skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All those screenshots look so busy to me, like there's so much going on in these people's lives that they struggle to keep up. I want the distraction device that sits in my pocket to simplify my life, not expose and amplify all the small interruptions as if they _need_ to be taken care of RIGHT NOW or else.

"you can pin conversations so they always appear on top of other apps and screens. Bubbles keep the conversation going—while you stay focused on whatever else you’re doing. Access the chat anytime or anywhere." — Yo dawg, I heard you like distractions...

It's not a critique on Android 11 per se. Just a general aimless rant about the direction we're going with our technological lives.
You could theoretically store energy by winding springs and making use of it by letting them unwind (by spinning a generator or whatever). Toy-car style.

This doesn't involve digging a deep hole in the ground and hope that the earth keeps it level.

A drawback would be the hazards that heavy tension/forces bring with them.
Interesting article. But a few illustrations would have helped.
Website Crashes and Cyberattacks Welcome Students Back to School
Code is copyrightable, so it's speech no? If I want to write code that can be run on an iPhone, I have an inalienable right to do so.

I'd say you also have an inalienable right to repair and modify things that you own, and that includes running code on computers you own, like the iphone
I guess what I'm saying is this all feels quite ordinary.

The judge will have the written outline arguments, and will be focusing on the parts that need greater interrogation. And they will also be juggling various factors -- there's limited court time; letting the case drag on is a potential source as injustice too; etc. On top of that, each side will be looking for advantages within the constraints of allowed legal procedure. All of these will contribute to what's being seen on the day.

If the judge missteps according to procedure, they're open to having the judgement appealed, so they're highly motivated to apply the rules correctly.

I'm not saying that the outcome is just, or that the laws themselves are ok. But the procedure seems ordinary to me, a lay person, and if there _are_ problems with it, they will be technical and unlikely to be spotted in an article like this.
Well they seem to have gotten you very emotional about it so I'd say they succeeded at something.
There is an IOMMU on snapdragons, as the article says, but it is the IOMMU mapping itself which they attack.

This itself is kind of mind boggling how they let the device overwrite its own IOMMU configuration, effectively nullifying IOMMU's purpose, and its provided safeties.

It's like fencing your house with 10 meter high walls, but leaving the key lying in front of the gate.
Why does WordPress still rule the website development space?
"The Amazon Microphone"

Let's all call it such from now.
Every time X has more users than Y, Y is declared dead, no matter if Y has as many or more users as always..
In what sense? Lots of elderly people have died. Is that ethical?
Is that an argument in good faith?
Just FMLA using a sympathetic doctor. You can find one. It's like a medical marijuana diagnosis.
Why do programming languages have their own package managers?

To simplify dependency management. Most popular and useful programming languages will have a community that creates useful libraries and frameworks that enable a developer to quickly build a solution to common problems or use cases. In many cases these libraries and frameworks will rely on other, lower-level libraries that provide specific functionality. This quickly results in a dependency tree since version X of the higher-level library or framework depends on version Y of lower-level library A and version Z of lower-level library B. Many programming languages simplify dependency management by allowing the programming to declare a dependency on version X of the higher-level library and the transitive dependencies for lower-level libraries A and B are automatically resolved and downloaded.

In the case of python and perl, many operating systems use these scripting languages to power system-level scripts and utilities. This means that parts of operating system are dependent on specific versions of the scripting languages. Historically, that meant that you were stuck with that version of the scripting language and could install packages into the system-wide package directories and use them. Some operating systems (e.g. Debian) include many programming language libraries as operating system packages, effectively bypassing the programming language package management mechanisms. This makes a lot of sense for programming languages that have a strong dependency on the operating system's underlying C libraries. Some of the programming languages have version selection mechanisms that let you install multiple versions of the programming language side-by-side.

More recently, some operating systems have began to separate the operating system's scripting language install from the newer versions of the scripting language that are intended for application development. For example: https://www.redhat.com/en/resources/red-hat-software-collect... This decouples the operating system dependencies from software development tools in an effort to prevent the mess that results from having the operating system and programming environment use the same libraries in an ad-hoc way. See https://xkcd.com/1987/ for a humorous take on the mess that can result if there is not a clean division between operating system scripting language libraries and programming environment language libraries.
> Tell me which 10 year olds today know CLI? They're all plastered to their iPads.

Prime example of juvenoia and biased stereotypical thinking right there. "Back in my days ..." ™

I know more kids in the ages up to 13 who are interested in actually exploring and working with technical stuff (programming and electronics for example) than kids who spend their most time just "consuming" and using these things. The main reason is that these things are much more accessible these days. YMMV, depending on your social and demographic environment I guess ...
I think my main disagreement with the entire tenor of the article, is that it treats reading as just one more aspect of the modern obsession of 'self-improvement', whereas I read because it's fun.

This doesn't mean that I never re-read a book - last year I re-read War & Peace, for instance. But I didn't do it to somehow deepen my knowledge of a 'core work' I read it again primarily because it's an immensely enjoyable narrative.

I also read a book about Ants purely for the fun of it. Now I can barely remember anything other than a couple of details about soldier ants that are also suicide bombers (when defeat appears inevitable, they tighten a muscle in their abdomen that causes their thorax to burst, and spray all the attackers around them with acid) and that a whole nest of the smallest known ants would fit inside a single head of the largest known species.

These two facts that I recall now can hardly count as 'deeper knowledge' or anything pretentious like that. But reading the book gave me a much greater appreciation of natural phenomena around me, and now when I see an ant's nest in the forest, I know more about what happens inside, I can discuss it with my kids and I'm more engaged and aware of my environment. But that's not why I read the book.
They already do this by binning and different sockets; for the CPU manufacturers themselves I think this problem is already solved.
CUDA compiles to CPUs, and AMD has support for CUDA via HIP.

Not that this matters because your argument is flawed.

The claim that CUDA is not worth using because it lacks portability, only holds, if there is hardware worth using that's not supported by CUDA.

The only GPUs worth buying for compute are from nvidia and support CUDA, so your claim isn't true.

The only thing you achieve today by not using CUDA is paying a huge price in development quality for portability that you can't use.

The startup cemetery is filled with companies that made this trade-off and picked OpenCL just in case they wanted to use non-nvidia hardware. They were all killed by the velocity of their competitors that were using CUDA to deliver better products that payed the bills.

The only people for which it might make sense to avoid CUDA are "non-professionals" (hobbyist, etc.). If you only want to use OpenCL to "learn OpenCL", then OpenCL is the right choice. But if you want to make money, then CUDA was the right choice 15 years ago and still is the right choice today.

If that makes you angry, direct your anger properly. It isn't NVIDIA's fault that CUDA is really good. It is however, AMD's, Intel's, Apple's, Qualcomm, ARM's... fault that everything else _sucks hard_. Being angry at nvidia for delivering good products is just stupid. Its the other companies fault that they can't seem to be able to get their sh* together when it comes to GPU computing.
Private investigator Steve Rambam was offering $1000 to anyone who could hack/modify an Echo device to answer to "Hey Wiretap" -- as far as I know that reward hasn't been claimed and is still valid:

https://twitter.com/supernerdmedia/status/996778740851007488...
Better to have the option of 5 stores that you can launch when and if you want then only have a Windows/Apple Store that will have more expensive games, will censor stuff based on "american values", will DRM shit so you can't say swap a .dll with something that works better(some old games that work bad on Win10 can be fixed by using a different directx.dll), you could not mod the games - basically you are telling PC people that a console is the best thing because it has 1 small advantage but it fucks you in 12 different ways(more expensive stuff and no freedom)
It was stolen - https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Copper

Related work of Markus Copper-

https://www.hs.fi/kaupunki/art-2000006628463.html

Helsinki police search for parts of a work of art that may contain explosives - “Three missing parts must be found and rendered harmless”

These are parts of the work of the late Finnish visual artist Markus Copper.
Ask HN: How are you finding the tech job market in the Covid climate?
Definition of gray market

Merrian-Webster: a market employing irregular but not illegal methods especially : a market that legally circumvents authorized channels of distribution to sell goods at prices lower than those intended by the manufacturer https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gray%20market

Investopedia: A grey market is a market in which goods have been manufactured by or with the consent of the brand owner but are sold outside of the brand owner's approved distribution channels—an activity that can be perfectly legal. In the securities markets, a grey market is a market wherein a company's shares are traded before they are issued in an initial public offering (IPO). https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/greymarket.asp

Wikipedia: A grey or gray market (sometimes confused with the similar term "parallel market")[1][2] refers to the trade of a commodity through distribution channels that are not authorized by the original manufacturer or trade mark proprietor. Grey market products (grey goods) are products traded outside the authorized manufacturer's channel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_market

Conclusion: Grey market seems to be the correct term.
In similar terms is the approach to never do today what you can do tomorrow; by tomorrow the requirements may change. I find it a very effective technique in implementation projects where things tend to change a lot. There is a balance to be had between the speed the world changes around you and the speed of your response. Finding this balance depends on how much engaged and passionate you want to be about the things you do.
Mathematical values of ancient Cretan -Linear A- fraction signs explained
>> they send their staff of high powered attorneys to shop for an amenable forum and file the SLAPP lawsuit that your org can't possibly afford to defend in a court you've never heard about

Do you have an example of Amazon doing this?
Most of the problems we have today are signal to noise problems. The signal to noise ratio of nearly everything has gotten worse, but the raw numbers have gotten better. There is a huge market for people interested in very complex games, but that market is 1) already pretty saturated since there are already a good number of complex games available. This is to include all the old ones, (such as Civ 1-5, or whatever we're on currently) which are generally still fun to play. And, 2) Since the market for people who love complex games is a tiny fraction of the (now enormous) general gaming market, it can feel quite futile. In fact, I suspect that gaming in the 80s on PC was so niche, that the percentage of people who could learn a Civ type game was much higher than it could possibly be now. Especially if you consider smart phone games.

Further, this is just true in general. People say "games are so bad now," when what they probably mean is "per capita, most games are terrible because the market is so huge." However, there are more and better games available today than in any time in history. Again, this is true because for the most part all the old games remain available. You could extend this to almost any kind of media: books, movies, TV, music. There is simply MORE of everything, and so the mainstream center-curve feels more estranged.
And HN submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24418856
Lets-plot: An interactive Python plotting library using ggplot's API
They’re not worried about stolen servers, they’re worried about flashing malware to the motherboard (possibly without physical intervention)
i have worked a full-time job one year in my entire life. after that always part-time. part time sounds bad but it's just you leaving the office at 1pm(or however that works out for you). it is the best setup and i have been working like this for over a decade. i prefer to work from office but it is not easy to find local companies for this setup and either way you have to be a self-employed entity. so i rented a desk at my previous job and worked from there for other companies, part-time, for many years. now i work from home since i have not found suitable alternative for my office since the company have moved to new space. but now i work on pre-paid hours, credit-like system, if you will. and have no schedule whatsoever. client pays me for certain amount of hours, upfront, and then as i work i just work up to the amount of hours i got paid. nobody is looking over my shoulder, nobody is giving me deadlines. when it's done, it's done. best setup, bar none. but ymmv. i charge enough so i can work hour or two a day if i want. i could make a bank if i would go do a full-time gig again and i have been thinking about it, for a year, to save money but i have not found interesting jobs so yeah... it is a individualistic lifestyle, not suitable for everyone. but as i have said, you can rent a desk at a company you know people from or something like that, so you are with people and not alone all doy long. i would not recommend corowking spaces at all though. that's the worst setup i can imagine.
This is a pretty weak update.

Fiddling with quite minor things, while breaking the ability to backup your device even more. Backup is a major black eye in the Android ecosystem for regular users.
No, when I say full, it is really the "maximum you ever need to pay" for a spot in kindergarten. It is of course subsided too by the government!

And as the sibling here say you can get rebate for having more kids too.

Having accessible daycare for all means more women can go to work full time which again means higher productivity among the population and more career opportunities for women so it is very important in many areas.

In corona times it is essential to get anything done effectively.

We also have the right in law to daycare, not just an offer if there is room for it.
I think there is something left out of the post, but it's hard to put my finger on it. In a vacuum, 71% does sound like a relatively low amount of evidence in favor of Biden, but when you put it next to most elections, which are only won by a thin margin, it sounds like a very impressive amount of evidence. Further, considering the amount of polarization in the USA, it seems like if 71% of respondents favor Biden, there is little probability of them switching to Trump.

I agree that 71% is a low amount of evidence, but election forecasts really make my brain work to rationalize them. I think it's helpful to remember that forecasts are produced _after_ weighting them by states' electoral college shares.
The only device I would allow in my house is a module that translate language. Locally within the unit.

So that it can be bundled with my controller that would make use of the translation/parsed voice command.

I do not trust Amazon/Google/CorpXYZ with running a microphone in my house.
Does anyone know what efforts Android developers specifically take to address Android's performance on the multitude of low-end Android devices?

I think (?) most people experience Android on low-end / underpowered devices and I wonder whether with these upgrades those devices are left behind.
If the author had read a few more books, he would have known that while St. Jerome is held in high regard, the Augustine is usually held as the chief intellectual of the time within the Church, and Augustine read a lot. He was incredibly well versed, for example, in the works of Cicero and Plato. In a later phase of the Church, Aquinas was also well read in a variety of sources, including Aristotle (and perhaps even Muslim writings translated into Latin). And his teacher, Albert Magnus, shows that the pre-modern mind was very much interested in the natural world.

I would agree with the point that we should be selective about our reading, even as we read widely. Focusing on reading things that have stood the test of time could still keep us busy.
This was precisely the basis of the energy storage systems in Paolo Bacigalupi's novel, The Windup Girl.
Wildfire Archaeology and the Burning American West
> When you use a file system through a library instead of going through the operating system there are some extra possibilities. You are no longer required to obey the host operating system’s semantics for filenames. You get to decide if you use / or \ to separate directory components (or something else altogether)

This is really about time in 2020 that someone (Apple, MS, Linux, FreeBSD, Plan 9 I'm looking at you) implemented this!
Sure, you are still dependent on constraints to durability and atomicity of the filesystem write of the new data. But this is handled properly in most modern filesystems (ext3,ext4,zfs) by default (as data=ordered ensures data writes precede metadata writes).

The point of rename() is to prevent a version to ever exist that mixes the old and the new version, which it always does, regardless of the filesystem.
Little-known fact: groff (more particularly grotty) does colour, albeit that people have secretly turned this off for you. grotty's own man page is in fact in colour.

* http://jdebp.uk./Softwares/nosh/italics-in-manuals.html
The screenshot shows a request, not a demand. The tweet’s headline is clearly clickbait
I'm not clear why app store competition should be determined by phone features?

The choice between fortnight and a good camera seems like a strange one.

Why couldn't Netscape have just made their own computer, instead of relying on windows boxes?
JOOQ vs. JPA (Hibernate)
From Procedural to New Knowledge: Leveraging Your Team’s Know-How
I misunderstood then - I interpreted the parent as being about the wall socket, because I wasn't aware that rewiring the actual plug was a thing you could do (or that these things ever failed, in fact).

I guess I'm a double embarrassment then!
Source for claim?
In a sense, probabilistic programming languages are automatic (approximate) integrators. Programs can represent arbitrary measures, and the back-ends provide various methods of estimating integrals with respect to them.
Man you people are sooo dramatic. Everyone deals with stuff, dude. It's just what you do.
There are a lot of extremely complex, demanding, and unique systems-based indie games which are very successful.

I think you have it backwards - At the Gates is a case of a game simply not being up to bar despite the recognizable name behind it (because the competition has gotten so fierce!), rather than people not bothering with complex games unless they have a recognizable name behind them, and only then for nostalgia reasons.
It's almost like the schools and systems are wholly unprepared for such mass "remoting"
Gamifying Franz Kafka
"We can offer a few additional recommendations:
Transparency and openness:
(...) More generally, the competitive benefits of a closed platform approach to hardware internals should be reassessed in 2020. This balance may have been historically appropriate when the GPU was not in the critical path for security, but today billions of users are relying on the GPU to uphold the operating system security model. "

This.
The article explains what there is no way to really measure the page load of modern sites for a user point of view. Then it analyses the biased data, using the various flawed metrics that do not match the modern web experience. Consequently, its overall conclusion that networks speed gains have made the average web faster is not conclusive at all.

Here is an example where these metrics make no sense. I've been using the website of the national weather forecast (meteofrance) for years. It used to load the DOM in less than a second. Since the the content was in the HTML, the user perception was the same as DOM-loaded. Now, with the same DSL connection, it loads in 2.2s (DOM). On a mobile, since the network is many times faster than a few years ago, the DOM is probably loaded faster. But the real content is not in the initial HTML anymore. It is loaded through XHR among the 80+ HTTP queries sent. The forecast is now displayed 5 to 6 seconds after the initial request for the web page.

I've seen quite a few sites that went slower over time because their content was no more static but wrapped into some JS framework. It is not only slower, but less robust, and harder to monitor — I've seen a few blank or broken pages, and I'm pretty sure this was not logged on the server.

This does not imply about the average web, and I'm not sure any comparison would make sense, but it does show that some areas of the web have regressed over the last decade.
> Sorry to flatly contradict you, but the size of Apple’s cut is not at all controversial. It has never been a crime to be expensive.

Of course it's controversial. Why should 30% be acceptable? Why not 50% or 70%? Or only 5%?

If you look at the app store revenue done by Apple and if you would be able look at the true cost of running it, one can agree that the huge markup is a racket.
Read my post again. I'm not saying the Nazis didn't censor.
I can only assume it's implied that the type of books this is about are philosophical (in the most broad sense, including self improvement) books, and so it makes sense to talk about religious books as examples?

People read for a variety of reasons, from professional books to books purely for entertainment. It also has to be said that while in those "pre-modern" times books were the most common medium, today there are many different ways to consume knowledge: newspapers, journals, blog posts and websites, graphic novels as written material, and we also have radio, tv, film, podcasts and many other types of source which serve the same role as books once did.
Product hunt got their first 2000 customers
There's plenty of competition in terms of stores for all those things, except iPhones.

For instance, you can buy games for your switch from amazon or best buy. They have no such restriction where you can only buy games through Nintendo's store