skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That makes sense. I suppose the argument for this tech is from a business and product quality perspective, which I get.

It doesn't seem to have much to do with lowering the natural resources (water, fossil fuels) spent per calorie of food produced at a large scale, though.
Thank you. Spell check didn't give it to me and I was too lazy to Google it.
Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen talks a lot about how whitewashed, and classist history text books are, and why that is the case.

A summary of the book is that history textbooks have a tendency to avoid showing anything negative done by great American historical figures because they are held up as heroes for people in imitate. There is a narrative of constant progress that is told in the textbooks that does not match with actual history. History textbooks avoid talking about class struggles altogether, because if they did they would be labeled as Marxist. There is a general avoidance of discussing immoral foreign policy. The book backs up these claims by citing many popular textbooks and how they cover, or don't cover, historical events.

(The following summary of the book is my own understanding of the book's opinions and not necessarily my own. I haven't studied history enough to hold my own opinion.)
Usually the crazy part of conspiracy theories is that they invent a group that's doing something (Reptillians, the Illuminati, whatever), or describe something a real group couldn't possibly pull off (e.g. the CIA runs North Korea, the Bilderberg Group chooses who wins elections).

Which makes it very weird to see people level that accusation against claims that an obviously-real group did an obviously-plausible thing, like "this agency that exists to gather information gathered a lot of information". Or in this case "this PR firm ran several articles to affect PR". Sure, it's a conspiracy in that they aren't admitting to doing it, but why is that surprising?
Ask HN: Want to join a “HackersEscapeWinter” trip to Lisbon or Tel-Aviv?
Winter in (northern) Europe can be depressive - grey & cold. How about a "HackersEscapeWinter" travel group - spending winter in cities with nice weather - to be in a positive, empowering, creative mood - working on cool projects while exploring local hackerspaces & new cultures?
Since I already have such plans (& booked flights) anyway - who would like to join?
Oct 15-30: Lisbon
Nov 6-Dec 22: Tel Aviv
Feel invited - All the excellent hacker, maker, entrepreneurs out there who want to be around other open-minded, respectful, supportive fellows.
Especially people in the LGBTQ community, girlswhocode, people of color and all supporters for equality & safe spaces for everyone - would love to have you join me :)
Well, it was in January of 2015, half a year before the CRS-7 anomaly. Google and Fidelity jointly invested $1 billion on a $10 billion valuation. You can't have been researching this very carefully.
"We've had ways of doing multithreaded code that are easier to reason about for decades. They really do work quite well. Why people doggedly insist on pretending they don't exist is a perennial mystery to me."

The real advantage to Go in a lot of ways was just starting over again with a couple decades more experience with multithreaded coding, and making the community default to a set of those more sane concurrency primitives. Nothing nominally stops you from doing the same thing in a number of other older threaded languages, but you're trying to bootstrap a new set of libraries from scratch, and that's not just a neutral operation, you are actively fought by the existing bulk of libraries for your existing language.

It's sort of weird that sometimes it's literally easier to start an entirely new language than fix an existing ecosystem and I can't say I've necessarily gotten my head wrapped around it, but observationally the evidence seems quite strong.
It's an oligopoly, and the term that you're looking for to summarize "changes in service and price do not change utilization much" is "inelastic". Air travel is interesting, because I think it has a sigmoidal elasticity curve - there are a lot of people who simply must fly, a good quantity who will fly if it is affordable, and people who will fly any time anywhere for a cheap enough ticket.

This is why airlines have so many classes - to get the low elasticity travelers to pay as much as possible, while getting as many high-elasticity travelers to fly.
> Finally, Go doesn't do anything to prevent data races, which are the biggest problem facing concurrent code. It actually makes data races easier than in languages like C++, because it has no concept of const, even as a lint. Race detectors have long existed in C++ as well, at least as far back as Helgrind.

While it can't guarantee correctness outside of runtime (and even then, obviously only if whatever you are running actually triggers the race), a race detector has been part of the Go core since 2012[1].

[1]: https://blog.golang.org/race-detector
Very sad news. Dr. Lederman was an excellent teacher in addition to being a researcher. He encouraged lecture participation and making educated guesses (I had a freshman year class with him and I didn't even know he won a Nobel until the end of the semester).
I wasn't referring to the finiteness of the simulation, but rather to the fact that the notion of necessary truth (the box operator) is replaced by high probability. (I'm specifically referring to the modern modal versions of the ontological argument, which are not subject to Kant's objection.)
Doesn't catch everything, but it catches a lot: https://golang.org/doc/articles/race_detector.html
There's a cutoff around 135. After that point, most people will squander any additional intelligence.
I used to work on the server-side stuff for telecom devices. We designed hardware that went into customer homes, but only downloaded the (encrypted) firmware upon home activation as otherwise the Chinese manufacturers would have ripped us off and sold them to telecom companies without our cut.

So, realising they could copy our hardware, but didn't have our software, they responded by trying to hack my servers, multiple times, from the same IP they sent manufacturing data from. A quiet word with their management would stop it, and it'd start again a couple of days later.

These people have no shame, and if we are going to go for lowest cost at all times it is what manufacturers should expect to happen.
Apple's denial references that report.
"makes it more likely to remember the info" is a dubious claim, not an established fact.
> 1) in get_block, we can replace "dec count" with "cpy count" It should save one or 2 cycles, if I'm not mistaken

It would, but wouldn't it also set the carry flag? Thus the routine would always return with carry flag set.
> Domestic flights don't seem much faster or more comfortable than 10 years ago

But they are a lot cheaper. And that, it turns out, is what people actually want when they vote with their wallets.
Can you name a political system that didn't selectively rewrite or selectively teach history? I think of it as a spectrum, but very non-ideal whichever direction you look.
On the other hand, Newsweek was wrong about Satoshi.

My suspicion is that there are many cases where the Chinese government is actually trying to insert backdoors into things, and that in particular Supermicro really has been compromised by the Chinese government, but the technical details of this chip are incorrect. That explains why so many government officials are eager to leak information to Bloomberg, but at the same time the technical details don't really make sense.

It isn't really in Amazon's and Apple's best interest to lie about this. When Gmail got hacked by the Chinese government, Google was pretty honest about it. China has a lot of resources so you can't really expect companies to fend off 100% of attacks on their own; it makes sense for them to acknowledge this publicly and get help from the US government when needed.
Science can never "prove" a hypothesis - it can only disprove it. Therefore, a hypothesis that makes no falsifiable predictions has no business in scientific discourse. This is a point that non-scientists (and, unfortunately even some scientists) often get wrong.

Some on this thread have compared the simulation hypothesis (SH) to theology. The difference is that the SH, at least in its most useful form, makes falsifiable predictions, as shown in the article.

Theology, on the other hand, makes no falsifiable predictions. Christian theology takes this one step further by elevating "faith" to the highest plane of human being. Reason and disbelief, Christian theologies tell us, is the path to pride and Satan.
IMO while I don't know the term, what has happened is buyers don't have good transparency on what they are getting for their money, and as a result the market has hyper-optimized for cost. When you aren't sure whether the more expensive ticket is going worth it to you, people take the cheaper ticket.

The hotel industry sort of has this problem too- it's hard to know what you're getting- but the concept of "stars" helps ameliorate the effect somewhat.
Different operators use different LTE bands. F1 has FDD-LTE B1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 20, TDD-LTE B38, 40, 41.
> I understand the indignation

IMO this is not indignation, it's supplier sourcing 101.

> If you want the benefit of dirt cheap manufacturing, you need to have a system in place to deal with these practices.

I will definitely agree that holding suppliers to standards regarding consistent output, unadulterated products, and conducting audits all make production much more expensive.

But if you're a device manufacturer, these sourcing controls are key to shipping quality products.
Why would a simulated being expect to see atoms in their universe? Their physical theories would be a result of whatever experiments they can do from where they're sitting.

What's so special about our physics that we would expect any possible consistent universe to be built this way? Maybe we're being simulated in a vastly different parent universe with more available computational power.
There's not even a way I would trust anyone else with my most private data except me.
Who do you think pays for almost all of Go's development?
Facebook faces $1.6bn fine and formal investigation over massive data breach
Literally nothing matters until a human stands up and proclaims it matters to them. This show boating about "why does it matter? It doesn't matter to me!" Is antithetical to where things get "meaning" in the first place, i.e. subjectively.

In short, if it matters to me, it matters.
For most use cases of async programming you never need to touch channels and goroutines. If you build a webserver in go it will be highly concurrent out of the box. as a developer you just write synchronous code. here's a nice tutorial: https://getstream.io/blog/go-1-11-rocket-tutorial/
Well yes, typically you'd 1) configure IPMI to use the dedicated port, 2) put those ports into a VLAN with no outgoing internet access. But since this is BMC, what's stopping it from just using your management or production port to fire off its secret phone-homes and whatnot?
Gruber is like that kid that defends his older brother and it comes across as pathetic and needy
The article claims there is an email trail about this. Those communications could be leaked - that would make it pretty obvious this story is true, if it is.

There could also be simply a picture of the spy chip! It's pretty easy to have stronger evidence than this article has.
The amazing nuclear speckle
Comic Sans was ahead of its time
I'm very pleased with it for mild news reading, email, youtube, netflix, podcasts, music, and a few simple apps. The good: Great speaker, nice design, feels sturdy, always up to date with Android one, and no vendor crapware. The average: Performance, screen & camera, but more than passable at the price point. A full charge is fairly quick (2-3 hours) and lasts me 2 days with medium use.
An unhandled exception in the English language
I consider Go as a Modula-2 successor. It shares most traits I liked a lot with Modula-2. I prefer the C-style syntax to the more long-winded one though.
The familiarity is no surprise though, considering that Robert Griesemer is a student of Wirth.
Depending on who you ask it's either perfect competition or an oligopoly.
But then how would we know the value of a Nobel prize? I'm sure the University of Chicago economists would tell us that you can't have an efficient market for Nobel medals without such transactions.
This might unintentionally be, the funniest satire project I have seen so far!
What is "Ariel"? Mermaid language?
OK. So what's the minimum remote system management capability needed in a modern data center? The major cloud sysadmin people should figure this out, write a spec, and insist that's all that goes in. If Amazon AWS and Google wrote a spec for this, the manufacturers would fall into line.

Boards are shipping with way too much remote access capability.
It's not like you need to look at system busses via the network. You're not going to debug a broken board remotely, you're going to turn it off and replace it. Now that this is an identified problem, it's time to put IPMI and its ilk back in its cage.
Buy it from any Amazon in Europe:

https://www.amazon.de/Xiaomi-Pocophone-64GB-Dual-SIM-Black/d...

I can buy from amazon.com and pay extra for shipping from the US to Germany. It probably works the same the other way around.

As others have stated LTE may not work in the US though - without flashing a different modem at least (if that's even possible with that phone).
What transparency is missing? All the airlines disclose their seating configurations. There's SeatGuru. Google Flights even shows the pitch right in the search results.
Yes but you can also have it be an error by doing x/?0 using the latest code on master.
Which supports the point.
> Who'd ever trust AWS again with anything of consequence if it turns out the denial is false?

I agree it makes little sense to attack and deny rather than just stay quiet or keep it to a minimal PR blurb. But I think you're overestimating the amount of blowback they would get if they're lying. Most people just wouldn't care. It might be the decisive factor in a bigger company deciding where to put something new and them going to Oracle Metal or something, but I am really skeptical their bottom line would suffer because of this one thing.
The probabilistic argument can be made the other way:

All the information for a simulated universe needs to be stored in some form in the outer universe, but the outer universe would also contain information not used for simulation.

If we consider an arbitrary piece of information, chances are it exists in the outer universe only - unless more than 50% of the outer universe is used for simulations.

If 100% of the outer universe is used for simulations, than the simulations are the outer universe(s).
>Domestic flights don't seem much faster or more comfortable than 10 years ago, and service has arguably gotten worse as usage has continued to increase.

It seems like this is a result of an industry "normalizing." Once something becomes mainstream the quality usually goes down but quantity goes up.

Sure the Concorde was innovative, but the ticket prices were extremely high. In the 80's IIRC a round trip ticket was $1000 from the US to the UK. Adjusting for inflation that's around $3k for a flight.

Taking a quick look....today you can get the same flight from 35 different carriers, little slower of course, but for around $600-1000. As much as people complain about leg room and amenities I think most people care more about price and availability.
My thoughts exactly. Or at the very least, help fundraising with current and former university students. I am sure a lot of them would have had contributed.
I think it is a win-win for Apple and Amazon to spin it this way. They get to deny that they were compromised, and if that gets disproved they can easily say they were cooperating with national security operations and get away without any damage.
This is key, I think. People - myself included - have decided they'd rather be able to, say, splurge a bit extra on parasailing if it means an uncomfortable flight to get there.
No one should ever be putting your biometrics in the cloud. Similar to a PIN, they are only used to secure a device locally once you've already authenticated. So eg you prove ownership of your email + phone number to authenticate, then save the token locally secured by a fingerprint.

For good implementations, it's not a naive token saved to the hard drive but a key saved to the enclave that's initialized during first auth. To crack that you need to get sufficiently advanced malware onto the device so that it can break open the enclave.

These both are significantly more secure than a password than anyone can spray against the target from anywhere and are subject to reuse.
For those of ya looking for a good no-nonsense phone at a good price, get the motorola G5 or G6. Good stuff.
And in some cases, the source code is lost.
An Mvac takes two weeks to build, vs about a day for a sea-level Merlin. It's not just a different bell. If a sea-level Merlin fails (and this has happened, I think on CRS-5) the remaining eight engines gimbal a bit and burn a bit longer. If the Mvac fails the second stage and payload are lost. So the vacuum engine is built to far higher standards than the sea-level engine.

The Falcon 1 even went so far as to strip the most failure-prone part of the engine that could be eliminated, the turbopump, and simply pressure feed the vacuum engine. They called it Kestrel, but the combustion chamber and most of the rest of the motor (sans bell) was identical to the Merlin on the first stage.
I'm sorry you went through that. Though I've never attempted, I can relate to a lot of that. Certainly I've spent way too much time thinking about all of this.

I do think that everyone should be allowed a humane exit, perhaps after having to show deliberation over a period of months (agony notwithstanding).

Also, though, the phenomenon is worth studying. If we could figure out how to reduce the suffering that leads people to suicide, we should do it.
When you fly what is your #1 criteria? I would argue that for most people it is cost. For a cheaper fare people will give up a lot. If you want comfort then upgrade the business or first class. One of the reasons Concorde failed was the inability to get enough people to pay for speed.

Airlines will focus on what sells and what enables them to turn a profit.
The Vietnam War: A History in Song
your assesment is pretty imprecise.

AMLO has got nothing to do with this, he isn't even in office yet (though it kinda seems like he already is).

this is really just a proposed law from a state legislature.
Shared-memory threads are worse than async/await. I'd rather have GOTO than data races, since, while it might be hard to model in your head, at least it's deterministic and using it wrong doesn't cause UB.

p.s. https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-g...
iPhone XS resolution: 5.8 inches at 2436 x 1125 pixels.

Nokia 7.1 resolution: 5.8-inch at 2280 x 1080 pixels.

The notch gives them nothing here, in fact it eats up pixels they could have used to make the resolution better. At least the iphone screen is dense enough to say "eh, we don't need those pixels".
Did it occur to you that perhaps I'm not "pro union" but rather "pro (honest) worker rights," and that they're absolutely not one and the same thing?
It used to be heresy to speak against the church.

Apparently now wrong think against leftist dogma is the new heresy.
Good old 6 character identifier names. That really required some creativity, both to keep some descriptive value as well as to not generate identical identifiers by accident.
Doesn't look good then

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_frequencies_in_the_US
Spigen Details Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL Cases Ahead of Google's Event Next Week
The recent Erlang release (21) changed a lot of the internal interpreter structure with a nod in Mike Pall's direction. Just by shortening the typical opcode size down, they gained 20% speed boost. And the BEAM is a pretty good interpreter anyway.

JITing the beast has been a want for a while, but there are also other paths taken right now which can provide speed boosts, among other a translation of the compiler to use SSA-representations.
and no kinder surprise in the us.
I tried and feel this is crazy. I cannot focus on the content because my brain struggles in recognizing the letters.
Muxer, an open source event aggregator
Muxer, an open-source events aggregator build using React and Python. Everyone is welcome to contribute and earn contributions towards #hacktoberfest.

There are a range of labeled issues (https://github.com/apoclyps/my-dev-space) with #hacktoberfest for both React and Flask, however, we also welcome new ideas and contributions of all sizes so let us know if there is something you would like to work on that isn't listed.
Unless we’re in an infinite simulation like an idealized Game of Life grid.
SeatGuru is not run by the airlines and is not entirely accurate. It frequently shows configurations that will not match your airline or specific configuration.

If airlines wanted to be transparent and encourage competition, they would disclose the seat measurement config alongside the price.
Thanks for sharing this story, and I hope you aren't put off by the huge thread of people second-guessing your competence. We need more of your kind of story.
"There were 25,339 homicides in Mexico [in 2017], a 23% jump from 2016 and the highest number since at least 1997, the year the government began tracking the data." (CNN)

Good to see that the Mexican government is focusing on what's important.
The key is that there is a high barrier to entry.
The prices shown on airline sites and aggregators like Orbitz don't remotely reflect the actual costs after pseudo-optional fees and taxes.
>I don't know the term

"Market for Lemons"
The way Medicaid works is they'll pay for a nursing home once you run out of money. They also can claw back some related person gifts (or other transactions) that happened within the past few years.

If you have a lot of assets you want to pass to your heirs, but not enough assets you don't mind selling to pay for your end of life care, it's best to give to your heirs over the course of your life.

The downside is a substantial gift while the giver is alive has a paperwork burden, as well as a loss in the step-up in cost basis you get when giving after death. The upside is you get to see how your heirs use the gift and you can express your feelings directly, rather than through rolling in your grave.