skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, their PPC-on-Intel emulation that let old versions run of apps (and the entirety of OS9, IIRC) was a technical marvel on a number of levels - especially considering the hardware limitations of the early chips.
All the discussion was about virtual memory.

The initial thread in a process, on every operating system that is still relevant today, uses guard pages to grow its virtual memory allocation for the stack segment. Physical memory for the stack segment's pages may or may not be mapped into the process address space (it will usually be mapped). This stack can't shrink, and also once the thread touches a page, it becomes commited memory and it will always stay commited.

Other threads in a process do not use guard pages and use fixed virtual memory allocation for their stacks. Their stacks are fixed in size and can't grow. Just like for the initial thread once a page is touched, it becomes commited memory and it will always stay that way.

In Go, stacks start small and use a variable amount of virtual memory. Go stacks can shrink, freeing both address space and physical memory.
NeverSSL.com is my goto
AI providers will increasingly compete with management consultancies
Except that if you click the link, that's not what this means.
1 host vs all hosts. I've been using jumphosts on all my dmz's for years. Never have ssh open to the Internet, or desktop networks. Then I only have 1 host with an ssh ACL, not all my servers.
I tap "Request Desktop Page" when I use google search and I mostly rely on search engines that don't pull the AMP crap at all.
Funny story: About 20% of the time, I now get carded when buying a pack of Five Hour Energy. It's definitely not an area law, as far as I can tell, but it seems like there's an interest in monitoring youth purchase of energy drinks.

Not sure if this might be a self-interest thing where the store just doesn't want to be on the hook if a kid drinks too many. (The bottle specifies not to drink more than two a day, "several" hours apart. Kids who drank six have ended up in the hospital.)
> significant work by third parties outside Apple who haven't even heard of the possibility of this happening until today

I dunno, I feel like the writing has been on the wall for Apple to switch to their own ARM chips, for 3 or 4 years now. At first it was "yeah maybe someday", but by this point, I'm just surprised they're waiting until 2020. I was hoping the first ARM Macbooks would be this summer. (Really, last summer, if I'm being honest).
Libertarians (except for the lower taxes über alles variety, who aren't real libertarians) have been politically homeless since the 60s or 70s. The war on drugs and the rise to power of the "Moral Majority" are completely antithetical to the idea of liberty.
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It's more complicated than that, but I have had multiple smokers espouse to me that it is more difficult to regulate consumption with a vape than with traditional cigarettes.

I'm not sure what the new vapes can do, but old vapes didn't have the ability to put a ceiling on dose for a single session (ie turn off after x pulls). With a cigarette, the act of burning through the cig acts as an indicator to stop. With a vape it's more difficult to understand when to stop because there is no physical indicator.
Is the IP/licensing situation particularly onerous here to prevent making their own x86_64 chip?
Sam Cohen’s Rotating Magnetic Field experiments have shown higher temperature and reasonably long-lived FRCs. His vision is steady operating, 3He systems, atleast at first targeting propulsion. As you dial up the Helium percentages, the neutron output goes down, though the required ion temperature goes up. Princeton Satellite Systems has several NASA programs looking at the propulsion applications.
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I think that's the purpose of Greenify.
What's shocking about it? For just the Echo, Amazon claims to have sold 20 million devices so they are probably in at least 10 million homes. How many of the people that buy an Echo have been harmed so far?

I have an Echo and use it daily for music, weather, timers, home automation (ie controlling lights and fans), etc...

I also drive a car almost every day and that has a relatively high probability of killing me. Compared to that, having an Echo in my house seems somewhat harmless.
Is this just speculation or can anybody confirm?

traceroute to 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 1dot1dot1dot1.cloudflare-dns.com (1.1.1.1) 1.117 ms 0.710 ms 0.727 ms
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what are you trying to say? That given he is comedian, his reporting is less credible or audience should receive his stories less seriously or what? Given that he throws a joke from time to time, does it mean that it's less reporting and more comedy?
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"The Security Rule applies to health plans, health care clearinghouses, and to any health care provider who transmits health information in electronic form in connection with a transaction for which the Secretary of HHS has adopted standards under HIPAA (the “covered entities”) and to their business associates."

via https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/index.ht...

"The HIPAA Privacy Rule establishes national standards to protect individuals’ medical records and other personal health information and applies to health plans, health care clearinghouses, and those health care providers that conduct certain health care transactions electronically."

in what circumstances has HIPAA been found to apply to businesses other than those?
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> It's also very unlikely to happen on such a fast timetable

the article (thin as it is) claims a multi-step transition. Apple almost certainly has a version of Mac OS that can run on their iPad hardware - the transition path that makes the most sense to me is a 12" MacBook that runs essentially the same internal hardware as an iPad pro, and a MacOS that can run iOS apps. There would be a great consumer market for a MacBook that runs iOS apps, and it would serve as a hardware test bed for developers to get their MacOS applications ported over to ARM before transitioning the MacBook Pro lineup away from x86.
Being able to go toe to toe with low-power areas says little about being able to compete against full-power areas, and vice versa. Intel is a laughing stock when trying to compete in low power areas even though they dominate full power. ARM is the only choice in low power outside of a few Chinese chips and Samsung's Exynos, but yet ARM hasn't made a dent in full power applications. The two areas do not scale as easily as they sound.

Intel has been iterating their design decades longer and was in stiff competition for much of that time period. They will be hard to catch in the desktop/laptop space for anyone starting with a cell phone CPU.

ARM has not had real competition in their market, most chipmakers are licensing ARM tech, so they should be easier to catch up to, which Apple has done (with a healthy dose of borrowed ideas from ARM).
Bear in mind Apple’s own mobile CPUs were also vulnerable to these attacks. The vulnerability was with commonly used architectural features found in many processor designs from different design houses, including both Apple and Intel among others.
> Naaah, I just don't tend to be politically correct

Which combined with your actual statements sounds to me like you're saying "I don't tend to care if what I'm saying strongly is wrong because I'm comfortable espousing my opinions as overly broad assertions of fact regardless of accuracy or counterarguments." That is, to put it bluntly, just a nice way of saying "I'm an asshole, and I'm okay with that." It's not a particularly useful way to interact with people if you expect to have a productive conversation. If you aren't hoping for a productive conversation, it makes a lot more sense though.

> As I said, the amount of Rust posts here is disaproppriate to the amount of languages that are available

Which implies all languages should get equal representation. Why would that be the case?

> Somehow it reminds me to the Cambridge Analytica case, a small amount of people (bots) manipulating the public opinion. :)

Or perhaps your opinion doesn't reflect the public norm much, or at least the HN norm, or even just the selection bias you see from the exclusion of people that immediately decided an article about Rust wasn't interesting to them, so they didn't visit. Good allusion to current scary topical event though.

> But please, I am more then happy if you show me, I am wrong, what is so cool in Rust, that you can't pull with c++?

Oh, now people are supposed to take on faith you have an open mind about this, and as long as you're shown something as you consider objectively "cool", you're happy to change your opinion? I'm not sure I'm convinced.

> And if you can't give a reasonable answer, why inventing a new language? Rather write it as a new conding standard. Or create new stl with your new paradigm. Or completely reinvent the types using a new library/headers. Why bother wasting time and reinventing what already works (profit? ;) ), and it works great (you can use it as an former VBA developer or as a guru, same language, different skill set, different features used).

All covered many times before on HN. Here's the simple answer: Every one of those changes means you have to learn a mostly new language while also being mostly incompatible with existing hardware, so why not just go farther and get some real guarantees out of the changes instead of just slightly better usability? Guess where that ends up...
> ... no one really expects their old software to work anyway.

My experience with HN comments leads me to believe otherwise, at least among professionals. :)
The clickwheel iphone "rumor", might have been true. During initial design of the original iPhone, both Scott Frostall (from Mac OS division), and Tony Fadell (from iPod division) were tasked with creation of iPhone. Both groups took their existing software (from iPod/Mac), and tuned it for a phone. Ultimately trimmed down OSX solution won over iPod's evolved firmware.
I was reverse engineering iPod video/classic firmware around 2005/2006, and I do remember seeing references to "iphone".
It is still quite possible they are morons, it's just less certain.

Where did you read me saying that? I think ethical standards for AI should come from reputable CS PhDs who understand the technology they're pontificating about working in conjunction with lawyers and legislators and taking into account public sentiment, which hopefully will eventually be the case when this becomes more of a mainstream issue. The authors do not appear to have any of that background. I think the AI aistorian/philosopher/psychologist field belongs on the fringe for now and likely a very long time.
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I don't get why they don't explicitly state HIV status, I'm assuming it's covered in this, "Any other information you voluntarily provide us with in connection with your registering and using the Service.", but again, not 100%.
thanks again dajonker, that's more good feedback.
Do you think Springer pays for reviewing? No publisher does. It's all voluntary work by the same people who write the papers. It's the modern day slavery.
I use ipchicken.com, works over http for public wifi signins, and has added benefit of showing me whether I’m connected to wifi/4g/vpn via IP’s reverse DNS.
Please, reinvent the wheel
> If apple uses its own chips, I would assume that they would be aarch64 and not x86_64. Also, Microsoft has some magics for executing x86_64 binaries on aarch64 with good performance, so Apple may have a similar technology.

They definitely do have OSX running on ARM64, they had OSX running on x86 for years before the switch (in fact they had OSX running on x86 before it even was OSX, NeXT ran on x86, SPARC, PA-RISC and 68k, PPC is the one Apple had to add), they've already gone through two architectural migrations (68k -> PPC and PPC -> x86) and by all accounts the iOS core is very much shared with OSX, it wouldn't make sense not to port OSX along the way.
> It would be quicker to just look at the US, where protectionism has resulted in it becoming an economic superpower.

> But that obviously wouldn’t meld with your free trade boner very easily

http://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/free-trade

You believe your feelings over the consensus by professional Economists.

As for the rest of your argument:

A) WWI/WW2 onward is related to Free Trade and the other economies being destroyed.

B) Pre-1900s Protectionism was largely due to continuous trade wars with other powers that is universally agreed to have been detrimental for all involved.

Literally everything you are saying is not fact-based.
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Linux 4.16
It uses formal methods to verify that the generated machine code has the same behavior as the source program.
Facebook has been actively monitoring Messenger messages for years.

https://mashable.com/2012/07/12/facebook-scanning-chats/

Skype does it, too, by the way, in case that's also a surprise. Probably most of the ones that don't use end-to-end encryption by default do. And now that Brian Acton left WhatsApp, you should be very careful with what you saw in WhatsApp's end-to-end encrypted chats, too.
I think the first step is to produce a GPU that integrates well with Intel CPUs. The next Metal version will need to have even deeper hardware integration while external GPUs support will be a solution for those who need AMD or NVIDIA solutions.
Actually, it doesn't make sense even if everyone is not playing fair. Self-harm is self-harm. What kind of negotiating is that? "If you shoot a hole in your boat I'll shoot one in mine!"
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as did 68k -> PPC a decade earlier.
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I am fairly sure the distinction is lost on the general public, and I am also fairly sure that to all intents and purposes it will not make a difference. When people plug in a laptop and it goes bang and sprays burning pieces all over the room they will be more than happy to call it an explosion (see title of TFA) even if the scientist in you does not see one.

Also, I did not see a barometer in the footage and if expanding gas did not propel those pieces of shrapnel outwards I wonder what did. So maybe there was a shockwave, just not a very large one and that was probably mostly due to the confinement of the battery not being very strong.

If there is one way to turn a small bang into a bigger one it is by confining the gas a little longer by using a stronger package.
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I bet they turned on some chrome://flags ;)
I don't think getting affiliate revenues is necessarily a problem, however, there is an inherent conflict of interest considering that different retailers pay different affiliate rates and some manufacturers sell direct and pay higher affiliate commissions.

Also, getting a commission on sales encourages the reviewers to select more expensive options.

I usually like Wirecutter reviews. But I do find that they sometimes seem to favor more expensive options when cheaper alternatives are nearly the same or better. (Even their budget pick tends to be high and sometimes I think the budget pick should be the overall pick).

You will see a lot of products frequently at the top of review lists (not just Wirecutter) that are not sold on Amazon. These are usually sold at a premium direct from the manufacturer and a higher commission can be paid. (15-25%)

The thermapen thermometer is one of these. They will always link directly to thermoworks website, who is the sole distributor in the US. I'm sure they pay a higher commission than Amazon's 8% for comparable but cheaper alternatives like the javelin.
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The thing I don't fully understand about Nadella's strategy is what Windows is supposed to be any more. Clearly if all these whizzy subscription-based online services are going to be useful, people need a device to access them. For simple communications and information consumption, the modern generation of devices like smartphones and tablets works just fine, but for anything more involved or with a significant creative element you still need something more like a PC.

However, it looks like Microsoft is isolating the online services from the client platform in order to de-prioritise Windows, which inherently makes Windows itself more replaceable. That creates a huge potential gap in the overall tech market, particularly once Windows 7 reaches end-of-support and a lot of people are going to be wondering about what they can do if they don't want Windows 10. (After all, if they did want Windows 10, why are so many people still not using it?)

There obviously aren't that many businesses that would be in a position to exploit such a vulnerability and start building not just a viable alternative client OS but a viable alternative ecosystem around it, but there are some. Apple could be a threat from one direction. Traditional big tech companies like IBM could be a threat from another. With the foundations available with modern OSS stacks, an unexpected alternative from (or sponsored by) the likes of Red Hat might be less likely but not totally out of the question either, or even a curveball from the likes of Intel.

So, what if one or more of them really did produce a compelling client platform and moved the whole industry back in the direction of local software and in-house operations? If the current focus on Cloud everything wanes, but Microsoft has voluntarily given up its long-standing dominance of the more traditional parts of the industry by neglecting Windows as a platform in its own right, where does that leave their online services five or ten years from now?

Maybe the likes of Satya Nadella are just much better connected in the big boardrooms than a mere geek like me, and they're confident that the emphasis on Cloud everything isn't going anywhere any time soon. But now we've been doing that for a while and the gloss has worn off a bit with all the real world problems of reliability, security, leaks, costs, and so on, I can't help wondering whether Nadella is mostly playing to Cloud-obsessed big investors and at some point those investors will prove to have been throwing good money after bad because they didn't know any better.
That's interesting, I assumed the reaction was rapid but I didn't see it happen. It's not obvious in the pics, but 2 stacked cells in the pack swelled, so I assumed it involved an electrical issue.

Related question - best way to safely dispose of old LiPo batteries? I don't want to just toss it in the regular trash (for one thing, might ignite in there.)
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This is like saying Twitter is liable if you tweet your own status.
one more I wasn't aware of. We will see which gets anywhere.