skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>they are also corrupt: the one in Mississippi was issuing subpoenas to Google on behalf of the entertainment industry

Assuming your allegation is true, an AG was serving subpoenas on behalf of Google and that makes all AGs corrupt...then it goes without saying that if just one Googler has ever engaged in one bad act or act of corruption, then all Googlers are bad or corrupt.

I am not sure that is the standard you want to apply.

>AGs are elected so they seek publicity

Well nothing would gain an AG more publicity than deviating from the other AGs and exposing this case as having no merit and simply a collusion of 49 State AGs in an attempt to collectively seek publicity for their reelections. Of course Google's army of lawyers could expose the same and win Google's attorney's fees from the State, which would be negative publicity...so its pretty far fetched what you allege without any evidence.

Of course if you really cared or wanted to know if Google engages in anti-competitive practices try to Google a flight from your location to another city anywhere on the Earth and tell me what pops up first? Is it an organic result? Is it an paid ad? Or is it another Alphabet product embedded into the top of the results driving all internet traffic looking for flights to their self owned product? This is the tip of the iceberg in terms of the reality of Alphabet unfairly using Google's market dominance in an anti-competitive way.

The solution is clear, at minimum Alphabet should not be able to buy/bid up Google AdWords, but the better solution would be Alphabet products/services should not be able to appear in Google results at all (or at least on page 1). The beauty of this solution, if/when Google complains that the internet won't be able to search/find their products, Alphabet can be reminded that of course the internet can find their products, through competitor search engines which are only 1 click away.
LED video walls are down in the 0.7mm dot pitch vicinity. Not quite the ~0.3mm of a 4K 55" LCD, but we're getting there. And the brightness and contrast ratio can't be beat.
An interesting line of thought indeed -- let's continue it...

A large chunk of contemporary society considers hand writing an obsolete "mind extension" unworthy of "installation".

No centralized entity is forcing people to forgo this upgrade, but it's kinda unconventional to install it these days, so it gets progressively rarer.

It could be argued that this is analogous to an entire society of users choosing to not install the terminal/command line app on their OS. Or (closer to reality), a wide swath of computer users missing out on the power of the command line.
It is called a process patent.
My intellect may be too small but I never understood anything Varoufakis said. I understand how shallow and hypocritical governments can be, but I never got the point of his interviews or actions, beside ranting about how imperfect things are (kinda like Snowden).
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It's here https://github.com/asvetliakov/vscode-neovim
> I was also initially interested on trying to train myself to sleep on a flat floor...

I've been sleeping on the floor for over two years now. At this point, I prefer it to sleeping in a bed. I started out by creating a "mattress" made of several layers of blankets. Now, though, I just put a sheet on my low-pile carpet and that's all I sleep on. I also use a relatively flat/thin pillow.
Or on proxy wars over more oil!
> one side features scientists ...... they don't have paid PR professionals or troll farms.

Who are "they"? If they means scientists, I can totally believe they don't have paid PR professionals or troll farms. If they means the "side", do they really have no paid PR professionals or troll farms? I doubt it. The article itself reported 5% bots on this "side".
The only thing which makes me not switch from VSCode to Vim is the debugger (specifically Node.js). I haven't found anything in Vim to make debugging pleasent. I hope there will be an easy to use Debug Adapter Protocol frontend impementation for Vim.
> Also alcohol companies as well.

Indeed, death in the US due to alcoholism is about 88,000 a year it is the #3 leading preventable cause of death. [1]
Tobacco related deaths is #1 (preventable) by 480,000. [2]
Obesity is #2 for completeness.
I have loved ones that have died or are dying from one or a combination of these vices.

[1] https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/brochures-and-fact-sh...
[2] https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/heal...
Or crack, heroin, meth?

The argument that anything can be bad so therefore nothing is bad is a meaningless slippery slope. Clearly there are differences and you have to draw the line somewhere.
South Korean police impose curfew on late-night studying (2011)
How do stats the end in 1997 relate to an assessment from 2014? Is it possible that the 17-year gap is a factor?

I'm also not sure this is a doomsday prediction, so it doesn't really address the request.
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Think of it in a future context. If discussions weren't kept secret, then the German/French Finance minister would not have said that... unless he wanted the world to hear it.
Google Vision API will no longer classify gender
“Life Goes On” – The TV Show
Prime95 has been a bad test for years now. Literally since the introduction of AVX2, it has been known that overclocking and running Prime95 will cause rapid electromigration and processor degradation on Haswell-E if you attempt to overclock. It's fine for like a few minutes but you should not attempt to do 24 hour Prime95 runs like people used to do, that was in the days before AVX was a thing.

https://rog.asus.com/articles/usa/rog-overclocking-guide-cor...

It also does not test all parts of the processor equally, it really just is slamming the cache and the AVX units. You can be "Prime95 stable" and still crash in other things. It's just not a good test anymore in multiple respects.

Same thing for Furmark on GPUs. And nowadays GPUs are actually smart enough to realize they're running a power virus and the power management pulls back the power. So again, it doesn't demonstrate anything. Zen2 is supposed to work the same way, if it realizes you're redlining the chip then it should be clocking down somewhat.
Yea, I think delivery was a fine strategy to start with.... as a well funded startup in a complex ecosystem where you will need partners and those partners will generally start out with a hostile position (like Blue Apron to grocery stores, like Tesla to car dealers) I think it’s right to at least attempt to “leap to the future” in as many areas of the business as possible. Where those bets work, the strategic benefits going forward are huge.

But once you have some traction in customers, you need to start sweet talking those hostile partners and get some of them on your side, and make difficult calls to give up on “the future” in those aspects of the business model that aren’t working, and embrace the status quo more.
Governments are elected by the population. Are they then not responsible for their choices?
> You should not use services that can rat on you and your friends to the cops.

>Regardless of whether or not you are the kind of person who mocks or ridicules people—you should be able to use your communications tools to mock and ridicule people, if you so wish. These are normal, acceptable things to do in society. Fuck censorship.

I would guess that for the vast majority of Free Software projects, not having illegal topics discussed on the chat and not having people who mock and ridicule people are features not bugs.
The Boring Stack ™

> So, what is The Boring Stack?

> It’s whatever stack you already know so long as that stack is capable of completing the interesting thing that you want to build.

https://hackernoon.com/the-boring-stack-the-best-way-to-buil...

https://medium.com/@aevitas/why-you-should-build-your-next-a...
Not to mention that the internal Exxon-Mobil climate predictions matched up with current public scientific consensus forty years ago and nearly exactly predicted the level of warming we had today, as well as the need to combat the public perception of them as the cause.

The science is (secretly) correct even on the corporate side too - they just say otherwise.

Sources:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97...

https://skepticalscience.com/1982-exxon-accurate-prediction....
They profit because some people like to relax and have a smoke. With everyone knowing the health trade off now is there anything wrong with that?
Yes, the separate timelines of "Dealers" quite missed the cross fertilization and synergies of Parc (which were its main unusual features), so to me, this is a real drawback to this book. On the other hand, "systems" don't parse well into sequences, and Parc was a system, and thus needs something more like a 2D or 3D or 4D chart to do a decent explanation.

There are at least two big issues regarding cost that many people miss: (a) the first is the difference between what should be spent on "prototypes for learning and vetting" and what can be done when designing for manufacturing, and (b) the second is the the difficulty most people had with valuing what personal computing might be for them.

In the first public paper I wrote about the Dynabook I pointed out that Moore's Law meant that powerful tablet sized personal computers would likely wind up costing what a color TV set would cost (they would have pretty similar components, and most of the cost in electronics is in packaging).

But we also had another analogy that we though could work via education: that of the personal automobile in the US. People value cars enough to be willing to pay quite a bit more for them than for most consumer devices. This was very interesting because the ARPA dream of an interactive personal computer connected to a world-wide network was a kind of "information and intelligence vehicle".

If people could see this, then they might be willing to pay what they would pay for a car. Certainly most computer people and most scientists and engineers would be able to assign value in this way. We thought most knowledge workers would eventually be able to see this also, and that there would be an intermediate phase before getting to the TV set kind of technologies.

An analysis of what happened to eventually quash this idea is beyond the scope of this note. (But, to make a point in talks, I've tried to get people to think about what "a car's worth" of personal computer could be like (the average car in the US a few years ago was a Toyota Avalon at $28K, so about 10 times what most personal computers go for).

This is a different slant than the problem that DEC and similar companies had (which was to not be able to understand personal computing in any reasonable form).
Gilbert Strang got me through the more difficult of the two linear algebra gatekeeper classes in University. I didn't go to class once after the first week. I sent him a thank you email and he wrote a nice reply.
Why is Motivation not enough?
This is an incorrect way of understanding phenomena. You're essentially claiming that things are the same so long as certain elements of them intersect, regardless of the magnitude. Therefore we cannot distinguish between them.
Spaced Repetition to Remember Anything Forever-Ish
It seems very hard to have clear policy discussions about "less harmful" products.

Opiates > Marijuana > No Drugs

Cigarettes > Juul > No Tobacco

Bottled Soda > Bottled Water > Tap Water

They all seem to devolve into a group that only looks at the first two arguing with a group that only looks at the second two. Are there any good policy frameworks for how to evaluate something that reduces very harmful behavior while increasing less harmful behavior?
> author is incentivized by drawing traffic

Of course he is, that's the whole point of writing.
Last time they trusted compilers to become smart Itanium happened.
> That's more of a matter of opinion than of fact.

While the title is technically true, my initial interpretation was that Google was refusing to comply with a demand which they were legally obligated to meet. Turns out it was a request which they were well within their legal rights to deny.

Sure, this is my opinion, but I'd definitely consider that to be a misleading title. This article is probably only on the HN front page because it is misleading.

"Google denies request to provide documents in investigation of anticompetitive practices" is a better title.
I think we had something like 17 minutes for announcements and attendance, then 5 minutes to get to our first period class that started at 7:40?
FYI https://confbase.com seems to be down
Coronavirus patients flew to US after CDC “explicitly recommended against it”
Disagree. Yes, anyone can commit suicide. But doing so without medical assistance usually involves leaving a huge, traumatic mess for our fellow humans to deal with. For the good of all concerned, including the about-to-be deceased, reasonable self-euthanasia should be supported.

(An additional benefit is that it would help identify people who are suicidally depressed for not-reasonable reasons, and get them help, or at least someone to talk to.)
You have to switch to a higher-voltage state to account for the voltage droop that you will cause when the AVX units fire off.

https://travisdowns.github.io/blog/2020/01/17/avxfreq1.html

(specifically: https://travisdowns.github.io/assets/avxfreq1/fig-volts256-1... )

> So one theory is that this type of transition represents the period between when the CPU has requested a higher voltage (because wider 256-bit instructions imply a larger worst-case current delta event, hence a worst-case voltage drop) and when the higher voltage is delivered. While the core waits for the change to take effect, throttling is in effect in order to reduce the worst-case drop: without throttling33 there is no guarantee that a burst of wide SIMD instructions won’t drop the voltage below the minimum voltage required for safe operation at this frequency.
That looks perfect, thanks!
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Three resources I always recommend for beginners:

1. The Django Girls tutorial (multi-language): https://tutorial.djangogirls.org/

2. Will Vincent's books (also recommend his blog): https://wsvincent.com/best-django-books/

3. Tango with Django: https://www.tangowithdjango.com/

Also, here's a somewhat more comprehensive list of Django learning resources:
https://www.fullstackpython.com/django.html
It will take years (if it is even completed) but it doesn't mean that Racket will not be advancing meanwhile. Most of the discussion is in angry[1] comments in GitHub written while drinking coffee in the morning. In these 6 months, I guess the lost development time was only 1 or 2 weeks distributed in small chunks. If I can extrapolate linearly, the delay will be only 6 months (but some parts may take more time, for example rewriting the documentations).

The idea is that the libraries written in Racket will be usable in Rhombus and that the libraries in Rhombus will be usable in Racket. Racket already ships with multiple internal languages, so one more is not a big difference. [2]

Note that some constructions that are special cases that must be implemented by the language are just libraries in Racket. For example most of the implementation of `for` and `match` are in their own library, and even more weird things like at-expressions is just a library https://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/reader-internals.html Some of them may need some tweaking to make them more idiomatic with the new syntax, but most of the implementation will be useful as is.

[1] Most comments are nice, but let's add some drama to make the story more interesting.

[2] Some languages have more impedance mismatch and need some macro magic to make sharing easy. In some languages sharing libraries is straightforward.
It's a poorly implemented popup too. They're much less (but still) annoying if I can click anywhere outside it to dismiss instead of requiring the 'x' to be clicked.
I despise email subscriptions, they add unnecessary noise in my mailbox. I believe RSS feeds are better suited for that kind of stuff, but I guess not everyone want or have an RSS reader.
Thank you. I nodded along with the others, semi-consciously weary, but then saw your quote, and reading it felt alleviated.

It's funny how sometimes following the downvotes takes you better places than following the upvotes.
You know I think that cloudflare blog post is a great example of the engineering approach behind boringssl. It's optimized for actual workloads, where you decrypt or authenticate a short message and then move on to different activities, and engaging AVX512 doesn't actually pay off in reality. OpenSSL is optimized to produce the biggest number from `openssl speed` so of course in that light it makes perfect sense to enable AVX512. But if you're trying to use these libraries in realistic workloads you will begin to appreciate the boringssl approach.
Adtech does a lot of machine learning, so at least a surface level understanding of linear algebra is useful there.
I ran into this issue on one of my builds. Aida64 has a benchmark (floating point photo or something?) that uses AVX instructions. Pressing the "run benchmark" button would instantly black-screen crash my machine with 100% certainty.

I debugged this problem over a number of years... I replaced the RAM, I replaced the motherboard, I eventually replaced the CPU... still happened no matter what I did. Even if I underclocked the machine and kept the voltages the same, instant crash. It was maddening.

Exasperated, I eventually busted out an oscilloscope and looked at the waveform on the 12V supply to the CPU. When starting the AVX benchmark, there was a huge brownout. That basically explained everything; my power supply essentially turned off when the CPU started drawing a ton of power. I replaced the power supply and got lucky -- it handled it fine and I could run the benchmark. I even got some overclock out of it.

After this whole experience, I've never looked at computers the same way again. You can buy high-spec brand-name components, and it's all just a crapshoot. Maybe your computer won't crash in the middle of an important task. Maybe it will. There isn't much you can do but cross your fingers.
Matrix offers the best of both world: federated self-hostable servers, decent UX and the option to E2E-encrypt entire channels.
Expecially security bugs. Communication can be hidden during the remediation period, but there's no reason for them to not be made public immediately after.
You get free content and all it costs is clicking an "X"? Does no one realize how absurd it sounds, that we're whining over the cost of content being less than 1 second of our time.
I agree that Discord is not a good choice, perhaps not even an acceptable choice.

But.

Discord (not to mention Slack) will simply continue to be the lowest friction choice until a FOSS alternative comes along that is free to use, comes with rich moderation tools, supports fine-grained notification settings, supports offline history without additional effort, supports rich bots, has a mobile client that shares state with the desktop clients, and already exists on most people's desktops.

So to impact the open source communication landscape, the standard that needs to be exceeded is Slack and Discord, not IRC.
The amount of proprietary stuff that has immense impact on global business (with no oversight) is huge:
1. Microsoft Windows
2. Microsoft Office

I think any big tech company falls into this. And unlike google search, there is no alternative for Microsoft windows. You can change your search engine and keep using a new one without any trouble or training. Off course, you can say that the others are not good enough, but companies don't get dismantled because competitors are not good enough. Switching from MS windows is alas, not possible. The main thing is the large number of applications available for it and not for other platforms, and also needs significantly more training than switching away from Google search.
Sorry, I am not very old :), but I didn't follow up with the tools. I don't know anything other than Google Analytics. So could you please explain as you would explain to a child what those tools do more than GA?
No sequence of instructions should cause the machine to reboot.
Proprietary & closed source
Is this right... so in FIDO2, the website only has to store the public key of the token (which will get sent on registration/signup and mapped to a userid)?
Encryption is kind of moot. Every IRC server has been behind SSL/TLS for a very long time and it doesn't prevent usage nor archives.
There might also be less security needed if you have dozens of smaller reactors. You have to secure the one because losing it affects so much. If losing a couple is not as big a problem, you an rely more on the redundancy of the system than on the redundancy of the component.

This depends on the threat model to some degree, but there's security in knowing that it's vastly harder for a threat to affect multiple targets at once, no matter the threat.
The core argument in the article is that such systems aren't E2E encrypted.
You check ID to ensure that the person is the one on the boarding pass. The name on the boarding pass has gone through various scrutiny, including most notably the no-fly list. The no-fly list would be pointless if it were easy to fake an ID.

The no-fly list may itself be pointless, since that particular barn door was closed in a variety of ways (most notably by locking the cockpit door, as well as the security theater of the TSA). And we've had the no-fly list for nearly two decades without Real ID, and without any more successful attacks.

So it's probably the case that it's not necessary. It may not have been unreasonable at the time it was conceived, but it takes a long time to get states to design and issue new IDs, so by the time the requirement finally became mandatory it was overcome-by-events.

Now, it just forms another barrier to getting to vote. No state currently requires a Real ID to vote, but it does make it harder to renew state-issued IDs, and some people may not be prepared with other forms of ID.
How to Design Mobile Apps for One-Hand Usage
based on previous comments, he's just being a troll
Is there any description of how the "hit a capacity coil with a laser to generate a magnetic field" thing works?

https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c... I found this overview a bit confusing and sort of low quality, but at least it references a lot of papers. (But haven't started hunting down any of them.)
Should the population of other countries be held accountable for Greeks disinterest in their own democracy?
It still is a little bit unnerving that older models can accelerate based off of speed limit signs alone. That seems like a dangerous approach.
Was about to post this. They're really very different addictions. Nicotine withdrawal is mostly medically harmless.
If the discussion isn't public, the decision may be inscrutable. Did leader 1 and leader 2 agree on X because they decided it worked out best for their constituents, or did they both agree to scratch each other's back with some discretionary funds relating to X?
I didn't have any way to go back, and rebooting skipped the network connection part of the setup because it was already connected.
Whether you like it or not, the fact here is that it isn't clear whether Google resisting or AGs demanding docs is the right thing here or not. So stop being so melodramatic about it and using such strong words.
In the first picture, what is the white cylinder next to the sign that says "no smoking, IQOS only"?
It's different because tobacco products were engineered for maximal chemical addiction.
78C is not a really objectionable temperature for a CPU, if that's really the on-die temperature. Usually thermal protections are set to 90C.
Surveillance is always, ultimately, about extortion. People are forced to do what they would not for many reasons besides risk of criminal prosecution.