skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A shim is conventionally a carpentry/metalwork/etc. term for a piece of wood, metal, rubber or similar material you stick between two things to get them in the right position relative to one another, to fill some space, basically. This is necessary because the context of installation for many physical building situations are not reliably plumbed. It's also used as a term for things like thin washers used in lens manufacturing to deal with manufacturing tolerance differences when aligning elements in each individual lens.

It is a term adopted here because the "shim" in this case is a small simple thing (driver) sitting between two other components to fix a problem. That's a simpler way of looking at a real life shim: a small simple thing stuck between two other things to solve a problem.
Nowadays, such good boots are even more expensive.

Rich also have access to time saving measures poor can only dream of... (unless they somehow cooperate, and that gets harder every day they are poor and cannot afford time or money to establish connections.)
What kind of performance do you get with Three.js? Do you ever wish you didn't chose the browser for rendering tech?
Then they should have banned all cryptocurrencies and ban exchanges/miners. But they specifically targeted ICOs. If they were worried about losing control of monetary policy you'd think they would ban others as well?
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Cool idea! I would love to see some more opinionated product-oriented values, eg large js frameworks vs minimal client side code, tracking vs privacy, etc.
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Improved efficiency increasing rather than decreasing demand for the newly more efficient resource is called "Jevons paradox".[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
Holy smokes I had no idea about that story. Thanks for getting me started down a rabbit hole of the lore around Google's origin.
Not saying you're wrong, but isn't a lot of the massive rise from ~200 USD up to ~3000 USD related to Chinese activity? And Chinese farms mine most of the bitcoins now?
Define your goal. In this case what exactly is meant by "different, more modern way"? How is the better than the current situation? How is it worse? How do we get there from here? Also note that marriage today isn't the same globally, nor is it the same as it was 2000 years ago. It does and is changing.
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> Why shouldn't my generation decide "lets reduce the value of the dollar to 10% of it's current value

You just rediscovered something that Marxists had concluded long ago: class wealth is a product of political control, not the other way around. If a class of people takes control of government, they can rewrite laws and the economic system to favor them, instead of the previous ruling class. That's the whole basis of the so-called "dictatorship of the proletariat".
Because once your brain matures and you have faced your own mortality, some people realize its not a matter of compromising or sheepishly following tribal behaviour. It actually makes sense to some. For me, it's a way to facilitate spending the limited amount of time I get on this planet: by being with my family.

Marriage is a nice, acceptable institution to facilitate family life. Upsides are the ring, the party, taxes, no legal bs when having kids and the ease of buying a house. I've yet to find a downside... Prerequisites are the conviction that your SO is the one you want to be with for a long time, without exception.
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Probably never. We don't even have ext3 or ext4 support, only some bare ext2. And then there is the dozen or so other filesystems that would be handy to have. Microsoft doesn't care, they also don't have a business case for it, and they rather reinvent the wheel instead, using their own fs.

The FOSS community doesn't really care that much either, mostly because Linux can deal with NTFS, and the other way around happens far less, so no real push has been made for it.
You can run a Stirling engine on much lower temperature differentials:

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

https://www.amazon.com/Three-Stirling-Engines-Without-Machin...
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It seems like solar panels work best when in sunlight, and infrared radiators work best when shaded.

If you have a square 1 m^2 solar panel, and a square 1 m^2 area to put it in, and you live at 35 degrees north latitude, you angle your panel up 35 degrees facing south. That gives you .428 m^2 of area, angled at 55 degrees, facing north, which will always be in the shadow of the panel. So stick a rectangular infrared radiator behind the solar panel.

So the area needed would be less than that needed to replace all of humanity's energy use with solar power, but the exact amount less depends on the latitude at which you place the solar panels.
What are some other fields which are applications of CS?

For instance, civil, mechanical, and electrical engineers are all applications of physics.
The scroll hijacking one is a personal pet peeve. Whatever genius developer that thought of that should be taken out back and shot.

Either that or they should have been required to write the thing while allowing us to set their scroll wheel speed.

/rant
Here's the latest Ethereum dev update: https://blog.ethereum.org/2017/08/23/roundup-5/

Looks pretty product-focused to me.
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The number of people with significant disposable income grew by several billion over the last 5 or 6 decades.
Yep, they bought it in 2003. Funny.
You're right, signal delivery does not interrupt an atomic operation, so if
a syscall takes unusually long time (like network filesystems sometimes
cause), the process hasn't received its SIGKILL yet.
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On desktops, yes. Other companies have been moving everything to the web, where telemetry is easier and more thorough.
Yup, I learned that it was different on Solaris than Linux on a remote system. Had to sheepishly call and ask someone to powercycle the box.
Quite right. The production facilities do tend to shift to less expensive regions for labour too though, which does increase the impact. The first factory was in the UK, the second Poland, the third was in China. The UK one doesn't exist anymore.
I agree that any company that asks for more than 40 hours should not be allowed to have the work/life balance key value. The profile says that the company eats dinner together and people go home at 8pm. That sounds pretty work centric and not much time for life left after that.
There is something magical in how people are attached to their bank, at least here in France (but it looks from the article that this is the same in the UK).
Just switch banks!

I never payed for a bank account (in several countries where I had an account while living there). When Credit Mutuel decided to do my free account, I went to them and told them that either they go back or I leave. They did not believe me so I left on the spot.

It is so simple today to change that it should be like changing the brand of cereals. I am now with a bank which just works and very happy, one just needs to try until they get the right one.
This should have been done by Microsoft long ago, even before their little "Microsoft <3 Linux" gimmick with bash.

Still, a step in the right direction, at least on my book. My shared drives are all exFAT and that seems to work fine out of the box for Linux, Win and macOS.
Often I have the feeling some people are just magnets for bad luck.

My ex girlfriend for example. Failed two degrees, started a badly paid apprenticeship, lived in a few flats with bad roommates and bad land-lords and had always bad bosses at work. She came from a upper-middle-class family, but somehow everything she touched went bad.

I met a bunch of such people, they fail the moment they start something and I just don't know how or why.
Of course not, and it's a bit disingenuous to suggest that's what the parent believes.

It's pretty far fetched to suggest that an employer has a legitimate business purpose in collecting cookies for their employees' personal accounts that they happen to access on their work computer.

However, I think it's pretty easy to make the case that there's a legit business purpose in monitoring employee email (that is, email sent or received through an employer-issued email address), or at least in having access to it.
Yes, it emits more radiation/ heat when hotter. A nice feature of radiation is that scales as T^4.

It's pretty durable on its own. That being said, as we've moved to the product stage we've packaged it in a way to protect it further.
Maybe a different way to frame it is: Rust provides a stability guarantee for `rustc`, but you could just as easily prioritize stability for the Rust ecosystem. If Rust gets some neat new features that break crates, the experience of stability for users is still missing.

Feel free to factor in that approximately five people use crates that I write, and most of them have bigger problems than Rust breakage. :)
You know how sometimes when you're looking at an old codebase, where all the developers who've written it have moved on to other jobs, you see a little bit of code that doesn't seem to make sense? And then you remove that code, and then and only then do you find out exactly why it was there in the first place - usually in a rather painful way?

Well, things like marriage are the societal equivalent of that bit of old code. We're 'stuck' with it because (for the vast majority of people, anyway) it serves a useful purpose, one that only becomes apparent when you go without it. That's not to say we can't and shouldn't change the institution - it not like it hasn't been evolving over the centuries - but it'd be wiser to make changes cautiously, experimentally, and locally rather than just 'moving on' as a society.
It will be interesting to see if the Osborne Effect [1] repeats itself with Solaris.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect
In these instances, context matters a lot.

Coworker: "My younger brother was killed in Iraq in 2007."

You: "I voted for Bush."

I'm sure you can see why Coworker wouldn't be pleased by your statement in this instance. I'm on the Left working at an oil company, so I feel your pain. It helps if you want to talk about these things to shift their Overton window slowly, not to expect tolerance for unthinkable actions right out of the gate (it's not right, but that's how it is).

Liberals and Left-wingers are people too, and thus are vulnerable to the same tribal bullshit that some (luckily few) people on the Right and (luckily) fewer people on the Left are proud of. Despite all effort, you (general and specific) and they can't stop from feeling these tribal in-group feelings any more than they can just stop feeling thirsty after a day of not drinking any water.

EDIT: One of these days I should write a post, How to Talk About Politics with People Who Disagree With You.
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Can you apply this technology - coupled with AeroGel based insulation of radiators - to shipping containers/container walls?

This would allow for a really low cost refridgerated/temp-controlled containter. Then have a small requirement for a solar panel to pump some fluids. The result would be the ability to have shipping containers that can maintain temps with extremely low cost/energy requirements and you might revolutionize the ability to ship foods around places like Africa.

Also - can this be applied in any way as a "paint"? Such that you paint cars, roofs or whatever with this?
Oh, I agree wholeheartedly with never treating anybody "like an idiot."
Really cool! Does anyone know of the other way around; An open source Windows next gen FS (ReFS) driver for Linux?
SUSE uses btrfs as default and they posted this https://www.suse.com/communities/blog/butter-bei-die-fische/ as response
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There are many many efficiencies that come with having partners of various kinds. Partners are like a RAID array for your everyday life problems: get sick? They help cover the bases while a rebuild happens. Need someone to be home over a couple days because of a plumber or something? Now you each only need to miss half as much work. Need to pick something up from the store on your way home? Maybe they need something too and the number of shopping detours taken is reduced by half.

Likewise, partners enable a bit of task specialization. Maybe one of you really knows real estate and the other is great at finding bargains, or managing retirement assets, or any other number of such things: you both get the result of the better partner's ability in each domain.

Marriage is a form of attempting to guarantee that one always has a beneficial partner. Though hopefully they're also a best friend who you enjoy being around and doing stuff with and not just a highly capable android sitting around to help make your life more efficient.

I'm not entirely sure what makes it something to be "stuck in" or all about (negative) compromises.
This is precisely why full disclosure is a valid and correct option once the vendor has shown that they are either unwilling or unable to address the security concern in a timely and/or competent manor.
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> In the U.S., for example, income of production workers today, adjusted for inflation, is essentially at the level it was around 1970.

I have a legitimate question about the usefulness of this statistic.

Everyday living has dramatically improved since the 1970s. There's been massive improvements in medical care, for starters. Communication and finding information has never been better thanks to computers, the Internet, search engines, wikipedia, etc. Entertainment has never had more options, and the options have never been this good. There's smartphones, of course: They made the internet accessible everywhere, and provide a platform for some incredibly useful apps (e.g., Uber/Lyft). There's been dramatic innovation since 1970, including: microwaves, GPS, home video, text messaging, MRIs, HIV treatment, smoke detectors, and on and on and on.

These technological improvements are not reflected in income statistics, but they're extremely important to every-day living.

Are there statistics that try and encapsulate technological improvement along with the normal measures of economic improvement? It's totally possible that wages are stagnant, but you get triple the utility out of your money than you would've in the 1970s.
I believe that part of the issue is that the file systems are tailored to the needs of the operating system they run on. Take file permissions. As the basic permissions model, Linux uses user/group/everyone, while Windows uses ACLs. Linux also supports ACLs but they don't work in the same way that Windows' does. NTFS is built to meet the needs of Windows, while Ext4 is built to meet the needs of Linux. You can use each on the other OS with the right drivers, but just as data drives with very roughly mapped permissions.
Is systemd's hand-rolled dbus-over-ssh tunnel a security worry?
I'm surprised he didn't mention sticky headers/footers. Those can be a huge waste of space, especially if you're browsing in landscape.
Most of that comes from exposure to the code base, not innate skill. Experience.
You would need to compromise 2/3rd of the keys in the genesis block. But yes but this tradeoff unlocks massively high transaction throughput.
I second this. Additionally, would be interesting to also see these vectors on public policy issues. While DACA might have little variation, differentiation may come from issues affecting work forces and tech policy (subsidies, public programs, etc.)

see this recent article
Aligns with this recent article.
https://www.fastcompany.com/40420834/the-non-paradox-of-high...
I like the idea, but there are some important values missing from the list:

1. Principle over loyalty.
2. Empower individuals over institutions.
3. Self-restraint over greed.
4. Decisions based on reason, not ego.
5. Give back to Open Source.

Thanks.
For the cables I'm aware of, the one you linked seems a little more accurate. On Greg's, there's a pin on the map but it just says "0 cables land here"
That might be an age thing. Once you have seniority in either field you gain a lot more free time if you want. Source: Am a software engineer, wife is a physician and we both have plenty of free time.
I'm in tears.
The perpetuity aspect is a good point, but the fundamental pitch of Watsi is "100% of your donation goes to a specific patient in need", not "100% of your donation goes into an investment account that will be invested in anything from oil to cryptocurrency (and things you might not necessarily agree with) whose returns will then go to a patient in need". The vast majority of donors donate to Watsi for precisely this pitch.
Also if Watsi made this change, who would manage the investments? Wouldn't it fundamentally change the company from a small, lean, product-driven global health nonprofit to a socially responsible investment (SRI) company (which there already are many of)?
Your original statement that being a stay at home wife was a "shitty situation" was a blanket statement with no qualifications. Thank you for clarifying the exact conditions of what you consider a raw deal.

I want to add that, at least in my opinion, managing a home is no less important than providing the means to do so if both partners are gratified by the resulting homelife.
"Myst" was basically all about wandering around seeing cool stuff, and it was so wildly popular that it held the "best-selling PC game" title for nine years.
I'm not sure what you mean here. Do you mean that:

1) There are known ways to perform Docker escapes on any or some common Docker setup. You could write a Docker escape binary or script today and it would not be a zero day. That's just the way Docker is.

-or-

2) You simply have less faith in the ways Docker performs isolation. One could write a Docker escape exploit and it would be a zero day, but you expect there to be more of such zero days in Docker than in Jails/Zones.

?

If 1) I'd be really interested in seeing it and if 2) I'd like to know more about what additional levels of isolation jails and zones (and LXC?) perform.
I think it was 2038... so Solaris won't need a patch :-D
I mean, when it comes down to it, most people are getting married because they are getting something out of it. Otherwise, why would would people get married? It just so happens that what people want out of it is often mutually beneficial to the couple.
The site looks down. Probably because womble.ddns.info is down:

dig result:

;; ANSWER SECTION:
cablemap.info. 578 IN CNAME womble.ddns.info.
womble.ddns.info. 29 IN A 41.180.82.42
This reads like someone set out to write an article on "why charter schools are bad" and then went off to cherrypick some evidence, rather than someone set out to write an article which investigates how Michigan's experiment with charter schools is going.
Excellent point, I completely forgot about those. Will add them now!
Would you mind sharing your reasons for being a btrfs anti-fan?

I decided to go with btrfs on my work and personal computers a couple years back and haven't really had to battle it.

Just curious of your thoughts more than anything.
what also might be useful is to have reviews from former employees, and see how well they line up with what the team said.

I've worked on a few teams that claimed these "values" (or practices) but when the rubber hit the road, what they said and what they did didn't match up.
"flagged"
Gooooooooooglllllllerrrrrrsssssss
Time to find a website that isn't infected by a virus.
Apparently the teams self-select their values, so it looks like these poor souls actually think that working 50 hours a week and eating dinner at the office is good work/life balance.
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Very nice site! I was surprised that selecting multiple values to filter by resulted in an "OR" query rather than an "AND" one. Is that just because there isn't a lot of content yet?

Also, some sort of structured data about company locations would be great, especially as the data set grows in size. Even if you don't display it yet, probably worth while to collect it now if you're not already so it can be added easily enough when necessary. I realize the open positions have location, but I might want to "follow" a local company w/o any open positions at the moment in case my or their situation changes.
Why was this post flagged? Yes it's a bit of a rant, but overall the topic is definitely valid. And most of the author's basic observations (if not his overly charged moral characterizations) seem reasonably valid, also.
As the models are updated, I'm starting to get more and more concerned about Tampa Bay: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/health/environm...
I really appreciate this screed. You're opinions here are obviously warranted. I'm wondering, though, do you have any examples of folks who do have "actually workable plans"? It seems to me that you've set a pretty high bar for what those types of plans are, and so I would very much like to know if you can reference any person or group who has met that bar. Thanks.
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It's hard to follow what the Red Sox were actually doing but it sounds like the actual sign stealing was being done with cameras. They were just using Apple Watches to receive messages (probably just plain on SMS or iMessage?) in the dugout. If I've understood correctly it sounds like the "electronic devices" part of the story is kind of peripheral.
Isn't the HDPE only used as flotation devices to hang culture ropes from ?

If not, I've got another project I'll never do: Figure out how mussels adheres to HDPE and make revolutionary paints and glues for it!