skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was already in Blade Runner (which Ghost in the Shell was doubtlessly influenced by), where the replicants have photographs of their families, who never existed, as they were implanted memories.

Ironically, I don't remember if this was in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (which Blade Runner was loosely based on), but even if it's not, it's a very common theme in Philip K Dick's work.

A similar thing happens in Total Recall, which was also loosely based on PKD's We Can Remember It For You Wholesale, where memories of the protagonist's family and prevois life have been implanted. In this case, the protagonist does not rely on photographs, as he has a wife in the present, but (spoiler) it turns out she's not really his wife.

Oliver Sacks is also worth reading on these themes, as he tells of many real-life cases of people misremembering, misrecognizing, and disbelieving things most everyone else takes for granted, from faces to family to their own body parts to language.
Not really... The Nazis burned porn, not books... Germans have been subverted into giving away their own country, being taxed excessively and drained by the EU. And you can go to jail for criticizing the rootless group who has perpetrated these things. The idea that exposing your body is "freedom" is inversion. HN is controlled by the same types of people who think "progress" is the opposite of progress.
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Java got async I/O in 2002, generics and "for (x : iterable)" in 2004, and lambdas in 2014. Vintage 2001 Java was drastically harder to read and slower, though error handling was always less cumbersome than Go.
My situation is a bit different.

I often go on remote calls with people and our task is to implement something while also training the person or giving tips on how to do it in the future while answering any questions they have in real time (related or not).

So it's more of a 1 on 1 teaching gig for an hour or 2. Not 8 hours of pair programming every day full time.
Except there’s a big difference in people that go to food banks, and giant corporations that benefit from open source
If you strip away all the safety features of a car, the car will weigh quite a bit less, and thus be able to achieve better performance and gas mileage. Should VW be allowed to market their cars as having that performance? Of course not, because no one should be driving their cars without a fire wall. So why is Intel allowed to market their 8 core chips as having 16 threads when in practice you need to disable hyperthreading?

So there's a strong argument that Intel, which is currently marketing their chips this way, is committing fraud. Maybe it could be argued that Intel didn't previously commit fraud. But as soon as the bugs became known, and Intel continued to market their chips as having hyperthreading, from that point forward they were committing fraud.
I get overall sentiment, it is thought provoking. At the same time, one of our clients has on-prem AS/400 with only half of CPUs enabled by IBM. Same client moved payloads between two cloud providers and one on-prem option in last 18 months. Same same, but different.
Lager – Redux for C++
GV is short for GeckoView, relevant-looking bug is here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1468844

Apparently they are using "Raptor" for testing (https://wiki.mozilla.org/TestEngineering/Performance/Raptor) which includes a webextension, and they fix that area of the webextension API when it breaks. But in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1562844 they mention that many components of Fennec are not implemented in GV so the corresponding API is broken.

I'm guessing the work is mostly about enabling the addons manager, so it might fit in Q4 or it might not. But it is worrisome that it isn't marked as blocking the transition.

They've already released fenix as a separate app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fe...

I would rather they call it "Firefox Lite" (in a nod to Facebook Lite etc.) and used some in-app notifications than to try to mass migrate with a version update as it seems they are plotting to do.
My dashboards all say 30%+ across apps with a lot of users.
As a view into a different part of the industry, when I was writing code for cheap embedded processors, it was C code all the way.
Thanks for the example. In all my life I never actually wanted to do something like this, but well... It's neat that go allows this.
They weren't. The crop dusting was done under manual control. Around 2005, you could semi-easily get a flight control unit to put on the research version.

Add a laser scanning system and direct the system to fly into a building... from flights back around 2006-ish:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Skdh4Nwm6r4
I've found that the first method listed works pretty well- you just have to make sure that the strands don't switch places after you cut them.
Well in the case of GPL it's to build a public commons. Part of GPL is to ensure that that public commons is maintained (it can be profited from, but not exploited).

This article is likely referring to mostly permissive open source, which yea allows people to profit.

We build a commons upon which better software can be built. People write open source to improve those commons, not for charity.
So basically, they are attempting to redo the mess that is 3.x

very cool.

"When configured over a USB Type-C® connector interface, USB4 functionally replaces USB 3.2
while retaining USB 2.0 bus operating in parallel. Enhanced SuperSpeed USB, as defined in USB
3.2, remains the fundamental architecture for USB data transfer on a USB4 Fabric"
Anecdote:

A friend of mine's wife is addicted to pain medication.

She was prescribed it by a doctor for years (issues related to a condition she needed serious brain surgery for.) She started getting concerned that she was getting addicted to it, and went to her doctor to try to figure out a solution.

As soon as he heard that she was having issues with it, he cut her off, cold turkey, and marked her down as drug-seeking. Brilliant.

She's since been on black market oxy for years, managed to quit, and, most recently, relapsed. They are no longer on speaking terms.
Whole Europe is invaded by grey squirrels. Also red-eared turtles and bullfrogs and probably many more species...
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I guess the question is whether there SHOULD be developers who only make money as independent open source developers.

My gut instinct says no. Open source development should be funded by companies paying their developers to work on and maintain open source projects.

Developers are paid because what they write provides value to a business that will utilize that code to make money. This is true or open or closed source; many companies realize you get more value out of sharing coding resources with other companies to create shared, open source projects.

This is how most open source is funded, and that isn't bad.
> I don't understand how 'swipe from the left' can be used as a universal back gesture. Isn't it the case that most apps use that gesture already to open a menu?

That's also discussed in the blog post I linked. tl;dr: Only a small subset of users (3-7%) uses a swipe gesture to open these menus (all others use the hamburger menu) and these users have to adapt now to do different kinds of swipes for opening the menu and invoking the back gesture.
Although the article claims IBM invented the term "Personal Computer" and Steve Jobs also claimed to have invented the personal computer, Alan Kay wrote at Xerox PARC about "A personal computer for children of all ages" in 1972 [1]. Many of his ideas went into the Xerox Alto (1973) personal computer [2]. The Apple I was introduced in 1976 and the IBM PC in 1981.

[1] http://www.vpri.org/pdf/hc_pers_comp_for_children.pdf [2] http://bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/parc/techReports/CSL-79-11_Al...
RSA is just notoriously difficult to implement correctly, unless you're some kind of crypto expert.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lElHzac8DDI
I have the same feeling, but if you look at photo's, they've been edited for decades (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_images_in_the_So...).

Photo editing became "household" at least a decade ago. So if you think of that, I can't see why the perception of video's in 3 years would be different than photo's today.
Apple Inc.
Hewlett-Packard Inc.
Intel Corporation
Microsoft Corporation
Renesas Corporation
STMicroelectronics
Texas Instruments

Honestly, I'm a bit surprised at how short this list of authors(?) on such a wide-impact standard is. Where are other silicon designers? Where's Synopsys, or Mentor Graphics (who often provide the Hard IP used by chip designers)? Where's Qualcomm or Samsung? What about Google, for Android?

Edit: actually reading a bit further to the "Acknowledgement of Technical Contribution", this is the list of promoter companies. The contributors list is way longer and includes everyone you'd expect.
> A tangential irony is adults engaging sex for money is illegal in most of America, while if it involves a camera, then it's porn and legal.

People like to say that, but it really isn't true.

A very few, very localized areas have specific legal jurisprudence surrounding the production of pornography. Everywhere else, you're probably going to get arrested. And, if the prosecutor decides to try you, you are almost certainly getting jailed. And while you will probably eventually win your appeal, you get the privilege of fighting your appeal from jail in the meantime.

So, while producing pornography may technically be legal everywhere in the US, practically it is only legal in areas that have specific jurisprudence declaring it so.
even the most pessimistic IPCC predictions don't go that far
Sure, but that's still Facebook.

I don't want Facebook having any level of access to under-13 minors' devices.
Man, that's a super interesting and very specific question! Wish I had enough rep to apply to reopen it.

I suspect the "too broad" closers wanted it to ask re a specific programming language. But of course in this case the asker didn't care what language they'd have to write it in (although they helpfully tagged the most likely C++ and C#).
If the observational web request API was also deprecated, that wold be a strong indicator that Google's intentions were good.

If Gorhill (and other extension developers) endorsed the changes, that would be a strong indicator to me consider that they might be user-friendly, and that the concerns about them were overblown.

Google could also theoretically just convince me outright. They would need to convince me that extensions were currently hurting my privacy, security, and web experience more than ads. That would be very difficult, but theoretically possible. A blog post that solidly addressed critics point-by-point, rather than simply saying, "no that's wrong", would go a long way.

It's not helpful to Google now, but if the Chrome team built up a reputation for being more thoughtful, I also wouldn't be more likely to take them at their word in the future. I've written about this in the past, but Chrome has been handling developer criticism poorly for a pretty long while, and that pattern eventually reduces developer goodwill. When it comes to trust, everyone is a Bayesian.

That doesn't mean I don't try to consider their arguments, and it doesn't mean by default I assume the worst, but I'm only considering Google's arguments on their own merits. If the changes don't make sense to me, I'm not going to assume by default I should accept them anyway. They can't just say, "trust us, we've seen the numbers."
AA will never work over Bluetooth because BT isn't a technology capable of reliably streaming a video stream AA requires.

There is a wifi version though, but due to regulation and unreliable drivers, it's not widely deployed.
This has long seemed like a mug's game to me, and all the talk of "passion" and "community" and so forth strikes me as unconvincing.

It's such a scam, you work hard on something that tons of companies use for free. If you're lucky, you get a couple bucks in donations. Then, if you decide that you're wasting your life doing this, people yell at you because you transferred the project to the wrong person. And don't you dare mess with the license, you evil greedy developer! (Greed is ok for the companies that use your stuff, but not ok for the people whose efforts they build on top of.) The whole time people are giving you shit for not solving their particular issue, not to mention the crappy things people say about the `standard` project itself.

It's signing up to be treated like a donkey, branded as something virtuous and righteous. No thanks.

But somehow feross is the asshole. What a world.
i dunno, i liked the old one that had the frequently visited sites list in it. the new one that insists on showing me some article i read and then finished confuses me tho.
It won't de-pivot, advertising techniques are a ratchet and they all become yet more products or options that agencies & sites provide. We'd still be getting popunder Netflix ads from Zedo if browser makers hadn't shut that functionality down.
Look further down. You showed just the promoters list, there is a much longer contributors list.

Google and Samsung are both there.
Linus has said he still prefers GPLv2 for his software over the BSDs, etc (at least as of a few years ago). He doesn't care about Tivoization, because he's not concerned about hardware. But he said if you use Linux and enhance it for your product, he wants the opportunity to upstream your enhancements.
If you already wrote the solution for your own personal use, it can only benefit you to open-source it so other people can contribute improvements. (But sure, it might benefit you even more to sell it or distribute it as adware or something, depending on how useful it is.)
Why are people relying on the phone key as the only key for their car? What happens if you break your phone? Now you can't drive home?

Stupid. Always carry the real key with you.
Your browser acting as a browser isn't a conspiracy.
Maybe replace it? There's a huge difference in quality between what manufacturers use and the 550 paracord that was used in this project.
does anyone have more information on this? only reference I can find is that blog post; I can't find the specific section of the linked specs that discusses such a utility
What if I don't drive on it at 30 mph, stay under the official 25 mph limit, but plenty of people cutting through drive it at 40?
My brother worked in a mosquito lab for a while and said that mosquitos lose these resistances pretty quickly (as a population) if they aren't regularly being dosed. In the absence of pesticide, the more efficient organism is generally the one without whatever metabolic fluke made it immune to the poison.

The lab helped inform the city's strategy for fighting mosquitos, which was to rotate pesticides. I believe they also bred and released neutered mosquitos.
Cryptographers who are much smarter than me disagree with me when I say this but I think there's some truth to this; RSA has, by design, more footguns than the comparable systems you'd create with a modern curve design, starting with the fact that the "directly encrypt with the RSA block transform" primitive is a misfeature.
Original source of information: https://twitter.com/lorengrush/status/1168917747109191681?s=...

My theory: someone must've turned off their pagerduty and didn't hear the alarm.
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> Live caption

>I love it for accessibility. I loathe it for privacy. Local, self-hosted, or bust. Same for Live Transcribe. Awesome and scary.

Uhhmm... Live Caption is running on-device speech recognition model. So it's local only.

>Smart Reply

>Some commenters here wrote that this was done locally. I would like some source on this (is training also done locally? Nothing is sent back?). If so, this might be interesting. Otherwise, that's plain scary.

No, the model is built ahead of time from other sources then downloaded and applied locally. Data isn't sent anywhere.

>Everyday Android strays further from the GPL. The way forward should be to help manufacturers play nice (use a few persons full-time for support, promote "mainline" devices to the public as the ones that will always receive updates). I haven't looked into the details, but this sounds like furthering their "trebble" HAL to run (and update) closed-source blobs on an outdated kernel (but who cares, right? because they put less and less stuff in the GPL'ed kernel).

It didn't work for last 15 years, why do you think it'll suddenly start working now?
One big concern would be freon recovery, for old refrigerator, freezer, and HVAC systems.
>people who want to ensure I have my rights protected, and my wellbeing.

That's a funny way of saying "deny you of different rights you just don't happen to care about exercising so you're blind to the fact they want you to lose them".

Both parties cater heavily to the "there ought to be a law" type of jerks and only ever pay lip service to individual liberties and human rights.
> The syntax is very weird after writing too much C#. Sometimes I have the feeling, that declarations are reversed just for the sake of it.

Rob Pike explains the reasons behind Go's deceleration syntax in this blog post: https://blog.golang.org/gos-declaration-syntax
please. do they have an army? can they imprison you for smoking weed? can they tax you? vice inanity strikes again
Chinese drone attack with 98% kill rate [screaming face emoji]
Well, many serious open source projects are heavily maintained by the money-making companies that use them - either directly as a company, or by "accidentally" happening to employ key maintainers of these projects and letting them loose on that, or by simply having their engineers do a significant amount of feature development, or by sponsoring the projects.

Where it does break down is with excessive fragmentation. A hundred small libraries each doing one thing will get much less corporate support than a single important library that does the same hundred things.
Look at the old video's of Bigfoots and UFO's. A lot of them have been questioned for years if they were fake or not.

So in that sense it could have still be done pretty cheap.
The Serial Time Link Protocol (STLP) looks really cool to me - I've thought for awhile that the next-gen in audio gear would be more modular front ends that sit on top consumer protocols, which is where things are moving in broadcast/commercial audio installations today. I can imagine a whole host of consumer and professional devices that solve real problems at lower costs than we can today. Really interesting stuff.

edit: one weirdness, STLP has a recommended packet rate of 62.5kHz (actual quote "A Router shall periodically transmit a Serial Time Link Packet on TMU_CLK_OUT. The period between transmissions is implementation specific, but it is recommended that a Router transmit a Serial Time Link Packet every 16 μs"). If the only application domain (besides compliance testing) is audio, how did they arrive at that recommended rate, where it is rather different from standard sample rates (44.1k/88.2k and multiples of 8kHz)? I'm not sure how that affects clock synchronization.
What is private about government bailouts?
> I guess the question is whether there SHOULD be developers who only make money as independent open source developers.
My gut instinct says no. Open source development should be funded by companies paying their developers to work on and maintain open source projects.

What you’re describing is a future where open source is driven and controlled solely by corporate interests, and anywhere user needs or desires or freedoms run counter to corporate interests, they go unserved by open source.

That strikes me as a highly undesirable future.
USB4 is basically Thunderbolt 3, i.e. USB3.x + PCIe + DisplayPort.

See the diagram in the linked spec, "Figure 2-1 USB4/USB3.2 Dual Bus System Architecture"
Their own charts/graphs on that page show that the new approach is WORSE (by their own metrics) than the 3 soft buttons.

I hope there remain ways to hack the buttons back (in 9.x there was):

#install a 3rd party launcher (nova)
pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.google.android.apps.nexuslauncher
settings put secure gesture_swipe_up 0
settings put secure system_navigation_keys_enabled 1
reboot