skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great point about core frequency being important for per-core licensing.

I wonder if any software with per-core licensing has tried to take a possibly 'fairer' approach, for example by summing the frequency of all cores? E.g. 4x cores at 2GHz is 8GHz?

It's not that straightforward a comparison, I know, just wondering if anyone has tried something different here.
According to this article, they try to build a mini biosphere: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/13/china-plans-grow...
this is in the context of LISP code
> AMD EPYC 7371 Pricing Update [Is] An Insane Value

Off topic, but I can't take it anymore. Enough with "it's a good value". "A" good value? "Excellence deserves admiration" is a good value. $1550 for an EPYC 7371 is just ... good value.

> AMD EPYC 7371 Pricing Update [Is] Insanely Good Value
I agree that returning the same type, if possible, is better, since you can model it so that one specific value (zero, empty string, etc.) expresses the "nothing" accordingly. But I have found that several other developers don't share this view and prefer functions to return false, null, etc. instead of a value in the same space as the normal return type.
I don't know who he disappointed, but he didn't disappoint me. His analysis of murderous regime is spot on, and there is no discussion about that. There are only character assassinations and name callings for totally unrelated things from his opponents. First discreditation, then disqualification and lastly liquidation.
Huh, interesting. I'm left wondering whether China has a Planetary Protection Officer, though of course the Moon is barren so it doesn't really matter…
Pulling the Puppet Strings in HPC
If you are anti-Marxist, and not anti-Semite why do you feel justified to point out the ethnicity then? You never hear people saying "I'm anti-Stalinist-Georgian", "I'm anti-Chinese-Maoist", yet it's somehow benign with Jews?

If you find the ideology abhorrent, why you focus on a particular ethnicity? It is almost as if you believe there is something special about Jews and Marxism than, say Russians and Marxism?
One thing I already like about this is that it allows you to view top artists and top tracks. I bookmark it already, just for this.

Maybe it'd be nicer if it already showed links to artists' Bandcamp accounts where you're certain one exists. Searching individually through a button barely provides less friction than copying the name and pasting it into Bandcamp's search. Nice about this model (beside being very easy to implement) is that you can easily add other platforms: My suggestion is Patreon.
Try Brave from brave.com - so much innovation in one browser.
Oracle tried that. It was called "Universal Power Unit" pricing. http://houseofbrick.com/oracle-universal-power-unit-licensin...
The Life Extension Revolution – Part 1
Claim what? NASA landed that point?
To do biotic experiment, just a common sense.
If they would simply get rid of all HTML submissions pages where users may enter their passwords, then the system would probably acceptable. If the Firefox Account UI were entirely browser-managed, it'd be okay. I'd still prefer a system in which it's impossible for users to accidentally leak their secure data through use of a poor password, but that's life.

As an aside, I don't see that user key management was really an issue. The UI of the old system was perfectly fine, and one could have added a QR code or similar if one really wanted to. The number of folks doing TOTP auth these days prove that it works.

There's only one reason to use dynamically-downloaded JavaScript to ensure user privacy: because one wishes to silently and undetectably undermine user privacy at some point in the future.
The way this article is written makes me appreciate when articles address the parties involved by Title and Name instead of He or She or just his first name.

Mr. Jiankui would have been less confusing. Editors should be able to identify issues like this and adjust the writing to avoid confusion IMHO.
Intel GVT Might Introduce Coffeelake Support in Linux 4.22
Chess AI has been "unbeatable" for long time now.
I was very afraid about syncing my data with other devices on Firefox. But today I switched to Firefox and passed all my chrome data (even stored passwords) to Firefox. It can sync with all devices such as mobile. I hope I will not get trouble about web apps :P
Forcing people that are struggling to live day-to-day to use bank accounts just makes life worse for them.

The first thing that happens when they're in debt is that their bank account gets frozen to pay the debts leaving them with nothing.

Forcing all transactions to be electronic takes away the margins they live in. It's no longer possible for them to pay 1/2 their rent with a promise to pay the rest in a couple of days when they get paid so that they can feed their children during that period. The rent comes out of their account on time and their children go hungry until payday.
Putting your money in a bank _was_ your choice though; you could have kept it under your mattress.
> you'll find that a common talking point is the importance of Jews in the birth of communism (and the supposed link between Jews and communism in general), and likewise the importance of Jews in contemporary finance and politics.

I mean, yeah Jews have historically been important in the Russian communist movement, as well as in the birth of financial institutions in the West. How are these two facts controversial?

> does not prevent one from holding wrong positions

What's a "wrong position"?
I do. I'm honestly not sure what my reasons are, I certainly don't have any kind of "following".

Mostly I think I get an enjoyable sense of accomplishment from getting down "properly" the stuff I find myself contemplating and discussing with people. It's almost like flushing a write buffer: get it from working-memory to blog, and it's done!

There's definitely a learning process and I feel I'm noticing improvements to my output and approach, which is also a satsifying outcome.

Link -> https://mcconnellsoftware.github.io/
vary -> wary

goof -> good

:)
Hey, thanks for the feedback!

This was hacked together in an hour this morning so I wasn't able to go too deep but I'd like to try and improve it for sure. Sadly Bandcamp don't have a public API for searching any more, so I'd need to do some kind of scraping to ascertain whether an artist has a profile... not ideal I know!

Patreon is a great idea, any other suggestions for destinations also welcome. Record shops is one possibility. I'm not sure if iTunes etc. is, not sure how much the artist sees from that!
I thought AlphaZero only runs on Google's proprietary hardware (TPUs)? If that's the case, then it's not much use to the rest of us, is it?
Cryptocurrency would bypass that.
This is where I find most women though they vary in experience and expertise. What type of ladies are you looking for OP?
The name of the researcher is He Jiankui.

Edit: it looks the parent comment was edited after I posted this, and said something along the lines of "I wish articles used the researcher's actual name instead of He or She".
Ungoogled-chromium exists you know..
I agree with your assertion, however:

> that permission can be revoked instantly, silently, and invisibly at any time

This can happen with cash too, as 99% of Indians found out to their utter dismay on 8 November 2016!! [1].

Granted that this is a Black Swan event [2] and the revocation was done publicly. However, as someone who lived through this and experienced it first hand, I stopped trusting cash from that day onwards. I carry just enough with me to get by for couple of days.

I don't know of any other single event that sent shockwave through 1300+ million humans literally overnight.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Indian_banknote_demonetis...

[2] I sincerely hope so. Though it's been carried out a few times in India, thankfully not within the same generation.
Honda reveals fluoride battery breakthrough for next-gen power storage
In the USA, most checking accounts are "free" as in "Free if you jump through hoops" - I mean, often they are hoops that are trivial for those of us who have a good job, like "free if you have direct deposit"

I mean, remember that if banks are making money off investing your deposit, they don't have much interest in maintaining accounts for people who don't have much money to invest.

I know at times when I didn't have direct deposit (corp to corp contractor, before I figured out how to setup all the requisite infrastructure on my end) I usually ended up paying like $10 a month or more for my personal checking. Every time I went in the bank, the teller would have some different wacky scheme for getting me free checking, usually involving transferring money between my accounts every month... but it was a lot more work keeping up with how to get the free checking (the requirements for people without direct deposit kept changing) and $10/month was cheaper than the time to figure it out.

But, I mean my point is that I think checking is not free if you don't have a decent job. add to that the money they charge you if you aren't organized enough to make sure there is enough money in the account to cover the fee, and yeah, I can totally see how poor people wouldn't have a checking account.
Sure, I meant across decision makers. Realpolitik (the rest is propaganda).

Before and in the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, when the great Orwell fought, the left in Spain was extremely atomized: there were the anarchist (very active in the beginning), the socialists, the communists (actually a minority initially), and many splinter groups (like POUM). But, just like an equally varied right swiftly unified under Franco, so did the left, more slowly, under the "oficial" communist faction, which, although it decided to be mostly pragmatic until the war had been won, fought some of the other leftists as fiercely as it fought the right.
What did I just read???
I can't help but feel stupider for reading it.

This is complete garbage. Some relationship to the internal frequencies of the brain, ie. its various analog clock tree mechanisms means that because all matter is based on subatomic vibrations rocks and atoms have a degree of consciousness too?

Wow, my laptop running at 2.2GHz(and various other frequencies) must be a supreme being.

Yes, obviously a clock tree is important to sync various neurons together efficiently and where ever there are conflicts, ticks will be lost or (whatever the thought real equivalent is). The more sync'ed the more complex the brain obviously, but whether that is 'consciousness' or just efficiency... or anything else? This writer obviously has no clue. At least they didn't say the brain is a quantum computer because of vibrations.
I feel compelled to repeat the previous criticism on the games:
- Stockfisch was never designed nor tested on so many cores. Running on 44 cores may degrade the performance of Stockfish.
- Stockfish was designed to start a game with an opening book. In games with opening book, Stockfish has won significantly more games, too.
- Stockfish 8 was not a particularly good implementation. Stockfish 9 or 10 should be a better choice, though.

Nevertheless, the performance of AlphaZero was impressive, especially the positional knowledge it has acquired is second none. In all existing chess engines, positional knowledge is under-represented through simple heuristics. Acquiring positional knowledge was a longtime dream of chess programmers many generations. The dream was to create an engine which plays a more human-like style of chess. AlphaZero has realized this dream and even goes beyond that: extending the humans knowledge of chess.

I believe the most intriguing question right now is why AlphaZero stopped to improve after 9 hours of training? It’s due to the inherent problem of chess or due to the limits of ANN? If it’s the latter, how we can breakthrough and create a new generation of engines that can even surpass AlphaZero?
Definitely, it prevents the buffer overflow style of exploits but there’s also a lot of leaks in how all the DOM objects interact.
Hawaiian monk seals getting eels stuck up their noses
Interesting stuff. Can anyone explain what "pair projection" mentioned in section 4.6 is? I've not heard the term, and neither has DuckDuckGo.
Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon 8cx, an ‘extreme’ processor for laptops
Well helicopters only really came into their own when jet engines/gas turbines were developed.
Maybe they were in a similar situation to todays single stage to orbit shuttle designs. The basic design has been static for over 30 years, we're just waiting for a rocket (fuel ?) to come, to make it practical.

I find it quite interesting how even with something as 'obvious' (in the what it is sense, not the inventing and concept sense) as a helicopter, it becomes very hard to pin down the 'first'.
Seem to remember something about 'legal tender'. Meant you had to accept cash payment. Of course you could refuse the customer on other grounds...

Might not be a thing in the land of hipster-ish coffee shops.
They built and still own big chunks of the ISS and the ISS has only been habitable and functional thanks to them for many years. It's not like they don't have space station technology. If they really wanted to put something up separately, they'd just do it, no problem. It's just a matter of resource allocation, not absolute capacity.
Not only is the theory seeming a bit too large fitting but the article tries to stuff some cool 'vibe' nonsense.. if the original problem is Hard and you have some insight into a solution you have a ton of value already. But then maybe you dont have that insight and want to sell some snake oil level article.

for something so important it just ends up looking like bad satire or onion type material.

what are you trying to convey? sand is concious.. okay, thankyou. that was very helpful.

the original paper probably has more sense in it.
The Snapdragon 8cx Is Qualcomm's First Purpose-Built Chip for Laptops
If these batteries are as good as the one in my iPhone, they'll need to be replaced after a year and a half. Given that the plant cost 66M, sounds like they're going to make break even approximately.

But kidding aside, how long are these batteries really supposed to last?
Western Digital NAS Powered by SiFive Microsemi and RISC-V
If it's too artificial, that's right. But, answering the question "why am I blogging about that? Why is that important?" is a great way to start an article. And, most of the time, you can do it with a story-like setup.
Says they had almost the same results against Stockfish 9. That said it would be interesting to see a more fair competition with Stockfish set up by an opposition team and maybe the same budget for cloud compute. Given they run on different hardware that might be a way to do it.
The Security Token Anthology: November Edition
Can't we build trustable payment providers?
As long as the traditional editor remains an option I won't mind. If they force it on us, that could be a problem. I try every new version of Gutenberg for posting on one of my sites, and so far I've had to switch back to the traditional editor every time. From the Wordpress 5.0 welcome page: "Support for the Classic Editor plugin will remain in WordPress through 2021... Note to users of assistive technology: if you experience usability issues with the block editor, we recommend you continue to use the Classic Editor."
There have been a number of notable Soviet dissidents who were no less apt in their criticism of the regime yet did not descend to imperialism or anti-Semitism.
Nice! I had my solar panel installed on the roof of my house in 2015, and they have a pay-off projection of just over seven years. At the beginning of the year, my neighbor had solar panels installed, and we calculated his pay-off projection of just over four years (both of us took advantage of available subsidies).
Small nitpick, but if I'm reading this correctly, the EPYC 7371 is a 16-core part. The Threadripper 2950x with 16 cores and the 2970wx with 24 cores both have full speed memory access for all cores. It is only the 32 core 2990wx that has half the cores running without direct access to memory. Do correct me if I'm wrong.
Yss but that’s an entirely different dynamic, as they can’t single you out personally in that scenario, they have to cause massive social disruption and — crucially — loss of their own credibility.
I guess it's a matter of preference. I often dislike this approach in talks on technical conferences, where the current trend seems to be to spin everything into a personal story, even when it's clearly forced. I don't mind reading a blog where there technical part is wrapped into "I had this real-life problem and it boiled down to solving this software bug ..." kind of a story.
I just read it as extremely funny christian fanfic.

"After the talk, He revealed another pregnancy is on the way".

"It is still unclear if He did what he claims to have done."

"But He appears to have leapfrogged over all of those basic checks"
Thoughts About Nothing at Stake
Perhaps we’ll get another Space Race with China. At a point, the United States was spending over 4% its budget on NASA:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/feb/01/nasa-b...

The money would probably be better spent on several projects (e.g. AI, hypersonic flight).
Let's be fair to both sides here. The new way of working that Linus brought about absolutely crushed Hurd's "We have our team of experts and we don't want any help". It wasn't so much that the Hurd was destined to fail to deliver, it's more that the success of Linux made it completely irrelevant at a pace that nobody would have expected (not even Linus). I mean they even beat the law suits to free up BSD.

This is one of the few things my feeble ageing memory recalls fairly clearly :-) I desperately wanted to work on the Hurd, but they rejected me because I was a noob. Then I was desperately waiting for BSD to pass through the legal gauntlet. Then a colleague said, "What about Linux? They just got X working. It seems pretty good". It really came out of nowhere -- not necessarily due to good development (thought there was lots of that), but rather because key early contributors were encouraged and enabled to participate by Linus. We were all desperately waiting and many talented people just leaped at the opportunity to do something (not me, unfortunately -- I got sidetracked with work :-P).

In comparison to the rest of GNU, it was just a piece. A pretty big piece, but just a piece none-the-less. Keep in mind the amount of work that went into GCC and glibc, which at the time were comparable projects. Without those pieces, Linus would have nowhere to start. Then all the user land tools -- again, without those I don't think anybody would have joined in. They would have waited for BSD. And those user land tools were really good. The first thing I did when I installed a new Unix box was install GNU. GNU was important in Unix land before anyone had ever heard of Linux. Sometimes I think younger people have no real concept about how much code was part of GNU. The goal of GNU was to give you a fully functioning POSIX system. One of the reasons we even have POSIX is because of the work of the guys working on GNU.

When we say that it's Linux with GNU, that's really to distinguish it from, say, Linux with Android. Or Linux with BSD (if anyone does that). I'm not actually sure how much GNU is regularly used in a Linux distro these days, but I still prefer it to alternatives (maybe I'm just old). Again, we're really talking about having a full POSIX compliant system and the kernel is just a part of that. Linux is super fantastic and I actually choose Linux over other possible kernels because of how good it is. But I'm never going to run Android on my desktop, no matter that it runs a Linux kernel. I'd rather not run Android on my phone, if I had any choice in the matter!

To be even more fair, I always thought we should have given X a bit more air time. Especially these days, it's important to me if I've got X or Wayland running. But it was always a bit daft to think that people were going to be saying GNU/Linux. It's even more daft to think that people would say GNU/X/Linux or GNU/Wayland/Linux. It really doeasn't roll off the tongue ;-)
It wasn't when they first did it.
1) What is more secure - Venmo behind face ID on an apple phone or a checking account that literally anyone who has the numbers (which you give when you write a check) can take money out of, either by creating a versa check or doing an ACH debit so all your money disappears? You are a poor person - are you in a good position to see dispute resolution through?

2) Garnishment orders - can the state or other collectors garnish the checking account - so all your money disappears?

3) Will the bank allow the account to go negative, charging major fees, then blacklisting you with checksystems?

4) How controllable is saving money in these accounts? Some folks "save" money by not cashing their checks, then going to a check cashing place when they need the money.

Is it possible that a few % of population have medical debt, tax debt or other support orders that make using a normal checking account difficult? Past experience with fraud or being ripped off in a checking account?
And what would be an Insane value? Something like "I want to see my enemies driven before me, hear the lamentations of their women," something like that? :)
> Stay away from memes - they're just cliches propagated at the speed of Twitter. Never do anything to "all the things".

:tada: A standard technical post on Medium is a couple of meme-images with no context throughout :ok_hand:, and emojis absolutely everywhere. :partyparrot:

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Rust 2018 is here… but what is it?
I don't have a CS or engineering degree but I've been working as a developer for over a year. My advice is to have a good portfolio of projects that you can use to showcase what you can do.

I had major imposter syndrome in the beginning but now I'm a key contributor to the product. You learn a ton on the job so it's important to apply for one before you feel completely 'ready'
Bloodhound supersonic car project axed
That's very interesting, thanks for sharing.

What is the mechanism for creating or disbanding ministries?
All providers. Including azure
It influences how the engine values situations that could lead to draws. If playing against an (assumed) weaker opponent, it's likely good to avoid draws when there's probably a good chance to win. In reverse, trying to lock in a draw is better than likely loosing later.

Since repetition is one way to get a draw, an engine with positive contempt (it assumes the opponent to be weaker than itself) will score repetitive moves lower and is more likely to pick something else.