skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect – there's something interesting about this board
Although it says Software Assisted Branch Prediction, it's really talking about the indirect jumps used for method dispatch rather than conditional branches used for logic.

The only static indirect jump hints I'm aware of, and Intel uses this, is next instruction. Unless it's in the BTB, the default speculated indirect jump target is the next instruction. This means the programmer should make the most common target follow the indirect jump instruction itself. See Assembly/Compiler Coding Rule 50 in the Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Optimization Reference Manual
This is a very pessimistic long-term view, in my opinion.

Life is extremely, infinitesimally short. If it's at all possible for you, you should try to spend as much of it as you can doing things you love. I know many people can't, but it's bleak to just give up and permanently settle, I think. (Especially if you don't currently have any dependents who rely on you; it changes the equation if you do.)
Especially the typos part. In Ruby and plain JS sometimes you feel you need unit tests even for the dead simple stuff cause there might be a typo in there... and such tests are an awful chore to write and much more efficiently caught by static typing
Yes, totally this. I really wish there was some way I could contribute to the project (they don’t accept donations). Such a nice community of people too.
So I read all 3 of those articles, and it's still smoke and mirrors to me. Each of the articles falls into one of two traps.

1. Inconsequential. Ok, you built a fancy crypto system.. so what?

2. Misattribution (the IBM article). Ok, you improved a traditional finance system, why is crypto necessary for that (other than marketing purposes?)
Fair point, yes, the urn's contents are mereologically weird, neither wholly discrete nor continuous, liable to coalesce into orbs of manual or digital or social or intellectual utility which evolve in our minds and hands

Also some balls (e.g. nuclear weapons, stray asteroids) make it a lot easier to point to something immediate and mostly unambiguous
Why would anyone even use windows at this point? This has always been the default operating mode for Microsoft. If you are still signing up for it after 30 years or whatever, I can't say I have much sympathy for you.
That’s why “farmer direct” often has you doing the bulk of the pick work.
It probably goes without saying, but don’t try this at home with ketamine you score off the grey or dark web.

I am generally a fan of the occasional self-prescribed party drug, but if you suffer from severe depressive disorder, you should not do this without proper supervision.

(And no, doing a bump off someone’s mailbox key is not proper supervision. Fun! Not medically wise, though.)
We love spying on ourselves (US citizens and residents) as well through our foreign partners. We give raw data to foreign countries on Americans:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/11/nsa-americans-...
Whether or not it is fair, people should be aware that chargebacks are a nuclear option, at least in the US.

Sometimes they get hailed as a magic wand on consumer-advocate sites, but if you issue a chargeback with your bank, you should be prepared to completely sever relations with the vendor.
I can't find any definition of inheritent. What do you mean by this word?
Could you be more specific perhaps? Maybe you could take the time and explain to me the motives of using a novel base to hide the weapons research while also publishing said research because it's public and funded by grant money. Something about universities hiring evil secret agents doesn't seem plausible to me.
She is an intellectual giant whose shadow casts long over Man.

I see everyone else is pretty frumpy about her (and philosophy for that matter.) She is a relic of another age.

In that age, before globalization and instant access to common knowledge, she exposes bitter truths of her contemporary humanity (and then America). Which includes the need of some people to exploit the talent and hard work of others in the name of social “fairness”. Her counter claim, that it is not amoral to be self interested (“greedy”) sounds obvious and cringe today, though at the time socialism was popular even in America.

To understand her contribution, one must see minds for the time and recognize that (for better or worse) she enlightened Americans on how to be free thinking and value capitalism in a more personal way (rather than the old world balance of capital owner and lay-labor proletariat.)

As for her writings, consider that she wrote anthem at 18. While atlas shrugged was her largest work, fountain head is more succinct and arguably better. She challenged an entire age of America. She is the grandmother of modern capitalism. Her works included a lot of (very boring) court room dramas (fun) which really set the internal dialogue for important modern critical thinking.

She wasn’t just a writer, she was an intellectual powerhouse who spoke out in great clarity on issues at the time few were constructively addressing.
Game support is unparalleled, probably (partly) because you can use 10-20 year old design primitives and fully expect it to work on Windows for the foreseeable future (well, ARM desktop machines might be coming, so we'll see if that causes some pain in the industry).
me too, they had me at "japanese bookstore simulator"
Also from the book you’ve mentioned: gold was useful as a currency because soldiers often plundered them when raiding villages, and soldiers wanted to sell them in exchange of other things, so gold began to circulate around the regions they’ve conquered.
Do you know if Photosync can retrieve full resolution photos from Google Photos? Every other tool out there can only get the lower-res version from the Google Photos API.
skipping auctions, and having money in free parking are why most people think monopoly takes a long time to play. It's like playing musical chairs but not removing any.
These features do matter to consumers.

What consumer wouldn't want a vac that can be fixed easily by putting a new fuse in a socket? The issue is the consumer doesn't know about this possible fix. The Company Engineers this fact into the product AND into the marketing and into the warranty length. Common sense. A human is irrational and lacks knowledge, but a human made aware of his irrationality will usually choose the rational choice.

Companies are just taking advantage of a consumers lack of knowledge, awareness, and intelligence. If you were perfectly aware of two competing vacs and all the actual technical specifications of course the one with a replaceable fuse would be counted as a positive feature.

The problem is that companies that try to market the fuse as a feature will have a hard time communicating this fact to the consumer especially. Thus it is in the interest of every company to engineer shorter lifespans into their products as consumers can't see past 2 years at the point of sale.

Industrial products on the other hand are usually massed purchased and reliability is measured from an accounting perspective. This makes industrial owners more knowledgeable and able to make more rational choices as they have quantitative metrics that effect their profits during accounting time.
You are aware that if you buy headphones at a brick and mortar store, 30-40% of the price goes to [retail store] as well because they have warehouses, distributors, storefront rent, and staff salaries to pay right?
When I was hired in 1999 at a tech company, I made 55k plus options. My colleague who trained me? She made $30k.

I’m sure those salary ranges hide all sorts of nasty shit.
Apple Pay and PayPal when integrates properly can handle it all - address, billing, etc.

But most sites simply tack it on at the end as a payment option and ask for an account, address, etc beforehand.
Almost any online transaction today (in the US, at least) involves a credit card or PayPal, either of which divulges your name and maybe location to the merchant. Bitcoin doesn't.

I don't know what to make of your strawman about Google. This thread was asking about problems Bitcoin solves. Bitcoin allows payments without an intermediary automatically divulging your identity to the other party to the transaction. It doesn't also need to end the arms race of consumer privacy in tech in order to be a useful advance for privacy.
As long as it's disclosed beforehand, I don't see any problem with that. It's not like Amazon coerced the student into the contract: if they had a better funding opportunity they'd obviously have gone for it. This is the best deal they could get and Amazon was also obviously taking a risk: for every successful project, there are hundreds that don't get anywhere.
>I'm not aware of any non-government-backed fiat currency which has gained widespread use in the history of humanity.

Before the 1900s the vast majority of currencies were valued based on their precious metal content (gold or silver), not government fiat.
For people in Europe or elsewhere you can use http://ytmp3id.net to download it if it’s region blocked. You can support
> I still wonder, what happens if other countries like China, Russia spy on other governments and are disclosed? They will be embargoed by US.

Does this happen? Has China faced sanctions after spying on US citizens or stealing trade secrets? Has Russia?
In Australia, Amazon still offers strict shipping speed guarantees. For Prime members, next day delivery is free, including Saturday and Sunday delivery.

If you order before 3pm, same day delivery is available for $9.
Not like I care either way, I don't think it's comparable to fanfictions.

Fanfictions are legal, this one, not so much. At the very least, the redistribution the game part surely isn't.
reminds me of the dodgily-translated Pokemon Gameboy roms from circa turn of the millennium
There's also https://capture-app.com/
Spying happens all the time without embargo's happening.
Maybe. I'd assume that the encryption used will improve over time, and there will at least be a lag time between a transaction's creation and the day it is cracked, hopefully many years long. This is pretty much the assumption we make about our web browsing over https (albeit the preservation of those encrypted sessions isn't quite so explicit and overt).
Wait, we have an embargo against China?
Uber Support on Twitter:

"Thanks for bringing this to our attention,
@TheSofaaa
. We believe this is due to a technical bug, which we are actively investigating. We apologize to you and any other drivers who may be impacted, all of whom will be fully refunded."

It's kind of sad that these days the only way to get real support is to make noise on Twitter. And probably 95% of the time posts don't get that initial snowball to make noise.
People who play the complex games grow into them over time. Most people learn and enjoy checkers before they learn to appreciate and play chess.

The people who successfully learn to play and enjoy a game like Twilight Struggle or Die Macher or Terra Mystica are likely well-versed in the jargon of board games and well-practiced in several types of game mechanics. So over time, the die-hards will tend to play more and more complicated games, as they’re readily able to understand and use these mechanics. So yes, games are getting more and more complex.

However, what is inarguable is that board games have on the whole improved dramatically over the past decade. IMO a ‘modern classic’ like Catan is outdated, imbalanced, long, random, and frustrating compared to the current crop of ‘gateway games’ that are on the market. Games today are shorter, more engaging, more elegant in their designs, and higher quality than what one might have seen in a US department store in 2010, which were basically the same random and frustrating games of the past like Monopoly, Life, Risk. Furthermore, old games that were utterly utterly brilliant and fun (Cosmic Encounter) get continued rereleases and updates.

Anyway, it’s just a fun way to stay social.
Remember the golden rule: He who has the gold makes the rules.
Hiding in Plain Sight? The Argument for Invisible Aliens
You just assume that every electronic communication is dragneted now. Your phone, your car radio's bluetooth radio, toll transponder, alpr, everything.

What I like about the signals-intelligence-only focus is that I can leave my phone at home, hop on an ebike with a legally mandated helmet obscuring my face from cameras, and I'm completely invisible to the state. I just don't exist. Unlike East Germany there's no HUMINT apparatus in the west or in China.
Assuming that TLS will not be broken in transit is a common and reasonable assumption. The easiest way to break TLS is at the endpoints.

Implementation errors in your code, cert mis-issuance, errors in the underlying TLS implementation (certificate parsing and validation errors are quite common) and device compromise are all things to think about.

It might be useful to think about what is your responsibility versus the device vendor's responsibility versus the user's responsibility.
And that's probably not even commercial grade, more like pro-sumer.
The lawsuit fails to allege that Amazon is resulting in higher prices to consumers. It simply alleges that Amazon is essentially coercing all retailers to list prices with shipping included/amortized, and offer free shipping.

That is something that might be substantially harder to successfully sue under US antitrust law.

Consumers aren't paying any more. Consumers are just seeing a number with shipping prices built in.
I think you've demonstrated far more familiarity with the subject matter than me (and my own understanding is admittedly pretty basic), and just wanted to say I really appreciate your thoughtful response. You're right that those quotes don't really fit for what you were asking for evidence of.

I also agree that the absence of such a refutation is a pretty solid argument that your position is simply a fact and not an opinion as I argued.

Cheers friend!
Maybe it’s available via clinical trials?
I love being able to search random things like "Honda" or "waffles" to find pictures from years ago in a few seconds. I use it often now that I can do it
I think that battle is happening now. This is a good time to push for the kind of digital currencies we want, and against the ones we don't.
Do Aliens Exist? Scientists Wonder If Extraterrestrial Life Has Visited Earth
The fact that you focus on the market (and seeking a perfect calibration within the current capitalist system), and not on the original parasitic nature of absentee ownership and the bourgeois hoarding of capital (in this case housing stocks), already quickly shows me that you might not be very in touch with your fellow human beings and that you don't understand the real (and diverse) systemic oppression many people face (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWSVG9nsRa4 [use http://downloadlagu321.net to download if not in US], and also in the global south: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mleQVO1Vd1I) or http://ytmp3id.net
I like the NYT for the occasional article. I subscribed for something that interested me, and then I had to chat with a support representative during the NYTs business hours to actually cancel.

Now I just don't read articles from the NYT.
AI and Healthcare: Breaking the tunnel vision
Listen Europe, this is good spying though. Not Huawei 5G spying.

Just like American torture is good torture, because we only torture the bad guys.
"Tech culture has a nice tradition of not deriding new ideas, but we need to break it here and speak out"

No we don't need to break it here (even though it's a pastime of the author, who has already done it to two tech ideas in that Twitter thread).

Build something that improves upon the ideas and solves the problems in a better way instead.
The vast majority of no-name brands on Amazon I've purchased from (with good reviews) also turned out to be great.

I'm absolutely in love with a A$70 pair of wireless bluetooth headphones, that are more comfortable, have longer battery life, and sound just as good as my A$300 Bose QCs.

It's so good I've started giving them as gifts.
Yeah. For a while now. [1][2]

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/admin...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/biden-to-an...
"the tech world" is huge and not some homogenous mix of singular though. It's as varied as society itself, if only a tiny bit more egotistical about its (self) importance.
What should we talk about?

Tokens are merely chips in the global network of online casinos.

Ethereum is an amateur crap, technically like early PHP webshit. Btc is better but it in principle cannot scale, so it will remain a mere technological curiosity.

Cardano is a corporation-like swamp, but yes, it has been affiliated with the best minds in PL world, at least on paper.

Everything else is either scams, "swaps" or memes. What should we speak about?
> if we did that

Some "we" and/or some "they". Russia seems to be intent and making advances toward closing the fuel cycle, in efforts IMHO severely underreported on HN. (It might be better that way. I have seen reticence to stir up jealousy or something in the Anglosphere. Let them [ignorantly] go about their business.)
1. Real estate prices in high traffic metros like Los Angeles and Houston will increase further because the return to clear skies from smoggy days and fresh air will be a bonus.
Do you own real estate there or something? Are you aware that many people are homeless? Why is an increase in property values a good thing when it has never been more difficult and more expensive to buy a house than ever before? This increase is in large part due to the disgusting financialization of the housing market.

A documentary called ‘Push’ (2019) does a great job at laying out all the facts, while at the same time showing the impacts of these changes on working class people the world over: https://youtube.com/watch?v=qWSVG9nsRa4

For people in Europe or elsewhere you can use http://downloadlagu321.net and http://ytmp3id.net to download it if it’s region blocked. You can support the filmmakers and rent it too: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/pushthefilm
It's still hard to get FDs for crypto because there's distributed credit.
Technically your git repo is a blockchain. Those are pretty useful.

I hear that darknet markets tend to use cryptocoins. Which while probably mostly illegal, isn't a Ponzi scheme and isn't (necessarily, depending on what's being sold) fraud.
To be more explicit: as a buyer, especially in a tight market, the seller’s agent will often do things or reveal information to the buyers benefit (against the interests of the seller they are supposed to represent).

There are “rules” to how the game is played, and how the information is revealed, and a lot of it seems hidden (in fact I have seen agents that don’t understand the perverse incentives!). A seller’s agent will usually need to make sure they have deniability, and they will prefer options where the vendor remains happy (so the vendor will use them again, and recommend the agent to other sellers).

I have only a very little experience, and none in the USA, but that was what I noticed in my own country.

It surprises me how little effort people put into understanding the game, given that playing it well can easily make the same difference as many years of income.
>So, the end result of having a soldered fuse was exactly the same as a socketed one: it was successfully repaired. I don’t see the justification for the extra BOM item.

You joking? You realize houses and cars have socketed fuses that can be replaced almost turnkey. This is a simple solution to build into the product a UI that let's the user know a socket was blown and allow the user to replace a fuse like replacing a AA battery. FUSES are designed to fail and be replaced. Making those FUSES inaccessible is ALSO a design choice because it's contradictory.

There was a point in time where every phone had a replaceable battery. You think that replaceable batteries disappeared because companies wanted to save costs? Sockets for batteries have been part of the design philosophy for consumer products for decades, the fact that these sockets are removed from phones is not a cost saving measure.

This issue is much more widespread than you think:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrDEtSlqJC4
In Mexico, cartels are hunting down police at their homes
All sorts of security features in the browser only work on newer operating systems:

Hardware-enforced Stack Protection: https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-chrome-this-new-feature...

Significant improvements to ASLR starting in Windows 8: https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2013/12/11/software-defense-...

And many more things. New Windows releases aren't just coats of paint.
Prices on Amazon are adjusted REALLY fast. I always add a few things to my cart so I can see if the price drops, and there's always some change in at least a few items.

Also, as you mention, if some items are sent from the US, they might not be sold by Amazon, so they'll show you the cheapest option, but as it becomes available or not in different sellers, the price will differ.

You can try to open a product at the same time on a logged/not logged account and see if there's a difference. But you need to do that at the same time.
A similar margin/profit disconnect exists in those wanting to start a restaurant or bar. It’s cutthroat out there.
I moved on to linux and use windows 10 sparinngly on a different image to watch netflix. I removed all the features, registry hive, autoupdates and all that, disabled Cortana, Im pretty sure I castrated the thing. And as soon as Im done with whatever I need it for I shut it down. Works out quite well like this. When I think of people who just accept all that from MS I feel a bit sorry for them but since they don’t seem to mind why would I?

I regret having wasted so many years on windows. All knowledge gained on Linux compounds quite well. On windows, forget about it. All the proprietary convoluted obfuscated software is not dev friendly at all unless you embrace working for corps for the rest of your life
Surprisingly, when I tried Edge this feature was really useful. Of course it would be better if they asked me which search engine should pop up. But given Edge is too far from dominant market position, I don't see what legal recourse one could suggest to force the choice unless you entirely ban cross-promotion and product bundling.
> “The Kargu-2 is fitted with an explosive charge and the drone can be directed at a target in a kamikaze attack, detonating on impact.”

> The drones were operating in a “highly effective” autonomous mode that required no human controller

I think "fully autonomously" is a bit of a stretch for this particular story. I'm falling to see the difference between that and a heat tracking device or a laser guided missile except for the sophistication of the target seeking system. In this case a human designated a target and pulled the trigger, as opposed to an autonomous decision to attack humans.

But that it is clear that we are at only an inch of having drones creating no mans lands on demand.
Nope. If you've ever taken an uber/lyft ride before you will know that the driver has to tap the end button in order for the final bill to show up on your phone app.

Auto-ending rides doesn't even make sense. If the final destination pin happens to be in the middle of a highway off ramp (due to a map error) would you want the app to "autoend" the ride on the offramp (and kick the passenger out on the shoulder), or let the driver do the sensible thing, get off the ramp and pull over to a safer location to let the person off?

This case happens especially often at airports, where the passenger drop off area can literally be represented on the maps as "side of the highway" but in fact, there are traffic loops that the driver needs to navigate in order to comply with traffic rules and routing at airports.
Not sure why downvoted, but to each their own I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯