skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can 'get away' for as long as you like.

I stopped consuming news years ago.

The only way it reaches my conscious is if:

1) friends or family mention something (or anyone else within my social circle). Fair game. This helps me understand their thinking patterns too. Very helpful to see what they find important.

2) retweets. If I'm following someone who is retweeting low quality news I immediately block.

I don't feel anxious, when I go to the barbers and everyone is staring at the TV in the top corner, it reminds me of why I stopped.

Gyms are evil that play general trashy news on TV.

On the whole, you are not ignorant if you don't consume the news, not by any standard.

Don't believe that one bit.

P.s great handle.
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This is a terrible analogy from every conceivable angle.

Dog owners have physical and (some) psychological control over their dogs. Not true of SDCs.

Dogs are not programmed, they're bred.

Even very dangerous dogs can be kept in a way that renders them unable to harm anyone. Not true of a car that must drive around in public.

No breeder guarantees a dog's behavior for its lifetime. SDC manufacturers will guarantee the car's ability to drive.
The language is great for beginners. The ecosystem and especially the tooling lags behind the rest of the mainstream dynamic languages and it shows.
Yes, I've found this to be the case. Today I was searching for "DVD-RAM" and most of the results from DDG did not contain the term at all, with or without quotes.
Yay, that feature was previously only available on the Pi Zero. Does anyone know if this will work on older computers, using a USB A-to-C cable?
Construction industry goes high-tech
> Note: this isn’t about strict numbers. 1,000 true fans paying 10 bucks a month might be enough. The same paying $2 a month? Doesn’t pay the bills of a family.

Really? Maybe not every family (and definitely not in the Bay Area), but those numbers work out to $120-240K/year, with no requirement on where you live.

EDIT: I can't be trusted with mental math. Leaving the above unchanged, but it's answering a comment that used different numbers that never actually existed. The correct numbers are $24-120K/year, which is obviously a very different discussion about feasibility.
The first time this happened to me, I instinctively clicked to login thinking Chrome was trying to log me into Gmail or my Google Account. I didn’t realize I was giving info to some random site, I was just trying to swat away a popup.
No, you got it wrong. The meridian of the CET is at the east German border. Only places east of it are in the "negative" time zone, less than one hour in difference. To the west, we have France already at +1, and Spain even at +2.

Permanent DST would put Poland at 0 to +1, Germany at +1 to +2, France at +2..+3.
As the OP has said, you still have to know the offset, except now when you write an email " I will call at 11" they know what your are talking about immediately.

As for the sign, what are you even asking?
Not to try to take this conversation off-topic, but there are some reasonable arguments for starting schools later too; it's not like the time schools starts is immutable and we have to design our time system around that
The 'drone' rules situation in the US is a mess.
When I stopped paying attention (Not in the US) The drone community, and Academy of model Aeronautics, the FAA and Congress were in a weird four way fight.

Congress had told The FAA they were explicitly not allowed to regulate model aircraft, and delegated some regulation powers to hobbyist groups, the only recognised group being the AMA.
The drone community doesn't want to respect the AMA regulations, because the rules don't accommodate first person or semi autonomous control of aircraft or commercial uses. But there is no-one else to advocate for the drone users when the FAA starts trying to regulate drones.
Wow! If you're look carefully for a short time, it is only Einstein. If you look diffusely for a while, it is only Marilyn. (For instance, squint and move the image around)
But the people who sold pickaxes to those who struck out made money on those people. Substack makes precisely $0 on a paid newsletter with no subscribers.
Don't - once you start spending money, your lifestyle becomes dependent on that spending. If you are happy with your simpler life, don't feel bad for being happy. Just keep doing what you are doing.

Many people with money and more extravagant spending habits end up asking the opposite question - "How do I simplify things?"

As far as enjoying the fruits of your hard work, I'd recommend enjoying it by retiring young. Or, if you are more of an idealist, contribute to projects and organizations that you believe are helping the world
To prevent accidentally installing in the global interpreter I have this in my .bash_profile:

# pip should only run if there is a
# virtualenv currently activated
export PIP_REQUIRE_VIRTUALENV=true
> Did assemblers result in programmers losing their jobs? Did compilers?

Of course they did. We used to have "systems analysts" drawing flowcharts, "programmers" converting those to machine code (or later FORTRAN) on punch cards, and "operators" collating card decks or mounting tapes. That's a ton of grunt work we no longer hire for. If those people found other roles, it's because the nascent computer industry was expanding faster than the most uncreative jobs disappeared.

There was resistance to the first assembler programs because machine time was more precious than having grad students do it by hand.
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I feel terribly sorry for you... and then delighted for you once you see it!
Playing russian roulette would leave many worlds without an instance of me, in a way that the teleporter wouldn't. I care about my responsibilities and loved ones left without me in those worlds.

If there were truly infinite worlds and infinite of each variation, and you could somehow play russian roulette instead with an entire world, so that each one has a risk of just entirely blinking out of existence ... it feels superficially wrong, but I find it hard to argue against. I'd worry that there's a risk of if it was done infinitely, then by some logic the infinite sum could eventually lead to all worlds not existing eventually, but if that was definitely known not to be a risk then I would find it hard to care about whether the world played russian roulette or not.
The article is basically devoid of content beyond "AMD makes less money than Intel, Zen is good, their marketshare is small but rapidly increasing".
So far, I used http://example.com for (manual) portal detection. Is there some reasonable risk that it will go away in the future?
Well, this os probably not a bad idea where unskilled users are concerned. This way, They don't have to learn domain vocabulary and arcane incantations to make a strangely shaped box do their bidding. I can totally understand where this is coming fron.

However, that god awful search in Windows 10 is the exact opposite of this ideal. It seems to get worse and more inconsistent in every iteration. I hate it in particular when a web search result gets displayed instead of my locally installed app that I spelled out and when I absentmindedly hit enter before reading the small print in the result, a new Edge windiw greets me. It's not even my default browser. How's that for bugs?
I’ve found that non-standard DNS often prevents access to WiFi portals. Removing the Google/Cloudflare dns settings is step # 2 in my public WiFi debugging checklist (after trying to visit neverssl).
It would be fascinating for another major fab to arise. It's not impossible to imagine how either, a large chip designer with piles of cash could decide they want to get into fab, or a niche fab could slowly move into it?
What’s FRP?
"sometimes things don't work and behave as expected"

I think it's a great misconception to think that people who work with computers work things out from first principles. Dealing with complex systems that they don't understand, and repeatedly plunging into new areas, is exactly why computer people think they can handle things like biology.

It also seems illogical to say "nobody understands biology, therefore you cannot hope to". If nobody understands much, that makes it more likely an outsider can contribute.

The attitude of many responses in this thread reminds me of the culture/class gap I've seen between lawyers and legal IT analysts (one person I worked with had a degree in biology as it happened).
It also sends the "Upgrade-Insecure-Request" header, which can cause that switch to take place.
High-skilled workers in small towns are a ‘waste of resources,’ says study
I’m probably one of those who use the Papyrus font a tad too often when I was in high school...
Yeah, in order to prevent degradation, you would need to engineer a better DNA checksummer, which sounds hard.
I use Strava (which I’d like to ditch) on an iPhone (I do not a GPS watch or fitness tracker).

Are there open source, privacy conscious apps that can be used instead of Starva, RunKeeper et al to log my fitness activities?
I find spiritual comfort in the fact that all functions can be reduced to sine waves in a Fourier transform.

"It's all vibrations, man". AMIRITE?
I had the same question. Functional Reactive Programming.
Using dummy-hcd on Linux to play with USB gadgets
From the game theorist point of view I think its better if one company is the underdog. Think about it, if one company is the underdog, one company has a lot to gain by competing, while the other has a lot to lose if they don't compete. Therefore we get competition.
Now, the more equal the market share of the companies the grater the risk and less the reward for competition... A better strategy would be not to undercut your competitor and instead divide the market share. Which leads to stagnation.

Do people here think it sound reasonable?

Edit: Mathematically the argument would be as follows:

Consider two company A and B. A has market share 'a' and B has b. n is the total market. Then a + b = n.

A's reward for competing will be n - a = b.

A's risk for competing will be a, (it's remaining market share).

A's will compete as long as the reward is greater than risk.

This will reach an equilibrium at a = b.
On the contrary, I believe coordinating country wide shift in business hours Is far easier than a clock shift.

I live in czech republic, and today i have come across 7 (!) clocks showing incorrect time. By the time they are corrected, it will be time to switch again.
I can’t agree with this post enough. Not only does OpenSSL have a grab-bag of ciphers of varying quality, but it also has an exceedingly confusing and under-documented set of APIs to access them. It is far easier to build something insecure on top of the OpenSSL library than it is to build something secure.

If at all possible, you should use something that directly implements the high-level constructs you need. libsodium does a good job here (and has bindings for most languages), but there are other tools for more nuanced requirements (e.g., the noise protocol suite for bi-directional communication).
Spleeter: Extract voice, piano, drums, etc. from any music track
You can also do a USB client on a $1.50 AVR chip: https://www.obdev.at/products/vusb/index.html

Source: Compiled and connected a mouse/keyboard firmware running on an ATtiny861a using internal RC oscillator.
Tickets are issued when a driver goes above 35mph in one of the 250+ zones in the area.

I am totally fine with this as long as we also ticket the cops personally who go over 35 as well.
>it exists. driverless cars are a thing.

I think what you're saying is true as far as it goes. Also, if you allow cars that can only drive in a limited list of places, we've had driverless cars for 30 years. So do with that what you will.

For me, I would say that when anyone can order a self-driving car to go from any point on a road in California to any other point on a road, we're clearly there. One city seems far too small.
If I’m reading this correctly... the expected soon to be released AMD 7nm mobile chips (early 2020) will potentially consume 50% less power than their current generation?

With 5nm further improving that 7nm another 30% reduced power?

If so, we’re talking 25-35% of the current power draw for the same speed in the next 18-24 months?

I have to be wrong here... I know they use a design which doesn’t get 100% of the Benefits due to the “chiplet” arch, but still.
Creating a persistent public online identity on an untrusted service at the click of a misleading button? What could possibly go wrong?
I would not expect the beginning programmer to hit this particular problem.
Something marginally less seamless: try to sign-in to google play console with a user that is not the one currently "syncing" in chrome.
My last startup made the decision to change plans which cut benefits across the board as well.

However, they made across the board salary increases to offset these costs.

Great company. Great culture. Great people.

But I still made the decision to switch to a FAANG for the comp increase.

Here's my recommendation:

1. Take a breather. Things are really good for engineers right now, and it'll be ok.

2. Ask your manager about this in your next meeting. Explicitly state that it represents a comp decrease. They should respect that concern (even if they can't do anything)

3. Get an offer elsewhere. Everyone thinks they're underpaid. Offers represent the truth.
Links that appeal to one group more than another tend to attract that group more. That's pretty normal.
It’s one thing to read a piece and know the editor’s biases so you can take them into account. It’s another thing entirely when the biases lead to a story going unpublished. How do you account for selective reporting?
The CPU market has been interesting for a couple of years. Intel effectively already lost the edge on fab-tech in terms of what they are able to produce. Forget about TSMC Xnm vs Intel Ynm... the numbers are meaningless. Look at the performance per watt of AMD's latest offerings vs Intel's. They are behind today.[1]

That said, in a lot of ways the really interesting stuff is likely to happen on the older nodes. There's really nothing enabling about the latest fab node... it's just bragging rights for the highest absolute performance and/or performance per watt for CPUs which most applications don't need and can't afford. ARM/RISC-V/whatever doesn't need 5nm to be feasible... in fact, those 'other' products often aren't viable on the latest nodes due to cost unless you're a market leader with huge volumes to amortize the cost over.

[1] Sure, they still offer the absolute top performance per thread... by a bit. But look at the price they're paying from a perf/watt standpoint to get there. I seem to recall AMD being ridiculed not too many years ago for doing this...
Jim Keller, the designer of "Zen" architecture, is now working for Intel... https://web.archive.org/web/20180426124248/https://www.kitgu...
"You can just look things up"

Not only is documentation pretty scarce these days, but good information on the interactions between pieces of software is much scarcer, due to the exponential number of ways that it can interact.
Fingerprinting is done all the time with zero notification or repercussions.[1] Still a violation of privacy, but perhaps if it only happened for a bug report, it could be opted out on with a button on the form.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/31/think-y...
It's frustrating how difficult it can be to escape the news, which is almost always some political outrage. Almost every remote server I log into has MSNBC set as the default homepage for the browser. Which means even while at work I'm treated to political outrage. It only takes a second to close but the exposure has already been done. And then there are all manner of public spaces that have some cable news channel babbling on. Same for restaurants. Can't even escape it at sports bars now that sports channels have become political operations. Hiking seems to be the best way to escape it.
Are there any good alternatives to Nvidia GPUs/cuDNN for deep learning?
Nice idea. But most times, the passwords can be difficult to memorize.
> It says supermarket brand laundry detergent to me

I didn't think of this before, but I don't think I'll ever be able to unsee this now
How so?

It takes active measures to not hear about what’s new. No one here is advocating that.

Researching an issue is not “reading news”. Debating current events is not “the news”. Understanding the world is not “the news”. Going on strike is not “the news”.

It’s craving the next hit of shallow information that is poison.
I used http://www.dia.mil for years, and expected that if anyone could be relied on to computer as wrong as possible it would be the US government; but that now 301s to the HTTPS version.
That's one of the saddest statements/questions I've read in a long time.
> This is an arrogant privileged position

No need to be rude here, either.
Related: on Macs, holding the Shift key makes the scroll wheel (and two-finger touchpad scrolling) scroll horizontally instead of vertically.
This basically describes the argument for antitrust regulation
It feels backwards... the closer the companies are, the more there is to lose from not competing... but you do get commoditization. I wonder what a world with AMD being the leader and Intel being the underdog would look like.
Thanks!

Agreed about the TVs. I never understood why so many places have it running in the background all day long.
My username is a little handy here. Often I would put together sites, applications, etc., that would be used by people who were at least at one remove. I would ask my stakeholders, "Have you heard anything?" Occasionally I would hear that "well, this one guy said he didn't like it about six months back." That's it. I tried to have people look at what was going out before release but nobody could seem to find time to do so.

I had even posted my direct phone line on some of these sites, as well as a troubleshooting walk-through in the form of a clickable flowchart and a form that would be sent right to my inbox, yet I got only crickets. Faced with this kind of behavior, I would literally face users in their dens to ask them. If I saw a student using it when I was out and about, I would say, "Hey, I'm the guy who put that together. Please tell me about your experiences, good or bad." Oftentimes, despite my requests to meet with other users (I even offered to drive to people's offices to help), I would be told that the stakeholders would "collect feedback." Often my chain would be yanked for my attempts. No feedback was collected, or if it was, I never heard about it.

This was not just me. We might find out that a printer had been having a problem, and then be told, "Yeah, it's been doing that for a few months now."

I am not sure entirely what was going on, but it wasn't for lack of effort on my part that I did not find out. To some degree, I believe there is a culture among users, management, and stakeholders that programmers can be blamed for only by trying very hard to do so.
A lot of news stories in the past year have given me definitive direction in terms of how to spend my time politically. How to vote, which meetings to go to (redistricting, canvassing, etc.) More generally, I think they’ve all contributed to my mental models of the world.
If it's 2.4 Ghz, then even the straight RC systems use some form of spread-spectrum frequency hopping. Newer variants include some limited forms of error checking, and most drone controllers have a return-to-launch-site feature that can be enabled if they lose contact with the controller.

Only slightly more advanced drones can fly a pre-programmed course without talking to the transmitter at all.
Maybe not 50% less, but it is definitely more efficient. https://www.anandtech.com/show/14605/the-and-ryzen-3700x-390...

(Also, I think a 50% reduction followed by 30% would be 35% of current power not 15.)
Sorry, I understand all of that. This was not one of those situations. I could not get to any place on the network because they had a captive portal but iOS didn’t know to open it because they allowed captive.apple.com through. After navigating to neverssl.com I was properly redirected to the captive portal and able to agree to whatever guest WiFi terms were available.

That’s why I just use neverlssl.com now.
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Well done on the site, lovely style and funny idea.
I 100% believe that because replacing Windows:

(a) wouldn't happen for most customers (esp big spenders)

(b) would throw away billions of dollars

Integrating Midori-derived technologies into Windows and using them in non-Windows applications is best move. They could still push it as a new thing they sell in parallel. Something cutting edge. They're just too afraid of losing Windows revenue.
Problem is that in the enterprise segment there is almost no AMD offering with the big brands so it is going to take a while to displace the Xeons. I looked at Lenovo workstations recently and their offering is 90% Intel.
Is the "Mac OS Lion" version accurate ? If so it seems wildly inferior to the other versions :

- it's hidden, meaning you don't know where to put your mouse to interact with it

- it's hidden, so you don't even know in the first place if there is more to the current window than what you see, and how
much

- it's animated, making you lose time watching a pointless distracting animation every time you need to use the scrollbar

- it lost the "previous position shadow" feature that older scrollbars had, but it's not the only one to have made that choice
> On the whole, you are not ignorant if you don't consume the news, not by any standard.

I don't mean this in an insulting way, but aren't you ignorant (by definition) of current events if you don't read/hear about them?
What’s the case in the picture?
This. Firefox's dev tools says 3.38KB transferred (including redirect and favicon). Taking that into account, it's closer to 5 billion page loads.
Time to go super micro or Gigabyte for a cycle. Let the big brands feel the pain of not incorporating AMD.
I think that a 'better' example is what happened in France during WW2: jews were deported to concentration camps, how did they know who was Jewish?
Because the French government (before the invasion) had a registry/census who kept this information..
awesome! just bookmarked. i am going to try to translate some existing diagrams using that tool because the images look nice.

btw, the repo isn't showing any picture only the documentation does. that could be improved!
in the US, any drone above 250g must be registered with the FAA. there are very few drones below this weight that can hover in place or be controlled at all from more than 100 feet away away. the new DJI mavic mini is a notable exception.

I know it's tempting to essentially say "fuck them, just force them to comply" when people partaking in an activity you don't really care about cause problems, but imo this is not the best solution for a free society. if you believe car registration creates an effective deterrent, why not advocate for stricter registration requirements for drones? if you believe drone enthusiasts are ignorant, why not require an exam?

> building one yourself doesn't require more-than-hobbyist level knowledge of engineering

this seems like a red herring in your argument. the DIY crowd is not likely to bother implementing no-fly-zone enforcement in their own project.
Google has TPUs now
it's amazing that after all these years diagramming on the computer still hasn't got solved. it's like todo lists and calendars. every now and then, there is something new.
“Long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and incessantly demanding and devouring fresh streams of men, till it wearies and dies in the midst of an almost uninhabited waste of country.”

― Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West