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> My suspicion is that Apple wants to get into the GPU game themselves, and bring some of the expertise from their mobile GPU team to laptops and desktops.

Eh, desktop and mobile GPUs are radically different beasts. My thought is that since they write their own drivers, and they obviously don't have the resources they once had in the MacOS team (see all of the crap High Sierra went through), they simply can't support more than a few SKUs.
You had the account before they put the limit in place.

As for the parent comment, read my two posts here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16721859
When Bail Feels Less Like Freedom, More Like Extortion
Russian Hacker #Yevgeni #Nikulin Was Extradited to the United States
Halting problem is even more general.
What I meant to say (hence the downvotes...) is that Rust's "borrow checker" is enough of a nuisance that this graph library replaced memory addresses, i.e. pointers, with indexes into an array, effectively creating its own virtual address space.
Do you agree that some services not working if data isn’t collected has to do with the way those services work, rather than with punishing users who don’t give up their privacy so that Apple can use their data to....
Based on that description I'd say it's closer to taking a RAW format and converting it into a JPG, which contains most of the (human visual) relevant data from a DCT while removing the remaining "noise"... which is a bit different from simply resizing (eg subsampling).
What I would find a bit satisfying about this description is that you probably wouldn't get away with claiming that a JPG of an image was un-copyrighted and only a BMP (of the same resolution) was.

To be fair, it does depend on the amount of compression before it is not recognizable, but if you can still squint and see the Mona Lisa (when you also have her phone #)... have you not violated her privacy?
Ofcourse, but at that point it doesn't matter what method of password management you're using. It's too late.
The "lost years" spent on fixing Windows security fundamentals between XP and Vista perhaps taught Microsoft something important about long-term risk management.
I get to visit clubs/shows every few months and I always use a pair of musician earplugs, (Etymotic, standard - not custom fitted). It gives a nice and even attenuation, which after few minutes you don't even notice (other than perhaps slightly elevating very low frequencies relative to the rest).

Your mind is very quick to normalize the volume level anyway, no matter if you're with or without protection. Why suffer permanent damage then?
Yes, the OOM killer activation is on its face evidence of an incident; comments on other threads saying “If your process ran out of RAM, you get to quit. Why offload it on some other random process? This is how your database process runs out of memory, and your web workers get killed (or vice versa).” The scenario depicts a capacity shortage regardless of what the system decides to do in response.
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Yeah, it’s the same content. It’s just that if you switch to consuming it via RSS, you don’t get sucked into all the bite sized media that permeates the web.
'Direct' PCI-E connections can still be pretty slow. It's way more like a network than a traditional bus.

The fail0verflow guys bridged PCI-E over a 115200 baud UART and it still worked.
Tesla in fatal California crash was on Autopilot
I stand corrected. Indeed, the Itanium ABI defined by Intel is the base.

The important part is that it is used by most, if not all, C++ compilers on that platform.
Jesus Christ, so they don't pay him enough and he's fixing toilets on the side?
Less rich people, less healthy, driving smaller, older, less well maintained, less safely designed cars in more dangerous/remote locations. That’s a bunch of factors contributing to safety or lack thereof. Vehicle age alone is a huge factor in safety. Even the likelihood the driver and passengers are wearing a seatbelt is likely vastly different between Teslas vs all cars on the road. All those factors add up.

But that’s not even the point. The point is that the numbers Tesla gave are meaningless. Tesla’s stats would only be meaningful if you compared them to similarly sized/priced cars of the same age cohort with the same market segment. The fact that Tesla compares its luxury high-priced large sedans to all cars and not its own segment is itself very telling. They have those stats, and they would use them if they were compelling.
Size does mean the scope of any issues with NPM is greater, but many of those issues seem unique to NPM's design and the extremely fine-grained nature of Node packages as a whole. One developer had a temper tantrum and unpublished one package and the entire Node universe caught on fire... that kind of catastrophic failure doesn't seem to happen elsewhere, even at a smaller scale.
1/5. I actually thought it was easier to read in this form. I can't be bothered with articles that have too much padding.

2/5. I think I like features like "paragraphs" that are not possible in this form.

3/5. People can and do use line breaks in tweets, but if you think of each tweet as a paragraph it makes sense too.

4/5. You could do that, but nobody would think an essay was good if it were written with no transitions and mechanically started a new paragraph every few sentences.

5/5. It is interesting how small paragraphs divide a meaning of the whole article and can confuse you, reader.
I've been testing their beta version for Firefox and it looks really good. I would expect it to come out soon.

You can sign up here: https://agilemail.createsend.com/h/r/0D6ED375D55C4CF1
The blockchain as a serialisation format
I agree that we don't need any new measures against voter fraud, but I don't see how it follows that existing voter fraud laws need to be removed or not enforced. Do you have any evidence of what the effect would be if the punishment for voter fraud were community service?
>there is a lot of skepticism in the comm satellite community that they will achieve their stated goals, especially at an affordable price point.

Not that I have any experience in that industry, but didn't the commercial rocket launch have the same set of opinions?
Here's one I haven't used, but have been keeping a bookmark on it to see how it develops.

https://snips.ai
https://github.com/snipsco
You are correct. I'm not non-partisan.

Brookings is a think tank that provides intellectual cover for the capital-owning class. Just because it isn't paleo-conservative doesn't mean that it isn't a right wing group.
I'm not "being dense". Every time I ask for examples of a blockchain project actually delivering value in a way that a simple database or checksummed transaction log wouldn't, I get pointed at proposed projects by people who have seen exciting presentations. Every time.

You were responding in a contradictory fashion to somebody saying, "Innumerable efforts have been attempted, yielding almost no fruit." The only thing that could usefully contradict that is proof of something yielding fruit. A press release isn't. Neither is the fact that they've managed to get the prototype running. There are a lot of blockchain prototypes running. Many of them are proposed and built by consulting companies that get paid by the hour, whether or not any actual business value is delivered. IBM has such an enormous conflict of interest here that they're just not a reliable source.

I'm sure you're friend's sincere, but there are plenty of sincere blockchain proponents. There were plenty of smart, sincere people who believed in 3D TV, Google Glass, and the Zune as well.
A visitor that comes to your site via social is MUCH more valuable than someone that comes via RSS. The economics of this reality are what removed RSS from the limelight.

Dear publishers, let's fix this. Whenever you publish a blog post, etc. please syndicate it on social and then go back to your site to add "DISCUSS THIS ON TWITTER/whatever AT https://t.co/aesou02". Make sure that this also syndicates to RSS.

Dear pubsubbers, let's fix this. In your reader software, please lint these special links and show the discussion below the news. We know you want to get into the content discovery business -- this is the first step.

See the Slashdot RSS feed as a good example, they inline the discussion right in the feed.
How Big Wireless Made Us Think That Cell Phones Are Safe:A Special Investigation
If you're driving a vehicle with purely drive-by-wire controls and no mechanical linkage, you're going to crash. As far as I know the industry hasn't really deployed that yet, but it's on the way (conceptually at least).
The whole point is that city councils today have complete discretion over the allocation of building permits. Of course city councils won't like a rule that limits their power.

Software developers are rarely happy when security people make it harder to ssh into prod machines, but sometimes it's better for some powers to be restricted and more carefully applied.

Also I'm just curious, how many of the mtv city council are renters and how many are home owners?

Edit: typo
If you sort2(a, b), it would be nice if min(a, b) == a && max(a, b) == b.
Yes Mac multi-monitor support is a weakness.

As I said, the point wasn't that one person had hardware issues. Its that I constantly see people buy Linux laptops and have hardware/software issues as the two are quite related on Linux due to bad driver support and inconsistent hardware configurations. I relayed an anecdote that summarizes many of the problems I've seen. This one involved an extremely senior engineer with successful exits who was beside himself trying to make a brand new Linux laptop work.

Here is another anecdote, no hardware involved. Ubuntu 10.04 to 12.04 upgrade was busted and several friends couldn't boot at all after upgrading via the GUI option. Sure that could happen on a Mac but its way, way less common.
I miss Sage++ (Higmmers Edition). [1]

Sidebar RSS reader for Firefox. It was perfect for my use case. (Now its dead due to WebExtension)

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/sagepp-higmmers-...
This is pretty interesting. I'm curious what issues this design language addresses that other design languages (like Material or IBM Design) don't address.
I do stuff like this because:

- I like fixing stuff

- It would take longer to call someone and be in home while he is fixing it.
The (perceived?) reality is that social grows your user base and RSS doesn't.

Publishers care about growth more than serving existing customers.
Wealthy people can better control the quality of the driver.
No, it is still killing people, but average people are cuppable. Big difference.
Should Airplanes Be Flying Themselves? (2014)
There's always someone who expects more. If you make a doodah that reduces (name something bad) by 30% someone will expect 40%, if it improves (name something good) by 50% someone will expect 60%, and by the way it costs too much, whatever it costs.

Name your expectations up front, please.
Look into Auditory Integration Therapy/Training (AIT) - http://aitinstitute.org - could help reset the pathways, with making them malleable.
I think it was Feedly that has sent me a survey asking what I want them to work on. My reply was that it does its job just fine. Reduce the team to a skeleton crew and slip into maintenance mode.

It seems dangerous to keep expanding the feature set because you are just expanding your future maintenance budget.

I don't think I've ever shared a single thing from my news reader. I don't want people sending me stuff so it only seems right that I don't spam them.
I thought this older article on airplane autopilot and its effects on pilots was relevant to be bringing up again, given the current discussions on self-driving cars.
D-Wave doesn't have a quantum computer. They have a quantum annealer.
So if I compress a BMP by 100:1 using "lossy" techniques then it's not equivalent to the original? I'd say that depends on how recognizable the result of reconstruction is, and not on the amount of reduction. MPAA would be very unhappy with your argument.

To be more extreme there are many compression/extraction methods that can perfectly reconstruct the original data with very high compression ratios. GIF/PNG can reproduce many images exactly. Certainly, they are derivative works?
I've always had Feedly set to display the full article in the reader. It's been a feature since the day I switched from Google Reader. Is "mobilized content" different from that?
For the same reason those drivers will pay less for car insurance for almost any car they buy: they are actuarially safer drivers.
I used to have a server with them however the UI was ...beyond words. It was impossible for me to renew my subscription because the site was throwing a JS error. Has this improved? Their offering was very good bang for buck I've seen.
It's a good idea.
Is there some other correlation between owls and being owls that's excluded from this study? Do they tend to use drugs or alcohol more? Do they tend to date more? Do they tend to watch more television? Play video games more late at night?

This is an interesting study that doesn't necessarily suggest later class times will fix the issue but this could be a bit of a "wicked problem" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem
I think it's safe to say that Amazon's ambition is unlimited at this point in time. I fully expect them to jump into commercial banking in the near future
It seems that if you can just blacklist coins, and since eventually bitcoin will be all mined out (for all practical purposes) that eventually all bitcoins would become tainted since humanity will always have crime and money laundering. Am I missing something here? I'm sure gold was used for all sorts of nefarious uses but nothing stops that "bad gold" from going back into the gold monetary system. This just seems like a bad idea all the way around.
I had the same problem with Feedly. Just the other day I set up a server on NearlyFreeSpeech and threw Miniflux (a PHP RSS reader) on there. It's not polished but it is nice to be in control.
To that end, Mercedes-Benz is playing around with technology to create a loud noise before the airbags deploy in a crash. The ideas is that by triggering this loud noise reflex, the ear will protect itself from the louder noises of airbag deployments.
I can attest to that, my newborn at the time screamed into my ear unexpectedly loud and my hearing was affected for a few days.
Not at all, and I assume they will be hiding as much as they can to avoid as many problems as they can, but that's not my point. If you have a problem with something, you don't keep playing with it when you know it's going to fail. My Philips TV turns on by itself at night. Instead of waking up at 3am to shut it down I power it down hard before going to bed instead of putting it on standby. The same way, if you know you have a problem with something that can kill you in some road you just don't keep using it "in case it does it right this time"... ...and in any case if you dont trust the system, you dont keep your hands off the steering wheel... (unless the guy had a heart attack or something just before the accident and that was why he didn't do anything, we're all assuming he was capable of driving but he might have lost conciussness or something , then autopilot disengaged, then the crash happened, but I don't know, and everything we can do is speculate...
I work with a political group that campaigns on privacy issues. Guess where they organise online.
Probably, it's observed behavior that people that will read a tweetstorm won't follow a link to an external source.
But no headlines and no expensive crash investigation.

Say you’re in the car business and you don’t like Tesla and say you want to find people who are suicidal or maybe have some kind of debt and you can help them as long as they help you. Their family will be taken care of as long as they crash their Tesla into a concrete divider.

I’m definitely not saying that’s what happened here but possible to imagine this scenario.

Hey even shorting the stock could make this worth someone’s while.
Watch that edge bud.
PostgreSQL at 20TB and Beyond: Analytics at a Massive Scale
The "OVH Manager" is still pretty bad, although it has improved a lot since they switched over a year (or two?) ago. At that price point there's really not much alternative, only Hetzner come to mind, certainly nothing in the US.
IIRC there are schedulers that dynamically adjust priority based on recent CPU usage. When a task is removed from the CPU due to its time quantum running out (as opposed to, say, making a blocking system call), that is taken as a sign that the task is relatively CPU-intensive, and its priority is reduced a little.

The idea is to give IO-bound tasks a little more priority in comparison. IO-bound tasks generally run faster if they can get another IO operation started ASAP after the last one completes, and since they're not going to hog the CPU anyway, giving them relatively higher priority is one way to do this.

Anyway, the point is that the trick works by gaming the system of priority levels. If you're at the tail of one priority level, you may be off than at the head of another.
It's-a-me, Dr. Mario!
Because the lawyers are the ones making a solid profit on the whole thing?

What entities in this case are trying to create value?

Sounds like the company did a "best effort" to make it work, then made reasonable attempts to make it right.

The way class action lawsuits work, the lawyers pushing it get a large percentage of the award - commonly 30% or more. Notice that the lawyer's bar association also stands to divide up any remaining money.

So the lawyers win. Consumers may break even. The company loses, and they probably would not have made a direct profit on the event in any case. Future consumers also lose because anyone who sees this result will hesitate to try again.
A friends daughter got a brain injury from a car-pedestrian accident. He learned a lot, and told me his take away: If you hit your head and have any concern about it, take Ibuprofen to prevent swelling/inflamation and drive to Ann Arbor (we're in Michigan but that's over an hour away). The first part made sense, the second he said that town and UofM are known for treating that kind of thing. He has them in such high regard that it's worth the drive not even knowing who you're going to see ahead of time!?!?!?
So there are fairly strong regulations on what other things a bank can do. I can't remember exactly what it entails. It's possible Amazon could get around that with holding company structure or something, but I'm not sure.

I agree with your general point though, maybe just not the bank part.

Edit1: It's not reg W, damn I cannot remember which section describes this. There's too many bank regs in the US.

Edit2: ok 12 CFR 225.21 &238.51 we're closer: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/12/225.21

Bank or bank holding can't own anything other than other fin, ag, or family stuff.

I'm still at sure to what extent this would stop Amazon from starting their own bank. (IANAL, but this was explained to me years ago by an expert on us federal banking regulation so I have hazy memories of it)

Aaaand I just wasted 15 minutes of my morning looking through the CFR on banking regulation, time to stop reading hackernews.
Python implements iterators by raising a GeneratorExit, StopIteration or StopAsyncIteration exception. Exception handling is one of the core means of control flow in python along with function calls and if statements.

Also, because python lacks gotos and switch statements, "exception-oriented" code is a good way to implement efficient finite state machines common in compiler code.
I’d like to see an opera extension to remove all the politic and pathos from the internet. If someone able reads this, thanks in advance for supporting opera too!
Do you work in IT like most people on HN? I though most tech companies were flexible about work hours.
This is a nice PR bit, but I wonder if it really matters?

I would be very reluctant to do a startup centered on, say, GMail or Amazon Marketplace as a platform. If you get too successful, it's too easy for them to say, "Hey, here's a proven high-value business for us to get into." And then they have my customer right there, so I'm screwed. (An example that comes to mind is Swype. They invented the swipeable virtual keyboard and made a great product. So great that Google added the feature to their own Android keyboard. And then released it for free on iOS, too.)

But I'm not worried at all about using their infrastructure services, because it doesn't give them much in way of competitive advantage. Netflix, for example, has a lot of their stuff running in AWS. Amazon has Prime Movies + TV as a direct competitor, but I don't think Netflix really cares. I as a consumer sure don't; from my perspective Netflix and Amazon are completely separate.
My ONLY reason I don't already own one (before recently) is their draconian anti-repair strategy, remote bricking, and other heavyhanded tactics against 'owners'. Apparently you are just paying for the privlige of borrowing one from tesla.
Lower accident rates, or a lower percentage of injury or fatal accidents? I find it hard to believe 80 year olds are getting into fewer accidents than 40 year olds unless it’s because they drive less frequently.
The expectation is simple: value human life. Don't try to do beta tests and simultaneously market it as if it's production quality. Accidents happen, but own up to them; don't immediately and fervently insist that you were not at fault before the investigation even starts.

It may be easy to casually update software and break builds, but when human lives are at risk a healthy dose of conservatism is appropriate.

But you're right -- it's probably unfair to expect a SV company to prioritize anything over profits (we saw that with Facebook, right?)
I tried to find such a review, but failed. Can you please provide a bit more pointers?
Tank lid, or bowl lid? The author repeatedly switches between the two.
Then you get the $10,000+ bill because your insurance won't cover ER visits for non-emergencies

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertglatter/2017/10/16/anthem...

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/1/29/16906558/a...
My hearing was ACTUALLY permanently damaged when a sticky iron weight fell on a leg press machine at a 24-hour fitness about 5 years ago.

The weights looked like these: http://www.presentationzen.com/.a/6a00d83451b64669e201156eb4...

One extra weight slab was "stuck" to the group that was supposed to get lifted. It was stuck because the weights at the gym were grimy from many years of use without being cleaned. The extra slab, when it reached the top, finally detached and slid down maybe 20-30 inches, and made a sound that everyone in the gym heard, but right next to my ear. A few people even made angry faces at me for being a noisy lifter.

Ever since then, to this day, I have had tinnitus in that ear, and many sounds come in like "static", for lack of a better explanation.

All I can say is be careful with those weights if they get sticky, and if they are near your ear...
This is obviously unmeasurable - there isn't convincing analysis because there can't be convincing analysis, as you admit.

The fact that people were willing to spend an amount of money that breached electoral law in the UK, and presumably even more in the US, suggests that there was some reason for them to do so. This happened only because experts in this field believed it would influence the outcome of the election.

That's your evidence.
Yeah their UI is beyond useless.

Their support is beyond useless.

Can't even cancel my servers, but everything else was great.

Ended up having to use their API to cancel the server, since support wouldn't cancel the server for me - here is an actual email they sent me: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DY2rWiLU8AA_mKt.jpg:large