skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of that rivalry that I've going on on a Space Astronomy server with a friend. Space Astronomy is a Minecraft modpack with a focus on tech and space exploration, and there's a lot of stuff in there to automate resource extraction, processing and storage. And for some sort of reason, we slipped into a competition over who can mine the most resources.

I think my ME system currently contains (among other things) some 6 million pieces of coal and nearly 2 million iron ingots. Even rare metals like gold count in the 100,000s of ingots. Then there's 10,000s of each kind of common mob drop (e.g. spider eyes, bones), even thousands of creeper heads.

The globally accepted freely convertible currency is Octuple Compressed Cobblestone, a single block of which contains 9^8 = 43046721 blocks of cobblestone. It takes my cobblestone generator about 1 real-life month to generate another one of these. I could easily expand it, but I choose not to to not cause deflation. :)

The point is, we're waaaaay past the point where any of this scale is actually necessary, and the other players on the server are pointing this out to us when visiting our vast facilities and the giant holes that our quarries rip into the landscape. For all practical purposes, you're fine with 10000 iron ingots, you don't need millions of the things.

We're actually sitting around now and wondering what to do with all this wealth. My friend suggested building a temple in a jungle out of pure gold, but that doesn't even begin to decimate our gold reserves. Maybe we need to build something out of octuple compressed cobblestone. :D
Yes, that doesn't surprise me that much. Also, there is a tourism industry that has developed around the years. There are a lot of decedents of WWI soldiers coming to see where their ((great-)great)-grand father fought/died 100 years ago, we see people from Australia, New-Zealand, Canada, the UK.

As for the Thiepval monument, I meant one of the tallest building on sovereign UK soil, but outside the British Isles. However, I've heard in a casual conversation, I'm not sure it's actually true. Yet, it's definitely a big memorial monument ^^, you can see it from miles away.
You can always use something like the Nix package manager[1] to install Firefox, Git, and Emacs, and leave the rest to Ubuntu. Save for Firefox, which I install from a tarball and use auto-update, I have been doing that with Debian stable on my laptop, and it works well.

[1] https://nixos.org/nix/
> It's a UNIXy system, that actually works with the hardware.

It is, or used to be. I haven't been very happy about Apple's direction in recent years, and when my old 2011 Macbook Pro dies, I'm not sure what I'm going to replace it with.

You'd think there'd be a big market for an "it just works" Linux-based laptop.
There's very good reason to think it won't happen. This [1] paper from the UN provides a good overview of South Africa's extremely unique situation. Similar information is available here [2]. The gist of it is that South Africa's declining fertility rate was exclusively the result of extensive efforts, not entirely benevolently motivated, by their former [apartheid] government.

[1] - https://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/completingfer...

[2] - https://sarpn.org/documents/d0000104/page2.php
One in five children could be at risk of mental health issues, study suggests
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/08/ubuntu-moves-window-cont... has some info about this.
It's amazing to be actually able to see this. Beautiful!
How can you earn money in education?
Your argument hinges on your word "abuse". Except there's no abuse. Nothing stops Ian from conducting business legally with that company name. If CAs have a problem, they need to fix the cert system. What should those guidelines look like? "You need to have a legal entity, but not one that conflicts with any big brand names people might know, even if you're legally entitled to conduct business under that name"?

There was no forgery.
Koreas make nuclear pledge after summit
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Ask HN: What area/subject would you choose (or have you chosen) for a PhD?
Hate to disappoint you, but we also use VectorCAST for unit test code coverage.
Google and Facebook adopt water gun emoji, leaving Microsoft holding the pistol
TSB Train Wreck: Massive Bank IT Failure Going into Fifth Day
I'm pretty sure we're very close to getting a I'll Have Sex For You As A Service.
I love how the article tries to show the moral dilemas but I see none... you're getting paid to impersonate someone else in a kind of interpersonal relationship. That is just plain awful, I don't see how a dilemma can exist there.
Does Stack Exchange really want to conflate newbies with women/people of color?
Ultimately this is totally nonsensical because you'd have to ban an infinite number of number because some clever boy around will definitively distribute the number preceding the illegal one and some unrelated folk can point out that you just have to +1 to get the illegal one. Basically none of the two would have done anything illegal until a ruling. rince, repeat. This is utter non-sense.
That's why I left FB, Twitter (Google not yet... although it does the same). And I was not even writing about big politics issues, only about mathematics and open access, open science. Sure, we are paranoid, especially because nobody can verify the evidence.
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I re-read the article and it seems to have charitable incentives. So my concern hopefully not warranted.
I suspect Ubuntu (even after 18.04) will still randomly tap my shoulder and complain about my full /boot partition -.-
Instagram is using jinja for templates (also used by Flask) and does not use the Django ORM.
Koreas Set Bold Goals: Peace by Year’s End and No Nuclear Arms
Any news on Powermac build?
I know there is a Community effort behold the ppc big endian build.

I am praying to the open source gods for it to happen.
 How digital demands are changing the CEO/CIO relationship
A side note to the article. We really have come full circle back to the mid 90’ies. What’s that LEGO unicorn doing in the middle of the article? I might as well have been a flame gif. It’s just a random “I thought this was cool so I put it right smack in the middle of everything”. Naturally it is much more calculated today and ofcause it is aimed specifically at popular memes... buck back in the day flame gifs where popular, and one day we too will grow tired of unicorn-everything and doge memes. Some faster than others.
> the site needs something akin to a constitution setting out what the purpose of the site is

I assert this already exists, laid out in the inaugural blogs posts and formally codified in the tour and help centre.
Korea summit: leaders agree to ‘Complete’ denuclearization goal
One reason is cost. Large size means there’re fewer chips produced per wafer, which means every single chip will cost more, proportionally to the area of a single chip.

Another reason is yield. Defects are inevitable. Their probability per unit of area is roughly constant, i.e. it doesn’t depend on the area of a single chip. Therefore, the probability of one or more defects on a single chip is proportional to the exponent of the chip area. With larger chips, that exponent grows very quickly.
Insert counter-patronizing preamble here.

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While the overhead of setting up a fresh TCP connection for every exchange is non-trivial, I'm not sure "reliable on a bad connection" is a characteristic I would attribute to IRC. The protocol is notoriously unreliable to the point where established practise is to run a client on a server somewhere and then connect to that from your bad connection computers. People who don't lose IRC messages sent while their connection crapped out, while Matrix ensures their client is updated to reflect the current state of the servers as soon as they go online again.

I believe also that modern HTTP options let you reuse the same connection for multiple requests, obviating much of the overhead. Not to mention that you are free to extend the Matrix server with alternative connection methods.

We do want a chat for less technical people. In order for humanity to not screw over itself royally, we need to target the 99%, not the 1%. Things can be good and still target non-technical people, as long as they are open and federated.

Of course, convenience does not trump security, but I don't see how that is the case here either.
>Can someone explaing why it's important to increase the density instead of increasing the size of a CPU?

If you compare semiconductors to crops, this determines how much bucks you get from an acre of silicon wafer.
> There aren't any Third Party solution that is as good as Time Capsule

None as simple maybe, but I'm not sure I would say none as good. I switched from a Time Capsule to a Synology since the Time Capsule was so slow at disk access (max 20 MB/s)
Actual paper: http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/4/eaap9741

Title: "Most atolls will be uninhabitable by the mid-21st century because of sea-level rise exacerbating wave-driven flooding"
The long-awaited death of cash may finally be coming
I think there is a Robert Frost verse about the path less taken making all the difference.

There is, but it might not mean what you're thinking it means.
I wonder if they had this Bionic Beaver in mind, I hope not :)

THE FAMOUS BIONIC BEAVER Our Signature Drink for Sharing! Seagrams Vodka / Gin / Rum / Triple Sec / Peach Schnapps / Light Beer / Grenadine / Splash Cranberry

https://guava-beach.com/menus/drinks/
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I find IRC to be best for quick and dirty questions. But there's still etiquette and finding the right room
> Spammy question often ends up overwhelming limited screen space and good questions gets buried like a needle in the haystack.

This is one of the issues with SO. I'd love to find a good question. I'd be happy to spend some time on it and learn something. But instead there are lots of questions about why the guessing game doesn't wait for input the second time, what's this syntax error, why doesn't this "if" work. Questions that will maybe help one person, but could be deleted immediately afterwards and nobody would notice.

I don't even know what's the answer. Maybe a canonical "this is how you debug an if statement which doesn't work" or other topic answer would help. Maybe not.
Considering it's their job i'd say they no quite a bit.
This is cool - well done. What sites / documents did you use to be able to create an emulator?
Extensive discussion about this release commencing 20 hours ago and still on page 2:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16931491
>>However, if it cures a person and the person lives a good quality life for 20 years, then the cost per quality adjusted life year is around $50,000.

However, usually cancer strikes older people. http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-professional/cancer-s... A computer doing a blind cost benefit might say to let them die, as they will retire and enjoy social security and so on.
Personally I have no idea why they rolled these theme styles for nautilus while they have been worked on Communitheme [1], which does not have tab-like menu [2]. However I'd like to note even in adwaita (and many other styles) there is design inconsistency between nautilus and gnome-tweak-tool. Sadly, Ubuntu dev team and community have not released any stable version Communitheme yet, so they were too late to bring new, consistent theme to 18.04.

[1]: https://github.com/ubuntu/gnome-shell-communitheme

[2]: https://itsfoss.com/ubuntu-community-theme/
I can see land is actively used for farming, which means it's probably not contamined anymore.

I never saw any of the "forbidden" signs anywhere on the other hand.

Which doesn't mean it's not a thing, I don't pretend to know all the area, it just means it's small enough in size and in remote areas, so that a local don't stumble upon this anymore.
Augmented/ Virtual Reality to Train Engineering Students
Golden State Killer suspect was tracked down through genealogy websites
Heating Heals Lithium Dendrites – Design News
EU agrees on total ban of bee-harming pesticides
This was an illuminating read. I was not at all aware that there are certain numbers(!) that are illegal. Thanks for sharing
There's generally a kernel package from the latest release built for the LTS distro: https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=xenial&arch=any&sea...
Because it's not sovereign.
On macOS it is a combination of centralized (if you install through the App Store) and free for all. Almost all applications that auto update use the same framework though (Spark) so the update look&feel is usually the same.
That's been the pattern for a few LTS releases.
That's certainly not x86 code, but loved the link anyway, thanks.
Analytics Blog: Introducing the Google Analytics Sample Dataset for BigQuery
Ubuntu has long since flagged Firefox as a 'volatile' package, resulting in up-to-date Firefox packages when using the standard package manager.
His blog may not be to everyone's taste, but the writer 'Delicious Tacos' pioneered this with OK Cupid years ago. On his blog he shares his online dating exploits along with some nice openers ("You are attractive, and I want to go out with you. Basically" being one that I stole and overused).

Anyway, all that online dating made him horribly cynical. But damn if it doesn't make for good writing:

> If she doesn’t give the number, if she ignores your request and tries to continue the conversation– it’s dead. Maybe means no. Hesitation means no. I’ve had a few exceptions. But frankly, if a woman wants to make you work for it, it’s an insult. And all online conversation is just a chance to f%ck up. The point of OKCupid is that we are dehumanized slabs of f%ckmeat and there are a million of us. No individual matters. Move on.

For more: https://delicioustacos.com/2014/08/04/okcupid-starter-kit-co...
I found that too. Funniest thing I've read for a while.
>>India, even in the most prosperous/developed city is still essentially a crappy 3rd world place.

As an Indian, I would say you are right. India is attempting to skip several cycles of progress and arrive at the end result. There are also deep socio-economic problems to solve.

A more important problem is that quality of Human resources. Things like infrastructure are easier to fix compared to building a educated, civilized and highly trained workforce.

>>I don't think India will naturally follow the progress China has made

The Chinese kind of politics is impossible in a country as diverse as India. If you force through you only end up breaking the country. So we will never have a single party, single flavor rule in India.
He spent 12 years of his life as rapist and murderer. I wonder why he stopped? Mid-life crysis?
The effect of music on eating behavior
> This is utter non-sense

All current computer media can be represented as an integer. You're suggesting that no media is illegal?
Stayed there many times, I always thought it'd get closed down or re-developed at some point, but it keeps on trucking.
Sadly, being silly doesn’t make a law unenforceable (for example, every Witchcraft Act).

There is a lot of content out there which is illegal to possess, not just DMCA circumvention, and thanks to the wonderful power of mathematics that content can always be expressed as a number.

Extending your analogy, you could have a random bit sequence, XOR it with the content and distribute only the random sequence and the XORed sequence, making it a nonce-sense.
Interesting that they are not doing the extremely simple technical change that would help out with a lot of the unwelcome signaling: removing negative scores. There is absolutely no value in a post being -10, it just tells the poster that 10 unkind people disliked the individual for not knowing the answer to his own question. Just let new questions sit at 0 if no one upvotes. New inexperienced users should not feel like they are being put on display for stupidity when they ask questions for fear of it being a duplicate something trivial or what else.
The problem right now is that "has only been witnessed in vitro – that is, under artificial conditions in the laboratory, and not inside cells." which means it may not even exist in our bodies.
Anatomy of an Accidental Product Launch with Metrics – Day 1
You can always separate the chip into smaller cores and disable the ones that don't work.
Are we talking about the lithographics process itself as a problem or other manufacturing problems like VIAs, etching, diffusion? The article is a liitle bit vague on the actual problems Intel is experiencing. But I doubt Intel will us, anyway ;)
EU agrees total ban on bee-harming pesticides
The Future of Kubernetes Is Serverless – The New Stack
That's what I do now (the Time Capsule was just painfully slow at serving disk access) but I'm worried that losing Apple's first-party hardware means they'll drop the feature completely (because why do you need backups, all your Documents, Music and Photos are in iCloud... right?).

Someone else pointed out that they rolled Time Machine Server into High Sierra as a file sharing option so hopefully that's enough to keep the feature alive...
I always felt that that "illegal numbers" is a misunderstanding of data.

There are no illegal numbers. But if you provide context, they can become illegal data. Let's take child pornography for an example, because that's universally accepted as illegal. I could come up with a formula which translates a huge number into a bitmap. I could post the number (i.e. the input for the formula) online, because it is absolutely meaningless to anyone else. But when I publish my formula, it is no longer a number. It's data which can be interpreted as something meaningful, an image.

Everything is just a number without context.
It seems like a part of a larger trend going on in our industry right now.
And it doesn't look good
Ah, thanks for the explanation!
So they will run on X11 that's from Debian stable? Will for example Emacs read your .Xresources from your home directory?

I've been eyeing this setup with Guix but I have some concerns. If I install a newer version of GCC through Nix/Guix, can I run update-alternatives on it?
This is not x86 but certainly an optimised code
https://www.pagetable.com/?p=774
What about the HTTP headers?
Any idea whether is this the same behavior in comparable computing instances in GCP as well?
Good to hear, I look forward to it!

As a seasoned LTS user, would you recommend waiting for 18.04.1?
Xkcd "Standards" https://xkcd.com/927/ is obligatory here.

There are five ways to have update software on Ubuntu Linux these days:

* Ubuntu Store (snap).

* Via Flathub (flatpak).

* Official deb repository pool (apt-get).

* Community maintained PPAs (apt-get).

* Other, tools like appimage, nix, linuxbrew etc. etc.

If you are not fan of terminal tools, sometimes "Software Updates" popup will appear to ask you if you would like to install new updates.

By default there isn't any self-update enabled (please correct me if I am wrong), though it is recommended to configure automatic updates of unattended-upgrades [1]. In my experience 17.10 were asking about installing updates when you were shutting down or restarting OS.

[1]: https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/automatic-updates.ht...
It shouldn't be illegal. Possession of information - be it a book, a video, a picture, or text, should never be illegal in itself. Production and distribution of certain kinds should be absolutely illegal, but they already are, I don't think there's any discussion here.
Eventually it comes naturally and you just see the AST.

So they say...
Sometimes you get >= 1%. That's when the fun, or "Game of Thrones" starts, once vesting period nears its end. You'd be surprised how many "decent" management people turn into monsters once they sense more equity for themselves by tricking you (i.e. getting preferred stock for themselves, giving you a type with the lowest liquidation preference etc.). LLCs are often used for early stage private companies with a single investor (e.g. a large, well-known company), not those that want to go public.
TBH, I think we just need much more efficient software. This is something we can do, and used to do more. It is insane how inefficient many things we write today are compared to how they could be. I'd love it if efficient code was a reasonable goal again, but at the moment, it just isn't worth the time using more efficient technologies and doing optimisation because it usually isn't really necessary. I've spent time optimizing code where it was really necessary, but it so rarely is that I've only once had the opportunity to spend as much time as I'd like to on this.
That's remarkably close to 68k str-functions.

Page 133 http://www.atarimania.com/documents/Asm_Lang_Prog_68K_Family...

* STRLEN - RETURNS LENGTH OP NULL TERMINATED STRING IN D0
* A0 -> STRING
STRLEN: MOVE.L A0,-(SP) SAVE REG
CLR.L D0 INITIALIZE
STRLENI:TST.B (A0)+ NULL?
BEQ STRLENR YES, RETURN
ADDQ.L #1, D0 BUMB COUNT
BRA STRLENI LOOP
STRLENR:MOVE.L (SP)+,A0 RESTORE REG
RTS

We might also want to copy a string:

* STRCPY - COPY A NULL TERMINATED STRING
* A0 -> SOURCE STRING
* A1 -> DESTINATION STRING
STRCPY: MOVEM.L A0-A1,-(SP) SAVE REGS
STRCPY1:MOVE.B (A0)+,(A1)+ MOVE A BYTE
BNE STRCPY1 GET ANOTHER IF NOT NULL
MOVEM.L (SP)+/A0-A1 RESTORE REGS
RTS

Next, we will want to compare two strings:

* STRCMP - COMPARE TWO NULL TERMINATED STRINGS
* A0 -> STRING 1
* A1 -> STRING 2
STRCMP: MOVEM.L A0-A1,-(SP) SAVE REGS
STRCMP1:CMPM.B (A0)+,(A1)+ COMPARE BYTES
BNE STRRET RETURN IF DIFFERENT
TST.B -1(A0) HAVE WE HIT A NULL?
BNE STRCMP1 NOW MORE BYTES LEFT
STRRET: MOVEM.L (SP)+,A0-A1 RESTORE REGS
RTS

Although I guess I'd implement strlen more like this (not sure if it works, been a long time since I last wrote anything for 68k):

strlen: movem.l a0-a1,-(sp)
move.l a0, a1 ; copy a0 to a1
slenloop: tst.b (a0)+
bne slenloop
addq.l #1, a1
sub.l a0, a1
move.l a1, d0
movem.l (sp)+,a0-a1
rts

Just two instructions in the inner loop. But not sure whether address registers supported addq etc.
Refute what exactly? A bunch of assumptions and pseudo-statistics?
Now I see the meaning of your commentary, thanks! Still, I don't see how it could be related to what I wrote here, or even to what you wrote opening the thread.

Also, let me tell you: trying to explain every phenomena in terms of liberal conspiracy is rather unproductive. The world is way more complex than that. Actually, in post-Soviet countries conservatives (in politological meaning) are often pro-Western, and lefties are anti-. And you probably the first man on Earth who called Nursultan Nazarbaev's regime "liberal".
Computation: “What excited us most is that we could see the green spots – the i-motifs – appearing and disappearing over time, so we know that they are forming, dissolving and forming again,” says Dr Mahdi Zeraati, whose research underpins the study’s findings.
Stellar's Randos per Week in the context of increased crypto awareness
Power, heat and the speed of electrical signal.

Power use increases quadratically with voltage. You want small transistors to keep the voltage and power use from getting out of hand. You also need to increase voltage if you want to increase clock speed.

Electric signal travels in a conductor roughly 15 cm/nsec. With 3 GHz clock speed the electric signal travels travels roughly 50 mm in one clock cycle. Largest microchips are 30 mm across. You can't double the dimensions without dealing with the signal lag. Delivering the clock signal to every part of the chip in sync is already a problem. Modern microchips use lots of extra circuitry just to deliver the clock signal properly.
Birds of a feather...
About eight years ago I knew a teenager making over $100k a month sending dating site affiliate offers through Chatroulette. He had a bot that setup a fake stream and then pushed the affiliate links in the chat.

This is not new. Back then it was affectionately called “e-whoring.”