skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
US navy nuclear operators receive less radiation per annum than any other average citizen. Working inside a metal ship next to a well-shielded reactor actually results in a decrease in exposure. Many common real-world tasks give you significant doses of ionizing radiation, like medical/dental x-rays and high altitude flights.
People management is a challenge, but spear-fishing? It's one of the easiest methods of penetrating a company.
You learn something new every day. I actually had to look them up. It appears that they're unique in having registered a domain name on the same day that DARPA registered the TLDs.

ADDED: I do wonder if the date is fudged a bit. I suppose it's possible that both DARPA and Nordic network people were hard at work registering things on New Year's Day but I have my doubts :-)
Internal busses are precharged to $FF during Φ2 and then connected to one of the ALU input latches in the immediately following Φ1, during which the nodes are floating. This forces $FF onto the ALU input by swamping it with charge from physically larger nodes. A register (X, Y, SP or PCH) is routed to the other ALU input and decremented by adding $FF (-1).

Temporarily turning your bus into a DRAM to stuff a value into an ALU == living your best life
Does anyone know if there is work similar to this being applied to machine learning? It seems like there could be a lot of potential.
It is not a win for people who prefer not to be a “target”. I’d rather have irrelevant ads than targeted ads because one requires the harvesting of data about me and the other does not.
Yep, MIT also sold off, as I recall, about half of their Class A to Amazon a while back.
Efficient Switches in Biology and Computer Science (2017)
Yes, but the Holy Roman Empire is a different kettle of fish.
"Well, the defendant was clearly present at the time of the crime. It is clear he might have something to do with it, we just don't know to what extent."

That statement (unmoored from the climate change context) in its most literal interpretation says something along the lines of "the range of possibilities is from 0 to 100". I don't accept that 0 is in the distribution, and will not agree with any statement that can be most literally interpreted in that way. Maybe that's not what you meant, it sounds like it's not -- so great, problem solved. But as written, that is the most literal reading.
Ask HN: What projects do you wish had better documentation?
Inspired by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17399340, I wonder what software people are using or wish to use but find the documentation really lacking.
Non-physicist here - genuine question : do you consider, say, Feynman's pop books [QED and the like], Tony Zee's, Lee Smolin's, etc to be rubbish?
"Having witnessed"

Bull fucking shit. What a fucking cuck!
Go home weaboo.
It's not a bad deal, companies purchase physical servers all the time which are around 3 year investments. Plus you can prorate your reserved instances to larger ones for only the difference in cost.
Toward Psychoinformatics: Computer Science Meets Psychology (2016)
One example for me is iproute2 (includes the ip command, which as I've heard is the successor of ifconfig in Linux). Looking at the manpage right now, it seems to have improved over the years, but it's still lacking. For example, if you look at the manpage ip-link(8), there's a large list of possible types of link interfaces, but if I pick one I don't know like "ipvlan" and search for it all I'll find is a brief description saying "Interface for L3 (IPv6/IPv4) based VLANs". That leaves me with little idea on how it can be used. I've learned to use "bridge" and "veth" from examples I've found in the wild, but I don't think I would have from the documentation.

EDIT: Removed scare-quotes in word successor.
You should probably compare the band width not the carrier frequency; AFAIK cellular uses 5-20 MHz wide channels and can aggregate multiple channels.
What do you do in Sitka? I've thought and still think about moving up to northern BC (Prince Rupert/Terrace) or the Yukon, but I can't square it with the lack of tech work up there...
This sort of post was most useful in the days when the term 'NoSQL' was being thrown around as the silver bullet that would revolutionize one's business, and there was a significant knowledge gap between the domain experts -- who quite often weren't the promoters -- and everyone else. While it's still plausible that someone obtains this information for the first time right now, today the mystique around the term 'NoSQL' has more muted, the marketing has become more factual, and a fair number of people understand the different types of data paradigms (KV, document, graph, timeseries) that the newer offerings provide.

As it stands, this post is a brief comparison sheet of AWS's datastore offerings, with bite-sized anecdotes that hint at a valuable usecase. It doesn't make a particularly strong case for the necessities, justifications, and tradeoffs of each particular type of paradigm or concrete offering, but is instead a brief content marketing piece with just enough practicality to justify its existence and make its point.
Finds study...aka researchers hungry for grants publish anything they want.
This site has turned off retard detector.
> Don't we all want this?

Not me. I’d rather no ads, but if I can’t block them I’d prefer irrelevant ads to targeted ads. They waste my attention equally, but one does not require the collection of my personal data.
Oh oh, it's already causing a lot of confusion. Just check the 70+ comments in this thread alone hating on the naming and professing their confusion and it's been out less than 12 hours... and that is from a self selecting very tech savvy audience. I think you've got a problem.
Yes and no. They can go a long way by adding more/narrower beams from existing locations.
Flowslide: Revolving door for keeping two crossing streams of traffic separate
Personally, I'm not totally sold on streaming music being better for the consumer although I do have a subscription. I like to own any music I really care about.

That said, it's an easy statement for me to make given that I was buying music on vinyl, then CD, then digital downloads before there was much in the way of streaming. So, even leaving aside the vinyl, I had a large collection of owned music before modern streaming hit in a big way. I still buy things every now and then but I have a large core of older music I care about--which is the bulk of what I'm interested in.
Glad you liked that. Etymological explorations are damned interesting.

What did Thomas get up to?
Cooking at home is for idiots. You should eat outside everyday.

When you are dieing you don't want to leave without tasting any burgers.
Stumbled into this here and figured it was interesting:
https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/117400/what-is-th...

Specs: https://www.ribaproductselector.com/Docs/4/08634/external/CO...
.... I don't know if the FSB has the technical capability but the super cyber forces do(us and china).
Berkeley Deep Drive Dataset
Some of it involves tracing the originals in a fair amount of detail. But that it seems that just what he wanted: the exact picture with its essential forms in the same places and proportions, but with his style over it, making possible an A-B comparison. There is a method to it.
DHE protects against eavesdroppers, not middlemen.
Watch the Final Match of the Robot World Cup – Motherboard
I think this analysis is a little flawed. I can understand their argument against factoring in opportunity cost as this will vary widely from person-to-person (and is pretty easy to consider on your own), but they also don't factor in waste or cost of the tools necessary to prepare food.

For example, the article mentions that they used the cost for only 1/2 of an onion if the recipe called for only 1/2 an onion, but what happens to the other 1/2? Depending on how often you cook at home, how often you go out of your way to use existing ingredients, and how much time you spend meal-planning, you'll either manage to use the rest of the onion (which is pretty easy for something as common as onions), or it will go to waste. Personally, since I'm typically just cooking for 1, most of these end up going to waste unless I want to be eating the same thing for several days in a row.

This analysis would be more useful and interesting if it came with multiple "waste factors" for the remaining ingredients, from "completely used" (which is what this article assumes) to "completely wasted". It'd also be more useful if it factored in the amortized cost of maintaining a kitchen that's stocked well-enough with tools and spices to regularly prepare a variety of recipes.

For me personally, the difference in cost is much closer than this article. I will typically use all of the "main" ingredient, but additional (yet expensive) ingredients, such as spices, cheeses, etc. often go bad before I have a chance to use them again. I've also spent a significant amount of money acquiring the kitchenware required to cook at home. I typically don't eat extravagantly when I eat out; most meals are ~$15-$17 (incl. tax and tip). For some meals, I buy pre-made food at the grocery store (e.g. salads, wraps) that also come MUCH closer, if not cheaper, than preparing it at home would cost me if waste is included. Some of these can be very close to restaurant quality.
Payments and Alexa don't appear to be that way from what I've seen.
actually ...our grandkids. since baby boomers keep voting for deficit-financed tax cuts.
Turbo Pascal was beautiful. Never quite understood why the industry chose C++.
Just a side question... how could I have registered a domain name back in the 80's? What was the process back in those days ?
For anyone working with P2P WiFi I highly recommend the Salut Library.

https://github.com/markrjr/Salut

Thé Android P2P API is pretty difficult to use in general.
Users flagged it. HN's system works this way. It works that way on both sides of most divisive issues, and each side always cries foul, bias, and help-help-I'm-being-repressed. In other news, the system is rigged, the refs hate your team, and the mods are against you. It always feels like this when one's views are passionate and a call goes the other way.

This sort of eternal argument doesn't lead anywhere, and I'm not seeing much indication of good faith here, just battling for one side against another. That happens to be a continuation of just what we're asking you not to do. If you want to smite enemies, please do it someplace else.
From what I understand of anesthesia, you can be in a state where you are experiencing (and can even have slow conversation with the doctor) but you don't remember it. If asked, you would say you were unconscious through the procedure, but a video of the interaction would show that you were there with some access to both your memories and the present moment. When dosed properly, the anesthetic blocks the formation of new memories. Somebody very much like you and inhabiting your body was there and experiencing enough to respond verbally.

If you interact closely with people having psychotic breaks and other mental disorders, you can witness someone mistaken about the boundary between themselves and the environment. If you can wrap your mind around that level of malfunction, I think you will begin to appreciate that the very statement "the fact that I am experiencing" is begging the question. The abstract concepts of identity, self, perception, and memory are all intertwined and more nebulous than is comfortable to think about.
Stylus and userstyles.org.
The thing is I guarantee you the people without all this social media addiction generally have more interesting lives than the ones who do.
Oh, fair enough. Dang, I get those confused far too often for my own good.
Foreign buyers tax on trial – but B.C. claims housing crisis called for action
I have been a long time user of Tower, and am supportive of and maintain annual subscriptions for several pieces of software that are essential to my workflow. I am a software developer and I understand the need for a subscription model for certain applications and businesses. There is not a single application on my computer I have not happily paid for a license fee or subscription to if required.

I will not be purchasing a subscription for Tower. This model does not make sense for this application.
I wrote this blog espousing the opposite view, that you are better off with a unified database, here: https://blog.fauna.com/unifying-relational-document-graph-an...

And followed up about multi-cloud here: https://blog.fauna.com/survive-cloud-vendor-crashes-with-net...
The Romans used both north African elephants (now extinct) and Asian elephants which they got by long-distance trade.

Apparently the Asian elephants were larger; and besides I suppose India and Sri Lanka also had better infrastructure for catching and training war elephants than the Roman Empire did.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_elephant
Considering its been years since I've talked to anyone about church, let alone heard this kind of question asked, this would be a major culture shock. I don't think I'm the only person out on the West Coast who hasn't heard questions of that genre in years though.
Because TP only ran on DOS. C++ ran on diverse machines. C++ was also an open standard that anyone could (and did) implement.

I remember phoning up AT&T's lawyer to ask him if I could get permission to implement a C++ compiler, and call it C++. He laughed, and thanked me for asking, saying nobody else had bothered :-) I've always had warm feelings towards AT&T based on that experience.
"Regardless of how you try to rephrase it, the fact remains the same: the technology doesn't work well enough."

I don't suggest that anyone is looking to simply lock people up because of a 'face match' - rather flag an individual as 'possibly being someone' in which case this can be very useful information.

If for example they use it at border checks to 'flag' individuals, then a border agent can manually intervene, check the person's info etc..

So maybe that this not even possible to any degree of validity today, in which case 'the tech is not ready' ... but if the tech works to any measurable degree of reliability then it's possible to be put to use to reasonable effect - like anything (guns, tasers, DNA matching, fingerprints) - it has to be used properly.

Fingerprints seem to be a bonafide way to identify someone and can be used as evidence, it'd seem that facial recognition can't be used as evidence, but likely for other things.
That was my first thought too. Could it be applied to genetic algorithms? And from my quick review of the article, it seems definitely a yes. Genetic algorithms are asexual, so that's a check. The competitions just need to occur in pools with migration between the pools satisfying an amplifier pattern. Pretty exciting result, and I can't help but wonder if it will find its way into a number of fields.
One bitcoin
How valuable was it really to HP/HPE? It's a domain name for a long-gone computer company. It's not like HPE has a big business in legacy DEC gear.

Even if someone else can wring some money out of it with ads or whatever, HPE isn't in that kind of business. Even for a big company, $60K is still $60K if you can get it for something that ha no value to you.
For those who wish to put Brotli support on Microsoft's radar: https://windowsserver.uservoice.com/forums/310252-iis-and-we...
Oh! I only read the first thing you linked at first so maybe misunderstood. It does heat up a bit after but only seems 'visceral' in the way showing a bit of ankle is 'racy'. Then again, I don't know anything about the civility baseline of the list or people involved.
Could you disable your admin password? A stressful opsec story from Apple Store
I value it at $10 million in year 2020.
-> Nothing in Van Gogh's experimentation with or usage of Japanese elements looks egregious to me.

Can't read the article at work. But they hosted a exhibit on this subject at Tokyo where I saw some work of his. And this was my impression. It is closer to a "experimentation".
Ridiculously cheap power to me means 2 to 4 cents per kWh. I consider 11 cents per kWh (which is what Seattle's rates are) to be extremely high, especially compared to areas just outside Seattle proper.
I like Elon less and less the more time goes on, but it has little to do with much of the complaints raised in this article and similar pieces. Elon can't help it that crazy, rude, or sexist people gravitate towards him. He's a flashy tech billionaire, of course he has a cult of personality. We should focus more on the technology and the massive taxpayer bills involved. To all the people who raged at him for not 'reigning in' his 'fans': do you really expect him to be so kind as to go out of his way to make himself look bad and berate his customers at the same time? Let me reiterate: he's a tech billionaire.

I would also like to point out how the article goes out of it's way to mention that Elon Musk's crowd (I refuse to call them 'Musketeers', what vapid click bait nonsense) is full of "cis white liberals," in a clearly accusatory tone. What the hell is that supposed to mean? That they're all ignorant and hateful? Is the fact that there are shitty people on the internet somehow the fault of the white race, or is it just exclusively Musk's fault?

This kind of shit is what people talk about when they complain about 'social justice warriors' - authors publishing what amounts to rehashed complaints from Twitter and plaigarism with an underlying theme of "but think of the minorities!" Life sucks. Twitter sucks. Sometimes rich people suck. I wish it was better but this is not how to do it.
And what does that have to do with forfeiture?
Many of those were only grand and expensive because they were implemented with discrete components instead of VLSI. If the people at Intel/IBM making the decisions felt that one of those old mainframe architectures were worth purchasing, they could have put them on a chip just as easily as the whole x86 mess.

I believe that eventually happened in the 80s for some form LISP machine as an expansion card for the mac. Not sure about that though...

I think in many ways, PC architecture--especially the bus--was IBM's attempt at poisoning the well to give their mainframe lines a little more runway. Part of why Gates parted ways with IBM over OS/2 was how busted memory management was on the 286 along with IBM's relative indifference to that.

As for Intel, their problem was that they were physics/chemistry guys, not architecture ones. So many of their architecture adventures have been disasters.
Non-Truths certainly exist and can be proven as such. The truth is what remains. This process is known as Falsification.
I've seen it called the Zoidberg operator, too -- but I can see the gopher now that you mention it!
^ it would also solidly cover educational expenses and income loss, etc, in the event one wanted to change careers. One could move to the industry of one's choosing with that kind of cushion.
> but it should presented as long form advertising

Yes. I think these are usually tagged or labelled as "Sponsored Posts".
Can you recommend a good cost-effective kit/clock for someone to dip their toes into the field with? I've often looked at them, but when forking over a couple of hundred US dollars, a bit of insight into what's what would be ideal :P
Perhaps that is the difference. I don't float around and use different consoles. I would never enter have my SSH credentials on some machine that isn't my own, so would never get to the point of using an SSH session from a foreign keyboard, screen, and window manager.

My workstation and my laptop computer are my interfaces to the world for 99.9% of my interactions. Without them, I am not working. The only exceptions might be touching a KVM console on a server in our machine room to see diagnostics (otherwise I would use SSH from my office) or a lab computer where I'd only be running local browser or demos.
For pop books I've only read Brian Greene. I don't think they were helpful for learning quantum mechanics; the reader just stumbles through bewildering scenario after scenario and has forgotten them all within a week.
The Nuclear Bunker in Albania
I had the PC Transformer 1020 5.25 inch floppy drive and DOS emulator with my Amiga 1000 in 1985. It was cheaper than a monochrome PC and I also got a 1200 baud modem.
Yea, so Rich got popular by doing a rebuild from scratch essentially of a flooded tesla he bought for cheap. All in he completely restored a tesla from "totaled" to fully functional for about $6500
The borderline between those who can do something about it and those who are just "worker bees" who are or feel "stuck" with it is probably rather blurry.

Why can't a bunch of talented and experienced UI developers get together with university researchers to propose and test candidate HTTP-friendly GUI standards? (Let's limit the scope to "productivity" applications so we don't try to redo the entire Web.)

Asking others about it, UI "specialists" don't seem to care for what feels like job security reasons. That's just the vibe I get. It may be wrong, but I report it as I read it.

Those who DO care are often non-UI specialists who have to make a UI as part of the project but don't want to micromanage UI details that should be commonplace and road-tested by now being they are 30-year-old GUI idioms.

Re: a highly complex field where laypeople still think a 16 year old on a weekend energy drink bender should be able to push out a finished Facebook clone for $50...

Well there are probably some prodigies who just about could, partly because they don't have to scale up to gajillion customers just yet and don't have to support backward data/content compatibility.
Indeed, Go's position is that your style of programming produces fragile programs, and that it is better to consider the failure modes of each expression as you type it, rather than afterwards.
Yeah I agree with a lot of what you are saying :) Here in the USA, a college degree is pretty much what corporate employers use to screen out people from non-traditional learning backgrounds that may actually be good at the job, but don't fit arbitrary criteria.

And of course, nowadays most younger people have a degree, so employers have just started denying people for "not being the right fit".

Either way, if you can produce technology and code that other employers find valuable, then you can probably find work as a w2 or 1099 employee. But if you can't, then I'm not really sure what your options are, unless you have a ton of connections or money.
The speeds are theoretical and plummet as spectrum utilization increases. If everybody replaced their xDSL/DOCSIS/FTTx connections with 4G/5G and utilized them the same, the speeds would be terrible.

Restrictive data transfer quotas and the proliferation of free Wifi access make existing 4G+ implementations look fast.
With the caveat that integrated GPUs with unified memory can skip the copy.
Even though it is possible to treat macroscopic objects as quantum systems, the science of quantum mechanics finds it necessary to continue to treat them classically; it is an interaction of a quantum particle with a classical object that constitutes "measurement." The cat is merely such a measurement device.
Short answer: newer technology and network design

Real answer: money

DSL speed has an inverse relationship with wire length. The marginal benefit of VDSL over ASDL is almost entirely gone at 1km distance. Telcos that care about offering competitive speeds will install more VDSL hubs in neighborhoods to keep average length short. Or better yet they will install fiber. Telcos that rely on monopoly status to stay in business or think wireless is a more productive use of capital will leave DSL to rot.

LTE service usually comes with very low usage quotas and punitive overage fees or throttling. 150 Mbps burst speed is very different from 150 Mbps service you can freely use. Several thousand users have to share that 150 Mbps!