skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is important to note what sort of accuracy are we talking here. Fundamentally the only thing FPGAs have over software emulation on our general purpose computers is the real-time characteristic, which in this context is apparent in controlling input latency. And I'd argue even that boils down more to the limitations of common APIs etc rather than the general principle of software emulation.
It’s not actually a problem. It’s fine. We all understand each other.
Hoskinson: to compete with Cardano you'll have to emulate our engineering
How do you license them? I've never seen a "Buy now" link, only the text about "Free for personal use" every time.
Presumably the drones had lights on, since it seems like the drone-operator was actually trying to cause disruption.
I fundamentally disagree that this is effectively attributing the content.
War Story – The Mystery of the Very Long GC Pauses in .NET Windows Service
Anyone have experience with making this work? I tried starting it on the server I have WireGuard running on and it fails to start because it also wants to bind to the UDP port WireGuard uses (even in server mode).

Additionally
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~lennox/udptunnel/ has a note saying:

UDPTunnel is designed to tunnel RTP-style traffic, in which applications send and receive UDP packets to and from the same port (or pair of ports). It does not support request/response-style traffic, in which a client request is sent from a transient port X to a well-known port Y, and the server's response is returned from port Y to port X.

Which from what I understand is exactly what WireGuard does.
For a cold, just wait a week or two. There's nothing medicine can do for you anyway. If it's still there, then it's worth checking. Also, you shouldn't need a sick note unless you are off for more than a week (your legislative framework may vary).
Avoid VirtualBox and becoming trapped in the non-free & personal use only extension by using one of the very decent open source alternatives Boxes[1] or virt-manager[2]

[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Apps/Boxes

[2] https://virt-manager.org/
Introducing Project Mu – Windows Developer Blog
Yes, I glommed onto the use of “salt” in both cases and figured they were similar.
Why is it disappointing? Sorry, I really don't understand and would like to.
But now we have movie studios who are (generally) paying for rights to use a song that was popular a few years ago, or they're paying for original soundtracks.

Reduce copyrights to just a few years and Hollywood, with all the parasites in it, would just lift songs like there's no tomorrow and further dodge paying a cent to the artists involved.
Microsoft no longer sees Linux as a threat because it isn't a threat to their business anymore. Any damage that Linux can do has already been done and can't be changed. So few people use Linux on the desktop that they have no reason to even be worried in trying to prevent people from using it. All that would do is push developers back towards Mac, which is the opposite of what they're trying to accomplish.

Microsoft has seen huge growth under Nadella, and that was accomplished through selling cloud services. Linux does not threaten this business model or the future of the company in any way. There's nothing to "Embrace, extend, extinguish".
Clean File Icons for React, Vue, Angular or Just HTML
Closed source + anonymous source = recipe for malware.
I recommend running this in a sandbox of some kind.
I'd be tempted to include blogs about/links to Tiananmen Square protests etc then report the copies to the Chinese authorities. Possibly do something similar for Russia about homosexuality or whatever.
As well as the Mu Python Editor...

and Mu Online, an MMO... Yeah they didn't research this _at all_.

It's not exactly a unique name...
> Fifth, sometimes applications happen when the technology is there to accommodate it.

I like to call it the "infrastructure pattern", via [0]. If something serves (or could serve) as an enabler for other activities, it's important to make it more capable than the immediate needs would dictate, as this allows for new applications to appear. Internet speed & bandwidth is a great example of this, and so is CPU speed, RAM, and storage size. I'd go as far as saying that the history of civilization is one big series of "I know we don't need this" followed by new applications spawned by the surplus.

--

[0] - https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/The_Infrastructure_Pattern
> non-existent new notifications ... abusing the red indicator badges

I think the most egregious instance of this I have seen is the allegation that Facebook displayed fake notification badges during the GDPR flow, which pressures users into quickly accepting the terms so that they can see the notifications: https://www.dailydot.com/debug/facebook-gdpr-notification-la...
Out of curiosity, why do you have a presumption that hyper-v would have better performance?
Just created this library https://GitHub.com/posilva/go-mfa
I am an Erlang developer trying out Golang (and really enjoiyng) my first OSS library in go: https://github.com/posilva/go-mfa

Reviews, PR and Issues are welcome
Regarding new design: I did opted-out for it long ago but since August I'm being randomly served with new interface by force while browsing various subs - luckily, a cookie removal fixes the thing; they're definitely ignoring user wish to stay on simple, fast loading old interface and impose this performance and UX monstrosity. I am aware that eventually old interface will be gone because in long term it wouldn't attract audience that prefers modern bulky UI style. I won't be surprised that in the happy PR message they'll announce that reddit will use one interface since day x and x % of userbase is in maniac love with this best change they ever made.
So Amazon does keep these recordings server-side, indefinitely? Are we still to trust that they're only recording once the trigger-word is detected?
Ken Thompson has been writing compilers for over 50 years now. If you believe that Ken "barely knew how to get a compiler working in the first place", we have nothing to talk about, as you obviously made up your mind already.
I doubt it (the age thing). RiscOS came out while I was at University. I think you must have come into secondary school camp sci just as it started getting good. When I did it a few years earlier (started - I dropped out) they were still teaching us how core memories and punched cards used to work. They did have a few BCC micros, but hadn't started using them in teaching. Yes, I am THAT old :)

My eldest just did a test where one of the questions was to describe the fetch and execute cycle, so they do cover low level concepts in Comp Sci GCSE.

PCBs and integrated circuits is in GCSE Electronics. Robots and control systems I'm not sure about but they have that stuff and a 3D printer and laser cutter in the Design and Technology lab. I'd have been all over that stuff in my day, but my girls prefer to spend their time in the fully equipped soundproofed music studio practicing 7 Nation Army with their rock band after school. Kids these days! And this at a public school, albeit a really good one.
You'd think someone could just hop in a Cessna 150 or similar and take the drones out by bashing into them. I learnt to fly in one of those and it would be great fun as long as someone else fixed the dents in the propeller. The minimum speed is about 45mph so it wouldn't do the sort of damage you'd get with a large jet hitting. I guess really you'd want to bash them with the landing gear for minimum plane damage. Or even tow a net.
It's more and more cases of terms where the meaning in use is different from the literal one. I.e. more exceptions to remember. More unnecessary cognitive load.
Minds Boycotts Google, Facebook, Patreon
> I wonder why Google is so bad at picking up that these pages are clickfarms, and not instead return the original when searching.

They have a monopoly on search, why do they care?
It doesnt even need to continue as a social network. They have a strong foothold in AI and are leading strong with their own DL framework.
With various degrees of success [1]. Open sourcing the firmware could improve things drastically.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/SurfaceLinux/comments/7kazwp/curren...
That's the scary part though. A lot of the examples out there are meant to see when something is out of the ordinary and then be interpreted by people.
There are different reasons that get out forward for copyrights, but the main one is generally money, incentivizing and compensating creative works. That reason can't credibly (imo) support these long timespans.

Few works produce revenue 50 or 100 years after publication. But even assuming a work dies, once you discount for time, revenue in 100 years is basically worth nothing now. Reducing or increasing copyright length by a decade would have almost no effect on working authors and can't financially incentivize their work.
Whatever vendetta the nytimes has with facebook has drawn too far too long. yawn
There's also the possibility of using automation to create, update, and manage views. That lets your app be 'dynamic' with regards to new data and new datatypes, but also preserves the performance, debugging, segregation, and maintenance benefits of the underlying DB.
Is there anyone who could explain to me why virtualbox is still being developed? I don't mean that as an attack on the developers or the software but Oracle ruined pretty much all of Sun's software with VBox being one of the only two exception along with Java.
Elixir Native Interoperability – Ports vs. NIFs (2015)
I vaguely recall that this was discussed here on HN a while ago and somebody who had actually tried to buy the necessary license reported that Oracle would not sell them the license; IIRC, the sales person told them to "just use it, we don't care", or something along those lines.

Which is very problematic, of course, without something in writing, and given Oracle's reputation.
Movies and TV use copyrighted music all the time - they just pay the copyright holder for licensing it.
looks like a crossover of Frogger and Outrun! Looks fun!
Nothing off the top of my head for "recent" cases from big tech companies (I'm sure there are smaller companies), but in 2015 Paypal got hit by the Office of Foreign Assets Control.

As for export laws, in 2017 there was 31 individuals and businesses convicted resulting in $287,102,532 in criminal fines, $166,234,123 in forfeitures & 576 months of imprisonment And 52 administrative cases resulting $692,296,500 in administrative penalties.

https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/enforcement/oee/penalties
Specially worthwhile to read is how Multics security model compares to UNIX.

https://multicians.org/b2.html

And how much safer PL/I was, even when compared against C17.
Pensions should be a writers pension plan.

Replace the Author with someone with a normal job. Do their widows have some right to ongoing payment based on their partners work?

It just seems bizarre reasoning to me, that doesn't seem to be applied elsewhere. And it doesn't even work that well. The Paul McCartneys of the world are rolling in more money than they and their relatives will ever need. Mean while there are actual creators that need paying jobs to continue doing their creating.

Why does one creators widow/child/grand/great grand child have more of a right to a living than another actual creator?

If we want a paternalistic system where we look after creators, then fine, do it fairly. If you want a somewhat free market where we attempt to maximise value for all parties then fine do it fairly.

Edit to add:
Copyright should allow/encourage creators to create. I'm not saying writers should have to churn out pulp fiction to make ends meet. I also don't think there should be an expectation that you can retire after one gardening book. The writer that retires after one book is a loss to society.
Mindfulness: The Science Behind the Practice
> without having to store anything on disk and without having to generate static html. Wouldn't this be much, much harder without using JS?

While it's possible to do without storing anything on disk (strange requirement imo - but you can keep it in memory on the server if you really want), it's a lot more practical to do this work in the backend. And that's also what outline is doing:

outline's frontend will do an AJAX request to outline's servers to actually fetch the article from a blog and serve that back[1]. So they could do this easily without frontend javascript. But I think the UX would suffer on many levels. Having a frontend in javascript allows outline to do better caching, better user experience, etc. The only downside to using JS is that it doesn't work for people still in 1995 and for people who disable their javascript.

[1]: example fetch call: https://outlineapi.com/v3/get_article?id=6ps979

edit: fixed typos
My Firefox (63) on Android (8 I think, it's a galaxy s7) renders everything on this Page just fine.
For partnerships in an industry with powerful entrenched interests? An analogous example is the Amazon/Buffett/JP Morgan partnership in healthcare.
This is not necessarily straightforward. Also, Oracle has form.

On the page cited there's no reference to licence/license. Fair enough - it's a release notes page. The only sub-page (using the menu on the left) that contains any reference to licence is the Contributors page, which isn't somewhere most users would head to.

The primary page - https://www.virtualbox.org/ - has one reference to Licence - and that's as part of the assurance that VirtualBox is "an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License".

And if you read that, assumed the best, and went on your way, you'd soon be in breach.

(Yes, you should probably visit https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Licensing_FAQ despite the above assurance on the front page -- at which point you'd learn about the Extension pack, the PUEL, and other usage constraints.)
Some companies abuse their users more. Some less.

Some purposely as key part of their business model. Some more by accident.

Everybody crossed a red traffic light once in their live, still we should go after people ignoring red lights.
3 days is silly. Extra capacity is very cheap, currently we have gas turbines filling this role but extra wind and solar never drop to zero and costs less than needing 5x as much storage.

Now as storage prices drop the equation changes, but not very quickly as their ineffecency means you still need extra capacity and that capacity reduces the need for storage.
Because it’s a well known fact that VirtualBox has been dodgy slow for years. Especially around I/O, it’s been the laggard.
I'm starting to suspect they are trying to extort better ad prices from Facebook. This won't stop until they cave. I hope they don't cave. The press already has enough power as it is.
I can’t follow your reasoning.
How does asking you the exact same question twice improve your accuracy? If you don’t know how high the Eiffel Tower is, why would you know it the second time? Conversely, you likely created a mental anchor when giving an estimate the first time and would be hard pressed to provide an answer contradicting your first estimate - even if it might be more accurate.

There were no answers provided between asking the questions as far as I understand this excerpt.

In the group only 4/8 questions were asked and here a difference in accuracy can be made. Maybe you’re mixed with travelers who recently visited Paris, historians or people who due to other circumstances or pure luck provide more accurate estimates, effectively influencing the anchor of your first estimate.
Topology of Numbers
In this modern age it seems it's not safe to list anything which might come back to haunt you, including ethnicity.
So I got downvoted last time I brought this up, but if a large corporation hasn't fuzzed their products / code, doesn't this start to border on negligence?

Bugs will of course happen, but failure to fuzz products from companies that employ tens of thousands of people seems inexcusable.
Same question - $26M is a small amount for Alphabet.
'ever closer union clause' is not tantamount to arbitrary Federalization of powers. It's mostly a strategic view.

Change of power requires change in law, which happens every now in terms of treaties, the last of which, would have been roundly elected by the plebes went on to be put into motion anyhow.

Arbitrary scope creep is happening in some fronts, for example, when there is a decision to be made about gray areas of federal/nation overlap in the course, the EU Courts rule on it, and generally rule in their own favour (i.e. they have jurisdiction, not the nation state) which is ridiculous because the courts are supposed to rule on the law, not decided on their own jurisdiction.

If there is a political union, as many economists have indicated must happen in order for the Euro to survive - there will be a literal civil war. What you saw in France with the giletes ... imagine that about 20x bigger but in most countries. It will break down.

There needs to be reasonable reforms on a bunch of things.
Thanks for the update. It did seem like a bit of an unlikely prospect.
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The police don't want to fire bullets. Even directional EMP sounds a bit on the dodgy side at an airport.
its a 50/50 split between terrible design and horrible support.

I've seen cassandra shine when it comes for write optimised loads. Pipe a bucket load of data into gremlin and magic happens.

But thats a specific workload, which is pretty rare, and certainly not suited 999:1 read to write ratio. Thats not cassandra's fault, thats the fault of the idiot that chose it, and the boatload of idiots who carried on and added loads of systems that makes it much harder to migrate away.

Then we come to support. Datastax is the defacto support provider. They make a lifecycle manager, backup/restore tool, and push a load of patches into the main codebase. But it is shit

o Backups fail silently

o The only way to make alerts work (ie do an action, rather than create a popup when you log into the ops center) requires work to navigate the API

o Its full of CVEs, which are script kiddy-able

o migrating data from backups to new clusters was impossible to do without a boat load of manual work, failed 50% of the time

o restoring from automated backups was impossible until august.

o it couldn't use instance profiles on AWS until august

o upgrading to a point release silently breaks backups, _always_

Basically I spent the first half of this year QA very expensive software. There are some very very good support people, but there were some terrible ones as well.
I'm imagining a "catch the pidgeon" / keystone cops scenario here.
This drone operator has probably created good in the long run, as much as I wouldn't want to be stuck in Gatwick right now. This is going to lead to actual action being taken by the airport operators, one would think.

Almost worth a false-flag operation by MI5 given that (presumably) nobody is going to get hurt this time, and it will almost certainly lead to better defenses.
Amazon error allowed Alexa user to eavesdrop on another home
Instead of AD servers it has ad servers.
Even then its a patchwork. Like some of the mod tools are new design only and then any tabs opened from there are new design.

Annoying AF & pretty sure it's not accidental
Define “ruined” to you. By my definition, oracle took something that was “ok’ish, especially when you didn’t want to pay and just had basic needs” product and have slowly chipped away anything that could be considered good for most.
They were already getting a version of zfs developed against another OS (illumos).
Do you have any evidence to back up these claims?
Exactly. I seriously doubt there is some guy standing at the airport fence with a handheld controller. This thing has GPS coordinates programmed in advance.
Major advancements in deep learning in 2018
Per other news reports, kinetic kills were ruled out because of unacceptable risk of bullets/shells hitting something they shouldn't — the whole of South-East England is populated at a density that Americans would call suburbia. (All of England is only one and a half times as large as Greater Los Angeles County: lots of small towns, villages, and homes in the vicinity of Gatwick.)

I'm surprised they don't have specialist anti-drone transmitters, but as Police spending in England and Wales has been cut by over 30% since 2010, maybe it wasn't seen as a priority.

Tracking down the operators should be possible, but this looks like a well-planned attempt to shut down the airport: whoever is behind it probably planned to move around in order to evade the Airport Police.
Good idea to disable the default feed option in wordpress to avoid this kind of stuff. It won't stop a determined plagiarist but should eliminate a lot of the automated stuff?

Looks like the author has done that now.
It’s seo 101, but avoids mentioning the theif domain name and linking to it.
I imagine there's some gear that could track the drone controllers? Not sure exactly how that works.
As a current GCSE student in the UK, every school I know has moved on to Python 3. In fact, I wasn't aware VB.Net was ever taught in UK schools...
I've had the same issue with saowen.com copying articles off my blog (https://sighack.com) onto their website and I'm glad OP called them out on it publicly.

They even have an index page with a list of all my articles, updated as I post: https://www.saowen.com/source/site/sighack_com

Interestingly, they always seem to backdate the articles by a few days from my actual date of posting! I also noticed they link to my website, but with a nofollow attribute.

Completely nuts...
The kinds of parametric polymorphism implementations mentioned here do not represent the full set of options. Charitably this represents an ignorance on the part of the Go developers, but really it has felt like an apathy towards the field of programming language design and research. Intensional polymorphism (basically passing the type of a parametric argument as a parameter, and either using a specialized implementation of the function or one that operates over a boxed value) has been known about for years and is used in languages like Haskell: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/papers/intensional/popl95.pdf
Copying and plagiarism is so prevalent and pervasive that these "self-media" platforms have to introduce an "original" tag.

They will copy your content and edit it as the due process anyway, so add whatever you like and it won't deter them.

Change some words and the paragraph order, add funny pics and snippets, alter key parts to make it much more explosive and eyecatching, voila. They even offer part-time on-line jobs for this reprocessing.
From Boxes site:

> While virt-manager does a very good job as a virtual machine management software, it's very much tailored for system administration.

Exactly! Boxes looks really polished.
That's awkward as hell. It's sad that their offering is the only decent one out there (for my needs and with that UX) that's at least got open source options. I hope VirtualPC from Microsoft becomes cross-platform and open sourced, or at least some sort of new VM software from Microsoft, since they seem to be doing a better job at offering up MIT licensed projects lately.
Boxes – virtualization made simple
Democracy is not just an application of “wisdom of large crowd” it’s also about giving the power to effect back to those who are affected. A dictatorship is not preferably even if the specific dictator can be shown to make better decisions than a democracy.
I think the experiment is fun but the principle is flawed imho. At best the method will find the average _utility_ value of fb for the study population.

Another commenter remarks that it would be ok to pay 1k to access fb if there is a promise of value (ie the "network" is still there) but projects that if fb became a paid service, that most users would leave it so the risk of losing utility value from fb would not be anywhere near 1k.