skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Visa: The Undocumented Security Problem Inside Intel
Here you go: http://no.gd/vega2.wav

It holds up ridiculously well considering the entire song compresses down to 25392 bytes.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, also I assume you are in the US...

I did this for a while, but it starts to hurt around tax season. There are advantages
to being incorporated and then hiring yourself as an employee for a minimal wage. With
the way you're doing it, you're paying employment taxes on your entire income. With an
LLC, you can pass the majority of it through without paying that.

So you are paying corporate tax rate on the profits of the company, then personal tax rate on your "minimal wage". How does the money from the company get passed to you without any tax hits?
The original NES variant (which is used for professional play) has random pieces.
Sets have not been canceled.
Good to know. The rubber mallet in aircraft production in analog era was more for pounding ill fitting part into submission and into place.
Swap on NFS sounds kind of crazy.
Modern high quality monocrystalline silicon PV cells, 156mm size, are commonly warranted for 80% or up to 84% of their original STC rating, after 25 years.

PV cells definitely do degrade, but in terms of spinning a nearly frictionless thing in a vacuum, if a 5W rated single cell degrades to 2.5W over 75 years of being exposed to direct sunlight inside a glass vacuum jar, it's still way more than the required energy to keep the thing spinning.

Here's an example of a 30 year warranty for a fully assembled module (60 or 72 cells encapsulated in glass and back film), at >80% after 30 years.

http://www.jasolar.com/uploadfile/2018/0518/2018051809372413...
No, they are not billionaire funded. It is more likely to be a result of PragerU their lawsuit against youtube and YouTube adjusting their algorithm to give them a bit of a boost
I love his skip-lists lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBwUoWpeH_Q
How the Languages We Speak Shape Our Realities
I agree with all that, but doesn't that mostly argue for shifting the bottom up, rather the pulling the top down? What I see is people using the word "inequality", but then talking about poverty. Poverty is bad. But I don't really understand why the ratio of the top to the bottom is the important number, rather than the absolute value of the bottom.
I could imagine something like the project manager had successfully swept all the problems under the rug to that point, despite the fact that the engineering manager was sending emails to compliance and risk management. When it caught on fire, an exec is like "WTF?" and gets a dump of all the data, and cancelling is easy.
My dream is for telecom monopolies to get broken up by technologies like this.
Marketing isn’t an obligation, it’s bullshit believed by middle managers and gullible people. I don’t believe that you’re either, or that you make a habit out of buying into this kind of thing.
Ugh they should really get rid of that keyboard
> Just something that can fly up to some open windows and see if it looks like a murder scene with people huddling around terrified/blood everywhere/guns out or if the house is full of people just chilling doing normal stuff.

They can do this with IR cameras, they just can't use it for a search warrant.
JPL knows. BUt more importantly, when the original thrusters broke after 37 years, they were able to switch the backups and it worked fine. To me, remotely fixing a space probe beats a spinning magnetic bearing on earth for amazing engineering any day.
I fail to see how using that is any more convenient than a dock-style stand that plugs into the lightning port. What's "wireless" really doing for you if you have to position it just the right way on a dock anyway?
Gotcha. Yeah, I think in that case the tab list is stealing focus by default (instead of the tab contents), which makes it look like scrolling is "broken".

Also, the current implementation means I can't use the arrow keys to scroll through the list of tabs; even by navigating to the lower tabs, the scroll doesn't follow. I'd say if you're going to do that, the scroll position for the tab list should follow the selected tab.

I'm assuming this can be turned off if we don't want this particular feature?
IBM reduces noise in quantum computing, increasing accuracy of calculations
Sure, but none of that applies to this laptop, where they're all UFS.
I think this is also true for GB?
I have personally found the whole "he/she is a bot!" thing to be needlessly dismissive and irrelevant. Even if the entity making these claims is a bot/troll, the claims are still out there, and if there's any evidence that a sizable number of people are going to believe them, then these claims should be addressed appropriately. An example that comes to mind are the flat-earthers; a lot of people say that the ones making the YouTube videos are trolls, and most of them might be, but the fact is that there is evidence that a fair number of people fall for it (or at least are so in on the joke that they spend a lot of money for merchandise, and convention tickets, and funding Patreon accounts).

I have no idea of your political leanings, but I do visit Donald Trump's Twitter account almost daily (because I'm apparently masochistic), and I see the "Russian Bot" insult hurled at any of his supporters, which I always find annoying.
The Automation of AI
Ironic that in an earlier time the cat would probably have been killed for "bringing death"
Considering he's currently powering it with a chemical battery rated for 40 years, I think that's a pretty unnecessary jab.
”There are a few library calls that have a cousin with an _r suffix in POSIX, but these are not system interfacing calls.”

Neither are most Windows functions. FindFirstFile, for example, is defined in kernel32.dll, and calls through to ntdll.dll, and eventually makes system calls such as NtOpenDirectoryObject and NtQueryDirectoryObject.

What IMO matters is the usability of the stable API. It doesn’t matter whether that is the kernel interface or not.
I had a phone w/ Qi for a couple years. It was finicky, requiring I develop the habit of aligning the phone on the charger.

But once I got used to it, it was subtly very nice. No fiddling with cables at all. Nothing to wear out. Pick the phone up and go.

It feels a little like a technology of ten or twenty years from now that is not technically necessary but will be nice & convenient. Think of WiFi compared to Ethernet. Right now we can see the future & taste it just a little, but we haven't quite got there yet.
Scmpuff for Git: substitutes numeric shortcuts for filenames
I didn't say they were hate speech, I said that they were fear-mongering idiots. That is demonstrably true.
> You wouldn't say that a drunk who walked into a nice restaurant yelling hateful things was being censored when they are asked to leave.

This seems like a bad analogy to me. No loud drunks are forcing anyone to listen to them on YouTube. Yet some people are angry that YouTube lets loud drunks post videos of themselves yelling hateful things, and angry that YouTube lets some people who want to listen that do so?
10 years ago Princeton had ROTC. Had a few friends going through it.
Another rich person story: I came across a copy of Worth magazine once. This is aimed at the top 0.1% of the 1%. Ads for jets, watches that cost 6 figures, etc. There was an article about the four kinds of rich kids, helpfully arranged from golden child to train-wreck. Just above train-wreck is the child with "other serious pursuits, like being a doctor or raising a family". Such a child will still need to engage with the family business, maybe on the board of directors.
Identify relevant information you have, identify what success looks like, and apply first-principles to get there.
Every step consists of working with only the information required. It's a very empirical approach, but it cuts through the cruft and gets to the point.

https://medium.com/the-mission/elon-musks-3-step-first-princ...
As someone who has lived with complex partial temporal lobe (deja vouz) seizures my whole live, I'll throw in my (perhaps arguable) 2 cents: a neurologist will only be able to confirm to you what you already know. They will NOT be able to tell you whether your seizures "might evolve into grand mal seizures". Epilepsy is just too unpredictable and unique to each person.

What a neurologist will do, at best, is give you an fMRI to pinpoint what part of you brain has "abormal activity". (I also have deja vous seizures, and in my case it was my right temporal lobe.) Which, as cool as that may be, is completely useless as far as fixing the problem. If your seizures aren't causing distress in your life, the neurologist will essentially just tell you to never drive or operate heavy machinery, and send you home.

If you do feel that your seizures are causing distress in your life, or might be putting you at risk of harm, then yes, you should definitely talk to a neurologist, because there are medications that may be able to help.
Even when they use their wealth to do good society couldn't organise itself around for decades?

(e.g. SpaceX of course)
No the swatter didn’t get the man kill. The trigger happy policemen did. They should both be punished.
>The counterweight swinging seems like a major hazard.

Seems like an easily enough problem. Basically every car out there has reverse sensors...
I had a different experience while working at a startup from 2010 — 2012. It helped us to get to a uniform way of thinking about bugs, and gave us a ratchet for continuous improvement with the product. It wasn’t a silver bullet, but it helped.
Artificial neuron implemented on an actual quantum processor
Since they are not normalizing dividing by the number of projects of each language they are analyzing, the result is meaningless. (Or to be more precise, the result is more related to the popularity of the language than to the insecurity of the language.)
Online it isn’t worth the time and energy sifting through ideologues, time-wasters, and other bad actors. It’s a conversation devoid of nuance, the ability to asses to someone’s truthfulness with body language, and one that ends when ever a party finds it convenient to stop responding and stsrt over with the next mark.

Maybe you’re a really well-intentioned person interested in deep discussions of complex issues, and not working backwards from whichever forgone conclusion you’ve already reached. Maybe not. Either way I don’t see the value in spending my time engaging with you on this subject online. If I knew you offline and knew more about you, I might feel differently. I’ve just added “free speech” to a short list including guns, abortion, and conspiracy theories. Life’s too damned short, and the ROI of these topics online is negative.
If you are a one man LLC, most likely just having an LLC will not protect your personal assets.

https://info.legalzoom.com/owners-liable-llc-3298.html

> Members can also be held personally liable for court judgments against the LLC if the member has personally and directly injured someone or caused financial loss in the course of business, or has knowingly done something illegal or reckless.

> ...

> Courts usually require three elements to be present before they will allow the veil to be pierced and a member to be held liable for the financial losses of an LLC. First, the person bringing the lawsuit (the plaintiff) must show that the LLC was controlled and dominated so completely by the member in question that the LLC was a mere instrument of that person and indistinct from her. The plaintiff must then show that a breach of duty occurred -- for example, that the member committed fraud or failed to keep adequate records. The final element is that the control and the breach of duty must have caused injury or loss to the plaintiff.

Those aren't very high standards if a successful lawsuit is lobbed your way for software you have been contracted to right.

Edit: Not that using an LLC isn't a good idea, I just think the "legal shield" benefits are often overstated and misunderstood.
I think of the housing market here largely as “the latest crop of FAANG/unicorn millionaires duking it out to get the best schools for their kids”
I'm guessing you're a Cory Doctorow fan too? I thought Walkaway was very interesting, though not his best novel.
> S-Corp is significantly more work than a standard LLC.

Honestly - it's not. I pay Quickbooks ~$50/month where I click one button every month and it pays me my "salary" and then pays social security. I then pay my accountant to do all of the tax prep (which I would do S-Corp or not).
Dressing in "war paint" vs dressing in a sweater is a form of communication.
I appreciate that Apple was honest with their communication. Too often have I seen managers/CEOs employ the strategy of avoiding the hard conversation and letting the topic fade away.
Not really, no. Especially not if this is implemented in a specialized accelerator. A GFLOP is not that much there. Also, like most other neural network algorithms, this could also be done in fixed point, thereby further reducing the computational cost.
A single superconducting artificial atom senses solid-state spins
Don't forget HSTRING, which Platform::String^ is built on. They added those two in Windows 8 because there was no one standard string type. (Not joking.)
I think the initial presumption, was that no one would be such a douchebag as to make such crank calls.

Unless you get “caught” Living While Black.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/20/us/living-while-black-police-...
> It's more that it uses concurrency intelligently

if you don't do this at this point, there's a problem... because most CPUs are multicore
This "huge diffrence" is just miliseconds for a 20M LoC, as the author showed in this thread using the linux kernel source, he gives importance to the UX when compared to grep though.
Oregon and many other states are often providing companies with massive tax breaks. These kinds of layoffs, in my book, justify terminating such tax breaks. (actually in my book no companies would get a tax break - but just say'n)
That's a very cool illusion, but it's not relying so much on the viewer looking hard, but on training the viewer to explicitly ignore anyone dressed in black. If you asked them "remember everything that happened in the video" you can bet they'd notice the monkey business.
They put themselves in that "no-win situation" by pre-announcing the product. If they were profiting by selling products based on future compatability with airpower, that could be fraud.
The back of the watch is very much curved. It's not as noticeable when people are wearing them because the watch sits right in between your wrist bones.
https://i.gzn.jp/img/2018/09/21/apple-watch-series-4-open/p4...
though I hesitate to suggest this since it would ultimately drive up prices even higher

I went to one open house in SF and the top floor was a nicely updated if small house. The basement/garage? The owner had put up walls to create 6 rooms and 2 bathrooms. The rooms were maybe 10'x10'? Apparently they rented them out to help with the mortgage. You could probably get $500-700/month for each or $3000-3600 for all six?

And that's one reason why parking is an absolute mess in SF even if you get away from the city center. A lot of houses have one or more in-laws (many illegal). And no place to park the car in the garage!
What are some good reasons to run this vs Raspbian?
Autoconf code is actually quite clean--you just need to know M4 and have an appreciation of the problems autoconf was built to overcome. What changed over time is that most proprietary unix systems disappeared[1], and POSIX compliance and general consistency have improved dramatically, BSDs and GNU included.

Also, best practices have shifted to a continuous development model which keeps everybody on the upgrade treadmill. There's less concern with maintaining backwards compatibility and catering to those not running the latest environments. So if you make use of some newer Linux kernel API there's only a short window where people will put in the effort to maintain a compatibility mode, assuming they bother at all.

Lastly, containers mean people often develop and ship static environments that can be maintained independently, sometimes never upgraded at all.

What I find interesting is how people have begun to ditch autoconf in favor of even more complex (but newer and therefore cooler) build systems when ironically there's less need than ever for these things. Autoconf doesn't need replacing; such layers can often be left out entirely.

That said, when feature detection and backwards compatibility truly matters there's no good alternative. CMake, for example, effectively requires the end user to install the latest version of CMake, and if you already expect someone to install the latest version of something then why the contrivance at all? I always sigh aloud whenever I download a project that relies on CMake because I know that I now have two problems on my hand, not just one. (But better CMake than the other alternatives--I just won't even bother.)

[1] All that's left are AIX and Solaris. HP-UX/PA-RISC will be officially dead next year, and EOL for HP-UX/Itanium is 2025. From a commercial perspective Solaris seems to be deader than AIX, however Solaris still seems to see more development--especially improved POSIX and Linux compatibility. It's much easier to port to Solaris than AIX. It's a real shame Solaris is disappearing because on big machines with heavy workloads the OOM killer is a fscking nightmare on Linux. Solaris and Windows (and maybe AIX?) are the only operating systems that do proper and thorough memory accounting, permitting you to write reliable software.[2] The cloud services principle that says individual processes are expendable doesn't work when your job takes hours or days to run. (Or even just minutes, because workloads accumulate when the OOM killer starts shooting things down, and even in the cloud you run into hard limits on resource usage--i.e. cap on numbers of nodes. Memory overcommit is just like network buffer bloat--intended to improve things at the small scale but which results in catastrophic degradation at the macro level.)

[2] You can disable overcommit on Linux but the model of overcommit is baked too deeply into the kernel's design. A machine can still end up with the OOM killer shooting down processes if, for example, the rate of dirty page generation outpaces the patience of the allocator trying to reclaim and access memory that is technically otherwise available.
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"The richest families in Florence in 1427 are still the richest families in Florence"

https://qz.com/694340/the-richest-families-in-florence-in-14...
Which always irks me, because we already have a great word to mean "Free as in Freedom", and that is: "Freedom."

I'd love if we could start calling free software, Freedom Software. Think of the benefits to the FLOSS PR movement!

I actually e-mailed rms about this, he said they considered the name but couldn't use it because of a trademark. I say to hell with that: the needs of the many, and all that! Freedom Software for all!
I should add: Even what I wrote above is not the whole story. The deeper you get into kernel internals, the more you realize that the story is nuanced.

On Linux, apparently, the kernel does not actually allocate static socket buffers. Instead, the "socket buffer" is actually something like an array of pointers to packets. When the read buffer is empty, it's not taking any space.

So on Linux, an idling socket is very cheap (by my understanding, at least).

The Windows kernel might do something similar internally (I don't know), but there's no way to avoid the redundant buffer on the userspace side when using IOCP.

So basically, it seems that IOCP turns out to be a rather-poor interface for networking in practice, despite at first appearing theoretically superior.
I’m not condoning swatting, but why should an innocent person expect to be shot by the police?
Reimplementing that still seems like a lot less work than starting from scratch.
RISC-V Embedded Video Tutorial by WesternDigital CTO Martin Fink
Yeah, but we're talking 3-4 years between each step. Those are enough features for 4 such iterations, or 16+ years.

Let's consider phones 16 years ago and today (or watches, for that matter).
Core count doubles every two years.
> So why not agree on some middle ground. Transparent Headscarfs? Headscarfs made from hair-extensions? Something like that?

Are you intentionally trying to sound like you're writing a South Park episode, or is that accidental?
But if you don't keep up at least a modicum of pretense for building air superiority, you will have two problems.

In the case of domestic extremism the theatre gets pushed to surveillance + communication monitoring.
Speaking as someone who lives in SF, I have never experienced what you describe.
The 4 color theorem brought a novel way of creating proofs. It may not help much with the field of graph theory, but it contributed to other fields of knowledge.
Cops are suppose to be better trained. He signed up to put his life in danger. The innocent civilian didn’t.
It seems odd that you keep saying this yet continue to post. If you really felt this way, why not just stay silent instead of making a straw man of trolls... Is there someone in this thread that is trolling? If so, why don't you address them directly.
There are technologies to compress deep networks by pruning weak connections. I don't believe the author is using this, so it's likely the computational cost could be reduced by a factor of 10. It could also be that simple tweaks to the NN architecture also work (was the author aiming for using a network as small as possible to begin with?).
Thannks for taking the time of reading it and submitting improvements, I checked Home Assistant and it looks amazing.
Also, thanks for noting on the speed limits, I totatlly forgot about RPI adapter limitations. I was having slow speeds (~2-4mbps) so +100mbps didnt seemed that bad in the beginning.
Interesting. I would think ML would do well to copy players. When I play it's a rather boring game, I'm almost always just setting up for the |. I can imagine trying to approximate a player using a complex branch if/else structure being complicated code. But I have to wonder if deep ML would be a rather impressive implementation (even without seeing the next block). The only thing that kills my game is the ever increasing speed, which wouldn't matter to ML.
You are correct. The actual pattern you want to use in practice with this API is more of a do ... while:

WIN32_FIND_DATA data;
HANDLE handle;

handle = FindFirstFile(str, &data);
// TODO - error check

do
{
// TODO: process "data" which is a file.
} while (FindNextFile(handle, &data));

FindClose(handle);

So the loop body is the same for the "first" and "next" files.
Last few times I've travelled I forgot my Apple Watch charger, and trying to keep both Airpods and iPhone charged was a huge hassle. I'd love to make the "charging problem" just go away and except for the laptop, AirPower would have accomplished that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PragerU#Funding

I'm not sure if Ben Shapiro is being directly funded but it looks like PragerU is mostly funded either directly by billionairs or by think tanks (which are often also funded by billionaires but I don't have time to dig into all of the different ones mentioned here)
From the blog post: "Here’s how it works: Simply input your true, accurate height with a screenshot of you standing next to any commercial building. We’ll do some state-of-the-art verifying and you’ll receive your badge directly on your profile."

+1 for April Fool's
TensorFlow 2.0 Deep Learning Video Tutorial