skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a luxury item that costs hundreds of dollars. People choose to spend money on it instead of these other things. People spend money on a lot of things that aren’t strictly necessary. So I don’t see why it is absurd.

Edit: also is housing actually in a bad shape or is it just that housing in the most desirable locations isn’t universally accessible to every income group?
How do you know the difference between not caring and not being given any information they could care about?
This is a very good point. I hope AMD brings it up with the EU. Might be a very slow process though, but at this point it is anticompetitive behaviour. AMD could probably squeeze a fair bit more performance out of their processors if they were allowed to cut some security corners.
Also tell them about phone scams. Over the last year I have received several very convincing phone calls and voice messages from people pretending to be the IRS or cops. It takes a lot of willpower to convince yourself that they are scams.

A lot of scams can be stopped if you consult with someone before sending actual money. I think it's important to tell your parents that before they give anybody any money or account numbers or buy gift cards (a lot of scammers make people buy gift cards and then give them the number) they should talk to you first. And tell them that there is nothing legitimate that ever requires you to pay NOW. Scammers are really good at pressuring people to act immediately instead of asking somebody.
I live near a highway- at night, the sky is often gray with light pollution- and we can still see stars through it all, though it's nowhere near as amazing as what the sky looks like when you go camping.

I honestly like the LED's more for driving at night- their wider spread drastically increases visibility, and if the lower cost of them means that more of them go into poorer neighborhoods, than switching to slightly more light-polluting LED's could actually be a very good thing.
The fault of fragmentation lies at many levels, including distributors. The bookstore at my alma mater in the Midwest is normally great at promoting modern tech products, but they recently started pushing two models of a phone with KitKat at $100+ pricepoints. That's Android 4.4, which was deprecated in 2015. Who are these phones for? They're not even suitable for computer science students, because trying to learn Android development with a KitKat device is incredibly suboptimal.
I think that if you turn off hyperthreading it becomes 8 core 8 threads.
Hi I'm really grateful for your open sourcing this just because I get to ogle at how you write your python to interact with AWS SES

Thanks!
I see you got appropriately downvoted for saying that. I wanted to add my $.02 anyways: I started at or near the bottom, very blue collar, lower middle class. I've had a couple of lucky breaks, but mostly just gutted out every day, working hard. I worked my way through college and grad school and have been paying dues pretty much the whole time. If I had it to do over again, I wouldn't have been an engineer. I would have gone into sales and just been one of "those guys."

I don't see how I am the beneficiary of so-called inequality. I know it is fashionable to accuse white men of this. Really? Because I was pretty much dirt poor and not at all well connected when I started. I realize a lot of people are less well off than me. My compassion is only tempered by the reality that I set aside a monumental amount of comfort and fun to better myself.

My observation is that C-level execs are far too highly compensated as compared to the rest of us. The cult of personality is behind it. The truth is that there are thousands of qualified managers out there who could achieve as good or better results as all these celebrity CEOs. It's purely politics and exercise of power.
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This is entirely configurable. They generally don't do all core == max boost for power consumption reasons (and I assume yield would be pretty low on chips that can do this)

Desktop chips also generally don't have any AVX offset, which is almost always required for 5 GHz all core.
> They're random pins soldered to random shit with little upstreamable in their hacked to hell kernels.

Sounds like arcade cabinets. Maybe we need something that does for Android ARM devices what MAME does for those: specifies each device as an abstract wiring diagram of pins to bits of patched kernel acting as ROMs. And then make that whole thing into a kernel virtualization-provider module, which uses the stock kernel for anything not masked over by ROMs.
Progress in Battling the Opioid Epidemic
Good post. I was working on a video card driver for the Linux kernel and I was often wondering if I can configure the i2c pins on the VGA connector as a generic i2c device and connect my sensors to it. So the conclusion is clear now, a lot of people have tried it with success. The possibilities are endless, you can even connect a I/O extender... This is impressing, even when the serial and parallel ports have all retired, most computer still has a "User Port" like a 8-bit computer ;-)
Don't guess, fail explicitly.
What does stability mean, a bit more exactly? Just curious
I'm aware that the top tax rate was that high, and as you correctly note, almost no one paid that rate. But that's not because they were starting businesses. It's because they lobbied for a ton of loopholes in the tax code. The ultra-rich will stay ultra-rich through regulatory capture. Sometimes the mini-rich will benefit as a side effect.
Prices are actually skyrocketing, but only for things you need.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/prices-are-skyrocketing-but...
The article was a disappointment: only one sentence was dedicated to motivating the business problem, and there was no description of the application.

People act like the utility of this stuff is apriori obvious, but to me it's really not. Unless you are trying to build a knowledge graph, what do you do with these triples? (And even if you are, you need humans to independently vet them for noise induced by the source material, as well as your algo. My understanding is that information architects and annotators are essential to building and maintaining Google's KG.)

Article summarization is often cited and I find this unconvincing. Most articles can't be reduced to a trite collection of triples. They have a higher level thesis that would be AI complete to parse.

What are some other examples?
OK, that just seems to be a shortcut to avoid having to first click on my profile. I still have to search through all the comments I've ever left.
Reminds me when we had basic military medicine training and our officer told us to be extremely careful what we would say even while moving around people who seemed dead.

Hearing is the last sense that goes he said. The idea was to keep calm and not talk about how something was hopeless.

I'm not qualified to say if this is true but I keep getting reminded about it in different other settings.
Is there a good simple way that someone nontechnical could become confident that withgoogle.com is a trustworthy domain?
From how Apple and AMD are doing with their own processors though, it seems like Intel is just fundamentally doing worse even as things become more difficult with smaller transistor sizes. Apple is going to replace Intel with their own processors because Intel has failed to meet requirements. AMD, with a shoestring budget basically on the verge of bankruptcy the entire time they were doing their R&D, managed to build out a new architecture that has provided amazing results while Intel has basically had nothing to show in the same time.

But perhaps there's something I'm missing here. Is there a misconception or lack of information here on my end that needs to be clarified? I can only make my analysis largely as an outsider looking in when talking about semiconductors.
I think those numbers are for chips that can 5.1 GHz all core though, which is probably a lot less than 5.1 GHz single core.
Oh goodness, thanks. Fixed 'ekeing', which my phone apparently did not believe I'd said.
Besides cloud providers running VMs /containers on the cloud, is Spectre/Meltdown really such an issue for day-to-day consumers ?
> the social security number [..] contains verbatim the date of birth and sex (and city of birth) of the citizen

Italy does that, as I understand it is meant to be easier to remember and it was created in a time where thing were very different. I agree that it poses issues now, but at least it makes clear that the code is not supposed to be a password.
Ask HN: Was data science just hype?
I don't hear a lot about "data science" anymore. And judging from the shrinking number of job postings, I suspect it was a bit overhyped a few years ago. What do you think?
> My POV is ... Apple leads the Mobile OS market share ... by a huge margin.

I'm having a really hard time understanding this statement. Does the author mean with respect to how updates are handled? It clearly cannot mean in terms of sheer number of installs, Android is clearly _leagues_ ahead of iOS in that regard.
> ...but even they fell short.

Can you please elaborate? Did these effort fail completely or is it that if you use your browser a certain way then you can never be protected? (Which implies that using it another way would be safe.)
As opposed to what, young black males?
You probably want to say “eking out,” not “eating out,” as the latter means something... very different.
Which exact voting rights are missing at the moment?
> You fix it by offering free/cheap education, healthcare, etc.

That's just income redistribution with a middle man. To be clear, I'm all for those things and I think they will help, but don't pretend it's not income redistribution, which mostly hits the mini-rich and not the ultra-rich.
It's sad because we've lost a lot of great developers to this notion that the only way to move up is to move on. It sucks, but it seems like companies these days think they're buying you in at a particular price and it's ok to drip feed you raises over the years, and then are surprised when you move on to another company willing to pay you what you're really worth at that point.
Pretty much, yes. I do put the names of specific functions in my Anki. And concepts.

Instead of just describing what questions I put into Anki, here's a curated selection of the for the Java language: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/647806244
How is it a requirement? I have friends that don’t have a smartphone as well. Or cable. Or Netflix. And yet lots of people who seem upset at the state of things happily spend on all these same unnecessary goods and services. If anything it points to the fact that these things are more important to them than things people are claiming are necessities or “rights”, such as healthcare.
The CPU not losing its marbles when overclocked.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050412-47/?p=35...
At my current company, there are no white guys in middle management. Zero. Let that sink in.
If only the e-scooter companies weren't working off Uber's Handbook of Success Through Antisocial Behaviour... Maybe not all of them do, just the ones I know of.
"He (Madowitz, economist/researcher) believes that men taking on more flexible jobs may help a new generation of fathers become much more capable of taking on domestic responsibilities."

I read this in the article, and I made a link to the recently-HN-front-paged article from NPR about suburban moms entering the gig economy.

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20015638
Is this really a surprise? The 2008 bailouts were specifically targeted in a way that benefited the richest 10% of households disproportionately. Monies in the tax cuts and bailouts of companies were used for buying back stock [1], creating gains for those who owned stock but not for the other households that don't own sizable stock portfolios.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/25/the-stock-market-would-be-mu...
"Still has a higher chance of being hired, overall" is not being penalized.
[Investing in] crypto played a big part in having any actual money to survive
Tcpcrypt seem it would not be so bad idea, although then there will need some way to configure it, such as a /etc/tcpcrypt file which you can specify what keys to use, where to force tcpcrypt, where to disallow it, what to verify certificates and so on. It can then be protocol independent and not have to deal with individual programs to get it to work properly; you can configure a program that does not understand tcpcrypt to use it, if the other end is also configured to use tcpcrypt (either mandatorily or optionally, depending on configuration).
Seeing Is Not Necessarily Believing: Limitations of GANs for Data Augmentation
> [T]he most pervasive cohort (white men) are retreating from the labor force... could potentially bring about a positive sea change in the way families approach employment

How can the author accept the premise that young white dudes are opting out of the whole "job" thing and not at least entertain the possibility that they'll be opting out of the whole "family" thing too?
It just feels kinda shady to advertise the peak performance with safety features that should be on off without mentioning that. They should at least include a disclaimer.
Khronos likes to talk about Vulkan support on Android.

The reality is that thanks for it being an optional API, introduced in version 7, only flagships have proper support.

And even then, each OEM provides a different version, with their own set of instructions.

Hardly any better than GL ES.

Now they are doing it compulsory on Android 9, upgradable via the store, with GL support being supported via ANGLE.

Guess what, first you need to get a device with Android 9 on it.

This just an example among many others across other API surface areas.

So much for Java on mobiles being too much of fragmented system that Google was going to sort out with their solution, hence the need to undercut Sun.
I don't see any issue when you have one order for horizontal layout and another for vertical as well. But there are examples in acticle that show inconsistency in horizontal layout for different cases and this can be an issue.
Until they either get jammed or shot out of the sky

That and people using the service, even solely receiving can be tracked
> It [RS-25] was crazy expensive, but as the shuttle was reused, one could justify the cost.

The engines had to be taken apart, thoughtfully checked because some of the blades in the pump may get fisures or get broken, replace the bad parts and then ensembled again. It was more like a refurbishment o rebuild, than a easy cleanup.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_Space_Shuttle...

> increased ongoing maintenance costs related to keeping the reusable SSMEs in flying condition after each launch, costs which in total may have exceeded that of building disposable main engines for each launch.

In the report of Feynman about the Challenger disaster https://history.nasa.gov/rogersrep/v2appf.htm he is clearly not happy with the RS-25 and he think that they could cause a big failure in the future. [They didn't fail in the other missions, but it may be some luck.]
I'm not convinced either. But I have some ideas that would change the data representation of the flashcards and that's hard to do with anki
It starts out by painting a picture of a modern small business owner with an entrepreneurial spirit...It's definitely a blatantly biased political piece
But it does not apply to governments
Ah, count me in the nostalgia pool too. Had lots of good times and good friends in the 412/724 BBS scene.

And what a great outlet for creativity! Drawing ANSI, modding Renegade, composing MODs for other people to download. It was great.
> Why do you think such distributions generally precede a recession or depression?

Here is a good meta-analysis of the research on it:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5775138/
You are not inherently a "beneficiary" simply because you're coming out marginally ahead in an unfair system anymore than a pretty girl at Auschwitz used as a rape slave living for 1 year instead of 1 week average for plain girls before being gassed is a "beneficiary" of inequality because she lives longer. Yeah, I went Godwin on you. Your original comment was unnecessarily confrontational against people as a class who have not only done nothing wrong, but many of whom may be actively trying to fix things.
The article also fails to provide a single statistic or study to back up any of its claims.
FWIW I bought a Raspberry Pi and installed Pi-Hole a few months back. It's been almost flawless for us.

Adding to the domain whitelist and/or disabling the DNS blocking temporarily (in case of issues) is dead simple for anyone in the family. You just need to provide them with the local IP address of your Pi. The GUI - at least for these simple tasks - is quite straight forward.

I agree though, this service looks very promising.
I used to be Pro Anandtech and consider them one of the best Sources online for Hardware News. But the fact they have yet write a single post, big or small about Intel's Zombieload and its implication on performance worries me a bit.

Then there is the "Intel" benchmarks as usual [1] on GPU. Trying to suggest the 2 CPU were both running at 25W TDP to give a "fair" comparison, without mentioning the Ice-Lake U CPU were running with 50% more memory bandwidth vs the AMD Ryzen. And we know Graphics Benchmarks do depend a lot on memory bandwidth. The memory used was somehow mentioned in Toms or Other Sites but not Anandtech. ( Although none of them had mentioned the bandwidth difference, it was up to the reader to work them out )

Anyway none of these Consumer CPU upgrade interest me anymore ( Although any improvement to iGPU would be great ) I am eagerly waiting for a 2S - 128 Core EPYC 2 on a Server or AWS to play around with it.

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/14405/intel-teases-ice-lake-i...

Edit: And the lesson here, never trust a single news source. Always have a few option opened and fact check yourself. ( If you have the time )
>entertain the possibility that they'll be opting out of the whole "family" thing

Maybe that possibility has been entertained and is seen as positive
Yes. I think this is a common misconception.

These attacks work fine in the browser, as researchers continue to show. They allow complete bypass of any native app sandboxing layers. Surely you don't run everything on your box as root all the time.
The story reminded me of myself. Made good money programming for 15 years, invested early in crypto, semi-retired for the last 5 years. Spend days learning technologies, working on my own projects. Nothing took off yet. Thinking of getting a remote job, but they seem to pay little - $70/hr is the best I encountered so far. 5 years ago I was making $90-150/hr.
As a founder of a startup in the green tech area it is fantastic to hear more and more people sharing an environmental motivation about the work they want to do. There are a growing number of motivated startups around with a direct environmental purpose, though they can be harder to find and a slightly different beast from the established tech companies. (Not wanting to plug myself too much but we're currently looking for a motivated developer actually https://lightfi.io/jobs )

There are also a number of environment and social impact accelerators that may be useful for finding companies or pursuing one's own ideas, we started though the EU Climate-KIC program, for example. Increasingly as well there are a number of larger corporates engaging with social impact as a driver (sometimes this can appear a little like green-washing but there are some genuine motivations behind it).

At the moment it does seem more of a growing industry, the people and the companies are there if you can keep that determination to find them. And the more developers showing and looking for a clear sense of that environmental motivation will itself push through a wider change as there is plenty of great and fulfilling work that can be done.
> Firstly as the CEO of Airbus talks about the possibility for needing to leave the UK.

Which is ironic as the UK component started as a division of Hawker-Siddely, before the UK had even joined the EEC. HS managed to participate in the design process and ship wings to Toulouse before there was any free market...
Which annoyed the Belgians and Germans whose design teams consistently lost the internal wing supply competitions against HS ( later British Aerospace ).

Somehow Airbus can rely on suppliers in the USA and Canada, and run assembly lines in China, but not post-Brexit UK? No, it's just internal corporate geopolitics. Finally Germany has a chance to cut the UK out of Airbus.
This is for iOS though, where JavaScript-based plugins like uBlock don’t work (and in fact JS-based plugins are deprecated on desktop Safari as well).
The switching speed of silicon has also some upper limit. When you drive silicon faster, it starts to make mistakes. i.e. not all electrons go the where you want them to go. This causes soft-faults and CPU re-executes the part at best, or gives you a BSOD, oops or panic at worst.

This upper limit depends on process, layout, power design and power limits of the CPU.

Last but, not the least, not all CPUs are created equal on a wafer. I came from an era where we hunted plain blue AMD Athlon dies for higher overclocking potential, since they were from center of the wafer and they were more stable under high load/voltage/clock. I had a 2200MHz Athon (200 x 11) which was faster then AMD's own 2200MHz Athlons, since AMD wasnt offering a 200MHz bus version of their 2200MHz parts.