skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh come on, that logo type is extremely derivative of the Magic Leap one. n/m e, and a were essentially copied. They don't have to be exact copies to be stolen.

I'm very pro-theft in design as a learning and inspiration tool but it's extremely stupid when you both copy the logo font while also doing similar IP, when the cofounder worked there previously. It makes it look like they were baiting Magic Leap to complain. Even if the initial complaint is overall quite weak and the whole thing is probably futile.
Ideally we bring offices back for swes. When i had a room with 3 more engs few years ago, my productivity was much higger. Less interruptions, more focus.
Xenophobia and disdain for due process all wrapped in less than 100 words. Someone get this guy a medal for brevity.
Immersive machine learning at Google
You really don’t see the relationship?

The potential consequence of eating unnatural food that did not pass the test of time is catastrophic. Do this on a global scale, and the consequences could be global.

Trans fats are another example.
I think the point is that young people are more exploitable. That's not really a good thing for young people, but one can see why employers would want to exploit them.

This is why unions fought for 40 hour work weeks. Otherwise it's a race to the bottom in terms of who can overwork the most.
> first world problem/solution

Surely the opposite.

Your typical Neanderthal isn't going to do an ecological impact statement before clubbing the snakes to death.
Thank you. There is not, but on the readme you can find a few links to learn more[1].

I don't have solid metrics, but using only JS for a previous attempt, I couldn't have 8 points running smoothly [2]. Now it works with 500[3].

I'm not sure whether it's because I have a better understanding of the problems now or just because Rust/wasm is way faster, but what is sure is that Rust makes it easier to write performant code, even if it's harder to learn at first.

[1] https://github.com/loicbourgois/gravitle#learn-more

[2] https://loicbourgois.github.io/treeminor/demo/heart

[3] https://loicbourgois.github.io/gravitle/playground.html?test...
>...and not under a constant withering assault from hackers.

There are really only two alternatives here: either the problem is not solvable, in which case Equifax should not be conducting its business in the way it is, or it is solvable, in which case Equifax should not be conducting its business in the way it is until it gets its security act together.
From that "$94-232 per ton" number I was curious how much it would cost to "fix" CO2 emissions with just this tech alone.

According to this [1] page I stumbled apon, there's about 3 trillion tonnes of CO2 in the atmosphere.

Now obviously we don't want to get rid of all of that CO2 or else we would all die, and a ton isn't quite a tonne, but roughly speaking it means it would cost on the order of 100 trillion dollars to do a "reset" on the earths CO2 levels with this technology.

Of course I have no idea how long it would take, no idea how the costs may change with time, no idea what other technologies are used alongside this one to also help with CO2 emissions, and of course we're continually putting CO2 into the atmosphere so it's not at all the full cost.

But I think it's neat to see a dollar number in some way. Just think, a few more orders of magnitude lower and it might almost be something we could just do.

[1] https://micpohling.wordpress.com/2007/03/30/math-how-much-co...
Paper here: https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/723.pdf
I've heard about the cache thing, but that doesn't explain much. How is it different from machine code or VMs? Does it remove the need to read program's data? How much time does a non-K program usually spend moving the code from memory? Why wouldn't generations of programmers make the same optimizations―or just copy them from K? Or what are the tradeoffs, considering that K programs are essentially bytecode?

Also, there are plenty of memory allocators to choose from, and every runtime that doesn't use the libc has to ship its own (if it does memory management, of course). The OS only gives you big chunks to use as you please, and you can't sidestep the syscall. So that's not a super novel thought.
But they’re not equal, they’re bifurcated into winners and losers, just like in the market.
I tried living in Montreal and the long punishing winter trumps all of the other great benefits of Montreal over Toronto. It goes on far longer and the snow fall is far, far worse. But yes it's also a far prettier city than Toronto with a better music and cultural scene with super cheap rent.

But I now see it as a far better tourist destination than somewhere to build a life/business. Unless you're an artist or student who can't afford rent in a big city but still want to live in a big city (which is what 99% of the young people I met seemed to be doing, a whole lot of creative but unmotivated individuals).

I also found the stereotypes of the francophone Quebecois I heard my whole life growing up in Ontario to be surprisingly accurate (I went in highly skeptical as I'm a bit of a snob myself). The francophone parts of town were often both rude and hostile to someone still learning the language, while local laws force every worker to start every interaction in french. I was basically forced to start every interaction in every cafe/convenience store apologizing that I don't speak french well and continuing in English, missing every opportunity to learn. I also witnessed multiple protests over companies like JC Penny and not french-ifying their brand names (which sounds crazy to me), which I thought was ridiculous and unsurprising that business was slow there.

I spent a year living in MTL then came back multiple times over the last decade and very few new buildings or businesses changed. Meanwhile Toronto build about 100 new skyscrapers and new companies in the same time period.
We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20252920 and marked it off-topic.
And there's more than one journalist and editor at Bloomberg, and people excel at different things. Even WCCFTech gets leaks right once in a while.
In Texas we use Amdro and variants. Its a bait that worker ants carry back to the colony where the queen eats it, halting reproduction. It wipes out the colony w/in a week.
If you’ve ever followed Raymond Chen’s Microsoft Blog, you would get an idea of the hacks upon hacks upon hacks that it takes to keep backwards compatibility in Windows. It’s also well known how slow the Windows release cycle is because Microsoft won’t break compatibility.

Windows is a behemoth compared to MacOS in terms of processor requirements and memory. There is a reason that Microsoft couldn’t get Windows running well on low end and low power ARM processors.

But how far back would you like Apple to go with backwards compatibility? 68K programs? PPC programs? Keep porting Carbon APIs to newer platforms forever?
Show HN: Reminders to myself for taking on more managerial duties
I wonder how many similar genius are now completely unknown.
The EPA safe level is about 140 mg/day for an average adult. There are proposals in progress to lower that.

https://www.ewg.org/research/california-proposes-safe-level-...
Fingerprints are also identifiers, but that doesn't stop them from (properly or improperly) being used as authentication. SSNs are definitely used as authentication, whether you like it or not.
There's an entire industry devoted to the idea of that profit-sharing (legal/litigation financing), and many large firms are financed by what is essentially a litigation investment company. Very little of this is new ground.
When Pollution Is a Matter of Life and Death
Why do you think natural things are prima facie good ?
shuf also works (its in /usr/bin) -- this took me a ~long~ time to figure out
Weight discrimination is rampant. Yet in most places it’s still legal
Rich people, i.e. people who can afford $200 for a ticket instead of $100?

I don't think the market clearing price is anywhere close to double the cost. The article implies they could easily get 10% more. That's not the difference between rich and not-rich.
That's accurate for federal law, but I think a log of states are more strict. At least New York is:

> The New York State Human Rights Law covers employers with four or more
employees. It protects persons 18 and over from age discrimination in employment

> An employer may not refuse to hire or promote an employee, and may not terminate an individual because of age, and must provide the same terms and
conditions of employment irrespective of age, including salary.

https://dhr.ny.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/age-discriminatio...
I can't really image 11 ppb is significant for glyphosate. That's below the historic 20 ppb threshold for lead.

I'm not sure where the .1 ppb study comes from, it'd be interesting.

Edit: The .1 ppb comes from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9ralini_affair
Here in Aus a great deal of it is managerial complacency and in some cases laziness ('management' aspirations sometimes comprising mainly a desire to play golf & watch rugby). There's a strong tendency to clutch at pattern-matching shortcuts: "You're over 30 so you must be a senior developer".

Or (another one I've suffered) "I see you have a book on X (new technology) on your desk, so you must be an expert in it". I honestly have more than once quickly shuffled a book into a drawer when seeing a project manager approach, just to avoid being given responsibility over a project using some new tech I've only just started to investigate.
You may have a strategic preference over your customer base which is something other than "I want the customers who can pay me the most". The guy's either got a strategy or an axe to grind and it's his prerogative either way.
There's nothing wrong with pointing out a pattern
It sounds like they get the money in a bonus otherwise, so it is basically out of pocket.
The last time I tried (a year ago) to do Qt with Python I was seriously annoyed about the poor interactive graphing support, has that improved? Maybe there's just a really good library I haven't found?
Doctors say summer is kidney stone season. Here’s why
That goes back to my original example. If I can’t “discriminate” against an 18 year old, does that mean I can’t require someone to have a BS degree in Computer Science and 10+ years of experience?
All of the negatives of running your own business without any of the upside.
I mean, I’m not arguing that there is no plausible explanation for Magic Leap’s inability to ship a product with only $1B in funding. The plausible explanation is that they are running a tech startup like a drug development company, to use your analogy, which is just a terrible way to do startups.

AR/smartglasses is not a market where you will have “generics” any time soon. You’re going to have the iPhone of smartglasses which will dominate, and then everyone else will try and fail to copy. Like Facebook dominating social, then google+ failing. Or iPhone vs Android, although Android did finally manage to achieve market share thanks to googles muscle.

Tl;dr: successful startups don’t raise billions of dollars before shipping a product as mediocre as ML’s v1.
Just recently I was discussing with a friend how the late 80s and early 90s seemed to be the “highlight” of the UFO era. Mediocre camcorders and a lack of cell phones / instant conversation seemed to propel the type of curious conversation around aliens and other unexplained (in the moment) phenomenon. It seems like that conversation is totally gone. But I wonder if anything else has taken its place. Instead of UFOs are there other objects or phenomenon or experiences we seem to not be able to capture to prove false or true?
11.3 ppb would be 1.2ug per burger then, right?
Good point. I was thinking humans, which was silly.
This is off topic but if you put food in a small microwave then put the small microwave in a bigger microwave does the food cook faster?
> U.S. Patent #7341224B1, which was filed in 2004 and awarded in 2008, describes a Miniature Robot Surveillance Balloon that has thrusters to control its flightpath and can carry an electrical-powered payload aloft.

Cool in its own right. Cool that someone is taking the time to research possibilities.

But I wish we had more access to information from first-hand measuring systems of the type that were operational during these incidents. Currently most of that data seems to be well in the dark.
With “natural” I mean natural for humans to eat them. Those foods can be assumed safe because, by definition, they have been eaten by humans for hundreds of thousands of years. Can you say the same thing for GM food?
"I don't know why this is even a mystery: These people want to win, and they will do everything, including get as legitimately good as they can, AND cheat if they can get away with it."

That's a good point. Top athletes have a crazy drive to win in addition to being talented. Most of them will do whatever it takes, be it cheating or hurting themselves.
That’s not how bonuses work. I think it is entirely reasonable to give employees extra, unexpected and non-compulsory payments of some large fraction of whatever real money they demonstrably saved the company.
There's really only one sentence that even addresses the context and background with respect to China in this blurb, and that's this one:

"The lawsuit marks the latest accusation from an American firm of intellectual property theft by Chinese companies, a perennial sore point that’s helped escalate tensions between the world’s two largest economies."

Seems pretty fair to me. You'd be hard pressed to say that that's inaccurate or misleading.
The Bumbling Spies of the ‘Private Mossad’
It's pretty unfortunate that English uses the same word for "no-cost" and "unfettered".
> Only 0.1 ppb of glyphosate has been shown to alter the gene function of over 4000 genes in the livers, kidneys and cause severe organ damage in rats

How true is this? That number seems pretty low.
It could almost fit the JavaScript bytecode from Gmail.
If you look at a source code it seems to only do some basic stuff like currency converter, searches for a capital of the country and some other basic
Since age discrimination laws only protect discrimination against people over 40 (you can legally exclude people for being young), I've thought it may be interesting to use this explicitly.

If age discrimination is actually happening in tech that means there is a large amount of people 40+ that are not being properly valued in the market.

It'd be cool to explicitly target these people by having jobs ads only for people 40+ (and it'd be neat to have mentorship of younger hires be a component of these jobs).

No idea how that would work out, but seemed interesting to target for recruiting.
Even in amateur leagues it's pretty annoying to lose against somebody who cheats. When I did kickboxing I knew some people were taking steroids and other stuff so either you have to take stuff yourself or you are in a bad position from the start.
There’s nothing xenophobic about commenting on Chinese IP theft. It’s a very well documented problem.

You also don’t have to be against due process to have disdain for existing IP laws. They make things incredibly expensive for people to use to protect themselves, and have spawned an entire industry around their abuse.
A strategic preference for "I don't want guys who will pay more, but I also don't want guys who will pay less, I will spend money to monitor my customers to make sure I can charge less" is a quite strange preference.

Axe to grind sounds about right. Or PR, I'm sure his team understands the economics but the fans may not.
env /bin/busybox strings README.flag
And removing the mistakes made my Magic makes the derivative cost less; Magic used a lot of money figuring out what doesn’t work, money that the competing company did not have to spend. If I make an iPhone copy, I didn’t have to spend all the money Apple spent figuring out what wouldn’t work. So it’s not an apples to apples comparison.
Achieving the impossible: Thai cave rescue a year on
If the author is going to make such extraordinary claims, I expect to see some research to back it up. There are plenty of metrics: google trends, headline count, tweet count etc. Since he hasn't done the legwork, and the claim rings false, I'm calling him out.
Xenophobia accusations aside,

especially when the chief engineer used to work for the American company

I think this certainly shifts the burden of proof to Nreal to prove they did not steal Magic Leap's technology after releasing a very similar product
Quite the opposite - it makes more and more companies to consider open source. RISC-V is all rage now, people turning their eyes to open source EDAs. I hope with the help of SymbiFlow[1], Chisel[2]/FIRRTL[3], and other similar tools the duopoly of Intel (Altera) and Xilinx will come to its end. There is also an interesting initiative[4] to make ASIC design as affordable (in terms of time, knowledge, and money) as possible. And using KiCad[5] for simple projects can help for small businesses.

[1] https://symbiflow.github.io/

[2] https://github.com/freechipsproject/chisel3

[3] https://github.com/freechipsproject/firrtl

[4] https://theopenroadproject.org/

[5] http://kicad-pcb.org/
If anybody is curious what this was written with, here is the repo: https://github.com/inoda/private_journal
I haven’t done any math on 1.8 billion pixel video feed but I agree. There’s not enough radio bandwidth even for one drone to beam down over a million TB/day.
Wikipedia's own article on the song has a brief summary of each event, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Didn%27t_Start_the_Fire
You may not be aware of the great talk titled "Modchips of the State" [1] (presented at 35C3 in Dec 2018).

The speaker managed to reproduce the exact single-chip hardware implant attack suggested in the Oct 2018 Bloomberg Businessweek story [2] [3], which claimed Amazon and Apple found malicious hardware implants in Supermicro motherboards while conducting detailed inspections.

While Bloomberg has never retracted the story, there's an argument that the sources have vested interests in lying to Bloomberg suggesting that attacks developed in lab-conditions actually occurred in the real-world, in order to raise awareness of supply-chain risks (something the current US administration has been attempting to do for some time). There's also a suggestion that the journalist was acting in good-faith but mixed up a few different attacks, with the sources reluctant to clarify things. Another suggestion is that the attack did happen, and Amazon and Apple were forced to issue denials.

It's a very fascinating story. Maybe I'm naive, but if Bloomberg was in-fact wrong, they would issue a correction or a retraction. The fact they haven't retracted it suggests to me that there's truth to the story.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7H3V7tkxeA

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-h...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJGbcjfJ7rU
I'm curious about that too, and I'd like to know if there's been much work on GANs that can generate videos.
You can’t even say the same thing about broccoli.
Sorry, I might not have been clear. What I was referencing there is that they were never meant to be used as identifiers for people outside of the social security system. People are not born with social security numbers. A lot of people in the US don't have them. If you ran a daycare, you couldn't use social security numbers to track the kids in your customer database. You wouldn't be able to use them with the parents either because they (should) be afraid to give them to you. If they did give them to you, you'd have no way to verify them. It's not the intended purpose.

Real ID was basically just adding citizenship info to your driver's license so you didn't need to also carry your passport. It didn't fix any financial fraud issues.
Can you point me in the direction of that case. I can only find cases where the border zone was upheld in arguments before the Supreme Court in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Martinez-Fu...
If your having this much issue with figuring out what a ctf is its probably not for you. Googles ctf is pretty damn hard
Yeah, applying “free market principles” instead of getting workers to just _make better decisions_ is real consultant bullshit that upper management eats right up

Imagine you have a bunch of workers who don’t know how to effectively avoid meetings, because they haven’t learned about working more asynchronously.

You start charging them for the meeting rooms

Now you have a bunch of people who don’t know how to effectively work without meetings, who can’t use meeting rooms anymore.
Hehe. I kinda love this though :P
I don't know about anyone else but this is a pretty hard ctf. It's a lot harder than other ones online
Maybe, but that does not solve low-altitude problems, if indeed there is one. It is possible that two small-airplane sized parachutes will inflate faster than a single larger-airplane parachute, but apparently current small-airplane parachutes do not inflate fast enough to save you at low altitude.

Actually, this has me thinking: not all low-altitude situations are the same - an airplane with a downwards trajectory, such as one in a spiral dive, will need more height to save than one that is in a glide, such as after a power failure. This is why even a zero-zero ejector seat will not always save you, if you are descending rapidly at low altitude.

Even so, replacing a motor, if that is all it takes, is going to be cheaper than repairing or replacing an airframe that has undergone a parachute recovery.
The cars have a marginal profit of 3% to 4% after you remove the tax credits and that’s not enough to cover their fixed cost. They aren’t “reinvesting” profits. They aren’t making enough to cover fixed costs.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimcollins/2019/01/18/teslas-pr...

As far as Amazon. It’s still doubtful that Amazon retail will ever have the margins to justify its value. AWS on the other hand should stay a high margin business.

https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/04/14/is-amazon-com-reta...
Can you name one item at an organic grocery store that was eaten by modern humans even 50000 years ago?
Welcome to Sealand. Now Bugger Off. (2000)
I would guess not since a microwave oven is meant to be shielded?
Don’t Tell Me When I’m Going to Die
I'm all for GMO but I'm allergic to soy. I was disappointed when I heard they switched.

I developed a soy allergy when my mom decided to follow a fad in the 70s and switch me to soy in lieu of 'evil' cows' milk. One day my dad was watching me and got tired of having a continually sick infant. He switched me back to cows milk and I was fine after that.
Microsoft could have bought Android before Google though. But I guess that's part of the point. Microsoft of that era was too arrogant and Windows focused to consider such a thing.
Check out MurmusCTF. [1]

1. https://m.youtube.com/MurmusCTF?uid=UB9vOGEUpw7IKJRoR4PK-A
Ideally being the operative word. I absolutely loved having an office, but unfortunately, I don't think it's likely to happen, especially at the majority of places which have switched to open floor plans.

My current employer has gone even further and gone from open floor plans where people don't have offices, but do have their own desks, to a system where people don't even have their own desks and they keep their stuff in lockers. (So yeah, desktops are being phased out).

I just work remotely now - I'm significantly happier and more productive than if I needed to deal with lockers and open floor plans and all the other office bullshit on a daily basis.
My point is both rich and poor are equally likely to get tickets.