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A hard requirement on AVX instructions is exactly the sort of thing I would expect out of Arthur Whitney. His software tends to be very opinionated, and that's one of the things that lets him do so much in so little code.
Energy storage is a lot harder than it sounds, particularly at scale. Typical solutions are pumping water uphill in hydro stations: not particularly efficient, but it's easy to do on demand.
Hackers were like the hotrodders before. Here's a thing. Make it work. Make it faster. Improve it. Change it. Know how it works. Master it.

I don't think its died. Its more likely morphed into something you don't recognise because its always been dynamic and now you're attempting to apply a static definition. Then you get frustrated or lament "its not the same as in the good old days". But the reality is that people are tinkering right now with the new tech or the new thing in ways you don't even know about.

This is definitely the case with cars, computers, electronics, gardening, clothes, food etc etc. Gardening, clothes? Why did I include those?! "Thats not hacking!" People are tinkering with these things. Making them better. Making them their own.

Hacking was never just bits and bytes. Learn how this puzzle works. Change it. Make your own. That hasn't stopped.
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> Large scale solar is likely to cause problems for large numbers of native species.

Bigger problem then coal mines?
> Same reason it's nice to default to `const` so that `let` becomes a signal for the bonus feature of reassignment.

Code documentation should be clear and concise, not to be deciphered through the code author's take on the meta meaning of reserved words.
Nicely done :) But also very true.
Freedome. They're owned by F-Secure who have far more to lose than most other VPN providers by pulling stupid tricks
I think one of the most promising reactors in this area is the untegral molten salt reactor. It operates at low pressures, is passively cooled and has already mounted some regulatory hurdles.
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I mostly read fantasy books and this year I got Kindle Unlimited subscription and checked out a lot of self published books. Top 3 among them would be:

* The Sword of Kaigen by M.L. Wang

* Cradle by Will Wight

* Arcance Ascension by Andrew Rowe
Looks like they issued a statement: https://freenode.net/news/freenode-pia-changes
Very good point here. I started at age 26, which by her standards is too old for this job, and no one could tell the difference between my age and a 20 year old.
>some employers focus on making their workplace a positive experience; others require their managers to proclaim that it's a positive experience during onboarding
I've never heard any of my managers say this is a great place to work. Some might be enthusiastic, and others might do things for us, like start a potluck every month.
Overall, I'd say my managers all did well when I worked under them.
USB4 is essentially Thunderbolt 3. Since TB3 also defines how a USB 1-3 connection can be pushed over the wire, that's what most devices can fall back to.
It's not like they're on opposite sides of the planet.

Sounds like a case of perfect being the enemy of good enough. Split the energy storage capacity across the two and get on with it.
There was a time when I used to fret that the era of tinkering was coming to an end. Crypto was going to be illegal, they were going to put DRM on speakers, and our computers are designed to be completely locked down to the degree that you can't even add more RAM to a MacBook Pro.

However, I think that the rise of Linux, Raspberry Pi and Arduino, OSS and Github and massive package repos for every language, Adafruit, even 3D printers have replaced stuff that didn't want to be hacked with an endless array of stuff that is literally begging to be hacked. Between YouTube and coding bootcamps, you have to actively not want to learn technical skills.

The author also calls out Unity as part of the problem, which pretty much confirms to me that we're not reading advanced analysis. Unity is fucking incredible; not only is it an engineering marvel with cross-platform compilation capacity that makes Babel look like a total joke, but it is probably the single most capable, interesting and fun platform for artistic expression in modern computing.

Seriously, the way to get kids to keep interested once Scratch gets dull is to throw them into a AAA 3D engine that lets you build a compelling VR creation in an hour from free, downloadable assets. Unity should be in high school classrooms. The breadth and quality of assets available on their store is shocking. If you have artist's block, just scroll through a few pages of assets. Problem solved.

I think what really got to me was the overwhelming sense that the author wasn't talking about hacking but recreating the exact same conditions that existed when he was a young person... while completely ignoring the huge amounts of privilege that he enjoyed to be able to have a computer in the house and have such a incredible headstart on his learning compared to the other 99.99% of the population - many of whom don't look like him or believe the same things.

Today, even relatively poor kids have access to tablets which means that they can build games in apps like Roblox. Who makes him the authority on what counts as hacking? If a young woman makes a game where her friends all want to hang out together after school and talk about their lives in a safe space, isn't that the ultimate hack?

I really didn't enjoy this op-ed, and I wish people wouldn't bring it a larger audience by posting on HN.
> Is it really that difficult to remember that the apostrophe in it's (for instance), is always without exception used as an abbreviation for 'it is' or 'it has', not an indication of possession and thus your's is wrong.

From someone who had issues with this for years, just parroting the rule as you did doesn't help, it only made sense after learning the reason why: the possessive form "its" is grouped with "his" and "hers", not "vixen99's" and "Izkata's".
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My guess is to partially cash out. According to the doc, the two founders each got about 26m cash and 21m equity in Kape, while PIA only had 14m EBITDA per year and 31m debt. So it's certainly a nice cash windfall for the founders.
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TempleOS is a really cool system to hack. You should watch some of the live coding videos the author did. It's really much more of a tinkerer's system than the stock Linux that runs on most Pis.
I think people preferred Netflix being the only game in town simply because then if it wasn’t on Netflix you could mostly discard it, not that there wasn’t great content not on Netflix. It’s the tomato sauce choice fallacy - many people will be quite happy just having one, as compared to having 50 because then you can’t be happy with your choice because you’ll be wondering about the other ones.

In the end - just pick a tomato sauce and try not to think about it too hard. If you don’t like it, pick a different one next time.
The expression “a wizard did it” means an all-purpose explanation. (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AWizardDidIt). I did not refer to literal wizards. I assumed that this expression was well-known enough for me to use here.

The null hypothesis is, likewise, an assumption that nothing has happened; in this case, it would mean that no events have happened to cause the observed unlikely event (which, to be clear, did happen); i.e. it must have happened by random chance.

Yes, to ascribe causation to random chance could be the result of the Holmesian fallacy. But, of course, not necessarily.

I don’t know what you’re unsure about.
> You never lived in a communist state, have you? Do you even realize that even basic things were fucked up beyond belief/comprehension to the average american. (perhaps not, to the average foreigner that have lived in failed states).

I haven't, but why does it matter? I'm not saying communism is better than democracy, nor did I imply it. Things have been way more fucked up in North Korea longer than the Soviet Union survived, so just being fucked up is not enough for a government to fail (not that I'm optimistic about North Korea's future).

> Again, I was comparing data from the 50s and early 60s, where computers were just not that wide use yet and the computer industry was not even a blip on the overall economy.

I think most people on HN are familiar with the story of how computers won WWII, where Von Neumann used them to decipher German and Japanese encrypted communications. Also the Apollo missions were all controlled by circuits. Computers have been massively important (and expensive - the modern equivalent of ~100 billion USD was spent putting a man on the moon, and some of that includes developing IC technology) for a while.

> You also can claim: Today's US entertainment output, equals half of USSR's GDP. Then US won the cold war because it's move industry. Than you can do the same comparison for medical, agriculture, etc... etc.. then you see the trend that due to its failed system, the USSR was behind the US in every field, and tech was just one of them.

Except the Soviets weren't trying to replicate the movie industry because it wasn't particularly useful for them. But they immediately understood the value of computers, and put significant efforts into developing their technologies.

And the Soviets weren't behind in everything. Contrary to popular belief, the Soviets were ahead in the Space Race until Korolev died. If you want an example of petty politics ruining a nation's future - Korolev's death is my all time favorite. That man made Von Braun look ordinary. It's weird to think how history might have turned out differently had the Soviet Union not sent one of the most brilliant men in history to the gulags.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Korolev

Ironically the US did something similarly stupid by refusing to allow Qian Xuesen to stay in the United States, effectively creating the Chinese space program.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qian_Xuesen
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Anecdotally I found there is a high correlation between one’s ability to write correct English and one’s ability to write correct code. If I’m in the hiring side and I see a “its” vs “it’s” mistake it counts against you.

A higher correlation is with consistency in spacing. The worst coders I met are the one who keep changing the rules about how many spaces they leave after commas and brackets... within the same file.
yeah but what's the point of a GC when you want to do manually the operations?
Any sources? What I see is the majority use the search bar to input the name of a website or a brand.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Cube
Like buying Yelp reviews, but for the environment.
How is graphics performance / functionality?

I've only ever really dealt wit nVidia and Intel graphics, and highly prefer intel due to tearing fixes.

I'm not a gamer, but do need at least basic hardware acceleration for X rendering etc.
Note to everyone else: The about has been changed now, as my advice was taken.
That is excellent question.

There are two competing schools, top down and bottom up design.

For projects that I don't have clear picture where they will take me I prefer bottom up design where I initially focus on small parts if my project that I know I will need anyway and only in later start linking them together.
Sure people had these ideas, but there was no consensus that they were the right ones. As such they weren't studied as much as they are now.
Three things:

1. I have no idea why "hacking" aka "going fast and breaking things" is so glorified while "building good reliable programs" aka "good programming" is not.

2. How come that someone thinks of himself/herself that he/she has the right to say who is a "true hacker" and who is not.

3. AND THIS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX5Xy3a2uJU Thank you Jayson.
I'll do my part to make it so.
Hey if people can be Gender fluid why can't words be possessive fluid...?
It is easier to ask for forgiveness than permission. I doubt the company or the CEO actually cares at all.
Man I really don't get the cost / inconvenience arguments against having a few distinct streaming services.

Cost: If you can't afford ~$15 / month for unlimited streaming stop watching TV and find a higher paying job. Seriously, you've got much bigger problems than your entertainment bill.

Inconvenience: Really? Pretty much any device -- desktop, mobile, TV -- can support these services with a quick login. That's a level of lazy I can't get my head around.

Reminder to everyone (especially you younglings): You're entitled to exactly fucking squat. Stop being worthless, whiny consumers. Go get a real job and you won't be worried about your microscopic entertainment bill.

Having said that:

I will pirate if the parent company won't sell me their content because of geo bs. That need has dropped almost to zero now. I actually pay the highest available price for services that have options (Tidal, Netflix) because really, if you watch an episode or two a night you're talking pennies to consume something that cost 7-8 figures to create. That's insane.

The economics of these services seem to fare better than the economics the internet forced on music. If you care about production quality as well as artistic quality the best days of music are in the rear view mirror (barring some kind of renaissance).

The storytelling in good tv and film is one of my favorites things about being human. If you think production budgets magically appear out of thin air you're an idiot. Pay for the things you enjoy or else they'll disappear.
> if I get one, I have to get dozens, and it's essentially impossible for channels to fail in the market

Totally untrue! Cable companies have to pay a rate to get a channel. Most channels don’t fail, their viewership drops and then they turn into cheap syndication products and mostly use ad money. ESPN is like $15 of your cable bill, and OXY is like $.05. If they didn’t have enough viewers to break even on content costs and broadcast costs off of ad money, they would stop broadcasting.
For those not deep into the WP community reading this headline: Yoast injected an ad into the WP admin pages (every admin page), not into public WP sites. The headline sounds much worse than it is - this is just an annoyance for editors, not Yoast abusing its reach to target billions of worldwide website readers.

Naturally that doesn't excuse the spam.
We've written about it earlier this year: https://drz.today/2019/why-we-invest-in-silicon-while-our-be...
Sounds like they’re referring to characteristics of TempleOS that may have suited the original goals of the Raspberry Pi, which was to be a tinker-friendly device for audiences like school children.

Some people lament the fact that it simply ended up with a plain, general purpose Unix-like, rather than something more low level and immediately direct (as in, drop you to a BASIC, not necessarily assembler), ala Commodore 64.

The peculiarities of the author aside, a live TempleOS was able to have its running code modified on the fly, and allowed direct low level access to what was under the hood in perhaps a more interesting hacker-ish way than your typical Unix clone/descendant.
So I work at an Amazon fulfillment center and I experience is really different. I can go to the bathroom when ever I need and get 2 thirty min breaks one of which is paid. We have fans in the FC the only time i ever get spoken to about going to the bath room is when i make a conscious decision to talk to my friends at other at stations and I take for ever to get to my station. I dont know how other FCs operate but not of this article resonates with me...
Quantum will solve this issue I think. Easy process, long life for batteries.
If you haven't already found the discussion, Reddit is very active and very helpful. Seems to be the primary water cooler for the event.

https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/
It is because a lot of functionality is now bundled as part of the Automattic Jet Pack plugin. I guess the plugin is technically open source (due to the GPL) , but a lot of functionality depends on Automattic's server and requires a subscription.
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A485 Zen
X395 Zen+

The 5 at the end denotes an AMD product.

I'd hold out for after CES though. That's when Zen2 is coming to laptops. With thinkpad lag I'd say August of next year.
There's only so many hours in a day that can be spent on streaming. I think I have something streaming for about four hours a day (I usually work or so something else at the same time) and so far Netflix's offering has been good enough that I don't have any additional subscribes.

If I want to watch something else, those hours are away from my Netflix usage and I get less for my money in those cases. I don't think that a large offering is what should raise the price, rather the hours I spend watching. If I only watch an hour a day Netflix and Hulu for 3, I think the 10USD or so should be split into 25/75 between those providers.

Splice kinda has a pricing model for their samples and presets that could be applied here. A fixed monthly cost will give me credits with which I can purchase what I want and leftovers from that month gets rolled into the next month. If I could pay 10 dollars and get 10 hours of any content on any provider, I'd buy it. I'd most likely end up paying more each month but at least I wouldn't feel like wasting my money paying a fee for content I'm not gonna watch and feeling like needing to have multiple subscriptions rolling all the time.
From wiki:

"With 15.7 percent of people in poverty, Japan was above the average percent of 11 among the OECD member states."
"Japan has some of the highest rates of child poverty in the developed world, according to a Unicef report."
After few days of evaluating I see that Gnome client is broken in several fundamental ways and unusable as of now.

- No way to clear history, it's getting huge now and mostly consists of "Sorry, I don't understand" answers
- When going to My Skills and back to chat, it scrolls to beginning which is frustrating.
- Scheduled actions never actually happen.
- In-app "training" doesn't work, returns "Sorry, I did not understand that. Use ‘help’ to learn what I can do for you."
- Online training _could_ work if one could learn their ThingTalk language. My usecase was simple - teach it that "throw dice" is same as random number from 1 to 6, but I could not conjure precise ThingTalk spell.
- Screenshot, locking PC and other OS actions didn't work on XFCE. Not Almond's fault, but less usable for me.

Are authors dogfooding? It lacks quite a few quality-of-life improvements.
For perspective: Tsukumo "honten" had 20, Tsukumo eX had 35, Tsukumo Nagoya had 15. 3960x and 3970x had scarcer availability.

I also just saw on Twitter that some of the shops have new 3950x available.
If you've seen my bathrooms here, you would change your mind. Some of them have 3 stalls (for women), and others have too many for me to remember. I'll be sure to count them one day though.
>There is a lot of things that don't generate revenue but you do them anyways to prevent revenue and reputation loss.
I wholeheartedly agree with your point here. If people actually have time to take a break, they will be more productive than without a break at all.I've heard some of my coworkers say if they want to hit a certain goal, they would need to skip their 2nd or 3rd break. But I'm proof that this theory is false. My rate from 1st period to 2nd period increased dramatically after taking a full break.
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VPNs have three purposes:

1. Encapsulate traffic on the way from your machine through the first few hops of your Internet connection.

2. Shield your identity from third parties trying to discover it, through technical or legal means.

3. Provide a bottomless pit for disposal of DMCA complaints and other nastygrams.

Your solution covers only purpose 1, which is becoming increasingly irrelevant as almost everything uses HTTPS, and DNS-over-HTTPS and Encrypted SNI is coming.
If I remember, the earlier systems had a hardware lock that prevented an overdosing for whatever reason, including software fault. Sure, the software was still faulty, but don't forget if software was developed for a particular hardware such that a certain concern could be discounted (even if it ought to have been tested for) - is it really the developer's fault when the manufacturer (presumably for economic reasons) decides to remove safety features and increase the risk surface?
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I just had some feedback, and did some more number crunching which revealed this is not O(n) but still O(n^2) - I have modifed the article accordingly but will leave it up as the algorithm still provides significant improvements in efficiency for larger numbers of rows.
I guess the page would benefit from listing the entire thing in the replacement code, instead of just the inner line. Then non-mathematical people like me would maybe have a chance at getting it without ramping up caffeine dosage to dangerous levels, so as to see the missing parts in the fabric of mathematical possibilities.
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> In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c".

> Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also, the hard "c" will be replaced with "k". Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter.

How would you type "ch"?
So they sold like 50 CPUs in Japan?
i liked yahoo pipes so much that after decommissioned i wrote this article (in greek sorry) of how much i used and liked the product: https://medium.com/andreas-personal-blog/%CF%80%CE%B1%CE%AF%...

Huge pipes that might cause issueS? that could have be me :P
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The picture you linked to is taken in A Coruña whose mean temperature is around 10 degrees higher[1] still than relatively mild[2] climates near the arctic circle.

I didn't mean to suggest they weren't also used to let light in. I've spent a lot of time in houses that have these installed, letting light throughout the day while keeping the house relatively cool is a constant balancing act. I meant that without the need for the thermal management you'd go for other sorts of systems, such as internal blinds.

I.e. I'd expect that in places like A Coruña you'd use these for thermal management in the summer with the outer windows open, whereas in Iceland there's maybe 1-3 days of the year where the outside temperature is anywhere near the inside temperature.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Coru%C3%B1a#Climate

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akureyri#Climate
Haven’t heard of Tsukumo before - do you recommend them over buying on Amazon?
Wow - you could conceivably use a Nimitz carrier to power a city.
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"I have a ton of oxy and hydromorphone sitting in my bathroom"

Not a good idea to keep them, IMO.
I should have said "Traveling Wave Reactor".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TerraPower

Sorry about the confusion.
Sorry, but if I buy a six core laptop, I'm not going to be in the casual notepad user category.

In many laptops, thanks to bad thermals I'd be better off with a 4 core where the thermals can keep up. That's where the 7nm stuff could really bring advantages.

I've been able to load up my desktop six core plenty using e.g Docker and a bunch of microservices. It has a fairly decent 360mm AIO water cooler so stays pinned at max perf. Had a bad cooler before, though, and it really impacted perf and stability.