skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Considering the "muslim minorities" went on a wild random stabbing campaign and randomly injected people with some sort of syringes in public places, AND entry into restaurands and stores all include metal detectors and xray scanners and armed troops are standing everywhere, I'd say there's already been a war declared by the minorities against the chinese there. Just in case you are wondering my wife has family who live in different parts of xinjiang. A couple of summers ago during the worst of it before all the above equipment was deployed many people were afraid to go outside their homes.

I was talking with my wife this morning and other parts of western china (not xinjiang) have some issues with radicalization. The muslims have been on a non stop jihad since its inception and this is just a continuation of it. We could also go over what's been happening in the russian republics (like kazakhstan) which also have been feeling the effects of "invasion".
One of the biggest cost/safety/longevity factors here is the usage of a storage battery. This is necessary because OP presumably uses most power at night, and is unable to use the grid as virtual storage due to all the complexity that brings.

If one's usage was mostly in the day or even constant, they could forgo the storage batteries and setup a system to supply specific loads, making up any shortfall from the grid. This would take a different type of "inverter" to avoid becoming grid-tied. I'm imagining a production circuit being based around a 170VDC bus (power factor? who cares!), but that's probably currently rare/custom/expensive. You could DIY the same type of thing with a nominal 12V bus (or 48V, depending on your loads) and DC distribution, from off the shelf components.
Lines of communication and chain of command are more important than tools. The only person who should need to know what you're doing is who you report to. And so on all the way to the top.

Trello, jira, aha, whatever won't help if you don't have clear lines of communication and a chain of command
i'm sorry, what in my post made you think i wouldn't be happy with your solution ?

i would even be happy with no generic at all if basic types implemented low level interfaces, and let me code my containers against things like "sortable, equatable, hashable" ( although it may pose other problems).
>It builds fast, tiny, entirely native apps in less than a second, and is an excellent example of how far Pascal went despite falling off the mainstream wagon.

D meets some of your criteria too, at least somewhat small fast, native apps. Build speed is decent (or more) too, and it is designed for that - doesn't have C's repeated overhead of pulling in include files. [1] Haven't tried the GUI toolkits for D though (yet). There are some, like DLangUI, GtkD, etc. Not sure if there are any GUI builders like Delphi, Lazarus, VB, Xojo, etc. have. Also, I think I read that D's language design allows D compilers to be the single-pass kind.

[1] I think this is the video I had blogged about a while ago, in which Bjarne Stroustrup talks about the details of that include files issue:

Video: C++, Rust, D and Go: Panel at LangNext '14

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2016/08/video-c-rust-d-and-go-pa...

Edited for wording about D compilers.
You're setting up a lot of straw men.

Your point, which I was replying to, was that VM's are a mistake, not that they were/are slow, or how some VM's became dominant, or making guesses toward where Microsoft or Oracle want to head.

My response is that 1) VM's are dominant today and 2) for very good reasons.

And because of that, they are not a mistake.

I also speculate they are going to remain dominant for a while because of all their advantages over native approaches, advantages which become even more prominent as hardware keeps pacing up, like it has always done.
The only project management tool I've ever seen work effectively - I'm not even kidding - is a whiteboard with Post-it notes stuck to it. Everything else is snake oil.
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I don't think that's a fair comparison.

To me (and I suspect to many others), the huge difference lies in the indelibility of the damages of nuclear power.

Sure, coal might kill a million people a year, but the remnants of a nuclear incident will remain for thousands of years and affect hundreds of generations after that, in ways we don't even fully understand yet.
> Yes an oil spill can affect a large area, but you don't get harmful particles washing up on the coast of the US from a spill in Japan in the same way, for example.

There is a natural level of background radiation, but it's not equal in all places. I think it's possible to detect some isotopes that crossed the ocean from Japan to USA, but if you compare the amount of additional radioactivity with the background level additional difference is tiny.

I'd like to give some tranquility with some numbers that compare the amount of additional radioactivity with other sources. (If you leave with someone, he/she is slightly radioactive. Some food are more radioactive than other. And other radiation sources like X-ray, CT, plane flight, sunbath ...)

Anyway, I prefer to post something to make you more nervous. "Coal Ash Is More Radioactive Than Nuclear Waste" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-... Coal plants also emit a lot of radioactive particles that are distributed worldwide.
hopefully in a millennia mathemeticians will have finally convinced the world that the golden ratio really isn't special.
>> The resolution is great, and avoiding the DPI scaling needed for practical use of most 4K screens is key.

While ymmv, I have been using a pair of 27" 4K Dell P2715Q's as my working monitors running with no scaling (1:1). I have a standing setup (although lately I've been using a drafting stool because of plantar fasciitis, but that's another story) so I do have the monitors closer to my face than most people, but I find it's more than tolerable.
1. Jira is awesome for it.
This isn't really how it works, we don't have debtors prisons. If you don't pay a civil judgement against you then the debtholder gets permission to garnish your wages and bank accounts or seizure your assets. If you have no wages, bank accounts, or assets the judgement doesn't get paid.
Exactly!

There are also specialized keyboards for computers that have existed over the years that have had typists reach 300-400wpm, but they never caught on.
Wonder if there's some sort of low-power hardware-easy problem you could use to reduce the request rate for individuals, instead of just shutting the device down when it detects a brute-force attempt. Seems to me that having hardware that breaks inconspicuously means you can't leave it as unmanned as you'd want to.
3840x1600?

My new Laptop (Lenovo Yoga 910) does 3840x2160

Hence: Acer ProDesigner BM320
> Isn't this just another species of the same fallacy: that programming is just a special case of natural language use

No, because I'm describing a bounded system with a very simple grammar. Statements like:

say "Will this solve the problem?"

onAnswer "yes", unlockBillableClock

... that's not natural grammar. That's a function call. And strings.

And second, I'm not talking about ALL programming, I'm talking about end-user programming. Below this layer is a lot of code written by profession programmers in lots of languages.

You're not going to write a web browser with only function calls and string literals.

What I would question is the orthodoxy that there is NO place in your codebase where you could refactor to a non-programmer understandable form by forcing yourself to use only calls and lists of strings.
Real men use CRC.
Doesn't that mean they'll earn 1.10 - 1.55bn over the 15 years? Not every year?
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Does Eizo have anything in the 38"-40" range? I don't see it on their site.
At least nuclear is possible to contain. It would cost vastly more than mere billions to contain the damage of coal. So no one even tries. And it has killed vastly more people.

But the news can't get flashy photos of areas destroyed by coal damage. It doesn't happen in big single events that the news likes to cover. So the damage seems basically invisible compared to nuclear. If the news reported on every death and environmental incident caused by coal et al, it would be banned within a year.
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To me, it's basically p-hacking. Because the it starts with human artifacts the similarity is more on the level of finding that two English language texts have similar letter frequencies and presenting it as an episode of Ancient Aliens.

http://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/19817
Rescaling between two monitors that are extending each other, even with different scales works well, its when one get disconnected and the window is forced to move to another screen that causes issues.

As to legacy software, most software works fine. Those that never cared about scaling are handled by the system easily enough. It's those rare cases where the legacy software is saying they support scaling to solve some issues with them not using the windows apis but not really doing anything to actually support scaling, such as GIMP.

Those are rare though, and usually are software with it's own rendering stack that don't use the windows apis.
unfortunately, there is no one good tool. you'd have to use a combination of Asana, JIRA, and something like Productplan.

it is quite interesting to see that no one has yet created one that combines all three in a simple / minimal interface.
GraphOverflow: Relation between tags in stackoverflow
Yeah, I'm just waiting to see how that will be enforced.
simply look at the tools you can find on Github or similar: issue tracker, wiki, versioning of release, etc.
Let me answer those with what we are currently doing in our remote startup:

1) Team members have to reply to a thread on "What are you working on?" at the end of the day. This keeps everyone informed of progress and blockers.

2) We use the CI dashboard to answer this (any changes to the master branch are auto-deployed to staging, and then staging is manually promoted to production.)

3) We use a Gantt chart to track high-level milestones (usually we go through it once a week to see where we are at).
Ask HN: Is bioinformatics/computational biology a valuable field?
I’m wondering if these jobs will be valued/be in demand in the future, and how much I would earn. I’m currently doing an undergrad Bioinformatics/comp. bio. (BCB) at my university, but I’m unsure if the job market looks very good, and some google searches lead me to believe the pay isn’t great. Furthermore, to get further in the field, a PhD is generally required, which is certainly not appealing. I’m currently aiming to apply for medical school, but am also considering doing a joint degree with BCB and a comp sci major to be more competitive if I don’t get in. However this would mean graduating a bit late. Any thoughts on either my degree, or what the future holds for this field?
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As for the audit[1], how would HTML sanitization on sender side protect the reader? On page 12 they suggest adding "HTML sanitization" in onSendClick function. It is as lame as protecting against XSS with JavaScript. Attacker will simply remove this code and recompile app.

[1] https://briarproject.org/raw/BRP-01-report.pdf
how do you make that work for a "remote team" ?
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>> Beware if you're somewhat of a messy, like me, you're going to have hundreds of (terminal) windows and another hundreds of browser tabs open simultaneously on these, until you can't find your current stuff on your desktop anymore at which point you have to spend half an hour to sort out what you want to close.

I have this problem, sort of. I have a dual 27" 4K running at 1:1, and it's gotten to the point where I want two more monitors for more real estate for my mess of windows. Given the added weight and stability issues (I have a standing desk), I think I'm going to wait until ~50" 8K curved monitors are available and affordable.
Microsoft made a mess of the high dpi support in Windows, even with WPF which is supposed to be resolution independent I still have problems.
Somehow china is becoming Ingsoc from 1984. Control people, censorship, Dictator state with no prospect of change, monitoring people, big brother is watching you type stuff among other things.

Just a week ago I read about traffic warnings personalised by face recognition. Now this. Soon China might become Ingsoc with Minlove and Double think and what not.
Have you ever tried DisplayFusion?

-- edit, DisplayFusion is for windows. When I used to use Mac, I used Moom.
not tools, however these are the best: your brain, your mouth and some things you can write with. Maybe a computer.
Frankly that file is just the layout of the board, as in which ints correspond to which squares. I used it at the very start to make sure the pieces where moving correctly, before the code to connect to an interface was written.
Advice on rolling out a bold new feature on an already popular site?
We run a media website with 5-7M pageviews per month. Since readers pushed us to release an iOS app, we're working on getting it out. We also decided to create a bold new user-generated content platform and go mobile-first on the app.

After reading PG's advice on "do things that don't scale", I'm a bit confused on how to roll out the app!

See, we can easily place links to the app all over our site and lots of users will likely install it at least to read our already popular content.

But what about the new UGC feature, which is a big part of the app? Is it risky to roll it out to say 10k users on Day 1? Should we roll it out to some 100 beta testers, get f/b on the UGC part, and grow slowly?

(Please excuse me for not disclosing any more information... I really can't!)
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Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.
Effectiveness has nothing to do with it. It is about sending a message and very strong one at that.
Cryptoeconomics: 150% more bs than standard economics and powered by Blockchain Theology.
From the comments in the source, the code needs 20 clock cycles to send a new tag, it's running at 125kHz and each tag is 40 bits long.
How can this device bruteforce the tag at this rate? Won't it be extremely slow compared to the number of possible tags?
To be fair, the DoD vs cycle numbers aren't as dire as they first look. Even an ideal deep-discharge battery would have a 1/x curve, as the real metric is total energy stored, which is proportional to DoD*ncycles vs DoD.

For instance, for the two datapoints you gave. At 50% DoD, the battery will have stored 1500 times its capacity over its life. At 90% DoD, the battery will have stored 1350 times its capacity over its life. This is only a 10% degradation.
The best argument in science is repeating the study is it not?
There is a whole branch of econometrics that has endless methods of doing macroeconomic quantitative analysis using data. It just doesn't work on the macro level, the data is too aggregated, the system is too entangled with dependencies between collected data and incomparable between countries, results have only historic and not predictive value and even then they are usually more voodoo than anything else.

So I disagree: Macro economics needs less computation, data and abstract mathematical models.

The Hayek quote that CaseySoftware wrote into another toplevel comment sums it up perfectly: Only pretense of knowledge coming from this.
Everything is easy once you know how. So everything you do breaks down into two phases: learning how, and doing it. During the first phase you feel very unproductive because there are no externally visible results and during the second phase you feel very productive because there are.
Oops. I misread it as 16,384 groups of 4096 words each.

And yes, the result should have made me wonder.
Here not be dragons. :(
Please read 1984 by George Orwell. Everybody knows its happening but nobody can stop it.
> I don't really understand your example.

Evidently. I'm afraid we have no common ground on which to discuss stochastic processes. Have a pleasant weekend.
16:9 2560 monitors are too wide, and certainly don't work portrait. I end up running them with black bars on the side to get a comfortable layout.
It might be possible for these people to get better pay for themselves because the company doesn't have to give a commensurate increase to everyone.

So long as the reason why someone is paid more is also public then it's fine. People could use that as motivation to improve - seeing someone else rewarded for something is a brilliant driving force to do it yourself as well.
The argument here is a bit forced. In fact, the entire universe seems to be self-similar. My point is only that there's nothing special, mysterious, or spooky about brain matter (as the article kind of implies). In fact, you can draw similarities between atoms (and their electron clouds) and solar systems.

The self-similarity and fractal nature of our world is indeed puzzling and fascinating, but it goes far beyond brains.
Are you saying there is no bug free code?
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I can't believe that this is described as unadventurous, when it's a laptop that's covered in Alcantara right where you're going to put your sweaty palms.
There are other considerations than immediate direct deaths.

From Wikipedia:

> though there have been no fatalities linked to radiation due to the accident, the eventual number of cancer deaths, according to the linear no-threshold theory of radiation safety, that will be caused by the accident is expected to be around 130–640 people in the years and decades ahead...in the most contaminated areas faced a 70% higher relative risk of developing thyroid cancer for females exposed as infants...

> However, an estimated 1,600 deaths are believed to have occurred due to the resultant evacuation conditions...

> Summarizing all responses to questions related to evacuees' current family status, one-third of all surveyed families live apart from their children, while 50.1% live away from other family members (including elderly parents) with whom they lived before the disaster. The survey also showed that 34.7% of the evacuees have suffered salary cuts of 50% or more since the outbreak of the nuclear disaster. A total of 36.8% reported a lack of sleep, while 17.9% reported smoking or drinking more than before they evacuated.

> We know from Chernobyl that the psychological consequences are enormous. Life expectancy of the evacuees dropped from 65 to 58 years – not because of cancer, but because of depression, alcoholism, and suicide. Relocation is not easy, the stress is very big.

> A frozen soil barrier has been constructed in an attempt to prevent further contamination of seeping groundwater, but in July 2016 TEPCO revealed that the ice wall had failed to stop groundwater from flowing in and mixing with highly radioactive water inside the wrecked reactor buildings, adding that they are "technically incapable of blocking off groundwater with the frozen wall"...every day 300 tons of contaminated water leak from the crippled nuclear plant...

> On 22 August 2011, a government spokesman mentioned the possibility that some areas around the plant "could stay for some decades a forbidden zone".

> The amount of compensation to be paid by TEPCO is expected to reach 7 trillion yen. Costs to Japanese taxpayers are likely to exceed 12 trillion yen ($100 billion). In December 2016 the government estimated decontamination, compensation, decommissioning, and radioactive waste storage costs at 21.5 trillion yen ($187 billion), nearly double the 2013 estimate.

> In 2014 Japan enacted the State Secrecy Law. The Fukushima incident falls under this law and, as a "state secret", independent investigations and reports are forbidden by law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa...
Wouldn't the readers be designed against this sort of attack?
Apple updates security
> While pay can vary greatly by location, according to the most recent statistics from PayScale, a crowd-sourced database, the median salary for an elementary school teacher is $43,737.

And that is the end of the story. Most men HAVE to provide for the family. A reasonably intelligent man can make much much more money in another field. So he would be silly to be a teacher for anything other than raw passion. For a job there are many thousands of openings, I am not sure you are going to fill them all with passion...

So what do we do, double the pay of teachers? Most school districts walk a very fine budget line. Some like Chicago are a mess. Some in smaller towns have to pick which of the three leaky roofs in the district they can afford to repair that year.

So not seeing any reasonable path out of this.
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How long will the mercury, arsenic, and other nasty pollutants emitted by coal plants stick around? What strange effects will they cause on hundreds of future generations?

For example, children and pregnant women are warned to be careful about the fish they eat because of mercury contamination. A large part of that mercury contamination comes from burning coal. That's food from 70% of the planet rendered partially unfit for human consumption by coal.

There's nothing like that for nuclear. Yes, you should avoid food grown around Chernobyl, and there have been incidents where farmers had to dump milk for a while and things like that, but no nuclear accident has ever (nor could one ever conceivably) contaminate food from so much of the planet so badly.
It is absolutely convenient to be able to retain talent for as cheap as possible. Just like it is convenient to pit two suppliers against each other to drive costs down.

Quitting because you don't get a raise doesn't change anything unless you have an alternative that will pay you more. In which case, that alternative is a negotiating piece independent of a coworkers salary.

Long story short, have alternatives.
We use Trello and it works great. Its closest skeuomorphic equivalent is... a whiteboard with Post-it notes stuck to it.
Summarizing the most important Norwegian taxes, which are in aggregate higher than California's:

* 25% VAT on everything except food, which is 12%. Electric vehicles currently exempt

* 40% income tax on average including 8% public pension contribution. Highest marginal tax on income is 47%, which applies to incomes greater than $116k.

* Employer has to pay 14% of your salary as employment tax. Company profits are taxed at 24% (this is separate from the capital gains tax). Stock-based compensation is taxed as income, so no possibility of weaseling around the employment tax. You won't get stock-based compensation unless you're in a startup or a C-class executive at a (big) private company. The wealth tax does weird things to the valuation of stock options; they'll almost always be worthless unless your company is sold or goes public.

* Net assets above ~$175k are taxed at 0.85% p.a, primary residence contributes only 25% of its market value to net assets

* 29% capital gains tax, primary residence is exempt as is most tax income from renting out primary residence. Sell your home with $1 million profit? No tax.

* On average ~$10k tax on all new motor vehicles, electric vehicles currently exempt

* A tax of approximately 30% (~5 NOK per liter) is applied to gasoline, in addition to the 25% VAT. Annual tax of ~$1000 on all motor vehicles, increasing with how good the vehicle is. Electric vehicles currently exempt.

* Various taxes on alcohol, tobacco, air travel. Some municipalities have a property tax on the order of ~$500 p.a. for an average residence.

I've eyeballed most of the currency conversions.