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> Can you imagine the user experience of today's modern over-JavaScripted web pages on such underpowered hardware: not simply slow because of their grotesquely large transmission payload but also because they caused your computer to start swapping memory pages to disk?

Yes. The laptop I keep by the TV has 4GB of RAM, a 1366x768 screen, and a quad-core Celeron, that I think is some descendant of one of the Atom families. I tend to keep 10 or fewer tabs open, avoid sites that use really heavy Javascript (well, I do that anyhow...), and usually don't have much else besides a Bash window running. It's got a spinning-rust drive, and swapping would be very obvious. With my usage patterns, it doesn't swap. Performance-wise, it's a fair bit nicer than my phone, at least.
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Because hate speech involves understanding intent. In the case of breasts/nipples, they can have a blanket rule against it. Thus even an artistic image with breasts would be removed (not just pornography).

If they did that with speech, then they would censor an insane amount of sarcastic speech as well. The false positive rate would be really high and that would be a chilling effect on speech. Similarly, the actual hate speech would find ways to use new coded terms and nuance to get around the filters.

Imagine if instead of "no female nipples" they had a policy of no overly sexual images. That would be way more subjective and harder to enforce. My bet is that is the case with text based speech.
With the developed world being increasingly dependent on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, the next big fuck up is going to be interesting. We have seen multiple datacentres from the same cloud provider going offline simultaneously in the past. And it is safe to assume that hostile foreign state actors took notice of this critical dependency. Whether it is because of malice or mistakes, I can’t help thinking that this massive concentration is like a snowball increasing in size while it’s going down the slope.
I can get do a lot of writing on Huawei Mate 9. Droid Vim works amazingly fine for editing. For writing Swype keybord feels faster than writing on full keyboard. I can have my GIT repo on the phone. Jira also has app. So basically a lot of low level tasks is no problem. Of course big project with a lot of files, compiling and building is not going to be on the phone but you can have CI/CD pipeline and do not have to compile locally.

"Management" needs email + spreadsheet, spreadsheets are not good enough on phone screen, but on tablet I think those would do. Just like reading code files with a lot of lines.

I think most of the work is thinking about meat and core of the problem. Writing it down with typos or not is not a problem. You do not write corporate communication statement that will go to millions of customers every day. I do not mind getting email from coworker with typos. When I ask my boss about 5 mins conversation I am not going to write "Dear sir or madam can I have 5 minutes of your time. Sincerly, O.". More like "Hi, Can we talk for 5 mins?". Work is not simplistic writing it down or improving later depends on context. You have great idea and phone, write it down, if you have to show it to millions of customers, then at least 2 other people have to read it anyway.
I think that the rich and the poor should have equal protection of the laws, as a matter of principle. Investor accreditation could be done on the basis of passing an exam (similar to how lawyers need to pass a bar exam in order to practice law) instead of on the basis of net wealth or annual income.

>There is no person (a) who doesn't meet the accredited investor requirement and (b) for whom an illiquid, volatile security like start-up equity is a prudent risk-reward decision.

I disagree. I don't meet the wealth or income requirements for 'accredited investor' status, but if I had been allowed to invest some money in early-stage tech start-ups, I could have done quite well for myself.
But what good would a wearable or phone be with a nicad battery? Sure, there are dangers with lithium chemistry batteries, but sadly there are no viable alternatives. And as far as manufacturers not disclosing, what do you want for disclosure? Should we add yet another useless warning label to ignore, like the prop 65 warnings?

These incidents are relatively rare in consumer devices (so exempting RC lipos and cheap knockoff products with no protection).
What about the costs of having the platform centrally regulating the content on the platform based on an arbitrary, context-free, highly politicized, and ever expanding definition of 'socially unacceptable' content?

We all knew that when FB and Twitter started to centrally control content well beyond the obviously really bad stuff (ie, gore, child porn), that mandate would forever expand and expand, where it's almost impossible for FB to not be criticized for not doing enough ...Absent a massive expansion of content controls, which means massively expensive, which mean incentivizing a) simply limiting the ability for people to communicate on the platform AND/OR b) automation. Which ultimately means countless false-positives and examples of bias by machines trained by the most vocal special interest groups deciding what is okay and not okay to say to another person.

The future is going to feature some interesting trolling to see who can game algorithms to get topics banned on social media through phony media outrage campaigns, false reporting, and social engineering.
This site needs to be transparent about what I can get now and where I can get it. I can't even tell if they've launched yet.
the first problem is one where CS researchers would likely benefit from more contact with outsiders, although I agree it's a pretty lively area of research already, at least for the shorter-term issues.

the second problem is one where social scientists could benefit from actually understanding how these systems work. yes, they are social problems, but the sociologists could do much better if they had a better understanding of the details of the technology.

The authors say they want "a consolidated, scalable, and scientific approach to the behavioral study of artificial intelligence agents in which social scientists and computer scientists can collaborate seamlessly". So, a new interdisciplinary category.

I get the sense they are especially concerned with the empirical study of behavior and social impact of big ML systems in the real world. In another post I compared this sort of thing to sociologists studying transit infrastructure.
at some point it must have become a point of pride...
'I have to thank Facebook because it is giving me the true information in Myanmar.'

What do you need, a flashing neon sign reading “tech” to be interested? He’s directly pointing to one of the 5 big Tech firms, it could not be more relevent. Given that, what’s your problem?

You can argue a lot of things about this, but “not related to tech” isn’t one of them.
Many of JetBrains IDE's are better and they're cross-platform. I've switched to Rider after getting sick of constant white screen of deaths, crashes, locking and perf issues in VS.NET. Rider is on par with VS.NET/R# for C# and superior for pretty much everything else except for visual GUI designers - although I haven't used one seriously in over a decade.
Well, for example, he could start appointing lackeys to the USPS governing board, who would presumably appoint a new Postmaster General more in line with his views. Those views could include making life very hard for Amazon (who, judging by the delivery method of my packages, still do quite a lot of business via USPS).
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Yes, you're absolutely correct, but stamina comes with practice. The biggest issue IMHO is motivation: if you don't have it, you're not going to keep exercising for long enough.

Riding 22km once was no problem, and shouldn't be for most healthy people given plenty of time and a working bicycle.

Riding it both ways on the same day took me a couple of weeks. This was coincidentally the point where I noticed weight loss.

Riding both ways three days a week took 2-3 months. (I did it before that, but then was too tired next week.) Note that this was about 7-8 hours a week of exercise, ie. a lot.

Now, about two years later I might be able to ride that kind of a commute five days a week. But my commute is only 15km now (which is a lot easier) so I haven't tried.
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> Good time for HFT firms though, volatility is back.

That's definitely true .......
You might but no one else would.

I would. An update to Windows 7 that worked well with modern hardware and had modern security updates but otherwise ignored almost everything Microsoft have done in more recent versions would be a significant improvement on anything currently available for those of us who value stability and security over bells and whistles.
Wouldn't be the first time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspan_put
I've never dealt with SOX compliance personally, but I did deal with PCI compliance. Now, PCI compliance isn't government-mandated, but since the penalty for non-compliance is that they take away your ability to take credit cards, it's treated as though it were a government mandate in a corporate setting. My observation about PCI compliance was the regulations themselves were clear, helpful, and well thought out. The burden was the months upon months spent arguing about who interpreted which regulation which way (and God forbid you just ask the regulators!), and an apparently certifiably insane executive board that would rather spend $1000 avoiding each individual regulation than spend $10 adhering to it.
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If the company uses the invention, it's hard to quantify the income from the patent, but if they license the patent to another company it's very easy.
I also got this on gamegrumps channel page
Barring a shock to the system ( a war , an unforeseen debt crisis perhaps coming from China, etc.) I think we've got some more gains to realize.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/john-bomb-iran-bolt...
Exactly. There is a reason that the BTC icon is ... a gold coin.
The populist rhetorical device of directing mass public hatred against a particular target is used at least as easily by dictators - aspirant or actual - as against them, particularly when it relies on open communication to flourish.

Sure, populist upheaval can lead to American Revolutions. But it can just as easily lead to pogroms, and one of those patterns is repeated far more often throughout history than the others.
The calculation is correct. Microsoft fears Chrome OS and rightly so. Old Windows as we know it was a mass market dead end.

The technophile crowd can always just use win10 Enterprise and tweak it.
> But those mini revolutions of the Arab Spring were not what we thought they were. "The People" taking power from the dictators, created the society they want, but it is LESS in line with liberal values than the previous one. This is what we failed to realize at the time.

This is tragically true. A revolution is a re-spin of the the roulette wheel when it comes to outcomes, the result is absolutely not guaranteed. In the case of Egypt, the semi-secular military dictatorship was overthrown and became .. an Islamic theocracy, which was actually worse for the average woman on non-devout Muslim, and the ensuing counter-revolution back to military dictatorship was reluctantly acquiesced to.
This. Besides "diamond open access" some in the open access community try to establish the "fair open access principles" [1]. For a journal to comply to these principles means that they are owned by the scholarly community, free for authors and readers, authors retain copyright, and any other costs paid by the journal to a publisher are low and reasonable. We have started to put up a network for journals that follow these principles with the "Free Journal Network" [2] to promote and support each other.

Concerning other comments on funding, I wanted to add that some journals don't need much money (hosting is basically free, workload shared well by editorial board). On the other hand funding can and does come from universities and their libraries (money not spend on subscriptions), research institutions, museums, and donations (sometimes seen as volountary APCs by those who have the money from grants).

[1] https://www.fairopenaccess.org

[2] http://freejournals.org/
There was a bit of discussion over here when banks first warned about an oncoming downturn:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15081150
Everyone has had security problem since I started in the industry 25 years ago. -everybody-
And the Fed has barely started retiring QE [1]. If they increase the pace it will add another massive pressure on stock valuations.

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...
And it's fixed immediately after release. 180 days seems about 90 days more than what major vendors get.

I bet this vulnerability was open for years.
But the President can divert funding and fire the Postmaster General.

"There are laws in place" is literally dismissing anything he can do; because its clear he's gone over the law before (the travel ban), he'll do it again, and again, and again, until the law has no foundation left to stand on.
The change in the balance of trade after signing each of the US's 20 trade deals
Let's see how many people sell low. Just hit support on various indexes today. Short-term bottom is in, already today, or tomorrow on marginal new lows.

Signed, 15 years futures experience
You're right that a whitepaper isn't enough to be really sure. That takes disassembly of binaries and then you are still stuck with judging the trustworthiness of the hardware and I'm not sure how you solve that problem.
Some complicated pipelining optimization that claims to reduce the critical path of each pipeline stage, increasing the clock speed and/or decreasing the required voltage for a given clock speed, written in impenetrable patentese.

The easiest pipeline optimisation, which is basically free hardware-wise and is documented in the academic literature for years, is to move the computation of W + K + H to the previous pipeline stage, reducing the critical path. This is a trivial win because all the data is available already and H can be discarded afterwards, which also has the nice bonus of mapping more efficiently to certain FPGA hardware. It sounds like Intel have taken this and expanded on it to move even more things into earlier and later stages of the pipeline.

Or, as Intel puts it, "The precomputed (H.sub.i+K.sub.i+W.sub.i) may be stored in the 32-bit register 402 dedicated for H.sub.i. This optimization reduces the critical path for the computation of E.sub.i+1 by one CSA or approximately three logic gates." I implemented this back in 2011 in some open source FPGA mining code, and it was an old trick even back then. They don't seem to be citing any prior art, which is a bit dubious.
I don't know if that it's exclusive on ThinkPads but I love that feature. Now I'm using TLP[0] to re(calibrate) the batteries (main and extra) on a ThinkPad running Linux, it uses "tp-smapi-dkms" or "acpi-call-dkms" behind the scenes.

[0] http://linrunner.de/en/tlp/docs/tlp-linux-advanced-power-man...
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The pharmacy always gives you papers with all of the side effects, interactions, and instructions. Is that not good enough?
It surprises me that people are so exercised about Trump's tweets and Amazon. Amazon is the archetypal survivor of the original dot com bust, has grown enormously since then. AWS alone is a $10bn a year business.
The user titrates the dose by feeling. They don't vape a specific volume, they vape until they've reached their desired blood nicotine level. 1/10th the nicotine concentration means 10 times the solvent inhalation.
> Now it is easier to develop MVP web app using Spring Boot than Rails.

Really? Does it do a lot of code generation across the db / server / front end?

That plus convention over configuration makes most of my rails development pretty fast.
Aren't you composing a lot of functions and operators?
Your comment contains a financial fallacy. Cash cannot flood "into" assets. For every buyer of an asset there is always a seller of that asset. The same number of dollars will be held regardless of the price of cryptocurrencies.
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You are right. This was approved by the Justice Department, under the Executive Branch. Thanks for pointing it out.

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/business/26ticket.html

Obligatory..... "Thanks Obama"
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I've been following the thesis of @LukeGromen, (here's a sampling)[0].

Here I think he covers it mostly in full [1].
Definitely worth a listen..

Also, here is a great 5 part podcast from December where he (and other Dollar bears) talk about the dollar decline[2].

Because of US dollar reserve status, government spending has been financed by foreign buying of treasuries, especially China. In recent years, they have rightly seen the fiscal situation of US, with massive liabilities, as being fixed only by devaluation of the dollar and therefore in real terms holding treasuries, or especially continuing to stockpile them not prudent. And he points out many examples of how they have recently been declining their purchases of treasuries and stockpiling gold (them and Russia).

He argues their recent opening of a Oil futures market as their avenue to moving away from dollar, eventually (long long term) pushing Renminbi to gain reserve status but in medium term using gold / oil as their leverage away from dollar.

On the stock market/taxes connection, he points out usually a yr over yr decline in tax receipts occurs in recessions. But last month, in the midst of an "everything bubble" (stocks, real estate, bonds, etc.) we saw a year over year decline of tax receipts. [3]

Also that stock market is increasing % of GDP & most taxes paid by wealthy whose income increasingly based on stocks market returns implies a dependence at the margin of government spending on high equities valuations. [4]

If the market continues to decline, and future months tax receipts decline, the "fed put" will get called into action, as China has stopped funding deficit (enough to match it's increase) so it has to be funded by rising rates in the private market. Libor shows this, as does the decline of the dollar.

Here's a link his slide deck covering all of this [5].
See slide 26 for a chart showing that when tax receipts fall "enough", US quickly takes action to weaken the dollar.
Slide 25 shows that declines in tax receipts usually correspond to recessions, but except recently..

[0] https://twitter.com/LukeGromen/status/978994115047231488

[1] https://www.theinvestorspodcast.com/episodes/luke-gromen/

[2] https://www.macrovoices.com/336-anatomy-of-the-u-s-dollar-en...

[3] https://twitter.com/LukeGromen/status/979079824567427073

[4] https://twitter.com/LukeGromen/status/979087795447894017

[5] https://www.dropbox.com/s/j86wfg79iyds85j/Luke%20Gromen%20Sl...
That’s largely not true of most stocks. They tend to have fairly stable prices that are impacted predictably by things like macro factors & earnings reports.

Something like Tesla that can be impacted dramatically (over longish timeframes) by a single event is amplified because it’s a speculative investment.
You seem to be conflating macOS with Macs. Have you running Linux on Apple hardware?
Macs ship with outdated versions of common bash commands and tools as well. Homebrew goes a long way to fixing this for me.
Well we will get into the next recession with QE all the way in and even more sovereign indebtness than 2008.
My problem is that he's focusing on the bias against a community, and not on Facebook's unique role in this. We don't have to turn HN into another activist platform for social justice, the internet is filled with such.

Facebook seems to be the most viral/effective platform for spreading any (fake or true) news, and in this instance, the news was possibly harmful to a community. If not facebook, the perps would have relied on the next most viral platform.

That still doesn't explain his cherry picking of comments that speak to bias more than tech. So, no - his comment is NOT relevant to tech!!
> A competent ISP operating in good faith

That's probably the funniest thing I've read all year
Come on, this isn't the thread for it. People don't vote for Trump because they're ignorant or stupid, it's because they're desperate. And if you don't believe that's the case, I'll go spend a day in rural West Virginia with you and show you first hand.

As an American, I despise the man, but fully support his efforts at tempering globalism and clamping down on H1Bs. I don't have to like him to judge his policies on a case by case basis.
The disposition of the president toward your company/industry is, unfortunately, an important market input. A symptom of executive overreach though it may be.
It's the trade war, not Amazon, that matters.
My last couple of jobs have given me no choice aside from a MBP and OS X. They do this because they don't want to manage multiple kinds of machines from an IT perspective. (I'm not sure I agree with this, but it is what it is.) Depending on how widespread this is, usage may not reflect actual user desire (though I would wager quite a large number of users either don't care what they're using, or care, but a MBP is adequate, but would also be fine on something else.)
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When it’s Tunisians and Egyptians using FB and Twitter, everyone is quick to take credit and talk about the “transformative” power of social media. When it’s genocide, suddenly everyone is mumbling and looking at the ground. You can’t have every job listing include “changing the world” and then duck responsibility when you actually do change the world, just for the worse.

Hypocrisy is an untenable position. Watching people argue that social media is equivalent to rallies, on HN would be funny if it weren’t so desperately sad. You can make this comment disappear, but you know I’m right about this. Even a brief glance through comment histories and submission histories bears it out.