skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure that's true. Windows did just fine siphoning off marketshare from the commercial Unixes without a POSIX subsystem, and Linux's original supporters were people who wanted a free Unix they could tinker with, and it started gaining market penetration when those people started getting sysdmin jobs and Linux was what they were most familiar with. I can't imagine they'd have used Windows instead just because it had a POSIX userspace- remember, this was when Microsoft was peak Evil Empire.
AMD “laundered” IP through Chinese partnerships. The fact that the legal goalposts have moved since their partnership began does not absolve them of this fact. If China suddenly becomes massively more capable in X86 CPU’s, it will be obvious why
You can run MacOS through KVM easy on Ryzen. Even GPU passthrough works fine.
Hypothetical question: Let's say a news source writes a story that tanks a company's stock price and then, over the course of time the company is able to prove the story is false and/or the news source is unable to back up the story. Can the company sue the newspaper for damages?
> a) how do you know 'tons of obese people'

Not the parent, but that's really easy. Much easier to know a ton of obese people than a ton of anorexic people.

For instance, I'm on the low end of obese (by American standards). If you take myself and about 5-6 of the people I see at Friday Night Magic, that's one ton right there.
Interesting article. But she says "I love eating fresh produce, but I also know that it’s really expensive and it takes a lot of time to prepare"

But frozen is at least as expensive as fresh, many items like apples, lettuce, onions and tomatoes are simply unavailable, and I don't have remotely enough room in my freezer for all the produce I eat.

As far as the time thing goes, I spend way too much time sitting in front of a computer, and it's good for me to spend time every day standing up chopping up vegetables.
When you are flying in economy there is no power and in business class the power is limited.

Battery pack are necessary to work on long haul flight.

Similar for other long trips e.g train.
> That's what happens when un-educated people legislate about stuff they don't have any clue of

This is becoming an increasing problem as legislators get older and technology becomes more important to society.
Saskatoon man buys canoe with briefcase full of Canadian Tire cash
I saw this a few days ago. I dont think it will fix your specific issue but if you're wanting to monitors temps there's this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/c2lgeg/linux_monitorin...

I've not tested with my 2200g yet.
Reminds me of the book Absolution Gap
downvotes for asking a question how this thing is related to another keybase thing or how those things may or may not be connected - sorry about my confusion and asking questions. for those unaware of the issue discussed that had me confused, there is some above and below this thread -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19669101
I curse the previous owners of our house that installed the veranda.

It's an old house with thick stone walls and traditional shutters but all that glass is making it unbearable right now in Marseille.

Thinking I'm gonna tear it down before next year.
So basically: fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Learn your lesson, it's a conspiracy theory.

Also, calling it "fierce competition" is a mischaracterization of their actions. They have been fined by countries for these practices, and have done what they could to keep the evidence from public view. Intel deserves the suspicion they get.
Standard Chartered expands digital banking to more African countries
> It just means you need to switch languages when you need to use them. Which is my point.

So, what's the problem with that? I read it almost like "that doesn't mean that you never need to retrieve data, it just means you need to switch to SQL". People develop DSLs for a reason.
> It didn't make much sense for most of the 90's, once russia collapsed

You're right. Which is why we went from spending 12.5% of our GDP on defense to less than 4% after the end of th cold war. That's literally a 3-4x reduction.
Nothing is ever "pure". Linux isn't pure, ultimate Unix philosophy.

ioctl, mmap, sockets could be represented as files, why not?

`echo 1 > /root/some-file/%lock` instead of fcntl(F_SETLK) -- I just made up this syntax

`echo SIGTERM > /proc/15683/signal` instead of kill

Not sure about mmap, since its very purpose it to map a file to memory.
Yes official and guaranteed support for ECC but it was an i3-8100 instead of an AMD equivalent. For a FreeNAS build. I will upgrade it to a Xeon E-21XX or whatever supports my Supermicro C246 motherboard in the future. AMD doesn’t test ECC on Ryzen but doesn’t turn it off. Server grade components are not as common either.

Threadrippers are tempting but I like to play with EXSI and Intel’s virtualization is handy. My next desktop might be a Threadripper but my i7-7700K and Intel QSV is good enough for Plex and 4K.

I would like have a 10gb backbone with SFP+ so I can play with Fiber, DAC, and 10gb Ethernet.
They shouldn't call it maintenance mode just because they stopped using it. There's a lot of non-Red Hat contributors to X.org.
Anyone got any idea what the "primer" [1] represents?

It is vaguely reminiscent of the Pioneer plaque [2], but not really.

EDIT to add: Oh, it's the Arecibo message [3]. Hope the aliens are smarter than me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Terminal_Event_Manag...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_message
A Canadian prosecutor tried to force someone this year to provide a password to decrypt the contents of their cell phone via the court system. She failed [0].

[0] https://www.canlii.org/en/on/oncj/doc/2019/2019oncj54/2019on...
Appears in 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson.
I'm curious who it was who first started implementing those wrappers and thought "Yeah, this is good enough."
I just run chromium as my main user (but usually with a temporary scripted --user-data-dir and HOME environment variable), because it is relatively secure.

And switching Linux consoles/X servers is just two key presses anyway.
Rules of thumb are useful, as long as you understand their limitations.

BMI requires simple passive equipment to measure, the subject doesn't really have to participate and the subject is not at risk.

But it really can be misleading and counter-productive when you start exercising when fat is replaced by muscle.

We really need more accurate static measurement devices that don't need to weigh you underwater. Fatbit maybe? :)
FBI Urges Universities to Monitor Some Chinese Students and Scholars in the U.S.
> The fact that windows can't be "snapped" like on Windows is so frustrating.

They can actually: press and hold the green button, then drag the window to the side.
Even discounting the feedback loops, an energy transition only in the developed world would do very little.
The authors trysera company had a truly horrific business model. Selling consumer data to companies based on website _visit_. No opt in.

They claim it's legit because the companies feeding them customer data "opted in".
The woman being charged is Black. How much agency do you think a poor Black woman living in a backwards Southern state should be expected to have in a world that increasingly wants to criminalize abortion, among other things?

Blacks and women: it's your fault your lives don't work. We don't want to talk about systemic issues, like how we think all men are entitled to sex and are not to be held responsible for the consequences of their actions. If your life gets ruined because he knocked you up and promptly bailed, well, bitch, it's your fault for spreading your legs, clearly.

Next!
Our true enemies are our governments. They exist because we give them power. We give them power because they teach us to fear.
Yeah, this doesn't seem like a huge problem. It's no different than trying to figure out taxes when Amazon is spread across the globe; the fact that the entity "Amazon" is spread out doesn't mean that the seller, distributor, and purchaser of any given product has concrete legal locations. With the downlinks needing to be on the ground for performance and hookup reasons, SpaceX would have to go out of their way to break local laws; they're going to automatically pick up the ambient network environment unless they do something special and very deliberate.
Check out an iOS app called Ikiru.
I think that is giving CEO's and corporate boards way, way more credit for long term thinking than they deserve. Corporations base their business out of whatever gives them the best result over the time period when they expect to be involved. If it's a founder, that is a lifetime commitment, probably, unless the founder is intending to sell to a larger business. But in any other case, the CEO and all of the other high-ranking types are thinking about this year and next, for the most part.
"AI" is inherently meaningless because it is a moving goalpost.
At any point in time, AI essentially means "something normally done by humans that most people don't think computers could do proficiently".
When, inevitably, someone programs a computer to do that thing, that thing quickly becomes no longer "AI" and the cycle continues.
It's not on by default, which is what puzzles me about slantyyz's comments. I can't imagine anyone finding clicking and dragging more difficult on a macbook than on another laptop.
I mean... satellite internet exists. North America in particular has full satellite internet coverage.
An order on what authority?
I'd say this is a difference of scale. Hinton's comments are meant to inspire and encourage _The Next Great Thing_. We could read the paper that broadly, but they seem to be addressing a more immediate local minima.
- You're probably overestimating your risks. You worked at a FAANG company for 3 years. You will be able to get interviews anywhere.

- You're 25, if you completely waste the next 6 months of your life, you've lost nothing.

- Consider asking your work for a 3 month sabbatical. Or some part time role. This can give you enough time to see if its what you want.

- Make sure you have obsessions outside of work/programming/sitting in a chair for hours. Bonus points if its social/athletic. You might be smart, but you're still an ape.
Yes, but still the "DESIGNED IN CALIFORNIA" is meant to counteract the "Made In" designation (which is a legal requirement) beneath it. Perhaps we need labeling which says what country gets most of the money!
>I can't remember a single time in the >25 years I've been writing Bourne shell (or bash) scripts where I've wanted to "multiply two floating point numbers".

Your attitude about not being able to imagine any reason why you'd ever need to use floating point reminds me of the HP technical support person that Steve Strassmann quoted in his email to the Unix-Haters mailing list on Apr 10, 1991:

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/the-x-windows-disaster-128d39...

>My super 3D graphics, then, runs only on /dev/crt1, and X windows runs only on /dev/crt0. Of course, this means I cannot move my mouse over to the 3d graphics display, but as the HP technical support person said “Why would you ever need to point to something that you’ve drawn in 3D?”
They tried the "child porn" route up here in Canada and failed. I just posted about it before I saw this response https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20308373
I've heard about Google Keep first time. And that means that Google will shut down Keep soon, it happened few times already. Prepare to move your data.
Whatsapp, possibly the exception that makes the rule, had $1.5B valuation and $50M vc influx with a tiny team.
I work in the law and I'm not 100% sure what the case law is on this but my guess is that if you could prove that they knew (or should have known) what they were publishing was false, then yes. First amendment lawyers please correct me if I'm wrong.
Tauber says the imperfect food gets used other ways, like fed to animals or plowed under. But she doesn't give us any statistics or economic analysis, like the cost of fertilizer.

Also, if it is all already being used, then where are programs like Imperfect Produce getting what they sell?
_almost_. We always pay dearly for that last few points of performance! (Intel is 4% better, comparing the multi-core number)
Not quite following what you're trying to convey.
Went to a cheap school and paid it off asap. Haven't had a car for years.

I really appreciate your insight, as a potential future-me. I see two potential regrets in the future:

1) Regret working for 10 years and not pursuing things I was more passionate, just to have a nice stockpile of money

2) Regret abandoning my job and pursuing my passions, which ended up burning through my money, and putting me behind in my career.

Not sure which is worse. By limiting it to 6 months or so, the latter is mitigated, as long as I can get a job quickly again.
Oh man, my suggestion buy a used dual socket Xeon V2 (or V3 if you can afford it) server with room for a GPU. The price for performance is pretty unbelievable since you get a whole system, which you can run ESXi or whatever flavor of hypervisor you want.

V2/V3 Xeons are dirt cheap on ebay and if you don't mind a little risk the ES versions are mighty cheap for what you can get.

I just got Dual 2667 V2, 96GB of ram, dual 1200W PSUs, and room for 20 SAS2 HDs for less than $1,000 (replaced the 2637 V2s that came with the system). I'll note power consumption will be quite a bit higher, but power is pretty cheap where I live.

.... I'll be really stoked in a few years when the Rome chips are available used.
My ryzen 2700x was probably the best purchase I did last year :) it's just fantastic and I would really want to try out these new CPUs, just can't find an excuse to buy them :)

Takes like a second to cross compile Go app for all architectures, many cores ftw!
He hates systemd. Arch embraces it fully.
I had to install the out of tree version of it87 to get fan control working on my ASUS Prime X370-Pro.

Unfortunately, the driver was abandoned last year, but copies of the code are still around on github.
These OSM-based maps are pretty! Is there a way to set the distance and scaling in Miles instead of Kilometers for all of us USA folk?
Take with a grain of salt. Comparing a single benchmark against an aggregate isn't particularly meaningful (although getting within a stone's throw definitely is). You can go through and cherry pick benchmarks and find plenty that obliterate that measurement.

Better article title would be, "3900x appears comparable to 9980XE in single threaded workloads."
Versant is not an ORM
Who is the target user for Evernote these days? I started looking for a replacement after it perma-deleted a hundred or so active notes because I emptied my recycle bin, and once I realized that OneNote was, for my needs, superior in basically every way, I never went back.
So it would work! Thanks for the analysis.
Do you take a lot of notes? If so, what do you use to take notes? Some people don't take a lot of notes, and Org mode might not be useful to them.

My personal wiki includes several thousand .org files that are interlinked using hierarchical tagging. No other note-taking tool I've evaluated has all of the features and efficiency of Emacs and Org mode.

For example, Evernote doesn't allow users to enter tabular data and make calculations on that data, which Org mode supports. The suggested solution for Evernote is to attach a spreadsheet file. That's what I did with the various note-taking solutions I used back in the 90s. Now all of my small sets of tabular data are included in the same files as my notes.
To put it into perspective:

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/saturn-moons/titan/overvi...

According to this (at the time of reading) a one way trip at the speed of light is ~75 minutes, so you will have approximately two and a half hours of ping.

Ouch.

Still, it raises an interesting question: how would a hypothetical Earth-Titan network protocol work?
>The datastream will include a specially designed primer, or set of simple scientific principles and data that would be common to all extraterrestrial intelligences, providing a common base of reference to enable those receiving the signal to commence the mammoth task of decoding the encyclopedia. The message will be accompanied by a short video message by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, and images required for the re-creation of fundraiser banners.

Yes it's humor, but there's a plan for the banners to live on after the extinction of mankind.
DXA scans are about as accurate as a hydrostatic test. They do involve a tiny bit of x-ray radiation exposure.
Me me me, can i join

Edit:
HN status quo decided again that i should be down voted.
I guess that means im not welcome at your start up school
And at night it should go down quite a bit :)
Reads both your comments. Scratches head. Wonders if you are for or against what I'm saying.
A company lasts just 11 years on average on the S&P 500 now. Companies are surviving for shorter time periods now then they used to.
You...really seem to be reading into my post. Moral necessity for rewarding different risk strategies?

No, I'm not making any overarching claims to be taken up and enforced by a government or similar entity. And diversity of most sorts has value in a population.

Actually, my biggest take away from all this is that it is even more important to stop framing things as zero-sum competitions and more as collaborations where an individual can find a space fitting of their grit, skills and interests.
If we allow encryption, how do we know that encrypted file doesn't contain AR-15 blueprints or school shooting plans? Think of the children! /s
That screenshot of Wikipedia as rendered by w3m makes that browser look like it has some serious problems with Unicode text -- note how all the accented characters in the name "Slobodan Milošević" are rendered as question marks.

I assume there are ways to fix this?
Every hour costs us one hour of our lives.
It's interesting to see the disinterest of comments so far. It's good to hope for the best but we cannot eliminate the possibility of catastrophic event.

I was hoping that there would be some plan to download as much information as possible and send it to orbit (I dont know what will happen after that). And at same time copying it in several locations across planet in a "easy" to read format/technology (hard copy, anyone?).

I think there should be a growing body of people downloading dumps of Wikipedia/arxiv.org (add other such websites) and dumping them in a silo in local library or basement etc.

But that's just me. Let the down votes begin. =)
“Yes, how hard you can squeeze a grip meter. This was a better predictor of mortality than blood pressure or overall physical activity. A prior study found that grip strength among people in their 80s predicted the likelihood of making it past 100. Even more impressive, grip strength had good predictive ability in a study among 18-year-olds in the Swedish military on cardiovascular death 25 years later.”
Slack was also hard down 8 hours ago and been intermittently degraded since. https://downdetector.com/status/slack
Vimeo bans Project Veritas after it accused Google of anti-Trump bias
Slackware-current is very usable as a day-to-day machine. It hasn't been broken in years.
I worked on prototypes of the experiments in the Surface Science Package at uni in 1991 - boy do I feel old!

Even then we were speculating on flying or floating probes for future missions there. At the time it was assumed that the surface could well be entirely liquid.
For most rural users I’m more bullish on AT&T’s AirGig technology than satellite.
A somewhat famous, more recent example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19474280
> If you want the most BSD-like distro, it's probably gotta be Slackware.

As someone who's used OpenBSD for more than a decade.. no, I do not find Slackware to be BSD-like at all.
That's why I said normal, in fact! I'm not entirely sure how durable those weird Ethernet ports are, but they certainly exist.
I have friends and occasionally do things with them. (Just went on a week long vacation with them in fact) but I'm certainly not too social on a daily basis. You make a good point, that that is something to be aware of.

I guess it's a lot of money - I don't spend a lot, other than living in an extremely expensive place... But obviously I don't want to burn through it all. Last thing I want is to get addicted to living without working, and slowly burn through all of my savings. 5 years later, I have to get a job, but I'm no longer a good candidate.
If AMD advertised that their CPUs can be installed gingerly as opposed to Intel which felt like thirty pounds of pressure was required, then I would have opted for the older, but AMD chip.

Had a false impression from all the PC part guides that somehow each were equal difficulty.
Please don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents. Those are less interesting than whatever they tangent off from. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20305597 and marked it off-topic.
Injecting traffic signs to driver-assistance system using a projector on a drone
Satellite internet with high latency exists. The stuff SpaceX is putting out will have significantly lower latency, which is huge difference.
> a core scope of engineering is reducing cost.

A core scope of engineering is to make technologies to make life of people better without killing them. To reduce cost is a one of instrumental goals helping business to do more than it might have done without it.

To risk someone's life is a very bad idea, even if it increases profits.
Which autocracy is doing better in terms of preserving the environment or combating climate change or global warming or whatever it is called today?
For anyone who wants to learn about working with and on a "legacy" code-base, check out Michael Feather's book "Working Effectively with Legacy Code"

In the beginning it goes over code smells and how to find refacing seams in your language of choice (C, C++, or Java) and then each chapter is a group of techniques you can use.

Working on a service that had both a very old monolith and some brand new microservices, I found it invaluable. I think the first lesson I applied from it was using pinning tests for safer refactoring.
Coming Clean, the Untold Story of Operation Paper Moon
Perhaps a viable business model could be hybrid solution where mobile carriers partner to create LTE and 5G towers with Starlink uplinks. This would make it easier for carriers to deploy towers in remote locations. It’s my understanding that the primary challenge for deploying towers in underserved areas is lack of existing infrastructure for uplink. Call me crazy, but if you could solar power the ground station you could plop them anywhere on earth.
I took 8 years of Latin through Catholic school. By the second year of High School, we were required to read history texts written in Latin.
Hadn't heard of Sway, but the point still stands... Most of the desktop environments don't support Wayland. Cinnamon is the big one for me but KWin doesn't either which likely has a much larger user base than anything other than Gnome.
What new kernels? The three major OSes are two UNIX based, and one doing its own thing.

I don't think it's a great investment in time redesigning the whole socket API since you need to keep the old one around, unless you want to lose 35 years of source code compatibility.

The BSD socket API can definitely and easily be improved and redesigned, if only there was some new players in the field that wanted to drop POSIX and C compatibility and try something new.
The current state of satellite is the dial-up of high speed internet. The latency is horrible. You can't video conference or play online games with it. SpaceX's satellites are a lot lower, so they have better latency.