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Thanks for pointing this out. He has his own set of candidate submissions to the NIST post quantum competition, so throwing shade at other candidates makes a bit more sense now.

I've done some analysis on one of his candidates and it was by far the slowest on cores which do not feature wide vector operations. My opinion is that you shouldn't just optimise for Intel (as many submissions do) for all the obvious reasons.

Edit:
A quote from the slides by Nigel Smart which Bernstein criticises - "[We] Would caution NIST against putting too much emphasis on academic measures of performance of algorithms for this reason"

- I couldn't agree more.
...assuming you also keep your income. If you lose your job (and job losses and housing downturns are highly correlated), you're looking at foreclosure and losing everything, along with a 7-year blight on your credit report.
But they actually didn't. They specifically tell you it is NOT a fully autonomous autopilot and that's it's more of an advanced cruise control.

They also specifically tell you to KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE ROAD. If you fail to do so, you're asking for trouble.

It is unfortunate the guy haf kids that will now grow up orphans, but judging from the information I've read in the Tesla blog post, it is clear that he was in the wrong here, at least partially, for not paying attention while driving.
Sounds like a stupid question, but I am seriously asking it.

What was the infrastructure of ASF? Own servers? Wouldn't moving to a cloud provide helped reduce cost?

Ethically speaking, isn't it a conflict of interest that an idol of the open-source world is pairing up with Microsoft. Now that Microsoft has lost the former glory, they are desperately trying present a clean image, but all their deeds of the past are still fresh. I am waiting for the MSJVM 2.0 with github & atom & VSCode.

How is the Linux or FSF or Mozilla repo hosted? Scaling issues with GIT cannot be only tackled by Microsoft & Google.
And photographic wine can be developed in coffee as well as wine... related?
Yeah. I stopped calling businesses years ago unless I knew I'd only ever get a robot on the other side. This is particularly unfortunate because there is (usually) value in calls, but the idea of having to talk to a human is so offputting it's enough to lose that value. (As an aside: for whatever reason it's way more common to go from machine --> human on calls, but asking to go from human --> machine is often 1. impossible, and 2. "rude").

Likewise, I also stopped answering my phone for calls other than my own contacts shortly after starting a company. Everyone else can leave a voicemail, and I will either text or email back.
Setting aside the article for one second, I just want to mention that the author is a hell of a font designer, and his Triplicate Code is my favorite programming font at the moment [0]. It has all the styles you would want (light strokes, heavy strokes, bold, italic, ...) as well as lovely serifs. Most serif programming fonts are slab serifs, but not Triplicate. These ones are lovely and light things. It's a real pleasure to work in. Well worth the cost if you care about such things.

[0]: https://practicaltypography.com/triplicate.html
That's a good question. Unfortunately I can't do System76 and Ubuntu guys justice here because I really don't know the work has been done in both distros.

From the user perspective, I would say
smoother hardware integration (I download the ISO with NVIDIA proprietary drivers, haven't encountered any graphic card comparability problem),
consistent theme across gtk and qt based applications ,
saner defaults and clearer setting structure,
good keyboard shortcuts. There are merely less than a dozen shortcuts that are not found in Ubuntu, but very easy to get used to. like win + up/down to switch between workspace.

I know all these can be accomplished by extensions, add-ons and themes. But they do feel different when it is out of the box and carefully curated.
There are some codified system of rules and behaviors that people have developed to help their orgs gain agility e.g. Scrum, SAFe, etc. But there are probably an infinite ways to skin that cat. Doesn’t really matter which one you use just that everyone is using the same one.

Which leads me onto why it’s a communication protocol. Human systems/processes/procedures just organise the flow of information, often to help people make decisions. If everyone isn’t following the same set of rules and behaviours then there can be a breakdown in communication. Which usually screws things up (whether top down or bottom up)
"During the housing crisis, for example, rent went UP because as people became evicted there was higher demand for rentals."

Went down for at least 1BRs in Silicon Valley. Apartments that were renting for $2000+ in 2007 were going for $1700 in Q4 2008 and $1400 in Q2 2009.
Do a Google search for [PayPal micropayments] and read the various help articles that result. (edit: ...or just scroll down on the page you linked, which literally has a section on this called "Micropayment Fees".)
It's been roughly 10 years since I programmed on a Macbook (Leopard represent), and I did that on a Swedish keyboard so things might be wildly different, but I really really liked mac keyboards for braces and brackets.

Windows requires thumb acrobatics and Alt gr, whereas Macs used shift and option to modify "increasingly".
Fighters are all designed to carry humans. Humans fall unconscious under high G-forces. Imagine a drone fighter. It could turn tighter and accelerate drastically faster than a human-carrying fighter.

The US has lots of boring drones, but perhaps there is a secret drone fighter program. It would surprise me somewhat if the US weren't working on something like this, perhaps with a goal of keeping it secret until it needs to be deployed operationally. Plenty of military technologies have been kept secret for decades, such as the SR-71 and the spy satellites on which the Hubble Space Telescope was based. On that note, did you know that the Hubble was basically an extra spy satellite donated to NASA by the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), and the US had a fleet of them pointed downwards toward earth? For more on this, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-11_Kennen

So, consider: what kind of reconnaissance satellites does the US have today, that resulted in the retirement of the "Crystal" series? (Obviously something digital) Did the US's investment in supersonic spycraft end with the SR-71? If the US were going to design such a craft today, would it have a pilot or would it be autonomous?

On the other hand, if this were a top secret US technology, then I suspect all of the people who observed these phenomena would simply have been sworn to secrecy. I doubt it would be treated as a UFO and I doubt these officers would be speaking publicly about it. Unless this is all some kind of cover for the program. Who knows!
Doesn't that mean Linux is entirely broken? Isn't the whole point of OSes that things that used to work, keep working?

I mean, lots of things are wrong with Windows but I can double-click a .exe from 1998 and in most cases it'll just run. I'd assume Linux, being used a lot for servers and long-running apps, would have this too?
The whole point of ligatures is that they are visually subtle enough that you don't consciously notice them, while removing distracting collisions of adjacent glyphs. The German rule seems entirely pointless and counterproductive.

That said, OP is wrong that ligatures would "break Unicode". The only ligatures that are directly encoded exist for historical reasons. Fonts can and should make contextual alternatives, and this is a normal part of typesetting for several languages.

Unicode breaks Unicode, it's not meant to be consistent, only compatible.
This becomes really interesting once some of the proprietary software such as libcuda can be used this way.
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I agree with you but I wonder why you discourage changing diet to include less meat. While it has less of an impact it's one of the easier things on that list to directly influence as a single human being. It also has knock on effects and health benefits. We can focus our efforts in multiple places, going vegan won't distract us from the other areas. I won't try to debate you or change your mind however and I agree that the numbers are overwelming, especially when you take into condisderation that carbon emissions are only one part of the planetary boundary system.
BKS argues that you cannot take solar panels on the roof of the battery factory into your calculations since "otherwise you just take away green electricity elsewhere". My point is that if you allow that reasoning (which I think is correct) then it also follows that using dirty electricity in the EU takes away dirty electricity elsewhere. Therefore, the calculated emission impact of electricity use should probably be much closer to zero.

And since diesel use in transportation is not included in ETS, there is an even bigger impact of switching from diesel to EV: you stop burning fossil fuel in your car and the electricity you use will crowd out emissions elsewhere.
Emvoice – Next-gen vocal synthesis
I'm also becoming a fan of Pharo the more I use it. It just feels so good to use. My only complaint about it is that I really miss ctors with arguments.

I don't like init functions; an object should know from its inception the basic things it needs to in order to function, and I think it's a great miss there is no real way to force this.
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Many Google employees are basically the most sought after people in their respective fields. Google spends obscene amounts to recruit and then retain the best possible workforce. Many of these engineers could barly raise their hand and would get hundreds of offers from competitors. As such they have much more leverage and get paid a lot more than employees at even other tech companies outside FAANG.

It is in Google‘s interest to generally retain a maximum possible number of employees. Because there‘s a limited supply and also because you don‘t want them working at your competitor. In the weirdest scenarios you might end up in some really kafkaesque situatuon where you earn like 300 to 500k a year for basically not doing that much. The main thing is that you stay put and don’t go work for someone else. Maybe you’ve seen HBO’s Silicon Valley. Kind of like Big Head on the roof.
Cybersecurity is a significant concern as cars become more automated
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Facial-Recognition Software Meets Its Match: Barnyard Animals
Given what happened to them it's even more impressive:

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2008/11/acrying-shame-world-o...
How can enterprises avoid “app overflow”?
Among a very long list of things that will probably never happen, I would like to see software projects become a kind of conceptual/logical history of beliefs and intention with the most recent iteration representing the current state of knowledge and practice about some domain of interest.

And I'd like to see tools that can extract value and improve efficiency by searching paths-not-explored and comparing them with the current knowledge state.

It's easy to forget that code is a means to an end, not an end in itself, and there may be other ways to reach those ends.

IMO there's been too little work done in CS on robust knowledge engineering - as opposed to lambda calculus-inspired algebraic manipulation.

ML is catching up a little, but a lot more may be possible.
I don't know if it's really better or I'm just used to the current UI
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Hkust Physicist Contributes to New Record of Quantum Memory Efficiency
In case you're unaware, your smarter compilers bullet point is called dependent typing. You can try it out in languages like Idris. Also the person who wrote "The little schemer" recently released "The little Typer" which is a nice intro to some of the theory behind it, very easy to follow.
You could say that about a lot of companies. Stripe is far from a dominant “titan” in the processing industry which is something like $2T in global volume. As in Trillion.
I've decided to never quit those "bells and whistles", other frameworks just aren't good enought in competing with those...
That is why I am optimizing my rails stuff with a few trick made in crystal lang (like the websocket server and a bunch of MTTQ like jobs ;) . For me, until ruby 3x3 gets out, crystal is a good help with scaling up processing.
> The problem with the no hands-on-steering-wheel detection claim Tesla keeps bringing up

I don't get why it matters. Why is Tesla's responsibility greater or lesser based on the position of the driver's hands? The driver could have had one hand on the wheel while mousing around on a laptop with the other. Or he could have been intensely focused on the road ahead with his hands resting on his legs, inches away from the wheel.

I'm neither defending nor attacking Tesla here, because I don't think I have sufficient information to have an opinion either way. But I'm pretty sure that learning the answer to this particular question wouldn't have any bearing on any opinion I might eventually form.
Would it be "a horrible idea" to include diagrams in code that implements a graph algorithm, or images in image-processing code?
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Doesn't look like there's any Machine Learning involved, just a better (or at least more natural/western sounding) library of recordings compared to Vocaloid.
Well, I was about to comment that the lack of cloud save is the absolute dealbraker for me as I play games at home and at work, so if I can't sync saves automatically then I won't buy a game from there(#1 reason why I haven't bought Metro Exodus for instance, game which I am otherwise super interested in).

But I guess that makes me a vocal minority :P
Agreed. Probably confusing for some because the article didn't name any specific practices that would very much be considered "meditation" when stripped of cultural baggage. Modern Catholicism still greatly encourages such activities as eucharistic adoration (a silent reflection) and rosary devotions (a form of mantra), and the monks of old would have devoted enormous amounts of time to these as well as fulfilling the daily office; but modern secular culture does not find these things nearly as palatable as the Buddhist-influenced mindfulness practices so they tend to get left out of articles like this.
UW astrophysicists simulate the sounds of stars to reveal their secrets
We aren't at the point of coercion the British government was at. The state of Arkansas isn't deploying its National Guard to enforce the "Great Value brand purchase Act." ;)
On a related note, I was reminded of Woz's Nixie watch - https://youtu.be/m4R3hODnTGo
That's a pretty handy guide indeed! Good job guys!
Linux itself has this and is very strict about not breaking old userspace.

It's the userspace libraries that likes to drop compatibility with old binaries left and right and with most distributions it's not possible to install old versions of libraries.

Containers like Flatpack and Snap promise to solve this by just bundling the application with all the libraries it needs, frozen in time.
The Kernel then can handle it.
All about Chatbots in Banking
Yes. I learned from this article that there are code points for ligature glyphs in unicode and it seems like a pretty bad idea, tbh.
Back pain started for me in my late 20s, I'm now early 30s and no longer have back pain. I did 2 things that seemed to help.

1: Start lifting heavy weights, focusing on primary lifts, especially Deadlifts and Squats. Start out with no weight on the bar, and add 1 or 2 KG, 3x per week. I used the Stronglifts 5x5 program as a guide. The Deadlifts seem to be key for me, as they exercise my lower back. I also do a lot of situps to increase core strength.

2: Stop sitting for long periods. I use a pomodoro system to break my work up into 25 minute shifts. Of course sometimes I'm deep into something and work for longer, but I always get up and go for a walk after a work sessions of 25 mins or more. This doesn't actually affect my productivity as much as I thought since I'm usually thinking about work stuff while I walk anyway. If anything I am better for the short breaks and thinking time.

Doing those 2 things solved my back issues, hopefully they help you as well.
> People are always surprised when I tell them, in the long term housing can only increase an amount equivalent to inflation or wages

I don't think this is true at all. Prices can outstrip wages easily when there's a large influx of new inhabitants, either through a high birth rate or through migration. See London over the last decade for an example. It's less common to see this effect in entire countries because it would take a vast number of people, but I do think it could happen.

Prices can continue to rise if mortgages become cheaper to service: as we've seen over the last thirty years, declining interest rates and lengthening mortgage terms push up the price of houses.

Prices can also rise if there is sustained outside investment - for example wealthy people outside the country looking for somewhere safe to stash their money (see London again).

OF course, all of this is contingent on what exactly you mean by "the long term". But the UK has seen a sustained boom in property prices for a generation. That seems pretty long term to me.
Europe is playing catch-up with the US on cloud adoption, research suggests
How do you feel as a Tesla owner knowing that after your death, Tesla will publicly post that it was your fault, based on data from your vehicle?
Why does one need an account to have an automatically updated driver ? Isn't there a Windows Update mechanism to do that ?
I'm too lazy for citations, but these are detected around the world. There's been military footage released from South America (Brazil I think?), Russia and many others. I've also heard that other militaries don't have the same stigma against UFOs that the US does, given our tangled history with Project Blue Book, experimental aircraft testing and the cold war.
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Because anyone who's been living in the same place for a while is paying well below-market (by design, otherwise there'd be no point in the rent control). Actually it's worse than that: the market rate rises much faster because landlords have less upside so there's little reason to build, and existing buildings can make more money as offices rather than residential. And when there's a huge gap between what a new tenant would have to pay and what the current tenant pays, that creates a huge incentive to do illegal sublets, and if your sublet is already illegal then why bother spending money complying with fire regulations or any other safety regulations?
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How does this work for someone selling on Ebay (or any other auction site)? Is that classified as something else because I don't recall sales tax being collected for eBay purchases.
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Stepping up action on IoT insecurity – new laws and regulation
No Linux distributions does not work like that. The kernel interface is pretty stable but userland is not. Dynamically linked executables will not work with new versions of the libraries they depend on in most cases. This is one of the problems flatpak, snap, appimage, docker and nix/guix are trying to solve.
There're a problem with Pull request in many large OSS.

Sometimes i see many mysterious PRs which says nothing in the description. It seems the author really doesn't want to expose any details of the why and what of the PR itself.

Visitors, devs REALLY want to learn more about Pull requests, they're not just users.
it can be if you take into account the rent you don't have to pay. or the rent you might gain from renting it out.
Serious question; doesn’t static compilation do the same thing essentially?
I think most programmers have very strong prior(opinion)s already...
FLIR shows a very low heat signature, though. Plasma is hot (and usually doesn't maneuver.)
How about releasing the games at a cheaper price, as Epic charge so much less? Cheaper prices for games, shows a real commitement to the End User.