skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Enhancements"

Eff those enhancements, kill that process and remove it from startup. This is not the drive per se, it's just some stupid "helper app"

Shimming: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd837644(v=ws.10... (most likely making the offending function being called repeatedly return a mock value)
If we're blaming industrialisation for everything from labour disputes involving a few shootings to full-blown communism in largely pre-industrial countries, it's probably worth noting that revolutions and war were the rule rather than the exception for the previous few millenia as well. What was novel - albeit so novel it took generations to filter through - was universal education, the welfare state and the lifting of the majority of the population above subsistence incomes.
The cotton gin was textbook automation. In a strange twist of fate, it actually increased the demand for labor. Because it was very labor intensive to remove the seeds from a cotton boll, cotton wasn't a very profitable industry. After the gin (short for engine, what developers call automation engines), demand for labor and land skyrocketed.

The cotton gin is an example of an automation removing the need for labor (deseeding cotton) and subsequently creating a greater need for labor elsewhere (planting and harvesting). Of course, in this example, the increased labor demand ultimately resulted in 720K deaths.
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FiveThirtyEight had an interesting piece on how politicians have stronger incentives to provide relief after disasters than prepare for them before hand.

You can read it at https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/disaster-politics-can-g... .
We already did play God by increasing CO2 in atmosphere. There is nothing wrong in efforts to mitigate its effect.
I don't disagree that those comments were wretched (again, I didn't vote for Trump), and neither do the majority of the people I know that voted for him, but it seems entirely possible to me that someone would vote for him in spite of those comments, not because of them.

Indeed, if you were to assume that every vote for a candidate is de facto support of everything they do/are, I don't think I ever could have voted for anyone.
Windows has loads of stuff that is run conditionally on hardware and software configuration. I would not be surprised if Microsoft added a check to make the functions mentioned have different behavior. If you read the latest Windows Internals you'll learn about tons of things along those lines. There's lots of very specific behavior that gets triggered when you run things in compatibility mode, for example.

Basically, Windows' value proposition is broad hardware and software compatibility, and it will bend over backwards to make that happen, despite a developer's best efforts.
It makes the settings actually work though. Most people need the app for a usable touchpad.
I typically think of that as a facade. I guess it depends on what direction you are looking at it from?
Philip Glass's piano works might be just what you're looking for.

Or how about Steve Reich's Music For 18 Musicians? That could be too much, or it could be just right, depending on what about the music makes you feel sick.

I also like LaMonte Young and Terry Riley, but they might be too spacious if you're looking for compelling melody.

Oh, and stay away from John Adams. (Other people reading this looking for heavy minimalist music: go for John Adams. Start with Short Ride In A Fast Machine, and then dig in to the operas.)
People each put 300+ liters of greywater through the sewer system? Seems a tad bit high.
The vast majority of the decimation of the Native American population took place before the industrial revolution.
It all comes down to units of thermal rejection per area per unit lifetime cost. If either one of those values is less than desirable expectations will fall short.
So like monkey-patching?
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LÖVR projects work on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

I'm only seeing a Windows executable on the website, a Windows executable and Linux source on GitHub releases, and no MacOS release or source anywhere. :(
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TIS and Shenzen superficially look like assembly programming, but in reality they're very sophisticated puzzle games. You basically create these networks of routines, each of which is limited to something like 9 lines of code (and labels cost a line!). All the tasks are structured so that when you try to code them the straightforward way you're always short a line or two, and then you have to sit there racking your brain to figure out the 'trick'. Then you incorporate that new knowledge in your solution for the next level, and so on.

So it's really nothing like real coding. Highly recommended though! Especially Shenzen.
In context, the Microsoft OS detecting the problematic driver and patching out calls to various functions to make it behave better.

This is more commonly used for bug-for-bug backwards compatibility: if there's a a third-party application that was incorrectly using some Windows API which has been fixed in a newer version, and the fix breaks the application, MS might shim that version of the application with a call to the older version of the function or even a new piece of code that emulates the desired behavior.

(Non-Windows users might recognize this as the same basic technical approach as LD_PRELOAD / DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES, or a little more generically, symbol versioning.)
Thanks for your advice and congrats on making a chess site!
If that's happening "all the time" it's a sign that you should use a proper support system, then.
I used to design and build high speed packaging machinery. When I started my apprenticeship in the late 90's I saw machine lines running at 6000 units per minute with 3-4 operators per line and regular maintenance performed by a team of skilled engineers. Mid 2000's it was 10,000 units per minute, 2 operators per line and periodic maintenance performed by a skilled engineer. In 2012 I visited a factory with row upon row of machines running at 20,000 units per minute, fully automated lorry loading for dispatch and the machines diagnosed their own preventative maintenance. There was a guy wandering around with a broom. Two years later I jumped and changed industry.
The ticket site [1] states:

> We believe in diversity and would like to provide support to people of many different backgrounds. This includes, but is not limited to people who belong to one or more of the following groups: people of color, women, nonbinary and gender non-conforming people, disabled people, people with mental health issues, and LGBTQIA+ people.

[1]: https://diversitytickets.org/events/100
Could you point the beams at something and heat it up? It seems like a waste just sending it into space.
Right, but you could get a parcel of land that‘s very small, or steep, or otherwise unusable for normal homes. Depending on local regulation, you also might not need a building permit, or there might be a simplified procedure since it is very small and/or temporary. (For example we have a lot of „green land“ in Austria, where you are not allowed to build. For this reason it is very cheap. But you can of course erect a tent on „green land“.)
Having more children just gives higher probability to those children experiencing things without supervision or narrative (The concept of being outnumbered - which is TOTALLY a real thing and something you don't even really consider going from 2 to 3+ children). I think that has more sway in this than isolation and familial sprawl.

> Personally, I've reached my current age without ever having to babysit or change a diaper.

Congrats.

> I don't know a thing about the practicalities of parenting. A lot of people are probably in the same boat.

Don't worry, it's a learned skill. No matter what bookstores tell you, it doesn't come with a manual.
Gaming personalities are particularly susceptible because of their audience: gamers.

It's one of the most politically polarizing cultures, where witch hunts and public opinion spread extremely quickly, and since nobody really has anything tangible to lose– except participation, are quick to choose sides. This is not a community where 50/50 splits of opinion happen often; unless you want to be a challenger, joining the majority and me-too-ing is a lot more rewarding.

Spend any amount of time on Twitch and it's obvious this community has serious problems with presenting maturity, too. Racism, sexism and homophobia are rampant for the same reasons.

Don't get too caught up in taking it personally; there's really no substance there. Thoughts are perpetuated through chat, YouTube and memes, and disappear as soon as everyone gets bored enough to invest in the next loudest thing.
Reported price gouging to the AG last year after Matthew -- gas station charging over $5/gal. Months later, they sent back a form letter with generic information about the definition of price gouging ("it is unlawful to sell [commodities] for an amount that grossly exceeds the average price for that commodity during the 30 days before the declaration of the state of emergency").

Was not impressed with the enforcement. So yes, good to fill up early.
Sadly, this stopped around when they changed the name back to Borland and years before they split into "Borland" and "CodeGear". I wish they would release Delphi 1 at some point, but that never happened.
There's plenty of work left to do, but almost all of it requires labor to be combined with other resources which are scarce.
> Open world games are notoriously disappointing.

Its true that many are. Especially many Ubisoft ones. They follow a rather particular formula of lots-of-very-shallow-content and they get repetitive and boring rather quickly.

Not all open world games are like this! The Witcher 3 is a huge open world game which is full or interesting environments and content and many of the easily-missable side quests are actually just as interesting and compelling as the main quest.

Then there's Horizon: Zero Dawn, which, when I started playing, I had to double check that it wasn't a Ubisoft game. It had all of the Ubisoft open-world feel: towers to uncover map regions, the skill tree, inventory and menu's looked directly ripped from Far Cry. Resource collection.. so much of the game screamed Far Cry or Ubisoft and I was afraid that it would soon get dull, repetitive and boring. Yet it never happened! I put about 60 hours into the game and loved every moment of it. I would have played longer too, but was starting to run low on content (I didn't do all of the side stuff, but most of it) and am eagerly awaiting the DLC. This shows that even the oh-so-shallow Ubisoft formula can be compelling and work really well!

Games like Elder Scrolls are similar in that they have enough stuff to do before you have to settle for the repetitive/randomly-generated stuff, plus the world building and lore is interesting enough to make you want to explore and discover.
The indigenous population of the Americas was absolutely destroyed by Old World diseases. This happened mostly by accident (although sometimes done intentionally) but was probably near inevitable once first contact was made. (In many places it out-paced the actual extent of direct European contact as indigenous people traveled.)

So there WAS vast expanses available by that time, even without intentional genocide (which also happened).
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Given that they fired everyone, who do you think is going to give that support and fix bugs?
I haven't tried following them, but the compiling doc[0] has instructions for macOS.

[0] https://github.com/bjornbytes/lovr/blob/master/COMPILING.md#...
It was https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/41646

It was about changing the name of a lint from "bad-style" to "non-standard-style".

I still don't understand what this change has anything to do with social politics. Nor was this really related to being inclusive or whatever, it was just about being nicer.

Sure, there are more important things to do. But that's true for just about any bikeshed, that's pretty much a prerequisite for a discussion to be a bikeshed.

> While the example isn't within official documentation, it does demonstrate the lead Rust devs placing a lot of importance on social politics, and tip-toeing around such politically sensitive topics as coding style.

That's a major extrapolation. I'm not a lead rust dev (I do have commit/r+, I guess that can count). I drive-by filed an issue during a conference talk that I thought would be a small improvement that would be nicer to newbies and also just more accurate ("bad style" doesn't actually convey anything, why is it bad?). Various rust devs posted opinions and thoughts there.

Nobody was tiptoeing or anything. You're grossly misrepresenting what happened there.
Two questions:

1) Does it emit more IR at higher temperatures? In other words, would pumping hot water through/under it produce larger temperature drops?

2) Is it weather proof, or do you still need to find a coating that protects it while not blocking the IR?
Similar, yes.
From what I gather, there are really two facets of libertarianism. The social libertarianism, meaning let people do what they want, stop banning everything, drug war is futile, etc. Then there is the economic libertarianism, which means keep the government out of most, if not all business dealings. Deregulate, etc.

I highly suspect people are much more interested in the first, but not really the second. Interests who stand to benefit from the second are selling them as a package deal and we will end up only getting the second. In other words, the arrest machine will keep running, but businesses will be free to fleece customers, government and employees with impunity.

Surprising though, regulation is intended to save capitalism, not hurt it, at least in the long term. If capitalism runs down a path where it no longer benefits the vast majority of citizens in any given country, there will be hell to pay resulting in the end of capitalism. That would be a shame too, properly regulated capitalism is a really great system.
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I have to admit I was glued on my seat for a few minutes. 10 days.
Firefox, just sitting there on a page with zero activity, manages to burn about 5% of a CPU doing garbage-collection related tasks within Gecko. Maybe this will get better with the Rust version.
This smells of when industry shows up at a college and complains they aren't teaching them "what we use in the real world". After enough practice learning multiple fictional languages, learning the n+1th one should be a walk in the park! The important part is the game is fun and encourages learning. That the developer didn't choose to use an "actual" language to do so shouldn't ultimately matter if the concepts are sound, right?
Does anyone know how to extrach the raw data list from the site? There are quite a few numbers there that I'd like to know...
However my view is purely based on the growth that we are seeing in deep neural nets.

Ah, see, there's where our POVs differ. My tack is that we've been "almost there" on things like speech and hand writing recognition for twenty years or so, and I wouldn't say we're "there" enough that I'd want a comparably competent system driving my car down the road. Adding to that is that from what I'm reading we're not to the level of, say, Alexa yet for SDCs. OTOH, you make good points about the rates of progress in neural nets, so perhaps I'm wrong. Experience says that I'm just as wrong in one direction as the rest of the industry is wrong in the other, and reality will end up somewhere in the middle. So let's check back in ten years. :-)

But I wouldn't be shorting Berkshire Hathaway just yet regardless.
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Low skilled. Pret has enough workers qualified enough to do the role. Skilled workers are needed; the question employers of low skilled workers should be asking is "is the salary worth their time".

skilled workers can move on. Unskilled workers bounce.
A world where it is only legal to invest in IPOs like $SNAP and lose half of my initial investment within a few months seems unlikely. Government doesn't want to pull the plug, they want to find a way to get in on the action through taxes. There is something I can do for a company not fulfilling their fiduciary duty, file a class action lawsuit. The 152 billion US dollar cryptocurrency market cap can not go away in a moment no matter how hard you wish for that day unfortunately, institutional hedge funds and venture capital funds are on board
Pretty much. Economic wise I think the republicans are wrong, but it's not a moral issue (well, it is because of corporate influence but that's a different argument).

It's when you start doing things like making it illegal to 2 adults to have sex in the privacy of their home that I start to think "these are just bad people".
> You need to authenticate first against a trusted source.

If the system depends on a trusted source, why not just have this trusted source sign blocks, thus solving the double spend problem without further ado?
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"Based on the data collected, most users seem to prefer..." is better than, "Based on my training and personal experiences, I think users would prefer..."

It is a lot easier to come to a common agreement on something as objective as statistical significance when compared to personal feelings and opinions.
Aligning values isn't the same as matching personalities. What's important is that each appreciates the other's personality -- that they complement each other, not that the personalities are the same.
I think domes look pretty sweet, and that‘s reason enough to build them.
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With a suitably wedged NFS process I believe you can get a process that is stuck in D even if you `kill -9` it.
This article you are referring to is for a heat pump and so are the % of savings.

An AC Condenser sitting in the Sunlight will naturally be a lot hotter in temperature than one sitting in the shade. For example park your car in the sunlight and then park your car in the shade? Where will the surface of your vehicle be hotter/cooler? It has nothing to do with air temperature at this point. It is the heat of the sunlight that is raising the temp of the coils in the condenser just like it would raise the temp of the surface of a vehicle parked in the sun instead of the shade.

I live in TX. I have some experience with this.
- User doesn't like the fact that buildbot (which they think is maintained by mozilla) uses "master/slave" terminology https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-buildbot/issues/2 . Mozilla gives buildbot $15k for changing it https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/12/10/mozilla-open-source...

- User doesn't like that dining philosophers is cited with some male and/or gender-neutral pronouns and placeholders (even though the original exposition was already changed to female pronouns) -- proceeds to change the rest of the pronouns to female (I guess gender-neutral didn't make sense) https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/25640

- User thinks "bad code style" is offensive https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/41646

- User doesn't like brotli encoding type being called "bro" https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366559#c147

- User thinks that the code of conduct is too general in its suggestions that all people be respected and treated fairly -- it needs to explicitly cite certain groups https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-www/issues/268

This stuff is absolutely ridiculous. Write a code of conduct, make sure everyone is respected, and make that the end of it. Changing documentation to gender-neutral pronouns is something I can actually get behind -- nevertheless, that's still not fair apparently.
> Are you suggesting a framework where I could be prosecuted for running "cat /var/log/mail" on my own computer?

That is already now illegal in some (most?) European countries. For example, in Finland employer can never read the contents of employee emails, and even reading email metadata such as recipient requires prior notifications both to users and the data protection ombudsman.

Some societies did not let the digitalization to erode the basic rights.
Good luck. Gas in Doral went from 2.40 on Sunday to 2.80 today. I guess they can't in trouble for gouging before the disaster hits. Doral is Miami for those not familiar with the area.
Utopia is trailer parks?
Right, this is an awarded scholarship ticket (not "tickets are cheaper for you", this is "apply and you may get a free ticket+travel")

Scholarships are a pretty normal thing wrt conferences.
Not to mention cats. Some stats here:

http://www.currykerlinger.com/birds.htm
This is sage advice for business as well.
> I'm a pretty simple guy but I'm tired of hearing how bad I am just because I have a Y chromosome. The war on masculinity is very real.

Really, cause never once have I felt that way.
If the corresponding private key of a public key in the genesis block defines the correct transaction history then this system is not decentralized, but controlled by whoever owns this private key. In which case this entity might as well just sign blocks to avoid the double spend problem in a much simpler (albeit centralized) way.
Paper:

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/357/6352/668

DOI: 10.1126/science.aai8977

It doesn't seem to contain the 1700 lbs per square foot number (it just mentions pull-off energy in the order of 1J/m^2).

And linked article, originally hosted at harvard.edu (what's with these websites just copying articles and hosting them themselves??):

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/08/wyss-develope...
tried both ways to get the extension, still no clear way how to get this installed/downloaded and no subsequent emails

prob should iron this out to prevent people with low/no patience like me from moving on to the next thing
One thing the legal profession selects for is being able to disagree about something and discuss that disagreement without making it personal.
Tendermint is a BFT algorithm implementation and state machine replication system. The app(state machine) can implement a proof of stake protocol.

Proof of stake functionality is provided by the cosmos sdk which is under development.
>That is your perspective.

It's a fact.
It's been made by Erik Wernquist which also made wanderers and new horizons a must watch for anyone.

https://vimeo.com/erikwernquist
The rumors around this company are crazy.

My gut tells me there is a very small chance they are going to blow everybody away and come out with mixed-reality device that is truly revolutionary.

There's a very big chance that they are going to launch something underwhelming and get ridiculed by the press. Their promo videos (like the whale jumping out of a gymnasium floor in front of kids) were probably a big mistake.
Inaccurate. Software engineering is as to CS as electrical engineering is to physics.

[edit]

I guess a telescope is like a library like quickcheck. Both specific applications of a type of engineering that might help science out.