skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Someone needs to tell the semiconductor industry that, then, because all traces inside a modern IC are at 90 degrees.

This occurs almost never in a modern VLSI process.

Practically every 90 degree turn in a modern process involves a via or a contact to a different layer--VLSI tends to run different layers in orthogonal directions from one another.

I actually suspect that the really advanced processes nowadays actually ban 90 degree turns in their design rules as it may make the phase shift masks impossible to compute.
There's a noscript version here:

http://theoldnet.com/navbar?url=w3c.org&decode=false&noscrip...
I doubt the law requires anything more than the full refund which MS is providing.

Similarly, if someone sells you a physical product that is faulty, the seller is not required to produce a replacement, they can just refund you instead.
It's an unbelievably untapped aspect for differentiating browsers. However, instead of the address bar what would be the best experience would be to have navigation buttons on the bottom. Speed dials, back and forward, tab management should be front and center and at the bottom, since that's actually what you're using the most when browsing on mobile.
It's neither misguided nor faux environmentalism. As a cyclist, going behind buses is straight toxic. Maybe you're a car user and you don't mind the dirtiest diesel engines, but those particles poison the lungs of our citizens and that nasty emission discourages people from using buses and cleaner transportation modes.

We must move to electrification if we want to save our lungs and our planet. No amount of dirtiest diesel is going to save us.
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My knowledge of Sikh religion is pretty limited, but as I understand it, they join most other major religions in seeing the world and ordinary, secular life as full of temptation and moral danger... but unlike most major religions, they discourage retreating from the world and ordinary secular life.

This is striking since there's so much agreement on retreat-from-the-world being valuable and even laudable in other faiths. Many traditions hold ultimate enlightenment and engagement with the divine as being actually, or at least practically, impossible without it. IOW Sikhs deliberately practice their religion on hard mode. Badass.
Fun fact: many dark web forums choose phpBB, because it's just as fully-featured with Javascript disabled (which all the security-conscious visitors will do as a matter of course.)
They're looking at GMing Nitrogenase into plants so that they're no longer limted by the lack of Nitrogen, they're also working on copying C4 photosynthesis into C3 photosynthesis plants so they can more efficiently use CO2.

A superior form of photosynthesis isn't easy to imagine, the one we've got seems to use nifty quantum effects to be very efficient, I think about 80%.

Earth cycles carbon, there's been a few spells when it has run out of carbon and turned it a snowball, seemingly saved by carbonate rocks being recycled by volcanoes.

I think there'll run out of phosphate before then though.
See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_driver

You actually want horizontal velocity, not vertical. Getting "up" is easy (it's only a few miles), it's the horizontal speed that keeps you there.

The only reason rockets launch straight up is to avoid the thick air as quickly as possible, then they turn and accelerate sideways the rest of the way.
I did, that's why I was a little confused by your summary. It was a lot more nuanced than I was expecting.

I enjoyed the bit when he flashed up the logos of Netflix, Amazon, Vimeo, Microsoft and other AOM members as showing strong support for HEVC from streaming platforms. And the bit when he said that support by AOM member Apple was really key to HEVC success in America. Or that AOM member Samsung was putting HEVC in TVs.

The guy seems smart and informed, but the video had a lot of dramatic irony since many of the corporate big guns he uses to quantify HEVC success seem to be more and more vocal about their dissatisfaction with HEVC and plans to ditch it for AV1 as soon as possible, which is a phyrric kind of victory.
webshit was a mistake.
They made some of it; were very interested in SCA etc.
So what you're saying is the mechanism they put in place to prevent your friends book from being pirated failed within months?

Yet all those who purchased it legally could one day be left with having their purchase shut off? They might be lucky and get refunds but they still lose access to the book.

To me that seems like an utter failure for everyone.
I prefer Library Genesis.
Give me tiny iphone with 3.5" display and I'll give you my $1000. There is literally no competition in this space and enough people hanging on to SEs and complaining about pocketability that I'm positive it would still sell well. When I pull out my SE when hanging out with someone new, the most common reaction is "wow! I wish my phone was still that small" and a lot of complaints about big phones.

There is a huge untapped market here. I'm not suggesting it's bigger than the market for the XS Plus Max 7" behemoth... but it's certainly not negligible. There is a reason the iPod Nano and the iPod Classic were both popular.
> The drivers, who followed Sikh traditions by wrapping their uncut hair in turbans, said bosses asked them to remove the turbans.

Ironically, Quebec has made it a law now.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-laicity-secul...
The lack of empathy in the responses is staggering to me. It's as if the idea that a content creator should be financially rewarded for his or her hard work is some sort of moral crime. Yes, DRM sucks, but what other way can content providers ensure that they get rewarded for the hard work and good content that they provide?
"Defining public interest on Twitter" from the company itself on this coming change:

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/publicint...
If they could Intel would have launched 10nm desktop cpus by now. Also there was a leaked Roadmap until 2021 which didn't show any desktop 10nm parts.
The next few years are going to be dominated by AMD.
I'm not in favor of Twitter "policing and protecting" us. If politicians say or do stupid things, it should affect their credibility and long-term electability. We don't need an arbitrator to hide it or make it disappear so it doesn't "hurt" our feelings.
FWIW, I ported Hyperscan to ARM using SIMDe.
See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_driver
It was so popular that Apple was supply constrained for quite awhile. Then it started to languish without updates, possibly because it was less profitable for Apple compared to selling newer, larger models.
No mention of China. I wonder if the revival of this is due to China's railgun developments.
What is "most other countries"? As far as I'm aware, at least in the Eurozone ATMs also have fees (unless it's the same bank) and bank wires (SEPA) aren't instant either.

Operating ATMs may be "trivial", but it costs money, so why would you serve your competitor's customers cash for free?
There are some claims here that encryption is illegal over amateur radio. That is not true in general. For example, this is what the FCC prohibits in their rules:

>messages encoded for the purpose of obscuring their meaning

... which can be read here:

* http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Regulatory/March%208,%202018....

So ultimate intent is what matters. A test bitcoin transaction is probably legal even if it were somehow incidentally encrypted.
For me it's a mental health and productivity benefit. You get longer down time and when you get back to work you have to endure only half a day to get back into work mode. On fridays you wrap up work and leave early so you're more focus on completion and you're less stressed.

I didn't even consider the environmental aspect, a lot of workplaces already have work from home fridays, maybe having the half-days work from home makes better sense?
Do you have a link to back this up?
There is a big difference between copying physical objects and digital ones.

Books can be copied for sure, but the cost of copying a digital book is negligible compared to the cost of copying a real book. Zero cost of copying makes it possible to give it away for free (e.g. to drive traffic) and monetize otherwise (most digital piracy is business, not charity).

In the physical world, copied books are not given away for free typically because the cost of copying a book is relatively high.

Copyrighting digital items is a fundamental problem which has no good solution so far.
that's only the first part of the piece. Then it goes on to show how everyone forgot how to do business and instead blindly trust random indexes, from exchange rates to chicken price (and one can easily extrapolate to BTC, which is oscillating on $9-15k every 15min for the past 5 hours btw --exchange wash trade scam news in 3, 2, 1...)
Or maybe they're just violent and mad so they sing about it.
Only that I wanted the books, not the money.
> would be instantly squished

Not so. That's only for a very short launch. You would actually have a track a few miles long (probably up the side of a mountain) and launch using that. The g-forces would be very mild.
...which does nothing to address the problem of inconsistent UI experience because the setting doesn't affect landscape mode so now it's even less consistent.
So much text, so little information. It would have been nice to read what is so uber great about it.
Hoping for Sony to release the ACE for international markets:
Sony Mobile recently announced the Xperia Ace (SO-02L) for the Japanese market. This is Sony’s smallest handset released in 2019, with a 5-inch FHD+ display, a water resistant body, Snapdragon 630 chipset, 4GB RAM and 64GB storage.
https://www.xperiablog.net/2019/06/20/xperia-ace-is-an-inter...
I'm Ukrainian. Recent history has taught me to not trust any Russian citizen for any reason whatsoever.
A large part of the reason that guns fell out of use on warships was that they were outranged by everything - guns that can shoot up to 40km (like those on the Iowa class) aren't enormously useful against destroyers tossing missiles from 200km or strike aircraft from a carrier 400km away. Guns that can shoot down planes and incoming missiles at 100km, though? That's pretty damn useful, even if it doesn't close the distance entirely vs missiles. As for why guns at all - well, guns tend to have magazine depths undreamt of by missiles, and railguns will likely follow that pattern. If moving to railguns for AA defence means you can shoot down 3 or 4 times as many incoming missiles for the same weight, that would be enormous.

And in the fog of war... Who's to say that a DD won't be able to close to railgun range of an enemy warship? Life's a lot easier when you can stay below the horizon, after all!
I'm pretty sure I'll happily recite The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny.
Paying for books is the old model.

I really believe that books should be mostly free and people should//would pay based on usefulness. I will gladly donate 200$ for a book that helped me. I would also never have bought that same book if it was 10$ to start with.
Until it's provided I would assume that it's a gross misrepresentation/exaggeration.
I hadn't taken the time to look for every instance of this story being brought up across the net. I was just making a comment on the original posters linked article.

Next time I'll be sure to research and list more outlets before posting. Plenty of blame to go around!
I guess Oss developers would rather invest their free development time in creating something that's not locked in to one specific platform, and that's why there is nothing fitting your exact requirements?
How can the under construction image at the bottom of the page not be a gif?
Cisco Umbrella has this listed as security threat, FYI
All my ebooks get their DRM removed instantly and I back up my kindle every now and then. This shit is not ever happening to me.
Eh, I prefer Will Wright's perspective:

"Jordan's journals are remarkable. I so wish I had kept a similar record.

Reading them transports me back to that place and time. We all knew this was an exciting new industry, but I don't think we had any clue what it was going to turn into during our careers. There were no schools, no books, no theories covering what we were doing. Everyone was just figuring it out on their own.

Following Jordan's creative path is a great example of how to go with your own gut instinct. It's also a great inspiration, showing how persistence and determination can lead to unexpected and wonderful results."
A Gentle Intro to GANs [video]
The yearly ALA (American Library Association) conference was in the conference center across the street from that library last weekend. I wonder how many noticed the metaphor to what is happening to libraries in general?
I am extremely skeptical about your open flame idea, especially from a security standpoint and temperature control/maintenance.

Also, if as another poster says 70% of the energy goes to heating then why replace this with a very dirty energy source? Kinda defeats the purpose.
he's referring to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-correlation

this could be sound from loudspeakers or broadcast audiorate electromagnetic waves getting picked up in the audio cables, or even a passive system of sensors throughout russia, i.e. using cross-correlation with background noise ...

one could also view this as a pseudorandom form of lock-in amplification, and even with a high noise floor the results do improve with number of samples, so patience is all they need.
> Do you have examples?

Stock buybacks used to be illegal, until they weren't. Very relevant in the current market. Not insider trading as such, but a form of manipulation that one might consider related.

https://mavenroundtable.io/theintellectualist/news/stock-buy...
In fairness, I love and rely on Thunderbird, but I certainly wouldn't call it a triumph of usability. The UI hasn't changed appreciably in more than a decade, and it wasn't particularly easy or pleasant to use even back then.

Don't get me wrong, it works well for what it sets out to do, and the stagnation is understandable given how Thunderbird was always treated by Mozilla as a sort of red-headed stepchild before they cut it loose altogether. This is a project that has been operating in survival mode for a long time now. But it does mean that there is space in the market for an email client with a modern UI and some fresh ideas on how to interact with email.
> Remember: Free with DRM is not the same thing as free.

I agree with him the whole way that this is weird, but this particular tweet made no sense to me.

It seems akin to "Hey, we'll allow you to rent something for some duration for free", and it sounds like he's saying that that situation is also not free.
It's straight up dystopian that's what it is.
The most frustrating bug I ever fought only showed up on a remote device. I was working on an AngularJS component, and for some irritatingly-unknown reason, it would not render on a Samsung Android device. One specific device. It just happened to belong to someone really important.

Debugging remote devices sucks because you don’t have access to your tools. You can’t just open the inspector and dive in–you have to build and deploy custom debugging code. Then do it again with what you missed. And again.

We built RemoteJS to help with this--to help connect easily with troublesome remote browsers with the tooling you'll need to understand what's different there and debug it.

The service is based around the TrackJS agent, with some extensions in place to grab screenshots and execute commands. It establishes a websocket connection to a simplified debugger application, built in React.

Nothing is stored as part of the service, so it's all very inexpensive to run. A few folks might have put us on production sites today, which was a fun load test :)

Thanks for checking it out!
I'm interested. I hate how slow Gmail feels these days – not sure whether it's gotten slower or my expectations have gotten higher, but either way, I only use it for lack of a good alternative.

But does anyone know whether or not the macOS version is an Electron app? The screenshot on the website makes it seem like it might be. If so, most of my interest is lost: it's probably still better than Gmail, but not better enough to be worth switching to. Non-native widgets are annoying to deal with, especially since they tend to not work properly with keyboard navigation/shortcuts (also a problem with Gmail). And while I believe they've gotten their client faster than Gmail, probably by a large margin, if it's Electron it probably isn't quite as snappy as a native app, while also taking up a lot of memory. I could be wrong, and I'll probably still try it if I get the chance, but I have yet to find a single Electron app that didn't struggle with this.

Edit: Their GitHub profile lists a bunch of Electron and JS repos, so I'm guessing it is indeed Electron. :(
Definitely not if I'm paying for the offering. If it's free, then I'll consider making that trade-off.
That is what I am curious about. Would I be more productive if I start monday late where normally I would spend too much time coping with having to return from the weekend? Fridays too,I feel like i would be more productive and procrastinate less if I knew the weekend will start soon.
> For example, Volvo’s current breed of cars has everything that Tesla has to offer.

Have you actually tried it or did you just read it off some anti-tesla rant on the Internet? I desperately want to believe that statement because Teslas are very overpriced for the amount of comfort they provide, but every time I test any other car, the "lane assist" and similar things are nowhere near what Tesla offers. They are all "just as good" on paper, and then you activate lane assist and smallest problem like one small segment of the road line being off makes a Volvo or something else scream in panic and force you to take the wheel while Tesla gracefully doesn't even notices at as a problem and keeps driving. Just because the other manufacturers say on paper "we also have lane assist" does not mean it's the same function.

Look at this latest Audi e-tron. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjsfMmJ4AiM

When you say that other manufacturers are not doing as much marketing for this, you are right. But you got it the other way around: it's not that they are behind on the marketing, and that's why they are failing. They are failing to implement these features that Tesla's already have in great quality on the mass-market, - and that's why they don't have the audacity to market those features, because they know that if they forced people to actually take their "lane assist" seriously, they would be scrutinized by the market even more and all those flaws would be brought to light.

Go actually test a Tesla autopilot, on a long drive, and then go actually test a Volvo, VW, BMW, etc lane assist -and then come back and review your statement. Your mind will be changed.

> barely works under ideal conditions (read: sunny California weather with good roads, signs and road markings),

Watch more of videos on that channel. Many rain situations are fine, and barely some visible road markings is all that is needed. Yes level 5 might be a decade away, but even as it is - that's like 80% of driving time covered. What part of it is "unrealistic" when it already exists?
In the waning months of G+ I fired off a few bulk archives (front page only), not the full community post set of the top 100k or so Communities (size and recency criteria) using a one-liner of awk, xargs, curl, and the Internet Archive's Save Page Now USL (SPN: https:web.archive.org/save/$URL). That took a bit over an hour.

On a mid-1990s iMac running Debian, and a rusty residential DSL connection.

R played a role in other community-related analysis and reporting.
In the alternate reality where public libraries didn't already exist, I suspect the law would make it illegal to loan books. It would be a direct response to these small informal libraries trying to share books and "violate the license."
I run ZOOMED on my 6 and definitely prefer it
A Fast Mile Is More Impressive Than a Slow Marathon
yes ... you are correct .. the code on the backend side ... and also for Admin-app - needs refactoring ... i was planning that ... its just the matter of when i find some time !

I wont recommend anyone to contribute (for backend and admin app) until the refactoring is done !

I had been searching for some good project - Example for backend code ... but i was not really able to find one for Java ... for building REST API !

It was quite a struggle to work ... due to lack of proper tutorials and lack of good example projects ... for backend ...

But anyway ... your suggestions are very useful ... using Spring Boot would definitely improve the project ...

And i will also study about the liquibase and logging ...

I was avoiding ORMs but JOOQ seems like a reasonable option !

It is quite useful when experienced developers like you take your time to review and suggest improvements ...
Imagine if one day you went to find your well-thumbed, most loved book in your bookshelf, maybe to re-read your favorite chapter, and the physical book was missing, replaced by a note from the publisher: "this book no longer works, but worry not: we've refunded you!"
That's like saying the car factory is allowed to take an old timer from you if they refund its original price.

Can I use the money to buy the same book? Is my time lost searching for this replacement worth nothing? If I added annotations, do they end up in the new book? If you answer any of these questions with 'no', its not fair enough.
I've found this website very useful:

https://archive.org/details/texts

My favorite part: It has actual scans of centuries-old books taken from many major libraries (NYPL etc).

I can read something printed and published in the 18th/19th centuries, on my iPhone. And I often do.