skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Investopedia has the following to say. I don't know if it agrees with the distinction that you like to draw:

"Communism and socialism are economic and political structures that promote equality and seek to eliminate social classes. The two are interchangeable in some ways, but different in others.In a communist society, the working class owns everything, and everyone works toward the same communal goal. There are no wealthy or poor people -- all are equal, and the community distributes what it produces based only on need. Nothing is obtained by working more than what is required. Communism frequently results in low production, mass poverty and limited advancement. Poverty spread so widely in the Soviet Union in the 1980s that its citizens revolted. Like communism, socialism’s main focus is on equality. But workers earn wages they can spend as they choose, while the government, not citizens, owns and operates the means for production. Workers receive what they need to produce and survive, but there’s no incentive to achieve more, leaving little motivation. Some countries have adopted aspects of socialism. The United Kingdom provides basic needs like healthcare to everyone regardless of their time or effort at work. In the U.S., welfare and the public education system are a form of socialism. Both are the opposite of capitalism, where limitations don’t exist and reward comes to those who go beyond the minimum. In capitalist societies, owners are allowed to keep the excess production they earn. And competition occurs naturally, which fosters advancement. Capitalism tends to create a sharp divide between the wealthiest citizens and the poorest, however, with the wealthiest owning the majority of the nation's resources."
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Hardly, look at what the Chinese are doing in Africa and the "Silk Road" initiative and how they load down countries with borrowing so they can come in and clean up 10 years later.
In the end the greedy who are also powerful end up corrupting any system; therefore the problem is clearly the humans. I hope if we manage to build an AI it turns out better.
Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint each have more LTE coverage than 3G/CDMA. (AT&T is the exception with more 3G coverage)

Source: https://www.whistleout.com/CellPhones/Guides/sprint-coverage...
Pilot Era 360 camera first impressions – an impressive 360 camera
Not aruging but just wanted to point out Yugoslavia as one of the only examples of pretty successful market socialism. According to Wikipedia at least Cuba is also working on such reforms.
Thank you. This does explain quite a bit.
Comparing the power the Chinese government holds over its people to American advertising companies that try to sell you consumer goods is laughable.
I don’t see how that’s related to China’s Great Firewall. What decades long embargo are you referring to?
I use a 2015 MBP as my daily machine.

I actually _upgraded_ to a 2017 MBP 13" without trackpad for 13 days. It was _OK_ but not enough of an upgrade to justify an upgrade. Dongletown wasn't fun either. I returned it for a refund.

I want to upgrade at the moment (8GB of RAM isn't ideal for my uses), but I can't justify the upgrade just yet. I'll really miss MagSafe and a HDMI cord slot.
> "Every company deserves a “monopoly” on their own product,"

Why?
Schiff: Great recession coming as gold standard returns
Big fan of request coalescing, was introduced to it by Varnish. Really helps when a cache entry drops.

I believe what the article did is called a "grace period".

Are there any open implementations of distributed request coalescing? Pretty easy to do using a service proxy, but what about something like a Raft cluster?
Pilosa: An open source, distributed index
Bottomless (YC W19) Is Hiring in Seattle: Engineering, Operations, Data Science
I think one problem, especially if you have many tabs open, is that about:performance isn't very useful / accurate (at least for me) so I'm not sure which is the offending tab to close. With Chrome that is pretty easy.
In my opinion, this is too preliminary to deserve attention
I don't understand what you're asking in your prior post when you say whether you could "pay someone else". Your carrier makes the agreements about with which others your phone could roam (and with who it can't), and your phone tries among the ones it can, but clearly not among the ones it can't. You continue to pay your bill to your home network. And yes, there are often restrictions with how much you can roam.

That being said, TMo and Sprint are making TMo sites advertise an old Sprint network identifier to Sprint phones, so that Sprint phones don't even think of it as roaming [1]. This is in effect for data only right now, not VoLTE.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Sprint/comments/96lai0/clearwire_b2...
A single social media website is not at all comparable to an ISP or a bank though. Facebook is a wholly unimportant distraction.
How many people ever paid money to go watch Larry Page at work for a day? Corporate executives have wealth and power; let the ballplayers have the celebrity :)
You need to be careful not to lose weight too quickly, since that has risks of its own. It is a risk with extreme diets such as extended fasting.

Excessively fast weight loss can cause liver injury. Most obese people will already have some degree of fatty liver disease (NAFLD), and while gradual weight loss is beneficial in reversing that liver disease, excessively fast weight loss can have the opposite effect and promote liver disease progression.
Not really, it was solved without this API given aurora serverless would manage connections and scaling automatically (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide...).

But the real problem was connection time was unusable for any client facing application. I tried it after it was released (not preview). I really doubt this API would respond any faster.
In principle this is a good service, but in practice why would one trust a closed source third party if privacy and content blocking is a major concern?

A pfSense machine with pfBlockerNG is open source, fully customizable, and can block at the DNS and IP level.

Since blocking content effectively changes how the web looks, and can occasionally break web sites, I'd rather have full control over the service than to pay someone to configure it for me.

Plus, the BSD camp has yet to let me down. :)
I'm surprised Ultrahaptics had $30M to spend. Their product is super niche.
Passing a 95% significance test doesn't have any connection to the notion that there is a 5% chance the drug is no good.

This is what you would expect from a blind application of a 95% confidence interval only if 50% of tested drugs were good.
very handy to quickly get rid of visual clutter like overlays for cookie consent checkboxes, subscribe notifications or disable-your-adblocker overlays/popups.

Just hit reader mode and its all gone.
Wow... I read Dreamcast Junkyard for years, starting back around 2005 or 2006, had a few fishing games for the Dreamcast as well as the fishing controller, and have never even heard of this one!

This one is even more interesting than some of the weird ones I know about, like the Dreamcast in the shape of Sonic's head with the built-in TV.

So glad to see Dreamcast Junkyard is still at it after all these years! :)

Still no English Segagaga though :(
FF is my primary browser, yet people I know that work in security laugh at me as they claim FF is always the first browser to fail in the hacker games. I don't know enough about why, but I'd love for that to not be a thing. Taking into account my threat profile (types of sites I visit, JS blocking, etc), I feel the hacking risk is still a worth while trade off for the lack of tracking.
Average household size went from 2.6 in 1999 to 2.5 today. How is that going to put a big dent in the median?
Why is "old age" a better choice? Usually there's some kind of a disease that can't be handled by the aging body. Is it because it's not worth it to identify what the disease is?
i did mean the ocean originally, you have heat sponges which sit near the surface and use the gradient between air flowing above the surface, the hotter temperature above, and the cooler temperature of the ocean. the sponges can use the heat to move or they can trap it like charging a battery so you transform heat into kinetic or chemical energy. it occurred to me that a third way is to build a ring that uses the heat exchange between the layers of the atmosphere and space, using the same ectothermic biological principle.

talking about the earth as a system here is a bit of a misnomer. the core up to the mantle is very hot, but that heat only escapes to the surface through lava tubes/vents because the tectonic plates are good insulators. im specifically talking about the part of the earth we care about affecting the temperature of - and you can do this by shifting the heat up, down, storing it or converting it. the atmosphere is more permissive than the hydrosphere, hadal zone or crust.

it's easier to imagine the earth as a ball and things leaving the surface as exiting the ball system. but really when we talk about the earth it's more like a layer on a ball, and if you go deep into the ocean, underground or exit the atmosphere it's all the same type of thing.

as far as i know the climate cycles are a surface feature of the planet, deep underground is more inaccessible to our technology than reaching another star system.

the term is called geosequestration.
Intel has made a number of clean sheet RISC architectures. They abandoned it all for marketing 5GHz pipedreams.
Socialism is economic and need not distribute only according to need. Communism is political with some economics.

In Europe there's a lot of shades of grey. No one would consider the UK or Nordic countries communist, and no one the UK socialist. Yet with the NHS there is a socialised health service. Nordic model countries go much further with their social policies but are still capitalist democracies far removed from communism. Few would even call them socialist but social democratic or similar.

Europe has a lot of social democrat, and middle ground socialist parties that believe in some level of redistribution and other somewhat socialist ideas and healthy capitalism with profit, and freedom to become wealthy.

America uses them in a far more black and white manner.
People learn and re-learn this at almost every company, which I find fascinating. The redis nx bits aren't a bad way of dealing with it.

Since they mention memcached: I've been working on a protocol extension to bake this exact thing in more directly. Though in braze's case, it's unclear to me why they didn't use the method of add'ing a secondary key with a low TTL since that doesn't cross systems at least?

With the new protocol to memcached you get "win" tokens, which are very loosely similar to leases. Rather than explicit lease tokens a client is notified of if it "won" or if an object is "stale" etc, and the existing CAS mechanisms are used for replacing objects.

IE: If you fetch an object and miss, it'll auto-create an object with a specified TTL, and return a CAS value (a version number). Winner recaches, other clients are told to retry or wait.

Closer to the braze use case, you can set a "TTL remaining threshold" with a request. If you fetch an object which initially had a 180s TTL, but now has a <90s one, you get a win token. Other clients get the existing value, but only one client is allowed to recache.

There's a bit more to it as the changes are trying to stay flexible for a number of possible scenarios. Cuts out roundtrips and finally gives people more modern cache semantics to work with built in. Hoping to ship this soon, but I need to track down client authors for feedback.
I agree that they have more coverage in aggregate but when you go out into the boondocks. You don’t get LTE. That “1%” makes a difference in rural areas.
I recall hearing somewhat archaic phrasing that something was "good for what ails a body", or some such. Specifically, I think it's an archaic southern-ism? Though you're right about the general trend.
I think you meant iOS WebKit for rendering rather than Safari. Firefox iOS uses WebKit while it used to use Gecko.

I seem to remember speed being a difference. It’s been awhile. I also switched from gmail to outlook because gmail was using headers and footers for ads which was annoying on a 4” SE.
What's the difference between, say, white people and black people? It is that the white people's bodies have pale skin - or "white" if you prefer - and that black people's bodies have dark skin - or, perhaps, "black". Any discussion of white people vs black people must, then, at heart, be somehow about their bodies. Because that's exactly what "white" and "black" refer to.

I assume the terminology is intended to deliberately draw one's attention to this.
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Young Brothers Wait Concept: https://www.chessprogramming.org/Young_Brothers_Wait_Concept

Parallel searching is possible, but it just hasn't really been done on GPU hardware. Stockfish itself parallelizes to multiple cores (although its only really designed for less than 20 from my understanding).

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> The problem is that tree searching is largely serial, in the sense of, you don't know the next position you want to search until you finish searching the previous position.

That's not the issue. Searching the game tree in parallel is stupid easy. But this creates a lot of waste.

The chess minimax algorithm with alpha-beta pruning requires you to serially process nodes to know which nodes to "skip". There in lies the issue: of the three types of nodes (PV, CUT, and ALL nodes), CUT nodes have a best-case of two evaluations per CUT-node. While PV and ALL nodes have to have all of their children evaluated.

Roughly 1/2 of all nodes are "cut" nodes however, which means in the best case, you can double the search depth with the alpha-beta pruning algorithm.

As far as I can tell, the Young Brothers Wait Concept extends the minimax alpha-beta pruning algorithm to multiple cores, but it isn't as efficient as a fully serial processor.

Still, that's probably where I'd start if I were to seriously try to put this on a GPU.

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No matter how you look at it: a game tree grows exponentially. It only makes sense that exponentially growing trees would allow exponentially more work to be processed in parallel.
I've said it before and I'll say it again - replacing Balmer with Nadella was one of the best things they've done.

People go on and on about Facebook and Google, but I've been really impressed with Microsoft. They're making some really great, innovative products - and they're turning a nice profit too.

(yes, I realize Bing is just a Google clone, but I'm talking more generally about the company)
oh man I remember the hype around this game in magazines back then! It's AI would "adapt" to your inputs and that was a 'wow' in my mind back then.

all in all Dreamcast, imho, was the perfect console. You could emulate PSX games at higher, smoother res and sharper textures, there are emulators for various games now.

I wonder how much it costs to pick one up now...
Right, once I did the right calculations I realized I was actually somewhat pudgy even at 6'2" 165, do to low muscle mass. The low end of healthy weight for my height would be 145, according to BMI. BMI has serious flaws, but it's a decent statistical measure. For someone like me, with low muscle mass, that would be a very skinny weight. So even at 165, I had like 15-20 lbs of fat. Now, I'd be pretty skinny at 180-190 lbs.
Mozilla has a conflict of interest. It pays its developers indirectly from internet ad revenue through deals with companies that sell ads. More importantly it seeks to compete with a browser controlled by ad sales company.

Giving the users commenting negatively the privacy they want would mean that Firefox would not implement the "features" that its developers believe are necessary for a "good browser".1

What "good browser" really means to these developers is a browser that does what the "competing" browser does first and foremost, not the ideal browser some vocal group of ad-loathing, privacy-conscious users want. That is how Mozilla defines "good". "Good" to them means "competitive". To the users who comment on Firefox flaws, "good" means something else. It does not necessarily mean one that "competes" with Chrome.

The honest response from Mozilla to negative comments would be to acknowledge they do not exist primarily for all users. They exist primarily for the developers who work there, as part of a project to be "competitive" with commercially-driven browsers.

Cutting ties to the revenue stream of internet advertising and the browsers that it finances is not an option for Mozilla. It is not volunteer-driven like many open source projects. It has to pay developers a competitive salary.

The idea of "something we all want: privacy" is at odds with developers who are being paid to support the internet ad business. The pervasive advertising found on the internet would not be possible without the cooperation of browser authors.

1 "Without the Yahoo ad deal, or "the ability to inject code remotely in your browser" i.e. automatic updates, or reliable telemetry from the majority of Firefox users, it would have been impossible to build a good browser." - Mozilla employee
After reading through the comments quarreling about whether Qualcomm and Apple are acting within their rights to charge monopoly-sized rent where they can, and do, it's hard for me to fathom the depths of confusion Americans are reduced to whenever these topics come up.

First and foremost: when you are as big as Qualcomm and Apple are in their respective spheres, you don't need rights. You have POWER, which is far, far better, especially when you can use it to extract money to buy more power with.

Rights are for little people. Qualcomm has been at this for decades. How long can you get away with just parking your car in the wrong place?

Second, when you talk about abuse of monopoly power, it makes no sense to look at it from the standpoint of the monopolist. Everything is stacked in their favor. The important question is, what can the little guy do? Not other companies, even though they complain most effectively (like Apple or Intel complaining about Qualcomm), or even small ones that can't. They would all love to be monopolies too, and sometimes are. What matters is, what is the experience of somebody who got an iPhone for her quinceaña, or of the farmer stuck with a busted John Deere tractor?

Each is obliged to pay a huge premium -- for software, or repairs -- because the 400-pound gorilla can force the matter. The fact that somebody else has an Android phone or an IH tractor doesn't help either of them. Each is stuck with what Apple or Deere is willing to let them have.

The law doesn't need to define a monopoly: only a monopoly can exercise monopoly power, so it suffices to look for that happening. Any monopoly not visibly abusing its monopoly power has nothing to worry about, because nobody can tell.

Anti-trust law doesn't make it illegal to have a monopoly. It just says that if you choose to make one -- and every monopoly chose it -- different rules apply. The law defines lots of rules, but the DOJ has chosen to ignore almost all because of a lately fashionable notion promoted by Chicago-school economists that nothing matters except high prices. Under the law there is a hell of a lot of monopoly abuse nobody at DOJ will even look at, that have all kinds of deleterious results. Anybody who wants to do anything about any of it gets mobbed by defenders of monopolists' rights.

And that's where we are today. Qualcomm got in trouble by making things unpleasant for other 400-pound gorillas, and we get to watch. Offenses against us are entirely ignored, and now people insist that's normal and right, law or no law.
FWIW I once had a global Verizon feature phone that was dual GSM/CDMA and had a Verizon SIM.
Your statement would be even better if you dropped both 'pure's.
Democratic Socialism is the more communist one.

Social Democracy is the social programs one.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy
Wait if I read that doc correctly, does it seem to suggest that connections will be closed when the function goes cold. So the locked up connections where lambda dies without disconnecting isn’t a problem google functions?

Think of a spike in traffic, 100 functions connect one connection per function. Then a break 80 of them go cold. Your max connections is 100, so if 80 didn’t disconnect and are waiting to timeout you are stuck. Any more functions coming online won’t have any connections.

The only work around in AWS was to setup an external connection pool, kind of begins to kill the serverless savings and all.
Sure, granted. But who cares? It doesn't make Gab come off any better. Opportunistic bigotry is just as bad as… well, bigotry.

I'm not saying Andrew Torba shouldn't have built Gab; I am lamenting its existence, insofar as I don't want anyone to be a white supremacist. But white supremacists do exist, and as long as they do they'll make spaces for themselves, whether on Gab or 8chan or some dark corner of Twitter. All we can do is push those spaces as far away as possible.
Apple has about 45% of the US smart phone market with their next competitor being Samsung at about 29%, with both of those companies on track to lose share to Huawei. Globally Apple is about 11% of the market, with Samsung selling well over double of what Apple sells.

Those numbers, combined with the fact that a new competitor is arising to take market share away from Apple strongly implies that Apple is not currently behaving in an anticompetitive fashion.
> You can handwave all you like about the (vague, unspecified) horrible cost.

There is a place on Earth where opinions deemed to be bad are vigilantly monitored for and instantly deplatformed: The People's Republic of China. Is that truly the future you wish for?

Reading these posts from the modern left is ghastly to those of us who remain old school liberals. To defeat their opponents and prevent them from crushing the human rights of innocents, the modern left has become willing themselves to crush various other human rights that they deem unimportant. Thus we see Nietzsche spake truly: "He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you."
I'm saying their agreements are not equivalent to being on the other carrier because they might not help you in the particular time/place/type/amount of roaming you're interested in. Hence claiming it's all LTE because of the existence of roaming and non-existence of SIM/band compatibility issues with recent phones still paints the wrong picture that carrier doesn't affect where you get reception, whereas it very much does.
This is... not a useful general-purpose scan tool for web APIs. A warning because port 443 is open, no kidding? And a lot of carping about HTTP headers relevant to frontend apps.
How to Integrate an Embedded FPGA
It seems that in some fonts the Braille space (code point 0x2800) is not the same width as the other Braille characters. On this Windows computer it seems that "Segoe UI Symbol", a Microsoft font, is being used by default, and has that problem.
Interesting. I’ve gotten two offers from two European tech cos, one in London and one in Amsterdam though did not end up accepting either. In both situations I felt they were pretty eager/open to hiring.

The biggest hurdle they face in hiring non-Europeans is that I believe they must somehow prove that you possess skills that are uncommon in the local talent pool in order to get you a work visa. I think SWE, other technical skill set, or having an advanced degree all would help there...
I wonder how much they would save running all the Kindles over their own network (MVNO or not) instead of paying AT&T millions of dollars per month.