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> I completely agree with Marcus' assessment of GPT-2 and its ilk. They are simply regurgitating words with zero understanding of any words/meaning.

There's a pretty strong argument that most humans also frequently do this.

My go-to example is high school physics. The majority of students merely learns to associate keywords in problem statements with a table of equations and a mapping of what numbers to substitute for what variables in those equations. Only a small handful of students actually understand what those equations represent and have the ability to generalise them beyond the course material.
They don't, it's a question of DSL profiles. Commonly used consumer DSL profiles have a 8:1 to ~2:1 ratio because that seems to match well with consumer usage. Business DSL generally is symmetric.

1000 MBit/s downstream, 35 MBit/s upstream is an 30:1 ratio, far more extreme than any DSL profile.
When you use the self-checkout, you are putting your hands on a touch screen that has been touched by thousands of people a day.

Do you think that is a less likely vector of disease propagation, compared to interacting with one cashier?

Are you concerned that the cashier's hands touched your groceries during the scanning process?

If so, whose hands do you think put those groceries on store shelves?
ISPs do not care even a little bit about piracy. The only reason piracy is an issue for them is because it hogs bandwidth, not the other way around.
> ... so it couldn't be trivially tied back to you.

Except that a fake ID will have your picture on it.
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That's not how it actually works in expensive litigation. The type of litigants who can afford such legal fees at all do understand the sunk cost fallacy and are capable of making fairly objective decisions about whether to continue.
Well an HT with some skill/training and a directional antenna can use various satellites as repeaters for 100% coverage world wide. Granted the windows are short and not that many times a day. HF rigs are a bit bigger, about the size of a small (single DIN) car radio or CB. Examples like the yaesu ft-891, ft-818, or icom ic-7100. So easy to have in a car, not so easy to carry hiking.

Others radios focus more on being portable and include batteries for hikers and SOTA (Summits on The Air). Things like the KX2, Xeigo X5105, or the new Icom IC-705 (announced but not shipping). The IC-705 actually uses the same battery as their HTs.

HF radio use (at least in the USA) requires the general license, which is a a bit harder of a multiple choice test. The easiest license is a tech which gets you privileges on the 2M and higher bands.

The digital modes give even a very modest radio amazing range. A friend demo'd a (5 watts) FT-817 in a poor location (building patio surrounded by trees, crappy antenna (random 20+ foot wire attached to the antenna port with an alligator clip, terrible antenna placement (thrown over a 8 foot tall tree branch) and was able to reach people in Ohio from California.
Yup, you're correct -- by the time 2005 had rolled around the Netscape-successors had finally produced a good product, Firebird/Firefox! It felt leagues beyond IE6, which came out near 2000 and was basically untouched for 5 years at that point.
Fair enough. Shouldn't be too much harder to use the actual surface physics next, then ..
They make sense.

en-GB would start below 5%, having en-GB on edge means someone would have to be using edge (under 1%) and not on the mobile for a mobile first site.

Keeping a current java version enabled is difficult. Each browser update, each java update disables java by default now.

Could be a small Brave sample size.
This is considered misleading. But why would it be regulated? Nobody buys a chip based on the advertised feature size. They buy on power use, MIPS, number of cores, and cost.
A better approach in my experience is to grow the whole system from a “skeleton” implementation, refactoring the architecture and code as your understanding grows. With the key use cases being your guide.
That is not the total number of deaths for either the us or the world. Please compare total deaths.

Further, note that I said at the high end: many years were lower, but it didn’t exceed other non-pandemic years.
This. The question should be why they should be allowed to do that in the first place, so "debating" is basically what they want, since it fundamentally side-tracks the discussion. I'm usually against government supervising anything, but if anything, it should be this: why facilities that are pretty much the primary example of a "public place" in modern society should be allowed spying on people without a good reason?
The same reason people eat rabbits or deer and elk, despite the risk of diseases from them. It's 2020, we have more food in the world than we did years ago no need to eat a rabbit just grab an apple.

~ An Epidemiologist Who Really Hates This Bit of Othering That Always Shows Up In Outbreaks
Lessons of East Asia’s Human-Capital Development
Frog is a static blog generator implemented in Racket
If we're making this a little bit of a surface line conversation: I'm absolutely amazed at how bad the latest Microsoft Surface Pro 7 is. I bought it for OneNote and as a second computer to my main laptop.

The pen regularly is not recognized, the entire computer freezes for 2 seconds when rotating including stuttering video and audio. The entire computer freezes for 1s when opening the keyboard which happens for me two or three times every five minutes of active work in OneNote. I've done about 20 hours of work in OneNote now and couldn't recommend it to anyone for any workflow, not formal design work, not annotating PDFs, not drawing, not storyboarding or wireframing or writing by hand. I only keep using it hoping I'll stop hitting it's fail cases by learning it all and that has yet to happen. I plan to try out the iPad next week. Any other recommendations for a thinking workspace with digital pen?

I have a list of 10-15 OneNote peculiarities that seem insane to have made it into production, and that OneNote is almost unusably laggy on Microsoft's latest device is wild to me. They center around the virtual keyboard and non-ink object selection and manipulation, of which there are zero official Microsoft tutorials or manuals. There is no way in OneNote on the surface to "exit" an action, selection or keyboard. Any tap will open the keyboard, cycling the 2x 1s freeze for opening and closing the keyboard. It's maddening.
How did they not have warm clothing? It was -30 degrees in Calgary last week. Like all week.

And how do you wind up so far off the Trans Canada? Then again, drivers in Calgary are the worst..
The reply was actually pretty spot on. It’s not a demand issue. It’s true that there is not overwhelming demand for higher upload, but that’s pretty far down the list of what prevents it from being offered.

DOCSIS 3.1 allows it on paper, yes. But in the real world, bandwidth is a huge constraint, especially if you’re also serving digital cable. No cable ISP in North America today on D3.1 has a network that can support it even if they wanted to.

For example, Comcast has 4 upstream 6mhz sc-qam channels (which is basically using none of the advantages offered by 3.1) and 32 downstream, and their video service is 720p across the board and overly compressed. They are constantly trying to free up data channels and migrate to newer codecs, and eventually go to IPTV, but that requires changing hardware both in their network in the customer’s home, or the customer’s TV goes black and their internet goes out and you get to hear their rage when you tell them they have to spend a few hundred dollars on new cable boxes/modems so that Comcast can build out their network. It’s a massive infrastructure upgrade to use DOCSIS 3.1 to its full potential that is further complicated by a need to support all of the legacy hardware during a transition.

Add to the mix that upstream channels are far more susceptible to unwanted ingress, most homes are full of amateur RG59 coax cable, and it becomes a support/troubleshooting nightmare as well. When you get into higher upstream speeds, these deficiencies become a much bigger problem.

I have observed speed tests on an uncapped docsis 3.1 modem on the comcast network getting full bandwidth on all channels, and it was still way below 100mbps upstream (around 80mbps).
E INK smartphones will be the big new trend of 2020
1st year at Uni. Year is 1993. 286 running DOS on top of Novel Netware and booting from network off a 386 behemoth that need it to run 1st.

So this guy was the sysadmin, a freshly minted assistant which had the bad habit of copying our sources and see if anything interesting is in it. Therefor I wrote a piece of code called Super.exe with nice graphics and a lot of bling bling that had inside a virus which when run from a normal user (like ours) did nothing but when was run from a Supervisor (Novel's name for Administrator) account would create another user called Hypervisor with blank password. I created the .exe, erased the sources and let it sit on my account and went home.

Next morning I tried the Hypervisor account and what do you know! I got in. Used for next 3 years to give my normal user more space when I need it and to do creepy stuff to said assistant when he was pissing me off. Poor sod never knew, always suspected bugs and viruses. I told him 5 years after that, when we met by chance at a beer with common friends. His eyes opened wide and exclaimed: "So it was you!!? I never suspected you". Fun times.
Ask HN: Is there a demand for a form builder that stores data in Google Sheets?
I have been toying with this idea for quite some team. Simply put, its an online form builder that automatically posts data to Google Sheets. Users will be able to create forms and put them directly in their websites. The forms will post data to the server via an API, the server will validate the data, and save it in Google Sheets. Does this sound useful to anyone?
That is certainly one possible outcome. However HN already supports tools to minimize the pain there via comment folding and/or hiding down voted comments (the option for that is in your profile).

Optimistically speaking another outcome is also possible, fewer people feel the need to down vote comments so topics where people are using moderation to suppress an unpopular opinion (rather than moderate an objectively bad comment) might see fewer flamewars.

Of course incorrect posts should still receive moderation but this also ensures that errors are accompanied with corrections -- which doesn't always happen at the moment.

HN's moderation system certainly isn't the worst I've seen. Far far from it!! But I do think now is a golden opportunity to review it's moderation system to see if any tweaks could enhance the experience. Doing nothing is sometimes just as bad as doing the wrong thing. :)
It's called the Origin CA and yes it's available on the free tier.

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/11500047950...
Well, it's almost the same thing, since Google now controls web standards (and Mozilla).
You're right. The mistake is not in having null pointers, it's lacking non-nullable references which is the problem. If you can write a function which only accepts a non-null reference, then you don't have to check in every function called from it.
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> do you find any value in nullable / non-null annotations

Hah! Annotations. They're tales told by idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

But seriously, they're about as meaningful as reading the javadoc. At least Optional enforces the contract; it's just clunky.
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> Cloudflare makes it impossible for people using TOR, proxies and any browser except the most popular ones.

Does it? I know the defaults can be overly sensitive, but I wouldn't call it impossible.

I have my site behind Cloudflare, using it's protections:

> ALPN, server accepted to use h2

> Server certificate:

> subject: C=US; ST=CA; L=San Francisco; O=Cloudflare, Inc.; CN=sni.cloudflaressl.com

> ...

> GET / HTTP/2

> Host: sixteenmm.org

But you won't find any issues streaming the videos on it under Tor. I, and several others, regularly do.
Exactly. A sinking tide lowers all boats. Why would I buy organic if this kind of thing can happen?
Get their member card if you want. Your consent shouldn't affect other people.
OneNote on the iPad Pro is great, just go for it.

Make sure to get the matte screen protector for the tablet for additional pen-to-surface friction.
The restrictions on travel in China will be an interesting experiment in how much interurban travel is essential.

My take would be that with modern communications and IT infrastructure, there is actually very little need for interurban travel not associated with the movement of physical goods, i.e. not associated with truck drivers, rail crews, barge crews, air freight pilots, and so forth. Most other travel can be replaced by communications.
> the firmware as well as device drivers as "blobs"

I'm pretty sure that both of them could completely compromise you
Seems more likely they want price discrimination for their business offerings. I don’t know how well that would explain things in competitive market areas though, but in monopoly areas it would make sense.
Out of curiosity, what's the state of Jazelle on modern ARM? Would it help server-side ARM, or has the world (and JITs) moved on?
In Search of Types (2014) [pdf]
Computationally? Think something like "NP hard", except the "verifier" function isn't even plausibly cheap either.

Experimentally from the real thing? I'm not even sure we know how many new pieces of technology we'd need.

It's not even clear that "the weights" are the only variable we're still needing. Even in the pure-computer-science conceptualization of neural networks, things like the activation functions matter; so, it's not unreasonable to suppose there are similar important features to track in biological systems... and whatever those are, we probably aren't getting them captured in a purely geographic connectivity scan.
> This is in stark contrast to most of the rest of the mobile industry today, which happily integrates the modem into the rest of the memory space, and would be at far greater risk should a modem exploit be discovered.

Is that still the case? I though that most phones now isolate modems via some flavor of USB with IOMMU.

And indeed, that phones now isolate modems better than Intel and AMD machines isolate USB devices. There's IOMMU, but only some software actually uses it, such as Qubes.
> We have identified specific groups of neurons to stimulate to get the fly to groom, walk, turn, and even walk backwards

This made me realize we may one day willing allow human brain controls to get us to do things we don't want - Work, Exercise, etc.
Like, with QM, we had the time and equipment to start pointing radium at some gold foil. We came up with some surprising results. With economics, we finally got enough data in to say that people really are not rational at all. With biology, we finally got the time and equipment to poke audio amplifiers into rabbit brains and some strange stuff happened. Etc.

Similarly, with all this 'big data', I would have guessed that we would have come up with something kinda like that. Finally, we have all this stuff coming in. It's all fairly well captured, fairly well correlated, and fairly valuable so you can pay people to just screw around in the labs and see what drops out.
> Does Microsoft make any of their own silicon?

No, but they've been working closely with Qualcomm since the Windows Phone 7 days (10 years ago). Their recent Surface Pro X runs a customized Snapdragon 8cx dubbed "Microsoft SQ1".

I wonder if it could help bringing ARM to Azure.
Windows NT 4 supported x86, Alpha, MIPS, and PowerPC. Yikes.
I think I'll give that a shot. I'm just greatly disappointed with OneNote's organizational features. In that they don't exist. I have notebooks > sections > pages but nothing within pages. No portals, no tools in place (leaving a pen or two in the canvas where I'm switching often). In portrait mode it takes me 3 taps to get from highlighter to pen when I'm reading papers. The PDF import as a stack is almost useless for anything larger than 30 pages. I could go on for a while. I want to try a formal design application and maybe I can make use of layers to save on the "miles" of scrolling I do in OneNote.
Just to add a little clarity, beef cattle all start eating grass and generally continue for a large portion of their life. It’s just whether or not they are “finished” on grass or grain. I’m not aware of farms using an “exclusively grain-based diet”
Reminds me of evercookie. Previously, in HN ... [1] (10 years ago!)

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1714446
Most of what the author suggests is available in (modern) C++ - while maintaining backwards compatibility with C code:

* Textual inclusion: C++20 has modules, where you include sematically, not textually.

* Bitwise operator precedence: Not soundly supported, but you can sort-of have custom infix operators in C++, see:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15632217/defining-new-in...
so, specifically, one could implement the alternative modulo.

* Leading zero for octal: C++ has custom literals, so you could define a _octal or _hex etc and get the value determined at compile-time.

* No power operator: Same thing in Odin and C and C++, IIANM.

* Switch with default fallthrough: Since C++17, there's an official [[fallthrough]] anottation. You can make your compiler fail in cases when you implicitly fallthrough. So, not as elegant, but you can ensure you don't mess up and get the wrong behavior.

* (Type syntax: Nope, C++ has the contrived syntax of C.)

* Weak typing: With a library, you can have strong aliases which are not interchangeable with the aliased type. See this blog post:
https://foonathan.net/2016/10/strong-typedefs/
and the library it links to. Things would be better, though, if the C++ standard committee allowed for an operator.

* Bytestrings: This is a library issue really. And both C and C++ have libraries which deal with wider characters, with UTF-8 and what-not.

* ++ and -- : You don't _have_ to use them... and it's possible to have static tools which forbid them in source files.

* ! Operator: C++ has !, && and || , but also "not", "and" and "or". I like the latter.

* Multiple returns: It's easy to return a tuple in C++, and with C++17 you can even construct and initialize multiple variables like that, e.g. `auto [index, name] = get_index_and_name(whatever)`.

* Errors: C++ is multi-paradigmatic here, supporting the traditional status return, an expected<T> type (either an actual T or an error; not yet standardized by available via widely-used ibrary), and exceptions. Monadic-style programming is not yet supported and will likely not be in C++20, but there are discussions about this.

* Nulls: With `std::optional` and `gsl::non_null`, and especially with no return types necessary, you can comfortably avoid using `nullptr` in C++ code.

So - with some choices and a little discipline (really not much!), you can have all of this "Odinish" behavior you like.

Of course - the price of C backwards compatibility and supporting multiple programming paradigms is complexity of the formal language definition, grammatic ambiguity, and a syntax that is not always pleasant.
Well, that's only true for ISPs who are not also content producers/owners.

Many ISPs who are also cable companies sell the content that people pirate, so they definitely do care.

In Canada, Rogers and Bell (two major quad-play telcos) are at the forefront of pushing for legislation to crack down harder on piracy by eroding privacy rules that protect consumers' Internet usage.
> I find that there are times to downvote that don't or shouldn't require a comment. It will just spiral into a comment war tit for tat comments spiraling down into a hundred levels.

I'd be interesting to hear some examples. The only instances that sprung to my mind were instances where posts probably should be flagged instead anyway. However I'm open to the possibility I've overlooked some scenarios (as well as the possibility that flagging might get abused as a way of voting without commenting)
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Are there any security fears with virtualization on ARM (think Meltdown and Spectre)? I'd think it's been less studied than Intel's x86-64 chips.
Safari does that.

Firefox has an about:config preference that would let you set up a font whitelist yourself, but it doesn’t have a standard set.
The words "IQ" and "intelligence" do not appear in the snippet available to non-subscribers. Does the rest of the article mention that average East Asian IQ is 105?
> I think the solution should be an opt-in option. WebGL shouldn't be activated unless the user gives the permission.

More permission dialogs just train users to click "yes" on every permission dialog, so it really isn't a solution (remember Windows Vista?). I'd prefer it if there were some way to make browsers respond to WebGL queries in a similar predictable way to mitigate fingerprinting.
Some counter points: I'm not sure that parallelizing the experiments would keep the same 4 month implementation time frame. It would also fragment the knowledge base, as fewer people would have been working on the one version that gets pushed. I also have my doubts about what happens when two of the experiments seem equally promising.

Interesting idea nonetheless.
Inspection and certification programs don't need to be government run to be effective. Kosher certification programs are the first example that comes to mind.

I'm just trying to say you can argue for more, better inspections without having to argue for "big government".
No Use of News
Navy SEAL Jonny Kim talks about his NASA astronaut training
> The only problem remaining, on this particular device, is direct connection of physical sensors (microphone, GPS, etc) directly to the modem

is that even the case of the microphone? My understanding was that - independently of the possibility to turn the microphone and modem off with kill switches - all audio data to the modem comes via I2S from the SoC anyways, i.e. that the microphone is NOT directly connected to the modem but to the SoC (possibly via a separate audio codec Chip) and that the SoC serves the modem via I2S whatever audio data the user pleases (whether that be from the microphone or whatever else).
You don't need to take only GPUs into account, AMD EPYC has quite a few transistors as well.
Another unusual circumstance is when you're the first users who have just installed the latest software update, a fingerprint testing website will identify you as an unique user. But you won't be unique anymore within a few days.

It happens a lot in the Tor mailing list. Often, a new major release of Tor Browser comes out, a user is shocked by the upgrade, "OMG! I'm unique and trackable!". Don't panic, just keep using it.
Don't forget business-grade laptops have good keyboards ;-)
I find Thinkpad keyboards great, btw.
Mmm... I'm not convinced. What about arcfide's Co-dfns compiler? https://github.com/Co-dfns/Co-dfns

It kinda counts as homoiconic, eh?
Back in the day, growing up, the storekeepers may not have known my name, but they certainly knew my parents. I didn't realize until much later that a number of them were my parents second and third cousins.

Cheers - where everybody knows your name.
You actually can separate out the forward and reverse waves on a coax, but it requires good impedance match on both ends, and some transformer based magic-Ts. So you can do full duplex on a single coax, sharing the same bandwidth. It’s just not practical in long runs since you’ll only get 20 dB isolation between directions.

A common use is carrying Ethernet over coax when retrofitting analog CCTV cameras to IP cameras, and you don’t want to run new cable.
Pretty much never. With dedicated servers you don't have anyone to split the Nitro overhead with.