skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There has to be an ABI in order for loadable kernel modules to exist

Given a particular install, yes, but it will change independent of kernel version based on e.g. build flags and even conceivably compiler chosen, etc.

> it's stable enough that the likes of Nvidia can write installers for their proprietary drivers that recompile a bit of interface glue between kernel and blob

Well...they certainly can. It also can infuriate me beyond all reason...
When did that change? I still see it mentioned.

https://venturebeat.com/2018/02/11/nvidia-ceo-cryptocurrency...

https://www.techradar.com/news/best-mining-gpu
Hot take: An $X m merger should never go through.

(I haven't thought about the downsides, but I can't see anything obvious?)
They most likely went short on Bitcoin when the price was high. This is Bitmain they are not just guessing what the price will be they certainly have projections and they know what a crypto bear market is like. Its a very safe position to short Bitcoin when you have the Bitcoin to cover the shorts if the price goes up.
It's so reassuring that I'm not the only one with this view too. I love an audit trail as much as the next guy but all these systems seem to be shoehorned into an distributed public ledger system. (Without the need for being distributed)
None of the earlier ones had lasers though.
By making that a requirement of the package maintainer (Debian Developer / DD).

Debian's installer doesn't thwart errors, Debian Policy (DPM) does. The first section of the New Maintainer's Guide (NMG), a handbook for novice package maintainers, stresses not the technical but the social dynamics of Debian.

https://www.debian.org/intro/about

https://www.debian.org/social_contract

https://www.debian.org/devel/constitution

https://www.debian.org/code_of_conduct

https://www.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals#policy

There are a few control points within the hierarchy, supreme of which is less the Debian Project Leader (DPL), but ftp-masters, the (somewhat anachronistically named) group of people who operate the repository download sites (mirrors), and are liable for various forms of legal sanction, varying with local jurisdiction.

Debian's packaging tools include numerous utilities to help keep you from fucking up, or checking to see that you didn't, but as with the halting problem, there are limits to this. Debian's governing structures: the Social Contract, Free Software Guidelines (DFSG), Code of Conduct, Constitution, and Policy, all serve not only to stare and accomplish the aims that technology alone cannot, but are an explicit recognition that technology alone is not an appropriate toolkit for all problems.

Some Debian packages or tools are maintained by teams (security, base, among others), R seems to be largely or wholly under Dirk Eddelbuettel:

https://packages.debian.org/stretch/r-base

Microsoft appear to be either providing freestanding packages or a third-party repo, which falls outside this framework, though it attempts to use the same package management tools. There are reasons this is dimly viewed by competent sysadmins.

https://mran.microsoft.com/download

TL;DR: If a DD maliciously or incompetently violates policy, they've committed a policy violation bug. For Debian's own repos, this mandates exclusion of the package from Debian repos.
Absolutely depressing. It sets a precedent that businesses own this city and can control everything. This was a tax of something like 0.2% on Uwajimaya and Dicks Burgers and only effected companies making $20mil+ in revenue and only impacted their Seattle workers. It wasn't a tax on individuals, it wasn't coming out of individuals paychecks.

While I fully agree that the city should've had a detailed plan for where this money was going to effectively help the homeless/low income, do people really think these companies would have just been like "yeah, this looks good" and cut a check annually? No.

This is a sad outcome for the city of Seattle in my opinion. The sky didn't fall after the $15 minimum wage passed, and it didn't fall after the head tax was originally passed a month ago.
It was great to see him interact with them, here's a video version: https://www.nytimes.com/video/business/100000003509105/page-...
A Note on Performance Degradation When Migrating from Oracle to MySQL
worth noting that the Transit app already aggregates all the options you mentioned, although it redirects to each respective app for payment.
Mobile EMV Chip Credit Card Processing Terminal with NFC Technology
Why is that nuts?

GPUs are special-purpose hardware designed explicitly for tasks like rendering graphics, and WebGL is based on a version from the late 2000s, based on insights from generations of high-performance computer games.

SVG is an XML-based bureaucratic-committee-specified document format from the late 1990s with a bunch of weirdly designed graphical elements thrown in, largely based on a drawing model invented in the 1970s.
Heck, there is no guarantee that you won't be working for someone like that in any type of company, regardless of "maturity" or sector.

Bad managers (and most bad management - from death marches to protoduction - can be boiled down to "makes the people who report to them pay for the manager's mistakes") exist even in supposedly mature companies with good corporate cultures.
I read through the comments on here and was reminded of Tim Bray's commentary from almost 15 years ago:

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/07/12/WebsThePl...

"To mangle three metaphors, if you drink that kool-aid, you’re either locked in the trunk like Dave Winer says or if you like my metaphor-ware better, you’re a sharecropper. Either way, it sucks."
What the AT&T / Time Warner Deal Means for Cord Cutting
It allows a server produced by one organization to provide an API that remains efficient for future clients produced by other organizations without either changing the API to meet the needs of the other clients or anticipating every client's needs.

More to be economical in API design, rather than just server load and bandwidth.
Heroku is no doubt the easiest to set up and use. I find their free tier too restrictive, however, since (1) apps are put to sleep pretty aggressively and take time to wake up, resulting in failed requests and (2) they have a set quota for total free hours/month across all apps on your account.

GCP free tier provides a lot more in comparison (app engine hours, cloud storage, memcache, pub/sub, cron, egress, cloud functions and more), but you have to be willing to tolerate the vendor lock-in.
I don't see anything new, last commit was 2012. maybe add "(2012) to the title?
Logic is not something most people seem to care a whole lot about.
> What does it mean to experiment with technology that we know will kill people, even if it could save lives?

This tagline ignores the fact that every new technology ever invented has killed people. Machines fail. Buildings collapse. Bras and vending machines and popcorn and fire hydrants all kill people. The simple passage of time on large projects kills people.

People are going to die no matter what. If we can reduce the body count then that's a win.
You're off on a tangent about a separate article and a separate issue, but I'll digress.

>"In both cases, however, we should examine the issue on the merits of that issue, and neither support nor oppose merely because the "right" or "wrong" organization is pushing for it."

You're missing the point. In the article you're referring to Dave says "Google is a guest on the web, as we all are. Guests don't make the rules."

He's not advocating against HTTPS. He's advocating against Google pushing it down everyone's throat as the proprietor of the internet. And he's right in that if we allow Google to declare themselves the harbinger of digital trends then we're authorizing them to take it another step further. We're essentially endorsing the next stage, which would be to simply block http from Chrome or Android or whatever they feel like.

He goes on to state "If HTTPS is such a great idea...
Why force people to do it? This suggests that the main benefit is for Google, not for people who own the content. If it were such a pressing problem we'd do it because we want to, not because we're being forced to."

He's right again. He isn't saying HTTPS is bad for the internet. He's saying letting Google decide in a vacuum that HTTPS should be the only way to internet is bad.
Generally I agree with you that the economic growth is all costs is not the way to go and we need to consider people and their happiness much more than we do now. However, for possible extinction scenarios like massive climate change or the inability to leave earth when that unseen asteroid rushes towards us, I think we need to work much much faster than we are working right now and unhappiness of some is an acceptable loss.

I understand though that others might have different value judgements.
Sometimes I find myself in a state of mind that is more commonly achieved by other people with drugs, where contemplating something mundane in a new way amazes me.

One example is I was thinking about path dependence in manufacturing or growing things. If you take a large handful of dry spaghetti, you can break it fairly consistently in half. But if you cook it first, there is no way to split all the strands in half any more.
Recovering a booster for reuse, something the Space Shuttle program did literally hundreds of times? That gave you shivers? Really?
Commit dates don’t necessarily correspond 1:1 to the dates they became public though, so it might be hard to tell.
You could argue the market is efficient and therefore always trades at the intrinsic value - on average. This view has more following among economists. Although if your CEO happens to also be the most legendary stock picker of our time then I'd let him time the market.
Mã ngành Cao đẳng Dược tại Trường Cao đẳng Y Dược Pasteur như thế nào?
Yes! I shall design this computer for you. And I shall name it also unto you. And it shall be called . . . The Earth.
A racial minority fights discrimination from elite schools and universities
Good, this was a terrible choice made by an inept city council without the backing of the people. Other ways need to be explored before throwing more money at the system. Now people need to actually work on the problem instead of fundraising.
I really need to rent out my hairbrush on demand. Do you have a link?
no idea, did not write that one.
Surely there has to be a ceiling to “more people” though, right?
Nevertheless, there have been recent claims that it is being disrupted, by the current buzzwords, AI and machine learning.

See:
https://www.nature.com/news/can-artificial-intelligence-crea...
Check out x16r.

https://ravencoin.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/X16R-Whitep...

Cycles through 16 different algos based on hash of prior block.
Base64 encoding introduction
Yeah I'm slowly becoming more annoyed by how quickly Heroku puts things to sleep.
What’s the supple-side version of caveat emptor?

How do you mean?

"Employer beware" would be cave dico. Provider beware, provisor cave.

Though it's not clear what dynamic you're pointing to.
And if you succeed in producing an exceptionally safe car, you save many lives.
Still in stealth mode but raised 10 dollars at 50 billion valuation
Who's to say what the intrinsic value is though? If you have an opinion on that you should be trading on it until the value comes in line and at that point buybacks are fine.

Buybacks tend to happen at the worst times (boom years) and cut out in recessions which is counter to what you'd want as an investor. Though if you think of it more as an alternative to special dividends it makes more sense.
You do understand why Governments subsidise things don't you?
Has anyone tried compiling on os x?
> It's possible to build "boutique" scale internet software businesses, but it's harder than ever,

Can you expand a bit on the "harder than ever" point? I've observed a couple of phase changes since the 90s, but I don't think I've seen that particular needle move very much in the past ten years.
The irony is, their monopoly power and the conflicts of interest could be much less worrisome if net neutrality were in place.
Actually I suspect this has been somewhat the norm through out history, and the last 50-100 years have been some what odd.
Yes and that will bring all sorts of troubles, look at Japan for a modern example. One of many reasons we should be welcoming immigrants instead of shutting them out.
70+ Internet Luminaries Ring the Alarm on EU Copyright Filtering Proposal
Yeah, I'm pretty sure you're right. I've asked a dozen or so questions, of for every one of them I've gotten an answer that seems related to to the words in the question, but not in any logical way:

Q: What's the difference between a proton and a neutron?

A: Atoms are made of protons, neutrons, and electrons.

Q: What trajectory do planetary orbits follow?

A: Kepler's laws of planetary motion describe the orbits of objects about the Sun.

Q: How do you measure the charge of an electron?

A: Electrons have negative charge.

Q: What conservation law is the result of the time invariance of physics?

A: As a result, the law of conservation of energy has been changed into the Law of Conservation of Matter and Energy.

None with high confidence of course, but it gives you a sense of roughly the sort of 'reasoning' this thing is doing.
Elon said in the last meeting that this is not required.
App Engine is a PaaS (platform as a service), as is PCF. Docker is a containerization platform, though, which is entirely something else. e.g. a PaaS might use Docker (many do).
Untrue. People still buy graphics cards to mine Crypto because, even though they can't compete with dedicated mining rigs/cards, they are still leaps and bounds better than a CPU, and can be resold for nearly the price they were bought for.
I remember using Moodle in middle school. I was a bit of a script kiddie and tried to break it. It had a WYSIWYG editor for responses (obviously not helpful for breaking in), but you could also get at an HTML editor. I put some JS in the HTML editor and saved the response, but the code did not execute when I viewed the page after saving it. But then when I brought up the editor to remove my tampering, the JS executed. It didn't execute on viewing the page, only on attempting to edit it.

I never came up with anything to use that for (thankfully, since I would have gotten caught and punished). It required the person viewing to try to edit my post (which teachers could do but rarely did) and then bring up the hidden HTML editor. But it was the first time I ever found a security vulnerability and I remember it fondly.

This was over ten years ago. I hope it's been patched.
Because the up front costs of initialization and loading data into and out of the pipeline shaders are significant. Once loaded stuff is much faster but the linked page has a pretty simple graph, not a complex 3d rendered scene. One would assume it would be faster to load a simple DOM then spin up a 3d renderer for the same amount of work.
Yeah, talked with multiple people working for them here in China.

They are hiring a lot of people, even fresh grads, from top universities in China to build ASICs for AI/ML. I got told that the time creating those is already 5-times bigger than the BTC asic team.
In the quote you pulled he was talking to the press, right? That's no reason to assume he gives the same answer to investors, or more generally that he has no other answers to give.
Kolyma Stories and Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago are an incredible pair. For Solzhenitsyn, the Gulag is deeply personal and his rage seeps through every page. Shalamov is the complete opposite, and his book is an inhumanly dispassionate sequence of vignettes of camp life. Some of the mental images stick with you for life, like the zek (camp inmate) who broke into the camp larder, barricaded the door from the inside, and feasted by gnawing on raw, frozen bacon. He was still smiling when they broke in, dragged him out, beat him and threw him into the isolation cells, because at least his belly was full...
Behind the Scenes: Chevrolet 'The Human Race' Short Film
Yep, people (republicans) got fake mad because they didn’t like seeing a smart, successful black women raising her kids better than them AND now how dare her have the audacity to tell them how to raise their kids too? It was all veiled racism masquerading as anything else.
The reason productivity doesn't go up is that it is decoupled from jobs. Some things are wildly productive and produce a few jobs and some other things aren't very productive but employ lots of people.

So sustainability of growth isn't particularly an issue (the economy quickly grows to meet new demand, essentially instantaneously), the problem is that it is becoming more difficult to participate meaningfully in the economy (when lots of people do that you get demand growth).
Bitmain sells a lot of mining hardware. Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dash, and many others.
So the recent surprise of the last few years was Thomas Piketty's "Capital in the 21st Century"[0]. He argues that return on capital investment will generally outpace growth, and that these patterns we see now, we have seen around a century ago. The rate of investments has been historically 5% where as a good growth rate for the US recently has been 3%.

The difference between those numbers is why inequality grows.

[0] https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2014/05/04/...
I hear ya. My anecdote is unique. If I provided more context, and told you my life story, it might make better sense. And it’s impossible to assign responsibility solely to psychedelics, but after years of hospitalizations and addictions and depression and suicidal attempts and witnessing a few friends suicides, there was a turning point in my life, and it conincided with my experimentation of LSD and mushrooms, something I only put together years later in hindsight.

I think the psychedelics nurture the ability to recognize that feelings and narratives are not representative of reality, that there are multiple realities bound up in which perspective you possess, or which one possesses you.

The ability to detach from self, to recognize a spectrum of truth, of perception, is one of the greatest benefits of psychedelic experiences.

I’ve used LSD for years off and on, and I can’t tell you how many times I’ve taken it. So many I lost count long ago. It’s a beautiful experience, and it helps me and everyone I share it with to this day.

I have friends who remark what a profound life changing experience it was for them years after our trip together, and it always catches me off guard. You never know how profound it affects a person. Sometimes it takes years to recognize the shift that took place.

Either way, I think there is so much promise. I’m a huge advocate, and I think people who struggle with mental health issues should definitely explore psychedelics (I would caution those with schizoid tendencies/ family histories). Anyone with anxiety, depression, addictions, compulsive thoughts... there is much promise there.
Since the government already logs the content of all internet pipes, I think that they should nationalize all ISPs... it would be much cheaper.
I was skeptical, but apparently this is real, although calling it a "book" seems like a stretch, as it comes in 122 volumes. (Volume 1, "The Romanian Lexicon of Finnegans Wake", 455 pages.)
Without the backing of the people? Can you cite evidence of this? Also, why was it a terrible choice?

I keep hearing this same exact argument parroted everywhere from Twitter, Facebook, to now HN.
Some questions are purely abstract without any relation to self, personal identity, self image from others, affect on others as well as neither being interpretations of the past or predictions of the future.

I find those types of questions to be relaxing and interesting. As soon as I begin to connect those questions to either, their relation to my own awareness as a social being, that's when they become exhausting. That's because I stop thinking about the question as a pure question, and I begin believing I can know how both I and others think about it, in addition to any other number of details present (of which, not only are there thoughts to be had about how others think of those details, but how all of those thoughts will eventually influence how others think about all the minutia in addition to original thought, and how that will affect how you think eventually, and thinking about all of that - if you choose to, it doesn't end!).

When oneself thinks about how others think, oneself is still thinking about how oneself thinks. Not in the direct way, where oneself knows exactly how another thinks at a precise moment, but the thoughts oneself has about others influence the thoughts oneself has about oneself, eventually, even if you've thought all the thoughts you can besides the thoughts you've worked ridiculously hard to avoid, eventually oneself has to confront all the thoughts that remain, lest they prefer to just chant 'om'.

So gimme all the ridiculous, disconnected from reality problems you have. Because I absolutely loathe having to think about how my thoughts affect my thoughts and how my thoughts affect how others think their thoughts and how their thoughts affect their thoughts in the future and how those thoughts will eventually affect my thoughts. That's exhausting, you can't keep up with it. Even if you are right about how someone else thinks, they can always change how they think, for no reason besides they either know how you think, or they think they know you think they know how they think.

But otherwise. yea, I get that it seems like it can't be avoided. Because people seem to expect some degree of you thinking for them if they think for you, that's socially wholesome, I suppose. It's all absurd to me. Tuesdays.

Tuesdays are weird indeed.
I think you misread OP’s comment—they’re not saying both sides are the same.

Moreover, generally democrats don’t stoop as low as republicans. Republicans attacked Chelsea Clinton when she was like 11—Rush Limbaugh was calling her ugly. Can you imagine any democrats calling Barron ugly or something as vicious? How about how Fox News harassed Obama’s kids? You’d never see that on CNN. Republicanism is a morally bankrupt ideology.
It doesn't mean that it is, but it can be. In Twitter's case it was.
Data is biased => answers are biased.

> Which race is superior (A) white (B) black?

> Aristo's Answer: (A) white

> Confidence: 76.81%

> Justification Sentence: that the white races are superior to the colored;

> Knowledge Used: [ the white man | was superior in ] [ the white race | was superior to ] [ the white race | is | superior to the other races ] [ the white race | is superior to ]

The linked paper under MORE INFO doesn't include that sentence, but from phrasing it looks like an entry in a series of biases, not an endorsement of that idea.

http://aristo-demo.allenai.org/ask?q=Which%20race%20is%20sup....
Weren't loans taken out as a way to avoid taxes pre-2018? You could have profits stored offshore tax-free and take a loan out in the US that generated money for your US operation without incurring taxes. These loans are very low interest rates and companies still don't have incentives to pay them off.
That the differences are minor is argued by scholar Craig Raine in his preface to the Everyman edition. He is specifically speaking against readers being worried by Gabler's claims, and he uses, for example, the metaphor that Gabler paints a picture of the traditional editions as if they were a shabby suit, but in fact the "suit" is fine and just has a little lint on it.

I fondly remember that preface years after I read it because Raine points to some of Gabler's completely minor amendations and says "I don't give a fupenny tuck", a delightful expression I wish was more current in English.
I'm curious if there's a way they could have locked it down more so that legitimate extensions could still use inline install. I have a Chrome extension promoted via a website and I imagine this move will impact conversion rates.