skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The VW Up! (aka Škoda Citigo aka Seat Mii)

It weighs under a ton, is only 3.5m long, and has a 1.0L, 3-cylinder engine that fairly sips gas. It shifts like butter and, considering it's powered by a glorified sewing machine, it has decent acceleration and top-end speed. And, if you spring for the Czech rebadge, you can get the basic model for less than 10k euros.

But the real killer is that it has almost as much usable interior room as a VW Golf, despite being almost a meter shorter!

My partner and I both come from tall families and, upon delivery of the car, her brother (200cm tall) drove his wife (189cm), me (188cm), my wife (184cm), my father (200cm), and our 3 kids for a spin. It wasn't legal and it wasn't roomy, but no reasonable person would be able to guess that such a tiny car could fit 3 small adults, let alone 5 tall adults and 3 kids.

For those of us who spent far too much of their childhood playing Tetris, the trunk (if you want to call it that) also accommodates 4 full-sized suitcases.

[EDIT] I forgot to mention that it has exposed metal surfaces in the interior (doors, mainly) that are integrated parts of the car. Not only does it look fantastic, each of those panels is one less plastic piece that will eventually require an expensive replacement when it inevitably gets hit/scratched/exposed to too much sunlight/shakes itself to pieces.

I don't know why more cars don't feature this (one review called them "cheap exposed surfaces", as if plastic is somehow fancier), but it's incredibly durable, simple, and attractive.
That's demonstrably not true, AMD has supported ECC more or less across the board since the Athlon64.

Enterprises may be professional cost cutters, but before that they're professional ass coverers, otherwise Oracle would have died 20 years ago.
Yep. Just bought a 2011 Sport manual last month. I do mostly city driving and don't typically carry more than one passenger so I was kicking around the idea of a small pickup so I'd have the ability to carry around things like my PA system or camping gear or grab large items at the Depot, etc. instead of renting a pickup/van.

The problem is that there don't seem to really be many light pickups made anymore (like the size of the old S10 for example) and even the used ones in good shape were a bit on the pricey side for my frugal nature.

Well, I unexpectedly needed to buy a car last month and found a 2011 Fit with only 39k miles and got them to sell it for $9500. May have been able to talk them down a bit more if I had the luxury of time but it was within the market value given by several resources so I was OK with it.

Only down side was some minor wear-and-tear maintenance that the previous owner likely traded in to avoid dealing with (and the dealer wouldn't cover under warranty) but I still feel reasonably OK with the overall cost.

And of course the car is great. Moved out of my old place around the same time and only needed to rent a cargo van for the largest furniture items. Everything else has packed easily into the car with the seats folded flat. I love how the passenger seat can fold back as well so you can fit a 7-8 foot ladder or other long items like standing lamps.

Clutch feels a little "chattery" on cold mornings but apparently this is common on many Honda and Acura cars. Either way, my overall impression is that it's still quite a bit of car for not a whole lot of dough. Being able to just buy it for cash may have improved my overall enjoyment as well.
It's a bit tough to play by itself, but I'm okay with the tradeoff for the portability.

FWIW it works quite well if you connect it to a MIDI host and use another controller to play or sequence the synths on it.

...just don't connect your 12v AC adapter to the OP-1's USB hub that wants 5v, or you'll lose all data connectivity (USB disk mode and MIDI) to the unit. :(
Underworked - with all the unpaid OT going on and they aren ot overpaid when compared to other professions
If you twist together the two data cables android phones also charge faster on the computer (going to AC mode). (don't charge on really old PCs that could get overloaded)
It's possible a log-scaled timer would be optimal, with the possible exception of new users.
This seems to be a theme of my comments lately, but I wonder why the writer doesn't mention SSAS, SSIS and SSRS as alternatives.
Everything is so beautiful, up there.
Unless you assume those people were purely altruistic, what would stop them from becoming the rich 0.1%?
More likely what would happen is that DRM'ed content is only available on mobile devices and Windows. If you think that not having DRM in the browsers would cause anyone to abandon it, you are wrong.
I disagree with the title, I don't think it says all Ryzen will support ECC.

>>4 x DIMM, Max. 64GB, DDR4 2666/2400/2133 MHz ECC and non-ECC, Non-ECC, Un-buffered Memory

That looks like a motherboard spec - because it is. And it supports Ryzen processors of various types. I read that as: One CPU supports "ECC and non-ECC", another CPU specifies "Non-ECC". At least that's how I read it. Otherwise there is no reason to put non-ECC in there twice.
After reading the entire blog post, and also reading that the CEO is concerned, I want heads rolling. Specially those who were involved from HR, managers. I think it will centrate the people on doing their job, not doing anything aside from this.

What a bad image UBER is getting for toxic "high performers".
This is not true. VT-d and ECC were thought to be removed, but these features were simply unlisted, not removed. Intel Ark now shows them as available, e.g:

http://ark.intel.com/products/97143/Intel-Pentium-Processor-...
Google and Bing to deprecate piracy websites
As I would understand it, a lot of why honeybees have to be brought in is that you have these large-scale examples of monoculture where bees wouldn't be able to find food outside of that one time of year the crop is flowering.

Something similar is actually mentioned in the article:
When the Adees arrived in Bakersfield in 1990, there were 411,000 acres of farmland planted with almond trees, according to the Agriculture Department. Since then, the number of acres of almond trees has more than doubled, and growers have adopted techniques that are less bee-friendly.

Growers previously flooded their orchards with warm water in the early spring to prevent frost from killing the buds. The water gave rise to grasses and weeds like dandelions and wild vetch between the rows of trees, giving the bees a source of pollen before the buds burst into bloom.

But now, growers aim to conserve water, and because weeds and grasses can trap cool air that can lead to frost, most almond ranchers spray herbicides to keep the rows between their trees free of unwanted growth.

So it's not just the monoculture aspect (e.g. even if you have a lot of trees, not all soil is covered with tree and there's a ton of room left for other species), but also that the farmers actively destroy what's no part of their monoculture.
The funny bit was the swapped names, it's like they had a spreadsheet but shifted a column down. Didn't double check the names against emails so I assume it was automated.
Variable writes that look like they have no side effects may actually be intended for another thread to read (but hopefully most reasonable programs don't do this without some good explanation). However, many concurrency models say that this method of inter-thread communication is Okay to optimize out, because most threading libraries (including Go's) make no guarantees about the order in which threads are scheduled. Therefore, removing the "writing" thread entirely is equivalent to it never being scheduled.

However, this is not the case for atomic operations (which are generally specifically intended for communication via shared variables). This optimization of removing the writing thread entirely isn't allowed if atomic operations are used, because those actually do come with a guarantee that other threads will get to see the update in finite time.

Go was incorrectly "optimizing" the atomic operations out entirely. It's a fairly subtle bug, actually, but still likely a big deal for the few programs communicating via shared variables.
As a recently minted theoretical physics PhD, I feel rather the opposite way on this. The vast majority of Nobel laureates still went through the usual university progression, which isn't at all designed to cater to the smartest students, but rather to ensure that a substantial part (~15-20% or so in my program, but this varies greatly) of the student population can actually graduate and do at least some research work afterwards. Notwithstanding the actual thesis research, I feel like my program could have easily been compressed by a factor of at least 2x (dispensing with much of the repetition that goes into making sure most people can do the exercises and internalize the concepts) without compromising the final state of my education.

Furthermore, if your goal isn't to do research work but rather to be able to follow along an average research article using the basic framework of QFT, you can also cut out much of the lab work. Susan is clearly considerably above average in intelligence and a quick study, and I'm impressed by her perseverence, but I don't think this is at all beyond what any good theoretical physicist could have done. It's just that they went a different path, going through the university system, a path with its own advantages, but brevity is not among them.
ECC support in CPU is just a half of success. Now somebody have to convince motherboard manufacturers to enable it. It was the same thing with previous AMD CPUs. They all had ECC support but there was virtually no motherboards that would support it.
The dual/multi-socket platform(s) are a way off. AMD is focussing on the desktop to launch Zen, in contrast to what they did with Barcelona (iirc).
Then what would be the difference between <h level=1> and <h1> ? Or is that sarcasm ?
it's valid to put a <header> in any new section/main/article/aside
Here's a good example of a dataset that cannot be loaded into Excel:

https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/crimes-2001-to-present-398a...

> The dataset contains more than 65,000 records/rows of data and cannot be viewed in full in Microsoft Excel.
To people who haven't used one...

You throw in totally rock-solid frozen chicken breasts, some other stuff... 20 minutes later your taco meat is ready... in a slower cooker that'd take 4-6 hours.

If you clicked into the Amazon link above thinking the "5:20" means 5 minutes 20 seconds. Not the slow cooker 5 hours 20 minutes.

It's nothing short of magic how fast this thing works. Total game changer for people who want cook at home. 0 pre-planning required, just grab stuff out of the freezer when you're ready to eat.
But that's the thing, there is just never any real need to do hypothesis testing, the range of plausible effect sizes is all that matters.
It seems that they unified the assembler used in the go compiler to use intrinsics for amd64.

In doing so, they must have botched something, because now some atomic operations (IE. operations that shouldn't be interruptible by another thread) are completely optimized away.

This is quite a big issue because any multi-threaded program will use these (they are the only way to do lock-free code).
It's generally considered poor form around here to accuse people of not reading correctly with no further discussion. Perhaps you could enlighten us by explaining how the quote I was responding to, “will kill its disks (sometimes physically)”, is so clearly about databases rather than disks?
> While patching software you own is illegal in most jurisdictions, ...

I do not think that it's this clear-cut.
Here is a cool app that uses NLP to detect unprofessional Facebook and Twitter posts:

https://wwww.repnup.com
the problem with that one is that the garlic also gets up around the plunger, and you have to clean that out too. more moving parts = more to clean
I think what Fowler did was very brave and perhaps far more impactful than hiring a lawyer.

This is hitting all the major news outlets, the CEO and the board are already promising "urgent" investigative action. And, oh yeah, a company valued at multi-billions is about to be hit with publicity which they will pay dearly for as #deleteuber starts trending again, at a time when angry people are sick of reading about the latest Trump zinger.

In the best case scenario a lawyer would have gotten her a modest pay out in exchange for shutting up, far more likely however would be a disappointing outcome and blacklisting.
As an individual you have virtualy zero chance of effecting any change - I have how ever got several thousand people a better pension at British Telecom (I was the secretary for one of the larger BT union branches)
As an Australian, I think a president system is much better than having leader's you can't vote for directly and can be replaced whenever the polls don't look great.
Lost me at the opening sentence:

> A business organization or enterprise always needs to adopt multi-directional approaches.

Reads like a marketing class assignment from junior high.
Technically that's true only if you're risk neutral, but we define risk aversion in terms of probabilities, so you can't avoid a circular argument.
Ah that's not a compatibility issues so much as a change in performance. I think they changed the defaults for String interning. In the vast majority of cases it's be a performance improvement but if you were manually managing lots of small Strings (ex: custom file processor reading misc user input) then it could get out of control.
One point of view is that the removal of the atomic increment is justified because the programmer cannot rely on the execution of the go routine that contains the increment. If you add an explicit call to the scheduler the problem is fixed. However, the justification is a bit of a stretch and it looks like it will be changed back to old behavior by the go developers.
I would be curious to see a study of people with average IQs, to see if they can learn very advanced math and physics concepts, with large monetary rewards for successful completion. An offer of $100k to learn General Relativity may entice someone with only an IQ of only 90-100 to be so motivated as to learn it and understand it. The large monetary reward is an important component, because people won't be motivated to something unless it's worth their time. If it's successful, the learning techniques could be applied to the general population.
A babyzen yoyo stroller. Folds down to a size of a backpack so can easily bring it on board airplanes. Really light but still has a strong frame.
Alcohol does not create a meaningful bonding experience by itself (unless you're out tasting some very rare and special beverage). It matters what you're doing while drinking. Personally, I find hours-long conversations over beers to be quite good at building rapport with people.
Expiring Developer Certificates Causing Some Mac Apps to Refuse to Launch
The IWW has a long history, and pioneered the American labour movement, being practically the first union to admit women and blacks. It has not been a stranger to government repression in this period, and is decidedly anti government and view all political solutions with distrust. Instead they advocate for direct action. If you don't have anti-authoritarian/anarchist leanings, you probably won't fit in with the philosophy of the IWW.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everett_massacre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Everest

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_Outrage

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/27/us/27hill.html?_r=0
Can someone tell me how many errors over the past 10 years or so would have been fixed by ECC memory. I've no idea at all how much better it would be and what the current error rate it prevents is? It sounds more nice to have than vital? Is there a performance cost to it at all?
This is half a rant and half a cry for help. I see topics like this on HN often; "Anyone can learn math!" but I really don't think I can. Not because I'm a defeatist and have given up but because I've tried basically all my life to understand math and I've never managed to grasp anything but the most basic concepts.

I've tried different teachers, my friends have tried tutoring me, I've tried Khan Academy. No matter what I do, the information just won't stick. The connections in my brain aren't made. What I don't understand is I learn other subjects relatively well. It's just math I can't grasp which really sucks because I love science and cryptography; two fields I imagine I could appreciate more with a solid mathematical background.

It's worth noting I have some of the symptoms of dyscalculia, so perhaps my brain isn't really built to do math and is why I struggle so much?

It's frustrating when I see "anyone can learn math!" because I've gotten shit from people in the past like "you can't be a good programmer if you're bad at math". I feel like we need to be more accepting that people have strengths and weaknesses in different areas.

I'm tired of feeling ashamed to be bad at math, especially as I'm not sure it's even my fault anymore.
Well, I have one of those Miele soft touch things, and I'm ambivalent about them. I think about this several times per day, since the last 2.5 years, every time I use it; so this is not something I just came up with.

First, the current implementation isn't rigorously thought out. For example, for most operations, you put in the food, then select time to cook, press 'start'; but for thawing, you select the food type, then it asks you 'put in food', and won't continue until you open and close the door. This annoys me to the point that I've contacted Miele several times, but nobody seems to even understand the problem. At one point they send a service technician over (I guess they were exasperated by my repeated calls) who didn't understand the problem either, which led to a Monty Python-esque scene of me saying variations of 'it should work differently!' and him saying 'it works as it should!'. So if your father still have contacts, please let him/they contact me - I'm sure that if only I could get through to the right person, they'd agree with me that it's a bug.

Anyway, apart from these implementation issues, I think overall the concept of having a touch screen that guides the user with many tasks is an improvement over the two-dial system. It tells me exactly how long to heat and at what temperature, and the results are (much) better than I ever get from microwaves/ovens that make me decide that for myself. The downside are increased time-to-task for most common operations, and increased complexity in the UI. I think it's inevitable though; I don't see how you can still have the same UI guidance from the machine yet make it easier to learn. It's like my circular saw - the more expensive one I have now, has more buttons and levers than the $49.95 I has before. I have to think how to use it; the cheap one had an on/off button, that was it. But I do get consistently better results with the expensive one. There, too, I don't see how it can be made simpler - those additional controls just make for a better result.

(if I wanted to start a flame war, I'd compare it here to Notepad vs Vim. Why use something complex like Vim when you can also program just as well with Notepad? And yet, I've been using Vim for well over 15 years.)
I am no expert in CAD software, my only experience is with FreeCAD - and I found it is pretty good for things I needed. Project evolves fast. There are PPAs with up-to-date binaries too.
It's funny, just two weeks ago we bought a simple mircrowave with just two knobs for our office:

https://www.amazon.de/Severin-MW-7874-Mikrowelle-kombinierba...

I explicitely chose that mircrowave because it only had two knobs and I just get confused with too many buttons. I always thought I am weired for not wanting all these special features.
Agreed, a very poor article by BBC standards.
Piladb 0.1.1 Released
Google _is_ part of the media industry.
If all you want from it is a NAS, then said low-end Pentiums will do fine. The C2750, for instance, is plenty fast enough to drive a large number of HDDs.

Although right now there's a bricking bug to worry about, so maybe not that particular one right away.
My favourite in that respect is a kind of mushroom that you can buy in Finland.

It's deadly poisonous. Unless you cook it thrice and discard the water each time.

I can't fathom the thought process that went into finding this out.
Kebase Crypto for everyone
A Murdered Mexican Boy and the Abuse of American Power at the Border
The catch-22 is that chemotherapy and cancer itself can reduce appetite and cause weight loss, so doctors demur when their more self-informed patients stumble across research on (temporary) fasting's protective effect (throw "cellular autophagy and health" into Google and you can immerse yourself for hours).

Malnutrition can in turn harm the immune system. Where's the sweet spot? Who knows, and the fear of malpractice suits slows down progress.
What does "cloud native" mean here? To me it suggests purpose built much as Torus was /is - though the OpenEBS engineers are asserting there are really only two "container native" storage solutions going, their open source project and PortWorx. https://medium.com/@kiranmova/persistent-storage-for-contain...
You mean real estate agent. Landlords generally get the cheapest shit because otherwise it cuts into the bottom line.
The second one doesn't say Ryzen. I'm not up to date on AMD, but are you sure it's the same thing?
Am I the only one finding "3-D printing friendly motherboard with patent-pending mounting design" ironic? (along with the classic "Proprietary" adjective marketing people like to put everywhere they can). This comment is for one of their boards on the original page.

Keep in mind these are motherboard specs. I would suggest not reading too much into them.

I am quite excited about Zen, but I hope they will make consumer motherboards that support more than 64GB RAM.
No one got ever fired for buying Intel

Even if Ryzen will be twice as fast enterprise will still go with Intel. Unless some company with reasonable size (like DigitalOcean or Linode) will adopt Ryzen in their servers and brag about it.
But it's a AM4 socket and is that only compatible with Ryzen atm?
"Might it be that, just as quantum objects can apparently be in two places at once, so a quantum brain can hold onto two mutually-exclusive ideas at the same time?"

Argh. Brain-hurting levels of bad science writing.
> I would think that when using a "real" programming language, you would have version control, unit tests and so on.

You would if and only if you employed professional programmers at those tasks, which with Excel (apparently) could be done with less/differently trained people. Version control and unit tests are not features of environment, but of professional training and discipline.
Is it better than Timely? I love Timely, but its lack of updates for many years now is worrying.
I had a similar situation for a company that purchased it's accounting software way back in the first 90ies, which tied the software to an hw dongle.

In spite of the old system, the software works absolutely fine and there were no reasons to upgrade or change. In fact, the hardware it was running on was upgraded several times. Until one day, the dongle broke (a bump by the cleaning staff cracked it apparently). The company behind the software went bankrupt years ago, and there was no way to either obtain a new dongle or extract the data from the software (custom db as well).

The software was easy to crack by just nop'ing a couple of bytes, but the owner of the company was absolutely shocked by the experience as they reverted to paper archives for about a week with no easy way out.

I was quite young at the time and it served me as a life lesson. Since then I never used or considered anything with DRM, remote licensing or SaaS for exactly that reason. I never had trouble finding alternatives either.
I always carry my Ortlieb bags with the hooks facing away from me.
Talk about a niche.