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> So what ATI did made it appear the GPU was stronger on average that it was.

Well, not really. It really did run Quake 3 at the speed the benchmarks were reporting. The problem was it got that speed at the expense of a drop in image quality, and a somewhat substantial one at that.

But if you launched the game and just played it you did get the exact same performance that the benchmarks were reporting.

> I remember seeing discussions about whether the kind of optimizations we see today are cheating. They sort of are. But why wouldn’t I want the faster frame rates?

Desktop GPU optimizations or mobile ones? Desktop GPU optimizations these days are not considered cheating because of 2 key points: 1) it improves the actual game experience (this is why reviews focus on game performance now) and 2) it doesn't impact image quality (periodically you'll see image quality comparisons to ensure both sides are still being honest)

The mobile things that Huawei are doing though are cheating because it does not translate into improvements in actual user experience or gameplay. It's tuning the thermal & power consumption to hit the throttling point at the exact duration of the benchmark. This doesn't translate in any way to any real-world improvements. Thus, cheating.
One of my interests for it is miniature wargaming campaigns. Where I really don't care how the city was built - just what it looks like before someone sacks it.
I did. Yes. Yes (or no, last question is worded oddly).

The post you link to in your post also says real-time ray tracing. The MarketWatch article says "ray tracing" at one point, then talks about historical ray tracing performance, so they're not saying it's new either, they're just not a tech site, and it shows.
That's a neat idea. I'm imagining a system based around a kind of decision tree of what different structures or districts could turn into. Each change adjusts the weighting for the potential futures of neighboring structures in the graph. Throw in random events like fire, invasion, etc that can change the map at a stroke.
or Unity or RPG Maker. Think about you want to build your own game and have tools like the Dwarf Fortress World generator as a starting point. This way it becomes much easier to create a lively world.
Missing just a lisp* system on GPU, which is a very interesting project for thesis
Microsoft is launching new Surface computers – but it probably not a smartphone
> Well I wouldn't call an excavator automation exactly.

go dig a trench by hand and get back to us.
Tbf in the US it's like every single company has a credit card they want to sell you.
The title is helluva misleading. AWS cloud became "The AWS" because there was already a huge tried and tested market of traditional computers (literally 99.9999% of modern computing is 2 bit computing). They sure can become the pioneers of offering large scale subscription based quantum computing. It is annoying how marketers will go above and beyond to generalize terms just to convey their point. I wish them best of luck and hopefully they will introduce quantum computing to an average joe programmer.
also blood!
That's not true at all. Scaling quantum computers is exponentially hard - each bit is twice as hard to keep coherent as the last.

And the higher-qubit demos you've heard about have quite low fidelity, meaning they'll need multiple physical qubits to represent each logical qubit.

When a problem scales like 2^(2x), you can easily reach an insurmountable barrier. I'm not saying they will, mind you.
Yeah, I originally thought this link was going to be about BS people say when they think they're talking about AI.
> they make the city vibrant, fun, adventurous, but they can't stay if you have to pay 1200€ a month for a decent flat.

But they can also leave and make another city vibrant, fun and adventurous.
Walmart Just Wanted to Sell Pricey Outdoor Gear. Then ‘All Hell Broke Loose.’
The GP was pretty clearly talking about PGP in the context of ordinary encrypted communication between people (like email). Keybase isn't competing with PGP for signing releases. In the field that we are talking about, PGP has absolutely failed to gain widespread traction outside a certain hard core group of nerds.
It's a de facto monopoly.
why the f didn't apple catch this behavior during review?
I did run mailserver(s) at home for a while in early 2000s.

Proved difficult when I once went on holiday as I switched it off and then it got flooded with emails (mostly spam) when I got back (from backup mxs run by friends). Had my ISP call me as worried my PC was on a botnet due to sudden traffic. Explained I was running Linux, and they immediately said: "thats fine then have a nice day". Thought perhaps they would need more detail but no. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

As others have said. Today's cheap nano-esque cloud instances (with swap disk enabled) on AWS and similar is easier to have running 24/7, and less risk it will burn your house down...
Links for the “AI Curious”
That caused increase in non synchronous communication such as WhatsApp.
DuckDuckGo have their own crawlers right?
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Google could for example work with the locals to actually provide good for the quarter. The google campus replaces a space that was used for venues at least some of the time. For example it hosted a Christmas market every year for a weekend. Not much, but a bit of community involvement. Google could have worked towards making things possible, but google has, from what I heard even managed to anger other tenants in the building by steamrolling their wishes (such as attempting to cut fire escape routes for others offices that went through their space) and has generally been pretty tone-deaf in communication even within the building. It’s certainly not a guarantee that things would have gone smoothly, but it would have taken some edge off. I know for certain that quite a few people in the building (which is full of startups and IT-focused companies) sympathize with the protests.
How so? It's just a way of representation. The power is still with the ISPs, backbone providers and governments. Power would only flow to the end user if the communication technology itself would enable him direct 1:1 communication to everybody else.

E.g. if everybody uses IPv6 China can still block you when you are located in their network. Not a single grain more power to you.
He uses F# because windows and teaching, i have seen him advocate to use Ocaml on unix systems.
A monopoly doesn't mean users don't have choice! Like the car manufacturing example, there are economies of scale that let Google build up external barriers and dictate anti-competitive behavior because of the dominance in the market. It isn't about user choice, it's more about website owner choice.

To play off the merged car company metaphor, imagine if 80% of all cars were Ford. And Ford comes out with an electric car that is really efficient (AMP), but it really only gets that added boost if every gas station in America install a special Ford Pump that charges cars in 2 seconds. And the gas station doesn't get any money from the pumps, but since 90% of cars are Ford they better install those pumps if they want to sell chips and soda in their little store. Otherwise, everyone will just use the gas station across the street.

But hey, no one is making them install those Ford Pumps! And it's great for Ford owners... until all the gas stations start to close.

AMP is bad enough, but having it influence pagerank means Google is leading websites to accept AMP or immediately lose Google traffic. And because Google is dominant in providing traffic to sites, there is very little choice here for site owners and no benefit.
Those aren't a representative sample of computer users though. Those are in fact the most hard core of nerds. If you want to take a poll of users, look at even keybase users (already highly biased). How many of them use the PGP key that they had to create when they signed up? I know I don't.
God's Own Cryptosystem
They used to, but now they don’t.
That this can be exported to SVG makes it useful for a number of applications.
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Entire MATLAB toolchain is a ridiculously overpriced relic, the faster it disappears the better, and it will. To a close approximation the only folks who continue to use it are those who are insulated from the market -- national labs, and universities. It annoys me because at places its a ridiculous waste of tax payer's money.
I wanted to use WireMock for a project, but iirc you can't mock streaming connections. Does anyone know a similar product that supports this?
> Yes, there are winners and losers with any change, but long-term we are far better off than we could have imagined at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.

This is a deeply ignorant statement that renders invisible over 2 billion completely disenfranchised people in the third world. Just because you don't experience the consequences - while you gorge on the bounty of human progress somewhere amongst the top decile of our species - doesn't mean they aren't there.
If an 11yo firm with billions in revenue could avoid having "much of a PR department", I'm impressed. Even one PR person would seem to be enough to avoid naming a product after a nationality...
Each of those points could have been made about Windows at the time (considering Mac), yet the European antitrust commission decided it was a monopoly and fined them. Quite seriously, if memory serves.

Where do those rules come from? Are they part of the official definition for monopoly? Why did the EC not deem them relevant (enough) when ruling against Microsoft? Why would they not do the same with Google (if ever relevant)?

Is there official reading on this?
Inferno and Limbo.

I don't share the joy of others for Plan 9, because for me Inferno is the actual end of the road, Plan 9's architecture with a sane userspace.
Owning an operating system means you get special treatment for your apps.
Google phones tend to use whatever the current high end SoC is. So when you see the same SoC scoring lower in a Google phone than on everyone else's phone is it really that the processor is slower, or is it just that Google/AOSP doesn't engage in benchmark detection and you're seeing the true performance of the SoC as a result?
Well, for certain classes of problems, it is certainly proven that quantum algorithms are faster than classical algorithms. And they're not totally theoretical pie-in-the-sky; you can implement a 5- or 16-qubit version of Shor's algorithm in IBM Q Experience[0] and run it on a real, physical quantum computer. The growing pains are in implementing quantum computers that are large enough to be of practical importance, and then building those systems several-fold larger for Quantum Fault Tolerance.[1]

Quantum computers are never going to replace or speed up every aspect of classical computation, but the idea of accessing them as a service for certain types of computation is probably not many decades off.

[0] https://quantumexperience.ng.bluemix.net/proxy/tutorial/full...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_error_correction
Sure it would. If it is sent back, please link to some proof.
The court of public opinion is fickle, loves to conduct witch hunts, is easily swayed by lies, and is mostly just a reflection of the biases of the participants.
It's hard to take your source seriously when they say in reference to conservative speakers on campus "In other words, they’re trolling." Apparently the free speech project being cited by the source you posted is quite biased on the subject.
Who?

I'm a leftist and pretty widely read and I've yet to read anyone explicitly advocating for state control of the whole economy. For pieces of it, such as Health Care or Education? Sure. For better regulation and wider redistribution? Yep. For municipal control of public utilities? Yep. Even for municipal or state level public alternatives to certain pieces of the economy, like banking.

For the whole thing, Soviet-style? Nope. I haven't seen this anywhere.

So who, exactly, is advocating for that?
Anatomy of an AI System
It was a terrible investment until they filed for bankruptcy and the stock went to 10 cents. Just because it went back up to a dollar because of everybody needed to close out their short positions doesn't mean the professionals were somehow wrong. They were making a killing, too.
Theranos style cloud quantum computing - run the simulation on classic and sell the result as quantum result.
WireMock was born in London, UK, so I doubt the author was aware of the connection. Or maybe he was, and it's tongue in cheek humor :).
Having done the work of observing langugage users apparently want an ordered map, were there any steps taken to add such a facility, or did efforts stop at letting developers know they were they were wrong by taking away a de facto feature?
I don't think that's how it works. You train your spam filter both with spam and ham and the sets need to have comparable sizes for it to work reliably.

So in your example, you'd train it on your patterns of behavior AND patterns of burglars. So unless you had a clear burglarly behavior, the system would probably not flag you out for just behaving differently.
> and that compromise is going to be necessary.

If only one side is compromising, it is not a compromise.
It'd be interesting to see a breakdown of what 'forms' of manufacturing are leaving the nation. Its pretty obvious that as trade agreements rise up and its more cost effective to move manufacturing to other countries with lower payed workers that the company would do that but my guess would be that higher(?) quality manufacturing still goes on stateside rather than in China or Mexico for fear of IP theft. So for things like high grade medical devices - MRI, CT scanners would still be manufactured here because of the knowledge and technology necessary to construct it.

I also think theirs a good Stephen Hawking quote I like to think of when people discuss how in a post scarcity world with full automation life will be a utopia and its something along the lines of "If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed,"
Cool idea and a great application of predictive machine learning. Wise to tie into Google analytics. Wonder how long until Google acquires them.
Not particularly imo, no.

A great (albeit maybe not as great as OCaml ;) alternative for web usage would be F# with .NET Core, which has become a joy to work with over the past year or so on macos.
IMO games like the Witcher 3 and elder scrolls do a much better job of that. Mass Effect tries to trick you into feeling like you're in a big world with freedom to move around, but actually it's a lot more like a Final Fantasy type game: each area is a small "town" zone with the same couple shops, adjacent to a dungeon you need to clear to advance the plot. I like the Witcher style much better. Here's hoping their new game Cyberpunk 2077 lives up to it.
I'm not a fan of Jio for multiple reasons.

Firstly, it used to insist on Aadhaar (the resident ID linked with biometrics) to provide a connection. I'm not sure if that has changed in the recent times and if it accepts other documents.

Secondly, as someone else pointed out here, Jio is an unsustainable model. While the prices charged by other telecoms/ISPs could go down a bit, what Jio is doing is creating a bloodbath where everyone sinks, including Jio. Jio already has huge debts. I don't think that bodes well for consumers, and would negatively affect how much things can improve in the coming years. This could result in a deep and long stagnation once all companies have no money and have huge debts. After all, telecom is a capital intensive business, combined with the operational expenses that are more specific to the Indian scenario (and not applicable in some developed economies) — like a competitor cutting the cables of another provider in a area and creating a mass outage, roads being dug without warning or planning to lay cables and not repaired later (sometimes resulting in fines to the company), etc.

Lastly, Jio is from Reliance, a big conglomerate that has a reputation of being unethical in many ways. [1] This may be considered as being compensated by some of the good that has been done by the company, but it still cannot be completely ignored. The 2007 Hindi movie "Guru" [2] is a fictionalized depiction of the beginnings of Reliance and about Dhirubhai Ambani (the founder).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliance_Industries#Scams

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_(2007_film)
soylent green is people
Savoy Ballroom (2012) [pdf]
Tanzanian mobile money app that works offline without an Internet connection
Entering the New Era of Intelligent Retail with  Custora (YC W11)
I have read some accounts of "burying the lead" but they were all about Flint, Michigan.
> While true, that issue arose because you restricted their types.

What I was intending to show occurred because I engineered the example to show it, yes, that was the entire point.

> Without the type annotations it would have worked just fine

Without the type annotation it would have been in an actual codebase rather than the REPL, and that codebase would have been typed.

> because the (+) function is polymorphic in the Num typeclass, and because literals are overloaded such that the literal 1 will have type Fractional a when type inference calls for it.

Which does not contradict my point at all.

> So in ghci:

Which works because (drumroll) both operands are of the same Fractional type. Which is the entire point of my comment: Haskell does not allow adding numbers of different types with one another any more than OCaml does.
I am always amazed at how HN takes little morsels like this and votes them up. The information presented is no more insightful or valuable than info found in comments or from the views of less well known or important people. Yet everyone seems to think that it deserves attention and some kind of added respect (which is all based upon what the person has 'achieved' if you want to call it that.) It's as if people seem to think that the knowledge is so significant that the halo will rub off.

So the question is to what extent does it matter what someone says if it's not their a) area of expertise or b) there is nothing truly remarkable about it in other words they are not backing it up with really solid examples based on long term experience?

Would love to be able to do a test. Take the exact same thoughts and unlink them from the halo and see what happens. Would expect exactly the predictable results.

I guess my point is also whether someone who is smart and has enough luck to be able to become wealthy deserves more respect than someone who is just smart and did not have the luck to have that success?
Look into pi-hole
There are a variety of them. Cookies are obvious, but even if you block those, there are a variety of techniques to enable server-side super cookies, where you are taking a fingerprint of the browser and storing the information on the server (e.g. https://amiunique.org/fp). And that's not even counting stuff you can do with no cooperation from the user-agent at all. You can do a lot of deanonymization using IP blocks, time of day, and behavior analysis. I'm not an expert. There's a lot of stuff here that you can read about if you dig in to it.

Personally, I don't believe that Google is doing much if any of this stuff, because I think they rightly believe that if it were discovered that they are, it would go poorly for them in the public sphere.
That is not why these languages are popular. Types are your design document in languages with expressive type system. So by design you can make it hard to make logical errors.
> PRIVACY SETTING

> network.http.sendRefererHeader = 0

WARNING: twitter.com does not work with this setting

default value is 2

Tested on FF 62, Win 10 Pro
There are whole companies that buy a lot of the donations from Red Cross etc and sell it for a nice profit.
It's a good question. Perhaps the answer is that we don't care about the benthic food chain? Perhaps the answer is that it will take a really long time? There's not much energy at the bottom to cause this degradation.
QNX reinvented under an open license might be nice.
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also let's not forget that getting a taxi in the bay area has always been a horrible, expensive experience.
Seeing "amp." in the URL meant that it's not a "full version" of the site. Google wants to remove the separation for the end user, so that all publishers would serve their content through Google Cache. And that's a big concern to me, since it means, the entire web will be served from a single company's database.
Map/Satellite and dozens of face-level photos for each project:
https://thewaterproject.org/our-water-projects

It's actually amazing in scope.
Zalando, especially the new office space close to the Lido, has been heavily protested against. The space has been squatted IIRC, but it’s harder to make news by squatting an empty plot. The space close to the Ostbahnhof is less contentious since it’s not right in the middle of a living area but in a newly built commercial zone.
The NYT anonymous Op-Ed represents a serious corruption of language
Uh, isn’t it widely known that every character you type in the address bar in chrome is sent to google? They wouldn’t be able to give you autocomplete results otherwise.
Do you have a source link where I could read up on this? It would seem that DuckDuckBot is still alive and well.
I would expect something more like iOS. Where you can only choose a file not a folder.

True that will limit what types of apps can be distributed on the Mac App Store. But I am okay with that. On the Mac, they can distribute their app outside the store. I would love to be able to tell my mom. Don’t trust any app outside of the store and make it hard to download outside of the store.
Its listing on the Mac App Store is accompanied a majority of lavishly positive five-star reviews.

https://threatpost.com/top-macos-app-exfiltrates-browser-his...

Can we talk about this problem? Amazon gets a lot of attention for questionable reviews but Apple hardly gets any backlash from consumers or the media.

I note on the relevant Apple page for developers (https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...) that the following guidance is given:

Ratings and reviews help people make informed decisions when considering whether to try out your app. Positive ratings and reviews can mean more downloads of your app, and customer feedback gives you insight into real world usage that helps direct future development efforts.

Delivering a great overall experience is the best way to encourage positive ratings and reviews, but it’s also important to ask for feedback at appropriate times. Keep these considerations in mind when asking people to rate your app.

Ask for a rating only after the user has demonstrated engagement with your app. For example, prompt the user upon the completion of a game level or productivity task.

Nowhere on that page are there any prohibitions against asking for five-star or positive reviews, and indeed, it's quite easy to find examples of high-profile apps asking for five star reviews, including Amazon (see example on the bottom of this page: http://leanmedia.org/amazon-removes-reviewer-emails-profiles...).

It's not hard to see the damage done by inflated or bogus user reviews: The unwary are more likely to download them, as is the case for this top-ranking utility sending browser history back to China.
Aghhh, what I wouldn't give to have experienced this :-) I don't know how many were ever "printed", but it doesn't seem like any resurfaced online - I guess that makes sense, given the nature of the thing!