systems that resonate at some designed frequency, and include packaging to convert this resonance into a useful electrical clock signal. These devices are extraordinarily cheap ways to produce a steady clock, but they have a number of drawbacks. Most relevant, in order for these types of devices to function properly, the mechanical resonator must be inside a tiny hermetically sealed chamber with either a controlled gas inside or a vacuum, as the gas composition in the chamber can affect the output frequency.

> For both cost and physics reasons, these hermetic seals are not perfect, and are somewhat commonly permeable to small atomic gasses such as helium.

...

> For this specific case, Apple devices probably share a common family of MEMS resonator to reduce manufacturing costs. This clock likely leaks in helium rich atmospheres, pushing the output frequency outside of the bounds that the main processors are designed to handle, rendering them non-functional. If left idle long enough, the devices may begin to function again, but depending on the concentration of helium which leaked in, this could take anywhere from weeks to years to occur in natural atmosphere and temperatures.

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9mk2o7/comment/e7...
Do you think the other countries in the area are less corrupted than Singapore?
Groklaw was not paid by google, court filing by Google: http://www.groklaw.net/pdf3/OraclevGoogle-1237.pdf

Groklaw was not paid by IBM, court filing by IBM: http://www.groklaw.net/pdf/IBM-621-E19.pdf

Groklaw was run by Pamela Jones, a paralegal. This can be verified by checking the footer on every page on Groklaw, or alternatively the above IBM court filing.

You will have to be more specific about your techrights complaints. I'm not aware of any issues with the site, but I admit that unlike Groklaw I do not have much knowledge about their integrity.

You can find many alternative sources saying that Mueller was paid by Microsoft (and also that Mueller was paid by Oracle), here is one: https://gigaom.com/2011/10/18/419-is-patent-expertblogger-fl...
I'll re-rephrase. Is it a problem of:

(1) allocating developer time and organizational priorities; or,

(2) a technical incompatibility with Signal's existing, phone number-based model?

Based on your response I'm inferring (1), but I'm frustrated that this is never directly answered when the topic comes up.
I don't see anything in the wording of C99 around VLAs that requires them to always be allocated on the stack. That implementations did so regardless is, arguably, a defect on their part, and a quality-of-implementation issue.
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Google originally used Red Hat Linux (not RHEL) but migrated to Debian. They are using a custom version of all their stuff so its probably not really even Debian at this point.
Verilator is a cycle simulator - not a delta simulator; it can't handle delay elements. Also, it won't do VHDL (there was some code there to do a small amount of it contributed about 9 years ago, but it's been dormant since, as I understand it). It is driven by C/C++ - which is a huge stumbling block, especially if you have a repository of code already running in VHDL/Verilog.

We see an infinite number of people inventing toy languages and things, but nobody who is solving something FOSS actually needs if we're all going to be making our own chips with free tools: Mixed language, delta time simulator with back-annotation (SDF) support.
Japan and South Korea tap water is safe...and I think it's commonly consumed in Japan. Koreans approach it like Singaporeans..some do, some boil.
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How do you manage normalizing webhook events from each source control provider, i.e. GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, etc?

I have been interested in building a general purpose CI/CD tool but this part seems like the most "grunt work". Is there an open source library that standardizes webhooks? Or would you be interested in publishing that portion in a library?
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The link to the first episode is at the bottom but can be accessed directly here:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/facebook-dilemma/
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> Can you?

Yes, you can. Nobody is holding a gun on your head to use Facebook and Google. You don't have to look up restaurants using these services, and if your restaurant is not listed there, you can go in person, or call you know? Or avoid such restaurants altogether. There is absolutely no obligation except habits that have formed over time. And habits can be broken.
> This is the "Go y u no generics" of secure messaging.

Yes, it is – and it turns out that Go 2 will be adding generics.

Before that, you could have said "If generics are super-important to you, use Rust." But it turns out you can have both Go and generics, and (if you prefer Go over Rust for other reasons) that's even better than having to pick one or the other. The designers made a choice to omit generics in the initial version due to difficulties reconciling it with their goals of simplicity and ease of use, but (unlike some posters on forums like this) they never claimed that generics were fundamentally bad or that Go would never add them. Now that they have had time to think about how to work generics into the design without compromising their other goals, they are planning to do so.

I hope Signal does something similar.
Always replace "intuitive" with "familiar" and you get an insight into what the person is talking about. So the task is to explain Euler's equation in terms of what you're already familiar with. Hmmm.

[1] Theorem by Jeff Raskin - https://www.asktog.com/papers/raskinintuit.html
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> The only analogous example to that sort of dynamic today might be amongst the workers at large government agencies like NIST and the NIH

Drop into a DoE research facility. (Most will give tours to U.S. citizens.) Same playful approach to tinkering with whatever.
I just googled and see Japan tape water is safe to drink. I've been by hotels in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Mt Fuji all told me not to drink the tap water. Hence I thought it wasn't drinkable. Good to know it is!

I've never been to South Korea, yet.
Many good products start as a side project :)

Yeah, that's definitely a concern we've heard. We're starting with startup founders because that's a niche we know well, but it can work for any frequently traveling professional.

There's a big tailwind for more people traveling for work and working remotely, and staying 1+ weeks in a hotel/Airbnb is prohibitively expensive. There are startups working on solving this by creating their own custom spaces, but we know tons of people who just leave their room unoccupied because they don't want to deal with minor hassles like key exchange, cleanings, making sure the temporary visitors get along with roommates, etc. We think solving all that will open up a massive new supply of short to medium term housing.
There are drinking fountains in Changi Airport, you can find them at the piers. They’re rarer elsewhere (usually found at sports and recreation centers).
It's not so much different compilers, I don't remember the specifics, but at the time the impression I got was that each one had a very different standard library, so it would be hard to move from one to another. Maybe that's not the case anymore, or maybe I was mistaken.

In any case, thats a good analogy, and I'll try to find an excuse to take another look at D. Having gcc support does sound like it would make things easier. Thanks.
It seems that having a checklist like in aviation (that was also applied to surgery and other areas) could be useful to alleviate some of these slips.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8862273
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You might find this helpful for providing a different perspective: http://www.globalrichlist.com/
Me too! I don't love the phone number thing. But I understand it.
I sort of do the same thing. Mostly hobby/interest stuff.

I have a hard and fast rule of not friending anyone I see regularly or have a real private or personal relationship with (No family, no neighbors, no current coworkers). Avoids so much drama.
I love meetup and have found it extremely useful in a new city to try and meet people with similar hobbies. But I've also found there are basically two types. The people who are truly passionate about a hobby and are willing to take losses occasionally and the groups that are sponsored for an obvious reason. In Japan, where I discovered the site, there were lots of groups that just wanted to get native English speakers so they members didn't need to pay for English classes. In America most of the tech events are simply put on by companies who are looking to hire. Often times the events are still worth it and enjoyable, but it's definitely disappointing if you go to one and don't realize the underlying reason for the group existing. I've found the ones put on by the passionate people to be the most worthwhile and worth the more expensive dues.
It's more (1) than (2), is what I think, although I think non-phone authentication is probably trickier than we think it is and so the two categories bleed a bit.

I seriously don't understand what people expect in these discussions, though. The situation is straightforward. A small but vocal minority of Signal's user base wants non-phone-number identification. Signal hasn't prioritized that feature. Put up, or use a different messenger. How is this complicated?

Don't pick horrible messengers, like ones where encryption isn't enabled by default, or doesn't even exist for group messages, or isn't built on a protocol anyone understands or has reviewed. But even with that constraint, you have options.
Emphasis on "In its simplest form"

I read that as "in general" it is accepted that one shouldn't spend more than what one can afford. Generally on luxury. But if it's a necessary need. Then you will indeed need to make a deal with the sharks.

I'll copy paste the last paragraph:

> In everything you do, you’re either playing a short term or long term game. You can’t opt out and you can’t play a long-term game in everything, you need to pick what matters to you. But in everything you do time amplifies the difference between long and short-term games. The question you need to think about is when and where to play a long-term game.
Now for the benefits:

* Better feature stability,
* Robust and well-defined standards,
* improved security,
* better debugging options,
* and most importantly competitive pressure.

Just look at how LLVM pressured GCC into shape. I'm primarily a GCC user, but I'm very very grateful for LLVM's existence. Also multiple equally competent compilers disincentivise them from going rouge (e.g. .net telemetry).

Weighing the pros against the cons, I'd have to stand with GP in saying that choice is good.
Ask HN: YC Alum Made Gab; Should YC Condemn in Wake of Pittsburg Shooting?
Is there ever a bad time to condemn platforms that profit from hate speech? What do you think?
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Does this improve performance much?

Stat's or bench marks would help sell the idea to people
Or maybe let a user sign up with a phone number (as it happens today) but create a unique ID - a user selected username (Telegram, Wire) or auto-generated PIN (BBM) (and then remove any link to that phone number right at the sign up iff the user wants it - it can be hidden in advanced setting UI wise - A).

Use the phone number just to prevent spam (though it can't prevent one user having multiple accounts using the same phone number).

This will serve two use cases:

1. People who need simple private IM like WhatsApp can continue using it without asking for A or without giving it any heed.

2. Or you go for A and you are communicating w/o any real world identity attached to your messages.
Does YC sponsor h1b visas for people not authorized to work in the US?
> Did this really happen somewhere?

> was in Eastern Europe.

ah.
does this mean that D-lang will support compilation to all the CPU/OS combination, that will be supported by GCC 9?

or there will be a subset?

Great news, very happy to hear this, and the release of the BetterC.
I use Twitter in an almost identical fashion, and I experience absolutely no toxicity, trolling, or other bad behaviour.

Twitter is, like many things, what you make of it.
That’s not what this technique does. And for that, a commodity mass spec would work just fine right now.
Yeah. If you are born in the slums. Your chances are ultra slim. You might as well be a chicken born in Human farms.

This is why we the lucky intellectuals who have time to discuss this over hacker news have a responsibility over those who are dealt with a really bad hand.

https://chomsky.info/19670223/

- The Responsibility of Intellectuals

- Noam Chomsky

- The New York Review of Books, February 23, 1967
And the BSDs have mostly moved passed the era of legal ambiguity that plagued them early in their development. For better or worse, timing and initial impressions count.
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Hey mate, your video is coming up as 'unavailable' for me, interested to see it however.
I see what you mean by delta simulator. However most of the testbench code inside your “initial” block should be run by verilator, you would barely even need to write 5 lines of C++ code if you already have a verilog testbench.

Icarus Verilog maybe a good alternative as well.

All that said, I am interested in developing an FOSS parser+delta simulator. Any pointers on where to start?
Cycle accurate gets you pretty far. Static timing analysis is enough to close the gap for an fpga.

Lack of a solid testbench capability is the main drawback of verilator from my perspective.
Kunle olukotun who was one of the people behind this has founded sambanova systems which appears to be pursuing more general purpose accelerators.
Here is the article from the NYT. You can read it and come to your own conclusions:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/technology/google-sexual-...

The truth came out eventually, although unfortunately four years later looking at the dates. Google tried to hide it, that's why people are upset.
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You know your healthcare is f*ed up when its cheaper to fly out to another country for healthcare.

Seriously, I am dead serious here, why don't Americans vote for healthcare to be a societal service (before crying socialism, I mean it can be just like fire stations, police, schools, roads and our favorite expenditure, military)?

People are literally dying while Americans keep crying numbah 1 all the time. It's about time America realizes that these are solved problems and America can learn something from the rest of the world.

It's ok to be number 2. There's no need to kill your own just for the bragging rights of being number 1 in medical expenses (which btw is 20% of US GDP, 20% for just healthcare is just ridiculous)
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> ... and meet awesome people

what if I'm not awesome? would the hosts still want to meet me? what if I don't have anything interesting to say and I'm just a mediocre shlub?
Big nope. Biggest nope.

At the time I was super enthusiastic to try out (many years ago at this point), it wasn't open source so I decided to wait it out.

Later, I decided to try it out again, but I had to choose between Phobos and Tango. I didn't have time to evaluate them so I bought a book on Tango. I shelved it because it seemed like a lot of stuff was still changing.

When I tried again a couple of years later I wasn't sure whether to use DMD, GDC, or LDC. I didn't have the time to evaluate the compiler implementations, I just wanted to poke at it and try it out, and wanted to look at a bunch of examples before I jumped in. Three compilers made it a pain in the butt so I put it on the backburner and forgot to ever come back.

At this point D had asked too much of me to figure out how I wanted to use it, three times over, and I wasn't about to commit myself to researching the implementations instead of just hacking so I abandoned D despite initially falling in love with it. By that point, other good native C++ alternatives had matured - Go, Rust, and Swift – for different use cases.

After giving it three shots to give me a simple and consistent development experience I'll probably never try D again.

Meanwhile, Rust has one compiler and I have multiple choices of IDEs which all support the toolchain - I just set it and go and it tends to do just what I want because all that common surface area in the Rust community gets improved for everyone.

D is a great language hampered by a depressingly frustrating developer experience, and as such until that changes it is deeply hurting its own competitiveness with everyone who isn't committed to using it and making it work for them right off the bat (many many people).

I also know one FAANG company that invested in D is seeing a very noticeable shift towards Rust instead.
Well, o-wise one. Maybe for you. But for a non-wise pleb like me. I think this article is really great for introducing the indentifiers "short-game" and "long-game" to me. I think it's a great way to describe this concept.
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Mojave update trashed my Fusion Drive to the extent that plugging any other mac into my imac in target disk mode made the host mac instantly kernel panic. And I lost all my files obv.
Is there documentation on Rust+WebAssembly that is presented more like a conventional book or tutorial?

I don't do well with example-driven documentation like these. Resources like the original rust book are excellent though.
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Japan and Taiwan come to mind. What's kind of unique about Singapore in Asia is that it's very wealthy, yet its social safety net and worker protections are quite lacking.
He is advocating sending out at minimum 2000 emails.

Pretty sure you will be automating that.
EDIT: Didn't see this - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12934388

Still, maintain my comments below, but apparently already banned for the founder(s) own inappropriate behavior.

First of all, you cannot have any sort of conversation on the internet without having some hate speech.

This is especially true of a website dedicated to free speech. Now, in this case, the argument can be made they should have censored it or moderated it appropriately -- perhaps. So far, I haven't seen explicitly what was said on Gab.com. However, is that free speech? I think there's a line, I don't know where to draw it.

So far the only quote(s) I can find:

> "HIAS likes to bring invaders that kill our people. I can’t sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics. I’m going in."

> "Why hello there HIAS! You like to bring in hostile invaders to dwell among us? We appreciate the list of friends you provided,"

I'm sorry, but that is not necessarily something that anyone would know to moderate. Even if it was, there were way worse stuff posted on twitter (which he was banned from, eventually). These things take time and I think trying to railroad a company for inadvertently not moderating is kind of silly and somewhat sad.

One final thought... perhaps this occurred because his ability to share his thoughts were stifled (by twitter for instance)? The ability to voice one's opinions is what this country was founded on. Not inciting violence mind you (I'm not super familiar with this case). From the beginning, it was understood the ability to share one's voice, is both powerful, but also a release to some of the tension. When people feel they lose their voice, they will often turn to the barrel of a gun.

Not saying that occurred here, just that we as a society need to consider slowly and methodically how to react. Not do any knee jerk reaction.
VSTS/Azure Devops is pretty good for this, as long as you host your own build servers. Their hosted solution is terrible.

All can be built through their UI, then exported to yml in your repos. Pretty good UI. Their service connections are good.
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Six executions so far this year. Most recent: October 26, 2018.[1]

[1] https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2018/10/425285/prabus-fin...
JO (John Ousterhout) is so thoughtful and lucid.

My experience with him is firstly through Tcl, which I like more than he does now (time for a TIP: "-jo" switch to [unset] which removes complaint to unset non-existent variables)[0], and his book on it[1], and various papers. His work is at once both powerful and humble. Note in [0] how he without much emotion he suggests how Tcl came to be less prominent, and how even at Tcl's height, he explained without ego why it was there, and how it would leave[2]. His papers on threads[3] and comments on performance and testing[4] are also lovely reads. I encourage any developer or architect to read or re-read them.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmSAYlu0NcY (thx `quaunaut)

[1] https://www.amazon.ca/Tcl-Tk-Toolkit-John-Ousterhout/dp/0201...

[2] https://vanderburg.org/old_pages/Tcl/war/0009.html (This is The Law, and it is good.)

[3] https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/papers/threads.pdf

[4] https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/sayings.php
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Well, they claim that this happens less than one in a thousand rentals[0], so statistically speaking, a one time fee of $4.50 for the entire rental period should be about enough to cover their expected risk, right?

I don't buy the combination of, "this is rare so you shouldn't worry about it", and "it's too risky for us to cover you ourselves."

[0]: https://intercom.help/kitsplit/trust-and-safety-on-kitsplit/...
As someone who has had to deal with two cloud-phobic industries now (auto and healthcare). I have to say the hope of the hybrid cloud being a differentiator, for RedHat/IBM, is misplaced.

Getting these players into the cloud is always hard, but the hybrid cloud doesn’t really soften the ground internally at most of these compliance heavy organizations. They are all aware of how awesome and wonderful the cloud is, it’s always politics that get in the way. Once an organization goes through the incredibly difficult process of allowing cloud projects (which involves lawyers, rewriting policies, compliance officers, etc), the organization usually puts all projects going forward onto the cloud and views the old stuff as legacy. The idea of trying to bridge the two is rarely considered worth it.

Of course there are exceptions. However where I see hybrid clouds do well is in organizations that are taking the task of porting everything to the cloud very seriously, but they know the project will take a while, so it is worth everybody working off of the same infrastructure playbook until they can shove everything in the cloud.

The days are dark for the folks that missed the cloud bandwagon over a decade ago.