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Huawei Cloud does have Kunpeng ARM servers available in some AZ (at least I know Bangkok AZ2 has some). They also run managed Redis on ARM so cheap that it will cost more to run it yourself on Intel VM.

I'm excited to see the price drop when Elasticache moves to ARM.
>When mice continue to eat the high-fat, low-carb diet beyond one week, Dixit said, they consume more fat than they can burn, and develop diabetes and obesity.

It is my understanding and experience that eating high fat is to assist with the body entering Ketosis. After the body enters Ketosis the fat you ingest is scaled back so your body can burn the fat storage you carry.Basically it's low carb life style eliminating most fat you consume since the idea is to burn your body fat.

This doesn't seem like a good study since they just kept pumping fat into the mice even after they were in Ketosis without reducing it so they could lose body fat. No wonder they got obese and developed chronic illness.
C will not throw an exception when you try to dereference a null pointer. C does not have exceptions. Instead, dereferencing a null pointer results in undefined behaviour, which is often tough to deal with. Having an exception thrown is a lot nicer. In C the compiler is free to make optimizations, based on the programmer's vigilance about which pointers may or may not be null, which you would have never expected on your own[1]. Debugging these issues is hell.

[1]: <https://www.imperialviolet.org/2016/06/26/nonnull.html>
Thank you! I will do that!
This is a pot calling the kettle black. Someone claimed it was unclear the bat was for human consumption, then someone posted a link of someone Chinese eating a bat, and then you inferred some racist undertone from a comment that was nothing more than a link to the video.
It's just the monthly "promote Lobste.rs in HackerNews because we have very few people" post.
I always thought that this was the reason... so they could charge more to businesses because they tend to upload more then download (not sure if it is still true today).
@NonNull etc are not completely meaningless ... if you run SpotBugs it can be set up to fail your build if the contract specified in the annotations isn't met. I love static analysis!
Author suggests to do all the experiments in parallel yet neglects to take in account limited resources
My group's estimated R0 for MERS was very securely in the same ballpark. There's a lot more needed for "sweeping the globe" than a single R0 measurement in a single context (R0 isn't actually a biological constant, despite people treating it like it is).
First, it's not really a path dependency. Silicon is easier to work with than gallium arsenide, not just because we have more practice. We have more practice because it's easier.

How do we break out? By gallium arsenide offering enough more than silicon does to be worth the effort. So far, that hasn't happened. It may never, except for small niches.
I wonder how many studies there have been of Organic food during that time period, that are now invalidated and need to be withdrawn.
It looks like it's not exactly news as such; I found this USGS report about the problem from 1999: https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs-0142-99/fs-0142-99.pdf
Joe says it was purely a design doc:

https://twitter.com/jckarter/status/1221232990233038848?s=20
Whoa. I zoomed out, then double whoa.
I don't think you can handwave away what "true understanding" means, and whether or not humans would meet the bar that you are implicitly setting. I don't think GPT is AGI either, but nobody is claiming it is. The claim is that it's a step along that path, making much more sophisticated and less articulable connections between expressed concepts than was previously possible. It's not clear to me that this is an unreasonable claim.
Yes, Zhang Shibo (retired general and fmr. President of the PLA National Defense University) in his book. And a textbook from the NDU called Science of Military Strategy. Both these sources are from 2017.
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It isn't, but is an opportunity for that to happen. The eating of 'bush meat' is how lots of Zoonosis events happen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoonosis
It depends on what you want to maximize, because you don't use manufactured fertilizer, but you might need to deforest 3x the land to generate the same long-term average yield.
I'll give the sales pitch.

Solus calls itself a curated rolling release. You get a stable, pretty, desktop OS which is continuously updated.

Package manager (eopkg) does what it says on the tin, is not radical or interesting (in my opinion).

Budgie is snappy and clean with a slight Windows aftertaste.

Another plus for Solus is transparent development. Take a look around:

https://dev.getsol.us
Touching stuff other people touch, and then touching your eyes/mouth is a bigger issue than talking to people
Feels like we're talking about 2 totally different machines - I'm using one right now, and always use it or a Surface Pro 7, and I couldn't be happier. I use one of them on my lap 95% of the time (I generally work from a recliner). I love the keyboard in this situation. I guess I've never tried putting weight on it - maybe that's a different keyboarding approach; I think the ergonomic recommendation is to not rest your hands on the keyboard, IIRC.

I'm entirely satisfied with the performance. Although mainly I'm coding in a terminal through ssh, so I don't push it much. But for videos, browsing, etc I've never had any issues.

Along with the very pleasant WSL Linux experience, I also wouldn't want to go back to a computer without a touchscreen and excellent stylus support. Of course, I could get that with an iPad Pro, but then I don't have a real computer - so I'd need 2 devices (which I used to do, and hated it). Being able to read and annotate papers with a pen (including in portrait mode) is very nice, as is presenting from a computer I can draw on directly.

I'm surprised at how long the battery lasts, and like the magnetic connection to power or docking station. The dock is really nice too, although I don't use it as much as I used to, since I'm mainly using it on my lap nowadays.
Part of the rationale of ACME (the protocol which makes Let's Encrypt work, and which is standardised in RFC 8555) is that vendors should bake the support into their TLS-capable products like IIS.

It seems crazy to me that Microsoft shops are annoyed that the Windows tooling for Let's Encrypt isn't great yet didn't direct that straight at their vendor. What's the point of having that relationship if they don't do what you need? Are you paying them because you hate money?

Microsoft definitely could, if the feedback from customers was there, have shipped an ACME client for IIS in newer IIS releases/ updates. But the feedback from customers is seemingly "More beatings please, and have you thought of increasing prices?"
My thoughts exactly. It's not like the guy came out and said "shithole", and just because he didn't doesn't mean it's okay to just slap a "subtle" modifier on the accusation.
I don't think ancestors is the word you're looking for here ;-)
>can for combinations of pixels indicating pornography

How could this possibly work in the era before convolutional neural networks?
I have a reverse story of this.

Bumped into a friend from freshman year in the computer lab one day. I don't recall what happened, but he decided that something I had said or done offended his honor (half jokingly) and that he was going to email bomb my account as retribution. He writes a shell script to do this, and proudly shows it to me. I read the code, state, "You don't want to do that," and walk away.

He does want to do that. A moment later he notices that his terminal window has started acting oddly. So he decides to log out and log back in (he could have just opened a new window). And it won't let him log in.

As I open my email client to delete the couple dozen emails his script managed to send, I explain to him that he just fork-bombed himself, and since the ulimit was something tiny (32 processes?) it took me less time to delete the 'mail bomb' he sent me than it did to explain what he did. And since he closed his only shell, only an admin could now get him out of this.

"I told you you didn't want to do that."

He did, in fact, have to go to the admin and apologize.

A year later, "friend" applies to and is accepted into the NSA. And joke's on me, because I have slept a little less soundly every night since knowing the idiot who fork-bombed himself is now involved in national security. God help us all.
> everything 'insecure' you just described comes from users running code that might be injected.

No, I gave 3 different examples where JavaScript is irrelevant but HTTPS is still important.

* Online banking (HTTPS prevents snooping)

* Software updates (HTTPS ensures you get untouched data)

* Browsing a Wikipedia page about a medical condition (HTTPS prevents snooping)

> There's no danger from some entity tricking some person into viewing a simple html page.

That's not true. Not all browser security flaws involve JavaScript.

Browser flaws aside, it's still important to prevent an attacker from modifying the page to perform a phishing attack (tricking a non-technical person into visiting faceb00k.com, and then capturing their password). Less seriously, HTTPS blocks injection of spam into your page by an ISP.

HTTPS is also important to prevent profiling by unscrupulous ISPs.
It seems like what you and the linked piece are taking about are a narrow set of heavyweight old-school creative apps that are analog to the Adobe suite.

I see how the App Store impedes existing apps of that kind, but the presence of newcomers like Pixelmator and Pixelmator pro seems to imply that it’s more about legacy than about anything fundamental.

I also don’t see how this is about the wider category of ‘tools for thought’. MindNode for example is a world class tool for thought that thrives on the App Store too.

Given these examples it’s hard to see how there is any general conspiracy against tools for thought, although I grant that meeting the needs of people like Adobe is a low priority.
It can be an intimidating thing to challenge, and was awkward as hell to pull my boss aside and say "Can we talk about some concerns I have with this contract?", then proceeding to show him huge swaths of text that needed to be removed.

They said it was just kind of a stock contract they used, and I'm willing to believe that I guess because it wasn't a fight to get them to remove it. The lawyer specifically said that it would be on them to prove the clauses relevancy, but your mileage may vary. She pretty much laughed at it and charged me for like 15 min to 30 min of time.
Sure, but we've been at war now for 19 years or so at least (2001, possibly longer). If the time of war is every single day, then there is no time of war and the government is just using that as an excuse to justify its inhumanity. In fact, if you want to name years we haven't been at war since WWII, you're not going to get many years. But I see what you're getting at: when we're at war, the constitution is suspended. I just go a tiny step further and say the constitution has been permanently suspended. There is no difference between those positions currently, considering we are in a permanent state of war and have been so for almost two decades.
SA probably hacked his phone, but not to get his saucy text messages. Khashoggi was a WaPo reporter, which Bezos owns.
> User-Agent is divulged publicly with all requests to all sites, so no protections exist around using it, because it is freely offered up by the user without requiring consent.

This seems like an argument you'd lose if your website failed to respond to requests that were missing the User-Agent.
>They are right about null. To say it is a billion dollar mistake is completely over blown. Maybe it was at the time but now a null pointer exception is extremely easy to find and fix.

The whole idea is not to have to "find it and fix it" at runtime... Whether it's "easy" or not it's a moot point, as it is after your program just crashed or got into an undefined state, while your server is running or your desktop user is using it...
Some Intel chips can encrypt memory with different keys for different VMs. This sounds great for marketing but adds basically no security whatsoever. The feature is called MKTME.

What’s going on here is that “different keys for different VMs” does not actually improve isolation without a considerable amount of hardware or microcode enforcement. AMD has this type of tracking of which VM is which. Intel does not. I don’t know what AMD does.

In any case, exception makes little difference. Cores aren’t bound 1:1 to VMs, so the core can access any VM’s data if it wants. And actually clearing the key on a context switch would require flushing caches and require that there is no cache shared between cores. The performance hit would be extreme.
SpaceX is launching 'dark satellites'. Astronomers are skeptical
But stories do have multiple sides, even if one side is flat out wrong.

I don't think anyone on the right or left would say that the present problem with Journalists is that they present both sides too well.

That's not to say that there's never a correct position. Assuming there is another version is different from assuming all versions are on multiple footing.
There was a company I like claim something like "only 5% of our users <do a thing that we dont support>" as argument for not supporting the thing.

To me, I heard "A full 5% of our users want this badly enough to hack around and get this for themselves"

This would be like Comcast saying "Less than 1% of our customers are using 10 gigabit connections, so clearly this isnt a thing people want"... You dont even offer that speed so of course the user base is low (assuming even top businesses can get those speeds). It's your job to increase the user base.

Yes, I want symmetrical broadband. But I would rather have 200/20, than 10/10. Don't mistaken that for "lack of demand" but rather "settling for what the area monopoly provides"
Same experience here with Vultr, always go down. But seems to be a bit better now than before.
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clarity: this is arguably not FP specific, but I think that having declarations for binary layouts would save a lot of very confusing shifting and masking

concurrency: to the extent that you can get by with pure functions, they also tend to be more trivially multithreaded. you also have quite a bit more flexibility wrt things like STM, or lazy evaluation, or other more novel notions f concurrence scheduling

regions: I think GC is pretty much a no-no, at least for some critical sections. but there is a lot you can do with static analysis to both make allocation more statically safe and more performant than generic heaps

closures: again, not specific to FP..but using closures makes asynchronous programming really quite nice

runtime: having a proper runtime with maps, higher order functions and and real string functions when not in the performance path really does save a lot of time.

immutability: not sure its a win, but I find it super instructive to think about what actually has* to be mutable in a big system..C really loses the distinction since with the exception of the verb and viral const, everything is mutable by default. you can also* play lovely tricks with explicit time ala MVCC and Daedelus

even the sum of that I think doesn't really justify a project...but if you're doing it anyways...why not try to make something a little nicer than the huge and difficult to debug standard C business
The video is encoding meaning that the number of bits transmitted is much smaller than if raw pixels were sent. Theoretically the same could work for streaming your desktop. But it would be very hard to do without causing noticeable lag.
No, I totally could have written a separate R script that was then run by the bash script. I just wanted to have it all in one file, and I thought it was a fun challenge figuring out how to do it.
Interesting. I received an SP7 for christmas from my wife after I made one too many comments about the crummy battery on my XPS 13. I didnt expect to like it as much as I do. Your issues with 1N are not thinks I encounter regularly myself but for my use it's an amazing machine.
That has nothing to do with Moore's Law which is about the number of transistors on a chip. The process nodes are named so that halving the size of process node will result in increasing the number of transistors by 4x within the same area.

The problem with measuring physical features of a transistor is that once you change the design of the transistor multiple times [0] it no longer becomes meaningful to measure one specific dimension. As you can see the gate size barely changes but the transistor count keeps increasing drastically.

[0] https://www.hwsw.hu/kepek/hirek/2017/03/planar_finfet_gaa.jp...
Fair point, but I think that was more true maybe 5-8 years ago. Since streaming services have taken off, piracy has gone way down, and providers see subscription-based streaming services as their existential threat. If any ISPs haven’t realized this, they’re just behind the curve. Bell clearly has, hence Crave TV.

Just think, who do you know outside of some geeks that bother with torrents anymore? Even most geeks who know how to pirate video and music don’t bother. They just give their $5 to $15 to netflix/hulu/amazon/spotify and don’t bother with the hassle.
I can't speak to your hypothetical coat, but this coat is advertised to literally last many years so you are either arguing that it's fine for the seller to lie or you don't have an argument at all.

Also $80 might not be a lot of money to you, but it is a lot of money to most people in this world. So that's not an argument either. I can afford to buy a Lamborghini on impulse, so how come everyone can't afford one, is frankly a ludicrous argument, whether it applies o Lamborghinis or to coats.
Why buy organic at all? There’s no proof that the meat is any better for you from the article. And unless there is more regulation of what is considered organic, I would argue that there is little environmental or philosophical reason to buy organic either. At least in the US, the standards for being organic are absurdity low.
it's pronounced 'diabeetus'
>It's not the UX, Snapchat had the worst UX/UI ever but their success was related to the mass of people they've appealed to.

Sorry but this is just not a useful argument. Every product that targets this demographic is good because it targets this demographic? Face it, everyone is trying to appeal to these consumers, and most fail. Tik Tok did it very successfully, and merits some consideration for having done it in a crowded and competitive space, as did snapchat at some point in time.
According to libertarian philosophy, the public soon finds out about such cheats and takes their business elsewhere. Thus little oversight is needed.
I don't see any Rust source code on its GitHub: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters.
I can't speak to the rest, but the list of installed fonts is presumably so that websites can decide whether to download a font or to pick from the options already available.
TIL!

French speakers do not use "byte" but "octet". If you look at French websites they use ko, mo, and go.
The Web PKI in theory is subject to oversight by all the big trust stores which is roughly the set of operating vendors except Mozilla instead of the Free Unixes (and less importantly Oracle because Java is as usual special).

But in practice over many years of involvement my observation would be that the only thing which matters is Mozilla. At the others such oversight is opaque and whilst opacity might mask a hive of frantic activity it's also what doing nothing would look like from outside such a corporation. But at Mozilla it's done in public, where you can participate if this idea of a "privileged few" bothers you. And so again, I can't prove Microsoft doesn't have loads of smart people dedicated to this problem, but I can tell you that their actions in the period I've been paying attention look exactly how I'd predict from two inputs: Government scale purchases of Microsoft's product platform (driving trust inclusion in Windows for a variety of governments I wouldn't trust to tell me if it's raining let alone in the CA role) and copy-pasting Mozilla decisions.
> the virus originated most likely from bats but through an intermediary source

They don't mean another animal. They are hinting at the new Wuhan BSL-4 facility:

https://www.nature.com/news/inside-the-chinese-lab-poised-to...
The number which seemed strangest to me is that my up-to-date pixel 3a phone has a user agent shared with only 0.01% of browsers.
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"Hello"

Was this generated by a human or a computer?
You know what I understand? How are you inside my head?

In fact, an understanding of deterrence is the basis for my critique. Deterrence is just branding for an endless cycle of escalation, investment, and global danger. It's almost as if, perhaps, you weren't alive during the Cold War and don't understand its absurdity.
I used to use promethese, but they recently sold out.
Democracy dies in paywalls.
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Honest question here about the risk of being “unique”...:

If my unique identifier changes with each browser version + os version + timezone + build id + fontpack + screen size... am I really trackable through this vector? Those things change all the time for me at least. Seems like a very short term method of tracking at best. Why should we be afraid of these things? I had the same question about panopticlick (or whatever EFF called it).
>This doesn't seem like a good study since they just kept pumping fat into the mice even after they were in Ketosis without reducing it so they could lose body fat.

Still very useful as that's what many people on keto do even after the initial period - because fatty foods are tastier and easier to gorge on that lean protein and veggies.
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I think their point was that in modern languages (not C), having null in the language isn't so bad, as attempts to dereference null are handled fairly safely, generally with exceptions.

Same thing goes with modern languages throwing on signed overflow, where, again, C gives you the horrors of undefined behaviour.
Not really, what they did is basically summarize all the various research related to genes. It was mildly useful, but more so as just a way to easily have some surveillance as new research came out.

You may argue that it’s not useful, but saying it’s not safe is hyperbole as there is no evidence of danger or misuse and there’s been like 10-15 years for horror stories to come up.

I would like some way to automate my scanning of research for genes related to me. 23andme sort of does this again, but for years they didn’t.
> When he was growing up, Chillicothe was the kind of close-knit, rural community where the local newspaper would print kids’ letters to Santa Claus every Christmas season. Randy’s first appeared in print when he was 7 and then another made the paper two years later, in December 1967.

TFA seems to be building up the idea that this guy had a good, clean background, but here is a part of the problem. Some large part of Western society has this wonderfully wholesome tradition of deceiving its children about the origin of their so-called Christmas gifts and about various fantastical things this "Santa Claus" guy is "known" to do. Learning that he's not real is like a (shitty) rite of passage here.

The fact that Christmas used to be about the birth of that guy who said things like "I am the truth" and "I came to destroy the works of the devil" (a.k.a. the father of lies) is a multiplier on how monumentally stupid the game is.
But does that matter when young infected people are traveling.