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It's funny how for many people who make this argument, they'll happily drop $500 for a top of the line gfx card to keep up with gaming, but <$200 for VMWare Workstation is somehow too much money to keep up "being able to play everything older than a few years" on the PC.

(That might not be you, but wanting an OS from 2018 to play games from 1998 or before natively sure makes it sound like it)

I went the other way: if I want to play my old games, I fire up a fullscreened VM, because I don't care what OS I'm hiding when I'm enjoying a nice bit of classic gaming, running in what it thinks is the OS it should be running in. Whatever atrocity the next windows is going to be, as long as VM makers release an update for their software, as far as gaming goes: I have no reason to care.
In this case gaming could be a lot better if they spawned a minimal VM for just the game and hibernated the rest of the OS.

It would solve a lot of the windows gaming bullshit like Cortana popping an alert or filesystem indexing kicking off in the middle of Battlefield 1.

I'm not sure Microsoft's patchwork of fueding PMs will actually allow for something like that to happen but I can always dream.

PS: Apple already has technology to migrate GPU frame buffers across processes so that you can render video in one sandbox and display it in another. I used to work on it. Microsoft could be doing something similar.
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Sounds like a problem for Expert Systems.
It does at least partially solve the problem of "typosquatting" where installing `anglar` could potentially be a malicious version. It makes it more obvious when it's happening (oh, you setup the `anglar` and created a ton of typo'd packages with a few lines changed each? That's probably safe to ban...)

It also allows those orgs to group "sibling" or sub-packages under their main name. So I know that `@angular/cool-angular-plugin` is actually from angular.
There's no how there. Just a bunch of hand-wavy stuff. They talk about the freedom of content providers to go around Netflix and Amazon, but in a lot of cases those companies provide money to content creators to produce the shows, not just distribution to customers. They make it sound as though you can crowd source production costs after the fact using tokens. Good luck with that.

Reminds me of the old Slashdot meme:
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It would be a concern if real competition was allowed in the x86_64 CPU space. Monopolistic patents, in this case, create the opposite incentives
Don't worry, it will be able to run those using Wine.

ducks, runs away
The syntactic complexity of line 18 isn’t really the issue (in fact, it shouldn’t really require a deep understanding of JS syntax), it’s the meaningless single-letter variable names.
Poking at the various compilers the machine instructions generated from the article appear to produce an unrolled version of the operation (as claimed by the article):
https://godbolt.org/g/Wmj8ar
Can you elaborate a bit? The connection between error correction codes and spiking neural networks isn't obvious to me.
Perhaps because it isn't? Waves are not discrete structures. 40Hz means you have 40 wave cycles per second, not 40 discrete sounds.
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in 2007ish, there was lots of new content creators coming on the scene, but often producing 8 minute episodes.

I found them quiet enjoyable, like 'the guild', but a lot of people struggle with the idea of watching something so short. I had to twist arms to get people to watch it.
once they did, they enjoyed it a lot, but were still unwilling to watch content of that length. unfortunately, I think short works much better for independent content producers.
Yea, pretty much. Except I'd like one that's open source and not maintained by them.
I could have missed it, but does this take into account subsidies provided by the Chinese government?
Can you explain what you understand will be going wrong when you imply that games needing virtualization will somehow "go nowhere"? Is there something about OS-managed virtualization (rather than application-managed virtualization) that you know that the rest of us don't? Why would a virtualized API even be noticable for modern games, which offload almost all the work to the GPU already anyway?
That would only be a massive improvement if you have a set of almost 100% perfectly just laws to accompany your near-perfect enforcement.

I've seen a lot of things on HN, but I've never seen anyone argue that the current set of state and federal laws in the U.S. are anywhere close to 100% just. So you're going to have to factor in the cost of having perfect enforcement of unjust laws.

There's also the problem of trying to curb the bad effects of perfect enforcement after the fact. Show me a politician willing to scale back some of the bad law passed post-911. That's a difficult task because nobody wants the liability of being the one who was "soft on terrorism" or whatever the claim would be.

If you take those costs seriously, you'll need to take steps to ensure that the system does not in practice attempt to do perfect enforcement. And your arguments will sound more and more counter-intuitive as the capability for perfect enforcement-- and the dollars it would bring to a municipality-- grows.
Because they're selling outcomes, not features.
Context: my primary system for both development and personal use has been Ubuntu for a while, but several years ago I picked up a MBP as a secondary laptop and for testing/spot-checking that cross-platform stuff actually worked well across platforms. When I first got the MacBook, I instantly realized that it was by far the best touchpad I've ever used, to the point of being somewhat embarrassed about the state of hardware on Wintel laptops. The display was one of the best ever at the time, too.

Recommendation: You should seriously consider giving one of the higher end Chromebooks a shot. I think their image has continued to be tarnished by the fact that when they were first introduced—and even for several years after—buying a Chromebook meant you were getting a near-disposable, low-end, plasticy ARM-based machine (that didn't run a "real" offline OS, either). Fact is, today there are really nice x86 Chromebooks with good build quality. I have a Dell Chromebook 13. The touchpad is just as good as the MacBook's (albeit slightly smaller), a 1080p (matte!) display that's actually better than the one on the non-retina MacBook, it's lightweight, it has long battery life (~8-12 hours?), and (continuing somewhat with the tone of the article) it runs coreboot. You can wipe ChromeOS and install another distro.

The biggest downsides are three, and they're all to do with the keyboard:

- The power/sleep button is in a weird spot, so sometimes I hit it when I'm an awkward posture and not touch typing.

- The row of function keys (which have Mac-style glyphs instead of Fnum printed on them) only go to F10, so you may need to remap some apps that use F11 and F12.

- There are no context menu and Super (Windows) keys where Wintel users would expect them to be between Ctrl and Alt. Given that you're coming from a Mac, this shouldn't be a problem. Caps Lock is also gone, but that's because that's where the Super key has been moved to.

The SSD is also tiny, but it's user serviceable/upgradeable, and has a microSD slot.

Also, when you reboot, it complains that ChromeOS is missing; you have to press Ctrl+L instead to move forward, and there's no on-screen reminder (a la "press any key to continue"). What the on-screen reminder does say is to press space to restore ChromeOS. If you've upgraded the SSD, though, there will be no ChromeOS recovery partition, so it's guaranteed not to succeed. What I don't know is whether your installation will be hosed in the process, however. I haven't tried. Assume that it will, and take it as a fortnightly reminder to make those backups that you already know you should be doing.
I do because I don't have data on my phone.
Yes, most matches aren't recorded (at Genesis 5, a recent tournament, there were ~1400 Melee singles entries, for ~2800 matches. Of those, maybe 10% were recorded, most of those among the top 128 players attending.)
Win32 is not completely legacy. Parts of the API have continued evolving and I don't see insurmountable technical limitations to it evolving further, except that MS prefers a fresh sub-system. The parts that were truly legacy like Win16 or MS-DOS or virtual 8086 have all been already removed.
> On its website, TomTom explains that "lifetime" means the "useful life" of a device: "ie: the period of time TomTom supports your device with updates, services, content or accessories. A device will have reached the end of its life when none of these are available any more."

This is very weasily legalise and quite contrary to what the customer is likely to interpret "lifetime" as meaning. They guaranteed the device would be kept updated for its useful life, but as soon as they stop updates the device's useful life is over so they can arbitrarily define what "lifetime" of the product is long after its sale.

If the term has not been adequately and obviously defined to the customer in this way they might be liable for refunds on the bases of the product not matching reasonable expectations. Even if it has been defined that way in EULAs and similar for all time, there may still be valid claims against them for deceptive advertising and bait & switch.

Of course they'll probably get away with it though, the same way for many years ISPs got away with using the word "unlimited" to mean "unlimited except for any limits we currently apply and might decide to apply at any time in the future", though not without losing some face.

I own a TomTom sports watch which I've recommended to people in the past. I will no longer give unguarded recommendations[1] and when it comes time to replace it[2] I will seriously research competing options and most likely discount TomTom products unless there is an astronomical cost/value difference in their favour.

[1] if any recommendation at all

[2] which will be soon due to an event involving unintended high-velocity contact between myself and the pavement which has resulted in a damaged screen and probably a reduction in moisture resistance
An in-car unit is permanently powered and can maintain a warm-fix for much faster positioning than a cold-fix from my phone, which takes about five minutes with a good view.
The alternative is to break all existing compatibility, loose nearly all existing ties with established software publishers (by enforcing a 30% cut from Windows Store), and gain nearly nothing at the very end.

Do you really think somebody will ever write a single app for this all-walled-garden, dishonest effort? The current success of Windows relies on its openness. Add a walled garden and get a dysfunctional, slowly dying OS like macOS.
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Interesting facts discussed:

* The global average IQ score is rising by about 3 IQ points every decade.

* Time spent doing laundry fell from 11.5 hours a week in 1920 to an hour and a half in 2014.
Wasn't Tolkien a Christian? Close friend of C.S. Lewis.
> TomTom explains that "lifetime" means the "useful life" of a device

Not the lifetime they think it is, but the same "lifetime" that every manufacturer of products uses. It's not like you're going to get a much longer life from a phone as they also turn off updates at some point.

What is a little surprising is people still haven't learnt to a) distrust all MarketingSpeak and b) Google before purchase to find out how long the "new" product has been out.
Oh, true, they did give out some coins (me included).

Yet another possibility (which is how... a friend of mine... uses coins) is buying weed from the dark web. That's a big use case right now.
They perform 'tip selection' using a random walk. Given the nature of the Tangle Tips as a nebulous cloud, could there be any better way?

And you can't enforce tip selection.
I have been on HN for 3 years now but I have never seen anything like this thread. There are sheer amount of sockpuppet accounts being created to defend IOTA.
FIT don’t have or need AI https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/nov/05/metropolitan...
You meet a random person and wish to connect on a chat/presence system - that is what I mean by "beyond team communications". Acceptability of such a system for that purpose either requires overwhelming adoption of a single provider (Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger) or federation (SMS, SMTP, XMPP back when Google had not yet killed it). Team communications does not suffer that acceptability requirement because tooling is hierarchically mandated.
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You could always patch the os to disable signature enforcement. That might open you up to malware though.
This makes my blood boil.

This is the sort of thing that health insurance is supposed to be used for - potentially life-threatening emergencies that need a fast response time, and that may require expensive treatment.

Medical insurance companies are dropping support for expensive ER visits, and instead supporting "preventive care" by only covering a $100 annual checkup instead (which is predictably scheduled, and can often be paid for out of pocket).

What's the fucking point anymore? This is no longer health insurance, this is paying $3000 a year for a $100 checkup. Americans should be rioting in the streets over this.
I thought legally in the US lifetime means at least 25 years.
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If they were being held back by the "legacy" parts of the OS, you might be right. But they're not being held back, rather, it's their unique selling point..

Arguably the legacy bits are the bits that work, the modern bits (UWP) are barely seeing any adoption. They're force feeding the modern bits, presumably because they've lost the human resources/mindset/talent to maintain the legacy bits?

This strategy of arm twisting coercion has failed them before and it will fail them again, and again, and again.
Given how long the Windows 10 promise held, I really don't have much faith in that remaining true by 2019.
I asked them about it. They agreed after I said it was like 'inserting fake roads into a map by cartographers'.

Seemed a bit fishy to me too.

Math project is more likely.
An in-car unit is permanently powered and can maintain a warm-fix for much faster positioning than a cold-fix from my phone, which takes about five minutes with a good view.

Plus the advantages of a large, external antenna. Instead of holding my phone out of the sunroof...
> of my own choosing

Billions of marketing dollars are spent influencing people to make them "choose correctly".
Having both is nice. For the most part Android Auto is great but sometimes cord doesn't work, phone dead,... the integrated on is good enough
There are plenty of places that already offset by half an hour (Newfoundland for example) or even a quarter of an hour (Chatham Islands in New Zealand) so any dropdowns should already handle this.
Microsoft were calling Windows 10 'the last version of Windows' in 2015 - I'd be surprised if they didn't call this some variant of Windows 10.
Most people just want an OS that keeps working for their stuff with the occasional security update.

WSL development for bringing in programmers as new users is nice and a feature that stays out of the way, but Microsoft wants to bring in tablet/phone users.

Universal apps so far seem kind of stupid, as an example Paint 3D is a single window only app. Pretty bonkers but I guess the API doesn't support multiple instances.
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Every time someone laments missing out on tens of thousands of percents on return with crypto I ask them:

a) At what percentage of money gained would you have been satisfied without a crystal ball? If your hundred dollars had become a thousand dollars, wouldn’t you have considered it a miracle and cashed in? (the answer is usually yes)

b) At what percentage lost would you bail out? The road to those returns wasn’t without crashes. If you’re investment was halved overnight, would you have panicked? If you were ahead by 1000% and it dropped down to 500% overnight, would you take your 500% and run? (the answer is usually yes)

I almost want to make a simulator where a person can input how much they would have invested, what the max loss they’d have accepted would be, and what the max return they’d consider “good” is to see if they’d actually come out ahead having invested in Bitcoin a few years ago.
Did you actually read my paper or watch my video? Because answering those questions is exactly what they are about.
I don't have much experience with acrylic cases that snap together, but all ones I tried so far were really easy to break, so that now I stay away from them unless I don't find alternatives.
I think gp is missing a “less” before “numerically robust”
Yes, but would VMWare Workstation run under Windows 10 Polaris?
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I use Apple Notes because it’s free and always on my devices. Used EverNote in the past but then they started charging. I bought an iOS app but they went to a subscription fee.

Personally, I’d prefer a Markdown with Github integration. I moved some of my notes to Github in .org or .md format:

https://github.com/melling/MathAndScienceNotes

https://github.com/melling/LanguageLearning

Save your notes to Github and use Markdown so people don’t feel locked in.
What makes you think snowflake is more expensive? When I have tested it, it has given higher performance / $. Have you seen different results with your workload?
Me before reading article: "these are probably 15-year-old devices with 2 users still clinging on"

> Many of the affected sat-navs are still available online at a number of retailers.

Well OK then. No more buying TomTom.
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would rather take a loan and pay $12k than have some of that good "socialism" that europe has LOL
"Lively Linear Lisp--'Look Ma, No Garbage!'". ACM Sigplan Notices 27, 8 (August 1992),89-98. How to implement a 'linear' language efficiently through 'behind the scenes' hash consing.

http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/LinearLisp.html
Sometimes you don't want to engage in a battle, or raise an army of the undead.

Sometimes you just want your tower swept and mopped.
That would kill HoloLens and DX13.
Nothing to do with Snowflake schemas actually... The founders are avid skiers, and the name represents their passion for the snow.
Definitely well beyond the course. It's designed to be the easiest way to create world-class models. I'll be providing a lot more information on how we're doing this in the next week or two.

PS: The focus of fastai is training, not production. The models you end up with are largely standard pytorch models, so standard pytorch approaches to production work fine. For most people, a simple flask endpoint with CPU inference is generally the best approach for this (e.g. all the deep learning web apps at http://allenai.org/ use this approach AFAIK.)
This looks ontopic, but this is a English speaking forum, so the submission will probably get ignored of flagged, unless it has some very interesting material that is not available in English.

Do the OP have an English version? With a little of luck it will be more popular here. (At least translate the title of the submission.)

Autotranaltion for the lazy: "Eelo: conversation with creator of "Android without Google" that protects your data" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=pt&tl=en&u=https%3...

This is probably an original interview, but I think there should be similar information available in English. Anyway, what is the difference between this and CyanogenMod/LinageOS?
From the abstract:

Linear logic has been proposed as one solution to the problem of garbage collection and providing efficient "update-in-place" capabilities within a more functional language. Linear logic conserves accessibility, and hence provides a mechanical metaphor which is more appropriate for a distributed-memory parallel processor in which copying is explicit. However, linear logic's lack of sharing may introduce significant inefficiencies of its own.

We show an efficient implementation of linear logic called Linear Lisp that runs within a constant factor of non-linear logic. This Linear Lisp allows RPLACX operations, and manages storage as safely as a non-linear Lisp, but does not need a garbage collector. Since it offers assignments but no sharing, it occupies a twilight zone between functional languages and imperative languages. Our Linear Lisp Machine offers many of the same capabilities as combinator/graph reduction machines, but without their copying and garbage collection problems.
There's a software engineering PE exam now, fwiw. I don't know anyone who's taken it though. I took the computer engineering exam the year before the SE exam was offered; I would imagine the two have a lot of overlap.
The marketing stack that got us to 100 customers
They've got much, much worse at fixing things since they stopped relying on the community (through MapMaker) to review edits. Where things used to get fixed in hours, they now often take months.
It seems the problem is not having urgent care at the same location as the ER. Then you triage at the door and route.
He needs some dose of Taleb
Nobody liked it because of the restriction to Store apps meant a real shortage of software. It would be like having a Chromebook that ran IE.
It’s amazing how companies are able to get away with bullshit like this with virtual goods.

There was an article in our local newspaper about a dude who bought lifetime brakes for his Mustang in like 1970 from JC Penney (!). To this day, he’s still getting free brakes, I think Firestone took on the business. With tech stuff, they would declare the lifetime to the be average lifetime of a brake pad!
Funny, when I was car shopping in 2013 it was the exact opposite. They kept trying to sell us on built-in nav systems even though we repeatedly told them that we don’t care about those systems and plan to use our phones. Maybe they’ve finally caught on.
Yup. You can produce to millions of dollars of content out of thin air, meanwhile we have have "sharing economy" to rent screwdrivers so you don't spend 5 bucks on buying it.
It's also related to efforts in Xbox, HoloLens, Surface Hub, IoT, and even still relevant to Windows on phone handsets despite no indication that that is currently a main goal.

The goal has appeared to be since Windows 8 to have a modular Windows where you opt-in/buy-in to legacy backwards compatible systems as needs and hardware change. Polaris isn't so much a new idea as the next in a series of codenames for efforts that have been going on for some time.
Yup AWS is fine too. We have a new AMI available if you want to use it, and also a predefined conda environment to add fastai/pytorch to an existing server. Lesson 2 covers AWS usage, and there's also step by step instructions linked from the forum.
The fewer electronics the car has the better IMO. I much prefer climate control and radio with knobs and levers, no screens thank you (hard to get away from now thanks to silly requirement for reverse camera).

Fortunately the cars I buy are old enough that they pre-date the introduction of screen-based controls.

Navigation much better on phone. Always up to date, no extra costs.
I know next to nothing to Power Generation Bid, but I am always puzzled that these articles always mention cost estimation coming from the bidder. Are we sure the lowest bidder can actually deliver at that cost point down the line ?
What phone do you have that could possibly require 5 mins and an arm out the sunroof just for a GPS fix?
Polaris is just the code name used while it's under development. It will be released under the Windows 10 brand.