skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm... actually don't think that's inaccurate. What customer-facing homegrown silicon does Microsoft offer? I know they have "custom" Intel chips (as do all the major cloud providers), but AFAIK they don't have anything like Amazon's Graviton (which is on its second generation) or Google TPU (on its third generation). They also don't offer Xilinx FPGAs to customers AFAIK. I know they are hiring in custom SoC development, but they nothing customer facing in Azure yet.
They are forced to join if they want to work on the same production set as union members. That kind of forcing is illegal in Europe.
The US does have a small amount of protection against this. Selective prosecution can be a reason for a judge to dismiss a charge.

I'm not aware of how often it's used/successful, though.
Roundtrip efficiency for batteries are 70-95% vs 47% for H2.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/round-trip-...

Roundtrip efficiency is not the reason to use hydrogen for anything.
700 should be 70 shouldn't it?
The difference is between $7 and $50.
If you want (auto)scaling, even manual, you need "Production-tier dynos", cheapest being $25. 2 of those is $50.
well, isn't that a great story.

- So, tell me, how did you land a job on Google?
- Yeah, I was trying to redo my website...
That’s a very narrow theory of it. I read it as saying “if the system is designed to keep out external viewers of the content, then it is illegal”.

That is, E2E encryption, because it is impossible for someone to eavesdrop usefully by design, is intended to be made illegal.
Please don't go into flamewar like this. It just makes everything worse.

Also, insinuations of trollage and shillage and foreign-agentage are against the site guidelines. If you don't have evidence, you shouldn't be posting this, and if you do have evidence, you should be letting us know so we can investigate. Someone having a different view than you on some divisive topic does not count as evidence.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I like how nature environments have "untapped potential" if they're inhospitable to humans, even though they have tons of interesting/diverse creatures and fauna. Like, all the earth is here for is to squeeze out a few more acres of corn to raise beef
> Please educate me, isn't climate change a lost cause now? We know its inevitable and despite wide awareness, no one basically does anything.

Er, no. It is inevitable, but the degree of change absolutely continues to matter.

> US government does not even believe that any such thing is happening and has relaxed EPA regulations on polluters and such, so is CA restricting sale of fossil fuel vehicles going to matter in the long run?

Here's the context you might be missing: CA is a huge automobile market, and has historically set a number of requirements that automakers eventually incorporate into all cars sold into the US market. It's cheaper to build one SKU than two, as long as the CA SKU is only mildly more expensive than the non-CA would be.

Additionally, auto manufacturers will have similar requirements for the EU market on a similar timeline.
Is there language about an incremental phase out, or just a cliff in the year 2035? Because if it's just a cliff then this executive order is worth... not much.
How does this desert greening stuff differ from the earlier "Rain follows the plow" [1] idea?

Seems fundamentally similar, though maybe with some better understanding of the dynamics.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_follows_the_plow
I have a long train of personal projects as well as the certificates. The certificates were very easy for me because of my technical competence and broad practical experience with a variety of technologies. I have deep (read: production) experience in JavaScript and Python, the rest I am a mere curious hobbyist.

What about people who you found via Triplebyte platform, but did not have the certificate?
I don't agree with the downvotes: it's a concept that should get more discussion, in the sense of "where should the line be drawn between common carrier behavior and publisher behavior?"
Data representation is UI.
This is a really good breakdown of the current state of affairs, thank you!
The algorithm discussed here reminds me very much of the "Line of Sight" problem.

Line of Sight is calculated on a 2-d topographical map, where each 2d point is a height-map. The question is: does location "X" have a line-of-sight to location "Y" ?? You solve this question by marching rays from X towards Y, and seeing if any intermediate 2d point has a height that would block the sight.

I bring this up because line-of-sight has been SIMD-optimized and is highly efficient to calculate now. Line-of-sight is similar enough that the large body of research behind that problem can probably serve as inspiration to algorithms in this 'ray marching shadows' algorithm.

Its quite possible that your calculation here is "just" a 2-value line of sight: where 0 means "sight is not blocked" and 1 means "sight is blocked".

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Ray Marching itself seems innately "sequential", because you need to calculate the closest "solid object" to know how far to march.

In contrast, the naive "try every pixel" approach is easily parallelized if you understand prefix-sum style computations (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefix_sum). If you could easily group pixels into 1-bit objects (see PEXT or PDEP: https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/pdep), I'm sure that a SIMD-parallel version would be outstandingly fast to compute for "small" 256-pixel (aka: AVX2) bit-vectors.

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EDIT: Now that I think of it: the computation of the distance field is likely sequential. But the use of the distance-field is probably read-only / parallel. A SIMD-line of sight style algorithm using the distance field could be "scheduled" using a sequential algorithm, but then computed with SIMD techniques.
> It has been demonstrated time and again that the political conscience is a flexible and elastic rule of action that readily yields to the slightest pressure of party exigencies . . . . When the great office of President is at stake, with the immense patronage at its disposal, it would be expecting too much of human nature, under the tyranny of party, to omit any opportunity to accomplish its ends, more especially under that loose code of morals which teaches that all is fair in politics,as in war or in love.

So true.
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i don't have a strong opinion myself, but i think you could make an argument that if you've got an S&P500 ETF, disclosing that you own any of FAAMG would be reasonable since they're all >2% of it.

in this case owning some S&P500 ETF in significant quantity would be to his credit: MSFT would be 6% of holdings, to AMZN's 4.49%.
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I think you are going too far here. Taken at face value, your post says that for programming languages, there is zero correlation between popularity (use) and superiority (fitness for use). That implies that everyone choosing a language for a project is either stupid or ignorant (not the same thing).

That may offer consolation to those who think that certain languages are the best, and who wonder why those "best" languages are used so little. But I don't think it's true. I don't think programmers are stupid, ignorant, or sheep. I think if a tool offers them advantages, they'll use it.

Perhaps I should qualify: significant advantages. There is a cost to switching. The switched-to language has to be enough better to pay back the cost.
A 37 minutes video for people without an attention span?
>the gossipy busybodies just disgusted me

Again I funnily enough have the exact opposite experience.
In my experience if you live near 1000 people there are a higher risk of there being "gossipy busybodies" than if you live near 100 people or 10. In my opinion the difference is not the amount of people that talk rumors, as it is likely always around the same percentage, but that they drown out in a big city. So I guess the question is, if that is true: Do you care about the rumor or about hearing the rumor?

All it takes to ruin it is one bad neighbor. I went from party and traffic noise, people trying to threaten me to back off when I complained of noise and drugs being sold to waving to people in the neighborhood, walking our dogs together, helping out when a car is broken down, etc. It is like night and day.
> n I don't think there are any arguments that would convince you

Of course there are arguments. The arguments would be if there wasn't a huge controversy about it. But there was.

Thats the evidence that he was forced out.

If, instead, there was no controversy of note, and nobody had called for his resignation, internally or externally, then in that situation I would believe that they were not forced out.

But thats not what we saw. What we saw was a huge controversy, and we saw people, and even other companies, calling for him to be pushed out of the company.

If this evidence had not existed, then I would believe that they were not forced out.
Yup. You're totally right.

> Tom Forte, CFA (Managing Director, Senior Research Analyst), and/or members of his/her household, holds a long position in securities of Amazon.com, Inc.
> This to me is a testament to the fact that most buttons should actually be text unless extremely common like the hamburger menu, but even that's debatable.

I agree, especially on mobile (even in 2020, many users — who often just got used to the hamburger menu — don't realize that the vertical ellipsis is a symbol for "menu" or "more options", it often just looks like a random decoration to them), although on a desktop website or app you (hopefully) have the option of hovering the mouse pointer (even accidentally) over any unfamiliar bit of UI gubbins to get a clue.

I'll note though that the specific example of "文A" is, in fact, a text label. The first Chinese glyph even translates as "text".
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So why did Microsoft reverse course in the next service pack after their release?
HTML is not known for providing print-ready layouts. This is just a different way of viewing documents that are designed to be print-ready. Whether they choose to implement the output of the conversion in HTML or some other method isn't relevant to the announcement.
I like seeing cold war relics. Thanks!
Thank you for the Robin Sloan link, I've been a fan of his ever since I read Sourdough for a book club a few years ago (incidentally while learning how to make my own by total coincedence) and his style really resonates with me. That blog was an interesting take and I've definitely experienced some of his frustration while making a small browser extension - it took an hour to code, and about 3 hours to wrangle it to conform to the chrome web store requirements before giving up and switching to Firefox ;)

Love the achievements section too, neat idea!
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I'm not a software developer, but I set up two static sites in a so-called serverless fashion on AWS using only their products (Here's one of them, just as a shameless plug: gameboyessentials.com).

They are reasonably consistent with their nomenclature and their error messages, but I definetely felt I was using a jackhammer to put screws in drywall. The amount of settings and types of setups per product is staggering. You definetly need to read a how-to to figure out what to do. You cannot figure it out on your own.

In terms of UI, the fact that every separate product uses a different view model is bonkers. I understand that letting each product reflect its own functionnality is important, but a list of checkboxes should not have three different ways to display them across three different products (Route 53, S3, CloudFront). Oh and those naming schemes, jeez. Who thought Route 53 was a good idea?
We hit the same w font awesome. Early kick starter backers, love the designs + css integration, wanted to pay for embedding into our product, but all sorts of unviable restrictions as soon as someone wanted to share a link to a report etc generated with our app. Totally fine paying, but broken licensing =\
I expect there will be other measures in the future. Heavier taxes on gasoline and such, and higher DMV registration fees, growing over time. And EV sales will grow as more people test drive the better EVs. People looking for a used car will be trying to find a good used electric. Gasoline car resale value is going to crash hard.
>Section 5c is particularly problematic. It disallows shadow-bans if I'm reading correctly.

Can you explain more, I'm not really seeing it...

Also how is disallowing shadowbanning problematic? I always never liked it.
Given that addressing climate change is increasingly popular with the electorate he's not out of step.
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If the governor can tell an agency to do X, that is the same as the governor directly doing X, and my objection to far-reaching, unilateral executive action, without any input from the legislature, still stands.
> Morale of the story, don't let a dentist put you under without an actual anesthesiologist involved.

An anesthesiologist says anesthesiologists are indispensable? How shocking. There are plenty of horror stories when anesthesiologists are involved as well. The moral of the story is whenever possible, try and not to be put under.
This is a good point and does not get that much attention. Electric cars are still large machines with a large environmental input. It is more environmentally friendly to just build out transit and encourage density. The vast majority of people would not need personal cars were they to live in a walkable area with good transit. Not only that, road building and maintenance is a far greater money sink than transit. People are just used to it and don't think about it.

There will always be a need for some people to have personal cars. There's no silver bullet to climate change, and moving to electric is a good thing. However, we realistically need to reduce total consumption (in terms of environmental resource input) massively. Making it easier for people to live without cars is relatively low-hanging fruit, and increases quality of life, to boot.
San Francisco can easily dig a few holes to put in power posts. It's not that hard.
One can learn a lot from the time-series measured by a single sensor, let alone a 12x14 grid.

In the bottom plot here, https://www.atmos.washington.edu/~neal/uwp/index72.cgi , one can readily determine that it is very cloudy here in Seattle today, and that yesterday was cloudy in the morning and partly-cloudy/clear through the rest of the day.

To test this out, assuming that you are sighted, try navigating an exterior-windowed room with your eyelids closed on a bright day, then try doing the same with a true blindfold. I suspect the former will be far preferable.
The thing that annoyed me most about Persona was that it wan't publicised very well. I only (re)joined the tech sector around 2013 but even though I've been personally using Netscape/Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox since the late 90s, I never heard about Persona until the announcement of its discontinuation in 2016.
When the spot price for energy can go negative due to renewable over production it's fair to say that energy can be free or even better.
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Taxes are known to be quite effective at moderating people's behavior: cigarette taxes reduce smoking; alcohol taxes reduce consumption, etc.

The gotcha with gasoline is that we are far more addicted to it as a society than we ever were to cigarettes, and increases in fuel prices reduce GDP (in the short term, at least). Which means this tactic is politically difficult, and unlikely to survive an economic downturn.

FWIW, I think that the ban is a pipe dream. Come 2030, they will push it back to 2045. I honestly think the best approach is to limit the number of roads that are built. No more adding lanes to 12-16 lane highways that seem to be gridlocked from 6am until midnight anyway. Instead, force people to seek out alternatives to driving because more cars literally can't fit on the road.
Dare I say...2021 will be the year of the Linux desktop...LOL
Using an interpreter locks you into the interpreter's language (e.g., no NodeJS, Python, etc plugins), but you are able to pass around memory and call procedures from the host program directly instead of having to write an IPC shim layer.

EDIT: Updated for accuracy
I am talking about Republicans as in the party officials, not regular people.

They could have investigated in good faith and taken action against Russian meddling. They could have blocked appointments of obvious partisan hacks like Barr and Kavanaugh. They could have cared about Trump not using the US foreign service and policy to line his own pockets.
They could have called out and condemned Trump's pandering to the racists in his base. The bar was not high but they have completely failed it.

When Trump took office, I genuinly believed Congress and the Republican party would keep him in check. Unfortunately the rot was too deep.

From what I gather of the current riots, everyone has failed in containing the spread and damage. But still there, Trump insists on pouring gasoline on a fire, by visiting the sites knowingly provoking more unrest.
A statesman would address the nation with grace, send someone else to sensitive sites, but he thrives on the chaos.
- That's for the reader to decide.

- If you're worried about other people's opinion then blog anonymously.

- Many people are blogging without being worried about being redundant.

- Blogging on the Internet is like spitting in the ocean. You would be lucky to get some pageviews.
Sorry, I don't remember the details.

I was making a benchmark of static hosts and wanted to include Azure but simply desisted. I had no problem setting it up on any other provider.
You're in for a treat! It leans on tropes a bit in some areas, but I'm not sure that's the wrong call - it can be hard on your audience when you're too original everywhere. There's definitely much innovative stuff, and it's a heck of a ride.

I also very much enjoyed Gorogoa, Donut County, and What Remains Of Edith Finch. All very different (which is easier for a publisher than a studio), but all compelling in their own way.
A non-press release summary:

https://www.thedrive.com/news/36687/california-bans-the-sale...

“Newsom's measure specifically targets the sale of new vehicles and is believed not to forbid the transfer of existing fossil-fueled cars or trucks. More lenience will reportedly be granted to commercial vehicles, which the state will allow another decade (until 2045) to switch to zero-emissions power.”

So the goal is to ban the sales of new gas-powered passenger cars by 2035, with an extra decade for commercial vehicles.
Well, it has one merit at the very least: regardless of the interface language, you will find that button.
Seriously? This is either an utter lack of understanding or refusal to care about how people who are born into poverty have dramatically higher obstacles than those born into the middle-class to escape it.

Poverty is a vortex. You don't choose what family you're born into. It's not easy living paycheck-to-paycheck if you're even at that level, and rising out of homelessness is a monumental task.
Laws are always enforced by humans, so this is always true. What is different about these proposals is that they are explicitly prompted by partisan (and personal i.e. Trump) motives which, although it's true of other laws too, is supposed to be the quiet part not said out loud.

The whole premise of investigating for "bias" is clearly designed to be abused - similar to HUAC asking you to prove that you aren't a communist
Thank you for writing it. Not enough of this sort of thinking on HN. Too much emphasis on the incrementalism of "pioneering the obvious". Not enough on the 10,000 foot view of the problem.
First one is the main browser.

Second is Firefox where all the privacy settings are on and the browser keeps no history.

Other two are for people looking to test new features.
downvoter: You made an excellent case for criticizing a different passage in a similar article. The passage you quoted, and the only organization referred to in the article, was the Guardian.

Now you're just generally (and angrily) defending mozilla against a donation model, and ignoring the passage you quoted entirely. A passage which iirc was the entirety of references to a donation model in the entire article.
Sounds like an opportunity to give the emulator you're using a touchup!

The most common problem is disagreement over the semantics of the shift instructions and how load/store treat the index register "i". In a nutshell, SCHIP on the HP-48 got these wrong, and so modern programs are a mix of depending on VIP-style CHIP-8 semantics or SCHIP-style semantics. If an interpreter is based on reference information derived from "Cowgod's reference", it likely contains the mistakes introduced in SCHIP.

Out of the box, Octo behaves mostly like the original CHIP-8, but you can configure it to work more like SCHIP. With care it's possible to write programs that run correctly on both; see the linter I mentioned elsewhere in this discussion.
I think the comparison was to 0..100C - liquid water on Earth surface.

Boiling point depends on atmospheric pressure. On Venus (93 bar) melting point is about 0C [1] and it boils at 305.6C. Interestingly under pressure "water becomes less polar and behaves more like an organic solvent such as methanol or ethanol" [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressure_melting_point

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superheated_water
What happens if your phone's battery dies?
Good question. Because it is an old protocol, vulnerabilities have been discovered in it over time [1]. Got to keep things updated!

[1] https://www.acunetix.com/blog/articles/tls-vulnerabilities-a...