skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many reasons, you name it:

- Almost any existent device will likely be connected to the Internet through 5G almost as fast as it became available

- Access probably will be a LOT cheaper than 4G, will get there a lot faster (months not years), so everybody will be onboard ASAP

- 5G network could easily replace many fiber optic deployments currently used by telecommunication companies big clients (so if you breach the 5G infrastructure, you're reaching internal networks in banks, trust funds, government sensitive information offices, whatever fancy dangerous stuff not suitable for public access)

- 5G is REALLY FAST and RELIABLE, (very hight bandwith plus very, very low latency), so if you hack into something, or if you deploy malware, it will spread faster than the Thanos snap. The data exfiltration - taking your stolen data out to your infrastructure - could take a LOT less than now, this probably means the bad guys could hack out a lot more data than now, also probably using a "raw" approach: if you get in, just transfer everything you can access, right now

- The massive (freaking massive) traffic you're going to see into the network monitoring infrastructure will probably be very similar to what Five Eyes currently sees for entire countries, but in city per city base (NY, Boston, DC, Berlin, Barcelona, etc.), so initially very few players will be able to get out something meaningful from the monitoring stuff, but what devices failed: more bad guys oportunities.

Finally.

- Whoever makes the hardware has the upper hand, you - whoever you are - go behind them, in almost any security scenario.

So yeah, we need to have this stuff under some serious control.

Trump is almost certainly right in his attemp to make what he's doing.
To the people still complaining about dongles: It's 2019. Maybe buy a couple of USB-C cables and move on?
WebAuthn Web Authentication with YubiKey 5
If one of those companies decided to drop decent money on turning SciPy+Jupyter (or Julia) into a proper high-performance CAS, Wolfram would be in huge -- maybe existential -- trouble.
This is a preposterous claim. Neither Roman nor Celtic peasantry existed in a state of perpetual famine...the norm was absolutely for pretty much everybody to be well-fed.

Yes, you're making a good point. Traditional societies that have lasted many generations are usually pretty good to excellent at knowing how to provide enough good food and clean water for themselves. That said, there are many people still alive who got enough food and grew up healthy, but recall always wanting to eat more as they grew up. People who are in this state are particularly affected by rewards of food.

Also, I'm not sure if Celtic societies had peasants organized like those of medieval Europe. Celtic people lived in both dispersed rural environments and in cities. There was considerable trade. The common view is that people just tended to live in the community they grew up, but that people were free otherwise. Social stratification is said to have increased over time, and perhaps things would have ended up in the same place anyhow, without the Romans. The Celts also practiced slavery, like the Romans.

Yes, they had simple diets, but not bad ones.

This can vary quite a bit in times of migration and transition.
Your comment feels very aggressive and uninterested in actual debate.

My primary benefit is not spending the time telling the computer things it should already know. Dev time is the most limited resource, I prefer not to spend it restating the obvious. And yes, sometimes this restatement could be complex to express.

The biggest benefit I see most static typing advocates benefiting from is IDE-hints, not compile-time checking. But IDE hints aren't what people use to advocate for static typing.

There are many reasons for different approaches - but if you want to limit it to a single thing, feel free. Just don't expect many people to be convinced, or even interested in your arguments.
It's not hypocrisy or arrogance in any regard.

The US does not view China as an ally, it's a competitor that the US sometimes cooperates with economically.

The US and its allies are saying they prefer to keep the spying inside their own allied domain. That's not only entirely rational, it obviously makes perfect sense from a national self-interest standpoint.

As an American, if I get to choose, I'm buying my 5G tech from European or Asian allies. I'll happily pay more for it.

The US isn't saying China can't spy, it's universally understood that China is spying and will keep trying to, just as the US will. The US is basically openly saying it's going to attempt to counter or limit that spying, because China is a global rival in all regards. Just as China will always attempt to limit the ability of the US to spy on China and its interests. The same goes for Russia and its spying, going all the way back to the early days of the USSR.
I'm the author of this post. I just wanted to say even with the embarrassment of my site going down (the blog was on a $5/month Digital Ocean plan, never figured I would write something only my mother would read).

I'm reading through your comments. Thank you for sharing your insights and stories. Would love to do a follow up post at some point.
That cruft is due to "requirements". It's easier to modify a system with less cruft, because modifying a system means adding, deleting or changing requirements. This is easier to do when there are fewer of them.

If you think of a new requirement, it's easier to be sure that it doesn't conflict with six requirements than with sixty, or six hundred.

Additionally, requirements are hard to remove/change once their implementations are deployed and depended on.

Basically we are already saddled with debt at the requirement level, before we even consider the implementation quality.

Thus, the first tool in the fight against technical debt is to very carefully manage the acceptance of new requirements. If a requirement doesn't exist, then its code doesn't exist, and that's as clean and maintainable as code can possibly be.

Secondly, try to gather all of the requirements up-front before implementing anything, and then resist futher requirement creep. If most of the requirements in a system were gradually introduced after implementation began, that will tend to degrade the quality.
Concepts of “whiteness” and “blackness” are fine, but this “HWB” is just a trivial rearrangement of RGB, and as such has very little to do with human perception, and much more to do with the specific implementation details of the output medium.

HWB (like RGB and HSL and HSV) does not make sense to “average human beings”. It only makes sense to people who have spent years training on the specifics of RGB displays (e.g. your proposed “lighting technicians”). For everyone else it is a confusing mess which produces bad results which differ significantly from their intentions.

If you want a color model related to NCS, specify something which properly follows its principles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Color_System

> magical shortcut

This is neither magical nor a shortcut. It’s a superfluous hassle that anyone who wants to implement the spec needs to implement, debug, and maintain, and anyone reading the markup for arbitrary web pages needs to know about one more weird complication.

If individual web designers want to use this idiosyncratic tool, they are welcome to put it in their page’s javascript, or add it to their CSS pre-processor. But it should not be foisted on the rest of us.
I'm from Netherlands, and My country recently found some backdoors in Huawei equipments. This might be why the US/EU is actively blocking Huawei:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-netherlands-huawei-tech/d...
You were more skillful than me then, or less prone to accidents, or knew of fewer kitchen related accidents (I know a woman who had her face scarred for life when her mother accidentally splashed her with scalding water).

I know I wouldn't let 12 year old me handle a sharp knife or a frying pan.
Sure, there's lots of models to choose from and potential for analysis paralysis. That's not what I understand the OP was complaining about though.
I think technical debt extends beyond poor quality code that prevents additions or modifications. Having worked with a large amount of scientific software it extends into the efficiency and robustness of software.

Frequently, efficient methods or parallelization are not used and the least creative method is implemented to solve a scientific question. Functions are not written in a modular way but merely for a “quick and dirty” analysis.

The end result is that you spend more time getting things to run or waiting for them to run than if you had gone back and reworked the code to begin with. It’s a serious drag on productivity.
I work with EE1 and EE2. Does anyone have specific questions? I think I can answer now that it's public. My experience with EE2 is limited as I've been very busy with other tasks.
If this is a war, then did Google, Broadcom, Microsoft, the rest of the US tech sector, and the worldwide Android community just get forcibly conscripted into service by the US government?
Bottom-up. The FBI sees that you're having a TLS conversation at X time with a server in Facebook's IP range, so they just go ask Facebook for what you were doing at that time.

Foreign-hosted services seem like they'd be hard to crack, but it's extremely likely their data flows though Cloudflare, Amazon, GCE, or a similar US-based company.
I mean, I didn't say the overlap was 100%. That monster would be obviously outside this.
By that reasoning, the Apple II is a 16-bit computer and the original Mac a 24-bit one.
I recently discovered the web Slack and am trying to use it more. Seems to help, which ought to be a huge embarrassment to $WORK or whatever they call it.

I used to use Outlook Web and might go back. The native client is a nightmare but does some useful things the web one doesn’t.

Docker has been a huge boon to my dev efforts, usually much lighter weight than an old school VM, so I’m no hater but if I had to work on battery more often I’d probably do the same thing, spend a few bucks on AWS and only work online but with better battery life.

All that still won’t get me more than 6h though.... :-(
A small point: "weigh" on them.
"Bond. James Bond" covers all the options.
while the invert operation is not truly invertible you can still partially fix this by applying another invert and hue-rotate on images.
The error comme from the use of the equivalence operator instead of the material Implication operator =>
Why not eliminate loneliness itself instead of trying to apply a band-aid over it? Are you all afraid of what might happen?
So time and place dictates what is SciFi now? That's an awfully awkward measure which will cut away a lot of SciFi.

Though, I agree Star Wars is not very sci fi, it's a fantasy epic with sci-fi stuffs in it.
Just because someone is at the top of their field (consumer electronics) doesn't mean that they know anything about other, non-related fields (music).

Ed Colligan former CEO of Palm in 2006 on rumors that Apple was releasing a phone.

“We've learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone, PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They're not going to just walk in.“
if GDB isn't the "good old fashioned", then I need to update my frame of reference ;)
The woman supossedly harrased Carrone on a conference called FLISOL CABA. In which she was a speaker, and Carrone wasn't. In fact Carrone by his own account, never went to that conference up until that day. So, what was he doing there? So he went to the conference where she was speaking, and then she harrased him? Really?
I keep wondering whether I should try Linux again. Is KDE any better than Ubuntu?
> No, people have always found a way to justify what want to be right regardless of the underlying ideology. We've just become more explicit about it in some cases. People's beliefs about what is right tend to be very convenient for them regardless of what they claim their beliefs to be.

This is probably true in cases. But I suspect that widespread cultural alignment to a general perspective/worldview must have an overall mass effect.
> America was consciously designed with these divisions in mind. By federalizing the minimum number of things

If we are going to fetishize the decisions of the architects of the design of our government (which several of them would be appalled by), we should at least understand them: the Constitution (even in its original form, though the subsequent evolution also reflects this) is an embodiment of the idea that the correct amount of federalization at time n+1 may be significantly greater than seemed (and perhaps even was) ideal at time n, rather than the idea that federalization should be aggressively minimized. (Radical minimization of the federal power was the design of the Articles of Confederation and the impetus for the revision effort that produced the Constitution as a fairly strong rejection of that approach.)
Yeah, could be.

I thought it might be possible to effectivize intracity rail traffic via an on-demand mini-tram service, given self-driving trams and computer-optimized routing. Kind of "packet routing", if packets were trams.
Musk is a lot like Trump. Boisterous, tends to exaggerate, accidentally lies a lot. It's their manner. They don't focus on technical accuracy etc. They're focused on the feeling - the vision - the faith. That's what it takes to do the most difficult things. Realism tends to crush really difficult projects.
Comparing the general population, perhaps. Comparing professionals — maybe not, I am a software engineer here, and I earn less than somebody of my qualifications would earn in Silicon Valley.
Watch CNBC Interview with Twitter Co-Founder and Medium CEO, Ev Williams
I have never seen it before, thanks. I read it another way.
The closest modern equivalent to those old 8-bit computers is the TI-84 Plus CE calculator. It has a legit (no hacks) way to load binary executables. It goes for about $100. Like many old 8-bit computers, it comes with BASIC and an almost-ASCII character set. The screen is 320x240, just a tad bigger than those old 8-bit home computers usually had, though with 16-bit color. There is a USB port. You get a bit more RAM, with about 64 KiB of about 256 KiB available for your program. The screen is at a fixed address you can write to.

The C compiler is fascinating. There is a uint24_t which maps to an unsigned int. This is because the EZ80 CPU is capable of ganging three 8-bit registers together to handle 24-bit data. Pointers are also 24-bit. The "short" and "long" types are of normal size, 16-bit and 32-bit. There is no alignment or padding. Serious stuff needs to be in assembly. The C compiler doesn't optimize very well.

So that is 3 programming languages on a $100 device that happens to be useful for all sorts of normal school classes. The calculator is fine for the SAT, ACT, AP Statistics, AP Calculus, and now even the AP sciences.
My Type, So Initialize Me Maybe (Mem:Uninitialized Is Deprecated)
The Rands leadership Slack is great for this purpose: http://randsinrepose.com/welcome-to-rands-leadership-slack/
Can someone confirm this?

The Algorithmbase is 99.999% of what makes Mathematica useful compared to any language with a decent REPL or notebook setup.

I can't really imagine a use case for the Wolfram Language if I'm not going to use anything listed in http://www.wolfram.com/algorithmbase/
Thinkpad X1 Extreme 2nd generation too.

9th Generation Intel® Core i9-9880H with vPro (2.30GHz, up to 4.80GHz with Turbo Boost, 8 Cores, 16MB Cache)
How do you think iMessages are "restored" when you lose your iPhone and get a new one?
...I think Facebook has won
> Today, you can watch that historical event on YouTube

> Video unavailable

sigh.
What is it that makes 5G cheaper than 4G?

In the past, faster almost always mean a denser network of costly towers. Is that different for 5G?
According to HIM, there were other ANONYMOUS people.

Also, a couple causing problems to women? That sounds extremely fishy.
Pricing is opaque.

https://www.wolfram.com/engine/commercial-options/

How can I figure out if it's worth investing the time if it's impossible to price a production license?
Some Basics the screen is 640x360 resolution the EE1 runs custom Android 4.4 (Kitkat) The EE2 is running Marshmallow (I think) with stock UI.
they had us in the first half, not gonna lie
You feel rusty yet stepping away from Rust? :-)
Does anyone know if /anyone/ has successfully gotten a large chunk of the data FB stores about them from them since GDPR went into effect. I vaguely remember reading some story of "thousands of pages of print-outs"

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I wonder how much of this is simply that no one outside of FB has ever seen large chunks of the data that is stored an worries about a PR crisis?

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Kudos to the author, but I'm guessing that at some point this will have to go to some sort of legal battle as FB may have a /novel/ interpretation of the law, but clearly that interpretation was not made up on the fly by a customer support email person....
I know him too, and he's a psychopath idiot full of himself that nobody stands except for his poor employees.
The fact we are sure we live in a simulation.
Is there a reason why I should switch to Firefox if I already trust Google to act in good faith?
The major US provides are looking to get you to replace all your logins with direct cell-provider authenticated logins, so they can skip the email recovery part:

https://www.fiercewireless.com/tech/project-verify-will-brin...

With this the attackers get direct access to all your services once they socially engineer or identity theft attack your cell account once.
Apple's motto has always been "form/fashion/culture over function" and you can see that in many instances throughout their past.

Aside what was mentioned in your other replies, I think the biggest piece of evidence is the fact that they stuck with their one-button mouse for such a long time even after multi-button mice became a very common third-party hardware purchase alongside a new Mac.

Another commenter mentioned a famous Steve Jobs quote where he said something along the lines of "the form is the function" but I'm absolutely positive that's part of an overall sales-pitch and not a description of reality.
My High School debate coach loved to sit in the back of the room during practice with his hand in the air counting the number of "Uhmms". Disconcerting at first, but then you start actively trying to keep the count from increasing, which backfires for a while, and then you get past it.
Yeah, the exact definition of "major" hardware change is kept as a secret by Microsoft so that it's not easy to defeat that activation mechanism for pirates.

The newer version (version 1511 and above) of Windows 10's digital licenses are essential a private key (as in asymmetric cryptography, called digital entitlement[1], stored in UEFI), as opposed to the a 25-character product key we used before. If for whatever reason the activation program cannot find that key, it won't be activated.

[1]: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12440/windows-10-ac...

> which in my case was from almost 10 years prior. Luckily enough, I had it archived.

If you bought your Windows license online with a Gmail address, Google has you covered. https://myaccount.google.com/purchases
> Yea, he wants government to further entrench his position (like Wall Street, etc). Not surprised.

Yes...that's also not capitalism. That's cronyism.
Free has two standard meanings that are used commonly, "free of charge" (gratis) and "free from restriction" (libre):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_libre

Gratis: "Buy one, get one free."

Libre: "You are free to leave."
> Legacy code isn’t tech debt either: it was right for the time.

Doesn’t this assume that code as written was of the highest quality? Under tight deadlines or misaligned priorities code quality suffers. Even if it works or “is right” doesn’t mean it wasn’t done to a standard that maximizes productivity.
> the old "those people are too stupid to know what's good for them, so we should decide for them."

No. Those people are so heavily propagandized at that they now believe and repeat falsehoods. A clear majority of rural "conservative" voters profess belief Obama is Muslim, that he is not a US citizen, that illegal immigration has a detectable impact on their livelihoods (vs., e.g., H1 programs), that Trump was ever good at running businesses, or that his campaign was unfairly investigated for corruption... I could go on all day.
I'm pretty sure that's how it works. The drivers report total battery capacity, current battery capacity, and current power draw, so the meters just do the math.
Living in the Rust Belt, I play the world's tiniest violin for people who say it's too expensive in San Francisco, yet are themselves transplants who chose to live there.

If you're disgusted with the rampant inflation of SF, come to Iowa, or Michigan, or Indiana, or Ohio. You can live like a king on wages that barely keep you in the middle class on the West Coast.

Bring us the economic value of your startups and the well-educated workers they draw. Give smart, ambitious local kids a reason to stay instead of moving away forever to some coastal city. Spreading the opportunity and wealth of the tech economy outside a handful of the biggest cities will do a lot to calm the political anger that's led to Donald Trump.
Updates to Amazon EKS Version Lifecycle
Realize that I'm talking about myself but I wrote about my time at Cloudflare: https://blog.cloudflare.com/helping-to-build-cloudflare-part...
Thank you! There's a billion typos in there, you just seeing the tip of the iceberg.
"Every time I see this it frightens me" - Jackie Stewart talking about the Nurburgring
You don't invite somebody and then just uninvite her with no provocation. No without some kind of compensation.
Heh. I once had a problem that I could detect at a certain point in software, but couldn't figure out how I got there. I used a test point to trigger a logic analyzer that was attached to the address bus. Scrolling back, I could see enough of the previous instruction fetches to figure it out. (This was before instruction caches on the 68000 line of processors.)
How does that solve the problem? Live in a low-tax state until your medical risk reaches a threshold, move (perhaps across a nearby state line, as would likely be the case with states like Illinois and Maryland where the major metros are a short drive away from red-state borders) to a higher-tax state when the payoff becomes worth it. Isn't this a textbook adverse selection problem?
WordPress. Not simple to setup or free but once it is setup, it is pretty simple to use.

I use bookmarklet on desktop and WordPress app on phone to post anything interesting to my bookmarks blog. It is pretty easy to search. Sometimes I use tags but usually not. It appears to be a messy collection of links, videos, quotes. But it works great for my purposes.

Blog: https://www.chaosplay.com
Well ignoring security for a minute, I have issues with anything that makes it easier for telecoms to charge for and provide different tiers of service for limited parts of the internet (net neutrality), and as I see it, pushing services towards the edge can't possibly work without some degree of opt in. Then there becomes a fundamental issue with the telecoms wanting things hosted on their nodes for performance, and small scale sites being to little to for the telecoms to care.

This is all still very speculative, but there isn't a telecom out there I'd trust to run my servers.

I agree we could use nice ways to serve content more locally, and there's already some solutions here, but I'm struggling to see how it works as part of a cell network protocol without redefining a lot of how we expect the internet to work.
Probably because a large percentage of those billionaires have their wealth in the form of company equity which is untaxed or taxed at the low capital gains rate.