skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if they make it easier for untrained people to kill, then how come the military doesn’t use them when training? How come you can still find service weapons without pistol grips? The argument is that pistol grips don’t in fact make it easier it makes it more accurate. We don’t want less accurate, this argument wanting less accuracy was already tried in court and failed muster.

Also if you read the regulations why does it state where the location of the webbing of the thumb need to be if the important part is no pistol grip? In reality they are trying to ban AR pattern rifles, not weapons with pistol grips.

Everything else you mentioned makes the gun easier to operate for both criminals and law abiding citizens. Why do the minority get to ruin things for the exhaustively overwhelming majority when these rifles with these characteristics aren't even the problem?
For the high voltage lines Germany is pretty much still at less than 10%.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Statistics-of-AC-Under...
I mean, probably in the same way as one would define, say, a person's age and the time of "creation". (Individual atoms are, of course, much older than any the object that is built from them, but that does not matter.)
That's a paraphrase of what I wrote
they do and you can get time on one (5 qubits) right now

https://quantum-computing.ibm.com/composer/files/new

if you don't think these are computers then you just don't know what a computer really is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_(computer_science)

they're not useful at all but they're still real actual unadulterated computers.
They may or may not disagree on the basis of measured performance in different cases. (The US labs are investing heavily in free software LLVM.) Often not with ifort, at least. However, I was talking about the Intel stuff, and partly from experience with R versus the Microsoft version.

However, I recently ran the Polyhedron Fortran benchmarks with the compilers to hand (~2020 vintage). XL (on POWER) was the only one that gave a significantly better bottom line; obviously IBM know how to compile Fortran well by now (or by Fortran-H). As far as I remember, that was essentially due to the treatment (vectorization) of maths intrinsics, which probably aren't so dominant in typical HPC code. One bad case -- fmod inlining -- has since been fixed in GCC. Without GCC's unfortunate longstanding failure to vectorize sincos (or equivalent), gfortran should have beaten ifort significantly in the bottom line, and at least got close to XLF. PGI was distinctly worse than GCC, but may do better at OpenACC/GPU offload, for instance. XL may win on OpenMP, since some of the current standard was for Sierra's needs. I should find time for the NAS benchmarks.
Equal pay forces metric-based assessments which imo is detrimental. I think(?) that's what op what refering to. It's incredibly hard to evaluate how to pay 2 different people, allowing negotiation allows the free market to determine the price, which is the best way we have found as a society to allocate assets.
I'm quite surprised there isn't a compiler warning for a bitwise operator at the root of a condition. I've been writing `if ((flags & FLAG) != 0)` for decades years for nothing?!?
So if they were true facts then there would not be a tort?
If you like choice I can really recommend KDE. It's got much more configurability than Windows or Mac. You'll be no longer stuck with what a mega corporation decides is best for you. I run it on top of FreeBSD myself.

Gnome is nice too but suffers from the same lack of configurability. It's too opinionated like Mac. You can make it more flexible but you'll end up having a lot of plugins that end up being hard to maintain across version updates. Every time I'm looking for a function in Gnome and Google it I find an old thread discussing how it used to have it but the Devs removed it because they didn't agree with it or deem it necessary.

In contrast with that the idea of "Options everywhere!" seems to still be the KDE philosophy so if you like choice this is the place to go IMO :)
Well that's a fair point!

We're trying pretty hard to not come off as professional stalkers while still building something useful :)
> "We are going after a 100 billion dollar market"

IANAL - That doesn't sound like fraud to me.

A highschool athlete saying 'they are going after attending the Olympics' isn't lying. A highschool athlete without Olympic experience saying 'they won a gold medal at the Olympics is lying.
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/autonomy

says that Autonomy HQ is in San Francisco, CA.
If you have a great company culture, and it involves an occasional beer on Friday afternoon, I don't think it's a problem, but if you're having a problem preventing inappropriate jokes, groping, etc. then alcohol is certainly not going to help. I don't think it's the biggest issue listed, but it does (to me) suggest that upper management was not taking the situation seriously.
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You might want to reread the article. It isn't about harassment or misogyny from individuals. It's about a corporate culture and leadership that allegedly encouraged the same.

I believe that the leadership team doesn't encourage sexual harassment where I work. I know that people get fired for harassing others.

Maybe I'm naive and all the CEOs at all the tech companies encourage their subordinates to harass women. Or maybe you just need to get another job, at a place that doesn't suck. Or maybe you just need to read the article.
LA Times writer: Ivermectin 'bogus', popular with 'conspiracy-mongers'
> Maybe disrespect for accumulated wisdom is one of the reason software sucks so bad these days.

What do you mean "maybe"?! It has always been the case.

I am not even that old -- 41y/o currently -- and I work professionally as a programmer ever since ~22 and I always noticed how 99% of all programmers I ever worked with, when faced with advice from seasoned veterans, were like "meh, this doesn't apply to us, we'll figure out our own solution" which, sadly, goes exactly like you think it would, at least 90% of the time.
And it is probably safe to assume that even in those cases where they do that a sizeable fraction of those under that particular edict break the rules. You can impose all the rules you want if they go directly against some of the most basic human needs you can expect them to be broken.
The lack of vertical taskbar is so mind bogglingly stupid, I don't know what to say.
My college roommate had one of those!
yeah, it really all comes down to implementation. How much information is available an to whom.

Being able to look up anyone by name in a public registry and see their exact salary would probably be a worst case This is the current state for public employees.

Anonymized data for companies larger than a certain size with job class (like levels.fyi[1]) would probably be a best case. However, if you want to get meaningful information about sex, race, age, & gender, this information quickly becomes identifiable for even moderate companies.

https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Google,Facebook,Microsoft&tr...
Yeah that would be a very weird choice. LTO itself can have bugs, or (as we speculate here) unmask existing bugs. Plus, even that aside, you'd hopefully test exactly the build that you will release before you release it.

As I wrote in another comment, this could still be the result of a freak accident and not have shown up in testing, though (but since I know nothing about the process or the code there, it could be anything).
> In Windows 11, the taskbar lost some other quite popular features users enjoyed in Windows 10. For example, you can no longer move the taskbar to the top, right, or left.

I have a feeling this is gonna be the big issue for some people. I personally just leave it at the bottom, but there's something to be said that when you have a standard 16:9 monitor, it doesn't make sense to remove that space from the vertical axis when most content is already too wide for that aspect ratio.
Yeah, statistics says no. Cognitive aptitude in one area correlates very strongly with aptitude in other areas, leading the people who measure this stuff to conclude that there is pretty much one factor for general intelligence. The rest is training. You're bad at math because you're ill-practiced at it and/or you never found a way to overcome your math anxiety.
That assertion gets into questions of asteroid formation, which I find fascinating, though there's very little information I've been able to find.

Keep in mind that "gravitational accretion" simply kicks the can a bit further: the chunks that accrete gravitationally must themselves form and congeal somehow.

What I understand of solar system formation is that all "metallic" solar systems (though with a substantial portion of elements other than hydrogen) from from the remains of earlier stars. So you have a nova, supernova, stellar collapse, collision (stars, white dwarves, neutron stars, ...). This ejects heavy materials (principally H, He, C, O, N, though others --- water is probably the most common non-elemental molecule in the Universe), and also creates pressure waves and imparts angular momentum. Both factors can draw material together. There's also probably a lot of plasma in the mix, so that different portions of the cloud carry different charges. These may be attracted, repelled, and spark discharges (which might themselves melt and fuse material). There may also be surface-tension effects and other factors at play. Somehow, clumps form. Gravity is a force at work, but not the only force.

Disclaimer: not an astronomer, just interested in far too many divers subjects. If anyone has anything authoritative to say on this I'm all ears. Most references I can find are either extremely basic, or address the formation of asteroid belts but not the objects within them.

There's some hypothesis on formation (condensation, shock waves, jet flows) here: http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/Sept02/isotopicAges.html
Same. I've smoked more than fair share of weed over the years and while I turned out ok (I think), two of my friends from back then have had their lives ruined due to mental health issues. There's no doubt that them smoking cannabis didn't help.
You can access a quantum computer - to be precise, a quantum _annealer_ right now, for free, via D-Wave Leap. It may not be gate model, but it does compute using quantum effects, and it is useful for optimization problems, materials research, and other applications.

No squinting required.
COVID safety is different because the measures we are being forced to do is actually affecting our ability to live.
> No she's the current Home Secretary.

She can still be disgraced, though, no? Not least because she's been pretty disgraceful as Home Secretary.
What's an "average person"?

The dating app example probably fails count 3, since one's dating life is not offensive to the average person. For grindr, it might be offensive to some minority of people.
Thanks, HermanL and PradeepN, for sharing this migration story with HN!

You wrote:

"Despite all the hurdles in our migration path, we have already seen the benefits of running 8.0."

May I ask what are the main performance benefits you have measured/noticed?
InSight Lander Makes Best-Yet Maps of Martian Depths
the problem is that bitwise & and | are routinely used for their non-shortcircuiting behaviour in boolean expressions, so it is hard for the compiler to flag this as an error.

Many linters and static analysis tools do flag them though as these days it is not considered good practice.
I grew up on Warcraft 2, and to me the cartoonish look of WoW was a direct continuation of the art style from that game. I was in the WoW beta. The first time I played it my initial reaction was that it looked exactly like I had stepped into Warcraft.
I'm not sure this change is reason enough to give up possibly decades of experience with Windows. Switching platforms can slow your work down for months if you have a unique and optimized workflow.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NotAllMen

Please educate yourself on how this shuts down debate over intolerant behavior. The tolerance of other men is required for activity like this - and /obviously/ there are many men who find this behavior awful but also clearly /not enough/ to stop it from happening.

Yes, of course, not all men do this shit. But it’s enough to have a considerable impact on people. Usually there’s a small number of abusers and then a large group of people tolerating or egging on the abuse. This is why they’re describing a “frat bro” culture in the legal suit.
I think you did the right query, maybe they're using it for different domain names?
Other than this particular edge case it's not obvious to me why bitwise operators shouldn't be applicable to boolean values. Aren't they just single-bit vectors?

Of course it makes sense that logical operators wouldn't be applicable to numeric types, but why the reverse?
> Nothing will save you from GPU cluster brute forcing it, if the adversary have your harddrive.

Not really true.

In the case where a password is used to derive the encryption key, the password is passed to a key derivation function which deterministically generates the key of the appropriate length. Ideally, the KDF should be computationally difficult to slow down brute force attempts, but you can still parallelize the attack with a big GPU/FPGA cluster. If the password is sufficiently weak, you can often get a break this way.

In the case of using a TPM for full disk encryption, the key is generated by the module itself and requires a password to unlock. This is rate-limited by hardware, and typically the TPM will lock itself out if you have entered the incorrect password too many times. If you steal the hard drive, you can't decrypt it even if you know the password (the password unlocks the TPM and has nothing to do with key generation). Likewise, if you steal the whole machine but don't have the password, you'll be hard-pressed to brute force it since the rate-limiting / lockout features mean you can't make lots of parallel tries. Your GPU cluster is an expensive paperweight in this case.

In theory, the only reliable way to decrypt a device using full-disk encryption and a TPM without the password is to try extracting the secrets from the TPM itself. This isn't impossible, but they are specifically built to resist key-extraction attacks. You're pretty much talking about an attacker with state-level resources in that case, or at the very least a very determined group of private sector professionals.
What age are we talking about? And what is the concern? What are they worried about exactly?
Drag and drop was already abysmal on Windows compared to MacOS, things I take for granted on MacOS like dragging an image from a web browser to a photoshop document just don't work. This is just another kick in the teeth for people who find this a fast and flexible way to work.
I wouldn't be terribly surprised if it was both. What's dishonest/incompetent is the framing of changes like the statistic as if the causal direction is clear, without addressing the (to my mind more plausible) opposite causal direction.

Cigarette smoking also has a heavy association with schizophrenia, but the biases we have about it don't lend themselves to the kind of sloppy causality that you see with marijuana. I know you can legitimize biases by calling them priors, but then you need to show your work: those priors themselves should be based in harder data and explicitly referenced.

Otherwise, sloppy science (and reporting) become indistinguishable from considered priors.
hmmph. annoying. It is the best way for me to keep default file associations while still easily using a different program to open a file.

Most common example is to keep ".jpg" default for the faster, normal case and drag the file to photoshop if I absolutely have to.
If people are vulnerable, they are responsible for taking precautions. If I am sick, even with the "common cold," I quarantine.
In fact you can apply the single ampersand & operator to booleans in Java, and just like in the example here it has the same behaviour as && but with no short-circuiting.
Crypto Volumes: Something May Be Rotten in China
Disagree, I want to make as much as I can negotiate regardless of my skill level. Why would you want to make less?
I'm personally fascinated by older mini computers from 80s, like the DEC VAX 11/780.

I don't currently, and don't anticipate ever having the power and space to own one myself though.
Vision from a small group of individuals who care always beats just trying to scry design from looking at metrics, even when the metrics are millions.
One notable fact is that Intel has announced plans to transform itself into a chip manufacturer for other companies, in addition to using foundries to make its own processors.

The company is in early talks to buy GlobalFoundries, which is a major American chip foundry.
The article is exceptionally vague on all the important bits. What you quote just goes to establishing a consequence of its age.

It's not clear to me that this is the oldest meteorite found, how it was dated, how it was tracked, etc., etc.

For the technical deets on dating CCs:

http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/Sept02/isotopicAges.html
Same for China.

KMT moved majority of the intellectuals and wealth into Taiwan, and left the mainland with rubbish.

If China and Russia chose a different route than what they did already, are there a plausible pathway for them to reach similar economic prosperity (let's put aside the political well being for a bit).

My so far limited conclusion is: NO.

There has no plausible path for Russia and China to achieve their economical growth without the brutality and sacrifices. The rapid industrialization requires centralized wealth. Those are not collected through the immoral and brutal colonization by the modern industrial nations. Those were not possible at the time when Russia and China start their industrialization. They unfortunately have to turn their brutality towards their own people.
There's a relationship between smoking cigarettes and schizophrenia too. I think this may be a case of people trying to self medicate for their conditions.

> "There has been emerging evidence of an association between tobacco smoking and schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD). Two meta-analyses have reported that people who smoke tobacco have an ~2-fold increased risk of incident schizophrenia or psychosis, even after adjusting for confounding factors."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6255982/#:~:tex....
Probably because Youtube was using MySQL before being acquired and switched to a better, probably fully managed DB that was much easier (free?) to maintain and scale.
Welcome to the glorious future everyone, where our computers are less featureful than they were in the 1990s.

Could all of you "professional" software "engineers" out there please just stop sucking so damned hard? You're making me deeply ashamed to be a part of this industry.
When someone asks you what software engineering is, this is software engineering.
My official diagnosis is Substance Use Disorder.

The DSM 5 recognizes substance-related disorders resulting from the use of 10 separate classes of drugs: alcohol; caffeine; cannabis; hallucinogens (phencyclidine or similarly acting arylcyclohexylamines, and other hallucinogens, such as LSD); inhalants; opioids; sedatives, hypnotics, or anxiolytics; stimulants (including amphetamine-type substances, cocaine, and other stimulants); tobacco; and other or unknown substances.

https://www.verywellmind.com/dsm-5-criteria-for-substance-us...
Why would that be better if they split. Maybe they would have been swallowed by big neighbours and end up being a poor provinces.

Same for Switzerland, I just can’t imagine they would have it better if they split to four national states.

At least in those two cases national diversity worked great.
So instead of short circuiting like that code should when it uses &&, it instead makes an assumption about the first part of the boolean expression because otherwise the code would have undefined behavior?
Interesting post about Win11 taskbar by the guy who's made me forget that Windows taskbar has been hot garbage since 7:

https://rammichael.com/7-taskbar-tweaker-and-a-first-look-at...
I'm inclined to agree with you, honestly- my comment was more just me musing aloud about Blizzard's hubris in the face of the law. They've also lawyered up and ruined a lot of good vanilla WoW private servers, which I think adds to their hubris- fighting a state in court is going to be a lot more involved than telling a few nerds online to stop running a WoW server.

Anyways, I think you're correct and I personally look forward to Blizzard losing.
Why is there no market for properly secure smart phones?

I would have thought the market would be huge.
I don't think we know enough from this to say.

It's possible that this bug made it into the wild because the organizational structure made remedies impossible. In that case you probably don't fire anyone, though maybe you reassign some folks.

It's also possible that the organizational structure indicates that a person or a group of people is responsible for this and they failed to do that job. If that's the case then it might very well make sense to fire folks. It also might not.

I think it's important for poor performance to have consequences[1] and I also think that people leave jobs all the time and it's fine to decide that someone should leave their place in the org with a positive reference and look elsewhere for work (perhaps in another part of goog).

[1] for moral and company culture reasons if nothing else.
Well what if a person has a high intellect but is ill-practiced in English?
I worked for AB a few years back and it was easily the worst job I've ever had. Incredibly toxic work culture, and frequent gaslighting by managers. I'll never work for a big games company again after that experience.
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They did approach a Catholic organization about having this kind of information:

In his CNA article, Bermudez wrote that the group that approached him had wanted “to provide this information privately to Church officials in the hopes that they would discipline or remove those found to be using these technologies to violate their clerical vows and possibly bring scandal to the Church.”

in a tweet saying that he and his co-author had weighed the question of individual privacy and decided that Burrill’s Grindr use was a matter of public interest because he was a “high-ranking public figure who was responsible in a direct way for the development and oversight of policies addressing clerical accountability with regard to the Church’s approach to sexual morality.”

There's the answer to your public concern from their view point. Whether you agree with it or not, that is their stance.
> & and | are routinely used for their non-shortcircuiting behaviour in boolean expressions

Really? I can't recall a single case of this with 'bool' in any codebase in my recent memory. I only see it with integers. And even if it's somehow routine for your codebases with bool (why?!), surely it's not routine inside a conditional expression, so at least they can prohibit it there?
Collective bargaining.
If IT is on the value chain this seems insane. If IT is ancillary to the value chain then this is standard.
This is 100x worse if you think the state has no case. You're pretty much tactfully acknowledging a degree of guilt.
At least for the short lines, they're launched in batches from one point, so they take some time to spread out to their final orbits. These are neat to view after a launch.
Mac wont be a choice for much longer, the writing on the wall is obvious that MacOS is on it's way to being deprecated. Within 10 years the desktop Mac experience will be closer to iPadOS than MacOS of today.