skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are golf-cart communities in SoCal that do this. Within the bounds of the development, it's legal to drive what are essentially golf carts on the local roads. It is very popular with the retiree crowd.
How likely is it for AWS to come up with instance types offering more cores than x86? It seems like with Intel we'll be stuck at 96 cores for at least the next generation.

128 or more cores would spark my interest, especially on RDS. Graviton2 is built on Neoverse N1 which already has a reference design featuring 128 cores. N2 supports 192 cores.
> Linux is doing great on phones

... you're fine with Google taking Linux, hiding it inside a proprietary system, not releasing source code for things people want to use like Google services?

> and servers and so on.

A use case where the most desirable setup is to have the Linux servers on someone else's computing platform, preferably in another state or country, with minimal services running on it, preferably locked behind an SSH interface that only an automation tool accesses guarded by an automated deployment tool, trading the "Linux can run for years without reboots" former gloating for being able to kill/redeploy dozens of times per day.

This is what counts as "popular" in 2020, Linux as a small piece of necessary plumbing that everyone wants to push away from human contact. A far cry from the dreams of Linspire, Ubuntu, Ubuntu-phone.

Microsoft make WSL pleasant to install and use, and now it's one of the most talked about ways to deal with Linux.

And you're pretending that what you really wanted was source code for Windows Explorer? Oh please. As if.
Ah, yup, I'm an idiot. This is why my computer normally does math for me.
If this is true you're also earning points for your purchase. I don't know why they wouldn't be able to refund an app-based order though beyond ignorance, considering I've had it done before.
Strict Scrutiny is specifically a Supreme Court focused podcast, but in my opinion quite interesting.
If they're automatically reporting via API to the online store, so the author can check the status in his script, they're all the same model with auto-sanitize. The old manual clean models always report online, then the customer gets rejected and refunded when they actually go pick up their order, as mentioned elsewhere in the thread about some NYC locations. Nice try, but you know, burden of proof on the accuser and whatnot.
Well, in the course of my daily work I don't do anything depraved or antisocial, my work simply doesn't require it. If it did I would quit. If your job entails tear-gassing entire neighborhoods, I think the correct response is to stop doing that job, not whine about citizens trying to find out who is doing it.
Yes, it is a cost which is paid solely by employees. Where do you think money for paying that cost comes from?
This forces the victim to be even more desperate, and desperate people (and institutions) will do desperate things.

Irrespective of laws, what does the extortionist have to lose? There's always a chance the victim will pay up under the table.
Incidence of violent crime per capita in the United States is roughly on par with Western European nations.

Violent crime in the U.S. is just far more deadly.

It's a tough problem, but I suspect the actual solution probably has to do more with shifting our culture than with changing our laws.
„Vert.x is fun!“

I’ve used it in 2 Java products so far. Great stuff and great work. Not everything is perfect, but I do have fun with it.
Делу-время, потехе-час
As a matter of fact, I explained exactly what comes after the web immediately prior to the quoted statement in TFA.
StellarX – The Immersive Sandbox
StellarX is a collaborative XR sandbox that empowers anyone to create their own immersive environments and simulations. Simply drag-and-drop, grab and go, point and click, or set it and forget it. You name it, consider it done — without code.
Whipped cream cheese is much easier to spread, in my experience. I know I could whip it myself, but why not just buy it that way?
I think the crux of the issue is OS vendors are withholding agency that users and developers are used to having over computers, and getting away with it by a combination of being duopolies and PR spinning restrictions as good for the user, even when that's clearly not the primary justification. Everyone is debating whether any given restriction is good or bad, warranted or not. The bigger issue is that vendors get to set whatever rules they want, because if users or developers don't like it, where are they gonna go?
You forgot firing the technical CEO who had been with the company since 1995 (who btw also invented Javascript) for his personal politics. Looks like it worked out well for the company.
Everyone's seen that XKCD already.
Another vote for Keepasium. There is a paid upgrade but if you have only one db file I don’t think it’s limited in any way.
I want my OS updates to be exciting, but not too exciting - I have been running the 20.10 beta for a week or so on a spare laptop, not a lot of surprises, but the Gnome upgrade is an improvement. In the Breezy/Hardy days I wouldn't have dared to upgrade for weeks or months after a new version was released (basically how I treat macOS these days...), but I have had good luck with Ubuntu upgrades in the last few years, so I feel like they have made progress.
If they can't manage to set the time what makes you think they'll connect the Wifi?

(...although in fairness some of the other comments here suggest the things might already have some kind of int[er/ra]net connectivity in which case no extra hardware required)
You need proper memory model handling for the program to be compliant even for x86. If you do it otherwise and you see that it works for you, keep in mind that the compiler is allowed to reorder in that case, which can result in very odd breakage.

On x86, sequential consistency isn't the implemented memory model, but rather total store ordering. Stores are buffered inside the core and the guarantee provided is that they'll appear to other cores in the proper order. On SC designs, all the cores have the same view of coherent memory all the time. In such a design, barriers aren't required and are lowered down to NOPs.

(only general-purpose processors that I know of that implement sequential consistency are NVIDIA's Tegra K1 (64-bit variant) and Tegra Xavier)
This is the next level of censorship on the slippery slope of deplatforming that the political left has been advocating for. Bret Weinstein is probably one of the more left-leaning members of the "Intellectual Dark Web" and yet has been singled out. There isn't room for anyone who doesn't pass big tech's purity test, and that should scare everyone.
You know, this is not a link I'd ever thought I'd be looking for:

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/new-york-city-expands-morg...

"Without the makeshift morgues, the city can accommodate between 800 and 900 bodies, Aja Worthy-Davis, the executive director for the Office of Public Affairs for the Office of Chief Medical Examiner, told MarketWatch on Monday.

"“Between the tent and the refrigerated trucks, we have space for between 3,500 and 3,600,” Worthy-Davis said."

And then there's this, which is interesting....

https://www.cityandstateny.com/articles/policy/health-care/w...

"That unprecedented number of deaths over the course of a few months has led funeral homes to experience a backlog, which has, in turn, overwhelmed city and hospital morgues with bodies waiting to be picked up by funeral homes.

"For some in this business, the crisis has served as a reminder of just how much families need to have their deceased loved ones cared for with respect. “We got swamped and weren't able to offer services at the time,” D’Arienzo, the funeral director, said of the backlog funeral homes were experiencing. “Families were so desperate, it just ignited a fire under me to make sure that we're always prepared.”"

So the problem looks like funeral homes not picking up bodies. Which makes sense; I don't think they're in the processing capacity business.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/10/new-york-fun...

Has the interesting comment: "<p>New York’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, this week signed an executive order allowing out-of-state funeral directors to come into the state to help relieve pressure on funeral services. The move came after the <a href="https://www.nfda.org/news/in-the-news/nfda-news/id/4984/an-o..." data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline">National Funeral Directors Association</a> wrote an open letter letter to the governor, saying hundreds of people were willing to help."

(Yeah, the Guardian doesn't want me to see the article.)
We should reduce it as much as we can, but this is a country of >300,000,000 with >6,000,000 crimes occurring each year.

Of the percent I cited, >90% of that lethal force is against an armed individual.

I don't know what sensory approach could prevent every single death, when there are so many cases of violence in this country.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6080222/
Just for clarification, he is NOT the director of Stadia. He is a creative director for Typhoon Studios in Montreal which is a game studio that Google purchased.
No, they don't "finance" it. Their customers do. Their customers pay with their own, hard earned (we wish), money for it. McDonalds is just the messager. Regular people like you and me pay for it. Yes, you, probably, and anyone who ever paid for any kind of meal at Mc.

The People are fucking it up, massively, and you are covering for them. Thanks, I guess?
Very nice, one of the things I'veike about NetBSzd was tge ease of building it from some other *nix box.
I read that and thought to myself, “The only thing this Lee Phillips person is managing to convince me of is that Lee Phillips is a dick”. Then I came back here and realized that’s you.

I guess I’m the dick now.
Radio amateurs don't "broadcast" - with a very limited set of exceptions, all communications are between two or more participants. There won't be anyone there to talk to.

Not that there (usually) is now. 9cm is a big loss to the amateur community, but honestly, it's not because it's currently heavily used, or for lack of alternative bands to communicate on. The band in question is not "mainstream" in ham radio in the way that lower (HF, VHF, UHF) frequencies are; it's used by microwave experimenters, and almost exclusively with home-built equipment. (You can't just buy an off-the-shelf, ready-to-use 9cm transceiver; at best you could probably buy a transverter, but many hams who are interested in this band will construct their equipment from scratch.)

The reason it's a big loss -- bigger than it would seem based purely on utilization -- is that, like every amateur band, it has its own peculiar characteristics, and experimenters are therefore losing an important and unique domain to experiment in. 9cm in particular is the lowest-frequency amateur band that is unarguably located in the "microwave" range, so it's of particular interest for that reason alone. And it's a wide allocation, which is especially relevant in an era of high-bandwidth digital communication: lower frequency amateur allocations have correspondingly less bandwidth to work with, as well as, in general, stronger restrictions on how that bandwidth can be used.

Of course the loss also sets a depressing precedent. The majority of hams have never used the 3.4 GHz band (and now they'll never get to!) But what band are we going to lose next?
What are you counter arguments?
In Germany you pay/get 13 - 14 monthly salaries per year. In Finland 12.65. Don't know the figure for Sweden, but I'm pretty sure it's > 12.
This is supposedly the reason Windows ships with solitaire.
In an enterprise production environment, it's much easier to update a JSON schema, which is stored as data, than to alter the DB schema. The point of having a JSON field isn't to let everyone with write access to the API stick whatever they want in there; it's to let the administrators of the service change what it can store without engineers deploying code changes and DB migrations.
Does that matter? Some passwords are a long-term security solution so who knows what kind of flaws, advances, or use cases you may have to deal with. The limits should be whatever the software and hardware permits.

Besides, a local password generator can be a convenient way to generate random strings for other uses as well.
So they outsourced all their IT to save money then got randomwared.
> Once Google became public they were beholden to shareholders to continue to grow and increase value

Absolutely false. First, there's no obligation to grow and increase value.
Second, Google is controlled by 3 shareholders: Page, Brin, and Schmidt
Intel Plummets After Data Center Sales and Cloud Server Orders Slowing
Employees salaries? They're paid because employees create some value for an employer. Where do you think money for salaries comes from anyway?

I had a friend who owned a company at the time. His sole criteria for hiring was that net salary + taxes + health insurance + all additional costs (yes, even those "paid by employer") must be <= the money employee earns him.
What kind of strange reasoning is that? Policies are enacted for multiple reasons, very often without any concrete evidence that it's better or worse.
I'd be surprised if it does. If anything, it seems like this would make it more tempting to move from Linux to FreeBSD (maybe?).

But this isn't FreeBSD development -at least not in the sense that you're creating FreeBSD apps in Linux. This is simply giving an alternative to downloading the isos. If you you need to verify that the source does what it says, now you can build it yourself on Linux.

As someone who dearly wishes they could make NetBSD apps on Linux (edit: I mean build pkgsrc packages for NetBSD on Linux) I don't see it being that much of a game changer -though it is a nice feature on a couple of different levels (being able to build a system on bare metal instead of in a vm, and the code being so portable it can be built in a foreign environment)
> The App Store doesn’t allow dynamically generated code to be marked executable (i.e. JIT compilation)

Unless it’s JavaScript. I see a missed opportunity here: compile everything to ASM.js! :)

I’m only half-kidding.
As well as on GNU/Linux.
You think that monitoring armed employees of the state to identify abuses using technology as threatening as a camera is... equivalent to right-wing anarchy? You seriously think that it will be impossible to recruit officers if they might have people monitor their on the job behavior and call them out for doing things that are illegal. The military seems to do alright...

I do not condone violence and at the moment the police seem to be doing most of it. There needs to be a check on that.
You make a lot of assumptions about what I think, and none of them are correct. Your writing style is also all over the place and hard to follow.
Agreed. We have already migrated 90% of our workloads to graviton2. After running our performance tests, it's a no-brainer price/performance boost.
I've noticed a lot of self-censorship in an effort to appease "the algorithm", or their perception thereof.

Things like being afraid to say certain common phrases like "mental illness" because they believe it will lead to their video being demonetized.

Then there are the comments. Try leaving a comment in Mandarin that I'm told means "communist bandits". It looks like the comment succeeds, but reloading reveals it has been censored. Silent censorship to appease the CCP.
Yeah this guy really should have approached Dairy Queen with a campaign and sold it off.. "we know you can't get mcdonald's ice cream? come to us"
I've seen several verified accounts say that 2FA was required when they got the verification, but apparently they still have the option to disable it later.

https://twitter.com/mattblaze/status/1319295891765972992
With that logic, any company that serves meat should be exploited and ridiculed on Twitter for their broken ice cream machines (that might not even be broken, apparently). Why?
We totally have a kio plugin already so you can gemini in Konqueror.

I mean, we fucked the thing up once already by sparking WebKit and Blink through KHTML, but ...
Google Search was built on an "unlimited download" datacenter networking contract because the seller has no idea how astronomical Google intended to with its downloading.
> There are other things Google is doing wrong, but they all exist to feed into the ad industry.

Do they now? You seem to know a lot about them.

YouTube Premium, Docs, entire GCP suite etc kind of hint that they don't have the same vision about their company as you seem to have about them.

> Search and Chrome and Play Services and everything are about protecting their ad revenue.

I might be mistaken but reading comments on HN from googlers, I remember Chrome being a docs outcome as a better browser can support web productivity software well.
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Yes, but what I meant was that the expression is likely even older than from the ones which went out of style 30 years ago.
IMO a Netflix without original content would have a much harder time attracting new subscribers and retaining existing ones. They'd have to pay exorbitant rates for proven hits rather than paying less cash up front and offering creative freedom for original content.
76% of American CEOs say they may shrink office space
Your premises are undisputedly true and your conclusion is provocative. What is your reasoning?
Apple has done a nice job of adding a lot of power user functionality to iPadOS, and iOS in general, but discoverability remains a huge challenge.

Multitasking is a kludgy set of gestures and dragging things around. There aren’t great affordances that help less sophisticated users understand the system.

The only chance a new user has to discover the new obtuse gesture-based cut, copy, and paste system is a single dialog, shown once, that you are liable to accidentally dismiss. Oh, and don’t forget shake to undo.

Seems that one thing Apple could do to help is offer a truly interactive user guide, manual, or tutorial like those we used to learn how mice worked in the 90s (“Mouse Practice”) [1]. Hey, maybe even add it to Tips.app.

(Personally, for me, I’ve gone from an iPad productivity skeptic, to preferring using the iPad Pro w/Magic Keyboard for any computing task short of programming.)

[1]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=BlFnGgZHPzY
We should all just write our config in JavaScript or TypeScript because then we can standardize around a common interface language.

It’s simple, widely known, has comments, not dependent on white space, JSON has the right types we need program (and can be validated, with JSON Schema).

Critically, to generate configs, we can write loops, conditions, ternaries, functional programs with Ramda, classes/OOP, and even fancy GUIs. Simple English JavaScript is powerful and readable.

.js is the move here... especially once node supports immutable data structures

This is why stuff like AWS CDK and Pulumi are legit. Configure your stuff with actual code.

All we gotta do is fill the gap between JS and Python in terms of scientific computing, and we’re set. Typescript->WASM could be interesting.

I’m sure there are some details that make this difficult but, what do you guys think about standardizing around JS/TS?
That suggests that an organizations value system should follow along with a moving target - the current mid-ground - rather than their own values. At some point one party may just sway too far to accept a middle ground.
I have some contracts with large corps and US govt (non-military) that forbid my use of any password manager with cloud hosting.

The language is somewhat ambiguous and obviously written before things like LastPass/Dashlane/etc. even existed, but I tend not to editorialize when it comes to security reqs.

Maybe BitWarden would work for my purposes, but I have no complaints about KeePass, so I don't know why I'd switch.
Yes, and if you are a citizen of a free country that defects to a mafia state to help in their PR efforts, such an action should be called out for what it is.
My only recent comparison is with Virgin Media, whom I'm sure we both agree has awful support.

Perhaps I should look into Zen. They are the other one I hear good things about. AAISP does have a 300GB monthly limit (extensible for a fee) but I've never exhausted it, even with two people WFH and nightly TV streaming.

AAISP have strong principles of privacy and not interfering in connections. (No NXDOMAIN web page injection, for example.) Also, exceptionally advanced line monitoring tooling and configuration - they let you see telecoms-engineer metrics and parameters about your line, for what that's worth.

The price I quoted includes line rental btw.
If the worker doesn't earn for all these costs "paid by employer", the company would soon go bust.
FreeBSD man pages are so good. I wonder why Linux which is so much more popular can't get to that level.
None at all, except that a contributor who participates in the project, but objects to a position or practice of the advocated organization is presented with an ethical dilemma that is avoidable. BLM is not alone in being controversial in some of it's positions. Lots of other advocacy groups (Autism Speaks for instance), have a polarizing affect on people. I think it is better to avoid these ethical dilemmas in favor of cooperation. It is easy to condemn and exclude based on ideas, it is much harder and more worthy to find ideas we all agree on and build useful things for everyone.
Their anti-forking provisions put them, in some ways, close to what MS got in trouble for in their anti-trust case (removing or threatening to remove OEM pricing from OEMs who sold non-Windows OSes).
For Linux support. Keepass on windows, x or xc on mac and Linux.

Keepass is the best but the others are still fine as well.
I don‘t know about 3G, but I just checked for LTE [1] and the timing is broadcasted in SIB16, which is not encrypted, so theoretically anything could pick it up.

[1] https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_ts/136300_136399/136331/11...
Speaking specifically as a Gemini enthusiast:

We don't want "the web, but less of it". Do you not realize that "less of it" is still a whole hell of a lot of web? Take a look at Netsurf: 13 years of development and half a million lines of C and it's probably the most advanced rendering engine after the big three. And yet, one of my websites, sourcehut.org, renders like this:

https://l.sr.ht/_2pv.png

On WebEngine, it should look like this:

https://l.sr.ht/bSdI.png

And this is one of the most conservative websites on the modern internet. The problem with using the web, but less of it, is that the web is still incredibly complicated and even conservative websites require a massive engineering undertaking to render properly, and it just takes one link to a more liberal page to ruin the experience entirely.

Gemini is a separate, self-contained network, based on a much simpler philosophy. I wrote my Gemini client in two afternoons, and it's already pleasant to use with all Gemini pages.

We don't want the web, but less. We want something else entirely.