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At least max multiplier limit is definitely switchable in microcode. In 2013 Intel released microcode update changing multiplier limit when the CPU is on h81/b85/h87 boards. In 2015 they even somehow convinced Microsoft to push this microcode globally in an update.

https://bit-tech.net/news/tech/cpus/intel-overclocking-block...

Before microcode - full overclock, after microcode update - locked multipliers.
I hesitate to provide medical advice here. But if you are 30 and you have a glaucoma diagnosis, you should really be followed by a glaucoma specialist (vs a comprehensive ophthalmologist or an optometrist.)
Hey there. I had typed up a longer response to this earlier when my screen suddenly went blank on what I assume is a very buggy corporate laptop. Here's a lesser response typed over touch screen.

It's not like I train anyone to type with Dvorak or anything, so all my advice is really just personal anecdotes...

At work I deal with RDP connections and various types of virtual machines. The keyboard layout settings don't persist across these various interfaces/consoles, so I have to switch between Dvorak and QWERTY very frequently, sometimes switching between both in just a minute or less. It takes me just one second to warm up to either. I attained this 3 years after learning Dvorak. I can this say without a doubt that switching can become second nature, just like QWERTY<->QWERTZ.

In the beginning, a hardware Dvorak keyboard with blank keycaps makes a critical difference. It was painful to use for the first month, but sticking with it got me to where I am.

I used GNU Typist to learn Dvorak. It was simple to pick up in just one week. The hard part is developing the muscle memory so that you don't need to think about typing before actually typing. Once you get over that hurdle, your performance will get better and better.

Last point to make is that when most of us first began typing, it was hunting and pecking on QWERTY. Some of those early habits stick with us and we never realize it. Learning to touch type any other radically different keyboard layout, Dvorak or other non-QWERTY alternatives, requires intentional focus. If you excercise that focus properly, you will probably be better at typing whatever you've learned better than you typed any QWERTY variants. Not just because of a presumed inheritent advantage over QWERTY, but something to do with how when we get older, we learn how to learn better.
The DoJ press release doesn't make this clear: what happens to the money now?

Is it returned to the company, or does the DoJ keep it as an asset forfeiture?
Maybe, maybe not. ("Surely" using the browser's CSS animations would be more efficient than reimplementing them yourself in JavaScript - but if actually you benchmark it, the opposite is true). If you're not actually testing it, how could you possibly know?
> Half the time I find myself having to do ridiculous search contortions to get somewhat useful results - appending site: .edu or .gov

A great opportunity for students and public servants to sell premium URLs.
Rental homes in the suburbs is a fantastic idea. I loved living in an apartment building where the manager took care of all the landscape upkeep, plumbing, electrical, and all other repairs. That allowed me to freely focus all my time on my business and my hobby rock climbing.
It's very doable to add without it and my experience is I've often worked with models trained online where the data has a retention of a few months so any old enough model will have been trained on data points that don't exist anymore. Large tech companies tend to not keep all data for a mix of storage cost, lower value for some domains (for recommendations freshness is quite useful), and various privacy concerns. Privacy alone means you should have ways to delete data entirely for many problems. If you train with user data and the user requests to delete all info on them through gdpr that includes your training data. I can't remember the amount of time gdpr allows for deletion (I think 30 days or maybe 60), but if you keep a lot of your data with a lower retention than that by default that makes deletion a lot easier.

There is other data that has naturally very long retentions (sales orders) where even with deletion requests some aspects should be kept just for financial compliance.
Annouced today at WWDC, Web-based Facetime is not supported on Mozilla Firefox
There are ways to hornswoggle a trained machine learning model into generating new outputs that "kinda sorta" look like bits and pieces of an input that was used for training. It's tricky, and not always reliable, but it would be a reasonable thing to attempt.

This is why you shouldn't use sensitive material as training data. If you're a startup and you're using all of your customers' private data to train a single model that then gets used by all of your customers -- guess what, you're doing it wrong!

It's the same reason you wouldn't teach your five year old how to read by letting them pour over you and your spouse's text message history. I mean, you could, but then you shouldn't be surprised when they inadvertently utter something embarrassing that they don't necessarily understand, but whose origin is obvious to everyone else at the party.
I’m sure it does - the technical aspects of Google’s products are fantastic. But I’ve been burned enough times now and I just assume anything interesting and new that Google makes will be rebranded / deleted / shunted into a new department in a few years for no reason. Google duo? What about Allo? Is that gchat? Is it related to hangouts? Or was that just a Google plus thing? Does that even still exist? Is duo it related to Meet? It’s all such a mess.

When Inbox came out I thought “huh this is great. I’d better not get used to it or I’ll be sad when it inevitably gets shut down in a few years”. And sure enough. I dread the family conversations in a few years of “wait where did the icon go?”
Maybe a code snippet on the readme? Just to see what 'feels' like
>> The soldiers on the front lines spent years being trained to obey orders first, ask questions later.

I think you have the wrong impression of the army. Decentralized command is one of the central tenants of American military doctrine. Trying to route everything through layers of leadership leads to an incompetent fighting unit. Unfortunately, this stereotype is hard to shake.

As a result the soldier must understand the broader objective and actively question the tactics used to achieve it. If the ground situation deviates from the plan, waiting for orders will get you killed.

I would argue software development is surprisingly similar. The difference between a decent developer and a great developer is the latter understand how their work fits into the larger picture. As a result they're able to quickly and effectively pivot to suit the dynamic needs of the business.
> California, a state of 40 million people, would disagree with you ;)

How explode-y is this battery? I hear California also has this problem with forest fires and it seems a fire and giant batteries all over the place would be two flavors that do not go well with each other.
I wouldn't call that rational. There is no reason you can't apply human weighting on top of ML.

Honestly, I don't believe for a minute they "can't fix it." They do this sort of thing all the time, for instance when ML shows dark skinned people for a search for gorilla, they obviously have recourse.
The entire reason Google is the most successful search engine is that people don't use search engines that behave this way.
Completely agree but it could be perceived as a show of strength.
During keynote they said still end-to-end encrypted on web
What's your take on Vivaldi vs Brave (or any other alternatives not made by China)?
There's a critical piece missing to the above comment: who can predict the returns in the future from investments? The investing market is massively inflated currently, what if it crashes? Remember the person giving you a loan is making money on it as an investment of their own. They have all the same options you do (and often way more knowledge of investments), but they do this anyways.

I would recommend avoiding an auto loan if you can.
My impression is that the ML algorithms at Google have the goal of increasing profitability from search. If that is the case, the quality of search will tend to be secondary to displaying pages that bring more revenue.
He deletes tweets that don’t fit his narrative (that he’s a genius building a product nobody else is capable of building) on the regular, so don’t be surprised if those tweets magically never existed by morning
Ah, neat, but I seem to remember catting it to an actual device node, not to an executable.
Craig’s enthusiasm in the keynote is contagious. Makes me really excited for the changes this year!
Don't search for "best". That's specifically requesting spam.
"Request manual review of search results" button?
Would it really be that foolish though? Could it not be perceived as a show of strength? That's why America stole them back in the first place right? $4m isn't a lot to the company hacked or to the USA. Why go to the trouble of stealing them back at all?
Blatantly false that Google has "no recourse", Google can put on penalty and bring domains down.
"The first time as tragedy, the second time as farce" -Karl Marx

Just to keep the quote chain going. Seems relevant to me at least...
I see. I’m more familiar with OpenBSD which I don’t think has such a restriction. (Though I could be wrong).
See also Anne Lamott's theory of Shitty First Drafts.
That's a years old scam, but occasionally a new site pops through Google's filters.
JetBrains also has GoLand.
>You're not going to be able to fit an ICE into my iphone.

Someone please send this comment to Colin Furze.
To add some more info: I don’t want/need a file system, and I don’t care about building a web app -- rendering HTML, hosting the code in the cloud, etc., etc. -- I just want a simple console repl (what repl.it started as.)
Dvorak all the way. to eternity.. :-P
Here's to hoping for an M1 boot loader exploit so we can straight up run macOS on the iPad.
It's been difficult, yes. Especially when managers expect you to put in more hours and say it directly or indirectly. And being in a country where expectation of a healthy work-life balance is often made to look like you are slacker is sad.

Shitty work life balance in the software field is one of the reasons I lack passion in the field. People say "try US/EU companies". That's bollocks. Those companies actually propagate it. They have these offshore centres so that they will get cheap talent and they can expect them work their own time zone hours and then match US TZ if nothing then daily for a nightly "sync".

Anyway, I have tried finding a career counsellor and have failed so far. I guess I will keep trying to find it out.
>And I like Hugo because of that “it’s just a binary” bit. There’s no dependency hell.

I had that issue with Jekyll, I just couldn't get the set up to work on my system (to be fair, I gave up easily instead of asking for help).

When I came across Zola (https://github.com/getzola/zola), I was immediately drawn by the single binary aspect.
Australian police arrest over 200 after cracking underworld messaging app
I don’t think Google is the cesspool, I think Google is a search engine for an internet that is the cesspool.

We’re moving to the vision of information services that were pioneered by AOL, Prodigy, etc. Honestly, we’re there already.
I guess I'm more interested in him growing as a person. I do understand where you are coming from.
Hi!

I think WP is a great company. I also agree that their vision check UX leaves a lot to be desired -- I ran through it myself a few times, and each time it caused intense frustration. There's something about needing to manipulate laptop and phone and having 14-20 ft of space that is just... impossible lol.

Anyway, our service is similar to WP's app in that we check vision for the purpose of determining if a prescription renewal is appropriate. But that's pretty much it. For us, this is only the tip of the iceberg. Fun times ahead!
Almost certainly what's not secure is the endpoint, wherever the keys were stored. That shouldn't really be news. The endpoints are always the weakest links in an encrypted channel.
Sometimes i feel like an asshole because i want other people not to know how to code so i have less competition
> you already said "yes"

if you were only paid a few dollars, why would you say yes to it? I'm not suggesting that you accept any "donation" amount and agreeing to a blank cheque for features.

I'm saying you ask for some 20-30k per feature request that takes approx. 1 month of work. And if the requesters of such feature can't pay this, then cannot afford to request (basically i'm using a contractor rate above, but you substitute the level of pay you intend to make).
If you think about it, these are the "money searches". It's crazy they didn't try harder to solve people's needs instead of regurgitating that careless spam.
Dear application developer, unless you have market power or a real justification for charging a monthly fee, please do not price as a subscription.

You will lose a lot of potential customers, which can kill your product especially if you're a very small entity.
Gen X, Gen X, and the Silent Generation?
I'm not quite so sure about that. The prices have remained relatively stable, but the capacities have gone up. I think on a per Wh basis they may have actually gotten cheaper still. That means that you've gotten more battery life and/or more useful power in the devices that are using the batteries.
I picked Pelican for similar reasons. All my prior experiences eventually led me to wanting to change some aspect of the blog software, but they were always in languages I didn't know. So I picked Pelican.

In the years since, I write code to get my desired output via Pelican probably once every few years, but it's totally been worth it to have that option. I really got sick of "Let's search to see if someone's written a plugin that does exactly what I need." And then to have the plugin broken with an upgrade.
> As of right now, TSMC is the same as a tripwire force

No it isn't. China can occupy Taiwan without killing thousands of US soldiers. That matters, politically.

> If it stops being a critical national security issue for us? I don't really care. Like, I'm for self-determination and all that but I don't care more about Taiwan than I do about Yemen

It's not about Taiwan, it's about China. If they successfully annex Taiwan they'll eat the rest of the world too, one bite at a time, and drawing the line in the sand will get harder and harder.
such a great tool. It's not a serious security product unless you support PGP.
You mean besides spending far more on people and computers than any other company, perhaps combined?
I think the same problems manifest in math, but to a different degree and in a different way. We do have some expectation of universal mathematics literacy, or at least math is a required subject in most schools around the world.

But I don't think that math education is generally very successful at teaching people math, as described in Lockhart's Lament: https://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/devlin/Lockharts...

My suspicion is that a big part of the issue is the way math is presented early on is really tedious and boring to a lot of people, in a way that could be addressed by theorem provers. I think something like the Xena Project https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/what-is-the-xena-project/ is potentially an interesting development in that regard (though more for undergraduate math than grade school math).

I also don't think this is anyone's "fault" really. I'm more interested in figuring out what might make things better than assigning blame. Nor do I think I personally can fix it single-handedly with a new programming language. If Yatima can move the ball forward a little bit by eventually contributing to a few people learning and falling in love with programming and math, that's more than enough for me.
I sort of wonder if they are going in the opposite direction. iOS on Mac seems like where they headed.
From what I can tell, the CEO has a sore spot for copycats to the point of irrationality. Why I don’t know but he really really hates them in a deep way.
Activist Investor Wants Heads to Roll After $6.2B Cyberpunk Fiasco
Ask HN: Do I need content moderation on day 1 for a Reddit type site?
What's your experience with illegal content on a link sharing site you've made? In your experience is it something to worry about hiring someone for before 100, 1000, 10000 users?
Just had a simple idea I wanted to throw together, but realized this may be an issue even with a hobby site.
Apparently the take was sliced 85/15 affiliate to developer.
If it was deliberate it’s much more likely that this was an employee behaving outside their remit than it being a company policy. “Human error” can be used euphemistically like this when you aren’t prepared to throw a junior employee to the wolves.
The App Store wasn’t a thing at first though. That was about a year after the release.
Prefer resources that have some governance and aren’t entirely crowdsourced. For example if I’m looking for web tech answers my first search is ‘[whatever topic] mdn’.
The article explains this.
Ah okay. Weird design choice since it doesn't seem to be authenticating anything, but glad that you thought about it!
Agree, though I think it'll be shipping well before Christmas (though not in July, as some have speculated... if it were gonna be ready in July, they would have announced it).

I expect the new MBP will have the M2, which should be available in quantity soon. Besides the (presumed) hardware improvements, the M2 will be a marketing-friendly way of differentiating the MBP from the MB and MBA, and persuading people to pay a premium for it.
The article seems to suggest that they did, but lacking sufficiently powerful simulations couldn't make progress on the idea.
I've not had an issue with this, but I use a pretty beefy workstation with a server Xeon.
if silence is violence, is that a serious accusation?
Google collects immense of data about people's actual visits.
Backlinks used to be a proxy for how authoritative things were
You don't need the proxy when you have the record of where people actually visit.
That a one-eighth Jewish man was allowed to stay in the Party due to a personal dispensation from the Führer, against Himmler's strenuous objections, does not make the point you seem to be aiming at.
Nightmare scenario
The comparison to Unix stumbles because the behaviour of named pipes, Unix-domain sockets, and device special files, in a regular filesystem, is not based on their filename, but on the arguments to mknod(2) at their creation.
Wealthsimple Raises Money at $4B Value; Drake Buys In
yeah we were talking about repl.it earlier today at work and wanting to increase our usage of it and this is really souring me
How long did you try it for and how much did you experiment with screen size, placement, and count?

I won't pretend it's for everyone, but it did take some time for me to get used to. I didn't have the option of buying multiple good monitors at the time, so I was forced to adapt, but now I prefer it.
I'm hoping Apple enables dual booting officially. I don't see any reason other than "We want to price segment iPad Pros and Macbooks"
I like the simplicity of the pyramid but.. Why is the Senior PM not talking to customers?
I screwed around with trying to chroot into a macOS arm image on a jailbroken iPad a month ago, but got stuck because the executables were compiled for arm64e, not arm64 (and the arch command for whatever reason was present in iPadOS but didn’t do anything). Suppose even if I had been able to get past that, maybe not a whole lot farther. I’d think that a lot of the environment differences would be taken away if you chrooted into a macOS file system rather than trying to replace iOS piece by piece, is there a reason why I’m off base?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otwkXZ0SmTs
Thanks for sharing, interesting that you liked the sections/pages structure because it was something I was fumbling with initially (but did eventually settle into a groove).

I will say there is currently a lot of momentum behind other projects when it comes to the "out of box" themes that are available. I'd like to see more community maintained themes.

I made my templates and CSS (SASS) from scratch. I would have released them if they weren't so bespoke. I'd like to see some that make use of well-known CSS frameworks (eg. Bulma or Tailwind).
If you start getting a little esoteric in your searches you’ll get tons of results that are clearly crawled from personal blogs, and hosted on personal-blog-looking domains that redirect to godawful garbage. Especially bad on mobile because Google truncates the URLs.
TBH The Affinity Triad (Photo, Designer, Publisher) is more popular than Pixelmator, more featured, does windows & mac and has a community. It's also a pay-once set of apps and is made by a medium size software company in the UK called Serif. https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/
That's false. Both Epic and Cerner, the largest EMR companies, have databases of millions and millions of patients. They're used for research, and stuff.
I wonder how much of the rest of the article will be drowned out by the conclusion:

> It's not only personal freedom at stake. It's national security. The reckless deployment of Huawei 5G infrastructure across Europe has created easy opportunities for Chinese SIGINT. End-to-end encryption products are essential for European national security, to counter a hostile SIGINT environment controlled by China. We must push back hard in policy space to preserve the right to end-to-end encryption.
I think generally speaking, someone in possession of stolen property isn't entitled to keep that property even if they had nothing to do with the theft and had no reason to believe it was stolen. That prevents them from being guilty of a crime - but authorities can still come seize the property without compensating them at all for their loss.

In a way it's similar to getting stuck with counterfeit money. You didn't do anything wrong, but no one is going to just hand you the replacement real money you "deserve" - you just got unlucky.
> But for tiny programs that run on your workstation, using 1.3% CPU doesn't cost more than 1% CPU.

Especially considering that text editor state changes are dependent on user interaction—it’s not like a video games where the state changes continuously.
In my past life as a landlord, I bought a few townhome units in various Texas suburbs. I think it was profitable because it's hard to screw up buying any asset in the early 2010s.

The thing I didn't like about being a landlord was the mental overhead. Yes it was almost completely turnkey and passive, as I had a property manager, but there were these large rent checks coming in and almost as large mortgage payments going out. I wish I just bought equities and stuff, really.

Though I do think big long mortgages at low interest rates are great, especially if inflation is projected this decade.

If I were to buy a house again, it would probably be a rural thing rented out on Airbnb. And keep my debt to income ratio low.
Lol how kind of him to give his permission...
They never claimed their privacy was being invaded. They simply asked (allegedly? I haven't seen any actual request from them but lets just assume there is one) not to be linked to from HN.

They aren't manipulating anyone... they're just making it known they'd prefer not to be linked to from another platform.

Is this a reasonable expectation? I'm not sure -- my gut says probably not. Is it a reasonable request? IMO yes.

Contrived scenario for expository purposes: lets say I'm an expert in pre-civil war era southern cuisine. If I find out that people on stormfront are linking to and discussing my posts for their own agenda, do I have a right to make them stop? Of course not. Is it reasonable for me to say "I'd prefer if your platform didn't link to my blog"? Of course it is.