skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Central Europe, houses are still commonly built from brick at a structural level. (This includes multi-storey apartment blocks, commonly with some sections implemented as cantilevered reinforced concrete - the block I live in is such an example.) It's rare to encounter a building here where bricks also form the facade however.

Which aspect does your question relate to? The rest of your post is about aesthetics, so if a brick facade is what you're after, they are still very common in the UK, although much of that is old housing stock.

My parents built their house with a brick facade in the 1980s with then-state-of-the-art insulation. (in Central Europe) There is a layer of (large) structural bricks (similar to [1]), followed by various elements of insulation, followed by smaller face bricks to form the visible exterior. (something like [2]) I suspect this was and is somewhat more expensive than simply plastering over the outermost insulation layer. The double shell makes re-insulating with more modern materials prohibitively impractical. (Although the thermal properties of the house in question have held up pretty well.)

On old houses, any visible bricks would have been structural, with effectively no insulation. So I'd imagine that's why it's no longer common.

[1] https://www.wienerberger.at/bauen-mit-ziegeln/wandloesungen/...

[2] https://www.corobrik.co.za/assets/products/facebrick/58/1600...
Of interest are speculations regarding how cement was discovered in the first place.

That is, why would one make a kiln to heat the rock? (A mere campfire won't cut it... doesn't get hot enough.) Some speculate it could have been a lightening strike on a slab of rock, investigated by an early human who discovered the resulting crumbly powder re-solidified with water. But, this seems very unlikely. Big mystery.
> Summarising a complex history, the USSR did have folks who argued for a cybernetic approach to production planning, but it was never tried.

Not in the USSR - but there was an attempt elsewhere:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn
The title of this post is very unfair to Alan, who has made important contributions. For example the SmallTalk browser was extremely innovative leading to modern Integrated Development Environments that have taken over software development. Also, SmallTalk was the first to use Simula class hierarchies for graphics, which are now used everywhere.

Objects as conceived in Simula-67 are not universal primitives of digital computation. However this was remedied in 1972 with the invention of Actors.

It is very important that Actors rigorously formalize the rules for digital computation. See the following:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3418003

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3459566

In this way, computer systems themselves can participate in discourse with humans about the nature of digital computation and associated software systems.

Every important scientist (including Einstein) made numerous errors. Fermi received the 1938 Nobel prize [Fermi 1938] for the discovery of the nonexistent elements “Ausonium” and “Hesperium”, which were actually mixtures of barium, krypton and other elements. I have made quite a number of errors myself, although I am certainly not of the caliber of Einstein or Fermi! It is important to find and rectify errors ASAP. In order to make progress, we must make errors.

Reusable Scalable Intelligent Systems cannot be implemented using the current common programming practice of stateless sever code + relational data base. See the following:

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3428114
They can't. That's why legitimate users won't be able to use encryption (because it's against the law) and criminals will still continue using it because they can and they don't care.
I don't see anything good coming out of this law, honestly. I've read some other commenters saying that Apple doesn't want to talk to small banks, but I find that to be the complete opposite of my experience.

Here in Portugal, only one bank supports Apple Pay, and it's a small one (apart from N26/Revolut, the online ones). None of the bigger banks support it. Instead, they all support a national app that uses QR codes on iOS and NFC/QR on Android for payments (but its UX is much worse, even on Android where it uses NFC, and has a load of other problems - since it's properietary it doesn't work internationally, etc.). Of course, there is no Google Pay support at all here, and I blame the fact that NFC payments are supported on their own app. There's even less incentive for them to support Google Pay at all, and that's exactly what happened. I'm afraid that Apple Pay would be dropped if Apple was forced to open up NFC for payments.
There is one of these in Cambridge MA (or was until recently when someone crashed their SUV through it): https://boston.cbslocal.com/2019/05/15/cambridge-mass-car-cr...
This article accentuates the need to always look for the source of the funding when it comes to non-profits, think tanks, and "public interest" groups. Unfortunately, the goals of these groups are not always as transparent as their names would have you believe.
Yes but ISPs are huge and can limit logging to outbound connections. No individual recording would be done. Privacy is kept -- with a big caveat that deanonymisation of aggregated data is possible in a number of cases, of course, granted.
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Yeah I actually think 2 may have been the one I tried, not 1. IIRC I played it on Mac (Intel graphics) and my Windows-using friends reported no such problems. So it was probably just my machine, but regardless, it seemed good but I can't personally provide a strong recommendation for it as I only made it a few hours in.
> don't seem to understand is that this is the downside of living in a free society

No, what they don’t understand is that the cryptography that protects your bank account is the exact same cryptography that (supposedly) makes law enforcement difficult. There’s no way to separate the two, any more than you can separate the arithmetic that is responsible for updating your bank account from the arithmetic that is responsible for updating the bank account of a Colombian drug lord.
While that is how you should do it most of the time (depending on how the radius, gradient and your visual range changes as you progress around the curve), my observation of brake lights suggests that this is rarely practiced in the USA.

The amount of braking that can be seen on multi-lane divided highways is far higher than would be necessary if drivers were paying due attention - or not resting their left foot on the brake pedal, as the case may be.
I'm pleased to see that one of my favorite books, Richard Holmes' "The Age of Wonder" was there. This is a book that describes how in the 1700s and early 1800s the cultures of science and literature were much more merged than they are today -- you had poets like Wordsworth writing poems about Newton and actually reading the Principia themselves, and you had scientists like Humphrey Davy writing poems.
This seems to be genuinely opt-in: You have to explicitly sign up for this program, download and run their software. It's not like they're spying on unsuspecting chip-buyers.

I wish other companies had a real opt-in process.
I think you're confusing "stoner" with hardcore alcoholic, or perhaps a heroin/meth user?
No server-supplied metadata is trustworthy enough to base your business decisions on. If 80% of the internet traffic was illegal server-based video streaming, those providers would simply be changing the metadata every time they got “profiled”. Some probly even do it proactively.
Intel would be much better off to focus on what the cpu is asked to do (decode 4:4:4 h265 and/or aggressively tune for low latency, for example).
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Thank you.

Could you add a CLI I can use to quickly download my... just kidding.
> One of the ways it's better is by being extremely secure, and anonymising customer data to ensure privacy.

Can you clarify? As far as I can tell, Apple Pay looks more or less like a regular credit card, and it even has a credit card number that apparently never changes. Plenty of merchant apps will recognize Apple Pay users because they once used it at a different merchant.

Security? The day Apple Pay prompts, on the phone, “authorize $X to merchant Y?” I’ll grant them a meaningful security improvements. Other than that, it’s just a contactless card with biometric authentication.
I setup this alternative for Medium, https://bun4.com. Make a Pull Request on https://github.com/pinehq/bun4 and it automatically compiles. Stop complaining and start writing ;)
Sounds like someone may be downvote-botting you. Or just brigading. You might report it to HN.

I've definitely seen the latter recently. Last week there was a post about Snopes' current legal troubles, and an argument started about whether Snopes was politically neutral or not. For the first hour or so, everyone who implied that Snopes was anything but rabidly left-wing was downvoted well into the grey, then mostly rose back up with time. It very much looked like someone had multiple accounts, or multiple friends with accounts, and was downvote-bombing everyone who disagreed with them.
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Usage data could be very useful for decisions on what to dedicate die area to, and how to price products.

They might find that a market segment doesn't do a lot of playing 3D games, but does spend a lot of time watching Youtube on battery, and so make the decision to drop integrated GPU shader cores and dedicate more die area to video decoding, to make energy efficiency better when watching video.
Bingo! That's why communism or centralized socialism can't work with humans at the top. And the alternatives with AIs at the top would either not be a world worth living in... or would soon end up not having much use for humans :|

Hope China or anyone else doesn't seriously try running this experiment. Hope someone explains to power hungry rulers that they won't end up ruling or having any power over anything if they succeed in building such monstrous systems...
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Many of these are memoirs, the books by Eggers, Finnegan and Carr, for instance. I don't really think of a memoir as non-fiction because it's from a first-person perspective. It would be better to separate out the memoirs from the rest of non-fiction, and also separate out the biographies, which are also basically memoirs.
Sad truth. I'd like to see something label itself as a public-interest group and be able to trust it immediately, but it's not as simple as that.
Clarity is an aesthetic. Rhythm contributes to clarity.
Hey, very nice! all the children loves the cubes
You are conflating effective driving habits with actual driving habits. I'd say less than 5% of drivers in the states properly brake before curves and accelerate through. Hell, I'd be surprised if the model trained after human behavior DIDN'T leave it's lane when navigating a turn.
These replies are fantastic! Thanks for the laugh :)
Deadlines are about budgets. Do you know what happens when the company runs out of money?
The particular opcode was a very low cost one - most of the win came from memory savings (it’s basically float->int conversion with overridden round mode)
Great work, and so great of you to open-source this - I really hope you keep it that way!

Would be really cool to set this up and set the server up to do some proxy-hopping to make IP tracking more difficult as well, regardless of client device and when roaming.. While I'd be more leaning towards self-hosting, if you set this up as a subscription service, your users will also benefit from sharing the same pool of IPs (though I imagine you'd also face issues with getting flagged/blacklisted/CAPTCHAd a lot through abusers and bots, that will be significant work to polise if you go that route).
Yes

And intel want it for free
> when the politicians do it first
...
> "Why do you need clothes then?"

I've seen politicians. I know why they need clothes.
> reusing CCs numbers accross vendors

Apple Pay does exactly this. It’s called the Device Account Number.
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Lots of brain connections work with one sense controlling how another is processed. In a car you can talk to a passenger all day and drive fine. But answer your phone, and suddenly you're absent and distracted.

I experimented to find out why. When I was talking to a friend in the passenger seat, I held up a card to prevent myself from seeing the passenger out of the corner of my eye - and suddenly I was absent and distracted.

Maybe its because when we don't see someone we're conversing with, we have to create a mental model of them to compensate. Because we're built to see the people we interact with, and our brains may just work that way. And the work of creating the mental model interferes with driving (prevents processing of the alternate mental model of the road situation?)

Anyway, for what its worth.
>Make JavaScript run as fast as possible on your chips.

Instructions unclear, got speculative execution attacks. Slapped a fix, now everything runs slow.
So why not build two rail systems — in the NE and in California? A lot of people in the thread are arguing the impossibility of even that.

Nobody takes passenger trains across the continent — any continent.
There should be scare quotes around Privacy Advocacy Groups.

All of the listed think tanks are for sale. EPIC, an actual privacy advocacy group, is not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Privacy_Information...
Halfway through your post you moved the goalposts from News to Search. When I search for the query you gave on google.com, I get a knowledge card about Richard Grenell. When I search on News, I do get articles about Ukraine. Are there any recent news articles about Richard Grenell or one of his predecessors though?
As an user, animations are not my issue at all.
The Netherlands has Apple Pay on ABN, ING, Bunq, N26 and Rabobank. That should cover around 80% of the market.
Why not collect even more

If it is free
This makes little sense, it doesn't protect you from exploits, they just run on the cloud instead.

If an attacker has a browser exploit, they can still..

- read all your email

- log all your passwords

- wait for you to login to online banking and transfer all the money.

You also have to worry about the host being compromised, or the operator logging your activity, etc.

If this is something you really want for some reason, why not just RDP/VNC/Chrome Remote Desktop back to your office/home network.
If you were the only person with a car, then all cities are more flexible and convenient with a car than without. It is only when somebody other than you has a car that you get gridlock and the other problems of cars.
I was responding to a specific phrase of a specific comment. I am not aware of any larger discussion I have distracted you from.
I would have expected more biographies (one or more from Walter Isaacson?) or historical books. One I would put on the list fors sure is Mike Duncan's "The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic" which is as much a history book as it is a reflection of human nature. To study the history of the Roman Republic and Empire is to realize that even if an enlightened genius sets up a perfect system today that it will unravel within three generations due to greed, laziness, excessive luxury, etc. I wonder how many parallels between the construction of an empire and the construction of an enterprise software system are valid an unavoidable and what the antidotes to counter them would be.
That's not what Intel is collecting. From the article:

> what data is collected and how is it used?

> The categories of websites you visit, but not the URL itself

> If I participate in the program, is there any personal information in the data collected?

> Will not include the URL (web address) for specific sites visited
We suck at estimating in general. In tech we suck bigtime! Whether it takes 50 or 500 years, the point is that we'll totally missestimate it and when it does finally happen it will totally take us by surprise... and likely we'll do something very very stupid in response to being surprised by it.
> The authors allegedly use boosters and car seats for their own kids, even after writing that chapter - let that sink in for a while...

Because it's the law and you run afoul of child endangerment laws if you don't.

After watching Levitt's TED talk and reading the remarks from Durbin and Winston, I tried to find some published research about the matter and didn't have much luck. Levitt was very specific about what they looked at and how the conduced their research. Their conclusion was that it warranted further research. Durbin and Winston's comments were very general and came off as very "trust us".

I'm wondering if anyone else might have a link to one of their actual studies?

I like the suggest Levitt made of automakers integrating 5 point child harnesses into backseats. This seems like such an obvious improvement that could be an upgrade option when purchasing a new vehicle.
That is your personal definition of monopoly, not what we in European law have as definition.
At some point we're going to have to start using our personal firewalls for outgoing traffic too which is going to be a massive pain. It seems that every company is jumping on the telemetry band wagon.
So that still goes back to my other response and their is a reason that neither the US nor EU has ever defined “monopoly” as broadly as HN not-lawyers do.

Every platform has certain technologies it doesn’t allow competitors to access and have exclusive deals.

Should Apple be scrutinized because it harmed potential suppliers for its cameras and screens by making “exclusive deals” with Sony, LG, or Samsung for their respective components?

Apple is not “price fixing”. Price fixing is when competitors get together to “fix prices” not when one company gives another company a good deal to be the “exclusive provider of X”.
Cloudflare doesn't sell, barter, exchange, etc. data about web browsing. No clue where you get that idea from.
It is fair to say that a complex description of permissions is harder to define and compare than a simple description. GPLv3 attempts to be international interpreted across different copyright laws and to a degree different languages, which makes the job even harder.

But it also fair to point out that the basic permissions are fairly simple. Give the recipient source code of the whole work, put it under the same license, don't do something which a judge would deem as circumventing the authors intention of giving you those permissions.

The above simplified version of copyleft would likely work fine, although I suspect every lawyer on the globe would hate it.
What other cpu/driver makers spying on us?
Edge never really gained popularity so that disappearing (with Chrome-Edge) is neither here nor there. IE11 is here to stay until at least 2025.

In no small part due to Microsoft's decision to make IE11's rendering engine the only browser that could support: Java Applets, Flash, ActiveX, that almost all major companies and large governments use. If they had incorporated those into Edge and hidden them behind ten layers of security warnings, we wouldn't be in this mess.

Try to service large corporations and governments. Our IE11 user share is over 70% for the product (but under 30% for the marketing/public pages). This won't change until every last Java Applet/Flash/ActiveX control dies, and that isn't happening fast -- companies literally in 2019 still sell products using the tech' (Oracle!).
I'm not sure what you consider 'significant', but to my mind, there are many great haskell open source projects: xmonad, shellcheck, stack, haxl, to name a few.

Not to mention how many languages are written in it: Elm, Purescript, Idris, GHC itself.
You should turn it off; others won't, and their sacrifice will help Intel design products for real world usage.
I would say the appeal is for anyone who is longing for a sense of freedom. The themes are about rejecting norms like expectations of others and of society not wanting to live a "normal" life. There are many things that can strip us of our sense of freedom, and the groups that seems to embody this today is van life and digital nomads.
> That’s why five years ago, my co-founder Alex and I started a company to prove that holographic displays were possible

This is spam
I agree with gus_massa about Python as it is probably the simplest mainstream language but in recent years has moved way beyond being a toy/educational language to major commercial use.
Try building something "real" like a simple program to store details of your DVD collection, a calendar/diary or whatever.
Most importantly forget about being 60. It's irrelevant.
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In the US state capitals aren’t in the major city in the state, with some exceptions (Indianapolis comes to mind).
They can't do that wo your data man

Don't you understand?
Ah, it would seem that is in fact an underlying point of disagreement.
For the time being this appears to be an Opt-in program where one has to choose to participate by downloading and running the CIP program.
Are we sure this is not donation match?
Reminds me of the old saying, if you outlaw guns then only outlaws will have guns. Maybe this would be an analogy politicians could understand better when it comes to encryption!

Surely the analogy would break down quickly on closer inspection, but politicians live and die by sound bites, not by thoughtful consideration and debate of all points of view.

So to fight fire with fire, when faced with the "protect the children" argument that stifles debate, counter with "a government who takes away everyone's encryption is one step away from taking away everyone's guns". Then see how that plays out with their constituents.
One of the nerves that go from the brain to the eye and is hooked by the top part of the aorta artery.

In the original version, it was in some animal like a fish, and the top part of the aorta was in the gills, so the way from the brain to the eye though the hole that is below the aorta was a straightforward path.

A few million years later, when we lost the gills, and got a neck, the top part of the aorta moved inside the chest to avoid a stupid long trip to the neck and back (and probably lost a lot of speed in the blood). The nerve was hooked, so the aorta got shorter, but the nerve has to go down to the chest, pass below the aorta, and then go back to the eye.

In the case of the giraffe, the trip to the chest and back to the eye is stupidly long.

The problem with evolution is that mutation can do only small changes (most big changes are just deadly). The connections of the nerve and the artery form very early in the development of the fetus, when it looks almost like an ugly fish. You can't unentangle the nerve and the artery later.

More details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrent_laryngeal_nerve
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Every organization has constraints and in Intel's case they are constrained to only $70 billion in revenue.
Even if the privacy advocates are completely incorruptible, FB and Google still have a devious motivation when they try frame the debate about their companies around Privacy.

Privacy is important, but the monopolistic/oligarchic control these businesses exert over their peers and the people of our countries is the real issue.

Nothing would make these companies happier than if we argued about privacy for the next 100 years.
Out of a stance that is now more political than anything, the applications I've been building are entirely operating with server-side HTML templates with absolutely minimum to no JS (only for the occasional page load event or whatnot). When you respond to requests in under 100ms (plus network latency), you don't need an SPA layer to fool people into thinking that they're not in a web page.

Bosses are particularly impressed with the speed.