skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Frank Herberts Dune, the fremen walk without rhythm to avoid the great sand worms. I wonder if, not too far away from now people will begin intentionally varying their intonations and body language randomly to avoid detection...
You guys are forgetting SimAnt!
Everyone suffers from peer pressure. That is not a gender based thing.
Wikipedia mentions Rhapsody being developed off 4.4BSD

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTSTEP#Unix
I believe this is the comprehensive list:

https://gist.github.com/paulirish/5d52fb081b3570c81e3a

My favorite of the doozies is _reading_ from some properties on mouse events will cause a reflow.
Maybe they ticked the best option with the least friction (not sure what license terms are even available at YT).
our tourist visas are free at the border for many countries - for a lot of our visitors (Oz, Canada, US, UK) you pass through a machine, never talk to a person (well except for the ag inspection)

https://www.immigration.govt.nz/new-zealand-visas/apply-for-...
i'm near enough to boulder that google's boulder location would be a <15 minute commute, and <$500k buys you a 2000 sqft house in a quiet neighborhood and enough of a yard you can't see through your neighbor's window. pretty sure that's rather drastically cheaper than sf. if you're ok with a 30 minute commute, you can shave $100k off that. 60 minute commute would shave another $100k off.

while i'm commenting, i'll note that i don't feel boulder really competes with NC's research triangle, or austin. boulder county population is 310k, and a sizable chunk of that is tied up in and around the university and government research facilities that i feel don't impact local tech industry that much.
>One thing I'll often use dd for is recovering data from a failing drive.

Funnily enough, I ended up using it to accidentally name the wrong drive in the argument, and lost years of photos, music, video etc. though I suppose I can't blame dd for that :)
This was my favorite sim. Black and White back in the day. So good.
TLDR This has nothing to do with dunkin donuts
if ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we'd all have a merry Christmas
Instead of encoding laws in a programming language, they could encode the test cases in a natural language. List a bunch of specific scenarios and be explicit about how the law should be interpreted for them. Every time a judge makes a ruling on an uncovered scenario it gets added to the list.

Isn't that how common law already works?
Flint is one of thousands of places in the US with poisonous levels of lead. I wonder how this administration plans on dealing with it:

http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-lead-...
Counting calories is hard.

https://youtu.be/HGunZpKLb5o

TL;DW: Calculating the actual energy in a day's worth of well labeled foods resulted in a 500 calorie overage.

This doesn't even account for how your body absorbs calories different from every other body, and probably even differently every day.
Oh god, "non-blocking" is even worse, no thanks to Javascripters. Lock-free data structures can wait, and can block if they deal with failed operations by spinlocking.

The muddled concepts are:
waiting - what you do until you eventual acquire a contested resource (spinlock)
mutexes - objects used to enforce critical sections
stopping the world - a processor stopping the execution of all threads in order to ensure proper order of thread-critical instructions (is there a formal name for this?)
CAS - an atomic primitive often used to avoid the overhead of stopping the world to enter critical sections, or to avoid deadlock by implementing algorithms that do not have critical sections
critical section - a routine that must be executed by only one thread at a time
blocking - being unable to proceed with a given routine on account of another thread
non-blocking / async - threading in general, or, instead of spinlocking, yielding execution to another thread
deadlocking - a systematic failure wherein there is a cyclical dependency of threads on resources, and no thread can progress

All of these can be informally referred to by "locking", and lock-free (formal definition) algorithms avoid deadlocking by avoiding having critical sections or locks on resources at all. They're generally more performant, but that's coincidental.

If you have a critical section, and you implement a mutex using CAS, you've probably sped up your application because you no longer have to pause other threads. That's "lock free" in the sense that "stopping the world" is "locking" other threads, but not "lock free" in the sense of avoiding deadlock. If a thread enters a critical section with a CAS mutex and then waits forever, you can get deadlock.
I assume the point is that salaries aren't about fairness. So the objective measurable reason is that if you want to hire employees in high CoL areas, you'll need to pay more to be competitive.

To be clear, I have no issues with divorcing salary from location for a remote company. But it probably means you're paying generous salaries for people living in cheap locations and you'll have trouble hiring anyone who must must must live in SF for... reasons.
Virtually everyone is clueless. I mean it, most people don't know the first thing about computers, or networks, or how data flows when they send an email or even read a web page. Many others underestimate the actual price they pay for their supposedly free web mail.

The issue here is one of control: relays can basically read every mail they relay, and the likes of Gmail do. Spying on you is how they make money. No targeted ad would be possible otherwise. And the automation only makes it worse (because it scales, and can be repurposed).

And the user can do nothing about it. That total lack of control is why I maintain they do not, in fact, send their own email. Now there's PGP, but that would look conspicuous. If everyone had their own mail server, TLS alone would provide pretty good security.

What angers me the most is, even I don't have a choice: most of my friends use a big webmail provider, which invades my privacy whenever I communicate with them. This would never happen if we all had our own mail servers.
Haha totally agree. I've often wished they would put the actual decimal rating (4.12, 3.56 etc.) because we have no idea what their rounding strategy is. Does 3.99 become 4? How about 3.75? 3.51?
Love that game. There was a harder to find sequel by the same creator called Yoot Tower, it's pretty much the same game with a few additions.

You should also give Project Highrise a shot, very similar to Sim Tower and I have found it to be enjoyable.
I sure found that article difficult to read. Considering it was done by someone with a PhD in Literature, I guess it's just me.

Welcome to the NHK was a great watch. Someone would call it terribly depressing but surely not to the degree of Elfen Lied or Neon Genesis Evangelion.

The author mentions:

> An identikit of an average Hikikomori: likely a school dropout, may or may not have specific skills, most likely unemployed unless he has an online gig of sort, lives in his room in his parents' house, never steps out of the house, spends the day daydreaming, reading, roaming the internet, flipping TV channels, floating in his room.

It's comfortable being at home, especially your family home. I could spend all day reading online, offline, watching adultswim's marathon streams or just taking naps. When I walk outside the safety of my home I meet people that are different from me.

These people don't speak by reciting lines from early Simpsons episodes. These people don't think my jokes are funny.
These people don't talk about the things I like to talk about.

The Internet solves this. Reddit gives me subs. IRC gives me channels. Twitter gives me the ability to follow only those that interest me. I'm able to be someone else online, the best extension of me or the me that I want seen.

Now if my parents continue to pay and let me stay at home, I'll do just that. Eventually, that routine will be too difficult to break.

In my darkest moments, I thought exactly that. It was simply easier and more comfortable being at home and socializing online. When I read articles like these I relate and think back to those dire moments when my room had a leaning tower of pizza boxes and I hadn't showered in over a month.
There's one good (?) reason to use dd with devices: it specifies target in the same command. For devices, writing to them usually requires root privileges, so it's easy to:

sudo dd .... of=/dev/...

But there's no trivial cat equivalent:

sudo cat ... > target

Will open target as your current user anyway. You can play around with tee and redirection of course. But that's getting more complicated than the original.
>into thinking that their human ability to identify people from mugshots is more accurate than it actually is

Identifying in mugshot does nothing, you have to identify suspect in person and detective will interrogate suspect and you both. There are multitude of checks before anything is done. So still failing to understand how good software which could possible show the suspect is the problem? The main reason possibly could be that they(government) cannot hire good programmers who could build useable systems.
You realize you cherry-picked a snippet of my post, and then made the exact point I just made, which is:

There aren't deadlocks, but there is still waiting and potential starvation, all of which can be informally called "locks" and so we need to be careful about qualifying "locking".

This isn't a criticism of lock-free methodology, but a consideration of the ways in which "lock-free" could be interpreted.
The city manager was only appointed after Flint became effectively a failed city, and the state took over management.

In the US, cities manage their own municipal services including water supplies. The state only intervenes when the city runs out of money to provide basic services to their inhabitants -- and this happens very rarely.

If Flint had had a functioning government, the state appointees would have had nothing to do with the water supply.

It's a tragedy what happened, but at the point a city is unable to provide the most basic of services to its citizens like clean water, I think we need to consider whether it is worth pumping money into a city, or just call it quits and provide relocation funds to the remaining inhabitants, to get them to a region with actual economic activity.
To be fair, real life companies also aren't wholly contained in one computers RAM :)
Honestly, I'm not sure if you're trolling.

Your first post went on at length (and with sources!) about how rules aren't worth anything because they'd be broken anyway.
Example: German submarines attacking a civilian ship in WWI.

Unfortunately you missed the most important point in your story - which is that this ship wasn't so innocent and civilian after all.
Rather than ignoring the rules, the Germans broke them in retaliation AFTER the Americans had done so first.

The message here is not "rules never work", as your first post implies.
It's rather "if you (US) brake the rules, expect the others (Germany) to do so as well in retaliation."

The fact that Lusitania was carrying arms does not support your initial point but rather changes the story and implications entirely.
> I wonder how this administration plans on dealing with it.

That's a pretty bold assumption you're making in that statement.
I didn't think "the universe has a finite capacity" to be such a controversial idea.

Look, if you use land for farming then you can't use it for something else, right? And the Earth has a finite surface, right? So once all arable land has been farmed and all other land has been allocated for other uses, then necessarily land allocation will become a zero sum game.

If wealth can just be created ex nihilo then human population should be able to grow without bounds, no? The pie is a lie, after all. We can just bake more pies. I don't see how that's possible when both space and food production capacity are bounded.
$330 million is the widely reported figure for the cost of the fiber network, which is also used as the basis for EBP's smart grid. I don't think it includes the expenditures on the other smart grid components.

Page 11 shows $41 million in "operation expenses" but there is also other line items for "cost of services" and administrative overhead. Those are "operating expenses" in the accounting sense. The cash flow statement on Page 19 shows that the total "operating expenses" is $78 million.
I would really like a better information around the difference between Tokio & Futures:

* What is Tokio & why was there a need for its own
terminology? (Reactors, Core, Proto etc..)

* What are the differences between Futures and Tokio? When would I use one? When would I use the other?

* Can I use futures without tokio?

* For all of the structs in Futures, Streams, Sinks, etc.. where are the examples?
Realistically, some human groups are more likely to build an SI than others. A Silicon Valley corporation is far more likely to be the first to build an SI than say ISIS. There are a lot more AI/ML/etc researchers in the former than the later. The former has huge computational resources, does ISIS even have any data centres?

But, suppose that against the odds ISIS builds the first SI, what would be the result? Well, we could be subjected to a world government based on an extremist interpretation of Islam. That would be extremely unpleasant – expect to see genocide, human rights violations on an unimaginable scale, etc – although humanity would survive. (And maybe even eventually things might evolve in a more pleasant direction – if humans can evolve, SIs can too; it is also possible that an SI programmed by ISIS might actually turn around and reject ISIS' ideology – e.g. it might study Islamic history and realise that despite ISIS' claims to be a return to authentic Islam it is actually an ahistorical distortion of it, etc.)

However, I don't know why I should worry about such an extremely unlikely possibility. A group like ISIS are highly unlikely to be the first to build an SI. Why worry about risks that are both (i) very low and (ii) for which we have no mitigation strategy?
The Patriot is not a shoulder-fired missile. It is a heavy-duty anti-aircraft missile that weighs 1,500 lb. In fact, some versions can shoot down medium-range ballistic missiles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIM-104_Patriot
How do I recognize tunes/sounds on raspberry pi like his device did?
I think from the NZ public's point of view the biggest problem is not this, it's 'freedom campers' crapping everywhere - people camping on the side of the road - which we mostly don't mind, but who don't bring toilet facilities with them, and don't bother to seek out public facilities.

Here's a local newspaper story from this week about a woman crapping in the street in the local tech precinct - 2 blocks from a public toilet in one direct, 2 blocks from a gas station in the other:

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/freedom-camper-poos-duned...
Good thing this was approved by the previous administration. The next Flint will most likely receive a tank to protect itself from rioters, given the EPA cuts and further bloated defense budget
New Zealander here. Out of all the problems a country could have, 'too many tourists' seems like an awfully good one.

I'm sure it's more complicated than this, but from a naive perspective, putting a higher tax on tourism activities for non citizens seems like a solid solution with no obvious pitfall.
Wait, really? Damn, that explains why I love literally every 5-star-rated thing they serve me!
I mean look at the actual titles released under each version of unreal engine.

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

Unreal Engine 2 - Warfare Build 927

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2 (2004)
... (14 titles across pc and consoles)
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist (2013)

Now, going from unreal engine 2 to 4 is the kind of jump that suggests your dumping most of the old code. However by sticking with version 2 that long they where clearly reusing their code between games.
Sounds good, but I wonder what the economics will be. I mean, it isn't much good if it costs a thousand dollars to build and produces only ten cents worth of hydrogen a day.
Cuba's DIY Inventions from 30 Years of Isolation (2010)
Even what IS tokio for us casual observers would be nice to know! Futures I can infer, but tokio? I have no clue and the article doesn't help.
Reminder: any such numbers are purely theoretical, and based on an infinite market capable of absorbing infinite amounts of product at current pricing levels. That is not the world we live in.
Stop Your “Agile” Transformation Right. Now
I was wondering about that; didn't realize it was NeXT. A friend of mine still has his original NeXT box for the short time he worked on it.

I was also surprised at the origins of DarwinBSD. I never really looked up the history and didn't realize it forked some of the code off FreeBSD.

It's interesting to note that the PS4 OS is also a forked FreeBSD variant as well.
Still play it. Still love it.
is this statement implying that you don't believe in federal disaster relief for local emergencies?
If you find this interesting, the interview with him at idlethumbs is really good: https://www.idlethumbs.net/designernotes/episodes/sid-meier-... (looks like its one of the sources for this post). I think the portion related to railroad tycoon is in the second part but its worth listening to all of it.
https://www.google.com/retail/shopping-campaigns/how-it-work...

https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/188493?hl=en&ref...
[...] many others were worried about the absolute collapse in commodity prices that would have occurred if it were suddenly easy to get all the iron and nickel we’d need for centuries.

Worried? Because of falling prices? Looks like someone didn't pay attention during economics 101 or is afraid of going out of business.
It's not reasonable to introduce additional first amendment restrictions or award damages in response to targeted prank tweets by internet trolls.

How do we know Eichenwald actually had a seizure? Why wouldn't he take precautions if he knew using a computer could cause a seizure? He appears to have motive to lie, an opportunity to get away with it, and a proven desire to be the "hero" in his own reporting. He is his own victim.
Somewhat related short story: Earlier this week my friend said that he dd'd away just over 50 bitcoins, back when they were worth ~$3 each.

"One of the biggest regrets of my life."
I loved SimTower, although there were times it felt more like Elevator Simulator.

(Also, tip for those starting a new game: 2x3 grid of fast food in the basement at the start of the game. You're welcome.)
In this post, I will summarize my understanding of a non-blocking (lock free) design of linked list data structure...

The author conflates blocking with lock-free. Starvation is a form of blocking, non-blocking implies no starvation.
In Massachusetts, for example, the standard remedy for unpaid wages is triple damages.
It's like when those guys landed a spacecraft on a comet and everyone went insane because one of the scientists wore a shirt with pictures of semi-naked women that a woman friend had given him.

Or when they discovered the Higgs boson and they used comic sans for their slides and again people lost their minds.

I have to wonder what these people were reading or paying attention to as none of that ever occurred to me until it somehow made "front page" news.
The Noisiest Block in the Neighborhood: Analyzing NYC Data with Mongolite
Very much so.

The first example "to my mother, Ayn Rand, and God" could be reasonably and correctly interpreted two ways

1) this book is dedicated to two people, my mother (who is Ayn Rand), and God.

2) this book is dedicated to three people, my mother (who is not Ayn Rand), Ayn Rand, and God.

"To God, Ayn Rand, and my mother" Makes it clear the second interpretation is intended. You can't mistake my Ayn Rand for my mother.
> That is the kind of curiosity you want to nurture in your children.

Well, CRISPR then :-)

Joking aside, I'm not sure if that could be done by some method. The raw, childly observation & perception of the nature are needed for that, I guess. The sky is the biggest part of the nature around us and you don't have that in urban areas, because you are not able to see the beauty of the night sky; there is a light pollution only. It's like "city lights is the limit!" in urban areas, while "the sky and beyond clearly is the limit!" in rural areas. Of course, not every child who grows up in country side has the same curiosity towards the nature. I suppose it essentially is the love towards the nature that drives curiosity. How can you put a love for nature into a child's heart? I don't know.. Teaching them the importance of trees? Buying a telescope and observing the moon closely? The smell of the soil after a rain? Telling them that we are all made of stars?[0] It's a tough mission overall :-)

[0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=xAh6fk0KD1c
- Also, all the locomotives! Just so much more in depth.

^ You can install GRF sets for OpenTTD that have even more locomotives than railroad tycoon. NARS or UKRS2 have extremely expansive sets of trains compared to the small selections of bland name trains the base game comes with. Also NUTS has a set optimised for gameplay over realism, if you want to go the other direction.
Jordon Hubbard even worked at Apple for a bit.
"endless suburban hellscape"

hilariously accurate
It's more complicated than you seem to think -- and the reality also includes IBM. However, I was simply responding to the top-of-the-page cliche that it was "the company that bankrolled SCO in their lawsuit", which otherwise seemed to be going unquestioned.
I would love to know what exactly it is Chic-fil-a does. Right now I less than a block from one, but it's all chipper teenagers and, yes, mostly white. This is despite the fact that the neighborhood I live in is majority black, and lower income. I have neighbors who work at McDonalds, but not Chic-fil-a. I can't imagine Chic-fil-a outright discriminates, but every one I visit has polite, probably affluent, teens.
Project Highrise looks fun, though mixed reviews about it being initially fun, but losing luster. 20 bucks. I'll give it a shot.
https://tokio.rs/blog/tokio-0-1/

Might help illuminate some things?
Google’s new open-source algorithm shrinks JPEG image file sizes by 35 percent
That just means you haven't raised the prices enough.
Not at all. Sorry, I shouldn't have listed unrelated situations. What I would never, EVER want, is the inability to negotiate salary. Paying someone with a bad past the same as someone with a good past seems outrageous to me. I've proven myself enough to warrant my salary. If I were part of a union, they'd look at my years of experience and say, "alright you fit into the $110k a year bucket. You get an annual raise of 2% every year. Check in a few months to get your insurance card!"
I love seeing detailed rundowns like this. Props to the team to have the forethought to track all of this information during the investigation or having the historical maturity to create a retrospective.

More of these, everyone!
You can find a list on metacritic (http://www.metacritic.com/browse/games/score/metascore/all/w...), but it also includes non-exclusives. Personally I loved Super Mario 3D World and Mario Kart 8.
ZFS in RAIDZ2 mode.

Unless 3 drive controllers die simultaneously, you can survive finding faults during a full rebuild.
fwiw I don't really see anything inflammatory in the parent's statement, or any indication that they feel the current administration is any more/less equipped than previous ones to deal with the water crisis.
You can get the original (running in dosbox) from gog.com for a couple of bucks. Maybe it's just nostalgia, but I preferred the original too.
Wonder how much sitting at the same desk in front of a screen for 40+ hours a week has to be compensated by the sensation that "the wide web is so vast in diversity of the different virtual locations I can go to" memory-wise.