skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s what I was thinking of. He wasn’t parachuting into a speedboat with a Glock between his teeth, he was mostly sitting in classes in his book. And living in a death trap hotel when the stairs collapsed. Eating Froot Loops with sour milk for breakfast was as arduous as it got.
As others have mentioned, BrickOS already exists as alternate LEGO Mindstorms software.
How brave of Bradley to pile on publicly after RMS has resigned from a couple posts.
The article is about the Galaxy S10 and I was talking about fingerprint scanners on phones in general.
Consider a poor or indebted person that owns a car, and needs some benefits from social security. Many republicans would argue (as they do now) that they should "lift themselves by the bootstraps" and sell their car, use public transit instead as a first step to increasing their income right ? Now what do you think will happen when that poor person suddenly has the option to sell their kidney for $50k? The same thing. Their KIDNEY will be considered a "luxury" that they should part with rather than something a little more important than that. Think about the same narrative around "millenials should just stop eating avocado toast" vs. the real problems of wage stagnation or college debt.

What if debt collectors could one day consider a kidney a monetary asset like a house, and force them to give it up? How would you feel, if you sold a kidney at 30, and now you're 70 and your remaining kidney fails?

What if the social security basket shrinks proportionally because 10% of people now opt to sell their kidneys and take less social security- is that REALLY better than letting them keep their damn kidney and paying a bit more taxes on social security? A purely economic perspective would say yes...

Broadly speaking, you are reducing a much bigger problem into a small "economics 101" lens.
Only large companies are capable of building a car that complies with emissions and safety expectations, but that doesn't mean that we'd be better off if there were tens of millions of black-smoke-spewing death-trap shitboxes on the freeway.

Frankly, given the long history of data abuse, security problems, and generally anti-human practices by IT and tech companies, I'd be perfectly fine if cowboy developers not be allowed to touch this product space.

That's not to say that large tech companies are blameless angels in any of this.
What does the system resolver have to do with encrypting TLS SNI?
The other part though is that if you want your data from a SAAS platform to migrate to another one, it's a giant pain in the ass because most SAAS platforms don't have "export data for use with competitors" at the top of their TODO lists. You need to get the data, get the new system configured, and then train your employees on that system.
”In the LEGO Group, we believe that any original product design should be protected against copying for as long as it is produced and marketed”

They may believe that, but I’m not aware of any patent law that works that way. I think the design should, after x years, lose design protection (the trademark should exist for at least as long as it sees active use, so copies shouldn’t be allowed to call their product LEGO® or something similar)
Link to the release notes: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EoanErmine/ReleaseNotes#New_features...

More informative than this blog post's buzzword-salad: Kubernetes at the edge of your multi-cloud topology integrating accelerated machine learning developer productivity enhancements
Making an open source, privacy-conscious alternative to Google Analytics
Pretty much non-news. If he is ruled against in the defamation lawsuit, he doesn't weasel out of paying via the "illiquid" argument. Liens can be placed against stock.
I’m curious if they can store a hash of a print.

What I know about prints is that you’re looking for some number of correlations between features. So of 90 points from the first scan, you’ll need 16 to match on entry.

So... I don’t think without knowing which 16-90 points you’re going to compare that you can hash all the combinations.

I could be wrong, but I suspect this is something they don’t JUST hash.
They still have a few employees in their German office in Hamburg. They operate a service targeted at German users and at least Twitter Ireland (which is the operator of the website for European users) is within full reach of the German legal system.

Of course they can also absorb any money flowing from German customers in case Twitter would refuse to honor legal verdicts.

> unless there's a nexus that brings Twitter to Germany then Germany's laws are not in play

Keep in mind that anything you know about the US concept of "nexus" does not necessarily translate well into other country's laws and their idea of what laws should apply to which entity. As the article shows, German do apply laws to Twitter. The only problem would be enforcing such laws in practice but this is a non-issue in Twitter's case given enough will of the people involved. As shown above they have enough assets in reach.
This is the wrong approach.

It doesn't address the biggest privacy concern: the government's collection and use of personal data. No restrictions there, I guess.

Information wants to be free - even when it's about you. Putting that genie back in the bottle - the right to be forgotten - creates a world that is less free.

We should be really going the other direction and not allowing these corporations to hold this data in private silos to re-enforce their monopolies. They use the force of law to hold these monopolies over the things you've written so that it's their property and not the property of the individual. That's wrong and that's granted by the government.
Sorry, I didn’t mean to imply anything you wrote was incorrect. I was agreeing with you and this my opinion on the top level comment. Sorry for the confusion.
I think WiMax was what killed Sprint altogether, but I don't think Sprint was the sole entity in control of Sprint adopting it.

ATT and Vz had unexplained shady dealings to make sure Sprint was unable to buy LTE gear at an acceptable volume and/or price to adopt LTE; in addition, they were unable to acquire conventional 4G-friendly frequencies from the Bush-era FCC auction (the same auction that locked T-Mobile out of a growth path until the Obama-era Digital Dividend auction).

Sprint was then forced to adopt WiMax, which at the time, didn't look so bad, as it looked like Asia was mass adopting WiMax, and thus, LTE would be the one of two major worldwide standards, not the sole survivor. WiMax opened up the CBRS band, something LTE did not yet have access to, giving Sprint cheap usable frequency space nationwide (useful, since they could not transition to 4G without it after being cockblocked by ATT, Vz, and the FCC).

However, that ended up not being that useful, Huawei and several other companies had promised handsets and backend equipment for WiMax, but decided to pull back from the US market instead and also pull out of WiMax entirely and back the Chinese-lead LTE-TDD adoption instead (which is also the part of the LTE spec that adopted the CBRS band for fixed position LTE usage, which also happens to be where WiMax excelled); the parts of Asia that still use WiMax are switching (or have already switched) to combined WiMax 2+ + LTE-TDD equipment to eventually transition to 5G LTE over the next decade.

I think Sprint played a bad hand badly that the house had conspired to give them. I think they could have easily pushed their existing WiMax holdings into a very powerful fixed Internet offering for home users, and went after the ATT/Vz cartel in other ways. T-Mobile seems to be hot on acquiring that CRBS band for that exact purpose, thus the Sprint merger.

I'm not arguing that Sprint's leadership wasn't staffed with complete morons, that much is self-evident, but that they did not start out this journey with the intention of destroying a company with bad decisions. They clearly had help with that.
But are you giving away control by giving YC 7%? YC isn't a traditional investor. You don't need to raise money on demo day and are free to go back to being a small business that puts profit before growth. YC isn't going to send you an angry email or frankly even remember you if you don't stay in touch and continue to do office hours.
Isn't this true with any device that has an embedded microphone? Laptops and pre-smart cell phones have had the same vulnerabilities for a very long time, no?
I mean, Jane Street use OCaml for high-frequency trading, where latency can cost significant amounts of money. They seem to be perfectly happy with it.
This is an interesting article, but you should've linked to the original at http://ub.triviumchina.com/2019/10/long-read-the-apps-of-chi...
Link to a preview of the episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU1U2Eyep_4
They'll have it from the previous year. So, for each dependent, you'll likely only send a correction to the IRS twice: the year you gain the dependent, and the year they stop being a dependent.
Functional programming at Atlassian: https://youtu.be/HSQ9ET0bOYg
Hmmm, interesting. My philosophy has pretty much always been to work my way up on price until it's acceptable. If store brand cookies turn out bad then I've only been hurt once and go back to the brand name -- but if I find a gem it means I'm saving money for a long while.
Mad Men + CIA. I don’t watch much TV but I’d watch that.
There is a reply from Mark Weaver later in the thread:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2019-10/msg00...
Tell that to the Catholics in England and colonial America, or the Protestants in Ireland, or the Jacobites in Scotland, or churches of various denominations in many Islamic countries or territories, such as the Congo.
Corruption is legalized here. Changing these laws is hard!
I feel like this is the only sane response. To say there is no danger is naive. To say this is existential danger is...well...have you read the news lately?

Every day we are making choices about what risks we're willing to accept. In the scheme of things, this is novel but minor.
If ventilation is challenging, use less epoxy at one time. Also there's nothing wrong with leaving the room and waiting for the vapors to clear out.
Just because Samsung's sloppy copies of Apple's tech are sucky does not mean that the real technologies are "gimmicks".
Of course it is part of the explanation. That administrative overhead — the bureaucratic army it pays for and marshals as a lobbying and negotiating tool — encourages hospital monopolization, which gives providers greater bargaining power, driving up prices.
I think it depends on what you're editing. With internet speeds continuing to increase and be widely available, people getting increasingly used to recording themselves/creating their own content, and the influencer marketing wave educating/inspiring them that they too can create, the demand for video will only continue to go up.

I think people also underestimate the collaborative nature/ease of use that comes with creating video, editing it, commenting w/ colleagues, and sharing it seamlessly via a url or uploading to your intended social network. I don't think people will be making full-fledged movies anytime soon, but there's likely a lot of use cases beyond the hardcore power user that absolutely needs a native tool.
> I use it for Jenkins pipelines and it does not even has an editor with code completion. I must run it through an interpreter to find simple syntax errors, like a missing parenthesis

It's sad that so many people form their perception of Groovy from what they encounter inside Jenkins.

I do full application development with it inside Eclipse and it is fantastic. None of the above applies. It's basically the same as developing in Java just 30% of the code size.
I'm pretty sure this is how all smart speakers work.
can confirm that defense people are terrible about spilling a lot of details in public, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard an actual classified piece of info spoken in public
Working with C++ code in Android effectively
Their willingness to make the change may reflect the fact that deep down, they had been thinking that they should monetize, and having YC tell them to do it may just have been the kick in the ass they needed.

It's not like YC told them "put on a chicken suit and dance in front of our headquarters and we might consider you".

Monetizing and finding out whether there's anyone willing to actually pay for the product is a straightforward move. They weren't building a social network or something with a massive network effect. Putting off the terrifying discovery ("hey, will anyone pay for this?") in their case may just have been procrastination - and YC's rejection may have been a useful trigger to end it.
Another undefined behaviour error:

We had a macro BAG which looked like:

#define BAG(x) **x

and people would write things like:

BAG(x) = f(y);

Now, we had a moving garbage collector, which could cause the value of x to change, so it was important that this was executed "as if".

temp = f(y); **x = temp;

For many years, this was exactly what gcc always did, but this wasn't required by C. An update to gcc caused, when optimisation was high enough and gcc felt like it, to instead first dereferencing x, and then calculating f(y), then assigning f(y) to the old value of x.

But, this would only cause a problem when calling f(y) caused a GC which would change x, and then a random memory location was written to.
Can anyone explain to me why I would choose a FaaS solution that requires me to maintain a Kubernetes cluster? OpenFaaS and OpenWhisk both require this. To me, this defeats half the reason to use FaaS. The whole reason I use Azure Functions and AWS Lamba is because I don't want to have to manage any of the infrastructure.
For those of us not in the loop.

the guy = John Lansing

USA organization for external propaganda = USAGM (U.S. Agency for Global Media).
Yep. One of the first things I learned early in my careers is, when you're having lunch at a venue with your coworkers, if the subject turns to client work, do not ever mention the client's name out loud. You never know who might be sitting nearby.
I use ~/devel
> You can program KVM using the well known UNIX file paradigm.

Does anyone know why the API was designed this way? Sending a bunch of ioctls to modify the KVM state seems no better than just having normal function calls for it…
I hope those nasal daemons are friendly.
Hong Kong may be the battleground for a new cyber cold war
Asymmetric cyptography without using secret keys
Unfortunately I think your view is going to become the prevailing view and the internet is going to become cable 2.0. People are just obsessed with finding corners to round.

For some reason people think comparing loss of privacy when voluntarily visiting a website to deaths caused by car accidents isnt intellectually dishonest.
> What about Rust's cargo? It's from Mozilla too.

Mozilla does not have this kind of influence over Rust. They've never indicated that they'd want us to do this, we've never thought that doing this is something we'd want to do, but if they told us they wanted it, and we didn't want it, it wouldn't happen.
Even most firefox communities agree FF on Android is hot pile of garbage in terms of performance, power usage, and scrolling. The rewritten FF preview is fixing some of that but it's obviously not GA yet.
> How is that different from the indoctrination of suicide bombers?

Presumably the CIA mission is not dependent on the agent's suicide. This is an action taken in a worst-case scenario to avoid torture.
The thing I'm confused about is why migrating your production system onto a custom in-house data store (that you've written and you maintain) is easier / less work than migrating onto something you can use off the shelf which solves the problem you have.

I hear the argument that migrating from (say), postgres -> postgres + books is easier than moving everything into cockroachdb. But why is postgres + books easier than postgres + cockroach? The latter doesn't require you to write your own database from scratch. (And writing your own database is fun, so if you're doing it for that reason I understand, but thats not what the post says.)

Edit: Ah, I see - my confusion was because I missed the part which mentioned that this is just built on top of spanner. That makes sense!
“Ability to differentiate = intelligence. Disability to differentitate is making us stupid.”

Trivial but worth a frame on the wall.
If LEGO doesn't protect their mark, they may lose the ability to protect it. That's trademark law 101.
A colleague wrote this code...

func( a=1, a++);

Sadness ensued until I disassembled it.
QM has a classical limit too. At human scales, both QM and GR are at (very close to) their respective classical limits.
> your code might just compile, and you'd get a runtime error because you forgot to rename an attribute

The eclipse plugin has a pretty good approach in that it underlines things that cannot be deterministically type checked (that is: it can't prove they are wrong, but it can't prove they are right). It does a fair bit of type inference, so once you get used to that it's reasonably low amount of pain that comes from this type of problem.
The actors have to pathfind around each other, though, so I don't think you can easily reuse the pathfinding data.
Edit: Nevermind, I misunderstood parent comment completely.

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What's your point? The search term is ensuring you only find moderation-hat comments, and of course they're not going to be contributing with substance of their own to the topic being discussed.
The fiber line goes to your house then gets converted to Ethernet via a modem; just like cable does now. In fact when i had FIOS, the fiber was converted to coax before it came into may apartment, then went to the modem and cable box. So from a user perspective, it wasn't any different than cable.
i've been doing biological/biomedical research for about 20 years now (god, that's a scary thought...)

I don't think that biology is well modeled by "being a meat computer", in general, but as far as the analogy goes ... :

What we are debugging is 4.5 billion years of grad student code in at least a few dozen languages, with no documentation, method names that are outright lies, no separation of concerns at all, the worst spaghetti you've ever seen, god-objects everywhere, no separated state at all, spooky action at a distance, the whole spiel.

We don't have a reliable debugger, you can't trace the stack because the stack changes when you look at it, and the entire thing is running all the time and mutating in a really nasty feedback loop with you.

Oh and there is no software, there's only FPGA-like firmware that reprograms itself all the time and can decide to add or remove logic units basically whenever, or wrap itself in duct tape and baling wire.
> Oh, Ben has a new book coming out so he needs to shill it. Makes sense.

I'm always baffled that people who flop in the most spectacular way manage to convince others to buy books with advice from them.

I distinctly remember an article about a year or so ago touting a new managing partner(?) at a VC who ran his one and only startup into the ground. The logic was "He can help you not to do what he did"
Stallman is GNU. GNU is Stallman. If the project maintainer has a problem with Stallman issuing orders then he has a problem with being part of GNU. If a GNU project has problems with GNU then the solution is to fork the project into a non-GNU project, not try to usurp the name GNU into meaning something that is not RMS.
Please tell us more about that interaction!
How is the right to be forgotten unconstitutional? I would think me being able to have my data deleted upon my request wouldn't necessarily infringe on my own freedoms, but I could be wrong.
I should have been more specific: I was referring to elections for head of state. Regardless, your post is high on rhetoric and low on content. You provide no citation for your strongest claim (that in many part of the US white supremacists carry more than 10% of the vote for some office or another). The white supremacist whom you claim is running for Congress “unopposed” will certainly be opposed by a Democrat, and will certainly lose. If only 12 white supremacists ran for office in 2018, that runs counter to the notion that white supremacists are a significant force in American politics. Almost anyone can run for office, and I highly doubt that any of them won anyway. Given the number of elected officials in the US, I think it’s fair to say that any group that doesn’t hold at least one office is not a significant political force. Can you name an elected official who is a white supremacist?

(Before you accuse me of shifting the goalposts: I wasn’t clear in my original post. If you can find a presidential election that occurred in the last 20 years in which a white supremacist received more than 0.01% of the popular vote, I’ll stand corrected. You’ll have to go back farther than 2016: I googled every candidate [1] who received more than 0.01% of the popular vote in 2016 and none of them is a white supremacist.)

1. https://transition.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2016/2016presgeresults.p...
You need to spend more time in better countries.

The lives of middle and lower class people in Australia, Canada, Scandinavia, etc. are much, much, much better than Americans, and improving all the time.
The patterns will be understood, by machines in whole and by people in part. To think it’s impossible seems ... religious
It would have been great if Dylan had taken off, sadly it was killed by politics.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15107367

For anyone that wants to play with Dylan.

https://opendylan.org/
Ask HN: What are some of the gripes you have with IPFS?
I've seen a lot of posts come up where IPFS is mentioned and someone chimes in and says they don't like the choices they made or how the network is run, but I haven't seen many people go into great detail. I'm curious what these problems are and why they're important.

I'm really interested in using IPFS for one of my projects and all I really know about it are the good things.
It depends... if the decision makers knew that there weren't solid, tested backups, they should have paid, cut off all external access. and worked to lock things down.

Also, regarding backups... at least 3 physical devices and at least two distinct geographic locations. Have backup systems push to a drop location (temporary), where a pull system can then pull those backups to a separate location. This provides a separation between your internal systems and backup systems. Otherwise, in situations like this, the backups could have been compromised as well.

Aside: this is a perfect example of why government agencies should have policies in place for disclosure of security breaches after 60 days or so. This allows them a window to exploit as needed, while still preventing catastrophe in the case of too many previously unknown exploits going into the wild in a breach. While I'd prefer everything just responsibly disclosed to affected software, I understand that cyber warfare in state actors is a thing.
In addition to what other comments said about it making these attacks profitable, 76k is not nearly a big enough stupid tax for Baltimore.
> And it cost him $30M that he would desperately need not long later (read The Hard Thing About Hard Things for that story).

That's the problem with companies that raise gobs of money -- zero discipline in spending.
Then almost all European and American websites could be violating the laws of China, North Korea, etc.

As a practical matter, a company is only subject to the legal jurisdiction of a country to the extent they have a physical (employees, buildings) or financial (assets, transactions) presence. Otherwise, there's no way for a country to effect its laws other than by blocking access to the website domestically.
Freedom of speech includes the right to spread the truth about others. The "right" to be forgotten is the right to silence others.