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> ... people that would have loved to get their hands dirty with micro-controllers, soldering, programming and all the other stuff that could help them solve real world problems, but they were just never given the chance

Anecdotally, this was _almost_ me. I ended up going to university to study CS much later in my life than most people, and only because of a fortunate meeting with someone who was from that kind of background and 'guessed' I would be into it, and if I didn't, who knows what crappy dead-end job I would've ended up in.

How lucky I am to have 'made it' into a career I enjoy, and how many other people are out there who would love to have this opportunity, but instead are working in dull, menial jobs, just like I was before uni, is something I think about often.

I'm not sure how we get more people involved. There are 'STEM ambassador' (https://www.stem.org.uk/stem-ambassadors) roles in the UK. I'm not sure of their efficacy.
Apple does not make LLVM on their own, they contribute to it like many other companies.
Sorry, I got confused on the meaning linear.

As explained in the other answer, it's possible to implement the power function which is "type-linear" on each argument, but that function will not otherwise be linear (ie, the mathematical meaning of linear) on its arguments.

In Rust for instance, affine types are used to restrict usage of values linearly, which means that a value passed as argument will be by default moved from caller to callee: The value will not be available anymore to the caller. This has some consequences for instance for binary operators on values which require special care when moved (structures, arrays): with the restriction explained above, a value cannot be passed more than once to a function, and thus doing something like 'mult(x,x)' (where x is eg. a matrix) will not work because x appears twice, but may only be moved once. The solution offered by the language, called "borrowing" is to use references for the arguments: a borrowed value is no longer being moved; instead, it remains in the scope of the caller, and the callee only receives a reference. References may be created and duplicated, allowing multiple uses of the same piece of data.
ARM has a much weaker memory model than x86 for starters, so threaded programs which work on x86 (either accidentally or by specifically taking advantage of the memory model) might not on ARM.

I think unaligned accesses (e.g. packed structs) is also problematic, it’s either super slow or it faults (which might lead to an OS routine emulating it in software which is even slower, but if the OS does not emulate it’ll just crash).
Since RISC has a much smaller set of instruction compared to CISC, doesn't this mean any RISC software is about at least twice the size? Isn't there any study about average executable size when comparing CISC vs RISC?

If you look at smartphones, you always notice how much memory apps require. It's not a secret. It's odd that nobody seems to mention this.

Anyways, Wirth's law is relevant again. Nobody wants to hear it, but I really believe a new era of lightweight software will soon begin. I put a lot of hope in WASM, and I hope it will work well on smartphones.

I'm using tinder on a 3 year old android, and everyday it's slower and slower.

It's almost like software companies and hardware vendors have the opposite interests. Software wants to be faster, but hardware vendors wants to increase their margin, so they want software to be slower or be more feature-rich.
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So no info on what it actually is. Just some company filing a patent. And the fact that they call it "a neutralizer technology" suggests that it's probably just a bunch of BS combined with previously known drugs to make it patentable.

I'm pretty sure there's at least some published research on using at least one antipsychotic for that and mountains of "folk research" on using benzodiazepines.
I, for one, prefer a keyboard that is comfortable to type on even if doesn’t have the greatest travel over a significantly thicker laptop.
Nice way to shoot yourself in the foot if you manage configs without version control
When you fall over and graze your knee it hurts. But it heals. The brain is no different. You just have to give it time to heal. The good thing is you'll also come out stronger. You'll be better equipped for the next time someone hurts you, which is good because people are generally selfish and will hurt you. You can find communities of men online who will help you more.
True that, they did increase the book size and yet it's till below the dict size:
compresses and decompresses a 2399KB HTML ebook using the LZMA compression algorithm with a dictionary size of 2048KB.

Doing the test below 4MB of L3 would hurt, doing with with less than 2MB would decimate the test.
> We've been indoctrinated from an early age to be productive, to schedule every moment, to sacrifice sleep, to always be learning, building, networking, searching and improving.

This is definitely more of an American thing in my experience.
While it's insightful to reevaluate history in a larger background, such the military-industrial complex, and it's also appropriate to criticize these driving forces and its culture, but I'm not a fan of framing the entire development of computing, the Internet and the web as a giant government conspiracy.

There are certainly some secret projects. But the majority comes from groups of academic and industrial researchers working on their own projects, and grants from DARPA, the NSF, the Army or the Navy is how everyone's project is supported. Even today, the vast majority of papers on infosec and cryptography are still supported in the same way, and by no means that the researchers are under total control of these agencies. Developers at the Ballistic Research Laboratory (where /bin/ping was developed) did hacking on 4.3BSD, just like how Berkeley researchers did hacking on 4.3BSD.

No conspiracy is needed here, the researchers take advantages of the funding to do their projects, and the government take advantages of these results they funded and put them into military and espionage applications. Feel free the criticize the driving forces and their influences to the projectile of computing R&D, but remember that it's a complex interplay between different sectors without clear boundary, rather than a conspiracy planned by a monolithic governmental entity (which is why it's called the military-industrial complex, not the military-industrial conspiracy).
That's terrible.

We're going to have fewer 'unicorns' ;-)
The concept of contemporary atheism is directly traceable from Christianity, the enlightenment, and western civilization as a whole, just like other ideas such as democracy or human rights. The term ‘atheism’ makes no sense in a Buddhist context, for example. Fundamentally, the word ‘religion’ is just misunderstood by most people, or ascribed only to a narrow institutional or literalist sort of belief. Much of what one believes is unconscious or behavioral, rather than explicitly stated in words.

Many/most of the people whom call themselves atheists today (especially the so-called New Atheists) also tend to still maintain this Christian ethical and political heritage (belief in democracy or the essential equality of human life, for example), even if they don’t realize the origins of their beliefs. Many of these beliefs can be described as ‘humanist’. Hence my calling them ‘post-Christian pseudo-humanists.’
the mother of my gf has problems keeping devices loaded. mostly because she has alzheimer, but dont forget about that aspect.

also, how are you calling, is it always on, is the speaker loud enough and microphone good and lastly is her privacy not compromised?

a solution to easily start a video chat without user registration is whereby.com , but thats mostly good if you already have a remote device, but no control over it.

elderly people are not stupid, they have different experiences and interests. if they want to learn how to use a device, they are likely able to do so.
I don't know enough about machine learning to specify which neural network type is correct for a given use case or which algorithm gets the most relevant results, but I do know enough to use them for things once an engineer hands me the tool.

I'm not talking about how this specific network is trained. I'm talking about how this toy could be perhaps turned into something useful, like my original analogy to building a car out of lego.

I understand enough about neural networks to know they are useful as Boolean supersets. It's all about how the training is defined with your training data containing the Boolean true/false values.

So what I'm saying is, in order to provide context and make this toy useful, you could change your Boolean choices from sequence-based letter chains to something with a little more value like popular chemical combinations.

To go further, consider how a restaurant picks its menu. That is a simple Boolean statement of "accept" or "reject". So how do you work backwards from there? Right now you require a combination of a head chef that has years of experience (your database) and an owner that has a vision.

Don't miss the forest for the trees!
The fact you have a service contract with red hat is irrelavent to the question of if openbsd is more or less "secure" than linux
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This requires them to have a phone and know how to use it... She does not.
Two immediate pieces of feedback:

- No https in 2020?

- If you're going to claim it's a React alternative, you should support that with some sort of feature matrix or something. Why should I pick this over React? Or Preact? Or hyperapp?
Finally that kind of stuff starts landing on the main page of HN.

I highly recommend a unique book: "Surveillance Valley", Yasha Levine. Although not without cons, the book makes a very strong case for the Internet to be planned from the very start as a surveillance vehicle of the future. The founding grounds of some well-known companies are at lest surprising.

The first 50% of the book is about (rather unknown) history of the net industry, 1950-1990, with focus on three letter agencies and their impact on tech. The remaining half is about a broader picture regarding what we've found ourselves in and how the future is going to be like.

Surveillance capitalism is just a tip of an iceberg...

If you're someone who gets that the future by necessity will be both totalitarian and technocratic and you have a high-level technical ability / awareness of how one can plan for that, please LEAVE A COMMENT HERE, so I can at least take a look on your profile, read your entries on HN and follow you in the future.

It's incredibly hard to try to be a cypherpunk today due to a lot of BS people tend to recommend. A lot of awareness once quite common in the past has been forgotten. If you can help in any reasonable way, please do. I still have some time to make myself knowledgeable enough to be able to operate in that new world, but the topic is so huge and I truly think that one day my life is going to depend on that knowledge -- so I'm stressing too much instead of methodically work on it.

(I'm a web dev, I get some Linux, maybe even more than a little bit, I'm to some degree knowledgeable about both networking and security, unfortunately more on the level of enterprise products than fundamentals. I know a little bit about everything, which is far from thorough understanding of what's going to be really important in the future, and I have a persistent feeling that obscure / not well known solutions / tools are going to be a cornerstone of making it right).
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When people make suggestions for this they underestimate how complicated their suggestion can be from a UX perspective.

Sometimes your user is someone who can't text, longs for the days when a telephone rang and the UX was to simply grip the receiver and put it to their ear.

Even a traditional tablet can be a pain because the user has to spend time finding the wake button when it's sometimes styled identically to the volume buttons. And they can't rely on location for memory as the tablet can be oriented different ways.

"Ohh that's not a real problem" you think.

Well, maybe not to you, but what if your eyesight is fading and you have arthritis in your hands? Then, even a touchscreen is a pain, I've watched folks use them where every tap happens three times to get it to "register"

I think an appropriate video device for OP's gran needs to have physical buttons (and not many of them aside from up/down answer(ring)/hangup, and have only one screen orientation.

Even when someone makes such devices they can't help but throw in the kitchen sink by letting it make phone calls as well. Great, now your UX is modal depending on whether you're making an audio or video call.
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Doesn't it though? The BSD's aren't really distributed using the linux model of multiple distros for the same kernel.
My grandparents are in their early 80s or late 70s and aren't very open to learn new technologies.

For the past 7 years they used and iPad (one of the early models 2nd or 3rd generations) and it served them well. I've introduced the the family contacts, put FaceTime and Photo library on the first screen and it seems ok for them. I've also annotated what volume button do and teach them that if they have a problem with it to press the big button (home button).

The only problem with the iPad is that recently there are some connectivity issues (it seems it doesn't always stay connected to Wi-Fi and they don't receive my FaceTime calls). I think this may be due to the old iOS it's using (v10 or v9). So, considering to buy them a newer version.
You have probably just not understood the concept of free software in the first place...

I'm in the opinion that everyone is free to decide to do a proprietary closed source software if they accept the consequences.

But just think about the fact that your software is built on top of other free software and knowledge. Python for example.
What would you have done without it? If you had to pay thousands of dollars to get a visual studio + dev licences, plus additional thousands of dollars of licenses of proprietary libraries to use.
You would not have been able to create something like that without being in a big Corp.

Also, by being proprietary your are closing yourself a lot of opportunities and contributors. Nowadays a lot of people will not touch your software if it is not free. Even if some could get a 'no-fee' version.

The point being that open source is not the issue. The issue is that you have not found the right model to finance it.

But as stated by you, you started first with the goal to generate money before the goal to create something great. So chances were already good that it would fail in the first place.
I don't disagree with a lot of what you are saying about collision etc, with the exception of the PIRA part. PIRA was so heavily penetrated with informers by early 80s that the Security Service (amongst others) managed to help push a strategy towards peace. Again I'm looking at it from UK Gov perspective, they managed to pretty much defeat the IRA by opening the door to Sinn Fein.
SETI never made much sense as a means to find aliens. As a means to get funding and interest in radioastronomy, by spinning more than a bit on the chances of it ever working, it made a lot of sense.

A radio signal could be either intentional or unintentional. An unintentional signal being found is extremely unlikely. Radio isn't very useful for interplanetary communication, so the purpose must be local. But every civilization would have the desire to conserve energy, and it takes a very little time (compared to galaxy-scale distances) to improve it to the point it's very weak. Humanity switched very quickly from weak radio signals (because the power sources were weak) to very weak radio signals (because we knew better what we were doing) to digital. That's a very short time frame and a weak signal. Not likely to be detected.

As for an intentional signal, well, if a powerful enough alien wants to be noticed, it will be. One could always come up with weird scenarios ("they want to test us so they're intentionally sending weak signals") but that's a very double edged sword ("they want to test us to see if they need to exterminate us") which doesn't justify SETI.
I'd sometimes have to remove the dongle and re-insert it for it to be recognised (again) by the OS. When I used it via bluetooth it would keep failing to connect and need manual deletion from the list of paired devices and re-adding.

Also its dongle seemed to interfere with my wireless Apple keyboard. Not sure but it seemed to correlate a few times.

It's much better with its own dongle, yes, but ... I got sick of the occasional issues. No issues with a wired mouse.
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Interesting, I didn't know that. Now I wish I'd had a Xanax after my one trip which kept me awake until 4-5 am after taking acid around noon (otherwise it was an incredible day, it was just annoying not being able to sleep).

Don't benzos have some pretty nasty side effects and/or dependency potential though? Maybe this drug is a bit more targeted / less risky?
Lightning crosses several hundred meters of air at the very minimum- what makes you think it won't arc over a few millimeters more, if that's the path of least impedance?

In general even the most rugged lightning/surge protection only decrease the likelihood of protected equipment being vaporized.
It benefits the majority of adults in the US and the vast majority of retirees who have exposure to stock vis retirement accounts. It has benefits to every pension fund, including teachers and public sector unions.

I could continue, but don’t poo poo things of which you don’t understand the components or utility.
Trying that on Firefox mobile and they are all within 5%. The direct calls are faster but that could conceivably be the time to check for special cases with a DOM that small.
Wat?

If wireguard doesn't meet your requirements, don't use it, but its kind of rediculous to complain it doesn't do X when doing X would defeat the point of the software.
I distinctly remember being tested with the Tumbling E chart when I was 6. Public school checked the eyesight of all first-graders, who can't all read proficiently.
May be a little too underpowered actually.

There was a recent forum thread with users claiming the Pinebook Pro is somewhat usable with Jitsi Meet; and the Pinebook Pro has a more powerful CPU in it than the Pinebook which has the same chip as the Pinetab.

Maybe going with a refurbished Surface or similar would be a better option; talking to an elderly relative is an use case that hardly calls for open hardware.
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I'm thinking about on-premise solution for my family, but that would involve a point-to-point calls only and LAN stretched thru all my family networks connected with VPN devices. But that is a bit overkill for Your scenario I guess...
Significant part of the web is fast and works just fine. Sure experience on major news and media sites sucks, but you have to realise that it's caused by their monetisation model and not a platform itself.
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So this is what jlg is up to these days. Loved his work on BeOS.
> Mac ARM laptops mean cloud ARM VMs.

Why do you think that? Cloud means linux, apple does not even have a server OS anymore.

We are seeing some ARM devices entering the server space, but these have been in progress for ears and have absolutely nothing to do with apples (supposed) CPU switch.
You left out your best example; at GC you received hundreds of hours of schooling at pool with no discernible improvement.
I think one thing that always needs discussing when talking about modals is accessibility. As this article shows, getting a modal on the screen isn't hard with react. Ensuring that the focus is trapped to the modal (that you can't tab out) and that screen readers work with the modal that's a lot harder.

For the Jira replacement my startup is building [0] we use a combination of react-modal and focus-trap for this purpose and it works pretty well.

0: https://kitemaker.co
I don't have personal experience, but I wouldn't be surprised if employees in larger companies need to have a lawyer read any contract before signing it, which may be an expensive and/or slow process.
> Well, you did learn to understand German sentences way before school and grammar, I think that was the point.

Learning the first language as a baby takes many years - and even after these years, you are still only on a "baby talk level". That is why I don't consider these "natural" approaches for learning a language to be a good idea - they are far too slow to be economical.
Does anyone know if AWS Graviton supports TrustZone?
And we should not forget, that ARM is already there. It is used by almost all the IO controllers, including the SSD/HDD controller.
> I disagree that any particular infosec organization is equipped to deal with problems of this class in any meaningful way.

FAANGs are bigger targets and yet none of them suffered anything remotely similar.

> An attack, able to do $300M in damages that Maersk can not prevent after we have assumed it already did the best it possibly can, should be able to support a $100M extortion payment.

That's incorrect. I already mentioned it in another reply, but in short it does not matter that attack caused 300M in damages. What matters is how much Maersk could possibly save by paying out ransom. And that's a fraction of those 300M not even including secondary effects such as potential problems with tax office, reputational damage or having to deal with becoming a target #1 for every other ransomware crew out there - as they just proved that they are ok with paying out for such "unsolicited penetration tests". It also misses that even if Maersk payed out 100M, criminals wouldn't have any way to actually benefit from all of that, as laundering such amount of BTC isn't trivial and historically that's exactly the step with highest risk for the criminals.

> How much do you think it would cost for a targeted attack to breach and cause significant damage to the best system you have every personally observed?

That's a non-answerable question as it does not mention other resources that are available to attacker besides pew-pew internet weapons, restrictions that they potentially face, the risk they are comfortable with, and basically all of these questions applied to the defensive side as well (i.e. on a furthest side of the spectrum there are certain systems, attacking which would put you above ISIS leaders on a to-be-droned-soon list).
Arguably now, with WSL, Windows is closer to the cloud environment than macOS.
Its a true Linux kernel running in WSL, no longer a shim over Windows APIs.
Why do you think developers don't run Linux VMs on macOS laptops?
You can solve for this with a commit and reveal scheme, where trades with hidden price and size are committed in the first period and revealed and settled in the second period.

The advantage of speed or waiting until the end is mitigated as you can receive no additional information either way.
I'll stick to RCD trip off switches :-)
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