skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you have a group of closely knit scientists from a handful of universities who have a steady stream of cheap labor and fed by a media that bedazzles their untestable hypotheses, when you're propped up by that hype and prestige, the fumes that academics at the top feed off, then you can plunge further into the deep, while offsetting the externalities and opportunity costs onto governments and broken graduate students who eventually find themselves unemployable after about 5 to 6 years.

This sounds conspiratorial. The people who are studying string theory, should the theory not pan out, will find work other in other areas. It's not like majoring in basket-weaving-studies, where there is no value. String theory has a deep mathematical framework, and such mathematics , as well as the superior critical thinking and intellect required to learn string theory and thus signaled, are invaluable for all sorts of professions, some of which pay well: computer science, hedge fund/quant trading, philosophy, teaching physics and math, engineering, etc.

The hype behind string theory and HEP in general needs to die. There are so many interesting problems worthy of investigation that are not High Energy or Quantum Gravity. Yes, few things beat the fun math of HEP and string theory (although there are close contenders in the condensed matter world), few things--except perhaps validation in experiment...you know, the entire point of science in the first place.

HEP concerns the universe and reality itself. It's a pretty big deal considering the implications.
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The postgres docs themselves are also pretty fantastic.
Interesting that you named it Heap, in SQL Server land a Heap is a table which does not have a clustered index
Maybe strategy isn't the right word. Maybe stealth would have been better.
I have a Beddit. As guptaneil wrote, they were recently bought by Apple. Shortly before the acquisition, they brought out a new model. They dropped support for the 1.0 version but did sen a free upgrade to everyone. I guess they decided that was cheaper than supporting the 1.0 model in perpetuity for some reason.

Mine was a review model. I found it was OK for what it was but I never really did anything with the data. Oh, I went to bed too late last night? Well, I kinda knew that.
> What is the end-goal?

To slow the rate of extinction. Saving some is better than saving none:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
There are numerous programs that translate spoken words to mouth/jaw movements -- usually for animation (to match the 3D /2D model with the right movements for what it's supposed to say).

IIRC, Adobe Animator does that too.
How about just talking in English with them? What's left is spelling, and people
who care about spelling usually speak fluently as well.
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sure they do, Intel manufactured FPGAs for a long time before buying altera
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I agree with the general point that you could prove such a simple program correct relatively easily but that does still have a cost, which is always a concern in an open-source project. You still need someone to step up and do that work and continue to verify it periodically in the future – if that code is doing complicated things with buffering, that opens up possible odd bugs due to stdlib, gcc, maybe even kernel behaviour changes which might not affect simpler programs.

Not a huge bit of work to be sure but for a non-commercial project you might have trouble finding a volunteer who cares about that tedium.
If we continue on the current trend as reported by Google [0] we should reach 20% IPv6 adoption by the end of this year.

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This is the exact reason I don't really like cloud connected IoT devices. For instance, while I'd love to have a Nest thermostat, I refuse to us it due to requiring a connection to function fully. So I've opted instead for a 'dumb' thermostat with WiFi and an open and well-documented local API. About the only current exception to that in my house is my Amazon Echo, and that will be replaced as soon as someone comes out with a viable local-only alternative.
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Too many useless startups are out there. I don't wonder at all why is this one shutting down, but what I do wonder about is why people even get started on such ideas.
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That reminds me of the quote for we where soldiers once and young

"Lt. Colonel Hal Moore: I think you oughta get yourself an M-16.

Sergeant Major Basil Plumley: Sir, if the time comes I need one, there'll be plenty lying on the ground. "
The irony was that after all that, Greenpeace had to finally admit that the original plan of sinking the Brent Spar was actually the most environmentally friendly option.

Turns out that bacteria at the bottom of the ocean love the sludge that's so toxic on land.

So a big "yay" for PR and feelings over facts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent_Spar#Deep_sea_disposal
It's not just the design(s), it is the implementation too.

At Chernobyl the powers at be (accountants?) got involved and decided to use flammable bitumen coverings on the roof of reactor 3, one would assume to save money. Unsurprisingly, the roof of reactor 3 caught fire.
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Yes except for all the radioactive groundwater, total loss of fuel as it melted through the containment vessel into the ground as discovered by the robots they sent to investigate causing potentially unknown damage, and by the TEPCO's own admission, will take 40 years to clean up with technology that hasn't been invented yet. Besides that, everything is a-okay.
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I'm enabling airplane mode ~30 minutes before sleep, which is part of my sleep ritual; no notifications and no radiation.
I have not personally been in a gunfight (thankfully) but a couple different people I know have. It went something like this: "Oh shit" followed by the gun being drawn and fired in very close quarters with no aiming whatsoever because the person/people was/were knife distance away. I know that's not how all encounters go down, but my takeaway from these stories is that contact distance is the norm and you should expect to fire a lot of rounds and not achieve very good hits if any. Bad day indeed.
Does it really matter to test-first or test-last?
I would have thought a single multi-column index would have been more appropriate. Did you consider these? They have been in PostgreSQL since 9.2

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/indexes-multicolu...
Novell isn't their parent company anymore. Hasn't been since 2006 when Novell was bought by Attachmate. Attachmate then got bought by Microfocus which absorbed Attachmate, NetIQ, and Novell. SUSE survived and is an independent business unit. SLES 12 is solid.
You're always welcome to port old, slow utilities forward. That's the beauty of open source!
Just another data point: to me Affinity Designer actually seems to render much faster than Adobe Illustrator (on a 2015 Macbook Pro with Intel integrated graphics chipset).
Slightly off-topic sorry, but why ANSI C and not C99 (or C11)? Is it common to come across systems where C99 isn't supported, or are there reasons why you prefer C89 to C99?
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I'm still struggling with the mail Archiving...

First approach: forward mail to a mail address by the archive - Maybe hard to parse out the FW and get the original mail?

Second approach: give the archive IMAP access to connect to your mailbox and parse a folder e.g. "personal archive"

Then download the mails and attachments, convert the mail to PDF and preserve the attachments.

Any thoughts?
I've been reading your blog posts and they're very well done. Kudos!
I currently live in Stuttgart, which is apparently slightly less expensive than Munich. I don't think a 49k€ entry level salary for someone with a masters is good. It's probably enough to afford the basic necessities and a small apartment in Munich, but that's it. But then again, most companies seem to think this is good enough, it's so surreal.

I've been told many times in the past that a degree is not that important, what counts is experience. I haven't studied due to my laziness in my youth, but my experience looking for a job has shown me that a degree does matter. Some companies won't even invite you for an interview if you don't have a degree. I feel like I'd have a much better chance to negotiate a better salary with a masters or even bachelors degree.
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Based upon the huge number of surplus police shotguns presently for sale, I suspect that most patrol cars now have rifles in them.
That's because you're using cat and a pipe.
Try this instead:

pv > /dev/null < /dev/zero
That's a shame. I have one. Its sleep insights are totally worthless, but the alarm clock seems to work reasonably well, the device is attractive and the alarm sounds are nice.
dd can also be useful for that kind of thing since you can use a source like /dev/urandom to generate random bytes if you're trying to avoid compression and the adjustable block sizes can be optimized for the underlying storage system.
If they had the ability to use a private server, I'd have bought one when it was on Kickstarter. Looked genuinely useful.
His code can further be optimized by having only 1 large element in the iovec (vs. many 2-byte "y\n" elements).
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Even M4 macros may work. It would be still more in the shell spirit than ruby gems.
Doesn't work for many people. They know the theory but can't apply it.

I can, but I've met plenty of bright people who simply haven't learned that ability yet.

It does work wonders for myself though. I am well-balanced between wanting technical excellence, ease-of-use and usefulness. It helps my job relations a lot.
Looks useful!

Do you plan to open source this and/or try to commercialise it?
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Took an interesting twist at the end and it turned out to be an npm build tooling problem om windows so republishing it without figuring that out wouldn't have fixed it.

Perfect demonstration of why you don't want to behave so dramatically like eric-tucker did. One bit of new information hits that changes the foundation of your stance and you look like a complete asshole.
I hesitated to include Anathem on the list because it isn't like the others. I didn't love it because it a masterpiece of the novel form, but rather because I found so many ideas in it fascinating.

Perhaps if I had a more comprehensive background in a couple of areas (math, philosophy) I would have already been exposed to many of them and wouldn't have enjoyed the book so much. But as it turns out I didn't and I did.
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What mobo/CPU are you using? How much RAM in each server?

Can you provide some more detailed specs?

Thanks!
> I'm not convinced applying them to areas like this one where the are clearly much better approaches teaches us anything useful for more interesting cases, but maybe it does.

I don't think it teaches us much about sudoku, but any formerly 'hard' problem that we've solved using traditional means is perfect for rapidly generating arbitrary amounts of training data, which makes it very useful for learning about neural nets.
I think both can do it.

The compiler can do it within the compilation unit, randomizing the order of the blocks and globals.

The basic linker just quickly concatenates compilation units, but randomizes the order that it concatenates the units and randomizing the GOT and PLT order.

A link-time-optimizing linker can actually randomize the order of the blocks and globals and the compiler wouldn't need to be involved.

On the Mill CPU project we plan to randomize the order of everything each time we 'specialize'; kernels and user-space will have randomized GOT and block order on every installation, and it also helps smoke out bugs :)
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As long as the tags themselves can be hierarchical, can't you recover all the benefits of a tree-like file structure?
So, who's to blame for the blatant spelling error?
I don't think FPGA's count in this context but I did a quick search on Intel fabs and it looks like I'm wrong anyway: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/08/intel-will-allow-arm...
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for those wondering.
When I shot competitively (rifle in HS, almost 30 years ago) I was a big fan of the double peephole sights. All you had to do was center the target in the aperture and make sure the aperture was circular.

Takes all the work out of sight alignment and then you can focus on breathing, heartbeat and trigger squeeze.
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I made the Third Jewish Temple.

It's obvious I just do nothing until victory.

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'yes' to a file is how I sometimes benchmark disk speed. It should have fewer system calls than reading from /dev/zero and then writing.

I actually checked just now, and it looks like you'd be making twice as many system calls with /dev/zero compared to generating the data locally:

strace dd count=1 bs=512 if=/dev/zero of=test
open("/dev/zero", O_RDONLY) = 3
dup2(3, 0) = 0
close(3) = 0
lseek(0, 0, SEEK_CUR) = 0
open("test2", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666) = 3
dup2(3, 1) = 1
close(3) = 0
read(0,"\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512
write(1, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512
close(0) = 0
close(1)

While 'strace yes > test2' is just a constant stream of write() calls.

The difference matters if you're benchmarking e.g. some new SSD compared to a tmpfs on a machine with 100+ GB of RAM. It's always better if the tools have less overhead, because the comparison is more meaningful.

Also consider that it can be faster to write to a local network than to disk. I've never done it, but I imagine that the kernel's not going to want to deal with your /dev/zero calls if it's spending all of its time writing to a 10GB switch. I can imagine some very specialized storage servers that could spend most of their time writing from memory buffers to a network switch, or if you're troubleshooting a slowdown in the networking itself.
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Probably when this was initially developed, nobody thought you'd ever go over 2 billion games. This error is brought to light by your success and popularity.

Computer history is riddled with assumptions like that. The Y2K problem, Unix dates running out in 2037, and 32 bit computers unable to address more than 4 GB of memory are just the big ones. It's everywhere. Smaller software projects are generally built for what you need right now, and less for what might happen in the distant future.

Ideally you want to retain some awareness that this is an issue so you can start working on once you go over a billion games, but in a small company, there are probably always more urgent things to worry about, and nobody ever gets around to fixing this technical debt.
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Check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P2vYIgPdKg for a very well executed attempt to have somebody admit to a murder they did not commit.
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Well, you know, statistical method. Likelihood of you being a rapist or a burglar scoping their next target are higher in the eyes of the cops if you walk by yourself at these hours.

I've been stopped by the police in the small hours when I've been outside but my friendly demeanor and easy-going attitude -- "What's up?", "Sure, here's my ID", "Nothing in my pockets except keys, some cash and a phone, take a look", "I work most of the nights and sleep at day" -- usually quickly gets me out of the occasional awkward cop situation.

I am not mad at them, they're trying their best. It's better than having no cops on the streets at all.
Yep, this is a really useful approach, and I highly recommend anyone here who is thinking of trying this stuff out to take a note of the seed (or ensure it's printed) as the first time you realise you want to do this it's often too late!
Palma rifles don't have post front sights. They use adjustable front and rear apertures. You still generally focus on the front sight. All you do with the rear is center up the front in the rear and the target is blurry but centered in the front one. This is the same for really any distance from 50 feet up to 1000 yards. And yes, I have been involved in those competitions.

The hard part is having a solid hold and body control, reading the wind, and having super consistent ammunition that you intimately know all the elevation adjustments for. The remainder is how much money you spent on your barrel and how many rounds it has down it. A tight shooting coat helps a great deal, too.

I got bored with the whole thing when it occurred to me that I was just throwing money at barrels and other gear. Not to say that the game isn't highly competitive, but like auto racing, it's a money thing. Similar to many such pursuits, to take it to the max you will pretty much end up divorced.
One night for fun, I wrote a fizzbuzz (without actual printing) in almost all of the languages mentionned here (except fortran), and benchmarked it with 10000 executions each.
> That is literally "he deserved it because he is not man enough".

Or more obviously: "Look at him, he looks like a queer! Probably liked it and all. Probably led them on."
that is because the problem itself is much more complicated,hence the path to truth is expected to be more circuitous. It's like discovering that most of the earth's surface area is water instead of land, and then that fact opens a whole new set of questions.
They're not, that's the problem. They're saying "well some people are alcoholics, and some people have kids, so if you want to go to a bar or restaurant after work you're excluding people and that's literally the worst thing in the world."

If you have kids, you will be busier and you will miss events like a work happy hour. That's pretty much a fact of life and I don't know many parents who would have it any other way. Likewise, work isn't a computer program where you can just do "cool work problems" and get promoted. It's social. If you're anti-social, you can expect to reach the top of your career progression sooner than folks who are capable of being friendly, having a beer, and calling it a night.
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Nudist camps are good that way too. All humans have bodies, right? So it doesn't exclude anybody. Sure, some people might have body-image or religious issues, but they should just keep those out of the (extended) workplace, right? All you have to do is sit around.

(In case anyone missed it, that was meant as satire)
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Mildly amusing is how everyone else is wrong until Apple does it.

If you're going to use these things with a keyboard and like it then why was Microsoft so roundly mocked for championing touch screen laptops in the first place?
This stuff mostly goes over my head, but I'd like to understand it. In the original method, why is op concatenating the two positions into one number, rather than just storing the lat/lon pair and using something like Euclidean distance?
What does this have to do with the runtime of a specific language depending on an OS?
Speculative? They're using kidneys from prisoners, once they are executed. To turn around cause and effect is disingenuous. You can guess that that may be happening; to state it as fact is quite a stretch.
Apple is very good in coming into a market that has existed for a while and applying their design principles. I don't usually associate them with cutting edge technology.

Autonomous cars haven't existed for a while so I'm a bit skeptical Apple will be able to deliver something trustworthy.
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You need to state what jurisdiction you are asking about for your question to be meaningful.
Anyone who has been a scout has probably heard of Baden Powell hiding pictures of enemy installations in his paintings/sketches of butterflies:

https://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/images/featuredarticles/bad...
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10 node GPU clusters are relatively common at eg Universities.
The fact that Apple is repeatedly referred to as "The iPhone maker" makes me a little sad.

Anyway: except for the obvious answer "money" I don't really see why Apple feel the need to compete in the autonomous car market. Is it because Samsung makes cars?
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> When there is not life after work (and no concept of happiness, well-being ...) - from the dawn of humankind until manufacturing era

Actually, people in primitive (pre-XX century) agriculture (at least in my country - Poland) had lots of free time - for example, during winter there just wasn't that much to do. I think they slept a lot and also crafted stuff (ex. clothes). Of course, in the busy season (ex. during harvest) they worked longer than 40 hours a week, but I think in general they might have had more free time than the modern worker. And certainly, they had more agency. Of course, I am only referring to people who were lucky enough to have enough land to sustain themselves (a big issue in overpopulated Europe before chemical fertilizers were developed).
Depends on how many systems it crashed, I would say
> have gone to great lengths to accommodate women (as they should)

Why should they put more effort to accommodate women than they do to accommodate men, isn't that sexist?
They got the autonomous driving license 2 months ago... They are kind of late but I am glad to see another contender :D