skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For many years CA wasn't hosted in the window server; it was rendered locally within the app via GL 1.x, which is worse than what Firefox was doing. And window server rendering didn't result in large energy consumption gains until Retina Displays came around.
I'd like to have that option, but i can understand why they did it this way. If you just hide the notification then the site can still use them to get around other restrictions like how much time the javascript is allowed to run in the background and things like that.
In what sense are they different sides of the same coin? I see AR as very practical and VR not so much. I look at everyone walking down the street trying to simultaneous look down at their phone and do other things (walk, drive, etc) and see a huge TAM for AR. Meanwhile, in 1993 I went to the local fairground in my small town and experienced VR-enabled multiplayer game of Doom. It had much lower fidelity than VR today, but if the market really wanted it, there would have been a constant pull for their technology to improve. Instead it's just been fits and starts for the past 26 years since I experienced that demo. Big tech has pumped huge money into VR the last 5 years and the uptake is just not happening.
As someone who uses cryptography daily (and not for crypto currency), I would kill for that.

The problem is that it's really hard to build good abstractions. You can't get the math to do things that the math doesn't do, so the complexity comes from (1) preventing people from mathematically shooting themselves in the foot, and (2) twisting the math into something that approximates real world problems.

We all want to be able to say "here is cryptographic magic that tells you that this data is trustworthy", but trust is fundamentally a human problem. Cryptography ultimately allows humans to make and move around declarations of fact, but how you glue those facts together is messy because humans are kind of bad at saying what they mean and meaning what they say.
They stars won't pass through each other. The "solar systems" will pass through each other.
Be aware of what Whataboutism actually is before warning others about logical fallacies or bad-faith arguments.
I don't think their products are for the young.

Short answer: I'm definitely not young—I started on an Apple II in high school.

I do keep my software current and pay attention to things. I lived through 68000 -> PowerPC -> Intel, so I know how this goes.

I've been running Catalina since the late betas and haven't experienced the issues others have, other than my old Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad not working with Catalina, which is kinda annoying, since I really like the extra keys, etc. instead of the Bluetooth keyboard that came with the iMac.

Know what I did?

I submitted a bug report to Apple.

There's no doubt that Catalina (and iOS 13 for that matter) are more buggy than recent past upgrades, which is not good.

I don't think it's Apple not caring; I think they're trying to do a whole lot with overlapping groups. If the rumors are true and there's a 16-inch MacBook Pro about to come out and ARM Macs will likely become a thing in 2020, I suspect a lot of engineers are juggling multiple projects across multiple groups and this is the result.

I also switched to Zsh before I upgraded so I'd have my config all set before hand. So far, so good. And thank goodness for Homebrew and how quickly it had Catalina-compatible packages ready to go.
> As a side note, there are more than 100x the number of jobs with Python in the description vs rust. Out of the 30 or so jobs with Rust in the description most are for automotive techs.

Rust 1.0 was released May 2015 [1]

Python 1.0 was released January 1994 [2]

That's over 21 years that Python has had a chance to work its way into the industry and into almost every field imaginable. I'd wager that many careers have revolved around the Python language at this point.

Rust is just getting started. The volume of press is the first sign that it's about to take off. It can take years for existing enterprises to approve a new language for use. Give it time.

[1] https://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/05/15/Rust-1.0.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Python#Version_1
My source was this pdf: https://www.bluemaumau.org/sites/default/files/MCD%202013%20...

Very possible I skimmed and may have read it incorrectly, accounting is not my thing. As I have now reached the maximum amount of effort I'm willing to put into a forum comment, I'm not going to dig any further. But if you can tease out better information, I'd be curious to know.
I’m keen.
Based in Manchester, UK.

Have co-founded 2 startups (1 successful, 1 that failed). I’ve learnt a lot from both.

My blog is here - www.simongilbert.net

(There are 2 news articles linked on my blog regarding my first startup, for some clarity on the product).

Feel free to reach out to me on LinkedIn or Github.

* EDIT *

It’s worth noting that I have a spreadsheet of ideas for stuff I’d like to build, it’s just finding the right people (even if they’re remote).
The proximate problem in US elections is the spoiler effect, and Approval solves that as effectively as any other system. We won't have to have endless debates about whether Nader voters "would have" voted for Gore. We'll know for sure.
I came here to see nerding out of epic proportions on voting schemes. Was not dissapointed.

Obviously - it's a tremendously difficult subject - and one that will not be easy to convince the general public on.

Moving away from FPTP is necessary - but how to make it happen? Given that any party in power - got there because of FPTP. they have strong incentive to keep it...
I was actually wrong. The spot size is 1.5 degrees, or ~10km.

The source is the original Starlink FCC filing: https://cdn3.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/8174403/S...

But the point remains: The Starlink satellites do not just radiate omnidirectionally. Nor could they; the system is intended to eventually serve a meaningful fraction of the entire population on earth. This is not possible on non-steered RF. The only reason their plan has any sense is that every transmitter and receiver is directional, allowing efficient SDMA, where the same frequency can be used by multiple people simultaneously to communicate withe the same satellite, because the satellite can discriminate between their signals by the direction from which they were received.

Because of this, in order for Starlink to be able to communicate with you, it has to have a pretty good idea of where you are.
Picking squishy fruits without bruising them is apparently quite difficult
The stars will pass BY each other.
The galaxies will pass THROUGH each other without collisions.

There are many youtube videos that try to visualize the incomprehensible scale of space. Here is one just for our solar system https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCSIXLIzhzk
While we MIGHT be able to wipe humanity off the planet with nuclear weapons [0] and would certainly create a mass extinction event, it is extremely unlikely we would be able to sterilize the earth. Even if we somehow manage to wipe out all multi-cellular life (which would, at a minimum, require completely vaporizing our oceans to expose deep ocean vents), it would take massively more destruction to wipe out all single celled life on the planet (which would likely require removing the entire planet's crust.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_holocaust#Likelihood_o...
I listened to Robert Green's talk at Google recently [0]

He proposes the following idea:

- Everybody born within 22 years of each other belong to a "generation"

- Generations follow a cycle:
- There is a rebellious generation
- The next generation is trying to keep the ideals of the rebellious generation alive
- The third generation is very conservative
- The fourth generation is a "crisis" generation that will eventually lead to a rebellion in the next generation and the cycle continues.

- Millennials are the crisis generation today

It's a very interesting theory - and provides a new way to think about what comes next. Looking back, the last generation that appears to be a "rebellious" generation were the hippies centered around 1969. I can't think of any giants that started in that era. Instead, that era felt like it produced most of the core technologies that drove big economic changes in the next several decades.

History doesn't really repeat, but it sometimes rhymes with itself. If the next generation is rebellious - and they end up being like the last rebellious generation - we are looking at 22 years of deep technological developments that will lead to the next big things in two generations from now.

Honestly - this is just an interesting way to think about the world but I wouldn't act upon it. If I was forced to place a bet on who (not what) will make it big in the next 25 years, I'd put $5 (and not a cent more) on somebody who is doing a PhD today and will get to work on deep research for a few decades.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcaVhMt71qE
Not only that it happened, but that no one was held accountable. The restitution so far has been a memorial and a few hundred college scholarships? The article mentions some "economic development" as well but the source is paywalled.
Scott Manly goes into the meridians of the planets, moons, and other stuff a bit more here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9oMxRo5uVM

Like time, mapping ends up being relative in the end.

As we reach out into the stars, we're going to need a better system for mapping than the one we have now. Should be interesting.
Yeah, we need a new JS ecosystem, let's rebuild all our stuff using deno instead node, because it was a quiet year and we have all recovered from the JS fatigue.
Latin word order is flexible enough for about anything. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_word_order:

”Latin word order is relatively free. Subject, Object, and Verb can come in any order; adjectives can go before or after their noun; a genitive such as hostium "of the enemy" can also be placed before or after its noun. A common feature of Latin is hyperbaton, in which a phrase is split up by other words, e.g. Sextus est Tarquinius "it is Sextus Tarquinius"”

Examples of adjective-noun order at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_word_order#Adjective_pos...
> Climate change will create the first trillionaire.

Never attribute to a changing world that which can be attributed to inflation.
Probably, but it provides a German IBAN number, and that makes it impossible to use for Google Play payouts
I agree. Retirees and the elderly vote much more than the youth. Unless that changes, policy will continue to be more favorable towards retirees and the elderly.
That and abbreviations in German were generally not initialisms. It'd be InterStanOrg or something weird like that.
Did you ever stop to consider that we have so few geniuses because it takes money and connections to reach your potential in life, and a significant portion of the population never gets to enjoy an unbridled pursuit of their potential because their immediate concerns are with simply surviving?

Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg had great ideas, but they were also rich before they made a dime of their own money, and they never would have gotten anywhere without that money and their connections.
I would have guessed that even that is highly unlikely.
Of course they can investigate Facebook. That is literally their job. Their power isn't growing they are just using the power they already have.

Are you saying Facebook should be above the law and not answerable to any government?
Indeed! There is a great video essay about Jackie Chan's style (and how it differs from standard Hollywood action movies) on "Every Frame a Painting" Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1PCtIaM_GQ
I prefer the Schulze (path voting/winner) method, and I don't care if the most moderate candidate wins, I care that voters are able to express their desires and if a centralist candidate happens to be the overall best choice that's fine; I just disagree that it's always the best option to fully compromise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulze_method
>Analog computers making a comeback ? you never know.

The main advantage they're advertising for the analog parts is that you don't need an ADC or DAC. That's not helpful for computers, but it can be very helpful for specialized signal processing parts.
Japanese Language: Grammar for Giving and Receiving in Japanese
`npm`/`yarn` have hash checks when using the lockfile (side note: you should be using `npm ci` in your deployments so it doesn't install newer versions). Maybe there could be a lockfile system for webpack that would verify a file like the one they suggest doesn't change between installs and systems.
The trade off would be that your A-D converter would have to be fast enough as well as offer enough bits of result to give the iterative algorithm a running start. Digital video cameras would be the class of device we ~all have that does high-samples-per-second conversion. A 4K@60p camera has to do 500Ms/s at least so if you can allow that many approximate results per second then it might work out. There would also have to be a comparably fast DAC to tell the analog circuit what you want to approximate.

I think a more-complete computing engine in analog would be a bigger win, because there won't be conversion overheads. Or as was suggested somewhere in this topic, a field-programmable analog array.
This problem is not unique to US elections.
Center for Election Science is great.

Approval voting was recently adopted in Fargo, ND. St. Louis is currently gathering signatures for a ballot initiative to adopt approval voting. [1]

[1] https://stlapproves.org/
message sent.
>2a. people who _actually_ can code are scarce, even in the tech industry. Source: conducted over 300 interviews

As a young person with an interest in software programming (currently studying chemical engineering but still write C code now and then), what do you look for when trying to find out people who can _actually_ code?
Why I’m working on a new open call?
As someone who voted in the 2009 election I disagree that IRV actually spoiled the election, people - when voting in an IRV system, need to comprehend that they don't need to rank all candidates and doing an exhaustive ranking is a tactical decision to vote against an ultimate candidate.

That "spoilage" ended up being less about IRV and more about the fact that Bob Kiss was someone a lot of people ranked without good knowledge of him was more at issue, along with his personal character. Don't forget that he wasn't some 5th place follower who managed to pick up protest votes, he was the 2nd place candidate in the primary round.

I just wanted to add, the fact that IRV was repealed over this removal from office was a travesty and the result of shady politics - please understand this is a terrible case study.
Did Oxford University legitimately acquire the ancient texts in the first place or did they steal them/acquire them from thieves, as well? What's the chain of custody on any of these? Why did Hobby Lobby return the many times stolen texts to Oxford instead of to whoever the actual owner is.

And when will the stolen Elgin Marbles of the Acropolis be returned by the British Museum to Greece?
I run www.sunnyirrigation.com in Nairobi. We originate solar irrigation loans to smallhold farmers, so it is a combination of agtech and fintech. Growth areas in credit-model building, IoT data processing, in short - we heart engineers :)
The problematic aspect of this story is that users cannot add their private extensions to the release version of Firefox, without having to hand over the source code to Mozilla for signing.

Now we see that an unlisted extension created for personal use is also at risk of being remotely blocked, Mozilla effectively ruling over what users are allowed to run in their own browsers.

It would be reasonable to offer an official way to allow installing local, unsigned extensions in the release version of Firefox, and make the option configurable only by elevating to administrative rights, while also showing appropiate warnings about the potential risks of installing unsigned extensions.

We must consider introducing sensible default options in Firefox, while also educating users and allowing them to override certain features, instead of placing marginal security benefits above user liberties and free choice.
I'm interested in scripting stuff in Excel.
Hmm, I wonder if this will be able to run AmigaOS natively.

I've played with Aros a bit but I would love an excuse to play with "real" Amiga running natively, but the current PowerPC offerings for Amiga are obscenely overpriced.
>Not liking someone is not discrimination.

I've heard the same by some individuals who say they don't like people of color. Perhaps your line of reasoning is not complete.
The fact that humans, much like other species, are geared towards expansion. And once we run out of frontiers to conquer, that expansion energy seems to go towards biting each other's necks instead of solving common problems together. Doesn't seem to be specific to humans [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink
Right? Because electromagnetic radiation obviously doesn't interact with biological matter.
Not a startup but Cisco is testing wireless-connected monitoring systems for cows and a robotic milking machine https://www.reuters.com/article/us-telecoms-5g-cows/5g-conne...
A long while ago I did LED lighting research (hence my name) and specialized vertical farming techniques which would drastically reduce land usage and resource usage, and could be entirely solar-powered in some parts of the world.

Too bad the owners of that business sold it for cheap and my work somehow got lost. Not like I couldn't recreate it all from my mind, but it certainly isn't in full-scale use today, just trial setups in a couple of countries which might still be operational.
These arguments all assume that ISPs are more trustworthy than VPN providers.

One of these markets involves competing on security and privacy. One of them involves colluding on influencing FCC policy.

So even if a particular VPN provider is inept or corrupt, my expected return on the investment is higher than trusting TWC.
What+is+an+SME?+|+Internal+Market,+Industry,+Entrepreneurship+and+SMEs
Analogue processing has certainly been successful for people, so I wouldn't be too dismissive.
https://www.mytrev.com/

Trev is a farm reporting tool to provide insight into farm operations and performance.

Startup based in New Zealand.
From my wife the American education system only covers the parts where they did “good”, that’s not prioritization that’s deliberately selective rewriting of history.

Covering the war of independence and the civil war in huge detail but skipping the less palatable parts of its own history results in an huge portion of the country not understanding what the effected groups are complaining about.

Think: if you aren’t aware of the Tuskegee syphilis experiments or the difference in quality of treatment at black vs white hospitals you think black people are just being stupid for not trusting the medical establishment.

If you don’t know about things like the Tulsa bombing you think black people are being hysterical when they say the government wants to exterminate them.

How many Americans know that the Japanese internment camps resulted in many japanese Americans losing all of their assets: many (most?) didn’t get their homes back when they were released from imprisonment.

The purpose of history is to teach history, and selective coverage results in people having a functionally delusional view of other people’s experience.

To the extent that if you bring these things up people think you’re attacking America, when in reality you’re just trying to get people to avoid repeating past mistakes.
new business models != corporate crooks maybe ar greeters from uganda?
It's no different in any way whatsoever.
what's the disorder? how do you feel know that you've been diagnosed?
Oh wow, you built a product in 3 months that makes 1mm/year, you know Perl, sql and JavaScript, you’ve built 30 websites, you’ve run 3 successful businesses, you’ve built a framework to build web apps quickly? When can you start?
@janee - This is an industry I am trying to learn more about and get into as well. Would love to get some advice. Is there a way to get in touch? My email is on my profile if you'd prefer to not leave info on here.
Is static site hosting an usecase for CF workers or is this being hosted somewhere else?
Node has to be painful enough for people to make the switch. I don't think we've hit that point yet.
YouTube is having issues as well (via the Android app), does YouTube run partially on AWS?
"The more the merrier" isn't true for proprietary ISAs at all. Think of all the work going into supporting it, of the limitations coming with a very exotic computer. These are things humans have to spend lifetime on. I think it's a huge waste.

If this was about pushing RISC-V forward, I wouldn't say that, but only because I hope it takes over, not because I think having yet another ISA in the zoo is somehow good.
Getting an engineering license doesn't require much in terms of skill beyond what you'd learn in undergrad.
"We want to give you further information regarding the occasional DNS resolution errors. The AWS DNS servers are currently under a DDoS attack. Our DDoS mitigations are absorbing the vast majority of this traffic, but these mitigations are also flagging some legitimate customer queries at this time. We are actively working on additional mitigations, as well as tracking down the source of the attack to shut it down. Amazon S3 customers experiencing impact from this event can update the configuration of their clients accessing S3 to specify the specific region that their bucket is in when making requests to mitigate impact. For example, instead of "mybucket.s3.amazonaws.com" a customer would instead specify "mybucket.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com" for their bucket in the US-WEST-2 region. If you are using the AWS SDK, you can specify the region as part of the configuration of the Amazon S3 client to make sure your requests use this region-specific endpoint name.

The DNS resolution issues are also intermittently affecting other AWS Service endpoints like ELB, RDS, and EC2 that require public DNS resolution.
We are actively working on this issue and will update you as soon as the issue is resolved on our end, however at this moment I won’t be able to provide an ETA. I am keeping this case in Pending Amazon Action, will update you as soon as I get further information on the resolution of this issue."

https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/dlnl28/route53_is_fail...
Yes, these kinds of things were key parts of the Rwanda genocide (radio broadcasts urging Hutus to kill Tutsis in "self defense") and the Myanmar ethnic cleansing of the Rohinga people (driven in part by Facebook postings and admitted by Facebook, see https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/06/technology/myanmar-facebo...
Well it's tied in one direction: poorer populations will suffer for the material benefit of richer ones. My nation is quite explicit about this - our government is on record as being happy for Pacific nations to lose their land as long as Australia continues 'economic growth'. And we'll even allow them to labour for us in exchange! The other direction is conceivable: more equal populations may be less liable to vanity status purchases, and less resistant to equitably-distributed change. Perhaps hard to prove either way.

Anyway, that's not much to do with my comment which was merely noting that disaster capitalists trying to make trillions from climate change may meet mass resistance.

As for my alleged blood lust - well I doubt the discontent will result in many billionaires being torn limb from limb. Though as many seem to think paying their fair share of tax would be pretty much equivalent, why not?
I thought some NNs actually used fewer bits (32?) than the normal 64bit floating point because it is faster and good enough?
What is high on your list?