skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Catalan too. Mancar. https://mdlc.iec.cat/results.asp?txtEntrada=mancar&operEntra...
Google has been accused of, and increasingly being found guilty of, a great many things: run-ins with the FTC (the Canadian pharmacy settlement comes to mind), to the DOJ (consent decree... companies rarely agree to these unless there's some there there), to artists being forced to list their catalogs with Google in order to have them automatically scan/take down copyright violations on YouTube (a form of tying IMO), to scraping web sites for the purposes of competing with them (Yelp etc.), to contractually eliminating any real competition re: Android (this was a story on HN in the last couple days re: finally something being done about it in the EU at least), to 'no-poach' agreements with other companies for employees and on and on.

None of this is unique to Google or even the tech industry: when a company gets an advantage, they tend to press it. When pressing it works, they press a bit more. They will continue to ratchet up what they are doing until they meet significant market resistance or are otherwise stopped. When you are able to use your market position/power to eliminate the competition and/or abuse your customers, the tendency is to do so when it helps the bottom line. Rarely is there an edict from the top that says 'go forth and do great evil', it's usually more a bunch of people in the organization being told from above 'hit your numbers', 'close the sale', 'get it done' (sometimes with an implicit or even explicit 'or else') and self-interest takes care of the rest. When you get the right mix of market power and greed, about the only entity that can deal with it is the government as market forces are no longer functioning.
If someone misled them, Tim Cook should be aware of it considering they claim to have multiple sources at Apple. It would have to a pretty big conspiracy for those sources alone to be tied to some outside attempt at disinformation.

Either that or Bloomberg is lying.
Yes, but some features are unavailable such as iMessage and probably iTunes DRM, which are tied to the hardware. I was very disappointed to discover this since I was installing OSX in a VM primarily to use iMessage so that I could type my texts like a sane person instead of pecking at a touchscreen sitting next to my keyboard.
I don't know about the subscriptions, but my significant other uses RTR one-offs for company parties and is a pretty satisfied customer.
I should add that when you don't serialize cross-partition transactions, you have the hard problem of system recovery - transaction coordinators need to reach consensus on a consistent set of transactions to recover. Here's NDB's protocol for doing so:
NDB’s solution to this problem was only published this year in Mikael Ronstrom's book on MySQL Cluster : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gAYQPrWCTEhgxP8dQ8XLwMrwZPc...
What is technical debt?
Time is a finite resource and we want to make the best use of it. Often this looks like taking shortcuts in order to get things done faster. At what cost do these shortcuts come? When does saving time start costing you money?

Check out our article to find out!
https://medium.com/superteam/what-is-technical-debt-55276d24b29d
I don't agree with the "journalistic process being hacked" as being the only line there, as it implies some deliberate power play by bad actors which would omit said integrity.

It seems plausible that it's more along the lines of "journalistic process being broken" for this type of article, that all parties might be acting in good faith and that there is some level of misunderstanding.
https://medium.com/superteam/what-is-technical-debt-55276d24...
Since GigaWatt doesn't seem to have working pods deployed yet, it's a bunch of buildings with really good power delivery and (I assume) pretty good internet access. You could move in any kind of computing applications. A competitor in the article mentioned renting time to AI researchers.
Yes, but if you don't have anything to say and you don't want to hear the things other people are saying, then what are you doing? Thus the remark that the radio was shelved.
Exactly. We created our own even store on top of a SQL database. It's quite simple to do, and it is blazing fast because it is custom built for our use case. It's an append log of every event, their time, their type, and some other info about them (account, user, etc.). The event itself is stored as json, and we can just use Json functions of SQL Server to query those for diagnosis if need be. We've also got failure reporting built in, and strict referential integrity for various other tables to link into the main event storage table.

It was actually a pretty fun weekend project.
> I thought that the current consensus was that races don't really exist.

Races do not exist biologically[0][1], but they do 'exist' as a social construct[2][3][4]. And I second your second sentence :)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrKrGkgeww4&index=4&list=PLy...

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/race-is-a-social-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_constructionism

[3] https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/05/what-we...

[4] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/without-prejudice/20...
Not good, but going from "native unexercised Mandarin" to "fluent" is a lot easier than suddenly having to learn a foreign language.
It's not that the information is irrelevant, it's that knee-jerk responses to leaked information may be worse than coordinated and planned responses to national security threats.

Shining a light on this too early (assuming this wasn't an intentional "leak") could be akin to applying antibiotics to an infection prior to actually knowing what exactly the infection consists of, and discontinuing the treatment too soon (we all know how short the attention span of our news cycles are).

It doesn't seem unreasonable to analogize fighting spy networks to fighting an evasive infection: If you attack the infection with a half-baked or inconsistent treatment, you risk just breeding stronger infections that are even better at evading you.

Maybe I trust the US intelligence agencies too much, but it seems likely that they know what they're doing here. And so far, I've seen no evidence contrary to my default assumption that they're operating in best faith for the interests of the US and its citizens in this case.
What they denied was that the servers were used in production. They also said they didn't find the firmware on the server as shipped from Supermicro, it was downloaded from their website [1].

>Update: A source familiar with the case at Apple told Ars that the compromised firmware affected servers in Apple's design lab, and not active Siri servers. The firmware, according to the source, was downloaded directly from Supermicro's support site—and that firmware is still hosted there.

Apple issued the following official comment:

Apple is deeply committed to protecting the privacy and security of our customers and the data we store. We are constantly monitoring for any attacks on our systems, working closely with vendors and regularly checking equipment for malware. We’re not aware of any data being transmitted to an unauthorized party nor was any infected firmware found on the servers purchased from this vendor.

>I also find it very interesting that the FBI, the one organization at the center of this saga who is allegedly investigating the spy chip, has remained completely silent, neither confirming nor denying the story.

That's not true. Christopher Wray, in a congressional hearing, said "be careful what you read" in a response to a question about the story [2].

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/02/apple...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/10/fbi-director-wray-on-super-m...
Looks quality!
They will do that because if you don't you end up having to powerwash the streets with bleach.

The worst part is that it isn't even about money. SF spends a huge amount of money on the homeless, but it doesn't solve the issue because many of those sleeping in public are unable or unwilling to accept that they live in a society and that it rules do apply to them, as well.

I don't much like Orban, but if a community does nothing, what you will eventually get is something like that.
> Intel is also forgoing hyper-threading on most of its processors. The only Core processors to get hyper-threading will be the Core i9 parts, and perhaps the Pentiums as well ... The other angle is one of the recently discovered side-channel attacks that can occur when hyper-threading is in action. By disabling hyper-threading on the volume production chips, this security issue is no longer present.

Does this give AMD an advantage with Ryzen and Threadripper, since AMD supports hyperthreads?
This is very cool! Kudos for giving back. I'm guessing this is an offline thing?
hydra is an iphone app, and it worked back on my iphone 4.
The current position of the speedometer is a poor excuse for moving it further from where the driver’s attention should be: the road. The distance and context of where the driver information is displayed matters a lot.

My car has its entertainment display roughly where the display is on a model 3. I can tell you that looking at the speedometer is much much quicker than glancing over to the screen in the middle. Probably by an order of magnitude or two. Even checking the clock takes a dangerous amount of time compared to checking my current speed, the difference is that drastic.

Further more, the instrument cluster is designed specifically to be easy to read and driver oriented, Porsche’s habit of putting the tachometer in the middle comes to mind. The center console has to support many more activities, including entertainment, and is thus much more distracting by design. This is true on my car, and the center screen is much simpler than a model 3.

HUDs aren’t exactly exotic supercar material these days. The Honda Accord Touring (MSRP $33k) has one standard. Now that’s the top level trim for that model, but it’s also in a much lower market segment than the model 3.
I'm comparing the i7 here to the i7 in my current computer, built in April 2011(!)

https://ark.intel.com/compare/186604,52214

Kinda though I would see a lot bigger differences. There was a time in my life when I expected I would have to build a new computer every two years. Weird.
Implementing Conway’s Game of Life with React – Part 2
Couldn't the money be used for mental health facilities? Toronto has https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_for_Addiction_and_Menta... - which I believe is publicly funded
I think minecraft with a lot of entities can be pretty CPU bound.
I agree. So, why not a JS8CALL app?

As I understand it, the real go-to mode for EmComm is still CW. Which implies very experienced operators. At some point in the future, you'll have more operators experienced with digital modes than Morse code. So...
The SSTV stuff was really cool, especially how well it meshed with a cell phone aka pocket computer. There are some real applications too, unfortunately it's kind of techy for ordinary people.
"Just write teh coad"
Are they still using YOLO for object detection in TF?
The hidden assumption that explains the grandparent comment is "conservative == attacker of the foundations of democracy" and being opposed to that makes you a communist or something. It demonstrates just how far the overton window has been shoved by partisan rhetoric.
If she can't retain it, then teaching it to her is not practical, regardless of how useful it would be if she hypothetically learned it.

A lesson the American school system could stand to learn too. :/
I agree that the list isn’t good. I would only expect someone to know that it permits constant time access to a maximum or minimum element, and that it has a tree structure. Actually writing an implementation I would not.

A class declaration with an API (and no implementation) would be rather simple: insert, top, remove, and a constructor.

I will say that I typically hear “heap” and whether it’s max or min is largely implicit in the task, so perhaps the comparator qualification is unneeded.
Or because you can finance it if you order it now.
Games with many different objects interacting with each other tend to stress the CPU. I know Factorio likes having very fast memory and CPU clock speed despite not being too graphically intensive.
Lack of tactile buttons was the defining reason I went with something else. Its unintuitive and unsafe, for an actual driver human.
By FT8 do they mean FT8 Call?
From Fedora 26-on Drivers have been pretty good. Nvidia card works great with the binary-blob from the RPMfusion repo, and no issues with using the Brother network printer.

Pre-26 I'd agree with you.
Are you saying TELNET is necessary because it is a protocol?
That might be the main difference. They would have considered the idea of "preserving your history" to be not worth considering. It didn't seem to be something they valued (at least in the sense we understand it).
> If each state is internally equal, but richer states have much higher funding, that's still a case where richer districts get more funding, just not one that's visible within any one state.

The U.S. isn't like the EU, where there are "rich" states and "poor" ones. Adjusted for purchasing power, the states are fairly closely clustered in terms of income: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vwpy8_glsgc/Vi5llZ9ZILI/AAAAAAAAIv.... New Jersey and Mississippi differ by about 25%, whereas Camden and its rich neighbors differ by 600-700%.

That means that if school funding within states is even, there is a pretty low upper bound on how big the disparity can be between "rich states" and "poor states."
Precisely. Hence my use of the phrase "otherwise full physical descriptions."

cleveland.com meant well and thought that this omission would help fix a problem they had, a high volume of blatantly racist postings in the largely unmoderated comments section of their paper in reaction to stories about crime. This solution did not work. It's as if racists aren't driven by sober and precise readings of the newspaper text, or something...
Is the 2700X that noticeable of a bump over the 1700? On paper it doesn't look _that_ much better.
At first I thought this was super unimpressive, not much faster than previous gen, often slower. Then I realized my own cpu is already 3 generations old! And it is quite a huge jump from mine to the new i9!
It has only been a few years!
Maybe in the US, trust me that when you met Spaniard people in place instead across the Internet your opinion changes a lot.
Most Spaniard regional countries have a very strong identity since the Middle Ages, and a lot of them before even Rome.
I am just starting to develop web apps. Is [JAMStack](https://jamstack.org) + Lambda functions (AWS Lambda) a good place to start with?

Since Lambda functions are similar to microservices, I am now confused if I should stick to simpler backends or full stack instead of JAMStack.
No, those are largely myths and where they are true are in places without large homeless populations. We are talking about homelessness in San Francisco which is primarily caused by zoning issues, gentrification, and similar issues.

> ... which make them unable (financially or otherwise) to either rent housing in the open market or take advantage of publicly operated or subsidized housing.

This is made easier when there is more housing available.
(Author here)

> Changing the word to something else doesn't actually make the problem easier to solve.

This is true, but what exactly is 'the problem' in the first place? Framing makes a difference. Do we assume we are designing 'units' that communicate with each other or are there other ways to think about the system?

Is the unit of design also the unit of update? What about cross unit parameters - if we want to change a parameter that affects multiple units, do we need to rebuild them and reinstall them in our network of units? Or can we have a projection of our system that shows this parameter as a single update-able cell? What if this parameter is derived (i.e. not something you fed in as a constant but something that represents emergent behavior)?

I'm imagining projectional editing of the system above, now can we consider the original 'units' just as one possible projection of the system - one lens we can view and update the system through? One view of the system (communicating units) doesn't have to be the primary view anymore. Can I project and 'emergent program' - a composition of various units, but only the slices that I'm interested in? Can I update this in place and affect system behavior?

I find thinking of these as systems helps me ask these questions, while thinking about 'programs' leads to different questions such as - are the 'statically typed', how do they communicate, and so on. It has more to do with the common connotations of the word 'program'. The concerns here are broader than 'standard ways of communicating' between individually designed units.
4-sticks of RAM is cost-prohibitive for a lot of builds. Heck, a lot of laptops still ship with only 1-stick of RAM for cost-saving purposes.

2-memory channels is what is expected on a normal, consumer platform. Especially since DDR4 effectively doubled the bandwidth from DDR3 anyway.

In effect: DDR4 2-channels is roughly the same speed as DDR3 4-channels. So that's how RAM scales: it gets faster without necessarily needing more sticks.

In two or so years, DDR5 is going to double-bandwidth again. So 2-channel DDR5 will be the same bandwidth as 4-channel DDR4.

Latencies are all going to be the same though, but that's the nature of the technology.

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If you need 4-channels of RAM, x299 exists (and x399 for AMD Threadripper). If you need 6-channels, you got Xeon Scalable, 8-channels got EPYC, 12-channels (or more) for higher-end Xeons. So these high-end systems exist for people who need them.

But most consumers are fine with the ~40GB/s speeds that 2-sticks of modern DDR4 get you today.
If you're just using your handset as a hand mic for what is basically Skype, yeah that's not all that exciting.

As far as I understand, VoIP links for radio primarily adds a tool in the toolbox for expanding & linking repeater networks. Instead of beaming your local repeater over the mountain range to get to the next village, you can link two repeaters over VoIP.
In the past, these Bloomberg reporters have misreported on NSA exploiting Heartbleed. Here is the Washington Post giving them shit about it:[1]

As for the 2016 incident, read Apple's denial more closely. They denied finding infected firmware on servers purchased from SuperMicro. What happened is someone in the design lab (not in production) downloaded infected firmware from SM's support site, where it was "still hosted".[2] While you might say Apple could have been clearer at the time, that is nothing like the very strong, clear, detailed denials at hand here.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2014/04/...

[2] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/02/apple...
The point is that low income people do not need a capital gains tax optimization strategy, because the tax is already 0.
> Some people have even become fluent in a language they only recalled a pidgin vocabulary from before.

I wonder if could use this to learn languages more effectively. This kind of changes after a trauma shows that we remember more than we think.
If you read the The Information article[1], an Apple spokesperson says that Apple was “not aware of...infected firmware found on the servers purchased from this vendor”, but they’re not really denying that there was some kind of incident.

1: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-severed-ties-w...
He utterly loses the confidence of his shareholders and customers, and probably leaves Apple. I don’t know if this story is true or not, but I doubt he’s going to be in a position to be proven outright wrong. I’d he were, I think he’d be keeping shtum.
just getting the data to the gpu in a game can use quite a bit of cpu power.

as well competitive gamers want ~140+ FPS so even when gameplay code is not super complex per frame, it is a lot of frames.
I rarely post and mostly ready or comment but found this as interesting start up story. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Some newcomers start out on VHF/UHF repeaters

I'm not close to the hobby but it seems like newcomers are specifically recommended to start out with VHF/UHF voice, equipment being simple & inexpensive, and voice being intuitive.
Are you familiar with Ramit Sethi, from https://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/ ? He has shifted a bit from a blog about financial advice but has years of entries in the blog (and a book from a few years ago).
I find it amusing how this seems to be a very common response to this sort of Ask HN question. If you want something right, you gotta do it yourself!

Here's mine: https://github.com/upvalue/meditations

It also supports habits and notes, but in mine the tasks and habits are combined. I'd like to go further like you have in combining the notes and task interfaces (right now it's basically two separate apps that happen to be in the same codebase + database).
Ask HN: Great Android / Kotlin Blogs/Podcasts?
While we are discussing popular blogs for iOS, what are great blogs for Android?

I personally love Fragmented podcast.
Why would you type just part of the quote from Apple?

"Our best guess is that they are confusing their story with a previously-reported 2016 incident in which we discovered an infected driver on a single Super Micro server in one of our labs. That one-time event was determined to be accidental and not a targeted attack against Apple."

And the AppleInsider article was updated to reflect the information that Apple provided in its press release. So there's no there there.
The log is distributed across the cluster, and can be partitioned. The protocol is optimized for long physical distances between replicas. See links elsewhere in the thread to Raft.
"Least squares" means that the overall solution minimizes the sum of the squares. In some cases you can get to that result analytically (I imagine that this is what you are referring to as "least squares"). In other cases you can't do it analytically. Also, sometimes it just a lot faster to use SGD or other algorithms.
Actually, it doesn't - you can't take the ads out (eg a clipping service) in any commercial setting. Using a tool that you put your newspaper in that removed all ads would be creating a tortuous derivative too. There's no general personal exemptions in UKCDA either.

Chances of being prosecuted for use are roughly zero.

Lawful educational use is highly restricted in the UK, but there are few prosecutions. For example if you show TV broadcasts you have to have both music licenses (as well as the TV license) to cover you for when they play music on the show (or in the adverts!).
The i7-2600k doesn't even have 256-bit busses on the inside. The i7-2600k barely begun to implement AVX (and doesn't even implement AVX2).

The i9-9900k is way better. 3x 256-bit execution ports, 64-byte (512-bit) messages going around the Ringbus, DDR4 RAM (double memory bandwidth).

The raw clocks ignore the huge advancements in IPC that exist between Sandy Bridge and Coffee Lake. And even then, the 5GHz clock on the i9-9900k makes it completely incomparable to compare the ancient Sandy Bridge with the modern Coffee Lake.
Indeed, the most recent example I've seen of this is the slug library:
http://sluglibrary.com/

Presentation slides:
http://terathon.com/i3d2018_lengyel.pdf

A paper:
http://jcgt.org/published/0006/02/02/
Simulators are still very highly single-threaded performance-bound. Particularly flight simulators.
It wouldn't be one engineer. Bloomberg says that they have three senior sources inside Apple.