skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you duckduckgo 'intel processor backdoor' the first hit is:

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/is-the-intel-management...

So it doesn't seem like it is bullshit.

Another note: While yes, the foil of the hat is thin, the term is 'tin foil hat'.
I made a video about this a while back: https://youtu.be/gI0wk1CXlsQ

I think it's good that someone is putting in the work and open sourcing tools to make differential privacy easier. But at the same time I'm wondering if this is just a smokescreen put up by Google.
Not in the US, where paid leave for either parent is not guaranteed. Mom's are allowed 12 weeks unpaid leave, but only if her employer has 50+ employees. If she works for a small company, she's SOL. Dad's have no guarantee of anything. It's pretty horrific.
If they can fix teams so everybody who uses it doesn't hate it, I'm sure they'll absolutely dominate.
What is food availability and price like? Are fewer mainlanders coming over right now?
Prudential Acquires Assurance for $2.35bn
Teams isn't going to directly take market share from Slack, but it forms a hard barrier limiting Slack's future growth. Large established organizations are switching to Teams, and finding it good enough that they'll never want to pay for Slack.
All technology has constraints, and pictures are made within them. Dynamic range may or may not be an advantage, because there are only so many levels that can be reproduced for the viewer. RGB, for example, only gives you 256 shades of grey. It might mean more options for the photographer, in that you end up with more information in the highlights and shadows, but ultimately the decision to compress one or the other needs to be made if making a black-and-white print (for example) and you end up with the same picture.
Work is a non-software company and we asked if we could use Slack and IT responded by saying that we already had Teams installed and included with O365.... therefore we should use that. That's what we've being doing except that no one chats on there....
Switching 100% of electricity production to nuclear would be very hard (though maaaybe possible) and very expensive to do within a decade (the mean time to construct a reactor is 7.5 years, so we'd have to launch immense construction projects right now), but that's not a solution that brings you even close to zero emissions. Electricity is just a small part (roughly 25%) of them.

To get close to zero emissions you'd also need to:

1) replace or remove all non-electric vehicles worldwide. That third world farmer with a thirty year old tractor who can't possibly afford to replace it with anything, much less with something new? That twenty year old pickup truck for a small storeowner? All those vehicles would have to stop being used. They would have to be pried out of their hands long before they become useless, meaningfully harming their livelihood (as replacements won't be affordable to them - they can't buy a ten-year old used truck/tractor because that's also fossil fuel based), which doesn't seem plausible without violence.

1a) Also, replace almost all ships worldwide.

1b) Also, replace all the fossil fuel based house heating systems. Poor regions without a centralised supply heating their homes with firewood? You're not allowed to burn that anymore, you need to build infrastructure to supply you with nuclear electricity.

2) Stop concrete production unless you also sequester enough carbon to compensate. That pretty much means destroying large parts of construction industry by making it prohibitively expensive, especially in poorer countries.

2a) Also, revamp all worldwide steel production.

3) Have everyone worldwide stop eating beef.

These three things won't be sufficient, but are required to even approach zero emissions. Does it seem plausible to suceed in somehow forcing everyone worldwide to implement such policies within a decade?
There is also the possibility of Microsoft buying Slack to fix Teams.
>> Revenue rose to $145 million from $92 million a year earlier. Slack said it had more than 100,000 paying customers, a 37 percent increase over last year.

They should be fine. $307m of the loss was stock-related compensation.

How could you screw up a business who has a product as popular as Slack?
> We can't afford to undermine the economy.

Heh. This is such a brilliant phrase that perfectly encapsulates everything that is wrong.

We can't afford to not afford things. :D
> On the other hand, I've had female coworkers carefully plan pregnancies to chain the maximum amount of paid leave.

So, taking the maximum amount of paid leave they are allowed. How is this an issue? Do you take less pay than offered? Please explain how maximizing your benefits if wrong.
It would literally be impossible for my company to switch from Slack. It's so tightly integrated.
The Porsche Taycan's Two-Speed Gearbox
Is it tinfoil hat worthy when Intel has such a poor track record?
The key word here being, "intoxicants". All medicines are not intoxicating. Giving one access to pure nondualistic states of consciousness, in a safe, controlled, and intentional setting, as many entheogenic medicines are capable of doing, is the exact opposite of intoxicating.

Also, the Buddhist lineage it sounds like you are referring to is one of many. Because you mention vipassana, I'm guessing Theravada / Hinayana. There are other vehicles that have different precepts & ontologies, e.g. Mahayana and Vajrayana.

That being said, I do firmly believe that having a solid foundation will benefit any experience in expanded states of consciousness induced by psychedelic medicines. This foundation can be nurtured and supported through myriad means such as meditation, therapy, and other forms of mindfulness-based, somatically-oriented practices.

With this foundation in place, it is not uncommon for people to reach much deeper states of meditative capacity and awareness through the careful use of these substances. This is why, within the guide communities, it's often said that a single daylong guided experience can be equivalent to attending a 1-month silent meditation retreat, or 5 to 10 years of psychotherapy.
> Much like AWS spun out of their in-house experience running flexible computing infrastructure

Actually that’s a myth (https://www.networkworld.com/article/2891297/the-myth-about-... ). Oddly, unlike most corporate founding myths (e.g. eBay and Pez) it wasn’t invented by company marketing.
Cite for the AMD convention of TDP at a consistent boost? That's genuinely the first I've heard of it, and I'm almost certain that's wrong. TDPs have always been considered to be sustained values, which is exactly what "boost" is not.
Torture is considered worse than killing... but weapons made for inflicting pain are totally okay (domestically)
I saw one blanket that was made with chains sewn into a light sheet/blanket. Seemed like a much better approach than the bead based ones. Was way too pricey though.
This is literally: "$Method is a $buzzword that enables $DesirableThing". If you already know that $DesirableThing is desirable, this sentence tells you nothing about how $Method works.
ZipCar has keys in the car and it's part of the service rules that the key CANNOT LEAVE THE CAR. I have no idea if they use rfid or something to check, but I felt it was really clear in their "how to use" videos that the keys never leave the car, you can can get banned from ZipCar.

So while there are keys in the car that you could have held onto to use during a cell service outage, you're told to never remove them from the vehicle.
Well the main reasons for not going horizontal are scale and volatility - which ammount to fixed costs essentially. If they can make a profit off of it then that implies cutting out the middlemen can potentially reduce expenses.

That said that they are /still/ smaller than Wallmart yet have scale sufficient to be competitive to mass shippers is amazing even considering the internet related physical letter shrinkage.
I saw some allegations in https://meta.plasm.us/posts/2019/09/01/jdg-and-the-fp-commun...

All of this stuff is really mild. If this is the best they've got then I don't think John DeGoes did anything wrong. This deplatforming seems like a silly thing to do.
Good riddance. It only took 16 years longer than it should have. A secret government list that the public can't audit, has no means of due process, and prevents you from going about your life has no business in a free society.
In practice Tesla's thing only seems to have crashed into a fire truck a couple of times against I imagine a large number of misses.
It’s a “debate” created for political reasons. If the right to bear arms was a right people like Larry Tribe believed in, they’d never engage in the contortions they do with the text.

If I say “for X purposes, do Y” I’m telling you to do Y. You can’t do Z just because you think that serves X purposes better.

And even if you believe the right must be connected to militias, those aren’t necessarily formal organizations. The Minutemen, for example, where self-organizing independent militias that were composed of just whoever brought a gun with them. They comprised 1/4 of the militias that fought in the Revolution. Many of the state militias, too, were BYOG. You think the framers just forgot how they won the war they had just fought? The point obviously is to protect the possibility of such militias being formed by preventing the government from disarming ordinary citizens.

Now, if you’re a “living Constitution” guy and think that the constitution means whatever you want it to mean in the present time, that’s fine. But then you don’t need to rely on the tortured reading of the “militia” phrasing. Just say it’s an outmoded right that we are not going to enforce.
So DOPE!

It's a glitch project, see the code here https://glitch.com/edit/#!/jemily-wedding-photobooth
The secret life of GPS trackers
It's internet conspiracy stuff... and what's worse, is that all of this is industrialized. Reading through that thread and the related tweets is just depressing. Please do not say what I am about to say as an attack... I just truly am horrified at what's going on and hope that shining a little light can help people discern truth from what is now an industry dedicated to sowing discontent and disinformation. We are but pawns stuck in the middle and I'm not sure what the right answer is.

I mean - take https://twitter.com/JacquelineMcNab/status/11695820154499440... for an example. Do these people really believe that Jack Dorsey is sitting there on his Aeron chair twiddling his thumbs and thinking, GEE I WONDER WHICH QANON FOLLOWER I SHOULD SHADOW-BAN TODAY? Or https://twitter.com/OuterLimits816/status/116943344838742425... - Twitter corporate is saying, "OuterLimits816 is trying too hard to expose the deep state. I should just gaslight him (or her) by randomly taking away their likes."

It really is fun to feel like you're "in" on a secret. I get it. Folks feel marginalized in their real life, and spending hours "researching" things and posting your findings on Twitter with like minded individuals - who praise you with likes and retweets about your amazing insight! - can feel intense. You may even feel like you're learning something (and sometimes you might actually learn something in the process!)

But it's not real. There's plenty of shady stuff going on. This isn't it. In fact the "people" praising you and egging you on - they may be random people PAID to do it. After all, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_.... We have real problems to deal with. Getting spun up about a post from a random Twitter user claiming that low order bits flipped randomly in a JPEG image represents a super-secret encryption key for covert communication is not one of them.

I just had to vent because stuff like this makes me absolutely vomit and despair for the future of our country.
I have blackout blinds and blackout curtains but still light leaks in!

It seems to come in via the top of the blind, there is a gap between the top of the window and where the blind is attached and then this leaks out into the room via the side of the curtains.

It's fine at night as it's dark anyway, but on days when it gets light early in the morning it's a pain. I like the room to be so dark I can't see my hand in front of my face. I have no gadgets or anything with lights on in the bedroom.

I'm not quite prepared to tape black bags to the window though :D
The United States is enormously influential throughout the world. We have the highest per capita emissions. If we make changes, it has ripple effects across the globe. We define what it means to live a wealthy, “middle class” lifestyle. Also, Nigeria and just about the rest of the world is part of the Paris accord, the US is not. China is poised to enact carbon taxes on a significant chunk of global emissions...

We might be left with no choice but to experiment with a technological “hail mary” — but so far, none are very attractive.

Two decades ago we could have solved the problem at a relatively low cost compared to what we’ll pay now, or what we’ll pay if we do nothing. Every year it gets more expensive.

It’s like the old adage, fitting to this discussion: the best time to plant a tree is five years ago. The next best time is today.
I bought blackout shades and like you said, it's laughably dark even during the daytime.

However, I don't get that slow increase of light in the morning that wakes me up gently. I wake up a little groggier.
Stewart Butterfield, Slack’s chief executive, said in an interview that it would take time for the market to understand his company since it had created a new category of software, unlike soda or cars

We've had public business software companies for decades, they all created a new "category" of software, why does he think his is something new?

Fundamentally speaking, how is Slack any different to the first email program? The first operating system? The first chat system?

We've had this sort of software, and companies that sell it, for a very long time now.
This was a bios bug and not an inherent limitation of the CPU.
Interesting, thanks! For Austria this refers to § 61 Nationalbankgesetz (law on the National Bank): https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/GeltendeFassung.wxe?Abfrage=Bundes... (in German, unsurprisingly).

That reads (my rough translation): (1) [The ECB and other central banks emit Euro bank notes.] (2) The bank notes referred to in (1) must be accepted at their full face value without limits, unless the obligation must be paid using some other means of payment.

IANAL, but to me this means like (a) there is already a law in Austria obliging businesses to always accept cash, except that (b) this might be meaningless since a business could always stipulate that "the obligation must be paid using some other means of payment".
Small number of minutes vs less than a minute. The last time I built something by hand in both places, it seemed to take 2x to 3x as long to run all the autoconf checks on MacOS. That's basically a fork / exec / open /close sort of benchmark.
Before Buying Galaxy S10 and S10 Plus
I just wish they had not acquired Screen Hero. That was a beautiful standalone product that I wish I could still use.
It should be a crime. We put regular citizens in prison for so much less.
Ronald Coase would have loved Amazon and in particular this case. Amazon is quite unconventional in regards to what they choose to outsource and what they keep — or bring — in house.
By taking too much investment, needing to pay back too much so you end up destroying your business for short term gains.

edit: Just look at what's happening to Patreon
See that's the thing about a right. You don't have to justify it to possess it.

Let me substitute some words in your statement:

Right to vote being an absolute guarantee of freedom is up for interpretation.

What well regarded scholars group are you a part of?
I disagree (though my state seems to not). What better way to put the fear of enforcement into people than to say - and have on dash cam, this is a reckless driver that is drifting and making poorer decisions than a drunk driver.

And to be able to receive this ticket readily, with no ability to hide a cell phone or claim to be in a navigation app. And it applies to other major causes of distracted driving accidents: drinking, distracting passengers to the driver, eating, and whatever else.

In the time before dash cams, there was the option that this would be a subjective offense, an officer's word against the perpetrator, and so many of these are "secondary" offenses (a warning and reason to pull over for something else). But now that every officer has a dash cam, they can be objectively evidenced.
I get that they are the most obvious comparisons for recent IPOs, but it's disappointing to see Slack being conflated with Uber, Lyft, and We, none of which have a remote chance of ever making more than a razor-thin profit in their respective industries. Whereas Slack is a SaaS company, with the real potential (whether it's likely or not) to become highly profitable down the road.
For most of Amazon's existence they have been getting the best deal that they can with the available shippers, primarily UPS, FedEx, and USPS in the US. They negotiated lower rates than the shippers offer to consumers and businesses in exchange for guaranteed delivery volumes. Basically Amazon promised to ship X million packages per week with shipper Y in exchange for "below market" rates.

The issues that Amazon has seen, particularly during holiday peaks is that shippers do not always want to continue to lower their rates and that shippers do not always scale up their operations to meet Amazon's needs during the holidays. For example: https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-christmas-shipping-de... and https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/amazon-ups-o...

In response to shippers not doing what they want and to provide leverage, Amazon started to do their own shipping. This originally started as same-day delivery experiments in large cities as part of Amazon Fresh (grocery delivery service). It grew into non-grocery deliveries as a competitive advantage for Prime same-day deliveries and expanded from there.

I expect that "Transportation By Amazon" (TBA) where Amazon does package delivery as a competitor to UPS and FedEx will probably start in the next year or two, barring any anti-trust or legal problems.
Generally, "not committing any more crimes" is in every bail condition, somewhere.
Modulo scheduling with rational initiation intervals
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I wish there was a good, cheap, fully programmable / hackable camera. There is a lot of digital capture work that I need to do, that requires a fully controllable camera.

For example, I want to build a faster photocopier, using a camera frame, dual camera setup, real-time Image processing unit and a fast laser printer. However, almost all the cameras in the market are either feature deficit (point and shoot cameras that use CHDK, etc) or are in-accessible to me. I would love to use a Nikon DSLR, completely control it, grab pictures in real-time, process and print them. Sadly, no such options now.

A decent photocopier costs about 130,000 in India.

A Nikon D3000 or equivalent, with an 18-55 lens costs about 30,000. A decent laser printer costs about 14,000. A DIY frame, about 10,000. So with an overall cost of about 60,000 I can build myself a much better and faster photo copier.
Basically a scientific issue wrapped in a political issue with a big huge asterisk that says even if we do all the right things we're triaging the patients, not curing them.
But they are fundamentally different. They have no mailboxes in the server, they just pass the messages through to the right client after some capabilities check.

Mach and Hurd on the other hand store the messages in the kernel, priorities them and handles all mailbox messages, without ever losing one.
This proved to be the wrong approach.
>I guess, maybe the people didn't exercise their rights.

They didn't want to, that was the general point of my comment. American gun owners aren't a guaranteed bulwark against tyranny - they're just as likely to welcome and defend it, if their ideology supports it.

>You can absolutely be on the left and believe in the right to bear arms. Fighting for our constitutional rights is not a partisan issue.

I have yet to meet an NRA member (and granted, I haven't met them all) who doesn't believe the American left poses an active threat to their right to keep and bear arms, and who wouldn't consider a "pro 2nd Amendment leftist" to be a contradiction in terms.

In theory, you're correct. In practice, thanks to the success of the NRA and Republican party, American gun culture (at least the activist part of it) has become synonymous with conservative, right-wing identity politics.
Russians?
So do baseball bats and screwdrivers?
Might say the same about ICQ, Skype, Messenger, etc.

All communications platforms so far have come and gone in vogue.

I remember in 2005 when everyone in our office communicated over MS Messenger.

Maybe Slack is to instant messaging as Facebook was to social networking and will get some longevity. But it's too early to tell yet.
Okay. How to regenerate whatever output from that JPEG the Tweet author claims to get? outguess emits random garbage for me over that URL.

(It's also not clear how to use this program from its own documentation, and the program has some QC issues…)
I use a zipcar occasionally and this is exactly what happens when I'm driving with a friend. Once they actually did manage to yank on and snap the string. They said something like "Wow, the previous driver tied the keys to the center console, what an asshole" pull, snap
Interesting. Here in Norway I have nothing but good experience with self-checkout. It just works. Only thing is if I buy alcohol I have to wait for someone to click that I am over 18. It even has less queue, and queues are the worst!
Leaving aside the costs of their listing and related compensation (which are crazy high!) they made a $57m loss on $145m in revenue.

Considering that they are a pure software company this is quite shocking and, to me, a sign not to touch them with a barge pole.
"Among the possibilities they discussed was SoftBank serving as an anchor investor in the IPO by buying a significant portion of the roughly $3 billion to $4 billion the company is expected to raise. They also discussed whether SoftBank might invest a chunk of money that would allow We to delay its IPO until 2020, people familiar with the conversations said."

This is a real mess.
The divide between customer bases actually resonates throughout the industry. It's Conoco Philips and the Department of Justice vs Gitlab and Sysdig. Old econ vs new roughly. And is sort of playing out across AWS vs Azure, etc. I wonder how Slack addresses this divide. Perhaps in keeping more of a startup ethos and attracting international players such as Grab.
It works for me. What you do is download the Kindle file format from "Manage Your Content and Devices","Actions", "Download & transfer via USB". This gives you a different format than the files sent directly to a Kindle, and the DeDRM plugin for Calibre unlocks these.
That's exactly my point: the parent was saying that, even with due process, their guns could not be taken away.
Cyclomatic Complexity
I think the biggest point might be the Wing itself. Did you built that on your own or did you use a pre-made model?
It loses money. A lot of it.
Consider replacing "literally" with "practically" or something similar in phrases like these.

I have seen first-hand how much of the business can run on Slack. Yet, if it's gone one day, companies would survive.
Even without considering the full phrasing of the 2nd to be related to militias, there's still considerable room for regulation. If one actually reads Scalia's Heller opinion, it explicitly says that regulation, of gun posession is of course not ruled unconstitutional. Nor are restrictions on the types of firearms unconstitutional.