skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The two key claims by AMD -- that they only transferred lower performing technology and that all the things were blessed by US government -- were cited nearly verbatim in the WSJ story. I can't find anything in the AMD statement that adds meaningfully to the case; it's a non-rebutting rebuttal.

Whatever. If they really did unzip for the Chinese military as the WSJ claims then AMD will soon find itself competing with Chinese government subsidized derivatives of their IP and have next to no meaningful recourse with any governing authority.
Well, and they've been called that in other languages for decades too. The naming derives from the ML family into Rust.
This is a common question. I have wanted a "good robot arm I can buy" for a long, long time. I would like something with about 16 inches of reach and 6 degrees of freedom. The motion must be smooth with a position resolution of around 0.01 inch.

Alas, in my opinion, such an arm does not exist for the hobbyist. Why? Mainly, I think, leverage sucks (in this case). At 16 inches there is quite a lot of torque required at the base to move the arm (with the mass of the arm plus what it is grasping). And liability may be (probably is with most would-be suppliers) an issue.

I have built a few arms myself with various hobby servos. High torque motors where needed and smaller, light weight ones towards the wrist. * Some * of the motions are smooth and neat. Others are simply jerky. Then there is the problem of backlash.

There is a company (Trossen Robotics, I think) whose arms are ..., well, I don't know what to say. Certainly, it seems, they offer cool motors that are seemingly designed for what we want. But the videos are always disappointing. Maybe its just me.

I assume you want something for a couple of $K. In my opinion, it does not exist. The demand/application is not there to bring the cost down.

And, again, there is the liability issue.

Maybe some day, soon.

(I hope someone responds with something that will work for ya. I would like to see that.)
Netflix cancels Evangelion Italian dub due to fans backlash
It's not always the case that there is limited room at the top of some endeavor. It is possible to grow the size of the pie in most cases.
@patio11 - where did the 10% cash number come from for assets held in brokerage accounts? That seems very high, but I guess I have no clue.
Both links in the "REFERENCES" section.
Definitely, after all encryption is a crucial tool for citizens to protect themselves from oppressive governments, so it fits the spirit of the law even better than it fits its letter.
Show HN: Lsh – The AWS Lambda Shell
“I have to kill you in order to save you” logic.
I would absolutely apply. I am solo founder, and I met a bunch of people that were still trying to get their MVP out.
Just because you saw a dumb comment once doesn't mean you have to use it as a strawman.

It's a negative to the design, but the worst possible case is you go read or watch something where you won't need your mouse for 10 minutes.
I think the hype around libra is undeserving. I don't even think Facebook will throw their weight on it, it's probably just a thing they do.
I enjoy STEM work. Way more satisfying that most endeavors.
Why do you think it would be unable to return? I'm curious.
In this case you can replace it pretty easily with any sort of material that’s illegal to possess, such as intellectual property that you do not own the rights to.
we are.
The difference being that China's culture, for the most part, is okay with the surveillance state. There's protests for sure, and places Hong Kong (an ex-British colony) are not okay with it, but most Chinese citizens are aware of the censorship and don't care.

I think what's happening more is that westerners are projecting their own culture and philosophies onto the population. Americans are especially passionate about free-speech and they assume that Chinese citizen's share that, hence all the doom prophesying like your comment.
For nearly a decade I did most of my online reading through Elinks. It was comfortable for me to read things and always have a consistent font, size, color and no distractions. Sadly I haven't been able to as much in the past few years as more and more sites require JS or some TLS that isn't supported.
Emacs is actually a surprisingly good file manager. Dired + Ivy + knowing a few obscure shortcuts, and it's significantly simpler, faster and safer than either using Finder or Terminal.

I've recently dusted off Emacs again after a few years of VS Code, indenting to use it for some JavaScript/TypeScript client work. If anyone's interested, here's my Emacs setup. If you temporarily move ~/.emacs.d and clone this there, and open Emacs, it'll setup the rest for you. (Although it's a bit bare-bones so it presumes you're already familiar with reading Emacs config files and figuring out how to use it.)

https://github.com/sdegutis/dotfiles/blob/master/.emacs.d/in...
Selective enforcement isn't a good thing... It's a symptom of a bad thing.

"Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime" - Lavrentiy Beria
What's the point of using automatic update? It's not like Microsoft hasn't bricked devices with it in the past.
OpenBSD (and the other BSDs too) are also pretty far behind on things like wireless hardware. There just aren't enough active developers to get a lot of the 802.11ac stack implemented (and ax or Wi-Fi 6 is coming around the corner too).

If there was a current port of Docker for FreeBSD and Wi-Fi ac support, it would totally be my daily driver right now. Currently I still use Gentoo on my laptops.
Well, testosterone is the hormone of competition. Males have much more of it.

So everything's a competition, for many males.

How did society educate men to compete on everything ? Why would it ?

And on the other hand, women have low levels of testosterone.

But we know one area where they tend to strongly compete: competing on a mate.

And it's interesting: Just a whiff of a woman close to ovulation is enough to stimulate another woman's testosterone levels, along with her desire to compete.[1]

[1]https://www.livescience.com/39902-women-smell-competition.ht...
> Wouldn't it be great if there was something like Pidgin, but entirely command-line based? [...] It turns out there is. It's called Finch, and it's made by the Pidgin folks.

Finch is not "command-line based"!

Finch is terminal-based, but it takes over your terminal and you interact with it like a mini windowed environment. These are not the same thing.

Software is "command-line based" if it's driven from a command line (gdb, ed, mail) or driven from the shell (nmh, git's cli).

Years back I actually threw together a libpurple client that decomposed the various actions into utilities that could be run from the shell, to experiment with some UI thoughts. Code is on github (https://github.com/dlthomas/genies/tree/master/msgg) but I don't remember what state it's in. Happy to dig in enough to answer any questions posed.
>but this is a more or less open forum where people share their opinions. Do I really need to put a disclaimer before every post?

Not sure I understand; of course it's fine to share your opinion. My opinion is that yours is far too simplistic and completely ignores the nuances that always appear in constitutional cases such as these.

>Also, the Supreme Court may very well weigh in and may very well be wrong on the law.

Sure... but I'd put more stock in their opinion vs your own.
> It's interesting to compare the accent of native English speakers and native Finnish speakers in Latin. :-)

Finnish has a phonemic orthography, almost. So it's quite easy to just read Latin the way it is written.
Yes please do, I had to go through the login/logout/login process thinking I had missed something. Maybe something as simple as that banner being a different color (the dark gray is a common "notice" color, but not for signing up) and also maybe span the width of the screen. (ie, just in the corner didn't seem important or required attention.)
Might be suitable for quantum computing ... Re. thin atmosphere and low gravity, humans could probable be able to fly wearing wings. So if we put a base there it would not be boring.
I think what folks need is download + local search.

- download everything about a large area: city or county or zipcode or similar

- do any kind of searching on the local machine within that data

This would be basically localized offline maps and would preserve privacy.
I love Gentoo. It's a great developer distribution. I've been using it since 2003 I think, and the current Gentoo install I use I have continually updated since 2012. When I get a new machine, I just copy the existing install over and build a new kernel.
Dunning-Kruger and Impostor Syndrome are polar afflictions. One has you over-believing in your competence, and the other under-believing in it.
Only sat-phones or any satellite communicator like my Garmin InReach Explorer+?
Only if it’s running, if it’s off you need some way to fetch data you’re not supposed to be able to fetch and then brute force the key which is supposed to use very large amounts of cpu power. A flaw in the security chip would allow you to use the secret data and run the calculation on the chip, but that severely limits the amount of calculations you can do.

This may very well be limited to phones which have short numeric passcodes.
Even if this is fixed, law enforcement just has to capture a device and wait until someone creates a security exploit for the new version. They might wait a couple of years, but either way, you can't treat your devices as eternally safe encryption vaults.
The region of the worst heat missed Paris by about 100 kilometers, thanks to cooler air from the north, Paris stayed ad mid-30ies for the last days (I have a co-worker in Paris). I am from Munich and it was plenty hot here too, also mid-30ies. Survived in a non-AC office in front of a fan at about 27c during all day.

Mind you: June isn't the hot month, the hottest month of the year is typically July, so the worst might be still to come...
$1999

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/189126/...

The XE is something a vanity chip however.

The HK maintains the same single core performance but obviously only achieves about half the multicore score.

https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/2585

Still very good value for money.
What’s Up with Ancient Greek Epitaphs
I don't think it's advocating for doing a single pushup. Seems to be about the idea of simple physical tests (walking speed, number of pushups in a minute, grip strength) being better predictors of health than BMI.
Depends on your criteria, I suppose. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plumbbob#Propulsion_...
> Venus and Titan have in common that probes landing there tend to only operate a few minutes before failing due to the extreme conditions.

Venus, definitely. Titan though? Huygens is the only probe that's ever touched down there, and it's operational life was tied to its battery life and the fact that Cassini wouldn't be around very long to listen to it. Cassini was on a flyby trajectory, not an orbit around Titan, so as soon as the orbiter went over the horizon, that was it. Outfitting Huygens with enough power to stay on for future flybys would require MUCH more power, a job for which only an RTG would be appropriate since solar is out of the question that far out/under that atmosphere, and batteries just flat out don't last that long.

Nothing about the moon itself prevented a long operational life.
This is something we run into even when pushing transformer-style models (which can be viewed as a partial step towards some of these capsule ideas) into new areas like computer vision. There are places where you can beat convolutions in terms of parameters+FLOPs but wall-clock time is poor due to the same issues presented in this paper - there aren't good optimized self-attention kernels so you're forced to implement things in terms of existing ops - depthwise convs, etc. It's definitely a real pain when trying to bring in new primitives to the deep learning world, only compounded by the increasing diversity of accelerators in use.
I am waiting for Amazon to deliver mine, it is supposed to arrive on Monday. It is expected to cool down a bit next week though.
If our end goal is a body of mathematicians that closely reflects society at large, it's pretty important to understand what factors influence participation in mathematics in under-represented groups, no?
There is still no adaptive sync support.
Without knowing what those protections are, we haven't learned much from either the story or the response.

The gist of the story wasn't just that a lot was shared; it was that it was shared nefariously, borderline illegally, and it was all AMD's fault and intention. It essentially painted them as mercenary traitors.

I admit, the original story does sound bad. But I'm also aware of how easy it is to paint such a picture, ando find it hard to believe the US Government couldn't have shut this down if it really wanted to.
> I don't know yet who will buy the leftovers of a company once it's not profitable so they can massmail "due payment notices" to all former customers, making a profit from those who fail to object in time.

Is this a common practice? It sounds very unethical, but the cynic in me can imagine it happening.
My favorite mail experience, by some margin, was using nmh (https://www.nongnu.org/nmh/). I recall it taking some doing to set up and then some aliases and such to make it usable - but then it was very usable.
I can easily say that this happened despite theranos.
Nice. Looks like the EU, on the other hand, has missed the chance to make Latin its official language.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/1ktjfi/deltav_map_of...
GNAA almost seems quaint these days.
The US supports numerous regimes guilty of the exact things you're describing, with financial aid, military security guarantees and arms sales. What's your stance on those?
Maybe we should put a sort of dead-man's switch in these things? Delete everything if the phone hasn't been unlocked in 3 months?
I would have to very much disagree. There are parts I do not enjoy but those are more office related regardless if the work is STEM or not. I do like the money, but I do STEM stuff for fun and many my side projects eat money, not produce it.
I use ctrl-_ which is generated by "ctrl 7" or "ctrl /" on the terminal emulators I use (xterm and iTerm.app)
A small audience, but one with a good amount of disposable income.
From the article: "A galactic algorithm is an algorithm that is wonderful in its asymptotic behavior, but is never used to actual compute anything."
Math is not a crime.
> To claim that the structural problems are US is absurd.

The US has a trade deficit with almost all of its trading partners. That is a structural issue.

> no IP protection

That's a crude caricature. There is IP protection in China. If that weren't the case, American microchip designers would not be making such large licensing fees in China. As far as I understand it, as a non-expert, IP protection in China is actually fairly good for a developing country.

> Thats not the same as China being open to western companies like the west is to china.

Western brands have much greater penetration in the Chinese market than vice versa. Moreover, much of the American trade deficit with China is actually made up of Western companies doing production in China.
It's actually easy to explain - ditch Nvidia, they aren't supporting Linux properly. Pretty clear message, and users either get it and ditch it, and if not, nothing you could do to help them. It's totally Nvidia's fault.
I find it kind of funny that you think AWS will still be around in a hundred years.
Just to clarify, these complaints are primarily about Fedora specifically -- at least in my experience RHEL (and CentOS) have been very solid. I just wish that Fedora had a model similar to Ubuntu, where periodic releases are targeted for longer term support (i.e., get patches for 2 - 3 years), and all the potentially breaking items go into the inbetween releases.
That's not how evolution works though.

It's not about what's best for a species. It's about which individual breeds how much before death.

And looking at it from that point of view makes it even more straightforward. Especially if you consider that historically approximately 80% of males died without having offspring.
In my experience, men are more likely than women to choose degrees based on prestige and salary expectations. I'd say it's less about imagination after the fact and more about initial motivation.
For the record France has predominant winds from the sea which is supposed to apply a cooling effect to the land. The more you go inside the land the warmer it gets on almost every continent for this very reason. The sea has a strong cooling effect but it's just not enough anymore.
> I understand your point but I wonder if working with people who you would socialize with even outside of work makes work more enjoyable?

Not really. Who I like to work with and who I like to socialize doesn't necessarily match up. Furthermore, I have limited capacity for social interaction - that is why even _if_ I like the people, I prefer to socialize outside of work. Otherwise both work and socialization suffer.

Finally, if your primary source of socialization is the workplace, you open yourself to abuse - companies can, and do, exploit the fact that for many people they become not just the source of income, but also the social support network.

> From my rather limited experience of working, I've found that in the end the thing I actually work on matters a lot less to my happiness than the people who I do the work with.

I just need the coworkers to not be horrible, and what I work with matters quite a lot - if there's one thing about the IT industry that really grinds my gears, it's how often even apparently socially beneficial products are just covers for privacy breaches and boom-and-bust schemes.

> I'm starting to think when looking for a new team I should really be seeing whether I will like my coworkers instead of whether I'll like what I'm doing.

You need both, though you might not get them. Just don't let the workplace _own your social life_. If you feel like working remotely means you have no social life, then you got used to that happening, and that will hurt you, remote or not.
That would be quite interesting, since it uses the exact same graphics rendering code Linux uses, both in the kernel via DRM, and in userspace via Mesa and Gallium.
I think it's interesting to look at how you define competition. It actually derives from the Latin 'competere' or 'strive together.' I think you can see this with the "Shalane Effect" aka how the famous Olympic marathoner Shalane Flanagan is elevating her competition, and thus her own performance, by supporting those around her. In the truest sense we can only really compete against ourselves.
I did fast.ai last year and it was fantastic.
The delta-v required for a trip to Titan, according to this[1], is 28.43 km/s. Optimistically, a fully re-fuelled startship in LEO has ~10km/s of delta-v to spend, afaik.

[1](https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/1ktjfi/deltav_map_of...)
I grew up in a house with a basement with concrete walls. When I complained about the summer heat, I always heard: 'Basement!!'

Makes me wonder if heat waves (or cold waves) were the cause of most of the world's cave paintings. Or the underground cities of the Middle East.
To be honest, I think remote rendering is unnecessary and is mismatched for actualy application workloads. The amount of data and IO needed by the renderer in many applications outstrips that needed to send the rendered result to a display. I.e. the textures, models, or font curves loaded into GPU-local RAM and then resampled or reinterpreted to draw frames. This stuff is the heart of a graphical application, and doesn't really make sense to split across a network.

When the application host is really resource-starved and does not need to supply much content to a renderer, we are better off using more abstract network interfaces. On one hand, HTML+CSS+js are the remote rendering protocol to the browser which becomes the remote renderer. On the other hand, sensor/data interfaces become the remote data source for a GUI application that can be hosted somewhere more appropriate than on the resource-starved embedded device.

What I will miss from SSH X-forwarding is not remote rendering. It is per-window remote display. I would be perfectly happy with remote applications doing their rendering within their own host, and just sending their window contents to my display server, where my local compositor puts the window content onto my screen. Protocols more like VNC or RDP could be used for each of these windows, adaptively switching between damage-based blitting, lossless and lossy image codecs, or even streaming video codecs. What is needed is the remote window-manager and display protocol to securely negotiate and multiplex multiple windows opening and closing rather than one whole desktop.

What I won't miss from SSH X-forwarding is window and application lifecycle tied to the network connection. Let me disconnect and reconnect to my remote application and its windows. Let me share such a connection to have the same windows displayed on my desktop and my laptop, or to window-share with a coworker down the hall...
> Its inadequacy is famously evident in examples such as the human muscle-mound Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson qualifying as obese.

It's called an outlier.
I think everyone has 3 numbers. A number that they will not go below, a number that two parties can agree on for a transaction, and a number which they would be extremely happy with (with no upper limit obviously). No different than negotiating a salary / contract which is what it is. I think when someone designs something with the intent to sell it however, that cost of research and development gets baked into the expected returns on the volume of sales. Its like an artist who sells originals versus an artist who sells copies of artwork, if that makes sense.
NASA is really good at planning future missions. Implementing them? I've heard hundreds of fantastical half-baked ideas and very few of them materialize over the course of my 46 years on earth.
>Contrary to predictions from evolutionary theory, the magnitude of gender differences varied across cultures.

How is it contrary? I don’t know a single evolutionary theorist who denies impact of culture on behavior.
It's clear that globalization has some nasty side effects. Yes, there were people sounding these alarms back in the 90's. Did we heed them? No. I thought it was a little shrill. Now? I'm convinced that globalization has done some powerful good in the world, but it has also done some serious damage.

The entire tilt to the right is the reaction to globalization. The Daily podcast (NYT) had a week-long series going to various EU countries and talking with people on the ground. It was eye opening, to say the least. I highly recommend it.
The law had different purpose, to prevent other countries from obtaining good encryption algorithms. That law didn't forbid developing encryption software abroad and downloading it.
Engineers are expensive. If you want to even launch, you need money to pay people (if even just yourself.) Boostrapping does work (see Basecamp,) but that business evolved out of a consulting business and wasn’t started from scratch, so they had advantages of paying clients subsidizing Basecamp development. A new kind of “micro-VC” where 10x returns weren’t the goal might be a start, but then it would be tough to raise money without substantial validation first. So there is a chicken-egg problem.
> HiDPI

Hasn't HiDPI support been one of the main drivers of the renewed interest in Wayland the last few years?