I hope someone will create an online shop where I can purchase the custom parts!
There is, sort of. There are many people/services that will print these parts for you.
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stephenmm commented on Undercover reporter reveals life in a Polish troll farm theguardian.com/world/201... · Posted by u/lxm
This is 100% correct. FB and TWTR are publicly traded companies; their executives and their board have convinced themselves in an extremely cowardly fashion that their only duty is to the shareholders. They absolutely know that the second they take this stuff seriously, they have to report both how bad it was/is, and how much traffic/revenue to their product was fraudulent at best.
It’s so gross.
The executives and board members are not delusional. According to legal precedent set by Dodge v. Ford Motor Co, a 1919 decision that held that "A business corporation is organized and carried on primarily for the profit of the stockholders. The powers of the directors are to be employed for that end. The discretion of directors is to be exercised in the choice of means to attain that end, and does not extend to a change in the end itself, to the reduction of profits, or to the non-distribution of profits among stockholders in order to devote them to other purposes..." from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
BTW, I agree with you that it is gross but thems the rules. So if we extend this logic we need to convince the corporation that it is not in there financial interest to continue with the status-quo.
stephenmm commented on Undercover reporter reveals life in a Polish troll farm theguardian.com/world/201... · Posted by u/lxm
Reminds me 18th century Paris where professional applauders and influencers were paid to influence the crowd.
Or the retro seo trick where you ask a question on yahoo questions so you can answer it with another account to backlink "relevant" website.
Literally nothing new, internet has of course changed the scale and took away the monopoly from newspapers and tv.
To me this is exactly the problem of our times and should not be trivialized. Were there too few gatekeepers of news in the past? Maybe, but the "new" problem is that it has become too efficient (IMO) to spread misinformation while peoples ability and tolerance to spend time on researching the facts has diminished. To say it another way, misinformation/obfuscation/misdirection are not new but the scale of it is and it is critical for us to come up with better solutions to deal with it than we have today. Our climate and our democracies depend on it.
stephenmm commented on Programmers can’t write algorithms without help queworx.com/2019/11/04/pr... · Posted by u/cryo8822
I was a little skeptical of take home coding exams but the more interviewing I do it seems to be a pretty efficient way to screen candidates as it is less stressful than live coding and more realistic "simulation" of the work they will do. It also allows you to deep dive into their thought process without having to worry about semicolons.
A persons ability to think through a problem and communicate it clearly will get them 75% through the hiring process in my books. (Another ~10% is curiosity).
stephenmm commented on Show HN: Dark Reader extension – Dark mode for every website darkreader.org/... · Posted by u/alexanderby
> Apple asks developer to send an ID card photo.
To me this sounds like the most vital thing to improve trust. Having browser developers review all the source code in detail is unrealistic, and even then, won't defeat underhanded programming (is it a bug or a deliberate vulnerability?). Legal accountability combined with auditability at least provide a deterrent to publishing malicious software.
Yah I am sure hardcore hackers are giving up the gig b/c they need a PHOTO of an ID! And now the ones who are legitimate have to trust a company with their IDs? This seems like a VERY weak stop-gap measure to a very difficult problem.
stephenmm commented on Oberon System Implemented on a Low-Cost FPGA Board (2015) [pdf] pdfs.semanticscholar.org/... · Posted by u/tosh
He calls it RISC5, one might assume but does anyone know if it is using the RISC-V ISA?
stephenmm commented on A study of musical scales (2017) ianring.com/musictheory/s... · Posted by u/rwnspace
Nice work! If I could make one suggestion it would be to use hex instead of decimal. It would make the numbers easier to remember (shorter) and I think it would be easier to recognize patterns (Ie. whole scale is 0x333 and major scale 0xAB3).
stephenmm commented on The U.S. is risking an academic brain drain axios.com/trumps-politica... · Posted by u/prostoalex
Canada is getting some great talent right now. Americans, Brits, and people who would have gone to the US or UK are coming here.
If we can keep them here, this will be a big boost for Canada long term.
Agreed. My neighbor (a Mexican national in the U.S.) who has successfully started many companies is looking for a place in Canada this week. His moving will be a great loss to the U.S. economy and innovation.
This is great, I've waited 20 years for this (computer engineering degree 1999). For all the naysayers - what has gone wrong with computing, why Moore's law no longer works, etc etc is that we've gone from general purpose computing to proprietary narrow-use computing thanks to Nvidia and others. VHDL and Verilog are basically assembly language and are not good paradigms for multicore programming.
The best languages to take advantage of chips that aren't compute-limited* are things like Erlang, Elixir, Go, MATLAB, R, Julia, Haskell, Scala, Clojure.. I could go on. Most of those are the assembly languages of functional programming and are also not really usable by humans for multicore programming.
I personally vote no confidence on any of this taking off until we have a Javascript-like language for concurrent programming. Go is the closest thing to that now, although Elixir or Clojure are better suited for maximum scalability because they are pure functional languages. I would give MATLAB a close second because it makes dealing with embarrassingly parallel problems embarrassingly easy. Most of the top rated articles on HN lately for AI are embarrassingly parallel or embarrassingly easy when you aren't compute-limited. We just aren't used to thinking in those terms.
* For now lets call compute-limited any chip that can't give you 1000 cores per $100
Actually there is already a Scala version that is well defined. From the website https://chisel.eecs.berkeley.edu/ 'Chisel is an open-source hardware construction language developed at UC Berkeley that supports advanced hardware design using highly parameterized generators and layered domain-specific hardware languages.'
Not sure why they wouldn't use it instead.
stephenmm commented on RISC-V port accepted for inclusion in GCC gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2017-0... · Posted by u/edelsohn
Given the momentum of Coreboot and Libreboot for having completely "free and open" architecture, how many years away are we from having commercial laptops available using RISC-V processors?
Not sure but I bet that ARM is starting to pay it some attention!
The great thing about being open is it allows academics and inventors to try out new ideas and have the ISA and associated "backend" flows just work without the worry of having to pay for licenses.