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Submitted title was "MIT Press has granted full access to all its journals". What's the source for that? It's extremely important to be accurate with this kind of thing. The discussion below is all based on assuming that that title is literally true.

The HN guidelines specifically ask you not to rewrite titles unless they are misleading or linkbait: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

I've changed the URL from https://www.mitpressjournals.org/action/showPublications, which doesn't explain anything, to the press release which, although it's a press release, sort of does. Nevertheless it's hard to figure out what exactly is being announced here.
Microsoft collaborates on standard for tracing the origin of digital content
Well the sport I do (badly) is fencing, and although it looks the same from afar it does change quite a lot
This is an open bug in glibc from 7 years ago(!) https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17577
That's some flawed reasoning if there ever was any.

If the justification for eating pigs is that you're no better than them, and they "would" eat "little girls", why not eat little girls yourself? They would be much tender than adult pigs, and presumably easier to find.

Also, how do you know pigs would eat little girls? Pigs that we eat were created by us. They would not exist if not us.

Wild pigs, while omnivorous, eat mostly plants and extremely small animals; when they eat bigger animals it's usually because they're already dead.
Please don’t post vaccine skepticism for the sake of vaccine skepticism. If you have some sources from medical professionals with legitimate concerns that’s fine, but this is a dangerous oversimplification for something that’s life saving.
The energy usage of Bitcoin is proportional to the price, it doesn't grow without bound as you seem to be saying here. Miners compete for a fixed reward, it doesn't make sense for new miners to enter the system if the rewards already are distributed to the point that they just cover the costs.
For profit at the poker table...I crushed the live club tourneys, my favorite series was Harrington on Hold'em series. I do have Kill Everyone, but forgot it (I remember it had ICM and push-shove tables?)
I must absolutely thank you. I derive personal enjoyment from broken systems and the mass suffering that they produce. Everyone is happy. Isn't that nice?
Probably won't affect that unfortunately, I think that's slack itself blocking on api calls
I honestly can't tell if you're trolling or not. Maybe you're a super gifted color theorist or artist or designer. But if you were, I still feel like you'd understand the value of great palettes over the vast majority out there, which are not.

It's a bit like saying you don't understand why people care about any great artist, because you too can grab some paint and a canvas and make something over a weekend. Sure, but is it truly beautiful? Compelling? Has a clear aesthetic that is of a time/place/context, or a direction forward, or a utilitarian function that merges form & function?

I too have and can create color palettes. They do not look as good.
The Arrogant Worms had a good take on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmK0bZl4ILM
Oh wow. They should choose a different image. I looked at that and thought it was using an actual segmented LCD display, not an eInk display simulating the look of a segmented display.
> delicious recipes

Ha ha

He also did the TV typewriter:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_Typewriter

which allowed people to have something to hook their bare board micro to.

I had money to buy his green book, but not the computer or the TV. :)
No Way of Hiding This from DA “Wife”
YES this 1000X - I love React and choose to use it regularly and willingly. I am forced to use Angular quite a bit for my day job. While both of these libraries have their place not everything needs to be a single page app. Using server side rendered pages and sprinkling a little JS to add some DOM scripting and dynamic UX should not require adding React or Angular. It many cases using jQuery is good enough.
I'm trying to right now. If you're not receiving, I'm afraid you're incompatible.
Good artists copy, great artists steal ...

-- Picasso and later stolen by Steve Jobs
Cuttlefish can pass the marshmallow test
This may depend on where you are, but around here I’d have very low confidence that the government would be capable of efficiently delivering quality housing at a low price.

Edit: Ah, I’m realizing now that you may have meant delivering it to the occupants at a low price out of their pocket, and not necessarily at a low cost overall.
Speaking of nice developers, Reaper DAW developers are giving away temp license and in return only asks the user to wear mask. Warmed my heart to see it.
"focus on who the president is" is the opposite of what they said.

"denying the possibility of change" is the opposite of what they did.
Curious: why was this post flagged?
You could in theory, but this requires having each merchant go into their admin and manually grant you scopes and then copy/paste the api key and secret to you. Definitely not a scalable way to go about it.
Your arrogance is astounding.
The issue for you is that if the outcomes of a couple states like California and Florida are even in the same neighborhood for comparison in spite of supposedly vastly different policies - it means that your catastrophizing and support for violations of enshrined civil liberties are not justified.

It means that you have a flawed grasp of whats going on.

If Texas drops the "crucial" regulations on public life and numbers trend downwards, there's something wrong in your analysis.
I'm so sick of these profound-sounding blog posts that take 1 million words to say precisely jack shit. Yes, the key innovation around Bitcoin was to order events. You can call this 'time' if you want. This is literally the most obvious thing you can say about the system. It's so obvious in fact that it's in the introduction section to the Bitcoin whitepaper. Here is the entire blog post written much shorter and more precisely by Satoshi:

'In this paper, we propose a solution to the double-spending problem using a peer-to-peer distributed timestamp server to generate computational proof of the chronological order of transactions.'

Not trying to be elitist but if you find this topic new then you probably also find Bitcoin's technical workings new. Since it's now more than a decade old I don't find this a very topical inclusion for a 'news' site.
Your comment reminded me about the html over websockets article a couple days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26265999, though the general consensus seemed to be against it.

Yeah it is quite interesting how everything goes in cycles.
And if it’s not a bug in glibc, it’s a bug in the C standard for not requiring it to be big-O of the number of varargs.
Or more Ubuntu-like, Debian (in fact IIUC they just recently added support for ppc64, as it’s only in unstable while ppc64el is in stable).
When I hear "time crystal", I think "the wielder of this object can travel through time, or at least do something far out, like see past events", not "a crystal that when vibrated breaks symmetry".
I critiqued the reporting, not the marketing choices of the vendor. Perhaps you should read more carefully before replying.
The American government isn't the only one you have to worry about.
I did say “relatively” easy. Not just easy. It’s hard, I like eating and would rather eat meat than not.

Sometimes doing something you think is the right thing is harder than doing the status quo easy thing.

Humanity has changed over time though, and left behind other practices we now regret having done at all. I think that might be possible here too.
Come on man, don’t just comment “the article is wrong” then walk away. Put in some effort.
Alexa, how do you sue Amazon?
The 'full access' in the title here made me frown. Some publishers like to use that term when they let you read the article, without making the licensing open. It seems like the journals are released with a mix of true open access and read access. There is yet some way to go sadly.
Not sure why this was downvoted, sacred cow is actually a good unbiased take at regenerative agriculture (including both plants and animals)
Never forget! https://timecube.2enp.com/
"No one arrests you for possessing a copy"... YET
Something tells me this is another nail in the coffin of free speech online.
Yeah, he was also doing print-on-demand books using a fleet of dedicated Apple II machines sending PostScript to Apple LaserWriters.

This was a Big Deal because the standard setup at the time was a Mac connected to a LaserWriter, but it occurred to him that you didn't really need to tie up a Mac if all you were doing was sending the same PostScript file to the printer over and over again.
https://timecube.2enp.com/
Achievement Is Discontinuous
They do occupy the same location on the wrist.
This entire thread is hijacked by talking about "cow farts". Meat, the way it's farmed today, is far more intensive than what meets the eye. There's the land required to raise the crops that feed the animals, there's transportation of this feed and the raw material to grow the feed, there's the deforestation caused by the land requirement, and on and on.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/avoiding...
I mean, yes, they exist. And the public record is fine because you just create a new address for every transaction and cash out. Just because phone companies keep a record of who's calling who doesn't mean phones aren't useful for crime. You just use a burner phone in the full knowledge that the police can track you down, but won't because you're small fish doing minor crime.
86.0 on Ubuntu 20.04.2 works fine
> just using Bounded Contexts is extremely valuable

Eric would be happy to hear that. I think he felt that the later chapters of the book, on strategic design, got insufficient attention. Ubiquitous language only applies within a bounded context!
How to Deal with Criticism (and Build Relationships)
> Certainly, one may choose to research the institutions they donate to, if they don't trust them by name. That is not unique to suicide prevention, therefore it's an unnecessary qualifier in the current discussion.

I agree that there are many claims regarding “donations” that suffer from the same defect. But the fact that many claims have the same problem doesn’t indicate that it’s not worth pointing out the problem. In fact, quite the opposite possibly.
> Sure, I'm young and healthy, but I don't want to risk potential long-term effects or spreading covid around to folks I socialize with.

No one's stopping you from being a young and healthy shut-in.
It is well documented that once cows are switched to the pure corn diets we now feed them, their health starts immediately declining and they start dying. Factory farms time it so that they grow up on grass and similar, then are switched to grain to fatten them, and are slaughtered before becoming too ill. There are many unhealthy modifications made to their diet and environment to force them to consume corn. This is detailed lots of places including the book The Omnivores Dilemma. The whole book is essentially about corn and what a horror show industrial agriculture/meat is.
I disagree 100%. Having a reason for existing is, literally, it's meaning.

Something may become meaningless over time if the landscape changes to undermine the reasons for existence, but that underscores the point that 'reason for existence' is another way of saying 'it means something'.

Bitcoin's reason for existence was the bank bailouts of 2008. It has found supplemental reason in the current economic climate of quantitative easing. That means everything.

"Having a reason for existing doesn't mean anything" is an absurd statement.
This looks very useful. I usually teach 20 to 30 students at a time and always struggle to provide like by line feedback. This should help.

For a slightly different use case, I wrote https://postcell.io/ for my classes. We use mostly Jupyter notebooks in my class and I mark certain cells with a special magic command. When students execute code in that cell, it is sent up to my server and I can see every student’s submission. I turn off student names and share the screen with the class. We then go through all the variations of answers and talk about the differences.

Although anyone can use it, the interface is probably a bit rough right now.
These 10 companies control all foods you buy
I've seen some watches from the current wave of open-hardware models and i'm not sure i'm interested.

The mi band 4 on my wrist is almost perfect, except I cannot pull data out of it natively. I'd love to be able to mess with data about myself in a quantified-self style.

the pine time looks like it might be interesting in that sense, but it's bulkier than the xiaomi mi band 4 ...
I've really been enjoying his "Blackheart Man" album recently, especially the song "Reincarnated Souls": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKRXpp_5NyA
Field corn is grown for the starch, which is turned into ethanol. The remaining bits are turned into animal feed. Those bits are the byproduct. The main product is ethanol, which the government has induced a huge demand for under the pretext of environmental protection.

It is not profitable to grow field corn solely for animal feed.
There’s a ton of material on that site- any other lists you can recommended exploring?
Power Automation is now free for all Windows 10 users
If they don’t and the variants sky rocket then?

This isn’t a hard lockdown, it’s a mask mandate? What’s the big issue?
i don't carry a watch. my phone tells the time. that's enough. same with phones replacing the camera, i look at smartwatches as a phone replacement. this of course requires that the smartwatch includes a sim card.

i agree, smartwatches that can't replace my phone are not interesting. but if they could replace the phone that would be a different thing entirely.

to put it differently:

i need a cheap portable phone for my children, one that i can control 100%. besides telling the time and setting alarms it must not have any features except calling or sending (and receiving) voice messages home.

nothing that attracts kids to play with the device and interfere with class.

it doesn't have to be a watch, but it needs to be small, lightweight, easy to carry, and appear uninteresting.

even a feature phone has to many features.

and it must be affordable to families with multiple kids
(less than $50)

those devices do exist, at that price level too. if only they were hackable so i could control what the kids can do with it...
Khun sounds reasonable to people who don't know mathematics, which is just about everyone in the humanities. The few who do know mathematics have very interesting things to say, but again, they are very few and they are very far from being popular in their own fields.

If you can't do something as simple as expand or factor a polynomial then you can't understand science, in the same way that you can't understand Latin if you only speak English.

The idea that we throw out old theories and start over looks like that to people who don't understand the language those theories are written in, to people who do the difference between doing quantum mechanics and classical physics is the difference between saying potahto and potaito. A bit more linear algebra, a bit less differential equations and a few more dimensions than you expect. There is a reason why you study the same maths classes for both classical, quantum and relativistic mechanics.

The stories we tell are just that, stories that help build intuition, but are completely optional, and they even change in the same subject depending on what you're trying to calculate.

>Cramming more science facts or abstract math equations into student's brains doesn't do much for their critical thinking and reasoning skills. Encouraging children to ask questions, reason based off of evidence, and inspiring a love for figuring out how our world works should be the main goal of any science class.

Yes, which is why we should teach them how to actually think in a structured way, something that saying 'science is sexist and colonialist' does not do. But that does increase the power and prestige of the humanities because they have 70 years of pointless theory to talk about *ism.
I think you said that already :-)
Once you visit a site, you then open the uMatrix tab provided to decide which 3rd party scripts you will allow to run. Typically you only enable a few.

I'd much rather know about tracking this way (the list of 20 blocked scripts) than they other (they already ran, but at least the site popped up a banner)
> We were both bothered by the current fetishization of science. It's troubling that otherwise well-educated, logical people have come to elevate science as this god-like authority...

I agree. But as you point out this is basically a reaction to the inverse: some loud non-scientists, which are overwhelmingly skeptical of science/medicine for the sake of sowing distrust, rather than being followed up by critical discussion.

I'm not in favor of blind trust of anything. But for "scientism" it's an unfortunate reactionary message against the blind and blanket mistrust of science/medicine that has become popular e.g. on some circles of the internet.

The problem is that many of the "skeptics" in media are more concerned with contrarianism and sowing doubt than healthy debate.

How do you have a rational discussion with someone who comes to the table set on not trusting the scientific process?
So the zombie apocalypse starts in Texas, swore it would be Florida.
I am the CTO of my company and the "most technical" for sure, but I'm not the "most up to date". I haven't built an JS frontend with Vue, React, and Svelte like one of my team has.

Basically I set the team values, priorities, and processes, but I do need a lot of my team to have deeper knowledge of certain things than I do.
We don't know the poolsize for any of these numbers.

Hope the lawsuit goes into that.

Would be good to see numbers for all ethnicities as a comparison. For eg: how many asian people at amazon vs directors? Offhand, I think you will see that there are fewer asian directors when considering the total asian pop at amazon vs white. Is that a problem?

From my anecdotal experience, I just don't see too many black or latino people in tech companies so I would assume this is partly a pipeline issue which we can address at the correct spot in the funnel rather than bringing in token black l8s.

Otherwise the next spate of articles will say "Black L8s fired at higher rates than other ethnicites".

Also, re-levelling during interviews is common at Amazon: just because you applied for a position doesnt mean there are enough data-points in the interview that support you getting that position (esp at L6+ level), but we may think you are "amazonian" enough to be extended an offer with re-level.

What probably happened is the candidate was re-leveled, then was setup for success by being provided multiple opportunities to prove themselves, which took a few years. This also makes sense because a promo-doc requires consistent evidence of performing at the next level.

Now, a senior manager should know all this so A) this is a bad faith lawsuit driven by entitlement or, B) she decided that this was a big enough problem to burn a few bridges.

I'm interested to see what data the lawsuit dredges up.
The editorial modification of the headline here compared to the original article is uncalled-for. Especially the dropping of ARM from the headline.

No, it's not.

But it's closer than you might think.

The SiFive U84 and Alibaba XT910 cores are at about the same place as ARM was five or six years ago with the A72 and A73.

The U84 was formally announced 18 months ago, which means at that point design was complete and it was successfully running Linux and in particular the SPEC benchmark suite in an FPGA. That's when a company starts to take orders from customers who want to put it in an actual chip. The way these things work (at least in non-COVID times) the first such chips will probably hit first silicon in 6 to 12 months from now.

There are reports that the XT910 is actually in production use in Alibaba's data centre.

So RISC-V is about five or six years behind ARM. But five years ago it was 20 years behind.

Once the RISC-V BitManip and Vector extensions are ratified later this year (and Crypto soon after), RISC-V will be fully ready to compete with Intel, AMD, and ARM in terms of instruction set.

What remains then is for someone to invest the necessary few billion dollars to design a high performance core and SoC, along the lines of the Apple M1.

Not many companies have the financial means to do that. No one else in the ARM ecosystem is likely to do it any time soon -- including ARM themselves. RISC-V is pretty close to catching up to the cores available to Samsung, Qualcomm, Amazon etc.

If I had to guess, I'd say the most likely companies willing and able to make the investment to get a RISC-V "M1" and challenge Intel and AMD would be Alibaba and maybe Huawei.

There is no technical reason why not, only money.
> By not eating them we are not reducing suffering

Yes we are. The problem is not just killing animals, it's condemning them to a life of torture.

We are doing to animals, on a gigantic scale, what the Nazis did to other humans. We think we are different than the Nazis. But the only way we are different in that we are worse.

The Nazis knew that what they were doing was wrong. They went to great lengths to try to hide their crimes, including digging up corpses and burning them when the allies were closing in on them (while they could have fled instead).

We, on the other hand, are mostly undisturbed by what we are doing.

> Because some animals eat other animals and we're that kind of animal.

Some humans do horrible things to other humans, and we are certainly "that kind of animal". So everything's okay, then? We can do anything to anyone because, presumably, they would do the same to us "if they could", if history is any proof.

I don't want to live in your world. Yet I know I do.
bureaucracy IS the incentive.

We need to kill bureaucratic interests in EVERY THING.

Politicians should be conscripted servants with no method for empowering or financing themselves.

They should run on policy ALONE.
Well the title was true. There is full access to the journals. People seem to think that means open access though. The new link is about all new monographs being open access, which isn't the same as read access to mit journals.
To paraphrase HN user amckinlay, C does not have an actual, formal semantic model.

"Furthermore, we argue that the C standard does not allow Turing complete implementations, and that its evaluation semantics does not preserve typing. Finally, we claim that no strictly conforming programs exist. That is, there is no C program for which the standard can guarantee that it will not crash." [1]

In some sense then, C is not an actual language, so no one can give definitive information about it without being totally wrong in one or two ways. I would argue this fragmentation of both the code and the user base is part of why there is almost no secondary documentation. Not even the specs are correct or complete.

[1] https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Subtleties-of-the-ANSI...
They are maxing out the fiber links between their own datacenters, which is in the process of being addressed. If the bits can't get from the datacenter full of hard drives to the datacenter that connects to the internet, not much point in buying additional transit capacity.
Note conversion of C02 into methane.

If methane has bigger effect than the same amount of coal within C02 then your argument fails.

> While CO2 persists in the atmosphere for centuries, or even millennia, methane warms the planet on steroids for a decade or two before decaying to CO2.

> In those short decades, methane warms the planet by 86 times as much as CO2, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-bad-of-a-gree...