skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In object oriented terms, the number two is an infinite map from all possible strings, to the third character of each string (or undefined behavior if the string length is too short). That just happens to be highly optimized in C. ;)

In Objective C, that would be [2 getNthCharacterOfCString: "ABC"];

Just joking! If you try to think about C in object oriented terms, you're misunderstanding what's really going on. It doesn't actually have arrays or strings as objects, they're just syntactic sugar (more like syntactic syrup of ipecac), and [] doesn't send a message. It's all just pointer arithmetic.
It certainly rules out streaming large videos. For pictures and small videos it should be sufficient.

The more challenging issue I see is getting a large community of people to switch from their existing happy-clicky (low-friction, no pun intended) website to something that requires installing Tor.
Far Right + Far Left !== somewhere good, you just get Reddit (or WW2). You need sane people to have sane conversations.
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So effectively anyone who owns anything "Made in China" is transitively enabling someone doing business with China?

Does Google having offices in the Middle East also compromise core values?

Turkey, UAE, Israel, and South Africa aren't exactly saintly nations known for their lack of censorship either.

https://www.google.com/about/locations/?region=africa-middle...
looking great, excited to see how people use the service!
Yes, the middle income bracket is shrinking. The lower income bracket is growing. Even outside of SV wages have stagnated in the lower tiers (since 1974 in varying degrees.)

(edit) I should add this is by percentage. A recent study says the percentages have stabilized for now.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/09/06/the-american...
Completely agree. My post is by no means a love letter to the CCP. Rather, an observation that in some aspects the marked difference in corporate/government relationships between China and most western nations is producing some synergies between the state and individual interests which we don't see elsewhere.
Google no longer has the management skill to see that.

Edit: to be more precise: I'm not certain they ever did, or if they simply got lucky/stumbled their way through previous incidents.
If you want OSS Position Based Dynamics code you can get Mueller's original C++ implementation here (https://github.com/InteractiveComputerGraphics/PositionBased...). The GPU implementation is not open, but this code can be adapted to run on the GPU outside of Flex.

Scrawk converted the code to C# in order to support Unity and implemented a Unity based version of the fluid dynamics code that runs on the GPU (using portable compute shaders instead of CUDA) as well.

https://github.com/Scrawk/Position-Based-Dynamics
https://github.com/Scrawk/PBD-Fluid-in-Unity

The only game that I'm aware of that uses position based dynamics on the GPU is Claybook (https://twvideo01.ubm-us.net/o1/vault/gdc2018/presentations/...). Because PDB is basically an extension of Jakobsen style verlet physics (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/academic/class/15462-s13/www/le...) which is used in a lot of games (Fantastic contraption, Gish, World of Goo, various Bridge builders, etc.) In all cases the developers are using custom physics code and not using a library. This is very different than rigid body dynamics where most shipping games use a licensed physics engine (Havok, PhysX, Bullet, ODE, etc.)
> does Dragonfly make the world a worse place?

Yes. Read the open letter by Google employees[1]. One of their main concerns is how Dragonfly will be used to put people into political prison camps[2].

From the open letter by Google employees:

> Our company’s decision comes as the Chinese government is openly expanding its surveillance powers and tools of population control. Many of these rely on advanced technologies, and combine online activity, personal records, and mass monitoring to track and profile citizens. Reports are already showing who bears the cost, including Uyghurs, women’s rights advocates, and students. Providing the Chinese government with ready access to user data, as required by Chinese law, would make Google complicit in oppression and human rights abuses.

[1] https://medium.com/@googlersagainstdragonfly/we-are-google-e...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/muslims-...
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Or just don’t bother open sourcing it and running the risk of being caught. In principle I agree with you, but in practical terms it would be a very wacky double bluff to pull.
Sites which break even do tend to keep on trucking. The fact that Tumblr now seems unlikely to become huge is relevant specifically because it's a money pit that needs further investment merely to continue to exist.
Came here to ask about 3D. Weird that the article doesn't mention the 3D or n-dimensional case.
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For IoT simplex data and things that need functionality similar to Iridium SBD, but at much lower cost and are not time sensitive, I am very optimistic about the Hiber satellite network:

https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/hiber-1.htm

https://hiber.global/

They're claiming "a few dollars per month" for low usage volumes, per terminal.

Also, Gunter's space page is a great general reference for a lot of new small-sat/micro-sat/cubesat programs.
I'm not saying that a bulk of their calories came from non-animal sources... the bulk of most meat eaters' calories comes from non-animal sources. That said, I find it entirely improbably that they were abstaining from meat.
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I'm really frustrated when these kind of problems are presented as "whiteboard" problems. It's not constructive and discouraging to potential employees. When something as simple as "implement X without using Y" or "fix this program with pseudocode" are practically useful experiments and more indicative of what developers are doing to be doing ALONE every day. If there's inefficiency, code reviews and planning and integration all reveal that and you can pull in specialized resources if you really need it.
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> I know I personally would much rather have limited access than no access

Sure, access that makes you (more?) complacent. Give people just enough to keep them from protesting or rioting. Further normalize censorship: if a non-Chinese company is willing to do it, then it must not just be the Chinese government that's bad, or worse, it must mean that censorship overall isn't that bad.

If non-Chinese entities take a hard line against censorship -- especially when doing so keeps them out of a lucrative market -- it sends a message. Bowing to pressure is just tacit acknowledgement that bad stuff is ok as long as they get paid.
Extrapolating from Alan Perlis's quote, I think it's better to have 3 products that each do 1 thing well rather than to have 1 product that does 3 things very poorly.
Don't forget exposure and people like me who can't be bothered to buy a game if it's not on Steam or GOG.
There is certainly cross-pollination between the two, and practitioners these days often adopt both. But the snide "machine learning is just statistics practiced by people who don't know what they're doing" comments you tend to see on HN ignore that machine learning was something that sprung up (largely in CS departments) to address challenges that statistics departments weren't addressing.
It'll be like 1996 all over again, only without the added titillation of listening to the screams and shrieks of a 28.8-baud modem in heat.

Instead of watching hour-long videos in 1080p, you get to watch a single JPEG download and render line-by-line until the connection drops right at the exciting part.
That's what I do in the first post... Maybe I do not understand what you say then, my English is somewhat poor...

I understand that you complaint about my comment's long lines because I "format" in F-F style (i.e. no linebreak except for paragraph), next I format with double linebreak to force HN "cut" longer lines.

I do not know how to format in other way, inserting html+inline CSS with maximum text width or maybe even media query is not something I expect HN accept nor a thing I'd like to do as a HN user...
My reaction was "Wait, JavaScript has classes now???"
Thanks! So am I :)
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It’s very different for a current employee versus a prospective employee, though. There are an unknowable number of people simply not applying to work at your company if you are engaging in unethical practices. I certainly know a few quality candidates who have knocked companies out of their pool of interest on morals alone.
Your comment-stalk sample is bad though because that could easily refer to the administrators of the study or everyone who ran the study. The sentence you are trying to link to it is about the friend being involved in the study, not being the one coming up with findings.
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> I assumed no special accessibility

That's your mistake, then. When talking about user experience design, it's always inclusive-by-default, accessibility a top priority, not an afterthought.

This comes back to my parent comment right at the top of this thread: using native widgets with full accessibility support gives you this for free. Of course, I'm not saying there shouldn't be innovation, but those outcomes should be on par with the default widgets, not even a tiny bit lesser.

> The ribbons in Office have context sensitivity

But they (A) still show too many features for whatever is selected, demonstrating that the context-sensitivity is limited; (B) don't always automatically change to the appropriate tab; (C) sometimes show two tabs, confusing users (especially when it comes to tables or graphs); (D) hide other tools, by virtue of switching tabs, which would still be useful (namely, everything on the main tab).

Also, context-sensitivity would mean that the Ribbon would change back to the main tab after any operation in the other tabs was done. Since it doesn't, it demonstrates that the user has to constantly switch between contexts manually, meaning that the Ribbon's context-sensitivity is pretty poor and, again, inconsistent.
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This made me laugh, but unless I'm mistaken, he's quite serious. Luckily, however,

> An Arnhem court ruled in favor of the fourth dimension.
I love how the lower part of the rocket is battered and burned by repeated re-entry. It's starting to look like something from a gritty sci-fi movie.
Wow, its starting to look like an arrivals/departures board at the airport.
This is essentially what Spire is doing. Their weather processing facility is here in Boulder.

https://spire.com/
They also have a built in parachute deployment mechanism which can safely get them down to sea level.
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It's basically "if it looks like boobs, you can't post it". But phrased a bit more delicately.
Except for some very fundamental things (AKA "link in bio").

But yes, most artists I know moved away from Tumblr years ago (with great success).
If you build it, please put in on "Show HN" or something. I'd like to run that on my comments.
I agree 100%. In theory it’s good to consider all perspectives and not acquire hyperfocus/tunnel vision on any one plan or destination. But I n practice, people seem to find leaders with tunnel vision far more convincing and worth following than those who take a more multi faceted/ less focused approach to leadership IMO

Maybe that’s because, it seems like the practical reality of discussing ones attempts to be bias-free always comes off as disengenuous no matter how genuine those attempts may be. So fuck it man. Embrace bias :)
The loose association, engagement suggestion algorithms are seriously dangerous. The suggestions can cause a "thermal run-away" [1] feedback loop for the mind.

Even in a less egregious example than the OP, take modern English for example. If search engines loosely relate English words to some moving abstract concepts, humans no longer have direct control over the colloquial. In a world that defines terms with Google Search, the implications can be disturbing.For example ::

Search: "the beatles are an antiquated band"

-- Results -> "Beatlemania in 1964: 'This has gotten entirely out of control' ...", "Quincy Jones: 'The Beatles were the worst musicians in the world ...", etc.

And: "the beatles are an obsolete band"

-- Results -> "We'll Never See a Band as Big as The Beatles Again — Here's Why - Mic", "Is the notion of a rock band obsolete? - Quora", etc.

__note:__ these results come from a computer with little google finger printing.

Definitions: [2]

-- Obsolete :: "no longer in general use; fallen into disuse:"

-- Antiquated :: "continued from, resembling, or adhering to the past; old-fashioned:"

-- Antiquated :: "no longer used; obsolete or obsolescent: "

Why are these almost synonymous, benign words related to love of and hate of? I honestly fear for what could be unethical software engineering [3] in these critical resources. Thermal run away of hardware is taken very seriously--see the Samsung Note 7 battery fires.

---

[1]: In a circuit, current through a resistor causes heat generation. Increasing heat on a resistor also lowers its resistance. Lowering resistance can increase current (V = IR). Ad infinitum or until catastrophic failure.

[2]: definitions from Dictionary.com on 12/2018

As a thought exercise, try replacing "current" with "negative emotions", "resistor" with "mind".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_runaway#Electrical_eng...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering_ethics
The best you can do is try to put pressure on your government. This is a collective action problem.

In the USA: https://www.sunrisemovement.org/

In the UK: https://rebellion.earth/

Others?
also asteroids generally orbit in the plane of the ecliptic, the delta-v needed to take water mined from a main belt asteroid and bring it to LEO, then match it with the inclination of the ISS orbit at 51.6 degrees inclination is non-trivial.
Apple was behind even in LTE adoption, so it's not a big deal.

5G marketers really dropped the ball if even people like Cringley can't think anything other than bandwidth.

5G phone can use 5G features as an anchor for services that go trough 4G network, Wi-Fi when 5G NR is not present. 5G is designed with small home cells in mind, so there is potential for quick indoor takeoff.

Another question is of how fast services using 5G will emerge. If could services similar to Cloudflare's workers or AWS Lambda can be pushed into the edge computing, you have soon very low latency services that make 5G phones appear to user like very powerful computers with low latency.
Going vegan is a great way to reduce your impact on the environment and cut greenhouse gases. It is the smallest change that has the largest difference.
>How, exactly, does Dragonfly make the world a worse place

It sets the precedent of Google censoring search results for a government. Once they do it for China you don't think other countries will say "censor these results like you did for China or GTFO"?

We've recently seen leaked internal discussions by Google engineers saying they want to ban media publications they don't like. You can say they're a private company but at this point if google bans you, you effectively don't exist online
I would put it as "people misunderstand the source of their emotional resilience". A lot of people think that having "strong will" or "strong values" is what will prevent them from picking up extreme, obsessive or hateful ideas.

Instead, anything like resilience is a process. Your friends and your community is part of it. Everyone is suggestible, everyone takes beliefs from associates as well as from experience. Conspiratorial and prejudiced ideas are seductive specifically because of how uncertain the world is. One has to reject such ideas in a way that avoids considering them in terms of "either this is true or this is false" since so many questions well beyond proof either way.
It is like iceberg - website is just a tip... Website is interface to database of company profiles. Each of these profiles was build from corresponding corporate website.. all automatically. The process includes website crawling, page categorization, language detection, entity extraction, structured data composition, fuzzy comparison, etc... The key feature of the platform is 100% automated process which allows repeat the whole cycle for every profile on a regular base, which allows us to compare structured profiles and see all changes..
I think this is all done locally over Bluetooth: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208472
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> The point is that Google should not be held as moral entity.

False. Companies are made up of people, who are morally responsible for their actions, which, by extension, are the actions of their company. You don't get to dodge moral responsibility just because you have a corporate umbrella over your head.
They also proposed super fast intercontinental travel via BFR. I think they claimed something like ~20m NYC to Shanghai travel time.
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They ended up with it accidentally, didn't they? As part of owning Yahoo! (which owned Tumbler).
IIUC Firefox is working towards integrating tor into the core browser, at which point it will be point and click with .onion domains.
What if there are engineers working to write vulnerabilities and backdoors into Dragonfly? It’s been hypothesized that Heisenberg sabotaged the Nazi nuclear program from the inside, after all.
We're already well past the point of "proactive" responses. Everything since 400 ppm is firmly in the realm of reactionary attempts to contain and cope with the damage.
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Ramsomware (like any ransom) is a typical "tragedy of the commons" situation.

To pay is beneficial for yourself, as you get your data back that is more valuable than the amount of money that you pay.

Society losses as a whole as you are incentivizing their business model. But, you bet that it will not happen to yourself again.

> With the rise of ransomware, we have also seen a rise in data recovery companies who claim that they are able to recover ransomware victim's files for a fee. It has long been suspected that these companies are not actually using any home grown techniques to recover victim's files, but are negotiating with the ransomware developers and simply paying the ransom on your behalf while tacking on a fee for their work.

And it makes sense. As it can become a big business.

Forbid the payment of ransoms and society is better-off as a whole. Even that some victims are going to be in a worse situation.
Reddit has been removed from the app store more than once.
I think some of the concern stems from the fact that China will start to make up a material percentage of Google’s revenue and that gives China leverage over Google. So maybe it’s starts out being transparent and then two years from now China threatens to kick Google out of they don’t remove the warning, or if they don’t give them information on a dissident, etc...

It’s much easier to say no now before they get used to the new revenue stream
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