skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The RM Nimbus was 186-based (https://www.thenimbus.co.uk/range-of-nimbus-computers/PC-186) -- UK people might remember it as it was pretty popular in schools in the late 80s/early 90s. It wasn't fully PC compatible though.
Swordfish biplane production started in the early 1930s, about 15 years after WWI, and carried a torpedo between the undercarriage legs.

Here's a picture of what a Swordfish torpedo looks like, before it's mounted: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205146243 (dated 20 October 1942).

Here's a picture of a Swordfish flying while carrying a torpedo: https://www.navywings.org.uk/aircraft/twin-aircraft/swordfis... .
Who buys a laptop with only 30 GB of storage? I didn’t even know that was possible these days. You should honestly tell your client to return it and buy something else.

For reference, absolute minimum requirements are 16 GB for 32 bit and 20 GB for 64 bit [1]. So in theory your client’s laptop should work, but it’d probably be a poor experience. (Likely also a bad experience with modern Linux on 30 GB.) Given that your client’s Windows 10 laptop has an “old OS” on it, I think there’s some info missing in this story. A fresh laptop shouldn’t have an old OS install on it. (Or maybe this is OEM recovery gunk?)

I just checked my laptop and the Windows folder is 18.7 GB. Did your client's laptop have a Windows.old folder taking a bunch of space? Large updates to Windows will create these. You can whack this if you need. [2] (Should also get deleted automatically after 10 days automatically.)

Disclosure: Microsoft employee

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-specifica...

[2] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4028075/windows-del...
Libraries in Solidity for code reusability and testing it
No, because you are forced to map language semantics into JavaScript semantics, which is not possible for all features on the source language.

WebAssembly is supposed to eventually turn the browser into a general purpose VM, with all the necessary features to enable whatever compiler one might desire to implement.
So many (all?) do this dumb thing on a page update where they write all black and all white several times then write the image. There can't be a good reason for that - they can also put up a dialog popup and erase it without all that drama! Its like they all took the demo driver and shipped it
Really? So that suggests enrolment in an 'Open Banking' app requires the same?

That's extremely disappointing...
Cool, I'll try that sometime. I'm traveling for the next couple of weeks, so it'll be too late to report back here, but thanks in advance.

I really wouldn't be bothered by occasional wakeups if it would go back to sleep afterwards...
This is a misleading headline. The article speaks of "net new," which is not the same as "new."

In point of fact, as the article says, slightly less than half of new utility scale power production came from renewables (12321 out of 25041 MW).
Can we name the links so that we know what each is? @mindcrime
Because they are a government agency that’s notorious for having rigid rules and moving slowly. I’m not defending their behavior, but that is the way it is - it’s not exactly surprising or shocking that they weren’t willing to budge on that.
Does it come as a replacement of old coal plants or does it add to existing plants?
https://reactjs.org/blog/2017/09/26/react-v16.0.html
Here is a better article, which is referenced in the original article:
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=34472#

It is titled "Nearly half of utility-scale capacity installed in 2017 came from renewables"
My biggest problem with Windows 10 right now is that with creators update, they basically decided to break scrolling on touchpads. Instead of smooth scrolling, you now move your fingers a bunch, then the whole screen shifts suddenly.

This completely breaks scrolling. My eyes can't properly follow that and the touch component is off: you move your fingers, nothing happens, then suddenly a lot. It's not continuous, which makes no sense for finger interaction.

Apparently it's because the app has to support the specific touch input events for scrolling and before creators update, they would simulate it. Now they don't. I really don't give a fuck for their reason if it means even scrolling in Explorer doesn't work anymore.
Probably, far less than coal or oil.

For coal we should look at all the health costs cause by mining and burning coal.

For oil we should not only look at the tax breaks the companies get but also how much of the military (percentage wise) exists to protect oil interests.

The health costs of the renewables are a lot less.
The full black/white is to "cleanse" --- since the material itself is stateful, pixels will drift slightly after several writes and cause ghosting/graininess if you don't eventually reset them all to a known state. It doesn't have to happen on every refresh, however.
There wasn't any real reason to use the 80186 in a PC; it was meant for embedded devices. The only major feature that it had was some additional hardware for timers and DMA built in. Everything else was (more or less) architecturally the same as the 8086.

Probably the last series of 80186 PCs ever made were HP's 100LX / 200LX, a palmtop DOS based PDA that was released in the mid-'90s IIRC. It was an amazing little gadget for its time.
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The 80186 was an 8086 integrated with some of the peripheral chips mainly used in embedded devices. You can still get some SBCs with 8018 compatible chips.
I don't think this is true; I come from a caste that is known for being scholars and hence had much better knowledge of imperialist languages (English, French, Urdu, etc.) than Brahmins since they traditional study Sanskrit and the Vedas. This allowed our caste to penetrate court & minister positions over the last millenium and surpass the wealth and power of the Brahmin community.

Even today our community is one of the strongest middle class communities in our region. This might not have happened in other regions, but at least in our region knowledge of languages help the community get embedded in the aristocracy and acquire wealth for generations.

Knowledge is power.
How would you say JS compares to python?

(asking as someone would never touched JS and for whom Python holds this "most convenient language" spot).
I don't know much. Just getting into FPGAs my self. But from my understanding you could swap out the crystal for a faster one. Most of the FPGA boards I am looking at only come with a 50mhz clock.

There is some complications around changing the clock. It seems to have to do with the complexity of the hdl you load into the FPGA. Many of the boards shipping with 50mhz crystal can easily do over 100mhz.
This has directly affected the ranking of Chile in a negative way, for at least 4 years.

The person who was in charge of the group responsible for the supposed "screw up", Augusto Lopez-Claros, is chilean.

Chile currently has a "socialist" female president that has been in government for almost 4 years, and is leaving on March. There were elections last year in Chile ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilean_general_election,_2017 ), and the opposition candidate, Sebastián Piñera, won against the continuity candidate. Part of his campaign was based on the idea that Chile could become a "Chilezuela" if his adversary won.
The 80286's I grew up using were between 4 and 12 MHz, depending on which model I was on and whether "Turbo" was enabled.

50 MHz is mid to low end 486 territory clock rate, which if it handles instructions as well (a big if) puts it squarely in the area of a lot of games.
From your link:

The 80186 would have been a natural successor to the 8086 in personal computers. However, because its integrated hardware was incompatible with the hardware used in the original IBM PC, the 80286 was used as the successor instead in the IBM PC/AT.

In other words, the few "PCs" which did use a 186 weren't fully PC-compatible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_ring says:

> Multiple rings of protection were among the most revolutionary concepts introduced by the Multics operating system, a highly secure predecessor of today's Unix family of operating systems. The GE 645 mainframe computer did not support rings in hardware, so Multics supported them by trapping ring transitions in software

That looks like a "yes."
>it's how articles are supposed to be written

It's how traditional straight news articles have historically been written in large part for practical reasons. Those reasons were particularly evident for wire service copy where the newspaper using the copy could pretty much cut off the article at any arbitrary point to fit it into whatever hole they had in their layout.

For feature articles and many magazine articles, there's no hard and fast journalism rule to use inverted pyramid and never has been.

You may prefer that everything be written with inverted pyramid and that is certainly your right--and there are often good reasons--but it's not the "right" way to do things.
Agreed. Link should be changed to reflect this.
Despite CES hype, self-driving cars are not for sale
Also of interest, total renewable additions are down in 2017, compared to 2016 (dropped from 17 to 12 GW), as is the percent of the additions (dropped from 62% to 49%).
As a person who did a lot of Deep Learning... learning in 2017, I think this was my favorite.

Fast.ai was fine, but I felt like most of my learning for the things I cared about came from reading research papers, watching Karpathy's CS231n lectures, and blog posts that went into detail on particular concepts.

But when at certain points I felt confused on certain concepts, Geron's book did a pretty good job explaining things slowly and in great detail, especially with respects to the code he wrote. It's still a book I'll pick up for 20-40 minutes every other day to help my mind recall about how something works.

Funnily enough, I've spent the last few months reading Sutton/Barto's Intro to Reinforcement Learning (along with Silver's lectures on DeepMind's YouTube Channel) and only realized Geron touches upon RL a little bit in the latter part of the ML book.
To me the most impressive is the sample in the "Sampling at square centre points and connecting points" section.
Cooking at home may seem "uneconomical", but directly interacting with the food you take in, act of cooking etc are valuable in qualitative way, which is hidden by economic reductionism.

I think E. F. Schumacher nailed it in his "Small is beautiful" and other works on how this reductionist view of analyzing behaviors/practices in terms of their to economic utility alone is the demon behind various problems of modernity
> military

Although, the USA is about 90% energy independent

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_energy_independe...
I disagree that it's misleading. Net new seems equivalent to "new capacity" to me.

The new non-renewable electric producers are mostly replacing retired fossil sources. I suspect a lot of the churn in fossil-based plants is from age as well as newer regulations.

I do hope they subtracted out whatever amount of renewables were turned down, but I suspect it likely wasn't much (but I lack data).
Part of a rocket crashes in China
Yeah but you are rolling the dice every time you eat from those roadside stalls. Most would never even have heard of food safety inspectors
> iOS does not have an equivalent to Android’s R class

I use R.Swift in every project for a while already. My template Podfile has it as well as a linter.

The mock generation tools look neat. Swift is a complicated language to write tests in as it stands now and using Objective-C limits the things you can do in swift.
Tencent: the $500B tech firm you may never have heard of
Usually system manufacturer's fault. A recent example where I work is Lenovo's recommended Intel wireless driver (the one on the Lenovo site) was over six months old and had known issues with causing machines to not be able to wake from suspend. Installing the drivers directly from Intel resolved the problem.

That's pretty much the best case scenario. A lot of chipmakers (Conexant, Jmicron, Intel in many cases) don't allow you to download drivers directly from them. So you are stuck with whatever the OEM provides. In some cases I've found that newer model laptops by the same OEM use the same audio/media controllers under the hood in some case and I can use the newer driver from the updated model.
> cooking has economies of scale and specialization, so it’s cheaper to cook for many families at once

But eating out also causes negative externalities because the incentives between restaurant and food consumer aren't properly aligned.

Restaurants have every incentive to offer cheap, unhealthy, but more addictive foods because the resulting health issues are externalized towards the buyer and to the rest of society.

It's this incentive structure that gives rise to Supersized sodas, unlimited breadsticks at Olive Garden, etc.

One way to look at it is that the industrialization of food production (including cooking) is better at moving atoms around and making whatever people choose to eat cheaper, but worse at managing the bits of information that help people make wise decisions on what they actually should be eating.

It's also harder to verify that you got what you paid for -- my family used to go to the market every weekend to stock up, and you become intimately familiar with what's in season, what is fresh, and what tastes good, but it's easy for a restaurant to buy cut-rate produce and then dress it up with seasoning and technique.
That's an interesting hypothesis about the economies of home cooked food. I'm not so sure about your conclusion though. Certainly there is no way I could purchase equivalent food that I cook for even a vastly inflated accounting of my own labour costs. I'm not entirely sure why that is, but here are some ideas:

Some food I cook has to be prepared fresh. This becomes a last mile problem, where to have someone else do it they must either already be in my home or travel to it when I want food. There is still a travel problem if we instead say that I have to go somewhere else to eat.

I do cook some food ahead of time (lunch, for example) which would be more feasible. But I still have some problems with this. One of which is customization -- allergies, food preferences etc are numerous and present infinite combinations. That kind of customization eats into economies of scale rapidly.

Freshness is still a problem here -- say you can make food for the next week ahead, but that still basically means the travel/shipping time from the point of 'manufacture' is limited to a few hours at best if refrigerated.

Another problem is it becomes much harder for me to verify what was put in the food. There are strong incentives for a third party to put preservatives, sugar and salt, or cheap substitute ingredients that I don't want. You can work to regulate something like that, but it's expensive to police products with such a short life span.

Maybe no one has tried hard enough to solve this yet, or there are big cultural obstacles, but I'm not convinced that there really are economies of scale here, even if you account for unpaid labour.

These are real economic costs to outsourcing food making. I would love to outsource it, but there just isn't a cost effective way of doing it. I suspect that if the economies of scale here were real someone would already be doing it on a large scale and making a lot of money.
Bloody horrible computers, those.
They didn't solve anything because there were no apps. Not then, not now. There was this new annoying and confusing default where you would fall from time to time, but no apps.
However, on one front they're incredibly bad. Renewables are usually just that : a piece of infrastructure that needs to be built and needs no fuel beyond it's environment.

In other words it's capital investment taking out operational expenses. It's capital investment reducing the size of the economy.

Or to put it very bluntly : it's free electricity for the rich, by making electricity for the poor more expensive (because the rich and companies will no longer share the burder of maintaining the electricity grid).

To add insult to injury, solar also doesn't require people, and wind only a bit more. All of them are far below what fossil fuels require on a per megawatt basis.

At least we can laugh a bit at the fact that this only cements the position of the very top of the wealthiest of our society: even though your landlord and your bank probably don't realize it, it will cost them income, indirectly, not just you.

And for added bonus points, we are judging renewables by how they affect the environment at minimal capacities. Now that's great and all, but renewables make electricity free.

Now here's fossil fuels: sun -> earth -> plants -> animals ... -> goto plants and loop a few 100 times -> get buried -> become coal/oil/gas/...

Here's renewables: sun -> earth -> technology XOR plants.

Currently that's 0.1% technology 99.9% plants.

So, tell me, what happens when the inevitable Jevon's paradox happens ? When we waste electricity like there's no tomorrow, and have a "renewables" everywhere. They'll still be renewable, of course. But it'll be 99.9% technology 0.1% plants. And no worries, I bet we'll have a few choice spots for the ultra-rich that are left green. Clinton's "public" library-style places. But not for you and me, as we can't own any of this.

And of course, when do we do this ? When we're about 50% through reasonably extractable fossil fuels. So how polluted is the world going to be with renewables ? Why exactly as polluted as without, as all available fossil fuels will be burned, and we weren't going to burn anymore than that, for obvious reasons.

So it could easily turn out that renewables do one thing, and one thing only: give humans a reason to claim every last square centimeter of the planet surface, with the potential exception of the poles (although just deprioritizing them could work too).

I mean, I like renewables in concept. But economically and from the perspective of inequality, they're disastrous. I'm not convinced that they're any good from an ecological standpoint either.

But yeah, they'll make the center of cities somewhat more livable for a decade or two, maybe more, while driving more people out. Generally making things more comfortable. And as SV'ers on a "barely livable" wage of 200k per year, that's all that really matters, isn't it ?
Government entities are fine for running utilities based on slow moving technologies (e.g. community sewer system). They would also be good for version 1 of your community internet service. But what about version 2? By the time the government is ready to roll out the version 2 internet backbone, it will be obsolete.
>Applications should just be folders that contain any resources the application requires that aren't in the base system (this requires a defined and stable base system)

You're basically describing OCI/docker/moby containers.
How do you figure that when 70% of traffic is streaming?
It looks like between 4 and 9 per treatment group, depending on the experiment.
Why would you call it silly? The headline basically implies "total fossil fuel generation has stopped growing, while renewables have grown substantially," which is both accurate and interesting. The fact that the coal/gas mix has shifted toward gas doesn't change the fact that total fossil-based generation capacity has basically leveled off.
I wonder if they are somehow following the trades of the best players on the real market.
Absolutely... the slight incompatibilities meant they had to have RM specific versions of software IIRC.
Theoretically, it isn't. In actuality, and in our experience, there are a lot of compliance standards where just saying "we're on AWS" gets you 90% of the way toward acceptance. Its mostly buzzword compliance.
Unchecked density isn't a good solution. You can find lots of examples of how that works out in places without zoning laws.
Reading uncached kernel data with meltdown
Indian startups form lobby group to persuade local government to act like China
There's a YC app for that:

https://www.70millionjobs.com/
> I was once Mark Zuckerberg’s mentor, but I have not been able to speak to him about this.

You have had time to write an oped, but not call the guy on an issue you claim to find hugely important?

This seems more like public posturing, and we're seen a lot of this lately in public letters to companies, published articles, and speeches.
The 80186 won't be able to play many games that you remember... it wasn't really PC compatible.
Because we come from the middle of Africa
You wouldn’t swap out the crystal, you’d use the internal PLLs to generate whatever clock you want. Much easier!

And you are essentially correct, there is a maximum clock speed for any design, and it has to do with how complex your design is. Essentially, what’s the longest path in your design? Your clock must be slow enough to allow a change to propagate through that path. Pipelining shortens this path by creating registers along it, which are clocked by your clock. When a register is clocked, it stores the value in its input side, and outputs that value on the output side.
I fought this battle with a 64GB SSD, and gave up and cloned the drive onto a hybrid SSD/7200RPM drive (using EaseUS). I can't imagine what you went through to get it to fit on 30GB!
with some kind of back-end access?
Open source software: Dual-licensing as a business model (2012)
What the existing screen scraper companies have done, is to make sure the psd2 directive will allow screen scraping as a fallback method if they are not satisfied with the bank API:s.

That's because the directive is actually a competitive disadvantage for them since they've invested a lot in the screen scraping.

The interpretation is not trivial though. The authentication details in particular are not very clear right now.
The point that ML practicioners are making is not that machine learning beats every other algorithm, or even that they beat humans at specific tasks.

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.

Like in the 1980s, that humans can assemble cars with a greater success rate than machines, and can fix the ones they don't assemble correctly, it didn't matter. Humans still beat machines at various metrics in car assembly.

That you can write a program do 1% better at a specific task than an algorithm that can solve every task won't matter.
> I’m far from expert on this but how long can India be considered a “developing” nation

Certainly as long as the Ganges is not safe for human bathing or anything because there's feces, animal carcasses and other waste openly floating around (e.g. https://www.ft.com/content/dadfae24-b23e-11e4-b380-00144feab...).

The problem with India seems to be that it's ultra polarized - you got the parts that have been launching rockets into space since 1975 (one even going to Mars), built nuclear weapons, use nuclear power... and you have the parts that have no roads, no sewage system, no nothing and which regularly make global headlines whenever a journalist goes off the big cities and travels into the deep rural areas and sees stuff that's unbelievable for him.
A bit further south, Yorkshire in England, but yea the language is the same there.
Cool results. Just want to point out that there's a time lag between "thoughts" and the appearance of a signal through fMRI, which explains why the image needed to be imagined for a long period of time (8 seconds).

Most thoughts are more fleeting than this, and couldn't be read with fMRI. So there's no need to get /too/ concerned about the privacy of our thoughts. Not yet :)

> Each imagery block consisted of a 4-s cue period, an 8-s imagery period, a 3-s evaluation period and a 1-s rest period.