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> June 1, 2020: ... all Mercurial repositories will be removed.

It's understandable that they would discontinue Mercurial support, but this part is shocking. No doubt that 1% includes more than a few obscure but historically interesting repos that will disappear because the owner wasn't monitoring their email (or is no longer with us).

Is BitBucket really that pressed for disk space? I hope they will reconsider and move those repos to a read-only archive like Google Code and CodePlex did instead of obliterating a piece of history for no good reason.
I am just proposing a different point of view and i am not claiming what i am saying is right. I am here to learn and what you say makes sense. Your point about adults learn slow is it because that't what the popular opinion is and that is the reason they tell themselves, "oh, i am a grown up so i am going to learn slowly"?

https://medium.com/@chacon/mit-scientists-prove-adults-learn...
I recommend Nvidia Apex, it offers several ways to mix precision.
I'm not of the mind that Saudis are on-par with Sweden. Ultimately was hoping for something a bit more insightful than a Wikipedia article, especially when "Women were previously forbidden from" appears throughout.

Though from Wikipedia, thought this was an oddly discriminatory:

> women are still required to have men swear for them in a court of law.
Exactly, considering the penalties are just paying whatever is owed anyway, perhaps plus a few minor interest penalties. They make more the fines and interest combined by a long shot just by deploying the saved funds elsewhere.
I think it's also that his entire livelihood depends on him continuing to do so.
I am fine with ‘communication style’. I understand social hierarchy, corporate culture. What I disagree with is comparing any workplace communications with romantic, family or love relationships. If you find this effective way to understand how to act at work then either your significant other is your better half, or your manager is taking advantage of you.

Workplace communication should always communicate expectations, whether the language is direct or overcoded with social customs, takes 30 seconds to understand or 30 minutes in a meeting.
> There's got to be some cultural component to all this too.

Absolutely. Humans naturally gravitate to the norms they see around them. Behavior is "viral" and should be given more weight in public health discussion and decisions.

Unfortunately, we (in the USA) live in a hyper-sensitive pro-PC society. Mention anyone else's unhealthy habits (e.g., weight or lack of exercise) and you're label a bully. Obesity deniers aren't that much different than climate change deniers. They science/data is there. Some conveniently choose to ignore it.

We were able to lower the smoking rate because that habit was label as "anti social". Eventually, where and when you could smoke was more and more limites. I don't recognize the fight against obesity using stigma. In fact, "love yourself" is openly promoted. Yes, love yourself. But be aware It's unhealthy, costly (i.e., healthcare) and it subverts those around you. It's the latter that is effectively "second hand smoke" and should be used as justification for making obesity less acceptable.
FTA: "And at home, where independent news sources like The New York Times are blocked, China’s propaganda push appears to be astonishingly effective. "
> try to measure both a side and a diagonal of a square using the same measuring-stick, you’ll run into trouble

Because you never end up with whole numbers both ways?
The Freescale/NXP 4xx/75x PowerPC cores are fairly common embedded CPUs. These days POWER and PowerPC are the same ISA.
I'm a very social person (so much so that I wouldn't prefer a private office if I worked in an office), but I still prefer remote work.
$100T? Source for that?
Is raw sugar at least marginally more healthy than processed additives like HFCS?
Ask HN: Any good recent papers on recurrent neural nets?
Makes me think of something Camus would write about.
John Carmack explains VR at 5 different levels [video]
> We're also "Agile" now, so we spend a ton of time in useless meetings.

Haha about sums it up

Its not supposed to be that way though
is it a ground or air heat pump?
I just downloaded to app to compare it to what I use, TickTick. My biggest gripe is that it doesn't auto detect times. With TickTick, i can make the note "Haircut on Saturday at 1pm" and it will automatically set an alert for that time.
George: Still don't know how you can call lunch with me a business expense?

Elaine: What do you think of the catalog?

George: I think it stinks.

Elaine: There, we just talked business.

* Imagine the IRS debating grey area scenarios like this against financial teams trained to argue deductions. The ROI quickly becomes a sewer drain.
Read it as "didn't do much outside of work when they were working". I believe you understandably misread a poorly-worded sentence.
This is the key part

>commute between most suburbs and small town centres

I commuted to work on a bike every day in Mountain View. If I tried that from where I live now it wouldn't work in my favor.
DRM doesn't allow you to consume content. There is nothing technical about DRM that helps deliver content to me.

I think you may be referring to businesses making an anti-user decision to withhold content, and mistaking exceptions to that to be things useful to a user.
I read an article a while back about why git is slower on windows than on linux (probably linked from HN, but I can't find it just now) and the TLDR is that it's because the windows filesystem (not just NTFS, but everything around it) has many customization points, and for that reason git will always be slower on windows regardless of the particular underlying FS (as in, adding windows support for, say, ext4 wouldn't fix the problem).
>the internet was still a few years away

Internet history fairy here to make sure people know that the internet has been in continuous operation since 1969 [1]. (And DARPA started funding research for the express purpose of creating a global computer network in 1960.)

What was still a few years away in '91 is awareness or interest in the internet by a significant fraction of consumers (or by Bill Gates for that matter).

[1]: Some people would deny the name "internet" to any network prior to the introduction of the internet protocol suite in 1982, but it was the same user-visible services (email, ftp, telnet, netnews, etc) running on both the earlier network that began operation in 1969 and the later network that some want to reserve the name "internet" for. In other words, the switch in 1983 from NCP to TCP/IP was mostly transparent to users.
At my company we were downgraded from 200/50 Mbit cable to 10/10 Mbit MPLS, because 20 people won't consistently saturate the link (according to the IT guy). Sigh...
> There's no reason your "thing" can't be volunteering or working for a cause that you find important pro bono.

There absolutely is a reason that it can't be my "thing," it's because it isn't!
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> the penalties are just paying whatever is owed anyway, perhaps plus a few minor interest penalties

This is not at all true.
If it didn't come from a needle in a groove, straight through tube amps into your speakers, it's low quality.
Interesting. A faction you say? You mean like the faction that drafted the Articles of Confederation?
Both "Let My People Go Surfing" [0] and the slightly more CEO-palatable "The Responsible Company" [1] are must-reads for people who run things / buy things.

[0]: https://amzn.to/31SyWY0
[1]: https://amzn.to/2Z80ZFS
Exactly as designed, makes it that much harder for the next government to fix this up so you can shove all the blame on them when it starts going down the drain.

This is not something you can fix quickly either, as with State the loss of institutional memory and all the things which should have been tracked but weren't and got lost are going to be a huge supplementary shock.
If you want to appreciate how strange real numbers are, check out Weierstrass function. It's a function that is continuous everywhere, but differentiable nowhere. In other words, it has a kink (i.e. a sharp corner) on ALL points.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weierstrass_function
Greed is winning in America. Any person or political party that is trying to reduce staffing for a tax collection agency is trying to get away with tax fraud or they are working for somebody who is. It is far past the time to recognise this.
Oh, but it is worse. It teaches members of the class that exploit it that taxes are for everyone else. They spend time on efforts to avoid taxes, which not only "starve the beast", but are frankly non-productive while shifting the burden on to others.

It breeds sociopathy among the executive class that doesn't need any help in that department while encouraging nonproductive "investment".
This is true, but is it bad?

I work at a major tech company. I have multiple degrees in CS. I've never recompiled anything except maybe in a class ages ago. Among even my most technical peers, I'd bet a lot of money that they percentage of them that have actually modified the software that they are using by editing its source is less than 2%. I'd wager that among the population of people using computers in some way that the percentage is less than 1 in 100,000. And if I asked people who had never done this if they'd like to be able to do it, I'd wager that the huge majority would say "not really".

Its fine for power users to want something different than the rest of the world. But it becomes ridiculous to expect people to go out of their way to accommodate these tiny use cases.
I believe you've fundamentally misunderstood my point, there exists people for whom work is a large part of their identity and sense of purpose. Robbed of that, no amount of "Just do X" is going to matter.
It's hard to know for sure, and I think you're doing most of what you could do. More layers would be using TOR browser, noscript, and using a VPN for Al connections on your phone and other devices.
HN had previously articles with a tech angle of using phone apps to track and restrict movement of saudi women. It's nice to keep seeing the evolution of the topic here.
Two days is not in the same league as several weeks.

Plus New York City also had a blackout in 1977 that was very different.

>Looting and vandalism were widespread, hitting 31 neighborhoods. Possibly the hardest hit were Crown Heights, where 75 stores on a five-block stretch were looted, and Bushwick, where arson was rampant with some 25 fires still burning the next morning. At one point, two blocks of Broadway, which separates Bushwick from Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, were on fire. Thirty-five blocks of Broadway were destroyed: 134 stores looted, 45 of them set ablaze. Thieves stole 50 new Pontiacs from a Bronx car dealership.[1] In Brooklyn, youths were seen backing up cars to targeted stores, tying ropes around the stores' grates, and using their cars to pull the grates away before looting the store.[1] While 550 police officers were injured in the mayhem, 4,500 looters were arrested.[1]... In all, 1,616 stores were damaged in looting and rioting. A total of 1,037 fires were responded to, including 14 multiple-alarm fires. In the largest mass arrest in city history, 3,776 people were arrested. Many had to be stuffed into overcrowded cells, precinct basements and other makeshift holding pens. A congressional study estimated that the cost of damages amounted to a little over $300 million (equivalent to $1.2 billion in 2017).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_blackout_of_1977

Everyone on the radio in the 2003 blackout was going crazy predicting the mass looting that New York City was in for (based on the 1977 blackout).
“So what do you do” is one of those small-talky ice breaker questions that people tend to use as a polite way to figure out where to stick you on their social/class/importance totem pole. It’s usually none of the asker’s business, but they ask anyway. I sometimes respond with “exotic dancer” which (if you know what I look like) gets a laugh and allows the conversation to steer off into a different direction.
I too was extremely lucky to visit the Ventura headquarters on a random trip to the area several years ago. I was going to get a "surf lesson" from Chipper (who I was half-jokingly told was the highest paid receptionist in the world) but he needed to reschedule. By happenstance, Yvon was there and he was going to hand forge a piton in the old tin shed ... the piton would be auctioned off (for the AAC I believe).

Chipper said, "I can't surf right now but you can go watch Yvon make a piton if you want ... oh here is Yvon right now ... Yvon, meet (my name), (my name), meet Yvon." So I turn and there he is. He's tiny, he smiles, we shake hands quickly, and he's out the door. I'm like, hell yeah ... I want to watch him make a Piton.

Chipper quickly walks me over to the tin shed, opens the door and shoves me into the standing room only shed filled with Patagonia employees who look at me like "who is this interloper?" for a split second before returning their attention to Yvon, who has started doing his thing. Over the next 30 minutes Yvon narrated as he took a piece of iron, heated it, hammered it, forged it, bent it, ground it with the original metal working machines (all older than me). It was as if nothing in the tin shed had changed in decades ... nothing had been cleaned or moved. It was exactly as it had been. And Yvon busted out a perfect Angle piton as expertly as if it was 1960-something.

A bit of Tin Shed action can be seen in the awesome movie Mountain of Storms:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ympydy7f1Mg

I look back on it now 12 years later as if it was a dream ... but no, I was there. Like the author of the article, I am a 90's guy who found my callings via the Patagonia catalog (I still have my 1st one, Spring 1992). I moved from Kentucky to the mountain west after high school and over the years became a climber, ww kayaker, skier, surfer, mtb'er, etc ... just like Yvon, but never to his level ... dude was an athletic badass before his time. He's also in reality an avant-garde political, social, business and environmental badass well beyond our current understandings IMO. I feel very lucky to have met him and watched him make that piton.
People should be more concerned about the location tracking inserted into Android in the form of Google Play Services.

Generally those who know the technical details of these systems are bound, as current or former employees, not to reveal confidential information that includes technical details about how these systems work, how they could be corrupted or manipulated, how auditing works, and how far they are subject to warrants, subpoenas and national security letters for law enforcement and intelligence agencies. For a layperson and an outsider, if you don't fully trust Google, you should probably uninstall all Google-bundled software, principally Google Play Services and maps. Some settings can reduce the tracking but it is mercurial and often opaque, and informed user consent is specious here, since the technical details are so secret.

Location data is the next goldmine of advertising. There is already an economy springing up around it. Even if it is banal today, it won't be tomorrow. Pervasive location tracking is the backbone of a terrifying technological dystopia. Fight it.
I'm not sure why you need to be able to track bodies through walls to accomplish that. A simple ultrasonic sensor array in a room with some software could accomplish the same thing without the dystopian potential. I just can't see this not getting horribly abused.
>But instead of making China’s case, Beijing’s ham-handed international efforts have largely failed to sway world public opinion.

The author conflates world with a small handful of western countries that actively propagandizes against Chinese interests. However, it is true China is remarkably bad at foreign propaganda, but still somehow managed to garnish more support than condemnation for XinJiang camps, from predominantly Muslim nations no less. China will never build enough soft power will to sway Western populations as long as she's positioned by as existential competitor or potential adversary to the West. The piece also contrasts Chinese with Russian approach without acknowledging that the Russian aim is to divide foreign audiences not unite domestic ones. It's certainly not designed for ideological change - even perfect state propaganda program isn't going to make activating latent cross-cultural suspicions or outright sinophobia disappear anymore than people are going to turn pro-Russia when Russia pitted alt-right with BLM protesters.
Check out ‘World Without Us’ by John Wiesman. A fascinating thought experiment wherein we all suddenly ‘beam up’ and Earth left to go on evolving.
I'm a 50-something software/hardware/embedded developer. Currently working a startup gig. But at the end of the year, that gig likely loses funding and I'll need to look for another. At this point in my career I'm pretty picky (I only choose gigs that seem interesting/fun to me) so it will likely take 6 to a year to find another (last time it took about 9 months to find a gig that was interesting). So in some sense I consider myself semi-retired. I can afford to not work for money for 18 months to 2 years before I need to start worrying about cash flow. It's been this way for about the last 6 years and likely this is how it'll be until I start drawing social security.
>Generally, judges don't take kindly to the type of "brilliance"

I see this claim constantly mentioned, how judges really dislike loopholes and such, yet at the same time it seems like lawyers specialize in doing just this. It feels like there are some 'gotchas' that work in court and others that do nothing except anger the court and lawyers are the only ones allowed to know which is which.
Generally they don't harass people unless something seems amiss and there is a large enough discrepancy to justify it.

And there's eventually a marginal tipping point where more money spent in audits won't net more recovered revenue. Generally the smaller the fry, the less you can recover from them.
Honestly I don't think that's much worse from a "reals are weird" point of view, although it is another wrinkle that there is a strict subset which is even harder to pin down.
I'm fairly sure tethering can also be trivially detected by inspecting the TTL of packets, as a device sitting "behind" the tethering device will increase the TTL by one.

https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/47819/how-can-ph... seems to have more on the matter.
The cloud isn't killing open source software
They were fine anyway, in fact Xenia has been in development for a long time already.

ISA royalties are for chip vendors. QEMU implements like most ISAs out there and I don't think anyone ever had to explicitly acquire any rights for that…
I think it's useful to describe the features in terms that make it very clear what's going on. On the other hand, I disagree with the assumption that users should not be willing to make the tradeoff of using the software anyway.
This is purposely written in a foreboding way. A lot of this stuff is standard SaaS procedure. Google does tend to make some boneheaded moves though and Transparency is constant struggle for them.

I personally stopped using chrome due to manifest V3. Not because of the tracking, the tracking makes my life easier. Just keep things secure, ok?
This assumes the debt you’re incurring is going to grow the economy. This is a big “if” in most developed countries, where no amount of debt will change foundational demographic transitions (see: Japan).

But as long as you control monetary policy and can inflate debt away in the future, no one today really cares as the can is kicked down the road.
This sounds like a recipe for 90% of the money to be wasted debating the line between bug and missed requirement.
> rationals, because they are continuous (in that you can always get closer...)

That means they're dense, but continuous is something else.
You're just doing a global search-and-replace and replacing with "big ass battery". :-) I take your point, but I was referring to transportation. As you point out, ride the scooter and use that big ass battery in the car for something else.
I think it’s because it’s a stealth tax cut. It might be able to win the political argument for lowering taxes, but by cutting funding for enforcement, you’re encouraging scofflaws and thus get the unpopular outcome you desired without having to go on television and defend it.

A similar thing plays out when politicians want to cut popular social programs. They manufacture a budget crisis (typically through instituting a popular tax cut) and then solve the crisis by cutting the funding to the thing they already decided they didn’t like.
No. POWER and PPC are decidedly not the same. the closest they ever came together was the G5's 970.

4xx and 75x were OK for embedded a decade ago, but today they're hot and power hungry. You can use them in devices where you can burn 10+ watts to maintain backwards compact with existing PPC code, but they're way the fuck too hot for a phone.
Inference, question-answering, NER detection/disambiguation are pretty important NLP tasks (at least from a practitioner's perspective). While GPT-2 has gained mindshare for its generative capabilities, BERT and other pre-trained Transformer Encoder models are used for production workloads (we use BERT for text classification and explored using it for clustering).

It's useful to view the GitHub projects for these models as reference implementations. They're intended to provide a roadmap for reproducing the research and to aid in implementing production libraries.

Regarding the latter, take a look at the work by HuggingFace, the Flair project, Spark-NLP and others.
As a Brit, I'd say roughly half of those examples are accurate (and things I'd likely say). However, after a point some of them are things that give others license to misinterpret. If you're wanting to call someone insane, I find it's better to state it plainly with solid reasons rather than let them carry on oblivious.
While having faster CPU/RAM/SSD helps, I think the biggest impact is number of CPU cores. One core is dealing with desktop apps and the browser. I see your model seems to use a Intel Core i5-5257U which has two cores. I saw a huge jump in build scripts (not webpack but similar enough) when I upgraded to a 6 core MacMini compared to my laptop. 2019 models of 13 inch laptop have 4 cores, the 15 inch either 6 core or 8 core. (even iPhones have 8 cores now).
I remember reading in Australia they specifically went after small businesses because as I said they had little ability to defend themselves.

> Two Australian Taxation Office whistleblowers have told a joint Four Corners and Fairfax investigation about a toxic internal culture where vulnerable small businesses and individuals are deliberately targeted to help meet revenue goals.

Perverse incentives.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-09/whistleblower-exposes...
How does Mercurial feel like "it wants to just make a literal log of what I've done"? It has a UI very similar to Git's for rewriting history and a feature specifically to help do it safely.

Git copied things from Mercurial too. I don't think Git having a feature Mercurial didn't in 2007 means "Git turned out to have the better UI and architecture".

Git still has the problem Mercurial phases address.

A lot of Git users are annoyed that Mercurial branches work like other systems instead of Git and that it calls Git branches "bookmarks". New users understand Mercurial branches much more easily in my experience.

Mercurial queues are complex but only needed for workflows Git doesn't support. They're an extension so that most people don't even need to know they exist.

Do you have any other examples?
The paper itself is locked behind a paywall. No mention of the methodology in either the linked article or the paper's abstract. No indication of the overall economic effects.

This is non-knowledge.