skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WSJ has been publishing a ridiculous number of Tesla articles lately. Some (most?) have a negative slant. Tesla is not that entertaining to require several articles per week.
>what is going on behind the scenes.

I cant even imagine.

From the outside it looks like a house filled with Christmas lights! But... there looks to be a massive fire inside consuming all that was beautiful....
Keep a paper bag in the freezer. When it is full toss the whole thing.
Interactive Gregorian Chant Generator
Depending on the article, it either is Pro-Tesla, or saying what you post.
Good old SSH managed to update ciphers. This is certainly easier if Server and client can negotiate, but it’s not impossible for GPG. You could start by adding better modes as an option, later make them default and ask for confirmation when decrypting an old message format. If I read the vulnerability description correctly, it allows stripping the message authentication signature and then trick the client into decoding it. So any message sent with a modern cipher or just requiring message authentication by default would have substantially mitigated the attack.
Are there, at least, tooltips?
Good idea. Thanks. I will use it.
I think the GP's desire is not email per se, but rather an open and federated protocol like email so we aren't dependent on a single commercial vendor. I'm not really sure how practical that is since it's really hard to get broad adoption of a new protocol on today's internet.
I think providing supports to regular consumers may not have been in their dna, but I've been using the business chat/phone/email support through Google Apps, and they have always been top notch. While their answers weren't always what I wanted to hear, that was because of Google policy, versus the reps themselves. Most all of which have been very knowledgeable and human over the years versus most all of the other support channels I've used for companies other than Apple of course. However, there is an enormous amount of more consumers than business customers, so no idea how that support will scale, and if the consumers will get the same level of expertise as business but will be interesting to find out.
Efficient is a term that can applied to one of many things. A company can be efficient at increasing yield in one set of things while dismantling quality, longevity of workers, morale...etc. Being an "efficient" human being, IMHO, means you take advantage of your emotional well-being and take care of it so you have the ability to be productive and produce quality work. I always cringe when I hear about managers who are looking at only one or more metrics like sprint speed, output velocity, issue metrics, or profit margins alone, one or more of these don't necessary imply quality. To the same extent, you can't be totally undisciplined that you are always distracted either.
The cost of support has to come from somewhere -- is either Amazon or Google generally cheaper for cloud computing? (I know ~nothing in this area). I could definitely imagine a market for both a cheaper service that's lacking support and a more expensive one that offers increased support.

With that said, with Amazon's efficiency in logistics, I could definitely imagine them implementing support at a negligible cost.
Not ready to recommend Riot/Matrix?
I think patents are anti-capitalistic, perhaps we should just get rid of them.
This is half right. The half wrong part is thinking that medieval people were inconsistent, painting a picture of brutes changing behaviour on a whim.

There are instead two aspects to consider: one cannot completely trust contemporary accounts, as these were propaganda. Written word was a tool of the influential and used as deliberately as today. The other was that the wast majority of time was rough but uneventful, so there isn’t much prose about it. We do have a glimpse of it trough official records tho, which are free of glamour and paint a quite banal view of medieval life
They should ask for their money back if their PR firm is planting negative stories like the OP and the one mentioned in the comment you're replying to!
%m and %M are even easier to mix up:

https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=%25Y-%25M-%25d%7C%25H...
Thanks I guess my new hosts file is working after all
> I like to imagine that the people that get annoyed with poor iconography are the same people that use Vim and other esoteric software.

Graphic designers and information architects aren't using vim. In fact, vim suffers from the same lack of transparency/discoverability as these icons do.
Check out activepower. They've been in the flywheel biz for awhile for data center power.

But they've been struggling for a viable business last 10yrs.

Area required and noise are big issues.
Why Is the Blockchain So Revolutionary? (Explain Like I’m 5)
While I dont believe in Tesla, I still decided to buy Bitcoin instead of short selling Tesla.
I said that GDPR will not affect much, other than a few companies that add up to a microscopic market share. Where's the bubble?
I'd argue the issue is that a lot of "native" apps are basically a webapp in a native wrapper on mobile (and desktop now - thanks Electron!).

I don't really know the best way to delineate what should and shouldn't be a web app, beyond a vague notion that my daily news rotation should be in the browser.
That seems like a distinction without a difference. If the bomb disposal robot had been remotely controlled to detonate the bomb it was carrying while standing in front of the suspect, would that be different in any ethical or legal way from a Boston Dynamics robot being remotely controlled to pull the trigger of a gun while standing in front of a suspect?

I suppose one small difference would be whether the bomb disposal robot in that situation was destroyed by the explosion it caused, since it presumably wouldn't be destroyed by shooting a gun (unless the suspect returned fire or had a dead man's switch on his own bomb). I highlight this difference not because of the ethics of sending robots to their "deaths", but the minor practical consideration of whether a given robot is considered reusable, that is, able to amass a potentially unlimited number of kills.
> free one-tap access to Google Experts for help with any Google consumer product and service.

This is huge. Together with having removed ads that scanned your e-mail from consumer Gmail, it looks like Google's consumer offerings could actually be changing course from "you're the product" to "you're the customer" -- or at least be giving you the choice.

Of course, you could always get a single-seat G Suite for business account for $5 or $10/mo. with 24/7 phone support too, but it was a little too complicated and inflexible for most consumers.
By the way, it's only on x86-64 that the CPU's multiplication instruction always returns both the upper and lower 64 bits (in two different registers).

On, say, ARM64, there are two separate instructions: MUL is the normal one that takes two 64-bit inputs and produces one 64-bit output (the lower half of the product), while UMULH ("Unsigned Multiply High") performs the same multiplication but gives you only the upper half. This way, in the common case where you don't care about the upper half, the CPU doesn't have to waste time calculating it.
A company I used to work for once tried to measure the productivity of developers by having a visible dashboard with each developer's amount of lines of code written (or rather lines of code committed to our Git repo). Anyone that knows anything about programming could tell you that quantity of code means nothing in terms of productivity and likely will make the worst programmers look best as a bad programmer will likely reinvent the wheel every chance they get thus having more lines of code that a good programmer.

Also, this company would repeatedly under-scope projects, go over budget and over the deadline in the design process, and then blame it all on developers when the project was behind schedule and over budget.
Steve Jobs is not dead and certainly not resting in peace aka RIP. The man was a Buddist believer. He is reborn as a bird or a stone or whatever. At least to me its inportant what after-life definition he believed in and gave it my respect.
Under Settings -> General

select Button Labels: Text

Life is too short.
Thank you for explaining clearly what article failed to mention. I assumed some of this, but not the whole.
I agree they should have done that as a stopgap measure, but we should push for security in all cases (e.g. streaming AEAD with STREAM or CHAIN https://github.com/miscreant/miscreant/wiki/STREAM )
FWIW thank you for that, even without PFS and no adoption it's at least interesting to see a more recent effort to work within the flawed existing email system but do a bit better then PGP. Like OpenPGP or S/MIME themselves I guess, simply made with something beyond 90s era crypto experience. Although even for something at that stage I'm surprised they don't have anything I can see about what the identities they use are like in the FAQ at least. That's a significant practical difference in PGP and S/MIME for example.

Now that I think about it there is also a modest effort to simply enhance the UI of the whole deal through transparent embedding vs as an attachment. I think modest efforts of that nature that are evolutionary vs revolutionary around existing installed base will like it or not continue to serve an important practical role.
The Titanic Compared with a Modern Cruiseship (image)
Not seeing the updated 2TB->$9.99 plan yet in Europe :/ Wonder whether this is just for the US?
Yes, that is clear.

What was the average lifespan for a wealthy landowning male who survived to the age of 20 and was a member of the Knights Templar?
His cars were registered, he paid the taxes, he just didn't put the license plate on.
I honestly cannot keep up with Google's constant brand churn. I have never heard of Android One. I'll probably forget what Google One is by next week, because it's just plans on Google Drive which itself was born out of Docs, and so on.
Design Systems
I hate poor iconography.

A while ago it took me a good 15 minutes to figure out how to mark an email as "unread" in the Gmail Android client. Apparently an envelope icon means "mark as unread".

The newish (within the past couple years) navigation icons on Android are great: a left pointing triangle, a circle, and a square. At least the triangle points the same direction as old back button.

Disclaimer: I do use Vim when SSHed into a server because that's the CLI editor I happened to learn and it supports regex search.
> As Stallman says, there is no such thing as „intellectual property”, at least not in law. There is copyright, patents, trademarks, etc., but „intellectual property” is an abstract invention.

Copyrights, patents, trademarks, etc. are also abstract inventions. So are most other rights and privileges protected by law.
> Where was Carmack when everyone was forcing us to listen to "web apps are the future of mobile"?

> He could have ended that HN debated instantly.

This is going to be difficult to hear, but online debates are essentially for entertainment purposes only. Arguments had on the internet rarely affect our industry as a whole. Arguments had in person between people of power and influence are far more effective, time efficient and can affect entire industries (even countries!) in profound ways.

No amount of technology beats face to face communication. No amount of technology replaces individual power and influence.
It was quite obvious to us at the time that Apple was planning to provide a native SDK but hoped to mollify third-party developers with "web apps" while Apple got their house in order (having barely managed to get the phone done on schedule).

As it happened, the reaction to web apps was so negative they ended up releasing their SDK hastily (which anyone who went through the pain of using it for the first couple of years can attest to).

One of the common mistakes people have when discussing Steve Jobs is mistaking what he said for what he believed. (We see this confusion constantly in the news, where "The Whitehouse believes" is used to describe something in a press release.) He knew how to stay on message, and he knew that saying "our SDK will probably be released in alpha form in a year and be somewhat stable in two years" was off message.

It's also fairly clear that if he had had a bunch of arguments about something and reached some provisional conclusion, he wasn't going to have much patience with an argument he had previously encountered and beaten to death from someone random.
If it had wheels, it wouldn't be able to navigate things like stairs. It also won't be cool and would just be a Roomba
Isn't this every city, everywhere?
Supreme Court lets states legalize sports gambling
Absolutely excellent!

SIMD-units of the x86-64 CPU are not discussed enough IMO. And every time they are discussed, I'm always blown away by their efficiency in solving some tasks.

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Full disclosure: I don't understand what you've done yet. I've just skimmed the article really quick, but I already have some questions. Hopefully you didn't answer them already elsewhere, lol.

* Any reason to highly-optimize "strings of length 16" instead of "strings of length 32" ?? The vast majority of your code uses "xmm" registers (16-bytes), but it would seem like it'd be straightforward to target ymm registers (32-bytes) instead.

Were there any particular reason why you chose 16-bytes instead of 32-bytes? Like maybe targeting AVX but not AVX2?? (Then again, I see a rare ymm register here and there... sooo... I guess I'm just a bit confused with the design decision)

* SSE4.2 has string-specific instructions. Did you look into any of the SSE4.2 string instructions to see if they'd help in your case? (Ironically, forcing you back down to xmm registers, since its SSE only. So kind of a contradiction with my first question, lol) I fully admit that I don't actually know how to use the SSE4.2 string instructions, so don't look into my question too hard.

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I'll have to spend some time studying your code and explanation. Thank you very much for the writeup! It will be helpful for my SIMD-studies. There really isn't enough material out there on AVX / SSE optimizations.
For a brief period, Windows 95 could run Windows 3.1 in a virtual machine
Yeah if they're using flywheels, I hope they're planning on putting them in the ground, under a thick block of concrete, far enough away from where people will be charging.
I'm noticing this more and more just lately.

Besides, knowing how to copy and paste doesn't really make one a _hacker_ no matter which way you slice it.
I'm more curious - as someone who works in Cloud Support - what kind of "Experts" we are talking about here. The Google product space is massive.
The plastic bags are made from can be recycled. If you're determined you can recycle almost anything. However, the bags are a total nightmare for automated or semi-automated sorting of mixed recycling.

If you give me 10 trucks per day of mixed soda cans and newspapers, I can build a factory the size of a small building that separates and processes them into bales of crushed steel cans, bales of crushed aluminium cans, and bales of newspaper, all three have recycling markets and I can sell them.

If we add "some plastic bags" to those truckloads my machine is now a nightmare. The bags will tangle with anything, and they might more or less at random "hop" over or fall into holes sized to match objects, the machine that sorts alumium cans can't handle them, the machine that bales newspapers can't handle them, everywhere is now "also plastic bags", and all my customers don't want plastic bags, their specifications are clear, a little bit of Pepsi or Budweiser in the bale of steel cans is tolerable, a plastic bag is not; One cardboard loo roll mixed in with the newspaper is tolerable, a plastic bag is not; And so on.

I visited a plant in Central London that handles their area's recycling - very noisy, very interesting, they said if visitors took away just one single idea from their visit that idea should be "Don't put any fucking plastic bags in the general recycling".
Not even slightly surprising given the shear volume of trash on most beaches and reefs in the world. As any fishermen, diver, or snorkeler knows, the ocean is literally full of garbage, and the problem has gotten exponentially worse over the last few decades. Tourists often don't see it because most tourist destinations have workers (or volunteers) raking up the daily trash load from the sand in the early mornings before everyone else wakes up, but if you get up at say 4am and take a peak outside your hotel, whether in the Caribbean or most pacific islands, you'll see the people raking the beaches for trash.

And then if you travel to developing Asia in particular, you see why it's such a problem to begin with. There is trash literally everywhere, their landscapes, streets, creeks, rivers, are like a never ending open garbage dump or landfill. Not that the rest of the developing world is much better, and frankly much of the USA is increasingly full of garbage, litter, and detritus too, though not nearly to the extent of China, India, Indonesia, Philippines, etc. But just yesterday I watched a group of US tourists visiting a stunning scenic vista and proceed to toss multiple bags of fast food wrappers and garbage out of their Range Rover, they must think the litter magically takes care of itself.
Exactly how much justice was there in Aaron's not having followed the unjust laws?

He was a kind, brilliant person, barely out of childhood, and his life has come to an end.

I admire what he did and I find the way he was treated criminal and deplorable. However, Its difficult to blame developers for not wanting to go to prison and/or be harassed to death.
Not just private prisons. The prison guards union has been one of the most potent political forces in California over the last 20-30 years.

https://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/07/us/political-gains-by-pri...
Not finding any details about it. Anybody knows if they'll finally be providing Linux support?
Yeah, I'm quite surprised by this, they're not just offering support for Google One but ANY consumer Google product? There's like, thousands.
I see what you mean. Yea, I hear you. There've been studies showing how attractiveness can shape the perceptions and behaviors of others, so unfortunately, what you're experiencing seems to be baked into the behavior of many people. I like to believe that not everyone is like this, but I'm not going to lie and say this doesn't happen...

:(

With that said, I do think there are some situations where physical attractiveness is much less of a barrier. I've seen some friendships grow from interactions on Discord for Pokemon Go, for instance. Those people may interact in person pretty rarely, but seem to have pretty deep discussions online. Same could be said for other online communities, of course.
IBM's state of the art computer technology was crucial to the efficiency of the Holocaust.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
I'm not super psyched to see 1990s crypto vulnerabilities used as an opportunity to promote hipster schemes that literally nobody uses. Virtually all modern cryptosystems handle this problem already.
You are right of course. I'm not a channer and basically follow Q loosely via reposts on twitter.

I don't read my horoscope very often either.
Do you cater to the UK market as well?
>Im all for giving the dead their rest, but Steve was in my honest opinion more asshole than legend.

Because he didn't pay registration fees? How well do you know people? The average person has done much worse than this.

Besides, "more asshole than legend" goes to some random asshole, not to a person that, asshole or not, still inspired millions, was several times "person of the year", and built the most valuable market cap company in history.

All that, and the worst that they say about him is that he was mean and petty sometimes, and didn't recognize his daughter at first. There are tons of major figures of history that have done way way worst things than that.

>Registration funds important things like police, fire, and public education. Rolling around town as a tightwad billionaire who thinks hes too good to pay for public services is beyond the pale.

As if he did it to avoid paying registration funds. And as if his fortune haven't been used to pay tons of charity and public taxes and build jobs.
No, I've lived in, remodeled, repaired, and torn down houses with attached garages. It's possible to build them so that the house in general will have problems before the garage starts causing its own problems. It's common not to build them so.

Also I never had an attached garage when I lived in Boston, Denver, and in the Colorado Rockies, so I'm not so sympathetic to this "oh, it's cold!" argument.
I think you misunderstood his argument. It was, "no".
It is odd; if these are targeting rural areas, surely they could just move the flywheels away from the charging station and connect them by cable. Maybe the cost of a cable capable of supporting that current is prohibitive?
As long as there's a guaranteed path of timely escalation for cases of data loss and account hacking/lockout, I'll be happy.
I do not recommend it, but it's very probably better than PGP email.
Julie Busha: “You never know what will disrupt your path”
I remember a fly wheel battery concept from the early 90's. Spin light weight tiny flywheels on magnetic bearings in a near vacuum and take advantage of the fact that energy storage is linear with mass, but the square of velocity. Put the flywheels in opposing directions and spin them really fast. If I remember correctly, there still was a bit of a safety problem: my understanding was if one of the tiny flywheels fell off the magnetic bearing it would rip through 9 feet of steel. Not great for a battery in a vehicle. However I don't see why you can't tune the amount of energy you decide to store, and the amount of safety barriers to handle catastrophic failure.

Makes me wonder if there is anyway to do something akin to a MEMS flywheel.
Would putting a vertical axis flywheel in a deep basement containment be a good start? Cap with rebar & concrete,
or steel like a liquid storage tank - depends on wheel material and failure modes?
I'd have no problem believing it really is a leave of absence. Almost everyone would be burned out after dealing with the intense pressure and really long hours for months on end.

I wouldn't necessarily take this as a sign he is planning to jump ship.
From what I've read, all of the types have different tradeoffs. The thinnest plastic ones technically have the smallest carbon footprint because there's less weight to ship around, the materials are easier to acquire, etc.

My personal reasoning is that there are lots of other (more significant) ways to combat climate change, but there's no other way to stop whales from choking to death on plastic. Then again, I could just be more emotionally affected by the tangible images of plastic pollution than by the more abstract notion of carbon footprint.
Many years ago I was working on "electronic performance support" tools for call center operators at a large retail financial services organization, and someone proposed we install software on every worker's computer that measured idle time, keystrokes, etc.

I was vehemently opposed to this on simple grounds -- we already measured everything about the workers' performance that mattered to the organization's bottom line (customer satisfaction, productivity, etc.) -- what did we care _how_ they achieved their results? Measuring the wrong things is a total waste of time and effort. It's a distraction.

Oh yeah, and it's hideous and creepy.
I think recruiters should actually start giving a shit about the lives of engineers before making demands.

- Actually try to get to know and understand a person

- Dont use fill-in templates

- Have some actual knowledge of tech (java != .net)

- Dont make offerings for positions I worked on 10 years ago during college.

- Dont be greedy.

To just name a few...