skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have the same Early 2009 octa-core model and have done a few upgrades here and there and I have to say I find the system nearly as responsive as the new 2016 MacBook Pro I use at work.

The first thing I added was a CalDigit FASTA-6GU3 SATA3/USB3 card. This gives you two internal SATA3 connectors (bootable) which I'm using for my macOS boot SSD. It also has two eSATA ports and 2x USB 3.0 ports and only takes up a single PCIe slot. They've since come out with a new card that adds a USB 3.1 Type-C port. No drivers needed, it "just works".

Next was a NVIDIA GTX 970 card, this works perfectly in 10.11/10.12 once you've used the GT120 card to install the NVIDIA Web Drivers. You don't get the boot screen unless you get the card ROM flashed by macvidcards.com ($$) but I haven't found this to inconvenient as I have left the GT120 in a spare PCIe slot so if I need to use the boot selector for some reason I can just swap the mini-DisplayPort cable over. You can go up to a GTX 980 Ti but you're limited to Maxwell cards as NVIDIA hasn't released macOS drivers for Pascal.

Finally I picked up 64GB of DDR3 1333 MHz ECC RAM on eBay that was pulled from server for under $200, this was mainly to fulfill my dreams of being able to say I have 64GB of RAM but I run a lot of VMs for network simulations and it really helps to have the extra memory.

I've also flashed the SMC so the machine thinks it's a MacPro5,1 of the 2010+ generation, you'll need to do this if you want to upgrade the CPUs (I haven't yet) but has the added benefit of letting 10.12 install without any hacks or modifications to the OS. If you're on 10.11 now you'll have to disable SIP temporarily to run the firmware update but it was otherwise quick and painless, this is the best place I found with clear instructions: http://forum.netkas.org/index.php/topic,852.0.html

All in all this is the best Mac I've ever owned and it amazes me it works as well as it does being almost 8 years old now.
Please separate fundamental economic research with political economic decision-making. Good economic research improves tries to model real behavior. This doesn't stop politicians from cherry-picking research articles to verify their sometimes incorrect worldviews.

This is analogous to complaining that climate researchers aren't rigorous because some subset of politicians claim it isn't manmade and point to some articles which support their claims.
I find it interesting because one could argue that you should be able to apply a sort of success filter to either discipline to see who is skilled at what they do. For example:

How many rich economists are there?
How many influential sociologists are there?
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> over-engineered and founded on dubious assumptions

Not only is it over-engineered, it's incredibly wasteful. Eventually we will move to other reactor designs that utilize more than just a few percent of the useful isotopes in the fuel. With several types of breeder rectors and/or reprocessing a lot of that "waste" is potential fuel.

I suspect most people don't understand just how little fuel is required for nuclear power. We are used to the scale of chemical fuels and don't have an experience with the massive difference in energy density. The chemical. mining, and other industries associated with the Superfund have already caused an incredible amount of damage that we will be cleaning up for the foreseeable future. I'd much rather live near nuclear waste stored in easily manage dry casks over any of the sites with e.g. PCB or heavy metal contamination.
This is specious reasoning. You have to go out of your way to write unsafe broken code. The default in Rust is for memory safety. Yes, someone could theoretically be using an unsafe block and raw pointers to manipulate a memory buffer. But they probably aren't, because that's generally pretty stupid unless you're implementing a higher-level wrapper around the buffer, which very few people do because there's generally already a wrapper that does what you want (often provided by the stdlib). And even if you are, the unsafe code is contained in a very small area which makes it much easier to review for safety.
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I got my start using pirated Macromedia and Adobe products and now I'm a full paying customer. Product suits like this would greatly benefit from giving schools access to free student licenses to get young people hooked and trained on their products so when they enter the workforce they're ready to pay for it.
Great - many thanks - this is very helpful.

"Next was a NVIDIA GTX 970 card"

How many PCI slots does that card take up ? I currently drive four monitors with my mac pro and the single slot aspect of the gt120s makes that easy ...

"All in all this is the best Mac I've ever owned and it amazes me it works as well as it does being almost 8 years old now."

I know, right ? I regularly have 20+ chrome tabs open along with 1-2 VMs running in vmware fusion and I have never once felt like the system was slow. My only issue is that I have only ever run snow leopard on it and now chrome no longer has updates, so I need to move to ... mavericks maybe ? I feel like mavericks is the most stable/sane OSX release since SL ...
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There have been ridiculously beautiful days where I've found myself during rush hour, with trains backed up 20 minutes, moments where I'd go sure I'll ride a bike from Caltrain to Westfield mall, then I look at the price.

They want $12 for 30 minute use/24 hour membership. Its just something I can't justify for one off commutes.
I think you really have to get to know Rails before you can see its value.
It's probably not helpful to think of this as "passing" vs "failing" but as a way to examine the behaviour so you understand it and aren't blind-sided. It's secondarily useful for demonstrating a particular behaviour in software (e.g. "Actually Chrome doesn't verify CRLs or OCSP") without needing to cook up your own tests or stumble onto a suitable site for testing each time.

The Chrome developers have an extended defence of why their browser behaves as it does for revocation, which is pretty interesting, and the long-term plan is OCSP-stapling, which fixes things, but understanding the badssl.com features as "pass" vs "fail" rewards the simplest possible check-the-boxes approach and that's unfortunate.

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/04/29/revocationagain.ht...
Negligence in the legal sense of the word revolves around care. If someone is maintaining some codebase and causes a memory safety related bug you would have to look at that bug in isolation and what the person did to avoid it. Saying 'you should have rewritten this in rust in order to avoid liability' is not a standard of care that anybody will ever be held to.

So the ideal as you perceive it is so far from realistic that I do not believe pursuing that road is fruitful.

What we can do is class bugs (or actually, the results of bugs, the symptoms that cause quantifiable losses) in general as a source of (limited) liability. This will put those parties out of business that are unable to get their house in order without mandating one technology over another (which would definitely be seen as giving certain parties a competitive edge, something I don't think will be ever done).

So that's why I believe that solution is the better one.

But in a perfect world your solution would - obviously - be the better one, unfortunately we live in this one.
Relevant: http://contrastrebellion.com
This is a well-known opinion from Mr Musk, and the story has been submitted many times, some with significant discussion. In case you're interested in what HN "thinks" it might be worth reading some of them. Of course, these are quite old now, so if you have anything to add you'll have to do it here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12884477 (31 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13150173 (16 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13139261 (11 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12890376 (5 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13674967 (1 comment)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13644567 (1 comment)

Other submissions don't have any comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13678268

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13677450

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13637950

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12884990
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Sometimes you have to make the mistake to know it was one. I wouldn't trust his opinion if he had never tried non-www.
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> The only reason I was able to pay my loans was because the Army paid them for me after I completed my term of service. I tried for years to find employment that could help me escape a life of poverty but could not.

Okay, so then I must ask: What did you major in, what was your total debt, and did you research the career prospects of your major BEFORE going to college?

Sometimes I think a basic mandatory form that came with your college acceptance letter would do wonders for student debt.

You have chosen to apply to be a history major at private
school X. Our graduation rate for the program is 95%. Your
total student debt upon graduation will be approximately
$145,000. That is a monthly payment of $2000. Our 25th,
50th, and 75th percentile wages for graduates with this
degree are $20,000, $25,000, and $30,000. This means you
can expect to pay about 107% of your income towards
servicing your loan for the first 10 years after
graduation.
Sports teams are generally a net positive. You and I see the $3.5M salary for a football coach at a public university and think it's absurd, but the football program itself pulls in tons of cash directly and indirectly and is probably more than 'worth it' to the school overall.

edit: Looks like this is generally wrong. I'll leave it up but see below comment.
The casks are too thick to be penetrated by civilian firearms. They could be further protected from man-portable weapons (e.g. anti-tank guided missiles) by locating them shallowly underground, where monitoring/maintenance is still easy. Military attack on the storage site with heavy weapons? That's approximately equal to the case of a military attack on a live power reactor, with the same dire consequences and responses. (If a shooting war has escalated to war crimes against nuclear powers, I expect that MAD is just around the corner.)
Don't think of the touchbar as a keyboard-shortcut bar at all; the F-keys have basically been "killed", not changed. They're gone like FireWire. The new thing that is there displaced them, rather than being an upgrade to them; it just emulates them as a sop for the few people who might need them, while app developers take the hint and remove F-key bindings from their apps.

The touchbar is really there to be a little touchable display, like an iPad, or the bottom screen of a Nintendo DS. It's for virtual knobs, rather than virtual keys: it makes perfect sense once you use it to scrub or drag-select in iMovie or Final Cut Pro. It's basically a shrunk-down embedded platform for those "live controller" iPad apps (DJay Pro; that thing Bret Victor built in the dead fish video; etc.) to run on.
> Amazing place to work though.

I found it to be a terrible place to work. Highly political, bait-n-switch hiring tactics, constant re-orgs, no project ownership, lots of silver bullets... It had 1 redeeming quality, they paid well. Hated the place and so glad to have moved on.
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The introduction to the colors section talks about communicating warmth and trustworthiness. How does a mostly blue, grey and white page communicate those feelings. Personally, I have always associated blue and grey with cold and isolation.
If you made an iOS version, I'd buy it for up to $5.00. I suspect it would be popular.
Thanks for sharing that. I lived in Seattle and often walked by the Pronto bikes but didn't know that the helmet situation there was different than elsewhere.
Removing loan guarantees, and forcing students to scrutinize the value of the degree they are pursuing will improve the problem of students blindly doing what they've been told to do.

If they don't suffer the consequences of buying a useless degree, why wouldn't they keep doing it?

Any possible improvement of the status quo is going to involve pain. Certainly universities themselves could start feeling some of it, as they are complicit in accepting the guaranteed money without any incentive to more selectively filter either: the students getting the loans, or the quality of degrees they are receiving, or both.
> I do. I expect your next response will impose qualifiers on "developers" and "compiled software."
> I used to say that their laptops are fine
> My experience is that their laptops are still more than fine enough for power users and developers.

Well, [part 1] I don't use xcode, i touch type [part 2] and a lot of the stuff i work on involves looong builds and/or going through a few VMs. I also HATE fan noise and I work from home in a quiet room. Part 1 disqualifies the emoji keyboard, part 2 disqualifies anything with laptop-like internals, namely the laptops and the iMacs. I hope that's enough qualifiers :)
This is scary as fuck when you think about it. Why? Because the idea of a UBI basically pre-supposes some sort of entity that does something like collecting taxes and then taking responsibility for divvying things up to provide the basic income. Call it "government" or what you will. Then look at how corrupt our government is now. Now think about what happens when your very survival depends on that government divvying up the spoils and doing the right thing.

Do the math. Corruption will become far more pronounced than it is now and most of us will be forced to survive on $2 / day, while the elites live larger than ever. You think income inequality is a problem now? It'll only get worse once (and if) technological unemployment puts all (or most) humans out of work.

A world where you can't sustain yourself by creating value through some independent initiative / effort is probably going to be a very ugly world.
It amuses me that people so often fall for the "renewables will have their problems solved in 10 years" mantra, while they say that reprocessing nuclear waste won't be solved in 10000 years.
> It is corporate vigilantism at best

Palantir is a company selling data analysis software. They're doing what they're paid to do. How is this corporate vigilantism?

> The reality of the law is way less important than its actual morality

That is absolutely untrue. There are ways to change the law. People fail to understand that when you break the law to protest it, you still have to face the consequences.

This latest federal judge injunction against the travel bad is a horrible thing for our system, no matter what you think of the ban.

The president is well within his purview to establish regulations and restrictions for foreign travel. For an activist judge to make a decision like this, gives ample reason for his removal and/or sanction. Once you have the judicial branch trying to enact policy or morality, you have the ability for the executive branch to remove all dissent.
I've been working in the field for 20 years. I've seen the same down turns as you. I lived in the heart of the rust belt most of my life. Numerous of my friends have ha the same experience as me, I don't believe it's actually atypical at all.
There are some comments here as to motivation: why go through all this? I make video money using after effects, mainly. I'm chained to the oars. The choice of intermediate codec (ProRes) is surprisingly important, there are other solutions that don't make it for my workflow. And it's not just codec, lots of things about windows 10 make it an unprofessional choice. I was planning to build a windows box anyway, with i7 6900K, 128GB ram, ASRock X99 Taichi, GTX 1080, NVMe, all that. When I overlaid that over a hackintosh, it seemed a bit past what is possible, at least from a cursory look at tonymacx86. It's worth a week of work to me, maybe I'll look harder. Thanks for listening!
The image preview of ranger has different backends: besides xterm it works on iTerm2 and urxvt using their custom methods. Not sure about Wayland though.
24.6 ESR from June 2014. The side navs are now on top of the main content. So the main contend slides under the side nav and is hard to read. I understand that it's a 3 year old browser, but it's on a Win7 machine, like lots of other web users.
It's not flammable. And properly processed, even a leakage in the containment wouldn't necessarily be disastrous, i.e. requires cleanup, but no like chernobyl problems.

I wish we would put more research into this.

Imagine if we could make nuclear waste relatively benign? It would revolutionize the entire world.
There's no reason to say an Android ROM is illegal. Or whatever semi-illegal might be. Maybe it's like semi-falling-off-a-cliff? Semi-hit-by-a-train? I don't mean to mock.

I always guessed Android ROMs were such a misery in the community aspect, because they're very easy and relatively useless. All you need is a computer, which is easy enough, then some open and free software, and you're ready to go and compile your own ROM. The source code is often available, and you can change a color here and there and maybe change some of the Linux kernel parameters so you can say it's for better battery life, or more free RAM if you're into that.

That's the easy part. Now the relatively useless part: phones don't last long. Someone who is keen on tweaking their phone will probably be looking for a new one every year, or every other year. At best they last about three years. The changes to the software is minimal at best, and every custom ROM is practically the same. There is no marketability in these ROMs. There's not millions of dollars of potential revenue to be gotten out of a server that has to run with 20 years of uptime, that a company can jump into and support, like you can see with other uses of Linux. Red Hat supports for like 10 years? Android devices get discarded in two. Therefore there is little professional attention to third party, open source distributions of Android.

Google develops it, companies alter it a little bit, then ship it. Hobbyists from all around the world take the open source aspects of this and maybe add some new stuff here and there. There's no need to expect professionalism from hobbyists.

(I find CyanogenMod, or LineageOS or something now, to be pleasant to use on a phone. It gives the option to run apps as root, and it comes with a terminal, and it tries to remain as open as it can.)
With HTTP2 support this is not longer really a problem, since HTTP2 multiplexes requests over 1 connection.
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>That would be the understatement of the century.

Indeed. If it weren't for nutritionists, economists would win the prize for having the discipline most disconnected from reality.
You forgot to automatically copy any wallet files you find.
I don't pay student loans. Do you know why? I don't have them. I went to an inexpensive local school, worked while going to school, and took the public bus to and from it. (I was fortunate enough to be able to live with my parents.)

While I don't know your situation, it's hard for me to feel sorry for someone who went to an expensive private school, lived on campus in a "country club" atmosphere, and then expects the Taxpayers to cover it.
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You might want to fix the "two benefits: 1. [...] 1." in the article.
Also notice the very inclusive picture on their landing page template.
They charge an exorbitant fee because tuition is being heavily subsidized. The consequences of this exact policy change being discussed is a form of removing part of that subsidy.
Hah. I have a 3 year old and am very curious what the "college scene" will look like in 15 years.
Tv pushes the rendering further by using more unicode characters. It also uses GDAL as a backend which allows subsampling of massive images and access to many scientific image formats (GeoTiff, NetCDF, JPEG2000, etc)
I've always wondered if the fact we make it so essentially students are forced to repay their student debt (even if they are otherwise insolvent) contributes to higher cost of education.

After all, you have a captive market that has to buy your service or deal with a higher risk of unemployment and a lending institution that doesn't take on any risk.

What if we let students default on their loans?

My bet:

- Less people will go to college (not necessarily a bad thing)

- The cost of college will go down because the demand is stifled

If the government works to guarantee you will get paid, you can charge whatever you want and that might be what we are seeing.
Does anyone know how to make this work with tmux splits? I tried setting this up but the images would be displayed across splits as if w3m was taking up the whole terminal.
I hear that sound byte (bite?) here a lot. It does not seem to be true based on the news I read. Perhaps you have better sources than I. From what I see, 20 out of 1,083 NCAA schools made money on sports. The other 1,063 lost money.

http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/media-center/news/athlet...

Only 24 FBS schools generated more revenue than they
spent in 2014, according to the NCAA Revenues and
Expenses of Division I Intercollegiate Athletics Programs
Report. That figure jumped from 20 schools in 2013, but
it has remained relatively consistent through the past
decade.

Don't forget to account for scholarships. You are giving free tuition to the football team, ladies soccer team, lacrosse team, ladies cross country, swimming, etc. etc. etc.

http://www.politifact.com/virginia/statements/2014/dec/22/ji...

Only two sports were profitable at FBS schools, according
to the report. Football programs netted a median profit
of slightly more than $3 million and men’s basketball
netted a median $340,000. But the profits at most schools
quickly vanished after paying for a long list of other
intercollegiate teams, all of which lose money. The
median loss among of athletic departments was $11.6 million.
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If it were not for the political problems, it wouldn't be that hard. Pick some hard-rock mountain in an unpopulated geologically stable area that hasn't changed much in the last 20 million years or so. North and South Dakota have mountains like that. Drill tunnels, well above the water table. Encapsulate high level nuclear waste in glass and put that in big stainless steel thimbles. Lower those into holes in the tunnels.

France does something like this.
Or you can get a Windows 10 machine from a reliable integrator (like Supermicro or ThinkMate) and it will "just work."
its badly explained, but what the first paragraph is saying is basically:

"the act of measuring time in greater detail requires increasing amounts of energy" (increasing amounts of energy dilates time because general relativity) "therefore, time-keeping devices become less precise".

time dilation implies "less precise measurements". If we assume a balance where time measurements always require more energy, then there has to be a level of precision at which increasing precision through deploying more energy increases precision by less than the increased energy decreases precision, therefore, improving precision becomes impossible.