skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I remember correctly Ada has some non-sytem things, like its own threads (tasks). For our compiler (Rational) they weren't handled by the OS. Many of the closed source compiler vendors stopped supporting them (probably too much work for too few customers), thus GNAT/ Adacore and actual OS threads.

[1] http://www.iuma.ulpgc.es/users/jmiranda/gnat-rts/node14.htm

Its been a while.

The ada runtime didn't have a lot of things built in so for our project we built a ada library that would call out to some C code that allowed ada to call to the OS for networking/shared memory/message queues and such. Sizing of types passed from ada to C was important, but wasn't too difficult. Ada also has a record type that seemed to map well to structs.
There’s plenty of reason to be critical of the F-35, but wow I loved reading this article.

The two things that really stood out to me:

1. The F-35s top feature is situational awareness, essentially the way in which it processes and displays information to a pilot. Information is becoming a critical piece of war, and the advances made here will trickle down to us civilians in the years to come. Imagine what their HUDs are capable of? Add to that its ability to essentially fly itself, I have to imagine there are some features of autonomy that will be useful to us down the line.

2. Speaking of information, from a metatextual perspective, this article is also a great application of the human domain of warfare (1) this article itself being a weapon. The anti-F35 articles used to concern me from this perspective, but I wonder if even those were part of a larger information campaign (The enemy thinks the jet is bad, thus under estimating it).

The first 2019 Redflag was just a few weeks ago, I wish I would have made the drive out to the desert to watch.

1)https://mailchi.mp/digitalfuture/dff4-316401 (scroll down to the animated gif of a machine gun)
Facebook doesn't have to allow you to target demographics. If you create an ad, mark it as type "housing", then things like race and wealth shouldn't be an option to target. It's illegal.

Using your analogy, when you buy a hammer you don't tell the cashier it's for murder.
"It's like an AC130 without a howitzer and a totally different machine gun" making it entirely unlike an AC130. The AC130's GAU23 and the GAU8 on the A10 are very different. I also did targeting missions in Ramadi for AC130s, and it was a lot of fun.

Have you ever been in combat with an A10? I have. I was literally the guy putting a laser (from my Shadow 200 TUAV) onto a weapons cache building in Tal'Afar, Iraq and watched an A10 BRRRRRTTTTTT cut the building in 1/2 before it ignited from all of the ordinance inside.

As to showing the A10's effectiveness in Desert Storm, that was what, 1991? The Soviet T90-A was designed to specifically be fine against 30mm GAU8 rounds, and it was released in 1993. Soviet armor divisions also have serious business anti-aircraft like the Pantsir system, which would obliterate an A10 no question. All recent Soviet weaponry, up to and including the most recent T14 Armata would survive strafing from an A10 just fine, and in the meantime provide targetting data to anti-air platforms to take it out.

TL;DNR: Using the weapons from the early 1990s to fight a war now is a great way to lose. The A10 is an amazing machine, but so was the P51 Mustang in its heyday.
Are you in the right thread? I don't see any editorializing in this article.
Actually the tooling is owned and possessed by the USGov, not LM. And restarting the production line isn't as simple as flipping a switch. You'd need all the components made by subcontractors (that are out of business). And you'd also need to find assembly workers familiar with the processes involved in fabricating the airframes etc. Plus the technology is OLD. The avionics are old, 1980/1990 designed systems. So you'd naturally want to upgrade it to the latest standards, which would cost more money and extend the time required to deliver a plane to the AF.
TIL: there's a Nim evangelism strike force too. Your comment record is impressive in that regard…
Oh wow, 30 days later this happens
So if they pretend to be a NEW person you've never talked to before, you're willing to talk to them again with a new key? :)
Also it's been that way for years.
It's hard to tolerate dishonest disagreement, but fair enough.
I think it's less "you will NEVER see me on Radar" but more "Radar detection range reduced from 100 miles to 40 miles", meaning you have more gaps in your coverage than you expected, and also they can get a lock on you before you get a lock on them.
I imagine that a single digit typo in latitude could also result in a valid location on the other side of the world
I used to work for Support.com in a senior technical role during part this window of time, but not directly on the Office Depot tenant.

Support.com followed similar practices of other scanning software like MBAM (MalwareBytes) and SAS (Super Anti Spyware) at the time. In fact, Support.com acquired Super Anti Spyware.

The big problems were:

a) their staff is incredibly poorly trained, mostly because they barely pay above minimum wage to these workers, their training barely covers more than the UI of their tools and they're pushed on resolution time. These workers don't have much skill and don't have much reason to care. They basically don't know the difference between spyware/adware and infections.

b) Office Depot was upselling this on brand new computers which are bundled with loads of adware. Effectively they were telling customers that their brand new computers were infected.

Support.com is an incredibly stupid company who repeatedly hired their business development people from failed companies (ex-Radio Shack, CompUSA and Circuit City hires were the rule, not the exception). That said, they weren't the only bad actor here.

Also, nobody should be surprised that this company was founded by Mark Pincus of Zynga fame.
bloke I knew worked in Tiny Computers in the UK in the late 90s. at xmas they were so busy the staff would just ignore any customer who did not want to buy an Extended Warrenty as they were not worth the time.

And people wonder why the High Street is failing?
> Whose failing is it if warnings clearly state that isn’t the case?

Tesla should be responsible and stop marketing it.

Otherwise you're begging legislators to write ham-handed laws, begging courts to set awful precedents.

Either way, they are absolutely poisoning the well.
I don't understand the it is hard part. You register with a phone number after installing and that's it. Isn't that the same use case as whatsapp?

Sorry I never used Whatsapp, so it's really really hard to understand what are those features that people keep arguing about that are missing or so much easy of use on that application. I use Signal and Keybase regularly and I don't find them lacking.

So any write up anywhere talking about those misterious and amazing features and user friendly UI that only Whatsapp has?
>interestingly enough I never saw an ad that explicitly listed race...

???

That must've just been Virginia? Where I lived in Houston, they listed unacceptable races all the time. (I suppose they didn't have to though, it was always the same two races listed.)
You can't expect that raising prices is going to cut it as Amtrak is very inefficient like many, if not most, state-owned companies [that even receive subsidies], though.
Estonia is using AI more and more for government, plans for AI judge
Make sure to flag it if you feel that it's inappropriate, there is also a hide button.
Mueller report confirms the worst: National sovereignty is at risk worldwide
Or test failure?
That's also somewhat recent. I was able to do that with my latest phone, but for my previous phone, the only option was a plain text export that removed any media, caused any group chats to be split and included in 1 on 1 convos, and obviously didn't have the crypto included.
On new devices, this often opens an empty file picker. That's so helpful to a user...
Works 95% of the time is not good enough.
How often have you insured your children for being kidnapped?

How often have you been bound-up in a hotel room by robbers looking for jewellery?

You know your marines body gaurd that follows you everywhere? Does he annoy you at all?

Do you feel safe?

Did your daughter overdose on coke at 27? Your son?

Your comment just illustrates your ability to understand the unique problems of the poor. There are many such problems of the rich too.

I'm not saying that all problems are equal. Only that you vastly under-estimate the "natural unhappiness" of people, and the "natural stress" of living when you think that money has some magical impact on that. It doesnt.
Xiaomi’s “100W” quick charging goes from 0 to 100 in 17 minutes
They don’t have to do anything. But then the society may feel like it’s hard to compete in the ad industry and start breaking the oligopoly down. Which, I think, is the main reason Google does this charade.
I don't think this is about trust. As long as there isn't a competitor that builds a better product, people won't switch. I don't like Apple at this point, but I'm struggling to come up with a better alternative to an iPhone or Macbook, despite the growing number of flaws.
Zoned SSDs live fast, die old, Western Digital claims
From what I read in this thread, Denmark and Belgium also bought about 30-40 each. Those numbers start to add up.
Grindr Poses National Security Risk, U.S. Gov Says
China's a pretty shitty example to pick to make your point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_re-education_camps

Their actions against their ethnic minority groups are bad for the same sorts of reasons white nationalism is bad.
Mark as played is there, but it's hidden in a menu on the details screen of the episode.
I hear you. OTOH, one of the downsides of an iMac is the difficulty of dragging it to the Apple Store for service. I hope you don't have to experience that.
The Subaru EyeSight system uses cameras. It appears to do pretty well for adaptive cruise control and front crash prevention.

https://www.iihs.org/iihs/sr/statusreport/article/53/3/2
I was curious if they would have been listing the job on their own platform.

They don't:
https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/companies/stack-overflow#jobs
A lot more than you might realize it seems. Here is a good overview of basically how the A10 is simply ineffective as a modern tank-killer.

https://www.quora.com/Can-an-A-10-Warthog-airplane-take-down...

Again, a hellfire missile from an Apache is a much better way to kill a modern tank.
I think it is an important problem since it has gotten the attention that it has.
Sure, but one pilot assigning targets to dozens of drones that are just outside the enemy controlled area waiting for instructions can go a long way towards making the pilot extremely effective.

That pilot can also be replaced by, say, 200 kilograms of extra sensors and communication equipment and two or three people in a container in the nearest airbase.
If a block is accepted by a majority of nodes and miners it isn't invalid.

Your own personal node is free to implement different logic, but it will be unlikely to interact in a functional way with the rest of the network.
Couldn't disagree more, many of the words are halfway between two other words or are deconstructions of existing words fragmenting and refracting their meaning though Ridley's understanding of the world. To give the most obvious example; Eusa is a confusion of St Eustace, the USA and Jesus with a rich web of meaning and myth springing from that conflation. The spelling speaks to how the transition from oral to written tradition can crystallise the meaning of myths, fixing their meaning.
why would people need to commute at all?

if people worked from home they could have nice amenities, space, low noise, vehicles to travel elsewhere and useless offices could be converted to something that is more useful.. otherwise people pay a lot of money to rent a space that they don't use fully...
Huawei poses national security risks, says UK watchdog
The LVFS Is Now a Linux Foundation Project
How do you like it? I'm just changing from LG Gram to Razer Blade 15 Advanced to have more power for programming (and have CUDA programming capabilities), but I don't have the laptop on my hands yet.
The topic is interesting and/or helpful. I'm glad someone is taking it on.

The information in this article is somewhat inaccurate and mostly not relevant to what most people experience. They should preferace the article with some sort of

"If you took part it the next billion dollar IPO, most of this would relate to you"....then >"a large tax burden on execution due to AMT"

>"Single-trigger RSUs don't vest until a liquidity event so there is no tax hit." That's simply false

I think I will stop here, but someone with more time would find five more things to call out on this article.
Looks like a great almost-drop-in replacement for React. Have you performed any benchmarks for performance against React or other VDOM based libraries? Have you had any issues with debugging when something goes wrong in a component?
Why should we trust Alan Dershowitz without proof? Giuliani is a lawyer and he goes on TV all the time to lie about easily verifiable facts.
Facebook did not screen the content. They are the one hosting it and are liable.

This isn't a case of "innocent item used nefariously." More like the hardware was selling something inherently illegal.

FB should be liable for the ads they serve on their site.
Management pressure is not an excuse for faulty engineering. As an engineer, your first duty is to the public, then your client, then your employer. That's straight out of the engineering ethics handbook. Your boss comes third.

When you sign-off on a design, it is your approval. Your name goes on the document. There's no passing that off as someone else's fault. If you are unable or unwilling to say "no" to your employer, then you do not meet the criteria to be a professional engineer.

Your employer may find another engineer to sign-off, but perhaps that person will think on it carefully, knowing that someone else refused. If something later went wrong, it could not be passed off as a simple oversight.
Since Kong 1.0 it can run in both centralized or decentralized mode as a sidecar for Service Mesh. And since v1.1 the database can even be optional. We are executing very fast with the feedback of the community and our customers.
I did get a sense of

"These sandwiches are acceptable."

"Permission to speak freely?"

"Permission denied"

"These sandwiches are acceptable."
You're including the alt right on an argument about white supremacists. Could you perhaps answer my questions without taking about the alt right, who aren't being discussed by anyone but you.

White supremacists also advocate violence against other races often to subjugate them. This is highly similar to isis.

Or are you claiming that all members of the alt right are white supremacists?
The first interview mentions the Paris air show as a critical public demonstration. You can watch it here https://youtu.be/93NdwZAeXhI
Ask HN: Is There a “Glassdoor” for Engineering?
I'm wondering if there's a service that gives me an unbiased / anonymous perspective of what it's like to be an engineer at a company.

There's Glassdoor, but that's mostly about culture and a general sense of the vibe and career trajectory at the company.

Technical blog posts published by companies are definitely interesting and provide a glimpse of what interesting things one might work on, but they also have the hidden agenda of wanting to attract talent, so of course they're only going to shine a positive light on the company.

I want to know specifically how an engineer feels about company "x". And how engaging the work is, and what technical management is like at company "x".

Does this exist?
There's sometimes a lot of chatter here on HN about a liberal arts education being worthless.

I have to wonder if more tech employees had taken classes in ethics, philosophy, and other "soft" subjects, if people in the industry would have a better capacity to make decisions that get their companies in trouble less often. Or at least be able to explain to their superiors why a particular business decision is bad.
Mostly off topic:
I would like a URL shortener that uses a similar system so that instead of giving me small.url/b3DmQ it would be small.url/MouseHatDoor because I will sometimes share a link with my students and there is always one student who can't get it to work because they type it wrong or something. I can send them the link through a course announcement but it is more convenient to put a short url on screen and have them go there.
It works for me, so this may not be a general problem.

I'm guessing you will need to do something on your end to solve this. E.g., clear some cookies or other bitbucket-related browser-local state.
That's definitely one of the funniest things I've the chance to read recently.
This is re-reporting of the WSJ piece discussed here yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19501341
Huh? Maybe not two short words. But clearly, two numbers can be represented by two words.
The Accidental Engineer: Long-Form Interviews with Software Engineers
OpenMW 0.45.0 Released
Facebook provided only a tool. Nobody is after hardware store because a hammer bought there was used to kill someone.

Your analogy is faulty.

People, governments, and law enforcement agencies go after gun stores that sell guns that are used to kill people.
Can a City Be Killed? and Why Asking Is Important
All of those require me to have air-tight opsec all of the time. One screw-up and you can be totally cleaned out with no remedy other than the courts (which can take years!)

In the real world, I lose my actual wallet every 5 years or so. Worst case, I lose $40 cash and have to spend a couple hours reporting credit cards stolen.

The best feature of a bank is that you can outsource all that opsec to them in exchange for a trust relationship with the bank. The latter is far easier to manage day-to-day.
Ask HN: Hand over Project with Profit Sharing
Hi guys,

I have quite some free time in the next few months and therefore looking for something new. Recently, I was a software dev at two FAANG companies and co-founded an AI startup. Ideally, I am looking for a person who doesn't have enough time for their SaaS/Project but doesn't want to sell it. I offer to continue working on the project with a 65/35 profit sharing. What do you think about it?
Feel free to ping me.

Best,
Jay
As Red Hat prepares to become part of Big Blue, its financials look as solid as
Ah. So discriminating against young is okay?

I assume if they can perform they will find a new job in this job market very quickly. Just on merits.

"reduce morale in your workforce"
I don't know how old you are but this sentence lacks wisdom. Companies are never grateful or anything. In fact, it sounds to me like career advice from the last century. The time for employees is over, you better get your own shit together. Pursuing a corporate career can be a very dangerous thing. I remember a post from a MIT lawyer who observed how his mid 50 peers were either making a shitload of money (MDs, laywers) or struggling (engineers in their mid 50ies) and based on his observations he said that when even MIT graduates are struggling later in live this field then you should ask yourself if this is really a good field to pursue.
Of course, the system could be turned off. That's the issue -- they didn't flip the switches to turn it off.

Had they done that, they wouldn't have crashed.
> I wasn't one of those newbies facing that snark, but as an earlier contributor it was really depressing to see the general attitude shift from "yeah OK this question's not the best but it was asked in good faith so I'll answer" to "you're a worthless human being for wasting our time with subperfection".

This. 100%.

My Stack Overflow account is approaching its 10th year, and I would credit a lot of my success as a self-taught developer to the welcoming almost overly helpful attitude of early Stack Overflow.

I hope it gets that back at some point (the recent rule changes have helped I think).
I've seen embedded RTOSes that are focused on task-like abstractions, I don't think that means it disqualifies.
For me their support for the Iraq war was where we parted ways permanently. Anyone with half a brain could see what was going on in the build up to Iraq. The Economist was for _intelligent_ analysis.

They could have chosen to be honest “The Iraq war is a fantastic opportunity to plunder the wealth of a nation, therefor as Economists we support it”. Instead they got onboard with selling a war based on false premises.

The minimum would have been simply “we are choosing not to cover the Iraq war as we feel it puts us in a position of being intellectually dishonest”. Or they could have taken a bolder stance and questioned things like what it means to declare war on a noun (war on terror) instead of a nation.

Ultimately, considering the number of people that died due to the Iraq war and the ensuing chaos, simply putting “(which this newspaper supported)” in brackets seems like a lame response to me. Instead how about retroactively analyzing what really happened, what mistakes the Economist made and why, and publishing that outside of the paywall?
Like many fields, they will bitch non-stop to fellow pilots, but to 'external' groups will always say how much they love it.

It's natural.
Oh, don't get me wrong. Apple hardware from 2012-2015 was really great, and I recently reversed my decision to "upgrade" to a Dell XPS 15 w/ Ubuntu 18.04 in order to stick to my MacBook because it honestly wasn't an upgrade.

But I think Apple is coasting on its fundamentals and trying to monetize (cannibalize) a bunch of intangibles that led it to meteoric success in the first place, and that would worry me as an AAPL shareholder (I'm not one). At least in the field of package management, Linux is doing some pretty interesting things; 'snap' is pretty interesting: https://snapcraft.io/, so are AppImages: https://appimage.org/, and this is in addition to the regular updates to 'apt' or 'yum' that are officially supported by distros. Meanwhile, 'brew' still dominates the OSX landscape because Apple can't be bothered to create its own package manager. When was the last time Apple updated native UNIX-like tooling? I had heard it was around OS X Lion (basically when Steve Jobs died).
Except that the drones themselves can be much simpler than the fighters they replace - there is no meatware inside, no life support or safety equipment that needs to be maintained and checked. With enough intelligence built in, the drone can land with a very detailed list of items that need maintenance because of performance anomalies.

Plus, the AI can be augmented by a human on the ground.
>> There's sometimes a lot of chatter here on HN about a liberal arts education being worthless.

Plenty of people here will argue that you shouldn't take out $80k in student loans to get a liberal arts degree. Worthelss in a ROI sense

But there are a large amount of people here with pretty liberal views. So they certain don't disagree with the viewpoint.
Tone.js – A framework for making interactive music in the browser
In the 90ies there was more a "move away from Ada movement" to avoid that language that the dod forced on the industry and for which it was hard to hire programmers for. Today it would be likely different. Also to stay pure Ada they would have needed to write a TCP stack in Ada, which would have been a big burden I guess.
To me, real programmers will eventually re-invent the better wheel at some points of time.