skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I suspect this entire thread of being some sort of "manufactured controversy viral marketing" promotion for superhuman.

I thought so too.
I think they have already decided, and they are computing devices, with various graphics techniques captured as userspace code. It is a bit of a fiction that graphics consists of just "drawing primitives" like triangles anymore. Those simplistic applications are supported by compatibility libraries to abstract the real computational system.

The core of the GPU is really computational data transforms on arrays of data. But there is a whole spectrum to these computational methods rather than just a few discrete modes. This is where application-specific code is now supplied to define the small bits of work as well as to redefine the entire pipeline, e.g. of a multi-pass renderer. The differences between "transforms and lighting", "texturing and shading", "z-buffering and blending", or even "ray-casting and ray-tracing" are really more in the intent of the application programmer than in actual hardware. The core hardware features are really to support different data types/precisions, SIMD vs MIMD parallelism, fused operations for common computational idioms, and some and memory systems to balance the hardware for certain presumed workloads.
There are millions of these radios in the hands of both licensed hams AND unlicensed preppers/airsoft players/etc who bought their $25 BaoFeng radio on Amazon.

Thales wants to reallocate the band for autonomous drone operations.

What could possibly go wrong?
Buckwheat adds dark color to honey and grows fast.
I grew up in the bad old 70s, full of bees and other stinging things, walking around barefoot pretty much all summer and I've never been stung on the foot. Likewise, we have a very bee-friendly yard, and our son (now 10) has never been stung by one.

Wasps and hornets? Him once, and myself 2-3 times, but that has nothing to do with plants, those suckers like making hives all over the place.
> nor did you choose to respond to the earlier reply you received

HN's posting frequency limits made that choice for me. The system is unfortunately biased towards drive-by comments and against engaging with feedback on your own comments.

Edit:

> Advocating that society just presses a 'shut down' button until "we collectively decide how we should proceed" is an entirely unrealistic scenario

But that's what I'm advocating. I don't think I'm obligated to respond to people who only came by to reject the premise of my argument. More interesting discussions are available to anyone who shows up with an open mind.
It doesn't look like fatalism to me; the argument is based on the bandwagon effect and how dramatic outcomes can be arrived at through incremental changes.
Then not having children won't change anything.
Why? IMHO, and from on-boarding a bunch of folks for my startup, it's because it makes teaching you the software easier and more personal. If you aren't comfortable doing it, that's fine; but I believe it's designed to make the on-boarding of folks better.
How do you back up your photos?
What a bizzare nonsense.
Interesting! Sounds like a compelling argument then, and a tragic happenstance so many places chose the wrong side.
The thing that is missed with this argument is that tech just enables the business.

If a company is boasting constantly about how it moved from X to Y, they either have too much money, or none at all. If they have the luxury of re-writing a core business system every 6 months, we can glean two things:

1) they have terrible leadership

2) their teams can't agree to support each other.

One thing that is really dangerous, is thinking that shipping _any_ code, is better than shipping the _right_ code. Its very simple to think that your teams are being productive, if the only measure is shipping code.

It soon becomes a circle of deploy-refactor-rearchtect-urghLegacy. You feel productive because you are constantly creating new and tools. But they are to do pretty much the same thing, but on a different platform.

You are correct to observe that having a "boring" stack requires lots of hard work. It also moves against the current "dump anything into prod, because, docker". Like a news paper, it requires planning, editing and a style guide, with enforcers and gate keepers.
Do they have emails of thousands and thousands of scientists cherry picking results? Or an email from one scientist? how many scientists are cherry picking? All? Some?

What's your opinion of the recent leaks from oil companies and their own climate studies? Are the oil companies internal scientists also cherry picking?
“Testing” software design. A short feedback loop for design
Screwing up the bottom of the population pyramid will probably not do the world much good, it needs to be a very gradual ramp down or it will create havok by tanking production in the future to where we might not be able to sustain anything at all.

Wether having that extra thing to worry about beyond climate change is preferable to having a harder time fighting climate change is beyond me.
Tensorflow.js JSConf
"Honda is all about style"

Well Fiat are doing ok with the 500, and BMW with the 'Mini', so I'm surprised its taken them so long to try it.
Yellow Water Iris is also invasive. Once you have them, they are very difficult to get rid of.
Ask HN: Live Chat for Sales / Support in Summer 2019
Can you provide recommendations on the best Live Chat for sales and support on a SaaS?

I'm moving into a more serious sales mode for my SaaS product.

As I understand it, offering a Live Chat agent is valuable to SaaS sales.

I'm planning to use SalesForce for my CRM, but don't know if it would be useful to try their live chat agent for simple integration.

Or, perhaps choose a non-integrated but still great tool that I manually move customers over into SF for.

Open to any and all suggestions on contemporary live chat for SaaS.
It's already "normal". People don't even realize there are cameras watching them everywhere, because they spend every moment trapped in their smartphone obsession while ignoring whatever goes on around them. It's tragic. Of course, the phone is the absolute worst offender in terms of state and corporate espionage (we don't even need microchips) but people choose to ignore the implications because they can play Flappy Bird and not have to make eye contact with people. There is already complete surveillance: 5G is its latest incarnation. Everything will be known and nothing will be safe. This is the "new age".
Does that universe have JavaScript?
How is preparing for the end logical "statistically speaking"?

The world has ended 0 times so far. The world has a 100% record of not ending.
I wonder if this "policy"/method would have stopped the radicalisation in Iraq/Afghanistan if China was to invade instead of the US.
Because taking the most extreme course of preparation (genetic suicide) does not have as much effect on the end result as staying in the game, accepting one's own imperfection but continuing to try to be a net positive.
Why is the conversation to be focused exclusively on China, though? Maybe the correct lesson to be drawn from this is the creeping dangers of authoritarian power in any country. Maybe seeing the abuses of China together with those of the USA - and the other FIVE EYES countries, and elsewhere, will lead us to understand that we need to keep tight reins on all government. But forcing us to discuss only what China has done denies us the opportunity for such a conversation.
There is little time to raise 'the most awesome climate change fighters the world has ever seen'. By some indications and projections you'll just be birthing these children to live a short, brutal life.
In China, surveillance is nationalized. In the US, it's nationalized (NSA) and privatized (Facebook). The tech already exists and people are using it willingly.
You should read a book that presents classical mechanics in a simple way, then read both a book that presents classical fields and a book that presents classical mechanics in a complicated (modern) way, and then finally go back and read a book that is about quantum mechanics.

Although QM textbooks usually begin with a deceptively elementary introduction, it's actually there as a compressed review of many semesters of learning that was expected to have taken place beforehand. I don't think anybody has ever picked up a book on QFT and understood it without first having learned the foundations.
Robert Moses’s Jones Beach: How the planner and the project created each other
Nice, good to know the JIT is doing something. Will be interesting to track the performance of this over time.
I used to think like lqet, and my travel habits reflected that, traveling to obscure places (at least for an American) to "get away from the crowds."

But the more I thought about it, the less comfortable I was with that line of thinking. What IS wrong with taking a picture that isn't 100% original? Is taking a picture of Piazza San Marco just as bad as a landscape photographer getting that "perfect shot" of Antelope Canyon? or Mesa Arch? [1][2]

What if you are an American with very limited vacation time each year? Or you just want an "easy" vacation? Why is one style of travel better than the other? Does a place having a ton of visitors make it worse to visit? Or is there still value to going?

I'm just rambling at this point, but I'd love to hear anyone's thoughts since I'm not sure what to feel.

[1] https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/0f/1b/ec/c6/...
[2] https://www.johntrotto.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/IMG_27...
Adidas social media campaign backfires after being hijacked by racists
Like all good models, you just keep tweaking the numbers until you get the result you want!
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For a nice alternative, check out Chioggia - and if you have a lot of time, maybe Pellestrina:

https://blog.therealitaly.com/2015/01/08/pellestrina/
Are you implying that everyone should run their own email servers or is there any email provider company that you are willing to screen share your personal email account with?
"Loon" is an error in transcription; if you listen to the video of the talk, he says "Loom", but with a British-sounding accent.
They seem to have learned a lot from the feedback on Nissan's Leaf. Exciting times.
A excellent explanation of this principle in long form by Dan McKinley http://boringtechnology.club
> Your head in a jar until they either create a new body for you or find a donor body

Could you imagine the horror of waking up and being just a head?
Context switching doesn't need to be as expensive as it is in these cases, it's just that Linux doesn't provide the mechanisms needed to make it more efficient. See, e.g., https://blog.linuxplumbersconf.org/2013/ocw/system/presentat... which implemented a syscall for a process-directed context switch directly to another thread.
Time to revive http://fuckedcompany.com/
In 10 years it all over.
From the VICE article: https://github.com/motherboardgithub/bxaq
Also, most of the actions of these companies are heavily subsidized by the government. We tend to overstate market importance and understate government involvement. So while we as individuals have some control via spending habits, we have very little control over what is actually offered in the market. The fact that we can buy phones and computers isn't because of market forces, but decades upon decades of government investment and subsidy. Which if it didn't exist there would be no phones or computers.

So I say, start at the source, at investment and government involvement which will ultimately decide what is available in the markets.
https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/meltdown-spectre-vulner...

In this list, I see more than 40 ARM-based models. This is very, very much compared to the list of commercially available M$ Surface. In comparison with the number of Android devices it's a drop in the sea.
The idea is that by designing a new platform you can create one which has a 10-20 year lifespan. These platforms tend to be designed for both electric and hybrid cars, can have variable wheelspans, tracks, and widths while retaining a common set of drivetrains. The MQB and MLB platforms from VW are two examples of this.

Monkey patching an old platform might get you another model generation, but ultimately it will end up being more expensive and less flexible in the long run.
Ask HN: A good way to support SSO in bootstrapped SaaS?
I'm looking for an identity solution that allows me to offer SSO in a typical SAAS scenario:

-Multitenant support where tenants can be created in an automated fashion

-Allows SSO to be setup back to a tenant's own identity provider (saml2)

-There could be between 2 and 300 users per tenant. I'd be happy to have 3 tenants with 20 users each to begin with.

-No real need for logins to link to multiple tenants

Auth0 is expensive for this relative to where I am at. I'm on the .net core stack where identityserver4 is often used, but some of the (java) based offerings appear to come with more out of the box (for free). In saying that, integration with SAAS of this nature looks to complicate things. So I'd appreciate any advice from HN's experience on the options available.
TensorRT Open Source Software
Self-immolation.
I _really_ liked the series of A Song of Ice and Fire (the books on which Game of Thrones is based). Martin does a great job at building a fantasy world while keeping humans true to their human nature. The combination of morally ambiguous characters that follow their own motivations with the fog-of-war (in the sense of making decisions with incomplete information) sets the motion for a really intriguing plot.

In addition, although not a book, I would strongly recommend the podcast Hardcore History. In particular, the series on WWI (Blueprint for Armageddon) is the best audio content I've ever heard, and it is long enough to be considered an audio book (~23 hours of content broken into 6 chapters).
Shutting down discussion is the opposite of the scientific method, but global warming alarmists know their arguments can't stand up to scrutiny so it's their default position to just de-platform anyone who is skeptical.
Atilad
Keybase.io Proof
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/juergenkuebler; my proof: https://keybase.io/juergenkuebler/sigs/NQPIdZAghB6QUFf56Tw7LgebdX6tJqT2Sfz-_53FWOY ]
We did something similar at the end of the garden with emphasis on native wild species and minimal maintenance - aiming for more wild than garden. The low maintenance didn't quite work as planned. Nature helped and now we've gained brambles (probably the highest maintenance part, as if left alone we'd have no garden, and once in they're damned hard to get rid of), thistle, inevitable dandelions and a few unidentified things have moved in too. The blackberry, nettles and dandelions need regular encouragement not to do too well. Less effort than a boring lawn though.

First year was fairly underwhelming, since then have had all sorts of insects and birds as constant backdrop. Last few years two pairs of birds, not sure if same pairs, have used it for their nesting spot - there's always one nest in the blackberries. I guess brambles are staying! The back of the garage seems to have a couple of masonry bees every summer, and there's a lovely extra sound background from it all. There's constant birdsong at the back. A local cat keeps trying for those nests, but hasn't got to them yet, and has failed noisily a few times... :)

We've twice spotted a frog, but we have no pond and there's no open water near us, so that's been a bit surprising.
To be fair I don't think the typical SV startup is risk averse at all. So any display of risk aversion would be infinitely more risk averse.

I'll return to my pedantic cave now.
Relations and the Algebra of Programming (2019)
Developer website for Google Fuchsia quietly goes live
Thanks for the summary. The egregious attempts to accrue data these days are getting annoying.

> They author is debating using distributed ledgers for security trading, which I don't think anyone is seriously considering.

https://www.tzero.com/ You mean like this?

It's interesting the way commentators tend to take all pieces of some random slice of the blockchain space as "the way things are always will be and must be by definition", especially without even seeming to realise that's what they're doing as you say with the example of assuming that you can only possibly use credit rather than debit instruments on a DLT.
I think here it's tweaking the numbers until they match up with the observed data, as flawed as that may be, but hey whatever floats your boat.
Good rec! Perspective was purpose built for this precise use case at JPMC, and has some unique features such as streaming Apache Arrow support, which can pretty easily handle datasets in the low millions of rows, at thousands of updates/second.

Source - I work on perspective.
"What could possibly go wrong?" Because clearly we have never, ever seen this before and its consequences, I guess. Braaaaiiiinnsssss
Both Tunisia & Egypt very much do have bustling, living cities.

The pyramids are just outside of Cairo, one of the largest cities in the world (metro population above 20m - I believe no European city surpass it).

Carthage is just outside Tunis - the capital & largest city of Tunisia (not to mention 10x the population of Venice).
React conceptually is very understandable, but understanding what it's actually doing under the hood is not.
Note: I worked at Oracle (although not as a manager), and am still somewhat involved in the ecosystem.

Oracle wants to move most (or even all) of its business to SaaS/Paas/IaaS/WTFaaS. They believe the aaS models are fundamentally more remunerative than on-premises, and can be controlled in an easier way, massively reducing their costs and increasing their lock-in. They also see customers eager to ditch their own datacentres, and believe that they will eventually migrate away to cloud-native services. That means the Amazon juggernaut will eat up more and more of their profits as it expands up the stack (starting from RDS).

So Larry has been steering everything pretty hard, for about 7 or 8 years now, to be sold "aaS". Their offering is pretty large by now (the only thing they don't provide, IIRC, is raw VMs). Entire product lines have been rewritten almost from scratch. They literally won't sell you on-prem licenses unless you also buy "cloud credits". They now compete (or rather try to compete) directly with Amazon in a lot of areas (authentication, PaaS, database, orchestration etc), and are busy "going down the stack" while Bezos is "going up".

Oracle is pulling all the stops to execute on Larry's diktat. They've even condemned the entrenched partner ecosystem, which was one of their strengths, to basically retool into integrators or die, fighting for scraps.
Same. I blame it on the capitalization. "Choose boring technology" reads like a statement. "Choose Boring Technology" does not.
Ah, I think we're both right here, just on slightly different things. You're correct, trolley with diesel backup isn't new and is in fairly wide usage around the world. To the original comment:

"retaining the ability to drive disconnected from the wires and constantly charge when in an area with the wires"

Seemed to refer to trolley buses with rechargeable battery backups, which are much less common. Admittedly, I don't have non-US stats, just that there are only a handful of cities in the US that use them.
Reefer Madness or Pot Paradise? The Legacy of the Place Where Legal Weed Began
Could we bundle more fonts with Firefox? Or provide a browser opt out for that behaviour...
Thx! Interesting. If those terms are put in the agreement, the landlord seems to be released from the liability financially. However, if the tenant cannot afford the losses, it may cause indirect troubles to the landlord, right? I'm wondering if there is any incentive for the landlord to encourage his tenants to have renters insurance...
I did some work at a wolframium mine in Portugal, and all the workers would come down the mine in 4x4 pickups. All the excavators and heavy machinery were diesel as well. Somehow, there wasn't a lot of smoke under the ground - I guess the ventilation system must have been really good.
The headline is really alarmist, implying China in general is applying this practice, while the reality is that this is a practice limited to sensitive regions. It's pretty much in line with the status quo in Western China. China has been very protective of the Xinjiang region for a long time, and very restrictive on travel in and out, especially for foreigners.

But here we go, we've started an alarmist comment thread where we've extended this out way beyond the current implementation, extending it into some kind of dystopian future where this kind of thing is universal. Time to get a burner phone and lock ourselves at home with our tin foil hats tightly in place!

All countries have always been paranoid when it comes to more contested and less stable regions. It's nothing new nor a surprise. Is this situation a good thing? No. It's been a human rights problem for decades.

Still, we should stop freaking out, that would be great.

This is not the customs and border process in China as a whole. It's not a reason to cancel a trip to Shanghai or Beijing or Xi'an.
I'm very curious how someone who holds your beliefs imagines the world will be in 10 years. "Short, brutal life" sounds like you're picturing billions of people roasting to death in the sun or maybe some sort of ecological inspired genocide?

When you visualize the human race on planet earth in 10 years, what are you imagining?

This isn't a snarky question btw, I'm genuinely curious.
I use Superhuman; they didn't ask me to do this in on boarding.

That said....using Superhuman (or any similar third party app connected to gmail) involves giving them access to your entire gmail account.

It's odd they wouldn't let you onboard without that (they used a zoom screen recording with me, and it was fully within Superhuman), but you're not really sending them anything they don't have access to if you signup.
As far as I can tell it copies text directly from this article (and thus probably from others as well) without attribution. Also, it mentions that the investigation was done by other organizations, but doesn't provide any links. That's scummier than usual, so I think we'll merge that thread into this one. The HN guidelines call for original sources anyway.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: I got this wrong—this article was produced by one of those organizations. Please see below.
Watermelons Became a Racist Trope (2014)
Everyone talks about the tourists, because they're what's visible, but it seems that the actual reason for the city being abandoned has nothing to do with the tourists, and everything to do with local law prohibiting people from living in available residential property:

> He is also a member of ASC, or “assemblea sociale per la casa”, an association of local residents that seeks to give empty or abandoned houses back to people and families. While this is illegal, because the houses belong to a public group which manages them, it has also helped bring some abandoned areas in the city back to life.