skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Variational inference also only works for continuous probability models, so it can't be used for most interesting use-cases of probabilistic programming.
And the dickbar too.
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Not quite right. The documented interface that was used for firmware control on BIOS systems generated errors if you poked it on UEFI systems, and the kernel logged those errors into UEFI variables. If the UEFI variable storage filled up, the machine stopped booting. It was possible to trigger the failure by filling the variable store, even under Windows.

The workaround was to reserve some variable storage space at all times, but this was made difficult due to the way some UEFI implementations do garbage collection - deleting variables wouldn't free the space. The workaround is to try to create a veritable that's larger than the reported free space in order to trigger garbage collection, but not all implementations will do garbage collection at runtime. So the kernel will check how much free space there is during early boot and try to create an oversized variable in order to trigger gc before it transitions to runtime mode. Last time I checked, Windows did nothing to stop you killing your system.

Computers are bad.

(source: I debugged this and wrote most of the remediation code)
Sorry, I misspoke haha. They're not applicable to things without brains.
Probably no implications on performance or energy consumption. Disabling it will prevent many remote management capabilities which are desirable in corporate environments.

Some details: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/misc-devices/mei/me...
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I seem to recall that there were characters made up of all the options of quarter squares, so you could have a pixellated display of 64x48 at least

edit: seems like HN doesn't support these characters but see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Elements

I made a 'zooming through a tunnel' program in assembler once, using them
Hope you don't mind some brief clarifications.

Work on adding ripgrep to Linux distros is being tracked here[1]. We've made good progress so far, but AFAIK it's still missing in Ubuntu and Debian. I'm not caught up with what's required to get ripgrep into those repos.

With respect to making it a literal default---as in replacing GNU grep---I don't really expect that to ever happen. There is a ton of intersection between the tools, right down to the names and functionality of flags, but there's also many subtle details in the differences. For example, normal grep invocations will use BREs by default, which have different escaping rules than EREs, where EREs are closer to what ripgrep uses. There's also the difference where ripgrep respects things like .gitignore and ignores hidden files by default, which means there's likely a non-zero number of shell scripts out there where swapping grep for ripgrep will break. Folks won't (and shouldn't) take too kindly to that. :-)

To a first approximation, ripgrep is optimized for end user experience in a terminal. This leads to different design decisions. Offering a compatibility mode with grep has been suggested, but is significant work.

[1] - https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/10
It's fucking stupid to think that UK citizens can provide all the workers the UK needs, especially for things like the NHS which runs on immigrant labour and will be impossible to safely staff without immigrant workers.
It could also be a play on the phrase "Holy shit!"
I don't suggest to learn it all before starting. But I wrote #1 in the "Marketing" part:

"Have I solved a problem serious enough for people to bother to become my customers?"
Lawns and golf courses don't get rotated. They're permanent dead zones.
>Question of perspective. Why the need to use the smartphone (and look into and accept the compromises coming with that) when you already own a device made perfectly for the task of playing music?

It's not such a question for the parent though, as they said that: "I never use my smartphone for music, I don't see the need" -- which implies they ALSO have/carry a smartphone.
The memory issues with DNA are frighting. If Chrome didn't hog enough of your ram before... it will NOW! Bwahahahahaha!
An informational question about "reputation": the way the big email providers and spam filters figure out whether my emails, or yours, are good or bad.

Does sending text/plain email, with its inability to put in the usual tracking junk like 0x0 pixels, hurt reputation by losing the ability to tell who opened the email?

I've been sending plain text transactional emails (via sendgrid) for years and I've never been dinged for this. I'm talking about welcome, password reset, "you changed your phone number," and that kind of stuff. (I figure the recipient benefits from opening the email as much as I do, so they'll open it.) Plus it's easier to get the job done without the need for designing and testing email templates.

But is email that can't track open rates sustainable going forward? Or will antispam algorithms start distrusting email with "zero" open rates?

There's probably something I don't understand about this. I am seriously looking for information.
Am I correct to say that means you only need to get it right once?
>Phone is heavier and bulkier

A modern phone compared to a Zune?
Media seems to be a good example of this. Movies and TV shows continue to be created and preserved increasing the supply, but consuming media does not mean less for others.
Yeah, I really want to write a hobbyist OS atop UEFI & amd64, but … the learning curve is daunting. BIOS is too simple, but UEFI is hyper-complex. There's probably a reason most hobbyist OSes seem to be using BIOS …
It is, but a good point of departure for discussion. Can you elaborate on how that alternative can evolve from the present way of doing things?
Well, it makes a difference whether the government is giving money to the company or visa versa.
I don't really see how its winner take all?

1. alot of people mostly travel locally.

2. AI will only provide so much value before the cost levels off(for driving).

3. as for ETA I'm pretty sure it only goes down with a cost^2
I think I may have to learn Haxe. Which MOAI are you referring to? The library I found was a mobile-games engine.
The only reason we have enough is because of that economic system. Take a look at Venezuela. It ought to terrify everyone that so many take what we have for granted.
No. The driver gets paid more (33%) as a result of the commitment. There is less peak surcharge.
Doesn't the JVM have some kind of native FFI?
Employers can afford to be ageist when they can employ from a virtually unlimited international market. But of course the "talent isn't just there" and we need more H1Bs.
> The memory issues with DNA are frighting.

Which memory issues do you mean? The items that are covered in this section http://mattwarren.org/2017/10/19/DotNetAnywhere-an-Alternati... ('Garbage Collector') or something else?
What constitutes a death threat? What should we do with all those twelve year old kids playing call of duty and taking on chat?
Tails ISO images are now almost reproducible
I love the concept but not the prices. In comparing their 13" to the Macbook Pro 13" I found the prices are about the same. The Macbook has a much better screen, a better touchpad, and the resale value will be much higher so its lifetime cost will be lower.
http://nbp.github.io/slides/HolyJit/JitTeamIntro/ pretty much proves it. Mouse over page 1 and you read:

"The name is a reference to another project named GraalVM, except that the goal of this project is not to make a VM, but only to make a JIT as a library."
It's not orthogonal because it is harder to have master-master cross data center setups in relational databases even in scenarios where eventual consistency is acceptable (such as a use case for a piece of our infrastructure we have).

Sure MongoDB may not be the best fit for it but my point is more that these are scenarios where horizontal scaling is an important consideration makes more sense for some nosql solutions than for sql solutions. It's not just about single box performance.
http://wiki.osdev.org/Libgcc_without_red_zone#What_is_the_.2...
While I agree to an extent, the reason for this is not entirely bad. The len function is basically a contract that the result you get will be an integer. An object could easily have a `.length` property that is non-integer, like a line/interval for instance. Think of this as a clunky response to a lack of type information in the language proper.
Good question because google has killed so many other projects people do rely on (eg: google reader!)
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I don't understand why do you think this is the case. (I am one of those people who thinks people should have the same salaries, btw.)

What exactly do you mean by "value"? Can you give some examples?

To add: I don't think there is a meaningful comparison of importance of two professions that depend on each other. It's like asking, which part of the car provides more value for the user? Is it the engine or the wheels?
Oh, right. Yeah, that would be nice, but my company doesn't use languages with that feature, and we can't re-write our software, so we're stuck with Option types.
Really tragic case, Terry. Doubtful that TempleOS would exist without his schizophrenia, but everyone would be much better off emotionally if he just took his medication...
I feel like I should place the "Marketing" section higher. There's a list of questions to do a market research before even starting and discover if the fundamentals of your product are correct.
Disable javascript, the annoying bar still remains but at least you can read it.
Personally my experiences have been the complete opposite. There are a number of reasons paper books are always going to be second to ebooks to me. The idea of lugging a book/s around. Hunting for a book at a shop or library when I'm feeling the itch to read it sooner rather than later. Flipping through pages whilst looking back up at a screen breaks my concentration. etc..

When the first gen Kindle was released I ordered it right away. It was one of the most liberating devices I've ever owned. I managed to read a ton of books that had been on my read-list for ages. This obviously has much more to do with having everything you want to read immediately available and also the discrete portability to do such.

Also when I would underline text in a book it was as if my brain shutoff. Subconsciously i'm thinking 'Okay I saved this part in the book'. When I'd go back my train of thought is gone and thus the highlight is out of context. So that bit of physicality returns zero for me personally.
You don't even need basic income. Just let people's incomes rise at the same rate the economy grows instead of funneling all gains to the business owners like it happened over the last 30 years or so. Unfortunately in the US the Republicans seem hell bent to accelerate the trend towards more income concentration at the top with their tax plans.

I don't know how to change this realistically. It probably needs some change in moral attitudes so it's just not accepted by society that certainly people claim all the gains for themselves instead off spreading them out. Child labor used to be prevalent but in most Western societies it's not ok anymore even if there is profit to be made. So maybe this will happen to income inequality too.
I don't like that caniuse by default shows only several recent browser versions, deceiving developers and making it look like some new technology is supported everywhere. It is clearly a "dark" UI pattern that motivates developers to make sites viewable only on latest Macbook.

Instead, it should show the year since which some feature is supported.

For example, for flexbox it could write:

IE - never

Edge - since 2015

Firefox - since Mar 2014

Safari - since Oct 2013

Opera - since Nov 2012

etc.

This gives a better picture.
i feel like that's on purpose...we can engineer all these crazy things, but getting good DOM access? naw not possible
SoftBank's big checks are stalling tech IPOs
Social hierarchies are created and maintained through displays of dominance and submission. Earning more money is simply that: a domination display.
That's quite an insight. I've never connected those concepts together before.

There's a staggeringly long list of things that are now post-scarcity because they're digital. Each item used to be a luxury available to few instead of a thing that scales to all.

So here's a new way to ask an old question: What's something that should be post-scarcity, but currently isn't?
nftables is iptables' successor:

http://www.netfilter.org/projects/nftables

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=nftables
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Because you can't kill something that's already dead.
Copyright 2006, "...the new Linux 2.4.x kernels", dead SSL cert
Many of the instances are organized around a particular community. For example, toot.cat is for "cats and the people that love them". witches.town is "made to provide a nice place on Mastodon for queer, feminists, anarchists and stuff as well as their sympathizers."

However, as you'd expect, you might not talk strictly about cats on toot.cat, but you'd be talking with other cat lovers. It might be difficult to discern the community from the local timelines. Also, some of the ones that you mention are just general social instances.

Each instance has an about page that you can look at to get a better idea of what it is organized around. [1]

[1]: https://mastodon.art/about
High School students in Denmark are taught How to use a CAS (Nspire, GeoGebra’s algebra window, Maple or similar). To test that they know a Cas, some exercises contain equations, deriviates or integrals that only a cas can solve (or at least are harder than a high school student is expected to handle by hand).
The incomes need to rise but can the business owners be forced? The basic income would make sure everyone gets the extra income.
Same here. Nim has this elegance that is hard to qualify and impossibe to quantify, but it makes it a real pleasure to write code in it. Can't wait to get deeper into it.
The "You" used wasn't directed at you personally, just as an observation of current trends.
Congratulations Daniel! Lord knows how many developer hours you've saved the world.

This part caught me - is it pronounced "see URL"? This whole time I and everyone I know have pronounced it as "curl" as in "curling".
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Big Data. Big Volumes
Actually I thought it's more like Usenet as soon as I started scrolling through https://joinmastodon.org/#getting-started
On the upside, at least when you're using this service you're saving money while pivoting over and over based on hastily-collected statistically underpowered A/B tests.
The next step towards Von Neumann Probes!

https://futurism.com/von-neumann-probe/
The parent of this subthread, whose "I don't see the need to use a phone for music" you questioned wasn't talking about a Zune.

> I use a USB stick music player. It's essentially like a usb drive with a headphone jack.

This specific point clearly doesn't apply to a Zune, so we can assume remaining Zune users have other individual reasons why they like what they have.
In my opinion and experience, the process of teaching itself makes you a much better researcher. People can get bored doing research, epecially if it is primarily solo research. Plus, teaching forces you to learn a subject much more thoroughly than you would otherwise. And if you want to expand your research to a slightly different topic, teaching that topic can give you a lot of knowledge and confidence in that topic. I feel like teaching+research institutions do better research than pure research institutions.
Fear mongering, as we have the same attitude in the UK, but not the race divide that the States has (we have a very similar divide along the lines of class however).
Plex became an intermediate CA, not a root CA, right? Or did I misunderstand?
Although electricity, food, etc. are not provided automatically yet, I don't think that in the developed world they are scarce anymore. People don't chase a promotion, work overhours or buy a lottery ticket in the hope of being able to obtain more food. It might not be a gourmet meal in a Michelin star restaurant, but you surely can buy as much food as you need to never be hungry.

If you want a car, then at least in the Western world, you can buy one. It might not be a Ferrari, but when physical transportation is what you are after, it is definitely affordable.

So why do many people still work so hard? Because they don't just want things that are sufficient, they desire to have luxury goods, food or leisure. And how do you define luxury? It is something better than you have now, or even better, something better than what your neighbours/ friends or colleagues have.

This will not change, no matter how easily food and other basic goods become available. Because it is part of human nature to desire to have status, more than that, this is what is driving evolution for many other animals as well.

So a true post-scarcity will never exist. People will just invent new goods or services to go after in the future when today's iphones and sportscars have become affordable. Not because they need them, but for the simple fact that they are difficult to obtain.
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Sending emails with no design doesn't mean you send it as plain text. You can still send the HTML version, simply without any markup or styles, and add the tracking stuff there. I think the author is talking more about how it looks rather if it's really plain text email or not.
Just a friendly reminder, from a former Oracle employee who was laid off recently, that Oracle is cancerous, rapacious, and DOES NOT respect you as a user or customer.

They WILL audit you. They WILL sue you. They WILL harass you. They WILL deceive you. Period. End of story. And they will make 100k easily off of you.

DON'T use Oracle products unless you are prepared to deal with these types of arbitrary, long, painful battles.
Are you opposed to Google Keyboard/Gboard? It's had gesture typing for a while, and not too long ago added some nice gestures which use the spacebar to control cursor position and backspace key to delete one or more words at a time rather than character-by-character.
TL;DR - Host on a VM, get hacked sooner or later.
For one is the extra database handle and run I have to use every time, instead of the commands being methods to the db handle object. The repetition of males code more verbose.

Secondly, it’s the ReQL. It’s not native but not JSON based either. A weird hybrid mix.

But it’s only my personal opinion based on my taste.
My MSI from four years ago had a UHD screen:

http://penguindreams.org/blog/msi-ws60-running-linux/

My current Dell XPS15 does as well; both ran/run Linux. I do a lot of photo editing (Lightroom in VM, although I'd started to use Darktable) and I probably wouldn't buy a primary laptop without a UHD display today.
Ask HN: How close is modern computing to vintage computing wrt. efficiency?
In a world where we know that hardware is supposed to double in power every year, is there any incentive to develop software that doesn't consume more and more power?
I remember several limitations that were imposed on games due to hardware in the past, but without those limits, are we developing worse and worse quality software?
This is genuinely a question, I don't know how we stack up to the greybeards, but I am willing to bet that we hardly can.
I think it can only be a matter of time.

Not, that no one is using it. I am using it daily and at least the several hundred people I follow do so too, there is quite a big community in tabletop roleplaying games for example. But google has for years only done what they always do to their products in recent years: add more and more whitespace while taking away features. And of course, this drives people away. So it is getting slowly quieter over there and of course, all it takes google to finally close it down is one engineer finishing his 20% project for the "next big thing" to replace it.

This will be a sad day for many communities on google plus, but at this stage in googles life, nobody should be surprised by products just going away.
“Could” if that’s not intentional then this browser will fail lol
Architecturally, the idea of discarding duplicate messages from a queue is:

queue -> parser -> queue

Discarding duplicate messages is a piece of business logic. The parser could be as simple as a hashmap/dictionary or bloom filter that emits or does not emit the message based on the selected criteria.

This is a case where I like the idea of Unix pipes and where I might think in terms of log data structures rather than queues. Your mileage may vary.

Good luck.
We have been using blue apron or it's competition for about a year - green chef, plated, some others, and they all have a pattern that becomes obvious after some observation.

A one sentence detour: I feel shame for the fuel and packaging these things require.

That said, we are finding it easier to cook healthy things for ourselves by copying the general patterns in the meals.

One pattern for you: get a food in the Brassica oleracea category. Dice it up, cook it in a pan with some olive oil. Move it to the side, and fry a chicken breast in the center of the same pan. Throw some cherry tomatoes and a few teaspoons of vinegar into the pan. After the chicken is cooked, throw a can of some vegetable sauce, like tomato sauce, onto all of it and cook it in the oven for 20 minutes.

Each thing can be substituted with something else, but those are the dance steps for half of the meals.