skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't have a right to know what network traffic is leaving your network from machines you own? Such an odd stance from a techie since this also applies to your Chromecast, Roku, Alexa, Laptop, Phone.

Exactly zero companies care about "protecting the outside world", MITM Boxes are required to have a record and scan all traffic going through your network. If PHI is exfiltrated we can't just tell the auditor "sorry ma'am we have no visibility into our network by design. Could have been from anywhere. shrug"
I've never heard of this. When / how / why would you use the trailing dot? I checked my sites and they redirect to the non-trailing version. Is that bad?
It seems to me that assets are inflationary and consumer products are somewhat deflationary.

Most people don't own assets, so even if the Fed gives money directly to consumers (e.g. UBI), that money will be just enough to live on, and trickle up to the asset owning class.
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I don't know if that is a helpful way of constructing the issue; it certainly isn't a neutral one. If you are a physicalist (which I'm not) consciousness is not an epiphenomenon with no influence on the physical world, but a component of the physical world which takes part in and influences the physical world.

All I am arguing this that the normal formulation of the hard problem of consciousness begs the question. It is obviously the case that a converse statement could beg the question in the opposite direction. I am myself agnostic on the question of consciousness because we have so little knowledge of the issue. A lot of philosophy in this area is interesting, and fun to think about, but more often than not it is speculative and linguistic in character.
At the University of the People [1], we use FLOSS exclusively. Disclaimer: I am a student.

[1]: https://www.uopeople.edu/
I have no idea. This is so far outside my area of expertise that I’m relying on newspapers.
Even programming questions. If it's something considered popular, you get awful results. Take javascript, I always append "mdn" when I'm trying to look up a language/api detail. Otherwise I'd be sifting through the top ten garbage Q&A or tutorial sites. In the glory days, Page Rank would return reference material first since it was so heavily referenced. But clearly that no longer works in the real world of SEO optimization.
It doesn't sound like this is for you. If "wife test" means the wife using and it and liking it, pretty sure it would fail. It's not what this is marketed for. An Amazon Kindle tablet would be more what you're looking for, if this is the price point you want.
I thought the two cores had two different ISAs?
> This forum could use a little more circuit discussion

Yes, and specifically analog circuit design.

Digital circuits are nice and all, but in the end they're very much like coding than actual electronics.
The sub https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/ is worth a look for inspiration. It has some great posts and threads.
May not be the prettiest language out there but it ALWAYS pays the bill.
Well, this presumes that it's a government acting in good faith. Sure, something like the UK or a EU country should have dissent and criticism to keep democracy healthy. However, countries like China, Russia, and NK, have no interest in fostering a healthy dialogue and it wouldn't be very conducive to their government's interests.
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While I sympathize with the OP and try to imagine what it would be like, I have to wonder whether there /really/ is that much of change if we are speaking strictly about linux, the internet and programming in general since the last 10 years.

I know for sure that it isn't hard to get back to it based on the experience of a friend of mine.

She was a sysadmin back in the 90s. A proper one. As geeky as any other linux geek running Red Hat 6.2 with window maker as the desktop environment as her main computing environment. At the turn of the millennium, she quit her job, got married and had a couple of kids. After quitting her job she barely ever kept in touch with computers. Of course, she browsed the web, used email shopped online but I'm willing to bet she didn't ever open up a command prompt. Her personal laptop ran windows and the house had one other computer (a mac, IIRC). Everything in her life revolved around her family and kids. She indulged in her other more satisfying interests of books and music if she ever had any free time -- which was very very rare.

3 months ago, now that the kids are old enough to not fuss and worry about, she decided to install linux and get back into everything with the intention of getting a job.

Last week she gave her first online talk for beginners (kids/teens). It was about container fundamentals. She introduced container concepts, docker and k8s.

By what I described it is perhaps hard to imagine just how disconnected she was from what 'we'[1] call tech but she really was -- she quit tech when Ubuntu was not even a thing !! ...and yet she was able to ramp up fairly quickly.

[1] I'm acutely aware that for non-tech people tech chops could also mean being able to use keyboard shortcuts where most people would use a mouse
TAP is a neat protocol, and I use it in a few of my projects. I was drawn to it because of Automake's built-in TAP support. It took a lot of work out of including a test-suite that "just works" with the "make check" and "make distcheck" targets.

So TAP is great if you're making an Autotoolized project. Although given that Autoconf's release team has abandoned Autoconf, maybe good Autotools support isn't as important as it used to be.
Hi everyone, I'm Gerald, a physician and former software engineer. In an effort to fight the problem of text information overload in medicine, we built a free platform for clinicians to share clinical algorithms, checklists, decision aids, guidelines and much more in the form of high yield infographics. Traditional medical reference resources hit you with overwhelming walls of text and we're aiming to be sort of like an IG/pinterest/google image search but dedicated to the medical reference space.

We've curated the largest online libraries of searchable Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) and physical exam clips for teaching bedside diagnostic skills. We also have a growing collection of COVID-19 resources: https://www.grepmed.com/?q=COVID19

We've got a bit of traction (yesterday we crossed 700k image impressions/day), but we'd love any feedback on our UI/features on how we can be more sticky returning users.

Thanks and be safe!
Intel is still launching new processors with AVX2 disabled. They use AVX2 support for product segmentation and disable it on low-end parts. So a Comet Lake Pentium Gold CPU launched in Q2 2020 doesn't support AVX2.

(I recall a recent news story about how unawareness of this among people writing or documenting compilers has started to cause problems.)
The treasury issues (sells) bonds and t-bills to banks/asset managers/random people, in order to get money to give away in bailouts and handouts. The Federal Reserve increases its balance sheet ("prints money") and buys bonds and t-bills in order to keep demand high and interest rates low.

(Net net this causes the value of the dollar to drop and to devalue against "real assets" like company shares, real estate and commodities. This "asset price inflation" is a desired side effect.)
I've heard people on the more MBA side of tech refer to Amazon as an "executive factory."

Dev managers at Amazon leave to be CTOs at startups. Senior engineers leave to be architects. It's one of the best possible resume items you could get, particularly if you're moving to another cloud company -- although, obviously, that in particular seems to be a bit of a dangerous move if you don't wanna get sued.
Just read this. Nice overview of the history of the "YOLO" family, and summary of what YOLOv5 is/does.
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This actually is a Mark Twain quote. When I heard the story about the professor and the students it was attributed to Mark Twain too, but when I tried to look it up before posting I couldn't find a clue.
That's how a lot of the executives budget too though. You'd be surprised how unsophisticated even high level software engineering VPs are when it comes to finance. Their expertise is in software, not finance.

As a case in point, we had to spend a lot of time educating people at Netflix how stock compensation worked, including a lot of VPs. They just didn't care, it was of no interest to them.

Money goes into bank, money comes out. ETrade account has a big number, yay! That was about it.

Of course some of them were much better than that, but just because they are engineering executives doesn't make them good with money.
Many programming languages would fit a project\team better if they had more community support. It's often worth putting up with worse-designed languages due to the existing libraries and documentation.

Also, the whole 'subjective\objective' distinction is tiresome and doesn't really help here. If we held a RCT where half of people started learning and developing in Julia, and the other half in Python, and they both only had the standard library and documentation, and we measured productivity, code performance, dev satisfaction, etc. and pehaps even had the developers eventually switch, we'd likely see data supporting the idea that one of the languages is overall favored by developers more than the other.
That's a possibility if I don't find anything else. Thanks!
America is changing, and so is the media
> it wouldn't be very conducive to their government's interests.

It depends on your timeline. If you eliminate dissent you may be able to push through short-term aims or develop a facsimile of national unity, but you will naturally eliminate nuance from your geopolitics. Even one or two generations into this experiment, you can wind up with a leader who truly "drinks the koolaid," who assumes the state propaganda to be reality. At that point, the regime is doomed.
Hey there, I'm the owner of webgraphviz.com and I am totally excited to see that it made it to the front page of hackernews!!

THANK YOU for making this wonderful program.

Also special thanks to the emscripten team for their wonderful transcompiler.

I am constantly amazed at all the WONDERFUL software that exists on unix as single threaded applications (required for emscriptem asm.js output). There could be a whole sub-culture of webdev which uses these old unix programs. I feel like it's an untapped resource, truly.
That makes sense, thanks. I was misled by the use of "prevalence" in the first part of the sentence.
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That solves eavesdropping, but you still could have someone that submits threats to .gov entities with your IP and have men in black raid your house at 5 AM.
It's actually $9.99/mo. (Edit: apparently they increased it and I'm grandfathered in on an older rate)

Do you not value your time? If you watch content on there on a fairly regular basis it'll easily save you 1 hr+ of your time/sanity over the course of the month.

Also some of the money goes to help support the creators of content you consume (apparently even demonetized channels).
Well, very unlikely to get the original author. He doesn't do that kind of thing anymore

https://twitter.com/pjreddie/status/1230524770350817280?s=19
This kind of thing is the exact reason why I was disturbed by the Keybase.io sale to Zoom and abandoned my account. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23105253)

I've been currently using Zoom during the pandemic because as a product it's still the best (and I signed up for a discounted year of pro), but I won't give them any money again.
Speak for yourself; some of us think computer aesthetics peaked by the 90s ;)
I'd love to get better at quickly understanding an unfamiliar codebase. Do you have any resources I could dig into?
I saw a film about battery recycling recently and the first thing they have to do with incoming cells is discharge them. They were using the energy to power the site. Clearly it wouldn’t be much more work to cycle the batteries.
>Hopefully PHP 8's attributes work to fix the mess that is phpdoc being used for annotations.

PHP8 annotations won't allow nested annotations so its only a partial solution.
This discussion revolves around advice, which set my expectations that these are claims based on experience instead of something that can be cited. If you don’t agree because you’ve had a contradicting experience, that could be a valuable addition to the discussion. It’s also fair to not adopt the advice if you want a study and one cannot be provided.

I’ve experienced the feeling the grandparent post shared.
This is something I'm super excited about. People should note that people started trying this out long time ago with batteries from used laptops. I believe couple people were even able to create DIY household energy storage solutions with just old battery laptops!

Once the industry figures out the problem of scaling, this could be very impactful.
> The rules about comedy don't apply to professional comedians, because you know if they break them they're still trying to funny.

I don't think this is true in the modern age. Countless non-established or up and coming comedians and adjacents have gotten fired for one-off remarks in old material or social media posts. If there's a constantly evolving list (which no one person on Earth is completely aware of in its entirety because of constant evolution) of "problematic" topics that will get you fired, all you will end up with is bad comedy.

More than 30 years after its release, Eddie Murphy was basically forced to apologize for Raw; undisputed one of the greatest standup specials by one of the greatest comedians of all-time. People were calling for a boycott of Netflix because of Chappelle and Seinfeld gets shit for his remarks all the time. If these were up-and-coming comedians, they would not have a career.
I suppose they'll leverage 'function multi-version'[1], as Clear Linux already does[2] to enable extra instructions on the big cores.

[1]: `target_clones` -> https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Common-Function-Attribute...

[2]: https://github.com/clearlinux/make-fmv-patch
There's a bit of that already with USB device classes. A keyboard might have a bunch of special features if it at least works with the USB HID keyboard class it will have base level keyboard functionality.

For some things like HIDs this can be pretty workable. For more complicated peripherals it is far more challenging if not impractical.

That's not to say device drivers should be an insane Wild West of compatibility shims and edge cases but some blanket solution doesn't solve all problems.
Worth pointing out then that DDG has a number of shortcuts built-in. If you don't care about passing a query through them, it already works.

https://duckduckgo.com/bang

The most-used is probably !g, which sends your query to google. For wikipedia, it's !w.
I feel like the good faith presumption for this company has to have shifted by now. Is there any reason not to assume that the Chinese government is surveilling Zoom calls en masse? Documenting participants (face, voice, language, location, etc.), recording content, etc. We're talking about the data of 200M+ users.

I see people on HN defending Zoom all the time.

>The company has acknowledged that much of its product development has been based in China, and that some Zoom calls were accidentally routed through Chinese servers.

>The University of Toronto's Citizen Lab said it found serious concerns over Zoom's security protocols, and said the company's large workforce in China left it "responsive to pressure from Chinese authorities."

>The government of Taiwan banned official use of Zoom due to security concerns, as have New York State schools, the U.S. Senate, and the German ministry of foreign affairs.

>Zoom CEO Eric Yuan said in early June that the company has chosen not to encrypt free calls in order to cooperate with law enforcement.
The best reason for this level of service is: You get to stop caring. It's fast enough that everyone you invite over can do _everything_ on hardline and they won't impact each other.

As others have mentioned you could also actually run (personal) servers at home as well.

* Games, with higher bandwidth (audio, video conferencing)

* Live auto-video conferencing the easy P2P way.

* Have a media library of your own and access it while out. This can include private video memories, not just photos. However you could also store and forward images of legitimately purchased HD content* (Assuming you support the private use format shifting doctrines).

* If you're teaching a class from home that video-call could be self hosted, rather than routed through a data center half a country away.
Why? I do not understand. It would make sense if the Atoms were performance per watt champions but https://www.cpubenchmark.net/power_performance.html#intel-cp... in this chart you basically only see various generations of ultra low (Y) and some low (U) Core chips, going back to Broadwell when the Y chips were introduced. Atoms make a very rare appearance. The top performing Sunny Cove (which itself has much poorer score than the latest Amber Lake Y but I digress) brings in 623 CPU Mark / Max TDP where the top performing Atom, a Pentium Silver N5000 features 455. You can argue on the finer details of this particular benchmark but we are talking of an absolutely brutal 40% difference. Core CPUs switch P states extraordinaly quick so if less performance is needed, they will consume less power just fine. What's the point...?

Cheat sheet to reading Intel CPU codes: if the number starts with 10 and contains a G it's an Ice Lake. Otherwise, if there is an Y somewhere, it's ultra low power. The last U letter means 15W, rarely 28W. Last letter T means a 35W desktop chip. E means embedded. Letter H means 45W mobile. All of these were Core chips, first letter N, J, Z means Atom. First digit (or two digits for 10) is generation which became an absolute mess past 7th gen, most important change is that 8-U is quad core where 7-U was dual core.
The fact that they put the extensions in implies they expect meaningful use, doesn't it? If not on this specific part, on a future part with multiple big cores.
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Your employer provides you with a medical insurance plan. On your break at work, you use your company laptop to access the insurer's website and use their find-a-doctor tool to search for a cancer doctor. This is a legitimate use of your work computer, after all.

Does your employer have a right and obligation to see that you're searching for a cancer doctor?

Go to a large company's IT department and find the person there you dislike the most. Do you want that person monitoring the traffic and seeing that you searched for a cancer doctor?

Now you know why so very many of us believe you are completely wrong about this.
But what this means is that someone from Chinese government gives a call to to MS or LinkedIn management and ask for these things, suggesting that any other option would result in less purchases of their office licenses and etc.
Funny! I'm dealing with a very similar problem right now. We're trying to port our CI workflow from DroneCI to GitHub Actions and our private NPM packages have been a literal nightmare. In comparison, our private composer packages worked fine with very little fuss.
For me, its just someone personal blog.
> new 3D stacking ‘Foveros’ technology

...wonder where they got that one from.
I recently did a deep dive into the topic, so here's a list of things I came across that helped me:

[1] Teleman 2005: https://math.berkeley.edu/~teleman/math/RepThry.pdf

[2] Khonvanov List of Repr Theory Resources http://www.math.columbia.edu/~khovanov/resources/

[3] Huang 2010, "Fourier-Theorietic Probabalistic Inference over Permutations"

[4] Woit, Topics in Representation Theory Course, http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/repthy.html

[5] Gallier 2013, "Spherical Harmonics and Linear Representations of Lie Groups" https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~cis610/sharmonics.pdf
It is ironic how the western public generally frowns upon the silencing of dissident throught in China, and at the same time welcomes precisely the same behavior for "sensitive topics" back home.
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It's worth it to support the content creators. YT Premium is probably the last thing I would cancel.
I really like graphviz for visualizing the call graphs generated by the Python profiler.
Furthermore, if they make an excuse after this story blows up, I think it's reasonable to consider their justification "retconned" and not actually the real reason they closed the account (which can be reasonably inferred to be CCP-aligned censorship).
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”

-Martin Luther King Jr.

This observation seems more immediate these days internationally than ever.
The problem for China is that Xi Jinping has essentially installed himself as dictator-for-life. He now rides to and fro on a tiger from which he dare not dismount.

The CCP witnessed the collapse of the Soviet Union and instead of opening up to a peaceful transition to democracy they chose to double down on top-down authoritarian policies. At the same time, they’ve sought to leverage markets for economic growth. The result is a conundrum: how to reconcile Marxist ideology with the prosperity of markets?

This is where “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics” comes in. This is an ideology of doublethink which can only be maintained through force. All of the censorship taking place, both inside and outside China, has the goal of ideological suppression for any speech the CPC deems a threat. And so here we are.
Maybe the journalist forgot to email them a meeting ID.
i think you have the causality reversed

people who take the risks seriously will try harder, thus become higher performers
This is the only workable solution for giving away WiFi to others. But then no one would use it because every site will captcha you to death if it can even load. It's terrible but the U.S. legal system forces everyone to subscribe to ISPs individually.
The trailing dot tells your resolver to not attempt to use your local list of search domains.
You never become exceptional this way. And if you run into situations you’ve never seen before, it’s harder to react competently. With coding, if you only ever use a style you copy, then everything looks like it could be solved in that way. This works and may help you up the corporate ladder. But it will never produce massively positive results
> permanent injury across a crowd

This needs a real world citation.

Wiki seems to me missing it too.

"This article is missing information about non-loudspeaker / anti-personnel uses and hearing damage. (June 2019)"

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

Then, if there are any actual facts not political facts, we can talk about refusing police access to non-lethal weapons and only giving access to guns and what that might mean.