skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Go is not magic, and does in fact pay for latency with throughput: https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/5j7phw/modern_garba...

> Go: 67 ms max, 1062 pauses, 23.6 s total pause, 22 ms mean pause, 91 s total runtime

> Java, G1 GC, no tuning: 86 ms max, 65 pauses, 2.7 s total pause, 41 ms mean pause, 20 s total runtime
GCP inherited the decision from google's existing way of setting up servers, and they'd been setting up servers long since... or are you suggesting GCP should have run its servers with a different tz configuration than the rest of the company resulting in even worse issues?
From criminalising we need to move to regulating these drugs so more people could use it and new type of products could come into existence while people who buy them get full disclosure of what they are getting into.

Linking Tobacco with Cancer was not a simple battle and was possible only because it was legal and people were open about its use. The lower tobacco consumption in developing countries was achieved because of regulation and not criminalisation.
Elon Musk, DeepMind founders, others pledge to not develop lethal AI weapons
I respect your open source work, but bashing Windows isn't going to help anyone. You're not going to convert anyone to Linux that way and you're not really achieving anything.
A little OT but how emojis work?

Does each device send a code, interpreted by the recipient device/platform with its own library of images, or do devices send pictures, received as is? Or does it depend on the platform? Is there a standard?
Elon Musk: “I apologize to Mr. Unsworth and to the companies I represent”
Sites have to work without.
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Really? For me it is, together with Emoji One and Twitter, part of the bottom three. It looks like an embarrassed smile. Twitter's version looks even more forced or mechanical than those from FB or Apple, and Emoji One's eyes give an impression of sadness (probably because the arches of the grinning eyes aren't horizontal).

Imho, on a more 3D blob (2.5D or isometric) Google's version would be best. But as they are, Samsung offers the most convincingly, emotionally happy one, but it does not really fit the 'grinning' theme. So the HTC's example is probably best, especially in the usually small format, though it isn't the most artful one.
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Ha obfuscation. The best way to get management off your ass to prevent hacking without actually preventing hacking.
Came here to say this.

Former employees of Apple I know recommend reapplying the thermal paste immediately after getting a MacBook Pro.
The i9 CPU is a K part, therefore, I would think one could conceivably undervolt/underclock in order to change the thermals on the machine to their liking. Is there such a tool for Mac OS X?
"but there's zero reason for a free country to police personal use of such things."

There are a lot of reasons.

The people on HN and their social circles are waaay on the high end of conscientiousness. They have nary any risk from something like LSD for the most part.

But - wide open and fairly unregulated use? Available at the corner store?

So many types will try it, more than a few times. Younger kids will definitely try it and I think for developing minds it's totally a no-go.

At least 1/3 of the population are very susceptible to vices or risky behaviours - in my 'very mixed' neighbourhood there are so many people who might be using it as part of their 'escape mix' (currently crack and alcohol) and consistent use of this stuff is just bad news, moreover, there's too many ways to have a 'bad trip' (in the psychological sense) even for those of us on the conscientious side.

Let's say I know 'a guy' who only did it twice but the second trip was so whacky he wouldn't ever touch it again and suffered a some of ego/identity collapse issues from it for a while.

Psychedelics are generally safe enough, and non-additive to the point where we really don't see a lot of crossover among the street level problem folks who's vices are crack and alcohol ... but that's because the supply/demand equation in the current 'regulated' scenario implies very little demand.

'Unregulated' almost means 'ubiquitous' and also much more integrated as part of 'accepted behaviour' in society, and there are just way, way too many people for whom this would be risky.

'Legalizing hard drugs' is kind of a theoretical issue because I think it's hard for us to contemplate what actual widespread use would look like, and also hard for us to consider how regular people behave.

More to the point: the regulations are not for you, they're for the 33%-ish of folks who have all sorts of problems.

It should definitely be decriminalized, to the point wherein anyone who wants to jump through a few hoops can have access, but I don't think we want to have widespread availability.

Maybe we might want to do an experiment in a city somewhere to see, but even then, I feel the results would be highly politicized, as they are with 'harm reduction clinics' ... it's hard to get at the truth of it.
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Yeah, there’s a standard defined by Unicode. See this link. https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html
Facebook's ant is really good tbh
> We host DNS at AWS, but servers in GCP. Should we use AWS's automatic DNS failover feature to cover for such a case?

Well, I would avoid any of GCP's 'Global' features, they are an availability risk.

AWS's approach is to rather have inter-region replication, and there are lots of new features that support this.
This article is almost 30 years old. No one pursued it because there's not a cheap and simple way of getting 2-stroke engine emissions down to an acceptable level.

ICE are far from obsolete, and will be in demand until the day we wring the last drop of petrol from this Earth.
Germany: Tesla customers need to pay back environment bonus [translated]
What’s a K part?
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Do you mean Doctor McStuffins?
Isn't saline literally just salt water?
Especially in countries with languages where there are no separate words for "net" and "web", which are quite a few.
I'll give you one instead of grand parent: to protect the company.

If you fire your CEO over an inappropriate relationship with an employee, the company may come out looking strong and principled.

If you fire your CEO over fraud, your company will look dubious at best and you can see your stock tumble.

An example of specifics provided for this EXACT reason: Priceline Group (more Bookings Holdings) being fired over a relationship in 2016. The stock didn't budge.
I've been out of gaming for some years but this reminds me of similar issues with PunkBuster. I'd spend hours pulling my hair out trying to figure out why I was being booted from games. The worst bit was, it didn't actually stop cheaters.
Sure, just look at the positive pressure I mentioned in the end of my post. If we took all the money spent in the police, courts, & prisons for non-violent drug use offenses, and funded totally free to use, no questions asked, walk-in rehab programs, I think that would be both a massive financial and massive cultural benefit. Throw in awareness programs, counseling, poverty-area involvement, etc, and you'd still be way in the black.

Regulating substances for purchase by minors is something that's well understood and much more agreeable. Getting it into stores and away from pushers (which can still be criminalized, just not the users) makes it much more manageable for the problem cases, and much more available for any beneficial cases (self-medication, etc).

Characterizing that everybody's going to start using hard drugs if they're decriminalized is really kind of jumping off the handle, too. People have few barriers to hard drug access as it is, where this problem affects us the most. Many value their mental & financial state and have seen too many negative examples already and abstain, even if they're a classified high-risk sort of person. Others use whatever they can get a hold of, and legislation is irrelevant to their use. Yet others dabble or use sparingly, like your bad trip example. It's a personal choice, not a legal one, that's already been made millions of times over.

Besides, consuming junk food, watching TV, internet use, etc, have none of these usage laws while having addictive and society-wide negative effects, too. The question remains why other behaviors "must" be regulated while these aren't.
NB: To be clear, Booking Holdings actually IS really principled about holding execs accountable to the code of conduct. It's something that I always appreciated a great deal when I worked there.
Every MacBook Pro I've ever owned locked it self down to low frequency after running a CPU intensive task for a minute or so.

I thought that was common knowledge? There's NO laptops out there that wouldn't do that (and NO mobile devices either). This is why desktop workstations are still so much faster even though they carry same frequency chips.
This is saline that you're going to warm up and then inhale. And you're only going to do this if you're already ill.

I don't think you should need a prescription for saline, but it's a little more complicated than salt water.
I think Twitter has tooltips for them, which is nice because I also can't recognize most of them. If I use them at all, I restrict myself to a smiling face and that's it.
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Hopefully some of you guys and gals will find this useful, either for your personal monitoring or for business costs.

It's my first use of Laravel Spark with Bootstrap 4 so please go easy on me!

Currently the costs are there to cover the outgoings and as time goes on the more people that join up the more the costs can get reduced!

Please let me know what you think of the product! (not if you think the concept is whack - it was born out of a real requirement so it fulfils that!)

Thanks!

https://www.fuelled.me/
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The standard is Unicode. The ant is U+1F41C. I have mixed feelings about emojis in the Unicode standard. Apparently this is a Unicode character 'PISTOL':

https://emojipedia.org/pistol/
I don't know where over-modeling fits in the argument. Business logic in an isolated part of an application is likely to age better than something that is intertwined with a database or other external dependencies.
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The Intel processors that have the suffix “K” are unlocked, and can be under or overclocked: https://www.intel.com.au/content/www/au/en/gaming/overclocki...
The problem is it's kind of a catch 22. It's hard to get drugs to work without early diagnosis and there's no real point in early diagnosis without there being drugs that work.
Oh you are right.

The OP still has a slight error though. C(20,4) = 4845 possible combinations of failing drives (4 out of 20.)

Therefore the chance a file is irrecoverable is: .97^16 × .03^4 × 4845 = 0.241% (not 0.3%)

But the OP's conclusion is largely correct: every customer will have some irrecoverable files.
Can you fire people? can you reorganize the team?
For real-time "twitch" shooters, gamers will never accept it as a solution. You can't beat the speed of light traveling across earth.
Yes, awful experience but the article is indeed great fun and very well done
We're talking about a laptop here, which most definitely doesn't contain an overclockable i9 K processor.
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Keeping things going when the user leaves with background transfers on iOS
That, and also battery life (and the extrapolated time left until empty) takes a severe hit when doing CPU intensive task for more than a minute.

Does anyone know if thermal throttling is so much of an issue for iPads?
You might already be familiar with it, but Robert Rodriguez pursued a very budget-conscious approach when filming El Mariachi.

Much of the approach is explained in the DVD extras to the film, but is summarised on the film's Wikipedia[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Mariachi#Production
So then it’s like Ookla Speedtest?
Calculation on quantum state is already spread in time. Each time you calculate something you basically take snapshot of the state. Then you do it again. After many trials patterns emerge - that’s when you start reading your answer - which is always probabilistic.
You can cache runtimes with IndexDB, no need to keep downloading them.
It's like a font. The webpage specifies "print the capital letter A in times New Roman font size 20". Your browser or app prints the letter as best it can.
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Sure, but the amount of throttling his tested configuration was running at was fairly significant.

Most laptops can at least run their base clock most of the time, his MacBook couldn't even do that (2.2 GHz vs 2.9ghz). The XPS 15 is considered a PC laptop with subpar thermals and even those issues only crop up during turbo, not baseclock (same CPU).
Laundering money means someone is using their own dirty money in a clean transaction, not further stealing others' money. This is all happening after the initial theft has taken place.
It is according to Intel (otherwise it would not be labeled as i9-8950HK): https://www.intel.com.au/content/www/au/en/gaming/overclocki...
You said regulations. Regulations are set after there is a problem. In case of psychedelics, it is a law.

If there is a problem, the regulation may be changed, and additional measures taken to get rid of it.

The main issue with these laws is that they are speculative. It is actually very likely that nothing would change much if at all, except number of arrests and related costs. Oh and reduced cut for the black market.

Psychedelics have been available and used throughout history with few problems in ritual settings.
(As opposed to drugs like opium, tobacco or alcohol which have always been one with few exceptions yet are less regulated.)

"Think of the children" is a cheap shot that can be used to set any number of odious laws. Show evidence of harm and how the law helps with it.

The real reason psychedelics were banned in the US is to have a reason to jail politically inconvenient people in Vietnam era and bunch of the world has followed the leader.
Anyone got a link to printed output produced by WordStar? I used it as a young kid on my Dad's computer. I imagine that most "real" users printed the stuff they wrote, but I've never seen an example!
Some ISPs might prioritize traffic to Ookla (or its mirrors) which makes the ISP look better than they really are.

With FAST.com you can see if your ISP throttles traffic to Netflix in any way, which is desirable for the ISP but undesirable for you.
I'm surprised that they don't mention that most of the ants are missing mandibles.
Yes, by BIOS I mean the hardware setup utility you invoke before booting OS. It is very barebones compared to what ASUS offers in their laptops. There are no advanced settings such as configuring CPU features, timings, etc. It doesn't really bother me, since I don't tend to tinker with those settings. But I dislike the trend of locking down hardware.
In that case, most lisp 'repls' don't satisfy your definition either.
In all fairness, the author did specifically say the target platforms for the article are Windows, OSX and Linux.

Agreed that portability beyond these platforms is a different story altogether.
Bring your own ip for Amazon VPC
Except fast.com doesn't as many locations as speedtest.net; so the best I can get with fast.com is ~250 Mbps, while speedtest.net measures 900 Mbps.
What I was astonished to find out is that insurers actually have people or departments whose sole job is to find reasons not to pay and how they cling to absolutely every detail, true or not.

More or less the same thing happened to me with a 6 months travel insurance. I had an unfortunate series of light medical problems that racked up about 1500 EUR. I was somehow lucky that I over-informed the insurer anytime anything concerned them and they pre-approved each doctor's visit. When it was time to get my money back, they denied the claim saying that I flew back home one month into the trip (and then left again) and that legally concluded my trip. That was, of course, non sense.

I wrote them a letter saying that if they don't return my money in 30 days, I will fill in a complaint with the insurance oversight authority in my country. They didn't so I did. The nice part is that this authority shoots first and asks questions later so in a few days I got a really passive aggressive letter saying they will be paying in full, that they already decided that a week before so there was no need for me to file the complaint (I was, of course, not informed) and they asked me to withdraw my complaint.
I was thinking about getting an XPS 15 soon so this gives me pause.

> Dell charges just as much if not more than Apple

Not even close. XPS 15 with 6 core, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD is $1500. MBP is $2400 for the same specs.

What I really like on the XPS 15 is the 97 WHR battery. I haven't seen any other notebook with this capacity.
I can still remember a few. ^KQ was quit, ISTR ^KS to save.
I feel you are conflating two things intentions, one is a
Government encouraging/forcing companies to make something (emission control/eu privacy laws/lower taxes on electric cars/develop a stealth paint) for the good of the country, with a country helping local companies achieve global dominance by funding them thru years of losses (who collects the profits when it succeeds?)

Both have government money going to a company, both involve the good of the country. Idk one is to incentivise companies to make something you need, the other is to establish local capabilities that is self sustaining in the future. I guess some agricultural industries fall into that category in western countries
I wasn't commenting on any one book, but observing a pattern about the entire series.
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Idk if you noticed, but with Speedtest.net often times you’re testing against an ISP-run or sponsored server so it’s hardly an accurate portrait of speeds with a typical service.
"Better grease" makes a fairly limited difference over standard[0], and it requires way more care if it's a silver-based compound (as that's electrically conductive).

I'm guessing their thinking is they want to avoid air at all costs, so requiring way excessive amounts ensures it will never be lacking, which they probably think is significantly worse than excesses.

[0] the difference in thermal conductivity between an entry-level thermal grease and a high-quality one is 2x~3x (entry level is ~2W/(m.K) while top-of-the-line might reach ~8W/(m.K)). The difference between air and a low-end thermal grease is 2 orders of magnitude (~0.025 W/(m.K) versus ~2)
The simple reason ICE's will remain in use is energy density, no matter how much you wish it wasn't true.

Diesel packs 48 Megajoules per Kilogram of Mass, Jet Fuel 43 and plain old wood does 16.

Accumulators/Batteries manage betweed 0.25 and 0.9 MJ per Kilogram, exception being LiPo which can do 1.8 MJ per KG.

ICE's usually can do a 30% efficiency, even in crude designs, so even accounting for that you get like 16 MJ per KG of fuel out of a diesel engine while LiPo even at 90% efficienty manages a 1/10th of that.

If you're weight constrained like when you want to fly an aircraft, there isn't much choice but to have a combustion engine of sorts.

If you wanted to replace an aircraft gas turbine (usually a turbojet or turbofan) with an electric one, you'd have to make the engine and battery combo that weighs no more than a jet fuel engine while having the same power output.

For raw numbers

A Boeing 737 MAX has an engine that weighs 2'780 kg. Two of them. It has a TSFC of 0.012kg/kN*s which works out to 70 MW on continous thrust. The fuel weighs 19 tons at full load.

So the electric replacement for this engine now needs to output twice 70MW of power for up to 7'000 kilometers of range. At normal cruising speed that's 10 hours.

140MW over 10 Hours is 1400MWh / 2.5 Gigajoules. The best battery tech we have will result in a 2777.8 ton battery. If the electric motor can do 100% efficiency.

2777.8 tons vs 19 tons. (If my numbers are correct, which should be the case)
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Uniflow forced-induction directly-injected engines also burn oil.
Example of a such 2-stroke engine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMD_567
You'd need a solid number of views to make that money back though! (billions?)
Why are the fans in my Mac running at full blast?
What Keller says is super vague. For one he's with Intel for only two months and obviously he isn't allowed to talk about anything remotely interesting.
If you think the reaction from telling people you've dropped acid is weird, just wait until you see the reaction when you say that you enjoy the odd spot of ketamine!

I think that for most people, the closest experience they've ever had with LSD or other psychedelics is the movies, where they're portrayed as this wacky drug that makes you see dragons and other weird shit. They've all heard stories about how someone dropped a tab and their trip never ended or how they became possessed by demons or some other urban myth that they heard from someone years ago.
The point was not to suggest that he actually did that. The point of my comment was to illustrate the incredible amount of wealth he has earned that runs counter to the idea that amazon can't afford to raise wages.
Very interesting, in this case there isn't just a different design or different appearance between devices, but it's actually a different object.
Off topic: "If there is one thing the world needs to do more it is laugh."

I always pondered about 'humor' being discouraged on HN being a GOOD thing, because it saves real good humor from reddit-like automatisms.
Doesn’t it measure from the same locations as Netflix is delivered? I think that was the whole point of the service?
This won't be popular here, but maybe the economics work against the experts. If most problems out there can be solved with mediocre interchangeable cogs much faster than with the available pool of experts, the cogs will win long term.

So far, reality seems to confirm my intuition.
The price increase for C5 wasn't worth

I don't know about spot pricing, but on demand pricing for c5's is about 15% less than the c4's.

If you look at c5d's with ephemeral storage they are still a bit cheaper than c4's.
Sorry, but that’s a preposterous analogy. Seeing targeted ads won’t harm me in any way. I don’t give a damn about this sort of tracking. You may feel differently, but I don’t, and am perfectly capable of evaluating the risks and benefits for myself.

What I do give a damn about is not being able to read some quality publications that rationally decided GDPR is not worth the risk.

Not a week passes without such a reminder that I’m now living behind the Great EU Firewall. I now live in a place where I need to use a VPN to access all of the Internet, for crying out loud.

And that’s not to mention the click through acceptances of terms an every fucking site, that’s “only” annoying as hell (which nobody reads anymore and thus GDPR changed exactly nothing in it’s supposed goal).

EU’s bureaucratic zeal made, via GDPR, my life worse, with no benefit, even theoretical, for me. So please spare us the lecture on how GDPR is good for us. It’s terrible even for consumers.
As was suggested below, what you mas actually want to do is inject untraceable money into a foreign financial system in order to use it later for some nefarious purpose.