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Most people used TR for day to day desktop use. This really pushes it into the workstation segment. While efficiency is important, results are even more so.
Curious how this would work from a practical standpoint? Could planes fly through it? How high off the ground would the light be beamed? Could a boat pass through it's path?

I know absolutely nothing about this area so just generally curious!
>electric heating isn't as efficient

Ground source heat pumps have a typical efficiency of about 400%. You're moving heat from the ground to your house rather than heating up the air, so you get considerably more useful energy out of the system than you put in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_heat_pump
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> a country who still stones women to death for being raped.

Sounds like FUD. Citation needed.
I agree, I think grue and bleen were constructed so that green and blue could be redefined in terms of these new time dependent predicates to confuse the fact that the original colors are not time dependent. In math it is completely normal to write down some complicated formula of time dependent functions and get a result which is independent of time, otherwise there could never be energy conservation for example.

There are conventional time dependent predicates like a person's name that nobody has a problem intuiting that induction fails for (many people take their spouse's name after marriage or return to their original name after divorce). It seems like these predicates were invented just to try to confuse what it means for a predicate to be time dependent.
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I wonder if this is ever used in marketing tactics to disguise the amount of loss
And they'll do exactly that if you aren't logged in to an account.

The AP story is arguing that you should be able to have a Google account, and have a setting that removes all uses of location data anywhere. Google don't offer that. They do offer anonymous access though. Perhaps the AP should just use that instead.
> “These changes represent the new reality that all hotels have to face in their work to keep guests safe,”

"Now we have an excuse to violate your privacy and steal your shit we're going to take it and make you accept it".
Similar title, different book:

Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground
by Kevin Poulsen ISBN-978-0307588692

The story of how credit card hacker Max Butler was caught by the FBI.
AN-2 doesn't stall (with power on)... it just mushes and descendeds at a few hundred feet per minute. Emergency procedure is to just hold the stick aft and give it power. Almost like descending under a parachute.
Perhaps it would have been good to add “the reach of JavaScript”. Webassembly wasn’t around at the time of the post, but it’s a promising way to get there that’s actively being worked on.
Long ago, in the LaTeX world, people first licensed stuff as "not for sale" (or even "not for sale to the military"). Then someone wanted to publish a "How to Use LaTeX" book, commercially but basically at cost, with a CD in the back having a complete collection of software. They were faced with being unable to do so because some of the software was licensed as not-for-sale. That seems counter productive, to me.

That even applies to books: I've gotten a good number of inquiries from college bookstores asking if instructors can sell copies. They are worried that money is changing hands, when students buy a physical copy, and I am not getting any of it. I am glad those folks are looking out for my rights, but my point here is that "you can't sell it" is a more complex restriction than at least I (in no way a lawyer) thought when I first started doing this.
How do we know their sampling methods are correct? How do we know bots aren't answering these polls?
I run proxmox on my 16 thread ryzen and would love more cores.

I currently run 4 linux vms for my kubernetes cluster and a
4 core macOS vm with passthrough for my gtx 1080i. I have 64 gb of memory so the only thing stopping me from running my windows 10 and arch desktop vms at the same time is more cores.
What is messed up is asymmetric upstream in last mile access systems that have been built on top of legacy infrastructure. I fully realize the technical limitations in RF bandwidth in old copper cable plant for DOCSIS3 and 3.1 deployment. ISPs like Comcast, Charter and others have reasons to build things in a highly asymmetric fashion. But I am seriously disappointed that my home Comcast connection can do 220 Mbps down and is rate limited to 6.3 Mbps upstream, yet I pay $82 a month for it.

Active ethernet in a condo or apartment building in my same region is 1000 x 1000 for the same $80 a month.

Or Centurylink GPON which can achieve 300-400 Mbps upstream for the same price, in places where it's available.
Dylan from AssemblyAI here.

Right now we only support English, but are going to be launching more languages very soon.

We are also getting closer to launching a transfer learning API, so you can train your own acoustic models. This _could_ work for new languages if you had enough data, but we haven't done much testing around this yet. It's something that is definitely on our to do list!
As a Model S and Model 3 owner, I agree with this sentiment. Sometimes you need to make friends with enemies.
i am always puzzled by some of those down-votes, i thought constructive thoughts are at least welcomed at HN. The fact is at HN unless you are saying "this is a great idea/project and you're awesome" or be totally neutral, any other thoughts such as a constructive one, not to mention a critical one, will always or at least very likely to get a down-vote.

it's pathetic, grow up, listen to both sides, technical discussion has its merits, embrace it.

if you're only looking to "this is great" comments at HN, there is no point being here at all.

Yes, some of you will down-vote this, to make your day.
ThinkPad hardware and Apple hardware are very different, from a design perspective and also repairability. Similar specs maybe.
Heating water with electricity is three times more expensive than heating it with gas in my market (The Netherlands). That turns a monthly bill of 60 EUR for gas warming into a bill of 180 EUR if you just switch like-for-like. A 3:1 ratio.

Ground heat-pumps are being championed as a cost effective replacement for keeping houses warm. They provide a 4:1 heat:electricity ratio so have lower running costs than gas. They can also be attached to sun panels and can work with storage heaters (heat the water when the sun shines, use it when it doesn't).

Unfortunately pumps are expensive and very invasive to install in existing houses - you need to dig gardens up to lay the pipes and installation for an average house is about 15-20k EUR ($17k-$23k).
Why work with the hotel to reduce problems next year, when you could just hold the event elsewhere? Conferences move from time to time, and this seems like a pretty solid reason to do so. What does DEF CON owe to any of these hotels that should make them want to return next year?
It‘s funny. In Germany a handshake agreement between individuals is worth nothing but between businesses it‘s enforcable like a written contract.
FWIW, I believe the version they use relies on a version of MSVC where the linker is predominently single-threaded, and linking the final binary ends up as a significant proportion of the time.
Technically, they were running their economy by burning wood/fats/oils for hundreds of years. However, in the context of energy, what matters most is what's happening right now and the total sum of global emissions prior to right now.
Some part of the solution could be with city planning government officials. They could work to lure other different or complementary industries to their city/area. If the base labor skill set is similar but the parent companies are different enough, a downturn in one doesn't mean the city turns into a ghost-town.
Originally I always fantasized about such tech but the technology required to develop this super conductor then produce it in the volumes needed, just think of all the communication cables that have been laid just seems insurmountable.

I think the best bet is finding more storage alternatives that can be replicated on a large scale and don't require any rare earth elements and localized enough to not worry abut shifting political alliances
I heard that a long time ago and thinking back on it, I think it was due to the fact that most electricity comes from burning other stuff so the overall efficiency of burning something to make electricity (definitely not 100%), then transporting over lines to your house, then converting that into heat to warm your home is less efficient than just burning it at your house and using the heat directly.
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Sounds very appealing, but combine Intel ME with the fact that the laptop is made by a Chinese firm and the fact that Lenovo has previously snuck spyware onto its machines — I don't think one can really trust it to be secure, even running Linux.
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Aren't all touchscreens glossy and non-touchscreens typically matte?
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Are there any HN posters who manage fleets of Lenovo ThinkPads who can comment on their personal QC trend observations? I've read on forums that the QC is hit-and-miss these days; when you get a good unit, it rocks, but woe be unto you if you happen to draw a short straw. Every manufacturer drops a lemon now and again. But I can't tell if Lenovo is letting their definitely-lax QC on non-ThinkPad lines leak into their ThinkPad lines, or if we're just hearing especially squeaky wheels.

The recent trend seems to be if you want laptop reliability, you only select from the business-class product lines of the major OEMs, or Apple.
gold :) thanks
Does "Web and App Activity" sounds to you like something that would track your location, especially when you have a separate "Location History"?
No. Lenovo actually sells basically a matte touchscreen thinkpad known as anti glare(much better then the consumer glossy displays). They are fairly uncommon but do exist in the Thinkpad line. I have used one.
> I was going to say GM's Bolt/Volt since it was one of those 'best cars of the year'.

Barely available outside the US. There's the Opel Ampera, which is mostly a GM Volt, but it's weirdly expensive so no-one buys it. The Leaf is the world's best-selling electric car, for now (especially if you include its very close relatives like the Renault Zoe; I don't think that's precisely the same platform, but it's close).
The test results on Phoronix paint a rather different picture (i.e., the 2990WX being consistently and markedly faster than any other tested processor).

My initial gut feeling reading the results on Anandtech is that Window's scheduler may not be able yet to exploit the processor's architecture effectively.
Check your numbers. In that Blender benchmark, AMD is actually 58% faster (152/96), has 78% more cores (32/18), and its TDP is 52% higher (250/165).¹ https://www.anandtech.com/show/13124/the-amd-threadripper-29...

This means AMD manages to execute more work per watt (more energy efficient), and each AMD core uses less power than Intel.

¹ Anantech wrongly lists the TDP as 140W. It's in fact 165W: https://ark.intel.com/products/126699/Intel-Core-i9-7980XE-E...
Video editing or 3D rendering.
This reminds me of the Alan Addis case, where a Royal Marine went missing in the Falklands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Royal_Marine_...
You don't need magic superconductors for this; just high-voltage DC. The geopolitical problem remains, though.
Lenovo, come on, it's mid-2018. How hard is it to add USB-C charging? Hasn't it been around for like four years? Do we really need more proprietary chargers?
Inspirational app developer and Microsoft MVP who lost his eyesight 12 years ago
Ghost in the wires by Kevin Mitnick.
I can sense a whole batch of future lawsuits and court cases solely based on the legality or illegality of delivering subpoenas in this manner... I'm not a betting man, but I'll bet that in time a case surrounding this issue will reach the Supreme Court... That might give us some insight as to the legality/illegality of the method. And, even though that might be decided, there will still be the question of the Lawfulness/Unlawfulness of this manner given a specific set of Circumstances...
How is the aluminum mined and smelted? How is the tempered glass made? How are the other trace elements mined, transported, and refined? Once they’re manufactured, how do they travel to their installation location? There have been lots of studies on the carbon footprint of solar panel manufacturing. Generally, they’re considered to “pay off” in terms of energy production after about 5 years. (They have a 25year lifetime, btw)

In a world where the economy must be carbon neutral to negative, none of that manufacturing and transportation infrastructure can be run on fossil fuels.
I would love AMD commercials using Judas Priest's "The Ripper" [1] as music for selling those beasts! :-D

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lriWlHZAy8A
Not a book, but Person of Interest is a very good serial about cyber stuff & IA. Plus, more of the thing the team do is cyber-crime or gray-hacking.
Some people call that corruption.
While you are correct that they are not a one size fits all solution, would you care to elaborate to the specifics of this instance?
This is awesome and all, but even a used PT6 turbine is a lot of money. If I were the sort of rich person who could afford this, I'd be looking at turbine-retrofitted DHC Beavers and Turbo Otters instead.

For example the Viking Air rebuilt turbine beavers:

https://www.vikingair.com/viking-aircraft/dhc-2t-turbo-beave...
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There are some good open source STT solutions out there like Mozilla's DeepSpeech (https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech) that wouldn't be too hard to put behind an API. We also plan to open source more of our stack in the future so you can run it yourself.

Privacy aside, the biggest problem with self hosting these kinds of models in our opinion is the compute required. The really accurate models are so large, they require GPUs for inference. You could run the models on fast CPUs if you don't care too much about latency, but the throughput would be pretty low. Either way, GPUs and fast CPUs get expensive fast, so our hope is that by us specializing in hosting these models, we can offer you a price point that would be cheaper than if you were to try to host it yourself.
Wow, that's ridiculous. I love how the original stock photo is of a tablet (iPad?) and the Photoshopped laptop is in perfect focus, unlike all the objects around it. If you're going to lie, at least try to do a good job.
A Corona 1.3 benchmark between the i9-7980XE and the 2990WX saw, in that workload, the 2990WX 28% faster than the i9.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI9sMfWmCsk&feature=youtu.be...

Its power consumption was 19% higher than the i9-7980XE.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI9sMfWmCsk&feature=youtu.be...

Tom's Hardware saw a stock 2990WX at a lower power consumption than a stock i9-7980XE during a Prime95 "torture loop". Overclocked, the AMD part was higher than the Intel one, but only slightly.

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-ryzen-threadripper-...

Where have you seen that it has double the power consumption? Under what workloads?

Personally, I don't care about "weaker cores". If a system has 2048 cores clocked at 7 THz and it is 20% faster at my workload than a single-core CPU at 700 MHz, it is faster.

The fact that the "weaker cored" system is cheaper than the "burly muscly" single core system is a bonus.

Power consumption doesn't even matter that much either. It is the equivalent to a single 60W light bulb (or several of those new-fangled LED bulbs). Big whoop.
It's worth noting that this is a two-way street; GB sometimes exports electricity, particularly to Ireland when there's not much wind, but also sometimes to France.
Has that worked for you before?
+1 for r/Skookum
I would think that compilation is faster on the 32Core, but linking is much slower.
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As a personal fan of the crackpot theories of Stanisław Szukalski[1], these sorts of stories utterly fascinate me.

I mean, its hard to look past a flood story and not think "well, maybe we really will find Atlantis one day, zug zug .."

Not to mention .. The idea of finding tsunami/cataclysm victims by looking for diatoms is absolutely fascinating.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisław_Szukalski
Didn't they propose to elide the use of exotic matter with a Casimir vacuum.

EDIT: it says that in the wikipedia article too
I remember when we believed competition of ideas was a real thing. I have the impression this is gauche now.
> accurate to the square foot

Not sure where they're getting this. Which android phones are recording location with that level of accuracy?

My understanding is that, even with the latest Round Trip Time accuracy improvements accessible with Android Pie and 802.11mc WiFi, the best case scenario is one-meter accuracy:

"RTT measures the round-trip time between two Wi-Fi devices so both your mobile phone and your access points need to support the 802.11mc protocol. As you saw, RTT can give you very fine location estimates down to one-meter accuracy"

http://gpsworld.com/how-to-achieve-1-meter-accuracy-in-andro...
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AMD Threadripper 2990WX Linux Benchmarks: The 32-Core / 64-Thread Beast
They published this https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/2017-03/IpsosPA_Cr...

I haven't read it, but it appears to answer some of your concerns.
This is a distinction that doesn't matter anymore. Keyboards aren't controlling complex mechanical systems anymore (at least not PC keyboards).
So the ant in the universe where shoes have just been invented and people stop hesitating to step on them?

The scale between ant and human is large, but probably still smaller than the ratio power-wise between the civilizations with and without exotic matter. Might as well just call one gods and the other mortals.
Sorry, you're right.

It's Daniel Gackle who is personally responsible for the toxic Hacker News culture.

https://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hac...
I already have it set to not show any search suggestions since if I wanted that I would use the search box. I want it to not send the data anywhere if I hit enter (by accident, because I pasted what I thought was going to be a domain name but turned out to be something else) and it isn't a possible domain name or ip address. Not super high impact (accidently pasting a password I assume would generate a DNS lookup anyway) but it fells like a completely gratutious invasion of privacy when I have already indicated in multiple ways that I do not want to search from the address bar.
Just read Brikman's Terraform book and it was great! He's a clear writer and great explainer and I'd recommend it to anyone looking for a good resource to get started with infrastructure-as-code.
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Which is odd for a new SKU because the lenovo ThinkPad T480 I'm typing this reply on is USB-C based charging.
Doesn't LGPLv2 give explicit patent grant?
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If I were Pixar and was running one of these 24/7 then, well, it's theoretically possible that the extra you pay in electricity would make up for the lower capital price. But for a hobbyist running this at most 10 hours a week I really doubt that that's a consideration.

But more importantly, The Tech Report looked at task energy for the Threadripper in rendering tasks and found that it took less energy to finish a render than competitorys. It's power was higher but the time was shorter to an even greater extent.

https://techreport.com/review/33977/amd-ryzen-threadripper-2...

So if you're so serious about rendering that you're willing to spend thousands on a good rig for it there really isn't any reason not to use this boy.
There is a broader theory that the Earth has a lot of water in it, and is in fact a big sponge which sometimes squeezes itself, and sometimes these massive forms of water convert and to the surface in quantities which overwhelm us, the land and all, until some process unknown, "pulls it back into the core", sponge-like.

Its a crackpot theory, but I do wonder where things are going with all these scientists having interests in flood events and other crazy weather conditions.
> Android enforces permissions on Google apps too. I don't think that's what this is about.

Google Play Services is a "location provider" for a device, which means it offers an API to other apps with "enhanced accuracy". It combines a number of different signals, including GPS, WiFi and dead reckoning, to improve location accuracy.

To turn it off you either need to switch "Location Mode" to "Device Only" (up to Oreo) or you need to go to the "Google Location Accuracy" menu and turn "High Accuracy" off.
Suddenly? A large percentage of the industry HN's primary audience's jobs and its parent's funded companies are based on tracking data like this.
Lettuce is 96%: https://www.myfooddata.com/articles/vegetables-high-in-water...

Potatoes are a poor choice, most common salad vegetables are around 95%.
I don't have stats, but if you think about the number of phone users in places like India, China, most of Africa who probably had very little access to computers before it makes intuitive sense to me.
I quite like Lenovos charger though. It's the only one I have not managed to destroy in a year of owning a laptop.
We all know that novels are by definition fiction, right?
I wish more teachers of subjects like this had your mindset. I wonder if other colleges have some sort of requirement that the teacher push the book.
Not my experience. I've had stutters with Ableton Live on a 4 core machine with 2 cores still idling around. Ableton cannot multi-thread a single track (at least in Version 9), and if you're using a single-threaded VST that does not matter anyway.
A major milestone for the treatment of eye disease
not really a cybercrime novel, but really interesting for people in that business i'd say. Spy Catcher. That is written by someone in high position of MI:5 and their first 'science' officer. a lot of interesting information about spying which later really kickstarted cyber espionage / crime in a way...
Why not just beam it from space?
135W charger exceeds the 100W capacity of USB-C
I thought about this and I believe that diatoms get into the bloodstream during the drowning event, perhaps sometimes very violently, and thus find their own way around the salty bubbles that a dead human represents, until they settle on bone marrow .. a long path-way perhaps to you and me, but maybe diatoms and other such organisms are born to find the safest parts of the big, wide ocean ..
The complaints from tikhonj about verbosity are on point, but I think you're right about the shape of it. Other things being equal, it's much better to enable the type system to help you move checks further upstream.
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It's plausible that the computer would be in focus at that location as it is at the same distance from the camera as the main subject in the picture (and therefore shares the focus plane).

The transition is too hard though, and the screen illumination is ridiculous.
I think it’s worse than 10:1, because I often throw away written code before I commit. Also, even slightly complex lines may go through 2-3 revisions before even being written to the filesystem and compiled for the first time.
The CC "share-alike" option and the CC "non-commercial" option are orthogonal for exactly this reason.