skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the last few years; Microsoft started pushing this "Modern standby"[1] thing, which lets the CPU run while suspended or something. IIRC it is so a PC can run background services, wifi and what not, like tablets + cell phones.

It is causing so many issues, because the common use case for a laptop is to close the lid, and then stuff it into a padded bag. If anything starts up the laptop for whatever reason, all that heat is trapped in there, cooking the device. Some system BIOS are removing the option to even disable modern standby mode (vs traditional standby where just the memory was energized)

1: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/de...
in the United States, at least, (and until very, very recently, I believe), PrEP is required to be covered under healthcare; and, services like good rx make Truvada specifically very accessible in price, even free.

In the United States, please look into these services and what your insurance provider does cover because, at least for now, it should be *very* affordable. (between free w/insurance to $30/mo with GoodRX).

I do think that price is higher than I saw the last time I looked it up, but I don't have that search on hand to confirm.
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Another approach: consider how easily Donald Trump launched "a literal coup" against the US government, and how close we were to "literally losing 'democracy' forever", based on a clever series of dog whistles. Now imagine if he gave direct orders instead of only dog whistles.

How many instances of risk are there in the above literally factual story? What is the nature of this risk? Is there any hidden risk, might there be more than meets the eye?
Thanks, looks interesting. Does it cover measuring memory bandwidth consumption? This is something I feel there is a lack of good tooling for.
> it's much easier to turn off all notifications on iOS than other platforms.

...and much harder to make it notify in exactly the way you want, to make it run what you want, to customize system behaviors. Taming user-hostile applications is a completely different experience to running things that aren't hostile in the first place.

> But say, what happened to Ubuntu?

tbh it completely left my mind about a decade ago. I don't see any reason to use it over, say, Debian these days.
You don't need Assistive Access Mode, even without parental control or another iCloud account you can disable pretty much any app (including Safari and App Store) via Screen Time -> Content & Privacy Restrictions.

You do indeed need a trusted person to set a Screen Time Passcode and keep it safe.
The year of windows on the desktop was around 2004. Since then Microsoft has diligently worked to make things worse.
Math is an art form? On art/science demarcation I'd definitely rate math a science. I'm unsure what they're going for in that statement.
Are you a hardware engineer at apple speaking in official capacity? Not that I would believe that even you were. Of course the government can read their surveillance device.
Yeah, I agree. The memory-to-memory + modern CPU power makes it transparent or at least gives it a soft roll-off that IO based swap never achieves. But it's still a hack which too often is used by manufacturers to cheapen on RAM in machines.

As the gas-powered engine people will say: "there's no replacement for displacement" (I wont push the analogy comparing zram to turbocharging but, you know, they both deal with "compression"...)
Facebook literally was foundational in ethnic cleansing within Myanmar, I'd be careful calling this a "moral panic". Oh, also, there is good evidence for it, including Facebook themselves!

https://about.fb.com/news/2018/11/myanmar-hria/
I have often noticed that doing just thing is not enough, time and beyond there would be new apps that you end up installing, some notifications that you can not disable would end up consuming your bandwidth.
Packagekit is not essential for Fedora. I always disable it (I think it uses systemd to run) and then using ordinary dnf to manage packets.
> There was a service not long ago in Russia that would allow you to upload a picture of any woman you saw on the street. They would identify the face (via VK) and provide you with their contact and job information

Seems like gender technically wouldnt be a blocker, was that a product choice, or a marketing choice?
Didn't they recently have a modal dialog to choose colors and download their mobile app too? Now it really doesn't make sense
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Robot-packed meals are coming to the frozen-food aisle
Standby works fine for me on Windows and has for a long time across dozens of different devices.

Chances are if the system keeps waking from sleep, they have some third-party app that keeps waking the system.
Great selection of works, but I am missing a lot of references from topology in ML, with the article only assuming a very cursory perspective in terms of 'topology captures connectivity and/or continuity.'

Some works from my colleagues and me go a little bit deeper (no pun intended), for instance:

- Neural Persistence Dynamics: https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.15732

- Simplicial Representation Learning with Neural $k$-Forms: https://openreview.net/forum?id=Djw0XhjHZb

- A general review on topology in machine learning: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/artificial-intelligence...

There are more things in topology and machine learning, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your article ;-)
Every standard outlet.
Devs that refuse to move off Apple are severely disadvantaged in the LLM era.
The Ethics of Relational AI – Expanding and Implementing the Belmont Principles
I think, closest to answer is scientific marketing. It will answer to two questions: first, what people looking for now, second, are these people ready to pay for this thing. I believe, I should not prove you so obvious things.

Many famous people claimed, they don't use scientific marketing (most known example Jobs), but when insides leak from their closed circle, all people ho learn marketing clearly seen, they do almost same as classic University marketologist, just name things other names.

Sure, you could save about 100$ on classic marketing research and do things yourself. It is even possible, doing things yourself, you will got more clear and more reliable data on your case.

BTW exists many books on how to stay small in business, and have good enough economy (everybody don't need to become Google to succeed).

Any way, most powerful business heuristic - Just do it, don't wait, don't procrastinate, do not doubt, do and calculate results and only then think on results.
Slightly off topic but Seiko is probably my favorite watch brand period. It's hard to describe exactly why but if you look at other brands like say Rolex, Omega, Tag, etc, a big part of why people buy those is the prestige of that watch. Seiko on the other hand has virtually none of that prestige and you buy it simply because it's a freaking great watch. And with their sub-brand of Grand Seiko, you feel like you're in a special club wearing one of those because almost no one outside of watch people know what a GS is and even spending thousands you still feel like you pay for the technology (spring drive) versus just the prestige of "Grand Seiko". And they also make fantastic watches at the lower end, my first mechanical watch was a Seiko 5 which I got for ~$60. I've since given that one away to someone who got into watch collecting and I always recommend the Seiko 5 to anyone trying to get into watches.
Are you saying that the latest NVIDIA nvcc doesn't support the latest NVIDIA devices?
I hit this point after a few years working. I realized that outside of my day job, which at the time felt very much aligned to the stylized "Bullshit Jobs", I felt like I was just a consumer of things others made.

I got into woodworking, and I started building up new skills in anticipation of hanging my own shingle in the Data Science / Development space.

Its been almost a decade since, and....

- I got into exercism.io to really deeply learn languages I was using, and learn others besides. The same set of problems but new languages. Learned Python and C much deeper, then got to play with nim, rust, java, C++, and more. Super helpful to learn.

- I started looking at open source projects I use all the time and seeing where I could possibly contribute.

- I started getting into my hobbies. Woodworking where I can (I prefer hand tools to power tools), exercise, teaching kids (my own and others in neighborhood) strategy games (usually starting with chess), starting a garden where possible (we've moved a few times)

- Working towards cloud certificates. I haven't come across a need to actually get them or keep them up to date as a data scientist or (now) executive, but being able to plan solutions with cloud resources is super useful
It's a beautiful answer to a deeply annoying language feature. I absolutely love it. Yes, inline asm containing PTX definitely should be burned off at the compiler front end, regardless of whether it ultimately codegens as PTX or something else.

I'm spawned a thread on the llvm board asking if anyone else wants that as a feature https://discourse.llvm.org/t/fexpand-inline-ptx-as-a-feature... in the upstream. That doesn't feel great - you've done something clever in a proprietary compiler and I'm suggesting upstream reimplement it - so I hope that doesn't cause you any distress. AMD is relatively unlikely to greenlight me writing it so it's probably just more marketing unless other people are keen to parse asm in string literals.
Yes, and considering that your boot sector is actually a boot cluster... You need not use compression. You could even steal the entire first cylinder. (Now that is old school)...
So what? They can not enable third party processing (I would probably avoid it personally anyways) or work with one of the approved vendors.
Wikipedia has mountains of $$$ to back up that a lot of people do pay, even when it's not necessary at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C...
These days, Deliveroo/JustEat cyclists have got a sort of big glove that attaches to the handlebars, kind of combining these ideas. Hands are warm when cycling (very important in the UK) but they don't have to remove the gloves to operate phones or open their bags and do the actual delivery.

I think the search term is "handlebar mitts".
Commenter subjectsigma understands this. In a former life I had jobs that required a polygraph, and I was not in a cult, nor does the interview process select for uniformed idiots. Both of you are reacting to commentary that the author barely understands and that neither of you clearly understand.

Nobody in my circles seemed to think the polygraph was anything but a tool. In fact, the sibject is sometimes gossiped about in thise circles about the "relevancy" of the polygragh today anyways. The thing about buearacracy though is that change happens incredibly slow. If everyone decided to get rid of the polygraph alltogether today, it would still take some years to actually happen.
What are some examples of the complex semantics? The things I can think of(lifetimes, generics, traits) exist and are modelled in C too, but just with less(or no) support from the language and compiler.
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> Because the "ends" people envision quite rarely come to pass, yet the means of trying to pursue those ends do, with 100% certainty, happen. So most often you end up with all the evils, and none of the utopian justifications at the end of the road.

So what you basically say is that we should always follow the path of least evil at the current moment. It's strange to me to think that someone would say that this is indeed the optimal way to minimize evil.
I don't think it's so cut and dry. For lots of usecases, using Rust involves writing everything from scratch, because the only libraries available pull in an opinionated async runtime and feel entitled to call the global allocator and various syscalls at times the user cannot control, and these components cannot be swapped out because of fundamental issues that prevent Rust libraries from being composable (unless they go out of their way to adopt a feature that launched late last year?). IME there are relatively few usecases where long stalls due to GC are bad but long stalls due to page faults or open(2) taking a couple seconds to return are fine.
I've had a Dell XPS 13 9343 (2017 model, non-Developer edition) running Fedora for years without problems. I suppose you might consider it cheating because I replaced the original Broadcom WiFi card with an Intel WiFi card, as that driver was a bit flaky in the early days (whereas the Intel driver has kernel support).

Other than the pitiful 4 hour battery life, the laptop still runs fine, and mostly does what I need it to do for a permanently-docked daily driver.
Yes, you are definitely missing a decade here. The internet explorer/edge team was shut down long after Google grabbed most of the market share.

Chrome was launched 2008; Safari had its first release in 2003. And I was using the early Phoenix builds (later the name change to Firefox happened) in 2001. The version of internet explorer around the time Chrome launched was v7. IE 6 was already old news by then. And IE 8 launched soon after the Chrome launch. 9, 10, and 11 followed. And then the switch to Edge happened; which was a complete rewrite of their browser engine. Only in 2020, MS announced switching to Chromium. So, that's about 12 years of MS trying to hold on before they finally gave up.
Baird & Co. do the same: "“At the end of the year all of the filters are collected together and burned,” Baird says. “Everything is ‘deep cleaned’ and burned, all of the filters and all of the doormats both inside the refinery and throughout the office.” Last year the company retrieved £15,000 worth of gold from the deep clean."

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/dec/26/the-pots-of...
Founder Dr. An Wang set up the company to have tight control of the stock via his family. He elevated his son, Fred, to president.

While Dr. An Wang (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Wang) was a genius and pioneer in computing, his son was not up to the task of running the company and the coming PC revolution caught him flat footed. The company never really recovered.

https://tedium.co/2017/02/14/wang-computers-history-demise/
What you are looking for is Ikigai... I am not quickly finding a good article so these will have to do. ;)

0. https://becomingbetter.org/ikigai/

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikigai
As someone who has done this with both diesel and green hydrogen, no it’s not cheaper to run power, nor provide multi-megawatt solar provision
And I doubt those opinions are even sincere at this point.
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Unless that is labeled the new darkweb and blocked by the firewalls of ISPs and govs.

I hope enough mainstream things remain on the open web for it to be unrealistic to fully block.
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Efficient Equine Transport, from Han China to the Industrial Era
Given that the rise and fall of companies from SP500 status, this is a bet on the selection criteria.
Since C++ still evolves and changes, I guess greenfield C++ projects in the future can limit themselves to a subset of the newer improved language thereby C++ will continue living by that way as well.
@gavinhoward Just FYI, a couple of links in the article are broken:

* The "incomplete list" of C UB currently points to the Rust spec vision

* The link labelled "unreasonable programming language" currently points to the Gentoo Wikipedia page

* The "Starship" link points to the House Wiki page on Vicodin
With a 22kW (default European 3-phase) charger, it would be easy to have a full battery every morning. A large EV charges from empty to full in 5-8 hours.

In some places 3-phase power is very common (e.g. my small apartment in Copenhagen has a 3-phase supply), though in the UK it's less common. The upgrade might be £1000, or considerably more.

With 7kW (1-phase) it will be OK for a lot of trips — charging in 11-12 hours. This is more power than a normal domestic socket provides. In some countries there's a higher-power socket in the garage already, otherwise it's something the electrician needs to install.

A normal domestic socket is around 3kW.
Why do we expect Microsoft to support Linux? They are selling a commercial operating system and are not interested in supporting a free one.
> Surely at some point you stop spending it on yourself

Only for a limited definition of "spending on myself". Self actualization is where desire truly is boundless. 10B is not a lot of money if your goal in life is now to end malaria or build a city on Mars.

Another issue with your thought experiment is that you're now relatively rich. If in some distant future you have the purchasing power of a billionaire of today without being relatively rich, many people will be looking for new ways of outdoing each other.

Of course, consuming zero cost goods is not a measure of wealth, so they'll be consuming whatever isn't zero cost then.

> I generally like the argument that price (of a competitive good) should reflect the amount of energy it took to create.

I don't. The price of physical energy fluctuates with how difficult it is for humans to tap it.

I prefer the mental model that the price reflects the human difficulty - perseverance, pain, time, intelligence, physical force, ... - required to provide something.
Biocomputing – The Next Evolutionary Leap
For sure. I turned off Duolingo's notifications within two minutes of installing it. Great app otherwise!
I think of a passage in Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence:

"""
The idea of doing away with this awning, and revealing the bride to the mob of dressmakers and newspaper reporters who stood outside fighting to get near the joints of the canvas, exceeded even old Catherine's courage, though for a moment she had weighed the possibility. "Why, they might take a photograph of my child AND PUT IT IN THE PAPERS!" Mrs. Welland exclaimed when her mother's last plan was hinted to her; and from this unthinkable indecency the clan recoiled with a collective shudder.
"""
Just another data point. I cloned and ran `cargo build --release`. It took 2 mins and 2 seconds (M1 Pro, 2021).

Just want to say, creating a release build is really unusual! You'd do that relatively rarely. Most of the time you'd create a debug build, which took 29.56 seconds on my machine for a clean build and 1.45 seconds for an incremental build with one line changed.

I sympathise with the author's running on underpowered hardware, but it might not reflect the experience of the average Rust developer.
There's an old episode of RadioLab or This American Life (I can't remember which) that explores this very topic. If memory serves, there was a woman who lost her mum at an early age but her mum recorded videos to be shared with her at certain points in her life (birthdays, graduations, etc). I recall her mentioning she came to dread those events knowing she would have to relive losing her mum by watching the video. I can't recall if she felt it was a net positive or not.
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I've had hearing aids for about 6 years. The technology definitely works. It has to be activated in the hearing aids to use. There is a variation called a "neck loop" which allows an audio signal to be injected to hearing aids via anything that can be connected to a 3.5mm plug. I don't see this tech discussed often maybe because people are ashamed of wearing hearing aids. I feel no such shame.
Water scarcity drove steam power adoption during industrial revolution
For what it’s worth, I agree. Adding more tracking definitely isn’t going to help. But I don’t think there are any easy solutions. I definitely don’t envy the people in charge of Firefox’s product strategy.
Soviet revolution comes to mind.
The 20th century was just a completely abnormal period, where people decided to change their understanding of math at the same times that physics, statistics, and engineering were demand more and more different ideas fro it. On top of that, CS was created and branched from math.

Most of our history wasn't like that.
What's "downhill from a septic tank"? Isn't a septic tank a container that slowly fills up and is periodically emptied by a truck or something? There is no "flow downhill", is there? I thought the whole reason to have a septic tank is that you have no place for the stuff to go.
I discovered the engine oil thing in the past two years.

In the US, I’ve always heard something like every 3 months or 3,000 to 5,000 miles. The cars even warn you in that timeframe.

In Europe, a mechanic was very confused when I talked about an oil change when one was done the prior year. He said it’s more every 2 years or 20,000 to 25,000 kilometers. Once again the cars were set up to warn at that distance.

I’d love to get to the bottom of it. Why such a difference? I can understand the garages wanting the extra business, but why would the car manufacturers go with it?
Well you've pattern-matched me to someone I'm not. But w/e.
Not really, their margins typically wind up comparably with other manufacturing. They just have way way higher costs. Modern drugs are expensive, for a ton of reasons.

See this talk about pharmaceutical finances:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LGqQJFdoWM
This might be useful

https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/tokens.html#punctuation
https://imgur.com/a/biocomputing-next-evolutionary-leap-XuOU...
In the workplace, being DND all the time is not a thing that can realistically be done. It's not socially acceptable and I'm quite sure that your boss will sooner or later demand that you stop doing it.
I wonder if there's some kind of ridiculous accountability split like the famous McDonalds non-working ice cream machines.
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What's your definition of "convincing"? From what I understand about propaganda, you don't need any single article to be "convincing"; you just need to hammer your point long enough and frequently enough. Not to mention, if you just want to drown your opponent's points, it's enough for your messaging to be barely legible.
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Well Visa does have about half a million net income per employee (assuming 17 billion net income which they reported in 2023), but yes you’re right. I thought the number was lower.
> ...and much harder to make it notify in exactly the way you want

Disagree here. Might be because I just turn off all notifications. Basically I answer 'no' on the first run of any new app.

> to make it run what you want

Agree. The EU may force them to accept proper sideloading one day, but this is a topic for another flame war.
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Would you mind explaining what the negative practical consequences would be in the event of a Trump nomination?

The worst thing I remember from him (an action which was truly horrible) was related to ICE separating children from their families.

In my country (the UK), I don't see a huge personal difference in my daily life when either one of the two mainstream parties is elected. So I'm interested in where your comment comes from.

I do have my own views of course, but neither seems significantly more dystopian to me than the other.