skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's funny how a primary criticism of consumer linux is "you'll have trouble running it on any laptop you pick at random." Isn't this an unfair criticism? If you apply the same logic to MacOS (only works on one laptop!) or Windows (only works on laptops specifically designed for it), Linux begins to look extremely compatible in comparison.

Linux has demonstrated itself to be compatible with nearly any hardware combination imaginable, to various degrees of usability. It runs on everything from tiny embedded microcontrollers to supercomputers. MacOS and Windows cannot say the same.

It is perfectly valid to criticize the frequency of driver incompatibility. However, this criticism should not be leveled at Linux. It should be directed at the hardware manufacturers who do not release Linux drivers for their products, or the software vendors like Microsoft and Apple, who forego open standards in favor of proprietary protocols.

The fact that hardware vendors can successfully produce and market a "Linux first" laptop shows that those vendors are responsible for any incompatibility in their other products. They've proved they can make compatible hardware, so why don't they do it by default?
Speaking as a Midwesterener, it was a valiant attempt to examine the Midwest without descending into contempt and cliches, but alas, it ultimately failed, and failed hard. Partial credit given for making it for a few paragraphs before descending into the usual trite analysis.
Probably, engineers are required to adhere to a strict code of ethics that puts the public interested first. Rayguns tend to be developed by people with evil ambitions. If I were a professional engineer and my boss asked me to work on a raygun, I would be ethically required to refuse and potentially to report him to the relevant authorities.
Reader mode is not displaying the article, what kind of dark-pattern trickery is this? (Safari)
Key word: revenue
They are technical enough to evaluate Jenkins and declare it be not worthy enough to be counted as competition, but not technical enough to understand CI/CD.

Seriously?
Get Unstuck
And the poor would use those loopholes just as eagerly as the rich if they could. You read the rules and obey them, in such a way to minimize your tax bill. Would anyone deny that there are very few sentient people who does not do this or send ex gratia payments to the tax authorities? Suspected infringements are a matter a) for the courts and b) for lawmakers to revise the evidently lax (if so it's thought) legislation .
That sounds like a good solution, though I'm using the websocket aspect for throw away addresses in integrations tests where this seemed to make sense.
otoh there are bridges literally falling down and the country doesn't provide universal healthcare...so it seems government's pockets aren't infinitely deep.

Obviously military expenditure is a problem, but so are effective corporate tax rates of 2% and the 0.01% storing vast sums of wealth in brokerage accounts.
"There is no reduction in public service capability by the rich having vast sums of money 'offshore'. "

There is a reduction. The U.S. government runs at a deficit. Thus money is borrowed and thus interest is paid on the borrowings. This reduces public service capability since the government's borrowing capacity is finite. Plus this borrowing is in some sense a robbing of future generations.

There has never been a time in the last 150 years in which unemployment was 0%. What does having a percent of the population unemployed have to do with neo-liberalism?
Ah, the joy of telling someone to hold down Command+Alt+O+F while booting just to eject their CD... (weirdly enough the most frequent Open Firmware use case on Macs)
Not the OP but I can do it too. It's all timing for me. When you flip the coin it spins at a determined rate. If you practice, you can time catching it. It's surprisingly not so difficult.
Ah, good to know. I haven't touched R in a while.

Does tidyverse fix up the mess that is string handling in R?
Consumption through spending is economically beneficial to everyone. You misunderstand what 'trickle down economics' is.
I think there were talking more about the velocity of money than trickle down. If money is in the market and it sits, there is no taxation on it (yet). If they buy a car, that money pays people and parts and taxes are paid. They spend what is left to other people who also pay taxes, etc. So money can be taxed multiple times as it powers the economy instead of sitting in an asset that is deferred.
The rich spend a lesser percentage of their revenue than the poor scroungers, your argument seems pretty flawed.
In Canada the engineering associations are self regulating bodies, that is, the associations serve a legal purpose because of the technical nature of engineering. The thinking is that Politicians don't have the technical background to regulate the profession and so having pronvincial bodies allows engineers to regulate themselves. Hence the ethics part
> because that tilts the economy towards producing goods and services that are wanted rather than those that are needed

Who has the authority to define what is needed?
Literal cash and similar assets are the only dead money in the economy.

Even low and zero interest savings accounts are used by banks to back loans.

So for example, when someone buys gold or bitcoin, they are isolating that money from the productive economy. When they buy a share of a business, they are participating in the financial backing of that business (they generally aren't actually directly contributing to the business, but the business can do some types of business against its value on the stock market).
Kaspersky defends its role in NSA breach
This is why you tell people about the consequences of no net neutrality.

Ask people if they like being more-or-less forced to use some companies over others, or if they like paying a premium for online gaming. Ask people how they'd feel if Optimum decided to slow down traffic to Fox News if Fox News released a story unfavorable to Optimum. Ask people how they'd feel if a startup that intended to compete with Netflix was effectively shut out of the market by deals like theirs with TMobile.

Better yet, show them an image of internet packages ala cable. That'll make them change their tune.
Does anyone know what analysis or prover they use to discharge proof obligations? I poked around the .md files in the repository, but I haven't seen this addressed anywhere. I'm not (yet) motivated to dig into the actual source...
Works fine in Reader mode for me.
A Mobile Malware Can Root Mobile Device
can you elaborate on `using .loc[]` -- what is the defective approach it replaces?
I am an AI researcher and faculty member at a large and famous university. I probably know less math than that Reddit poster. Math is important if you are specifically interested in the math of AI. If you are interested in inventing algorithms and solutions you mostly don't need the math.
I remember this one being bundled on the cover CD of one of the Amiga mags 20 years ago. Watching it blew me away at the time :)

Pouet: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=14015
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmly5dpEpvc
Do you care to elaborate? What do you see missing, what should be improved?
Reverse anecdote:

I can get my three monitors to work under Linux (trivially, actually), but I can't under Windows, and not for a lack of trying.

Under Windows I can decide which one gets turned off, but running all three is somehow denied. This, of course, with recent drivers straight from the manufacturer (AMD).

Baffling.
You can become a software PE in the United States, but it is absolutely a racket. One of the requirements for a PE is you need to work for another PE. This leads to a situation where new exams, like the software discipline, have 20 people sit for an exam in one year. The transportation discipline had 1,800.
With Windows 10 I just have this unshakeable feeling that Microsoft has closed the loop on their partnership with our corrupt government on spying on all of us all the time. Fuck that noise.
I'm less certain older people have such a big chunk of income (from labour, at least). A lot of wealth is tied up in real estate and pensions. Not everybody climbs all the way up the pyramid to make the big bucks; but people do accumulate assets.
Okay, if that is the case, illumos and therefore SmartOS has long had stable Infiniband and MPI support and coming from Solaris is famous for his excellent scalability on very large number of processors, as well as long tradition of HPC. Why isn’t it used for HPC then?
I think it is a mistake to think that ageism only describes a preference for young over old. The exact opposite has been/is the case for many industries in many countries.

Ageism is bad, regardless of age.
> This sort of mythology is NOT helping. An experienced Software Engineer has valuable skills that do not age at all.

Not only is the claim "now it’s five years at most, and, for a software engineer, less than three" an unhelpful mythology, it's laughably incorrect to the point that I can't imagine anyone knowledgable espousing the view with a straight face.

It stems from, on the one hand, "software as popular culture," which is a great way to choose bad tools, and, on the other, the conflation of surface knowledge (the syntax of a new language, the API of a new hot library, etc) with deep knowledge (design principles that transcend language, the ability to evaluate a library based on those principle, etc).
I think it is a combination of people expecting to move up financially over time, and wanting to keep as large a gap as possible between themselves and the next rung down on the financial ladder.
Yes, I thought my agreement was clear in my previous comment. Companies shouldn't be using 'engineer' in the job title unless they're hiring a P.Eng.
Right, those examples albeit being good to convince a kid to into 5 yrs college are rarely the reality in the IT business. Quality has a price that most of the companies are not willing to pay and might as well detract'em from tapping into a new market.
Hacking the Nazis
This isn't false optimism. It's a surprisingly accurate self-assessment.

It turns out that 12 percent of the population will find themselves in the top 1 percent of the income distribution for at least one year. What’s more, 39 percent of Americans will spend a year in the top 5 percent of the income distribution, 56 percent will find themselves in the top 10 percent, and a whopping 73 percent will spend a year in the top 20 percent of the income distribution.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/20/opinion/sunday/from-rags-...
TIL I can say "I work as an attorney at X company" even if I never went to law school, as long as that's my job title. Hint: I can't.
I also avoid buying stuff that takes mains voltage. But is the risk that they'll "explode into flames" a real concern? All house fires I seem to read about are a result of other factors (stove burners not closed, heating devices near flammable stuff, etc).
Ethics exams are the stupidest kinds of exam. If you have no ethics, you'd have no problem and cheating to pass.
Regardless, it's an interesting theory that I hadn't considered before. It's harder to imagine how that would work, but not inconceivable.
I wasn't drawing a caricature. I asked a question about wealth concentration. How about answering it? Is there a level of wealth concentration that is immoral or unfair? I believe so. I think it is the case that 500 people control more wealth than the bottom 3.5 billion. That seems absurd to me. The free market is not a great mechanism for controlling such an outcome given that we are in a situation of extreme wealth inequality. The distribution of wealth in the world is grossly unfair. And yes I'm in the part where my wealth is grossly unfair in comparison to the bottom 50%.
Right, so tell it not to install the recommended packages, like I said.
> One of the requirements for a PE is you need to work for another PE.

That's also a requirement in Canada (Ontario at least). Work experience has to be completed while working under a P.Eng.
Kim Kardashian’s Screenshop Is a “Shazam for Fashion”
On Windows, PowerShell vs. Bash comparison gets interesting
You won't like the answer.

Bribery works for most people, but is often much more subtle than simple quid pro quo. Things like offering a child of bribee business deals, etc. Jack Abramoff has talked about this pretty openly since his conviction.

Now, when bribery doesn't work, it gets darker. Blackmail, extortion, threats against family members, and worse.

I'll leave it there for now, but in general most people in DC seem to just be thinking "I'm gonna get mine for me and my family, fuck everyone else."
This is a problem I have with this sort of journalism. In the big picture, the prevalence of the effect is low, and so we do not have to throw away all of reproductive and evolutionary biology as a consequence, but that is exactly what creationists will claim.
The police obviously are not tasked out with dealing violence. They stop violence and are certainly capable of defending themselves when necessary. In the US this line between defense and aggression is becoming blurred, but that's more of a deterioration of a society than the actual role of police.

And that blurring supports the point. As police face more regular violence, they themselves tend to become more violent, leading to even more violence against them, and vice versa. In countries where the police face no violence, they often are not even armed. Take for instance Iceland which may have an even greater percent of their population armed than the US (our per capita ownership rate is so high because many gun owners own many guns) - yet their police are unarmed. 2013 was a sad year for Iceland. It was the first year that their police fired a gun at a civilian, ever [1].

It always leads to sort of 'which came first the chicken or the egg' type question, but the point is absolutely clear that intolerance breeds intolerance in much the same way that violence breeds violence. And it's quite sad watching people fall into this. People don't seem to understand that nearly all the evil in this world is and has been done by people who felt they were the 'good guys.' "No no, it's different this time. We really are the good guys! History will prove us right!" Said everybody, ever.

[1] - https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2013/1203/Lots-of-gun...
Does reward 100000 mean 100k$ in bounty?
19% of Americans think they are among the top 1% of earners and 20% more think they will be one day

You attribute that to false optimism, but where's the actual evidence?

Here's a more recent article, backed by empirical studies (you can buy the books if you wan't to): https://www.aei.org/publication/evidence-shows-significant-i... .

And the standard point that Thomas Sowell has been making for decades:

An absolute majority of the people who were in the bottom 20 percent in 1975 have also been in the top 20 percent at some time since then.
Great points, plus from the puff readme: "In Rust, integer overflow is checked at run time in debug mode and silently ignored in release mode by default, as the run time performance penalty was deemed too great.". With puff, it's statically checked. I haven't delved into puff's details, but to support as many environment as possible in an easy way today, a DSL generating C seems a pragmatic decision.
Yes, the 'refresh Windows' feature actually reinstalls from the image OEM provided, which contains all the bloatware. You need to create a fresh install media from Microsoft (their media creation tool) and reinstall from DVD and delete the OEM recovery partitions to finally be rid of them.
> First, ageism is not just a SV phenomenon. For example, see the White House aides in Clinton, Bush, & Obama administrations.

And the office of the president itself. The minimum age is 35.
Star Voyage (Viz)
Sweet, now I can wait outside my gate until:

- Internet connectivity is restored via my ISP.

- My phone charges so I can send an email.

- My mail relay unclogs/restarts/gets fixed.

But seriously, it is pretty neat as a proof of concept!

I just wouldn't want to spend a lot of time counting on something like this. I've bloodied my fingers trying to pull out the cotter pin on the ranch gate where I used to work plenty of times, because the RF opener wasn't working.
>It also clearly shows that Javascript is not the mess that it looks like from a beginner's perspective.

Let's agree to disagree. I suspect your bar is too low. You could have made that argument for early versions of PHP (i.e. before 5)
I'm 31 and I've been hacking software professionally for 15 years. I've debugged issues in the last month that I couldn't have done 5 years ago with 10 years experience, let alone when I was 21. As I grow more experienced my responsibilities increase in both breadth and depth.
Can someone explain what having RISC-V support in the kernel means for Linux OSes ?

Also, how is this different to: https://wiki.debian.org/RISC-V ?
Building bridges and providing healthcare takes real resources, not just money. Real resources are of course scarce but money to the US government isn't.

This is why it doesn't matter (to the government-owned bridges at least) what some number in a brokerage account shows.
It’s clear now that most US representatives have been bought by one special interest or another. Until the people demand laws outlawing political contributions from organizations and companies this will only get worse.
FWIW, Windows has problems with 4K screens, too. Most apps work fine, some display at the size of a postage stamp.
There is truth to the centralization issue in education, we see more and more deals being done at 100k levels. Makes the current way of doing business on smaller language markets obsolete, I'm not sure it's for the better.
> Would need some way to get through NAT, at least here.

And you need to setup DynDNS or similar.

Having a persistent IMAP connection sounds much less troublesome to me.
Remember “net neutrality” is 800 pages of regulations, most of which enable spying and internet censorship... but was sold as “net neutrality” to quell protest.

Regulations are always sold as protecting consumers but rarely work out that way- the telco and cable monopolies we have now are the product of regulation.

In other words this is regulation that promises to fix the “unintended” consequences of earlier regulation.

But those consequences were intended by the companies that benefit from regulation.
What type of coin are we talking about?

A coin with rounded edges won't land on its edge 1 out of 6000 tosses. A coin with a flat edge that is thicker than either of its faces (or just thick in general; doesn't have to be thicker than the faces) will land on its edge a great deal more often.

Also, a coin with a heavier "tails" side will more often land on heads in a spin.

I guess I should read the paper. Maybe it clarifies.
And hardware support does not only mean that it "somehow" works, but that the hardware vendor and the operating system vendor have certified this combination and will support you with all your problems for many many years.

Edit: support as in commercial support with SLA etc
We're google, we can pick any name we want, even if a very similar project is already using it.
https://www.netbsd.org/docs/puffs/
Knowing programmers, it's probably an absolutely irresistible concept that the provider for a given language must be easy (in the Hickey-ian sense) to write entirely in that language.
Yes. https://www.google.com/about/appsecurity/chrome-rewards/

> We have a standing $100,000 reward for participants that can compromise a Chromebook or Chromebox with device persistence in guest mode
I've had this same experience on Windows laptops. In my case, it was that the touchpad was too sensitive, so it was sensing my (rather hot, generally) hands hovering just over it while I was typing, and misreading them as touch events.
Yes: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=766253...
Overlock – IoT Exception Tracking
Without expressing an opinion one way or the other, the reason is very simple to explain. Taxes are seen as taking something away from you. Benefits by contrast are something that somebody else is giving to you. Having less taken away from you is going to be seen as less of an issue than somebody else taking more from other people than they 'deserve.'

There's plenty of lost nuance in this view, but if you try to empathize with people who feel this way - it's not hard.
Xamarin Forms on the Web
> I still don't get it. We could create a parser framework that allowed a client to get some sort of generic AST and reference graph - which would enable all the use-cases of language servers but would also allow more use-cases in the future (e.g. IntelliJ-style inspections or language-aware diffs).

The point is to move the use-cases to the server/protocol to avoid the "(m languages) x (n IDEs)" problem. The protocol is at https://github.com/Microsoft/language-server-protocol with contribution guidelines so it should "allow more use-cases in the future".

> Instead, the standard requires running half a dozen processes with an API that doesn't provide anything except the exact data required for a number of handpicked use-cases.

Why half a dozen? Two seem enough (IDE + language server). It's also the minimum given that IDEs are using different languages/runtimes and that lot of languages have most of their tooling written in the targeted language.
Broken for me too, I just get everything up to the first big image.
Hmmm I think I read the same story 20 years ago.
> total damages claimed could reach $10 billion or more, especially if the big energy and oil companies—whose presence in one section of West Houston gave it the nickname the Energy Corridor—sue over their flooded headquarters.

the irony that the home neighborhood of many of the worlds largest oil companies would want to sue because the global warming they're at the core of causing contributed towards the damage of their own buildings.
the young have student loans, but the old don't have, say, mortgages or medical bills?
I'd really like to jump on the RISC-V bandwagon. Does anyone have any recommendations for hardware that would be .. somewhat .. future-proof for hacking/experimenting on this platform? I'd love to have a board or two akin to the rPi-Zero in form-factor, if such a thing were available ..
Any particular reason that the regs just require and air gap and not a solid insulation barrier?
I wish Douglas Crockford would update his great "JavaScript: The Good Parts". It's still great and aged okayish, but doesn't cover ES2015+.
Because of one man: Donald Becker. At the beginning of the commodity super computer era Donald did an absolutely amazing job squeezing out every last bit of performance from commodity networking hardware for 'Beowulf' style clusters.

This gave Linux a head start and the self-reinforcing effects of such a head start did the rest, it made answering the question 'for which OS should we start writing drivers?' for specialty HPC hardware a no-brainer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Becker
Could it be because older people are also going to be much more unwilling to try something new ? Noophilia seems to be a feature of youth.
Hot drinks probably cause cancer, warns World Health Organisation (2016)
Creating a filesystem in user-space is “very similar”? I mean, they both involve files but…

http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?puffs+4.i386+NetBSD-7.1
Since the status log includes the patch request and news about it, I think none. It seems originated from the combined efforts of the RISC-V community at large and supported by the distribution.

Pull request: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1711.1/04263.html
Where is the latest response to this being coordinated?
Because in general the rich are a net gain to society.
Is anyone working on this? Also, can anyone recommend a site that compares various router firmware?
What a weirdly nice pick-me-up of a headline in this day and age here.

Thoughts and prayers to the homeowners