skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
30% more revenue. And this is in a marginal industry. Bitmain can keep adding miners until the difficulty pushes all non-ASICBOOST miners out of business as their power costs exceed revenue, but Bitmain (who pays the same for power) would remain in business. This has already happened: see KNC miner.
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It'll be interesting to see how Intel deals with it.

Looking at the recent Atom failures (with vendors told in no uncertain terms to present publicly as generic "timing component" failure), will they even admit it's an ME thing?
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As an engineer? You can influence design decisions and standards for the products your company makes.

Somebody at apple decided AAC was better than MP3 because of it has better licensing for distributors, they could have gone further to consider codecs which had liberal licensing towards codec developers/manufacturers.
Interesting concept. The article mentioned that other languages determine blocking automatically based on usage of the variables. So in your example, it could be determined that x and y must be calculated first before pyth_distance is called with x and y. Would you incorporate this kind of automatic detection into your language? Why or why not, and to what level? Would it perhaps be safer for the language to determine blocks for you?
>and not just because Oakland hasn't actually performed that well under the MB regime

That can't be used as any form of argument. The ideas behind Moneyball revolutionized baseball. However the financial challenges that Oakland had in the book are still exactly the same today. The reason for their lack of ultimate success is that they gave away their first mover advantage by allowing that book to be written. Now every other team has adopted the Moneyball mindset and Oakland is back to being a cash strapped team with little competitive advantage. Even considering that, they have still been one of the more successful teams when compared to their financial peers.
It's beyond pathetic that we're scrambling for rumors on hacker news to figure out if we're affected by this. Security news is in need of serious consideration.
If only there were a site on the internet where you could search for these things....
Computer global climate models are not accurate. They are the best approximations we can do today given the theoretical knowledge and data we have available.

This often trips up engineers, who associate computer modeling with the concept of a known system. But climate models are scientific, not engineering. They exist to explore uncertainty.

The theory of anthropogenic climate change does not depend on global climate models. If they did not exist at all, we would have the same concerns about climate change.

The models are based on the theory, not the other way around.
The device has 3 ethernet interfaces - one directly connected to the SoC, and the other two via an onboard switch.
Clearly advertise it and I'll have no problem.
> For new products there isn't really any room for debate anymore, Opus is the clear winner.

If you mean "for low-latency live streaming/conferencing", I think you're probably right.

If you mean "by popularity", with a few exceptions all non-MP3 encoded audio you hear is (and has been for some time) AAC.

If you mean "by quality", Opus is comparable to AAC/HE-AAC audio quality, but Opus' Achilles' heel is hardware support.
> - I try to connect the thing I'm learning right now with things that I've already learned

That's a big one. You're right on target.

Personally, I try to focus on cross domain topics and heuristics.

Like Sturgeon's law, The 80:20 rule, exponential growth, KISS, etc...

If you're asking about raw memorization I'm sure there's a physical limit to the ratio of usefulness to depth of data.

And don't forget about The Dunning–Kruger effect and the fact that lots of people get stuff done without knowing how to do it at the outset. But that's only if you're learning to do rather than learning to learn.
Except in large companies it's almost always enabled...
> They seem to have left the headphone business alone

Well, why wouldn't they? Going by my argument, it was already being done "the way they would have done it."

It's like moving in with someone who already has the same cleaning habits that you do: you can just leave them alone and trust them to do the right thing, and then be happy with the results.
Interestingly, they got the versions right, if not the feature (AMT vs ME).
The only funds that "never lose money" are the ones us mere peons can't invest in.

Eg: quant-driven funds that try to buy/sell the edge then profit the minimum movement 24/7, if those are losing money then they cease to exist - and they haven't done that yet. The minimum investment in those funds is high 7 figures though, and that's out of at least my price range for risk capital(and non-risk capital for that matter).
The "fast enough Vorbis" was likely the addition of Tremor, the first fixed-point Vorbis implementation. There's a nice (but with many old entries) chart of decode speeds here: https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/CodecPerformanceComparison

On newer hardware + software, like the Clip Zip, the gap is much smaller and the performance way higher than needed in any case (except for HE-AAC, the clear loser).
A tool for sending vanity based messages over the Bitcoin network
There are probably studies out there by universities and other organizations about how teens insecure about X, Y or Z tend to enjoy consuming products A, B or C. Facebook can easily recoup this information with pages and posts teens tend to like. They could also analyze the tones of their comments with some AI though this is not as advanced as we may think.

There are probably a gazillion other variables they can play with to end up with pretty good results about what teens are insecure about and how they tend to behave on Facebook and specially what kind of ads they're most to likely to click on. Note that they don't sell this info to their clients, they just show the ads to the right people.
Why not both? A vulnerability that's created by accident, and perpetuated and exploited maliciously.
What specific claims of those patents are being infringed? It looks like that person just posted every crypto patent then could find. Also which of those patents do blockstream own? I looked at a few random ones and none were owned by them.

LN fees are optional and if blockstream wanted to charge them for facilitating transactions they would have to provide a service to make it worth while our the transactions would just route around them.
I think you're confusing "funds that did poorly last year are likely to improve this year" with "funds that did poorly last year are likely to do well this year". Huge difference.
AMT seems to depend on vPro, which is not present on most "desktop" cpus. There is a more technical security advisory here : https://security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTE...
The most confusing thing in Python is that there is more than one way to do it. :)

Python asyncio library supports coroutines, callbacks, futures, thread-pool executors... All have similar APIs and dissimilar semantics. For instance, canceling a coroutine is different than canceling a future and different than canceling a thread. (I've heard asynchronous exceptions are bad, but this is just an example.)

Error handling is difficult. You can't observe an error if you don't remember to write code to observe an error.

Also confusing is that coroutines in Python can be driven by any event loop. Which is great! You can write your own. But that will be even more confusing. Erlang has one OTP, Python will have many.
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Going by Wikipedia the guy that related the story did so after the bones were found.
That disqualifies a lot of otherwise really good hardware. My current Thinkpad, for example, and all current MBPs, I believe. Some manufacturers also aren't very clear about the exact hardware in their machines, either. (For example, Apple doesn't list the exact CPU on their tech specs page, only the somewhat vague "2.4GHz dual-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.4GHz, with 4MB shared L3 cache". That might be unambiguous enough to map back to an actual piece of hardware, but it's still a considerable amount of work to do so.)
Your right and it works. People used to say the same thing about Linux and open source software.
This kind of reasoning go only so far. While you are technically correct, the difference that something like batting order makes is marginal in the long run. The advantage of a fully optimized vs. a totally random batting order would equate to approximately 1-2 additional win(s) over the span of a full 162 game season.

That being said... one win can be the difference between a playoff spot or not, so it clearly does matter. I'm just trying to emphasize that the teamwork aspect of the offense is minimal, as a lineup of hitters with solid statistics is more important than the order in which they bat.

However, the defensive side of things is much more tricky to measure. Baseball statistics still have a difficult time calculating the value (for better or worse) of a player's defense and nobody is arguing that it doesn't significantly affect a team's performance.
I was about to post this same thing. I would say I look at lainchan more than I look at HN. It is my favorite Chan board, if you are a fan of chans and functional programming it is definitely worth checking out. The functional programming threads have very distinct and regular communities that are really great to participate in. A lot of beginners and people with expertise intermixing.

The zine itself is ok, there is really not much editing of content, just whatever people submit for the most part gets placed into it to fill the space. The quality varies wildly from page to page, but recent issues have been getting better.
...which is why the trend of conservative-run states usurping power from cities is so disturbing to me
They tried. I hope they try again. It was unfortunate how Pinboard took the opportunity to dance around making fun of the whole thing.
Reversion to the mean means they're likely to improve, relative to their past performance. It doesn't mean they're likely to do well.
With a 98% satisfaction rating, I would think that most people who own them are going to say approximately the same things.
Thanks for the comparison. Though they are complementary, would you recommend reading one before the other?
And why should a cleanroom implementation be an infringement? It is not a true derivative copy. Either way, software is more akin to language or math, certainly not mechanics. We have copyrights for language, and narrow patents on applications of mathematical formulas (which in itself is debatable in its justification).

Copyrights are sufficient. You shouldn't be able to tell someone they can't use a certain software algorithm in their own program, in a different language, in a different domain. That stifles innovation.
I was just banned from the pfSense subreddit for arguing about this change. https://i.imgur.com/1051KOl.png

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Not any more.

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> Sorry but your property values and neighbourhood appearance shouldnt be winning out against people literally being unable to live inside cities because they have comitted the crime of being too poor.

I think there's a lot of secondary effects tied up in your statement that would not necessarily unravel the way you would wish them to. Ad absurdum, I don't see how it results in anything other than assigned, identical housing.

Because, even at a fundamental level, someone will always be willing to pay for something more than the bare minimum. And as long as that is true, there will be stratification. And that stratification will price individuals out of an area.
I'm quite sure I wasn't breaking form at the time, and I'm not very satisfied with the explanation that you only get injured when you break form, as then "breaking form" becomes synonymous with injury, not something you can actually do to avoid getting injured.
Many low-end servers people use as workstations have it. Some come with it enabled from the factory.
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Not looked in this much, but here's an old paper from a simple search: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-5957.1994.... (I've only read the abstract)
If you want to add the proviso that this is true only for iPhones, that's fine, but I wasn't looking for that particular message board slapfight.
I hope they improve. Competition pushes progress. While AMD has been out in the last couple years, Intel has been sitting on their butt idling.
When did CS not sing on Windows machines? To my knowledge Apple has never had a performance advantage over Windows.

I thought the Apple advantage has been workflow. For example, OS X is color-managed at the OS level. You can easily create a custom profile for your display without expensive 3rd party equipment.

And OS X uses the same language as PDF to composite the display, so it's easy to produce (color managed) PDFs from any application.
They're also, at least as of a month or so ago when I last looked, fairly low-priced for their product category.

If you want a "true wireless" headphone (and, from personal experience with these, I find it quite compelling), you're not going to pay much less than Apple's price. I think the cheapest I've seen is $150, and that's lacking the Apple polish.
Headphone snobs look down their nose at beats, and for good reason - they are way overpriced for their actual sound quality - but that doesn't mean they aren't good headphones.

The problem is that Beats is charging $300 for a $150 set of headphones, not that beats is charging $300 for a $15 set of headphones. They're way better than anything you're going to get for free with your phone.
Markdown has fewer ways to inexplicably (from the point of view of a naive user) munge text.

If you type plain text, it mostly comes out as plain text.

I've paid John $4.50 for a sandwich.

Renders fine in Markdown. Renders like crap in LaTeX.
This kind of sounds like hoarding.

I look back on my Facebook usage as a cost / benefit tradeoff and in the end the benefits just weren't paying off.

I know exactly what you mean in theory however, no matter how much one views "status updates" inevitably you're drifting apart from those people and caring less about what they're doing, that's natural. I had less time for my closer friends. It felt artificial to have to stay connected, exhausting, though I didn't realise till I left.

One could check updates less, often, but then what's the point ?

If someone really wants to hangout they just contact me via other channels.
This is great progress.

I use electron in node.js (via nightmare) because it can go from headless to visible on the fly

I wonder if the Chrome team is ever going to support something similar
This kind of sounds like hoarding.

I look back on my Facebook usage as a cost / benefit tradeoff and in the end the benefits just weren't paying off.

I know exactly what you mean in theory however, no matter how much one views "status updates" inevitably you're drifting apart from those people and caring less about what they're doing. I had less time for my closer friends and family. It's just natural to drift apart, it felt artificial to have to stay connected, exhausting, though I didn't realise till I left. One could check updates less, often, but then what's the point ?

If someone really wants to hangout they just contact me via other channels.
Oh that's great. Thanks for providing that service. I kinda get why you don't allow future deletes. It really does motivate you to write something decent each time.
Isn't security by obscurity awesome?
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I didn't realize that, thanks for letting us know! We're actively working on this
it's somewhat surprising to me that people are happy with such mediocre audio performance.

Especially since you can buy a set of wired earpods that actually sound really good for $5.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZbCWaY2KXo

I bought a pair for myself and my girlfriend. I think they sound better than my Grados on certain material, and almost as good as my Portapros. (I suspect my pair of Grados SR60e is below average, because my dad's pair of the same model sounds better.)

Another pair of headphones that punches way above its price point: http://a.co/cRC61XE (Though, be prepared to eventually replace the plug or buy a new pair, but it will be awhile before that happens.)

Apple needs to step up its audio game.
Luckily my old rack is too old to have ME. But are there alternatives out there when these old power-edge warriors finally die or do I have to start building a beowolf out of raspberry pis?
Google won't make it that far. It's a company filled with passive-aggressive arrogant wannabes with a less than likeable vision for the future. They make many claims regarding what they are about, but at the end of the day there's nothing there.

If we do end up in a Google future, that would be unfortunate.

It's an almost-Google world today, given Android, search, GMail, etc, but them being everywhere is different from them running everything.
data mined != data mined "for advertising purposes". Google is always very careful to specify the latter when issuing its suspiciously specific denials. The EFF, in turn, specifically calls them out on this:

https://www.eff.org/issues/student-privacy/faq#faq-What-data...?
Somewhere you have to externalize trust. What use is the open HDL code for a chip if you cannot be sure someone down in the manufacturing chain hasn't... modified it?

Certainly this kind of attack is not your average script kiddy but nation-level instead, but I wouldn't put it past the NSA to pull this off.
> “The way Dutton explained it was ‘Don’t think about it too much, just go and do it. Don’t think too much in your mind.’ It was my subconscious mind telling me how to do that task and to avoid hitting the chairs.

Remind me the "Use the force Luke" scene. Perhaps she should get her Midi-chlorians tested.
I've never liked the hacks around loading multiple versions of the same library. To me, this seems fragile and bloated workaround, and it would be far better to encourage people to fix their dependencies. In other ecosystems where they can't abuse a classloader, this kind of multi-version dependency is discouraged, and at Google we completely ban it for Java.
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