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> - It prevents viewing the site offline (e.g. on an airplane) without first scrolling through the whole content while online.

I'm genuinely surprised by how many apparently considerate websites like Wikipedia seem to completely ignore this consideration. I often don't have a working internet connection. Why shouldn't I be able to read the article I already loaded when on wifi? Why should I pay for mobile data when I tried to load a page on wifi?

Meaningful, content images should be loaded on a phone when using a non-metred connection promptly so that a user need not waste their metred connection just because they want to read an article on a bus - or a subway.

Breaking the website for the five geeks who disable javascript isn't really a valid consideration, in my view, despite the fact that I ran with disabled javascript for a long time.

But your final paragraph is very much true. Mobile UA authors should consider enabling lazy loading on metred connections and disabling it on non-metred connections by default.

Long term users of web browsers can probably remember in the days of 14.4k browsers, many people used the setting to disable loading images by default. A modern version of that setting should be restored.
Electrocuting the brain like in electroshock therapy most likely wipes any electrical activity. That seems to indicate that the brain is able to recover after such an event.
"the comparison is still flawed because it doesn’t matter if Intel can do more instruction per cycle if AMD can produce more cycles in a span of wall time."

The reason Intel had the "per core" superiority crown for years is that it had a better IPC performance due to design efficiency. Both manufacturers are pushing against the same frequency ceiling, so if you went AMD you had to significantly increase the core count to catch up, and could never match the still important single-thread performance.

We know from large scale, comprehensive benchmarks that AMD has massively picked up the pace and is neck and neck with Intel. At the same processor speed it matches the best Intel processors.

But yeah, this article is just terrible. Not just tiny, minuscule, extremely myopic benchmarks, but then a gross over-reach with conclusions. And in the way that ignorance begets ignorance, the fact that it's trending on a couple of social news sites means that now Google is surfacing it as canonical information when it's just a junk, extremely lazy analysis.
I'm sure you look you can find something which tells you that Microsoft is also privacy focused in their marketing material. Heck even google says they are focused on privacy:

https://policies.google.com/faq?hl=en-US

> We know security and privacy are important to you – and they are important to us, too. We make it a priority to provide strong security and give you confidence that your information is safe and accessible when you need it.

I guess they should just shut down the site now.
I wish someone could create a viable YouTube competitor, seems like there's no one that has succeeded just yet.
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I have been using a technique that's almost identical to this for years, based simply on observing that the roots are symmetric around the min/maximum: differentiate, set to zero, then difference of squares.

This cannot be an unrecorded technique can it?
I use it because I've written many filters for my favourite websites. Also you can use lists which can block even more things. In my case I've blocked all social network bullshit, including icons, share buttons, widgets, etc
The kiosks could be improved, but won't, because the annoyances are on purpose - they're trying to upsell.
> Or you could just ask them.

I can easily make a computer program which, when asked "Are you conscious?", will reply with "Yes", but that doesn't mean that it is conscious. Conversely, you can ask someone who doesn't speak English, "Are you conscious?", and they will only stare at you confusedly, but that doesn't mean that they're not conscious.

Therefore, "just asking" is not a reliable method at all to find out whether an entity is conscious.
You have to realize that Norway is swimming in oil, so quite easy to subsidize all that you want. Then McDonald's net income is about USD 6bn not USD10bn. Which divided by its 1.7 million employees would make an extra USD 294 per month, which as someone already pointed out would go straight into the landlord's pockets. By comparison McDonald's is also quite profitable (net income margins close to 30%), unlike most competitors with margins closer to 2-3% and that also pay low salaries. Just pointing out economics.
> Sorting, graph traversal, and other algorithms are well covered by undergraduate computer science curriculums, but this algorithm is basically impossible to come up with unless you know it already and it’s not even something that you would “know to know”…

Even a lot of the "basic algorithms" taught in undergrad courses would be gnarly to invent on your own without clues in less than an hour. There's a reason they're named after famous computer scientists. If they were easy, we wouldn't bother teaching them.
>but the story is a bit more complicated than it may appear

How so? That list you wrote isn't complicated. It's a pretty simple timeline. 5 of the 11 items are basically "Musk does something petty, rash and/or impulsive."
Not sure I agree. I've worked with a few "smartasses" in my time, and it can be a real pain. Some people are absolute masters of the technical details of a subject, but fail to see the wider context.

For example, you get developers optimising the hell out of a block of code - making it unmaintainable in the process - when the real bottleneck is developer time, not processor time. Or someone builds a giant vector autoregression model powered by MCMC when a rolling mean would have been adequate for the task.

Build the simplest tool that will solve the task at hand is not a mantra that comes easily to some people.
This seems more complicated and roundabout than completing the square. The average of the roots shows up that way too:

We want to write x^2 + bx + c = 0 in the form (x+m)^2 + n = 0, so there's only one x left and we can rearrange for it.

Expanding, (x+m)^2 = x^2 + 2mx + m^2, so we get the x^2 we want, and the coefficients of x tell us b = 2m, so m = b/2. We also get an m^2 (= b^2/4) we don't want, so let's take it away:

(x + b/2)^2 - b^2/4 = x^2 + bx

That x + b/2 is x - (-b/2), x minus the average of the roots, which is the x value the parabola is centred on. Then we add c:

(x + b/2)^2 - b^2/4 + c = x^2 + bx + c

To find the roots, set it to 0 and rearrange for the one x that's left:

(x + b/2)^2 - b^2/4 + c = 0

(x + b/2)^2 = b^2/4 - c

x + b/2 = ±√(b^2/4 - c)

x = -b/2 ± √(b^2/4 - c)

Note that this is the average of the roots ± the article's z. Then combine:

x = -b/2 ± √((b^2-4c)/4)

x = -b/2 ± √(b^2-4c)/2

x = (-b ± √(b^2-4c))/2

If you have ax^2+bx+c = 0, divide the equation by a first, then do the same steps and you get the normal quadratic formula:

x = (-b ± √(b^2-4ac))/(2a)

I think the linked post misstates the purpose of the article: it's not about new maths, but about pedagogy and ways of explaining the quadratic formula.
> My favourite eco-systems are Java, .NET and C++.

The only thing about Java that I really like is that you can not use it in it's ecosystem while not feeling like a second class citizen. Kotlin (I didn't use the other JVM languages so far) feels 100% supported while F# in Visual Studio is kind of rough.

Java itself: hope I never have to work with it.
Once you've kicked the car-driving habit, kicking Google Maps is easy...
The Autos tab in VS has the return values of functions after executing a line.
What's wrong with <img src="image.png">? Maybe some kind of semantic purpose <img src="image.png" purpose="decoration"> vs <img src="image.png" purpose="graphical-content"> but you can imagine every website owner will think that their logo is graphical content and respectful UA authors will need to disregard the semantic attributes and try to guess based on the presence or absence of some kind of caption, for instance.

UAs could easily lazy load by default on metred connections.
It's typically targeted at someone of sufficient seniority that the cost of McKinsey is negligible when compared to the cost of doing the wrong / less optimal thing.

Or, in other words, if a manager makes a wrong decision then it costs the company $x00,000. If an SVP or C-level screws up, it costs the company $x0,000,000+.
Interesting. I also found this post about using UpnP on ipv4 addresses to unmask ipv6. https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2019/03/ipv6-unmasking-vi...
When your brain doesn't get oxygen it will die. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebral_hypoxia
Castling is a king move in regular chess
Hi, I work at Cliqz on our Anti-tracking system, and the WhoTracks.Me data that powers these stats on the search page.

These stats are updated monthly, and based on millions of loads of each site. The WhoTracks.Me page for wikipedia.org (https://whotracks.me/websites/wikipedia.org.html) shows that the Google Fonts and Google Static trackers occur very infrequently (<2% of pages), so may be on some part of the site that you did not visit.

While the Wikimedia tracker may seem innocuous, they do set a cookie that is sent in third-party contexts, and have presence across several sites beyond Wikipedia (133 of the top 10k) (https://whotracks.me/trackers/wikimedia.org.html). Theoretically, they could track user sessions across these sites. In reality this is likely an oversight in the server configuration, but objectively this profile looks no different to that of a legitimate tracker.
Is Chrome a bad browser? I feel that unlike IE6 vs Firefox, Chrome is not inferior to the competition and in fact moves faster, not slower towards innovation.
We'll never build conscious AI, purely because we'll never admit that "a mere computer" is conscious.

I think we're more likely to inadvertently prove that qualia don't really exist in us any more than they do in computers.
No, it's basically what the quadratic formula does. (Well, all methods solve the same equation and get the same roots, so they have to be equivalent.)
> Refusing to speak spanish is a myth

As a general rule, people like to communicate and can't help it, regardless of politics.

Political institutions, on the other hand, might not. So it turns out that, as a foreigner who can speak Spanish in Barcelona, you will find that you'd still need to put the additional effort into learning Catalan in order to take full part in cultural and institutional life.

Whether this is good or bad, is a political question, but it's understandable that some people find it limiting if they have no other relationship with the Catalan language.
That's incredible! Are the pictures online anywhere?
Weird, your domain (cliqz.com) was blocked by my pihole.
Chrome is technically excellent software. This is all about how the company Google conducts its business.
Well it took YT over a decade to become profitable —before that it was losing lots of money so it’s kinda understandable competitors would be few and far between
This is not exactly a new finding, and one of the reasons the ecoduct was invented.

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

They work just as well for forests as for other biotopes but the countries where the forests end up slashed into pieces tend not to have the funds to reconnect them.
Science needs to catch-up with what dog trainers know
People need wayfinding regardless of how you get around.
As far as I know, it didn't behave differently on Ukraine targets. The attack was on Ukrainian tax software M.E.Doc that businesses in the Ukraine are legally mandated to use.

So it was targeted at the Ukraine, but plenty of multinational companies also operate there, so they were collateral damage
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Why not entertain the notion that matter is consciousness? It doesn't just feel like something to be a particular atom, that particular atom exists because it feels like something to be that particular atom.
This is good stuff man. It takes a lot of courage for the both of you. My wife was diagnosed with stage 3C ovarian cancer 1 year, 11 months and 1 week ago. She's been through remission, recurrence and is now on her fourth type of chemo to try to push it back. We've had a little bit of encouraging news recently but there's still a long way to go.

I'm sure you've already done some research but I would definitely suggest familiarizing yourself with the various treatment options that are 'standard of care', gain an understanding about the pros/cons of clinical trials, how they select candidate patients and maybe scan around for trials that are applicable to her case. Also it becomes incredibly difficult to keep weight on, at least for my wife who is by any standard presently malnourished. Finding simple to eat shakes/smoothies/etc are very helpful.

If she has a full hysterectomy she's likely to struggle with night sweats. I bought my wife a BedJet last year for that but it has turned out to be a wonderful thing in the winter as well to help keep her warm.

Anyway, best of luck to the both of you.
> I have trouble understanding why this deserves a paper. This is what I learned in middle school back in Vietnam (although I did take advanced Math).

> [...]

> It's known to middle school students in Asia that multiplying the original equation so that A == 1 would greatly simplify the roots formula.

I think the same having attended a regular grammar school in Germany.
Note that he critisize the classical formula but that he, then, suppose that A=1 when he gives his formulation (making it simpler). Adding A back gives :

-B/2A ± sqrt(B²/4A - C/A)

which is not obviously simpler than :

(-B ± sqrt(B² - 4AC)) / 2A
I figured, that's what most "normal" people would assume. ( and so would I).

But computer geeks ( we are talking about kind of people who code for 'fun') are not normal people. Their default is to take words' meaning literally, unless they have somehow (often painstakingly) managed to learn the ways of normal folks communicate.
Basically a tabletop hydraulic press. You can buy those for under $200.
Having tried at it after programming for platforms like the C64 and VIC20 for a while, I found it refreshingly simple. There's nothing that'll steal the bus from you at strange times (like badlines on the C64) and since there are no interrupts there's no interrupt jitter either. It makes it easier to keep track of how many cycles you're wasting and when exactly.

The 2600 doesn't even really synchronize video for you. It can pause the CPU until the next scanline (via a WSYNC register, like the computers) but it's up to the programmer to generate the correct number of lines and generate a vertical sync pulse. Because all the graphics registers are one dimensional, the CPU will most likely be occupied with reloading them during the visible portion of the screen to produce 2D graphics and handle game logic outside it, keeping track of when to prepare for drawing again by polling a timer register or keeping track of how many cycles were wasted exactly.

Another interesting limitation is that there is only a very crude way of absolutely positioning sprites horizontally. You do this by strobing a register that resets a horizontal sprite counter. This positions the sprite horizontally where the beam happens to be at the time, so you have to pace your positioning with the beam. After you have done that to position the sprite roughly where you want it, you can nudge it relatively to its current position -8 to 7 (or something like that) pixels at a time.

It became apparent to me while working with it and reading the documentation that this was designed to be the minimum viable product to support just a couple of types of games (e.g. Combat and Pong) which makes the variety of its game library much more impressive.

My game source is at https://github.com/boomlinde/jupitersumo if anyone is interested. It's a two player game with a simple graphics kernel (two player sprites, a playfield and two life counters).
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This equation has very interesting implications.

E. g. more lanes translates to higher automaker profits at expense of less overall population happiness.

Faster computers translate to higher overall rate of software use at expense of more overall time spent waiting
The project owner seems to be a Ltd. and the quote's source links to an external personal blog. For me, that makes the quote a kind of generally-speaking testimonial.
Is the Computer Science Degree Dead?
A woefully underused narrative mode. Makes me want to reread Charlie Stross's Halting State.
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With AI/ML and facial recognition I wonder how long it will take before supermarkets etc. start to track the productivity of their employees and account them for it (reprimand, salary, job loss, ..).

They will be 100% aware of the cameras then, all-of-the-time.
Tom Kiefer documents lives via items seized by border patrol
Hacker news is not your advertising venue.

“I see your yard is right on the corner, perfect for my signs!”
Great overview.
Take a look at Codemirror (https://codemirror.net/). It has support for autocompletion, although I haven't tested this myself.

You can also define syntax highlighting for your grammar.
The article gives short shrift to the reason this was originally put in place: to incentivize the GSA to aggressively outsource the government.

The GSA, like the departments they're serving, are filled by government employees.

Absent an incentive structure, a radical new executive commandment like "Outsource all the things" would get a yawn, papers filed, and absolutely no mass action.

And unlike private industry, I believe performance bonuses aren't really an option for government employees.

The flip side of job security is decreased initiative.
Macros That Work Together: Comp-Time Bindings, Partial Expansion (2012) [pdf]
OpenStreetMap had solid data, but my periodic attempts at finding a good app haven't been successful.
The hate factory: how Facebook fuels far-right profit
If that argument makes sense for the Internet, shouldn’t it also make sense everywhere else?

Food trucks. Why are there any regulations?
Same for restaurants.
What about automobiles? Why are their safety features over regulated? Doesn’t that just benefit incumbents?
I shop for prescription drugs at a pharmacy. Why are pharmacists regulated? Isn’t it a gatekeeping scam? Shouldn’t I be able to buy Oxycodin at the corner-store if I want?
What leads to brain damage, as I understand it, is lack of oxygen like all other organs and hypothermia reduces your brain activity and its consumption of oxygen but I always interpreted brain activity as an indicator of oxygen consumption and not as something that'd have a cause-effect relationship with brain damage.
Found this by googling: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24882104
All of this happened within less than 2 years to the point where you had to do extensive rewriting for just starting your old code. Python 2 was mostly stable 8 years, and you could continue to run Python 2. Java as far as I know (it's not a stack I regularly work in) rarely require rewrite because a new version comes out.
I wouldn't consider that a "habit" for most people.
Why?

In the days of paper, if you didn’t pay for your subscription, you didn’t get the newspaper at all.
Computer vision systems will tear through this video like it’s nothing
I though it was “SEE IT, SAY IT [and we will] SORT IT”.

It still gives me the chill.
They're ignoring the truncation problem. If I tell someone to look at
the https://w3.org/something/6287297 URL, is that really correct, or
did I botch a copy/paste of the https://w3.org/something/62872975 URL?
I understand that https://w3.org/something/62872975.xml isn't optimal
because XML might die. Is there a future-proof AND
truncation-resistant approach, like always using
https://w3.org/something/62872975.end regardless of the content type?
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Building a Bitcoin Price Watcher with Alerts in Java
To avoid leaking IPs, you can use cloudflared tunnel.
It might get pricy if you move a lot of bytes, but it’ll isolate you from IP leaking issues.
Honu: Syntactic Extension for Algebraic Notation (2012) [pdf]
The a = 1 is not the important bit - that's probably nearly universal.
I really like the idea of PeerTube, I wish it would gain a larger audience. Profitability might be it's biggest hurdle though.
And if you don’t pay your newspaper subscription you don’t get the paper delivered to your door at all.

Complaining about paywalls isn’t productive.
Goldman CEO takes the subway, gets his own coffee and has a side hustle as a DJ
I remember this quote or saying:

“We live in a special time: there are cameras everywhere, and we can see them. In the past, they were not everywhere. In the future, we will not be able to see them.”
She mentioned that it was less than she anticipated. Also, a month has 4.33 weeks on average, so even with the $215 weekly, they would be making $1863 per month.
Have you tried OSMand (https://osmand.net/). It is not very pretty, but I definitly love the "offline" feature and bicycle maps.
Who Says Mainframes and the Cloud Don't Mix?
> Theres a big push underway now to get rid of all American civil rights in favor of security theater

Huh?
Tech CEOs Leaving in Record Numbers. Why?
Yes, they're terrible. Katex or MathJax would be both easier and better. There's also at least one formula mistake: a cx^2 shows up briefly.
If things are that sensitive and important no disk should leave a building whole. You have to have a ridiculous process in place that is unforgiving that says that unless physically destroyed a disk cannot leave a building (unless it’s in a sealed bag from mfg —obviously disks have to get from receiving to where they’ll be used).
oh, i found out where the leak was

it's right at the end of the article - the attacker was abusing the "create a preview card of any posted URL" feature - he'd post a link, wait for pleroma to go and grab the url to preview it, then narrow down which one was mine based on user agent

i added an upstream proxy and anonymised the user agent, so even if he were to do that, the most he'd find was my proxy box