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Just clang on my system is around 80MB, so when you consider that an SBCL image includes a compiler, a linker, and a loader—and if you have Quicklisp installed, a build system and a package manager—40MB starts to look like a bargain!

I personally wonder if CL's "computer program as an image" instead of the Unix process-oriented architecture will see a comeback in this modern era of virtualization and rump kernels and containers. In theory a Docker image for an SBCL program would be just the Lisp image itself plus the small handful of standard POSIX libraries on which the Linux version of SBCL depends (e.g., libc, libm, libpthread, etc.)
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Just wondering, do Apple or MSFT sponsor them? They also run their own respective NTP servers.
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Most of the Ivies and Duke and Stanford have free tuition for middle class and lower income students.
Not much discussion in the bug report itself:

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=187373
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While Stack Overflow is great for solving issues, I still had to block the "Hot Network Questions" suggestions from the sidebar because it was an almost systematic distraction that would inevitably send me down a rabbit-hole of unrelated questions.

Any system designed to solve the attention problem will have to be opinionated, blocking specific websites, or at least parts of it, I guess it's an interesting case study for machine learning.
“Event cinema” is precisely what caused this decline, transforming cinemas from clean, pleasant, affordable places to watch films with great audio and visual quality to today’s smelly, expensive, sticky auditoriums where digital video is crappily projected onto a wall and the sound is broken half the time. They decided to offer garbage and people decided to eat it.
Yeah I agree, but ptpv2 does support unicast and you can set offsets. It would be very challenging, but not impossible sans the very high res stuff where you need oscillators on the switches and routers, as you alluded to. It wouldn't get down to the sub-10 nanosecond sync you get with a proper stratum 1 timesource (such as the rubidium decay ones), but you could get faster than the guaranteed 1 second of accuracy which is what I believe ntp used to guarantee from a protocol level.

That was my point. Also if you're inside one of Cloudflare's many POPs, this could, in theory, be provided.
Tech entrepreneur Martha Lane Fox objected to the Oxford gift on Twitter this week, saying that the money should be used for climate crisis work. “Something is broken with these models of philanthropy,” she told me. “The greatest challenge of our time is whether we will have a planet in a decade. That’s where we have got to be focusing our attention.”

First of all, does anyone actually believe that we won't have a planet in a decade? That type of hyperbole doesn't seem at place in an FT article.

Secondly, who's to say that the £150m donated to Oxford university won't help climate change? We need scientists, administrators and many other roles to accomplish anything. Oxford seems like a pretty decent place for such people to get their education.
From whom is it stealing value from? Random other potential investors on the stock market? Since the parent comment is specifically mentioning semantics, this is the distinction "theft" vs "fairness" that I don't really understand.

From an outsider perspective like me (I don't own stocks except through my 401k), Wall Street seems like a game of information asymmetry anyway where the only winners have an information edge at some moment in time. Now the question is about how "fairly" was the information obtained which seems pretty blurry to define to me.
If this discussion is still narrowly tailored to the securities market, since this discussion was also about "insider trading", which is a unique prohibition to the securities market and not any other capital market then:

Retail has no business in the securities market. thats where it ends up. stop playing. retail investors flocking to the stock market is a 40 year old meme that is built upon non-objective thought and gullibility. It is built on laziness. Retail doesn't meme commodities because there is almost no lazy investing approach to it. But the reality is that there are other capital markets. Retail isn't helping the stock market, they aren't helping the companies they like by buying stocks they "recognize", they are MAYBE lowering borrowing costs for the company, its executives and employees, but retail's trading has nothing to do with anything.
There is a significant pro-FF brigade here. I'm ambivalent really, I don't care about the OMG Privacy so much and I think all modern browsers are over-complicated garbage fires, but if I say something like "Firefox has some memory leak issue that constantly gives me trouble on the Lubuntu laptops I have" I expect to be downvoted because how dare I tarnish the good name of their preferred software! It's a lot like dealing with Linux Desktop evangelists actually, and probably helps FF adoption as much as that does Linux Desktop adoption.
I think their point is that, if a prisoner cannot be trusted to know things, then people who know things cannot reasonably be made into prisoners. So either you can't put a programmer in prison or you should allow prisoners to know how to program. It doesn't make sense to have it both ways.
You can have a little 64 bit process which communicates with the 32 bit process with a named pipe, and acts as a proxy and makes all the syscalls and loads and calls the 64 bit libraries and returns the responses.

Obviously it adds extra context switches and will reduce performance, but if you're running ancient legacy 32 bit code, you can probably afford that.
The best result is to not claim to have an autopilot at all because they don’t work.
They said corporation, not government. Do you have an example of a low level employee or C level executive using private email server for their official communication.

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Electric is more burstable so it makes more sense for periods of rapid acceleration/deceleration. Hybrid cars work the same way
Yes, it is very brief. I tried to give some useful reference books/papers/links for each subject appeared in the book. Hope that is useful if the readers are willing to dive deeper. But the concept of linear programming itself is not complex, the users are generally not required to understand simplex/interior point algorithm. If they are able to translate the actual problem into the code then it is basically done. It is not like constrained optimization for which customized treatment based on mathematical theories is more important than writing the code.
I know that. I'm asking specifically about the semantics of "theft" vs "fairness" here. I don't think the word "theft" makes much sense in this context.
Hm. So stalking is legal, if you stalk a lot of different people and take notes. Hm. Hm. Doesn't seem ideal.
Another useful piece satellite imagery (other than farms and parking lots already mentioned) is watching shipping lanes in the ocean for traffic.
Yes, a "dodge so that the far right can get their views in front of people" that also happens to be a constitutional amendment from 1791.

The idea of handing the power to determine what speech is "insulting, racist, or oppressive" to government of any kind is absolutely horrifying to me. It would be a dismantling of one of the core principles of western democracy.

And PS I'm Canadian.
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Isn't the Steam client 32 bits too?
$8 would be nice, but it is around £16 in London: https://booking.cineworld.co.uk/booking/8110/37196/0974ddb09...
Could password managers like 1Password (AgileBits Inc.) employ similar techniques? They seem to make very little effort in this regards. E.g. on 1Password, https://discussions.agilebits.com/discussion/101551/article-....
Isn't the whole point of the NTP pool that there isn't a single point of failure? (Assuming of course you're using multiple servers from the pool.)
In the US, my phone is on Wifi pretty much most of time during the day. When I am at work, my phone is on Wifi. When I get home, it is on Wifi as well. When I go to Starbucks, my phone connects to Wifi automatically. India has very limited wifi access. The overall data usage is still a lot higher in the US than in India.
(I'm trying to say that this behavior was removed in modern browsers. The only time when modern browsers are allowed to parse strings as a base other than base-10 when the second argument to parseInt is 0 or undefined is when the string starts with 0x or 0X, at which point the browser must parse it as base-16.)
Isn't more libertarian influence on universities a positive thing? They are currently deeply, deeply influenced by the far left. Getting more diversity of thought seems like a win for everyone.
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I thought it was fascinating. It took a lot of the tropes everyone takes for granted in US blockbusters and China-fied them.

Seriously jarring. When you see a different culture trying to do them, it makes you realise just how just how unconvincingly stiff and nationalistic those tropes are.

I don't know if that was deliberate. If it was, it was a much cleverer movie than it appeared to be.
I think I have a new favorite false etymology, for "chauvinist".
Good point. I always learned to read it as the longest hand being the seconds, but your way works too. Thanks!
Gun fans like to point to the evidence that banning guns in one city does no good, as those cities are still plagued by gun violence. Guns are easily brought in from next door, of course.

This particular line of thinking is not very well thought-out as it naturally leads to “well, then we just have to ban them everywhere” which of course is the opposite of what those mocking gun bans want.
CNBC's interview with Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield ahead of direct listing:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Stewart+Butterf...
Like any product design question (which I feel this qualifies as), it would be a good idea to ask him (the end user) "What workflows have worked well for you before?"

Listen to his response and get a clear idea of what does and does not work for his needs, then build your proposed solutions around that.
Let me qualify that. You're right, we do need a lot more people. But the answer is, don't write your own, write as part of a team. Ideally, a public and peer-reviewed project. The short answer is many people will work on it together, but don't write your own.
Just invest in a Vanguard fund and you'll be fine. You don't need to start your own fund, just like you don't need to be your own doctor.
How does a url based coupon work for users who want to look at reviews/product descriptions?

Ie does the flow take them straight to checkout, or does it apply the code to any relevant product they add to their cart?
Why is this a better approach in terms of UX?
Ah, so it just kills it faster?

I know a child with leukemia who recently started chemo. They had him on sodium bicarbonate and other medication to reduce the acidity of his urine (to compensate for the increased amount of uric acid). However, they only had him on it for the first few days of chemo. My understanding was that the bulk of the chemolysis occured in that period (though I could be mistaken).
> because data.frame is built in, people have been building their own versions (tibble, data.table) instead of improving it.

To make what I think your point is more explicit, people build their own things in R because R must maintain compatibility with S. So by and large, changes happen in packages and not the base language. This does lead to a proliferation of solutions for the same kinds of problems.
Because many "techies" want something more advanced. I use a bunch of extensions to improve my experience (NoScript, uBlock Origin, HTTPS Everywhere, Bitwarden, Vimium etc). You could argue that many of these features should be built in (eg adblock) but not all of them (eg vimium).

You don't have to install extensions if you don't want them. They're not walled gardens. I can install Firefox extensions without ever browsing any of Firefox's websites.

I agree there should be no telemetry but there are FF forks with that removed.
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as usual where CF is involved, no one here gets it. this is TTL information for CF, at the expense of everyone else.
> it _immediately_ starts uploading _everything_ which really pissed me off. Like I get it, full system backups, but still I want some acknowledgement of what's about to happen and options to pare it down if I want.

They've written about why they made this UX decision before [1], and it was because of "naive customers" who ended up either deselecting the C drive, or accidentally doing so.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/b6lbew/were_the_backb...
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I've been critical of reporters for ignoring this hypocracy, but I don't think it applies here.

The reporter doesn't control what the Washington Post does; they can only choose what they report on. I am critical of reporters who refuse to acknowledge that conflict of interest, or who only report on the Facebook/Google side of things without acknowledging that this is something that applies to the web (and news sites) in general.

But I don't feel like that's what happened here, the author is reporting on web tracking in general, and giving mostly accurate information, regardless of the fact that consumers who follow it will also be blocking some of the WP's own trackers.

I do kind of get annoyed that journalists aren't doing more to champion ad blockers, given that they are one of the easiest, simplest steps someone can take to reduce tracking. But... baby steps.

Is the WP itself as a business being hypocritical? Sure, but to me that's a very different problem than what I typically see in privacy reporting. I'm more worried about whether or not reporters are willing to include browser tracking and news trackers in the discussion about privacy at all. Is the narrative, "Google is evil", or is it, "we have a structural problem that many, many businesses are complicit in"?
I'm clicking on the annotate with a bounding box example. I'm running chrome. There is no way I can find to add a bounding box. There is a button labeled show instructions. It reports "Something wrong, we're on it! Try it later"

These aren't subtle bugs I'm reporting. Please try your own site yourself first before posting it to HN.
Kudos to you. Speaking as someone who has taken their eyesight for granted, it's absolutely incredible that anyone can do this at all.
The race is already on.

REDMOND, WA and VANCOUVER, B.C. – March 26, 2019 – magniX, the company powering the electric aviation revolution, and Harbour Air, North America’s largest seaplane airline, today announced a partnership to transform Harbour Air seaplanes into an all-electric commercial fleet powered by the magni500, a 750 horsepower (HP) all-electric motor.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19539796
There's an obvious cost/benefit analysis that people do when they purchase products. Unless you're a professional painter, chances are you don't need a roller that will last a lifetime...you just want to paint your kid's bedroom with the little money you have and then not think about painting for a few years until you get that promotion and move to a new place. It's not a conspiracy.
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The prekey is hashed into the symmetric key. Both the hash function and the symmetric cipher have avalanche effects that mean that N bit errors require the attacker to bruteforce 2^N combinations.

unprotected RSA keys on the other hand have structure and are dense in memory. That means fewer bit-errors and and the ability to guess the missing bits faster than O(2^N).
I agree that a virtual 32 bit distro is probably the only way this makes sense. I can't imagine that a project like wine has any capacity to do all the security updates and dealing with all of multi distro complexities to work around the fact that they could have wildly different library sets to stand on. It could potentially be done as part of a distro package for Ubuntu but it would be a single person replicating the effort of the core libs for ubuntu over again, just for this one corner project.

Either that or someone's going to have to rebuild WOW64 on top of wine? I guess that could happen.
Probably has more to do with how humans are wired to react to their "cute" or baby-like appearances, e.g. large eyes and heads.

I can also say I've always wanted to bury my head in cat tummies, and I recently tested negative for Toxoplasmosis. AFAIK, the infection is more correlated with making men more introverted and depressed and women more extroverted and manic.
You said that we enforce the rules selectively and ought to be moderating uniformly. There are many reasons why it doesn't and can't work that way; the one I mentioned is that readers are in deep disagreement about what counts as uniform. Whose 'uniform' ought we to conform to?

Another reason is quantity. Most random walks you take through HN will be moderated non-uniformly because we can't come close to seeing all the posts. I realize it's tempting to conclude that moderators are failing and probably of bad character, but this rests on mistaken assumptions. We care about this at least as much as you do and work hard, sometimes almost to the point of burnout, to take care of the site. It's a mistake to conclude that we must think a comment is ok if it didn't get moderated. The likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it.

Since you're concerned about the worst comments on HN, why aren't you flagging them? That's a way you can actually help us do better. Emailing hn@ycombinator.com in egregious cases is also helpful, because then we're guaranteed to know about it.

Some of the comments in your list were flagkilled by users, some were penalized by moderators, and some we just didn't see. I agree with you about most of those cases, though not always with how you responded.

It's great if you want to defend others against unfair criticism, as long as you do it thoughtfully and respectfully. Your comments have been doing that sometimes, but other times you've been adding to the problem by breaking the guidelines yourself. Please stop doing that—it helps nothing, and you lose the high ground when you do it. You've been doing it in your replies to me here, in fact. Your argument becomes less convincing when you do the things you're complaining about.
If the price is driven up by scammers, I assume they pay with stolen credit cards, etc.
Retail investors usually do not day trade, do not do HFT, and do not rely on exotic instruments. Hedge funds do have an edge in some specific fields, but everybody still can do medium-to-long term investing.
How is Firefox's UI/UX inferior? The only UI I use on a regular basis are the URL / search bar and tabs. Both are nearly the same.
I own an X1 Yoga with the WQHD screen.

- grub has no problems

- Bios updates work through LVFS

- this has no dual gpu.

- power usage and fan usage is about the same as windows, running a bit cooler.

- Suspend has a linux and windows option in the UEFI options, works fine.
Definitely not crazy. I think some people feel pressured to make their life look like it's going well at all times so the ones that are having a hard time just don't talk about it.
Which part of the article do you think confuses MNPI with alternative data? It seemed that the purpose of the paper is to point out how the line between “public” information and “non-public” information is blurring for those who can afford access.

And given how difficult it is to define insider trading that seems like a pretty accurate assessment to me. Alternative data firms are the new expert network firms in the wake of Rajaratnam.
Anecdote, but relevant, we were on the ground in Las Vegas in a 787-400 (an all-electric, no-bleed airplane) and due to a 15 minute ground hold while they sorted an issue with a brake indication, the APU powered pack alone was not able to keep up with the Vegas environmentals. (They couldn't run a main engine because they were doing maintenance in that area.) They were able to bring in ground-based chillers to take some of the edge off, but it was uncomfortably hot in the cabin with an APU running.

A 787 may be ideal for an electric conversion (since it's already a no-bleed airplane). Even then, you probably might as well run the APU for electrics on the ground, since you're going to be carrying around that amount of weight anyway.
Um... hedge funds are part of "wall street". Silly clickbait headline... sigh
I think the visualizations are amazing for bringing concepts together, but you also absolutely have to do the work if you want to really understand and continue to work with the math concepts they talk about.

I haven't really used 3b1b to advance my math understanding (I used it for math entertainment), but if I did, I would watch the video, work stuff out on paper, and then watch the video again
I would have to agree.

Overeating, overfeeding.... They share a lot of similarities.
Watson is a very good writer - and funny.

I've heard a lot of unsavory things about him but I've also heard that his unique perspective led directly to the climate at CSHL which positioned the lab to be at the center of so many breakthroughs.
IIRC when the original iPhone debuted as an AT&T exclusive in the States, AT&T had a lot of trouble keeping up with demand in New York and San Francisco for 3G services, and this situation persisted for quite a while.

I suspect that while more bodies definitely helps defray costs, the marginal costs of expanding infrastructure once you reach breaking point are by no means cheap.