skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am convinced of the future existence of MOOPs - massive online open psychology - where we aggregate the daily actions of millions (arguing with children, discussions with the boss, food choices etc) and look for patterns and better choices for each of us at the upcoming moment (Siri, what is the best way to tell
my wife her bum does look big in that, ... based on 500,000 similar conversations, the best 1% responses were when the phrase "xxx" was used)

This is feeling similar - that we need or want our virtual
environment to help us - in practise sessions as he seems to say, or in advice

It seems we want science, but at the level of our personal, everyday, choices. we want to trust our computing environments have our best interests at heart.

and that kind of means no commercial interests can be involved.
Anecdata: The two best[1] marathon runners I know mostly run with earbuds.

[1] One did 240+ in 2017; the other 120+. Both broke the relevant records.
Click the "Episode ___" link in the first paragraph, then search for "Direct mp3 download" on that page.

I'd love to see more details on what you do. I haven't found a good automated solution yet. It seems like the solutions with acceptable quality involve Mechanical Turk.

Edit: I added a Bing attempt, and I'll link the list, rather than individual eps: http://mefiwiki.com/wiki/Podcast#automated_transcripts
One early misconception I had about EM was that there were discrete 'lines' of force. I guess this either arose from iron filings experiments or from the way the diagrams of fields are (perhaps unavoidably) drawn. But now I know the fields are continuous.
As you say, rail systems aren't immune to weather.

But the German experience is that lack of funding is usually exaggerated as a reason. It's caused by many things, but mostly underappreciated is zoning, eminent domain (or lack thereof) as well as just basic technology.

The three main reasons for delays in Germany are:

1) suicides (up to two per day in the whole of Germany)

2) trees/branches falling on cables/tracks

3) train system overheating

Also rail is affected by

4) catastrophes that are happening next to the tracks: As rail tracks usually are next to industrial areas a burning industrial plant usually brings all train traffic to halt.

5) Germany being densely populated: Cars get stuck on crossings and trucks get stuck under rail bridges constantly.

6) forced interruptions, e.g. by people who steal power lines.

(4), (5) and (6) have nothing to do with rail funding. (1) Suicides are not caused by a lack of funding. (3) System collapses are caused by money restraints, but those trains were designed decades ago and the Bahn usually manages heating issues pretty well by shutting off single wagons.

On 2 (wood interrupting trains): A problem that would disappear if the Bahn could enforce a buffer zone around its tracks, where trees are to be cut off. But due to environmentalists, noise and zoning restrictions, the Bahn has to play gardener and spend millions on cutting trees each day.
Mate if I could tell you :)
That would be great...

Assuming it would work both ways, I would consolidate, on Steam, all the games I currently have on Origin, Bethesda Launcher, Battle.Net Launcher, Epic Games Launcher, uPlay, Twitch Desktop App, a few I've forgotten, and whateverthefuck Rockstar's GTAV launcher is called.. Though that's probably not what you had in mind.
I ran a code club at my local primary school last year using the micro:bits. They're awesome little devices, super simple to get some pretty effective results with. I had 15 kids aged 7 - 11, some of whom were there only because they went along to every after school club it's cheaper for working parents than a childminder, and all of them absolutely loved it. We did some great little projects - making 'musical instruments' with speakers and the gyroscope, making those buzzy 'steady hand' games, sending messages to one another via bluetooth, etc...
To be fair, the Source of the benchmarks is Intel itself, aka
the one place you should not take the numbers from due to conflict of interest, no matter if they actually are accurate or not.
Aren't these cloudwatch/cron events basically doing exactly that? People are keeping their functions hot and not using resources but AWS is having to keep those containers up 100% of the time
Are those firmware updates related to Spectre and Meltdown?
I thought those bugs were unfixable via firmware/microcode updates and require either OS-level workaround or completely new silicon design.
The original article does not mention blocking it, just the detection.
BTW gcmap offers a way to render flights map and some basic stats from a URL, like [1], if you're an old-schooler who prefers editable and sharable URLs :)

[1] http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=LHR-FRA,FRA-MUC,MUC-MAD
> They keep complaining

The squeaky wheel gets the grease.

(PR honchos are kept from idleness, newspapers pipelines are filled, company didn't want to hire anyway, and maybe the gummint will drip in some cash for training internships. Win, win, win, win.)
> “ATM Machine”

I maintain that this is fine, interpreted as "the machine with which we associate the name _ATM_".
For ease of deployment and to solve the problem of "what version of service_b is compatible with version x of service_a"?

IMHO this makes sense if the microservices are developed by the same team. If we're talking about services developed and managed by different teams... maybe it's not a good idea.
My understanding was that the Spectre microcode patches give software a way to block speculative execution (via an MSR register) and to make the lfence instruction also block speculative execution. So, software support will also be needed to make use of these features in defending against Spectre.

What's being measured here must be mainly the impact of the Meltdown fixes.
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Right. Nothing that would destroy the city's pipes or other infrastructure, and therefor ability to manage water, in that.
It's definitely a big problem, yet I see a lot of creative solutions which gives us a bit of hope for the future. People are also working together to keep water consumption at its lowest.

A lot of people are gathering rain water with big water tanks next to their houses. I've personally built a setup connected to the gutters of my roof, and it's amazing how much water you can gather like this.

It's also quite easy to keep your swimming pool topped up by simply getting a cover for it so that water does not evaporate.

However the occasional light rains won't do much to affect the big dams that supply drinking water to the wider population of Cape Town. There simply has been too little rain these past winters to fill the dams up to an adequate level.

I think the long term solutions for Cape Town will be increasing and improving the water catchment areas so the dams can cope with the population increase, possibly combined with desalination plants if it gets really bad.
There a bunch of services like this that scan emails and offer something valuable enough in return that they might be worthwhile... Earny is another one.

I really like the idea of them but I just wish there was just some better security model. What if granting read access to Gmail could give you an auditable log of every email read through the API? That way, services like this could prove that they are being responsible with their access rights.
Neat!

It's a shame that more people don't develop software with this kind of... change-for-purpose.
What do you mean by a "bus factor"? I'm assuming its related to the number of contributors / contributions over time, but I've never heard the term before.

Edit
----

Oh! I get it now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor
Given that autonomous vehicles are supposed to lower the amount of traffic accidents, they should be programmed to exclude the lethal traffic accidents which are justified (basic on split-second information, live a little). At least beach balls will be relatively easy to recognize with computer vision. Problem is those pesky hoodlums will start dressing up as beach balls, throwing inflatable dolls in front of cars. And if you think that's a crazy idea, just wait and see what the actual future comes up with.

Honestly, the 21st century is basically clickbait: You won't believe what happens next!
Wondering why this has come up - is it due to the recent fad among MRAs to drink onion juice to supposedly boost their testosterone and make them more manly?

https://www.indy100.com/article/4chan-onions-pol-testosteron...
As long as we can also run our own servers! There is no server software available for people to run their own servers for the Bedrock edition. I was really surprised when I found that out.
Of course, the same goes for military/infrastructure (self-driving trains) software.

And there are solutions for improving software safety, it starts by improving the process of software development. And for that there's at least one sort of official framework: CMMI.

(Even though DoD stopped requiring CMMI, but it still considers it a big plus, and companies for important stuff all use it.)

Of course, it'll be interesting to see what goes on with the F-35, as a lot of testing is now "skipped". (Sure, that is not software testing, but still, I can't imagine the software dev process is in a better shape after all these delays, cost overruns and probably still ongoing requirement changes.)
I've tried that, it was maybe 3~5 years ago, and it was quite bad in comparison. Not sure if there was a significant progress since.
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Generally yes, weather is less of an impact on rail, but occasionally you can get <cue ominous music> the Wrong Type of Snow
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_wrong_type_of_snow)
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It is not just the US. Canada in recent years signed a $15Bln contract to supply the Saudi Arabia rulers with weapons. (I was going to say 'government but 'rulers' feels more appropriate in this case).

Saudi Arabia is at war with Yemen and the war is causing the humanitarian crisis described in the above article.
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Question: Is it Engg because it is suppressing the middle characters of the word, like Eng...g ?

That's really amusing from my perspective (having lived in an Asian country) because for us Westerns, most abbreviations come from using the first few characters of a word.

I've seen the same pattern in Japanese: The word "OSU", which people usually conjure to salute each other in the morning or as they enter a dojo or fight, is actually an abbreviation of "Ohayou Gozaimasu", built in the same way as I imagine the Indian English's "Engg" was built: Taking only the first and the last parts of the term. O(hayou gozaima)SU.
I'm Italian, I know very well where the state-funded model can (and will) fail. But it's way, way superior to the UK rip-off experience. The fact that the UK basically doesn't actually make trains anymore (the few factories left are foreign-owned and don't really produce much anyway), unlike any other major EU country, is another clear symptom of a broken system.
> Ubuntu generally necessitates a re-install between releases.

What? I have taken fossilized servers neglected for ten years and managed to successfully get them to 16.04 LTS - stuff is harder with Debian where e.g. mysql-server has disappeared in buster and replaced by MariaDB.
Apple paid millions in VAT, income tax for German employees, environmental (packaging) taxes, etc.

They did not pay much tax on their profits in Germany, but it's debatable which part of the profit of a firm designing phones in the US and building them in China should fall to Germany.
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Isn't it odd that people don't raise their placards against this example of network non-neutrality?

Isn't this the main complaint about network non-neutrality? That ISPs get to pick winners and losers in the streaming space based on the deals they make with the big players.
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Ooo! I knew they had a theorem [0]; I'm excited to see they have a book too.

[0]<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann%E2%80%93Morgenster...
Well there is your problem. You have the NVIDIA graphics drivers / GL shim "installed". Likely manually because that's the only way they can be used (maybe your distribution did it automatically, but I find that doubtful); you can tell you did it through this simple question: did you use the video card's acceleration at any point? if you did (and I assume you did, since you called it a system by the brand of your video card) you have effectively told your package manager (probably through some "convenient" NVIDIA provided "installer" script):

"I really really want this package and do whatever other proprietary shit this script I didn't read thought was a good idea (like maybe put it into the system with some bizarre name) on a system that will always have this NVIDIA card in it"

And now you are trying to upgrade to something (the proper mesa gl library) which conflicts with that request. But because the package you "installed" has no information (because it's not a real package; because it's a bundle of proprietary code that NVIDIA refuses to properly support) the package manager can't really help you (it can't remove a package it doesn't know how to, so it can't remove the dependencies it's providing, so it can't add a new package with the same provided dependencies). You have to undo whatever shit that script did before you can proceed with a stable system.

Also note, what you are trying, is basically impossible with a Windows system (e.g. installing an arbitrary video driver; moving a system - without re-installation - from hardware to a virtual box system, or even hardware to hardware). So if it doesn't work... it's not like you had any other options anyway. NVIDIA assumes the Windows paradigm here, the open source systems you bludgeon with their proprietary code can do nothing to stop the bad actors you force on them from doing bad things.

I don't know the list of NVIDIA driver packages off the top of my head, or whatever bizarre shit they did to your installation, and it's not the responsibility of the Linux community to provide tech support for your hardware manufacturer. I had considered trying to be more helpful, and do some cursory research into your problem, but your attitude towards someone else that was being extremely helpful showed you don't want to be helped, you want to angry at someone. We are not your tech support, so I can tell you: Fuck off.
"The door to the house was open, move of the stuff was tied down, how could i be expected to know I wasn't authorised to use it??"

Judges just aren't that stupid.
What sources do you have on that supposed Jewish Mafia? It's not unthinkable that there would be one, after all we have many other ethnic-based mafias, but I've never heard of it.
>Or maybe we’ve already solved these problems with social networks, Slack groups, podcasts, and YouTube, and we just haven’t fully realized it yet.

All of those things are irrelevant, as the allure of conferences was something else, including getting to know like-minded people, networking, time off work, meeting with some of the major people working in your platform/language face to face/having a coffee/drink after the sessions, etc, etc.

We had YouTube and social networks and podcasts for more than a decade now when conferences were still doing fine.

It's more about the money than anything else.
Aaaaand https://www.airdiary.net/
So, combining two expertise - first in form of self driving software and second in form of hardware - is better than trying to build it alone like Tesla or Apple.
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Indeed, the UK position is "We'll support the Saudis in every practical way short of engaging in combat.":

https://www.caat.org.uk/campaigns/stop-arming-saudi/arms-sal...
So headless now knows it is headless. Then what?
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I somewhat agree both with you and PP. But

> It's obvious that coding is becoming a skill on par with math for its utility in the modern world.

I am not sure it's obvious, sadly. I feel like having a programming environment on your computer is similar to having a workshop at home. So you could repair and build many physical things yourself.

I can imagine an alternate reality where most people have workshops in their homes, and they repair most (and build some) of the stuff they bought themselves. But it's not the highly-specialized, consumer-oriented society we live in (actually, I think this was more true in the past).

In a similar way, I could envision a world where everybody routinely scripts their applications to automate and customize them. But the trend seems to go the opposite way, away from scriptability, to specialized, task-oriented applications. So I am skeptical this world will happen.

I would love coding to become a new form of literacy, and I am certainly going to treat it like that with my kids. But I currently don't believe many people will use these skills on regular basis.

Addendum: It's interesting that the very same companies that want everybody to code are the ones that don't want the software buyers to have to customize the applications themselves, so they could sell them the customization.
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction... https://intoli.com/blog/making-chrome-headless-undetectable/
Go for a run, leave your buds at home, report when you're back :)

I think I know how you feel. I love long solo runs/rides/hikes. I'd lie if I said I was never afraid of random thoughts popping into my head.

I look at it as sort of meditation. There're plenty of articles regarding fear of meditation. Check them out. You're not alone afraid of being alone.
Rockets reliability is largely held back by their extreme trade off toward maintenance vs robustness. When you have to check everything and replace a bunch of things between flights, you're bound to miss something.

And that of course impacts the software side too, the rocket is constantly changing, the software has to change too, bugs are guaranteed.
Hi, I'm "this guy". Thanks for pointing out -fpermissive, which was needed during the conversion for the legacy code. Since then I fixed all the warnings, so I can remove the flag (https://github.com/das-labor/neopg/commit/5359aab7885628554c...).

I would love to do code review, but I need a second developer for that!

Thank you for your interest and taking the time to write down your criticism.
Cape Town has had some record high temperatures in recent years (1) along with the multi-year drought.

To what extent is this likely to be due to climate change?

1)

http://www.traveller24.com/News/Alerts/sa-summer-heat-breaks...

http://ewn.co.za/2017/12/07/heatwave-brings-record-setting-t...
You're not far out, but I must have missed that episode originally and only watched it in the last few years. I possibly also learnt it from Reddit first.
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If others = Opera, then yes, they came up with that first :)

I've been using those kinds of keyword search shortcuts for years before switching to DDG by default.

The realisation was that having 100s (maybe 1000s already) of easily-guessable search shortcuts pre-programmed with DDG's !bang syntax is way more useful than having top configure 10-20 of them by yourself (and forgetting most of them when you reinstall a browser). Definitely worth the extra "!" keystroke and redirect :) [especially given DDG doesn't track you via that redirect].
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It doesn't help that during this whole thing, Intel behaved very much like the Iraqi propaganda minister. If they had been a bit more honest from the start, maybe I'd be keener to take their numbers at face value.
>When I left it, some had been there for 10 years straight. I can assure you that many of these men were deeply disturbed.

Such treatment, and for such BS reason (grooming), even of convicted murderers and such, shows a terrible medieval society.

Those responsible for this should have gone into jail themselves in a civilized society.
Just for clarification of what I've meant: a homosexual majority/elite could equally make it unpopular to come to labor with an heterosexual child.
I rediscovered Flightdiary a few weeks ago and saw it was bought by FR24 and now lives on https://my.flightradar24.com. Was pleasantly surprised and didn't even see it promoted by FR that much - I'm glad it lives on under a new umbrella.
On my laptop the default whitespace is too much, as well. The white space is adjustable in userChrome.css, which, to my understanding from the instructions, you need to edit anyway.

Compact spacing:

--folder-tree-row-height: 20px;

--message-list-row-height: 20px;
If all you need to do is create a negative version of pre-existing image, you can use ImageMagick on the command line:

$ converge in.png -negate out.png
There are a few stories similar to that but take place in Soviet Russia. Natan Sharansky became really good at chess during his 9 years in prison and Eliyahu Rips developed a previously unsolved mathematical proof during his 2 years.
For now. Imagine that many people give up their personally-owed cars and rely on subscriptions in the next few years.

Sales of cars would drop fast for manufacturers who don't have a on-demand service network with a sufficient critical mass.

Don't forget that giants went close to bankruptcy around 2008 with only a few % of global sales decrease.

Their market cap could drop low enough for Uber/Google/Apple (and their investors) to acquire them on the cheap.
How much did Google contribute to Ubuntu specifically?

And will that now stop? (I guess so)
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Its just been announced that from Feb 1st the daily limit is going to be 50l and the drought tax is off the table.

https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2018-01-18-de-...
Every train doesn't have to stop at all 27 stops. You can run a super-express that stops at 5 stops every 30 minutes, an express that stops at 10 stops every hour and a regular service that stops at every station every 2 hours. The schedule is constructed in such a way that the faster train passes the slower one while it's stopped at a station.

Shinkansen between Tokyo and Osaka is the busiest rail line in the world and there are a lot of stations between these two cities. The fastest train, Nozomi only has 6 stops and runs every 15 minutes.