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The problem usually isn't so much throughput, it's latency... and the speed of light sets a lower bound on that, unfortunately.
For some strategies, contextual information is helpful.
Eagerly awaiting the day when there's a simple test available to detect psycho/sociopaths.
Your assumption is that avoiding personal suffering or miserable beuracracy is the goal, that isn’t the point. Maximizing return on investment is the point, of course these other goals won’t be met.
It seems to me that my 2015 S70D expects me to be holding the wheel firmly enough to actually take action.

Mostly I just keep one hand lightly on the wheel when driving down a motorway with autosteer on and just give it a gentle squeeze or wiggle once in a while. If I use it on less good roads I keep both hands on the wheel in the proper location for taking control.

It seems pretty good to me.
Are these kinds of lane-dividers not painted with heavy yellow diagonal stripes in the US? Is the divider equipped with reflective material and/or lights to make sure drivers notice it? Is the divider actually necessary, or could it be replaced with gravel so people don't need to hit a concrete wall when they make a mistake?

I don't think a road like this would be possible in most of the EU. Autopilot needs to be fixed, but this road is also super dangerous and probably would not be allowed in the EU.

How often do non-autopilot cars fatally crash here? This does look like a bit of death trap to me!
I agree with everything you said except this:

> being able to know exactly how your car will react in all situations

If one depends on intimate knowledge of his own car for safety then he’s likely already driving outside the safety envelope of the code, which was written to provide enough safety margin for people driving bad cars from 40yr ago.
>but services that give you shell access to a user under a traditional kernel have mostly died out.

Shared hosting is alive and well, shell access is becoming more common to my knowledge.

>Hypervisors also tend to make it easier to divide system resources, e.g. by giving each VM a fixed RAM allocation.

CGroups. LXC and Docker are capable of RAM limits nowadays.

>traditional syscall interfaces tend to be more complex and thus have more attack surface than the VM<->hypervisor interface

A syscall interface is an assembly instruction and several registers that may point to some memory. The kernel is very thorough in checking the validity of such pointers (unless you use an ancient non-LTS kernel)

> give virtual machines direct access to (custom) networking hardware, rather than making them trap to the hypervisor for every send and receive.

Yes, VFIO and IOMMU have been around for a while. They do get pretty close to native performance (close enough for gaming atleast). It's not exactly new tech and full VMs with Linux images have been able to utilize full speed networking for a while now too.

Also note that virtio adapters are close to baremetal even without passthrough of the adapter.

>Anyway, unikernels can put everything from filesystems and TCP to threading and even page table management "in-process"; this can reduce the number of syscalls that have to be performed and thus syscall overhead

For all the stuff you mentioned syscall overhead isn't the driving performance factor unless you're google or facebook scale. TCP, threading, filesystems do spend most of their time waiting for DMA or other interrupts.

Page tables is usually not even a syscall and rather a interrupt from the CPU, the performance difference should be negligible.

> In other words, they shouldn't be compared to just libc; they're also taking over many of the functions of a traditional kernel (just not all of them).

It should be compared to libc because in the ideal deployment scenario there should be no difference.
I always feel bad when I throw away those supermarket catalogs full of offers... Whoever is spending time designing them, is massively wasting time (and ink, paper, logistics).

On the other side, enterprise software upsets me. Problems are usually solved through hiring rather doing actual work. After long sequence of 10 hires someone may actually get their hands dirty.
> Why can't the local government provide a transportation app that includes ride sharing as a component of that transportation system?

Probably because taxis and pseudo-taxis don't want to be commoditized. They want to steer users towards their platform, not be a part of someone else's platform.
That's irrelevant, nobody's talking about allowing or not allowing to participate, but accepting help while insulting the helpers, seems disgusting to me and I really find it weird that some people readily accept that while demanding respect and politeness in other situations. Double standards – that's what it is.
Which note taking app has support for linux and android?
Yes, MPI and HDF5 are still a thing and processing on a supercomputer is still orders of magnitude faster than the usual distributed approaches.

However applications would likely be science, engineering and finance.

All you have to do is go to a vendors page and check out the flagship customers.
> cosmic dust and comets smell like farts.

Just imagining a kid at a science fair having made that legitimate discovery but being dismissed by teachers
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You'll have to wait until either it's required by law, or a single monopolist covers all the transport modes. No business want to interoperate with competitors.
Be more ambitious: the solar wind is already electricity. Engineer vast magnetic funnels to direct it into storage batteries (or just position your storage at the north/south magnetic poles and let Earth's natural field do (part of) the job).
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I limit my intake because of the sugar content; but you are right. There are several club mate alternatives including bio mate, fritz mate and probably a few others that are widely available in Berlin and look and taste similar. I'm not very fussy about which I pick but I tend to prefer club mate. Like many soft drinks, a lot of the popularity is marketing driven of course. It's like pepsi vs coca cola. Always a bit disappointing when you order a coke and end up with a pepsi. For some people it's the other way around of course.
I doubt you should call embedded systems unikernels.

Stuff like the ATmega chips run the application barematal, yes, but they are cheap microcontrollers with 2KiB of RAM and no MMU. You can't run a kernel on that so your application runs bare.

A lot of the higher-tiered embedded stuff usually either runs a Linux kernel or DOS (and older) from my experience.
How is wasting a million dollars on unread social media reports „maximizing return on investment“?
My "home stack" is .net core, and ts+Vue if I need a gui. While I genuinely love and enjoy all the aforementioned pieces, I do not enjoy messing with webpack and friends, and every once in a while even Vue and ts reveal themselves to be leaky abstractions. I have high hopes for blazor finally providing a solid GUI alternative.
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This reminds me of past attempts at solving this problem like Greplin and Found.app that never took off for various reasons. I like that Pensieve is local-first and seems to be privacy-focused by being a local app. I hope you can find a sustainable business model and not need to store anything (even memories) on your servers.

Please add GitHub, Trello, etc. integrations that developers and tech types commonly use.

You know what would be cool? !service bang search options like Duck Duck Go has for jumping to specific search results.

A few issues I found:

* I created my first memory and I couldn't find it again. I then created a second one and only then did they both show up in the search results.

* You should warn the user if there is another app using the Option-Space shortcut

* Command-W doesn't work with the Settings window open

The app icon reminds me of the old Motif color scheme from back in the day.

Nice work!
I use a self-hosted nextcloud instance with the Note module. The notes are sync with Nexcloud between my devices and there is an android Note app. On my desktop, any text editor will do, but I'm fond of Emacs with Deft

Deft is an Emacs mode for quickly browsing, filtering, and editing directories of plain text notes, inspired by Notational Velocity.
It was designed for increased productivity when writing and taking notes by making it fast and simple to find the right file at the right time and by automating many of the usual tasks such as creating new files and saving files.
If the cost of multi-multi-billion dollar industry is backlash on the internet forums, that's hardly a difficult choice.
Posts that have been modified are well visibly labeled as "Edited", together with a history of changes, so there is no "sneak-editing".
Why should you invest in online food ordering and delivery business?
Sure, the NSA can arguably see every byte on every wire. But that wouldn't do them much good, unless they knew what to compare with what, over what time period. But OK, say that they had the processing power to compare every traffic stream with every other traffic stream, with time offset up to a week or so. That still wouldn't tell them whether Mirimir had shared something with someone else. Because we'd all be using Tor.

And about onion file-sharing sites. With OnionShare, you can create a site just for that transfer.
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You're not deceiving the customer. The problem is the customer depends on other inputs to make a decision. 99% of the time the decision has no rationale except social proof.

For example: If you went to buy 2 products next to each other at a store. They both do the same thing and same price, which do you take? The one that your neighbor bought or a random one?

For me whenever this happens, I most likely don't buy either unless I have a very specific need to get it.
> the fact remains that disclosing classified information is illegal in the US

It's not as simple as that; a few points:

1. The Constitution's protection of freedom of the press can outweigh any laws on classification, though the courts haven't said that.

2. The unauthorized release of classified information has many times been important for democracy to function, for government to be held accountable, and that is exactly the role and function of the press.

3. The classification of information is believed by many to be excessive. Much that is classified is not dangerous and doesn't need to be classified. I've read several examples of information classified to cover up government activities.

4. Classification obviously could be used to intentionally reduce accountability to the public. It's not hard to imagine a scenario where the President commits a crime, and it's covered up by classification. Arguably, this happened with NSA spying and CIA torture.

5. Until the Obama administration, Presidents did not prosecute leaks regularly, indicating that they were not viewed as dangerous. Generally, not nearly all laws are enforced; 'it's illegal' is not a threshold, or it seems almost everyone could be prosecuted for something.

> Had the reporter engaged in murder or theft while reporting, would there be any outrage?

Not comparable.
Sounds a bit panicky. But try converting the population to vegans..
There are possible alternatives though, like this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultured_meat
Absolutely! Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) also has this view, and I think it's much more true than the "once you hit 40 you get forced out of engineering and into management" meme.
> But we do know that when it fails, it fails in different

Oh the hubris of man. I am not even a Tesla fan, but still. "I'd rather have 2 of 100 people drive against a wall instead of 1 of 100 automatic cars driving against a wall.", that's what you are essentially saying, no?
The workers want no notice period.

The industry wants 3 months, so their benches are warm, and they can handle the buffer better.

How thoroughly one side has won indicates how thoroughly the power is held. One could call it legal enslavement.
I'll one-up that with Jacek Dukaj's "Black Oceans" - cameras everywhere; you're free to turn them off if you need some privacy, but if anything happens to you while outside the view of the surveillance network, good luck with your insurance claim.
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The police probably won't act on it since they perceive phone theft as small stuff. It might be up to you to get them to act. What country is this in?

You might try to get more information on who you are dealing with. This is tricky to do without tipping your hand that you are doing it. But if you can find the right person such as a landlord, or a parent of the culprits, neighbors, etc. who could exert social pressure (or not) they might (or might not!) be helpful. Really depends on the neighborhood and what kind of community it is, and who they are. Be very wary. Just ideas... take them with a grain of salt.
That and their stores are massive. In theory, it'd save me time to ask someone who's spent months working hours on end in the store. In practice, however...
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Or Obama trying to uncover who in the White House is talking to journalists.
Hi Neals,
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They should use color coded background on key words, using sentiment analysis. Then you could see the contrast without having to read all the headlines. (Though, "beg" here, for example, is positive, while in most contexts it is probably negative.)
> The TACC offered by most (if not all) manufacturers can't differentiate between the surroundings and stopped vehicles.

Literally every car I have driven equipped with Cruise Control and Collision Avoidance (TACC) hits the brakes and slows down to 20-ish km/h if it senses ANYTHING moving slower (including stationary) in front of the car at possible collision path.
If they can't help customers find products their store sells, why hire them at all?

A salient HN post:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17260911
Yup. Though I still don't think it needs a change in intention - i.e. more evil can still result from more power, more "machine learning with more data to assist and suggest to delight users", without any specific evil intent.

They definitely aren't better than most companies in certain corporate matters related to the employee experience (especially for those who are in one or more marginalized demographics), or in their willingness to be a defense contractor at all (back on topic for this news item). They also make plenty of product and PR mistakes.

Still, many tech companies are notably worse on many important issues: more willing to directly facilitate military weaponry and intelligence for lethal purposes, less top-notch at security, fewer and weaker privacy promises, bad at rigorously implementing and adhering to the privacy promises they do make, more in the habit of voluntarily sharing direct access to your personally identifiable data with third parties, less willing to tolerate employees complaining about privacy/security/harassment/workplace issues, etc.

Overall I think Google needs to be watched closely, forced to do the right thing by some mixture of internal external pressure, possibly split into 2-4 smaller companies, and needs to fix certain culture problems .... but I still think it's among the better of the large trendy US tech companies, alongside Microsoft. And GCP is awesome.

Disclosure: I used to work at Google, including the GCP team; my mention of Microsoft is based on second-hand information from people I know who do or did work there.
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Funny, I hate Concur. I can easily imagine how it could be worse though.
i had a boss battle with a home depot employee once. i was looking to have a small piece of wood cut, really nothing fancy, and it’s a service they offer or at least i thought they offered. i found the wood i needed and was over in the lumber section looking at the front counters. no one to be found, i browsed the lumber some more to see if i had missed a size that would be more preferable. i came back to the front counters and realized that this section must be closed (maybe i finally saw a sign or something). anyway, i look back at the very back of the store and notice an employee watching me. he was standing with his legs positioned wide and his hands in his overalls (kind of like a chicken wing) facing me square on. it was kind of a weird feeling the way he was just watching me. he never budged to come help. so i kind of started walking to the other aisle but then thought, no, i am going back there and asking. so i snake my way back to the very back. of course, home depot is massive. as i do that i have noticed the guy has disappeared, maybe behind one of the aisle ends. it was clear afterward he intentionally moved there to hide, and i snaked the two aisles to see if i would catch him moving more inwards into the store. when i finally got back there, he was just standing there at the aisle end, even looking my direction as i turned the corner. it startled me a little, as i didn’t expect him to be just...there. i said i was looking for someone to cut the lumber i had picked out. he said he knew and that he had saw me. so i said, well, can you cut it? he said no, the aisle adjacent to his had a forklift moving stuff, and that we couldn’t use his aisle which had the equipment to cut due to some safety protocol. i recall the forklift not being in use and not being anywhere close to the equipment. there was some other curt responses by him when asked could he not just make this extremely simole cut, so i finally just said forget it and walked off. he muttered some stuff as i walked away.

that’s not exciting really, but this moment sticks out in my mind so much. he just was doing everything he could to avoid customers, and in a pretty weird, awkward way. i eventually found a self-serve hand-cutting station in the store and cut the wood myself with a hacksaw.
I do for GUI applications. Building simple winforms applications is an incredible pleasure. It just doesn't get more accessible and quick than this. The one and only problem with winforms I encountered is its bad performance.

I made a freely movable and resizeable frame-less image viewer in C#/winforms for times when I want to view lots of pictures at once. (;
While it's true that contracts of adhesion are less enforceable in the US than other contracts, they're still very enforceable.

In particular, if there's some evidence that a consumer clicked a check box saying "I accept the terms of service" on a web form before submitting it, where a link to the full terms of service was offered and the check box was not checked by default, US courts will uphold far less friendly terms than German courts will.
The copyright proposal is from Mr. Voss, CDU politician.

He already tried to push a similar law in germany, somewhat successfully in that the parliament basically holed it out to be effectively worthless for what he attempted to do.

The reason this gets any support at all is because of corporations like Axel Springer SE (not to be confused with Springer S+B Media) which are the utmost cancer on modern journalism and media.

Of course, once it got through they managed to get delisted on Google News as a reaction and IIRC it took about 48 hours for them to cave in instead of demanding money from Google.

At the moment the CDU fraction in the EU parliament is pushing this and trying to pressure other parties into voting yes.

It should be noted that as in all governments, the EU does do several things at once and different interest groups may propose laws so the people who build up the GDPR may have no involvement in this.
Nice! Reminds me of some of the work at Microsoft to enable Eye Control for Windows 10. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/accessibility/2017/08/01/fr...
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IMHO it isn't helpful that anti-"copyright"-reform initiatives such as
https://saveyourinternet.eu/,
https://juliareda.eu/2018/05/censorship-machines-link-tax-fi... and now EFF use clickbaity, juvenile, and outright incorrect arguments, foul language, and lacking nuance. Am I an outlier in thinking that YouTube/Google and others should be held liable for willfully profitting from "copyright" infringement at a massive scale, yet simply find the proposed law very badly done and in obvious need of consideration? The elephant in the room being that there is no "media database" that could be used for content scanning; the entire concept is technically infeasible. The whole idea of scanning "uploads" stinks; why not requiring that works are linked to rather uploaded, or use HTML metadata to represent an asserted license/"copyright" weaver. Moreover, the law isn't aligned with press laws: it's completely unclear who is subject to this law in the first place eg. if you're hosting sites on your domain, or at your IP, yet others take responsibility and are mentioned by name for the site's content (under VisdP in German press law, for example).
I'd love to see signs of Julia growing in that space
Rand, this new business sounds EXACTLY like something I would want. Right now, it takes hours to figure out which blogs/bloggers to target in my niche.

My only concern would be: is this a one-off use product?

Perhaps if there was a sort of simple CRM to track relationships with influencers, it would make me come back more
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Also where do you draw the line?

I mean outside of DRL you still have multi-armed bandits which perform very well in industry and RL also inherits a lot from optimal control theory which is used in robotics etc.

It isn't that surprising that the cutting edge of the field still has problems - if it didn't then the field would be dead.
What do you think about the following potential additions?

1. "Pursue legislation and regulation to promote these principles across the industry."

2. "Develop or support the development of AI based tools to help combat, alleviate, the dangers noted in the other principles in products developed by other companies and governments."
It's primarily a reflection on the store manager's desire and ability to run a store well. There are two Lowe's in my area. Same demographics. One has lethargic employees and is poorly stocked and in disarray. The other one is neat as a pin.
It is not unfair, because the majority of "developers contributing to it" are on those company payrolls, 8h a day during a full week.

It would be just another BSD or Minix if it would be only university students and weekend coders working on it, and we would all keep using Solaris, Aix, HP-UX, Tru64, Ultrix....

As for security issues, it helps that Linus is against disclosing security bugs as such.
This is just another form of 'fake it till you make it', similar to Reddit's founders submitting stories until the site got off the ground, &c.
There's a lot of sunlight between letting pharma companies run rampant and having the FDA. One could imagine private non-profit testing and qualifications standards organizations along the lines of the underwriters laboratories