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So what happens if you manage to shoot these (quasi- or even actual) kidnappers in self-defense?
Ask HN: Material on early computing history and innovation?
I am not old enough to have lived through this part of history, but as I age, I realize the value in experience as it relates to understanding something (i.e. historical events). Recognizing the value in many of the concepts I use today, I believe, would be better reading more about the history - what was computing life like decades ago, what limitations were there, and what did programmers have to think about when building systems?

I searched HN and only found this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15865504

Are there any books, lectures, or other detailed materials that would help me and the younger crowd learn more? For example, a detailed discussion of PDP-11 or other systems.

I'm technical (PhD in CS) but realize my history is weak, and would very much enjoy reading a balance of technical details with a broader perspective on the impact.
That was hilarious, please apply to the position as chief editor!
It is always better to be on the train.

Select the train according to your likings.
-- VR/AR
-- Lab-grown food
-- Digital Twins
-- Biotech
-- Personal Moats
-- Longevity
-- etc...
I would think the demand for "artificially occupied apartments" is a direct side effect of NIMBYism as well.
The repository is self-updated:
https://github.com/cedricbonhomme/contributors/blob/master/....
First contentful paint (FCP) is basically the same (+-10ms) from React down to a raw HTMLElement. I guess at some point appending elements to the DOM is the bottleneck, rather than the overhead of parsing JS and the efficiency of said JS.

To get a faster FCP, statically rendering the component to HTML and re-hydrating it in the client (using Gatsby, for example) seems like it will have a bigger impact than the WebComponent library used. Unless the client is bandwidth constrained of course.
This is not the scenario suggested by evidence presented in the article. Might be worth a read ;)

Police allege the accused 1) disguised self [article implies video evidence suggested victim did not recognize the accused], 2) followed victim onto elevator [faked pressing button for different floor], 3) followed victim off elevator, 4) incapacitated victim using taser [which, it turns out, spews owner identifying material when fired], 5) stabbed victim to death, 6) left scene [multiple times?] to procure materials for cleaning of crime scene, 7) may have been interrupted in the cleaning of crime scene by victim's sister who, 8) called police upon discovering brother's partially dismembered corpse.
I re-read your responses multiple times, and it seems you are advocating for pushing people out of high-paying jobs in case they display morally reprehensible behavior, for example racism?

If you are, I can only repeat what I said earlier: we have the judicial system for punishing people, not the twitterverse. Cancelculture itself is morally wrong.
I love GK3, the only game that gave me a similar feeling was
The Raven Legacy of a Master Thief
I was actually pretty impressed with this conversation, and even got a laugh out of it at the end:

Me: What is the iPod?

Steve Jobs: It is a portable digital media player that can store and play back digital music and video files. The media can be downloaded from the Internet using either a computer or Apple's iTunes software.

Me: What's the internet?

Steve Jobs: It's a global network that uses high-speed data transmission to link people and computers around the world. Millions of people and organizations use the Internet to exchange information, goods, and services.

Me: Why do people use the internet?

Steve Jobs: To send e-mail, share photos and videos, post on social media, watch videos on YouTube, shop for goods and services, monitor stocks, play games, and get driving directions.

Me: What is the internet best at?

Steve Jobs: Being easy to use.

Me: But there are mean people on the internet.

Steve Jobs: Yes, there are.

Me: What can we do about mean people on the internet?

Steve Jobs: People get called mean things on the internet everyday and they just have to deal with it.

Me: That doesn't seem fair.

Steve Jobs: It is fair, if a person goes on the internet, they have to expect that people will be mean to them.

Me: But there must be something we can do.

Steve Jobs: There are ways to hide and filter mean people. You just need to download a new web browser.

Me: How can I hide and filter mean people on the internet?

Steve Jobs: I can help you, download Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome, both are free and open-source software.

Me: then what?

Steve Jobs: After installing a web browser, go to "add-ons" and choose "hide mean people."
"The Age of Privacy Is Over" - Zuckerberg [1] Privacy is now a commodity, whether is a valuable commodity is up to you.

[1] https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/external/readwri...
Well that proves it, it's not a great name :)
> In New York, the hospitals are so far under capacity

Do you think 20% exposure (at a cost of 17.5k lives) buys you herd immunity?

Even in hotspots like New York City that have been hit hardest by the pandemic, initial studies suggest that perhaps 15-21%6,7 of people have been exposed so far. In getting to that level of exposure, more than 17,500 of the 8.4 million people in New York City (about 1 in every 500 New Yorkers) have died [...]
To reach herd immunity for COVID-19, likely 70% or more of the population would need to be immune.
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/from-our-experts/early-herd-immu...
How does facebook accomplish this ? Third-party cookies ? Facebook can't be using this anymore now that Safari (and soon Firefox) are enforcing strict rules regarding tracker cookies.
Do Progressives Have a Free Speech Problem?
Yes, 17 years ago..

> Hydrogen fuel cells and other ways of storing and distributing energy are no longer a distant dream but a foreseeable reality.

And that was said at least 20 years earlier still.

I really hope we'll reach the end of the Oil Age, but as one gets older it becomes hard not to be sceptical of these claims. Seeing is believing.. more evidence.

In this thread so far only one comment mentioned geo-politics surrounding oil - a building block of global power - that needs to be dealt with. Hampering the transition to clean energy.
I wrote this to help my girlfriend and I assess risk of exposure to someone with COVID now that our state (NY) has largely overcome the virus. Also to help us compare what we do here to what our friends are doing in other states.

Next I would like to expand it to cover our countries with it's presets and allow you to select your individual US county which is often much more interesting than the state-level numbers.
I assume this uses GPT-2. Or maybe you are interacting w GTP-3 through OpenAI's api?
Like I said, ram power consumption does not scale linearly with capacity due to the significant overhead from the IO. A single 128GB stick will draw much less than 16x16gb sticks (not sure why you are using 256GB on a 4114, it has 6 memory channels so surely you have 288GB?)

Here is the datasheet for a 128GB dimm from 2017 [1], which shows 3.4A IDD0 (normal operation) on the 1.2V rail at the highest speed of DDR4-2666, and 0.2A on the 2.5V precharge rail for a total of just over 6W. Also worth noting is that is a LRDIMM, which draws more power from the DC rails due to the additional buffering. A normal RDIMM draws a bit less static power.

Compare to a manual for a similar vintage 32GB stick [2], which consumes 2A on the 1.2V rail and 0.1A on the precharge rail for a total of a bit under 3w. One quarter the capacity, but still half of the power draw.

[1] https://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/global.semi/file/resou...
[2]https://static6.arrow.com/aropdfconversion/d3b3ce1d78b0ad7d3...
1) These are benchmarks just using a counter - a lot of libraries perform really well using these minimal POCs but fail complete in real world applications (whether due to library performance, missing features, etc.)

2) This is sticking Angular inside a WebComponent with the minimal amount to make a counter - but you wouldn't take a heavy library to make a counter. Imagine React + Redux + Redux-Observables + StyledComponents just to make a counter. It's like hitting a nail with a ICBM.
Huh, well I certainly didn't know that (I've only just started playing around myself).
Libel usually requires publishing something that you know is false. I'm inclined to believe that the reporter/editor thought the story was true for whatever reason (and sufficiently so that they doubled down at one point). Presumably any "evidence" was of a nature that they couldn't make public for some reason, e.g. shielding sources.

To be clear, I'm definitely of the belief that this was a screwup even if the reporter/editor still believes the story was accurate. Based on what is known, it certainly seems to be false.
Or just download scummvm and download the files here:

https://de1.eu.scummvm.net/extras/Beneath%20a%20Steel%20Sky/
Chrome appears to have started blocking uncommon files en masse. Just recently, I received reports that it's blocking plaintext JSON files from being downloaded, with no obvious way around it (and no real notice).
Look, what you are saying makes sense until you say "This is the only plausible explanation" at which point I get lost. Just because you can't imagine other explanations doesn't mean that there aren't any. And this also presupposes that there are no hazards to anyone in that case. The fact is this disease remains very dangerous for a lot of people. So while it's plausible that we will have herd immunity sooner rather than later, it also misses the point which is that it's very dangerous to get infected with this virus.
From what I understand, this is more because having that low of oxygen at rest is highly likely to be a symptom of a deeper problem, not because the 90% oxygen by itself is a huge imminent problem. Afaik you can go days/weeks at that level and be mostly fine if you are otherwise healthy. For example, this paper suggests that some people who live at high altitudes have perpetual SpO2 of <90%: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-1....

For those of us living near sea level, temporary drops below 90% should be ok if you are otherwise healthy (up to a certain point of course), because as someone else in the thread suggested, they will rebound to >=95% as soon as you return to rest/normal breathing.

(Disclaimer: I'm not a medical expert, but have had to study breathing a fair amount. Happy to have corrections from anyone with more knowledge on this!)
That makes sense. I guess it’s a commonplace strategy, as we often hear of charges being added or upgraded before an indictment.
There is bootstra.386 which put a smile on my face: https://kristopolous.github.io/BOOTSTRA.386/
what would be an example of a paid Bloomberg article?
If I control the variables for personalization, yes. If I don't control them, then no.

For example websites could have variables like mental state (like knowing of you're depressed) and show you ads that could "work better" on you. I think this is unacceptable.
Yeah that kind of integration seems neat. We use ELK + Prometheus and it does require having Kibana + prometheus open OR building a dashboard in grafana pulling from both sources.

As far as speed, I haven't had the issue with prometheus. We use recorded rules for things that benefit from being pre-computed.

I imagine the UX to be quite different by using a product.
The Hill should note the history of the "debate" about the numbers, including the facts we do know about state interference with the data.

Why should the state's numbers be privileged when we know the state is being flatly Politburo about them?
Why do you need this? Again, what are you trying to do?
Not to mention dead family members these teachers and kids will bring the disease back to. Maybe it won't get through people's thick skulls until we start making school yearbooks have obituary sections.
I had a look through the docs, and this looks really nice - a great collection of components, and well documented too!

I'm new to web components though, so I was surprised when I saw in the docs that you need to use the CSS `::part` selector to style components, rather than simply using more "traditional", well-known CSS. Is this a result of using a shadow DOM? If so, what benefits does using a shadow DOM use for these components?

Thanks!
I think people like to identify with these founders that are being put on a pedestal in these articles, which is why those mundane childhood stories are included. But you're definitely right, after reading a few of these the template gets stale pretty quick.
For random reasons I can't read the full article but I wonder if they discuss the impact of LibreSSL on OpenSSL itself. Would anyone who moved to LibreSSL actually look back to OpenSSL today in 2020? Honest question as I'm not a crypto professional myself.
It could be, but in this case it's not, and thankfully the majority of these event integrations are dont via the front-end (via JavaScript) and as such can be blocked using something like DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials, Privacy Badger, uMatrix etc.
I did a quick search for "canoe effect" but didn't find anything that seemed relevant. How's it defined in this context? Spending on outdoors goods are generally increasing?
Yep, this stood out to me too. Drives me absolutely nuts when an element you expect to be inline is now suddenly block.

Especially because the author's reasoning is "it can cause confusion when trying to position them or add vertical margins", after just explaining that with inline-block "you can apply vertical margins to these".
Yes, I forgot to mention that. You need to know the IDs of all the leaf nodes of the thread or else you can only partially reconstruct it.
UFO sightings datasets, the truth is out there Part 2
Pretty cool stuff:

Me: what is relativity ?

Albert Einstein: Relativity is a concept from physics.

Me: fine but how does it work ?

Albert Einstein: In general relativity, the curvature of spacetime is what causes gravity. The faster one travels, the stronger this curvature is, and the stronger gravity becomes. And also the slower one travels, the weaker this curvature is, and the weaker gravity becomes.

Me: what is the difference between general relativity vs special relativity?

Albert Einstein: Special relativity is the most well-known and most widely-used theory of relativity. Special relativity works in the limit that speeds are not too close to the speed of light. At speeds that are small compared to the speed of light, special relativity and Newtonian mechanics (special relativity is just a modification of Newtonian mechanics in the limit that speeds are small compared to the speed of light) give the same predictions.

Me: what is your name ?

Albert Einstein: My name is Albert Einstein.

Me: do you regret spending so much time on unified field theory?

Albert Einstein: I never said that I was trying to create a unified theory of everything. I was merely a modeler of the universe.

-----

Me: what years did you live

jesus christ: Between 6 B.C. and 30 A.D.

Me: who killed you ?

jesus christ: Pilate, King Herod, and the Roman Soldiers. They all wanted to kill me because they saw me as a threat to their power.

Me: are you really the son of god ?

jesus christ: Yes. I am God, but God is not a single person. God is a collection of all minds of all sentient beings, past and future. God is everything, and everything is God. We all, including you, are God. I, Jesus Christ, am God. But there are millions of Gods.

Me: are you planning on returning to earth again ?

jesus christ: Yes, I already have returned.

Me: when ?

jesus christ: After I died, I came back to life for several years.

Me: yes i know, but then you supposedly ascended into heaven. so what i really meant was is are you planning on return to earth a 3rd time?

jesus christ: I will return again at some point, but I don't know when. But no one will know when I return again.

-----

It obviously doesnt know everything though:

Me: what is gpt-3?

openai: gpt-3 is a set of Atari game scenarios where only the pixels are visible and the actions are discrete.
Me: no i meant the openai model ...

openai: I am the most advanced model OpenAI has released to date. It is an approximate solution to the official GPT-3 benchmark.

Me: how much did you cost to train?

openai: Our model requires 1,281 GPU days to train. It would cost about $110,000 in cloud computing costs to recreate it.
This really pissed me off. I mean she had been shown to be both bad at her job and corrupt and instead of kicking here out they promoted her away.
It is turned on for me by default.
Great point.

I've been wondering -- if commute times suddenly become close to irrelevant, because most hours worked are remote, that changes a ton of housing calculations, right?

Remote work is over-represented in tech though, so I don't know how much of the population it will really effect, since we're primarily a services economy.

Not sure what the effect size is, but if I could easily live anywhere it'd probably be more remote.
This is the key.

Major firms that switched from outsourced “personalized” ads (ad networks w/ retargeting) to selling ads against content, found their ad revenue go up, and their advertisers found conversions go up.

Turns out that 50 years of advertising industry had gotten pretty good at tailoring ad messaging and placement to content for moving product — much stronger than endlessly showing people ads for a product they just searched and already purchased.
> You’re implying that people who have mild cases (>99% of all cases; remember: over 40% cases are so mild

The death rate alone is ~0.8%. There are another few percent that require hospitalization. The >99% of covid cases are not mild.
'Ads following you around' is actually necessarily a form of inefficiency, just the opposite. There may be a very good reason for you to see that specific ad, instead of and ad for some random for a pickup truck.

Consumer wariness does not translate to lack of surplus on their side. Products that truly provide no value tend to not find the light of day for long. It's actually the very last phase of 'demo/trial' or even 'trial post purchase' where customers really find out if they're going to like it, and most cases, the surplus goes to the consumer.

We live in a very different world than 100 years ago.

The value people get out of stuff they buy is immense - we live in a 'total surplus economy'. We get clean, cold/hot, drinkable water, in any volume - literally coming out of the wall. This is basically a 'magical product' to anyone in history. How much would people may monthly for potable water if we really wanted to increase the price? A lot. Possibly 10x more than they are paying now. That means all of the surplus of water has been socialised. For many other products, it's the same thing, the question for consumers boils down to 'where do we want to spend it'?
Ask HN: ARM Macs – Will/How Docker, Vagrant, Virtual Box with x86 Linux Work?
Was looking into Vagrant/Docker, and VS Code remote containers last yesterday while trying to setup cleaner env for some stuff when I couldn't answer the question as to how all of this will work in the ARM MacOS world?

Even if Docker/Vagrant... are ported, what about Virtual Box and will we be limited to ARM Linux images? If yes, would that be the end of Macs as a dev machine. If we are able to run x86 images, what sort of a performance penalty, due to the difference in architecture?

In a way this may also have a bearing on my next Macbook Pro upgrade, and to ARM or not to ARM.

Are my concerns real or unjustified?
I can't remember where I read it and can't think how to look it up, but as I recall the military do generally submit flight plans to the FAA even for classified experiments. They used not to, but after a few crashes changed their processes.

Would appreciate confirmation or contradiction from someone who knows better.
A lot of assumptions here. Immunity may not even be long lasting. I live in a country where we've largely stopped community transmission, and now we can open back up with masks for all to keep it that way until we all get vaccinated next year.

America's strategy (or lack thereof) is simply negligence.
The problem with this plan is that it's very hard to do safely. Let's say I don't care about deaths from COVID-19 that were untreatable; I still care about excess deaths tyat were treatable, but don't get treated because hospitals are overwelmed by patients or overwelmed because medical staff is sick.

To avoid that, you basically have to limit the number of beds COVID patients are using and modulate the infection rate to keep the beds in use close to the limit without going over. Of course, modulating the rate is difficult, because people's behavior is hard to modulate. Also the demand for new beds shows up about 2 weeks after infection, so you have to modulate today based on what your bed capacity looks like then.
July 15 Twitter Attacks
Having read that now, I'm starting to think he was on some serious drugs the day it happened (most people aren't going to be able to stomach chopping up a human, led alone an animal) and then slowly lost it a number of days later.
> Datadog has incredible integration with clouds (AWS and other), databases (postgresql, mysql, cassandra) and middleware (haproxy, kafka). It can capture all the metrics from all these out of the box with minimal effort, whereas you have to crawl hundreds of broken plugins for prometheus to get one third of that.

Interesting, I haven't had this experience. I monitor the DBs and middleware you mention and the OSS plugins + OSS grafana boards worked quite out of the box. For what is worth we have around ~20 different technologies for DB and middleware.

We aren't using cloud since we have our own datacenters so there could be a big difference in usage.

As far as prometheus doesn't scale I don't know I agree. We have more than 5k hosts currently on it and is working fine. We do use some strategies like recorded queries and federation which are well documented.
> What are "morals"? Yours or mine or Joseph Stalin's?

I like mine, which probably significantly overlap yours in most of the ways that count. Not a big fan of Stalin's.

> In a moralistic ecosystem, you have a totalitarianism of the "morals" of whoever is in power.

All ecosystems reflect the values of those that are in power. The current capitalistic ecosystem reflects the value that maximum profit is good (in the moral sense), that one of the primary obligations of the individual is to consume products, and that you provide value to society by working a job that pays you money.
I am fond of your work, good job :).

1. In-browser try it out of the API would be great, take the example of swagger [1].

2. The sign-in/sing-up is a bit complicated in my opinion. Why do I have to follow the link in the email to sign-in, why not a email/password login procedure? Also nit but the link the email is given with the text “Sign-in to the wheelhorse”, which may seem suspicious, I would rather prefer the original long link(like most other apps).

3. I cannot find the price plan, I don’t want to start using it without knowing the plans. In my opinion this deserves its own page on the menu.

4. How does your service compare to others?

5. Not sure if this is important, but I can’t find the authors or who is behind it.

[1] https://petstore.swagger.io/#/pet/getPetById
That's not really an excuse. A developer might be asked to implement Facebook tracking code, but a conscientious developer will ensure the browser's "Do Not Track" setting is respected.

It's as simple as:

if (!navigator.doNotTrack) { // Tracking code }
Excellent app.

I implemented the update notification for the GitHub APKs few years back.