skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you'll here mention. Ugh, "hear."

Another tidbit. Toward the end you hear mission control say "30 seconds." That's how much fuel is left[1]. Those guys had steel spines.

If you can't get enough of this stuff, I highly recommend "A Man on the Moon" by Andrew Chaikin[2], as well as the HBO mini-series produced by Tom Hanks and based largely on that book, "From the Earth to the Moon"[3]. "Failure Is Not an Option" by Gene Kranz[4] (flight director on Apollo 11 and 13, among other things) is also a good read.

[1] http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/apollo11_audio.html

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Man-Moon-Voyages-Apollo-Astronauts/dp...

[3] https://www.amazon.com/Earth-Moon-Four-Disc-Collectors/dp/07...

[4] https://www.amazon.com/Failure-Not-Option-Mission-Control/dp...
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Yes three is absolutely a toggle switch. C# and F# are mostly tolerant of this style of programming. But if you like writing "while" and "for" loops then the eager execution can really hurt. Also, if you do a lot of CPU or net intensive stuff then it's also a good time to turn "auto run" off.
It seems there's no "bright" side. There are some stay-at-home moms in my wife's family and they were... defensive... when my wife went back to work.

So either way, you find a way to be resentful or ashamed.

Go back to work and miss your child's first steps/words/laughs. Go back to work and someone else raises your children. Someone else uses your child to teach their child how to be a leader. Someone else (accidentally) gets called "mom".

Stay at home and barely manage to tread water financially compared to your dual-income friends. Stay at home and watch your career disappear (unless you chose one of those "never need to skill up" careers that're considered "safe" for women, like teaching). Stay at home and prepare for a lifetime of resentment about men being further ahead than you career-wise. Stay at home and propagate stereotypes.

I guess though, in the end, there's no doubt that someone that chose their career will regret it at some point in their lives, where you might be able to escape without regret having chosen to stay home.
"Note well"
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It works awesomely on both integrated and discrete graphics for me. IIRC Patrick and Glenn, the people who wrote webrender, by default use integrated graphics anyway (at least one of them does).

Software rendering makes it choke sometimes (other times it works surprisingly smoothly, but it depends on the load), but that is to be expected :)
It doesn't add that much to the above, but the now defunct Bookpool had a column where they asked various authors for lists of their favourite 10 computer books, and they asked Guy Steele [1]. His first entry was:

Computers & Typesetting, Volumes A-E Boxed Set by Donald E. Knuth -- I'll read anything that Don Knuth writes, and he has written quite a bit, including Surreal Numbers and 3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated as well as the famous Art of Computer Programming series. But this five-volume set is my favorite. The two volumes titled (and sold separately) as The TeXbook and The METAFONT book are well-known, but what I really recommend to you are TeX: The Program and METAFONT: The Program, because these are simply the best-written, best-documented, best-debugged programs of their size ever published. They reward careful study.

I've tried to read the source for TeX: The Program (I actually have the boxed set he mentions), but was impeded by my lack of knowledge of TeX. I keep meaning to get back to it.

[1] Guy's list in archive.org: http://web.archive.org/web/20080422183814/http://www.bookpoo...
Performance doing what? Email has several operations and none of these clients are performant at scale.

You know why mutt can be for me? I have a second program (isync/mbsync) sync the maildirs, a third to index it, and mutt is just for reading and sorting.

When you have one monolith doing all 3 at its will all the time, you get calls from users that Thunderbird and Mail.app are janky and the computer is hosed. It is interesting as FTS came to Thunderbird and they ran the indexer all the time, until they intelligently designed to have better controls around its execution as it destroyed general usability. Mail.app is better, but I see executive running it for days and it becomes a misbehaving pile of mess.

I am asking in a respectful tone and not to make light of your position, but what do you use? I want to get a better look into your view and I think this might help me understand you better, if you are willing to indulge me.

UPDATE: And when I say several things at once, ironically this is not by design! Email has changed a lot since the sendmail days (and that is cutting edge with respect to many veterans here) and thus there is well-known and accepted design I can think of beyond layers of addition on clients to meet definitions and changes in protocol, routinely made without any discussion of client operation beyond standards for file structures like mbox and Maildir, even they are formal standards, I would have to check,
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The best part is where you visit the site in Chrome and it still looks terrible. Really, you needed to put an opacity transition on the orange background of each of your comments?

Maybe if the site had a cleaner, simpler design it would be easier to make it work on all browsers.
The late-game tech really helps with this - you eventually get technologies that all you to blueprint and paste groups of buildings. This doesn't alleviate all of the issues, but it allows for component re-use and standardization. I do think some of the limits in Factorio are what make it fun, and differentiate it from a pure programming game.

I usually struggle to play any game that's too similar to brainteasers, puzzling, or thinking about systems optimization: I would rather spend those hours just programming, which is just as fun, and far more rewarding. But Factorio is sooo much fun... especially if you set up a server and play with friends.

I learned Chef getting my Factorio server running :) It's turtles all the way down in automation land.
Congratulations on the release! `cdylib` targets should prove very helpful for embedding, and compilation from a recent stable version will make it much easier to package.
If you eat mostly plants, two of these systems will provide 90%+ of your food (assuming you have a greenhouse to put it in, or live in a place that stays warm year-round).

The fastest-growing fish used for aquaponics is tilapia, which can reach maturity in six months. But, they require for the water temperature to stay above 60F (15C), and really prefer water above 85F (30C). Other fish take 9 or more months to mature.

Thanks!
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I didn't look at the code, but I often use something similar in assembly when hyper-optimizing loops. The fastest memcpy-like loop structure I've found on x64 involves using a negative offset from the end of the region, which is then incremented until it hits zero.

The advantage of this construct is that you can use the flags set by the increment to test for loop termination, rather than needing an additional comparison. The problem in C is that the compiler tends to "unoptimize" it for you after seemingly innocuous changes.

Anyway, the loop ends up looking something like this:

char *end = start + size;
size_t neg = -size;
do {
register = *(end + neg);
process(register);
neg += advance;
} while (neg);

For certain loops this construct shaves off 1 cycle per iteration, at the cost of ~1 cycle of initial setup cost. I'm wagering that he was doing something similar, but just kept the name "size" after the negation, rather than switching to "neg" as I did here.
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> A human factoring this things in his head is not magically more objective or less biased.

I get your point, and I think you make some good arguments, especially regarding the small number of data points needed. In fact, in this regard I think that machine learning (or statistics anyway) can be a very useful tool for informing decisions. I think it should be regarded similarly to how experts are used in court.

But I think you're missing mine. It is not that humans are better or worse at having bias when considering factors. It is that some factors are inherently biased. And it is the choice of what we do with those biases that we call "values".

Now, do you think "values" are things that can be encoded in a machine-precise fashion?

Well, it's what we call "law". However, law is obviously _not_ something that can be applied "by algorithm," because otherwise we would have nothing to discuss when it comes to hearings.

> But I'm not talking about predicting if someone is a criminal . I'm taking about things like loan defaults and health risk. Here the company has pretty objective ground truth. If women really are less likely to get into car accidents, then it's just a fact. Theres no hidden bias here.

That is true. I think that categorizing people is something that will never go away. Whether it feels "right" or not is certainly debatable. People with pre-existing conditions aren't exactly happy with the current state of insurance. Do you think black people like it when they can't get a loan because they are black? Do we want society to work that way? You say that the machine can be used to make a better decision -- simple, remove the "skin colour" category. But perhaps that leads to a decrease in the confidence interval. Insurance/banks don't do that, because they consider it important information -- hence, (maybe) the need for regulation. I think this EU regulation is going to be a catalyser for some very interesting discussions around these issues.

Basically what I'm saying is, talking about algorithms vs. humans is a side issue, when the real discussion is, on what kind of data do want decisions to be made?
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I think the stress and financial cost that having children in the US creates are much larger than in other western countries. I currently don't have children and would not think of moving back to my home country Germany. However, if I had children I would be back in Germany in no time. The entire education system is on average more reliably good and much cheaper.
> IMHO the best question is, "if you could go back in time would you still decide to have children?".

No way you'd get a straight answer to that since it's way, way too close to "do you wish your kids were dead?" It'd probably be tough to come up with any question that probes that sentiment that wouldn't be strongly affected by that problem.

My answer would be "go back in time and decide to have these children? 100% yes, no reservations. Go back in time but no guarantee (or even likelihood) that the kids will be the same? Probably would not want kids." Maybe shifting the question to focus in the direction of that second part would help, though I doubt it'd be enough to make it useful.
Placebo effect can be nice to have as long as you're not doing anything dangerous to get it.
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Young children are difficult. Ask them again in 40 years.
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I was coming here to ask that. If this were in some sort of greenhouse would this be sustainable for years at a time, or is it more designed to be something you start up each spring?

Also, may have missed it, but do you plant the seeds right into the sand or sprout them first somewhere else? (I know basically nothing about gardening, sorry)

Great idea, and very tempting when I get into a new house.
They need to make a deal with someone that monetizes search at a very high level. DuckDuckGo uses Yahoo! to monetize its search engine.
The trade-off in diesel engines is between more CO2 and more nitrogen oxides. Burning lean mixtures with lots of excess oxygen tends to reduce both particulates (since they are more completely burned) and CO2 (since combustion is more efficient) at a cost of nitrogen-oxygen side reactions.
High level of benzodiazepines is enough to kill off your inhibitions and short term memory. Mixed with alcohol, if you feel that way, there is nothing stopping you from taking your life.

At 16, during an episode of depression and psychosis, I was trusted with a whole box of Lorazepam. Being in the state I was, I took the whole box. I have only fleeting images and I woke up the next day on a PICU. The not remembering is especially hard since I have quite a vivid memory - I seem to have lost those memories forever now, though I'm not sure if I want to remember.
Probably one of the best novels I've read in the last five years or so, one of my favorite sci-fi stories ever . I can't recommend this enough.
I suspect they'd enter talks with Bing.

With $1 billion in cash guaranteed, they could even try DuckDuckGo for a couple years and see if DuckDuckGo could grow enough to support them.
Can you measure energy impact? Apple has specifically said that LZFSE is the right choice when you want lower energy impact, so doing benchmarks of LZFSE against other algorithms is kind of meaningless when you don't measure one of the key metrics. Of course, I'm not sure offhand how to measure energy impact, but Activity Monitor displays energy impact numbers so there must be some way to measure it.
I really don't understand the aversion?, lack of use? of parenthesis. Back in college (before C++ was released to give you time scale) some C class, spent a lot of time on operator precedence. I was like, why bother? Just use parens, be explicit, clear and never ever have to learn or be bit by any language's precedence ever!

Ever.
The review model in the WTC's new world order is open, as it currently is in the F1000 journals, and the Wellcome Trust pays the APC so there is no excuse for grantees not to publish. This slowly kicks away all the bullshit excuses that are presented for lack of scientific productivity so that the funder can objectively assess "what are these people doing with our money, and does that advance real, non-press-release science?" It's brilliant imho.

https://wellcome.ac.uk/news/why-were-launching-new-publishin...

Momentum is important. There's no reverse on a submarine. One of the biggest funders in the world has taken away a standard excuse for failing to openly report results, negative or otherwise. It is free to readers and free to authors funded by the Trust. And all of the reviewing process is out in the open.

This is a huge step. The only other funding body I can think of with similar weight is NIH, and (at least internally) they're starting to move in the same direction.
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I didn't say that all work is done concurrently with the app. How much work needs to be done in the STW phase is application-dependent. It is likely that if the application exhibits a transactional behavior, namely that objects are created in the beginning of a transaction and are all reclaimed at the end, there's very little need compaction required, as entire regions are likely to be completely free.
> It's my PoV that It's not predictability versus red-tape, and the people trying to do unaccountable analytics in this space are (perhaps in-advertedily) perpetuating racism.

I was with you until that last line. It is not racism to provide better credit conditions to groups that demonstrably have a lower risk of defaulting on a credit.

It would be racism if you offer worse conditions to a certain group without any rational business related explanation.

If some group has a 2x chance on defaulting on a credit then it isn't about the skin of their color - they get to pay more interest because it is more risky to offer this group a credit in the first place.

With that logic you could just as well say that offering better credit conditions to rich people is racist against poor people.
Exciting!

Tongue-in-cheek, it's very exciting that distros will now have an easier time patching Rust and producing bugs like this one:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcc-4.2/+bug/25679...
How's the MIR stuff going on? Is there an ETA on when MIR will land in beta/stable? Will the incremental compilation work start after that?
It is very easy for the user to change the default Search Engine for the browser (to say Google or DuckDuckGo). I would think most FireFox users do this... So, $375M/year seems like a very high price for Yahoo to be paying.
Is this just a price war between the few search giants trying to keep competitors priced out of the market?
"The flags of Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Bangladesh have not been widely projected on landmarks or adopted as profile pictures. "

I think I have seen pictures of various landmarks in Europe with the Turkish flag.
There is so much misuse of statistics in this article it's hard to take it seriously.

If you're going to make blanket statements about the US vs. Europe than compare those two entities, don't cherry pick a European country for one stat and then another countries for other stats.

Also, sometimes the author compares absolute figures and at no time does the author ever use risk adjusted numbers.
I should have explained my point more. I think parents have children because they feel obligated, or due to religious, family, social, or some other personal need. I don't know if I've ever met anyone or seen anywhere that a couple has asked themselves WHY they are having children, but rather SHOULD they have children. It's a sensitive subject that could make or break a relationship.
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True enough. Though Canada has more land than China and less than 3% of China's population. So, it's not nearly as big a deal.
> We explicitly do not wish to make our selected post-quantum algorithm a de-facto standard

Like so many other things in computer science history, that seems like a great way to make it the de-facto standard.
Thanks for giving me something to worry about.... But seriously, I had no idea that was a thing, thanks for bring it up.
Depending on which country in Europe, what I've heard is that the social safety net is much better for parents than in the US.
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>....trying to tell us that other browsers are stupid because they don't have the same bugs as Chrome does.

It took me finding the bug on the Chrome bug tracker to convince my team that Firefox was rendering things correctly, but because we code/design on Chrome it "looked wrong" because it had been designed to look right in Chrome, which was actually wrong. I can no longer remember the exact bug it was unfortunately - had something to do with positioning elements and flexbox though.

Oh - and font rendering. Fonts are always "too thick" in Firefox because Chrome has a poor implementation of font rendering since like Version 21 (22?) and renders fonts thinner than they should be. :)

Also someone who will never switch to Chrome, but for different reasons. I hack the UI and UX of Firefox to be almost unrecognizable as Firefox and Chrome doesn't allow for that level of freedom. There is no userChrome.css to modify, addons are more limited in what they can modify, etc.
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Cops are racist. But when they aren't racist they kill people because guns. Let's pass gun control so only cops (Ed: and criminals) have guns. Then we can be awesome like Europe (Ed: though our demographics look nothing like the countries mentioned)

There, did I get that right?
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I get drunk every so often (when my kid isn't around) and I still I love the little bugger and wouldn't trade that experience for anything. I don't suggest people to be parents (some folks won't be happy with that choice) but you must run in very weird circles if every parent friend you have tells you not to have kids when they are tipsy.
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I've always wondered if it would be better to just put my children in a giant, soundproof hamster ball when they're in public and roll them around.
Well... one infinity that pops up is solved by regulators. This might be one that you get when you try to understand the casimir force. In this case, you impose an cutoff at some scale to make the expression finite, but a function of the cutoff. You send the cutoff to infinity and the expression goes to infinity.

Now the way you calculate with this is that most of the time when you try to calculate a quantity that you can measure with an instrument (in the lab or whatever), you find that the cutoff cancels. In other words, the value the cutoff took never actually mattered to begin with.

When people say that the infinities cancel or whatever it's a bit misleading. In nature we don't really know what this cutoff is. We think it should be there though! It's just sorta where the theory breaks down. Tony Zee explains this using a bedspring as an analogy. If you probe the springiness of a bedspring with a bowling ball, it works fine. It behaves as a continuous sheet. If you throw a ball bearing at it though, the bearing might fall through or hit a wire and shoot off at a weird angle. The cutoff in this case is the distance between springs or the spring size or something. Our models basically make this continuum analogy. This is NOT to say that the fabric of space time is pixelated or something like that. We have NO idea what the structure is. We just know that if we don't look too close, it works like this. The wonderful thing though is that this model is useful. There's numerous ways to build experiments that measure quantities independent of this cutoff to verify the theory. Understanding what goes on at higher energies/shorter length scales (which are effectively the same thing) is precisely why particle physics is called high energy physics.
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Inevitable by-product of a highly networked society?

I saw a similar, though somewhat more interpretable, situation at Alamere Falls (1.5 hrs north of SF, south end of Point Reyes): a thousand high school students from all over the Bay Area out in a National Seashore where you generally expect to see a hundred hikers tops, heavy on the retired profs in Audobon t-shirts and NPR-steeped Marin mushroom enthusiasts. According to one of the park guards, it is now like this all the time. The park guards get asked all the time by the new visitors 'where is this?'as the visitors point to an HDR, oversaturated picture on Snapchat or Instagram. And every weekend new pictures are posted, and the next week another cohort comes.
[1] Not exactly microcode as that term is classically understood, but there isn't really a better term for it that's widely used.

What are technically correct but less widely used terms? And how does the current Intel approach differ from classical microcode? Most of my knowledge is from the Intel manuals, so I don't have a context for how it is different than other approaches.
I am from India. Especially from Bangalore. I commute daily 30kms up and down. I am facing breathing polluted air issues. In fact I was looking for good pollution filter masks. But I am unable to get the good one. Since the reviews of them are unsatisfactory

I am trying to come out of this issue at all. At the same time I don't want to leave my lovable tech job.

Anybody experienced the same issues? Any advise ?