skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>there is a lot of real-world variables missing from this

The most real world variable missing is taxes. In short coins held less than a year can be taxed at a 39% rate on the high end and a trade on a coin held more than a year is 20% (again on the high end). Even those numbers vary on the traders tax bracket (income).

It is significant, especially when you don’t know and the IRS audits you adding late fees, penalties and maybe legal fees.
I built a new PC in 2007, bought Vista Ultimate OEM, installed it and added all patches up to that point. Two things became immediately obvious:

- As others have pointed out, UAC was way too active. Just about any application you cared to launch required permission dialogs to be clicked through - irritating to everybody, scary to most users, and quickly ineffective as everybody stopped reading and just reflexively went for the OK button.

- Lots of legacy applications broke for the most trivial of reasons: they were written to store configuration and other data in their installation directory, which defaulted to "C:\Program Files". This worked fine on Windows 9x, which by default allows user-owned processes to do just about anything, but not on NT, where writing to Program Files requires elevation.

So new Vista owners would click through a bunch of obnoxious UAC popups to install their favorite Windows applications, click through more UAC popups to launch them, and then watch them crash or mysteriously lose all their data.

You got extra loser points if you went for the shiny new 64 bit version, in which case your legacy 32 bit application installer was more than likely to try its luck with "Program Files" instead of "Program Files (x86)". Would it really have been so terrible to leave the old directory alone and call the new one "Program Files (x64)"?

None of this was terribly hard to fix if the application was still supported, but it did require the user to upgrade, often at a cost. Worse, if you were a small indie developer, releasing an upgrade now pretty much required buying an expensive certificate to sign it, lest UAC keep warning your users that they were launching an untrusted file from the scary internet. So lots of small free- and shareware apps which people loved were abandoned, undoing part of the Windows platform's greatest advantage: its large library of existing applications.
Also labor pool is shrinking because more people are put in prison over nothing (while white rich people continue to get away with almost anything).
Every software developer who's sent test notifications out to real users by mistake in the past (that is: all of us) is cringing in sympathy for the state of Hawaii's IT department right now.
Do you have a delay in your prices? Where are you getting them from? People will watch the trends from gdax to cheat. I had that problem with my game. I wonder how to fix it.
What do you mean by idle investments? land is presumably rented out to farmers so its not idle
"[...]Mr. Bezos has become a bête noire for President Trump, who repeatedly singles out him and Amazon for scorn on Twitter."

Smarter, more creative, and richer. I'm sure that rankles. And anyone with a project like Blue Origin gets an entire colony-of-orangutans-thumbs up.
> make sure you have a real programming language development environment on any laptop you bring with you

Or just write Javascript and execute it on your browser.
The Leverage dropdown? I'm not sure what that is, but I've tried all four values (1, 2, 5, 10) and they all produce the same bug for me.
8 Queen Problem in Chess
Not sure about "80's and 90's" zines, but PoC||GTFO is a really good one.
H&M in South Africa Left in Ruins Following Protest
I wonder how many people shot themselves after reading that...
> "The headline basically implies "total fossil fuel generation has stopped growing, while renewables have grown substantially," which is both accurate and interesting."

It's not accurate, it's bullshit. Look at the graph here, which is based on the official US government figures:

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=31892

Does it look like fossil fuel usage is slowing down to you?
Even at 1x, the bug is present. Even still, 10x should give me $21.00, right?
I live in India, so I can give a bit of overview. I don't have sources right now, but I have experience.

You can roughly divide India into two parts, the British controlled, and the non-British controlled, based on the pre-independence situation.

The british controlled areas, mainly the northern states like UP, bihar, bengal have huge number of poor families. UP has too many people, and most of them are poor.

The non British controlled ares, like Maharashtra and some southern states, are generally a bit better off, and here is where you find most rich and middle class.

The central states are riddled with decades old insurgency, which could be solved using military, but govt doesn't want to use military on it's own people. These areas contain tribal people, and they are very poor.

Now, all this is not a perfect science, but this is how it generally is. Now when a foreigner visits India, he/she might visit places like Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, maybe North eastern Himalayan areas, Goa and some beaches in Lakshadweep. The image you get is that of extremely rich people and extremely poor people, along with a lot of middle-class people living in these cities.

But outside these cities, when you go to central India(you won't, as rebels will kidnap you), you can see extreme poverty. Same with other non-tourist areas.
There is a safety net here, if for example you get homeless after working or are disabled. There is no such thing in India. Sure you can have an employee contributed benefits plan(if you are lucky to have one of those employers). If you became poor after 20 years of working you are in the same boat as some poor kid teen who was born on the street.
Did you forget to write it down, or did you write it down wrong? Depending on your answer, you may be able to recover it.
Rust Enhanced reaches 50k downloads
> What apps do I have? Aha! PowerShell.

Yep. And a browser that will execute any javascript at breakneck speed.
>whose core business is profiling people to package and sell them

Do you have any proof of this statement?

Google is an advertising company. It doesn't make any sense that they would sell your information to other advertising companies.

Not only does that violate their privacy policy, but it makes no business sense, either.
Sncli – Simplenote Command Line Interface
This is actually really well written. I learned a few things about the history that I've always been wondering (CommonJS, etc)
>Religion, in general, is about helping individuals become "better" people.

Humans don’t need a religion to become better.

Religions exist only to demand and collect money and to grow ever larger.

>this comes down to encouraging the development of attributes like love, compassion, empathy, hope, virtue, integrity, honesty, knowledge, patience, humility,

Religion has no monopoly in these attributes, and indeed isn’t the source of them either.
They threw me in jail for defending a child against his axe wielding dad!
Got woken up by a "Ballistic missile to Hawaii" emergency cell broadcast. Groggily swiped the screen so it disappeared... Googled for 30 minutes how to see past emergency broadcasts and whether or not we're all going to die...

Outcomes:

1 - Quite a shitty UI for something so important.

2 - Someone is going to get fired...
What do you propose using instead?
These flying robots self-assemble in flight
>Google with Android

A lot of the bloat on Android phones I see is from Google, apps you can't uninstall without hacking. My Huawei had a few apps from the manufacturer, but they were removable - there's just under 20 Google Apps that came preinstalled many [most?] of which can't be removed.
Apparently the state is working on it. https://twitter.com/nktpnd/status/952247826557390854
If I explain the technical stuff to another programmer, spot on indeed.

Managers who don't know what a variable is, SQL or TCP or a while loop or whatever, in my experience it is just that: dumb questions.
It s only a game after all.
> The bad thing was that it was annoying to find and download new versions of libraries every time they would update.

This goes back to one of the key complaints about front-end culture, though. Exactly how often should this be a problem? Seems to me that actual library code should be stable and updates would be on an infrequent basis.

One general response is "well, this is what happens when you don't have a solid/broad standard library," and that's one of the complaints about JS that kindof sticks for me, but if that were what this was all about, I might expect to see a handful of standard libraries pop up over time and stabilize instead of a fine-grained and deep transience-ridden dependency tree that requires a package manager...
It's unclear if decommissioning costs are properly priced.

Also there hasn't been a lot of success with building any modern plants (technical issues and massive cost overrun, check the "Technical overview" section of the wiki page).
Something's terribly wrong with the hiring if managers for a tech team are that clueless about tech, though.
With Chrome you face the inherent untrustworthiness of nonfree software. Chrome users always trust Google. No set of preference changes or add-ons makes Chrome safe from Google's power over your data or your computer. This strikes me as a fundamentally worse position for any Chrome user.
Those photos are absolutely gorgeous. If anyone's hoping for TLDR, the article is mostly incredible photos: go take a look.
The phrasing on the latter half seems likely to cause a big mess of an argument, despite its statistical accuracy. Is there a better way to put it?
That’s a fair bit smaller than I’d expect honestly. I’m surprised it’s not using more than that with the basic apps installed.
> The point they're making ML practicioners acceptable at every task. You learn ML and you can have great indexes for your databases, inverse kinematics, cancer treatments, and youtube movie generation that actually gets views, all using the same theory.

Just to make sure I'm understanding you right - the claim is that you want an ML person on your team (or you want everyone on your team to know ML the way that everyone on your team knows calculus and Shakespeare, i.e., so they can brush up on it as needed), not that human domain knowledge in ML replaces human domain knowledge of what a database does, or what inverse kinematics is, or how to measure cancer, or how to film movies or draw animations, right?

The latter is definitely a potential future, but I don't think we're there yet (but I might be wrong!).
I believe the main issues was that Vista needed decent hardware at the time. Many people were buying lower end PC’s at the time and they seemed slower than their older XP based PC’s. However, it seemed to me that Vista SP1 fixed a lot of the issues with the original release and worked very well.
It is when a conservative view-du-jour is "Your coworkers are no longer allowed to work here because they come from the wrong countries," as per the peacetime travel ban supported by the current executive administration.
Isn't it obvious? Avoiding just-so stories about visualizations
Sending this message was a serious mistake. But not being able to send the correcting message immediately is a real failure. It clearly shows the systems is not only properly controlled, but also not working correctly.
Taking a look at python-afl: Fuzzing Python programs with afl
How to Decompose a System into Modules
Doesn't that seem extremely small?
Yeah, I tried that, but the mobile version of website refuses to proceed without GPS.
Probably you are wanting more than what you give and looking for external reasons. This thread has a lot of potential to go "very badly" again.
There's a labor shortage of people who are going to do the tedious work. The good factory job in part requires a dependable worker. In many places, that dependable worker is hard to find and factories are switching to robots (e.g. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/rise-of-the-machines... )

> The robots were coming in not to replace humans, and not just as a way to modernize, but also because reliable humans had become so hard to find. It was part of a labor shortage spreading across America, one that economists said is stemming from so many things at once. A low unemployment rate. The retirement of baby boomers. A younger generation that doesn’t want factory jobs. And, more and more, a workforce in declining health: because of alcohol, because of despair and depression, because of a spike in the use of opioids and other drugs.

> ...

> Companies now could pick between two versions of the American worker — humans and robots. And at Tenere Inc., where 132 jobs were unfilled on the week the robots arrived, the balance was beginning to shift.

> ...

> After an hour the workers were heading back to their cars, one saying that everything “sounds okay,” another saying the “pay sucks.” Bader guessed that two of the four “wouldn’t last a week,” because often, he said, he knew within minutes who would last. People who said they couldn’t work Saturdays. People who couldn’t work early mornings. This was the mystery for him: So many people showing up, saying they were worried about rent or bills or supporting children, and yet they couldn’t hold down a job that could help them.

This extends to farms (who often prefer immigrants because they're ok with working with large animals). For a bit on the labor storage in Wisconsin: http://host.madison.com/wsj/business/wisconsin-businesses-gr...

On the other hand, you've got an ex-convict. Many of them are people who have messed up somewhere in the past and don't want to go back.

I am in Wisconsin (and work in the public sector), so this is something I'm a bit more familiar with than other states... and also happens to be the subject of the article... http://buybsi.com/images/PDF/MapofIndustries.pdf - note that three of the facilities are teaching farm skills.

Tying the two articles together - the work release are people that you're sure are going to show up and are going to be drug free. They're not going to stop at the bar on the way home and come into work the next day with a massive hangover.

And when they get out... they are often good workers. https://www.npr.org/2016/04/22/475228335/do-felons-make-good... ... and there's something for the employer too - a tax credit. https://dwd.wisconsin.gov/jobservice/taxcredit/wotc.htm
From what I was told when applying for an avowed job at HMGCC for a Job requiring DV (TS) clearance you seem to require as much if not more FTF interview time.
For people with certain medical conditions this might not be just an ordinary mistake, but something that actually shortened their lifespan.
As I see it, managers need to be at the service of their team. But a lot of managers think their team is at the service of them.
Fixing Camera Shake on Single Precision GPUs
This is the impression that most people end up with, but it's not really like shaders at all. My understanding is limited, but it seems the microcode serves a somewhat limited role in the graphics pipeline, something along the lines of decoding data and controlling hardware registers.
It's proper to flout invalid requests.
Algorithm Animator for JavaScript
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

Just a nit, we said [1] that not only are our own applications in production doing fine (even against Variant 2) but also we haven’t been inundated with support calls over the last few months while mitigations were silently rolled out at the host kernel and hypervisor layer. So this class of “Hey, my instances are suddenly way slower, I didn’t do anything” isn’t happening on GCE.

That does not mean that if you perform guest OS updates, don’t have PCID enabled, etc. that you won’t see a degradation. We certainly haven’t tried all permutations of all guests, and the kernel patches are still improving. That’s why we’re actively trying to get everyone to rally behind retpoline, KPTI (with PCID enabled), and so on.

[1] https://www.blog.google/topics/google-cloud/protecting-our-g...
I am building https://www.leads-daily.com so freelancers can focus on their professional work instead of finding clients.
I would have but I was half asleep when I first posted that. Luckily someone else came along and labeled them in a reply. :-)
Why This Flu Season Is So Nasty
Many exchanges keep soft balances as far as I know so coins don't move until you attempt to withdraw. This prevents slow transaction times & high fees.
The same infra could be managed by a single guy if it were in the cloud.
I have an engineering friend who went to prison twice a couple of years ago and he's making 200k now.
I'll add another vote for course.fast.ai since I'm currently working through it. The instructors are serious about delivering a practical course that will get you right into the process of training and playing around with the code. Also, one of the best parts of their courses (they're offering a few simultaneously) is the community of learners that hang around on the forums.
Very good synthesis !
Whatever everyone'd wanna say or think about JS, it's hard to be in web development and not ear the bells. Better know what you ear and what's'all about :)

I still have a tickle, you conclude with 3 so-called "modern features" from JS ... Both the 3 thing you quote come from Clojure and amazing work from google nerdz, and was ported to JS later :p
Economists consider unemployment around 5% as "full employment".

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

Hitting that is one way of measuring whether there is a labor shortage. At the moment it does happen to coincide with wage growth (which should be higher when it is more difficult to hire people).
Also helps that the remaining article isn't just filler-text to hide that one actually interesting fact under and instead consists of interesting facts in every sentence.
Nuclear isn't the only option for replacing base load production. Natural gas and renewables+pumped hydro are also good options. Though none of them are popular.
We're definitely not there yet. Right now it's just one domain after another (slowly) getting replaced by ML.

It'll expand though.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a virus full of RNA.
With the staggering drop in the cost of renewables and grid-battery storage I just don't see how nuclear has a bright future in any regard.

They're unbelievably capital intensive and have a mean construction time of 7.5 years [0]. I'm from the UK so it's easy to point to Hinkley Point C as an example of this. It's been in planning for a decade and certainly won't be in operation for a similar amount of time, and the currently proposed strike price is around £90/MWh, compared to the ~£60/MWh we've seen from offshore wind projects. Let alone mentioning those have the advantage of being independently deployable with how developers can generate income on a per-turbine basis rather than waiting for the entire farm to be constructed.

And while nuclear is certainly much less CO2 intensive than any fossil-fuel source even a pro-nuclear body's publication shows that wind produces approximately as much CO2/GWh over an installations lifetime as nuclear does [1].

[0] http://euanmearns.com/how-long-does-it-take-to-build-a-nucle...
[1] http://www.world-nuclear.org/uploadedFiles/org/WNA/Publicati... section 4
It was possible: "Being IBM PC/XT compatible and running MS-DOS 5.0 from ROM, the HP 200LX can run virtually any program that would run on a full-size PC compatible computer as long as the code is written for the Intel 8086, 8088 or 80186 CPU and can run using CGA graphics. It can also run programs written for the 80286 CPU, provided they do not require the use of protected mode.":

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_200LX
yarn.
Anyone know if other cell phone vendors publish a document like this?
Why would I ever fucking want to do that "give companies other than their bank or building society permission to securely access their accounts."
Is this fix the KAISER fix that is mentioned in the Meltdown paper? That sounded like it removed the kernel from processes address space, where did it go?
Besides all the points you elaborated, I think even from labor perspective it is cheaper for me to cook in sense I would not get paid my professional or any wage for that matter beyond 8-10 hrs of work. Same as being chauffeured around would be cheaper if I get paid full wage even when driving.
A wonderful complement (albeit with significant overlap) is Charles Petzold's Code. It's written as prose so doesn't include exercises but the book is infused throughout with the mastery attained by its author. His synthesis of different ideas and the historical context he provides give a very nice perspective on computing. While nand2tetris makes for a good textbook to work through, Code makes for a better subway read.
It's not what GP was referring to, but... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Server
Actual wording received on a mobile phone:

> BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL

Correction message:

>There is no missile threat or danger to the State of Hawaii. Repeat. False Alarm.
Man Arrested for 'Swatting' Call That Led to Murder Charged with Manslaughter
Could you please add (PDF) to the title? Didn't HN used to do this automatically? Or did the trailing "?" in the URL break that functionality?
AWS Advocates Eventual Consistency, and I believe offers less than 3 nines guaranteed uptime on many products.

We've been taught to build distributed system with unreliable componens and temporaral JIT eventual consistency.

Of course we can run production cloud-scale operations on unreliable systems. And single power supplies without ECC or RAID is pretty low on my list of things that cause outages. Most big hadoop/cassandra shops are running without raid and without redundant power.
Open office designs kill me worse than teamwork. It feels like I'm being bombarded with senses that I have to tune out to be productive but can only do that for a portion of the time.
Submitter here. Thanks. I regret editing the headline.
Yeh right then why cant Bedford send test results to Lister (Stevenage) 40 miles away at one point I was supposed to spend an entire day (by ambulance) going to Stevenage for 10 mins to have some bloods done then go back 3 days later for my outpatient clinic :-)
The entire world is to your west, including you.
Samsung: http://www.samsung.com/my/business-images/resource/white-pap...
Andrew Sullivan: It’s Time to Resist the Excesses of #MeToo
The 80186 was completely compatible to its predecessor. It's just that there weren't many IBM-compatible PCs which featured an 80186.
The image of a LED used in assignment 0 has 2 pins. That is why I put those links. But I am not totally sure, I could not find any specification.
Presumably you value your marginal hour of free time at more than what you could earn driving an Uber/doing Taskrabbit/doing a side hustle instead.
Most titles use one of the standard Nintendo-provided microcodes for the RSP (Reality Signal Processor, the programmable part of the graphics chip).

F3DEX2 ("Fast 3D, Extended, Version 2") is one of the well-documented ones and one of the ones used by most games. You can find a breakdown of the command stream here: https://wiki.cloudmodding.com/oot/F3DZEX

This viewer is actually an .obj model viewer, and has nothing to do with that. For something that's actually an F3DEX viewer online, I wrote https://magcius.github.io/model-viewer/#zelview/data/zelview...
OpenEBS – containerized storage for containers
> we already have 'human' level AI

And you're able to say that with a straight face?
A False Alarm “Ballistic Missile Threat” Message Was Sent to Hawaii Residents