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AMD's entire chiplet architecture is aimed squarely at cheaper server chips. All of their biggest wins have been with cloud providers like Google and Amazon. If their target was the consumer market, they would have launched 7nm mobile chips first. Given that the overwhelming majority of servers run Linux, I doubt they neglected to focus on that OS.

Zen 1 didn't have an especially large list of issues for being a ground-up new architecture. Launching to enthusiast desktops so you can revise things for the server market seems like a great strategy for them overall.
I don't see how this is true at all. HKers are regularly brawling with police. I haven't seen that happen at a protest in the United States in my lifetime. If you do that here you get shot.
> People can take your picture, but there are longstanding legal privacy protections in place for how that picture can be used

Right of publicity isn't a privacy right; it's more closely related to copyright or trademark than privacy rights.
> But describing that situation I quoted above, and saying "there is nothing wrong with this," is pretty debatable!

"There is nothing wrong with this" in contexts like these usually means "nothing morally wrong".
I found this article to be fascinating.

I loved how the big bad bogeymen we all know (Palantir, Facebook) are mentioned a few times (Google is never even mentioned), but the anonymous organizations that many of us would never give a second thought to- Thomson-Reuters, the DMV, court records, and a bewildering variety of smaller data brokers like Appriss Safety, Vigilant Solutions, R.L. Polk etc. - are the real threats. Reverse engineering how ERO agents found and identified their targets like this is really important for showing how minimal our privacy really is.
Specifically for politicians: Ask them how important it is that the media not read their texts and emails.
I wonder if the Amazon "FC Ambassadors" (who are paid by the hour to tweet positively about the company[0]) are also tweeting about this.

[0] https://twitter.com/rulesObeyer/status/1161758672973811712
Hong Kong’s Mask Ban Pits Anonymity Against the Surveillance State
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I'm usually sympathetic to this but dumping ramen into a coffee pot doesn't require skills. Frying an egg does but not much, and you could just microwave them instead. etc.
It's illegal to build things without enormous parking lots and roads around them in most instances now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lvUByM-fZk includes an illustration of how this even results in the destruction of nice, walkable places when old buildings are renovated in to apartments.
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Canada’s fossil fuel subsidies amount to $1,650 per Canadian
Agreed - I'd like to use the theme if it's available.
Sure, it's not the only option, but isn't it the most common option? I admit I don't know much about black start.
Right, in a statement it said it was not to be “interpreted as an admission of guilt”. Or some legal boilerplate to that effect.
Exactly. I see it from those exact same perspectives.

The USA took steps to actually protect property in its founding, something the Supreme Court has interpreted to include privacy as well. From this perspective, the rights of citizens wither away when the government is allowed to take the smallest step towards mass surveillance. For that reason I am very much against it.

My other perspective is from a security standpoint. I believe that if companies are not doing everything in their power to protect themselves and their users from data loss / hacking / theft, they put everyone at risk. Intentionally lessening the security of a product at the request of the US government means giving a potential thief or hacker more attack vectors to exploit.
I never claimed people weren't willing to trade privacy for some benefit. I think most people (including myself, if the cost/benefit is favorable to me) are.

But the fact that that's true doesn't mean that people don't care about privacy.

You could even argue that it's indicative that people do care about privacy, as they attach a material value to it. This isn't an argument that I'm really making, but it isn't an unreasonable one.
Good story but I'm a touch disappointed as I came in expecting a story about making the lenses.
The US president was elected by 25.7% of the public. US democracy is beyond broken, and pretending the government represents the will of the majority, especially on any given issue, is a joke.
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For those that would like to try a mechanical keyboard without necessarily investing $$$$$ in one, I'm quite happy with my ~$60USD 104 key Tecware Phantom with Outemu brown switches.

Much better than any membrane based keyboard I've used in the past and not so expensive that if you end up not liking it you feel like you have wasted a ton of cash.
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I'm not bound to a wheelchair, so maybe I'm full of it, but I'd think the feeling of not belonging among paraplegics has to do with not being able to fully partake in society.

Go to a party and your default is to make eye contact with people's crotches and them literally looking down on you (dumb as it is, this is important to us social primates), a simple set of stairs being an insurmountable obstacle, being excluded from "able-bodied" activities etc.

As compared with being in a centaur suit, now you're a superhero. "Hey Bob, you can lift half a ton, can you help me with this?". Making good fun of your out of shape "able-bodied" buddies on a hike as you carry all their backpacks on your back etc.

Of course much of that could also be said about a bipedal suit, but those are presumably harder to develop, and need to be more compact, so power storage is more of an issue, and can't as naturally transition to wheeled travel without all the issues with a Segway. It would be unfortunate to delay deployment of these systems because of some perceived prejudice against four or eight-legged systems.

People at the supermarket already wear what could be called "unnatural" partial exoskeletons today. They're just called wheelchairs or mobility scooters, I don't see how a working legged contraption that doesn't pass for vanilla human when clothed would make much of a difference.
As you say, this is not a massive commodity market. A lot of the folks, if they've been involved for a while, know each other. People gift each other things all the time.

It is a market, but a lot of the participants have motivations other than profit-maximization.
I predict that as content producers attempt to exert more control over how people consume media they will be met with a new "cord cutting" movement that will circumvent the systems put in place to exert such power. We will eventually settle on slow burn for everything with a value added fee on a per-show basis. A mix of the Spotify and the iTunes model, if you will.

Unless, everyone gets so used to pirating things that they ignore the evolutions in pricing models and find it easier to just pirate content.
I have never once broken a keyboard. I can't imagine how I would -- sit on it? It's fixed on my desk.

If I did need a stronger keyboard, I'd rather have it reinforced with steel. That would have the extra benefit of keeping it in place.
>Do you seriously think there's a non-disabled adult incapable of pouring water in a bowl?

I seriously think there are non-disabled adults that would never think to pour water into a bowl for oatmeal. That's the crux of my argument. The meta cognitive step to "change the status quo" appears to be beyond the capability of most people.
Cul de sacs historically meant that you or your kid can't walk or cycle two other cul de sacs without going on a busy arterial street, though modern approaches that preserve walking/cycling paths while blocking cars seem better.
Montreal did the same thing during student protests in 2012 [1]. It came along with another special law enacted to restrict protests[2]. Both were later contested and dropped.

In my opinion that was extremely unproductive. It galvanized protests even further and the most common chant became "la loi special on s'en calisse" (roughly "we don't give a shit about your special law") as we were defying it. In essence, it just eroded police and state authority for an entire generation. I still strongly feel that I don't have to follow laws that I find immoral or unethical. I am not sure this is good.

[1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A8glement_P-6

[2] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loi_78_(Qu%C3%A9bec)
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>Second, the interface is hard to use.

Am I the only one who didn't find it hard to use? It's different, but it took all of one afternoon to figure it out 8 years ago. Despite only very occasionally using calibre, that learning session has persisted. I don't find myself getting lost in the UI or making mistakes.

Perhaps because I grew up in the DOS era where it was the norm for every application to be different? I find that as the years go by, the deviation required from the norm to be considered "bad UI" keeps shrinking.
@phaus any improvement to your wrists with the Ergodox?
I mean...the entire period before the industrial revolution and the advent of modern medicine?

Some guy living in 1000BC China is probably going to be as well off as someone in 1000AD China, which is to say they both aren't well off at all. I'm not sure what you're trying to get at here.
I doubt what you say about wine. Wine tasting is extremely complex and some experts might not be as near as good as they think they are. But an expensive aged Bordeaux will not taste like a cheap random 6€ supermarket bottle.
Also, taste is just one criteria on the price, rarity plays a big part (some vineyards are small, some years the production is smaller), the wine ageing potential is another criteria etc.
I think that for a Vickrey auction, the worst that a malicious seller could do, by injecting "false" bids, is (assuming the number of items sold is n), raise the price from the value of the n+1th bid to just under the value of the nth bid. (Otherwise they'd end up with unsold stock.)
The cease & desist letter would hit the advertiser's inbox before the first order.
> The bug is a local privilege escalation vulnerability

not as bad as it could have been...

> The use-after-free vulnerability originally appeared in the Linux kernel and was patched in early 2018 in version 4.14,

this happened because Google for some reason uses their own Frankenstein kernel. And this is not the first time it had lead to security issues
> Why don't drivers?

They do in fact.

This is the list of the mandatory safety measures in Europe for motor vehicles, it's 24 pages long

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32...

> Driving is the biggest killer of young people

It is not driving, it's road traffic injuries, which includes biking.

Anyways it's worse in US than Europe and it's much worse for male than for female.

One could conclude that it's being a young male in the US that is actually dangerous.

> Any vehicle you use for commuting is for convenience

Assuming this is true, it is valid also for bikes or horses.

> Strapping into armour makes it harder so we don't expect it of drivers while we do expect it of extreme sports.

The entire car is literally an armor!

https://ec.europa.eu/growth/sites/growth/files/car-safety-fe...

Why are cyclist so afraid of protecting themselves?

> Supposedly the health benefits of cycling outweigh the dangers of the road

They don't.
Maybe downvotes cause the MK group thinks it's fine. Then you, with a cursory look at the group, state their happy place is "all bad" - and demonstrate a mis-understanding of the MK market forces - which had already been described.
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At my company we're doing something similar. Since the scale is a bit higher (several hundred items available) we're doing credit card holds to ensure buyers aren't doing this. If anyone backs out, it makes it a logistical nightmare to work out the new winners.

Of course, it also makes it a bit tricky if you want to edit your bid, since card holds can't be modified after the fact (except for hotels/restaurants).

It looks like in this case, the scale was small enough and the buyers/seller have enough trust not to make bogus bids.
Several thousand years, at the very least, and in some quarters it's still practiced: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_21st_century

Practices can change, and it's nice to think that once we realized it was possible for "owning people" to not be a thing, we simply made it not a thing, but in fact mindsets can be the slowest to change.

Eradication of an evil social practice is not like invention of a science or technology. We invent the car or the computer, and 25 years later it's in every country on the planet. The Father of History mentions the ills of slavery, and 2500 years later we still haven't quite got this thing licked.
It's more common among computer users, isn't it? Though that alone isn't enough to define a cure.
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Haha, that's a nice story :D

Not using a Hello Kitty keyboard at work, but a pretty old IBM one that came with the hand-me-down workstation. I think it has to be at least 20 years old and I would be surprised if it cost more than $20 when new. I've went through 4 computer upgrades that came with new keyboards since, but I hated all of them. This one works and doesn't give me RSI, so any change is a risk as far as I'm concerned ;-)
They are extra braces. The C grammar allows any statement as the body of a control structure. Compound statements are only one of the possibilities. Just because other C-like langs have different grammar requiring the braces doesn't mean C has to look like them too.
Nuclear plants only need cooling water. Hydroelectric plants additionally need steep valleys and steep drops. Many fewer of those are available; that's why hydro plants tend to be so enormous. So the total capacity of nuclear power is immensely greater.

However, it's mostly a moot point now that photovoltaic is so cheap.
With more sophisticated machines you just need less people. When the machines start building the systems and then monitoring the systems then the rules will change.
But, I think the government should, with a warrant, be able to open peoples mail in transit. And they currently do. E2E encryption with no backdoor removes this ability from them.
A lot of devs really feel open source software can be written for free while they themselves need to be paid top dollars.

Of course we need to be paid top dollar. We donate our (finite) time and mental resources at the cost of family life, etc. to integrate and master 9 Javascript libraries, 8 messaging formats, 7 architectural patterns, 6 programming languages, 5 package managers, 4 cloud platforms, 3 operating systems, 2 caching tools, and 1 HTTP server to power it all.

Along the way, the creators of quality OSS benefit from the popularity of having thousands of adherents donating their collective millions of hours and trillions of neurons learning their software packages and providing fixes, ideas, and polishing to their product. And once the users have all 45 of those tools successfully integrated over years of effort and lessons learned, along comes an OSS creator who writes the newest 9 Javascript libraries...
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the boards and caps are nothing compared to artisan keycaps.

i have traded countless things to acquire keycaps that would sell for $250+ each. one keycap! brobot caps are especially rare and i frequently see people buying them for $500 each

i actually think artisans make sense to be so expensive since there is a level of artistry and rarity that most boards do not have. some of the rare korean boards are super rare too though and easily sell for $1000.

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When eBay first started, I loved the idea of auctions as a way to set market prices. From an economic and game-theory perspective, it is so optimal!

Clearly as later examples like Amazon have shown, auctions don't make sense for most product categories. I believe this is mainly due to psychological reasons.

Decision-fatigue is a real thing. People dislike having to think hard. In a fixed-price sale, the buyer just has to ask themselves one yes/no question: "Would I be happy buying this item for $X?" This is a very simple question to answer. In a sealed-bid auction, people have to ask themselves "What $X am I willing to pay for this item", which is a tremendously more complex question to answer. In fact, from a game theory perspective, you should never put in a bid that you're "happy with". You should put in a bid where you're exactly neutral between buying-vs-not-buying. Otherwise, you're leaving money on the table. This is asking people to make purchasing decisions whose outcomes will leave them explicitly not happy - a state of mind that every person hates putting themselves in.

Couple this together with the fact that the buyer doesn't even know whether they won the auction, until X hours/days later. And during this period of time, they are under a state of uncertainty, which is another mental state that people generally hate.

I think that for very expensive, non-time-critical and hobbyist items, an auction may work great. People may actually enjoy pouring effort into it because it is their hobby. But for any item that people just want to buy-and-move-on, auctions are a horrible mechanism. Perhaps one day when AI assistants make all our purchasing decisions for us, auctions will become the norm, but certainly not today.
> I loved how the big bad bogeymen we all know (Palantir, Facebook) are mentioned a few times (Google is never even mentioned), but the anonymous organizations that many of us would never give a second thought to- Thomson-Reuters, the DMV, court records

Outside the HN bubble, Palantir is far less recognized as a intrusive entity from which security services might get your private info than the DMV, court records (and other already-part-of-the-government entities/processes) are...

Heck Palantir is much less recognized as even a thing that exists than those other things are recognized as threats.
Nuclear waste is not as dangerous as you think. One, its contained within a very small area (which increases its lethality but substantially decreases your risk of exposure). Two, some waste products decay alpha particles which are basically harmless unless consumed. Three, some waste products have short half-lives which increases their risk in the short term but substantially decreases their risk over a 500 year period. Four, most deaths from nuclear waste would be slow and probabilistic (e.g. 18% increase cancer risk for an individual with high exposure) whereas deaths from some other power source would be immediate and devastating (e.g. flood, destruction of habitat).

I don't mind hydro. I don't particularly like the habitat destruction but they provide tons of clean power and tons of fresh water. But those dams have to be maintained for those 500 years. A collapse of a dam is pretty catastrophic.
Not necessarily. There can be implied consent.

Of course, in that case you can't put surprising terms into the agreement if they are disadvantageous to the user. Courts don't see that a meeting of the minds took place. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meeting_of_the_minds
The NYT article refers to "both recirculated and new images" and states that "in some online forums, children are forced to hold up signs with the name of the group or other identifying information to prove the images are fresh." Isn't it just common sense that the proven existence of online paedophile communities that explicitly encourage the "production" of new child abuse material, in fact results in some net increase in the number of abused children, even if that increase is a small proportion of the total number of victims? Isn't it worth asking what can be done about it?
So you did not like the posted article but still decided to read all. Thats stupid ;)

Your comments are useless really. Not everything has to be good for everyone. There are many people who find genius in simplicity. Creating things all over again which no one uses is a pretty dumb idea.

Good luck in your endless endeavor of finding things you dont like!
Neither of my parents finished the Irish equivalent of High School but both appreciated the value of a third level education.
Even after dropping out of my 1st course and going working in a factory my Dad reverse psyched me into starting again.

After my 1st job a colleague/friend that had left poached me to move with a 80% pay rise.
Ten years later same thing happened with another colleague/friend.

It would be easy to see how I could still be on a manufacturing line, some of the people I worked with are still there.
With out a bit of help from friends I would not be where I am today.
Being extremely talented/a .1%er will get you far but having good role models and a bit of luck is almost as good.
Well, it's true. Here [1] is the corresponding law, here [2] is wikipedia with some expamples what counts as passive weapons (plastic film, basecaps reinforced with plastic, gasmasks, knee pads, … ) and here [3] is a case where a paramedic was sentenced for wearing a helmet.

[1] https://dejure.org/gesetze/VersG/17a.html

[2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzwaffe

[3] www.labournet.de/interventionen/grundrechte/grundrechte-all/demonstrationsrecht/schutz-durch-selbstschutz-demonstrationssanitaeter-wurde-wegen-vermummung-und-passivbewaffnung-verurteilt/
When I was doing lots of cross-platform development in C and C++, using various vendor-specific compilers (which had a lot of variation in warnings), I had a practice of being warnings&lint-free on all of them. I used various portable warnings-silencing conventions for things like unreachable code, assignment in expression context, unused return values, etc. (Besides all the other conventions for potential pitfalls that static analysis can't detect.)

A colleague, who was new to C back then, asked about it, so I shared some of my masochistic practices, including the `lint`-necessitated mantra, "Always cast the return value of printf to void."

Years later, after moving to another US state, I'm cutting through the courtyard of a large block, where people are eating lunch outside, and someone shouts, "Oh my god, it's ____! Always cast the return value of printf to void!" She then introduced me to her coworkers at the table, "This is ___. ... He's the reason I code C like an [bad word]." Which I took as a compliment.

Programming in C reminds me of advice I've heard about helicopter piloting: from the moment you start the helicopter, that thing is trying to kill you.

Perhaps it's helpful to think about coding C like a cool-headed, meticulous pilot, who's constantly aware of the danger.
Pai worked as Associate General Counsel at Verizon from 2001 to 2003, over 15 years ago. Neither Pai nor the FCC didn't orchestrated or have anything to do with the comment campaign. FCC paying the marketing company for fake comments would be psyops. What happened is a problem, but not what the OP was suggesting.
But then wouldn’t the right node with None in it be the same as a leaf?

Could you specify what you mean in code maybe? If you don't explicitly define leaves than how can you represent the empty tree?
Yeah, but thats a point of this blog. Finding things anyone can build.

But thanks for the comment, I will try to keep that in mind.

Cheers!