skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope, just like the Xerox PARC environments, for Niklaus Wirth the programming language and OS overlap, hence why it is kind of tricky to disassociate them.

By the way, Cedar was the inspiration for Oberon.

"Eric Bier Demonstrates Cedar"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_dt7NG38V4
Yes, indeed. That said put in another way, they're just a bank and Facebook at the same time, which is indeed scary. Not that it would be very different if they were different services for spying purposes, the government can always centralize the data.
I looked at heat pump water heaters several years ago. They are massively expensive, have a little more risk of failure (potential for expensive repairs), and in many cases would only work for half of the year (basements are a common location and get relatively cold in the winter). I like the idea, the the ROI just wasn't there given the low cost of electricity, which green energy will continue to drive down.

I don't like the idea of the grid or cloud controlling appliances in my home. If I could program the run options myself based on the power company's recommendation (like a programmable therostat), that would be better in my opinion.
Very cool, more control lost.
Yes, but it is confusing because the system language of Oberon the OS is Oberon the language.
There’s a bit of a difference between not getting candy, and not having any friends. You’re doing your kid no favours if you think that’s a plus.
>The point is that any in flight checks would cause a problem for the banks, which discourages traditional banks from adopting "innovative" ideas like freezing accounts en masse based on machine learning snake oil.

Is this what's happening here? The way I read the story it sounded like they froze the account and then the customer only noticed because her card was declined, rather than her account being frozen because she tried to use it. Even if the banks couldn't do "in flight checks" (because people use checks rather than debit cards), it doesn't prevent them from using "machine learning snake oil" to randomly close accounts.
Why is this post flagged? I don't see if violating HN guidelines.
Skill might be going to far, but we do at least know that the NYT A/B tests headlines.
I think you are being overly kind to them, which you would think their postions would afford them. However, I live in the real world and believe that they are not doing what you are suggesting. I'm personally more inclined to believe they are scrolling social media. They are humans, and we have all become accustomed to pulling out that device the split second we become bored. If the person speaking is in the opposition party, then you're also probably doing it as a bit of show to say you don't care anything about their ideas. We all do this without thinking about it, but I wouldn't put it past this being done on purpose.

Maybe I'm too pessimistic, but I no longer think politicians deserve the benefit of the doubt and one should always be wondering what the ulterior motives of any of their actions are.
Yeah that's 4G in NL and in the rest of the EU
China: WeChat takes down accounts of LGBTQ rights groups
Apple TV – what is it and who It’s For?
And you pay all that and then the page is covered with a giant modal dialog trying to force you to use the mobile app instead of your web browser.
I was considering teenagers “kids”.

Surely parents can just use their own debit card when the kid needs something that can’t be bought with cash? Special debit cards for kids seem to add unnecessary complexity (and opportunity for abuse) to the solution for a really simple problem.
You could make something in a few days but probably nothing that you would be proud to show the world. I wouldn't be surprised if OP spends a few days just playing with colors and fonts to find something that looks great.
If I recall correctly, these are not suitable for residential use, right?
At the beginning of the pandemic in the UK, the government was perpetuating misinformation about masks, recommending that people not wear them, even as East Asian countries had made them mandatory.[1][2][3][4] The same misinformation was also spread by US authorities, hoping this would alleviate the mask shortage for healthcare workers.[5][6] Some even admitted this later.[7]

1. "Coronavirus: 'We do not recommend face masks for general wearing'". https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-52153145

2. "Timeline: The UK's arguments against face masks for all". https://newseu.cgtn.com/news/2020-06-06/Timeline-The-UK-s-ar...

3. "Coronavirus: Chief medical officer tells public not to wear masks". https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/coronavirus-...

4. "Why is the Government so adamant that face masks don't work?". https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/04/15/government-adama...

5. "Why Telling People They Don't Need Masks Backfired". https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/opinion/coronavirus-face-...

6. "The Face Mask Debate Reveals a Scientific Double Standard". https://www.wired.com/story/the-face-mask-debate-reveals-a-s...

7. "Fauci Confirms Public-Health Experts Downplayed Efficacy of Masks to Ensure They Would Be Available to Health-care Workers". https://news.yahoo.com/fauci-confirms-public-health-experts-...
I agree that it's very overhyped. If I had a magical button to change the upvotes, I'd put it in the 50-100 range.
It's an interesting research result, but my guess is that it's much more difficult to apply in production than what the PR pretends. https://xkcd.com/1217/

But instead of complaining it's much better to upvote the technical comments that explain the problems. For example, the one about the flow rate that is very small. (I was not so worry about the cost of the catalyzers, but after seeing the flow rate, the cost of catalyzer/liter/year looks high.)

There are other about what an 10^8 improvement means, and I'd like to see one about how useful is 10^8 if any small hole downstream or bad handling will introduce many more bacteria. (It's like a sunscreen with a FPS of 10^8. It's nice, you can stay for eons under the sun, but forgetting it once per year will reduce the effective number to 10^4.)
For a kid? Such as?
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But they claim:

> Because these numbers are based on the least expensive plan, they are best case scenarios.

Which is... a weird statement. Best case scenario for what? The cheapest plan is the best case if you wanted to access the site once per billing period. But then price per visit is the cost of plan? I don't know what they're trying to say here.
That would require that they consider that any place outside of SF was worth living in.
"I think they are brought to me by legal owners who no longer need them"
So you're saying the onus is on the buyer? Is it a special case for commercial outfits, or could it effect eBay buyers?
Unlike Node, Deno has fetch and a web API based HTTP server built in.
People gather even if the car is on and the AC is clearly on full blast and the blinkers are on clearly indicating that the adult has just left in the last few minutes.

My wife was screamed at by someone who thought there was zero risk involved in bringing the little ones through an incredibly busy parking lot where everyone drives SUVs and oversized trucks. It’s as if they couldn’t imagine a situation where the parents have already done the risk analysis and determined it is far less safe walking a pack of kids through the jungle of death machines.
The tunnel is actually still on, and should be completed by the end of the year.
As a resident of SF, one thing that resonated with me - SF is a gold rush town, not a whole lot different than 1849. People come to SF hoping to strike it rich or just be a little weird and left alone, and with that comes a certain mentality. The city is rough, a little lawless and that still true today. People like the “roughness”.

That’s not saying it hasn’t gotten worse in the last year or two. But it’s never been shiny and clean.
It is kind of hard to implement a mikrokernel without any kind of drivers on the kernel.

So, then it becomes a balancing act how many are allowed the priviledge to be part of the main act.
So you can be declared the author of a work if you sue someone for copyright infringement and they don't respond?
This does not match my experience. I've found they have beginner, intermediate, or advanced truffles, presumably types with different natural dosages of psilocybin in the different types of Truffles. I've only taken the beginner ones and had a good time.
Although it is certainly possible to separate the two. For example, the Oxford Oberon Compiler for UNIX and Windows, which is just a compiler for the Oberon language (basically an object-oriented Pascal) rather than the OS/environment

http://spivey.oriel.ox.ac.uk/corner/Oxford_Oberon-2_compiler
Unfortunately, if I'm not wrong, they don't have that plan anymore. Best they can do now is 100GB/€11.99 for new sims or 100GB/€7.99 with number portability, 4G LTE connectivity.

Not a great deal if you ask me. For example Iliad is offering 120GB/€9.99.
Not discussed in this article: 1-many, 1-1 and many-many relationships. Also: Fan traps and chasm traps. These issues are important to understand, to avoid serious mistakes.
> Surely parents can just use their own debit card when the kid needs something that can’t be bought with cash?

What if the child's gone to the store on their own?
Can someone actually translate this into a simple formula? What polynomial approximation were they using?
No. You never want poor insulation. Poor insulation means that the indoor temperature will always match outdoor temperature. There's not such thing as "natural cooling", only thermodynamics.
If you drop support for MSIE 11 and only support modern browsers the modern javascript is surprisingly compact.

On the contrary, I'm pretty sure you could make Reddit a usable site in everything down to text-based browsers (static HTML + small bits of JS), and still have it be faster and smaller than what the new version is today.

"Modern" development is a horrible bloated mess.

I agree with the rest of your comment, however; and perhaps the solution is to not hire only "web developers", as those whose full-time job isn't to work on that stuff seem to be far better at not adding "padding" for the sake of "CV-driven development", when they are actually asked to work on websites.

I've had a few experiences with that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23590137
Not at all. I just realize that these are primarily used for recreation. It could change - I mean, look at cocaine - and it can be both (opiates, for example).
A letter to US and EU policy makers to ban surveillance-based advertising
People who value diversity of thought should support edge cases where everyone doesn’t learn the exact same pedagogy.
Exactly - and for about a million other purposes also!

This [0] seems like a good survey - some progress is being made raising the efficiency into the mid-teens...

[0] https://www.intechopen.com/books/green-energy-advances/therm...
This approach sounds much harder for an ad network to pull off and sounds like it would add a lot of risk and complication. For example, what if a web master decides they don't want to have ads on their site anymore. Whoever just paid for that space gets screwed.
Combined cycle power plants do use the waste heat:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_cycle_power_plant
Yes and yes?
There are 2 kinds of ambitious (and famous) people I've met: those with and those without humility. Those with humility don't desire or even try to be ambitious (or famous). For them, ambition & fame are (perhaps undesired) side effects of other primary qualities like relentlessness & perseverance. The other kind are aware of ambition/fame, actively pursue it and openly flaunt their love for it. Those that are in this group also are more likely to be huge assholes.

Both paths may lead you to big things. The question to ask yourself is what other traits do you want to be known for. Lots of founders are assholes (steve jobs?) but you don't have to be an asshole to be a founder. My advice would be to not pursue ambition. Just go find what you love working on so much that it makes you forget who you are. Also, I know you didn't ask about fame but awareness and active pursuit of fame & ambition kinda goes hand in hand.
In most juridic systems, there is the letter and spirit of the law to deal with that. A judge would settle that detecting that somebody approaches your shop is not in the spirit of the law against surveillance based advertising. And so you'll rapidly have a jurisprudence.
I've only used them while using certain frameworks to dynamically generate queries referencing multiple tables. They end up getting turned into an implicit inner join though. The following queries are equivalent.

SELECT a.*, b.*
FROM a CROSS JOIN b
WHERE a.id = b.a_id

SELECT a.*, b.*
FROM a, b
WHERE a.id = b.a_id

SELECT a.*, b.*
FROM a INNER JOIN b ON a.id = b.a_id

IIRC .NET's Entity Framework will (or at least used to) generate queries similar to this as well.
That would seem trivial - the PIR used in such a system isn't recording anything about the person.
Yes there is a legal responsibility for the buyer to use some common sense to think about whether items are being supplied to them legally.
Some feedback. Link directly to your site. A pr.com url looks scammy and unprofessional (to me).

There’s no mention of pricing. I know it’s in beta but products that don’t make it super easy to find pricing are an instant no for me. I’m not even downloading.

Finally, the web page mentions “ethically sourced contacts”. It sounds like your mail client is going to store all of my contacts on your server. Putting the word “ethically” in front of this does not make it better. Why do you need my contacts on your server? Do the messages pass through your server? There’s no technical reason for this, so it just seems like data harvesting.
==Well this is the only actual data point it makes reference to==

I don't see anywhere in the article where it makes this reference, it's just in the headline. The article actually says "When it’s above 44C it feels like you’re going to die – I’m not making that up."

==Now it goes above 40C on an average day==

A reference to the consistency of the heat as opposed to the extremes of the heat.
David Graeber (and others) make an adjacent criticism:

Lots of people would like to choose "caring" work. Teaching, healthcare, policy stuff, knowledge stuff, etc. Something meaningful and rewarding.

With rising inequity, only people who can afford higher education, who don't have to work to eat, can choose these "caring" career paths.

Some fraction of the resentment towards the "liberal elite" is from being denied access to these "caring" roles. Made worse by the obliviousness of people like me not even realizing there's a problem.

--

I regard both Turchin and Graeber's theories as complimentary. I also hope that leftists like me will dig into these social phenomenon.

Until we understand better, I'm content with very cheap higher ed, with some professions being subsidized. For example, I'm happy to pay people to become doctors (specialists). Society needs more. Students shouldn't be penalized, having to wait +12 years before starting families (or whatever).
Melbourne (Australia)'s train signals used to be controlled by PDP-11s running Ericsson JZA715 train control software. They were replaced by Ospreys. An Osprey is actually a hardware PDP-11 CPU on an expansion card which plugs into an x86 PC bus. It uses an actual CPU not emulation because realtime applications like train control need to be 100% cycle accurate. (Originally they used actual PDP-11 CPU chips manufactured by DEC, later they switched to using FPGAs). It also has Unibus cards to do Unibus-ISA/EISA/PCI translation so it can integrate with the original peripherals.

http://web.archive.org/web/20210126085900/https://www.equico...

http://www.strobedata.com/home/ospreyguide.html
> The first thing I would do is look outside to collect information on who in outside thereby infringing their privacy.

Looking at someone doesn't infringe on their privacy. Taking a picture of that someone and storing it in a permanent fashion, might. To prevent abuse/DOS you only need to do the first (which does not constitute "surveillance" or loss of privacy), not the second.

> Recording people's IPs is definitely surveillance.

It's not surveillance if you are not tracking anything else other than IPs (i.e. no other behavioural data associated to it).

Either way, you still have not provided an example where surveillance is required to prevent abuse: I can simply store hashes of "bad IPs" (or ASNs) to blacklist... no need to store any information that could lead to an actual person (like an actual IP address).
Yeah, I'm just posing what could be done if the law regarding low value theft is immutable, if it can't be changed, something else has to give (I haven't got a clue what).
How did they plan on preventing core exposure in the event of a high speed collision?
This is totally surveillance.

It is not. I connected from some IP because I wanted to use your website, at the very least you have to remember my IP address for some time to send me your website back. And if I want to access your website and it will be only available if you store my IP address for a few minutes to fight off attacks, then this is a use of my IP address that I welcome because it is for my benefit. And if you really want to, just store hashes of the IP addresses [1].

Just because we delete data after a while, it doesn't mean I didn't surveil you [...]

Sure, surveillance is not defined by the amount of time you store some data. If you store my shipping address for years it is not surveillance, if you store my IP address for one second to add an entry to my record in your database that I just visited the website it might be surveillance even if you do not permanently record my IP address. But I never claimed that the amount of time you store some information is a or the relevant criterion

[...] nor does it mean I haven't used that data I got from you for my own benefit.

Also irrelevant. If you store my IP address for a short time or my shipping address for a long time in order to send me the website I requested or my order than this benefits you because you will make some profit from my order.

Relevant for whether something is surveillance or not is whether I approve what you are doing. If you track my position day and night in order to show me ads for businesses nearby it is surveillance unless I specifically requested this. If you track my position because I am using a fitness app and requested to record my run, then it is not surveillance.

[1] For IPv4 this is of course essentially pointless. But maybe you could come up with a more elaborate schema than simple hashes, maybe salt them and rotate the salt every few minutes or whatever. But you will probably not gain much besides added complexity.
All these rules determine what it shouldn't recommend. What rules would you use to determine what it should recommend?

Would you agree that these rules will quickly become unwieldy and a pain to maintain? And that these will be personalized to your taste but not to someone else's?

Wouldn't it be great if you didn't have to maintain those rules and if the system were tailored to every user? Congratulations, you've just realized you'd like to use ML/AI.
This is what I find difficult about these things, we (mostly) intuitively know that some cases it's okay to use information about users to tweak their experience, while we also know that what Facebook/Google/etc are doing is absolutely wrong.
The big question is, where do we draw the (legal) line?
Better to get a Ubigi or Truphone eSim, much cheaper data roaming if you're not willing to get a local SIM.
But that doesn't pass a 'reasonable' test. A reasonable person would not believe that there is a huge supply of brand-new-condition second-hand goods.
My pet theory is that all people of good will should vote for republicans in New York and for democrats in Alabama. This way reasonable middle-ground centrist candidates will be elected.
This can all be sorted by contracts? The ad network pays out only after the ad has fully ran for 7 days, and if the webmaster removes the ad or similar they don't get paid and the advertiser gets refunded. Enforcing this is trivial by the ad network or a neutral third-party scraping the websites running the ads to confirm the ads are displayed properly.
Modern water/air heat pumps have surprsingingly high efficiency down to -20C. We're running a 10 year old model that has no trouble heating our house down to -12, after which a direct electric helper element kicks in.
There is no such thing as "too much scifi"...
Not sure this is an example a company thinking wild.. I mean all they did was create a model of how something could _look_.
This assumes the parent is either with kid constantly or parent gave his card to kid.

You cant imagine 9 years old to go to buy ice cream or toy?
Improving Horizontal Scroll with CSS Scroll Snap
But its the same in GPU-land.

There are plenty of tasks which max out at one block / threadgroup of 1024 CUDA-threads. cudaMemcpy is a silly example (probably maxes out memory bandwidth at just 64 or 32 cores used), but there are plenty of tasks that simply don't scale to the full use of a GPU.

Just because some tasks (many tasks?) fail to use more than 32-GPU cores doesn't mean that GPU-parallelism is useless. It just means that when you program those particular tasks, only use 32-GPU cores!! Then use the GPU-cores on _other_ tasks (possibly in parallel).

IIRC, cudaMalloc, and many other primitives in the CUDA framework, has been shown to have very little parallelism at all. You need to work at keeping this "sequential-code" outside of your inner loops. (Runs on CUDA-stream #0, which for older hardware at least is sequentially scheduled)

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1. Some tasks can effectively use infinite cores (SIMD-threads really for GPUs... but same idea since a SIMD-lane can largely emulate a thread as long as you're careful about branch divergence)

2. Some tasks can be parallelized at the application / operator level. Run many applications in parallel ("Makefile parallelism")

3. Some tasks (memcpy) are so memory-bound that parallelism will never help.

4. Some tasks have a better solution that becomes feasible with more compute power.

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Lets take a CPU example: H.264 encoding. IIRC, this task barely scales to 8 cores and has diminishing returns beyond that.

But an example of #2 would be Youtube: you have one encoding machine that handles transcoding in parallel. You don't run just 1 instance of the problem (using 8 cores), you run 32 in parallel, and each of those 32-instances can effectively use 8-cores for H264 encoding.

And #4 can still happen: H264 is pretty easy for modern computers with little chance of parallelism. Switching to H.265 or even to AV1 will increase the compute power needed, and allow scaling of single tasks up to 16 to 64 cores. Now your 2x128 hypothetical machine can only run 4 transcoding sessions at a time.

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The dual-socket machine for a transcoding cluster is still superior over a single-socket machine. 10Gbit Ethernet is more than sufficient to handle 4x AV1 sessions (especially because AV1 is slower than realtime), so right there we've cut the number of Ethernet cables in half, which means we've cut the number of 10 Gbit Switches in half.

Having the two sockets share one Ethernet port is an efficiency gain even if you don't have any task-communication going on: if only for the I/O sharing capability of the NUMA Fabric.
Mesa 21.2 Lands Nvidia's Code for Handling Alternate GBM Back Ends
Banning hammers, because not everything is a nail?

Oh, yes.