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Foldable mobile phones, now what's next?
Is the era of smartphone is reaching its edge? How smart can they be in the future? A fusion of biology and tech? On skin mobile phones? Rollable phones? I don't know, it makes me excited and so curious at the same time. What do you think?
> I used to work on the team at Mozilla that got stuck with dealing with all the terrible shit that AV programs do to web browsers.

Yet Mozilla contributes to the terrible shit that Google Safe Browsing is doing to independent and open source developers hosting their software.
So true! A lot of folks in India shifted to FB from Orkut because it was private by deault compared to other networks at the time. They destroyed that base assumption in two years.
One of the methods of cheating that was used was "splicing": playing parts of the song separately, and then cutting and pasting the parts together so that they appear to have been played in one continuous session.

Pro musicians -- especially singers -- do this all the time in the studio though: there it's called "comping". Singers sing the same song multiple times, and the best takes for each part (sometimes very small moments of a few seconds) are put together to construct the best possible whole.

Somehow this is not considered cheating, but there is an ambiguity; how the performance was produced is either not known or willfully ignored by the consuming public.

Songs are like sausages. Or most things really. Better enjoy the end product and not worry about how it was made.
Well, in my experience it is possible to claim Level A despite not using a certified compiler. Perhaps not if you're building a civilian airliner and you're probably still gonna have to do some kind of activities to show what goes into the compiler comes out as expected. So although certification may be an ultimate goal, I don't think I'd consider it to be a complete showstopper when it comes to getting Rust airborne and keeping whatever it executes on so. :)
Followup to yesterday’s: “My own phone number is now spam texting me”, 244 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30838564

VZ statement:

“Verizon is aware that bad actors are sending spam text messages to some customers which appear to come from the customers’ own number,” Verizon spokesperson Rich Young told The Verge by email. “Our team is actively working to block these messages, and we have engaged with US law enforcement to identify and stop the source of this fraudulent activity. Verizon continues to work on behalf of the customer to prevent spam texts and related activity.”
Love it, simple & useful. Well done :)
Ubuntu's biggest use case is more than likely a server accessed by a user of SSH. I use linux and love it, but desktop usage is a small portion of Linux's actual use. Those GNU core-utils userland utilites are an integral part in administering remote machines which makes up the vast majority of the use case.

I'll even defer to Debian's about page, which is where Ubuntu is derived from.

"A large part of the basic tools that fill out the operating system come from the GNU project; hence the names: GNU/Linux, GNU/kFreeBSD, and GNU/Hurd. These tools are also free." [1]

[1] https://www.debian.org/intro/about
Yes, we totally agree that this is not a purely technical issue. This is not completely unrelated, inertia here is also fed by technical considerations.
Many companies already do location based salaries for remote workers, meaning you will be paid less if you live in Bali than San Francisco. Essentially, the company is performing location arbitrage rather than the employee.

Next companies create more attractive work places in cheaper areas and lures employees there.
That's another reason for them. Can't make verbal promises to you and then forget about them via email.
To anyone interested in these topics I highly recommend the BBC series Lost Kingdoms of Central America [0]. There is also Lost Kingdoms of South America [1] which is well worth watching.

Amongst other things, they talk about the Milpa/Three Sisters [2] methods of planting crops to ensure that you meet all of your dietary requirements.

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4058292

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2646312

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Sisters_(agriculture)
Maybe not a good idea if they have to fight tanks with the new active protection systems. The latest tests with the Trophy system made by the US Army, seem to show Tanks are back.

“Trophy exceeded our expectations,” said Col. Dean. “Unlike prior APS tests…we were shooting actual threats at actual vehicles. I’m happy to say I kept trying to kill an Abrams tank about 48 times and failed every time.”

https://breakingdefense.com/2017/10/army-accelerates-armor-s...

Also recent and less recent discussions:

"On Killing Tanks (2020)" - 13 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30699355

"On Killing Tanks": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22661946

Edit:
"Trophy (countermeasure)": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophy_(countermeasure)
One video I saw states that, at the higher levels, Guitar Hero can be harder than playing a real guitar.
Not enough, sorry.
This here too:

https://youtu.be/zR3Igc3Rhfg
Sure some people have unnecessarily big egos and people who are public figures are already preselected for that.

But at least activists are working towards increasing our freedoms, as opposed to the people who have even bigger egos, are addicted to having their egos stroked and are working towards reducing your freedoms and owning everything (Musk/Bezos/Zuckerberg etc.)
> Somehow this is not considered cheating

because it's supposed to be an art performance, which everyone understands is recorded and edited to produce the best result. this was supposed to be a "feat of skill", so of course using that same method is considered cheating, because you are lying about the implication that you were playing the song in one go and "perfect"
Why isn't there still any water-proff laptop yet? How impossible is it?
It's not considered cheating because music is not a competition.
Java certainly has a long history of RCEs caused by Java Serialization.
I actually prefer Guitar Hero with a PlayStation controller.
It is if you are arguing that current laws are unjust. Marajuana would have not been legalized were it’s sale not been able to be eliminated. The war on drugs would have continued.
FBI says Russian hackers scanning U.S. energy systems and pose 'current' threat
The laser efficiency alone keeps ICF reactors as a pie in the sky. p-B11 is attractive but the Bremsstrahlung emissions of the heavy/highly ionized boron would exceed the power output of a steady state reactor. So knock on neutrons all you want: until you bridge 10 orders of magnitude aneutronic fusion won't be supplying anyone with power.

Keep up the good work, but don't expect results in your lifetime.
Money makes them think about value. When I took my current job in 2016 I wanted more than they could pay, they wanted me to be based in an office (Oh it would only be officially we dont mind you working from home)

We compromised, my contract says I work from home and they pay me for my time and travel if I go somewhere, and they can afford me.

Can they justify paying you an extra $50k a year (or $10k, or $100k) just to have you in an office?
Billion degree partials produce very high energy photons. Thus it’s still producing ionizing radiation so scaling down to a car sized reactor isn’t going to practical.

Further, Hydrogen born is also only aneutronic if the chamber is kept free from everything else to an impractical standard. So, yes in theory you don’t need neutron shielding, but in practice you very much need shielding at useful sustained power outputs. In the end you will still produce radioactive waste, just less of it.
Totally — it's a bit weird getting paid in a non-native currency, though :)
People just have kneejerk reactions against being told what to do and what to think, in general. Doesn't matter if it's right or wrong. It is what it is.
As far as I understand from your first link, the Stellar Forge is a system used to generate data, not display it. It generates fantasy/hypothetical star systems, it's not about displaying efficiently existing data.

Looking at your second link, the youtube video doesn't show something more impressive than the submission. At 00:10, the stars need time to load up, though it's nice that they load gradually rather than displaying a "loading" screen/message. At 00:20 you can see the density of the stars is quite sparse, the screen is mostly black, and stars seem to appear only once you stop dragging. Maybe it's an issue with the video bitrate, but it's your link and you decided 720p video is good enough to show the alleged superiority of that system. At roughly 00:30-00:40, you can see the galaxy view doesn't display ~100k stars, it displays some kind of textures of them, and that's why during the zoom in/out everything get blurred to hide that fact. At 00:40-00:50 you see stars suddenly appearing multiple times after zooming in and dragging view. At 1:30 you can see very clearly the stars are loaded in cube chunks, which rules out their sudden appearance to be an issue with low bitrate. At 02:00 you can see a loading message and a switch to a symbolic view of a star system, rather than a smooth transition to a realistic view of that star system.

So I find the submission quite impressive, and the Elite Dangerous star view less, but still also impressive.
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I'm an employee of the Spanish office, but the company itself is a US one.
Yeah that's the part I don't understand. Don't the people care whether what they are doing is right or wrong? Don't they have any morals or beliefs on their own? If you decide to do the opposite as you are told, then the other person is controlling you as much as the person who does what they are told.
I had a similar experience myself a few years back.

I live in Hong Kong. Sometimes sparrows make nests in odd places. There's a footbridge about 10 minutes from my home. The footbridge has draining holes for the rain.

I think a pair of sparrows once made a nest in one of those holes. One afternoon, as I passed under the footbridge, I saw a baby sparrow on the pavement. I guess it fell from the nest. It was still alive and chirping, it had no idea that there's no way for its parents to rescue them. There was another young woman close-by, watching it, not knowing what to do about it. I'm a nerd. I would have no problem taking it home and trying to raise it. My kids would have loved the experience, even though my wife might have objected. However, I was on an errand and I couldn't just scoop up the little thing and walk home. I didn't have a proper container to put it in. I was still looking around, trying to find something to safeguard the baby sparrow until I can make my way home, when suddenly a man walked by. The man was looking at his phone, he wasn't paying attention to the pavement. Squish! The baby sparrow was dead, its brain and guts all spilled out. The young woman who was watching gave a sharp gasp. I was utterly heart-broken.
> I'm used to a freedom of agency and independence that I'm afraid would go over badly in a normal place. So I stay.

I think you're underselling the rest of the world a bit. Many if not most companies aren't great, but there are a good chunk that do empower their employees to do their job properly and that's how you get the most job satisfaction. Of course, this is without knowing your sector and role - it does vary.

You're in a great position that you're in a job you're largely happy with. You should use that as allowing you to carefully choose your next role, rather than as an excuse not to. It's also great in salary negotiations - you can pick a large number because in the worst case you go back to your perfectly reasonable job!
> A fusion of biology and tech

Yes, many believe so.On skin mobile phones powered by body energy.

Or it could be dead end. Smartphones haven't change much in few years. Same form factor, same OS. It is boring.
Ordinarily I’m not this pedantic, but given the subject of this article I just have to point out that it has been incorrect to refer to NVIDIA as nVidia for well over 15 years. Nvidia is what the WSJ and Wikipedia use and seems fine if one objects to all-caps.

But the company abandoned nVidia about a human generation ago.
Amazing story. This makes me wonder how many people unknowingly hold world records-breaking personal best.

Edit: holy f%ck, the record is 4988 lines, now. https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-line...
The United States Dollar equals 84 Russian Ruble. You can now buy the T-72 for the price of a Tesla, and I heard the Ukrainian Army is making bulk discounts...
Comparing Java Serialization with $language Serialization, and the usage of both of the languages, does Java have more RCEs per line written than $language? Or is it just a function of its popularity?
Nicolas Schabanel and his labs do DNA tile programming, see "molecular programming" https://www.dailymotion.com/NicolasSchabanel/videos

It's a bit mind blowing in the most extreme sense. DNA tiles as combinatorial building blocks to realize game of life like structures that serves as foundations for computation. IIRC they had a turing-capable compiler, but only small programs would complete due to chemical degradation. It's also extremely sensitive to temperature conditions.
I think you have a point — a typical US commute is probably worse than, for example, a typical UK commute. But that's not to say UK commutes are acceptable — my 2 hour each way commute was expensive as well as horribly uncomfortable, and that was on pretty much one of the best rail lines I've used for commuting! Unless we solve the "it's too expensive to live near where you work" problem, I think the trend has to be more towards WFH.
‘Momentum Computing’ Pushes Technology’s Thermodynamic Limits
> but i often see the sentiment expressed that supposedly the entire class of software is useless.

AV software, including Defender, is not useless, it is actively harmful because it prevents people from running legitimate software without any recourse for non-experts or the original developer.
Perhaps I'm wrong but for the Internet of Things, I always use the IoT acronym. And IOT != IOT...
I searched this term and found a 1996 email from Linus saying how much he dislikes the term Lignux

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.linux.misc/c/Cm15HxjDGRs...
Some people (such as myself) rely on the somewhat enforced structure of going into the office to "attach" other life things onto, like exercise and going out. Without that structure, i'm miserable.
>Part of the negotiating power is being good enough at what you do for your skills to be in demand, and having resources or alternatives to fall back on if company is not willing to agree to a part time arrangement.

but that's the thing: there aren't many jobs past entry level that even give such an option for part time. Consulting is the closest factor but even than can have some strict time requirements (too strict at times).

So for (I wager) 90+% of people, the only fallback is "I can quit and never work a day in my life again" sorts of situations. That or you are playing some high stakes career haggling should the employer decide to try and train a replacement that will work full tim.
There’s no reason to want your credit card to have 2FA. It’s not your money, so the only point is to annoy you when you’re spending someone else’s money.

Well, or to use it with sites that require 3D Secure, but that’s still something to help the merchant not you.
In this case, would the 'change it' option be to just work from home and see what happens?
The halting problem states that it's impossible to prove if any arbitrary program halts. This has no relevance to latency of real software. Software is laggy because programmers pile up abstractions without caring about latency, not because of an abstract mathematical theorem. It's possible to write hard real-time software with provable latency bounds.
Thanks, that's indeed my point.

To clarify an earlier one where I said "The same query's behaviour can be utterly different depending on..." what I was saying was that the same query might be executed completely, totally differently depending on what the optimiser deems best. It might use a merge join with an index, or it might (depending on the data distribution) use a loop join and ignore the index(es) entirely. Same query, different execution.

This is why you should (almost) never use hints unless you know a lot more about the data than the DB server, which is rare (or unless the optimiser is being consistently stupid and very sub-optimal, that happens). If you add an index hint the DB will be forced to use it even if it reduces performance, and it can reduce performance a lot. If you force join orders explicitly you can catastrophically fuck performance - I think I've only ever done that once in production.

So profile, add indexes accordingly, but typically don't force them to be used; let the DB use them, or not, as it feels. Save hints for specially problematic situations.
I'm pretty sure rugged military grade laptops are waterproof, dust proof and shock proof, but they are bulky and heavy, so everything is a compromise.
I think bio fusion will come but the tech is not ready yet, maybe first some kind of AR glasses with eSIM???
> but the IT staff swear by McAffee

I feel your pain. We have a load of other crap loaded such as Umbrella that is supposed to protect us from harmful websites. It does stuff like intercept DNS lookups etc. It's such a pile of shite and doesn't work properly when I need VPN into our cloud infrastructure. When it's configured so badly it feels really anti-work. But hey ho, "security reasons".
Puppet publishes DevOps salaries report
Puppet’s Seventh Annual DevOps Salary Report:
https://puppet.com/company/press-room/releases/Puppet's-Seve...
> The only way to get them to do anything is to sue them. Apparently this tanks your "shadow credit score" though.

Do you have a source for this claim? I can't find that in the article.
By 2014 BTC had already gone up from $0.0000000001 or something like that to $30. To be conservative you could use the early exchange prices of $0.10 or so. Do the math. It was blowing up way before Tether. Yes, Tether is one of the biggest frauds on the planet right now. I repeat, Tether’s fall would not cause the collapse of Bitcoin. These other comments saying “oh it’s smaller than usdc so btc would be fine” are even missing the point. It’s like nobody can mentally conceptualize an asset that has gone up 100,000% or much, much more. $1000 spent on MtGox in the early days would be over $200,000,000 today. It’s not one coin or one tweet or one company driving that absolute monster of speculation. But in my opinion Bitcoin’s collapse, a real one that goes to zero, would represent such a significant shift in the upward paradigm that it would mean the end of every single other cryptocurrency in their current iteration, including Tether and even Vitalik’s world computer. They would return in another form. Just my thoughts.
He live streamed himself writing a lot of that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwmke957ki4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6ZpMMDvB1M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAyw7OAcXDE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb2KwcnDKrk
Just had a look at your scala 3 extension, it's really nice. Does it support hot code reload like you would get in quarkus dev mode with java?
Correction: IoT != IOT
Search the web for "rugged laptops".
Intuit argues that they are working _for_ the common good, not against.
Do you truly believe that? The vast majority of Americans own their own home...
At least in the US, there are caps on how much you can pay an internal employee that generally do not pay for a top-tier researcher who’d develop malware like this. Instead you would pay some contractor a much higher rate that they could pass some portion of to their own researchers.
Help as well documentation needs a lot of work. It is very difficult to even start using it. Even class names seem out of place sometimes.
Agreed, it work impressively well on my very average specs office laptop. It doesn't have any GPU yet it even stayed quiet.
This feeling comes to me in waves and it’s been like that since I was still an awkward teen in the late 90s.

I wonder if it’s just because I tend to expend so much energy on a very interesting (to me, at least) computer-related problem that I need to step back afterwards for X number of days/weeks/months before I’m ready for the next one.
I tried to enter several date format variations in the "Go to date" prompt() pop up. None worked.
this is super cool! I've always been curious about the orientation of the earth/sun relative to the universe it's so fascinating! now I'm super curious about whats the edge of the universe
Snowden's leaks revealed several mass surveillance, including PRISM, XKeyscore and Tempora.

As for the (un)constitutionality of mass collection of Americans' call records, here's what Reuters[0] says:

> In a ruling handed down on Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said the warrantless telephone dragnet that secretly collected millions of Americans' telephone records violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and may well have been unconstitutional.

The court did not make any ruling on the Constitutionality of the NSA's mass surveillance program, but they wrote in their decision that it very likely was Unconstitutional.[1]

Historically speaking, this NSA program is exactly the type of search that the 4th Amendment was intended to prevent. Americans were upset about "writs of assistance" that gave colonial officials wide powers to conduct searches against classes of people. That's why the 4th Amendment requires warrants to be specific and limited in scope. Handing out warrants that allow authorities to collect call logs of millions of Americans is blatantly Unconstitutional, and is exactly the sort of thing the 4th Amendment was intended to put a stop to.

0. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-nsa-spying-idUSKBN25T...

1. https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2020/09/02/1...
Who actually uses stock coolers?
As compared to which language that does it significantly better?

https://www.sourceclear.com/vulnerability-database

Everything is a mess, no matter the language.
I live in Tokyo. My apartment is a little bigger than 1000sqt. I have two bathrooms, two bedrooms, and a backyard patio area. We have enough space for hobbies and an office.

I can't hear my neighbors at all. They can't hear us. It's absolutely the construction.
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