skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love how this is a project which puts together several different projects which are themselves the product of significant amounts of effort: RPi, the HDMI-USB dongle, the browser, and uStreamer. I think we are in for an interesting decade or so of people plugging things together like this.

I'm curious why you use the browser instead of ffplay for decoding and display. I'd guess ffplay would be faster - but maybe not?
Strange that Xamarin has declined when it's actually MUCH easier to build apps and Stabler than ever before. .NET Core on the other hand is rising in use so you'd think a Xamarin would be complimentary to that approach.

The issue truly is Microsoft's step-motherly treatment of the framework, and there are better enthusiasm in third party efforts like Uno
"You are using up all the oxygen!"

'but you also use oxygen, and at a higher per capita rate?"

"whataboutism"
> The other problem is that the business model of social media is based on generating "engagement" at all costs (emphasis my own)

Well, FB and the like have been bringing the ban hammer out a fair bit. Most recently was the QAnon kiddos.

If they really were keeping engagement up at all costs then banning a lot of accounts and dumping all that hand-wringing would be a strange thing to do time and time again.
Yes, but that is a feature of the human race which is exacerbated, when it should be sublimated, by the way that FB works. Long, thoughtful posts are discouraged through lack of proper editing tools, deep narcissism is nurtured via "likes", algorithms target the lizard brain rather than the neocortex. Agency in controlling your feed is minimized. FB encourages, manipulates and monetizes our worst instincts. I hope that the fine people working there can make some changes when they finally save enough money to buy back their conscience.
That's because Google requires their servers to offload their patented Most Dangerous Path algorithm for cycling directions.
Thanks! This is pretty cool. Interesting that you had to spend so much time on the infrastructure side of things (both wrestling with Sagemaker, and with Slack's API rules). Seems like a lot of people end up in that same spot when trying to ship models into production.

Either way, I appreciate the non-paywalled link!
Their "About Us" page literally starts with:

> The U.S. Space Force (USSF) is a new branch of the Armed Forces.

And goes on to say:

> USSF responsibilities include developing military space professionals, acquiring military space systems, maturing the military doctrine for space power, and organizing space forces to present to our Combatant Commands.

Their core mission is to develop "space power" to "present to our Combatant Commands." And we're meant to believe that Armed Forces that are developing space "Combatants" for "space power" aren't the "militarization of space?"
This is a compilation of people reacting in real time to the next game I'm working on. Nothing I could ever build at a FAANG company compares to this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtxaEDp3AFI
Probably a mix; for respiratory conditions, the _abysmal_ air quality in London (look up the "Great Stink" of 1858) and other industrial(izing) cities meant a move to somewhere the air was cleaner would have a rapid, measurable effect on health. (The Victorian understanding of the word "climate" would have included "air quality" as a factor.)

Other medical conditions (Cholera) that were exacerbated by poor sanitation would also show lower prevalence in the countryside, but the "climate" would be correlation, instead of causation.

And some of it was undoubtedly just a way of showing off in an "I spend 4 months a year on the French Riviera for the climate, on advice of my Doctor. PS I am wealthy enough to summer in France and have a personal Doctor." sort of way.
> HLS as a first-class design paradigm is always a decade away.

What about Chisel?
I don't know about others, but I almost exclusively play single-player local-only games these days. I don't have time for multiplayer games.
Worse as in you try to get things done in a cost effective way in order to deliver value to taxpayers but have to deal with lifers, deadwood, and clueless managers who are completely risk-averse. I know. I work in the public service.
and today I was wondering how to solve the video problem! that's great timing.
prodoh is a DNS proxy to allow DNS queries to be converted to DNS-over-HTTP.

I was using cloudflared but wanted a dedicated tool for doing this simple conversion.

It is written in go to allow for easy and quick cross-platform support.

Find the source and binaries at https://github.com/poitch/prodoh
Hey it's me pyrrhotech, and upon some additional reflection decided that I was wrong and maybe there are some issues with copycats. Just wasn't thinking straight before.
Not from Amazon but this happened to me when I had an app in the top 10 of the AppStore. This a-hole from Silicon Valley flew over to London, asked me loads of stuff, saying he wanted to buy it, offering large amounts of cash and then just launched his own version and some copies of other things I’d made. I’m still not sure if it was his plan all along or not - He did try and recruit me to his company at one point but when I refused, his parting words were “if someone offers you a seat on a spaceship, don’t ask which seat”. Really glad I didn’t take that seat.
> I'm unaware of any anti-satellite projectile weapons being tested by the US like this over the past 12 years.

It seems very arbitrary to draw the line at 12 years.

In 2008 the US tested and proved their anti-sat tech works [1]. Now they don't need to keep testing it, because everyone knows it works, and that's enough.

Now the Russians want only to do the same thing, and they're bad because of it.

[1] https://science.howstuffworks.com/shoot-down-satellite.htm
It appears that even some garmin.com assets are failing to load right now.
I really like this summary format of the terms of service: https://ceasefire.net/terms-of-service

It made it easy to spot this part, which I guess is normally tucked away. Respect for drawing my attention to it but I have a question - is this a standard thing that you would find in such a document? It feels like a pretty serious liability for a user to take on.

> SUMMARY: If we get sued by a third party, you will defend us and pay for all losses, damages, etc, if the lawsuit relates to your Content or use of the Service, your breach of the Terms, your violation of a third party’s rights, violation of your rights by a third party, or an action by you that is overtly harmful to another User.
Nothing. It’s a manufactured problem by people wanting a lucrative government contract. The very premise is absurd. No one complains that the fire department doesn’t turn a profit. Doing things that the private sector won’t has always been a core function of government.
Nah this is entirely seperate from that although I think View Component (also from GitHub in case anyone is wondering) is super exciting.

They are basically doing a major rewrite of Turbolinks and Stimulus I think. If you go to app.hey.com and jump into dev tools you can kind of start to piece things together somewhat since they have made all of the source maps available. But I’m yet to see too many people really figure out what is happening and I’m excited for the official announcement.

I think the idea that Rails has somewhat lagged behind the rest of the front end world is in many ways an overblown talking point but is at the same time in no way an unfair criticism.

I’ve heard the core team make several references for the last year that this new approach is basically to front end what Rails was to backend when it launched in terms of developer experience while keeping 80-90% of the performance benefits of SPAs but with 0% of the drama. Or at least this is how I understand them to be promoting it.
> bitstream ... Is that a sane expectation?

No. Bitstream formats are not in any way compatible across devices. Because timing is a factor, even if you had the same physical layout of LUTs and routing, it's unlikely that your design would work.

(From parent)

> use that bitstream for any other device in the same device family

Not at the bitstream level. However, you can take a place&routed chunk of logic and treat it as a unit. You can replicate it (without repeating P&R), move it around, copy it onto other devices in the same family. This is super useful as most FPGA applications have large repeating structures, but P&R doesn't know that it's a factorable unit. It'll repeat P&R for each instance and you'll get unpredictable timing characteristics.

> Should manufacturers provide new formats closer to final form yet would allow binaries that can be adjusted, kind of like .a .so or even llvm?

> would building whole images for many families of FPGA make sense

You can license libraries that are a P&R'd blob and drop them into your design. There's no easy way to make this generalizable across devices without shipping the original RTL, and conversion from RTL->bitstream is where most of the pain lies.
>your claim that this parenting style doesn't work, if anything, it refutes it:

What claim?

But this is what we have ATM:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/23/canada-indigen...
Since I have to do lots of TeX editing in emacs, every "coding" font disqualifies, if it doesn't have at least polytonic greek and cyrillic glyphs. So, misc-fixed forever!
The US has only tested ground-based ASAT weapons on satellites in already decaying low orbits.
The platform is currently used by Directors, CXOs, VPs from IBM, Spotify, Audi, BCG, McKinsey, Oracle, IBM, Google, Dell and many more.
It‘s wicked fast, good job.
I've used one of these a couple of time and they work great, not yet hooked up into the HDMI cap device but can test if anyone is interested.
I've long considered creating a KVM IP thingie for VGA video with a BeagleBone Black.
IIRC the PRUs (200mhz coprocessors) and the on-chip ADC should be fast enough to sample the video as-is, and have DMA access into main-cpu ram.
I also just disabled the paywall for the original link. Either one should work now hopefully.
My own pure speculation: imagining they shut the service off so no new data comes up and are aiming for an RPO of last night or some time earlier on the 22nd. Two days to do full restoration of services and global user data, meanwhile people trying to convincingly patch vulnerabilities.

Say a prayer for the IT people trying to fix this.
As a writer, of course you do, you only have to do 10% of the work.

As a user of the software, which would you rather have, 90% or 98% functionality? Also the number of users outnumber the number of coders by orders of magnitudes.

I for one am well chuffed that the emacs team are so hardcore about bugs.
I never was able to figure out why ARM was so much more popular than MIPS. ARM always felt unnatural to me.
Please let your actual numbers drive your decision here.

There is always someone who would have bought it for less money but who actually probably is never going to buy it at all. (Not referring to the OP at all)

Look at your funnel, test where appropriate and decision from there.
That's a bit like saying that forks are superior to knives. They're good at different things.

Ground-based telescopes have a number of very significant advantages over space-based telescopes. You can build much larger and heavier telescopes and instruments on the ground. If you want to observe faint objects, you need more photons. To capture more photons, you need a larger primary mirror.

Space-based telescopes used to give higher resolution, but adaptive optics undo much of that advantage. In fact, because the diffraction limit is dependent on the size of the primary mirror, ground-based telescopes can achieve better resolution than space-based telescopes.

You can attach large, heavy instruments, such as massively multiplexed spectrometers, to ground-based telescopes. And you can switch instruments out and do periodic upgrades and maintenance.

Space-based telescopes have advantages in certain specific areas. They can observe wavelengths that Earth's atmosphere absorbs or emits at (such as the ultraviolet and infrared). They can achieve much better calibration, because there's no atmosphere to calibrate out. They can achieve high resolution across a wide field of view (adaptive optics negates the effects of the atmosphere in a small field of view). Sometimes you need these particular advantages, so space telescopes are critical. Often you don't, and ground-based telescopes are superior.
Java is significantly safer than C which Tor is written in.
It's not just anti-trust, it's also trade secret laws. A customer of AWS has a reasonable expectation that the information it keeps on AWS's VMs are confidential.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23926651#23927881
I hope it works out for them! Good luck.
This is incorrect, at least from a logical POV and why it's hard to trust what cloud vendors say. A statement like this is either naive (most likely) or actively attempting to mislead.

Technically, its absolutely possible. Most likely you'll just need a support ticket or bug, and then you can troll around as engineer.

Also, security teams also usually have access to stuff when things get interesting.

Better to say that access is strictly on a case by case basis and monitored thoroughly.

Ideally customer is notified each time it happens - that would be cool, but likely technically not possible since data ends up in so many systems (like logs, SIEM, telemetry, debug files, backups, data scientist desktops,....)
Robshavell
I think it's reasonable to differentiate between the military operations satellites in space and the military blowing up satellites in space. IMO the former is a good thing and the latter is a bad thing.
Total speculation, my guess is WastedLocker. It has been hitting all types of companies in the past few months. Have a friend who's company was hit recently. They were somehow were able to encrypt the backups.
>Name me one single culture that never invaded, conquered and enslaved other people.

This doesn't make it morally acceptable.

>Some people could argue that christianism...

What I think is your description of the areas Spain conquered, quoted here,

>former myriad of isolated tribes unable to understand and speak with their neighbors, the trepanations to cure diseases, the wars against everybody and the human sacrifices and spreading terror as part of the way of life.

Describes sixteenth century Europe perfectly.
The mission as stated on Space Force website:

> The U.S. Space Force is a military service that organizes, trains, and equips space forces in order to protect U.S. and allied interests in space and to provide space capabilities to the joint force. USSF responsibilities will include developing military space professionals, acquiring military space systems, maturing the military doctrine for space power, and organizing space forces to present to our Combatant Commands.
> I don't think they've stationed any actual weapons in space.

The US Military has spent nearly half a century trying every single trick in the book to get around the 'laws' and put weapons in space. I would be personally extremely shocked to find that the US does not have militarization of space already stocked with weapons and things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment#Real_life_...

https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a458089.pdf

https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/US_Project_Thor_would_fir...

"Rods from God" / Project Thor is a public example of the US Military's unending desire to put weapons in space.
Ask HN: What other disciplines need programmers?
Besides "typical" software companies, what other disciplines / application areas are in need of programmers? (e.g. bioinformatics, GIS, etc.)
The First Sale doctrine can be applied to the digital domain.
yes, I'd forgot about that. Current gen and next gen are both AMD silicon.
Editor-in-Chief of Index.hu Dismissed
The largest Hungarian news outlet is just being destroyed amid growing political infuence.

See some previous posts for background:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23843605

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23711874
Rob@getagine.com
This just sounds like a failed acqui-hire to me.
Thanks - super interesting to hear about your past experience, and indeed there are a bunch of privacy-preserving features on our roadmap!
Rob@getabine.com
Ubiquiti update silently breaks IDS/IPS
Misses the point of why polarization is happening. Part of it is media driven, but a large part is because there are different classes of people with different material interests. You can't get a wolf and a lamb to debate and come to a mutual conclusion where the wolf eats the lamb. It's crazy.

When you debate rich people paying higher taxes or giving up control of companies vs the laborers that work for them that want more healthcare or whatnot, they'll each make their separate claim on resources -- money or labor. It's an irreconcilable conflict.

Debate only works when both sides have an interest in finding some mutual agreement that works for them, not when resources are in conflict.
Thanks for reading!

>I still don't know what KVM stands for!

Oh, keyboard, video, mouse. The article does define it, but it's a little buried.

>From a quick skim of your site it looks like you've worked at large companies and now are doing some independent projects. Do you think you'll go back to working for a company (perhaps a smaller one?), or do you see yourself working independently for many years?

I'd love to continue working for myself forever. My ideal would be if I could find a business sustainable enough that I can hire 2-5 developers and other teammates to work with me. If I did have to go back to being an employee, I'd probably lean toward something smaller.

It's very much about your temperament, what type of work you enjoy, and how much you value flexibility and autonomy. A good way to test the waters is by building a side business and see if you enjoy it more than your job. You can also read/hear more about the lifestyle in places like Indie Hackers[0], Starter Story[1], and WIP[2].

But I agree with you that you pass up certain kinds of growth by working on your own. I'm happy that I had ~10 years of experience with big companies before doing my own thing. I learn a lot on my own, but I don't think I could have learned a lot of my software "craftsmanship" kind of skills (e.g., designing for maintainability, creating repeatable, well-documented processes) had I not worked for Google and Microsoft.

[0] https://indiehackers.com

[1] https://starterstory.com

[2] https://wip.chat
Intel grew revenues in Q2 2020, but key manufacturing upgrade delayed
> The Air Force X-37B is not a missile or weapon.

No, but that seems a little bit disingenuous. Aircraft carriers are neither missiles nor weapons either. We can recognize things as military assets that are neither missiles nor weapons.

The X-37B is a DOD asset, operated by the military, capable of deploying weapons systems. In that way, it is part of the military capability of the US.
>rendering the modern web

Maybe the modern web needs to change...not your browser.
Majority of people stay there. It's likely for one of 2 reasons:
1. They're morally bankrupt and prefer $
2. This is very complex issue, and there's no simple right or wrong solution.
There should be a wider protest to sink this nonsense.
Adherents of Critical Theory are not interested in debates. They are interested in smashing what they view as oppression by any means possible. Questioning their goals is oppression itself. Facts specifically don't matter, what matters are the perceptions of the oppressed. So I doubt this project will be of any help with our modern culture wars.
or VPN on your router? or just get a VPS and run wireguard.
You can already see that on Amazon when buying a shirt. Just push a button and the color of the shirt on the model changes.
Both can be correct at the same time. Pirating a movie is copyright infringement, not stealing. Digital lending is currently legally gray-zone, but the pragmatic end-game for lenders is to make it so a physical book can be digitally lent so long as the physical book is unused during the lending period. This is because it can easily be shown that the publisher doesn't incur damages, since the same amount of books are on the market at any given time.
This is likely disingenuous. Large corporations like Amazon systematically refuse to sign NDAs with small players, hence none of the info is “confidential”. The rationale is that large companies might have people working on the idea already and they meet so many people/companies it would be restrictive for them to agree to any confidentiality.
The images don’t appear to scale correctly on mobile.
Yikes. Going through the comments it seems their products can still work offline? How about caching?

Garmin is our direct competitor, but we wish them a quick recovery.
"What evidence do you have that these accounts are Russian funded or controlled?" -> "That's classified for national security reasons."

"Have they published something which is actually false or misleading, or is it just something which the UK government finds inconvenient?" -> "No further questions at this time."
The fact that you have to make up the term "Space Combatants" shows that you don't know what you're talking about. Combatant Commands are the parts of the military actively involved in combat. Even if the Space Force only ran GPS satellites for the Army, they'd still be providing capabilities to combatant commands.
Though I think you're over valuing explorers logs, that doesn't matter when an epidemic is spreading across two continents.
Not really. As long as they are documented to be not in use, then the first party can lend them to whoever, and they can lend to whoever.. and so on as long as the chain links back to a real book paid for then it makes perfect technical sense.