skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess there are two different sorts of advisers they are talking about. "Vocal complainants" seems to refer to the former News Corp lawyer who is advising the case. Advisers who work with competitors is presumably referring to technical consulting firms working on the case. It's not clear which competitors they work for, but presumably Google is not objecting to a consulting firm that also works with, say, Costco, on the theory that Costco is a competitor in the electronics sales market. That would be pretty thin, and Google would have no reason to object. Presumably Google is referring to a consulting firm that works heavily with e.g. Microsoft or Oracle.
Even if this is the case, addressing the issues caused by CO2 emissions would reveal that there were other sources of environmental damage at work. I just cannot see any incentive in not directly addressing CO2 emissions except to protect the profits of fossil fuel companies. I can't imagine a world where we're more worried about protecting fossil fuel companies because they're being bullied by the big mean sugarcane companies. We should be rooting out all actors looking to benefit from actions with negative externalities.
> ReasonML seems to be just sugar coating for those with aversion to ML classical syntax.

So it's the Elixir to Ocaml's Erlang?
There certainly is enough fusion fuel on earth to power humanity at 10 or 100x current consumption until the sun explodes without emitting any CO2.

Same can be said for fission, but it only powers 5% of the world due to what can be called complications (even though many scientists insist that it's safe and responsible).

Fusion is expected to have fewer complications, but we won't know until we scale up a fleet of fusion power plants and understand all the nuance.

How's that for an answer?
This seems slightly limited in its current form in that they either have choose to either shoot the rendered background as-is (making it harder to modify in post production) or specifically turn the areas around the actors into green screens (sort of defeating the purpose).

I wonder if they could use some sort of trick like projectors synced with high fps cameras to make the real time rendering invisible to the cameras instead?
So you argue that it is O.K. to game the bank and live a lavish life destroying your own way of living and if the bank catches up and wants you to take measures so you can pay back, the right thing to do would be to jail the people who were gamed or conspired with the people who gamed the bank and simply continue the lavish life and let the people who dod not manage to game the bank(some richer and some poorer than you) keep writing checks to you so you can sustain the lifestyle you achieved by gaming the bank?

Do I get this correct?
Hehe that's a fun thing to read.
> advisers who work with our competitors and vocal complainants.

Isn't that kind of to be expected in an investigation into anti-competitive practices though?
EDITED and hour later: A couple of people have pointed out it's back, they've made some changes and marked it as public now.

There was another article on this same topic this morning with this:

"Google's engineers have not ignored worries about the security and privacy risks. To their credit, they've gathered them together into a single document and they've clearly been engaged in understanding what people are worried about. It's just that they've concluded the concerns aren't that big a deal or can be dealt with to their satisfaction."

That Single Document is here, and I went and had a read this morning, but now I get permission denied, I guess it was getting too much attention?

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YHcl1-vE_ZnZ0kL2almeikAj...

I wish I would've save a copy now. It hand some decent details on the various vulnerabilities and how they are handling (or ignoring) them.
If you're more at home in the .NET world, there's ClojureCLR:

https://github.com/clojure/clojure-clr
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Correct, he is the brother of Bob Einstein that played Super Dave Osborne.
I think the idea is to capture the kinetic energy of the Helium ions not through cooling but slowing them down with electromagnets. The high-speed Helium ions carry a large current, it's not about the ionization energy.
Uhhhhh, you do realize the anchor (#...) is not sent to the server, right?
Stalling is the way to go.

I have my doubts about this being a power issue, because localized power analysis is pretty advanced in IC design and they'd totally have tested for this.

Assuming it is a power issue though, nearly all power is used in dynamic switching, so simply inserting stall cycles will resolve it.

Power rails on silicon chips have quite a lot of capacitance, at least enough for many clock cycles, so you don't even need to make every cycle in every bit of hardware a possible stall cycle - it would be enough to simply gate instruction issue I expect and let functional units drain.
Why should that responsibility rest on the distributor's shoulders and not the original manufacturers?

If people were deeply concerned about lead, shouldn't we expect that products that can offer such a guarantee have a market advantage? Amazon et. al. make product attribute comparison pretty straightforward.
They're not incompatible in the sense that they assume different physics, but they are very different strategies.

The fusion triple product is the go to figure of merit for napkin calculations, it's temperature X confinement time X ion density

MCF strategies go in on maximizing confinement time, while ICF jack up temperature and ion density. This particular ICF approach, (if I'm understanding their paper correctly) is going so high on both that they're leaving the thermal regime behind and doing an honest to glob nuclear chain reaction with having the alpha products prompt other boron nuclei to accelerate up to fusion speed causing more reactions, which is pretty exciting.
Former academic here. I disagree. Academic writing has evolved to demonstrate that you are (1) an insider and (2) to obfuscate your ideas so that peer reviewers are less likely to challenge you.
> > Sure but defendants are presumed innocent and burden of proof is on the prosecution.

> Criminal defendants, not civil.

Everyone hates presumption of innocence when they are on the plaintiff/accuser's side. But strangely enough, everyone clings to it when they're on the defendant/accused's side. It's almost like it's a universal principle!

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

Make no mistake. Anyone who wants to erode presumption of innocence and due process is for the power of governments and money over the individual, unwittingly or not. (Strangely enough, almost everyone who tries such erosion does it in the same way, no matter if they're in a totalitarian state or in a democracy; it's all done in the name of "justice.")
Holy hyperbole batman. Flagged.
In the first place, I consider removing local accounts to be an actual abuse.

But in the second place, "bullying" is not restricted to "actual abuses", however defined. Bullying refers to an attitude, the attitude of shoving someone around because you can. The reverse of "bullying" is "caving in", not "being victimized". Here are some cites I pulled from COCA:

> What are the keys to the match for Halep? It sounds trite, but Halep needs to stay aggressive -- as she was in the semis -- and not let Serena bully her around the court.

> Can someone please explain to me why Magic Johnson and other executives have been fined by the NBA for just a simple comment on another player, but yet, Kawhi Leonard can actively and outwardly recruit an under-contract player and persuade him to bully his way out of that contract?

> Just look at what China's trying to do. They're trying to bully us, hold our farmers hostage.

> the Trump administration has proposed eliminating a lot of the legal enforcement protections that are in the agreement that are particularly important for Canada and Mexico especially because they're smaller economies, smaller countries, much more reliant on the U.S. market. They can't really bully their way around to getting things that they want when things don't go their way

These four cites describe three different scenarios, but not one of them could be considered to match what you claim is the definition of bullying.
On the other hand, organizations that are able to keep their internal deliberations private have a strong advantage over ones who must ‘think’ openly.

Imagine negotiating with an employer, except your inner monologue is always spoken aloud.

One unintended (?) consequence of extreme transparency for governments, is that it makes government ineffective and easily subverted or outmaneuvered by opaque organizations, like corporations and less liberal state actors.
Gilbert Strang has this lovely patrician, avuncular energy that puts me at ease. I feel like he's as likely to pour me a cup of tea as he is to expound on matrices. He feels less like an MIT professor and more like a shared pedagogical treasure of our internet age.
It was actively being destroyed when I checked it.
Hitting the ball wrong in tennis can be answered by the high school kid with one technique, and by Novak Djokovic with another technique. Novak will have a far more complete, in depth and transcendent answer than someone else, but both are "correct" in that they solve the problem of hitting the ball wrong.

Knowing you're wrong is the threshold guardian to the adventure of hitting the mark correctly. I don't know how you embark on that journey without voicing it multiple times to multiple people.
I'd say "unusual" implies not "to be expected".
>Why do you think it makes sense to hold millions accountable directly for the corrupt dealings of a few members of a country's elite (and of a few foreign bankers, politicians etc.)?

That's how democracy works. If you are not happy with your current government, elect the one you are happy with.

Over time, I've found that the elected government really does represent the general population.
1. Yes.

2. No, because we already have fission reactors. How many miracles do we need?
I’m also a (formerly disgruntled) lawyer eternally grateful to Stanford and MIT for helping me escape. And like you, I cannot overstate my appreciation. If anyone involved in these courses stumbles upon this thread - thank you.
Not just some member, but the leader. He did know how to behave in this role (including allowing such stories become widespread), he was the leader for 45 years.
That strikes me as... a strange claim, considering how fast the OMG particle whizzed by.

Per Wiki:

> The energy of this particle is some 40 million times that of the highest energy protons that have been produced in any terrestrial particle accelerator.

Presumably wherever these extreme energy protons are coming from is rather warm.

Is there some reason to think the LHC has higher temperature?

Not a physicist; could be something like LHC having larger bunch sizes... but since we don’t know what causes these particles, it seems like we don’t really know the source temperature.
macOS's online feature aren't intrusive, so i went ahead and i enabled them (icloud)

on other hand, with microsoft, it feels like they make everything possible for me to hate their products, therefore i'm not willing to use their online services

it is that simple, you trynna fuck me, i won't use your shit

it is similar with mozilla and their agressive marketing, the result is constant hate toward them

i am a simple man
We don't have the luxury of eating the investment on a "dry hole" when this is a global phenomenon. How is the path of highest caution not warranted here? What exactly are we losing by aggressively switching to renewables?

This isn't an academic question. It is an incredibly practical one.
Good answer!

> Same can be said for fission, but it only powers 5% of the world due to what can be called complications

But weren't these complications obvious before deciding to scale up fission power plants?

The ones I know about:

- Radioactive waste

- Risk of failure

- Unavoidable EOL
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And that makes a lot of sense.

The idea that closed door deliberations must be made public after some moratorium period strikes me as a good compromise, as in the moment it allows politicians to have those private discussions that might allow compromise to occur, while not totally sacrificing transparency in the long-term.

And this isn't without precedent. The US declassification system essentially works this way (though it functions over the course of decades, which is probably too long).
No, Hyperfiddle is exactly what I think we need to get away from. This is from their introductory blog post:

"For a high-end UI, use React.js. The above cryptocurrency invoicing MVP generates QR codes using a javascript module from github. This blog post is a hyperfiddle and includes React.js components, CSS, HTML5 video components, mailchimp & twitter integrations"

Hyperfiddle is basic scaffolding of the type we've had for 15 years thanks to Ruby On Rails. I'm suggesting it would be good if we could get beyond this level, since we have been stuck at this level for a long time.

Hyperfiddle does use EDN for configuration, and I really like that part of it, but it's still using HTML, which, as I said above, doesn't give us the form functionality that VisualBasic did.
After failing with Heroku we migrated to using Dokku on DO. And yes it is more work to do it ourselves, I didn't want to do that but here we are :) It was not a lot of work, dokku is really nice, but it was/is some work. I was hoping for almost no sysadmin work but that didn't happen.
https://archive.is/19Ran
Can somebody with more understanding tell me if this idea I had is stupid or has some merit?

Fusion will deliver an incredible amount of energy, making it cheap. Everybody then turns up their energy consumption since it costs nothing. Raise heating in houses, use AC everywhere, longer showers, more transportation, etc.

All this energy eventually becomes heat. Can it get to a threshold where it can influence temperature on a global scale even if it lowers carbon emissions? What am I missing?
Between reasonml and elm which one should I pick?
At least EU Amazon is extremely good about RMAs, e.g. international expresses delivery (next day) even without returning the defective component 1st. Return shipment is also covered, i.e. free for the customer.
Dunno, if they'd do that for high priced stuff, though.

p.s. lovely/lively oscilloscope shots!
I don't know the bases of Friston's theory of intentionality, but it sounds like it was likely motivated by the notion made popular a decade or so ago that free will didn't really exist, that evidence from Functional MRI-based analyses indicated that human action preceded the brain's decision to act. Presumably that idea was fundamental to Friston's suggestion that volition arose only after the arm was already in the act of moving, where the mind's will to move arose as a surprise reaction to the arm NOT already moving.

Fortunately the bases for this freaky model of reaction preceding initiative seems to have since been resolved as error -- we improperly interpreted the FMRI signals.

I wonder how this resequencing in the mind of cause to once again precede effect has reshaped Friston's theory of perception and free will. Or Clark's.

A well written article nonetheless. I'm often impressed that writers can so capably embrace the conceptual models of others without injecting their own doubts or biases, even when the bases for these theories often seem tentative at best.
The 2015 paper cites 3 other groups with experimental results supporting their claims though.
The article states the bots were on the side of denialism.
ML syntax is fine.
> The longer your sentences, the more you'll filter out readers with short attentions spans and limited literacy.

And readers who have not yet been persuaded that your writing is worth their time. If long sentences are essential to a point you're making in a persuasive essay for a non-captive audience, use inverted pyramid style and push the long sentences down.
Fun fact 4: OP (notamanager) account is brand new, these are his first posts (not that its not probable), yet, here he/she is with all the fun facts and actively commenting and making a investigative counter case.
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Great to see L1T posted here.
Conveniently, Greece is just below Germany in the table, making for easy comparison: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retirement_age#Retirement_age_...

Regarding early retirement, I'm sure this is the case in many "industrious" countries too. You probably don't want 65 year olds running around in combat boots with a machine gun and 20kg of supplies on their back.
Google got to be feeling the heat now that their guy and his #2 had to recuse from the investigation.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-departments-antitrust-c...
Could someone explain this a bit better? I've read two articles on this this morning and I still don't understand what the privacy concerns are with this feature. Thanks!
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I find it hard to use a mouse with fewer than 9 buttons or a shift function on one of the buttons. I'm too used to having lmb, mmb, rmb, back, forward, copy, paste, enter, Ctrl+shift+t bound to the mouse. This is in addition to the scroll wheel of course. If I had 2 more buttons I would like to add home and end as well.
Careful: It's not clear if the 9 to 15% number covers bots overall or only the relevant subgroup for disinformation campaigns. Though I suppose it's more likely to plainly cover ALL bots.

Now lets wildly assume 6 to 10 %-points of these are actually not disguised as humans and are not setup with the intent to mislead (e.g. think automatic service status tweets), then the average "bot disguised as genuine human"-rate for any topic would be below the 10% range - which in turn makes the 25% much more bleak.
Our local 'chain' is 3 stores, so, yes.
A better way to reason about software testing terms
I think this would be seen as an overly-leaky abstraction, for several reasons: (1) You don't want the chip's correctness to be at the mercy of the particular instruction stream it's given; (2) the problem is potentially solvable at the microcode level, which makes (1) remain viable.

But, if such "hint" ops were seen as the only viable way to get correct, high-performance behavior in these cases, and there was a commercial case to be made for it, I could see processor vendors adding them to the IA.
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The github issue has more actual examples. The important bit is the "looking for lower-on-the-page resources being requested." bit.

You can't necessarily tell anything from that lone DNS request. But after loading the page, the user's browser will go on to send requests for elements on the page, and anything JS wants to grab based on position, which can be a channel for information.

Example: 99% of your employees' DNS requests to the company health portal are followed by DNS requests to the image CDN a few milliseconds later. However 1 specific request to FakeCompanyHealth.com is immediately followed by a DNS request to MayoClinic.com, because it turns out the web page dynamically loads an iframe to contact the Mayo Clinic once you scroll to the Cancer subsection. You could then assume based on timing that this user clicked a cancer-specific anchor link.

A more realistic example IMO is the twitter friend leak one provided in the Github thread. Send an anchor like "twitter.com#:~:text=@handle" and see if their page-load matches the standard twitter homepage load, or did their browser scroll them halfway down the page and load additional stuff? If so, you can assume these 2 users are friends.,

https://github.com/WICG/ScrollToTextFragment/issues/76
When was the last time a Republican administration went after a company for anti trust regulation.

For the record, I was just as opposed to government intervention when it came to MS. History shows that the market took care of that. The government had nothing to do with the rise of Amazon, Facebook, Google and the resurgence of Apple to take away MS’s influence on tech.
> On an average day during the period studied, 25% of all tweets about the climate crisis came from bots. This proportion was higher in certain topics – bots were responsible for 38% of tweets about “fake science” and 28% of all tweets about the petroleum giant Exxon.

> Conversely, tweets that could be categorized as online activism to support action on the climate crisis featured very few bots, at about 5% prevalence. The findings “suggest that bots are not just prevalent, but disproportionately so in topics that were supportive of Trump’s announcement or skeptical of climate science and action”, the analysis states.
> How many miracles do we need?

Right, but humanity won't scale up fission to power everything.
You should disclose whether you work for Google. You've registered less than 24 hours ago and in all of your posts you defend Google.
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The example that the security researcher gave seems moot: the same thing would happen if the employee simply scrolled down on the page manually, no? And we already have the ability to link to anchors on a page, and that's not considered to be a privacy issue. Can someone explain how this is actually a meaningful privacy issue?
> Company is reluctant to surrender some documents in investigation of possible anticompetitive practices

This would be true of any company. It would even be true for many individuals.

This article is nothing more than a bulletin updating us on the latest developments in the case, painted up to look like more than it is.
Why is it “better” if the stall results in lower performance-per-watt? That’s what people buy these high-end CPU SKUs for, after all. They aren’t just concerned with CapEx (the cost of the CPU) but also OpEx (the aggregate cost of electricity for the CPUs, PSUs and cooling in their studio/data center.) You could also “fix” the problem by just allowing the customer to lock the CPU into AVX2 mode and thereby never switching out at all—but of course that’d be dumb; they’d be drawing more power, and also not going as fast as they could, when executing non-AVX2 code.

Another approach I haven’t seen from either Intel or AMD yet, is to copy ARM’s big.LITTLE architecture: to set up separate “AVX2 cores” that can execute AVX instructions and most basic ALU ops but not e.g. branches, put those on the other side of the die with in-wafer thermal insulation between them and the regular cores; and then throw workloads between regular and AVX2 cores in a way where the AVX2 cores heating up doesn’t mean that the non-AVX2 cores are heating up, and the CPU can go back to full Turbo Boost as soon as the workload is thrown back to the regular cores, because the respective regular core is actually quite cool.

(The performance effects of this are possible to loosely estimate, I think, by writing code that synchronously sets up a GPGPU pass on some data, executes it, retrieves the result, and then returns to executing CPU instructions for a while, in a loop; and then executing this code on an Intel CPU using its on-die IGPU as the GPU. The CPU and IGPU form somewhat-separate thermal domains already, though there’s no explicit insulation.)
Yeah, honestly, that sounds exactly like a Berkeley student to me.
Do some more investigating. Drop the memory clocks to stock, drop the CPU clocks to, perhaps, 3 GHz, and see if the same issues happen. If they do, there's a systemic issue that needs to be addressed. If the issue disappears, try raising the clock incrementally until the issue reappears. Get a Kill-a-watt and look at power usage for each frequency and graph the results.
90% of all Bloomberg tweet are produced by paid actors.
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