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The Linux kernel contributions link doesen't have a year, so I don't know if something changed. But the last time I checked this, they were "top" contributor for one quarter/some time because they basicly dumped all of their HyperV support into the kernel and after that they disappeared from the kernel contributors lists almost compleately.
A quick google shows the latest Linux Kernel report by Linux Foundation from 2017[1] with the numbers, and they are not even there. It could be that some Microsoft employees are doing work on the kernel without attribution back to Microsoft, but generally speaking I think it's safe to say that the only contribution to the Linux Kernel from Microsoft was HyperV support quite some time ago.

Not saying that they didn't change their ways, but they are a long way from proving that this is not another EEE cycle. Not to even mention "breaking even" on the damage they did directly (and deliberately) to open source effort.

[1] - https://www.linuxfoundation.org/2017-linux-kernel-report-lan...
What’s happening? This link goes to an article about poli tal ads on Twitter, not Airbnb. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/business/dealbook/boeing-...
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>It in no way means they're suddenly "good guys" (etc).
Irrelevant to the topic at hand

>Am I out of the loop, what have Microsoft done to support open-source?

That's what I responded to.
You can significantly reduce these problems by decentralizing data and moving away from giant platforms that make such enticing targets for espionage.
Drivers License as ID is used at a number of places in Australia including as age proof for venues serving alcohol, for phone connections and widely as a key KYC document. Carrying one less card is certainly welcome to remove the need for a wallet.
That's a problem of the current system we have, not a fundamental issue like the one he's portraying. It's one of the problems we need to solve if we want science to be better.
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On other other hand, Star Wars Disney Land, with "location based experiences" baked into an app, isn't faring as well as analysts hoped. Outside of my mom, I don't know anyone who wants to pay to follow me around Disneyland just to watch me play with my phone (not that I've asked my mom in years).
Google Cardboard is pretty bad, but then that's rather the point of it. It's "minimum viable product" taken to an extreme: how cheap can you make VR and still have it be somewhat interesting. Google cardboard demonstrated that you can make VR incredibly cheaply and still have it be an eye-opening experience. Of course you don't use cardboard for hours on end, I'd be surprised if anyone used it for more than a couple minutes on-end. It's still a great introduction to VR though since it definitely demonstrates the potential of vr for nearly no cost.

If not for google cardboard I'd never have invested in a vive, and probably written the whole thing off as a gimmick.
Ah, The Sun. Such a reputable source, they wouldn't ever make up outrageous stories just to sell more papers.
Moral of the story: If you’re not testing the null hypothesis when measuring ROI on ads you might not be measuring what you think
Readers/users are getting screwed, since the money they're spending on Coke is going to feed content farms not intended for human consumption. If advertising revenues were going to legitimate companies, they would have legitimate content to read and use. As it is, they have to pay twice - once for their NYT subscription and once through the cola advertising budget - but only get one benefit.
This is the opposite of the HN I encounter most days. It takes work to keep it that way, and off-hand sarcasm won't get you there.
> someone with 1 million dollars is astronomically more likely to make another million dollars than someone with 100 dollars, even if the two people are otherwise identical

I'm not sure this is correct, at least not on average. Take two average persons, give one of them a million dollar, then watch what their net income is the next 10 years. I'd bet that the one you gave a million dollars will have used up a large part of it thus having a huge net loss while the one you didn't give anything will still be roughly at zero.

Edit: This study shows that people significantly reduce their income after winning the lottery, suggesting that there is a negative correlation between wealth and earnings given that everything else is the same.

https://www.nber.org/papers/w21762.pdf
What I notice is that internet advertisment is pretty selective, I dont know about effective... If your interests happen to diverge from mainstream just that bit enough, you can end up in a pretty much ad-free zone. I happen to watch a lot of conference recordings on YouTube, and most conferences dont monetize their channel (yet). But thats not the end of the story. Stay away from mainstream, and you get complete ad-free shows. Take Joe Rogan for instance. The people he hosts are largely pretty interesting, but the way he does controversial topics pretty much led YouTube to demonetize him. Which, for the consumer, is a blessing. Because you get 3h talkshows without a single bit of advertisment.
Or ARTE, which is a german/french coop television provider. They have very interesting content, but a policy of not enoying with ads. Which makes their YouTube channel even more worthwhile subscribing to.
I could go on, the pattern seems to be the same.
To be honest, the more cheesy a program is, the more likely it is that you will be flooded with ads.
Sounds like a very sensible solution.
Looks neat. I also want to point out KafkaHQ (https://github.com/tchiotludo/kafkahq) which is another FOSS web interface for Kafka. Happy user of KafkaHQ here.
There are other Arab countries. Most people know what is meant by "Saudi" even if it's technically not correct
The only "moonshot" projects which ever worked were military ones. Ie, moon landing, the Manhattan project, etc. In these situations you have a state which can throw virtually unlimited resources at a project (even if it fails! see Star Wars and many other failed military "moonshot" projects) because it poses an existential threat for your opponent to develop it first.

Of course, if the technology turns out to be impossible, then it's no big deal, because your rivals can't benefit from it either (in fact this was one of the main motivators for the Manhattan project - to see if it could be done, and make sure the Allies got there first if it could).
It’s not worth pointing out anecdotal instances of these occurrences since it’s so personalized and dependent on ones own experiences and state of mind.

What it offers, though — in the only way I know how to describe — is an alternative perspective. It’s like stepping outside of your usual self and evaluating things from an almost objective and completely different point of view. It’s this perspective that allows for revelations that otherwise wouldn’t happen in a sober state. This is a result of physiology and the chemical interactions in the brain due to ingestion of the substance.

It’s quite an amazing experience. Sometimes it can be scary, or odd or just funny. But in my experience, it has led to some very profound experiences and insights.
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I think we would develop these in due time, just slower. One could also argue that some of these (textile industry, cloud computing) are bad.

Actually, I am not against some inequality, as long as there is some kind of limit to it.
You misunderstand I mean people meet up in real life (IRL) to take part in shared VR experiences where the other people are in the same physical space as you (and in the same VR space) exactly like getting together to play basketball or soccer. Think more of a holodeck kind of thing.
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> I began regularly posting an image of Jewish shop windows shattered during Krystallnacht

This is so incredibly cringey. You're actively building the panopticon and yet you think of yourselves as righteous warriors for justice.

I don't mean this to be a personal attack, but yours is such a revealing comment about the mindset of people inside these surveillance behemoths.

(See also: this "pledge" http://neveragain.tech/ to not build registries for targeting citizens...signed by a bunch of people who work at companies whose entire business is targeting citizens with ads)
The Vice article also talked about retaliation, but I'm not clear how that worked: At least in the last few years, you can't see the owner's review until you've posted your own (or until a timeout happens and you lose your opportunity to make a review). And you can comment on reviews to tell your side of the story.

It would make sense for AirBNB to wait until the owner had left their initial review (or the review window timed out) before alerting them to the fact that they were going to get a bad one.
The obvious solution to me (although I don't see it recommended on the yubikey website) is to buy 2 yubikeys and register both with services.

Then put the 2nd in a locked safe or other location that requires someone to have absurd access.

If you lose the 1st, use the 2nd to deregister the 1st and register a 3rd.
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It's crazy how they don't bother to launder the espionage salary. Just a hundred thousand from Saudi Arabia, nothing to see here.
This is a wonderfully written comparison benchmark and it deserves attention even for that reason alone. It knows its target audience, explains what's going on succinctly but completely, and avoids most of the usual benchmark pitfalls that result in comparing apples to oranges. Great job.

The one glaring issue that is ignored is the floating point model used. I understand Rust still doesn't have a usable equivalent to -ffast-math, so I assume it wasn't used for that reason. Some discussion of whether it's permissible in this algorithm (I believe so?) and how much advantage that might give to C++ seems crucial when performance is a priority.

Ironically, reading this has further convinced me that, for all of its disadvantages, I much prefer C++ to Rust for my needs. I'm sure others will draw the opposite conclusion and that's great. Rust is a language that clearly knows what it wants and if your priorities are aligned with that, the performance gap is shrinking and implementation-related reasons to avoid it are rapidly decreasing in number.
You articulate yourself well, especially considering English is not your mother language.

I'm halfway through a similar project I call Poseur to Composer: http://poseurtocomposer.com. I've dedicated what limited spare time I have to learning how to play the piano (and music theory in general) and report what I learn every day.

It's been a great experience so far and worth the lost hours of sleep!
Not really other than Cardboard most of Google’s VR output has been lacklustre. Same with their scrabble to copy Apple with AR.
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> Since virtually all human traits follow a Gaussian distribution, it seems like whatever the wealth-building factor is, it would also follow a Gaussian distribution. But wealth follows more of a power law distribution. You never encounter anyone 1000 times taller than average, but there are many people 1000 times wealthier than average.

This is nonsense. Lets take an easy example, books, people don't want to waste their time reading bad books so only the most palatable books gets a good amount of sales. This means that a small difference in skill leads to a large difference in sales, which would recreate the power-law of wealth creation. Similar arguments can be made about engineering skills, management skills etc.
> The reason you have to touch the key is so that if an attacker gains access to your computer with an attached Yubikey, they will not be able to use it (it requires physical presence).

Additionally, it prevents brute force attacks on the hardware.
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...there are plenty of smart operators that built their entire brand and revenue off of ads.

Can you name one?

I find it very hard to believe there are any companies that have scaled up only using online adverts. Why would the founders of a business do that when they can grow in their local market by talking to people as well as buying online ads for wider reach?
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Using their customers as the proverbial canary in the coal mine. Perhaps the analogy works a little too well, when carbon monoxide detectors are involved.

Tech companies always expect us to swallow the "oh there's too much to possibly check manually!" (even when they are the richest companies in the world) but surely they could hire an inspector to do random spot checks? I used to have a friend who worked for Guinness who did that, dropped in on random bars to sample the quality of their stock. Quite the job.
I'd recommend going with Digilent for FPGA development:

https://store.digilentinc.com/fpga-for-beginners/

For some products, such as their Zynq 7000 dev boards, you can also get a cheap time-limited copy of Xilinx SDSoC which allows easier device driver development to the programmable logic side:

https://store.digilentinc.com/arty-z7-apsoc-zynq-7000-develo...
My colleague cycles and listens to audiobooks. Works for him, but I find it too distracting. Besides, you would need a good pair of headphones that let the outside sound in.
> "combined cycle natural gas plants can turn on and off very quickly"

Response/ramp times for CCGTs are not particularly quick. Typically they need 15 minutes notice to initial grid synchronisation, a further 60-80 minutes to reach full power output from a "warm" start, and up to several hours from a "cold" start. That's much better than coal-fired plants which need many hours of notice, but still likely to be too slow to respond to unexpected grid imbalances without additional support.

Natural gas "peaker" plants typically use less-efficient but faster responding OCGTs for that reason.
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That's what I was thinking. Manually reviewing 20,000 papers is simply an astonishing feat. Heck, even searching a single paper for anything that looks like anything else in the same paper (possibly rotated, scaled, or alpha blended) might be beyond me. But it's the kind of task a computer vision algorithm should be able to do very well at. In fact, I Googled it and found (what else) some papers about it, e.g.:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.6879
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An answer that no-one seems to have thought of is a liberalized energy market where non physical traders are allowed, and allowed to deliberately take themselves to imbalance.
The free internet can be split into two groups, websites operated for non-commercial reasons and websites operated for commercial reasons.

The group that operate under commercial reasons can also be split into two groups, those whose primary revenue is from advertisement and those whose primary revenue is from non-advertisement sources. Hacker news for example belong to the later and gain revenue from investing.

To answer the question on how would the internet exist without the subgroup of people who operate website for the commercial reasons of advertisement is difficult as each of those groups also compete with each other, but we can be pretty sure that the other groups wound increase in size.
"Why can't people state what language" <> "the tags of the articles hint it is C#"

(This was an earlier version of Python.)
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What technologies can you think of which didn't have profitable waypoints?

- Internet - packet-switching routers for LANs

- Microchips - ballistic missile guidance

- Nuclear - radioactive tracers, radiotherapy, watch faces, ...

- Microbiology - vaccines, insulin, ...

Who on earth is making money out of controlled nuclear fusion? Where are the waypoints? Where can we make something useful in the short to medium time horizon?

I also dispute your point of "little appetite for....30+ year timeline" projects, as the MEMS industry has routinely funded 30 year development cycles before technology maturation. The difference is, as I said, there are usually useful waypoints before the technology has fully matured.
You ignored the 500k per year contribution to linux, VS code, the ongoing effort to fully open source dot net, them dumping Edge for chromium, their contributions to chromium especially on efficiency for battery is non trivial.

Microsoft could open source Windows and people will still mention EEE. Impossible right? But, open sourcing dot net was inconceivable just a few years ago.

You're talking about EEE. In fact, the organization that's actively performing the EEE strategy is Google. It's quite easy to spot if one isn't blinded by fandom.

E.g. webkit -> blink, rss, bundling of apps on android prevent manufacturers from using forked android, chrome OS has only one browser - MS didn't even do this to get in trouble, AMP project, and then experimenting with removing urls from the search page.

So whatever floats your boat.
Thanks for the pointers, I'll take a look.

re fast-math, I was interested on how much additional parallelism the compile can extract from the naive code. Fast-math should,at least in principle, allow the compiler to unroll the loop and add the additional accumulators, although that violates strict IEEE semantics.
ffast-math is not needed when you unroll manually and write your own accumulators.

See my benchmarks [1] with fast-math in the middle and the generated assembly comparison at the bottom.

The base language is Nim but pure C code should generate the same assembly.

[1] https://github.com/numforge/laser/blob/e660eeeb723426e80a7b1....
Red Hat. They work with the community upstream, and they open source all their stuff.
Many things in the economy follow a power law, see [0] for instance

[0] https://www.nber.org/papers/w14299
the solution is to vet the license and consider whether it is compatible with the current Open Source definition.

if it is not, then Sentry needs to consider whether it is important for them to stay Open Source or not.

and, if we see many more cases like this, then maybe it's time that we rethink what the Open Source definition should be.

it looks like neither Open Source, nor Free Software haver put much consideration to this problem yet, and it's time that we look at the implications.

my expectation is that any change in the definition of either will not meet much positive reaction, but i think the discussion is worth having.
I think this is a great news, there's now a financial incentive to invest into storage
That's a smell. If you have to type a mouthful like that more than twice, put it in a script.
This is awesome!

These knowledge bits surprisingly work really well if you are launching your own ideas in other formats (business, art, code, etc...), or doing other stuff just for fun.

Made my day :D
Is there any evidence that it is?
So you might be able to increase all the turbines from 50 to 70. That will absorb the excess power for a moment. Then you're maxed out and still need to shed just as much power as before.

So it doesn't help in any significant way, you have to set up a more complicated grid with very expensive transformers, and it requires you to design all your turbines to be twice as strong.
I wish I could submit my own options to the pool of responses. I could certinly come up with some entertaining responses.
> I'm pretty sure in most jobs there is some kind of opportunity for learning.

This is absolutely not the case.
That's millions per year. What general class of industry are you in?
it may prevent me from hiring you, because i can't trust that you don't accidentally use something you learned from that code in your work
I would still bet on 7nm being the same trainwreck of a failure.
In reality, that would be GET /user GET settings; the cost for the unneeded associated fields at that point of time is typically not significant for many backends as they stored in aggregate and text based responses compress well.

If the data is not particular dynamic then you can cache the entire representation deriving a future benefit.

Graph base queries tend to lend themselves to adhoc query patterns and I would be concerned about unpredictable patterns of loading. If the backend store is distributed then graph QL looks more attractive to me. If the datastore stores related attributes in aggregate there seems to be little benefit since different parts of an adhoc graph would different levels of 'cachability'.

I have found an application for GraphQL in storing soft-defined triggers or other criteria on data.
Very true. And my opinion of why distribution becomes even more skewed in both the income and wealth, is that it becomes easier to exploit this small difference in skill thanks to computer and the Internet (and books are the best example: it costs nothing to "publish" the book in millions copies online, so the feedback loop moving slightly better authors on top works a lot better than in times of printed books).
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The great paradox of our time: everything is both better and worse than ever
It is very similar to what economists do, I am not sure where you find a difference.
> reading this has further convinced me that, for all of its disadvantages, I much prefer C++ to Rust for my needs.

What are your needs, if I may ask? I'm not asking this to start a thread "rust/C++ is better", I'm just curious regarding situations in which someone decides that one language matches their needs more than another, it's always interesting to see what boundaries people consider for those decisions.
Potentially stupid question: why is this a paid thing at all? Aren't court dockets public information?
I second that. With the Oculus Rift S you can see the snowy grey world around you while using Oculus Dash with large screens,
It would be nice if one could have a transparency knob, dial or slider like in Snow Crash, so you could shift your attention between worlds easily. It wouldn't surprise me if the Quest will get app alpha transparency with the real world or AR features in future iterations.
>We made this thing you only need while driving

Drivers licences in Australia are the de-facto ID. Including proof of age to purchase cigarettes/alcohol, many bars scan IDs as you enter in case you cause damage or start a fight. To proving identity for a variety of things including (but not limited to) new phone plans, bank accounts, etc.

Most Aussies carry their drivers licence with them everywhere.

Regarding the stationary part. Though it varies state by state, my state (Victoria) considers it an offence to use your phone while stationary. If the vehicle is legally parked and engine off you're fine. This is to cover those using their phone while stuck in traffic.
yes, you can see from the assembly listings in the final stages, that most of the differences were due to very minor code changes, due to details in the optimization passes and not really to language differences.