skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got unstable FPS when I used a KinematicBody2D and ran the game in-editor. This bug has tens of reports over 2 years, and needless to say, renders the engine impossible to work with. To be fair, it got fixed in master a month ago, but there's no reason to believe that this would be a one-off. In my opinion, the project is trying too hard to add fancy features instead of stabilizing and bugfixing core features. Not a fan of the contribution model as well, in which they basically accept all PRs and then fix the bugs later. They claim that it's faster than using regression tests or using a more thorough reviewing process.
Legal surrogacy in Georgia
Surrogacy in Georgia is legal for foreign patients.
Type punning through a union is allowed, buy you have to be careful so the compiler can see the union.

union {
int i;
float f;
} u;

You can't safely call a function with pointers to the members like func(&u.i, &u.f), because when func was compiled, the compiler couldn't know that the arguments are pointers to union members.

This sort of thing scares me, because what the compiler can "see" isn't well defined. Is it ok if func is in the same file? Probably not. How about if I don't send the pointers to an other function and just use them locally? Probably ok, but I wouldn't trust it. If you want to type pun with a union, make sure to always access the members through the union, not with direct pointers.

The only method of type punning I 100% trust is memcpy, and if you get lucky the compiler might optimize away the overhead for you.
Here's a little thought experiment: Let's say the very most talented potential hires almost never apply for a job, because they get headhunted. That means the pool of applicants for an open position will mostly be a mix of competent-but-not-brilliant (or at least not-yet-proven-brilliant) and incompetent people. The hiring process, if it (mostly) works will lead to hiring the competent people while leaving the incompetents behind, who are then free to apply for job after job until the hiring process somewhere fails to filter them out. The point is, the incompetent people will spend much more time applying for jobs than the competent people will. This also means that at any given time, the incompetents will make up the vast majority of applicants to any given job - in other words they are vastly overrepresented in the 'market supply' that a company gets to see. This leads to some interesting effects. One is that many companies claim to hire only the top 5%, when in reality it just means that they hire only the few competent people in the pool that they see (and these competent people are more likely to be e.g. the top 50%-5%, since the actual top 5% got headhunted). Another is that if a company used a naive metric of the 'market supply' to determine things like the demographics of the available workforce, that metric would mostly be comprised of the demographics of said incompetent people. Which might lead to some interesting biases (IIRC it's fairly well documented that men tend to overestimate their abilities quite a bit more than women do - the saying is, if a position requires 5 skills, a man will apply if he has 1 of them, and a woman will not apply if she has only 4 of them). The point is, if you wanted to do something like benchmark a company's internal diversity against the market supply, you might need a better way to estimate that market than just looking at applicants, since that is mostly noise and very little signal (and the point of most hiring processes is to filter out all that noise)
What is used as STUN-Server for WebRtc?
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I agree about the priorities. But to do what you suggest, to the extend that it needs to be done, we need much better ways to cope with variability of renewables. We probably need a whole range of energy storage solutions; no single one will be sufficient. And then there are aviation and shipping, neither of which is going electric any time soon. So starting work on using excess power when renewables are over-generating to capture CO2 and using it to make carbon-neutral liquid fuels seems to also be a key part of the long-term picture.
Really? I often have to use the automated passport controls in airports and haven't had much of an issue with them.
I don't see how that claim can be made unless you know the ins and outs of Macy's cost and revenue structures. Also, from various articles, flagship stores famously lose money due to exorbitant rent and are actually marketing expenses.

Considering the fact that retail store equity prices aren't high growth and they shut more stores than they open, I would bet that they are under considerable pressure to contain costs as people will just shop online or another department store.

The only retail that can afford to pay their employees a professional wage is probably the super high end like Zegna or Hugo and the like.

Found an article talking about Macy's financials:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/11/business/dealbook/retail-...

There's no way commodity retail that caters to middle and lower class can be profitable with highly paid employees, you just won't move enough product. The fact that there isn't a chain that exists with that model is proof.
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Cray Spreads the AI Word to the Masses
> I dont understand how you would expect not to do incremental improvement

I wonder if we're talking past each other? Sure, incrementally improve during engineering. But don't incrementally change the safety-critical behaviour of a car once it's in the customer's hands.

> Build it perfectly the first time? That's not realistic.

Absolutely agreed.

But for subjects such as autopilots, predictability may very well trump improvement.

I'm assuming that the initial iteration is already reasonably safe and useful (if it isn't it shouldn't have been shipped, right?).

If the behaviour changes unpredictably (how will you predict autopilot changes caused by an update?), this may well be less safe than keeping the existing system, whoose quirks the dirver has noww learned.

> Pretty much everything humans do is incremental improvement.
> I understand your point that we dont want to introduce weaknesses in 'upgrades'

The nasty thing is that even a change to objectively superior behaviour may be problematic, because the driver will expect the car to behave one way, when it now behaves a different way (regardless of merit).

Not even a changelog would help in such cases. I feel like the autopilot ought to inform the driver in each situation where it used to decide one way, and now decides another way. That might be a reasonably safe way of allowing incremental change, but is likely too annoying for most people.

> but this should be a discussion about how to create robust QA rather that stopping incremental improvement.

Robust QA is certainly a must.

(side note: I used to work in safety-critical automotive projects. I may have a more intimate understanding of the issues)
There's an honest scottsman though. Ha.

I'm sure the difference is due to lattitude. A little bit of getting heated is ill advised in the scorching sun.
Interesting. How did you formulate your concerns? IANAL (well, took four semesters) and it's difficult even for most lawyers to recap the entire legal theory behind commercial and moral rights of works. Do you know a better template text than https://saveyourinternet.eu/ and in German?

I agree the law should be reconsidered, or at least, as you say, should address publishers's part in eg. maintaining and distributing SHA keys for works they claim, though we all know this can trivially be defeated by just recoding content. I also don't understand why concepts of other parts of the law (link previews of snippets from news, Wikipedia and StackOverflow being shown on SERP pages so users don't go to the original source) aren't integrated, when there are obvious, widely used, and readily available techniques for linking, annotations and HTML metadata, or why these two issues should belong in the same law. I guess it's just a profoundly incompetent law.

I'm still confused who is behind the push for this part of "copyright" reform. German party CDU they say (eg. the party of Ms Merkel) with their buddy/sponsor Axel Springer Verlag, but OTOH last year's equally flawed law for online platforms self-censoring was initiated by Heiko Maas, SPD, so the lack of public or parliamentary discussion smells like a hidden quid-pro-quo deal here to me. I'd really appreciate links to more balanced and comprehensive coverage; even netzpolitik.org coverage is too one-sided IMHO.
Blockchain's Once-Feared 51% Attack Is Now Becoming Regular
ASMedia Demos USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 PHY, USB 3.2 Controller Due in 2019
It took years for the FDA to investigate Theranos in case you are not aware. And they only did when the press started digging up. Poor, poor track record.
Php-parser written in Go v0.5 is realized
Oh it's not just a watercooler, I'm not even sure those work well at the low temperatures needed (probably -10C or even less) even with antifreeze

It's at least an active chiller + heat transport equipment (which can be a watercooler but doesn't look like it)
> As a northern European I find it not only comfortable that Linus runs Linux, but I would be less comfortable if it was another American smile in face pretend to be your friend but be shady as fuck attitude that you guys seem to confuse for 'professionalism'.

This is a false dichotomy.

Most of what Linus says would run foul of HN's guidelines - which I'll paraphrase here as "don't call someone an asshole before making your real point", but that doesn't mean that everyone on HN is a 'smile in face pretend to be your friend but be shady as fuck'.
What nonsense. I am Dutch and live in the Netherlands, we are very direct and take little to no heed to hierarchy.

I never said that Linus should be fake friendly. I am saying that swearing does damage to moral and the power of his arguments.

Also, Steve Jobs was a notorious asshole and he is revered in the US despite this. There are countless other examples of CEOs and managers who are more than unfriendly in the US who are looked at as examples of how one should behave to be 'professional'.

Your being 'northern European' has nothing to do with any of what we are talking about. Maybe you can chalk your reaction to your apparent false sense of superiority over friendliness and, it seems, Americans.
I don't think you have to worry here. Even as a kernel contributor, you'd likely never interact directly with Linus.
While Linus may be right, why is it that we always find only "Linus ranting out against people" threads that trend? In a positive way, why don't we have "Linus gets ranted against" posts? Is it because Linus is always right? Or is it because nobody speaks up against Linus? Or is it because Linus isn't actively coding much since git days? Or is it just because it happens but doesn't get as much visibility?

I'm just asking this to see if this culture is one way or goes both ways...
Cisco Gets Modular with Servers in Epyc Fashion
Linux version has always been safe as far as I understand it. Not sure what platform you would have downloaded. Some distributions also have it in their repositories, and those were not affected either. It was really just the Windows binary hosted there.
Why Unilever, General Mills and P%G Aren't Good at Marketing in the New Economy
This is why in other threads I have often observed people asking for a more holistic approach to evaluate scientific output.

The problem, of course, is the establishment of true independence for the evaluating entity. Ideally a "score" or index should incorporate reproducibility way way way over which journal is publishing the research. Include funding sources, track record, institutions, and also reviewers!

In bioinformatics, I tried reproducing models from Cell papers and others, noticing that it's pretty much impossible to get the same results with the same data (!) according to described methods. Things like arbitrarily configured sets of R-scripts look more like someone tried to push certain results over actually investigating natural phenomena with the help of software.

The paramount experience is convincing authors to reveal their source code. Most are suspiciously reserved because they know they published "pretty" bullshit that journals like Cell were glad to publish, because the biology part of the paper has some "big names" on it.
Because the stuff you put in your messenger is usually not posted publicly but to private groups or single contacts?
You can put exterior signal cables yourself. The wall conducts for such cables still have to be put in place by electricians I believe, but not 100% sure.
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens_Charter
> Post history is relevant to assess if the person you're talking to has a very strongly set view on an extremely complex matter. If they do, that suggests that the reasons for the person spending time defending that view might not be motivated by exploration of ideas, but by evangelization of their view

Strange, perhaps we have different motivations for debating? My goal is generally to learn and understand why someone would think a certain way in contrast with my own way of thinking. Their motivations for the exchange are irrelevant to this, if at the end of it they agree with me that's nice but it's not the objective. Personally my favorite occasions are when I'm proven to be wrong.

> I think having an estimation of the person's motivation is important because conversations with people motivated by exploration of ideas can make for interesting, insightful and educational conversation, whereas the ones motivated by evangelization tend to be reduced to the same catchy but superficial arguments that they've learned over the years.

This is the part I'm finding confusing, the entire paragraph feels very hypocritical. How can you claim to be open to ideas while simultaneously dismissing the ones you deem unworthy? Is it that your own motivations don't matter but the ones you choose to speak to do? Superficial arguments don't matter when the goal is to understand the reason THEY believe something. If you believe you have heard it all before and choose not to spend your time on it then that's one thing, but you purposefully injected yourself into a discussion without adding anything other than a snarky comment that implied another poster was unworthy of being spoken to due to their more polarized views. How can you justify this?
Does anyone know if godot can be used as a 3d engine from c# too? Specifically as part of an existing application instead of a game?
Use your phone to search for the item on the Home Depot website. On the product detail page, there is a section that lists the Aisle and Bay where the product is located in the particular store you're visiting. Huge timesaver IME.

That doesn't help if you can't find the product on the web site or don't know what to use, but if you just want to know where 1/2" copper elbows are, the site will get you within 6 feet of them.
> "has come to the point"

It always was. Just look at the miracle medicine of the past.
It is not completely out of this world to imagine multiple private entities involved in pharma dossier reviews instead of having the FDA. The FDA employs tons of private consultants anyway so they bring virtually no value.
It doesn't even have to be pride. If he now says they're switching to Lidars, all cars before sold with "self-driving hardware" and "full SDC is only a software and computer upgrade away" promises are screwed, which may create a huge liability for Tesla, and impact share prices significantly. As CEO, he still has to answer to shareholders and act with them in mind.
Guerilla advertising to this effect appeared on the tube briefly.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/yvq9qg/david-graeber-poin...

Timed such that they appeared as most people were heading back to work for the first day after new years'
AI-powered drone warfare doesn't matter?

What does matter in your world?
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If you click on the members page you'll learn that Github is a gold member and microsoft is a platinum member of the linux foundation.

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/membership/members/
The guarantee to get a CPU which can run stable 5ghz on all cores within the TDP limit and only requiring a cooling solution which can handle the TDP.

If you need to overclock you don't get this and have to buy more expensive cooling and probably need to de-lit (remove the heatspreader) of your above 2000 dollar CPU (which can permanently damage it) to improve the thermals because Intel - unlike AMD - didn't solder their heatspreader. Even then, you're not guaranteed to get a chip which can run 5 ghz on all cores 24/7. The best 18 core HEDT from Intel I have seen to date was running 4.5ghz on all cores 24/7 with delidding and a custom loop.

The 28 core Xeon which this probably is based upon runs 2.5 ghz stock and can boost to 3.8 ghz on a single core (3 or 3.2 ghz on all cores I believe).
I am not against swearing and I do it as well. I find swearing at people who contribute to code off putting though.
the problem is signaling, i wanted to use ethereum for signaling but there is to much back and forth to establish a connection for it to be viable.
> However a good thing done for the wrong reasons is still a good thing.

Yes, but we should absolutely remember what the original intention was.
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This is the actual reason his manner of communication is poor - swearing and generally blunt language like this should be reserved for shaking people into action, whether it's due to their otherwise ambivalent attitude or the severity of the situation. By making a big fuss for every moderate concern he has, he leaves few options open for when the situation demands that people spring into action.
> easy way ... tax on fossil fuels

I'm not sure those two phrases belong in the same paragraph, for the same exact reasons stated by the gp.
I didn't say that he should write:

'Hey, great that you took the time to contribute, here are a few suggestions though.'

I am talking about things like: 'If you think xyz, then you are a fucking moron'.
This reminds me when Intel "tried" to sell overclocked PIII (Coopermine) @ 1.1GHz (IIRC) and then recalled it when it failed because it was an effective overclock (processors were unstable and overheating).

(It worked up to 1.2GHz, maybe 1.3GHz when they went to Tualatin based PIII - those also kicked the behind of higher clocked Willamette P4s)
There is no good reason at for any kind of ethic burden.

Some people steal; some might have even stole something from you. Doesn't mean you have to too, and I doubt most people are held back only by law/punishment.
"At the low end you're looking at a minimum of ~$1.34 trillion annually if we were able to capture 100% of the 32.5 GtC of emissions accumulated in the atmosphere in 2017 alone."

Just $1.34 trillion for the recycling of carbon of an entire year like 2017 is crazy cheap. Once installed, the machines can recycle every year for much less money. One has to wonder why it has not been done alreday.

Compare with:

Annual global fossil fuel subsidies amounting to $5.3 trillion in 2015 (6.5% of global GDP):
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X1...

Dr. Mark Skidmore – $21 Trillion Missing from US Federal Budget:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CwpjIwwI9o
That's all fine, but that person or group shouldn't expect everybody to love them afterwards. If anything, they should expect distrust and dislike.
i get an empty offer to copy and the following js error:
Error adding stream to pc1: NotFoundError: The object can not be found here. (FF + local ipfs gateway)
Students Pledge to Refuse Job Interviews at Google in Protest of Pentagon Work
The Xeon 28 core part seems to be 698mm² [0] while the AMD Ryzen 1800X is 213mm²

[0] https://www.anandtech.com/show/11839/intel-core-i9-7980xe-an...
Lack of stars usually means that project is dead or has absolutely no community, so a red flag. Plenty of stars only says it's popular, not that it's a good fit for you.
> publicly demonising those who made the mistake

But that isn't what is happening here at all. This code was merged. In fact Linus wasn't even yelling at the guy, rather the standards committee.

Just because you don't read 'atta boy, good job' doesn't mean it wasn't good. There was no mistake here.

In fact I'd be on your side if that is what he was doing.
Intel Confirms Some Details About 28 Core / 56 Threads 5GHz CPU:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/12932/intel-confirms-some-det...
It kinda makes me recall Sun Tzu's, and might not be the exact phrasing, "when weak, appear strong; when strong, appear weak".

Similar ideas:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluff_(poker)
People are overclocking using liquid Nitrogen for getting records but that is not something you can use practically, the backlash against what Intel did is that this overclock was hard to pull for regular use, it used so much power for cooling that some people on reddit suggested that you can't pull it from a regular power wall socket in some countries, also the demo was run for a few seconds that implies that if you would run it for a few minutes you may lose the ability to cool it enough and you will get less frequency.

A really cool feature the new AMD CPUs have is that they have a very well implemented turbo, if you give it good cooling it will know how to exploit it and give you more power.

As a side note, is a weird feeling running a 4 core/4 threads CPU when now workstation CPUs could reach up to 64 threads
I never take these "what Linus just said" posts for their face value. To me, it sounds as a half-staged, half-talking-to-buddies, mostly good-natured grudges, for some reason I cannot explain. (That said, I am not contributing to kernel, my very first post to some kernel list got a much worse response for no good reason (not from Linus). It was enough.)

But I work in customer support of highly technical products, and I visit various companies very often. By now, I can figure this type of persons from the first communication -- not the ones who does it the way Linus does it (see above), but the real a&^%$%^$les -- owning some inner knowledge unavailable to others, just because they happened to be here from the bigbang and haven't evolved since. Boy, is this "rough but just and truthful" attitude counter-productive to projects! I haven't seen any exception to that yet.
That's the biggest integrity-lacking cop-out imaginable.

"If I don't do it somebody else will!"
Ask HN: How do you backup/restore/repair your windows machine?
As I'm now self employed rather than relying on the enterprise I feel the need to have a decent backup and recovery strategy for my business machines. I'm aware that Mac's probably have this covered and I can't see this being an issue with Linux ( can easily start from usb drive or cd etc ) but I'm a bit more confused from a home windows user perspective.

Most machines I've bought don't have a Windows disk, everything is pre-installed. I can't create a recovery disk as I don't have a cd/dvd burner and therefore I can't load from the disk I don't have ;-) Assuming I can at least get to the bios menu I suppose there is a recovery option and I can repair using a disk image which I can store on an external hard drive or usb. Am I thinking along the correct lines.

Obviously data will be stored on external locations and probably cloud as well.
It's not really surprising, when so much effort has been invested in erasing any kind of higher purpose than money from western society. The idea that there is an obligation towards one's fellow humans and citizens leads to the idea that the mega-rich might be obliged to share a bit -- so that had to be silenced.
Doesn't seem like the US one does either.