jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
First latency is a round trip, so you need to think .25c not .5c. Second, reaching the DIMM is not enough you need to reach the worst case furthest bit on that DIMM.

At .25c 1ns = Less than 3 inches. A single DDR3 DIMM is ~6 inches wide and ~1 inch tall so that's not long enough to cover a single DIMM.

Look at that picture again, including clips and those dimm slots are 7 inches wide. The top edge of a DIMM is 1 inch over the MB. And the furthest dimm is ~2 inches further from the CPU. The trace from the CPU's on board memory controller to the MB is ~1 inch. And the CPU is ~ 2 inches from the DIMMS.

EDIT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR3_SDRAM#mediaviewer/File:4GB... The DIMMs are not strait paths so that can easily be another inch.

Looks close to 1 foot to me which at .25c that's ~4ns. Or 40% of the minimum latency.

As to layout, that stuff is much harder than you might think as the wires can't go over each other.
I believe the first $100,000 in income is not taxed if you live outside the US for at least 330 days out of the year. This is for federal tax. If you are registered in a state with no income tax, then you would pay zero tax on that first $100k.
HK and Singapore are both good options. Both also really good for offshore banking.
Not killing innocent people around the world?
Hi, this is Thomas, the guy behind OpenScan. I really would like to clarify several things.
- I have never made such a bold claim of 10 micron accuracy for the device. Yes, I made several scans, where the accuracy is quite good, but I would never say, that this can be reached under all circumstances.
- To be fair, I have been kinda click-baity in the past on a handful occasions, but everyone who is doing at least 5mins of research will find for instance this one here: https://en.openscan.eu/quality
- Comparing this 100-200€ device with an industrial 3d scanner is like comparing a hobbyist 3d printer with a highend injection molding machine...

Anyway, feel free to discuss and ask me anything about it :)
The regulation argument seems weak to me for two reasons:

1. As the article itself notes, the UK may not be the heaviest regulated now but for much of the 20th century it was regulated into abject poverty by post-war socialist governments, a problem that took 10 years of Thatcher to fix (i.e. wasn't really fixed until start of the 90s) and arguably the UK is still very far from a liberally regulated state.

2. By the time the underlying problem was fixed the steady growth of the EU and transfer of powers meant that the UK was unable to really deregulate relative to its peers to any meaningful extent. The article claims the UK is less regulated than other places in the EU but this can only be a small difference because such a vast quantity of regulation came from the EU Commission directly and had to be implemented regardless of the wishes of the local governments.

So if you think that regulation retards growth, the article doesn't really argue against this belief, because going from really bad to about average will necessarily still leave you lagging behind where you could have been.

This will unfortunately take a long time to fix. Brexit is an enabler, but the UK population has been subjected to decades of pro-regulation propaganda by the EU and plenty of people believe that things like GDPR or cookie laws actually are beneficial, evidence of European moral superiority and totally worth the cost. It would be easy to find Americans who describe the torrent of this sort of regulation as wealth destroying and ineffective bureaucracy, but such people are much rarer in British culture.

I'm optimistic about the UK's future, however. Brexit does mean now that the UK can have meaningful debates about quality and quantity of regulation, a debate that was rendered entirely moot whilst in the EU as the EU doesn't do political debate of any kind, and has a deeply embedded culture of regulatory mass-production. With real deregulation on the table again, the UK can in theory begin to catch up with the USA. Especially true because the USA seems to be slowly losing its cultural bias towards free enterprise.

Whether the UK actually seizes this opportunity or not is whole other question - the current Conservative government is not especially libertarian and just destroyed the economy through lockdowns. On the other hand, it is strongly incentivised to demonstrate the benefits of Brexit, and just had a 'big win' in the deregulatory space through vaccine policy. So it could go either way.
Besides, there is no true Turing complete languages as we are dealing with finite computers.

So my preference is to have a simple language with explicit limit on number of operations and the amount of memory its interpreter can access before aborting rather than a complex config without any explicit limits on complexity leading to exploits with stack or memory overflow in pathological cases.

So things like DHall indeed.
You are usually not carrying your life savings in cash so getting mugged sucks but it's week altering not life altering.

Getting scammed can happen with bitcoin just as easily except, depending on the scam, you have a chance of getting your dollars back.
Organizations don't have access to an infinite pool of highly disciplined software engineers, the less discipline or skill required to get something done quickly and safely, the more things they can get done with more people and more kinds of people divided into teams with different responsibilities and different kinds of code.
Blockpad looks quite nice but personally I prefer a text based interface. I'm sure most university students would disagree though.
The new print interface has been progressively released to a subset of users over multiple releases. It's only gone to 100% of users as of Firefox 86.
Maybe you should read the article, then?
Thanks for the detailed comment. As you might imagine, I think the killer feature of D3 is the binding of data to the DOM and all the awesome manipulation that is possible (via CSS/javascript/jquery etc.). It also happens to scale very well for us. So I look for examples where Canvas is a better fit.
Do your ZeroMQ test branches fix that (pathological) design of opening a new TCP connection for each message?

An alternative to making a fully distributed ZeroMQ topology would be to use the broker based design that the RabbitMQ driver uses, and run the Malamute broker (github.com/malamute/malamute-core).
Not right now but isomorphisim is the next big feature I'm going to be working on
Back in 2010 I gave my dad the basic Macbook Air as a xmas present. Until then he was working on decent Dell laptop, but after seeing how much he struggled when trying to do basic stuff (e.g. connecting to a wifi network, browsing the web with a PC full of adware, etc) I decided to get him a Mac. I can't say how many times he has told everyone how much he likes Macs... and at the end of the day, it's all thanks to OSX's (most of the time) small and polished UX details. He, for sure, won't be going back to Windows.

Still, I can't wait to see Windows do a comeback... I don't know if W10 will be the answer, but I sure hope they make a come back for consumers' sake.
For a team, pricing is different. 50 repos is $100 a month, 125 repos is $200 a month ($2,400 a year). Granted, it's not "exponential", I was using a figure-of-speech referring to the pricing becoming significant.

For an internal-dev team which generates a great deal of new repos throughout the year (one-off scripts/programs for different departments, etc...), this adds up very quickly.

If you reach that 126th repo, it jumps to $450 monthly or $5,400 a year. At those prices you get questions from Accounting about why we aren't hosting this internally...
Ok this is nice. Of course, if you're just rebasing before reviewing and merging the PR into master it makes this pointless.

Odd that they never mention this in the post, I was under the assumption that rebasing before creating the PR is standard practice, at least that's how we do it at work and on all the projects I've contributed to.

EDIT: I've never used bitbucket, so maybe this is just a github community thing with the rebasing?
In my experience it's very normal. Every employment application I've ever completed, spanning a couple of decades, has had two optional questions that were phrased in exactly this way.
This is very well-written code. I don't think anyone would bring into question Norvig's technical skills, but I wouldn't think someone like him would spend much time at his job writing code, or have much free time to program as a hobby.

As someone who aspires to a position similar to Norvig's (directing research at an organization that is frequently applied in real life), I think it's really cool to see him having time to do stuff like this.
I get nothing but "Error code 422: Server error", even on input "Hello", in FF, Safari and Chrome.
Hurl is a simple http client built on top of libcurl with Rust.

It allows running http requests defined in a plain text format. It can be used to fetch data, or play a scenario (sequence of requests), asserting responses along the way. With its textual format, it is aimed for both devops and developers. With its command-line usage/simple unique binary, it is aimed for both local dev and continuous integration.

We've build Hurl to address our needs of integration tests. We've tried various solutions but all were flawed in some ways: difficult to integrate in a CI, not reliable etc... At the end of the day, we just wanted curl with the possibility to add tests, so we build it. We're using Hurl in our CI/CD from more than one year and are very happy with it!

Currently, releases are available for both Linux and macOS. Though we would like to add more features, our main objective is to keep it small, fast and simple.

Let us know what you think!
Sure...makes sense. Humans have very often resorted to cannibalism when faced with death-by-starvation conditions.
I wouldn't call the simpler implementation "commented out code", as it's doing what the best comments are doing, making complex code more readable.

Having random scribbles, alt solutions and other "shitty" comments while working on a problem is definitely not a sin if you clean them up before pushing them forward.
So much of former USSR central Asia seems to have a rubber stamp quality to the troubles there. Are there any real success stories, aside from maybe just stability (which itself is an achievement in this area)? Maybe Kazakhstan?

I most vividly took away an image of the region and effects of Russian influence when I had read this article about how pro-Russia Crimeans should not be so quick to welcome Russian influence: https://archive.is/iZDJb ("If History Is a Guide, Crimeans’ Celebration May Be Short-Lived")

People only need look to past examples of broken promises and more political posturing than real economic and governmental progress when being absorbed under the Russian umbrella.
No, it isn't dumb. The monetary base currently provided by bitcoin is tiny. If an economy would switch to bitcoin as it's currency, the amount of BTC in circulation would need to gain multiple zeroes. As bitcoin has a fixed cap, that would mean the price would rise. And that, in consequence, would make mining way more profitable, with newcomers entering the field and established organizations to employ more resources. And that increases the power needed.
> from the place privilege as you've never experience this kind of oppression.

I can't tell if this is bad satire or real bad faith, but my family actually escaped the fascist regime and the nazi invasion and it's a miracle I am alive, I'm much older than you think...

but "check your privilege" rhetorical aside, how is bitcoin helping Venezuela people to escape the oppressive regime?

Venezuela hyperinflation has political roots, there's history of crashing south american economies as the most popular ways to dethrone the elected government without military intervention to install regimes. If the country can adopt bitcoins it's because the government allowed them (Venezuela bank stashed a lot of cryptos), IMO it's pretty weird that an oppressive government would allow something that goes against their interest...
Would your definition of "on purpose" cover the following?

> In 2015, an international team including two scientists from the Institute published successful research on whether a bat coronavirus could be made to infect HeLa. The team engineered a hybrid virus, combining a bat coronavirus with a SARS virus that had been adapted to grow in mice and mimic human disease. The hybrid virus was able to infect human cells.[11][12]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuhan_Institute_of_Virology

You make a good point. The wet market is only 20km from the lab, so if this one is lab-based (and not a bizarre coincidence) it seems much more likely to be an accident.
How is this relevant at all? The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has been grinding on for a arduously long time, and both sides have committed atrocities [1]. War is war, and war is brutal. It is always a universal human tragedy when two groups of people resort to such violence against each other.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maraga_massacre
It is not legal in the US. If you're being paid to show or use something and there's no reasonable expectation that you would be, it must be disclosed. The FTC has guidelines on this and has gotten involved in the larger cases of this happening (such as the CS:Go skin gambling scandal where big streamers were being paid to stream gambling on the site, often a fake version with no actual risk and/or distorted rewards). You'll find most larger 'influencers' are aware of this and take steps to mention when something is sponsored, but there's a huge number of smaller ones where there's little enforcement.
Similarly smallpox has been completely eradicated, but USA and Russia like to keep around a few live samples, "for research". Whatever will wipe us all out in the end, we probably had it coming.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox_virus_retention_debat...
An element is useful if it does something. In the case of the non-functioning Google Search button, what it does is help the user feel that the box they're about to interact with leads somewhere. Effectively it turns the text entry box in to a search feature. It's a cognitive shortcut - rather than Google labelling the text entry box, they've included a button that tells the user "This text box functions the same as it always has" while the real functionality has changed. That, in my opinion, is useful.
I wonder if there is any trademark/service mark issue here? They are issuing a certificate that identifies itself as Google's, but it is not.

Note that if Google sued over this, Gogo would not be able to use anything in its TOS as a defense, because the TOS is between Gogo and its users, not between Gogo and Google.
> It would be difficult to prove that Facebook has a monopoly on social media, there are many alternatives.

There are also many alternatives to Google.

Except to the webmasters, since Google brings in 95-98% of a website's traffic.

> they definitely don't have more than 50% of the ad revenue on the internet

I don't see why you're injecting ad revenue into this.

> As a person who consumes Facebook's services for free you really have no leg to stand on as to what Facebook is legally obligated to provide you for free.

I have stated nothing of the sort.

> How can you argue that kicking people off Facebook is a monopolistic practice

I have not stated nor argued anything of the sort.

What I have stated is that after you get to a certain size and market share (monopoly) where you begin to effect the lives and welfare of people, society, and businesses, "public good" rules begin to apply to you (or should be applied to you).

No one is asking for free services. What we are asking for is fare treatment and fare processes.
That's a very horrible attack at a person.

Having met Tony many times, I'd just like to say that he's a very good teacher and a nice guy.
By "Be independent", do you mean "go and learn what people who have written books believe to be true"?

Or do you mean "go and learn what people who have written forum posts believe to be true"?
I've seen this issue with external-link-posts as well. So my guess is that that other factors besides (self-post dampeners) are involved.

That said, I should confess that I haven't attempted to read the ranking code for HN.

Regardless, since the upvote count is being displayed, it seems like it will be a good idea to display the downvote/flag count as well.
heh, 200 = 'small' :)
Nonsense. I like my job, but I still prefer to get out of the building at lunch time.
the adage i learned in grad school for this was

work smarter, not harder.
In this case, the Mac might actually be the better buy if you're just talking hardware. From one review of the most comparable PC, the Samsung Series 9:

"The 13-inch MacBook Air delivers longer battery life, better graphics, and a higher-res display for $350 less, and you can get a 256GB SSD inside for $50 less than the Series 9."

http://www.laptopmag.com/review/laptops/samsung-series-9.asp...
Wtf kind of app is it? Asking for a friend
I'm curious about two things.

Firstly, how do you charge a phone? I wouldn't have thought cells had plug points.

Secondly, is there any realistic way of stopping phones getting in? Building higher fences, and putting sensors on them, sounds like one way of stopping throwovers for example.

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>If anyone knows what to do please step up and lead I am happy to follow.

It think you've actually hit the nail on the head here. What we need is some leaders. When you think about the civil rights movement and other successful movements, you can name names.

To some extent we have leaders, but they're more ideological leaders than meet-here-and-do-this leaders. We need people who can organize other people, so that we can cause 10,000 people to show up in one place at the same time. And then do it again, with the same people, in some other place at some other time when the need arises.

Where is the organization to do this? Why don't we have conferences on this? The closest thing I can think of is the gaggle of Libertarians-nee-anarchists who hold a bunch of sessions largely for the purpose of soliciting donations from their elderly followers. They don't seem to be accomplishing anything, unless you count funding the likes of Michelle Bachmann as accomplishing something.

It seems to me we need some kind of organizational structure for the rather not small number of 20- and 30-something people to fall into which is divorced from the fringes of the Tea Party. Because not wanting authoritarians to hold a majority in Congress or have SWAT teams kill your dog is an exceedingly moderate position.
Not really, no. There was some talk about adding a Firebug panel to the built-in tools, but nothing has really come from it, and any deeper UI integration is probably out of the question for being too much work. But suggestions about how to make it better are still welcome, of course.

The main thing we have gotten out of the new devtools are new cool APIs, e.g. for debugging, paint flashing, CSS auto-completion, profiling (though we haven't gotten around to using most of them yet).
> Well, that's why you don't hardcode a magic value, nor do you continuously poll the state of a device and rely instead on interrupts: That's what they're made for.

There was a mention about this in the OP. There were no interrupts for this state transition in USB prior to USB3. "The Intel xHCI host, unlike the EHCI host, actually gives an interrupt when the port fully transitions to the active state."

In addition, a lot of hardware initialization is based on delays and polling by design.
Yeah, firebug still has quite a lot of polish compared to the others.

Perhaps it has to do with the contributors being expert UI developers, and firebug developers second. Whereas the other tools are mostly developed by employees who do full time dev tool development, but not so much work using the tools.

But I know others mostly prefer chrome tools. The same people often get stuck in firebug or in IE dev tools.

Anyway... GREAT WORK FIREBUG TEAM! xo
> www.reddit.com/r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut/

Hi Mr Agent, how awesome is it being a plant and getting paid to browse tech sites?
I think I finally understand this. His detention wasn't to send a message, or intimidate the Guardian, or anything else: the BBC News article covering the injunction that Miranda has applied for says this:

"The court was also told that "tens of thousands of highly classified documents" had been seized."

Miranda had at least some of the Snowden archive with him. The UK, US and friends have absolutely no idea what that archive contains - except for the information which has so far been released.

Every information release has been timed for almost maximum effect; Obama in particular seems to have been caught either being misinformed or deliberately misdirecting. This is the collective's only opportunity to get ahead of the game.

There is no way the court in the UK will injunct the use and sharing of this data; but even if they did, you can bet your bottom dollar that copies have already been sent out to NSA and friends.

Finally it all makes sense. The various journalists involved will not send the data over the internet for obvious reasons - even if encrypted, it allows the various agencies know who has what. Sending data by personal courier is the only way. However, it's demonstrably unsafe at this point.

What they need is an anonymous system of data mules, smuggling information just like drugs. Just thinking of all the mechanics you'd need to put in place to make that actually work just boggles the mind.

EDIT: I meant to link to the Beeb article; it's this one: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23790578

Another edit: This just struck me. The Guardian hard drive incident happened about a month ago. The Govt could have pulled this Terrorist Act stuff with them, and indeed they intimated it, but they didn't go through with it. They wanted this data, but legally didn't seem to be able to get it. One man travelling alone through an airport is much easier to pressurize, and maybe the jurisdiction is just unclear enough that their onshore-illegal tactic is legal there.

Final edit: the judgement is out: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23790578 The data taken can only be examined or copied for "national security purposes", which - since it's all secret - I believe basically means nothing. The various agencies will soon know exactly what Snowden took.
I assumed so, its a sad state of affairs.

Its mostly private persons, where are the companies making huge profits from nginx?

So its good they do like this with nginx plus, even if the open source version suffers, I wish the developers make tons of money.
Previously discussed here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6245035
How does one apply to Gumroad?
Electronics for me. Highly recommended.
> A replacement for gold is one.

Gold is relatively stable and has physical backing. BTC does not.
I just browsed that site for a couple minutes, and content aside, it’s amazing how much better it is on mobile than Reddit.
For context: this was a blog post from the founders of whatsapp prior to their acquisition by Facebook, where they explained why they had chosen to make whatsapp a paid app.
Even when powered on, full disk encryption still changes the scenario from "reboot from a live CD" to "perform some advanced attack involving special hardware".

Unless someone specifically targets you for your data, FDE will keep your data safe from thieves who may sell the laptop (unwiped) or take a look otherwise.
I mean, why are we paying the NSA, if Congress has unencrypted laptops. Literally their role to recommend security methods for encryption of companies and US interests. That is what I wonder every time I’m required to throw away my bottle of water and remove clothes to board a plane.
It's not the most important government building in the entire nation. Don't be stupid, this is not at all comparable.