skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
don't forget the cost of testing - that adds up, often people do simple testing on the wafer to avoid the cost of packaging bad die, then full testing once packaged - remember a bad chip for a semi manufacturer is a whole bad board for their customers
> if we as owners of domains want privacy, we have to deal with shady companies that effectively take control of our domain's ownership.

Some domain name providers, such as Gandi, offer privacy of address, phone, and email data while leaving your name as the owner of record.
Ask HN: Submitting multiple solutions for RFP
Hi HN.

So we have the opportunity of responding to an RFP, of which we have 2 very capable solutions that we are well experienced with.

One solution is mobile based, while the other is using a standard computer. We did ask the client what they would prefer, but they said, they want to see what proposals they get.

In this case, does it make sense to submit both solutions in one proposal, while saying that a final decision will be made in concert with them after further discussions and requirements analysis after the work is awarded?

Or should we only submit the strongest?
> An Australian man built up a 40,000-volt charge of static electricity in his clothes as he walked, leaving a trail of scorched carpet and molten plastic and forcing firefighters to evacuate a building.

https://forums.firehouse.com/forum/firefighting/firefighters...
I worked in bioinformatics at a Max Planck Institute during my studies, and made good use of a Mac Pro. Some of the tools we used were interactive, such as 3D-modelling. Many other tasks, such as DNA sequence searches (BLAST), just happened to involve datasets that were too large for most notebooks, but manageable with the 32GB or RAM the Mac Pro had.

We did use a compute cluster, but using it drastically reduced the turnaround time during development in my experience.
Someone said something similar earlier, but I chose not to respond to avoid getting deeper into an unrelated argument. The short of it is that I don't find BeOS (and Haiku) particularly impressive. WebOS is all userspace and I don't really care how Fuschia's userspace looks, and I have to admit I don't know much about QNX or Hiptop.
In the US, the SCOTUS has ruled differently: that attaching a GPS tracking device to a car constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment and requires a warrant. See US v. Jones (2012) and Grady v. North Carolina (2015).
I was homeless for 5.7 years and I only got off the street about 5 months ago. While homeless, I sometimes went hungry for short periods, like a day or so, or was short rationed for a week or so. It changed me in terms of how I relate socially.

I don't really know how to describe it, and I don't know that I care to. But that experience influences my view of this article and my thoughts on how that must impact people, how it must negatively impact their ability to ask for what they want, to feel about the social climate and so on.

To my mind, the fact that it was not due to environmental conditions or crop failure makes it psychologically worse. I have a lot of emotional baggage about the world not caring whether or not I ate in recent years, about the callous disregard I experienced as a homeless person, something alien to my social background.

How much worse must that emotional and psychological impact be when it is active malice? When the entire goal is to kill you, slowly and cruelly? You and everyone you know and care about?
Can filament be heated back up and reused once it's been printed?

Because if so, could you solve the issue by getting your stock filament, and then printing it into filament with a different cross-section?
I know where you should route it to.. https://www.reddit.com/r/itslenny/
Has any party even suggested moving council tax to a percentage of assessed value rather than the band system?
Also nodejs is faster than Elixir.. AND GO?.. ok
What are the 8 SMA ports for? I've looked at the sifive page and the crowdsupply site as well; haven't been able to figure it out. Not obvious why a RISC-V development board would have SMA ports.
> I think there's good intentions by Google here.

There isn't "good intentions". It's almost pointless to talk in that terms when it comes to multinational companies. Corporations don't work that way. They aren't charities. Google is acting in its own best interests - what's good for the shareholders. There is no other consideration.
This is literally the exact argument people made when only supporting IE6 (and remember at that point in history IE was arguably the best browser, warts and all)
This article briefly touches upon what people actually do at WeWork. Nothing more.
Well, the generation who lived through it is still mostly alive (most were children back then), so that's not going to stop for a couple of decades.

What else are they going to entertain people with? WW1? Too bleak and short. Any American wars post WW2? Too boring and politically incorrect. Anything before WW1, nobody cares. WW2 was awesome if you watch it from a screen.
One of the competitors in this area is Meteor[0]. I haven't used Django in many years, but that might also qualify

[0]: https://www.meteor.com/
Doesn't having negative karma result in one's comments being more easily killed? Or am I remembering wrong?
> Being able to go to Whatsapp and download all of your contacts and messages in a 'commonly use and machine readable format' is awesome.

Even better: being able to opt-out from sending all your contacts to WhatsApp, although they will just try to blackmail you into doing it anyway by citing false technical reasons.
"To release the stopped light and accelerate it back up to normal speed, the scientists showed that the gain/loss parameters can simply be reversed."

Seems like this would be highly useful for light transistors and signal synchronization in an optical computer...

Or even better... timing other types of electromagnetic waves...
This isn’t abuse... it’s exactly how you’re supposed to use a debugger.
That’s the number adp.com gave me. Note that it’s like 35 years from now and yes, it includes (I think) C and D parts. Of course a lot of things may change in the next 35 years.
Meh, I prefer something I can operate/monitor. The guy who runs that is very secretive about all of his setup, to "prevent abuse" (unclear what sort of abuse he's afraid of), but highly opposed to others building their own.
Turbo boost, yeah. Modern Intel chips generally have a much higher clock cap if only a core or two is active. I think to an extent this should be true of the 2013 Mac Pro, too, but less so for the cheesegrater, which used much older chips.
Google Has Acquired YouTube (2006)
I own a handful of domains and have my real contact info in all of them. Aside from annual postal (!) mail from registrars offering to renew them at about 10x the normal price, I don't really get any spam from these that I've seen.

I never answer the phone if the caller ID is unknown, so I may be missing some there also.
Sounds kind of real-world for the kind of people shopping for 18+ core systems.
My German mother grew up in Germany during WW2 and its aftermath. My American father fought in WW2.

For me, this isn't entertainment. More like therapy.

I imagine it is pretty common for people to be fascinated in part out of a need to come to terms with their own past in some way, even when it isn't really recognized as such.
I may be throwing a pie in the sky here, but is there any reasonable hope that AI will be able to design rocket engines, including ones based on advanced concepts like VASIMR, in the coming decades?
For clarification for non-Swiss people:
Grades in Switzerland go 1-6, with 6 being the best, 4 being passing and 1 being the worst grade. A 4.75, typically rounded to a 5, is therefore a decent, though not amazing grade.
Launchpad? I hate it and it’s the first thing I pull off the dock, but that’s the reason it’s there.
People living in Texas border enclaves are unsure of future
Ask HN: Which (if any) anti-virus suite has more advantages than disadvantages
Great comment, can you share an example where you realized there was space to bring value?
Not OP, but I think he means frameworks using Ruby though, because I'm also in the same boat as him.
A coin flip is deterministic if you know its initial conditions and environment with sufficient precision. Deterministic cryptographic primitives can similarly be viewed as random, from the perspective of an observer who doesn't know the relevant secrets.
That's what I was thinking. My first job was dev on a C++ and Java project that was in the high hundreds of thousands of lines when I started, and grew from there. Client-side had about 5 core binaries, server side had about a dozen, and each of those was a sizeable file.

Starting to understand it involved reading our documentation on the data-flow between different components during operation, to know the purposes of the important binaries. For the really core components, we had a fair bit of documentation at the level of classes.

You'd usually end up learning the sections of particular programs that you worked on in great detail, the programs themselves as a whole in slightly less detail, getting fuzzier as you moved away from your areas of greatest experience.
#1 best practice for managing passwords is: don't try to implement password management yourself because you will get it wrong.
Often "old" software like Linpack will be rewritten under the same name. Presumably Intel's implementation is tuned for their latest processors.
Maybe it's just the service you use? My .io has masked whois.
Or use an FPGA which'll be cheaper than any chip they could fab.
It's an 18-core workstation. You don't buy it for photo editing and web browsing.
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According to the next few sentences in the article:

> The film was taken off the main roll at high speed, flowed upwards 20ft to overhead rollers, passed horizontally 20ft and then downwards to the slitting device, where it was spooled onto shorter rolls. The whole operation formed a cubical shaped tent, with two walls and a ceiling approximately 20ft square.
‘Exploited’? The famine happened. Nothing to be done about that. If anything, Germany’s attitude to past atrocities is healthier than most countries; see Japan’s approach to WW2, the UK’s bizarrely rosy popular view of the empire, the US’s tendency to gloss over the role and nature of black chattel slavery... Germany doesn’t go this, generally, and they’re probably better off for it.
The simplest thing is that they must provide an option to refuse (without making getting service conditional on it), and there's explicit legal requirement that "revoking consent must be as easy as giving it".

If next to "Okay, I agree" button there's a "No, just let me through" button, people are going to do just that.
Labels are the following:

GEMGXLALTCLK

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DDRCTRLALTCLK

DDRPHYALTCLK

DDR_ATB0

DDR_ATB1

DDR_PLL_TESTOUT_P

DDR_PLL_TESTOUT_N

These are just SoC debug headers. Eg: GEMGXL comes from Gigabit Ethernet MAC, and GXL is a marketing term from Cadence.
Another goal was to keep this super cheap, quick, and familiar, so this uses a static site hosted on S3. Pennies per month, but no server-side power.

I'm not a web dev by trade, so perhaps there's a way to make it work. Maybe using WebRTC with a fallback to ipify for IE. Something to investigate!
Scientists generally pursue truth whereas politicians spend most of their time pursuing power by building a constituency, trying to get and stay elected, raising money, etc.

And I'm not saying "scientists are bad politicians". I'm saying what the two groups do don't overlap a ton.

For a gross example, most scientists will have to learn to lie to be good politicians, because all good politicians play fast and loose with the truth.
It would be equally worthwhile to see the impact of famines in Sub-Sahara Africa on genes of Africans (especially across the Sahel).
(I work at Benchling and worked on the protein alignments tool.)

Adding to Vineet's response, Benchling has both CRISPR search and sequence alignment, and they have different use cases. CRISPR search uses the custom algorithm described in the article (and the "last post" linked at the top), while alignments use the two popular alignment tools Clustal Omega[1] and MAFFT[2]. It's certainly true that the general alignment problem is complex had has undergone plenty of research around performance and producing good results, which is why we used an off-the-shelf tool for computing the alignment itself (but a custom UI for viewing the result).

[1] http://www.clustal.org/omega/

[2] https://mafft.cbrc.jp/alignment/software/
Here's a chart I found useful for translating the precepts of the book into a more actionable form: https://labs.thesocietea.org/carnegie-chart/
> The most significant to me is that all the death destruction and suffering was all to further enrich some 5ish rich dudes.

The opium wars were about more than enriching 5ish rich dudes. It was about transferring a significant amount of wealth from china to the west ( primarily britain and the US ).

The british and particularly the US industrial revolution was funded by capital extracted from china. The opium wars and the aftermath is easily the greatest theft in human history. It completely changed the west and gave the west a significant leg up vis a vis china and the east. And it set china back 150 years. Nearly 200 years on, china still hasn't recovered from it.

> Just look how our historians are happy to attribute such acts to countries(!???)

All wars are fought for wealth. But the wealthy don't hire historians to out them. Historians are hired to spin a fable. It's why every nations histories of the same event are so different. Historians of each country have to spin a tale that is suitable and furthers the interests of their elites.

It's why we are told that the american revolution was about "freedom and liberty" when it was about our desire to steal more native land. It's why everything from the civil war to ww2 to vietnam are spun into some fairy tale about slavery, nazism or the domino theory when those wars were solely about one thing - wealth.

If you want to study real history, you have to understand who stands to gain and who stands to lose.
> Eventually you will be able to use witness encryption so you can encrypt a secret to the property 'Bitcoin blockchain has reached 500 additional blocks' which can only be decrypted by providing the valid PoW-hashes of 500 blocks etc.

How do you prevent abusing that by running it in a simulation in which the difficulty crashes?
I can't decide whether the article is a pile of garbage or, somehow, smart and cunning and I just don't get it
Things that surprised/amazed me about Japan
You can re-melt it as many times as you want, but you probably can't print with sufficient accuracy to create a new roll of filament. And it would take several days of printing to get through a whole roll of filament.

And besides, if you already had a 3D printer that could print with the filament you have, you could just print things with that filament instead of printing filament that isn't compatible with your printer :p

Here's a project to make a machine that produces filament for printing, but it's at about the stage hobbyist 3D printers were at ~10 years ago or more, in terms of reliability and ease of use: http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-your-own-3d-printing-f...
Sure but LINPACK has always been for scientific and supercomputing applications. Photoshop is a prosumer PC software application.
> to physics where they want to get rid of the need for evidence altogether[3]

I don't see how you got that from the article you cited.

Take string theory. It was created to unify gravity and quantum mechanics.
Afterwards it was found that it also could correctly solve problems from several other areas of physics outside of the unification of gravity and QM. It had not been designed to solve those. That came out of it unexpectedly.

If the existence of those problems had happened to have been discovered after string theory instead of before, they would have been testable predictions of string theory that it would pass, and would count as evidence for string theory.

It seems ridiculous to disqualify them from being evidence for string theory just because of the historical accident that they happened to have been discovered earlier.
Without adblock, google died a decade ago.
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I'm long time HN news lurker and student pilot. My only conflict of interest is that I find the FAA a pain in the ass (and seeing this article encouraged me to finally post something).

I didn't even know about TapJets until yesterday but find it amusing that people think I'm a sockpuppet.

Does US airspace have a good safety record? Yes. Is that mutually exclusive from the FAA overreacting? No.

I think they 100% should be investigated but unless something legitimately risky is happening then I really just have to roll my eyes at this emergency order. FAA policy is heavily influenced by airlines so it would be unsurprising if this was more politically motivated than anything, but until I hear more specifics about the models of plane used I'll wait and see.
I remember in early 2000 Newsweek did a whole "tech" issue. In it was a story about a woman who charged $600 an hour helping fledgling startups buy furniture for their offices. This article gave me the same vibe as that one. These tenants don't sound profitable (I could be wrong, they could all be wildly successful) and WeWork is expanding aggressively expecting their to be more of them. When they stop paying the rent, wework stops paying the mortgage.
Minor nit - inside a given compile object (library, framework, main executable) with PIC all accesses are performed using a pc relative address not a table lookup. The performance impact should be no where near 10%. In fact on arm pc relative addresses are /faster/ as loading an absolute address requires multiple instructions (if nothing else it hurts the icache).

More seriously the use of a offset table is an implementation detail.

On macOS at least dyld directly patches the majority of cross-object calls and accesses through stubs, either converting access to a direct absolute address or a assembly stub that tail calls to the correct place. (Very much a generalization here :) )

So yes if your code is extremely heavily limited by call and load overhead from accessing another library you’ll see a real perf impact. But at that point you should be asking why you’re calling such a lightweight function so much that the call overhead itself is a problem.
Naur explains this:

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf
Google telling us what "better ads" are is like a drug dealer lecturing you about crack quality control. They could have solved it years ago, but made tons of $ by letting the ad space become the wild west of nagware, malware, and tracking bonanza.

If they were to provide a real adblocker, allowing people to opt-in to ads on sites they like, while blocking everything else, I'd have considered it, on the basis that any technology running in-browser must be more fast/efficient than an extension. But this initiative is just them trying to get people to drop their adblocker and get tracked again.

All things being equal, I think I'll keep my uBlock extension - at least until Google kicks it out of their web store. I believe that would be the next logical step for them :(
Jargon should be as minimally complex and extensive as needed to express the relevant concepts, given the context.

The complexity and amount of jargon is proportional to the difficulty of using that jargon, so overly complicated jargon imposes an unnecessary cost on everyone who encounters it or interacts with it.

It sounds like you are saying that jargon is good if it can more effectively express some idea than was possible before. I totally agree with this, it's a great point.

But sometimes the additional expressiveness does not compensate enough for the unfamiliarity or peculiarity, making it not worth it, and so it probably won't be adopted by others.
To be fair, it is decompiled code you are looking at. If you open the dropdown you will find the optgroup with the label that says "Decompiled".
I find it disconcerting to see Cory Doctorow talk about restrictive copyright issues while he hasn't, to my knowledge, released anything substantial into the commons. The work that he does put a "creative commons" license under is always with a restrictive "non-commercial" license.

I'm glad that he advocates for freedom and liberty and it's not like hypocrisy makes these arguments any less valid but it does leave me feeling a bit weird.
It's amazing how these greedy people destroyed millions of lives and they get to live the life of luxury. Sell weed and you are a felon. Peddle addictive opiates to the masses and destroy countless families, you get to be a billionaire.
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> For most kinds of large software projects, I think that the psychologists will produce better, more readable and maintainable code.

Interesting. I've taught third year maths and psychology students and the maths students almost universally produce more sophisticated applications.

Of course it's hard to directly compare because the courses had different focuses.

> because it didn't have any gaps or inconsistencies

Mathematicians are very good at this - where they might fall down is eliciting complex requirements from others.

> like most engineering specifications

This is more of a deliberate choice on software projects than a lack of ability.

I remember the pre-agile days and specs were a lot better.
> before you free, check for Null.

You can free(NULL), no problem. It will not do anything.
No one thinks this.

Even if people were this nefarious, there’s no chance of moving more than a small portion of humankind to Mars.
Drink, a lot.

And i don't just mean those floor hopping beer parties that start Friday around noon, but the weekly get togethers that are nothing less than cheap alcohol ragers.

That place is impossible to get stuff done in (but a lot of fun to visit).
> Whereas sinking all their effort into an in-house framework is fantastic for the business in multiple dimensions

Well, it's fantastic until it isn't anyway. Companies do fail, at least fail to own new markets, by being tied down into legacy architectures.
Tried it out, and this really is a fantastic, well made tool. Thank you for sharing!