skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you trust the guys involved (and I do because they have a great track record within the German hacking community) the story goes as follows: This invalidation was carried out by a jury who had no clue what they were doing, after the first judge (coincidentally married to a google lobbyist) pulled back frommthe case which was running rather well for them.

I just spent 3 hours on listening to a (German) podcast on the matter with one of the people who developed the algorithm that was copied (addressing scheme for storing and adressing the different LOD tiles in memory, coincidentally the exact scheme Google uses till today, because the guys spent a lot of time optimizing).

The prior art TerraVision had the same name but was a completely different software (military simulation if I understood correctly) and didn't make use of that algorithm.

They still convinced the jury : )
Konbini are totally there when you need them. Also yeah, associated with tragic poverty as well, e.g. in Japanese cinema.

I got a bit nostalgic reading your comment. I lived off of some weird stuff when I was poor in Japan. Bags of donuts or bread found behind bakeries, basically in the trash. Unwanted produce that our Brazilian friends would bring over. They always had some other amusing garbage find too, like a G-Shock still in its original packaging. "SHIN-PIN, ne," they'd shout, laughing together.

You couldn't talk about this to regular Japanese friends, some understood but most seemed to look away embarrassed.

My favorite at any kombini was tuna onigiri and a meiji bar.
Hit me up. I feel the same and actually did roughly the same. Are you in the bayarea by any chance? email: lakota gmail

What you and I area looking for in essence is a life coach. I'm not one but fatherless all my life, it seems having someone to bounce ideas and finding purpose may help. Not necessarily that i have an answer for either of us but having no one to talk to doesn't help. Wife is not someone whom this topic is either ideal or would go too well.

Again, I'm not selling you anything but to tell you I feel the same. Just looking for a chat bud who is maybe willing to share each other's burden but also maybe the sounding board will shed some light in the end of the tunnel.

In my 40's w a 2yr toddler and wife, I'm about to be jobless after my contract ends. thank god! but not thankful not knowing what to do next....
I also heard that iron-air batteries are just another kind of metal-air batteries. The problem is that hydrogen-air batteries already exist, and are basically the same thing. Iron-air is therefore just reinventing of the wheel.
Uh the actual story seems to be that people in apartment blocks "in NSW Health's Special Health Accommodation, where Covid-positive patients and close contacts are sent for isolation", are being limited to 6 beers a day each. "Residents can consult with a clinician if they think they need more than the allowed limit."
Is the instinct for rebellion irrational, or the instinct for tyranny?
You don't need to somatically die. If you end up mentally borked that is enough.
This is a chicken and egg problem.

No one will bother to make an ARM chip for "PCs" if there is no OS to run on it. MS won't fully port Windows to ARM with a Rosetta-like layer unless there is an ARM computer to run it.

Yes, Linux can run on anything, but it won't sell enough chips to make creating a whole new ARM computer line profitable.
Yup. Just like every other cloud company: hook people cheap, get them super dependent, and then go public telling investors they'll make a goldmine when you jack prices.

The extra fun bit is that just exfiltration will cost you.
+1 in general.

However, we used Redis as a session store and we were OK with users going through the pain of re-login if Redis lost the data.

So, in a way I guess the use of the word "Ephemeral" is correct IMO.
Actually no. In China they use coal, and this is the predominant way we've been making aluminum in recent years.
I knew Bob- brilliant botanist and plant scientist. Took a trip with him and some family once- he knew every plant and how Lewis and Clark would have used it as they floated the Missouri.
Are you also on Ryzen?
I get:

clang -O3 -march=native: 0.769s

clang -O3 : 0.830s

clang -O2 -march=native : 0.904s

gcc -O2 -march=native :1.007s

gcc -Os -march=native : 1.148s

gcc -O3 -march=native : 1.928s

gcc (GCC) 11.1.0

clang version 12.0.1

On Ryzen 3700x
>I'm confused why so many people seem hellbent on convincing me that a notch is a good thing

Most people. I assume, don't care about the notch.

Also - many people use their macbooks without opening them most of the time.
C++/COM used the term marshalling a lot if I recall.
One type of data that can beneficially be exposed under different keys is information pertaining to financial instruments (e.g. instrument reference data or market quotes). Some users may wish to look them up using an ID assigned by Bloomberg (a FIGI). Some other users may instead be familiar with an ID assigned by Reuters (a RIC). Or an ISIN, a CUSIP, or a SEDOL, and so on. In some cases it's simpler to store the data under multiple keys than to build "joins" into the client (given we don't have the luxury of RDBMS SQL logic).
If you want protection from the US government while in another country, you have to enter that country on a US passport [1].

[1] https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/international-tra...
Seattle Public Library has this. You can even chat with them online. (I'm not linking to it because I'm not sure they want the attention.)

My friend works there. She loves interesting questions -- probably even about penises. Unfortunately she says a lot of old folks use it just ease their loneliness and to ask tech support questions.
94% of the _visible_ universe's galaxies
Pickling is just one specific type of marshalling, so the terms are not equivalent. I'm not familiar with Ruby, but from your link it's clear that the Marshal library is also for one specific marshaling format.

By the way, pickling is great for transmitting data at runtime between processes that you own, because it can marshal almost any Python object and it's very fast. But it's bad at storing data (on disk or in a database) because it can execute arbitrary code and the format of the objects can change between package releases. That's quite different from marshaling as JSON, which is a very stable format supporting a deliberately restricted set of types.
If we're in a simulation then there aren't any alien civilizations. No sense wasting computational resources on them.

P.S. As far as I know, computational complexity is the only physical quantity that doesn't obey conservation laws. So we're probably not in a simulation. If we were, it would probably be the other way around.
I wrote something like this that's Flex (Flash)-based and was backed by Amazon S3. I learned a lot writing it, but it was so niche, and Spotify was growing so fast that I abandoned it.
This is not true. Ubuntu supports BIOS boot without any issues. I booted 21.10 yesterday on a Core i5-540M and it worked without any issues.
Please and for the love of all that is good, use a proper database to store sensitive and critical data.
I have been cracking up everytime I see Martin Short walk into any scene on Only Murders in Buildings.

Just watching his facial expressions as his character tries to make sense of things, he has no capacity to process is priceless. Then ofcourse he proceeds to come up with the most ludicrous answers to whatever problem with all the overconfidence in the world. That routine has me literally rolling on the floor.

I dont think the woke/anti woke bs matters. There are really lots of ways to make people laugh if you really want too imho.
you can't jail alienation.
> A good example are generics or template programming. E.g. even in C++ if there is heavy use of template programming around the library boundary can make LGP infeasible for that use case. And we are still in C++ which is rather close to C in how it compiles stuff.

... You think people haven't solved this problem for literal decades in c++ ?

If your LGPL lib uses a template :

If it gets inlined the license says that it's fine and not breaking LGPL that you won't be able to change the call sites. All c++ compilers will still produce a non-inline version of the symbol with weak linkage that can be replaced in the cases where inlining did not happen. Surely rust does the same in order to comply with LD_PRELOAD semantics ? (Even MSVC does that inline symbol exporting afaik).

Like, you think people who wrote the LGPL did not consider the case of macros in C for instance ?

> If we go a step further, e.g. into Rust it becomes even more of a mess. (It is possible, at least theoretically, with a lot of hacks and restrictions, but totally a nightmare not worth even considering. And again if generics are used a lot, all the generic code at the interface boundary leaks.)

If that's such a nightmare then don't depend on the work of people who wrote LGPL libs and find an alternative instead ?
The US has the largest prison population in the world (if I recall correctly both in absolute number and as a proportion of the population), it really doesn't seem to be working out for them. So no, it's not that simple...
I'm an embedded software engineer and into 3D printing useful/functional things. I've made a lot of cool complicated stuff with OpenSCAD. There's a lot of problems that are solved nicely in code. For example, I made a two stage 80:1 gear box for a force feedback steering wheel project, and I fully parameterized the gearbox geometry based on the tooth count, gear metric, and extrinsic mounting constraints. As a result, I could very easily try out different ratios and metrics across the whole assembly.

It's sometimes more painful to use code for quick "all I need is a funny shaped..." projects. Some projects really benefit from having a for loop, though.
I guess 2011 Latitudes were the pro models? they were built like a tank.. not anymore i guess
Backblaze is the best AAS I use by far. My only issue with them is that the UI on the site is a bit janky (the other day, for example, I couldn't get the end date for my backup to actually 'stick' - it would refresh and reset).
Which was inspired by OCaml Result Type.

https://ocaml.org/api/Stdlib.html#1_Resulttype
This is a nightmare when copying numbers that has spaces between every 3 digits, when the system has Arabic, for example a mobile number would get the digits reversed upon copying them.
I used DDG on my phone for a few years and had the constant comparison to Google on my desktop. The results are not worse, they are just different. It is easier to find rare jewels and non-clickbaity content with DDG this is sometimes way more interesting than the heap of content farms found by google. You sometimes have to give DDG a bit more hints what topic you are searching for by adding search words like "programming" or "city". But thats it. For me it is totally usable. At first I was too lazy to change it, now I don't want to change it anymore.
I'm still daily driving a 2015MBP. Got the battery replaced, free under warranty, a few years ago. Running lates MacOS without any issues

The phones in my family are an iPhone 6S, iPhone 8 and an iPhone XS. All running the latest iOS. The 6S got a battery swap for 50€, others still going strong.

Similar with tablets, we have three and the latest one is a 2017 iPad Pro. All running the latest iPadOS.

Stuff doesn't need to be repairable and upgradable if it can outlast the competition by a factor of two while still staying on the latest official OS update.

Can't do that with any Android device. A 6 year old PC laptop might still be relevant though.
I’ve had a 4K 15” Dell for a couple of years, and the Linux support for 4K has been very sucky with Ubuntu.

There are lots of corner cases, and every now and then you run into a program that just won’t scale and the text is teensy weensy, and there is no usable workaround.

I wished I had chosen the 1080p matt screen (or maybe 1440p 15” if that were an option on the XPS).

Apart from that I have been pretty impressed with the Dell with Linux drivers - for example still getting necessary firmware updates via Ubuntu.
In Java-land, marshalling is used in xml libraries, and serializing in json libraries. Wonder why they ended up differently.
The US has the most prisoners, by far, of any country in the world. How's that working out for eliminating crime?
Will DMA from external devices pass L3 or some other CPU cache? Or are all accesses to the freshy DMAed-to memory be cold
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Same. I only use DDG for web search and never feel the need to use Google search. I suspect the people who complain about the result quality either have very specific needs or could actually improve their query quality. I use Google's image search occasionally, because I feel it has more results.

The part that is really hard to degoogle for me is Youtube. There just is no alternative (if you factor in the available content).
Tip, search online for "custom screen protector". Some companies will cut a screen protector to custom size. Just measure length and width of the screen. For my 2019 16" MBP, I ordered a matte one and it's glorious ever since.

For Dutch people: https://www.smartfolie.com/
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At this point you're basically hoping for literal magic.

It's nice to dream, but, well...
There are two black dudes speaking straight Ebonics, and the whitest woman in the world translating for them. Zucker (who is Jewish) would immediately be excommunicated and branded a Hitler for filming this in 2021. One of the funniest scenes in the history of comedy, and the genre is immeasurably diminished by the current inability to film such things. As is the arrival of the sheriff scene from "Blazing Saddles" by Mel Brooks. "Blazing Saddles" is one of the most potent bits of anti-racist satire ever filmed, but there's one problem: the woke mob lacks the sense of humor. So the movie (I kid you not) comes with a "trigger warning" now, specifically for people too dumb to get the meaning of the movie, and what it aims to satirize.
A Jury in Delaware decided already that Google Earth doesn't violate the 1995 Art+Com patent. So the thing is settled.

But the fact remains that Art+Com had a working system in 1994 and the Keyhole founders had learned about it working at Silicon Graphics.

As it looks like there were multiple teams in the US working on something like or comparable to Terravision. Heck, I wrote a program in 1984 showing the world as a ball with the contours of the continents at the ZX Spectrum. I bet hundred's if not thousands of people did that as well, it is not that hard and requires only a little trigonometry.

I have no further insights into the story, but folks here should at least respect that a small group of hackers and and artists build a working system a good decade before Google Earth was published. I have yet to see any demonstration or video that comes near to Art+Com's TerraVision in 1994. There are papers written at the same time, a DARPA project working for a single military installation and a lot of work done shortly after TerraVision had been publicly demonstrated, but so far I have yet to see a video from 1994 or before comparable to Art+Com's TerraVision.
It makes perfect sense because just like every other cloud company, they hook you pre-IPO. Post IPO or buyout, with lots of customers dependent upon them, they can raise their prices to a bit above market price because their customers will resist moving.

Think about it: if you have a backups stored with them via their proprietary backup client, you have to stick with them or lose all your backup revisions; there's no way to move revision history.

That's why they charged below their own rates, they knew people would be trapped.

Backblaze backup plan pricing is about to skyrocket.
This is drug war propaganda. Methamphetamine is just another stimulant drug like Adderall. What makes it dangerous are these kind of articles and its illegal status. It is not dangerous when it is purchased from a pharmacy.
They said somewhere it's also a marketing investment. If they have people saying "Yeah I backed up a TON of data and it's really unlimited" then more people feel comfortable and become paying customers.

I can't find the link.

p.s. "Right now we have computer-wide deduplication, but not farm-wide or account-wide!" 4 year ago http://disq.us/p/1q3efbb
Someone did in fact test that. Thankfully when he found no basement, the situation resolved peacefully.

I like the story, because it’s a reminder that perfectly logical people can fall down these rabbit holes. If there are children in that basement, of course you should save them, and if you find no basement, of course you need to stop and concede. You’ve messed up.

Any one of us can fall down a little “rabbit hole” if something gets past the radar.
I have a top-spec 15” MBP that was the last release just before 16”. It has 100W supply and it’s easy to have total draw more than that (so pulling from the battery while plugged in) while running heavy things like 3D games. I’ve seen around 140W peak. So a 150W supply seems prudent.
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I recently watched it with my 15 years old son. He laughed a lot and at the same he was surprised how they dare to make some of the jokes, he thought some were really wild.
> I like to think that programmers get paid the big bucks to actually think, not just do what a blog post tells us to do

I feel this is a very cynical take on the reality of the software development world.

How much "thinking" anyone does or can do is completely irrelevant if they have no info to start with. "Thinking" only works if either a developer is omniscient, or managed to gather enough reliable info to be able to make decent decisions. As omniscience is not a thing, the next best thing is to gather reliable info from reputable sources.

Now, pray tell, who is expected to have more insight onto how to use Redis the right way than the Redis guys?

I understand that there is a tendency for software developers to think everyone else is an idiot and they are the only ones whose own decisions are good and well justified, but that's just your narcisism getting the best if you. Everyone is operating on a time budget to onboard onto things and deliver results, and if you don't have the benefit of being omniscient or drawing from the prior experience of someone who happened to do things in an acceptable manner then the best thing you can do is read "blog posts" from the project showcasing best practices, isn't it?
Ok, I'll spell it out. Presenting the idea that MuJoCo having a license fee rather than being free is better, not worse, or even that the difference doesn't matter because "well, I paid for stuff" is the inappropriate part of the privilege. Given a choice between "I can learn X but I need to spend significant money on it" and "I can learn X for free", with everything else equal arguing for the former is exclusionary.
What an amazing idea! Excited to see this grow
If perfect weather and no traffic is considered a stress test, I wonder what it'll do comes the wonder holiday shopping craze
Static binary translation is relatively straightforward until you start doing indirect jumps (function pointers, C++ vtables, etc), then all hell breaks loose.

At that point, the translator has to know precisely where the jump might go, and it becomes a total mess. Function pointers get encoded as data all the time, and you'd need to properly translate every address. Simple programs might not run into it, but telling users "sorry, we only support translating programs too simple for you to care about running" is not a good experience.

On the other hand, dynamic recompilation lets you easily hook indirect function calls to translate whatever new function is accessed on demand, and lets you reach really high compatibility.
I read the title as "most precise measurement of Newton's lifetime".

I expected an almost comical consideration of relativity and the locations he lived.

I'm a little disappointed that wasn't the case.
Sounds like a concentration camp to me. And a profound lack of freedom as well. In the US I don't (yet) have to ask anyone whether drinking seven beers is OK, nor am I forcibly sent anywhere if I get the sniffles.
Very cool. Are there any other such tools you would recommend as a must-install?
I think it likely that Apple will just ramp up what they've been doing so far - make an "M1 Ultra" that has 32 or 64 or even 128 cores of CPU, at least that many GPU and scale the memory and I/O in the same way. Put the one with fewer cores in the iMac Pro and the one with the most cores in the Mac Pro.

Every couple of years when they upgrade again every product they make will go up to M2, then M3, etc. etc.
> Centner called COVID-19 vaccines "experimental," despite the fact that they have been under development for decades

Attenuated vaccines have been under development for centuries. Do they even need trials?
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