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You poor bastard. I’m running arch on an X1 6th and getting 8 hours+
Counterpoint is we just issued a shitload of the latest gen x1 carbons (whatever the first gen to get USB c is) and it's all flawless out of the box for Ubuntu. I guess they ship now with a firmware update to fix s3 sleep issues.
You could be either dropping off the 5Ghz band and onto the 2.4Ghz one (5Ghz has much less penetration and so it dies off way before 2.4Ghz does), or just getting closer to a source of interference.
I've been having this idea of crowdsourcing a better Google via a browser extension.

Every time I repeat a search query and end up finding the answer in the same website I visited before I wish I marked that link as the 'definite answer'.

Next time I search for the same information the extension would point me directly to my previously marked link.

Maybe by letting people could subscribe to each other answers I could bootstrap better google. Developers seem a good initial target market. Students too...
I could see it selling for the same reason things like the snes classic do. Nostalgia goggles combined with a dislike of, I guess, unofficial emulation, for whatever reasons that don't make much sense to me. Either that or for the slightly more interesting things people do with these things like hacking and modding them. For me though, retroarch seems to have 99% of everything I'd ever want to emulate covered so...meh.
> Show me how that's not true.

Stating an insane position, even one with internal logic, and then saying "show me how that's not true" does not make your position either correct or convincing.

What's more, your position is very much the one in the minority. It is incumbent upon you to convince us, or else you will simply be ignored. You haven't done anything like a credible attempt to do so.
I work at a small company as an engineer and recently was asked to do a project that would require some neural net magic. I had some experience with keras/tensorflow so that was my first choice.

Despite the absolute nightmare of getting it installed and running on a gpu, I managed it and had a fantastic model. It was doing so well that the company wanted to expand the project and build out a multi-gpu rig as part of it. So I get building that environment and install the latest CUDA, cuDNN, nvidia driver and use tensorflow 2.0 aaaaaand it wouldn't work. I actually spent a long time hacking on it till on a forum I read that it was just a bug that hadn't been fixed yet.

At this point I decided to see what Pytorch was like. In literally one day I installed everything and migrated my project completely over to pytorch. Same speed, same accuracy, works perfectly on a multi-gpu rig when I set it to. It was like a breath of fresh air.

The next day I wrote some C++ to import a saved pytorch model so it could run in a deployment environment. The C++ api is also great. The docs are lacking a little bit, but an Facebook researcher mentioned to me on the forums that they're hoping to have it all done by next month.

It's unlikely that I'll be going back to tensorflow.
And drivers kill a lot more people than protestors.
Lonely, burned out, depressed: The state of millennials' mental health
I've always felt that manufacturers got the USB-C dongle very wrong.

Instead of converting USB-C to DP/USB-A/HDMI, the dongle should be converting DP/USB-A/HDMI to USB-C.

It's about upgrading the older perpherials instead of downgrading the new devices.

For example, the dongle is instead fixed to my DVI port on my monitor. Now my monitor has a USB-C socket, instead of my laptop or phone having a DVI socket.

It reduces bulk and now I truly only have to use USB-C cables everywhere. If someone knows where to find dongles like this I'd be very excited.
They started with a crowdfunding campaign that raised $3 million: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/atari-vcs-game-stream-con...

So there would seem to be at least some demand, though I share your general skepticism — nothing crowdfunds quite as well as nostalgia, particularly geek nostalgia. And this thing is leaning on the nostalgia angle hard.
FYI (assuming this is going to be the new normal for a bit) have the clinic check out the State SGIP program for funding to buy battery storage. They just allocated an (extra) $800 million to the program and at least $100 mil was for critical needs (e.g. medical) facilities. https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/california-appr...
It was a private persons thoughts and his employer got sanctioned.

That's a lot different than your POV, lol
kb9,

For embedded and laptop devices, are there power devices or other options for truly free firmware?

The desktop price point on current boxes are still high, do you foresee those prices dropping in the future?

Will newer POWER architectures create a large workload for you or is it more simple?

- cal
Steve is dead. The interim CEO reigns
I think the why changes the approach...

I think my takeaway from the last 10 years, is that a lot of the info on websites that was by real people has disappeared and you have a lot of spammy blog and heavily commercial approaches. And, most of the real info has gone into facebook groups, quora, reddit comments, slack, twitter, and so on.

The problem is those are all closed-door eco-systems in a lot of ways, and the knowledge is hard to differentiate from the temporal messaging.

I think if I was going to approach this I would build software that users run, or browser add ons that lets user tag and save information in some type of format, and then that contributes to a knowledge search information.

For example, I am a member of several FB groups focused around specific expat groups for where I live. There are great pieces of wisdom and hard to find info in there. I'd love to with a chrome extension say save this and here is a little context (or if it could know that is great from formats).

Then try to figure out how to make that public and searchable.
It is related..

They want 1 hive mind, including religion
Yeah, no, this really wasn't the case.

Toolkits that used HIView/HIWindow looked very out of date compared to proper Cocoa implementations (Qt, contrary to popular belief, wasn't really "native" for the longest time since they did this - it's part of why it always looked off).

There are very valid reasons to be frustrated with Apple, but the writing has been on the wall for this stuff for years now. Nobody should be complaining at this point.
Apple was in a similar situation with the FBI asking to unlock suspected terrorist phones, and they pushed back.

Let's not give them a pass here, as it's quite obvious why they're accepting the Chinese statements at face value, because of how dependent they are on the Chinese market.

This is about money, not principles.
This app specifically lists where the police are. That is its primary purpose.

Comparing it to Facebook or Snapchat makes absolutely no sense.
There are Orcas that eat seals and orcas that eat only fish and this is split across pod boundaries that haven’t interbred in hundreds of years or more but are physically capable.
Thanks! That's definitely something to consider implementing down the road as we grow!
Knowledge Distillation from Internal Representations
Popularity == better? OK :)

"Try very hard" == be on a wifi network, or download an app that appears to be completely legit from the vendor's own digital distribution platform? OK :)
This is an awesome idea but I got a better one. Replace steering wheels with a touch screen!
Is police reporting illegal in the countries in which Waze operates?

I don’t buy that HKMap did anything illegal, but asking for equivalence with an app which is doing something vaguely similar in a jurisdiction where any of those things are perfectly legal seems to be missing the point.
Get the price to $100, or at least sub $200, and I'll consider it interesting.

The Indiegogo minimum which (seems to) include a base system was only $100, which makes sense for a legit branded emulator + a little more features on top.

Otherwise it's entering semi-luxury collectible to full-fledged competition with current gaming systems entering in their late phase and sub $300 range on Craigslist/EBGames.

This feels like a decent idea faced with feature-bloat and/or early & unrealistic technical requirements. The website is encouraging people to make their own Atari starter-games for kids or whatnot, which then makes it's not only an emulator console but a whole modernized platform w/ an SDK + all the Chromecast browser/etc crap that will probably be rushed at the end.
Yes exactly, and thats what the article says.
Also, the word "wreck" seems really inappropriate because of the silent w.
Not the same commenter, but it seems like the lengthy protestations of disinterest are a reaction to the prevailing online climate of exactly the kind of paranoid hysteria embodied in, for example, the assertion that anyone playing devil's advocate is probably on the devil's side so to speak. Being able to hold and consider multiple contrary or incompatible positions simultaneously is in fact a sign of a fairly sophisticated intellect in the process of doing a thorough inquiry.
I'd say there's a fundamental difference I think between the examples. Windows and the software that comes with it isn't undesirable because it's cheap, but because it's locked down.
You can lie by omission. iMessage depends on IDS Directory Servers for two phones to exchange public keys. If China can spoof or run their own IDS Directory Server, they can potentially execute a man-in-the-middle attack.
> Permanent removal from China would probably be worse for freedom in China over 20 years

If there is one myth that the past couple of weeks have conclusively debunked, it is the idealistic conceit that the presence of western businesses in the Chinese market will inevitably liberalize China.
So, 1/3rd instead of 1/2th.
Because humans tend not to be the ice cold water that Orcas tend to inhabit?
MSFT workers join Githubbers to demand cancellation of contracts with ICE
Worst company to buy a Linux laptop from. I attempted to purchase a laptop from them in the past and got hit with crazy duties even though the wording on the site made it appear that there were none.

Simply better to buy a certified Dell laptop such as:
Latitude 7490 or Latitude 7480
If Apple capitulates to every demand the Chinese government makes then perhaps there isn’t much of a difference.
I don't understand why people update straight away. Leave it a few weeks/months. Especially as a developer.
Laptop is a large problem still -- mainly due to GPUs. With desktop, we don't have to deal with the issues associated with a soldered-down non-free GPU; the mainboard works blob-free if desired but the user already expects to install a discrete GPU if they need one. With laptops, the GPU has to be integrated, and there are no GPUs in production today that don't require signed firmware (this is due to the DRM contracts for Netflix and Disney+, that kind of thing).

Price point is not likely to drop until we reach a largely self sufficient critical mass of users, developers, and software. Only x86 has crossed that threshold right now, so it's clearly a high bar. Still, the more users we have, the more possibility for pricing drops in the future!

New POWER is near seamless from a software perspective, just like on x86. Upgrade kernel, keep using your existing software installs. And since POWER is now an open ISA, that software will basically keep working forever -- if you needed to reimplement it on a 22nd century FPGA due to lack of hardware, you're legally able to do so. This is not the case for x86 or ARM.
Frozen vegetables
The number increases because there are various monitoring tools. Stuff like something that extracts more data from TCP retransmits so we have a better understanding of congestions and errors in the network path. ...or things that simply collect certain system events for security event detection. Imagine, for every certain event, what is injected is counted as a separate program.

On top of these which is common for every machine, service owners can deploy their own BPF programs for specific use cases. In fact our self service tracing tooling is also a BPF program. We talked about it back in 2014 when it did not use BPF https://tracingsummit.org/w/images/6/6f/TracingSummit2014-Tr...
Even if concrete held trapped air ... would we just learn that construction sites for big concrete buildings have a lot of diesel-burning trucks and equipment?
I understand Apple’s reliance on Chinese manufacturers, but at the same time, aren’t they sitting on roughly a quarter-trillion dollars in cash [0]? If Apple can’t use such wealth to pivot production away from China, or at least feel confident in this option as a contingency plan, then who can?

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/29/apple-now-has-tk-cash-on-han...
You two, please, set up a super-open-source-software-based video call and start to get this done. Then just say the price and I'll pay.
Maybe they do it for similar reasons humans have for finding baby non human mammals cute and worth saving?

That said, do we know why we find baby non human mammals cute? I've always figured that it was a false positive based on features shared with human babies.
Chickens, on the other hand, are absolute bastards to one another.

We're not much like chickens, thankfully. But we're not much like zebras either.
As the academic Zeynep Tufekci (@zeynep) pointed out on Twitter, some of the things Tim Cook claims the app was used for aren’t even possible:

> HK map app can't be used to "individually" target police because it doesn't have any granular reporting and as anyone in Hong Kong can attest, the police travel in large groups. Repeat: the app has no granular function. More like police here, tear gas there, road block here.
(https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1182384310873219077)

Also, if it does indeed violate a law, why can no-one tell us which law? Even the HK police deferred to Apple when asked about this.
> Getting and keeping a Linux Desktop in good working order is harder than it should be at this age of Linux.

Maybe because all the developers ran away to Macs, instead of sticking around dogfooding and fixing bugs? Free software is a collaborative social enterprise - it's not really anyone's job to make free stuff for you to use. If, as a developer, you've taken the easy path of proprietary software for years, and now after finally getting fed up of being abused by a company that doesn't have your best interests at heart you return to the world of Free Software only to complain that it's still unpolished - then I'm afraid you are rather entitled, and deserve a serenading by the world's tiniest open source violin.

And make no mistake, the kinds of "rough edges" you refer to are not hard computer science problems. They're broadly just the kinds of everyday maintenance things that inevitably crop up in a huge software project on an ongoing basis and are easily fixed by many eyes and a little graft. The more eyes, and the more graft, the more polished the system.

For what it's worth, Desktop Linux for all its faults is still light years ahead of the competition. Far from perfect, as you say, but it really is the least bad choice. As they say - the best time to rally around Free Software is 10 years ago, and the second best time is now.
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Plenty of people don’t have the time or technical skills to make their own website. It’s also a good idea if someone wants to post a one off essay and/or post something anonymously and still reach people.
So Cool! I am envious of all the varieties of Kit Kat available in Japan. Take that, Plastic Vortex in the Pacific!
The point is that this app collates information from other sources. Popular, encrypted sources where you don’t know the source like Telegram.

Why would one use this public app to target individual cops (when it doesn’t even reveal individual cops, and by virtue of its aggregation of data is likely to reveal groups of cops more often) when they could use any of the primary sources instead?

Maybe the other part is true, where criminals are using the app to target areas where cops are not present. That would actually make sense. But the first reason doesn’t add up.
I prefer PyTorch too. For Tensorflow deployments, I have found Nix/NixOS work great. Arch is also good.
On balance, I think Apple did the right thing.

The police in London raided properties and arrested people before the Extinction Rebellion protests had even started.

Removing the app as a precaution in case some crazies out there decide to use it to ambush and murder people seems reasonable given the situation.

For those who want the app, just use the website.

https://hkmap.live/

However, since the data is crowd-sourced, it wouldn't be hard for an attacker to inject bogus data rendering the entire website and app useless.

Which could be extremely dangerous for innocent civilians if people simply make up stuff. Someone could write, "guy in red shirt, blue jeans and white baseball cap having coffee in McDonalds is an undercover officer and beat a protestor last night".

Given the mob justice and violence that we've seen, it might be better that everyone simply ignores the site.
I started doing push-ups every morning as part of a plan to do some form of exercise with my upper body. Noticed at some point it has been a long time I felt anxiety. Not sure if there is a link, but starting to think so.
In the last week, HK police vehicles have been singled out, ambushed, officers mobbed and attacked with molotov cocktails. Rioters are shot in self protection. Mainland owned stores are targeted when police are not near. All aided by this app that is facilitating extreme violence on the ground.

Of course this doesn't add up to western main stream media news readers who were presented with one-sided peaceful protest narrative that is further perpetuated by savvy HK social media users trying to push the same propaganda. Any news to the contrary have been heavily suppressed on western social media to the point of forming an impregnable filter bubble escalating to the bewildering responses seen here. The cognitive dissonance is strong.

The entire controversy is couched in ridiculous language like kotowed or caved or capitulated when the simple reality is US companies have to conform to local laws and realities. I can see how people are confused, they were sold the idea that US companies are there to export morality, and now expect US companies to behave like foreign policy tools wielded for US geopolitical interests, ironically a charge frequently levied at Huawei. If China had an app that allowed US alt-right or antifa to target PoC/whatever antifa equivalent owned stores and attack the police, it would be pulled in a heart beat.
Artificial Intelligence Learns to Talk Back to Bigots [audio]
This article is pure bullshit and it makes no effort to hide it

> Let’s start with my now infamous tweet from the other day. (I’m an influencer!) This screenshot has absolutely been manipulated to make a point, but everything in it is real. It’s all of the security warnings and permission

What the author doesn’t understand in this instance, is that it stops being real when he does the manipulation.

There is no reality in that picture and by his own admission the author has no credibility to make a point.
> I divide my officers into four groups. There are clever, diligent, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and diligent -- their place is the General Staff. The next lot are stupid and lazy -- they make up 90 percent of every army and are suited to routine duties. Anyone who is both clever and lazy is qualified for the highest leadership duties, because he possesses the intellectual clarity and the composure necessary for difficult decisions. One must beware of anyone who is stupid and diligent -- he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always cause only mischief.

— General Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord
I really appreciate comments like this for the quick time save they offer. Thank you for this comment, it was the most useful in this post for me.
Looking at it, I don’t see anything to change what I said. The person replied and doesn’t deny that they didn’t accurately state the words RMS said, just argues that what he actually said in the video is still bad since it’s a joke about sex, even though the words are opposite of what they claimed.

BTW, agreed sex jokes or talks should not have place in a technical conversation or conference. But I find misrepresenting comments to be questionable, and people criticizing others should at least spend the time to watch the video and transcribe the words correctly rather than misstate things.
Unrelated question: Is there an Ignobel for Computer Science?
Lapband+Surgery
It never got past the proof of concept stage last time. And that was when there was more interest in Jailbreaking than there is today.
Where does Tim Cook specifically say that? What you quoted does not support that.

The encryption keys are for iCloud backups at rest, for which a copy of the keys are stored serverside. This can decrypt all iCloud data, including messages, pics, videos, documents, etc. Tim only described E2E message encryption between users, not encrypted iCloud backups.

Again, Tim isn't saying what you think he's saying. He's intentionally not answering that question or misdirecting - he's doing it all over again here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21218529
I think most people today would use a web front-end to Erlang/Elixir, with events over websockets (cowboy), using WebGL in the browser, with either server-side rendering (Phoenix LiveView) or client-side JS integration (pick your poison).

https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view

These ideas were first proposed by ... joearms, of course, way back in 2009.

https://armstrongonsoftware.blogspot.com/2009/12/comet-is-de...

RIP Joe
I haven't touched windows or mac os for 15+ years. I definitely recall having to recompile my kernel, tweak default configurations, or hack up broken code to get my desktops working back in the day, but it really hasn't been an issue for at least 7 or 8 years now. One thing I started doing that makes a huge difference is only buying parts and systems that appear on a major distro's compatibility list.

You got me, though, I did have issues with my bluetooth mouse losing connection during suspend on my latest Thinkpad. You could get it working by turning the mouse off then on again, but eventually I fixed it for good with a two line shell script.
That is not correct and I want to make sure you get the correct info. One of the larger companies I ran was 130+ people operating in about 12 states. The companies average tax rate on an employee's salary is ~20% depending on the state (~18% to ~22% depending).

So 20% on the salary.
*And, that amount goes down relative to salary changes.

After that, if the company is paying for 100% of health care that can have a big impact of course but I wouldn't roll that into this.

Equipment, office space, overhead is separate from salary. I do not suggest bundling those together as it creates a false view of the costs of these type of decisions.

I understand what you are trying to say but I think it is not how I would look at it with my CFO hat on.
Not to mention nauseating—-you’d need some clever tricks to make the images match up with the car’s motion.
Read The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker. It's a well-researched book that goes over how all kinds of violence (at least the easily-measured kinds) have consistently fallen over time. This includes war as well as crime.

There are local maxima, of course, but over any significant time scale and area, violence is down a lot.