skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This letter is seriously weird. Shows a clash between two different lobby groups; neither of which actually cares about citizens. I think the quality of news has degenerated severely since it's been put in the hands of Google and Facebook and so I don't even know how to think about this issue.

This does make a case for increased competition in both the search and news space though.
While a lot of it is just humor, some people are really nervous about everything because of COVID19.

It seems pandemic stress is intensifying our feeling about other events. People immediately relate every incident to 2020 as if everything is getting worst.

I don't remember any year that some places on earth didn't report unusual weather conditions. Maybe people are reading more news and incident news are trendy and get more coverage.
It wasn't just News Group that hacked phones. Mirror Group Newspapers did as well: https://www.theguardian.com/business/commentisfree/2020/mar/...
Again, that comparison makes no sense. Python became somewhat popular for a reason and that built momentum but it didn't get to the current popularity because it's a superior language for any task - rather because many people use it and write tutorials, answer questions on SO, and write libraries and tools.
Your 2 years estimate is way too conservative, I've seen people do it in a year, sometimes a few months if the languages are close enough (French-Italian-Spanish-Portuguese etc.)

Then there are all the really intensive courses/immersion programs where failure is basically forbidden (FSI, DLI, French Foreign Legion) and people reach B2-C1 very quickly, even for 'hard' languages (like Japanese or Arabic for a native English speaker, or French for a native Chinese speaker).
For the audience: How many exploit demonstrations have you seen that launch `C:\Windows\calc.exe` or something to show you that you just got exploited? Now imagine the same exploit runs a program that does not announce its presence.

Here are twenty-three of them to get you started: https://github.com/arntsonl/calc_security_poc
Is there a more informative writeup somewhere? I couldn't find any data on performance outside AI inference workloads. There is a footnote about 30 cores but very little detail even on that.
And house prices still haven't started coming down...
I think the massive pools of capital thing is somewhat true, but this investment strategy works because ultimately there's so much demand for property, which is what's driving the real estate prices.

A permanent drop in demand because more people are working from home could crash the market.
I've sprinkled some comments in this thread, but as someone who is working more or less full time with k8s infrastructure, architecture and maintenance (and I do love k8s!), my take is that if you have to ask this question then the answer is invariably: NO.
It sounds like half the advantages, at least, are benefits of sleeping as much as you need. If I don't sleep enough I'm grumpy and apathetic, so if I only needed to sleep 6 hours (instead of 8+) I'm sure I would be happier.

So I believe this might have done causation link.
I felt that the manifesto gave the best description of the community. The homepage is mostly news about specific projects. I'm not directly affiliated with the group, but I follow some of the developers. And their podcast is pretty good too!
What do they do with the edge bits of the silicon wafer that are not squares?
And they lost all their data to foreign secret services (the NSA) once. Google never loosing data and taking "good care" of it is a myth that needs to die.

The only right way forward is to be parsimonius with data. Never pass it along, never collect it (if possible).
Reference comparison it is with a twist: the jvm caches the most common integers. You'll get the same object from -128 to +127 when implicitly assigning value. This is part of the spec, and can be set to a larger pool with -XX:AutoBoxCacheMax (but cannot be turned off).

If you explicitly ask for a new object (Long a = new Long(123l);) you will get a new object and the comparison will fail as expected.

The moral of the story is to always use .equals().
I've been looking at it many times, but I don't want to add myself work. Say I want to use RF24 (nrf24l01), if I just use raspbian I know it's an environment it's been tested on heavily, that all sensors libraries should just work because everybody is using the same hardware and software (in case of raspberry pi) and if it doesn't, I'm doing something wrong. But with heavily modified environment I don't want to spend 2 days debugging why i2c sometimes doesn't work or something like that. Am I understanding it wrong? Does anybody has some experiences to share?

To clarify I'm doing hobby projects, not industrial applications, but I do expect industrial-level reliability from my home automation.
It’s very cool, but unfortunately inaccessible for those without sky high budgets and time to talk to sales reps.

I would happily experiment with one of these at our HPC cluster(a small group at an University), but the idea of talking to a sales rep to even figure out what it would cost puts me off completely, ignoring the licenses for most interesting things to do with the hardware you buy.

I wish t. power boxes were as easy to buy as x86 boxes. Simply configure, get an idea of a price, talk to the distributor and place an order.
I think it's mostly due to this statement:

"I'd say it was more down to the culture of parents in the poor areas mostly not giving a shit about their kid's education"

Which sounds nasty, but rings true for a big part of England. It's also an uncomfortable truth, which basically always leads to downvotes.

Once a year (safe for this year, obviously) I'm in Blackpool at the Rebellion Punk Festival[1]. What you see in Blackpool and how people live there is very, very different from the impression you get when just visiting London.

People wouldn't believe how poor and destitute some areas in the UK are and the priority of a lot of people in such areas is not really education. Young women want as many kids as possible, since government benefits beat the shitty work prospects they have in such areas and the future for young people in general in those places are so bleak that it often leads to an understandable "why bother?" attitude.

And yes, this attitude is inherited, or actually worse. When there is a rare young person trying to be an achiever you can almost be sure he's mocked and bullied by his peers.

[1] http://www.rebellionfestivals.com/
I love all the game engines in there! Really makes me feel like hacking some game together to test them!
So it requires an attacker to already have access to rename files, making it somewhat useful against somewhat locked down corporate machines?
Because you told the target "if you have trouble running it, right click and open it with Java" and you assume they'll do it? Not clear how you could automate without using a different vulnerability to invoke the JRE on the file.
Are its eyes messed up in the photo or is that normal?
Agreed, except the point about "the norm".
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And here is another Australian who says "Oi mate, Google don't want to pay taxes for profits they made in Australia. They don't want to invest in schools, universities, infrastructure or anything else through reasonable taxation. Google are fucking over Australians".
I, too, started out with Slackware -- although, at that time, I think most did.

I used it for a couple years before giving in to everyone who had been telling me about Debian and, finally, I blew away my Slackware and installed Bo.

They were right, I did want to switch to Debian (I just didn't know it until I tried it).

Now, ~23 years later, my workstation and two primary laptops are all running Debian. I've made the switch to Mac twice in the last 12 years or so -- but not for long! At one point I decided I was going to switch to Arch Linux "for good". A short while later, I thought "maybe Fedora would be a better fit". Not long after, I came to my senses and, as I said earlier, I went running back to Debian.

For various reasons, I've got several VMs running "not Debian" and a few that are even running "not Linux" (none running Windows, however!) and I'm a big fan of CentOS/RHEL on the server (and, on occasion, FreeBSD and OpenBSD, whenever they're the best tool for the job).

At this point, though, it would take some extremely compelling reasons to cause me to switch to "not Debian" on my workstation and laptops. It's certainly not perfect and there are a few things I'd change if it were up to me but, all things considered, it's absolutely the best OS for me!
It's renamed, not simultaneously-associated. From the fine article:

'Quintero said this weakness would particularly acute if an attacker were to use it to hide a malicious Java file (.jar). And, he said, this exact attack vector was indeed detected in a malware sample sent to VirusTotal.

“In short, an attacker can append a malicious JAR to a MSI file signed by a trusted software developer (like Microsoft Corporation, Google Inc. or any other well-known developer), and the resulting file can be renamed with the .jar extension and will have a valid signature according Microsoft Windows,” Quintero wrote.'
Plug for the RL specialization out of the University of Alberta, hosted on coursera:
https://www.coursera.org/specializations/reinforcement-learn...
All courses in the specialization are free to audit.

For those unaware, the university of Alberta is Rich Sutton's home institution, and he approves of and promotes the course.
It is totally amazing what almost-instant 100% correct (including puns and jokes that I would easily miss as a non native and that automatic captioning would definitely miss) texting does to live streams.

Source: I saw it at an Angular conference in London three years or so ago.

One interesting bit for nerds: those people study up on different topics (law, programming etc) to customize their dictionaries and get it correct every time.
I'm not sure I understand the use case of the author. He mentions languages (Rust, C++ etc) that can be natively compiled to (almost) any platform, so what's the point of running them in web assembly ? Like Java write once run everywhere ?
Nice. Where are the main HPC jobs located?
Extensive discussion 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24164470
Come on Buildcraft is bad. Buildcraft pipes drop items when they hit full inventories. Eventually you end up dropping a million items on the floor and your game becomes unplayable.
Link to the new legislation or description thereof?
Yeah, it’s not right for really small projects - like I wouldn’t implement a smart light switch with it.

But anything where you might want a non-trivial web UI? Something closer to a smart weather station with streaming data? This would be great.
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Experience wonderful places, weathers and atmosphere through this game
I don't disagree with your first point. I meant that it's interesting that there is a phenomenon that is undefinable despite (in my view) self-evidently existing

I'm familiar with the map-territory distinction, but I still don't think that's sufficient. I'll grant that it's possible to define "I" as an arm's-length name for a representation - basically the same as "my body" or "my hands". And we can, without any philosophical complexity, do that with consciousness itself - I can talk about "my state of consciousness" in the third person.

That doesn't, to me, explain subjectivity. The simplest factory robot will have a model of self - likely a much more accurate one than mine. Is it conscious? Does it subjectively experience?
> once you go 16:10 it's very hard to go back to 16:9 laptops.

flashbacks from 2010 incoming ...

I still don't understand why people accepted the downgrade back then so easily, some of them even thinking 16:9 is somehow more modern or better.
Yes but it's much harder to find out about Australian politics because we all spend our time as a minority on an American web and our media just aren't doing (can't do?) a great job.
The way I overcame this issue was to just host the react app somewhere else and include the script in an HTML page rendered by the plugin. I guess an iframe could work too.
Remember when IBM went on Jeopardy? There was a question about which Egyptian pharaoh. A human with some knowledge of history might mix up Ramses and Seti, or whatever, or just not know the answer, but know that they didn't know. Watson answered "What are trousers?" with supreme confidence.

Jeopardy is fun and games and it was great for the blooper reel, but they're trying to sell this stuff to diagnose cancer and guide police efforts. Failure modes are kind of important.
I don't have high hopes in NATO, but I really doubt that would happen
Pretty sure you're writing on a good example now!

Hacker news is written in Arc, which is a dialect of Lisp. There's an old copy of code base here:

https://github.com/wting/hackernews
Qualcomm is currently using Samsung's 7 nm and nVidia will too.
How has your experience been on the interop front with BIM? Outside of a few outliers (Grasshopper/Revit) I've found a lot of the tooling to be horrendous from a compatibility POV.

We've done work with stuff like Speckle to try and improve data interchange, but still feels like an uphill battle
Is IBM POWER the modern day Cray?
For an intermediate goal on the way to sports games, the financial press version of (timeline of events) -> (narrative about said events) could be tackled as a memoryless system.
I find it interesting that you mention easily grokking backpressure in Factorio yet have more difficulty with blueprints. In my experience, people "get" blueprints much earlier on than even the idea of backpressure.

Given you say you come from a data streaming background, I (idly) wonder how much your Factorio "skills" could benefit from you picking up a book on design patterns in object-oriented approaches.
Kids vary. The median ability seems to be 3 languages.

That said, I think there are hidden abilities. My younger brother would only speak one language. He understood both, and we both had a smattering of other languages (russian, arabic, polish, tunisian) too.

Seemingly, he wasn't bilingual (2-4yo). But, after a week of immersion (grandparents) he would fully switch language and stop speaking the first one. The ability was there, but he didn't like switching in real time.

If Your nephews get a week or two in Japan, they'll probably unlock another level of language ability very quickly.

The bonus is accent. On this, even a disciplined and talented adult can rarely come near children's innate ability. Accents are usually carried by adults decades after fluency is achieved. Kids don't have this problem. Again, immigrant families give us a wide sample group to observe.
Do you know about Raptor Computing? [1] Some of those are affordable and all of them are configurable. Maybe they'll support POWER10 in the future.

[1]. https://www.raptorcs.com/
A bit janky indeed - could not figure out how to actually play the game? any hints? (in text, if you can, hate to watch instruction videos)
CRISPRy critters
In my country (France) the use of CRISPR is highly regulated (its basically regulated as biological weapon material).

You could learn about it from articles and textbooks but are very unlikely to be able to play with it.
Can someone point out why this comment is being down voted?
By “scanner” I meant the built-in windows defender tooling, which is - afair - affected. It trusts the signature. But you’re entirely correct - a virus scanner that does not rely on the signature w could catch the malicious code.

However, this blog post mentions that various security solutions trust the windows code signing, but it does not mention which ones - https://blog.virustotal.com/2019/01/distribution-of-maliciou...
The librem phone is $750 and the pinephone is $150.
My speculation: WASM will be used as default for edge computing and further cloud based containers. Cloud vendors will develop custom silicon optimized for WASM that won't be available for general public, maybe on ARM or RISC-V.
Your response is unrelated to what I was disagreeing with.

My underlying argument is that a strong free press must be maintained and that the reductionist argument that legitimate news sources and JoeRandomYouTuber should be treated identically is naive at best.

> Instead it goes directly to the big publishers who cut journalists while increasing the salary of people like Andrew Bolt (who is so far removed from a journalist it is objectionable).

The relationship between the rise of populist/sensationalist media and that of the Internet/social media/Google is inextricably linked. Traditional news sources found their revenue declining and so chased whatever attracted consumers, including sensationalist cretins like Bolt. Google should accept responsibility for this.

To be clear, I'm not arguing that the ACCC's proposal is the perfect solution to the underlying problem, but the status quo does need to change. At least they're doing something.
I'm not an expert in this stuff, but I think they just get thrown away.

It's one of several reasons why smaller chips are more area-efficient to make, and one of several reasons why the major semiconductor manufacturers have been so interested lately in building chips out of smaller pieces manufactured separately rather than one big monolithic chip.
Well, the constraint is that you're not allowed to follow a course right? Moreover, my argument is to convince naysayers.

I wonder what Japanese course you're talking about.
Point taken, I just wanted to use a shorter version than her/his
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This reminds me of a prank i played on a classmate in high school. I snuck a "ver.com" command onto his boot floppy (the real "ver" was a builtin DOS command) that installed a TSR (remember those?).

We had a very simple custom serial bus network back then. It was sufficient to allow me to send a command to his PC to show a fake game screen when the teacher was looking at his PC. A fun exercise in x86 assembly (fun for me at least)!
I honestly thought it's a bit silly but I get the idea how complex breakfast is.

And I thought it was nice philosophers still have something useful to do and talk about these things because science will soon find out what makes breakfast, or if it even exists.

It's great HN is discussing this stuff.

Come to comments, oh, it's just about consciousness again.
National Labs in US
Replacement corners in case one of the full-size dies in the middle cracks during dicing.
So not quite as big a population difference as today, also at the time those cities were centers of trade, hence centers of money and all that entails. Great places to attract the clever and talented.
terrific.. you should write a blog post about how you did this/managed life with 12 kids

would be an interesting read :)
It would take almost a month to fill up assuming 500MB/s write speed.
Not surprising that you made those connections: one of the main devs and creators of Factorio have mentioned that the game arose in part from their frustrations with the poor scalability of tech/industrial Minecraft mods. Specifically, IC2 is called out as having some influence on the design [of Factorio].
You have to remove the back cover to access the dip kill switches, at which point you could just life the battery out
In Belarus, it is criminal to donate to the opposition party or to the wounded protesters.
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Now if I can get one of these puppies in a future Raptor Computing build... That would be the dream.
This specific stereotype still plays a part in getting people killed. The death count didn't end with the millions that died during world war II.

For a small glimpse, read:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_antisemitism#20th-cen...

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

Also while I can't quantify the stereotype's influence and subsequent effects on political bias, Islam antisemitism, etc., I believe it is as meaningful as it was in Nazi Germany and the death count could easily increase.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_antisemitism#Nazi_Ger...
Are you sure? They're all under pressure, even twitter which was basically the wild west has started adding "get the facts" links, Facebook just closed all those groups.

"What are you doing about misinformation?" is a question execs might like to have an answer to...
Numerical Optimization - https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-0-387-40065-5

You'll need multivariable calculus and linear algebra as prerequisites.
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It's entirely possible to send mail as format=flowed plain text, so that messages will rewrap nicely on any screen. I do it all the time with Mutt, it's actually very easy.
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>(1969)

This seems to be a bug:

>Copyright © 1969 Robert A. Hearn

>Last Modified: December 31, 1969
Open of lock file "/HITS/.lck" failed.

It states clearly at the top that it was written in 2003.
Looks like sarcasm.
(Your sarcasm kill switch might be toggled on.)
There's way more to optimization than what's used in deep learning, especially if OP is interested in operations research.
Why can't I find a USB-C hub with multiple USB-C ports?
>Copyright © 1969 Robert A. Hearn

>Last Modified: December 31, 1969

Lol, this must be autogenerated. A timestamp of 0 will fall on 1969-12-31 for many time zones.

What I wonder is why the author added this note, and didn't get the code that generates this fixed.
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The fluency achieved in even four years is very very limited: very correct from the point of view of how well the grammar used by adults work (better than adults over that period), but the range of the things they can express is much smaller than adults learning the language over those four years (several hours per day).
Apple did not exist in 1969. The Mac did not exist until 1984.
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First day of the Hacker News front page
From direct experience; learn optimisation by understanding a variety of optimisation problems. Don’t worry at all about how to solve them, just get very good at being able to express the problem as a parameterised function that can be maximised.

Then learn about the properties of different classes of functions and what this inevitably means for optimisation options.

Generally your best bang for buck is mixed integer linear programming. It can solve a huge number of problems. This book is perfect:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Model-Building-Mathematical-Program...
Replacing the Android camera pipeline and the use of computation photography
Well you called bullshit and the number is 56.7% per the article the other user helpfully linked. This is why "California cuisine" has been farm to table for so long and why it is more affordable to eat fresh, tasty, in-season produce there.
Although pretty nice if you have a Linux host, I would say this isn't well suited to typical embedded IoT devices that would be used in large scale deployments. It would be cost prohibitive to blanket a city with temperature sensors if they all needed to use a $35 raspberry pi.

Many IoT devices run on very limited hardware mostly without an MMU, usually shared with the Radio like the Nordic NRF52 or Semtech's Lora modules. Often times with serious size, power, and cost constraints. This often rules out higher level languages like Erlang, Go, etc. These are great languages for different use cases, but really not well suited to any low level hardware. The runtime language has huge impact on cost and battery performance. More memory == more $$, more CPU cycles == more power.
A little bit recursive perhaps.
But;
IBM is modern day IBM.
Isn't it more "Struggle of the classes"? Or "Classes struggle"? And not "The Class of Struggles" ?
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