skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are fundamentally tied into the US economy and are known to effectively share data and behaviour across industries. If you were plausibly competing with a Chinese company and working from home, the question on where the HikVision information goes is a curiousity.
How many of those "precompiled binaries" are truly performance critical? If it's just a single component, you can run it in qemu-user mode and still come out ahead overall.
Not sure about the technical merits of AMP, but it's sufficiently embraced by Google's tentacles that I just don't trust it.

Which perhaps is commentary more about Google than AMP.
No mention in this article of the famous support wires found in Trinitron PC monitors.

These wires were needed in all Trinitron products, but the more exacting demands of high resolution (1024 lines!) meant the support wires were quite visible horizontally, especially on uniform backgrounds like a gray Windows desktop. They divided the screen into three equal areas.

Despite this apparent flaw, Trinitron still had huge market share amongst enthusiast PC owners. Maybe it was brand loyalty, or maybe they really were much better quality than any other CRT out there?

At least as I remember it, if you wanted to take (or be seen to be taking) color reproduction seriously, then you had to have a 21” Trinitron. I guess the black horizontal support wires became just as much a part of brand signaling as the RGB lozenges in the logo. Lots of people I knew had amazing Trinitron CRTs and all they did was edit Word documents!

Kind of like a Leica red dot, or the white spot on Dunhill pipes.

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The EU has a dedicated site for "euromyths" reported by the UK media

https://blogs.ec.europa.eu/ECintheUK/euromyths-a-z-index/
One of those is a lot easier than the other, so take a guess.
I was more of a PC Shell (from PC Tools) person.
It took me over half the article before I could parse "Amazon RDS Proxy for AWS Lambda" as a coherent sentence rather than a series of semi-related words strung together.
I agree with a lot of this, however I think they dramatically underestimate the issue of sociopaths (who are estimated to be around 1% of the population), and other types of offender such as paedophiles and compulsive rapists.

I’ve never seen anyone propose a prison alternative that deals with these people, and yet they exist in significant numbers.

The most enlightened programs that deal with childhood psychopathy as a neurodivergence rely on helping the children to understand that it is in their best interest not to risk ending up in prison.

If prison goes, so does the only known way to deal with psychopaths.
Vignettes from the Professorhood: Writing Is Hard
Shorter.

California Prop 65 List [1]: 614 (excludes delisted entries, 'type of toxicity' contains "cancer")

Daily Mail: 169

[1] September 2019 version. https://oehha.ca.gov/proposition-65/proposition-65-list
Ideally, though, we wouldn't have to all reimplement the wheel the n+1th time every time. The great power of software is that something can be written once and used over and over again, unlike the way each building needs to be built from the ground, each dinner has to be cooked from the ingredients every day etc.

To give up this kind of modularity and relying on other software engineers' work would throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Sure you need to apply judgement about whether a library seems legit, but the other end of the spectrum is the not-invented-here attitude, which is also bad.
Star Trek writer and Hollywood trailblazer D.C. Fontana has died
TailScale – Instantly interconnect your devices and services, wherever they are
Ah that answers it, thanks for posting that.
Congratulations!

Porsche has discovered the concept of putting an electronic motor into each wheel, and what that can do for them with regards to stability control.
Also, end of Moore's law, slowing down the upgrade cycle and making CPU more of a commodity business.

I'll add a caveat to (d) because distributed can also mean distributed across cores, and whoever handles that the best gets a strong differentiator.
EU law is proposed by the Commission, made up of appointed representatives of each member state's elected government. It's voted and amended by the directly elected members of the EU parliament.

This is HN not the Daily Mail comments section, let's keep this space free of baseless europhobic disinformation.
No type system means an Erlang developer has to keep a lot of things straight in their head. It's not unique to Erlang.
I had a legitimate copy of spore back in the day but I never got to play it since I didn't have an internet connection and the DRM required it :/
China Uses DNA to map faces, with help from the West
Will we ever have an alternative UI framework that eschews html and CSS, perhaps rendering to webgl or something?
Build Systems à La Carte [pdf]
The coding style of lambdas is great. I love it.

The operational benefits were never there as were promised. Lambdas on the teams I've worked on have always required more setup, more thought into provisioning, more... Operations... than containers, or even running well-thought-out AMI autoscaling groups before them.

I hope this helps. Figuring out how to run lambdas right is a pain.
Data: Robinhood users are bad at portfolio diversification
It's not going to be perfect and local safety culture can turn a low volume place into a nightmare if managers don't care.

Alternatively is it still a large one? They have large hubs that serve larger areas, not everything is around to be serviced by a local hub.
Software Security Is a Programming Languages Issue (2018)
> when an incumbent gets beat by a company that views that core business as an ancillary means to their own core business.

Early on, books sales was Amazon's core business.
Yes, I think it is, none of what I wrote should come as a surprise to anyone even casually reading news about Boeing/Airbus. Certainly not an analyst crunching numbers.
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I did not argue the opposite.
I'm not arguing to WMF; I'm hoping to raise awareness among donors. If the WMF miss their fundraising targets due to donor displeasure, they have to come around sooner or later. Or who knows, maybe they'll run the thing into the ground. I hope not.

The worst part of it for me is that they advertise it on Wikipedia as if wikipedia were going out of business. When in reality, if you give $1.00 to WMF, ~$0.03 goes to server expenses. Wikipedia is their cash cow that funds a ton of random pet projects and a dozen or so executive staff (which seems huge for a 300 person organization).

If they were honest about that in their fundraising, I think they'd see flat or down revenue. I dislike the dishonesty used to solicit donations and then use them somewhere else. It feels similar to a con.
Typically they'd get 2% of assets under management, not 20%.
SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell Talks about Engineering Insights of Falcons
Everyone was waiting for Intel, either to switch ot to know how to respond to compete.

Inthink if Intel came out with a compelling product, Apple would have switched. I suspect they invested in ARM because it made sense at the iPod level, but once you start converging mobile and desktop experiences, there are major benefits to having the same architecture for both. Just look at how rampant the ARM MacBook rumors have been for the last few years.

I think the ARM investment by Apple was good regardless of whether they wanted to switch to Intel for higher end mobile, so I don't see it as evidence as to why they didn't want to.
Does anyone know why RDS Postgres always seems to lag behind their MySQL offering? I can imagine Postgres is that much more difficult to develop a connection pooling service for, especially since PGBouncer and PGPool-II both already exist and are widely used.
Here's the actual URL to the podcast: https://kolemcrae.com/podcast/
> It's always bugged me that AF_UNIX addresses have a relatively short length limit. If you look at the actual kernel ABI, you'll see that the sun_addr structure can be made as long as necessary. The kernel could support long unix socket addresses without new APIs.

There is no limit except the typical file path limit. The kernel does support longer paths. It will obey the third, socklen_t, parameter to both connect(2) and bind(2). The size of .sun_path from the kernel's perspective extends to the end of the sockaddr structure declared by the socklen_t parameter.

This applies not only to Linux but all Unix-like systems except, IIRC, Minix.

The flip side is that you have to check the return values of accept(2), getsockname(2), and getpeername(2) for truncation. The full path of the socket may not fit in the size of the structure you pass.
No; ordinary software doesn't modify the operating system. To see the distinction, narrow it down for a second to "modify the system to inject capabilities not previously present into system calls".
They do offer refunds for under 2 hours gameplay. This doesn't help when you have been playing for years and then it stops working but it does prevent you from buying a broken game today.
> Eliminating duplicative or wasteful structures are “synergies” whether that’s engineering, sales, support, manufacturing, or G&A staff, real estate, or basically anything else that has a fixed cost component.

I would characterize that as removing redundancy. Synergy has a different definition altogether.
i agree but i just can't justify the connection between the domain and signed content. The root node here is "X's key" and it is used to sign a domain cert and also a document. It's semantically wrong for the browser to pretend that the document belongs to the domain, and even more wrong when the signed document is being served by another domain with a completely different cert, google's!

Even app stores don't do that - if you download a signed app from any domain, it won't pretend it s downloaded from apple.com but it will report that its signed from Apple Inc. The situation is not analogous anyway because there are very few app stores from 3-4 highly trusted corporates. If any of their app store private keys are stolen the internet is fucked.
So basically what AWS just launched? AutoML/Autopilot?

OP seems to churn out a lot of these basic 'apps' and shutter them after a few months...
I finally got rid of my 1970's Trinitron TV because LCDs were so much lighter and sharper and didn't warm up the room. I used it for something like 25 years.
I tried writing Kotlin in Vim, I really did. Java was somewhat manageable, but Kotlin was absolutely impossible. The biggest thing those bloated Java-based IDEs offer is deep introspection into the language. You use a reference, the IDE can auto-import the package for you. When learning a new language, knowing what package to import is invaluable. Even the Kotlin in Action book from Manning Publications flat out says, "the IDE will automatically import that for you". It was quite a turn-off but.... it's a nice language, so when I write it, I have to use IntelliJ.
One of my favorite parts of the Woodford/Nakamura report mentioned in the article is that when they list the ideal requirements a new system should satisfy, they say that receivers should be cheap and portable.

Their threshold for cheap and portable was "Less than 100 pounds, less than $100,000". Definitely shows how far we've come.
With UTF16, simple string handling code runs faster.

When you're iterating over characters, with UTF8 branch prediction mispredicts all the time. Characters in UTF-8 have random length from 1 to 3 bytes. This might be good for bandwidth, but the tradeoff is slower processing, all modern CPUs have branch prediction hardware, and deep pipelines.

With UTF-16 CPUs predict these branches all the time, surrogate pairs are extremely rare, the rest of languages are 2 bytes/character.

While it's technically possible to optimize UTF-8 with clever programming like manual SIMD, that code gonna be much more complex than just a while or for loop, i.e. more expensive to develop and harder to support.

I think that's the reason why all platforms with rich GUI ecosystem (Windows, OSX, iOS, Android, JavaScript) use UTF-16 almost exclusively.
Intrigued,I googled.

https://www.drbob42.com/reviews/explorer.htm

Ace Breakpoint's Database Adventure
Fiziko – various things in MetaPost for a physics textbook
It’s more than that. They’ve implemented a system that’s is capable of responding in real time.
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> If prison goes, so does the only known way to deal with psychopaths.

Teach people to spot psychopaths and sociopaths, so they'll know to keep em on a tighter leash than they would otherwise. It may not be a perfect solution, but it deals with most of the damage they would otherwise cause.
Great Scott! I was there! Good times.
The first two sentences are pretty concise..

"AWS Wavelength enables developers to build applications that deliver single-digit millisecond latencies to mobile devices and end-users. AWS developers can deploy their applications to Wavelength Zones, AWS infrastructure deployments that embed AWS compute and storage services within the telecommunications providers’ datacenters at the edge of the 5G networks"
Culture in Pg community once favored separate, single purpose solutions. This was the replication story for a long time. So here's hoping they'll build-in something to help with the high costs of individual connections.
Go often for a walk, your workspace should be separated from any place in the house, be prepared for meetings, stay updated with what your coworkers are working on, etc.
How much does it matter where the hardware was made if it is using local storage? If you are worried about this sort of thing, there is no reason you need to provide routing for the devices outside of your local network (e.g. VLAN). Unlike any hardware relying on cloud services.
> I don't see the downside here

You are an honest person.
Between the Plague and WW I&II there was the Reformation and following religious wars until the Peace of Augsburg, The Thirty Years War, and the French Revolution/Napoleonic Wars. These were periods of major conflict that leveled European societies. Other wars were limited in geographic scope and/or in their objectives and means used.
If the companies are lying and bugging us no matter what 24/7 we're screwed either way, but even if google/amazon are being 100% honest their contractors are still listening to people with smart speakers having sex. If you turn off your phone's smart assistants and they are telling the truth nothing happens.

disable smart assistants on your phone and the phone won't start recording you "accidentally". You don't have that option with a smart speaker.

https://thenextweb.com/google/2019/07/10/google-contractors-...

https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/apple-siri-listening-re...
Those are rare circumstances. Self driving cars will be deployed when they are safely able to handle 99.9% of driving and they have ways to call home for instructions from remote monitors when they encounter a rare situation,who can then click on an interface to specify where to go. That's how Waymo does it currently.
Most of the ones I got looked like they were generated from replies to other tweets. The lack of context made them boring, even if that makes it easier to make them comprehensible. (I would love to see this experiment run on a dataset that filtered out reply tweets.)

But then, it have me this gem:

"It's sad when people don't understand the value of a program that targets them. I mean I do see the value, I just don't like floppy pizza."
I wasn't one of your downvoters. (As you may know, you can't downvote a direct reply to your own comment.) But I think I know why your comment was downvoted.

greesil wrote: "now that it's flagged I can't even re read it"

I replied: "You can read flagged/dead comments by turning on 'showdead' on your profile/settings page."

You then replied: "False: you can't if you're browsing the site anonymously."

Now ask yourself, who was the "you" I addressed in my comment? Obviously greesil, and by extension other logged-in users like yourself.

I wasn't talking to, or talking about, anonymous readers. I never said they could read dead comments. They don't have profile pages! The discussion had nothing to do with anonymous readers until you brought them up out of the blue and incorrectly called my comment "false".
Why did they have to be inventive? Please provide a source.
> There is no proof either way

Cool. So you agree that it has not been established, with any substantiated facts, that CEOs are overpaid. So we agree on this point. Awesome!

I am glad that we were able to come to an agreement on this point! Thank you for the good conversation, and have a nice day!
People who don't believe in anthropogenic climate change at this point are no better than people who believe the Earth is flat.
Adding Sharding to an Interval Queue
And without any additional sensors.

This is a control theory problem: creating an observer, a model of the state of an unmeasurable quantity that you want to control, from limited data indirectly related to what you want, and using that to make control outputs, in a stable manner.
They had been using ARM in released products since before Intel released the original Pentium.

Nobody was waiting for Intel to get into the cellphone market. The TDP of Intel chips just never made sense, and it was clear that this was because they just didn't institutionally care about that market segment in a real way.

Maybe pundits were waiting, but nobody serious.

Edit: and all these ARM desktop rumors are just that, rumors. They have the ability to ship a competive low to mid end laptop on their own arm chips today, and aren't. Their wide OoO designs would run beautifully in a formfactor that isn't thermally throttled so much. IMO they don't want to switch ISAs and are waiting out the x86_64 patents.
I'm not sure about MIPS, but over the years there were times when Alpha, Sparc, and PowerPC were each ahead of x86 in performance. Intel outpaced them by using their huge volume sales to invest in fabrication improvement at a scale none of them could hope to match, going to ever more complicated internal architectures, and a dash of perfectly legal but slightly expensive tricks (like hiring away key designers).

Intel stumbled in fabrication and complicated architecture is having a bit of a growing pain. The CPU market doesn't make revenue like it used it – very few desktop users feel the need to upgrade every two years and for many applications pretty much any CPU is fast enough. Growth in the cloud market could be good, but any thing that threatens their market share of the cloud is threat to Intel.
Silly question: did they control for age?

Please tell me they did, because, duh... older women have more cancer and dye their hair more.

I don't have access to the full paper, but the abstract makes no mention of this, and states they included women from 35-74.
Colombia sees fourteenth day of protest and third national strike
What are your options for local-network-only cameras built in, say EU or North America? I suppose you can go with commercial surveillance cameras but I'm not sure how practical that is for the average home user...
> I also find the type system to be a lot better in Java. In Go I'm often left wondering what I'm looking at and don't know unless I dive down into the source.

Could you please provide an example in both Go and Java? I am not quite sure that it has to do with the type system itself but your familiarity with the language and its libraries, and/or lack of basic functionality that should be in your text editor when you write Go.
Well, not everyone does that. I applied to YC with my side project [1] and got rejected. I didn't expect to get in, but if I would have, then I would be full-time on it.

Now I can't, which is a shame. So in that sense, I wish someone would fund me. I have a lot of "doodling the internet" type of ideas. I use digital note taking extensively myself, so I know what's missing.

[1] doodledocs.com
Some work as started to have a built-in connection poller on January 2019 so it will probably be available in PostgreSQL someday.
This is hilarious. My dad started gpsworld. Glad to see it's still alive.
fiziko.mp — open-source MetaPost library initially written to automate some elements of black and white illustrations for a physics textbook, especially useful for TeX/LaTeX users.[0]

[0] https://github.com/jemmybutton/fiziko
I guess my point in my response to your other comment was that iCloud already has a second key.
As per this whitepaper[0], data made by organizations (in "G Suite Core Services"[1]) is not available to their ad platform, and most likely includes all the related services that are limited to G Suite accounts (Hangouts Chat, Currents, Meet, Jamboard, etc.).

> We do not scan for advertising purposes in Gmail or other G Suite services. Google does not collect or use data in G Suite services for advertising purposes.

I mention the other divisions of Google because what their job title is means they aren't "obligated" to collect everything for use by the ad platform, as the parent implies.

I also doubt much of the actual data is available to the ad platform. Do they know you visited console.cloud.google.com? Most likely via Chrome sync history and/or Google Analytics. Do they know whether or not your cloud project is running a single n1 instance or a fleet of c2 instances? I doubt it, especially because there's not much reason to encourage other cloud computing services to advertise to someone that's directly using a competing Google service.

0: https://gsuite.google.com/learn-more/security/security-white...

1: https://gsuite.google.com/terms/user_features.html
What does “DBJ” stand for?
Then why were they raising the alarm about a coming ice age in the 70s? This is a rewrite of history.
Revealed – Causes, Treatment and Effects of Sore Throat
How long would it take for you to find a photographer, explain what you're looking for, negotiate a price and then finally receive the photographs you wanted? Probably more than a few hours.

This is where Getty adds value IMHO. Their site is a quick way to find extant photographs that fit most needs. (For this, I think their search is better than Google's.)
It demonstrates that Disney could update it, even though it's an old release.
Does centralizing many small dry cleaning places have significant economic advantages assuming that each location has to negotiate independently for it's space and (to parallel wework) items like cleaning supplies and staff management necessarily vary from location to location due to local regulations?

WeWork is sort of the golden example of a business being sold as something that works at scale... except the business doesn't actually work at scale.
At least with a smart TV it's often quite practical to just not connect it to the internet. If your camera won't function at all without a network, it's not that useful.
To stop a tech apocalypse we need ethics and the arts
Why did you not use ECS with EC2 instead of patching HAProxy? With the Amazon AMI it is pretty straightforward.
The reason I no longer use Bitdefender is because they forced MITM httpS in the browser. It wasn't optional in free product and I don't know if it is in paid. Has that changed?