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> Unlike say in the PC world, where the dominant OS/Software stack has an almost impenetrable reliance on x86

Huawei also makes its own x86 chips, GPUs, and even FPGAs (e.g. TPU-like systems), and while Huawei Cloud still runs other vendors hardware, it's becoming more and more "Huawei-hardware only" each quarter.

I think the US has not realized yet how good it had it, and how much it has screwed things up. The EU, Russia, India, Japan, and China are all super-dependent on Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA's products, and therefore, the US, on many critical sectors. By showing China/Huawei [0] how much this dependence can hurt, the US has forced China to become technologically independent, and if China succeeds, then all other super powers will have a real and viable alternative to US products.

Right now, e.g., the EU is on the "let's ban all Huawei products, China spies on us!" boat, but the wind can change very quickly to "let's ball all US products, the NSA spies on us!" any time - it doesn't matter that the actual truth is that, no matter who you buy from, they are going to spy on you.

I personally think that it's good for another global player to enter the sector. I don't think it will disrupt it in any major way, but it is already affecting prices, e.g., in the cloud sector, where we are finding out how much are customers willing to pay to "avoid" a Chinese cloud, and it isn't that much.

[0] In case you did not know, Huawei _is_ China.
It's sad that this is the norm. Aluminum is cheap, a bigger heatsink in a regular laptop (not Ultrabook) should cost what, a dollar more? Yet laptops are never designed for full load for hours. Just "mainstream" use. Even business "workstations" have the same problem. I've had to do hardware mods or undervolting on all laptops. WTF.
The rotten etymology of 'Punk' – a word used to describe music for centuries
>recurring payments are a problem by themselves, the more of them you have, the more problem they are.

In some ways, I agree. In others, I don't. I mean, the problem is largely in the difficulty of unsubscribing. If that were easier to manage (and virtual cards are one way to deal with that) I think it's not such a problem, and even has some advantages. But you could easily argue that this difficulty of unsubscribing is built into the business model; people who sell subscription based services know that the harder it is to unsubscribe, the more money they will make, so... incentives are not, as it were, aligned, and that tends to lead to suboptimal outcomes.

I think there are valid arguments for the subscription model; I know before buying a car, I rent all of the models I'm considering, for a week or more. This is often harder with things like software, which don't have as strong of ownership protections as physical goods, meaning I usually can't rent software to try it out, if it's not sold on a subscription plan. I'd consider renting a car permanently, (except that it's either massively expensive or massively inflexible; getting out of a lease, as far as I can tell, is way harder than selling a car, and renting cars outside of a lease is uneconomical. I feel the same way about commercial real-estate; usually the penalties for breaking a lease seem a lot worse than just selling the goddamn building a year into ownership. And this is possibly your objection; if you have perfect knowledge of your future needs, buying software up front is probably a lot cheaper. But, without the ability to sell the software when you are done, it's not really comparable.)

>If you're wealthy enough to put money for couple years worth of service into a virtual CC for every service you can use, you're probably wealthy enough to manage all this stuff for you anyway.

I think wealthy people would be willing to pay for an easier solution to this. I would. the virtual credit card solution is clumsy because the software is bad (I haven't actually gotten the capital one solution suggested earlier setup, it might be great, but the citi solutions and the now defunct bank of America solutions require flash and are... clumsy) - the problem isn't the money; for all the virtual credit card solutions I've tried, the payment goes to your regular credit card, so you don't need to sink any capital, it's just work

(but, of course, this is mostly about how difficult it is to cancel subscription services. If it were easy, this wouldn't be a problem. - I think this is our major point of disagreement.)
Interesting. so how does the process of adding to the handbook look like? lets say you developed a new feature/service. do you add a page there with code references?
You can't generally prove someone isn't beating their wife.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_question
Those who were for keeping USSR - were they mostly from Russia or from Republics? Because it might look like metropoly citizens voting for keeping colonies.
Export to HTML had some non-trivial changes in output.
Agreed. While HN is a great forum for discussing tech, the technological obsession can really warp the world view of some when it comes to history. However, its the presence of level-headed folks (like you) who point out these things that somewhat makes up for it.
"Only if we attempt to read or write to the slice, will the page fault occur that causes the physical RAM backing the virtual addresses to be allocated."

Tiny nitpick. On Linux at least you can read from the slice. New memory allocations are given a copy on write zero page (full of zeroes). So you can easily read that 10GB worth of zeroes out and still memory consumption wouldn't increase.

Only when you write a pagefault is issued and you'll get real backing for it.
Have you tried Jetbrains IntelliJ? In my experience the IntelliJ platform is, well, if you look in the direction VS Code is pointing, there you'll find IntelliJ?

Tangentially related, there's some tree-sitter activity in the Jetbrains org on Github: https://github.com/JetBrains?utf8=&q=tree-sitter&type=&langu...

which is cool
Unanswered question, where does the remaining waste from the plant go? Surely not all of the mass is converted into gas. And with 1000 tons per day, there should be a lot of waste to dispose off somewhere.
Do any communities still exist?
Quick hacks can often compete with the best out there precisely for the reasons I mentioned, git is a good example. Then of course when something becomes big it stops being a quick hack and starts having a huge maintenance team, but it was still a quick hack in the beginning.
Yeah, I totally agree with Fowler’s definition of CI more than I do this article.

In my case it wasn’t a need to spin up infrastructure as much as it was just pulling a few container images and starting them, the longest of the CI builds were if you were say loading and indexing test data from a database (container) into ElasticSearch etc... but overall moving images around and starting containers to build and test some ruby / python was usually around 1-3 minutes or there abouts.
Far from it. You'll need to know, at a mininum, some Javascript and a database technology such as SQL. But it's good to start with being able to make a web page in HTML and figure out how to add new small features one at a time, learning new technologies as they come up.
That’s not strictly true. If the movie you purchased was from one of the five major studios that support Movies Anywhere, you can link your Amazon Prime, Google, iTunes, or Vudu account (along with others) and any movie purchased on one can be transferred to the other services.

https://moviesanywhere.com/welcome
You're completely forgetting about the future loss of sales when someone only looks at AMD CPUs once. The buyer will switch to Intel immediately and then when prices are finally down again won't be shopping around for prices. The impression that AMD is overpriced remains.
Streaming wars are called wars because newcomers are willing to burn money for market share.
Next few years Disney streaming operations are expected to make $5B loss every year. They are still profitable because they make money from everything else, including cable.

This is problem for Netflix. Competitors have other sources of revenue aside from streaming services, Netflix has just streaming.

Netflix hasn't had positive free cash flow since 2011. As their most popular series are leaving for competition and and the quality of original content is suffering because they are in panic mode to create more original content.
Listening to songs, while reading the lyrics and looking up unknown vocabulary.
Collecting and revising those words with a tool like anki.
Watching movies with, - or if you already know the movies without subtitles (like Disney movies you watched regularly as a child).
Listening to local radio stations. It doesn't matter if you don't understand anything in the beginning, it's for getting used to the overall melody and flow of the language, which compensates for the lack of in-person immersion.
Side by side textbooks, or buying your favourite books in the language and reading them side by side, should be good to improve your reading skills.
Here in Spain, HBO doesn't even have the option to download for offline watching.
Advent of Code is a lot of fun! Last year I wrote a little bit about all the different languages/approaches people use to solve the challenges: https://j11g.com/2018/12/03/advent-of-code/
The version I downloaded from the site does (did?) depend on AVX instructions and would die on startup. There are other ('nightly builds') that fix this. One of the goals of the current team seems to be portability.
> The argument goes that all the former Soviet, but current NATO/EU states (and states with factions who might want to join, like Ukraine) never wanted to leave Russian control.

You mean "conspiracy theory".

I know you're pointing it out as a dubious argument, but stuff like this is what impressionable minds latch onto on the internet.
Serious question: what happens if they decide to start logging anyway?

For context: Facebook told the EU Commission they wouldn't link Facebook and WhatsApp accounts. Then they did it anyway. Sure, they got fined for it, but it's hard to believe that the fine was not factored in from the beginning.

So if they break that part of the agreement with PIA, then what? Is the merger canceled?
Terra nullius is a bit suspect as legal doctorines go, I haven't seen a reference that it was a used before it was created to be rejected when granting the Aboriginals land rights. The 'legal' justification for considering Australia uninhabited was basically (1) Australia was reachable by the British Navy and (2) the inhabitants didn't have a standing army that could inconvenience the British Navy.

The matter was that the High Court recognised that Aboriginals had every right to be part of Australian society & had a pretty solid claim to be the effective owners of the land. That is to say, 'terra nullius' was more about racism and culture than about facts and technicalities. It seems comparatively unlikely that we are going to recognise 75% of the species in Australia as being property-owning members of society.
> we're not paid to research

Isn't it in your job description, and what your performance is assessed against?
It's used as fertilizer on the fields.
Most of the streaming services (excluding Netflix) work with the Apple TV app. It is possible. Also on iOS/tvOS devices, you can sign in with your cable provider (or OTT provider) once and the apps that require a login all work with it.
Still considerably cheaper than Intel...
Audit VM Configuration Changes Using the VCenter Event Broker
An astonishing thing happened when we finally made it possible for everyone in the world to tell a computer what to do: We discovered nobody knows what they want the computer to do!

We were surprised (if also for other reasons) because we confused the product with the means, or to paraphrase Feynman, hacking is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
Show HN: Open-source app to turn headless Chrome into a normal browser
Not with current reactors.
Other people have already commented on the core message. I have a nitpick instead:

> That's probably why we still have textual source (great for git and merging) over more expressive formats or even the old idea of serializing the entire state of a VM (again lisp, smalltalk) which sacrifices merging entirely to make hotpatching (dynamic software updates) trivial.

Good. Not being able to merge squarely belongs in the past, where everyone had access to only one machine. I'm incredibly thankful that I can merge the half-finished work on my desktop from last evening with the patches that I just pushed from my notebook while in the train.
Graduated high school a couple years ago. Plenty of people coded, but I had only had one friend that actually was interested in doing more with computers. We found some pretty cool stuff on the school network, and ways to screw with our less tech-savvy friends. It even cost me a trip to the principal's office one time, due to my stupidity and inexperience.

I guess I'm not part of the right forums or boards, but I just haven't been able to find other people with that same kind of passion. I know I could and should just get started by myself, but I'm the type of person that just loses motivation and the will to keep working if I dont have someone else by my side. And I go to a UC. Sure plenty of people know a bit of linux and networking, but how many people actually want to go past their classes and actually take the time to research and learn more? It's hard to find those people. As a result, I'm moving away from hacking into more normal spaces like appdev and web stuff. Its definitely not as exciting, and I dont think I'll ever again feel that thrill of being called to the principal's office for hacking.
They could have priced higher and still dominated intel price/perf ratio wise. The supply/demand equilibrium point is somewhere higher than the current price and lower than intel break-even price.

The only way they'd set the impression of overpricing is if they actually overpriced. They did the opposite.

Whether it was a mistake in pricing or some calculated second-order strategy, we'll never know. What we do know is they're leaving cash on the table whether intentionally or not.

Temporarily (keyword) underpricing to hurt competitors is not unheard of but I don't see how it will hurt intel unless it significantly shifts mindshare for the next ~2 years and allows AMD to get a real foothold in the server market.
That has never been true. Just take a look at all of their announced content deals.
Don't hit the free demos too hard. I made the instances alot smaller since last time. Just posting because it's clear that this is more than just a security product. It's a UI and backend to use headless chrome like a regular browser, except in the cloud instead of your device.

Apart from security, or automation (not finished that part yet), I don't know why you might want this, but I thought it was cool and so I'm sharing it because you might need it for something.
Seminal Debate: Yoshua Bengio and Gary Marcus
The problem with trusting 1/n is that my trust in you is compromised when you choose to associate with an unscrupulous party, so even that 1/n is no longer trustworthy.

(Long time PIA subscriber who cancelled over the news of acquisition.)
How to Use Influencer Marketing
They held a conference at GDC 2019:

Tetris World Championship: Building Explosive Esports on 8-bit Nintendo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC6W2MBXaVo
Here is the reference where I learned about Trismegistos -- and the rate at which new papyri are discovered.

It's an amazing podcast, btw:
https://shwep.net/podcast/korshi-dosoo-on-the-papyri-graeci-...
Yes. It’s dead. Killed by money.
You could try listening to internet radio in the language you want to learn: https://radiowebsites.org/ Personally, I dug the streaming links out of the source of that website and made a VLC playlist. Now I just cycle through different stations on the playlist throughout the day.
Just released - walkthrough of the MuZero pseudo code:
https://link.medium.com/KB3f4RAu51
> Competitors have other sources of revenue aside from streaming services, Netflix has just streaming.

Netflix have been doing cinema releases of their titles ahead of their streaming debut. Surely that's other revenue?
The remote management features in Intel ME require a vPro capable chipset.
Pretty silly suggestion if you knew a bit about ancient history, or not so ancient.

Slavery, oppression by any means (taxation or force), fights to the death as entertainment, hideous punishments, genocide, immense inequity, tyrants killing at whim, women usually treated like crap, forced prostitution, rape with little or no recourse for the victim, minimal to no education for most... which part of that do you consider civilised.
They did the analysis for the Square Kilometer Array. WA came up as the perfect place for this kind of construction because of the lack of ecosystem to interfere with. Politics then moved half of it to Africa sigh.

If you had to pick somewhere in the world to build enough solar arrays to power the entire planet, WA is the perfect spot for it.
This 100%. Paul Ross has given some good talks on this topic. One is recorded here: https://pyvideo.org/pycon-uk-2017/blame-and-the-fallacy-of-r...
Just released - walkthrough of the MuZero pseudocode:
https://link.medium.com/KB3f4RAu51
Let's get a few things right since the link is misleading.

- It was an upsell to the Pro version of free plugin. Not some random ad spam.

- The ad was an admin notice - which appear in WordPress on top of every page in the backend Admin Area in what's generally the notification area.

- It's free, GPL, and open source - you know, "No Warranties" and all that.

Grayhat, and not something you should ever do. But not as nefarious as everyone is making it sound like.

WP.org is about freedom, so they're unlikely to restrict it either unless malicious: https://github.com/WordPress/wporg-plugin-guidelines/pull/69...

Being very involved in the WordPress industry, what I find funny is the majority of angry reviews masquerading as victims are from entitled pseudo devs who sell WordPress sites to clients and now they were made to look bad because they had automatic updates enabled while charging their customers for a retainer package with "plugin & themes updates".

How about buying premium version in the first place just as you charged your client for it.
If your "ordinary" aches and pains require medication with adverse effects as significant as addiction, maybe they're not that ordinary ?

Is the threshold for visiting a doctor that high in Australia ? From my European perspective, seeing your GP is a routine and cheap thing to do, and definitely warranted before starting an addictive drug.
Switching to a "remote work" career was similarly hard for me for this reason. I find it's helpful to "fake a commute" and go for a walk before working. The walk is mindless, just letting my mind drift, but gets my blood flowing and mind ready for the day.
> Was he even aware of the potential lethality?

It could be worse than that. He might not have even known the actual purpose and complete function of the system for which he was writing code.

That's common when big projects get outsourced. One might call it "decomposing the problem into small tasks" but it ends up with people writing code for machinery that they have no knowledge of. I've seen this myself. These kinds of projects depend upon layers and layers of oversight and process.

I think that the folks who are looking for "a perpetrator" are utterly missing the key-value of studying the Therac-25 case study.
It is actually very exciting to watch, especially when Jonas is playing. It should be more popular than it is!
>It's seems uncommon for people to consider if our trade with China before this "war" was fair.

So, I'm not an expert, but... my understanding is that China is accused of subsidizing domestic manufacturing. Analogous to the sort of dumping that uber and lyft do, really; Much like how Softbank subsidizes my ride to work in the hope that they can jack up prices once I get really used to it, the Chinese government is subsidizing my consumer goods purchases, with the hope that manufacturing will decline elsewhere to the point where they can some day jack up prices to market-clearing levels.

I mean, is that fair? no. Is this something the market does on the regular, even without government having a hand in it? yes. Is this bad for the USA? If we lose manufacturing ability, probably... but this has been going on for a generation now. How long would it take us to re-gain or move the manufacturing of our consumer goods? (we already keep manufacturing of defense goods in the USA, for exactly this reason. My own guess is that if there was economic reason to move more high-touch human labor intensive manufacturing in-house, we'd make like BMW and build plants in South Carolina and similar places with fewer unions, and we already do a bunch of automated manufacturing here.) - the implication here is that just like Uber and softbank, I am not sure this is a long-term profitable thing for China to do, and I have the (controversial) opinion that the market in the USA is healthy enough that if we needed to build more manufacturing here, we could do it pretty quickly)

(I mean, the other side of this, the complex part that I personally don't entirely understand is that the USA subsidizes a lot of domestic industry, too... most famously the agriculture sector. As a us citizen, I totally support my tax dollars being used to make sure that we overproduce food. That seems like an extremely reasonable thing to do. (it does get more complex when that food is sold elsewhere, but I am not an expert) - My understanding is that the US also subsidizes a lot of US manufacturing... I mean, my feelings on that are more mixed... but I personally don't see subsidies as inherently evil or incompatible with doing lots of trade with another country.)

>It seems like most people just parrot: "War. Bad."

We're talking about a trade war here, which is a different sort of animal.

Please understand that I'm saying "Trade: good" - a subtle difference. And I do think that trade is usually good, even trade with someone who is subsidizing their goods.

(I have... very different feelings about trade sanctions, about restrictions on trade as a way to get a country, say, to respect human rights. But I don't think that's what the trade war with China is about; the trade war with China, as I understand it, is about tariffs and subsidies)
> Make it work. Make it faster.

This is not hacking.
ProtonVPN? i thought they are privetly owned.
“Four primary colors” is bugging me like a 4-sided snowflake.

Can we agree:

Additive - RGB
Subtractive - RYB / CMY

I found this bit in the Wikipedia article interesting / relevant:

Thus for trichromats like humans, we use three (or more) primaries for most general purposes.[25] Two primaries would be unable to produce even some of the most common among the named colors. Adding a reasonable choice of the third primary can drastically increase the available gamut, while adding a fourth or fifth may increase the gamut but typically not by as much.
Up next: robotic fish used to make dead coral reefs look healthy, so tourists flock to them.

Related: https://www.dw.com/en/great-barrier-reef-last-chance-tourist...
> may fall on either speaker or listener (or both).

I fully agree. :-) My point was it does not fall only on the listener.
There's also a big psychological difference between deciding just the once to start a subscription, and having to constantly decide if you want to pay to watch a particular series. Even if the prices worked out similar, I think people would be less likely to watch if they had to decide to spend 50c (or whatever) each time they watched an episode.