skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As we've learned from oil production lately, quite a number of people/companies are willing to do things that are "globally unprofitable".

E.g. if you adopt the mindset that your CAPEX is a sunk cost, which is reasonable if you already own something nobody wants to buy (unprofitable oil or mining rig), your break even becomes much lower (just has to beat cost of operations/electricity).

With mining it's even more difficult, since mining at an "unprofitable" point in time could later actually become a very profitable venture if the price goes back up, assuming that the mining difficulty also goes down in unprofitable times.
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> Varroa mites have evolved resistance to all available synthetic acaricides

My understanding is that synthetics are a specific category of treatment. Oxalic doesn’t fall into that group and I don’t think lithium chloride would either, but someone more expert may have a better idea.
There's also a rather fascinating case where a woman had voices telling her she had a brain tumor and the voices were correct.

http://www.bmj.com/content/315/7123/1685
PDF available from the NIH, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2128009/ , starts on pdf page 17/document page 1685.
What I find most interesting about this is just what a difference there is between cooking at that time and today in terms of what is 'plain', 'spicy', 'savory', etc.

I had a conversation with my dad (currently in his late 60s) about what eating was like growing up and he said: "Well, we didn't have any spicy food." and I asked: "Like what? Mexican? Schezuwan? Thai?" and his answer was: "Any food with garlic".
The medical care one depends on agency of the individual, if it is an emergency and, if an adult, has a DNR or living will. Generally, adults can refuse care but the hospital/doctor/medical group will take the parent(s) to court for the benefit of a child. You see this from time to time when parents try to claim a non-medical exemption.
> My concern is that in the case of women-only spaces where trans women are welcome, many trans women will join, responding to their need to belong, which you express and which I feel myself. And that given enough trans women joining, a few of them will eventually display those behavioural traits you can expect from people who grew up like men and that are the traits the community seems to want to keep out.

I am cis-gendered female and exhibit a lot of conversational traits typically identified as male-patterned. Does that mean I shouldn't be allowed?

Personally I love the idea of allowing trans-women into a woman focused community. Your perspective is going to be unique (and likely uniquely insightful.) You also experience the same discrimination as cis-gendered women if you aren't explicitly identifying as transgendered and may have the same needs for support and understanding related to that discrimination.
Apparently Louisiana is arguing "Because McCoy did not try to fire his lawyer until just days before the trial, the state contends that he had let the lawyer dictate legal strategy."

This is bizarre to me. They're not saying he didn't try to fire the lawyer, they're saying he did but it doesn't count. Can anyone explain that argument in any more detail?
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16159671

As I stated over in the other thread, the news articles claim that this is about separating the rural and/or inland counties from the urban and/or coastal ones is unsupported by the groups website, which does not specify that goal (or any specific geographic or county-type criteria) and explicitly targets getting committees going in as many of California's counties as possible.
It's not that. People are talking about the UI design because that's their area of self-efficacy. They are able to design a better UI, but they're not able to come up with a better bureaucracy.
One of my biggest problems in writing data-heavy web applications is that browsers seem to be really lousy at handling the data. In fact I have 2 applications in this boat. My queries run fast (couple/few hundred ms), but displaying 10's of MB of data, over 10's of thousands of rows of data, has been brutal for a browser.

Trying various standard JS table widgets only made the problem worse, but I've discovered ag-grid (a paid JS table widget) which made this tolerable. It takes about 6 seconds to render my big page of data (which is actually on-par with a WinForms version of the system I wrote, using DevExpress).

It sounds like you have the opposite problem, and I'm wondering how you display "large data sets" from "complex database queries" in sub-second renders in a browser. Incremental loading (like a news feed) won't really work here, because my users need to be able to sort and filter and rearrange the data as a whole. I guess I could "chunk" the data to be able to see it sooner, but it's still going to hold up the browser until it finishes. I've been looking for a better way for a long time.
My experience boils down to inconsistent mindsets on large teams too though.

You get a variety of folks in a room working on a complex business problem, some favor simple tools, some are constantly distracted by shiny new tools, you end up with crazy complexity at times in terms of the solution.

I think it's important to focus on a team and vision for managing the complexity and the rest should fall into place. It boils down to good engineering vision.
Oh, I wish good tone from a guitar was as simple as just plucking a string! It's an inherently pretty sound, but control and expressiveness are quite challenging (moreso because two different hands are involved in tone, each doing completely different things that must be coordinated).

As an aside, I've been intensely practicing a particular Miles Davis three-note riff (seven, if you count sounded notes rather than pitches), in part as a tonal exercise. The quarter notes need to be as intense and snappy as possible; the sixteenth notes need to be smooth and flowing. It's a really difficult shift to get the pick from "I'm gonna KILL this note" to "I'm going to gracefully flow these notes" - especially at fast tempos. I have no idea how Miles pulled it off on trumpet.
Google reported over 1.6 billion hours being consumed a day on average as of mid 2017 so they have a lot to work with.
On .NET Core's focus, that's not actually true:

http://mattwarren.org/2017/12/15/How-does-.NET-JIT-a-method-...

Android optimizes for battery life, but it's also worth noting that Dalvik was a really rudimentary JIT, having no benefits from JIT compilation, only drawbacks, the ART with AOT being a good upgrade.

But tiered compilation is in a different league, being about speculating what's going to happen depending on what the process has witnessed thus far. The point of tiered compilation is to profile/guard stuff at runtime and recompile pieces of code based on changing conditions, which is how you can optimize virtual call sites or other dynamic pieces, which you can't do ahead of time because the missing part is the decompiler which can revert optimizations based on invalidated conditions.

It's really interesting actually, because you can profile a C++ app and use that to optimize your AOT compilation, but the compiler is still limited by the things it can prove ahead of time, or otherwise it would be memory unsafe.
Gary Mays, the One-Armed Bandit of D.C. Sports Lore, Is Dead
I haven't worked in a thrift store, so maybe you can fill me in on something:

It seems like there are "scalpers" (can't think of another word for them) who semi-professionally go through thrift stores buying up the good things, and then reselling them on ebay. I've definitely seen this with sports equipment.

(My fiance and I like going to thrift stores looking for art project supplies, and I always look over the golf clubs seeing if there is anything interesting in there [I am actually a golfer]).
This comment captures exactly the reason I thought this article was worth sharing. When I was young, I never had to discipline myself from listening to too much new music, even when I staffed the music library and was alone in there for hours.
With the shortest introduction, created by myself ;) http://lausbert.com/2018/01/14/the-shortest-introduction-to-...
Using Payroll Processor Microdata to Measure Aggregate Labor Market Activity [pdf]
Not exactly.

If a large percentage of miners stop mining, the difficultly will be adjusted so it's easier to mine Bitcoin. The difficulty is tuned such that blocks are solved every 10 minutes, regardless of how many miners are working.
While I don't disagree entirely, I find that Elixir is actually quite functional. Using processes for state as if they're objects is generally considered bad practice.

I can highly recommend this article (also just in general for people curious about Elixir): http://theerlangelist.com/article/spawn_or_not

A quote:

> But before starting, since this is going to be a long article, I want to immediately share my main points:

> Use functions and modules to separate thought concerns.

> Use processes to separate runtime concerns.

> Do not use processes (not even agents) to separate thought concerns.

> The construct “thought concern” here refers to ideas which exist in our mind, such as order, order item, and product for example. If those concepts are more complex, it’s worth implementing them in separate modules and functions to separate different concerns and keep each part of our code focused and concise.

> Using processes (e.g. agents) for this is a mistake I see people make frequently. Such approach essentially sidesteps the functional part of Elixir, and instead attempts to simulate objects with processes.
Nothing. The system will adjust difficulty and will continue working.
https://www.wikitribune.com is my hope for the best news source in the near future. It already shows quite some progress.
> ...then social safety nets are going to collapse without massive immigration.

Value doesn't come from humans. It comes from machines. Workers income tax is just historically convenient way to tax machine owners as long as machines need operators.

We just need to find a better way to tax machines.
That's what they did initially. Many advertisers left and Youtube ad revenue dropped like a rock. Eventually maybe advertisers would have realized that in the age of cord-cutting they have increasingly limited ways to buy <=millennial eyeballs, but communities are fragile and I think Youtube was justifiably worried that by then their highest-value creators would have abandoned them for better-paying platforms (which was already happening and is continuing to happen). Someone above said this post was really aimed at advertisers and not at creators, and I think that's half-right in that advertisers really are the immediate audience, but making advertisers happy is a thing many creators have been pushing for too, so advertisers will come back and ad payouts will go back up.
Interestingly, the guy saying that is supporting McCoy and claiming that the lawyer does need to respect the client's wishes. He's just claiming that it's an unintuitive legal requirement, where the rest of us seem to think it's a blatantly obvious obligation.
These videos get me to youtube, but I only watch them, I don't watch segments of Jimmy Kimmel like a chump. Also: adblocker.
> Biodiesel is still way more environmentally friendly than ethanol

"X is less bad than Y" doesn't mean that X is not bad. Both can be. In this case, both are.

> then have the US reduce emissions to offset

Yes. One way to do that would be to stop planting huge cultures for "bio"-diesel and then fertilizing them to death.
Would like to see more investment in manufacturing here in the United States. Apple has to recognize that unstable relations between the United States, the EU, and China (along with South Korea and others)could leave them in a precarious position with their physical manufacturing capabilities. If China says, give us U.S. user data, or give us the capability to build your new 3D camera or we shut your facilities down, what will Apple do? Not to mention South Korea's antics with raiding Apple's South Korean offices and whatnot. The same goes for other US firms - EU you better watch out too.
Now if only they'd open-source the REWS training pipeline.
> And that given enough trans women joining, a few of them will eventually display those behavioural traits you can expect from people who grew up like men and that are the traits the community seems to want to keep out.

Other than those regarding genitalia, cis-women are probably as likely to fail to conform to gender stereotypes as trans-women.
I have the app but I can't find this feature.

*edit: nevermind, it seems this is iOS only.
Google has over 1.6 billion hours a day being consumed and Twitch does not even register. #2 is Facebook with 119 million hours. So Twitch is not really competitive.

Plus Amazon purchased Twitch and then removed the app from the Roku which does not help grow the platform.

https://www.cordcuttersnews.com/amazon-pulls-twitch-channel-...
Amazon Pulls Their Twitch Channel from Roku - Cord Cutters News
New Zealand - quite possibly a better bit of the season here!
The only real fix is reducing energy usage.
The Erlangelist – To spawn, or not to spawn?
You could ask the same question about any class of security bug, so unsurprisingly I'd answer more or less in the same way.

No. the problem here is that the code isn't wrong. The CPU is wrong. Whether or not the CPU will leak data depends on the make and model of CPU. Most MIPS CPUs and many ARM CPUs don't have this problem. Some AMD x86-type CPUs may not. It has to be fixed on the CPU side.

This could introduce Intel to a world auto manufacturers know well - recalls. Intel has been there before, with the floating point bug.
If their client is unconscious and unable to communicate their wishes or is a child, then by all means let the lawyer use their own best judgement, but when the client is an adult who has been judged mentally competent, letting the lawyer override their client's express wishes is a disgusting infringement on their rights.
Wow, ok.

I won't get into a pissing contest, but I've solved and managed large and small teams. Folks don't like to maintain custom built software solutions that don't use common accepted best practice frameworks.

JQuery is widely accepted as an anti-pattern by huge swathes of the programming community.

You are right though, I've paid off most of my bills and do have a choice in what I work on anymore. I definitely don't live in a basement.
What about a static image that has a "|>" button (like play) and link to your favorite sample?

Something like: https://imgur.com/a/QpNxE (5 minute graphic, sorry, with more time you can make something better but I hope it's enough to understand my idea)

In case this is resubmitted by someone later, or posted in reddit or other aggregator, it would be nice to have an easier way to discover the content. I understand that this is not the main project, but a more friendly page will get you more unuseful internet points, and perhaps too many visit to break your server. You will not get money, but at least a tiny amount of recognition.

Anyway, if someday you decide to make a post with more technical information about how you wrote them, I'd like to read it. (both the programing part and/or the music part).
I personally believe that much of the requirements on bio-diesel and other crop-fed fuel sources are likely at least half motivated by courting heartland swing states.
Perhaps I'm not reading carefully enough but doesn't he start by showing that choosing in order of most popular is not optimal,

> At first sight this might look fine, but a closer look reveals that it is not a great ordering – it is impossible to make any recipes at all until you’ve purchased nearly 30 ingredients!

but then he uses this ordering as the ideal to optimize towards? I'm not seeing how to find a better ordering; like shouldn't there be a way to choose 8 ingredients that let's you cook 5 recipes etc.

I enjoyed the post nonetheless!
I don't have the skills to distinguish a 1000 dollar coat form a 20 dollar coat so even if I found one I wouldn't recognize it :(
I Should Never Have Trusted HR to Keep My Secret
Facebook chooses to simply delete rather than evaluate posts. They're not forced to take the lowest cost economic option, they could decide to offer a higher-quality product at a slightly lower profit margin. The state is absolutely creating an economic incentive for publishers to consider the consequences of their publication, but it's not dictating how that should be implemented. You're blaming the state for Facebook's commercial decision to use blanket deletion.

You might feel that Facebook is obliged to choose the lowest-cost option on behalf of its shareholders. This isn't the case, legally. Conversely, Germans who want to express controversial views that might be defensible and don't want to just have them auto-deleted can always seek out another publisher or publish themselves on a blog. When I say people don't have an automatic right to publication, I mean they don't have the right to have a particular publisher host their controversial content. Presumably you would agree that Facebook is within its rights when it declines to host pornography, for example, even though I think the community standards' it cites are prudish to the point of ridicule (eg banning people for photographs of statues depicting nude figures in art museums).
I wish everything was free.
It has been updated with the doc of high level themes we are chasing for 2018.
Hunger is a distribution problem not a food shortage problem. There’s more than enough food being produced for everyone.
There is an adjustment every 2016 blocks, roughly 14 days (under the assumption that a block is mined every 10 minutes). When too many miners drop out, the block time will increase until 2016 blocks are mined and the difficulty readjusted. So transactions can be made, they simply will take longer.

In the possible but unrealistic scenario of all huge miners disappearing overnight right after an adjustment and thus making it impossible to reach 2016 blocks, the users will offer higher transaction fees and so make mining profitable again (or, at least, provide incentive to the miners to come back).
Google's AnyPixelJS
Often in cancer, cure and palliative care are often one. Controlling the growth of cancer cells is needed to control pain. Often the pain caused by cancerous tumours cannot be suppressed by usual pain killers.

The kind of medication given for cancer treatment has vastly improved in the last 10 years, atleast for the less aggressive forms of cancer (and yes, there is such a thing). As a corollary, there are also highly aggressive forms, the kind that sends chills into your heart.
NoSQL is good if you need flexibility in the data you store. So if you wanted to start collecting user's twitter handles, you could easily add that and then stop collecting them anytime. So some records would have twitter handles and some wouldn't. The table structure wouldn't have to change.

Also, MongoDB in particular has a geospatial data index. So if you were using location data and querying by location (e.g. what's nearby a user's location) that's a great feature. Not sure if other NoSQL solutions have that or if just Mongo.
I have an S1 I received for free. At this point I'm losing $7 a month on it...I'm using it to poorly launder money from my checking account to the power company to my bitcoin wallet.

The GPU is doing a little better, but it's not even rent money, more like 'lunch once a week' money.
I love how this person linked their amazon wishlist as their "project tip jar." That's a fun idea. We kind of get a sense of their personality as well through it - they obviously like tea, for example.
Meh. Legato on guitar comes at a cost of expressiveness and note choice. When hammer-on and pull-off are your only ways to sound a note, you lose all the coloration available from dynamics, palm muting, distance from bridge, pick angle, and the million other little things guitarists do to make a note special. And note choice? Scales of any substance will force either difficult position shifts, or legato-breaking string switches.

It can be done, and I certainly do it. But it can't be all that's done, or your sound falls flat.
Using https://lukewagner.github.io/test-tanks-compile-time/
Pale Moon 27.7.0: "fetch is not defined"
A Tale of Two Samsungs: ARM vs. Qualcomm in Android Graphics
It's a great narrative and you should read it, but if you don't want to the TLDR is that it's just what it sounds like, and was generally used wherever you'd use minced garlic today.
Would you still be here or on StackOverflow if you knew that some of the contributors were "gold members" who got directly paid while you didn't?

We participate in these places for the intangible rewards and one of those, I believe, is feeling that we are helping to foster an egalitarian community. When the community is explicitly tiered and money-based, is that still something people will want to chip in to out of the goodness of their hearts?
Mining at a loss is not a good idea.

Say your [marginal] production cost is USD 100, but BTC market price is USD 50. You could spend USD 100 to make 1 BTC, or you could turn off your mining equipment and spend USD 100 to buy 2 BTC...

Added: and when the market price goes back up to say USD 1000, would you rather have the 1 or 2 BTCs in hand?
defguard/defguardp is a really welcome addition that should improve lots of normal code. Planning on using it in a refactor today. Great to see improvements like this.
Not to excuse or condone the president's behavior in any way, but it is not at all obvious how the word "shithole" is racist. I take issue with this because this word is so overused that it is losing any meaning.

There are many light-skinned countries that can also be considered as undesirable places to live. Poverty, violence, and corruption can be quite common outside the western world (e.g. many post-soviet countries). 90s Russia is a prominent example of one such place, but lets just say Russians generally have a fair complexion.
You can still get a good software engineer salary in the midwest. In Indy we have at least 4-5 places that will pay you 140k+, the place I'm at will pay 180k for someone that has proven their worth. That is a lot of money in Indiana.
Don’t know why you’re being downvoted.

Nowadays you’re not going to understand how a terminal works unless you’re doing some very specialized work or you really want to understand that.

Young developers I’ve met are typically stuck on the treadmill learning things that change a lot (typically web).
While it's clear that a std formatter is a big win (I absolutely love elm-format), I'm somewhat afraid of this sort of change. Stuff like line length isn't only a personal preference, changing the width e.g. from 80 to 100 would seriously "break" my IDE window layout. At the same point, making it configurable would decrease the benefit of OneTrueStandard. Definitely a tough decision either way.
I've used TrackJS in the past - they have context on the user session surrounding front-end exceptions, e.g. what the user clicked on beforehand. Is a video replay really that much more useful?