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> Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, or Chrome run mostly single-core and are everyday consumer tools.

I'm sick of hearing this bullshit.

Nobody is using those programs solely. If you're running excel you've also Chrome with some web sites opened, also running Spotify or Slack or whatever in the background. Then add Windows running who knows whatever dozens of services constantly. Even an empty Chrome instance starts with a 6+ processes. If I open a handful of tabs the I can easily observe the CPU usage graph making full use of all cores even if momentarily. And these are very basic baseline usage scenarios that's applicable to every single computer user.

I'm sorry but I can't help but think anybody still parroting this bullshit claim in this day and age either

1. doesn't know shit about computing

2. is a narrow minded gamer who thinks only metric of performance is FPS

3. is a fanboy apologizing product segmentation via low core products (beware these fans exist both on intel&amd sides)
Hardly anything is cleaner post industrial revolution. Not only are there more people but we use more resources per person and produce more waste products. That shouldn't be surprising to anyone.

There are exceptions though, sewers and sewage treatment have been a great invention. And big cities aren't drowning in horse shit which was a major issue in London and New York at the turn of the twentieth century.
As an OSS maintainer I’m _very_ happy when people correct my spelling/formatting and make the docs look better. Please don’t let a couple of twats ruin your motivation. What you’re doing is really good for the community!
Today I learned:

> The animals were used so frequently as model organisms in the 19th and 20th centuries that the epithet guinea pig came into use to describe a human test subject.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea_pig
I enjoyed this article's perspective, particularly its mention of Apple and California acting as the US's de facto privacy regulators. There is one line I don't understand though:

> Second, you can no longer assume that the important companies and products themselves are American. Both of these are captured in Tiktok.

Is Tiktok an "important" service? I may very well be out of touch, but a social media app used primarily by teenagers to share trendy videos doesn't seem all that important to me. It's important in the sense that it's shaping regulation, but I don't believe that's what the author is referring to when using the word.
In a community near me, a church had a revival. Estimated 100 infected from 175 in attendance. 3 members of the congregation have died so far.

Now, if you had large events with mostly young people, you probably wouldn't have as many direct deaths. But those young people probably have older family at home.
Backlash as Twitter says wishing harm on Trump violates social network’s rules
Possible malware found inside the ImageNet dataset
> Google can’t force Android vendors to rebase kernels but requires new TCP functionality such as TCP fast open.

Maybe that sounded open minded and "oh shiny new feature" in 2016, these days it sounds like embrace and extend...
I can't wait for hardware to have thousands of cores by default. In a way, if you program for iOS, that's already the case if you can target Apple Metal with your problem successfully. Many-cores is certainly worth developer's time. It's just that many developers just don't have the education to make use of it. And software development itself is not good enough right now to make consistent and easy use of it.
I think the confusion comes from the impression that quantum dots can be individually controlled like pixels in OLED/plasma. But quantum dots are are actually a "dumb" film which converts blue backlight into a RGB components similarly to how phosphor works in LED light bulbs. Of course QD can improve color gamut and brightness but it is still just an improved LED panel. The name QLED tries to confuse people into thinking that it is somehow similar to OLED but they are completely different technology.
I don't think it's fair to say that Intel 'sat' on their monopoly. From McAfee, through Altera to (whatever that stupid company that had the drones was), Intel was desparately trying to leverage their monopoly to expand in to new markets. What I think is unique about Intel when compared to their rightful competitors (FAANG + M/S + AMD + Nvidia) is that Intel don't pay for talent. Intel have been cost orientated for atleast a decade now, when 14nm cost spiralled. The problem wasn't that Intel was a monopoly so much as it's just that Intel has been living it's life in the world of real companies, not silicon valley. Intel is viewed/valued/run as a manufacturing company. So they need to hit the eternal treadmill of performance whlist spending like they're just doing average work. It's difficult to do that when Google is just going to 10x the salary of any of your 10x staff.
I'm curious too.

I would think that would also imply that access in other ways might be a bit "easier" as well...
It's more that many judges believe that white color criminals break the same sort of laws that the judges do, so it's not so bad. This becomes clear when you judges that excuse violent crimes like rape when perpetrated by rich white (not just in the collar) men.
Just mud can have the same effect. In any case the effect on eyes and the smell would discard a mud flood (probably).

You don't need a toxic to kill lots of animals.
One question: why does it need to run inside Blender instead of just using its graphical primitives as a library?
Has it ever occurred to you that your picture of the world is absolutely black and white, yet there’s no such thing as absolutes in nature?
This isn’t snark by the way, I’d just like to encourage you to take off your star-spangled glasses sometimes...
Thanks for getting the BPF book. Further references for BPF bits would be the kernel docs (Documentation/bpf), kernel source (kernel/bpf, include/.../bpf), the self tests (tools/testing/selftests/bpf), Cilium's docs (https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/bpf/), and if all else fails, mailing lists like iovisor-dev.

It sounds like there should be a deep book on BPF internals (written by maintainers Alexei & Daniel), but it would be a tough sell: you really do need the maintainers to author it or be heavily involved to do it well, and it's a lot of work for a changing target, and without a large audience (lots of people will use BPF, but few will code it at that level. I'd guess 100 world-wide. Not a great case for a book!) Compare it to my BPF perf tools book: big audience (end users: developers, SREs, perf engineers, etc), and has a long shelf life (the tools are done, and work, and should keep working).
This is fascinating to me lately. I didn’t buy into breathing exercises for years, or my entire life really, until recently when a coworker recommended trying Wim Hoff exercises.

The idea that breathing should affect my mood or mental function was nonsense. It didn’t seem like it should make much of a difference.

He enjoyed it so much and was so excited though, I figured what the hell, I’ll give it a shot. That was a couple months ago and now I do it almost twice a day, daily. My breath holds are well into the 3 minute range and the restful reset it provides me is becoming something I actually look forward to. It’s sort of my ‘okay, time to wake up/sleep’ activity. Get the blood going, get relaxed, get the brain ready.

I never would have imagined that simply breathing would make me feel so nice.

I don’t have the experience others describe, but it’s a great experience nonetheless.

One of the fun features is that you can tell how well it’s working by how much better your breath holds get with each hold. As my body and mind calm and relax, my ability to hold my breath dramatically increases. The times I haven’t been able to calm or relax well due to external factors (kids arguing or loud music for example), my breath hold has tended to be consistent but much shorter. When it works, it really works.
>Many people take medication as a gateway to develop those skills and go on to do quite well in life.

This is important. When I went on anti-depressants (for pure-o OCD), my intent was to get some breathing room and learn to manage my symptoms better.

I've definitely been able to do that, but it's lead to a few cases of thinking 'hey, I should be able to stop taking these now', which have all gone poorly for me. I think I'm better able to cope now if I don't have access to medication, but I won't be stopping again any time soon, it's too risky for me.
Exceptions don't make the rule though. There has been lots of information on the results of the clean water act. One example: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181009115102.h...
I don’t know I hear things like with ___s population they can just throw people at the problem. Has that historically been true though? Why then have China and India not always led the way as super powers in the first place?
No it's not. "Youtube" is still perceived as "time wastage" by most conventional parents. In fact creators are kind of rebelling against the norm.
+1 on the XR makes it worse, but -1 on the only other reason being abuse. These drugs are not one-size-fits-all.
Different people have different reactions.
A nuisance is non criminal when it's something you personally like, even if it hurts abroad swath of society?
I’m not familiar with “TVs”. Are these just large monitors? Do they start adding all this crap once you go over a certain monitor size?
There was also some work on repurposing fasoracetam for individuals with glutamate receptor issues, though I think they started with teens instead of adults. [0]

For a 2019 review of novel molecules, see [1].

[0]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-02244-2
[1]: https://doi.org/10.1080/14737175.2019.1628640
So, assuming you're right, what might be a strategy to push these projects to a better place?
Yeah, for building files in docker try using multi-stage builds. They on the "final" image you can only use prod dependencies.
I started coding on android with a physical keyboard and the main problem so far is bugs that dont always allow me to switch windows with alt-tab
You just stereotyped a country + immigrants to the tune of billions. I'm sick of minorities being judged as a group and "Americans" being treated as individuals.

Do you really think 90% of Americans doing CS are not doing because of an easy FAANG job ? That they had some deep passion for CS since long ?
bad idea. indian companies haven't shown any competence or compassion in this space.

if they force Apple to pre-install appstore on phones? say bye-bye to $10 B manufacturing dream.

Having local controls and slightly stricter rules is good! But these chinese-commie style is bad!
Perhaps this will force Google and Apple to come with alternatives without the downsides you mention?
A potential major attack on an encrypted messaging service would be newsworthy to me, but there needs to be some info on what happened
It's always worth raising this possibility, though it looks really unlikely in this case. Volcanic and geothermal activity has never released toxic phenols as far as I can tell. Instead you get simpler compounds like carbon dioxide, sulfate, etc. which can also be deadly but only at higher concentrations. This appears to keep killing after dilution.
There are ways to reduce burn-in, some TVs even have this functionality built-in. But it is enough to simply don't display the same patterns on the same place for long periods (I mean days). As long as you are mostly watching movies and zooming to avoid black stripes or replacing black stripes with gray stripes, you are fine...
As bumpy as 2020 has been, discoveries and advances like this make me smile and give me some appreciation for the marvelous universe we live in. What an exciting time to be a spectator scientist!
Why? Shutting off CA's electricity (Enron) killed more people than any simple murderer. Hooking millions on opioids causes violence. Stealing money via paperwork takes away the victims access to health care.

Street crime is a absolutely trivial compared to the harm that white collar crime does.
thanks for sharing! Cross-browser compatibility for the web speech API is really an issue. Unfortunately, different browsers behave differently (and not in a predictable way).

I'll have a look at this though. Thanks for sharing.
The one legged stool was A COST SAVING DEVICE - a better fix was to have three people on shift at a given point in time, all with different shift starts.

This isn't a safety story, it's the least cost barely safe story.
The main country that feels threatened by google and the play store does in fact ban them.
Since I just saw this comment: Note that git-lfs stores your binaries in its own directory inside .git (I currently have no git-lfs-enabled repo at hand, but I think it was `.git/lfs/objects`).

That means that there might still be a lot of binaries inside your .git directory because LFS put them there. Those object files are not managed by Git itself, so forcing GCs through Git won't help in this regard, either.

You might also want to look into `git lfs prune`: https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/blob/master/docs/man/git-...
> Libertarian Wild West on our phones where anyone can install anything from any store

An important distinction is that while I can install whatever I want on my phone and you can install whatever you want on your phone, removing Apple's monopoly on distribution wouldn't make our phones world-writable to "anyone".

> Mobile operators alone will balk at that.

They didn't. We already had multiple app stores for J2ME, Windows CE and Symbian apps before Apple started the trend of locking things down.
Yes, it's sad. It's a possible argument against old leaders - they're likely to be less forward thinking than someone with more life left. Plus people of that generation care a lot less about the environment.

It's obviously also a consequence of the short term focus of having fixed term limits.

I don't know how to fix these things, but it's irritating that nobody even tries to fix it.
Chinese is not some mysterious language that nobody knows...
You wrote co-worker cow-orker TWICE!
We make fun of medieval medicine but look at this shit! We're pretending that saying some magic words has an effect on a physical reality of disease spread!

Who says that saying its airborne "has" to mean that certain procedures have to be adopted? That's not a rule of the universe, it's a rule that humans came up with and agreed upon and humans have the power to fix. We distilled down a set of physical principles into a set of guidelines, forgot the underlying physical principles and now operate purely in the world of the manmade guidelines, totally oblivious to when the guidelines are no longer reflecting the physical reality.
Wait. Didn't cow-orkers see in black and white?
technical cofounder of trix here. we do not currently have social logins for the app to this point doesnt make much sense. but we probably can further modify the templates we used for our tos/ privacy policy to asuage your concerns :)

we absolutely do not (and would not) scrape data from your social media accounts. unfortunately, terms like this are standard for many tech companies today.
Any tips on fix-old-typo? I'm familiar with interactive rebase, but for some reason I'm not able to get something the `git verify` script likes.
Maybe someone is doing a social experiment to see how many HNers read before voting?
Interesting idea to remove number and string types. The downside being that you spend more time writing parsers of the data. But if you had some sort of separate schema that generated all of that for you, it would no longer be such a big deal.

They mention that their key/value pairs are ordered. The downside here is that not all languages (eg. javascript), support them.

I also prefer them to be unordered. The downside with ordered dictionaries, is that you need to always be asking "does sequence matter here?". So it adds an additional thing to think about, more tests need to be written, and certain optimisations can't always be made.
It was actually Su. Keller, for all his brilliance, could not turn a company around. After Su, AMD has been very focused and have executed around a plan (marketing insanity notwithstanding).

It's just AMD's good fortune that Intel's consistent stumbling have made their great engineering look even more outstanding in comparison.
Why, in the firsts place, is Apple allowed to have a monopoly on something the user already paid for? I think the law should address this question, as clearly the current practice is not in favor of the customer nor the market.
Thanks for the resource!

I've noticed that if I run a clone `git clone https://gitexercises.fracz.com/git/exercises.git` it gets cloned in "DETACHED HEAD" mode and I need to checkout master, i.e. `git clone https://gitexercises.fracz.com/git/exercises.git -b master`.

Any idea why that is? (It ultimately wasn't a problem once I switched to master, but without doing so there would be no configure.sh script either and I'm asking in case someone else runs into the same issue).
I bet Intel make a comeback, it’s just a matter of when. Maybe they’ll decide to sideline ARM and make RISC-V cores in a few years, would be interesting to see them make a mobile part designed for phones.
Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena, Volume 2, On Reading and Books, 295 -

"Because people always read only the latest, instead of the best of all times, writers stay within a narrow circle of circulating ideas, and the age silts up ever more deeply in its own muck.

Therefore with respect to our reading the art of not reading is extremely important. It consists in our not picking up whatever happens to be occupying the greater public at any given time, such as for instance political or literary pamphlets, novels, poems and so on, which currently make a lot of noise and even reach several editions in the first and last years of their run. On the contrary, we should consider that whoever writes for fools always finds a large public, and we should devote the always precious and carefully measured time set aside for reading exclusively to the works of the great minds of all times and peoples, who tower over the rest of humanity, and who are distinguished as such by the voice of fame. Only they really shape and instruct us.

Of the inferior we can never read too little and the good never too often. Bad books are intellectual poison: they ruin the mind.

In order to read the good it is a condition that we do not read the bad; for life is short, and our time and our powers are limited."
Unfortunately the light also turns off when the charger is broken, or unplugged.
Telegram messenger is encrypted? That's news to me.
Unravelling Rich Comparison Operators
I feel like I have to repeatedly make this point, but I'll do it again:

> an Australian on trial for truth-telling journalism

This is not what he's on trial for, and the supporters of Assange don't do themselves favours by refusing to engage with the facts of the accusations.
That's illegal for an employee. It's fine for an entrepreneur who chose to open a shop and is using a bank loan he can default on.
Probably also because of geopolitical aspect, given Telegram's rocky past with Russian government.
Innovation Relies on Imitation
And there is the fundamental error:

> us insensibly from the crown and summit of the animal creation down to creatures, from which there is but a step, as it seems, to the lowest, smallest, and least

As if one species is in some absolute sense superior to another. It's the Victorian conceit (with the picture of the "ascent of man" from ape to upright biped) steeped in a hierarchical society which intuitively they would project over evolutionary development.

I doubt that one person in 10 understand that the cockroach is far more "evolved" (in the sense of having undergone several orders of magnitude more evolutionary iterations than humans), much less that all that means is they are better adapted to current conditions than humans are.

It's a huge parallel processing experiment with no single node superior to any other.
Username checks out! :)
Why did Haskell wane?

IMO, it's partly the ecosystem. There's regular Haskell, Haskell Platform, Cabal, Stack. It ends up being an alphabet soup of possibilities, and it's not clear what is depending on what.

And then there's monads, which are stumbling blocks.

State is allegedly the root of all evil. But I think the argument needs to be more nuanced than that: yes, state is difficult to reason about globally, but it's usually not so bad locally in small functions.

I think that this is what Rust gets wrong. It goes down the "state is evil" road, but there's really not that much wrong with the judicious use of mutated values.

If you really want to avoid mutability, then you're really going to need monads, something which seems a bad fit for Rust (based on what I see in Hackers News).

At the end of the day: fuggit, just use C++. It's fast, you can point in references to vars, and if you don't want them mutated, just make them const. That's the conclusion I drew a few years ago.

As Alan Kay might put it, most new languages are in the "pink plane": they're incremental improvements (sometimes a step back) on old ideas, and sometimes just inferior rehashes of them. None of them are what he calls "blue plane": revolutionary new ideas.

Kay seems to admire Erlang, though. What it brings to the table is the notion that a program can crash, and recover from it. That might be a "blue plane" idea.

I also assume he thinks Scratch is a blue plane idea; even though strictly speaking graphical languages are not new.

When I saw Ada couple of weeks ago, I noticed that it had the notion of tasks as a language primitive. I wonder if he'd consider that sufficiently blue plane.
It's a violation of US labor law, for one.
That may be the case but it doesn't change the fact that I can't think of a use for these that is worth $40. I think the value these would add to my life would be worth closer to $5/each.

Now, if they existed for $5 each, I would be all over it and buy 10
>China may challenge the US in terms of being a big unified market, for sure. Given the geopolitical situation however most likely China's innovation will stay focused on China, and the rest of the world will continue to be led by the US for the reasons above.

The "rest of the world" is increasingly Europe, if that. The rest of Asia, Africa, Australia, and perhaps Latin America, wont have as many issues being led by China.
I see a big war coming in the next few years. So that means most of the countries that would be involved in that are out, that includes China, Russia, India, US, Europe, 5-eyes. That leaves most of Africa as a possibility,except that most countries there have internal strife. Most of central Asia and Middle-East also have internal and external strife.

Some non-aligned countries in South-East Asia are comfortably advanced and relatively strife-free: Malaysia, Indonesia. Some South (not North) Pacific countries are also possibilities, some South American countries are possibilities. The problem with all of these is that they are too small and powerless to be secure in a global conflict.

The most isolated country is New Zealand. It is advanced. It is not wracked by internal strife. It's main problem is that, being one of the 5 eyes, it will almost certainly be drawn into a global conflict. On the other hand, it is possibly sufficiently isolated to escape most of the conflict. Then again, it is very powerless and could easily be over-run by a dedicated task-force while its more powerful friends are kept busy elsewhere. (Think of what happened to Holland in WW2.)

As I said earlier, no country in the world meets my criteria at present.
You had a shitty circle of friends and are now projecting. I know many Indian-Americans who are hard working, creative and NEVER cheated. One doesn't need "Americanized" parents to be a decent person.
This isn't 2010, using multiple cores is standard practice outside of mindless stuff like webdev.