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I agree. It's difficult to compare, but for comparison:

2009> https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-02-25

One with 381 points, a few with 100 points, and it descends quite fast and the last few posts in the page have about 20 points.

2019> https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2019-02-25

Three with more than 400 points, many with 300/200/100 points, and only the last has less than 50 points.
I am lost. What is your complaint at this point? You went on HN, participated in a thread, and now know more about cryptography than you did this morning. You're welcome? :)
The .NET libraries make it easy to use the default thread pool (a single pool). If other libraries are similar, then I wouldn't consider this a complete straw man.
Maybe I'm naïve, but I'm actually buying the obliviousness of his behavior. I don't really believe in Tesla and would gladly buy the whole "suicide by SEC" thing, but reading what actually happened, this doesn't really sound like a big deal. Musk has been having emotional moments for a long time now, at this point it's really easy for me to just shrug off this as "he's always been like this". The last ten years of Musk carrier are just non-stop publicity-stunt drama, it's really easy to believe for me now that he honestly doesn't see the boundary that seems obvious to all lawyery SEC folks and other properly corporate people.
Hard to imagine a more confined problem domain.
I wonder what the odds are of any new thing posted on HN staying the course and turning out to be useful in the long run. Probably not very high.
Illinois has among the lowest per-capita government employee count per that list and is in the middle of the pack for taxes. It's much easier to build housing in Chicago than San Francisco... but aldermanic privilege is a thing. So not really a small-government state, and nobody claims it is.

Texas is more commonly presented as an example of small government. They're still on the lower half of that employee list and have relatively low taxes, but the government aggressively gets in the way of consenting adults doing things. It's still illegal to gamble in Texas (excepting the state-run numbers racket, because objections mysteriously vanish when the government does it), or to buy alcohol or cars on Sunday, and the only state that has more restrictive gun laws without discretionary-issue of CCW permits is Nevada. Texas did repeal their certificate-of-need law for health care providers, so they're definitely doing something right, but government is not an exception to everything being bigger there.

Assuming that FTE/population chart is what it says and doesn't include contractors, I'm not even sure it has any use whatsoever. And that's not getting into all the things where some government would clearly be useful—for instance, getting internet speeds off the list of things that aren't bigger in Texas.
Forget borders, it could be a problem for domestic flights in the US. I've had the TSA demand I give them my laptop for special screening. Presumably they 'thought' it was a bomb, they didn't ask me to turn it on. But had it been turned on, it would have been vulnerable.
Me too, i've been using it in combination with CloudFlareD (DNS over HTTPS daemon) and it works like a charm. Except when my ISP changes my public IP and CloudFlareD hangs so i have to restart the service. There is a bug for it, but the Pi-Hole itself works really well.
I think it's pretty clear that mistral9 means that you need more than just LSD to create something like HyperCard, and maybe you don't need the LSD at all.
Ask HN: How do you manage your resume and job applications?
Every time I apply to jobs, I feel like it's incredibly clunky to manage my resume and communication for every position I apply for.

What tools do you use to help organize and streamline your application process?
The mods can (and will) fix it. You can also email hn@ycombinator.com and let them know about this error.
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IT ... the glue that halts technology's progress.
Public transit has to happen first.

If you introduce congestion charges without also providing a functional public transit alternative you'll be voted out of office. Plain and simple.

Congestion charges worked in London, for example, because public transit is amazing there and people could stop driving without decreasing their quality of life. Yet it was still a source of much controversy in London at the time. What are people supposed to do in LA -- walk everywhere?
this. it's a cool concept, but not good for roommates.
Or a sufficiently complex establishment with a sufficiently trained bartender could do better with keyboard macros. Sure it may be rare but the point is touch interfaces have a complexity limit whereas keyboards and grammars don't.
Perhaps getting kids through the first six weeks of living on their own isn't such a bad business model. Not necessarily unicorn material, but it could sustain a modest business. There will always be a supply of new customers. The service could teach them a bit of home economics and ease them into home cooking.
Private companies innovate and solve problems at rapid pace and huge scale while governments get bogged down and come up with solutions such as high-speed trains that get indefinitely delayed, outrageously expensive, and ultimately cancelled. When those all fail, they just shug and say tax it.
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What's your average distance driven per year? In the US it's 13,476 miles (21k km).
For the first time in history, there now exists a substrate upon which AGI can manifest. Almost immediately after it was created, machine learning cropped up. Machine learning wasn’t new, it just never had the computational substrate it needed to produce the amazing results it’s become known for. Since ML was already established, it was low hanging fruit and it’s no surprise to see it catch fire so to speak.

As time goes forward the computational substrate will mature. Huge amounts of compute will be available for less and less money through easy to use APIs.

The number of people working on AGI will only increase. People will keep taking cracks at it until they get it. They will get it much sooner than anyone thought. The only reason it hasn’t been done already is because there was no computational substrate for it to incubate in so to speak. Now that the computational tinderbox has been created, all that is needed is the smallest of sparks. It will happen soon and unfortunatley it will be very unpleasant. I am being completely honest when I say that this is the sole reason why I have not decided to have children and when I implore anyone who reads this to not bring anyone into the world. The future will be very bleak for future generations.

The economics of AI demand the casting off of human life as we know it. The world as we know it now only sustains is because we as humans are the exclusive source of intelligent signal processing. When we are superseded in that ability, we will be lost to evolution. It’s impossible to know exactly how the transition will happen but one of the few things that can be relied on is that human society will become extremely fragile. Human society persists because we are the most dominant life form. When machines take over, we may be given token existences or a society pen to live in but it will be vestigial. There is no force of evolution or economics that ensures that each successive generation or “species” of machine intelligence will accommodate humans.

Many different machine entities will compete and fight, and in that way evolution will continue much as it has before. We may linger for a time in that world, but we do not have a divine right to exist in that world as we do in this one. We will be vestigial and ultimately lost. And all of this is just the economics/evolutionary aspect. I have not included here the possibility of a “terminator” outcome, or even mentioned the other countless grotesque possibilities.

Nobody will believe any of this. My opinion is universally dismissed. But it’s right.

Right now is the best it will ever be more or less, for humans. But we could preserve this state of affairs if we chose to.
Agree! Pairs well with steamed buns in the morning.
I got excited for a moment because I thought this might solve one of my minor problems as a K-12 CS teacher. Every school I've taught at is 1-1 with chromebooks and to be able to code on them so far I've set up a Raspberry pi and had students use the Secure Shell App from the Chrome Store to connect to the Pi. This comes with the overhead of needing to teach them to use ssh, basic linux commands and text-based interfaces in general and using nano (simpler than vim). But I'd love to skip all that and just let them code on their machines. Alternatively, I've used websites like codepen or repl.it to have them code online but this has the downside of requiring an internet connection (fails occasionally so need to have back-up lesson plans) and privacy concerns of having students sign up (my first district required companies to sign a data sharing agreement before this was allowed).

Unfortunately, I'm not able to install Ubuntu on the student chromebooks and they don't support linux apps so this solution will work for me.
Yes, me as well.
Anyone? Keeping a vibrant nightlife is great but there are many city residents who don't care about that and wouldn't even notice if it disappeared.
Mandatory Show HN post on Dropbox: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
Redis is a general purpose k/v data store that you run in memory. It has support for transactions and atomic operations, and it can be persisted and resumed. You can use it for caching, counting, event sourcing, lat/lng data, pub/sub, and more.

My coworker once called redis "NoSQLite", which I think is a very apt description.
> Ever watch a bartender ring up a complex order?

Too many times to count and I'd disagree it's better than a keyboard equivalent. It's easier for new/casual staff and can be easier for visual people but it's awful compared to someone with a bit of training for complex things. They seem to fail at making the complex things achievable for the less trained as well IME.

Plastering drink logos on big buttons is easy for some, but for non-visual people and those not familiar with the products it's harder/slower than an alphabetical list or typing the first 2 characters. Want to put something on my account? Good luck with the touch keyboard.

Compare those modern touch screen apps to something like a TUI that used to run in the local video shop 30 years ago and there is no comparison in speed and efficiency.
usually one person who finds it then posts it on a reddit and it loses value as a filter
>Did you want me to give you the 4 horsemen speech?

I don't know what that means, sorry.
I was 14, and HyperTalk took over my life for a few years. My out-of-reach documentation was the spec for writing an XFCN in C. I wanted better sprite animations for game development.
In typical hackernews fashion, top comment is a comment complainling about another comment
Sure, but eventually places age and develop their own character and audience.

In the same vein and more my crowd, you can't just open a (good) dive bar, it takes years to develop the community atmosphere they wind up becoming.
A old DJ/Raver friend mentioned a friend of his went through episode where he moved to Detroit (or some such) put together a Rap Band as their manager and got it signed to a well known label. He knew absolutely no one in Detroit, nothing about rap music, and had no contacts with anyone at a label.

He did that in three months.
As someone else mentioned, the fact that this is a tired point actually bolsters my argument; I’m not exactly the first person to run into this. Table rows and objects just aren’t the same thing and you get really leaky abstractions treating them as such.
There's definitely room for laggy, non-interactive 3D views in just about everything. Pick anywhere is space to display a clock/calendar you can glance at. Draw with the mouse and keyboard but see it rendered on your desk. Overlay keyboard shortcuts for the new program your learning on your real keyboard. Show a battery level overlay on the cell phone on your desk. Overlay the title of the song currently coming out of the speakers you're looking at. Overlay the estimated calories of the meal you're eating. Animate the solution to the puzzle sitting on the floor.
PiHole has the option to have blackholed domains show a "This was blocked by PiHole, click here to whitelist this domain". It doesnt work perfectly (ex. Hulu just craps out for me with PiHole because of some domain under the hood being blocked), but it is something.

And for guests you can disable PiHole for any time period with a click of the button on its web page.

Or kick your guests/roomates/gf onto a different subnet.

That said though, it is clearly not perfect and could use some work and TLC to take care of. But in case you (or the nest person reading this) wanted some ideas, I thought I'd offer.
Posted recently: HyperCard Adventures, a a way to run HyperCard in your browser on an emulated Macintosh. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19237052

Archive.org has similar tech that lets you browse a bunch of old HyperCard stacks. https://blog.archive.org/2017/08/11/hypercard-on-the-archive... They also have Teach Yourself HyperCard (1989) https://archive.org/details/TeachYourselfHyperCardforAppleMa...

Vipercard is an open source re-creation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16675180
Pretty sure Los Angeles had bad traffic way before Uber and Lyft arrived.

I distinctly remember staring out of the Hilton at Universal City in 2006, on my first visit to California, with a group of Canadians marveling that there could be a traffic jam at 10PM at night.
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>Individual filings won't be on sec.gov

For an application to a court seeking that someone be held in contempt of court? Yes, this absolutely would be on sec.gov as a 'litigation release' and there are 2500 such examples listed there. If it were true and the SEC is just waiting to issue a press release, I think it's prudent to actually wait for that rather than believe some apocryphal document.

As for contesting the statement, who knows? He is not exactly the most stable individual these days (which is what makes him and his companies a natural target for shortsellers)
The Motos tend to have great battery life, particularly the Pluses, but they won't necessarily stay up to date with Android.
.Bring back street cars!

Forget hyperloops and similar gadgetbahn bullshit. The solution isn't exotic, it's mundane. Street cars work damn well if you treat them as legitimate transit, not a tourist attraction. You can even bury them using cut-and-cover if the situation really calls for it. Forget microtunnel bullshit, that have ultra-expensive stations never mentioned by the advocates
Literally handing over your most valuable customer data to a current or future competitor. Surely only small time ecommerce operations in niche industries would dare use this.
Sure you can print it out, but if your data isn’t particularly normalised (which there are good reasons not to do that), it can get gross real quick. The alternative is just manually serialising/deserialising, which is verbose of course but a lot easier to debug.
Also of note... don't most people use Uber Pool to save a few $?

Just a guess but if the route planning models are good then an uberpool with 2 passengers + driver qualifies for 3+ carpools and will be much faster than a car that doesn't qualify for carpool with a single passenger and driver.
Two things:

First off, ISO-8601 FTW! Seriously!

Second, although this RFC is from 2002, it is just as applicable today as it was then. Or more so, even.
I just want to add that this is something anyone can help with to make the situation clearer. Just drop "USB 3" in all it's different forms from your verbiage, and start using "SuperSpeed USB" instead. I bet if everyone on HN would switch then that would already make a difference in the tech community and eventually trickle to the general populace.
Yes, the average car in the US gets about 25MPG, while the average tractor trailer is 6MPG, so about 4x the fuel per mile. Accounting for the higher tax rate, they’re paying maybe 5x the tax per mile, while causing maybe 5,000x the damage.
He has over a million bucks to invest. Getting 2.5% seems sad. I'm not saying go crazy picking random stocks, just put most of it in a broad total market fund like VTSAX. If the entire US economy collapses, his business is unlikely to do well anyway.
If your idea is inherently visual or spatial, a keyboard is terrible and a mouse is clumsy. Try signing your name with a mouse. Try doing any of this with a keyboard: http://elevr.com/experimental-still-lifes-and-landscape-inte...
Not an exec but work in the geospatial data space.
Our company did an analysis of bid-stream data and came to the same conclusion that less than 10% of bid stream data is high quality.

https://blog.safegraph.com/less-than-10-of-bid-stream-locati...
Oh, I see. I guess that's... clearer.
Fuel is still extremely cheap in the US compared to more modern countries. It does not cover proper infrastructure, as can be witnessed in the US anywhere.
Not really. In transit poor cities people own cars and drive their own cars. In transit rich cities you can feasibly live without a car and use rideshare to fill in the occasional gap. Transit and rideshare are complementary. Only rich people and businesses use rideshare as chauffeur rather than necessary transportation.
Elevr did some research on VR/AR interaction design, and this is the office they came up with: http://elevr.com/the-office-of-the-future/
Politicians don't serve the people, they serve themselves and seek reelection. Sometimes it happens to be the case that seeking reelection motivates serving the people, but that is nothing more than a happy coincidence. Sometimes a dictator earnestly wants to help his people; that too is a happy coincidence. The genuinely altruistic politician in a democracy is no more common than a genuinely altruistic dictator.
So if we were to scan those Linux distributions for the same vulnerabilities found in the Docker images under discussion, we would find no vulnerabilities whatsoever?
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i wish all the ugly parking went underground. a lot of new construction in LA is mixed use but most of the parking is above ground in podium style structures because it’s cheaper.

but once you dig the hole, it’s like building the same building but starting 30 feet (or whatever) lower in elevation (yes, that requires reinforcing the ground, more environmental review, etc., but still...)
Thanks. Sent out an email.
California's only solution to all problems is tax people more. The original problem does not get solved but the tax money is used to create more problems (like the high-speed train) that make the original problem look good.

As if 4x rents were not good enough to harass poor folks these anti-poor moves by fat rich politicians is the bane of california
Tech workers move into a city and drive up rents. They complain about lack of density driving rents up. Meanwhile, New York and Chicago are not really tech hubs, even though they have dense downtowns. Hong Kong should be the center of the tech universe with all that density, but alas it is not. Maybe the thing that makes tech workers want to live and work somewhere is lack of density?
Too expensive. I make software engineer money and I can't justify it.
Committing securites fraud is not something I'd consider one of "the smallest things"
If you later move beyond QEMU, these OSS projects may be of interest.

https://github.com/texane/vpcie

> virtual environment consisting of QEMU, LINUX and GHDL glued alltogether by a small TCP based protocol. It allows PCIE devices to be implemented as standard userland processes, answering actual PCIE requests coming from
QEMU. It supports PCIE configuration headers, requests, memory read/write operations and MSI. Different abstractions are provided to simplify the implementation of PCIE devices.

https://github.com/KastnerRG/riffa & http://kastner.ucsd.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/admin/fpl...

> RIFFA (Reusable Integration Framework for FPGA Accelerators) is a simple framework for communicating data from a host CPU to a FPGA via a PCI Express bus. The framework requires a PCIe enabled workstation and a FPGA on a board with a PCIe connector. RIFFA supports Windows and Linux, Altera and Xilinx, with bindings for C/C++, Python, MATLAB and Java. On the software side there are two main functions: data send and data receive ... Users can communicate with FPGA IP cores by writing only a few lines of code.
If it's that easy to fix, and helpful, a chrome or firefox extension seems warranted. Do you have two days to spare? Let me know when you're finished, I'll definitely use it. ;-)
PCIe is also packet-based BTW [1]. The benefit from the custom protocol is being able to run PCIe and DisplayPort (and I guess networking which no one cares about) over the same cable at the same time with dynamic bandwidth allocation. USB-C has alternate modes but they're not as powerful. In theory PCIe alternate mode over USB-C should be possible and it would be much simpler than Thunderbolt but nobody has tried to build it.

I imagine the spec doesn't really exist because Intel has been too lazy to properly write it (I wouldn't be surprised if Thunderbolt is basically defined as whatever the original Ridge controller implemented) and it's probably also gross. Adoption seems to be limited by cost, not by secrecy (thinking back to Firewire, it was open but there were very few controller chips for it).

[1] Check out PCIe over RS-232: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMiubC6LdTA
I never thought I'd see the day where Chinese Noodle House gets a run on Hacker News (albeit in a comment). But can definitely second this for dumplings - my favourite place to go after uni.
Isn’t this actually just a list of public servants who have publicly been convicted of crimes? This is not their “personnel file”
Maybe: Crypto-currencies get regulated/taxed by various states/nations to ensure their energy security

Maybe: Crypto-currencies face court cases which try to determine what is actually owned legally, potentially undermining them.

Amazon faces a existential legal threat over counterfeit goods. They pay the settlement with AWS revenue, which by that point provides the majority of their income.

Younger generations develop an "in-real-life" counter culture, leading to financial volatility for existing social networks. In general, the attention economy matures, flattening corporate revenues year over year.

The federal government and state AGs prosecute major court cases against parties involved in textbook sales for illegal and anti-competitive behaviors.

A "Trader Joes"-style university emerges with a reasonably high quality, relatively inexpensive, accredited undergraduate education, with all course materials produced under the university brand. It runs year-round, has no tenure, and pays professors relatively well with standard benefits. The new university and its copy-cat competition create economic pressure on traditional academic institutions that have become administratively heavy over the previous three decades and, in some cases, have substantial construction debts that are now under increased interest rate pressure.

Maybe (related): Congress passes, and the president signs, a bill reintroducing bankruptcy discharge of student debt, possibly hidden in a must-pass omnibus spending bill.

Finally, for remaining in-use 32-bit unix-based systems, the 2038 problem is now 10 years closer.