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This is indeed somewhat the case.

Looking at Cardiff City's long-term fortunes....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiff_City_F.C.#/media/File:...

There are clear long term trends over the decades, with the team slowing sinking down to the 4th tier in the late 90s and working its way back up.

In the 2010's we can see see-sawing you mention: back and forth between the Championship and Premier leagues. They fight like hell to be promoted, quickly find themselves overmatched in the Premier League, and are then relegated.

It's worth noting that the team's post-2000 rebirth corresponds with an influx of juicy cash via foreign investment:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiff_City_F.C.#Foreign_inve...

So, I mean, it's a "meritocracy" but it's still largely dependent on who's got the money because they can afford the best players and player development.
Scroll down a bit farther to see the full comment tree.

"Next" goes approximately down the tree in the order it's displayed on the page, by depth-first search.

"Prev" just reverses the same process as "Next".

"Parent" differs from "prev" in that it goes to the parent e-mail even if this email has earlier siblings.

(Generally, I just scroll down to the tree view and click around manually.)
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Even w/o the perf of the M1 I think sales had been overwhelming, part because yes it's the "entry level" models but mainly because nobody wants to be left with a machine that won't get supported by the OS (even if I think low-mem M1 machines will be phased out of OS updates at some point)
Agreed, especially if legal machinations are used to create the bottleneck. True competition is the key here.

In my day job as a consultant, I see many small and medium corporations, and I can tell you that the successful ones are the lean & mean value creators
The thing is, even if M1 would have been middling, Apple would have still migrated everyone forcefully :-)
SQL is a query language, MongoDB has a query language. I think that the tagline is reasonable and is made more precise in the first sentence of the README.

> Mongita is a lightweight embedded document database that implements a commonly-used subset of the MongoDB/PyMongo interface.
What topology do you have in mind when referring to "the topology"?
Anyway you can create a package for us non-rust people. I'd probably install this on Ubuntu if you had a Deb file for me to use
Which is why you don't[1] push to production on Friday at 3pm.

[1] As always there are exceptions to this rule
I think an interesting way to frame this argument would be to frame it in the view of eminent domain debate.

In short, although owners own the assets of the club, they don't really own the fanbase / legacy of the club.

We have a property (call it "fan equity" or "club legacy") that someone (fans) has invested time and effort in improving. That property has now acquired commercial value so now the govt (club owners) want to use the eminent domain argument to take that and use it as they wish.

The eminent domain plays as follows: SL12 owners are looking to de-risk their business, ie avoid financial volatility. In effect, SL12 is for the "greater good" of the top clubs. (investors would lose far less money, which means top clubs would have guaranteed financial futures, and thus, never disappear)

This does not appeal to the fans because they are invested in the ups and downs of their clubs. They are OK with downside because they also have the upside. This is similar to a property holdout. They dealt with the bad times in the neighborhood...so its natural they say now when the going gets good.
yes they are legitimate goal even for pursuing only profit. supply chain on shore is maybe in some way more reslilent, with especialy in geopolitics. job creating is leading to more prosperousing in society and more customer. also maybe these things are reduce likelihood of being smacked with unfortunate regulating.
It didn't. Rather, it didn't until after it had been conduct.

https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kjlu/papers/clarifications-hc....
I'm working a lot on M1 and few months ago it was unusable for Deep Learning stuff but now its mediocre not good but also not terrible. (even coreml stuff wasn't working properly on M1 2 months ago)
To be fair, I wouldn't have noticed the award if it wasn't for HN
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Now that Parallels, Crossover and UTM have solved the boot camp issue there is little reason to let x86 compatibility get in the way. Most of the major Mac apps have released Universal Binaries as well. It's not even been six months yet and most Macs have already transitioned. Now all we need is the Mac Pro and Macbook Pro 16" to switch.
Eh. What. It is regular Forth with one additional stack. Except in real Forth "()" is reserved to something else.
Not saying that I want it, but I do think it would be interesting to see what would play out if the American sports leagues adopted relegation and removed salary caps/luxury taxes at the same time.
There's not really personal implications of messing stuff up, if you contract outside IR35 as a Limited company most clients require you to have Indemnity insurance, which costs around £20 a month and gives you a couple million of cover.

Tax and accounting is easy, a good accountant for c. £100 a month will cover everything for you such as payroll, any accountancy questions and preparing your end of year company tax returns (CT600) as well as your personal self assessment each year. Honestly the most I have to do each month is send an invoice to the client which takes about 10 minutes and tag a couple of business transactions in FreeAgent every couple of weeks.

Keeping a pipeline of work is obviously the trickier part, but once you get your first couple of contracts (probably via a recruitment agent) then you quickly build up a network of other independent contractors you can reach out to as well as any other permanent members of staff you worked well with who have moved to new roles etc.
Like I said, it's one example.

ORMs are to SQL what static types are to programming languages. The conversation we just had was me giving you one example of the benefit of static types, which happens to showcase a huge weakness in dynamic typing:

- How painful is it to rename a class attribute?

=> It's a long search & replace exercise which results in a less-than-certain outcome.

The obvious take from this isn't that "renaming class attributes is rare".
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Ports are valuable, that makes the land that make up the ports valuable. Geography matters. New York would still be valuable because it's in a valuable situation.

Because housing security is also inherently valuable.

Also, what's to make the words of Canadian parliament the truth? Does he not have a vested interest in a certain outcome? Residential home owners aren't looking to "wealth" when they buy a house. They're looking for residence.
Also, Mac OS X sales greater than sales of Mac OS 9 :-p
I use one monitor. I am not sure which M1 to buy (mini, air, pro).

Do you think there would be much difference in CPU performance between the mini and the air?

I have heard the mac-air will throttle after a while to keep cool, but the mini throttles the least out of all 3?
The trick for billing big companies (those with a separate accounts payable division) is to incentivize early payment (say with a 5% discount). Most account payable divisions will always try and pay the lowest amount, so they will pay early to receive the discount. Of course you bump up your rate in initial contract negotiations to make up for the discount.
Indeed, the breadth piece is huge. The depth, so long as you have some extra self awareness that you literally only know the table of contents level of most things, and can do some composition of them while knowing where to find people with depth in them, you can solve a lot of problems. If you can tell whether you need new science to solve a problem, or it's a function of work by composing a bunch of solved problems, that's going to elevate your abilities fast as well. I wonder if the right metaphor is security is like the eng.sci of tech.

Reality is in security is we've spent a career navigating, negotiating, and implementing the real power relationships that the technology facilitates. These are performance, economic, legal, business, organizational, environmental, institutional, etc.
In my experience in university research, the correct portrayal of the ethical impact is the burden of the researchers unfortunately, and the most plausible explanation in my view given their lack of documentation of the request for IRB exemption would be that they misconstrued the impact of the research.

It seems very possible to me that an IRB wouldn't have accepted their proposed methodology if they hadn't received an exemption.
It's an acronym - Person Leaving Our Newsgroup; Kill-filed.
Is there any indication that's going to be possible?
Wish there was as much pushback here when some of these same owners instituted the 17-game NFL season
Without passing judgement on either side, I think the wording of your comment and the wording of the comment you're replying to speak for themselves. You mention you're talking about “pure salary”, while the comment you're replying to speaks about the enjoyment and knowledge brought about by understanding what's going on under the hood.

You may well have very different yardsticks. Programming means different things to different people.
Inventions are protected by patents though?

The problem here is around intellectual property, not patents, no?
you say that but a complete minnow (Leicester) won the league only five years ago putting all these 'big' clubs to shame. Yes the odds are stacked in their favour but the only thing that keeps it exciting is the (small) chance of a big upset.
This is me.

I have Spotify Premium for listening to music while I work but I started listening to podcasts while doing mindless chores like laundry or dishes.

It's convenient to just have the one app.
Not seeing anything about support in there, what are you seeing?
It's actually worse than that. Even knowing the very first term of the continued fraction result would already tell you that the number is at least 2. So the computation will hang without ever producing even a single term.

This is a fundamental problem shared by any form of exact real arithmetic with unique representations; you can always then be forced to make a choice, before emitting any information, that depends on infinite amounts of information about the operands. To solve this problem, you would need to choose a representation with redundancy. (With redundancy, equality comparison becomes harder, and it can still diverge, but you can still get approximations of the answer.)
> quite common in the U.S.A. to perform practice medical checkups on patients who are going under narcosis for an unrelated operations

Fascinating. Can you provide links?
This is a great way to go when you have a very narrow scope as it seems you have here (well done btw). The downside for groups with wider scopes is turning away money if the donor isn't comfortable with this. Even a hackerspace may have this problem. A donor may wish to sponsor some improvements to the metal shop, but if they don't restrict the donation for the metal shop, then some delay occurs, new board is elected, etc, then suddenly those funds get lost in the shuffle and money gets spent on the wood shop instead. It does keep a non-profit honest, but unfortunately yea it comes with overhead of tracking the funds and ensuring they get routed correctly.
That seems to miss the point that they’ll have one chip family across all their devices - the cost savings to APPL will be tremendous compared to tailoring to intel/amd/iPhone_chip/ipad_chip.

So we can bemoan a missing cpu option but profitwise (ie price*volume-costs) it makes more sense.
All these products are amazing technical feats, but they all aim to do one thing: cutting the middleman

The middleman is a social necessity, not solely a technical one. Retail doesn't want the responsibility. Is that simple, so enter the middleman there to absorb risk.

A protocol can't be a middleman. A middleman should be capable of being sued and be the fall guy if something goes wrong. Mostly it should be there to give peace of mind to the customer.

A protocol can't give peace of mind to the customer given that such code can't be read by 99.99999999999% of the population.

The middleman needs to exist to give peace of mind to the customer, and as I said it can't be a protocol. So it can only be a company with a brand, spending millions in Ads to earn the trust of the consumer so that he'd feel confident to put his money in it and in turn can sleep tight at night, knowing that his money are with an institution which is somehow trustworthy.

Nobody in the crypto world ever makes a market study or a revenue projection, or even a survey among the population and users.

People go and build stuff. Projecting themselves into the retail user. The only problem is that the crypto founder is not representative of the retail user, not even one bit. The crypto founder wants the responsibility, wants to kick the the final penalty in the World Cup final or be with the ball in your hands and 2 mins to win the SuperBowl. That is not the mindset of the retail user.

"We ship the products we'd want to buy" as Steve Jobs said in a keynote...only he used it as catchphrase to get the applauses and sell Apple to the world and to Wall Street.

People in crytpo , they do it for real. You never do it for real. You end up with your butt on the ground and nothing to show for financially.
In case you're more curious about fingerprint recognition itself the basic classical approach is roughly:

First you acquire a fingerprint image from the sensor. A fingerprint is composed of small ridges and valleys. Every ridge will make physical contact with the sensing device in some way, so that allows for the system to obtain a black and white image showing depth. From there the standard features that are detected is when the ridges either end or split into two ridges (think of them as corners in other image recognition tasks).

In order to obtain the location and direction of the feature points (referred to as minutia) the system algorithms usually segment the image into fingerprint/noise, performs some signal enhancements, changes it into a skeleton (i.e. each ridge is represented by a 1px thick line), and then gets the location+angle of minutia. Matching can have a number of additional features collected, but assuming the process is as described you can find a similarity score by finding the best rotational+translational fitting from two inputs and seeing how many pairs of minutia line up. From there it's just a matter of putting a threshold on the similarity score to decide if it's a match.
They all start discreet, it's only when the company refuses to pay or respond that they go to the media.
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>the teams with huge amounts of cash win nearly every year.

That's the thing I don't get about the opposition to this. Bayern has won the Bundesleague for a decade straight. Paris St Germaine is almost as dominant. Juventus the same in Serie A. La Liga flips between Real and Barca. Why not let these teams that have outclassed their competition go play in their own league? Let them chase the money and international market while the rest of the league can maintain their traditions.
yes, and also no persons is dying for decisions making on his soccer team favorite. here is not healthcare or automobiles, where bad decision are costing lives. it is game and there is no justifying aj interfere by governments.
Spectre and Meltdown are (presumably) not malicious hardware, they're hardware bugs that enable malicious software.
Netdata can ingest prometheus metrics as well, so you can just use that format. Eventually everything will become Openmetrics/Opentelemetry
You may have found a loophole in my specification :)
I’d like to amend it to specify that an OS refers to software “that can run...”. (And this is why we do design reviews!).

In your example, a real or virtual machine’s load/setregs interface is an operating system. One that can only run a single program at a time in the case of the physical processor’s bootstrap, but you’d be surprised how similar that is to early DOS.

A more hand-waving version is “the lowest level interface over the machine that can run...”. So a processor and a ROM grid can run arbitrary programs, but the lowest common denominator entry point is the ROM flashing spec! A very slow scheduler indeed.
This so such a reductive analysis, no there is not an illusion but an acutla fact that good well run clubs can not only win titles ( I.e. Leicester City 2015) but they can also join and stay in the league and slowly come quite close to being a strong club ( check BVB in Bundesliga).

American sports system on the other hand doesn't work on fairness at all and just the illusion of competition hence has so little penetration in SE Asia ( check how many people watch American sports and football in India, Korea or Japan).

Americans have a hard time admitting they are not the best at everything just because their currency runs Supreme.
The AMD CPU wattage != Apple’s SOC including graphics card, large parts of the motherboard and memory. If you’re right where can I buy an AMD laptop with 20h battery life?
It's being labelled as "American style" here because one of the goals of the now defacto-defunct Super League is that it would have very little actual sportsmanlike competition.

All of the founding members would be immune from ejection/relegation. 15/20 slots would be permanent.

There's no point to competition if winning and losing has no real consequences. Just like american sports, which are so freakishly boring because of that. Someone one a superbowl? Someone came in last out of 38 teams in baseball? What happens now? Nothing? Got it.

American-style sports is just playing exhibition matches over and over again, without end or consequence, year after year. There's no point to it.

Turns out, real sports fans don't like that.
> 3) Orchestrate it so that someone outside of the knowledge group approves one or more of these patches

Isn't this part still experimenting on people without their consent? Why does one group of maintainers get to decide that you can experiment on another group?
> That's a pretty simplistic view of how international politics and geostrategy is played.

I see how profound is your sophisticated understanding of high art of geopolitics...

> counter to agreements made between Russia and NATO.

Do you see Russia keeping to any agreement it had with NATO now?

What I see is politicians of NATO member countries running around Putin like headless chicken, trying to decipher some "tough geopolitical riddle," while the later laughs, and keeps sending them his KGB agents.
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How does this compare, speed-wise, to the UTF-8 validation done in simdjson?
> another student knocks iPad out of hands onto floor breaking, penalty charged to steward not to knocker;

I had stuff like this happen to me in school; my family was not well off, so it was a fun prank for the kids who had money to 'accidentally' break or lose my things that I couldn't get replaced.

Remember, classism is taught early.
What's the argument for anomaly detection - it's an obvious thing to do that has been tried many times, but doesn't actually seem to provide much value in practice (especially at large scale, where you'll get spurious correlations).

What would you need it for? Once you defined your SLOs, either your service meets them or not. What's the value in alerting someone that "this graph looks funny"?
If it was up to me, I would

1) send ethics complaint to the University of Minnesota, and

2) report this to FBI cyber crime division.
It's also worth observing that a lot of IT departments aren't necessarily rushing into the M1, especially to the degree that there isn't a full range of laptops with the new architecture yet.
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Different scale? Different price point?
It's not completely an illusion. You had for example Leicester winning the league only five years ago.
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SQL isn't the only RDMS language, but it is the one with 50 years of incumbency.

Postgres before it was called 'PostgreSQL', used something called QUEL, which is quite a bit cleaner. There is also Microsoft's LINQ.

A typical programming language can express all that SQL can. In a way, an ORM is a cross-compiler from your programming language to SQL.
> you are doing a simple integer calculation and define that the negative numbers will be used as error codes to deal with side-effects

I had to come back to this because this kind of in-band signaling is how I've introduced bugs many-a-time in my old life. In FP it's so cheap to just make this function that can fail in some way return a wrapped up value that tells you what failed and how and _prevents_ you from doing math with what should be an error code (for instance).
I don't have any Python experience but Docker has been a mixed bag but mostly fine.

ARM-native images are 100% fine, and x86 images are surprisingly usable via emulation (albeit considerably slower). During the technical preview stage some x86 images simply didn't work at all (MySQL being a big one that springs to mind). However, I've just checked it in the stable release and it's working now. Not sure if there's still images that don't work under emulation though.
That's not a realistic view of what happens. When someone posts nonsense about vaccines the following can happen:

- they get some rebuttal

- they get only likes because all their friends agree

- they get only likes because their friends don't care to get in a fight on the internet

With time, option 3 leads to muting/blocking/unfriending which leads to option 2. In this case letting the conspiracy continue literally converts into potential deaths though, so it's more dangerous than your typical "5g controls your brain" people.
I didn't know this. Do you know how long that feature has been in place? I was uploading my screenshots to a completely different app for OCR until recently.

I've changed my whole process now so it's not nearly as critical a step as it once was. But I still use it in passing.
Ask HN: Is there a browser plugin to filter Wikipedia's “Weasel words”?
Is there such thing as a browser plugin to replace "Weasel words"[1] in news articles/web pages?

Even better would be something that follows the "Wikipedia Manual of Style/Words to watch"[2].

Perhaps something similar to Ghostery: replace the words with an icon to allow you to reveal the word if necessary.

I figure it might help users filter out a bit of the PR/news noise.

Thanks!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch
Since there is bound to be a sort of trust hierarchy in these commits, is it possible that bonafide name-brand university people/email addresses come with an imprimatur that has now been damaged generally?

Given the size and complexity of the Linux (/GNU) codeworld, I have to wonder if they are coming up against (or already did) the practical limits of assuring safety and quality using the current model of development.
Perhaps he's trying to communicate that most of the initial issues with various pieces of software are now fixed. Without having to explicitly call it out.