skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> no CAP has a bubble

could you please tell me what that means ? I googled "CAP bubble computer" and the results were unrelated.
Verizon to buy pre-paid mobile service Tracfone in $6.25B deal
Theranos May Have Been Crazy. Holmes Probably Wasn’t
> C# has a pre-processor just like C and does perfectly fine with MSIL

Right, because the preprocessor isn't used for compile-time platform-detection. It doesn't use the C idiom of #ifdef WIN32 for instance. C#'s preprocessor does far less than C's.

> Mainframes manage just fine with bytecode for C and C++.

Presumably they all agree on things like endianness, sizeof(long), whether NULL is represented with bitwise zero, etc? These aren't portable assumptions.

> So yes, it is political.

Again, I doubt they want to be tied to perfect backward-compatibility for LLVM bitcode.
An account to use oculus doesn't seem like it's a fake account. It's being created to use their services. I don't see how that qualifies as fake.
They already have this power to an extent. Hawaii for example requires visitors to self quarantine for two weeks upon arrival and arrests violators.
Possible sign of life on Venus stirs up heated debate
Interestingly in the original article it said that the datacenter was meant to stay under water for five years. I wonder why they have pulled it out ahead of time.

(source: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44368813 -- see video)

edit: just to be clear, my questioning isn't meant to be read in a denigratory way. just wondering. Also thank to Kydlaw for pointing out that it actually said "up to five years".
Very interesting, I didn't know this bit of scifi history!

I'm an absolute fan of PKD, and he was definitely at his best when exploring the surreal and unexplainable, the paradoxes, the philosophical, and also the minutiae of the "uninteresting" parts of people's lives. Like someone said in the intro of his collected stories, PKD's characters themselves are often cardboard thin, and his props likewise. Taken at face value, the "pure" scifi bits of his stories aren't particularly interesting; but it's fascinating how he cares about what a time-traveler does for a living, and when a service call from the future goes horribly wrong, it's the minutiae about the repairman's life that matters, not the "tech". When someone is stuck in a parallel universe, their possible savior might only be interested in what's in it for her as profit. When someone is stuck in a Nazi-ruled world, we still learn he sells fake antiques for a living.

If someone lives in a backwards time-travelling stream ("Your Appointment Will Be Yesterday") this is never really explained. PKD doesn't care about this, he cares about how it affects his characters. And the story is never fully resolved, not in a tidy way -- it often ends up more confusing than it started!

So I guess I find myself in agreement with Stalislaw Lem here.
It may be confirmation bias, but it seems people care more about someone else’s phone choice (Android and iOS fanboys) than some more wealthy person wearing a $50,000 watch.

For example, Lifehacker posts some articles about how to do something on iOS every so often, and the comments always have those people saying, “iPhones suck; just throw it away and get an Android” with no mention of why.
I think for starters this would never happen in the current US both due to a lack of political will and highly varying circumstances (things were fine in Texas at the start, why would they lock down?). Not to even mention legal challenges. I believe people would need to be dropping dead nationwide to the tune of one in a hundred or thousand per week for this to happen here.

But even if we could I don't think it would save us for some of the following reasons, though it might have bought us a couple week or month reset. However, if this were followed up by strict adherence to social distancing, mask usage, and restrictions on social and work gatherings, we'd likely be in a much better place than we are now.

Completely eradicating the virus when there are tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of cases seems unlikely to me. Enough cases are likely to persist through propagating within large households, cases with extended infectious time period (I'm not sure how likely this is? It seems to me like it should be possible for some cases to remain infections for longer than normal periodas of time, but I haven't read anything about this), and people not following the guidelines to give a sizable enough base for the virus to recuperate. And even if some areas do eliminate it, it can come back through domestic or international travel.
Could you buy them at auction?
Tangent: Homebrew itself doesn’t really choose to take over /usr/local; rather, it just accepts that there exists POSIX software that is way too hard for most machines to compile, and so must be distributed precompiled; and yet where that precompilation implies a burning-in of an installation prefix at build time, which therefore cannot be customized at install time. And so that software must be compiled to assume some installation prefix; and so Homebrew may as well also assume that installation prefix, so as to keep all the installed symlinks and their referents in the same place (i.e. on the same mountable volume.)

You have always been able to customize Homebrew to install at a custom prefix, e.g. ~/brew. It’s just that, when you do that, and then install one of the casks or bottles for “heavy” POSIX software like Calibre or TeX, that cask/bottle is going to pollute /usr/local with files anyway, but those files will be symlinks from /usr/local to the Homebrew cellar sitting in your home directory, which is ridiculous both in the multiuser usability sense, and in the traditional UNIX “what if a boot script you installed, relies on its daemon being available in /usr/local, which is symlinked to /home, but /home isn’t mounted yet, because it’s an NFS automount?” sense. (Which still applies/works in macOS, even if the Server.app interface for setting it up is gone!)

The real ridiculous thing, IMHO, is that Homebrew doesn’t install stuff into /usr, like a regular package manager. But due to macOS considering /usr part of its secure/immutable OS base-image, /usr is immutable when not in recovery mode.

I guess Homebrew could come up with its own cute little appellation — /usr/pkg or somesuch — but then you run into that other lovely little POSIXism where every application has its own way of calculating a PATH, such that you’d need to add that /usr/pkg directory to an unbounded number of little scripts here and there to make things truly work.
The user has authorized PayPal to give money to Facebook. Facebook wasn't authorized by the user themselves to run the ad campaign, but PayPal is doing exactly what it should.
My comment is specifically talking about the experience of fifth grade. Of course a five year old would have more trouble but it's not a wash for all of elementary school in places that decided early they were going to be remote and that they had to prepare the best they could with little federal help.
> 200K+ dead in 6 months is pretty damn dire

Disagree. At least 450k die per year of preventable health conditions (lung cancer + obesity) and nobody bats an eye (that's 4.5M deaths per decade). The flu alone kills orders of magnitude more than covid over longer timelines. A once-in-a-lifetime virus kills medically compromised people at elevated rates for 6 months and people lose their minds? It's not rational.
Perhaps it was disabled due to money being involved? I could see that as fraudulent activity myself.
Very interesting to see a lower failure rate. Is it simply a function of possibly better thermals than your average datacenter? Less EMR?
https://www.12000.org/my_notes/CAS_integration_tests/reports... gives Fricas solving 68% of the integrals vs. Maxima's 43%
Only in some science branches, e.g. nuclear physics. But not microprocessors.

Also, scientific power is not the same as developed market. USSR was scientifically strong, but economically weak, ask ex-Soviet citizens how the 1980s looked like - an era of queues for basic necessities.
It's hard to con an honest person unless they are mentally impaired.
And people were worried about catastrophic global cooling
I will second this "security as a tax is well worth it" mindset, I'm a programmer, and like to think I'm security savvy, but I CANNOT babysit my non-tech-savvy wife 24/7 and having her on iphone / macbook is a weight off my shoulders as far as appstore security, as married assets are shared assets and the "weakest link" plays in the security arena...
With Crouton and Wine, I have used windows apps directly on my x86 Chromebook more than 3 years ago.
C is also used a lot in embedded environments where the hardware won't support languages with a larger footprint. Quite common in my line of work.
If the standard of living in the UK depends on imports from countries that heavily emit CO2's, then in what sense has the UK achieved a modern standard of living at a low rate of CO2 emissions?

How did you turn a comment on method of accounting into a screed against "modern standard of living" and for living "one with nature"?
Tika has been around for ages, and I remember many of the early versions (probably up to 1.2 or 1.3) would completely explode if you threw in a PDF with some UTF-8 characters, or Word documents with many foreign/non-ASCII languages.

Thankfully nowadays the problem I run into the most is memory exhaustion when some client uploads a 500+ MB PDF and expects my cheap Solr SaaS (https://hostedapachesolr.com) to handle extraction for these giant files!
Teachers are the ones that have been sitting there for years preventing as much shit as they can from getting on the kids. My mom was a teacher for two decades and I can't tell you how much time and money I saw her and her coworkers put into things like classroom decorations, basic school supplies, textbooks that weren't a decade out of date, and even food and clothing for struggling kids.
We had about 10 non-ICT end users testing RDP in the microsoft cloud or whatever, as a covid alternative for in-person laptops. They all hated it.

One common issue: Alt GR unreliability. It just stops working, and you have to log off and on again.

Another common complaint: slow graphics and artifacts, even on good internet connections.
Where’s the Yelp for open-source tools?
They have trouble paying for everything that’s on their wish list but that’s true of individuals and the federal government as well. A state COULD have those things, especially if their taxpayers gave up less in federal taxes since the federal government would have fewer responsibilities. Not sure how this changes things.
Walmart expands drone delivery tests to Arkansas with new Zipline partnership
> with bidirectional arrows between an EC2 instance and an RDS instance.

My problem is who made the diagram... a developer only sees EC2 connecting to RDS, a network guy sees a two-way data flow.
If you want to keep your followers you'd need to migrate before they ban you.

But yes, I guess you can start over somewhere else while on big ones you're out forever. So in that sense I guess it is a tiny improvement. But if most of your followers were concentrated on server[s] that don't like you, you may not be able to reach them anymore.
I must ask, apart from the renewable energy factor, why do it in Orkney?

There are many islands and archipelagos in Scotland, the Hebrides which are closer to the mainland but still out of the way of fishing.

Many of them are going to be setup with tidal and wind generators.

Would be interesting to see how it was tethered to the shore with networking and power.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/mar/17/10megawa...
They were referring to if there was any bulging on any of the capacitors on any of the components in the computer.
You said that correctly: counterfeit products. While Apple fanboys no doubt will claim that these OnePlus products are counterfeits of Apple products, that's mostly just their ignorance or wishful thinking talking.

From what I can see, there is no actual counterfeiting involved here. This product is both generic enough in design and not brandishing any Apple specific markings. Also comes with a box that makes it clear it's not an Apple product.

Sure, Apple might not like that people can walk around with something that looks similar to their overprices exclusive stuff, for a lot less. But that's not a valid definition of counterfeit. You see, it's missing the "fraudulent" part in the "fraudulent imitation" definition of counterfeit.

Maybe Apple should not have made their things look that generic. They might have a case if a logo or other protected asset was imitated. But this is not a clear-cut case. Rather one that should at least have a court rule on first.

The elephant in the room here is the USA showing what it can do (pretty much with impunity, short term at least) to a Chinese company. Long term, that will prove incredibly dumb and costly for the USA. But not a single person in government, nor any American company executive, will look that far ahead or even remotely care. By that time they are already long gone, pockets filled with short term gains and someone else to deal with the negative consequences.
Tika's PDF text extraction is fine if you're just trying to get searchable text. Which is what it's made for: Slurping doucments into Lucene. Fulltext search typically isn't terribly sensitive to getting the order of words right, and is even less sensitive to getting the formatting right.

If you're trying to get something fit for consumption by human (including via a screen reader) or an NLP pipeline, though, all the problems discussed in that FilingDB article still apply.
This is terrible. Not really just because of Nvidia - which has a lot of problems I've previously commented on the rumors of this [1] - but Nvidia's ownership completely changes ARM's incentives.

ARM created a business model for itself where they had to act as a "BDFL" for the ARM architecture and IP. They made an architecture, CPU designs, and GPU designs for others. They had no stake in the chip making game, and they had others - Samsung, Apple, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Huawei, Mediatek, Rockchip and loads of others make the chip. Their business model was to make the ARM ecosystem accessible for as many companies as possible, so they could sell as many licenses as possible. In that way, ARM's business model enabled a very diverse and thriving ARM market. I think this is the sole reason we see ARM eating the chip world today.

This business model would continue to work perfectly fine as a privately held company, or being owned by a faceless investor company that wants you to make as much money as possible. But it's not fine if you are owned by a company that wants to use you to control their own position in the chip market. There is no way Nvidia (any other chip company, but as laid out previously Nvidia might even be more concerning) will spend 40 billion on this without them deliberately or inadvertently destroying ARM's open CPU and GPU ecosystem. Will Nvidia allow selling ARM licenses to competitors of Nvidia's business? Will Nvidia reserve ARM's best IP as a selling point for its own chips? Will Nvidia allow Mali to continue existing? Any innovations ARM made previously it sold to anyone mostly indiscriminatorily (outside of legal restrictions), but now every time the question must be asked "does Nvidia have a better propietary purpose for this?". For any ARM chip maker the situation will be that Nvidia is both your ruthless competitor, but it also sells you the IP you need to build your chips.

EDIT: ARM's interests up to last week were to create and empower as many competitors for Nvidia as possible. They were good at that and was the root of the success of the ARM ecosystem. That incentive is completely gone now.

Unless Nvidia leaves ARM alone (and why would they spend $40B on that??), this has got to be the beginning of the end of ARM's golden age.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24010821
Source on these doubts? This discovery is backed by the Royal Astronomical Society and MIT, which seems to imply the observations have been sound.
As an aside, I used to love playing slots in Vegas when real coins would fall into the hopper when you won. Apparently they spent a fair amount of effort making sure that sound was memorable.

Now that physical coins have disappeared there's absolutely nothing 'fun' about the process! Playing a computerized slot machine is about as pleasurable as feeding a parking meter.
Why heat the oceans indirectly when you can just place the heatsource directly in them? Much less chance of losing precious ergs.

Seriously though, what is the direct ecological impact of doing this at scale, would the local increase in temperature have an immediate effect on the life around it? If so how much of an impact?

What about the effect on surface life and life in intermediary layers of the water? After all, a body this size radiating 10's of KW of heat would cause substantial convection. At data-centre scale could it conceivably shut-down ocean currents or re-route them?
Chinas soft power is the ability and willingness to bribe politicians from Montenegro to Sri Lanka. Do not underestimate the efficiency of bribes.
Cortex 0.19: Model serving for ML engineering
In the final product, you could build the data center underwater in-place, and have the servers partially accessible - they only need to be connected to the structure in one end, and can be surrounded by water on all other sides. (Visual idea - the data center parts are like fingers on the main structure).
It's a place where a lot of research around this theme is conducted.
> Intertek

I don't think anyone cares about Intertek logos. /s
Let me turn that question around:

Is the UK supposed to turn away from global trade and become an isolated, self-sufficient nation just to meet its climate commitments? Do you require that of every nation on the planet?

Or should the UK impose its policies and laws on other nations? Do you prefer that model?
And the school days have gotten longer and longer, and the homework both far heavier and far easier at the same time. They're optimizing for control, not education. The US upper-middle classes value themselves so highly that they think that total control by middle management will inevitably breed success.
This is a fair point, although ironically it's probably because Pike predates GNU and still has a problem with all the conventions those young upstarts eschewed. Conventions change, usually for the better. I think this is one the Go team got wrong, regardless of the reason.
I didn't know it had a name, thanks!
Five stages of a bubble
Does mount_smbfs support SMB2 at last?
Impossible to touch it. Better (oxygen poor) environment for circuitry.
You can't demonstrate a null. The venus-matching life could have died out on earth, or just not detected to date
>>A few years ago I used to mine crypto on my graphics card

> Mining does not damage your card

Mining certainly does not damage the card, however i'd check the cooling. Overheating might be a problem, and mining means that the card is working at 100% of its capabilities for long times (instead of the usual/occasional gaming session).
The History of Android: The evolution of the biggest mobile OS in the world
I guess the questions this raises next for me are:

Would this scale if a given instance somehow gained the level of adoption people seem to value in a Twitter or a Facebook? It seems to me that the major draw and reason people stay on those services is the fact that they can communicate with essentially everyone in one place.

Also, to follow the first question, given that a major (if not the only) draw for most users is the ability to communicate with everyone, wouldn't that result in relatively few (or one) instance gaining dominance over time? You want to be connected to all of your friends and family, of course. But then all of them also want to be able to read what Beyonce or Trump or Biden or Bill Gates is saying. Their barbers and bartenders want to post the latest specials to all of their current and potential clients. If you all have to agree on an instance/sub-network/server/etc to use, why would people choose anything but the one everyone else is on?

I guess it might make it easier to migrate to a better-run or better-supported instance and add a bit of healthy competition to keep things in line, but from what I've seen of Facebook and Twitter, the near impossibility of getting people to switch to another competing service en masse always overpowers any individual's complaints about the current state of affairs. Facebook sucks? Well, why not swap over to that new ServiceX? Well...sure it's nicer but nobody is on it!
Many users ARE stupid and lazy, though certainly not all.

But when you create a platform that incentives lazy dumb behavior from both your consumers and your content creators, you end up having a platform with mostly lazy dumb content that mostly only appeals to lazy dumb users, which then creates a feedback loop.

Twitter is a prime example of this. The limited tweet length, and the nature of their algorithm incentivizes the "content-creators" on the platform, I.E. the top 1% of users with a significant follower base, to tweet quick, low information, "hot takes" that mostly appeal to dumb partisanship. Also, the way "engagement", I.E. "views" works, incentivizes "zinger" style shit-slinging rather than actual discussion.

This ends up driving away people looking for interesting discussions, opinions, or information, reducing the "market" on that platform for a content-creator who wants to create informed or interesting content.

This feedback loop cycles over and over, until eventually, a platform that might have once provided interesting content ends up being a place that only provides the lowest brow kind of echo chamber drivel.

And this is how Twitter has ended up being a place where the most popular voices are on either side of a binary partisan line, either celebrating the ambush and shooting of two police officers or pushing the idea that anyone with even the slightest past criminal history has no human rights and deserves to be shot by the police.
This seems weird to me — adding the cost of a Windows license to the already high cost of Chrome Enterprise management seems... more expensive. It’s particularly weird since Chrome isn’t aligned with Google Cloud organizationally. So who is selling this?

There’s definitely a use case for ChromeOS in enterprises as a VDI/RemoteApp client as you can mostly use your existing Microsoft EA just like you would for a thin client. It’s also great as a kiosk/line worker device as an alternative to iPads.

The only thing a can think of is this may enable places too small for an EA to virtualize apps... but at that scale isn’t it just better to buy a windows laptop?
My apologies, I missed that possibility. The app still looks poorly put together regardless.
I've learned several new things from this conversation. Thank you for saving it.
Somebody please tell the people making videos that.
I dont see where a gaming account is prohibited? Maybe stretching the multiple accounts requirement but there are ways to navigate that.
For internal market, no, but they will have problems selling the pirate copies to the rest of the world. Most rich states do respect intellectual property.
better title: phosphine found in venus atmosphere, some scientists suspect microbes
Arguable these kind of "forks" are the one that keep mysql development and innovation progressing because those vendors would often submit those patches upstream.
Any seal in that construct would be a single-point-of-failure for the whole, not just one fraction.
There are a couple trademarks on the AirPods shape, but neither seem to be granted:
https://uspto.report/TM/88402652 https://uspto.report/TM/88357707