skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not an insider but isn't it obvious? Too expensive and it can only crash once. Regular wind turbines are probably cheaper and failsafe. Should have pivoted but it is a make it work at all costs kind of vanity project. Once you go big pivoting is not an option. Investors don't want to hear that. They just want a delivery date.

I was on one of these multi-billion boondoggle projects. Basically people keep it going even though it is not viable. Telltale sign is the project is spun off or 'cut loose' to die.

The product can be totally amazing though and parts of it could be a viable company on its own. Maybe these projects should be structured in a way that each component is a business entity.
I don't consider internet via coaxial cable with 300mbps download and 5mbps upload to be broadband. It's probably split between too many houses, and they boost your bandwidth to 300mbps for a minute or two to make it seem like it's fast, but they won't sustain it.

I also don't trust the economic incentives of a company that makes more money selling media than it does proper broadband service.

Dealing with fiber to the home providers is much nicer, with symmetric 1Gbps down and up connections. You can feel the connection is much snappier, have multiple FacetimeHD and HD video streams going, and you don't even notice. And I can stream from my devices at home when I'm away because there is actually available upload bandwidth.
it doesn't have to be 'technically' integrated, it could be something buisness-y like "licences now cost 2x, but you also get a licence for some nvidia stuff you didn't really need"
Can you share where Eden doesn't work? I no longer work at Fb but at the time I left Eden was solid for www/android, and mostly there on Mac/iOS.
For the technological considerations which give rise to Eastasia, Eurasia, and Oceania: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24375023

(If one wants to predict which countries get Two Minutes Hates from the US, just look at the rest of the Permanent Members: CN, check, RU, check, FR, check. UK has always been theirs, but even they were in the doghouse in between Suez and Sputnik.)

As to guerilla warfare, apparently at least some US white supremacists have discussed going the communist cell model one better: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~satran/Ford%2006/Wk%202-1%20T...

Please allow me to note that "leaderless resistance" pretty much firmly puts one in the "terrorist" classification, because having a command structure is part of the requirements to be recognised as a "freedom fighter" under the Geneva Conventions.

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if you all haven't noticed by now, this account is an anti-fascist propaganda mouthpiece. As for us, don't tell anyone, but we're organised in a tetrahedral cell structure and ultimately report to an AGI named Temperance (codename "Alfa").

> "Look at base sketch. Each vertex of each triangle shares self with zero, one or two other triangles. Where shares one, that's it's link, one direction or both — but one is enough for a multipli-redundant communication net. On corners, where sharing is zero, it jumps to right to next corner. Where sharing is double, choice is again right-handed.

> Take fourth level, D-for-dog. This vertex is comrade Dan. No, let's go down one to show three levels of communication knocked out — level E-for-easy and pick Comrade Egbert. "Egbert works under Donald, has cellmates Edward and Elmer, has three under him, Frank, Fred, and Fatso … but knows how to send message to Ezra on his own level but not in his cell. He doesn't know Ezra's name, face, address or anything — but has a way, phone number probably, to reach Ezra in emergency."

For more details, view some of our anti-fascism clips on YouTube (e.g. "Don't be a sucker", 1947), and if you "wish to do more", just browse our deep state homepage at www.duckdascism.gov [1]. The DNS query alone suffices, you will receive the relevant information, MitM'ed to your customary news feed, at a later date.

Stay Alert. The computer is your friend.

[1] 3615 Marianne in france, because the frogs always have to do things their own way.
Also tiny incremental advances that are barely worth publishing, assuming they are even replicable. It seems they pay their faculty based on publication quantity.
Once a scarfy, always a scarfy.
I have only seen a few bits and pieces of various UFO documentaries, but one segment really stuck with me. It was space shuttle footage showing a side view of the earth with several little white dots, a thruster fires the a second or so later they all move. They the do a calculation assuming one of those dots was in earths atmosphere to get some insane acceleration. But, looking at the footage I just saw paint flecks disturbed by an expanding gas cloud from the thruster.

It’s all about trying to prove a world view and or entertainment rather than any kind of real investigation of odd lights etc. We may dislike it, but the History channel is extremely profitable and one of the most watched channels on TV. Cheap content plus wide audiences equals profit.
I love how so many people here argue with the Walter Bright about technical aspects of C.

I have been a member of many programming languages communities, and every language has its own culture. C was always a language for the arrogant. "The real programmers" that can handle their memory, not afraid to work with pointers and that can get their code right.

I've been there, done that for many years, and became more humble with time. In a way I still love the brutal simplicity and low-level nature of C, but I would use it only if absolutely can't use any other language for technical reasons, and I would be really, really cautious.
Time to create a computer that runs entirely from disk without copying anything into RAM.
> Seriously, I feel the US has a big education problem, with part of it being cultural I think. Seems being educated, knowledgeable, having expertise, learning about science and technology, medicine and law, just isn't valued anymore, in fact it's almost being denigrated and shamed.

> What I see instead is people pushing for anti-intellectualism and valuing the "college dropouts".

It's because outside of a few exceptions(tech in particular), you would earn more money being a businessman than being employed, academic or professional.

People always say that we should value teachers, nurses, etc. But it's all just lip service.

Money and salary are what society uses to indicate how much they truly value you.
If we're talking about survival as a species, capitalism has been around for only an incredibly brief flash. Compared to millions of years of nomadic living.
Yet MOBAs MMOs continue to thrive. Perhaps toxicity isn't as negative as often portrayed.
The cities and States with the worst public education systems and the highest crime rates have been run by one party, the Democrats, for 50+ years. Some 100+!

They can and have continued to raise taxes and subsequently squander any money they collect. Any attempt to break that stranglehold, such as changing teachers union hiring practices or allowing for charter schools, is met with total resistance.

You’re right that government is the problem, but get it right which party is responsible.
The optimism or lack thereof is mainly due to news and social media. Climate change, wars, criminality, cops shooting people of color, economic inequality etc. I've lived in a communist country and all the official news was boring propaganda in the lines of "our beloved leader went to <country> to visit his omologue, <name> where they deliberated about world peace". Then I saw a Gulf News newspaper from the UAE: only positive news, obviously propaganda. I'm not saying we shouldn't discuss these issues but western news has an overy negative tone, it keeps parroting the same issues and competes for our attention. Social media is even worse than news. My so keeps scrolling at insta posts and voices discontent about certain travel influencers going on vacation all the time while she has to work overtime and take a pay cut.
Self Flying Energy Kite
Self Flying Energy Drone

Interesting stuff.
Okay, you’re going to have to expand on that one. Even if we’re going for the very loosest of metaphors, I don’t see it.
I don't think they're confusing anything; I thought their use of the word, "articulate" was pretty apt.
Buffalo Wild Wings followed the same pattern as any other rapidly expanding chain - start with an okay product, get name recognition, expand quickly with excessive financing, and then cut costs (and hence quality) while milking the brand's original reputation.

I'm sure a few people cashed out along the way.
Oulu, a 200k town in Finland, claims to have 600 km. It still could do with some more bike paths and improvements to the existing ones, but it is at a level where almost all places are reasonably easy to access by bicycle.
Google plus, google glass, google health, google reader, meebo, picasa, google express. The list is long. "dropped the ball on innovation," indeed.
Sure, the anomolous observations are verified, but there is no experiment that has been conducted to directly detect it as far as I know. What you said about what we don't know is precisely my point. Given that this article mentions the discrepancy between models and observations, I'd say we know hardly much at all about it--whatever it may be given that we can't directly detect it and we can't even make a good model to predict its behavior
First of all, it's important to distinguish very clearly between UFOs and "aliens from another world visiting us". The two are not at all necessarily related and the public discourse, especially in mass media, UFOlogy dogma and literature, only weakens arguments because of this forced connection based on tenuous leaps of logic.

By definition, any unidentified object in the sky is a UFO unless it's clearly identified, as many here have already mentioned. Thus, for one thing, many UFOs can simply be this: things that may or may not be natural but which have some rational explanation and have not been clearly labeled as such.

However, and more importantly I think, is the possibility that even a genuinely inexplicable UFO event (such as the 1978 nuclear storage events linked to in another comment here [1], the 2004 Nimitz UFO incidents and the 2014 and 2015 events among others) may not be the classical aliens in the sky concept that gets pushed despite little substance, though it might indeed be a case of unknown objects moving around human installations with a certain frequency. The latter is a highly documented, definitively observed phenomena, the former is very shaky assumption and absolutely nothing more. Evidence of unknown objects moving in seemingly incredible ways abounds. There is no evidence at all of those objects being ships from another world in the galaxy or Universe.

What this boils down to is that UFOs as a genuinely, currently inexplicable phenomena could very well be completely real. They might even be corporeal expressions of an intelligent nature. This however doesn't have to mean that they came from space or from aliens in any classical sense. They could have come from a completely unknown source that doesn't get nearly as much attention as the UFOs = aliens supposition. Certain authors have covered this with their own speculations and arguments, such as Jacques Vallee, Micheal Persinger, and even others with more sensationalist arguments like John Keel. None of them are necessarily less likely to be wrong than those who argue that we're dealing with aliens, and at least some of these arguments seem more plausible than the dogmatic skeptic stance of completely disregarding all sightings as anything except humans being confused by normal, known phenomena.

An important sub-point to the previous paragraph is that the government might seem to be playing stupid not because of some giant coverup of secret knowledge or much less clandestine contact with extraterrestrials, but the (to me) much more likely possibility of a general attempt to cover up that they also have no clue what's going on whenever they come across cases that none of their resources let them explain. It's possible that (as is common with any kind of organizational thinking) they detest looking stupid and prefer looking ambiguous to admitting ignorance of something completely outside their ability to control or monitor clearly.

1. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/31798/the-secretive-in...
Agreed, I'm not sure what's wrong with openssl's cli and git's cli (I do agree gpg's sucks).

Those are pretty complex tools that can do many things, so they cannot be expected to be used without learning to use them or reading the manual.
Or could it be that the amount of information needed to be competent in our fields is getting too high?

It doesn't help that we are expected to have T-shape skills. We need to be both deep in one area and broad in other areas at the same time.
I think the value is a soft-power and positioning play.

Being able to say "we control the architecture in seventy trillion and counting devices" gets you a seat at the tech industry grown-ups' table (next to the US, China, Japan, Korea).
He's probably referring to this comment Bisqwit posted in the comments on that video:

> I believe there is an incredible number of counterfeit doctrines and antichrists (Greek word that literally means counterfeit messiah), some more obvious and some more subtle. Islam being one of the most obvious ones.

(It's a reference to Islam at least. Not sure how calling it a false doctrine is Islamophobic; seems like a pretty standard Christian take.)
Is it better now that everyone is working from home now?
This is really cool! I'd love if I could search a phrase and have all video snippets coalesced together!
I just want to WFH without pants.
Volunteer time: Yes. A ton. Probably equivalent to more than a year of full-time employment.

Money: No.
Agreed. Its frustrating that the idea that "college is useless and a bad deal" is not challenged more. I see a real difference in terms of rigor, discipline, and professionalism from college grads vs those that didnt go.
> I don't really blame Google, because they're just building a better browser than anyone else can build. But the effective result is definitely "embrace, extend, extinguish."

Google is the only tech company I know of that serves crappier versions of their biggest apps to non-Chrome browsers. Their main search page, Youtube, Gmail, hangouts. Probably more.

If you fake your user agent to Chrome, you get the "good" version of everything and it generally works fine. The differences on some sites, like their main search page, are quite stark.

But if you fake UA, you get CAPTCHA all the time and they won't even let you login to Gmail.

I'm done with Google at this point. I'm not going to be part of the masses marching us towards a worse situation than we had with IE in the 90's
I honestly think a basic data structures and algorithm round is great. HOWEVER, the interviewer has to make sure the algorithm isn't obscure enough. That means no questions like Median of Sorted Arrays, Kadane's etc, where it's all about previous rote memorization or some form of pattern recognition.

A lot of interviewers get lost with these obscure algorithms, and forget what they're actually trying to test: the candidate's thought process.

A counterpoint on why I wouldn't ask anyone to implement something (such as a web server) using a framework: They're ever-changing.
Furthermore, if I were to try and see if candidates understand building an API well, I'd rather ask them a mix of networking and open-ended, system design style questions.
On Bloom's two sigma problem: A systematic review
Do you have some legal/security issues?

I ask people to send me code they've written via email or links to projects and go through that.
Interesting. It deposits as crystal meth or some residue of it? Does it emit a smell? Almost all aerosol substances as far as i know deposit everywhere. Cigarette smoke pentrates walls too but usually is not a huge problem un
unless a heavy smoker inhabitated the place.
> Then there's the fact that many positions are not requiring a college education at all.

Tell that to companies who still are filtering applicants based on their college education.
> making nvidia gpus part of the arm ISA

That would be amazing. Nvidia has arguably the best GPU designs in the market, this would be a boost for ARM IP business.
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I suppose, mostly by chance, or by technical mistakes if the perpetrators?
The coronavirus may have reached Los Angeles before China announced its outbreak
Is software now everybody's job? The implications of low/no code for developers
Is there a citation for the perpetual licence? I would have just assumed they would have purchased a long-term licence to build cores for a particular ISA version
Thats just utterly untrue and the reverse of whats actually true.

"states that were coded as blue based upon results from the 2004 presidential election were significantly higher in education funding than were states coded as red. Students in blue states scored significantly higher on outcome measures of math and reading in grades four and eight than did students in red states."

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED503486.pdf
After 8 months, the seed for Minecraft's pack.png has been found
Is this mainly a US problem? Every job I’ve ever interviewed for has mostly been to see if I’d fit in. If my resume says that I know how to do something, that has always been accepted as good enough.

Technical talks are never about coding, but more a conversation about previous project and perhaps a little side track on how to tackle large projects.

The style of interviews discused here on HN show an alarmingly low level of trust in the people you want to hire. That’s a bad way to start a relationship.
Thanks for so many comments on my original post. I'm going to try and include some of them in a follow up.
I admit the error. They both post videos on speedruns, and I mixed them up.
Yeah, on Chinese phones. I believe Wi-Fi is renamed “WLAN” but there is a setting to control what connections an app can make.
Any and all depositions are recorded, not just those the USG does. Generally just audio though, in my experience. It is one of the primary methods used to (attempt to) impeach witnesses, along with obviously being used to gather evidence. I handled multi-million dollar mesothelioma cases and we had both audio recording and someone transcribing the testimony of deponents at every deposition. Other firms occasionally filmed theirs. Which is just to say there is nothing unique or nefarious about Gates being recorded.

Edit, to add: maybe there are some novice or low-budget attorneys that don’t record them, but if you don’t record them it basically defeats the entire purpose.
Lots of why did you, why didn't you, what about this, how did you deal with that (and back to why). :-)

I signal a lot of things like testing by asking them. It gives room for the candidate to ask those sorts of questions back about how we do things.
Anonymity is crucial to voting, so 'online voting would be easy if we gave up anonymity' would not hold up.

However, cryptography is not necessary just for anonymity, and the extreme difficulty of ensuring the system is neither rigged nor hackable is not just in understanding cryptography.

The way the current voting systems work, each party and many outside observers are going to collaborate on tallying votes in all voting places, and then collaborate in centralizing those votes in progressively larger centers, all the way to the national level. Parties have alternative counts, and they can check their numbers. Since this is a representative democracy, we can trust that the the people we voted for are either convinced the election is fair, or they are collaborating with their political opponents to cheat, which would mean that the election didn't matter anyway.

In an online system, we first need to check that the servers are running the code they claim they are running - not just once, but during the entire electoral process. We need to check that the database of votes contains all of the actual votes that were cast, and no votes that weren't cast, again, not just once, but during the entire process. We need to check that the database used to display results online is the same database used to tabulate the official result. Of course, we also need to make sure the system is highly-available and not prone to DDoS attacks. We need to ensure that someone cutting a few wires doesn't prevent a whole county from voting.

And of course, we need ways to fix all of these problems if and when they do appear. Say you have an entire county claiming their votes are incorrectly tallied. What happens next? How many people will have enough know-how to check whether there was a bug in the system or the people are lying? How long will it take to audit all of the code that ran (this is important because it is delaying the end of the election)?

Not to mention, you wouldn't really achieve that much. Voting will still have to be done from highly secure machines, so you will still have to go to a polling station (it would be absurdly easy to hack people's PC to have them cast the wrong vote). The same goes for checking the result of your vote.

Overall, an online voting system would be as difficult for people to use. It would take less time to tabulate the votes, but probably much more time to resolve disputes. It would be much, much more complex, and the number of people who could understand and check it would go down by at least 1000x. The attack surface would increase tremendously.

Imagine trying to protect your national voting system from the NSA and CIA. How many countries in the world would have the know-how to combat this very real threat? Especially while probably running US-made chips?
I was basically going to make the same point -- putting money in people's pockets is letting them make decisions about their own best interest, which in this case, appears to be rewarding Chinese investments in flatscreen TV factories.
I don't get why it hasn't gotten traction. When I read it, it was immediately obvious to me that this would be extremely helpful. I want it yesterday, and so should everyone.
> ses dark pools

I thought the point of dark pools is so you don't see what's being traded inside.
I am ignorant on this field so please indulge me with this question:

Isn't in China's best interest not to make public any innovations that they can leverage against other countries?
Carbon credits are issued to companies in the industry based on a certain amount they are allowed to pollute. This is the cap, the credits are the trade, in "cap-and-trade". However, all that pollution still gets polluted in the end, the only thing that changes is who does it, and who pays. Other players can enter the market and claim to absorb carbon, but very often these people are just monetizing ecosystem services that were already happening before they showed up.

If the cost of the credit was of the same value as removing the pollution, sure. This doesn't happen, though. Like sin, the credit doesn't undo the pollution, it just forgives it. The world still gets more polluted either way.
Thanks for so many comments on my original post. I'm going to try and include some of the challenges in a follow up
Thanks again
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Ask HN: How to get alpha feedback of a product?
I just released the alpha verison of my product called Taskord.

Taskord is free open source social media for tasks! where users can post public and private todos, ask questions, and launch products. Taskord helps you to get things done together with the members of the community.

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How can I gain alpha users/testers?
Apple is clearly tied historically to ARM, and might have gotten something like that, but I've yet to see a definite source about this so called perpetual license.

For all we know they just pay for that license like everybody else.
Here is the URL: https://taskord.com