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The SEO framework (slug: autodescription) is great and performs about 30x as good as Yoast SEO in terms of processing time. They’re also pretty strict about sticking to WordPress’ native styles.
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The Yoast CEO Marieke van de Rakt responded on Twitter:

> That BlackFridayBanner was not the best idea. We’re truly sorry for the annoyance and difficulties it may have caused. We did not think this through properly. If you want, you can update to a new version of our plugin without that banner. #blackfriday #neveragain #apologies"[1]

> I OK'd this. I am the CEO. And I made a big mistake. I am sorry. [2]

[1] https://twitter.com/MariekeRakt/status/1200077958700044290

[2] https://twitter.com/MariekeRakt/status/1200077958700044290
If I was hurt by some bad code, I’d want to know who wrote it.

Bugs happen, but reasonable steps should be taken to prevent them. Developers share that responsibility with management, whether they like it or not.
Maybe for software it's reasonable (tests should be parallelized more as you go above a 5m build), but for infrastructure it's ridiculous. No IaaS API responds remotely quick enough to bring up whole environments from scratch that quickly.
that's interesting :)
Ask HN: How to spot a bully during an interview?
Do you look out for bullies during an interview?

If so, how do you do it?

I am speaking as an interviewee than as an interviewer.
I suppose that would be up to the phrasing of the paid version contract. I'm betting even if it says no there is wriggle room, especially for that important 3 months fresh data.
Stuxnet was created by the NSA in a joint operation with 8200. And yes there are 50,000 ex-8200 alumni, so calling all of them spies is kind of absurd
It’s questionable how “immature” ML really is. Most methods that get used were initially designed 50+ years ago, with various improvements over time. E.g., neural networks were invented in the 1950s, backprop was introduced in the 80s, architectures like LSTM and CNN in the 90s, etc.

The only thing that’s really new is the amount of computational power at our hands. That has allowed us to shift from relatively simpler methods to more powerful but opaque methods like NNs. They just don’t lend themselves to easy analysis because it’s a lot harder to explain why inputs to these ML systems map to their respective outputs. Hence, attempts at drawing the connection between inputs and outputs become more speculative.
There's a lot of great things about Japan, but I think most people on Hacker News would not envy Japanese work culture. It's common for men to work 100+ hour weeks with 20+ hours of commuting (much more common than in the US). Working women have it even worse, because it's customary for them to do all of the house work as well (even moreso than in the US).

Combine that with the fact that after working all those hours, senior poverty rates are also much higher than in the US, and it doesn't exactly seem like a laborer's paradise.

Health and safety are great, but like GDP and money, they're not the only things that matter.
The waste disposal problem has been solved at the Onkalo Nuclear Waste Repository in Finland. It's a deep geologic repository without the political fights associated with Yucca. Deep geologic repositories are basically a consensus solution now. Finns chose to solve the nuclear waste issue and did it.

Fukushima killed up to 1 person from radiation. Meanwhile fossil is killing 4.3 million people per year via air pollution. If fossil had to pay for that health externality (not to mention climate change), then nuclear economics would look exceedingly more fantastic. Though it's true that nuclear builds need to get their act together to maintain relevance.

Small reactors have less radioactive source in them and are proportionally less radiologically impactful than larger higher power reactors in the event of military/terrorist attack.

Wind and solar are doing amazing. There is some serious worry that the Energy Return on Investment (EROI) will go below the level needed to sustain industrialized civilization once variable renewables are deployed at significant enough scale to require massive energy investment in "non-productive" equipment like batteries. For example, see this Nov 2019 paper on the topic [1]. EROI on solar PV is like 3-8. With massive storage it can dip below 3. Nuclear is like 50.

I think a low-carbon future will have a whole lot of wind/solar and a whole lot of nuclear. Both industries can scale by 10x happily and we still will struggle with our climate issues.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211467X1...
But for machine learning or numerical algorithms, I found it quite hard to make k nearly as fast as vanilla NumPy code

Observe that KX’s approach to ML is... to just wrap Python https://code.kx.com/v2/ml/
I mean, there's actually an active lawsuit against Altria for securities fraud Altria lying about JUUL to their investors. Similar lawsuits are common. Being a public company gives people with lots of money and lawyers (i.e. investors) motivation to make sure that the company's core value proposition isn't a big fat lie.

I don't think that alone is sufficient evidence to immediately completely trust Kape, but it's worth some points in my book. And if the lawyers don't pull out any dirty laundry after a while, I'm going to assume there isn't any.
Riseup support leftist terrorists which are protected by the state. This is likely also run indirectly by the NSA or Israeli spy orgs.
Isn't it an effect of physical proximity, of the seller somewhat at least more probably having some relationship with the buyer?

Abusing, in all senses of this verb, is much easier if you absolutely don't know, won't know and even don't relate to your victim.

Screwing, taking excessive advantage or even only playing it without respect with a total anonymous stranger is one thing, doing so with someone who may become your neighbor, brother-in-law... or who may be a friend of someone who is a friend of your father... or may be a soldier fighting on your side... is another thing.

Wherever something is wrong, something it too big -- L. Kohr.
I recently bought a new laptop and actually wanted AMD, but none of the laptops I was inteested in were available with one. It appears that high-end laptops are still ruled by Intel. Do AMDs run too hot for mobile or something?
I'm really surprised there are no flags to configure GC behaviour in Go. This is fairly standard performance tuning stuff on the JVM which provides a number of options to control GC behaviour, minimum and maximum heap size being some of the basic ones.
Don't they represent app state?
Ask HN: Any recommended beginner friendly space telescope?
A view of Jupiter and Saturn would be nice.
>Apple has its own share of potentially monopolistic behavior

But I rarely see Apple being included in these calls for breaking up the tech companies. Also, I'd be surprised if Apple even has a billion customers, let alone a billion who are happy with Apple.
'#GrabYourKeyboards': Inside Pakistan’s Hashtag Mills
Please don't cross into personal attack. This thread is bad enough without that.

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I live smack dab in the heart of Orange County and Model 3’s are like the new AirPods. They’re everywhere.
Brad Cox
This is how most factories operate.

Hire someone to design a plastic mold, pay for the work, never hear from that person again.

It is insane to expect anything more than a tax code, that is only retained for some few years in some dusty finance department file cabinet.

There is no source control, design history files, CD/CI, etc in a factory, i.e. 99% of small to medium business. Silicon valley and fintech are the exceptions, even today, let alone when that happened.

Also, it is a bunch of old timers recommending one another for work. The people on the floor and owners definitely know the person, but will not tell unless they have to.
Yes, but not when it's "its".

For example, if there is an autonomous writing machine, its words are not praptak's words nor mine.
We've banned the GP account, but please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. The site guidelines ask you not to reply to egregious comments but rather to flag them.

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> Canada should investigate using that design.

And then reject it.

Thorium has quite a lot of engineering problems that it has yet to demonstrate that it can overcome.

Look at San Onofre--an improvement to the engineering process (more accurate anti-vibration bars) caused water cooling tubes to have a resonance and wear out prematurely.

And that happened in a relatively well-understood technology.

Thorium isn't even close to that level of maturity.
What's missing is restricting it to your own games only, like chess.com has for members. I think it'll come one day.
The name is not important. The fact, that they were not found is telling though. Was there no track record of any kind?

Edit: It seems there was, as in he was developing alone and the company didn't disclose his identity. Puzzling.
It costs more to buy four episodes of a single show than an entire month of a typical streaming service. That is not the "let me pick my channels" service that people often ask for.
Personal attacks are not ok here and we ban accounts that post them.

Your comment would be fine without that last bit.

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It's not important in the sense of "name this guy and run him out of town".

But it would be nice if an investigation was completed, and all the facts found by the FDA before it was concluded. Maybe they could have collected information from him in a non-blaming way that would avoid similar disasters in the future.
So it's Stimulus alternative for those who prefer the Vue syntax, smart.
I value the speech I disagree with _the most_. X speech is whatever the power center decides it is. If people arent free to say things you disagree with you wont know there is a problem until it's too late to fix. If people cant express themselves, you cant convince them they are wrong.

It has nothing to do with saying racist stuff. Modern media is basically 24x7 divide and conqueror class(sex, color, religion, whatever) warfare (aka racist). That's the cover. It's a common technique to limit criticisim of policy. Power _needs_ enemies, if they dont exist, they will be created.

Please watch this: https://youtu.be/olefVguutfo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLYL9F83iqU
Don't you want a VPN to be content neutral?
Former Huawei employee detained for 8 months after getting severance pay
DivetheBig5
What is it that you believe that PIA is doing or is likely to do, that you believe this service is not/will not be doing?
One of the consequences of this being that when you do in-process caching, you trade improved average case performance for degraded worst-case behavior, unless the GC authors have taken some pains to deal with pointer chasing on writes to the old generation.

I'm kind of a fan of out-of-process, same-system caches for this reason.
“Creating Wealth” Through Debt: The West’s Finance-Capitalist Road
Please don't post religious flamebait to HN.

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This is probaby not what he meant, movies on iTunes, Google movies, etc all have DRM while music doesn't. He just wants to "do basically anything with the file other than redistribute it."
The past is a good predictor of the future... until it isn't. Extremely drastic change is needed to avert climate emergencies. How much of the problems you discuss go away when the red tape has been cut?

I don't buy that waste is a serious problem. The US treats all secondary waste as if it's red hot. And as I said above, all extant reactor designs are decades old.

If your only point of comparison is 60 year old computers using 10s of kilowatts, you might argue that computers will never be economical to use. Yet smartphone CPUs have a TDP of what, one watt?

> Until now the taxpayer covers it, but our impoverished nations just cannot cope anymore.

Our nations have plenty of money it's just all concentrated at the very top. We used to fund advanced reactor projects [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-Salt_Reactor_Experiment
This and their Minix backdoor are the reasons why I wanted an AMD for my laptop, but I was sad I couldn't find a high-end Thinkpad with AMD processor. I hope that will change next year.
If we don’t build it China will.
I’ve seen this somewhere else, I think it was Argentina?

It’s convenient! The only downside is a slight tendency towards encouraging drag race behaviour.
> And in the VPN world, trust is fundamental.

Why do you say this? Isn't it generally believed that most/all large VPN services are monitored specifically by the governments of the countries in which they operate?
The days of online services having an API and interoperating are largely over in a post-Cambridge Analytica world. No company wants another potentially shady company getting between them and the customer and ruining their reputation or misusing their data.
Posting like this will get you banned here. Please stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21679557 isn't much better. Would you please review the site guidelines and take the spirit of this site more to heart? We'd be grateful.
Gas turbines are indeed simple. And fracked gas is amazingly cheap and plentiful. The problem there is that it's exceedingly high carbon. If you factor in methane leakage at the wells and in the pipes it approaches and even exceeds coal carbon emissions. We must stop locking in fracked gas turbines if we are to avoid climate change issues.

Nuclear companies are trying to deal with load following by coupling to energy storage systems like thermal storage (molten salts), pumped hydro, and batteries. In an increasingly variable-renewable world, more energy storage is required. The nukes can be used to charge batteries in the daytime while the solar PV runs the grid, and then for the evening peak while solar ramps down, the nukes and batteries carry the evening, and then the nukes do the baseload at night.

The one thing that nuclear reactors can do that no other energy source can do is provide hugely-deployable 24/7 low-carbon energy for over a year (e.g. through the seasons). Hydro can do it in some places but it's mostly maxed out in the proper geography.

Finally, EROI on wind/solar with massive battery systems gets dangerously low.
It's seems uncommon for people to consider if our trade with China before this "war" was fair.

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

I'm not saying this administration is doing everything right on trade, or that it's even doing anything right on trade.

It just seems like people think that what was before "the trade war" was the default, and that the default was fair.
> Some people whistleblow, while others develop software, and many lecture and teach people.

And most have no problems with what they saw or did, and many used the contacts and knowledge gained from that background to further their civilian careers in the field and continue to maintain those connections and shared goals therewith.
ICs and computers may have been a huge part of the downfall, especially if you consider how important they are in warfare.

"1. its economic model was dysfunctional and a failure"

The USSR had a good economy for some time. During Stalins brutal industrialization, growth rates may have even outclassed Chinas. E.g. 13% p.a. over 12 years, the numbers are controversial. I have a paper about it. Fact is, in WW1 and WW2 Germany faced a very different country.

The later decline may also correlate with declining oil production. The USSR sold a lot of Oil and Gas to the west.

"The soviet union failed, because centralized, collectivism, and having all the output owned by the state is a failure as a model...."

This is also true fro China and the last word, if the system is sustainable or not, is not spoken in this regards.

I tell you a secret: The western market oriented, capitalistic system is also bound to fail.

1. Due to the inherent feature to use debt to prefinance production, the economy has always to keep growing. It is not possible to use our current capitalistic system in a steady state economy.

2. Since wealth and economic growth are interlinked and energy is more or less limited, the system has to come to a stop sooner or later.
Sigh.

I avoided mentioning that the C++ runtime was optional because I was trying not to be pedantic and I assumed in context it would be understood that this was irrelevant. I think I should’ve just made my point earlier, but:

- This all started with someone mentioning that C++ doesn’t have ‘bad runtime behavior’ because it doesn’t have a runtime, but this is false. It has a runtime, or to be exact, a specification for one, and I think it is safe to say a vast, perhaps extreme, majority of C++ developers are using it.

- If you opt to not use the runtime, then your runtime behavior is dictated somewhere else, but runtime behaviors don’t go away. In freestanding, you may be your own runtime, but then your runtime behavior is defined by the machine you’re running on. You just get to choose what layer of abstraction you are sitting on.

- edit: And also, as a point I forgot to mention initially, I don’t really feel like freestanding C++ vs standard Go is an apples-to-apples comparison.

I think the point was that the C++ has less runtime behavior, since it doesn’t have a scheduler or garbage collector, but extrapolating that to no runtime is wrong even if the runtime is optional.
I don't see the insult. I should have recommended the poster this book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/385.On_Bullshit
> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive

You think the post I replied to doesn't break (at the very least) that rule? Perhaps if you came down harder on the in-crowd high karma posters, other people wouldn't have to sarcastically thank them for their abuse.

> Your post was downvoted and flagged by legit users.

It was downvoted and flagged as soon as it was posted. So legit users with enough karma to downvote are sitting reloading page 2 threads for new posts half way down the page?
Here is a dialogue with the employees: https://technology-info.net/index.php/2019/12/02/dialogue-wi...
The current code signing paradigm was already tenuous but this change to DigiCert is going to cause far fewer packages to get signed as fewer devs acquire and renew the now very costly certs. We need working alternatives. You didn't provide any solutions but decided to downvote anyway.

Code signing has always been about validating the source of a binary and that it hasn't been modified from what the publisher intended. This is done by relying on a third-party validation mechanism. DNSSEC DANE TLSA meets both of those qualifications. So does GitHub. I'd be fine with either or both as options. Microsoft owns GitHub too, so code signing could be done through that medium. Public CAs in a trusted root store allow for offline validation but let's be realistic - most devices and software are online these days and public CAs aren't particularly worthy of anyone's trust. Domain-pinning a private CA in a trust store via TLSA (or GitHub, whichever) would allow for one-time online validation and then permanent offline validation for any given binary thereby allowing device drivers to still load offline.

Microsoft unfortunately still claims that code signing stops malware. Time has effectively proven that to be false as code signing has stopped approximately zero malware infestations. Training personnel to be constantly vigilant through ongoing training modules has proven to be far more effective.
> But when you to bed, your phone doesn't know that rapid charging convenience doesn't matter

iPhones now know that you're going to bed and adjusts the charging to match https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210512

I believe some Android phones have had the same feature for years now, dunno about the base android OS
Sure. Riseup is not neutral however.
You started a religious flamewar in this thread and then perpetuated it. That's the last thing we want here and we ban accounts that do it. I'm glad that you've mostly stopped doing the bannable things that we've asked you not to do over the years—but this one is still a problem. Can you please keep it off HN?

May I add that I say this with deep respect for Judaism.

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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21675729 and marked it off-topic.
Leaving aside the GPU market, if you believe AMD is going to take and sustain a sizable share of the CPU market in the next 2 years (in particular server, mobile and high-end desktop), then the answer is yes.

If Intel manages to keep AMD market share below ~18% in the next couple of years, then probably not.

The value of the stock revolves around how much money AMD is able to generate and the biggest variables here are volume of sales and margins on those sales. AMD's variable costs are probably higher than Intel's since they outsource their manufacturing to TSMC, but their fixed costs dwarf Intel's.

Intel AMD

Market Cap $252B $44B

Revenue $19.2B 2B

Earnings Q3 $6B $0.12B

Keeping aside the fact that AMD's numbers include GPU sales, notice how AMD's earnings to revenue ratio is very small compared to Intel's. Also notice that Intel's market cap is almost 7 times AMD's (again, AMD has a GPU business too).

So the key is really, do you believe that AMD will be able to break the ~18% market share (in particular in high margin segments)? My back of the envelope calculations indicate that at around 20% market share AMD should be able to generate earnings close to the billion dollars per quarter, making AMD a buy. If they cannot break and sustain a market share close to that, my answer would be not.

Disclaimer: I have AMD shares and I don't plan to buy or sale given current pricing.
C# is "a GC language" and generally has quite good support for explicit lifetime management, through stack allocated value types as well as memory pools and whatnot.
While charging circuits are much smarter now, and the difference might be minimal, you want lower charging currents to minimize the amount of damage that is done to the materials in the battery. It is universal that higher charge rates cause more damage to the crystal structure that holds the lithium ions.
Isn't it great? You don't need a degree to operate the thing. When there are esoteric conditions like the one described in the post, the team is usually super responsive to fix them if they're bugs, or give you reasonable and lightweight workarounds when they're not.
A Tesla Model 3 is a huge car in Europe. In many older cities, it simply won't fit.

We need small electric runabouts. It seems like they only exist in China though.
Like I've said over and over again, I don't care. You're a bad moderator of this site, and easy to ignore (e.g. this account).

Consider how happily I burn this account just to tell you how bad at this you are.
> It turns out that for modern operating systems, sweeping (freeing memory) is a very fast operation, so the GC time for Go’s mark-and-sweep GC is largely dominated by the mark component and not sweeping time.

That paragraph got me interested. A lot of stuff in this article is based on this statement. Where can I read more about this? By intuition I would have guessed that the process of marking is the smaller portion of work ...
There is one flag: GOGC.

It was a deliberate choice not to have as many options as Java.
You're not owning them. You own a license to watch on Apple's terms and as long as iTunes is around. Microsoft shut down the drm servers and killed their clients' ebooks in April:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20318852
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar, regardless of how bad or wrong other comments are or you feel they are.

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The implication is not that nobody could track him down, but instead that nobody in a position to do so did so.