skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A senator does you no good if your primary governmental irritant is the state government which for most rural areas is the case. The federal government generally doesn't do anything to egregious to rural areas (maybe because most federal policy mostly doesn't affect people's day to day lives or maybe because of those senators doing their jobs?) but the state governments generally have a problem with major cities enacting state level policy that should really be done on a county level.
Rather than being interrupt driven (CPU interrupts), it was event driven.
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Amazon, Microsoft, and Google plot to pull product manufacturing out of China
No known biological process can "destroy" a radioactive isotope...

I wonder what they mean... Perhaps they simply mean "break up"
I'm on 5.0.0 and I legit haven't noticed a difference. If I run out of RAM without swap the system freezes and if I have swap then the system freezes when both are full. The only reliable solution is having a RAM+swap usage graph on my screen at all times and then closing stuff manually.
> The issues CloudFlare have are things everyone takes seriously and are working very hard on. Deployment and memory safety are hard problems that happens to the best of the best.

Cloudflare improved a lot. You can see just from what they're open sourcing that the usage of go and rust increased significantly. And I'm sure we'll notice improvements in deployment practices.

When Cloudbleed happened I was very vocal and skeptical, but this is different. Everyone makes mistakes.
Could you elaborate a bit? Do you think it's because of copyright issues, or because labels don't want Spotify to become a popular distributor that publishes exclusively to itself?
That's a pretty big difference given that it's a point-in-time event versus needing to get a new phone to be certain it's not compromised.
I'm not talking about anything they said. I said to look at the people responding to them with sexist harassment.
> hard to just turn off the cost when you're done with your day

Yeah, but the same is true of OP's Hetzner machines.
>We should be able to severely punish companies that lie about their behaviors

I can't agree with this more, and I really hope we can see some legislation in the US that creates very strict penalties for lying about this stuff, and possibly some regulations that can make storing user data more risky to the company doing it, which would hopefully put pressure on them to reduce or eliminate data storage where possible.
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Just waits for when you look at camera and grabs that texture.
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Part of the reason for the GDPR scramble is that it deferred specifics to each country's data regulator, and some of that guidance was still being issued shortly before the deadline.
It's this bit of code:

while(GetMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0) > 0)
{
TranslateMessage(&msg);
DispatchMessage(&msg);
}

The mouse isr would cause a loop like this to execute at some point, processing all the messages on the queue. Win95 had preemption, but it ran at 100hz. Moving the mouse caused additional queue processing on top of the time sliced preemption.
The gist of the article is that the Census Bureau is planning to rely less on paper forms (prevalent for every census until 2010) so that it can reduce costs and make the data collected easier to share with a range of federal institutions.

> The government has ambitious plans to use new digital methods to collect data. But the Census Bureau has had to scale back testing of that technology because of inadequate funding — raising the risk of problems ranging from software glitches to cyberattacks.

HN readers are likely to imagine what sorts of challenges the Census Bureau is likely to encounter. The article, however, ends with a non-technical issue that is at the heart of the political and technological questions that have plagued next year's census:

> The greatest risk to the census, former officials say, is that the public loses faith in the legitimacy of an independent institution at the core of American democracy — whether because of a crashed website, a partisan fight or a drumbeat of disinformation.
The smartphone is their; I mean, your GPS tracker for machine learning movement behavior. Voice (various project names), Text (SMS gateways) and Data (CarrierIQ) are just a value added bonus.

I enjoyed the conversation with Alex Stamos (former CSO at Yahoo/FB), where pointed out that had George Orwell been told that people would willingly pay for a tracking device and keep it on them at all times and powered on at all times, he would not have believed it.

I should add, any time I say anything even remotely negative about cell phones, I get beat up here at HN pretty good. This is a very good psychological indication that people have cognitive dissonance and denial around this topic.
100% agree. Distrokid makes it cheap and easy to get unto pretty much all the streaming services. (disclaimer: I am a customer in the musician with no label category)
What about Dominique Strauss Kahn as president of the IMF at the time. People in finance where referring to a certain position in the market as the London whale.
This is fascinating.

I would describe myself as "burning for the job", to a level that is not really healthy sometimes. But I love what I do, it's more than a job for me and I will (maybe) stop looking for better jobs and giving 110%, once I reach a salary of 100k or more a year (this is still quite a number in Germany, I think).

While some male colleagues also really burn for their jobs and want to achieve great things, my female colleagues are really hard to motivate to go the extra mile. They value free time and work-life balance more than staying overtime, getting something done today and not tomorrow and things alike.

Maybe they are doing the right thing, work is not everything, but I think this might lead to men taking positions which require the aforementioned "mindset", no matter whether it's healthy or not.
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Did he work for Microsoft though? If yes, I wonder what kind of interaction between him and Mark Russinovich.
Against women or men? Is it not sexist that men are expected to work much more than women and provide?

I would say it is because of understandable historical reasons and that it is changing in a lot countries. For example in Sweden dads are taking out a larger and larger part of parental leave. It is still only 28% but increasing every year I think.

There are of course many other factors that weigh in of who will take parental leave. To take some anecdotes I've seen in my circles:

1. Women tend to have partners that are older and equal or higher in social status so it is not uncommon that the men have come further in their careers. So when the man is home there will be less money for the household. Sometimes the woman uses that as an excuse to be able to home more and sometimes the man uses it because they don't want to be home.

2. Women will logically be home in the beginning due to them nursing and some want to be home longer total and the dad say yes because they feel the mom have earned it. Some women also feel that the dad will get the more fun stay at home time and want a part of that as well and not only in the beginning.

It is changing but people also prioritize differently and not everything is sexism.
Hunh? You can view tweets just fine without twitter accounts.
I follow many tech leaders (men and women) on Twitter and have never seen this. If anything there's usually an massive wave of support in the replies.
That is one reason people job hop. However I’ve known lots of people who also admit to just routinely getting bored after a couple of years.
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It's not unrelated, it demonstrates that while unregulated markets may be a nice idea in theory, they just don't work in practice. Not that an analogy were necessary. The unregulated ad industry itself shows that an unregulated ad industry is a bad idea.
Quite right. It should be expected that democracy is imperfect and requires at least these three things to work at all:

1) A unifying incentive that makes people cooperate (prospects of improvement, opportunity, economic growth).

2) Mechanisms of removing bad actors.

3) Free speech that allows a constant re-negotiation of ideals, values, interests etc. Don't expect a single formula or law is going to solve everything for good, but expect a constant dialogue which allows to adapt to constantly changing requirements even though it may seem tiring.

Decentralizing decision power alone does not cut it as people are going to be sneaky and selfish.
Not what I said at all. I thought there was an opportunity to make a larger connection between what has happened in the Appalachian towns he focuses on and larger Rust Belt cities who face much of the same issues.
I wanted to buy it because you got an inflatable penguin with the boxed set.

Later on I worked at Xandros, which was what became of Corel Linux after Microsoft infused cash into Corel. They had inflatable penguins and Netwinders (another Corel spinoff) everywhere in the office, because apparently nobody was willing to buy Linux. Eventually Xandros went under because nobody was willing to buy Linux. I went to work for Canonical on Ubuntu, but eventually they, too, got out of the desktop Linux business because you can't make money on something nobody is willing to buy.

I guess they should have sold inflatable penguins and included a free CD with Linux on instead.
I would love to see a successor to my old, rubberized steel Motorola Milestone with keyboard, but with a larger screen and unlocked bootloader, please. All these modern phones are way too flimsy.
There are a lot of problems with the way you approach this.

19% of Americans cannot read well enough to fill out a job application correctly.

The organization for economic cooperation and development found that 50% of U.S. adults can't read a book written at an 8th grade level, which is a statistic which obviously requires the estimate of "average American reading at a 7th or 8th grade level" be questioned heavily.

I've seen many estimates that the average high school student reads at a 6th grade level, and only 15% of the country is at an undergraduate level despite 30% of people having a degree.

I don't know where you get the idea that "grade level" relates to grades completed, but the average American is likely at a 5th grade reading level.
With all due respect, America has a long history of busting monopolies, and while we haven't gone on a busting spree this generation, we're awfully close to doing the one thing that Europe would never, ever be able to accomplish: Break up companies like Google and Facebook. (As this thread demonstrates, Europeans would potentially be against us doing so, and would be pro-monopoly?)

I actually think the Google reorganization under Alphabet was done in no small part to prepare for anti-trust activity and the breakup of the Google monster.

Question because I don't know European anti-cartel history, do European regulators have a history of big bust-ups like Ma Bell?

It seems like Europeans just try fining them and letting them be.
Do you use any open source Alexa alternative? If yes, please share your experience.
To be fair he did say you could compare with the leaked versions.
They’re soft now. It might indicate your usb driver is wedged, not if your CPU is responding to interrupts at all.

This is a problem for NTP developers - finding real serial ports on modern hardware
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Well, Hillbilly Bear is the representative picture for Pikeville on Google Maps which is a vote in your favor.
I too was fascinated by that statement. How does it destroy them? Is it extracting energy faster than would be let off in vacuum? Or is it an encapsulation?
My point was more along the lines: you let Google scoop up all the adtech business and then kill Google. Or at least its adtech activities in Europe. Since the territory is already unsustaining for small adtech businesses, they won't rise back up when Google's monopoly is out of the picture. No more adtech companies in Europe, mission accomplished.
Not at all! If it works, do it!
thanks for the real life anecdote. just like in startups, its helpful to hear from the actual users instead of what some armchair critics feel is happening.

however, i do worry about fights and bullying being taken to 'the dark corners of the school' such as the bathroom or some unused stairwell
When I read "inference" here I thought about probabilistic programming and Bayesian inference, but the article says: "Each processing element contains eight parallel lanes of 8-way multiply-accumulate (MAC) units, each with a precision of 8-bit (as is getting common in inference)."

8-bit precision is good for neural network weights, but not for Bayesian inference, where from my understanding 32-bit floats might be the minimum. I wonder if anyone is working on hardware for accelerating probabilistic programming. Some approaches are harder to accelerate, such as monte carlo sampling (e.g. no u-turn sampler (NUTS)), while variational inference may be better suited to running on this type of custom hardware.
Wasn't Spotify just complaining that Apple's App Store policies hurts consumers? The shoe seems to be on the other foot now. This policy hurts both independent artists and consumers. Not to mention this policy stems from unnecessary government regulations that benefit only large players in the music industry.
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I wouldn't be so sure you'd know. Modern phones have coprocessors that are dedicated to transcribing speech into text in a very power efficient manner (hell, my Pixel phone has a feature which allows it to identify songs playing at all times ins a very power efficient manner, even when in "airplane mode", even when the screen is off).

Days worth of text could be compressed and sent off in literally dozens of kilobytes. And that's not even accounting for side-channels (a hypothetical targeted attack could conceivably look for "target phrases" and send a single bit of information using a side channel to some server to alert that the phrase has been said).
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Sounds fair. He didn't want the money of Spotify's customers so someone else took it.
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Actually in a lot of cases turning heat into steam is MORE efficient than alternatives. Direct thermoelectric conversion has an efficiency of 5% to 10%, whereas multistage steam turbines are 36% - 42% efficient.

This is also the reason why kilopower (a replacement for RTGs) is looking to replace thermoelectric conversion with sterling engines that are 30% to 34% efficient.
Running home servers, I'm always worried about power use:

300 Watt(average)/1000 * 24 hr = 7.2 kw/hr per day

7.2 * 30 * $0.14 (roughly tax, generation + distribution in my area) ≈ $30/month to run the machine.
I set up a https://snips.ai/ raspberry pi, got it to respond to its wake word

Then realised it was going to take like 6+ hours (if not days) to get it to play music and set timers, so gave up on it

Ecosystem might be more mature now, when i looked there weren't any good spotify apps you could get for it
But that follows logically does it not as one is more difficult than the other?

I think a more interesting comparison would be what has highest status between a male software developer and a female nurse? If we ignore compensation because software development is in a pretty special situation right now.

I have no idea of answer myself.
The comment you are responding to says that.
From my experience and own research it's highly dependent on the ratio of THC to CBD (there are over one hundred cannabanoids in the plant which have the desired benefits, but for simplicity sake just these two are used in general discussion). I found when I have recently experienced, or have underlying feelings of general anxiety, high THC strains make the anxiety worse, ruminating thoughts become unbearable. The more you take the worse this feeling gets. (Edibles can be a horrible experience in this state)

Essentially it depends on your predisposition to anxiety, the dosage you take, and the ratio of THC to CBD.

Balanced ratios that would make this much less likely and induce a more relaxed or energetic state depending on the more dominant chemical.
Unfortunately the legality of it makes it impossible to verify the ratios of cannabis substances
I agree that the choice to not prioritize career need not be viewed in a negative light. The focus on everyone having a high powered career seems somewhat anti-human to me. It devalues the very important role of family in society. It also seems somewhat sexist to label what has traditionally been a stronghold of women (motherhood) as being somehow less important that working a full-time job.

Being a stay at home parent is very difficult and very valuable work.
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> they needed to support older versions as well.

Apparently they don't need the support from their pov at all. If will is there they could build up MySQL 8. MySQL 8 is out for a while and ahs seen good testing in different production workloads.

> developers already wanted to drop MySQL and just wanted an excuse

This seems to be the true reason. And it's valid. Supporting many variations of systems and architectures is hard. Supporting combinations you don't use yourself, while using something else intensively is hard.

Personally I think a system like this would benefit from many of the recent replication improvements in MySQL 8, which help in scaling and HA. But I'm obviously biased ;)
This article and the others in the series are very well illustrated with a mix of photos, videos, maps, and — perhaps of particular interest to HN readers — simple yet attractive diagrams explaining some of the science important to understanding this glacier and its impact.
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I'm sure they're fine with the small fish. But with Spotify, Apple, and others who might have the financial muscles to become a threat if given the chance? I'm not so sure.
Distributing your music isn't really financially burdensome as is. Most distributors cost in the range of $20-$30 per year. Some are even free.
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When I used to hang out at Radio Shack in the mall to play on a TRS-80's after school, they would draw a pair of asterisks in the corner of the screen and occasionally flash one of them on and off, as they loaded from cassette tape.

One of the older kids who hung out there would tell us newer kids that we could speed up loading by repeatedly pressing the up arrow key on the keyboard.

Of course us new kids didn't realize that the loading speed was completely determined by the cassette tape speed, which the keyboard couldn't possibly affect.

But at least it gave us something to do while waiting, and the older kids something to laugh at.
I definitely remember seeing scrolling-is-faster-if-you-wiggle-the-mouse on Linux too, back in the day, and being surprised that a bug (? misfeature?) like that would show up on such different stacks.
Me too.
What a humbling slap-in-the-face, no?
Sometimes when an idea sounds silly, and comes from a less technical person, one might disregard it even though it's easily testable/provable.
This makes sense. I am also ok with surveillance cameras whose footage gets only used when something happened and otherwise gets discarded. But cameras that feed into a system that constantly analyzes the video is pretty creepy and has potential for a lot of abuse. So let’s go old fashioned and set up a camera with a VCR by no internet connection or analytics capability.
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I've been running a mixed-make mirror array for half a year now. Like I said, speed is limited by slowest drive but apart from that it works just fine.