skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article mentions the Great American Desert. Parts of Colorado already were this during the Dust Bowl. In northeast Colorado several natural grasslands were created in places where farming was marginal and areas became depopulated. It's such as terrible place to try to grow crops. Windy and dry, some places can go months without precipitation. Anyone farming out there now is living on borrowed time and water and shouldn't be surprised that it's drying up.

Edit: I live in Colorado and visit the grasslands often for killer star gazing and I recommend anyone interested in this subject read:

"The Worst Hard Times" about the Dust Bowl and "Cadillac Desert" which is about dam building in the ultra dry west (like Nevada/AZ).
Congratulations on your launch!

On the one hand, I understand the concerns about PII in your app.

On the other hand, I'd be willing to bet there are a ton of line-of-business apps that don't handle PII that could benefit from this (purchase orders, B2B shipping forms, etc.).

Unless you have investors, I would suggest waiting until you get >100 paying customers to find out whether you need to pay the premium for PCI/HIPAA hosting.
If the POSIX APIs aren't used, there is little value in actually having an UNIX like kernel.

Project Treble is much more than just having a newer Linux kernel, it also defines kernel and hardware abstractions via HDL (HAL Definition Language) using Binder as IPC mechanism, with each abstraction using its own daemon. All very un-UNIXy and more in line with a micro-kernel design, in some ways similar to what is being done in Fucshia.

Google and Apple had little options regarding free (gratis) OSes.

Also when Google bought Android, it was already using Linux.

UNIX winnig has little value if no one is actually calling POSIX APIs, rather Cocoa, UI Kit, Java, NDK, Web APIs.

Both Apple and Google have taken steps in their last OS versions to diminish the set of allowed POSIX calls.

Metal and new network APIs on Apple's side, killing process that don't obey the NDK stable API and Fuchsia on Google's side.
(2014)

This is the Harvard Business School Review. When HBR says something that increases CEO pay is a bad idea, it almost certainly is.

Stock buybacks are an incredibly inefficient way of increasing CEO pay. Especially if they involve taking on debt.

We need to tax corporate dividends, interest paid, and stock buybacks at the same rate. There's a bias against dividends and in favor of debt in tax law, and that's why companies take on so much debt. It's a subsidy program for the banking industry, which is why it's hard to change in the US. It doesn't particularly help non-financial corporations.

Also, "private equity" is mostly debt financing in disguise. It's not people putting up their own cash. There's usually a little cash, and a lot of debt.

Something worth realizing: relative tax rates between business alternatives have a large effect on corporate behavior. Absolute tax rates, not so much. As capital gains rates have gone up and down over the years, capital expenditures haven't followed.
Each transaction is likely composed of hundreds of requests to various of subsystems, and each of them might have vastly different constraints. I don't think the metric of average transactions across all JVMs they are running is a meaningful metric.
see a detailed discussion here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/321697/why-is-loopi...

especially this quote:

> find's business is evaluating expressions -- not locating files. Yes, find certainly locates files; but that's really just a side effect.
How Spacex does software engineering
The quality of care must go down for some, right? It's not possible to a) keep the same existing standard of care for all, b) maintain prices, or c) keep the same level of profit for the industry. Something has to give. If [a] and [b] are true, then profits will be lower, and therefore quality will suffer next.
I know what you mean but I'm not sure I'd throw "waste" around so casually. Wages are not waste, from the employee's point of view. From a utilitarian point of view, it's not at all clear that the money would be less "wasted" if given to stockholders.
You can't... Typically people put their email address in their profile (if they want to be contacted), though obviously not everyone does it.
Usually yeah I do. I'm not using a super powerful one (the pixel is a massive waste of money and always was). Just have the 4GB Acer R11. Small, good battery life and a touchscreen.

My setup:
Dev mode
Chromebrew with tmux,vim,irssi,python3.6

I don't use crouton because I don't need it.
Due your due diligence. Get third-party validation from someone with a good reputation you can trade on. Proudly flaunt that validation on your website, marketing material, etc., rather than hiding it behind some NDA for big customers only.
10 Linux Commands Every Developer Should Know
Common filesystems only do metadata journaling, so your file contents are not protected by this. As an exception, the ext3 and ext4 filesystems support a data journaling mode using a special flag.

Even if you had data journaling, it won't give you consistency between different files. This post used Gitlab as an example, and git will break if some files in its databse are updated, but some not. Git doesn't use fsync to ensure their update order, I don't know if Gitlab enables it or if the performance hit is reasonable.
And the email address needs to go in the about field if you want people to see it. The email field is only seen by HN Mods. (I think - I'm not a mod).
On a side note, I find the design of their website to functional but tasteful.

Their promoted research-paper is also more engaging (and less bloviating) than I was expecting:

https://www.dbresearch.com/PROD/RPS_EN-PROD/PROD000000000045...

>Ironically, the political compulsions imposed by the aging population are one reason for this. For starters, 56 per cent of Germany’s voting population is above 50 years of age. The members of the major political parties are on average 60 years old. This has led to an implicit consensus between the government and the people, to maintain the cosy status quo for as long as possible, hoping the day of reckoning might only affect following generations. A literal endorsement of Keynes’ maxim, “in the long run we are all dead"

I'll have to read through all of it before I can tease out its agenda.
Interesting. I never heard that. I have been a big Oakley fan for a long time because I felt they did make nice lenses and sold them when I worked at a running store in college.
You can't do it properly from an endpoint, but the ISPs are already monitoring it internally. They know when and where they have serious congestion.
Same for anyone who works on contract, in any industry. Designers will obviously charge more money depending on the size and budget of the client...
Popular is literally a synonym for mainstream, they aren't being conflated. He went mainstream before Raw with Beverly Hills Cop, by the time Raw came out he was already a star. Doolittle was long after his prime, and long long after he went mainstream.
Minero: Crypto Mining in JavaScript
Has the "modern way" of doing science been evaluated and compared against older ways of doing things?

While discoveries do go down in numbers it seems most of past advancements wouldn't have survived modern standards (while a lot of one-off studies do go through today)
Internet Download Manager (IDM) 6.29 Build 2 and Patch
The other issue with zcash is an ever growing double-spend list. Monero also suffers this flaw, unfortunately. If either one scaled up to just bitcoin's level of activity, there'd be severe problems.

Mimblewimble is far more likely to be a lasting privacy gain since the technology it is built upon, Blockstream's confidential transactions, has properties more like Bitcoin's in this regard, and perhaps even better as you can sync from a partially-pruned history.
Not spending money on licenses is a major appeal.

The ongoing efforts to drop anything GPL related on each new Android release shows where it is going.

You also gave a good example, OEMs want consumers to buy new devices, not to keep using existing ones.
It's basically just clickbait on a different scale. Clickbait doesn't stop being annoying just because it's common.
The Building That's in Two Countries at Once (2012)
I really agree with this. Your exact example -- every detail -- happened to me a few years ago. I was offered a ~50% raise without really seeking it out. I went to my boss (with whom I had an excellent relationship) and explained the situation. I got the raise that day, and over two years later I've continued to get great raises/promotions, and it has become the best job I've ever had.

It is important to note that I was doing really important work at the company. I was probably not considered a "normal" employee.
Yeah I can't imagine using less than 500GB~ month myself, wireless isn't the answer as it does not scale at all well.
I highly doubt people born and raised on Mars (if it is even possible to live long-term there) could ever live on Earth -- simply with respect to gravity and developmental consequences.
I think the main reason people are hating on this is because it's selling itself as something it's not: A smarter browser.

Should stick with its original goal. I think they created it as a "minimal" browser, hence the name.
Do you buy brand name sunglasses at Walgreens or walmart?
Striking photos of international borders from around the world
No, but they do own LensCrafters, Sunglass Hut, Apex by Sunglass Hut, Pearle Vision, Sears Optical, Target Optical, and Glasses.com...
SIGPWR is anything but standard, and it's unclear how AWS would even send that signal to your processes without adding an agent to the instance.

Currently they initiate an ACPI shutdown event at the termination time. It's hard to initiate a shutdown in a more standardized manner. An instance shut down via this signal will generally see the init process begin gracefully stopping services, eventually halting on it's own. Typically your init process will get increasingly aggressive with kill signals, as defined by your service definitions, eventually getting to SIGKILL. If your init process fails to get the vcpu halted, after a (undocumented?) period AWS will halt the cpu(s) for you. This is about as graceful a shutdown as you're going to get with 'standard' interfaces.

Termination Notifications go out of their way to give you an extra heads up, in case your application is unlikely to gracefully handle being shut down by the init system. Think DB hosts with a craploads of dirty blocks that take a few minutes to sync to disk at shutdown.
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If this is true it isn't apparent to me. You're stating it as if it's received wisdom. Could you clarify?
See my top-level comment - you can now set "shutdown" behavior to stop instead of terminate (though 2-minute notice still useful)
Yea, I think tethers in space are still considered quite tricky.
In Switzerland I have gbit up and down and pay like 90 CHF (92 USD) in a month.

I use the G Suite Google Drive and get nearly full gbit while up and downloading.
Erm, #1 is not that far from being achieved. IIRC, that's just 6 people, guarding hundreds of millions of dollars.

There lies the inherent problem with "trusted setup", why leave there a possibility of 6 people not colluding? That just isn't scientific or exhuastive. Just drop the IFs, go with Monero's method of RingCT.

Beside, Monero's privacy is a working feature today, with no pre-mines, unlike ZCash.
I am so glad I moved out of Comcast territory.
Can anyone shed some light on whether blue-blocking coatings are actually useful/good for you?
I don't think you can be "the company that built HBO Now" and "little-known" at the same time, even if people don't know them by name.
> I'm not sure these are quite the same things.

People who enjoy bland things always say this. :) Those words mean the same thing "to me", does mean it does to you, wasn't an insult, subtle just isn't a word I use for food. I like what I like and I've tasted things people use that word for, I call them bland.
> Something worth realizing: relative tax rates between business alternatives have a large effect on corporate behavior. Absolute tax rates, not so much. As capital gains rates have gone up and down over the years, capital expenditures haven't followed.

Maybe it's late and I'm not getting it. What does this mean exactly. Like the point of pointing it out?
After hacking away at Drupal and then WP, adopting Django as my go-to backend helped me immensely early on. I don't do anything with PHP anymore.

I'll also say that backend + html + css will take you surprisingly far. JS will be much easier to deal with after you feel at least competent with those basics.
Could you elaborate on this flaw, or perhaps point to a link - especially with regards to Monero?
https://www.sifive.com/products/freedom/

Scroll down to "Freedom Unleashed".
Pictures of the bridge show a whole range of things the Golden Gate Bridge authority tried. Solid lines for every lane. Double lines down the middle. Neon signs ("2/3/4 lanes") at each end. Traffic cones at each end to guide cars into the 2/3/4 lane arrangement. Pylons that plugged into the bridge deck. (Probably post-1986, when the bridge deck was replaced, one section at a time. and the roadway was widened by two feet.)

A "zipper" movable barrier was considered several times, but early versions were too wide or not strong enough. Finally they got one that worked.
Yeah, I actually wasn't 100% sure whether class properties + a decorator would play together as "expected". Thinking about it, I would guess they must, in which case defining those values as class properties also would be reasonable.
The median connection in Melbourne, Australia is around 6/1. I'd count your blessings. Last year my house was only serviced by one ISP and the only connection available was 1.5/0.2 ADSL. Half the modern webpages we go to don't even load at those speeds.
I wish i knew what kind of chalk they were using in the first chalkboard image. It's beautiful.
It’s more than sufficient to watch Netflix, download things in reasonable times, and browse the web.

Few have 1gbps...
A Story About Singapore’s Urban Development, in Six Parts
On a similar note, where I live the cheapest Ibuprofen you can buy is $10 for a 20 pack, and it's all name-brand stuff. The generic companies who sell stuff at $2 per pack in other countries tried entering the market and failed, because people didn't trust the quality.
Magnetars, soft gamma repeaters, and very strong magnetic fields
Uber app can silently record iPhone screens
If there’s a price crash in the cryptocurrency, it could hit the tech sector
selfcontrol (the aptly named app) helps with self control.

I only use it on desktop to limit myself to productive online resources. I have an aversion to using my phone for browsing anyway, so don't need it there too.
The person you replied to is just trying to get a conversation and some potential pressure started. No need to instead be so aggressive and expect them to become a rich CEO.
Yeah, I've heard similar reports before and that's exactly the kind of thing I was wanting to hear about because, e.g., the Nano can be a PITA to remove sometimes -- especially on my workstation, where it is plugged into one of the USB ports on the "back" of a Das Keyboard. I don't mind punching in my PIN all the time (I already use short timeouts anyways), but removing and reinserting the Nano several times a day is inconvenient and will get annoying real quick.

Thanks.
How would it resolve the vanishing productivity growth problem?
Ask HN: I want to make an embeddable e-commerce software, are you interested?
This is precisely why ISP's should have to operate more transparently as a common carrier and not as a private business milking a cash cow.
I’m about to get symmetric 1gbit from Sonic in SF for the initial price of $40/Mo... after a while it goes up to $60.
I worked for Alipay, a subsidiary of Alibaba, around 2010. At that time, the tech stack was lagging behind compare to most silicon valley companies. But it was 7 years ago so things might changed since then.
Laravel 5.5 VueJs 2.0 CRUD Operations – A Perfect Development Combination
This is what we have so far: https://varick.io/

We make a ton of MVP apps, and what you're talking about would be amazing! But the reality is we'd never get close to it. Every app focusses on a different audience. We aim to help them reach their unique goal as quickly as possible, which inevitably means a different UI approach for each scenario. It's not worth the effort in trying to automate.

Instead, we focussed on a generating a front-end for admins. It works with APIs so any business logic and security validation is just baked in cannot be by-passed.
> i still dont understand how local/global exactly matches the semantics of cow.

It's not, it's "copy on reference".
I love Prodesign, but yeah they're not exactly competing on price.

Also a big fan of Etnia Barcelona -- they're in a similar price bracket (as far as I know they're independent, but I'll admit to not having researched it)
Not sure you'll find much beyond what's at the awesome list for this: https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted. At the very least it is a good starting point.
If you're starting from the beginning with no experience - are you mainly doing it for the "job aspects"? (eg: salary). If so , get on a large job board for your area and see which technologies are most hired near you.
Still a Superfund site https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/case-summary-settlement-reac...
maybe it's time to augment peer-review with some other stuff instead of completely getting rid of it?
YMMV. I was not impressed by the machine - it presented way too many choices and didn't promote the UI to make the process easier than speaking to a human, in my view.

Maybe after about 10 times when you've "learned the menu" you might find it easier.
You’ll get premium eyewear in India for $150. Though, it will take around 3-5 days to get it after your order. Good quality ones that last would be $60-80.
Wow, a Lotus Domino website that is still in use. (That page was updated 9/5/17.)
You can't create an alternative client or something of that interesting nature with those links. Or anything on FB as far as I am aware.
Can one of the greatest musicians cut through the fog of a rush hour? (2007)
I don't really agree. Ultimately making food is an extremely repetitive process (at least for fast food) and that's where AI excels.

I think that if the robot is really transparent and there's a human inspecting, then people will be willing to live with it.

Reviewing your lease could be tricky because it could involve lots of external variables, cultural differences, changes over time, interactions with the law, and so on.
Most of what your brain does is statistical reasoning.

Much of the rest is logical inference.

You choose words in the order you choose them because as a child, your mind learned that, statistically speaking, certain words had certain meaning, and when used would engender certain results. All intelligent decisions follow that pattern. Training, comparison to expectations, memorize the difference, adjust behavior, rinse and repeat. Sound familiar?

Most of the intelligent mechanisms within the mind are employed through similar statistical inference, and when it's not done statistically (say, when you are inspired by some flash of 'insight' or when you dream things that have little obvious statistical grounding) there is still some reasoning within the mind that is allowing room for stochasticity to infer intelligence that is statistically calculated to be beneficial, when all other reasoning has failed. Tangentially, it might even be true that the irrational mind is simply one that uses stochastic reasoning more often than is deemed sane by our social norms.

Don't overstate intelligence like it's some amazing technology that we can't understand. Consciousness is more difficult to parlay into a black box model, but intelligence, reasoning, and 'wise' decision making is very much rooted in making statistically beneficial choices and deriving logic from the order we recognize via inductive and deductive reasoning.

If it sounds like I am oversimplifying, please understand that I hold the brain and the amazing parallel processing power it wields in high regard, and it's no mean feat for someone like Einstein, to use an obvious example of great intelligence, to intuit relativistic frameworks using only thought experiments, but his understanding (and everyone else's, for that matter) were built on many, many layers of statistical reasoning.
But that's the author's point. This current thing we call peer review isn't what's fundamental to science, the broader concept is. The modern for-profit journal system is not the only way to do science, and just because it cloaks itself in the name "peer review" doesn't make it the only sort of peer review that facilitates good science.
A machine doesn't have to optimize only for "good enough" or "burnt"; it optimizes for whatever parameters it was given. If there's a trick to "pull a particularly great espresso shot", then you can build a machine to do that. It's not even particularly hard, compared to, say, keeping up an intelligent conversation, doing laundry, or any number of other harder-to-automate tasks.
Given the amount of money circulating is actually debt generated with fractional reserve banking, how would significantly changing private equity ~= debt effect the economy? (i.e. without appropriate transition wouldn't this lead to massive deflation?)
Diagnosing a Linux-only unit test failure
I'm actually pretty ok with these types of articles. They are generally well-researched and well-written—giving technical introductions to important concepts.

As always, it is important to be wary of the reasons that an author writes an article. If there is an advertisement at the end, then the author motivations (at least in part) are clear. But I often find that promoters of new systems and tools are able to present excellent critiques of established tools and practices. New things are USUALLY made to address the shortcomings of existing things. You as a reader have to parse whether their arguments are sound and maybe do some more research before you can make a sound judgement on the matter.
It is not received wisdom. My argument is human learning entails recognizing an ever increasing amount of complexity, given infinite time, resources and motivation we can learn forever. But all axiomatic systems have a complexity limit, per Chaitin's incompleteness theorem, so cannot learn forever. Neither can a system add to its axioms. Therefore, human learning is beyond anything an axiomatic systems can do.
Lossy GIF Compressor Implementation, JPEG-LS Support with CMYK and YCCK Using Java
That addresses the objection but doesn't fully satisfy it. First, not all shareholders are taxed the same way, as the other commenter noted. Second, the tax rate of long-term gains might change before the stock is sold; a fraction of shareholders in the US probably believe that will happen. Third, the dividend tax is collected immediately (on the next tax return), so it reduces how much the shareholder can reinvest unless they take money from elsewhere. Buybacks compound in the stock more easily than dividends.
Nah, it's just that I've already made peace with the usual things like wasted career and family prospects.

I will however continue to regret not cracking that joke until the day I die.
Should have been more clear heh. There was a benchmark that didn't use regex and seemed to turn off the ignore files feature. Im not familiar with rust or those crates Im assuming that's what those are there for?