skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an outsider I would never had anticipated Intel being leapfroged like that in such a short window of time. As side effect it probably largely contributed to the resurrection of AMD (coupled with the fact they probably produced with Ryzen a good design at the right time). I would like to know if Intel just fumbled or if TSMC stepped-up their game, or more likely a little bit of both?
No, they want to maximize the amount of money they get out of their oil, with money they get now being worth more than money they will get next year, with that being worth more than money they get a decade from now, etc.

Also, the house of Saud isn’t playing only that game. They also want to stay in power. They’re not universally popular in the region, so that means listening to their faraway supporters, who want to keep oil prices low.
It's not that kind of watermark. Rather, usually at the beginning, there'll be some text saying who bought the book, along with some kind of identifier. The id can also be hidden inside the file.
Then nations would unite to create "international waters" laws to fuck over those cities too.

You really cant run from human ignorance.
It certainly does have a broad effect on people. It will certainly hurt girls who dream of succeeding in sports. Because, well, if you weren't born a man, you're in for a rough ride. That definitely touches much more people than few genuine transgenders who just want to compete on fair playing field.

Same issue how we treat transgenders touches a lot of other fields. E.g. who can perform body search? Can ex-male-now-female do body search on a female? I could easily see many females not so happy about it.
The machine learning Stanford courses are probably the best open education contributions I've encountered. From Ng's CS229 material to Karpathy's rendition of CS231n. These are some of the best pedagogical materials on machine learning/deep learning available.
It's not really a difference of opinion though is it? Whether the day is nice or not is a matter of opinion. Whether this is a tasty meal is a matter of opinion. Whether anyone else wrote works in C minor is a matter of fact - or not, and he's provided evidence that shows that other people did - fact established.

This is the whole problem occurring these days - too many things are seen as "well, it's a valid opinion". No, if it's claiming something which can be falsified, it's not an opinion it's a mistake (charitably - if it's done with less than wholesome intention it's something else - a lie).
Even if the employees were fired, they would continue trying to attract the replacements to the cause. I don't think it would work the way you suggest. The cycle won't stop just because the folks who start it left.
Could you expand a bit more on the threat model that exile targets? Checking out the workflow, my naive concern is that it seems to make physical possession of the yubikey the sole requirement to use the secret key (well, possession + noticing that there’s an AWS key stored in the OATH slot).

Considering the “normal” threat model for AWS IAM keys, where the keys are stored in ~/.aws/credentials, they’re vulnerable to: (1) malicious/compromised apps/scripts on the local workstation, (2) theft of the laptop if it’s unlocked/decrypted. Moving the keys seems to solve (1), but degrades (2) by making it “theft of the yubikey”.

I’ve seen other systems that move the AWS secret keys to the OS keychain (for example https://github.com/99designs/aws-vault ), which seem to harden against (1) without weakening (2).

Is there a mitigation I’m not taking into consideration?
Terms like "transphobe" and "racist" get thrown around so liberally that I've stopped caring if someone gets labelled that.
It's more complicated than that. Some things keep growing (air traffic for instance), some not (power plants planning/construction for instance) and some seem in decline (ICE cars).

If you can read .de-ese: https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/1.4371221

You can add the apples and oranges up and get different results, depending on your judgment. And you get to choose what to assume: You may assume that what happens in California in 2019 definitely won't happen in the rest of the US in the coming years, or that it will. Et cetera.
Didn't O'Reilly stop selling ebooks and now only sell paper books and online (Safari)?
Show HN: Save Facebook Post as Image
Ask HN: Is API the only purpose of the back end?
I recently started studying how to separate the backend and the frontend. My current setup now:

Tomcat : 8080 (Serving APIs)
Nginx : 80 (Using reverse proxy to communicate with Tomcat)

I cannot think of any other (reasonable) purpose of the backend aside serving some APIs. Please enlighten me.
Check out this list of DRM-free bookstores, maintained by Libreture [1].

I usully buy my DRM-free ebooks from Weightless Books [2], and also subscribe to "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction" and "Interzone" from that site.

[1] https://www.libreture.com/bookshops/

[2] https://weightlessbooks.com/
Does it really matter if we have an excess of capacity when incumbents own the last mile and prevent open peering close to home and/or charge ridicious per mbit prices for transit or private peering. A little up the ladder for example you can already get HE in AUS https://pop.he.net/?country=Australia so think sub $1/mbit pricing but its all pointless* as 90% of the eyeball ISPs won't peer with them. *pointless is an exaggeration but doesn't help content providers or end users
I don't have a problem with the vibe of law, though it might be terrible in implementation and its drafting may have unforeseen consequences (haven't read it, so don't know).

Don't really understand why people are conflating it with the encryption law though, which is an absolute shocker for so many obvious reasons. It has clear foreseen consequences for the Australian tech industry.

Australia isn't obsessed with free speech like the US. You would find very very few people here comfortable with not removing ISIS videos 'expeditiously'.

Also don't see an issue with going after higher management in companies in addition to the companies themselves. Should happen more often for corporate malfeasance.

I guess the counter argument is the 'slippery slope' - first they go after ISIS/white supremacist videos, next it's someone who posted a video of police brutality or something like that. I say - we managed to ban assault weapons and bring in a gun licensing system over 20 years ago. It hasn't gone any further since. There was no slippery slope in this case. Suspect this will be much the same.
The Pi Calculus: Towards Global Computing
>- Intel will have a 10nm later this year that is broadly equivalent to TSMC's current 7nm. They are still shipping 14nm as their leading node.

Just to add, by that time TSMC will have an improved 7nm based on EUV.

I wonder what happens after TSMC 3nm, that is roughly 2022 / 2023. I am pretty sure we can do 2nm, but without another market expansion to further spread the cost of unit, I wonder who will be able to afford these leading nodes. With every generation being much more expensive than previous gen. Smartphone unit shipment are not growing, in fact leading node Mobile SoC are likely shrinking on a YoY basis due to slower replacement cycle.

We surely haven't reach the technical limit of SemiConductors, but it looks to me we reach the Market / Economical Limit.
I've never seen anyone believe "Trans people shouldn't exist". The arguments tend to be around when and to what extent others must accept a trans person's gender identification.

No one wants to erase trans people from existence Thanos style.
> Rising popularity of electric cars Currently very slow

Starting from the 2019 the range and price came to the point where they are suddenly viable in EU.

Then there will be a used electric car wave because of the low-power charging infrastructure catching up and making older short range models actually useful.
The New Yorker is still quite thriving, and is publishing stories that would also work for the Times (cf Ronan Farrow’s #metoo scoops). The Atlantic has massively improved and now close to their level (cf Graeme Woods), albeit with less of a focus on literature.

It feels like these publishers are somewhat converging, doing a rather good job connecting (paying) excellent writers with the high end of readership, with not too much deference to the material being a perfect fit for their respective wheelhouses.
Ask HN: Is Forex Trading Gambling?
So my brother just really got into forex, and he sort of encourages me to give it a trial, but I have always seen stuffs like that as gambling, but then perhaps maybe I am just biased, which brings me to the subject matter at hand, I will like to know what your opinions are on forex, is it gambling or not.
Thanks for the feedback; usenet newsgroups really do seem to be the next frontier for me with this stuff. Sounds like I should get ready to change my tune about private trackers and BT as a whole once I get into it, but I've hemorraghed enough time on this hobby already for the time being, so I may have to save that step for later.
Wealth Activation Blueprint Review, Work or a Scam?
Agreed. I'm European and it astonishes me how a wall at the border is so divisive, with some even calling it un-American, and in the EU there are essentially no legal ways for refugees to enter at all (we've made it practically impossible to fly) and children die by the boat loads in the Mediterranean, yet we Europeans think we are in a position to judge the US.

Astonishing is the word.
Very well said. This is very much what I am after. Some common idioms in Rust or C++ just feel unnecessarily verbose to me (e.g., `<exp>.unwrap().borrow_mut()`), and I am looking for straightforward ways, often borrowed from other languages, to express the same intent more succinctly and clearly.
> Twitter Blocked Tweeting “996.icu”

No?

It's blocked on browsers

https://hybridtechcar.com/2019/04/04/chinese-browser-started...

Maybe someone has fooled the API is the best conspiracy (Compared to, the spam filter got tripped accidently)?

https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/b96iw5/twitter_censo...
Ada Programmers: Fabien Chouteau – Interview
Yeah I bet its kinda tricky to separate bragging from actual info. I can see how seasoned travellers would have a good amount of knowledge on a topic but honestly I'd be more interested in current info as opposed to entirely subjective info eg "the best neighbourhood" or "the most picturesque hike".

I bet that a location-specific events/alerts/info app would be successful. Perhaps something where you add locations of interest (in addition to the current location) and the app uses things like social media or local news sites to retrieve relevant info. I'd pay for that - hint, hint :).
That pilot won't disclose the airline, but the list of companies that based or deadhead pilots into LAX trips on the B737-Max is pretty short. Forty-five minutes from report time to push time narrows it down more.

That company has quite the "go, go, go fast, and find a way to get'er done" attitude on minimal crew resources. Guess what? Now, everyone flying the Max will get more in depth differences training.

As Gene Cernan could have said, "We'zz ups to lotsa CYA before the signoffs."
> Why should your ebook files be watermarked?

Because digital things can be copied for free without loss of fidelity.

> Your printed books aren't. Watermarks are ugly.

A digital watermark can be invisible.
Fooling the Galaxy S10's fingerprint scanner by using 3D printing. I succeeded
You don't. That's the point. Look at how C++ references (not pointers) work. You can't declare one without giving it a valid object to reference.

The only reason why you may need null is to check whether a reference is null. You remove this need by forbidding it in well defined programs.
How do you express the idea of null when the language doesn't have null and the runtime environment can diverge from its static model over a period of years or decades?

If your program typechecked against Netscape Navigator in 1997, does that prove that it will run without type errors in AwesomeNewBrowser 2023?

IMO null/undefined/etc are reasonable fallbacks if your runtime environment can radically diverge from its static model.
Berlin's rental revolution: activists push for properties to be nationalised
http://www.openculture.com/2012/12/vladimir_nabokov_about_li...

> To avoid speaking like a child in public, Nabokov took great pains to prepare his every word. "Throughout my academic ascent in America from lean lecturer to Full Professor, I have never delivered to my audience one scrap of information not prepared in typescript beforehand and not held under my eyes on the bright-lit lectern."

> When it came to giving interviews, Nabokov was horrified by the notion of sitting back and having a casual chat with a reporter. "It has been tried at least twice in the old days," he writes, "and once a recording machine was present, and when the tape was rerun and I had finished laughing, I knew that never in my life would I repeat that sort of performance. Nowadays I take every precaution to ensure a dignified beat of the mandarin's fan. The interviewer's questions have to be sent to me in writing, answered by me in writing, and reproduced verbatim. Such are the three absolute conditions."

> So the excerpt above from a 1969 interview with the British journalist James Mossman should be understood as a carefully prepared performance.

Note how in the interview you posted, he frequently gets stuck on his prepared lines, resulting in sequences like or-or-or-or-or-or or the-the-the-the-the. (Yes, disfluencies are common in all speakers. But those disfluencies are not typical of English speakers, and reflect a different problem.)
The Australian tech community will just leave. The ones that stay here are either the sentimental ones or the stupid ones already. I know I've had much better offers from overseas that I have ever gotten here and I will more than likely be taking one of them in the next few years.
Ask HN: What is your definition of Rich?
There are many philosophical debates about what people should or can afford in taxes or charity.

People will brag they are rich when trying to impress others.

People will cry poor when its tax time or when people are handing out freebies.

If there was one thing I learned from Philosophy 101 – define your terms.

So how do you define the 3 primary categories:

Rich, Middle Class, Poor?

Bonus points for doing the subcategories of upper and lower.
Few countries have meddled in the affairs of other states like the US.
From the horse's mouth:

https://twitter.com/KayColesJames/status/1108365238779498497
Dev Perception
You can find valid but opposite viewpoints. Especially in ethics.

But reading the article, the problem was not opposing viewpoints, but conflicts of interests. Something you don't want to have in an ethics committee.
From the horse's mouth: https://twitter.com/KayColesJames/status/1108365238779498497
That's not true. Security is always a trade-off between effort invested and probability of a possible breach.

There is no 100% secure system.
This is great, but I wish it went back a year earlier. My friend and I had some music up on Myspace until late 2007 when we decided to start fresh on Soundcloud. It would be great to hear that early stuff again!
Show HN: Powerful annotation tool for Machine Learning data annotation
Depends on the other focuses of the language.

Option/Maybe monads are one option popular in static functional languages.

For set oriented languages, an empty set is an option. (This is very similar to the previous option, actually.)

Null is kind of a middle ground between these options and a ad hoc use of a specific sentinel value like using a signed integer variable when the data is logically unsigned, so you can use “-1” for missing data.
It is pretty useful as a base for all kinds of chemicals. All plastics for example are made from oil.
thanks it translated pretty well.

So I think this story sounds incomplete. I do not think it is mutually exclusive to say that the Bosch burner factory is shutting down and that 95% of all new cars sold worldwide are combustion engine powered. German labor is extremely expensive and German taxes are incredibly high. Welcome to the global economy.

I find it much more likely that much like everything else, the Chinese car market wants cars manufactured in China and that those China factories source from Chinese vendors. It's no different than the electronics industry.
There are proponents of viewpoints that I can respect while disagreeing. The Catholic Church, for example, brings some intellectual heft to a litany of debates where I would take the opposite side. They can also claim to be a societal stakeholder simply due to the number of their followers.

This is not such a case. Someone peddling Obama-murdered-his-pedophile-accomplices conspiracies has no place in respectable discourse, especially if they have absolutely no nexus with the topic at hand.

This is like appointing a few flat earthworms (autocorrect pun) to a medical ethics review board: they are both wrong and off-topic.
Sounds like something straight out of https://www.reddit.com/r/datahoarder
Bosch and about six other manufacturers of car parts disagree with you and expect sharply reduced demand for ICE-specific car parts.
I believe he means polish e-bookstores. They're way more popular than Kindle store because they offer books in polish language. IIRC some of the stores started offering DRM-free books, others followed and generally it became kind of a standard in Poland.
That is also true for beers - the ones from 50l kegs taste much better compared to bottle/can. And once you move to 200-400l 'tanks' which use gravity to get beer out, instead of pressurized CO2 which alters the taste (for the worse), you are in beer haven (at least for pilsner type of beer, we don't do much of other types but its slowly changing)
Yeah, cool Google+ community.
> but given a 1-2mm per day average

Where did you get this number from? They are not pumping at their maximum capacity but I understand it's pretty close on average

"Saudi Arabia briefly pumped a record of more than 11 million barrels a day in late 2018."
No for mobile? Smh
Even then, you could have regulatory capture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

Speaking of regulatory capture, I think that's really what happened and why Facebook has been able to get away with, actually, murder (e.g. Facebook's free internet had a big role in the murderous riots in Myanmar [1] and WhatsApp had a big role to play in mob lynchings [2], [3]). Not to forget the slap on the wrist they have gotten for what is basically child abuse in the "friendly fraud" case [4].

But not to worry, there is another dopamine hit coming up next minute to a mobile phone near you so you can pretend you never read this comment.

In my view, it is best not to let these tech giants anywhere near these kind of ventures.

[1] https://in.reuters.com/article/myanmar-rohingya-facebook/u-n...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-45140158

[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-46145986

[4] https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2019/01/25/facebook-tu...
What Are DevOps and Continuous Delivery?
Lena Pillars
"Renewable" doesn't mean "free energy". Constructing renewable energy sources (wind, solar, etc) takes more energy than constructing an equivalent non-renewable energy source - this is the EROEI (energy returned on energy invested). There's also space limits - see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0W1ZZYIV8o

What's apparent to me is that we live in a unique era where energy is abundant and cheap, which may never be repeated (unless fusion power is developed).
It's not really the same thing, is it?

What's easier? Recording a video & drag-drop into the app that 100% of our team communication already relies on - or convince our PM to sign up our 30 people team for an app that does it out of the box.

Also, this function comes out of the box on Slack mobile.
So they get the money and you deal with the inconvenience of getting the files onto your ebook reader...?
True at heart, I am totally in love with CS231 (Yeung and Johnson)
> Nonetheless, the classical chess search algorithm is exhaustive.

Minimax search is brute-force, exhaustive search. As soon as you add any pruning (such as alpha-beta pruning, or the myriad search tricks used in chess engines), that's no longer the case. That is unless we're quibbling on the semantics of "exhaustive".

> Breadth-first search with Alpha-Beta pruning is how it is taught at universities.

Again, no. Minimax search (regardless of any applied pruning) proceeds by visiting the possible successors of a node one at a time, immediately recursing on each of them. See wikipedia's pseudocode for it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimax#Pseudocode

Or for a chess-specific source, see:

https://www.chessprogramming.org/index.php?title=Minimax
That isn't a safe approach, as your laptop becomes a file hazard as soon as you install any other OS (even clean windows!).
I'm not sure that this is a more robust mechanism for achieving that outcome than a Windows service in any case.
> We don't use its chemical properties in any special way, it just happens to be among the most efficient in terms of calories per kg.

As far as I am aware a lot of oil is used as raw material in chemical industry, not only as energy source.
Resisting Alone: China’s Defensive War Against Japan
> Notice the famous index cards.

If you already knew that Nabokov's interviews consisted entirely of remarks prepared in advance... why would you post that as a counterexample to "he wasn't able to speak perfect English"? That's the whole reason he prepared his responses.

Choirs frequently perform songs in foreign languages; nobody takes that as evidence that the members are able to speak those languages.
A little bit of both. Intel's 10nm is now officially 2 years late. If they had 7nm now they would still be in the lead given its ( original ) 7nm plan were roughly equivalent to TSMC 5nm.

TSMC also gained lots of momentum from the Smartphone Revolution. All of a sudden you have a 1.3B Smartphone Market, from SoC, Wireless BaseBand, and all sort of other component Fabbed with TSMC, compared to Intel's 250M PC Market. Now of course Intel make many times higher margin, but considered TSMC has a diverse group of clients utilising its current and old Fab compared to Intel doing it all by themselves, TSMC now has similar resources to Intel and innovate.

And compared to Intel which has big leaps across generation, TSMC's approach were to iterate, so you get 16nm, 16mn+, 10nm, 7nm, 7nm EUV, 5nm EUV, all of them were iteration of previous generation.
as native to places discussed, this is literally the first time I've heard about it. Wikipedia says the same - it's east european drink apart from Czech republic / Slovakia
My sense is most of such poaching is organized crime. The foot soldiers, poachers, are one end of a supply chain. My guess is they make a few hundred bucks, not 35K. Beyond poachers are transporters, a dozen checkpoints who are paid off, a marketer/dealmaker and an eventual buyer who would have paid 35K.

At least that's how it works in India (Sandalwood, ivory etc.,) so I'm guessing this is standard modus operandi across the world.

The point I'm trying to make is, ivory poachers are indeed poor people. However, the amount of money they make from killing one animal is good enough for a week or month's worth of living. Nowhere near 20 years salary. So they are driven by hunger.

The bigger players, politicians, corporations are the ones driven by greed. The movie Blood Diamond is quite accurate IMO.