skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not an electrical engineer or hardware expert but there must be something because Intel has been trying to compete with ARM for many years with no success. It doesn't seem like it's just something you can just pivot too (or Intel is just really, really, bad at pivoting.)
Assange is not a US citizen.
Does that mean no nagging for icloud, apple pay, apple music, etc?
I very, very strongly disagree with this. In the last Industrial Revolution, they introduced the 40 hour work week. We need the burden of work to be lighter for all people. But we all still need access to the option to work. Accepting that jobs will simply vanish and those who don't already have massive amounts of wealth will just get a UBI is a horrendous dystopian nightmare.

If we can all work 20 hours a week and adequately support ourselves, awesome. But the current position is that the 99 percent have no inherent right to access the means to create wealth. They are merely mouths to feed, consumers who can add nothing. This is incredibly problematic and I dearly hope we get a clue before natural consequences inform us catastrophically that this simply does not work.
But that's one of the hallmarks of poor design, having to create rules to accommodate for a tool's dysfunctionality.
weird idea, don't know how it'd work - what if the original TV content they made is itself rolled into the Ad model. this way the shows would lie in-between your friends content like an Ad placement (in addition to its own dedicated area in the app). existing snap ads already require high production value to grab users attention so in a sense the ads are already a very small show in some sense.
If these are voting records, which are public, it may well be that haven't done anything prohibited even if they intentionally distributed all this data to everyone.

As in, the company didn't want to distribute this data, so it's a breach, and the person who did that would be guilty of stealing the company's confidentional information (i.e. the modelling info) but it seems quite likely that purely (re-)distributing the core data of people's names and addresses doesn't actually violate any US laws at all; US privacy laws (outside of medical data) are very lax compared to e.g. EU.

I could imagine that victims of a future identity theft might have a civil claim against company if/when real losses have occurred, but it's quite possible that if the CEO personally published all this data, filmed all of this, and sent to the prosecutor's office, that no crime (according to current USA privacy laws) could be found there.
I haven't read his new book, but I've read most of Sapolsky's older books and they're all excellent. "A Primate's Memoir" and "Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers" are my favorites.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14590353
As I understand it, video encoding continues to perform worse on GPUs. Hardware H.264 video encoding is comparable in quality and speed to the x264 "ultrafast" preset, with the only benefit being lower power consumption. More importantly, hardware encoding is incapable of producing higher-quality output, comparable to software encoders' higher presets.

https://video.stackexchange.com/questions/14656/why-processo...
We're actually working to provide our travelers with more information and want to build out more of these pages that help general travelers whether or not they're paying.

For our service, however, it's not necessarily just about finding the "right" counter or "right" service it's having your own personal problem Solver to help you through the airport. If you're a company and you're sending an employee on an international trip for the first time, you want that reassurance that your employee (often your most valuable asset) is safe and comfortable. After all comfortable employees are productive employees.
Deadspace awesome play trough
The surprising economic downsides of slow internet
This keeps indicating to me the possibility that chrome is opening and executing javascript from websites without a tab for them open.

Can anyone explain how I can tell how many magic background apps I might have running on Chrome for Android without my consent?
Thanks for sharing that. It had some nice gems in it.
You can use the unfollow button, its quite effective.
Fuze Code Studio will let kids use the Switch to code their own Switch games
It's a pretty natural consequence of how much crap Intel piled in on this release. Cache, mesh, and AVX512 all consume a great deal of power.

Contrary to what the sibling comment says, Ryzen is nowhere near Intel's performance here. Even in very parallel tasks like x264 video encoding, the 7800K (6-cores) is beating the highest-clocked 8C Ryzens by almost 6%. Comparing apples to apples, the 7820X (8C) is 33% faster than the 1800X.

That's a very good place for Intel to be overall, even if their power consumption is higher than I'd like to see. Downclocked Xeons will probably beat Ryzen's efficiency. And there may be some UEFI/microcode gains to be made here as well, both in efficiency and total performance.

The bigger problem (for the enthusiast market) is the thermals. Intel just switched from solder to TIM on the HEDT processors and it's very clear that they cannot move heat out of the package fast enough and it's limiting the total OC, which would likely reach 5 GHz a good chunk of the time.

http://i.imgur.com/9e8Trr3.png
We're definitely working to decrease prices as we grow. Similar to Uber Black when Uber first launched, the goal is to get a base service out in as many airports as possible, then learn and innovate in the industry to help bring prices down and help more people. We've already been able to drastically bring prices down in airports like Johannesburg where the services is now $140 for the first two travlers and $60 per traveler thereafter.
Headline: Better way to switch between 2.5 and 5GHz wifi modes
It's actually a fairly common pattern: think high performance filters glued together with the shell. Or "steering" of supercomputer codes via Tcl, Squeak Smalltalk doing high performance multi-media (at the time) using a few well-placed primitives and an otherwise run-of-the-mill bytecode interpreter.

A very similar split goes right through the middle of Objective-C. Although it is compiled, the "Objective" part always felt pretty close to interactive and is pretty high-level, and C is, well, C. Same concept, less mismatch between the parts.

One of Objective-Smalltalk's goals is to invert the Objective-C trade-off: make the interactive, high-level part primary, while still allowing a smooth transition to the low-level parts without resorting to making that transition automatic by either a heldencompiler or super-smart JIT.

Yes, it is a very interesting optimum, though I think it is one that can be improved on.
> a huge proportion of poverty stems from bad work ethic

Even if you had proof (you don't) that bad work ethic makes up a "huge" (not clearly defined) proportion of poverty (it doesn't), the symptom is not the stem.

Poverty stems from poverty, and a lack of a support structure to help impoverished people become "upwardly mobile". This is easy to see, and easy to prove, as most people in poverty simply do not have access to enough resources to overcome poverty. Work ethic often doesn't even factor into it because simply being able to work is a big problem, not a lack of will.

> the wealthy and the poor both have to make changes to end poverty. [..] It's not up to a rich savior class to come and fix the dirty people from the outside.

It's up to the whole society. In the US, the issue is systemic. If the people willed it, their elected representatives could simply pass laws to put the support structures in place to end poverty as we know it in 10 years.

Over half of our national budget is spent on a military that loses nonsense wars in broken countries. We imprison more people than the two other biggest imprisoning countries combined. We don't care for our poor. We don't care for our veterans. We don't care for our mentally ill or drug addicts. We don't care for black people, trans people, women, etc. We just don't care.

We don't need a wealthy elite to fix our problems. We need to join the rest of the developed world in giving a shit about our people at all.
Take care with welding - not every material likes welding, and especially not home-made welding without proper stress relief.

Drilling for rivets is also dangerous when done incorrectly. You do not want to be riding at full steam when the frame cracks, it's nasty.
You've got it all figured out, don't you?

How does figuring out how computation works somehow eliminate all the variables in a multidimensional turing complete system?

What you claim is so simple is equivalent to solving the halting problem.
Maybe that's what they want. Personally I use GPLv3 for any project I can, because my priority is user freedom and not code reuse.
Leaders don't but managers do lose their mental capacities.
I'd agree with other commenters here that it seems pretty expensive for what you're getting, or at least the value proposition is poorly presented. For example, I don't see any reason why I'd want to pay for this at a US airport (at least from the perspective of a US citizen). On the other hand if you told me the immigration line at XYZ airport was typically 45-60 minutes long and you could guarantee me priority access, there is a value there that I might pay for.

The pricing also seem really opaque - the prices even within a single country vary (from $250 at JFK in the US to $375 at SFO, why?). Certainly the going rate for a fixer at the location must play into this, but from a customer perspective I'd expect the fee to mostly depend on the value to me - I'll pay more if the expected level of delay or hassle is high. That might actually be inverse of the rate you pay the fixer - there's less value in US/Europe for me than if I'm traveling in e.g., Southeast Asia.

Overall though I think this is an interesting idea and I'd be a customer at the right price point, at least for certain destinations. Good luck!
Im just quoting it in case knowledgeable people show up with links to good info, proposals, or precedents. I haven't done research on it myself. I'm not suggesting anything since Im not informed enough on the topic. :)
Dog Meat sold as chicken in Bali
I really appreciate the thin arrow syntax.
That's definitely the goal! Thanks for the kind words and we hope we can help you on a service soon!
Unfortunately Facebook's content can only be free, because its a reflection of its audience. And its audience values worthless content.

That leaves publishers with nothing but their worthless content when they've outsourced all distribution to Facebook

(Worthless meaning low intrinsic value, high attention getting value)
No. Do not do that. The second that the cause/effect relationship is understood down to a neuron level like that, advertisers will abuse that to make things even more effective.
I live in Boston, which is one of the most bikefriendly cities in the US, along with Portland, OR and Davis, CA.

All three are pretty darn hilly, and that's not considered a problem.

When I visited Amsterdam, I was at times challenged by sudden headwinds, and found them more of a problem than the hills I climb in Boston (which, after all, are never a surprise.)
I remember seeing it a lot used around the context of media piracy and attempts by companies to control the narration and dissemination of content via legal grounds. Stuff like region-locked DVDs, control over distribution of a game or film into countries that might have banned that media, attempts to censor and control dissemination of a particular article or essay. When duplication becomes essentially free then content, good content, will want to be free and ultimately any attempt to lock down and control this information will eventually be thwarted.

At the time, I it was a positive sentiment. Government secrets would leak out (which they have). Rare or impossible to find books, films, and music would become freely available. If governments or corporations tried to restrict access to those books they would fail, etc.

These days, I often find myself using the phrase more as an ethical warning. Any information you gather or create will eventually become freed. So if you're gay and live in the middle east, don't post it on Facebook because eventually that information will be freed. Don't collect personal information of dissidents in countries were they may be persecuted. Don't collect information about your customers that you don't want eventually going public (e.g. do stupid things like store credit card numbers and social security numbers when you don't have to)
What are the legal implications of a campaign using this leaked modelling data? Would it be breaking any existing laws to use data that was leaked to the public without the permission of the original company that did the modelling? (If nothing else, I suppose it's probably a copyright violation.)

Hypothetically, could one deliberately leak a trove of modelling data with some fake voters inserted, and then monitor the mailbox associated with that fake voter and sue any organization you don't like that sends campaign flyers for using the data without permission?
There are mITX/mATX cases that are small/portable and very functional for water-cooling as well.

I use a Raven RVZ01 (see also FT01 for less aggressive styling) and I have a 120mm AIO in it.
Nice. But in my experience, front-end design always requires some hacks here and there, e.g. because of compatibility issues or because of design flaws in CSS. So either the Stripe engineers are ridiculously clever, or they are just avoiding the difficult stuff.
> But a huge proportion of poverty stems from bad work ethic.

Been burned by your underpaid workers' flakiness much? Citation, please.

> In the end the wealthy and the poor both have to make changes to end poverty. It's a team effort. It's not up to a rich savior class to come and fix the dirty people from the outside.

Is anyone saying this? My impression is that most poor people want jobs, and are begging political figures to come Bring Jobs! How do you interpret that as poor work ethic?

(Meanwhile, I'm eyerolling at the "the dirty people" comment. Are you trying to virtue signal your superiority over those people here?)
Android Things is cool to reuse Android knowledge, but one is better off with a board that supports GNU/Linux directly, as there is support for whatever programming language one feels like using.
Yeah I left my bike at work and someone decided he had more use for my rear lights than me. Who steals 5€ lights?!
I see these every so often, but they never mention Sixels, which could be used to display videos with much more detail (like with https://github.com/saitoha/FFmpeg-SIXEL ).

Sixels aren't widely supported, and the implementations I tried were lacking in stability, but they offer some interesting possibilities, like embedding images into your text browser (and not with a hack like w3m uses), or playing Battle for Wesnoth inside your terminal [ https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel ]
Not only XDX they also had a fork of ART with support for iOS.
How sad. And how sad to those who blame him. No one should lose their life over a simple mistake.
We currently think that it is, but that's not to say that we won't turn out to be wrong. Maybe someday we will come up with a coherent model for how things like mood, your current gut fauna, the amount ambient light, what you ate/drank over the past few weeks, etc. affect how you act and do.

Well, what happens when/if we nail that model down and find out that it doesn't account for some wibbly-wobbly quantum going on in the dense electrical storms of our brains, which pulls in information from somewhere else from time to time? Don't try to answer a question like this authoritatively in the same paragraph that you mention you're currently a student...
You're too focused on the technology aspect, when that is only the linchpin. There are a number of contributing factors here, but I will summarize.

1. CPUs are diminishing in importance. They aren't the bottleneck for most applications. Whatever the new hot tech is, it's probably limited by GPU, RAM, or storage. ARM doesn't have to be better than Intel, they just have to be good enough and more ubiquitous. The top of the market will go GPU and the bottom will go ARM, and the middle will be an ever shrinking x86 market share. The few places that will need heavy CPU resources will be the same people who can apply pressure to Intel's margins.

2. Intel can't force ARM chips out of the market, because they aren't playing the same game as AMD. The licensing business model of ARM has allowed them to separate Intel from their traditional allies while also pooling the efforts of Intel's competitors.

3. The next generation will know ARM. The hobby chips that Intel is discontinuing now means that they are handing over the next generation of 'learners' to ARM. ARM based training/learning boards are proliferating fast. Right now "everyone knows/runs X86", but that will change.

The process of chip making will look very similar in the future, but the brand of the CPU will matter less every year. Intel's not "dead in five years", but Intel will definitely cross the point of no return in that timeframe. Shifting a big company's focus is more difficult than growing another company who already has the right focus.

Back to the analogy: Batteries wouldn't invalidate oil. There are a multitude of other areas where petrochemicals are used. Batteries would shift the market enough to make it difficult for exxonmobil to follow.
You could do a statistical sample or find some proxy variables.
Netherlands is flat. A friendly reminder to some politicians.
The short answer to this is that you can do an awful lot of work in C for the cost of a single Python instruction.

The slightly longer answer is that the vast majority of time in parsing is spent actually parsing - examining each character and adjusting your state machine accordingly. When I was benchmarking the gumbo-python bindings, it was 95%+ parsing, < 5% spent on tree construction. Speed up the parsing part by 100x (which isn't all that unreasonable, when you consider that a field reference in Python involves hashing a string and looking up an object in a dictionary attached to the object), and you'll get an equivalent speedup in total runtime that can pay for a lot of tree reconstructions. The Gumbo parse tree itself will often fit in L2 cache (IIRC I'd benchmarked it at about 90% of documents use < 400K RAM), so it doesn't take much time to traverse.

Doing the Gumbo => lxml translation in C rather than Python gives a similar speedup for tree construction: instead of having to lookup fields in Python as dictionary references, you can do it in C by memory offset.
Discuss and share information to help you develop voice assistants and Chatbots
Please also note that there is a new x264 version that supports AVX512 in nightly as of a few weeks ago.

It may not have made it down the pipe to everyone's package managers yet but it's out there and should improve performance on Skylake-X and related Xeons.
Hawking knows.
Please post an update in a week. If they haven't resolved this I intend to pull all my funds.
Computational Propaganda in the United States of America
No special rights are needed - the kind of data that is described in the article may be difficult and/or expensive to get, but it's not illegal to get, not illegal to have, and not illegal to distribute to others. It would be legal for you to do the same - maybe it shouldn't be legal (and it isn't so in e.g EU), but it currently is in USA.

If the leak would've been published willingly by Deep Root Analytics, there would be no crime (according to current USA privacy rules) here at all, no currently valid reason to jail anyone.
In the center there is ZTL, which is restricted to residents and enforced by number plate recognition cameras at all entry/exit points.

Take a trip anywhere outside the center during rush hour and it's a completely different story.
Same question. AFAIK in the first-world countries I've flown into the line you're put in depends entirely on the passport you hold, and sometimes traveler-specific preregistration programs (e.g. Global Entry in the USA). Are you actually helping people skip lines, or just showing them the right ones to stand in?
You know, the spectrum you lay out is probably correct regarding people's claimed viewpoints... but somehow the results of (1) in particular never seem to line up with the claims it makes.

(1) and (2) form the sort of classical belief spectrum on the value of social-welfare programs. (2) just doesn't support these programs, for the reasons stated above. But (1), although supporting such programs generally, doesn't seem to support the kind of programs that would properly line up with their professed beliefs.

If the problem with a lot of homeless people is that they have "poor work ethic"... well, we've medicalized that, it's called ADHD and you can throw medications at it. But there are no social-welfare programs to get homeless people into psychiatrist's offices where they can be given free Vyvanse samples.

Instead, such programs seemingly only ever consist of 1. paying the homeless person's basic living costs—through free housing, or free meals; or 2. giving the homeless the opportunity to work and job skills training to potentially begin earn money for themselves.

Programs in the first category might indeed help people who are stuck in a temporary rut, and just need the details of "where food will come from" and "where they will sleep at night" handled for them until they escape it. People who are homeless because they are in the depths of a major depressive episode might find value in these, for example.

But the programs in the second category seem to serve nobody effectively. If you don't have any work ethic, teaching you how to do some particular job isn't going to make you start doing it; nor is lining up interviews; nor is even shoving you forcibly into employment.

The people who have some level of work-ethic escape homelessness eventually whether they receive any social assistance or not. The people who have a persistent lack of work-ethic will not escape homelessness no matter how many "free things"-style and "work opportunity"-style solutions you throw at them.

Those claims sound oddly more like what people on the (1) side of the argument claim, doesn't it? But this is the "steel-manned" version of (2): that people who fail to attempt to gain employment do not do so because they're irredeemably flawed; but rather because they need solutions to a work-ethic problem they're having, before any solutions to their poverty problem would have any potential to stick.
Does actordb subsume the functionality of rqlite?

As in, can I tell actordb 'replicate this actor to all nodes' and then will it basically be the same as rqlite, but with page level replication?
Many banks in Saudi Arabia have changed their standard for PIN length from 6 digits to 4 digits. I cannot comprehend why would anyone make such decision.