skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The film is pretty damn good considering it has to make do with about 2 hours, and has to keep the audience interested. It's also absolutely beautiful - fantastic cinematography and direction.
Tesla hacker unlocks Autopilot ‘Augmented Vision’ and it’s awesome
You should listen to the whole thing — the story about it being a prank was itself a prank!
The publishing industry has a problem, and ePub is not the solution (2013)
I am referring mostly to the latency that I do have control over in software. I.e. time between user input event available for processing and view state response to user.
If anyone's used Kivy or Beeware for mobile app development, I'd love to hear about it.
Cyberpwned: Beating Cyberpunk 2077's hacking minigame in 50 lines of Python
Sounds cool!

I guess AssemblyScript isn't self-hosted (yet)? Seems like your life might be easier if you could compile the compiler to WASM.

Would a JavaScript interpreter be too slow for your use case? I can find a few of those written in Rust (e.g. https://github.com/boa-dev/boa), although some look abandoned and others seem incomplete.
A significant factor seems to be that the way (not only STEM) academia is currently organized means that women have to pick between a career or having any children (at ages favorable to childbearing):

https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4522

And I kind of have the impression that the situation here actually got worse during the last decades?
For example in the media.

Let's take major newspapers like _The Times_ or the _Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung_ as examples.

You will not find any article that mentions 2nd amendment rights while not taking side against gun ownership. Every time the American practice is mentioned, it is scoffed at. At least by implication.
> commenters in the southern city of Guangzhou are paid $25 for an original post of longer than 400 characters. Flagging a negative comment for deletion earns them 40 cents. Reposts are worth one cent apiece.

Wondering if they’re active on HN as well. Googling a bit one can find sites selling upvotes here. But I didn’t think that people would sell downvotes as well.
At least you can still turn off the Lock Screen stuff.. I’ve not seen ads. It’s more random trivia about the geographic location they’re showing. I disable that overlay.
The numbers for Germany seem weird, just checked for a single person without kids in Berlin and get 71k€ net.

Anyhow do not forget that these amounts buy you different things as well. I can only speak for Germany, but here the „tax“ also includes health insurance and other social securities. So if unemployment, a kid or sickness happens to that single person, they don’t need as much rainy days funds. Also a lot of things are cheaper in Germany, e.g. Housing, Groceries, etc. but you mention that already.
Students also frequently had shared phone services of various types so they'd make a person to person call to their parents with some agreed-upon name and their parents would call back at the shared number. When I went to school we also traded cassettes because phone calls of any length were expensive in any case.

(The context is that long distance phone calls cost maybe $4+ per minute in today's dollars.)
Thanks. Wonder whether it can be used as a dome monitoring camera as well. Or even as a security cam (another camera of course).
Improving Linux Startup Time
This should probably be the link for the thread. It's the source for the article currently linked.
I worked on a unique HFT system which was capable of starting the response packet before the incoming packet's final byte had arrived. Negative latency. If it mispredicted the future, it would simply scramble the trailer and cause the packet to fail UDP checksum.

It didn't make money in the real world because the quality of decision that could be made at that speed wasn't good enough.
Space Panic looks quite similar to Lode Runner: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LIoOGTCJ3R8
Well for all intents and purposes, it's also true that SV treats all nudes, even partial, as porn, or at least "objectionable enough content" to disable advertising next to it.
Interesting projects.
I might try ray tracing in python as I’m also exploring a-lot about CGI lately.

Has anyone tried CGI if so how’s your experience has been so far
??? From TFA?

> Researchers at Citizen Lab said the apparent malicious code they discovered, which they claim is used by clients of Israel’s NSO Group, made “almost all” iPhone devices vulnerable if users were using an operating system that pre-dated Apple’s iOS 14 system, which appears to have fixed the vulnerability.

Edit: and that's almost not relevant to my point - what I'm saying is that journalists aren't inherently technical people, and that the work of reading reports on the latest exploits and vulnerabilities and developing countermeasures should probably go to someone else in their org
Since this is a software exploit, not a hardware one, the model of phone hardly seems relevant. An iPhone 11 running iOS 14 should not be vulnerable to this. However an iPhone 8 running iOS 13.5.1 is presumably vulnerable. I suspect the parent post conflated iOS 11 (software) with iPhone 11 (hardware).
I have a strong interest in cold war espionage history - I'd never actually read any Le Carre (I have piles and piles of books like the Mitrokhin Archive but no fiction), but now that I have, I have been inspired to try and make a (mostly text) driven game set inside MI5 in the early 1950s through to the early 80s.

I decided on a game rather than a
book because it seems easier for me to signpost the inherent fog and moral spuriousness of the subject matter.

I'm fascinated by Peter Wright, so I'm aiming for a more scientific than personal approach to the meat and potatoes of the plot. It'll be still mostly dialogue, but with a similar approach to (say) what a Zachtronics game is to its subject matter.
Put more simply, there is a big difference between the capacity to care about other people's feelings, and the capacity to understand them.

Some understand but do not care, whereas some care but do not understand. It dovetails really well with creativity but it can introduce many challenges in life.
How does Kivy compare to Sciter?
You may be right, but it seems plausible that men are also much less likely to understand the potential for and existence of abuse that happens to women in the porn industry.

So it may not be that they don't care about women. Simply that they don't understand and recognize the harm to women.
Quite the opposite: Consumers are so aware that fried chicken is unhealthy that Kentucky Fried Chicken formally changed its name to just "KFC" so as to not explicitly reference the food item anymore.
A reminder of the HN guidelines and I'll assume in good faith you didn't mean me by "you."

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Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
Then you immobilize some long term holders with many proposals for them to vote, and after they can't do anything anymore, bribe the employees directly into doing the shortsighted action.

Again, it's an extra bonus to the unethical ones, because they are the only ones that can sell, and will take all the profits from the short lived stock pump.

Do you also have a home-made encryption algorithm you'd like to push?
Symbian didn't provide a UI. Mobile phone manufacturers applied their own on top. Series 60 was Nokia's chosen UI, and the API was appalling. But yes, Symbian C++ was a difficult paradigm for newcomers to get their head around.
Not really, no. Tends to cap out at 80k here.
You're right, the indirect benefits can be career-making for tech books.
picarto.tv is an art streaming site. If you looked at the top hundred streams there the artists are all probably studio grade, but maybe a tenth of them actually make a living off their art.

A lot of people are making a lot of good stuff for free online and making pennies on it because in practice its not talent that is scarce, its eyeball access and virality. Your average webcomic artist today does not have the resources to exploit the psychology of target demographics the way Disney will for their next streaming show or the war chest to shove ads for it down throats until it reaches a critical self perpetuating mass of popularity.

That doesn't make the stuff they make less worthy of being enjoyed, though. They just can't spread the message by themselves.
Now that it's come out that SolarWinds's default password on their deployed systems was 'solarwinds123', it's quite possible that the break-in to their build server wasn't all that hard.
Yes it depends on a particular situation, but the net salary is what really matters in the end. It's better to compare meaningful net salary, even with some gotchas, even as a ballpark figure.

Gross salary is kinda meaningless (from employee perspective) when comparing offers in different tax regimes.
This really became vivid for me the last time I visited the Kruger National Park in South Africa. I was in a wooden hide overlooking a small lake, and was lucky enough to witness a herd of about 20-30 elephants emerge from the bush on the other side of the lake. For the next hour they did nothing but play in the water under the baking heat (this was one of South Africa’s hottest Decembers on record). One of the baby elephants was particularly mischievous and enjoyed spraying it’s mother with water from behind. When the herd decided to leave, this baby elephant and another insisted on staying for a few more minutes. It was funny to see the mother’s come back and get them.

Elephants really are incredible creatures, which I had seen many times but never like this. All the seriousness in their imposing size disappeared quite literally in the water. It was amazing to see a group of animals in the wild do nothing but play. It reminded me that we humans sometimes just need to do the same as well, with no reason or productive purpose.
Musk Inquires About Moving ‘Large Transactions’ to Bitcoin
I think, interestingly, that writing the middle of a compiler is actually the best learning as a programmer.

Parsing (should be) easy, the backend is hard but well documented and trodden, but the semantic analysis and error handling is where the real murky water is (Especially when you start trying t optimize it, like adding caching or threading or deferred execution)
Ah, 23 years of, "If you don't like it, use something else," and "If you want that feature so badly, like being able to choose a desktop background color, code it yourself. It's open source."

It's sort of comforting in a way, the consistency. The Gnome project will always be 80% of what people want in a desktop environment, and 20% screw you.
> That has nothing to do with slavery.

My comment here wasn't about slavery. It was about the claim that america was founded on the principle of government by the consent of the governed.

I think your response proves my point.

> One way to see this is to look at the state constitutions written in this era.

Well, minus the whole slavery thing enshrined in half of them (not to mention landownership requirements that lasted until the civil war in some places, and the net reduction in voting rights in the early 1800s).

Like even at its founding, the US was only marginally better than the UK in terms of enfranchisement. About 2% of Philidelphians were eligible voters. That's the capital of
a free state with only a few slaves.

> . A relatively small class of plantation owners got rich off slavery. They didn't redistribute the proceeds across the entire white population. Economically, the slave-owning South, as a whole, lagged far behind the North, and slavery is a likely cause for that economic backwardness.

The south, for the 17th time were not the only people who benefitted. Northern businesses that depended on various plantation based exports also gained.

But even still, I agree that your average white farmer didn't gain a lot, that's true of capitalist economies, not slavery in particular. The gilded age didn't fix wealth inequality.

The bigger question is whether or not the relatively rich and influential southern plantation owners had an outsized impact on, say, the development of universities and such.
> The question is, who actually uses these projects? The people developing them? Hobbyists? Language diehards?

This is an interesting question, and one that (as Kivy developers) we wonder about ourselves. Others may have different perspectives, but mine is:

* Kivy is very much community built and community driven, it has no serious financial backing (though we are grateful for the donations we do get!) and a fairly small developer pool.

* Most of the commercial use of Kivy that I'm aware of is small companies using it for specific reasons that happen to make sense for them, usually involving some technical reason such as the combination of Python and a flexible drawing toolkit fitting both their dev interests and product requirements. I don't think there is a lot of commercial use, but e.g. one of the Kivy founders has been using Kivy commercially for many years in a variety of interesting projects.

* Kivy is not mobile-only or even mobile-focused, and the commercial usage reflects that. This is worth noting because people often think it was invented for mobile: it wasn't, it was invented to be very flexible, and this happened to make it mobile-ready.

* Most use of Kivy is probably from Python hobbyists, and may well be more weighted towards mobile since that's the most obvious standout feature as a Python gui toolkit (although not the only one).

I've been involved with Kivy for a long time, but never commercially - I got into it for fun while looking to make an app and strugging with an android development tutorial (turns out the instructions were just wrong for Linux...), and stayed with it for also fun. I'm most interested in the general principle that app development ought to be simple and easy for a wide range of tasks, and that in pursuit of this goal it does not have to be perfect. I like the idea that e.g. someone who has programmed a simple game or visualisation should be able to easily share it with their friends, on any platform including mobile. This is just my perspective of course, others do use it for other things.

I have a couple of my own apps that I think emphasise this perspective. Lazy Baduk (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.inclem.laz...) is a Go analysis tool that bundles a superhuman AI: I threw it together in a weekend using some existing Python code I had lying around, because there was no Android app currently supporting the functionality I wanted. If I couldn't do that with Python, the app simply wouldn't exist. ColourBlind (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.inclem.col...) runs the camera feed through a basic colour blindness simulation filter, I made this one just because I wanted to see what it was like and all the existing apps I could find were rubbish (in my opinion!). Even with the limitations of Python, I like mine much better than them.
I never felt Richard Stallman was treated fairly.
Experimental cancer drug targets mitochondria to starve tumors of energy
That's a very interesting observation. I wonder if there's a word for it...
Different groups of people can hold the same point of view due to different reasons.

Koreans hold it for non-racist reasons do not prove the rest hold it for the same reasons
I agree it's likely to converge slower, but I was thinking that it could maybe make up for it by being cheaper. Based on what I know it also seems more biologically plausible that learning is a mostly local process.
Do you maintain a status page for this project? It sounds like it could be awesome.
Apple has never devoted enough care, resources, or money to cybersecurity. It’s just a fact.

They’ve also never devoted enough care, resources, or money to network architecture and how important availability is (with fairness, they have improved in this area in the last couple of years due to the major iCloud outages they had).

Apple doesn’t hire mainstream IT people and cybersecurity people from the enterprise realms. There is a vast amount of talented people and knowledge they simply ignore because the Apple culture is too hip and cool for that.

Steve Jobs is primarily the blame for all the above. He treated the departments and any person that cared about enterprise like dirt. Steve Jobs always said Apple is a consumer company. This philosophy has obviously carried on.
> it is a place that they feel uniquely safeguards it

This isn't news, just read de Tocqueville.

As an American I'm comforted by the idea that a significant part of my compatriots will resist any order by virtue of being ordered.

Treat other people like humans with dignity that must be persuaded instead of commanded. That's the American ideal imo.
How did we get to 50%?
A cross-platform framework which does not support the web platform. What's the point?
There are so many UI development frameworks, and so many of them are missing the web.
This limits the options available enormously, and is forcing programmers into inconvenient and inappropriate solutions.
I really like the Kivy project's goals and the demos I saw were super fast and nice. But when I had a look at actually building something with it I discovered that the default UI is completely raster based, which is just a weird deal breaker.
Wasn’t it back in November?
It’s possible. Check out remote companies.

I am working for GitLab, am based in Germany and know that it is possible for Ruby Engineers (our compensation calculator was public until recently, and I think sharing a general range that is public info due to public git history is fine). There are other remote companies who pay similarly well (or even Valley / NY salaries).

If remote is not your thing, I know that even in Jena engineers can earn a 6 figure salaries, so there are surely jobs in Berlin as well.

If you are an Ruby engineer with 10 years experience, many companies will consider senior as well, don’t sell yourself short
That was my guess too, but I simply posted the claim from the article, since neither the parent (ironically) nor the GP appeared to have read it correctly.
The Apple Pay stuff was basically the only reason I increased my footprint in Apple’s ecosystem.
Yes, for business and enterprise tenants, you can set the release cadence by group.
I have said this before but there is a chicken-and-egg problem here. Alternative DEs don't get a lot of corporate support so as a result they don't contribute much upstream. When they don't contribute much upstream they fall further behind and the relationship with upstream deteriorates because nobody is there to advocate for downstream.

I don't know what the solution here is but complaining at leadership to shift in an unspecified direction is probably not it.
Do you actually mean Californio?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Californios
Which source cultures?

How are they described in the books?

Are you sure about "pretty clearly"?
I have a similar attitude to the author. I bought one new laptop in my lifetime but realised that second-hand or refurbished offer better value for money. For the past eight years, I’ve been using a Core 2 Duo Dell Vostro from 2007. I’m conscious of the environmental cost to manufacturing brand new devices so I only ever buy second-hand mobile phones and I apply the same philosophy to other consumer goods – cars (20 years old), stereo equipment (25 years old), bicycle (15 years old), etc. I sometimes buy clothes from charity shops but the shops have so little range in male clothes that it takes too much time to find something I like in a size that fits.

My laptop is 13 years old and I’ve upgraded its RAM to the maximum (4GB) and replaced the hard drive with a SSD. It runs Ubuntu 18.04 with LXDE as a lightweight desktop environment. I could probably use a more minimal window manager but for my usage, it’s the web browser that tends to eat RAM – due to modern websites’ predilection for externalising a ridiculously huge amount of unnecessary computation on to the end user. I see the article writer mentions that they use Vivaldi and Midori. I tried Midori for a couple of months around 2015 but ended up coming back to Firefox.

What makes Firefox usable is that I disable a lot of (most) JavaScript with the uMatrix browser extension (I used to use NoScript before Quantum). Since I’m not very disciplined, I can have a couple of hundred tabs open at a time; what makes this feasible is the Auto Tab Discard extension which stops open (but unused) browser tabs from using RAM and CPU.
I worked at Nokia at the time this all went down.

It's true to say that Nokia was in difficulty and initially laughed at the iPhone when it was first released.

Elop may have had the right idea but how that idea was delivered should be a lession in how not to do things. I remember the Burning Platform memo appearing on the intranet homepage. Instantly thousands of people stopped caring. They just hung around waiting for Voluntary Redundancy offers. Truths were told, it got very dirty.
That’s the total working population, not those who work on technology to support agriculture.
I'm a hobbyist and I've been looking into these kinds of projects for a while. From my (limited) experience, the easiest way to go for a lot of cases is just to use a cross-platform game engine's UI capabilities, but there's some other interesting not-well-known stuff like HaxeUI and LambdaNative.
I never had to sign in to read the story.
Orthogonal to your comment, but Apple could say no and walk away.

On the other hand, Google did so, and the cost to them is staggering and the reward negligible - they probably regret that decision intensely. It will become a business school case study in why companies shouldn't put ethics ahead of money.

The point being that we need a business environment where it makes business sense to stand up to authoritarian regimes.
Sociologically, the worry is that larger and larger numbers of the young male population will withdraw, and become Hikikomori. Doing the bare minimum to sustain themselves, and riding life between moments of hollow, isolated, carnal release with no greater purpose and a constant nagging dissatisfaction with their marginal existence.

From a perspective of optimization, it could be seen as young men reaching a local minima with respect their quality of life vs the risks and costs of its maintenance.

The commodotization and derisking of sexual pleasure and titillation decouples it from the behaviors it's historically been used as a reward for. This reweights the incentive structures in our society that kept a lot of otherwise ne'er-do-well young people productive.

I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing, but it's something we definitely need to have a collective dialogue about, as we no longer have any centralized moral or executive authorities capable of unilaterally responding to this shift in a manner that puts us back into social balance.
Don't forget to implement a garbage collector.
Or Waking Up by Sam Harris, also woo free.
Now it's "Mass psychogenic illness"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_psychogenic_illness
Until ~2015 4GB were the only reasonably priced option for crazy long as well. I've been waiting ~3 years looking for a new laptop, as replacing an old 3GB one with new 4GB one was hardly an upgrade.
There was a challenge at stack overflow to encode an image in a tweet (140 characters at the time):

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/891643/twitter-image-enc...

Some of the solutions took a similar approach that used geometric primitives.