skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Such a system would be beneficial for other reasons as well: in many recent plane crashes, survivors have ended up wandering the area, which leads to a lot of unnecessary stress for loved ones searching for them, administrative hassles for airlines and first responders, and difficulty for accident investigators. If there was a clear protocol for where to go, who to receive, and what you'd receive in the event of a crash, people would be a lot less nervous about their belongings

In light of this, the phenomenon of passengers grabbing their luggage makes objective sense, and has changed my view of people trying to take their carry-on with them.

FTA:

>> The main reasons passengers gave for grabbing their bags was money, wallets, or credit cards, followed by work materials, keys, and medication

The individualism 'above' (no particular effort on the part of airline, airport or first responders to create an environment to receive and help crash survivors) informs the individualism 'below' (one should grab one's documentation, money, means of communication etc because no immediate means of support otherwise exists). Note to self, ALWAYS grab luggage from plane wreckage.
Am i the only one who gets irked by having to read half an article of "how you should feel about this" crap to get an answer to the "WTF is this and how it works" question, which should have taken one line at the start?

Anyway, i find the title odd, because at the end of things it's still plugged into the Telefonica/Comcast/Whatever. So, what's the point?

This basically describes a community/small-business ISP, nothing special.
Dismiss the alert. Tada.
Here is a beautiful mashup of the 2001 sequence and the Double Rainbow meme. It's both moving and amusing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozhR9fxe1oU
"Nautilus uses cookies to manage your digital subscription and show you your reading progress. It's just not the same without them"

Well, no thanks. No, it is not the same.
> “Smoking is not allowed because it can jeopardize the lives and the health of other passengers and the lives and health of the crew,” she said. “And carrying your bag could have the same consequence.”

No, smoking is not allowed because people like to have an out-group they can hate, and it is currently politically-correct to hate smokers. Inhaling a little smoke on a plane ride is annoying (so, too, body odour …), but it doesn't negatively impact anyone's health. So-called 'secondhand smoke' is junk science, pure and simple: no more factual than phrenology.
Yep certainly do. The cards and software were written for Sage by a company called Alfa Systems formed out of the remains of Sinclair (David Karlin who designed the QL, Rupert Goodwins who wrote bits of Spectrum ROM and few others) with an ex-Amstrad employee called Vik Olliver who now works doing various things with 3D printers in New Zealand.

The product was called MainLan and I started working for Alfa working on an integrated Ethernet chip called Enzo (mentioned in Byte April 1990) which needed very few extra components (chip nearly worked first time apart from an address decoding bug which was fixable with a PAL, I think from memory the PS/2 MCA version was correct)

Dunno how many Sage sold but we did a few revisions eventually making a 10BASET version and a parallel port one.

At the time it could send packets faster than some 8390 based cards could receive crashing the receiver (I suspect it was DMA timing problem)

When we developed the Novell IPX driver for the card the driver software was uploaded to the Novell test site via a 2400bps modem with a IPX packet driver so we just copied the files to a file share on a box in Utah from London.

At the time the biggest problem was the lack of documentation on how the MSDOS network redirector worked which meant we had to roll our own, we also found that Norton commander used some really obscure FCB calls to change directories rather than dos 2 and later handle based calls.

Brings back many memories of being a young 20 year old.
I think for many people without any context that explanation isn't quite enough. jdub's comment explains it quite well though.
Could super-recognizers be used for parallel construction? Seems like it would be a great fit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
But what's its Weissman score?
Can you link it? I would love to try it out.
The main takeaway from this:

- Pre-zeroing a page only takes 80ns on a modern cpu. vm_fault overhead
in general is ~at least 1 microscond.

- Multiple synth and build tests show that active idle-time zeroing of
pages actually reduces performance somewhat and incidental allocations
of already-zerod pages (from page-table tear-downs) do not affect
performance in any meaningful way.

Not surprising. I've seen so much code with comments explaining how expensive copying or zeroing memory is (but not actually measuring it), that that's why "zero-copy" techniques are used. Ending up doing so much work (spending even microseconds) to "save" the cost that turns out to be 100 ns or less.
Right, right, I missed that completely, damn!
It learns word representations and sentiment classification at the same time.

Traditionally, word representations are learned by looking at surrounding words. So "good" and "bad" will have similar word representations.

By training on sentiment, similar sentiment words should be clustered together.
IMO, the way to get the best jobs at the best company is to find someone who works there or some one who knows someone that works there and express interest.

If you have a good convo, your resume goes in and you will get an interview. A cover letter is a massive waste of time vs sending a 3 sentence cold email to someone that works for the company to line up a coffee.
DragonFlyBSD is slowly but steadily becoming more attractive as a Linux/FreeBSD alternative. 4.6 has good support for various newer Intel GPUs, hammer is stable and the SMP and Networking performance is stellar.

I had a 2.8TB backup archive that I have repeatedly tried to dedup with ZFS and the realtime while-you-are-writing architecture of ZFS dedup just kills the performance so badly that I have never actually succeeded going over the full dataset. Past week I made a 4.6-rc2 based DragonFly VM, attached a 3TB disk with RDM, formatted it with HAMMER, started rsync of the backed up data and ran hammer dedup every 30 min - I am now at 1.9TB used after the whole thing was done and a final dedup ran - no noticeable speed drops and I got around 900GB back!
> It seems like a more effective social fix for this would be to ensure that any survivors of a plane crash are immediately met inside the terminal by representatives of the airline, doctors, and members from the national consulate, who give complimentary toiletries, changes of clothes, spending money, etc. and fasttrack any requests for replacement travel documents.

That would certainly help, but that would still mean loss of all data on electronic devices not carried out. Sure, I have remote backups — secured with an account whose credentials are stored on my local hard drive.
MobX is pretty amazing too. Faster, less boilerplate and much easier to understand for people who come from OOP. Also much better if you like Typescript (and you should like Typescript).
Clickbait is just a conspicuous example of a more general problem: sensational and scaremongering news there is no conceivable benefit in knowing. This category encompasses most political news, and the daily litany of misery, crime and terrorism that fills the headlines. I think FB should filter it all out, and stop news organizations lining their pockets by making us unhappy.
So it just needs to be driven in the summer first, then. Seriously, how do people navigate in whiteout conditions if they don't already know the terrain?
Gotta love the morons who think it is possible to avoid wasting food completely. Reliability is only achieved through redundancy. If we only ever had just enough of everything, we would always be on the brink of a famine if something went wrong.

Reminds me of the local cafeteria at my uni that reduced food waste, so when I went there at 1PM to avoid the crowds (they served until 1:30PM) there was just no food left. Good job, so helpful.
LWN produce some of the highest quality articles around - well worth a subscription. Something I think may harm their subscription rate is how quickly they release articles to non-subscribers (1 week after publication?). This makes it easy for non-subscribers to justify not going for the subscription because "some weeks I don't get time to read LWN until a week late anyway". I think it could easily be stretched to a couple of weeks IMHO. Especially as the "subscriber link" mechanism is in place for articles readers would like to share.
And after all, "Winter is coming." I'm kidding, but really, it would also mean that a country without such a precarious balance could conquer you without military force.

I would prefer not to be at the mercy of some crop dusters with paraquat.
This does look fascinating. The video is a bit showbusiness-like (for a lack of better expression).

A few questions if the author is on HN:
I wonder how long it takes to analyse a 5 second video? Also, it seems the algorithm only works with static images after the initial video analysis, or am I wrong? Also, how long does it take to render the "virtual" state of the object?
> The thing of course is that the so-called minority are in fact the people who raise the issue of input lag in the first place.

And I consider input lag the achilles heel of emulation replacing real hardware. And if it's some kind of qualifier, I've done speedrunning stuff on real hardware and emulation too (Ninja Gaiden especially.) Point being: I not only take it very seriously, I'm in the position to actually do something about it. And have. I've spent a ton of time with a lot of ideas like this. The one I wasted the most time on was probably this one: http://www.ouma.jp/ootake/delay.html

Before you consider me unreasonable on this topic, dig through all the posts about input latency on the "bsnes megathread" on ZSNES forums; the bsnes subforums on the ZSNES forums; the five years of posting history on my own forum that InMotion Hosting corrupted with a botched MySQL upgrade; the three years of new posting history on my new forum instance; and all of the discussions I've had on all of the other sites on the internet over the past twelve years; and read my article in full please.

See? Look, this is me, talking about this issue, in 2008: http://board.zsnes.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=168556&sid=f27...

See how polite I used to be on this topic? Now tell me you wouldn't be tired and agitated after twelve years of new people you've never heard of before popping up and telling you that you're doing it all wrong and they totally have a revolutionary new way to vastly improve latency.
> Once upon a time, filling 4KB with zeroes was a costly operation. It took a bunch of CPU cycles, and worse, would have trashed memory caches closer to the CPU.

Even Intel 486 can do that in 50 microseconds. Without cache. Probably in a few microseconds assuming L1 cache. So I wonder if the assumption has ever been true.
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I would recommend looking at these programs:

http://cty.jhu.edu/
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What does this mean? They do the old-dragonfly way, or the new-dragonfly way ?
Paying more for scraps than for fresh food? Absolutely ridiculous. Leave it to SF hipsters to be into this kind of thing, especially while talking about how "green" and "eco-friendly" they are.
> Assuming this is the case (see above warning), no amount of fines or prosecution will really help, because we're dealing with people's subconscious.

Yeah, that also bothered me about the article. I don't think anyone in a crisis is going to think, 'if I grab my bag, I will be fined' — and I don't believe that the money recouped from fines will do anything to compensate for lives lost, anyway.

Rather, I think that folks are going to feel, 'my life, and everything I have is in danger, I must rescue myself and my things or perish!'
They should just autolock the baggage compartments and maybe line them with insulation to stop a fire from ruining the stuff inside. A purse or a small computer bag on your lap is not going to cause that large of a delay in getting off the plane.
> the 1M row/sec part is easy to explain:

Prepared statements were used in all benchmarks where supported. Please don't dismiss the results so easily. The source of performance increases here is not the use of prepared statements, but efficient implementation of the binary type I/O and the protocol itself.

> I'd be very wary of a new PG driver especially one that implements the wire protocol itself.
> pg8000 does this, and also does prepared statements, and while it doesn't have the speed approach here, it also has serious problems supporting all the features and datatypes that psycopg2 does.

asyncpg supports 100% of pg_catalog types (we have a test for that.) Additionally, psycopg2 doesn't _really_ support all the features and datatypes and simply returns unparsed text in many cases. You have to write lots of typecasters to convince it otherwise.

> It's been around for years and reliably breaks on many Postgresql features (and Postgresql introduces new features like a firehose). Writing and maintaining a driver for Postgresql is not an easy task.

Please. Simply because something has been around is not the reason to stiffle new development and innovation.
Seems like building a GTA style simulator in UE4 or Unity would be a better solution in the long run rather than hacking GPU resources like an aimbot developer.
You are explaining that you seek out the dangerous fire in the same breath you complain that others don't run away from it fast enough.

Which hey, fine, you know better, but how many people from the building have been dragged out of a fire by the fire fighters? For all the people that haven't been rescued, why conclude that their risk assessment is so much worse than yours?
I wonder how long until someone submits a Linux patch to remove idle page-zeroing. :)
A disengage should be understood to probably be an accident, given that it's a failure of the self-driving system without warning, and given that Google's argument is that the steering wheel should be removed. Contact with a traffic cone means the car could just as easily make contact with a baby in the street, you can not just say "since it hit something cheap, it doesn't count".

282 failures of their system across 434,000 miles is 1,539 miles between incidents. That's a system that fails more often than even old school cars need to change their oil.

Suffice to say, Google's claim that they're ready to remove the steering wheel and it's only the law holding them up, which is the argument they made on the floor of Congress... they're liars.

EDIT: Since I'm rate limited, my response to Retric below: False. The system disengages when the system has an error and has conflicting data about the state of the world around it. It isn't overabundance of caution, it's overabundance of confusion.
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Visual Studio Code 1.4
I always love net-negative commits.
What meaning could that image take on? I'm baffled.
If you read down the article it does say that games of skill between similarly skilled players will result in 'chance' having a bigger affect on the outcome. But lets not act like DFS are not a game of skill.
Cheney on the MTA is a strategy for efficiently implementing continuations, TCO, and garbage collection, and allows you to create a continuation with no immediate cost. It's a pun on the song "Charlie on the MTA" because of how it's implemented, like Charlie, it "never returns." For more info, see "CONS Should Not CONS Its Arguments Part II: Cheney On The MTA" By Henry Baker.
The joys of linking to the original source. Slashdot does have one interesting advantage over HN in that putting a large explanation, often with multiple links, is expected when submitting something. I probably could have found a blog or article with a fuller explanation, but then you get into accusations of submitting "blog spam". I figured this is HN and someone like jdub would come along and write a great explanation if the topic was worth consideration.
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This is excellent. I think if there is one thing that might actually happen that could make the world a better place, it would be if people listened to each other more.

A couple of hints. One is that I think the easiest way to start doing this is to practice active listening, which is just saying back to the other person the main ideas and feelings they are expressing. This a simple rule, though it can be hard to follow. Active listening forces you to pay attention, and it shows the other person you are understanding, plus if you get something wrong they can correct you.

The other is that when you are arguing disagreeing with someone and they won't listen to you, try listening to them until they feel understood, and they will probably be more interesting in listening to you. Or perhaps the two of you could first reach an agreement that both of you will listen to the other until they feel understood, and then decide which of you will be the first talker.
The reasoning behind the naming is outlined here: http://www.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/CheneyMTA.html. It's a fun read and once you see the lyric it's based on, it makes a lot more sense.
Crowdsourcing to the users is an interesting alternative. My startup actually considered doing just this in our browser plugin [1]—adding a feature that lets people assign a clickbait rating to a link. We would then get a crowdsourced rating for links, and low-rated links would be grayed out for our plugin users. We ultimately hoped to release the data on rankings publicly, so that a predictive algorithm could be created and used by others as well. This feature aligns moderately with our mission/product, which is about reading efficiently on the web. But we've had other priorities so far and haven't built it yet.

I think the reason that crowdsourcing wouldn't make as much sense for FB is that their audience is less early-adopter than ours. Some people wouldn't know what clickbait is. It's not just about whether you like the article or not—it's specifically about whether the headline mischaracterizes or inappropriately teases the content. FB probably decided that they wanted to train the algorithm carefully, so they used an internal team instead of a crowdsourced solution.

1: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/beeline-reader/ifj...
Yeah, I imagine the eventual data we'll want to have is the trained models, based on that input video.
Eh, perhaps I'm cynical, but listening to someone, and coming to understanding regarding how they might have developed there beliefs, sounds nice, and it's very compassionate, but I question if it's actually a step toward compromise, or simply understanding.

After all, for an increasing number of issues, in the end, the beliefs themselves are so polarized they leave no room for compromise.

To this woman, it doesn't matter that someone had to make the painful choice to have an abortion. They don't care why. The act itself is morally unjustifiable.

That is their belief.

There is no room for compromise in a belief system like that.

The same is true when you look at debates about gun control, climate change, etc.

So, sure, listening and understanding is an important first step.

But in a world where we are actively encouraged to conflate facts and beliefs (see: Trumpiness), and where beliefs are so starkly polarized into black-and-white, good-and-evil, how can we have productive conversations on level ground that lead to compromise? We can't even decide which facts are actually facts!
There's a CSA I just signed up called Imperfect Produce. They deliver boxes of produce that doesn't meet the aesthetic requirements for grocery stores. Sounds like a more economical version of this.
And literally dining inside of a converted dumpster.
If by chrome plugin you meant extension then you might not have to recreate your chrome extension from scratch for firefox. Look at firefox's webExtensions page, it's pretty much compatible with most of chrome's api and you probably won't have to change your code all that much.
LWN's primary audience is also people who communicate professionally via mailing lists. They just don't go for flashy sites, and prefer stability and consistency to whizz-bang prettiness - which is why there's an article warning folks to expect some changes and describing the reason why.

But the kicker is, whether or not someone thinks the site looks professional, it's a subscriber-based service that's been running for nearly two decades, that has hardcore professionals subscribing to it. It's not FOTM.
>>The same could be said, and was said for Go compared to Java C#, etc just a few years ago. And it probably can still be said, as older languages have much more stable, richer ecosystems, support, tooling, and use bases.

I don't say that you should never use C++. Sometimes it's a necessary evil but that doesn't make it a great/pleasant choice(at least for me).

>> Great ecosystem and tooling

I think it could be considered GREAT 20 years ago but now it is miserable compared with the new languages. For example it has no kind of distribution model(i.e package manager). Cross platform compiling is no fun... C++ parsing is no fun either so you could say that its syntax is quite important if you were to develop new tools.
I hate to bring politics into this, but that is why I want to see more government support via healthcare or maybe even a guaranteed living wage. That would allow the floor to not completely destroy you and allow you to take on more risk. It's not a good thing for society if only people from wealth can afford to take risk.

When Silicon Valley talks about "diversity" it is often ethnicity or gender, but diversity of economic background is also important.
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The Raspberry Pi just isn't powerful enough for cycle-accuracy with the SNES. Maybe if a wizard like blargg attempted it by writing the whole thing in pure ARM assembly, but for mere mortals like myself, as awesome as it'd be, it's just not going to happen :(
Congratulations on getting lucky for a while but this is terrible advice. Sure everyone knows that violence impacts oil prices. But all the other oil traders have access to the same news that you do. There is no reason to expect that you can predict the future better than them more than 50% of the time.
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By making the ecosystem useful enough that the benefits of doing it your own way are often outweighed by the benefits of being conformant to a standard. If I have a nice dashboard to ties together all the items in my house, giving me easy access to them all, nice status info at a glance, and summaries of usage and/or problems, any device I want to buy that doesn't tie into that nicely is going to really have to justify its existence through some really nice features.

As for who would buy into a system like this initially? Lots of Asian manufacturers that aren't interesting in being software companies, and would rather give you some standard firmware that you can tie into some other management console or replace with what you want.
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What's different between them and other companies? Didn't really get it. There are many small internet service providers who pretty much rent the infrastructure from the big guys. You still have the same problems though.
Yes. Metaphor. That's what it is.