skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they just rolled out this initiative across the country without a second thought, then you could call it stupid.

If they carefull trialed it and got scientific data as to PDA's effectiveness, then you have no right to declare 'obvious stupidity' of any sort, no matter what the results were.
May I ask what fs did you use? Maybe F2FS would extend the life of the flash memory
Also check out PrivateBin - this has some nice features: https://github.com/PrivateBin/PrivateBin
Nice app, do you plan to develop an Android version ?

However, I'm not sure to agree with all your points.
Since two weeks I work at my grandpa's in French countryside. 2.7Mbps download and 0.5Mbps upload. I can use Zoom (no video), watch Youtube (480p), and use Slack with no problem at all.
Great video by tom sachs, Always be Knolling

https://youtu.be/s-CTkbHnpNQ
Not really buying the visa angle.

She is young, highly skilled and in an industry which most countries have high demand for.

Could easily get into UK, EU, AU/NZ etc.
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No worries, sorry if I was a bit blunt :)
Taking this story on HN as an example, the HTML is about 20kb right now. If you prefetched every story on the front page that would be 600kb.

And if you read HN as much as I doing that could be gigabytes every day.
How does that work with rubber tires? I'm just having trouble visualizing it.
Yes, exactly.

Now try to find an unambiguous way to summarize that in 80 characters, the limit for titles.
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There is a wikipedia article about the 1st author https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li-Meng_Yan
False comparison. We're not creating a copy of the mutable world, we're writing software. Pretty different. Good luck programming in DNA or whatever and knowing that your code does what you want it to do.
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I'm regularly getting 7-15ms. Not tapping particularly fast. Could it have something to do with the touch refresh rate? I'm on Chrome/GalaxyS10.
I dont get why these 4g routers are so expensive. I can get a phone with snapdragon processor, lte chip, display, battery and everything for around 1/2 the price of a decent 4g router, its insane.
Market theory sucks for the consumer.
How are you running the outdoor cable to the router? I find the hardest part of this setup actually getting the cable from outside the house to inside the house.
They have the radios on Spotify, your smart tv probably has an app for that.

If you mean the video part, wouldn’t it be a bit distracting? Still, I think webos-based TVs (LG) have a webkit browser that might be able to handle it. Edit: nope, they are not. Sadface.jpg
The fact that JP Morgan have managed to actually measure productivity for any complex role is frankly incredible. That alone will get them the (non-) Nobel prize in economics I imagine...
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I’m not what you’re picking up on other than academic prose. The very quote you give is very certain that convergent intermediate goals would be pursued.
This is related because I'm exclusively interested in building a local-network-only media server to serve my firestick and a laptop, but are plex (nice interface, for some reason requires a sign-in to their service, some sort of paid features) or emby (similar) the only options?

If I for example wanted to just access my media library through firestick and windows with a kinda neat interface without paying anybody or making an account on a third party website, is there a solution?

I suppose I could just use VLC, which is fantastic software that isn't particularly beautiful and get used to it, but I'd like a somewhat more "netflix-style" interface for navigating my content within a single rpi server on my network.
Seems common sense that scientists, like anyone really, would self-censor anything that goes against the norm.

I remember when Agile was in its heyday and I said it had a lot of negatives and nearly got fired.
Guo has come out with almost no credile exposé anout the CCP despite repeatedly promising never-before-seen mega ones. Some of his followers did provide sensitive infos to him and quickly landed themselves on national television and jails.

Conspiracy theories have since been his only hobby beside bodybuilding and preaching on his yacht.
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> The productivity of a salesperson is also easy to measure: sales / compensation and travel costs.

It's not that simple, because most companies don't perform inter-departmental cost accounting. A salesperson might seem to be very productive, while actually selling made-up solutions that are very cost-intensive to implement. To get a real number on how productive they are, you would need to measure:

([sum of sales * price] - [sum of solutions sold * implementation cost]) / compensation

or even:

customer price * weighted average of per-deal profit margin / total compensation

The cost to implement isn't added value. This kind of internal debiting would also change how management looks at IT. If they can solve the problem for less than the estimated cost by the salesperson, they're turning a profit. If they're taking longer due to "science fiction" products being sold, the blame lies squarely with sales. As it is now, salespeople are mainly incentivised for units sold and total price for deals made. You can be a rockstar salesperson while simultaneously mainly causing huge problems downstream.
Quite a few FT articles are free to read, and many others paywalled on the site are often syndicated to other, non-paywalled sites. A DDG search on the headline will often return such results. (I try, when submitting an FT article, to find a syndicated version as well and to post a link to it in comments immediately after submitting.)

Alternatively, and depending on your views about copyright etc, you can submit the article's url to archive.is - which will either return anything already "archived", or try to fetch it for you.
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>This depends on the compiler as well as the processor.

Yes. On x64 compilers targeting 64bit cpus, the following prints 8 instead of 4:

#include <iostream>
int main () {
std::cout << sizeof(int*) << std::endl;
}
The first one requires development, construction, installation and maintenance of equipment; it requires explicit effort from many people; it will need to be decommissioned at some point; the storage will have some marginal cost (e.g. containers, drilling holes, etc. depending on the method). These things all cost CO2, unless the economy has already been decarbonised (in which case it wouldn't be needed).

More importantly, being "free in terms of CO2" is still an all-else-being-equal perspective. It's focusing on one aspect (CO2 emissions) of one small cog (a CO2 extraction+storage plant). If we look more broadly, each barrel extracted is offsetting less than one barrel being burned elsewhere (since nothing is 100% efficient). CO2 extraction and sequestration is thus a form of power transmission: the work that is required to offset emissions (e.g. from a car) is being performed away from where the emissions are made (although for flue capture this might be quite close!). For example, we can think of these as being roughly equivalent:

- A fossil fuel car with solar-powered carbon capture and storage onboard

- A fossil fuel car with solar-powered carbon capture and storage in some other location

- A solar-charged battery-electric car (+ a little CCS to offset manufacturing emmissions, etc.)

These are all solar powered and carbon-neutral (as long as they offset enough). Let's say they each receive a similar amount of solar energy: the first will not get very far, since offsetting is very energy intensive and it needs more fuel to carry the solar+CCS equipment. The second is more efficient, since the fuel doesn't need to move the solar+CCS equipment; it's as if the offboard CCS is transmitting a little extra power to the car. The third will get much further, since the battery and electric motor make much better use of the solar power than the CCS system.

The first approach is clearly silly. The second is useful in situations where renewables can't be used directly (e.g. jumbo jet fuel), but is incredibly wasteful and expensive compared to the third. The third approach is best, and should be used as much as possible.

If somewhere has an abundance of renewable power (e.g. geothermal in Iceland), then "transmitting" it elsewhere via CCS is much less efficient than, say, laying a high-voltage DC line; or moving high-energy, location-agnostic activities to the region like aluminium smelting or datacenters.
If you speak Spanish and are bothered by the not so great translation, here's the original article https://auamstrad.es/hardware/mundo-cpc/amstrad-cpc-472/

Quite interesting
Yeah, but how credible is it when institution that commits and covers war crimes cries about not being able to spread democracy because someone showed soldiers shooting brown ppl for fun.

> How much damage it caused is unclear

Its unclear because there is no examples of it. Same as claim that leaks cause deaths, yet no names of fields of dead undercover agents, operatives, informers etc. So who do you trust?
Hi, article author here. I just tried that out on an Ubuntu 18.04 machine but it didn't work:

$ sudo mdadm --fail /dev/md0 /dev/sdb1 --remove /dev/sdb1 --re-add /dev/sdb1 --update=no-bbl
mdadm: set /dev/sdb1 faulty in /dev/md0
mdadm: hot removed /dev/sdb1 from /dev/md0
mdadm: --re-add for /dev/sdb1 to /dev/md0 is not possible
$ sudo mdadm --add /dev/md0 /dev/sdb1 --update=no-bbl
mdadm: --update in Manage mode only allowed with --re-add.
$ sudo mdadm --add /dev/md0 /dev/sdb1
$ sudo mdadm --examine-badblocks /dev/sdb1
Bad-blocks list is empty in /dev/sdb1

Any ideas why? md0 is a simple RAID-1 metadata version 1.2 array.
Or the AI vaccuum cleaner problem. If the target is to scrape maximum amount of dust then it would clean-dump-clean to maximize efficiency.
TLS keeps the traffic secret between the client and the server. Encryption on part of the transport - like the cellular net - only covers part of the journey, and is out of your control. It's the difference between sending a box locked or not - the box is routed between different operators and terminals.
My post is just pure conjecture, but I don't have a good gut feeling regarding natural origins of the virus. And if there would be any other origins it would never be disclosed. This is ripe for conspiracies but something about this doesn't feel right.

It should be a huge red flag that the main outbreak started in Wuhan near a well known virology lab but we are constantly fed rhetoric which assumes origin much earlier and at a vastly different location in Southern China, where the bat caves are and pangolins roam. Notably, those regions have not experienced an uptick in "weird lung disease" like Wuhan did before identifying SARS-CoV-2.

The wet markets and all associated animal trade and TCM in general exist everywhere in China and Wuhan is one of thousands of large population cities. Nothing was special about Wuhan except one single thing:

It all started across the street from a BSL lab when the conditions that led to the outbreak are available all across China, thousands of times.
That's part of it, but doesn't give any useful data beyond 'archived' to make use of when considering your dependencies.
this should have triggered an anti-trust probe into the deal, as this radically changes powers at play into the the chip market how many have outlined.
Wow! What software is this that is complete and doesn’t need maintenance? Based on my experience, it must be either very simple or very uninteresting.
A project can't be more stable than its dependencies and tooling, but that doesn't mean that the only way to be stable is to have no dependencies.

Some programming languages make guarantees that old code will build in new versions (eg, ISO C even refuses to introduce new warnings for code that would previously build without warnings), while others will introduce backwards incompatible changes in minor releases. How much maintenance a project needs after it is "done" really depends on the tooling environment.
And the brute force solution is the better solution this case. 240 or 360 Hz are not that "crazy" in the grand scheme of things considering 8k Displays will be the norm soon and the additional complexity in software and GPU hardware proposed in this article will completely useless and wasted effort once we are there.
To claim that an undergraduate degree is just one step away from highschool biology homework is disingenuous.

"Proofreading" a paper does, in some amount, increase the chances that it's correct. It's called peer review.
From the sound of it, making a pure FTP file server and then using Kodi client software on windows and firetv (or the firetv specific versions) is exactly what you’re after.
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While I don't disagree with you, there are other nuanced facets to this as well. I am 45 soon to be 46, and I have watched this industry chew up and spit out many of my friends and colleagues along the way. Burnout is a real thing. I have a friend who one day said F'it and bought a worm farm, he is literally a worm farmer now. Others took the elevator to management, one became a DJ, one opened a party store etc. etc. We loose a lot of the old timers to attrition, not many people can do the software grind for 20-30 years straight.

The second nuance is that I and the rest of Gen-X sit one the cusp of the desktop revolution and its transition to the internet revolution. Most of the desktop programmers 30+ year at that time, did not make the transition, they stuck with desktop and rode it into the twilight of their career and that is a big reason you just don't seem to see too many people over their mid 40's in the industry.

None of that negates the fact that ageism does exist in this industry, but there are other contributing factors as to why we don't see many programmers past the 40's cut off.
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Dang, I have noticed tons of new accounts on HN in the past few months engaged in astro-turfing and personal attacks that don't contribute to the discussion and this one seems no different.

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24479464
Oh no, you’ve given me ideas now... How about old wardrobes painted to look like the cabinets? You could even get an old reel to reel tape player and put it behind some plexiglass for that tape drive effect.
I'm sure you agree that your personal anecdote isn't evidence of a vast global conspiracy where scientists around the world censor themselves in order to ensure they retain links to Chinese labs?

Do you know many scientists? To counter your anecdote, my personal anecdote is that many scientists I know (as friends or colleagues) are cantankerous contrarians who would delight in going against the grain especially in the knowledge that real proof of such a theory would vastly increase their profile/notoriety.
Arthur C. Clarke wrote in his "3001: The Final Odyssey" novel about exploitation of Saturn's icy rings for water and grazing space ice blocks (wrapped by reflective molecule-thin foil) by comets shepherds, who were also delivering these to terraform nomen-omen, Venus.

Perhaps he read this paper and got the ideas from it
I've been thinking of subscribing to the WSJ, as I'm getting pretty tired of advocacy based news.
Ah, the Dragon 32 rates a mention. Great little machine, my first 'real' computer. That was a TRS-80 Color Computer clone with a 6809 in it, which has what I still think was one of the most elegant 8 bit instruction sets.
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I've been trying to figure out these Google numbers and they just don't make sense to me. In August 2019 a cluster of apps in the Google Play Store with over 100 million total installs were discovered to contain a trojan (https://news.drweb.com/show/?i=13382&lng=en). I would expect the detection and removal of such a large cluster of malware to be reflected in Google's PHA dashboard (https://transparencyreport.google.com/android-security/overv...), but there's barely any change in August. Which leaves me wondering what exactly are they measuring?

Other points I wanted to address:

1. I don't think it's cherry picking to point out that fake Fortnite APKs are the inevitable consequence of Epic choosing to distribute Fortnite outside the Play Store. I expect this will be a problem with every popular app that decides to go fully off-store.

2. I also don't think it's likely that the people falling for these fake APKs are making a knowing decision to accept the risk of side-loading. I think it's more likely they just don't have the expertise to understand what is the correct place to download it, and they're getting lured in by the promise of free V-bucks or whatever. I mean, yes, ultimately they made that choice to check that box, but it seems a bit like handing a toddler a loaded weapon and then being surprised at what happens next.

3. I agree that we can't stop all privacy abuse, but I think the review process provides a useful deterrent that otherwise wouldn't exist if every developer was doing their own distribution and had no review guidelines to adhere to at all. If you compare the incidence of malicious apps distributed via the Play Store compared to the App Store I also think there's a clear indication of the benefit of the review-first model over the publish-first model.
Only for developers that lack the understanding that just because there is a GC that doesn't mean there aren't other means to manage memory, e.g. D, Nim, C#/F#/VB, Eiffel, Go.

https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy-languages

As for Electron, as React Native team has proven, Electron isn't the best example of JavaScript performance or memory usage, quite the opposite.

I can hardly wait the day that they manage to convince the VSCode team to migrate to React Native.
If questions like this become political within a US-specific persepctive, they can have an element of nationalism when considered with a more global perspective.

Many people in the UK know the story of UK-based Joseph Swan developing his own bulb, patenting it, setting up a company and selling it, supplying homes and businesses such as The Savoy, and then a US marketer called Edison later coming along and taking credit for all of these achievements. There are similar stories too, e.g. UK based inventor (James Dewar) inventing the vacuum flask, a foreign company (Thermos) later claiming it as their own. And beyond the UK, most French people will say the Lumière brothers invented cinema, but UK people will point to the Roundhay Garden Scene shown in Leeds several years earler, and of course if you're from the US you'll probably think that was Edison too.

Not trying to take any particular sides, just trying to make a point that your country of origin can have an impact on what you learn (and perhaps also that this article is a little US-focussed).
It is. It's not practical for this use-case.
Amazing! I went to the 'buy prints' link and it says it is sold out though - I thought they would be printed on demand?
I'm curious (having some basic German) what's wrong with the German examples? Isn't most of the German taken from the article he is responding to?

edit - actually I think I see it - he's not inflecting the articles correctly after "von"?
I needed a similar setup some time ago, and I was so frustrated by the Linux remote desktop open source solutions, that I ended up using Nomachine, which turned out to be very impressive.

I'm mystified by the enormous gap between the open source solutions and Nomachine, both in the technical and usability areas. The open source solutions are sadly terrible; those who aren't convinced, just try Nomachine.

It's puzzling because solutions like X2Go (which I found to be the most usable) rely on older NX protocol versions (v3 was open), but still, they have terrible performance. This means that in the last 10 years, there has been no virtually development in the open source remote desktop field.
It seems that Kodi[1] would be your perfect choice, and that is indeed what I'm using in a very similar setup.

Setup your media (local or remote) library, and the scraper will enrich it with posters, synopsis, actors, etc.

[1] https://kodi.tv/
Do you have more details on the Firefox problem?
I have a WebRTC project that is currently in standby (priorities changed) and one issue that I have not been able to troubleshoot was an inability to send audio from Firefox while it somehow worked on Chrome.
I really think PI I doesn't make sence for this usecase, I strongly reccomend getting any random Intel-atom based mini pc off ebay, they cost similar, have proper storage and a heatsink. I have never come across one where ubuntu doesnt work.

Pi really shines when you are interacting with hardware sensors, or need ARM.
That's utter rubbish. It has a distinctive scent and I'm sure many people would find it pleasant. Fine, don't make it legal to smoke it public places, just as cigarettes.
Press space to unmute, no?
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Wow! No idea Nginx could do that!
I've had a Dragon 32 sitting on my shelf for years now, I've never actually gotten around to building a power supply to test it. If memory serves it needs multiple voltages feeding to it over a DIN connector.
Maybe, im no economist but wouldnt the psychological effects of cash windfalls be more applicable? I doubt these amounts would have much effect in the scheme of the global markets
Wow, that creates a really weird incentive for him. He'll get paid more and promoted if he secretly becomes a whistleblower.
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As someone who worked at a company that pushed many stories a day to hundreds of millions there is an absolute bias towards “woke culture” and left. It’s evident here on HN sometimes, too.
Indeed! Social media amplified vaxxers, climate change deniers and all the possible fringe lunatics you can find.

The social media should be much limited by the physical aspect, for example, if you never met the person in a real-life event, you can't connect with it via social media.

Throw out the news feeds. Throw out the ads alltogether (because political propagandists will always find a way if you want to make the distinction).
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The Expanse featured just such a scene where the alien 'life' is disassembling a body for learning purposes (warning: graphic content): https://www.oohlo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/vlcsnap-201...
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But smartphones - both iOS and Android - take their core operating systems essentially from the 70s. The kernels themselves are few decades newer than that. The concepts and interfaces implemented by them, however, are not. Similar things can be said about Windows Phone and NT.

Arguably, using an existing OS as a base was kind of the only way to get these products done in a reasonable timeframe. They run complex and powerful software and writing that stack alone is hugely demanding. Rewriting the OS would easily have lost the market to the competition because of cost and time overruns.
That's why NSL timing is significant. Proposal to ram through NSL in mid April meant NSL could be reality sometime in June. She have ~2-3 months to resituate herself abroad as a Chinese national. That's not super easy.