skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are many other reasons why people need to drive than them working in the suburbs and globally even more reasons why biking in a city is far from enough (Just look at some Chinese cities)

The thing is that if you really were to change your life for it to have an effect we wouldn't do it. Just the threat to reliable food supply is enough to make most people accept things as they are.

There are two things you can do which are the only rational things to do.

1) Invent non-polluting, technical solutions that either produce, at scale, enough energy to replace existing solutions and which are easy to implement

2) Prepare for the consequence of climate change and find solutions to help that.

Thats what you can do. Shouting on FB, Twitter or HN doesn't help anyone.
While not insignificant, I think it's worth asking what effect a 10% reduction in US passenger vehicle emissions would have in the long term. To put it in perspective, there's (what appears to be) an excellent new paper in Science that proposes a roadmap for reducing global emissions to a level that is estimated to have a 2/3 chance of keeping warming below 2C until 2100.

The paper is "A roadmap for rapid decarbonization" by Rockström1, Gaffney, Rogelj, Meinshausen, Nakicenovic, and Schellnhuber. While a valuable and probably required step, doubling US passenger vehicle efficiency is just one of many things that would need to be done, and done quickly. I think it's worth reading the paper closely to understand the steps that would be required according to our current understanding of the science: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6331/1269

The full article is unfortunately behind a paywall, but since I think a reasonable argument can be made that breaking the logjam on the global warming debate is more urgent than following the nuances of US copyright law, I'll mention that plugging DOI:10.1126/science.aah3443 into sci-hub.bz will let you read the full paper.
Yeah, this is practically an epidemic with Amazon's hotter items. For instance, check out this seller page for Nintendo Switch, which is comprised almost entirely of "just launched" sellers: https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B01LTHP2ZK/ref=dp_ol...
> To pick just one example, software in the 90s didn't have inline spell checking

To pick on your example - it is interesting that you have to go back 20 years to find a feature beneficial for the everyman, and that you are still wrong: Just about every word processor starting from MS Word 95 came with inline spell checkers. (And indeed I prefer the snappiness and identical feature set of my copy of Office 2003 to the ribbon-laden gigabyte-guzzling mostrosities of Office 201x, just as I prefer a 15-year-old Winamp to the latest Itunes player.)
I can dynamically change the font if I want, but only 1 font loaded at a time. In this case, I would have to auto-detect which font to use based on the UTF8 code, and swap the font out.

Is this how big companies do it? For example, Supercell in the Clash of Clans / Clash Royale games will display text perfectly no matter what language. Latin text will appear intermixed with Korean, Chinese, etc. without any issue.
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But to produce high-quality renderings of mathematical formulas, you need this fine-grained level of control. Not all fractions should use "\frac", sometimes "\tfrac" (which produces a vertically smaller fraction) or even an in-line "/" are more appropriate.

Similarly, "\left(" and "\right)" sometimes result in parentheses whose size don't reflect stress and emphasis. In those cases, it's good to have "\bigl(" and friends available.

LaTeX has several flaws. But it's also astonishingly good, making it extremely hard for a competitor to catch on. We're kind of locked in to LaTeX.
Well, why not then say this is domain registrar's fault, since somebody clearly did allow registration of paypal.com.tk or something similar.

SSL certificate is for secure communication with some website. Whether the website is a malicious one or not has absolutely nothing to do with security of the communication with said site.

I think the problem here is that people believe sites which are SSL enabled are good, and that problem will be fixed when all the web sites become SSL enabled.
The one about vertical-align seems wrong. I use it all the time when aligning text next to images and that has nothing to do with tables afaik.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/vertical-al...
I'll give you free, but I'm not sure about good. For the www site I run, we have run a one node instance on each machine; they regularly decide to go off into the weeds and not return results, and in the meantime use ridiculous amounts of ram.

I wish Yahoo would have open sourced some of it's internal search tools. :( They weren't always simple to use, but they were stable.
It's good in results, but too aggressive in updating live results -- the effect is laggy on systems I use, e.g., when searching HN.
Do you use an external display? Mine crashes about once a week after I've unplugged it from the thunderbolt display
I returned to the Mac 7 years ago, and work on one every day (development, Xcode compiles, run web server, WebStorm, business stuff like numbers/pages, etc). Not sure I ever remember having a kernel panic.
AsciiMath has one large benefit over Latex: It fits how you would write math in an email.

AsciiMath is perfect for users who do not know Latex (or code for that matter) but needs to use mathematical notation on a daily basis.

I applaud that AsciiMath has resurfaced. I've used it in combination with Katex a cuple of times with great results.
Ironically the early stages of such talks were held in a chip shop via a senior civil servant as a proxy, because it was vital to keep this "collusion" away from the awareness of security forces.

(There was a great documentary about this on TV, but I cannot remember the name of it)
Am I really supposed to be scared of a burglar who has the skills to hack a security system though? If he has those skills maybe he can find a good paying job easily enough.
The fact you didn't reply but chose to divert the conversation indicates to me you're either on the board of the DA or an Acquia employee, or (knowing the tight relationship between the two) more likely both.

I have read every piece of information available to the public and there has been no evidence of any wrongdoing. What you're doing here is wrong. I hope someday you see that.
Launch a rocket. Capture an asteroid. Weave a big flat disk. Place at L1.

Well, not me personally. I'll need some help.
Java packages are namespaces for code. Java modules are deployable bundles of code. The units of deployment (JAR, WAR, EAR files) pre-Java 9 do not have a consistent model of specifying dependencies and exports needed at runtime.

In other word, packages help the compiler, but give no information to the runtime or deployment as far as how, when, and from where to deploy or load code.
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On a lighter note, being curious why they italicized Challenger and Columbia but not Apollo 1, I found this, which I had not seen before: https://history.nasa.gov/styleguide.html

> Italics:
All orbiter names should be capitalized [0] (e.g. Atlantis, Columbia, Discovery ). We also italicize lunar module and command module names (e.g. Eagle, Columbia, Odyssey, Aquarius). We do not italicize mission names (STS-44, Apollo 11). All ships should be italicized (e.g. the Hornet, the Enterprise). We do not italicize the names of probes and robotic spacecraft (e.g. Voyager, Cassini).

[0] I think "capitalized" is a typo here that should be "italicized".
Yeah...I wouldn't say that "accuracy" was one of the main goals of this post per se.
>No. On days where self driving cars don't work, price goes up, and the market puts more humans on the road.

So all these humans are just hanging around waiting for it to snow so that they have the pleasure of driving other people around? The market will react instantaneously?

Or are they doing other gigs in the meantime, like delivering people's lunches, laundry, groceries et al?
Here's 25 minutes of what Tesla is currently shipping as their latest release.[1] This is not freeway driving, but suburban roads, which the current system really isn't intended to support. It gives a good sense of what the system can and can't handle. Traffic islands turn out to be a big problem, especially if the lane line leads to the center of the traffic island, not the edge. This is what happens when you're not profiling elevation. The system also loses its edge reference when passing wide driveways. Realistically, this thing is good for long freeway drives, and not much else.

Detection of other vehicles, as shown on the dashboard display, is far below the level Google has demonstrated. Often, there's a nearby car that's not showing on the display. This probably reflects that Tesla only has vision and radar forward; side sensing is just short-range sonar, like a backup warning system.

What self-driving software Tesla is going to ship in the future is not publicly known, but we do know the sensor suite they're currently using, and it's far below Google or Volvo level for situational awareness.

[1] https://electrek.co/2017/03/18/tesla-autopilot-2-autosteer-t...
These sentences are nice, but I feel like more definitions and some re-ordering could make the document as a whole more meaningful.

For example, Lift is defined way before Functor, and fmap is never defined so I had no idea what Lift was about despite that nice concise sentence.
Hmm, a model could also give you multiple very different designs to help you see more possibilities
Can't say I agree with this article - I don't really run into CSS gotchas too often anymore.

This just reads like a massive complaint-fest TBH.
Essentially: network effects, efficiencies of scale, and costs of managing multiple small relationships (from the advertising buyer's PoV).

Google's real monopoly at this point is ad-side.
Also, AMS LaTeX, by its nature, allows you to write custom macros to shorten the particular notation(s) you happen to use most. A lot of these comparisons fail to note that important fact about the use of the tool.
In a year and a half. Approaching, but not immediate unfortunately.
I haven't seen many politicians campaigning for nuclear power, and you can't deal with CO2 emissions without that (base load problem, etc), so that's pretty hard to do.
Too bad the team which made that decision wasn't available to help the VS Code team not use 13% CPU to render a blinking cursor (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13940014)
Hmm, in all my correspondence with engineers and mathematicians, we just paste or write latex directly in the email.

Knowledge of latex is assumed, and honestly I (and my colleagues) are able to parse thus natively.
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CSS is a bloody disgrace. A hideous abomination. Is there any word on the street, any alternatives coming down the road?
I live near the Nest main office on Foothill Expressway. There used to be a signficant amount of cars there on the weekends. That is no longer true.
I worked on a visual programming language in late 80s. It would compile it's programs but the compiler was really slow, took minutes for small programs.

We worked on optimizing it but couldn't find much to optimize. Then the founder took out the code that updated the progress bar as it compiled and compiles finished 10x faster.

This was on Mac Plus.
Off your head, what is your recommendation / checklist for people running servers? He covers fail2ban as well
Ah, but that's about how the tools are used, not what they are and who has them.

I believe, any entity, from a mere individual to a government agency or multinational corporation should be free to possess any software tools they may desire. How they use those is another matter.

I do "spy" on my own traffic on my own network running on my own hardware on my own premises. I've had some audits for possible malware/spyware, did reverse engineering protocol analysis, etc - and believe everyone should be able to do that. I shouldn't be able to do this on someone's else traffic without their informed consent - nor technically, neither legally (I believe, both of those aspects are important).

As for your question - I don't like this, of course. Don't think there is anyone well-informed and in their sane mind who does.
Dunno. It's worked before.

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html
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What kind of code search are you thinking of? In my experience, code search could be useful when one works with a big and unfamiliar code base, but even then good architecture documentation and a good IDE would help more. And when one really needs string search, `git grep` is usually fast enough (for me on a 5GB code base).
The difference is that many of us in the Drupal community have known Crell for years and not only has he done a stellar job of keeping these things separate, but also that he is very much a model for an ideal member of the community. He is always welcoming to others and of all the drama I have seen in the community, he is never part of it. He just seems like an honestly good person that I've known for over 6 years and seen regularly. Acquia should be giving him a medal for making "their" product with probably none of their venture capital money.
Right. I am asserting that your experiences are not the norm, but in fact outliers. Which means that Git is the norm, and those that do not use it are outliers. Basically the opposite of your original claim.
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This appears to be a refresh of a 2008 post? He originally links to it from this post:

http://sijinjoseph.com/2008/04/30/programmer-competency-matr...

Also of note is that he explicitly says it is biased towards non-visual (I think he means non-GUI) developers.
> you won't find a laptop with a comparable GPU

Sure you will:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/08/nvidia-pascal-laptop...

The real problem is sustained performance within a laptop form factor, as the article says:

How well the GTX 1080 maintains that speed within the confines of a laptop is largely going to depend on the design chops of laptop makers

It gets hot in those tight little boxes.
I catch and release spiders, but I understand the fear.

A relative of mine was once bitten by a spider and went into an anaphylactic state and had to be hospitalized. She didn't know she had that allergy until it happened.

She wound up being put on a corticosteroid IV which made her pre-diabetic thereafter, as shown on subsequent medical tests. All that from an encounter with a spider.
I wonder if it was trashing the cache or something? What was so bad about this particular progress bar?
0) Work for a cleantech company.

The thing many people here don't realize is that they can make real money fighting climate change. See my other comment in this thread for links to the major conferences with lists of cleantech companies that are hiring.
FWIW, I wrote a Julia Set explorer in HolyC for TempleOS a couple years back. It was definitely an interesting experience!

https://github.com/pcorey/julia-templeos
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reddit.com/r/rust is a useful resource for keeping abreast of Rust-related happenings.

For other OS stuff in Rust, see Redox (a microkernel) and Robigalia (Rust on seL4).
I used the word 'crazy', rather than mentioning mental health issues. 'Crazy' does not just refer to people with mental health issues, if refers to irrational acts.

To expand on my point, some of these small-scale 'terrorist' attacks show very little evidence of being coherently planned, and it's difficult to believe that an organised terrorist group is behind them. It seems more likely that some of these acts were performed by people acting alone, or vulnerable people provoked to it - and yes, some of these people may well be mentally ill; that hardly means they cannot be capable of violence.
Can't watch on either Chrome or Firefox. Apple are real gits.
This is about a decade old before MathJax and back when its predecessor, jsMath, was still pretty new. It was targeting students the most, not those who use latex professionally. I used it to create TidlyWiki notebooks for my students and it was something they actually did!

The goal was also about being translated into MathML. LaTeX is not necessarily concerned with mathematical sense while MathML (sometimes) is. I think this was also a motivation.

And, quite frankly, replacing \frac{a}{b} with a/b is a huge win for ease of writing basic math.
Does not sound that different than the typical systems architect.
Like Theranos, the mistake is ever having positive coverage, not only now having negative coverage.
>And "it boots so much faster than Windows" type comparisons are uninspired. Of course it does, it does barely anything by comparison.

Well, there are apps with thousands of users, based on Electron and NW.js, that do "barely anything" and yet load slowly as molasses and use half your CPU.

What's Slack doing compared to a full (if primitive) OS and userland?
In these digital always online times; its like claiming no one should be allowed to have a private conversation.
Well, either way, the argument is that the handcuffs are economic ones. The incentives are arranged to keep people stuck in their current economic situations regardless of how anyone feels about it.

For example, many benefits are withdrawn when people make over a certain income, basically punishing earning. Likewise, many benefits are cut off when a couple gets married, punishing people who officially form stable families.

It's not about gaming the system or preferring being on the take. It's about economic incentives producing predictable outcomes.

These are all arguments people make for minimum incomes and negative income taxes. They economically encourage people to pursue growth instead of punishing them for it.
I have switched to hashing with SHA-512 now. Thanks!
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That's pretty much what it is. I guess my artistic goals have been accomplished, so I'll go home now
I got that one some time ago from https://github.com/garybernhardt/dotfiles/blob/master/.vimrc... which offers several other useful functions and settings.
> is it possible to use page faults and a handler to effectively build a message passing setup in the microkernel?

Yes. (Been there, done that, 20 years ago).

> Essentially using the pagefault as the mechanism to switch stacks from one kernel-service to another?

You wouldn't use the pagefault for that but you'd switch the context (TSS or equivalent), this you need to do anyway when you switch from one process to another, or from a process to the kernel. But passing the message could be done via paging.

> Is this novel,

No.

> stupid

No. Definitely not.

> or even faster than existing mechanisms?

It's not faster than the current syscall arrangement, but it is faster than copying data from one process to another, which is the way a message passing kernel would normally pass messages from one process to another.
Such is Medium, often enough.
For a while I was consulting a lot around SOA - particularly around the IBM stack, which was one of the biggest SOA evangelists in the early days.

SOA was too complex for sure, but it wasn't just that it was complex. It's that complexity didn't actually deliver the return.

Part of the issue was the way SOA was sold. You buy a BPM or a Rules Engine and suddenly you unlock all this value and you can compose things on the fly -- Rules Engines were particularly bad in this respect. Business users were told they'd be able to tweak rules on the fly. This was never a reality.

Then you get outright hits in terms of complexity. Those BPM systems with two-phase commit were monsters. In fact they were so complex it was _more_ likely to fail. When in the vast majority of cases, actual failure rates were rare and easily handled by a reconciliation process. So the tech never really matched the need.

On top of that, the consultants cost a fortune. Instead of a few test environments, you needed 7. Managing test data and rollout to end-users became a nightmare... And even then, as the technology wasn't mature, you'd hit hurdles very late. Dismal production performance was a common one.

It's a bit sad. A really interesting set of ideas and technologies - but really poorly sold and way past the hype to deliver. It's equally true of related technologies like CORBA.
Reagan dismantled any ideological supremacy of the public good over private money, basically creating the "socially liberal but fiscally conservative" mantra that is now so popular. This creates a natural imbalance where money trumps everything else; at that point, big money is fundamentally unassailable by regulation, and all efforts to the contrary are little more than cosmetic - be it in immigration, finance or anything else. The Clintons are fundamentally Reagan Democrats, for example. This goes well beyond immigration (a topic that, at the time, wasn't really mainstream), it's an issue with the fundamental impossibility of public regulation of private companies' affairs when the money involved is beyond certain thresholds.
Amazon makes money hand over fist from third party sellers. They also makes up half their business. They aren't going anywhere.
I was reading the first few and thinking "No... No... Hrmmm... this seems really misinformed" before it dawned on me around point 5 that the whole thing is satire.

It eases you into the realisation nice and slowly. I'm guessing given the penchant for people to comment based purely on titles, some won't even get that far.
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I wonder if Otzi was the instigator in the described conflict. The piece describes him as someone who was not a laborer but did plenty of walking. I can imagine a vagabond type individual traveling place to place taking his pickings from the weaker groups (or perhaps stealing and stabbing in the process seeing how he had little upper body strength but carried a dagger). His clothing is made of multiple furs of multiple species yet he doesn't have a finished bow? I mean, it's possible he was an excellent trapper and caught all them animals OR did he take his possessions elsewhere? I can just picture him coming up on a small village, stealing some stuff and stabbing the individual who confronted him, then retreating back into the mountains. Upon discovery of a crime, a more practiced village member tracks the villain into the mountains and without so much as a flinch pierces him in the back from a distance far off.
gen_server:start_link/3

The original microservice :-)
That's true! But I didn't have any additional information to add, so my edits would likely reduce the quality of the article.

I don't have any experience in looking up court records.
Pretty much any galaxy. The Milky Way has something like 300 billion stars, with the "average" star weighing 1/4 as much as the sun. So even the stellar mass of a galaxy like ours outweighs such a black hole by two orders of magnitude, and most of a galaxy's mass is dark matter.
Google is making 50 USD per user, potentially an order of magnitude more from a US user from ads, so I am quite certain that your offer of $25 USD is a low baller :)
First step is just agreeing there is a problem and put it on top of the agenda though. Politicians are supposed to set goals and find incentives; the "how" part (batteries vs. hydro vs. new tech for power storage vs. nuclear) can be more up to the market. A politician who is scared of climate change will at least be easier to convince to approve a new nuclear plant in (relative) silence even if they are not actively campaigning on it as a solution. And properly taxing emissions will make nuclear plants more competitive, again without a politician having to explicitly aim for it or campaign for it.