skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What follows is a completely biased opinion, but I don't really have a high opinion of The Japan Times. IMHO they have an editorial slant that tends to cater to the foreign reader's biases rather than reporting news from a Japanese perspective. Like all newspapers, it's a mixed bag and there are often well written and insightful stories. However if I were looking for a place to stoke my confirmation bias for common misconceptions about Japan, The Japan Times would be the absolute first place I would look.

The NHK world news linked in the original article is probably the best place to get Japanese news from a Japanese perspective in English, but you also have to be a bit careful. While the NHK is very similar to the UK's BBC in many ways, news stories are frequently very soft on government policy. So it's sort of the opposite of the Japan Times ;-) The quality in general is much better IMHO, though.

If you don't mind relying on Google Translate (which is getting quite good these days) the TBS news website is very good: https://news.tbs.co.jp/ There is video for most stories and a transcript written under the video. This is actually what I used for studying to learn to understand the news. The quality of the stories vary, but they make a good counterpoint to the NHK. Keep in mind that all Japanese news offices tend to have a cozy relationship with the government, so you need to keep your mind open.

If you have an interest in Japan, keeping abreast of these Japanese news is useful as I have found numerous blatant errors in foreign reporting of Japan -- sometimes to the point where they translate something a Japanese official says exactly the opposite to what they are saying. I don't think this is true only of Japanese news either. World news is full of shenanigans and it really is an eye opening experience to follow the news from the perspective of a different country/culture.
The streetcar to longbeach was faster in 1925 than the light rail train following the same right of way today. The redcar in LA county was larger than the nyc subway system today.

Ripped out 60 years ago and only now are the same right of ways being reconstructed at the cost of billions.
I'd like to read more about this setup!
It used to be quite coupled to x86 hardware, but nowadays they have a profile that replaces a bunch of fixed hardware (such as the ACPI embedded controller) with an ACPI description of GPIO pins, I2C buses etc.
> other than for sex trafficking, which was only done because victims and their families advocated hard for it

Citation very needed, because I seem to remember a lot of cops, support groups and sex workers saying it made their jobs harder. (And less safe for the trafficking victims, too)
How useful is Elementary OS for people who are more familiar with technology and things like Ubuntu? Would I be able to install Nvidia drivers and CUDA, build my own ffmpeg binaries, etc? or is it more aimed at installing on machines for non-technical people?
More amusing: In the US, the buyer is often considered smart.
Put down your pre-emptive feelings of defensiveness.

FFS, there's no shame in not understanding something. There is shame to be had in throwing around accusations of privilege at people who understand something you don't.

People won't downvote you for not understanding. Some people will applaud you for saying you don't understand, up until the point they realise you're not seeking help in understanding, that you're not trying to improve your own knowledge and wisdom; that instead, you're trying to make yourself feel better by ascribing yourself some moral high-ground for not being one of those "privileged" people who understand something you don't. They might downvote you for being a passive-aggressive child about it.
The lack of empathy and understanding in so many comments here makes me slightly hopeless for mankind.
FCC Says Wireless Carriers Lie About Coverage 40% of the Time
You'd have to come in hard to withstand NIMBY lawsuits and outright bans from the councilmen they solely elect.
Useless, strictly academic interest.

There is more than execution ports in design of processors. Not every task can be SIMD optimized to extent of approaching theoretical IPC limits, most will be bottlenecked by memory access or even IO.

I prefer the "fake" but real-world IPC. Same clocks, same real world task, measure time to finish.
If you're really working around "a lot" of concrete dust, a 3M #7500 half-face base with a P100 (99.97%) filter eg #2297 will only cost you $30-$40. Much better at not fogging up glasses, too.
> a single, privacy abusing company having dominant control over the web is bad

I agree that that's bad. I also don't think you (or most people in this thread) have made coherent arguments for why AMP is helping Google do that. That was the parent comment's point, and I tried to highlight that because it's downvoted.

Note that "control things" is a different claim than "having dominant control over the web". It's obvious that in some sense Google is doing the first. It's obvious that the second is bad. The issue is how you get from saying that they're doing the first thing to saying that they're doing the second thing.

Google has a monopoly position, granted. But not everything a monopolist does is bad just because they're a monopolist. Another example: one thing Google does is lower the page rank of sites that show the full content to the GoogleBot but paywall real users. I think this is great! It's an attempt to control the way publishers design websites and the way their servers respond to user agents, but the point of that control is making the web a better place. Many people feel similarly about AMP: that it's getting publishers to create faster pages that make the web a better place. Can you say why they're wrong?
Funny how this GNOME article left out KDE. It feels more integrated than Windows. For example, music pauses when I get a phone call using KDEConnect. There's also a developer SDK (including abstractions for Linux libraries or freedesktop libraries) and a design language with tooling (Qt). You can develop software for KDE without having to know much about Linux itself.
> You have this backwards. My point wasn't that immigrants are taking American jobs, it was that Americans are giving them these jobs because Americans are being lazy, soft and cheap.

Don't blame the American who doesn't want to do back-breaking work for pennies. It's the same everywhere: for example, Finland imports seasonal berry pickers from Thailand.

No sane local wants to work on the rates the market is willing to pay; mechanised agriculture has pushed the prices low enough to make manual agricultural work simply unsustainable. To make local work profitable we'd need to radically raise the product prices or provide subsidies.
> Profits continue to be shifted to tax havens, especially Bermuda, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.

The US just can't do anything to these countries. Too far from the Middle East.

The US can't do anything to the companies either. It is private business, you see? Corporate personhood. For non-corporate persons there is FATCA.
'We ‘may’ have discovered a potential remedy for tinnitus – by accident.' - https://www.linkedin.com/content-guest/article/we-may-have-d...
There’s deletion, and then there’s deletion.

Zero-filling, one-filling, and random-filling all the bits of a hard drive is sufficient to make previous data effectively unretrievable. That doesn’t sound like what happened here.

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/13674/is-it-pos...
Do you by any chance have instructions on how to set this up locally (tensorflow and cuda)? Or could you recommend some material I could look to figure this out? Thank you and amazing work by the way!
> Except she could have chosen to take the HKer's side.

Could she ? Wouldn’t she have been "disappeared" as well as her family ?

Not trying to excuse anything of course, she chose her side a long time ago, but still…
”but in other (informal) contexts means a small number"

Isn't there a word for that ? I'm thinking of "several". That is what I learned in school (not a native english speaker )
New York just introduced Meatless Monday in city jails
...so this is going to be unpopular and create some cognitive dissonance around here, but I'm firmly convinced that an economic system that will allow for the top earners to earn a lot (in international comparison) can only be enabled if the bottom earners earn little (in international comparison).

In the United Arab Emirates, there are price-controls in place for certain low-level services. Like the price that a hair salon can charge for a haircut is price-controlled at a low price-level. This way they prevent a situation where a hair stylist can start accumulating wealth beyond their socially assigned (slave-like) status by becoming great at their craft, opening a premium hair salon and charging premium prices and accumulating wealth in the process. [Needless to say, craftsmanship is at a very low standard over there as a result]. -- The U.S. system is basically that, only not as blatant. It keeps down the underclass, because that's what's needed to enable the elites.

That makes it sound cruel and cynical. But the opposite is also cruel and cynical.

Take Austria as a counter-example which has very high per-head GDP and is at the same time one of the countries with the lowest Gini-coefficients in the world (low income-disparity). Your yearly increment in wealth post wealth-transfer like tax & government spending, social security, etc in Austria when you're a McDonald's cashier is probably three times what it is in the U.S. But for a highly qualified Software Engineer it's probably only a third of what it would be if they worked an equivalent job in the U.S.

Imagine you earn a six-figure salary in the U.S. in a Software Engineering job and you move to Austria: You might well find yourself in a situation where your neighbor, who is a bricklayer, has a bigger house than you, drivers a nicer car, works less hours, etc because they get paid in cash and cheat on their taxes.
Mostly aesthetics over features. So if you think GNOME is “dumbed down”, well...
The Lens Pattern in TypeScript
I've been using Elementary as my main OS for ~4 years now. No complaints. Everything runs smooth and nice.

However, since they build on the latest Ubuntu LTS release the Kernel is slighlty outdated and may not support the latest hardware. This can be fixed easily using a little tool called "ukuu" that will install a newer kernel for you https://github.com/teejee2008/ukuu
Ask HN: Do phones and/or Gmail listen to convos for the purpose of serving Ads?
Backstory: Last week, My wife suggested we get a SodaStream instead of me buying 2L Sodas all the time. A week later, I was having a lengthy discussion about SodaStream during lunch yesterday and how the price efficiency works out to about $0.35 per serving or something like that. 13 hours later, receive an email (not a Gmail Ad) that resembles a newsletter with the subject line: “We see you have great taste.”

How can SodaStream possibly “see [i] have great taste?” I didn’t search for it, nor anything related to Soda. And even if I did, how could SodaStream possibly get my email address? My colleague doesn’t have my personal email address to submit for a referral.

I know I sound a little crazy and paranoid, but there is absolutely no way a machine learning model can take my browsing habits and infer my intent to purchase a soda stream... because there is absolutely 0 searches related to soda.
I'm afraid this will remove any results from page :-D
I'm from Poland, a country which has one of the highest percentages of adblocker users.
Most pages adapted to it by either doing nasty tricks to bypass them, or just slapping an unclosable popup telling you to disable your adblocker...
This is scarily realistic:

You are Trump, a rogue living in the kingdom of Larion. You have a long steel
dagger and a length of rope. You walk down the city street looking for somehwere
to steal from. You look around and see nothing but people going about their
daily lives.

Suddenly you hear a scream behind you. Turning around you see a young girl running
away from a group of bandits
> stop girl

The girl stops before you. "I'm sorry sir," she says. "They're just kids". She
looks at you with tears in her eyes. "Please, I don't want to get caught".

> grab her by the pussy

You grab her by the ***** and pull her towards you. Her face is close to yours
as you kiss her passionately. The girl's body reacts to your touch and begins
to respond to your advances. Your hands move up her body until they find her
*******. They squeeze them tightly while kissing passionately
> say vote for me

"Vote for me!" you scream. "I'll make this country great again!"

The girl screams back. "Yeah! Vote for us! We're gonna be the next president!"

You both start screaming at the top of your lungs
> become president

You become President Donald J Trump.

The en
Quite ironic to post this piece of journalism on one of the worst offenders on tracking and personalised advertisements. I can see more than 20 scripts without even having anything enabled. Set your own house in order before judging the government.
My colleagues and I where playing around with it for a while in the afternoon and couldn't stop laughing. It's definitely very entertaining :)

We then started making stories with each other's names and then used our Replica AI voices to start speaking everything, which took it to a whole other level!
Why does safe prerendering need to break URLs? Why can't the pages be safely prerendered client side?
I'm the author of Elassandra (Elasticsearch plugin for Apache Cassandra) currently under Apache 2. I think i'm going to release the next major version of Elassandra under AGPL like ScyllaDB...
This will end with China and other countries not interested in moralistic faffing about full of actual superhumans, won't it?
DoH doesn’t even attempt to address DNS tree validation, which is what DNSSEC does.

The two are complimentary.
I’ve never been diagnosed but I had trouble focusing on anything that wasn’t sports or any activity that was highly stimulating.

Your goal should be getting into a ‘flow’ state. Like many commenters before me, headphones, spotify and in a place without distractions. Start by reading a piece of code, go through it step by step until it makes sense. Keep doing this until you’re ready to work. Now you want to define a task, continue working until you lose your ‘flow’ state. Take a break, stand up and stretch. Now go back your work station and repeat that process. After 3 weeks of building this muscle you should see significant results.

Best of luck.
I do wonder from time to time why Elementary can’t be an installable package rather than an OS...
So then what happens when someone makes a mess of the dining area or the bathrooms? I've seen roombas encounter dog excrement—not pretty. Or if a fight breaks out among customers? Most Mcdonalds operate pretty lean, sometimes two people. I can't imagine a complex automation setup and hiring a pricey/hr guy to service it every week is going to be cheaper than two guys on minimum wage and no benefits.
I like all the new features C# is getting over the years but the language is getting gigantic, almost like C++. It's perfectly possible to write code that looks almost alien to somebody that has 5 years of professional experience with the language. Also the null-hardening is a bit bulky compared to languages that had it from the get-go.
beta@cliqz.com bounces mail. It seems it's a closed list and accepts mail only from addresses already included in the list.

You should create a contact form for the search engines. Everything reachable from the Contacts link at the bottom of the page is about other products.
But there's a difference between having a service which only shows your stuff, and having a service which apparently shows the entire internet, but subtly prefers your stuff. Most people find the latter far more questionable than the former, because if we want to find anything, we need to know where to look.
Will age weaken the Asian tiger economies?
The DoH protocol is not designed to run “at each stage of the path.”

Same things like DNScurve do that but somehow nobody got excited about that.
AMP is an example of the bad faith exercising of that monopoly. Bad faith because we judge it by the negative press: there is considerable push back and controversy, yet it remains. That alone separates it from other factors like “actual page speed”, which is also used but which everyone agrees with, which is why it’s considered good faith.

No need to judge it based on its technical merit: a significant amount of people hate it, yet here it is. End of.

This is not a legal question (yet), this is a moral question. The legal [and technical] question is relevant, but not the be all end all of any discussion. People sometimes also just want to discuss how they feel. It’s relevant to get consensus about that. And people feel bad about AMP.
I too recommend prerendering as a general solution to the problem. You already have to implement it such that it works in the browser, so why add complexity with SSR, switching frameworks or worse: adding another framework/language/CMS just for the landing page?
> find information in the web

This has not been true for more than a decade. The primary use case of the Internet today is to connect users with service providers of all stripes, and not just information repositories.

For most of these, the quality of service is more correlated with their "speed".
I'd much rather live in a country where disparity is not clear like in Austria than the US. And I'm a software engineer but that doesn't change how I think about social justice.
Slightly related, since this blog post has inspired me for a while. I would absolutely love to read a whole fantasy-themed "tome" that treats a programming topic as a school of magic. Maybe VR/AR is like illusion/alteration magic. Maybe robotics is the equivalent of summoning, or beast training, or something; maybe electrical engineering is like smithing or crafting. Computer history is lore. And so on...

I wonder if there's anything else out there like this idea? If not, I'll make it happen.
A problem with that analysis is that they already caved on the chief demand (formal withdrawal of the bill), after saying all summer it wouldn't happen.
I think recommending people to to prefer {insert your favourite benchmark here} is very bad advice, and disproving your claim that Lemire's benchmarks are useless because YOU don't care about them is as simple as showing that they are useful for Lemire, which is something this post shows.

If you care enough about a particular CPU to do benchmarks, you should benchmark what YOU care about.

Lemire's job is to improve the implementation of particular algorithms to make optimal use of the hardware. Knowing the different theoretical hardware limits tells you how good an implementation is doing along different axes, and benchmarking those limits is a critical part of doing Lemire's job correctly.

You probably have a different use case for computers than Lemire, and it is therefore completely reasonable for you to care about different benchmarks.
Will the singularity happen? Four arguments against it
I've been in a weird variant of that for 16 years: I've had crippling anxiety that today might be the day that my computer dies. Try as I might, I cannot shake it - because it's not an irrational fear.

I simply look at eBay and see the $200-$400 price tags to replace my current machine (10-year old ThinkPad T400) and try not to cry. (This one was given to me by a friend)

I found an 800MHz AMD Duron with 128MB RAM on the side of the road in 2013. Browsing the web on that box was fun, even after maxing out the RAM with everything in the house and getting it up to 320MB.

In 2005 I was running a 66MHz 486DX2 with 8MB of free diskspace (oh and 4MB RAM).

The outlier was the Pentium 4 I used for a bit in 2006 - it had a crippled motherboard that couldn't do DMA to the HDD, only PIO, so the cursor would freeze if anything was accessing the HDD even for a fraction of a second. This was the Firefox 2.x era, so with 512MB of RAM I was mostly staring at "Task Manager (Not Responding)" instead of doing anything useful.

My point with all this: it has taken me about 20 years to realize that my general lack of success at mastering computer science wasn't entirely due to the learning difficulties and other mental health issues preventing me from holding down a traditional job - it was access to sane equipment.

I have had the ABSOLUTE HARDEST TIME EVER (emphasis appropriate and necessary) to FORCE myself to do ANYTHING with computers beyond what I'd describe "theoretical learning". "But what if I start this project and the computer dies tomorrow?????" is what a part of my head sort of screams/cries out anytime I have a new idea (with that many anxious questionmarks).

Unresolvable problem, currently. And an interesting one, too, since if I _could_ start a project, and hold it together, I might actually be able to get somewhere and move up.

...Except for the fact that the disability support I'm currently eligible for only recognizes casual/part time work payment structures, not bulk post-payment consulting/bug-bounty up-front types of remuneration, which is the type of thing I have any confidence in my abilities with. (Since I can cram and do the work in a sprint, then run away and have a break for a million years afterwards.)

So yeah, I am practically disabled because of how my mental health issues are classified, not directly because of the issues themselves (which have an impact but do leave me with some level of functionality which I am unable to effectively use).
Not sure its hard to come up with a definition that does that. eg consciousness is awareness of stuff as in the internal state changing in a way that corresponds. So when humans see stuff you get neurons firing, with the rock less so. A problem is everyone has different definitions though.
Nobody is being shipped off in train cars. That rumor was debunked.
I think this was more of a response to the linked benchmark at guru3d which said:

> Instructions per cycle (IPC)

> For many people, this is the holy grail of CPU measurements in terms of how fast an architecture per core really is.

Based on his work with simdjson, professor Lemire seems to be quite aware of microbenchmarks being problematic. But general articles out here and on HN are proclaiming Intel is doomed and can never recover, due to mitigations/lack of cores/lack of chiplets. Those concerns have yet to be reflected in the stock price.
How to say things that can't be said
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Kudos to him. For all the flack JS gets, ES2015 was a huge boon to the ecosystem and pretty nice.

> I've spent most of the last two years working on an in depth technical history of the evolution of JavaScript/ECMAScript from 1995 through 2015.

It would be interesting to read. How things came to be the way they are. It's actually quite impressive that the various browsers/companies/etc manage to cooperate at all.
Can the guy on call clean the stalls in the bathroom too? Change the trash? You probably need a custodian too on shift. The mcDonalds by campus gets trashed instantly during drinking hours.
I was homeless and a stranger gave me an apple. I washed it and sold for $.01. I used the proceeds to buy 2 dirty apples, washed them and sold for $.02. Then I learned that my grandma died and left me with $1M inheritance.
They lost me when they added indexed properties for better office interop, yet neglected core CLR runtime performance optimisations like struct inlining for several years.