skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One neat feature of Shenandoah is once the application shuts down, it prints into the GC log a table depicting how much time each phase of the GC cycle took. This data can be crucial to optimize the GC pause time further:

- Removal of weak references (finalizer, phantom, soft) can help reduce the GC pause time further as these warrant stop the world phase

- Shenandoah likes ReentrantLocks better than synchronised classes the latter bloats up its monitors and increases the size of the rootset

- The reflection problem may initial Shenandoah to run GC cycles even when there is no memory pressure and thus may reduce performance over time. It is better to limit it using reflection inflation flag

- On Amazon ECS, provide the CPU share count explicitly; Shenandoah likes more threads
Instead of asking Google and Apple to pull from Russia we should better think about ourselves pulling from them.
Few large organizations are very efficient about anything related to HR or management. But I'm not sure where you're getting "one month" from.
> he’s not advocating for you to stop using a strong password if you already are

Did you read the article? He is exactly saying that acquiring your password (however strong) is in most circumstances much easier than acquiring your fingerprints.

He's not just saying that biometrics are better than nothing, because of course everybody agrees with that - no privacy/security activist ever said 'the police could compel you to unlock your phone with a finger, therefore you should keep your phone unlocked'!
> Letting your Russian employees be persecuted don't amount to "doing the right thing".

IT IS very much a right thing. Don't want to work for such company? Leave! It's not an indentured slavery!

Fuck, You Sergei Brin! You just screwed the most monumental display of courage, and determination by employees of Google Russia with a single pen stroke.
>The founders got a lot of money of course, so not a sob story.

It must be disheartening though, to see something you created get run into the ground.
If Apple releases a new iPod Shuffle/Mini generation today, I would definitely buy it. If they add support for bluetooth, even better!
How would it ever work without the companion software? One of the motivation is that users don't install anti-ransomware software, but they do have to install this companion software that is effectively anti-ransomware, don't they?

I don't see the appeal compared to a fully software-based solution.
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You miss another part:
Normalizing the use of biometrics may create situation where you don't have a choice to use something else.
Its similar to phone number verification.
> Another reply mentions Imperial College London

I guess it was cited as this is a fairly elite forum and it is a fairly elite university. Imperial actially left the University of London system and now issues its own degrees (left in 2007).

It doesnt actually change the point above, but just a corrections all the same.
> Apple gets lambasted for activities in China all the time by many of the same people

Apple released new iPhones a few days ago, can you point me to the comments on HN on the new iPhone threads talking about their relationship with China?
Another nail, another reason to not try Gnome again.
If I wanted to be told what I can or can't do I would use OSX.
"Roll over to corporate" is one take.
.NET is also regularly improving their GC, aren’t they?
> It seems to me the masheen learningz technikz...

Off-topic low-value comment, but I'm now going to be getting a T-shirt made with the caption "i can haz masheen learningz?"
Many people literally lost their lives trying to escape that "better" soviet life style.
chinese design
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional–managerial_clas...
Not really; Youtube has a mechanism for geographically restricting videos. Germans could talk for hours about it ;)
>The issue with this is while the transistors for the CPU scale like that, the structures to do wireless transmission don't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipole_antenna

To go over it a bit more: the higher the frequency of radiation the smaller you can make the antenna. However in the frequencies we have the technology to send signals in, and don't intrinsically give you cancer, everything becomes more opaque when you increase frequency. As OP says, it's like trying to send a light flash from behind a concrete wall, when you can see it on the other side you're using enough energy to vaporise the concrete anyway.

This is basically the only reason why we aren't living in a surveillance dystopia to make the Matrix look tame. Thank you physics for limiting the amount of possible surveillance from smart dust.

That said, you could still use chemical or physical means of communicating with microchips inside you, the issue is that you're very limited in how much information you can send without having them come in contact with some type of macroscopic io device.
Sorry for misinterpreting your message then.
I'm sure you're aware of that, but just in case other people are reading: getting uplinks to well-connected places is the easy part. You just need a little money (think 1-3k€/km) and a few authorizations to use public utilities or cross private land here and there. Laying the local loop is the hardest, most expensive part of the project because there's a lot more cable to lay, and you usually have to gather a lot more authorizations from different people/orgs.
> What makes you think you know better what is good for the Russian people and the opposition groups than Russians and the opposition groups themselves?

Because if regime's economy collapses, the regime will collapse sooner.
Which is means, employees of Apple in Russia go to jail, accounts frozen, offices raided, documents and equipment seized, sales of iPhone banned, access to Apple servers blocked.

What do you achieve with this?
I thought the international baccalaureate would take over from the old a-levels system years ago. Still hasnt really gained as much traction as I would have expected.

Probably sounds too french.
They can, and they are - we planted one in the backyard when we came back from our first family trip to the USA in 1979. It is now some 30 meters high and dominates the area, the iron fence needed to be moved so the trunk (which is about 1.50m in diameter at chest height) fits, it is encroaching a bit on the cycle path behind the house. This is in Abcoude in the Netherlands, a village just below Amsterdam. There are several specimens of Sequoiadendron Giganteum [1] in the Netherlands, among them one [2] in the arboretum at Wageningen University (where I studied forestry). It is a hardy species which does quite well in the wet Dutch climate.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoiadendron_giganteum

[2] https://www.monumentaltrees.com/en/nld/gelderland/wageningen...
Haven't tried it yet, but a very cool concept.

As per other recent discussions on HN I think the general accessibility of academic papers is ripe for improvement.
Yes, something like that - and I'm wondering if there's a way to imprint a pattern on such flock of birds, so that they then flock into appropriate shape from whatever starting configuration they were in, and maintain the shape over time, even in the face of strong winds or some of the flock members dying.

Here's one idea I'm thinking about: flocking-like equations in "boids" simulations are local, a pure function of (the observed state of) the neighbors. In a typical implementation, they just compute velocity/acceleration vectors out of position/velocity/acceleration/class of the neighbors[0]. And the result are pretty, fluid, and uniform in steady-state flocks. But what if we added more observable state and equations to this?

Imagine each boid having a "color", a value that is a function of not just the color of the neighbors, but also of their position/velocity/acceleration/class. And then, the equations computing velocity/acceleration take this color into account too, e.g. by offsetting the result by some function of the neighbors' colors. Could we then design the f([colors]) -> v/a offset and f([everything]) -> color functions so that they end up forcing the flock into an arbitrary uniform shape? I believe we could, but I'm not sure how to define these functions for any particular shape.

(Or, in short: I'm looking for a method to turn an arbitrary picture into an error term for boids rules that makes the flock assume the shape of the picture, instead of an uniform blob.)

I'm sure there must be some pre-existing theoretical work behind finding such functions - this problem feels like a cousin of the "find a formula that draws a target picture on X/Y plot". I just don't know the right keywords to look this up.

But this is kind of the idea on the back of my head - encoding desired group behavior in a function that is common to every member of the group and is entirely local (only a function of the immediate observed environment), but that forces the system to settle in a desired configuration.

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[0] - "class" being e.g. member of same species, a predator, or a prey.
People get way too wound up over guns. This is a rural/urban issue. Where I live (edge of civilization) the police response time is around 20 minutes. That is too long to deter or prevent most crime. So most rural people own a gun or two and for some reason the bad guys don't mess with us much. Taking my gun rights away makes my family a lot less safe so...

> You might seek to grasp a true understanding of the culture involved

Please do the same. Your entire post is dripping with an urban elitism and does not show any hint that you might consider someone else's point of view. Enjoy that coffee.
China seems to have a tendency towards big, high-profile projects that they can use to project a narrative of technological superiority but don't fit into any kind of useful overall strategy. I wouldn't be surprised if they build a bunch of these, brag about how advanced it makes them, and then just carry on building and using coal as the workhorse of their power grid. This wouldn't work nearly so well in a country with a free presss.
I still don't trust Volkswagen after the scandal, and from what I've seen, I'm very far from alone in that sentiment. Is this VW trying to claw back some of that trust?
> One neat feature of Shenandoah is once the application shuts down, it prints into the GC log a table depicting how much time each phase of the GC cycle took. This data can be crucial to optimize the GC pause time further

Other GCs will do the same for you (G1, ZGC) which you can then put into a tool like gceasy to pretty graphs.
Yo dawg! Wassup wiff dat?
> None of them think refusing to trade with china is in Chinese citizens best interests.

Well, then is it a matter of principle for western democracies or not? Meanwhile, the west is financing the CCP.
Yes and AZ fumbled the clinical tests (still not approved by the FDA) and production (not "their fault" to be fair, they had little experience in vaccines, and the viral vector ones are hard to scale up).

Pfizer seems to be much more on point on the fabrication and regulatory aspects, it was a much needed partner.
gonna be totally honest with you and you can choose to not believe me but nope. For one I like the peace of mind of sticking to my principles more than money secondly I already don't know what to do with my money and I make slightly less than 100k. most of my money is spent on books and the occasional dinner out with the spouse and fishing equipment, I genuinely can't make sense what I'd do differently with a million or quadrillion.
For a service delivering a file or a list of names? Compared to a blocked and non-functioning bot?

Anyway, emails these days are nearly instantaneous too, not that much slower than, say, WhatsApp
James Mickens wrote some of the funniest things I have ever read. I strongly recommend all of his articles.
Also notably Go, though really all GC languages which care about performance, of which there are quite a few.
In American speech it is. Anything which teaches undergraduates and awards college degrees is a college. They can also have a research university attach to it, but it is still a college.

It doesn't make sense to me how here in Europe universities tries to say that they aren't anything but a university. Americans got this one right. How else would you compare where to study? Do you say "university rankings" but include non universities there that doesn't do research? You go there to do college studies, and try to find the best place to do college studies, why say it is wrong to call it a college?
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I come from a 3rd world dictatorship country.

I don't really think that'd help. It'd further isolate those countries, making them more and more authoritarian and less and less educated.

Google pulling out of any country for help democracy either.
What it takes to build an app nowadays
I have just recently started working on an MVP. I have taken a few months learning a thing or two about the JavaScript ecosystem. Skipping to now , I am simply puzzled by how much modern app development actually revolves around the use of third party APIs .I am wondering wether I am missing something about this whole process.I often find myself having to deep dive into the docs of some API, rather than some spend this time actually learning about a new technology , which I find mildly(might switch to highly ,as the time passes) dissapointing. Is modern app development all about putting independently provided pieces together ?
So, is that good news?
Do they have a PWA option? Or an ordinary web site?

The world needs to get away from closed stores and back to open systems.
Do Your Math Abilities Make Learning Programming Easier? Not Much, Finds Study
Sounds good. Sent you a mail
There is a difference on availability and removal.
data insufficient. not mentioned whether per month or peryear. not mentioned whether temps/contractors are accounted for: this is a significant number.
> People are onto something when they call Google Chrome to be "weaponizing the change" in the new browser wars.

Some of the things they implement are non-standard too, like the File API's used in Mega's web UI.

I have some serious problems with Chromium / Google in general though. Interventions are a terrible idea: they promote nonstandard features and encourage web developers to make some Chrome-specific hacks to keep the website working for the majority of people.

I think there was some controversy with the scroll event intervention quite a while back, too.
If you want mormons in positive light, you should search for "latter-day saints", as that's how they typically brand themselves.

jw.org is on the indexing list, just pretty far down, based on the fact that previous times it's been visited it's had ton of javascript.

I don't have an axe to grind with fringe religious movements, I actually love them to bits. Try searching for Nag Hammadi or Hermes Trismegistos.
Given an address, the app provides the name of the suggested candidate in the corresponding voting district. The idea is to consolidate votes around only one candidate who does not belong to Putin's party.

In Russia, many potentially popular candidates are not allowed to run, were imprisoned, or otherwise persecuted, and in some cases killed. Those who remained are often spoilers or people you would not willfully vote for. So usually, people unhappy with the regime either did not show up for the election or spread their votes between many unpopular candidates. That is how Putin's party has support from 20-25% of the population according to various polls but commands 75% of the seats in the parliament. This, and election being rigged. So, the idea is to consolidate the votes of the people who are not happy with Putin's regime. If anything, just to send the message. And that's "protest voting".

The list of the candidates to support was published at the last moment to avoid the risk that they will be removed from the election. The app is the main channel to publish this list because it can auto-update and bypass Internet censorship. Normal websites are often inaccessible without a VPN. Google and Apple shut off this channel.
Votesmart started out with mailing lists. Then somehow lists got leaked, and some of the people who subscribed using the same mail they used in government services got visited by police. You also need phone number to register in most emails btw, and the legal requirement for having a sim card is to register it to your passport.
> who has a strong financial motive to spread the idea that renewable energy (and carbon fees and all that other stuff) is not a good solution.

Idk, Europe? Since we're buying those solar panels from China it can't possibly be China right? (Or just say what you mean so we don't have to guess at it)
> How would you go about this?

Realize that "they would never sell" means they don't plan to sell, but there is a number that would change that decision. So ask what that number is. 100M? 1B? 10B?
I would try an n-gram model with dynamic programming.

e.g.

logp(_, "") = 0

logp(word0, text) = max(logp_bigram(word0, word1) + logp(word1, rest) for word1, rest in prefix_words(text))
Two different things; removing something from everyone versus blocking something from specific userbase.
Why wouldn't they? Lockdown is good for Facebook's business.

Until we regulate the hell out of these big tech companies (applying laws on natural monopolies, or common carriers, or making new laws just for the internet companies) it's legal for them to do whatever they please with the bytes stored on the servers they own.
What integrity? They lost it, when they started kicking US dissidents off their platform.
There are a couple out there but the standards have taken a nose dive.
>I am sure that author of VLC would sell his product for much bigger money, the only problem that there's no one to offer him bigger money.

I don't know, having billions looks like a liability to me.
It matters a lot in the work place, particularly around the time the list comes out.

Senior management, especially with kids looking at these lists become interested in them. Its a good time to name drop your university around the old boys.
A ranking that is (was?) used by a magazine in Canada asked university presidents something like which university (apart from their own) that they regard most highly. It always seemed to me that this was a good question.

Universities nowadays focus a lot on these rankings, to the detriment of students. If the rankings added a category for clean washrooms, universities would stop buying books and start scrubbing. Bean counters perform cost:benefit analyses to set policies and redirect funding. You don't want to be the person in the meeting saying "um, but library books are important, aren't they?".

Deciding on a university based on an overall score is not a good plan. Focus on the things you care about. You'll likely find that there is no ranking category that matches up to your interest. So, visit the website. Or visit the university. Or (for graduate studies) contact professors and students. Talk with people, generally. And don't forget that there are other factors. Are you keen on cities or the country? Do you want to be near your family? Can you afford the university?
Before Brexit it was free for all the EU/EEA/CH... but not for England, Wales, Norther Ireland.

I always though it was quite fun detail.
If you look up the definition of racism you find:

"Discrimination or prejudice based on race." - from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

Since discrimination based on race is racism, once you make race a factor in your judgment (even if it's one factor out of many) then you are discriminating based on race and therefore racist.

It doesn't matter if you are trying to help a specific race or hurt another race, privilege or oppression, they are two sides of the same racist coin. You may think you can justify your racism by appealing to historical racism, but it doesn't change the fact that you are being racist.

I happen to think that all racism is evil, I don't care about your intentions or which group it's directed at. After all, even Hitler claimed to have good intentions. There has yet to arise a racist that doesn't believe that he is doing something good. That's why I think trying to excuse some forms of racism while condemning others is arbitrary and hypocritical. Ends don't justify means. If you actually want to help people, find a way to do it that is not racist.

Edit: forgot to respond to CRT / structural racism

If by structural racism you mean anything other than laws/policies that are overtly racist or intentionally designed to target certain races despite having no overt racist language, then I agree that that is a problem. If you however conclude from a disparity in outcome that racial discrimination must be the cause of the disparity, then I think you are committing a logical fallacy (affirming the consequent).

The fallacious argument is:

(1) If there is structural racism then you will see disparity in outcome for different races.
(2) there is disparity in outcome for different races
(3) therefore there is structural racism

There can be any number of reasons to explain a disparity in outcomes across races. The existence of the disparity is not enough to prove racism. What I find is that the accusation of racism is made too easily, because there is political currency in victimhood. It's sad because tilting at windmills obstructs the actual progress that can be made at solving real problems, because we are distracted with thought-policing our white neighbors.
That's excellent, but we should be replacing coal, not nuclear. At least not in this order. By having renewable replace nuclear you win nothing and coal keeps polluting just as much as it did before because you're not replacing coal. So yes, killing nuclear first obviously causes more pollution from coal.
Few people will buy a car with alternative fuels if there is no convenient, generally-available way of refueling it. Mandating car propulsion systems without supporting refueling infrastructure seems shortsighted.
I want to caution you against obsessing over solving your problems with some great fitness overhaul. Part of your problem is not being able to muster the energy and the willpower to make that kind of change in the first place. Instead - think small. What is the lowest hanging fruit on a habit level that will give you a little more energy and boost your feeling of being in control.

To give you an example, I recently gave myself a huge energy boost at hardly any cost by just improving my breathing and sleep. This is what I did.
1. Started going to bed early enough so no alarm was needed.
2. Bought air filter for my bedroom (300$). Fixed a bunch of allergy problems and improved my sleep with no added effort on my part.
3. Noticed I often wake up tired with a dry mouth. Did some research on healthy breathing patters, particularly at night, and found that I was probably mouth breathing. Fixed this problem by taping my lips at night for 10 days in a row (sounds weird, actually no big deal). I now wake up after 7 hours of sleep feeling fully awake.

The energy and clarity I gained from these small habits then actually gave me the space to try and build an exercise habit gradually. Because my schedule is such that exercise needs to take place in the morning this is helped by feeling more energised and awake in the morning. I also noticed that because my body is better oxygenated in the morning i have far fewer aches and pains than I used to.

The point is that there are some changes in life, like exercise or overhauling your diet, that, while undoubtedly beneficial, require a level of clarity and mental focus to have a chance to be successful. If those prerequisites aren't met it just becomes another stick to beat yourself with. Just examine yourself with kindness and see what the easiest way is to give yourself a boost. Good luck!

EDIT: typos
then why not got rid of coal first, keep nuclear until renewables can be a sole source of energy?
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