skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Error Correction isn't the important part of ECC: it's Error Checking. There was a very long thread recently about this in the context of row hammer over at the forums on Real World Tech. While ECC can't fix row hammer, it can let you know that something is wrong and the system operator needs to intervene. The same thing is needed on desktops. Without ECC you won't know that your system is failing and silently corrupting your data. Especially when DRAM vendors are shipping products that don't reliably meet the defined operating parameters in their data sheets. "Trust, but verify".

The extra cost for ECC is basically noise in the cost of a desktop system. I buy unbuffered ECC DIMMs for my AMD systems and they're basically maybe 5-10% more than a non-ECC DIMM. The SSD premium is more than that. Registered DIMMs have a higher premium mostly because they need to have additional ICs on the DIMM to handle the higher memory capacities that servers tend to support.

I really wish CPU vendors would just flat out require ECC on every system shipped. Knowing that main memory is failing would save so much time speaking as someone who has encountered DIMM failures in otherwise stable systems. Days of debugging what turns out to be a hardware issue is no fun.
There is no embargo on China (in this context) though. The world has not agreed to not do business with them.
> But there aren't and infinite number online or off.

Not literally, no. But there is effectively unlimited room in "cyberspace" for both public and private squares. That people actually choose to congregate in a particular place isn't really part of the definition. You have the right to speak to those who wish to listen—not the right to an unwilling audience or the use of others' property to amplify your message.

> Online, are there any public squares?

Only those that the operators choose to make public. The government could run its own forums where it guarantees access to anyone who wants to speak… not that this is necessarily less prone to censorship. It can't guarantee you an audience (and most sane individuals would probably avoid a completely unmoderated forum given the kinds of speakers they attract), but then that's also true of real-life public squares.
Do you think every price should be set according to marginal cost? Since the marginal cost of a chip is extremely low after you've paid for the fab and design costs, should those be free as well?
As a German you of all people should understand the havok unchecked authoritarian regimes can have on people and the world. The USA may not be a perfect democracy/republic and it has certainly been through tough times as of late but it is foolish to resort to such false equivalence.
"Leaked screenshots show Amazon blaming the big AWS outage on sudden, surging traffic from an 'unknown source' that overwhelmed parts of its cloud network"

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-aws-outage-cause-prob...

"Thousand Eyes AWS Outage Analysis: December 7, 2021"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29483487
I think the American individual pursuit of happiness is not compatible with Chinese good for society approach. Now it feels good to think that one can combine all the good stuff from different systems and make a best system but somehow it is not possible.
Data hasn't come in since 2019. Is that because none have been detected since? Or did the program halt?
Virtually every meaningful laptop in the last 4-5 years has had an integrated GPU, even if it's a basic Intel one - even though my personal laptop model is 4-5 years old with such a GPU, I'm also able to run Intellij on WSL2 on it very comfortably. I do have 32 gigs of RAM though.
You always need to know what you're doing, but Rust lets you encode more of what you mean in the code and the compiler checks that you're not violating your own invariants. That's the killer feature for me. I feel like I'm working with the compiler, not against it.

Sometimes I feel like C's compiler is almost adversarial, going out of its way to find small mistakes in my code and have them blow in my face at runtime instead of notifying me. I understand why it works that way of course, but usually when my Rust code compiles, it works. I can't say as much for my C code, despite nearly 20 years of practice.

I do share some of your frustrations with the DTB thing, I'm not a fan of it either, although something like that was needed and I'm sure any alternative would have its haters.
> Based on conservation of energy

It turns out that energy is not conserved globally in General Relativity.

https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/GR/energy_...
I asked my Google Assistant if I could call her Siri.

She said "Why? Have I done something wrong? If so, yes this is Siri!"

I'm not even kidding. She's also said "That might get confusing" before or something like that.
When businesses become so large, they no longer are a $countryOfOrigin company (A US company in the case of Apple). They become multinational entities that have no loyalty to a nation, just loyalty to pocket books.
> If you don’t live in India, it is highly likely that your bank-to-bank transactions involve giving your counterparty a code representing your bank, a number for your bank account, and some metadata about yourself.

No. It involves anyone billing me giving me their bank account (IBAN) number, and usually some reference number too, along with the amount and due date.

> The Single Europe Payment Area (SEPA) offers free, instant transactions between European banks. They’re pull based; a user communicates their banking information to a business, which debits the user’s account, rather than the business communicating their banking information to the user in order to send them money.

Sure, maybe that also exists -- but why would anyone accept doing it that ass-backwards way around?!?

All in all, one wonders whether this guy just doesn't know what he's talking about (when it comes to Europe), or if perhaps he has some reason to outright lie.

> My employer Stripe...

Oh. Well, I guess that answers that, then.
IBM field engineers had a special dongle key that could unlock hardware features that were already present on the hardware, for a price
I kind of don't care about correctness. Just hide results that seem to be duplicate.
That's true. However, it seems in China some things just happen much more quickly than anywhere else. This happens with building new nuclear power plants (or building anything, really), and I wouldn't be hugely surprised if it also happened to things like sex education, especially given Chinese lack of tolerance towards religious extremism and the reproduction rights hurdles it brings, even in nominally civilised countries like the US. Another thing about those official Chinese statistics is... well, personally I'd take them with a grain of salt. China is still far behind the West when it comes to transparency.

The testimonies are a strong argument, however we're in the middle of information war against China. There is also the argument of the amount of those testimonies: there are surprisingly few of them, given millions of people armed with smartphones who live there.
Writing a register based VM in less than 125 lines of C code
TIL Apple Chess is based on sjeng

https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/Chess/tree/Chess-...
My guess is whenever the return to the prime investor is in a different form from their input ( a donor gets "did good" happiness return for $ put in) all sorts of ineffieciencies will come in.

In for profit it is $ return for $ input.

A good test of this is if fully volunteer labor non profits achieve outcomes better than those accepting $ - I dont know the answer but wonder.
IIRC EuroNCAP already evaluates how a car behaves as a "crash partner", but I don't know how much (if any) this affects the final rating.
Auto-braking systems only operate a low speeds (below 15mph I think).

There’s also the emergency brake assist systems that do operate a speed. They use front facing radar to detect objects you might be about to collide with, and increase the brake pressure assistance, so you still need to physically press the brake. But if the car thinks you won’t stop in time, then it’ll multiply your break input to try and bring the car to a holt fast enough. But, you need to provide the initial brake input, they won’t fire alone.
The sensible way to get to LGA is to extend the N/W line. You get ~two more stations in the local neighborhood, plus the station at the airport itself, and it's a direct stop on the local subway anyways, no interchanges required (except as necessary to get to the N/W).

By contrast, the LGA Airtrain idea is to go the wrong way. This extra detour means that existing transit (i.e. buses) is likely to still be a faster way to get to the airport. It also requires a separate transfer, with a separate, steep (IIRC) fare for what it's doing.
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> can you back any of the claims up with anything substantive? For example, that there is no difference between parties?

Corruption doesn't have a party.

What matters is the candidates. Rand Paul and Liz Cheney are in the same party, but they're not the same. Bernie Sanders and Adam Schiff are in the same party, but they're not the same.
It's not up to me, so please temper that impulse to shoot the messenger. But retrofitting or even rebuilding homes, schools, hospitals, bridges, etc. would be a great start. Proactively holding more mandatory earthquake drills, not just in schools. Adding Earthquake Early Warning devices to schools, office buildings, power stations, transit (which would slow down or stop the train before the shaking starts). Adding more seismic sensors to the currently very sparse Early Warning network, to get better data and therefore better predictions and more warning time to people living away from the epicenter; even ten or fifteen seconds of warning could prevent some injuries.

More info:
https://www.usgs.gov/programs/earthquake-hazards/early-warni...
and
https://www.shakealert.org/implementation/wea/
and
https://www.pnsn.org
Interpretation informs perception and perception isn't some constant in the human experience. A difficulty of classification can absolutely be a problem of perception because none of these things exist in a vacuum. Literally every human interpretation of reality is at best an approximate summary of what we experience of reality because it's impossible to remove bias and, believe it or not, we still don't know everything.
Binutils/gcc cross-compiler can be built rather quickly, once you know the right configure flags for each. Then it's just make && make install. You can speed the buil considerably by building with -g0 and not doing a bootrstrap or building needless targets.

Then you have a cross-compiler in some --prefix that you can point the kernel build system to via some environment variables and you're done. It's a well known process.

It's basically built just like any other dependency and doesn't take much time.

Hardly a nightmare. If it would be possible to just add rust to the list of gcc languages, that would indeed be very easy.
If someone is forcing you to use Facebook products, you might try Barinsta, an open and (client-side) tracking free Instagram app.
>it uses system built-ins

... which themselves differ by system.
How many of them made it? Of the people I knew in college that wanted to go to medical school afterwords, like 1/8 of them actually got in.

(I went to a good school, these were intelligent people)
I'll respond to both of you here, since I cba to refute the same thing twice.

Let me ask you this: was the colony of Jamestown not a colony? English citizens in a foreign land ruled by a governor beholden to the crown?

Because that's how all the "provinces" populated by Spanish settlers were set up. King Charles V chartered the Council of the Indies, which set up viceroys to govern the "provinces" in the New World, which was beholden to the monarchy.

Aside from this, the actual charter of the Council of the Indies uses the words "colonias" and "territorios" when referring to their "jurisdicciones" as opposed to "provincias". I think those cognates can be fairly easily understood.

Look, I'm happy to admit I'm wrong if you can provide a better source than the charter for the council over Spain's colonies.
Data composability: what it is and why it matters – Mirror
What do you suggest as an alternative? This is the current state of the science as far as Covid-19 is concerned. There will most definitely be different types of vaccines with longer lasting immunity [1] and anti-viral drugs [2] in the future but this is the best we have at this time.

[1] https://www.clinicaltrialsarena.com/news/emergex-trial-covid...

[2] https://www.npr.org/2021/12/06/1061902658/what-a-new-antivir...
While introducing the mathematic proof in the show is cool, this exact puzzle also came up in an episode of Stargate SG-1 season 2, which predates this Futurama episode by about 10 years.

https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Holiday

See the last few paragraphs of the plot summary.

I wonder where and when this puzzle was first pondered? Is it a sci-fi adaption of a classical math problem?
The money for these projects largely comes from the federal government anyways.
That project made it way worse
New German Government Is Pro-Encryption and Anti-Backdoors
> I’m hard pressed to find examples in history of large groups that said, “We thought A, but the answer’s actually B.”

End of the Soviet Union?
I wish the order of the arguments of ln were easier to get right. One time I did an ln --force with the arguments in the wrong order and ended up ruining all the files. Had to restore from backup.
It looks like this doesn't really understand the code... If I have a bunch of functions in different files all called "print", it won't be able to determine exactly which one is linked in and called at runtime.

Googles codesearch tool[1] actually compiles the code and uses the compilers parse tree to make the search index. The only time it doesn't work is if you are looking for code that has been "#ifdef 0"'d, when it falls back to regular string matching, and the difference is night and day.

Please github... please try to make a search index by compiling everyones files. Plenty of projects have CI buildbots which have all the info to automatically compile millions of projects, and at the same time generate the necessary parse trees. Even for interpreted languages like javascript/npm, python/pip, you can use heuristics to make a cross-module function call graph accurately most of the time.

[1]: Example URL from it: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:thi...
Our Pseudonymous Selves
Google also has an entirely different business model than Apple. You could say they would be in direct competition to the CCP so I don't think this is a reason to hold Google up for their "principles".
funnily enough correct and detailed maps of ussr were available in nato countries
Not exactly their fault but given up using FreeBSD when they cannot support docker properly for quite a while.

I have plenty of containers that I'd like to use but there's no way to do it in FreeBSD.

Besides, I don't see benefit of using it over Linux except to learn and keep up with the difference between the two.
I'd argue if you take away nothing unique from reading something that everyone else also read, that's its own problem.

I have the opposite issue, I tend to think a little differently which makes it hard to be a good communicator some times, but I have had some luck seeing things a new way when working on some problems.

I think you shouldn't avoid reading something just because others do unless your plan is to just parrot some lesser-known author, pushing their thoughts off as your own. Gather all the data you can from all available sources and think critically. Anticonformity IS conformity.
The actual point is to scam people. With the support of true-believers that this is a thing to give it hype.

Crypto in general feels like MMM scams but for men.
It kind of does though. The modern Republican Party despises almost all government spending, including infrastructure. Infrastructure, and trains in particular, are communist.

"[T]he real reason for progressives' passion for trains is their goal of diminishing Americans' individualism in order to make them more amenable to collectivism."

-- George Will, 2011
https://www.newsweek.com/will-why-liberals-love-trains-68597

Federal infrastructure spending is a "communist takeover of America, via so-called infrastructure".

-- Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene, 2021
https://www.newsweek.com/gop-rep-adam-kinzinger-mocks-marjor...
The Genius Behind the Weirdest Show on TV
> Nobody is paying $50 for web games

Unless a AAA studio releases a main title for web that will be true as there are no $50 web games to buy to make this come true. I'd guess most non-AAA game sales on Steam aren't near $50 though but both of those can still be extremely lucrative.

> there's no in-app purchase system

90% of browsers support the Payment Request Web API and you're also free to make your own integrations to your payment processors directly yourself (which isn't always true of consoles/app stores).

> no web gift cards in stores

You can piggyback off the traditional payment backends (e.g. Google Play) and use their cards or use your own (like game specific Roblox/Fortnite cards in stores)

> and the exploitative interstitial ad networks that enable free mobile games to make boatloads of money don't exist on the web

I don't think you saw tons of interstitial ad companies for mobile prior to having mobile games that made sense to use them either. After all it's not like the web is incapable of delivering ads it's just there is no point in delivering these types of ads without that type of content.

.

I think the real reason is distribution pains. By the time you make a games impressive enough to garner strong sales it becomes a PITA to distribute via the browser. Large amounts of persistent storage are a pain to manage in browsers (if you can even get the amount you want) and delivering an entire game or designing it to be completely streamable is a ton of cost and overhead vs just serving persistent differential app updates via traditional means. You get less control of the environment the game is run in and what you get in return is worse performance and feature capability to work with out of the gate. Compare this to any other distribution means where you're able to manage distribution, use the full capabilities of the device, and more long term stable platforms with less overhead.
It’s the same bias, we’re so accustomed to sales pitches proclaiming perfection that an honest pitch sounds like the top of a disaster.
Do B Corp organizations fit into this narrative? From what I've read organizations like Allbirds and Sweet Green are B Corps but I don't know much about it beyond that.
Did you just compose this? Very well articulated. I'm glad at least this is becoming more obvious - we have to recognize a problem before we know we need to find a solution.
So maybe start using Rust on the backend and WASM on the frontend?
I started out dealing with my social media addiction by doing this.

Then I just started logging out most of the time.

In the end I just closed all my accounts but Twitter where I unfollowed everyone and set it up as a dumb mastodon relay for reach.

Feeling extra smug right now.
There was a moment where I thought GitLab was poised to start hitting critical mass and GitHub's best days were behind it, that was probably around right before or after the acquisition.

Microsoft has done a great job of actually improving the product and investing in it, something that seems to not happen most of the time with giant acquisitions.

GitHub today, at least for me, is definitely improved over the GitHub five or so years ago. It does feel like some things are bloated due to a push for feature after feature, but the core features have gotten better to the point I don't care. I just wish I didn't have to spend 2 minutes turning off all the annoying features I don't care about for small projects on every new repo I create.
This isn't that uncommon and doesn't seem like a big deal at first thought. I do appreciate the author going over the (unexpected) issues he found related to moving away from the use of ISOs, as I hadn't considered them.

While not the same as a general purpose OS image, all the major audio Linux distributions I've used (Volumio, moOde, piCorePlayer), which are intended for use on Raspberry Pi or other embedded systems, ship this way rather than as ISOs, and support resizing the OS partition to take the rest of the micro SD card for music storage or anything else. A similar approach for an OS on a bootable USB drive seems very reasonable.

Incidentally, the last time I installed an OS from a CD or DVD was Windows 7 in 2016. Everything since then has been a USB stick, a micro SD card, or a micro SD card in a USB card reader.
It would be nice if people paid more attention to the effects of the restrictions that are being made. But in the end this will just be used as an excuse to try and impose even more controls.
No. They’re unavailable because they refused to go back into the market after China got caught using espionage. Were it not for that, it’s very possible Google would have caved; we don’t know how that would have fallen. It’s convenient they didn’t have to answer that, but not because they didn’t cave.
Found some here; https://toplists.net.in.tum.de/archive/alexa/
Easy; It wasn't DE-CIX privacy that was violated by BND operations, so DE-CIX can't sue against it.

Germany is home to such super weird and reaching legal arguments. If you want another one, check out the BNDs "Space theory" [0]

[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weltraumtheorie
The deepest metro station in the world
What is the #1 problem why aspiring founders won't start their dream business?
In my experience:

- People think they need to be full-time on their business

- People think their idea is not worth it

- People don't know how to run a business, so they paralyze

What do you think? What was the main barrier for you to start?
Thanks for the reply, allow me if you don't mind, to supply a counterpoint: I believe they're distinctly different in means, though maybe not effect.

The strength in flash was the ease of using the IDE(?) to create things like tweens and interactions in a way I can only compare to Visual Basic. Despite Actionscript and Javascript both being hypertalk-alike technologies (and now ECMAscript), the speed at which one could, say, create an interactive cartoon or cutscene in Flash is unmatched when compared to that of WebGL or Canvas. I venture to assert that this is because of the environment used to create these types of things was superior to typing raw code.

This entire argument, however, is based on me not being an expert in WebGL or Canvas, and not being aware of a Flash-comparable development environment to create projects for them other than a textual IDE.
How could a request from my phone to facebook servers, containing my IP Address and location possibly be "anonymized and aggregated."

It aggregates data from _all_ the people using my phone, in my home, on my wifi? Or does the anonymization happen after the request is sent to fb servers? Can I audit their machines to verify this?
> Such a position is certainly partisan

Try patriotic, or more cynically nationalistic.
Easy to do when A - You have the "right" opinions (they aren't politically incorrect or unpopular among your target customer demographic), and/or B - You are insanely rich.