skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once you've created a concept, characters, and "world," it's really tempting to run with it for a long time. Check out just about any genre literature. See also sequelitis in movies. I don't disagree but creating a unique concept takes a lot of work and time--for which there's generally less money in TV than in film--and a lot of fans will consume it endlessly.
We don’t have much in the way of pedestrian navigation right now, apart from crosswalks and such. But you’re right that perhaps crosswalks that cars must yield to (California style) should be the last to go.
It looks like that reverses the arguments? You could do

args = self.stack[-n:]
del self.stack[-n:]
self.push(function_requested(*args))

or maybe

self.stack[-n:] = [function_requested(*args)]
Sillycon Valley is how I have long referred to it.
A Jevon's paradox on battery life. Hmm, yea.
You need a better ad-blocker. uMatrix/uBlock Origin works perfectly on this page.
Then why are these EMTs administering such high doses that the patient can no longer breathe? Are these people not trained properly? Seems like there are other ways to restrain someone that doesn't put their life or the EMTs life in danger. Obviously police don't give a fuck if a suspect dies or not but shouldn't the EMTs care? Not least of all because it's literally their entire job to care for and save lives?
But apparently they are much worse in clear weather, so the new EU regulation require white lights:

> Whilst yellow light improves visibility in wet or foggy conditions, it can also be harder to see with yellow lights in clear conditions. As a result, many vehicles today use yellow lights only as fog lights.

> White lights are the most popular colour for the headlights of today. In many countries, headlights are no longer allowed to be yellow and must be white in colour. European regulations, for example, require all new vehicles to be manufactured with white headlights.
We have some of those down here too but not many, they do make more sense - I see the same thing though, people slowing down and speeding up after the cameras, i think they just don't read - their loss.
That's why there's a proposal for requiring two's complement integers in the next version of the standard for C.
> If anything, most of the technically competent desi people in US have a US degree.

What I understood GP to be saying is that "most desi people in US having a US degree are technically incompetent".

Both these view points are not incompatible, and true in my experience.
I've noted several times that the lack of a time limit leads to Netflix shows carrying content better off on the cutting room floor. Both television and movies have considerations for length that force cuts that... Really I've come to find value in.

Some of Netflix's Marvel shows for example, are great, but could really use a more aggressive editor.
"Beauty", in this context, means "concise". Basic physical laws used to be very short, with no arbitrary constants. "F = ma". "E = ir". "E = m*c^2". Kepler's laws. Maxwell's equations. The Schroedinger wave equation. When researchers discovered the general rules that described how things worked, they could be expressed as simple expressions. Physics progressed by discovering such simple expressions.

Then that stopped working. That's the crisis.
Python 3.6.5 (default, Apr 4 2018, 15:01:18)

...even weirder:

>>> fs[0].__closure__ == fs[1].__closure__

True
Strangely enough, from reading the forums, it seems that AHK's syntax makes sense for non-programmers, while programmers seem to dislike it.
The first thing I did when I worked on a mac was switch to using iTerm. Strange that you like the default one so much, honestly. Why?

But yea, I wish linux distros had something like iTerm. Guake/ Terminator/ whatever just aren't as good.
I'd argue they have negative value to experienced users.
I assume that you're referring to the fact that you cannot create iOS builds from Linux. Otherwise the toolchain works just as well on Linux as it does on Mac.
> if you power it with "green energy" then it doesn't really matter pollution-wise, and cost-wise it takes a long time to recoup the cost of switching all the bulbs in energy savings.

It doesn't matter what energy source any individual application is using, it only matters what happens at the margin. For example, if a city switching to slightly more efficient lightbulbs allows a coal power plant to be mothballed one year earlier, then it saves an entire year of coal power emissions from happening.

Furthermore, streetlights operate on a complete inverse power curve to solar, meaning that additional solar is very unlikely to benefit streetlight power.
"Typically, FeF3∙3H2O and CoF3 were ball milled at a molar ratio of 9:1 for 30 min to reduce the particle size and get a homogeneous reactant mixture. Then, 170 mg of such mixture was dispersed in 1-propanol (75 ml) and stirred vigorously at room temperature for half an hour. The resulting suspension was transferred into a Teflon-lined 100 ml stainless-steel autoclave reactor, and subsequently sealed and heated at 210 °C for 24 h in an oven. For comparison, FeOF was also synthesized by the same procedure using pure FeF3∙3H2O as the starting material dispersed in butyl-alcohol. FeF3 was prepared by ball milling the as-purchased FeF3 for 6 h. The pre-lithiation of Fe0.9Co0.1OF is synthesized by ball milling Fe0.9Co0.1OF and LiH at a molar ratio of 1:2 for 10 h."

This is standard ceramic slurry processing, they mix the powders with some liquid and then heat the two ceramics together to do a solid state reaction. I am somewhat impressed that the reaction went suitably at 210C, but that's not particularly hot. I'd think that the raw material costs would dominate here.

EDIT: Ball milling is when you spin a jar on rollers with the ceramic powder and big teflon beads that crush it gradually over a long period of time. It can be done dry or wet, but it's not a fancy procedure.
Rarely does X cause Y in all but the simplest of mechanical processes. Rather X is a contributing factor to Y, when conditions A, B or C are present.

I'm sure inequality boosts suicide rates when depression, fear of the future (going to jail, an embarrassing truth coming out, etc.) or emotional distress/trauma are present.
Well, that is, as a relative share, in absolute numbers it is still enough for services like inoreader to do fairly well.
After all these years I was just about to try using macrofab and getting electronics produced in the US for the first time. I guess that doesn't make sense now.

I thought this was all about encouraging US manufacturing jobs?
> Mac OS came from Mach

I believe you mean OS X, not MacOS.

Apple could switch OS X to entirely proprietary underpinnings and few customers would even notice. In fact, OpenStep ran just fine on top of NT. [And also on top of then-non-open Solaris].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStep
Since I don't have py3 installed at the moment, I can't check anything, but I'd guess this is two closures with distinct ids but the same environments, and == is doing a structural comparison rather than an identity comparison. Wish I could look into it right now.
How is there a .cern TLD? Are there any other highly specific TLDs? I'm assuming they're not available to the public right?
Friendlier article: https://www.fliegerfaust.com/airbus-boeing-engines-problems-...
They could even be adventurous and offer multiple downloads with different extension bundles. These would be easy to implement; because extension bundling already exists as "collections"[1]. Something like:

- Standard Firefox with our officially recommended extension. (use for the front-page/default download)

- Minimal Firefox without any extensions or other optional features. ("Try this on older/slower computers")

- Developer Starter Kit with a selection of extensions related to web development.

- Social Media Special with more extensions like Pocket plus quality-of-life features for people that spend z lot of time on Facebook/etc.

Having a variety of options is important, because there isn't a universal spaghetti sauce[2].

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/

[2] https://www.ted.com/talks/malcolm_gladwell_on_spaghetti_sauc...
As someone who loves salt, I will gladly add this to my collection in the game of Cherry Pick Evidence For Your Preferred Nutrition.

You'd think that science would make things here a little more conclusive by now...
You need to ask for the postmaster general and if that doesn't work escalate up the chain. I've had a few issues with my mail delivery and after one call it was sorted.
Google maintains it
Yep. The high-bits thing puzzled me as well because I thought shift-and-xor folding was standard practice. Also multiply-and-shift-down still tends to favour certain bits over others.
You obviously have a good heart for asking the question!

I have a feeling that whatever decisions you finally take would take into consideration the wellbeing of your employees.

I would assume that the folks who are doing the legacy stuff have the necessary aptitude to pick up the skills that are needed to automate for the future. Can their existing data center skills be translated into learning about AWS/Azure, VMs, Containerization and the necessary scripting and DSLs around those toolsets?

Obviously there will be reductions in headcount but give them the option to retool for the future. Even if they are not all retained but if you retrain them then they will still have options elsewhere with relevant skillsets.

You are finally running a business after all where revenue and profit are the drivers.

Good luck and I would say that your employees are luckier than those who consider them as mere resources and not people with lives and loved ones to take care of.
There is just such a lack of good, well-done dietary research that it's almost impossible to know what advice is true, what advice is probably true and what advice is just made up. Obviously these studies are extremely difficult to do well, and hence why they haven't been done. But the cost to society is much, much greater than the cost of these studies.
I honestly wish people could just sign waivers and sidestep the red tape. There needs to be a bit of a precedent set in that area IMO.

Reminds me of a current-affairs segment I saw on Australian TV many years (~a decade) ago on someone who was pursuing an alternative cancer therapy for their young son.

It took me a couple of days to properly digest the slightly disorientating/uncharacteristic format/presentation used by this particular episode: I eventually realized there was no explanation other than that the presenter had been told to "bad cop"-interrogate the person on the show in order to get footage to make them look weak, and on further thought (just now) I reckon they probably didn't crumble as much as the show had hoped and the resulting edited-together footage was a bit cacophonic/disjointed, heheh.

Learned a bit about the media (and that presenters really have no rights if they want to keep their jobs) that week.

I don't even remember what the therapy was in question (or the country the family had traveled to to pursue it), but the person on the show was more or less close to demonized for their choices. I decided it was suspicious that this had been put on TV for whatever reason; why did I need to see this?

I mention this example to point out that setting the aforementioned precedent seems like it will generally be very hard. :(
> is anyone realistically compiling C code with the abstract C machine from the standard as their target

There are a lot of people that try. The nasty issue I've seen with the C standard is that most things work even if you bend the rules, until they suddenly don't and deviate in a weird way when you least expect it. Say you were porting software like this to a different compiler/architecture: how happy would you be to have to track down that floating point operations were broken because the author made assumptions about where the code would be running?
Core cryptocurrency use cases
So is this the problem that led to the recent engine failure, and passenger death?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/southwest-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16860902
I kind of agree. It's hard to give weight to such a trivial, solvable irritant. I just wish it wasn't this way.
It would be great for accessibility if the pixellation was the result of a font, rather than actually using images to represent the text.
I'm old and now believe in the hereafter. I walk into a room and ask myself, "What am I here after?"
I'm on a ketogenic diet and I measure out a full tablespoon of salt for my daily consumption. I usually get somewhere between 7-8 grams of sodium a day. My mind was blown when I saw the McMaster study on sodium that found that for normal diets, 5 grams daily showed no increased mortality of all causes. I think it was too much below 3g or much above 7g is where things start to get dangerous. I had to do some trial and error to find the right amount of salt for me and I'm still tweaking it here and there.
It also temporarily reduces IQ. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/poverty-intellige...
BTW. It may sound flippant but if you used more paragraph breaks your arguments would be more persuasive.

"Wall of Text" ~= "Probably an incoherent rant"
Yea, I doubt that it's universal. Most humans who ever existed probably lived in a one-room house of some type or other.
Well, they didn't matched the resonant frequency of the blades with that of the enfine vibration at high thrust. Probably didn't allocated enough people and resources for even such basic stuff.
I usually forget why I exited
Honest question, why do you think that there should be totally free movement? Let’s say the US economy implodes, should a few hundred million Americans be allowed to pick a country to take over by default and sheer strength of numbers? What if half the population of India felt like moving to Mexico? What if half of the population of Mexico felt like moving to Vanu’Atu?
https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/talentdraft.io

> Is talentdraft.io down? It's not just you! talentdraft.io looks down from here.
How is this accomplished? Is it because of Tokyo's railway system?

Another example of cheap and fast delivery is in New Zealand, which is very roughly similar in size as Japan (and an island!) But infrastructure there is much, much, simpler.
Not sure what you're asking; if you're against the idea of government being involved in declaring who is and who isn't married and defining special benefits for married people, then great, me too. Let's abolish marriage and in the cases of government employees either pay them enough to support a family or have a way to declare dependents, married or not.

But we don't live in that world so a marriage license is the way to declare to the government "I have legal dependents now." This is part of the reason why the legality of gay marriage was a big deal.

And regardless of what you call it, it's probably a good idea for the well-being of those in the military to pay for their dependents' housing. As a U.S. taxpayer you're pretty much getting a deal by underpaying those in the military who aren't married. It's not a place to go to get rich.
I'm having trouble understanding this view. Of course most of the big projects like Linux or the browsers have corporate backing, but that ignores the huge amount of work done on much smaller projects by unpaid devs. I don't understand how anyone could say "I can’t think of a significant counterexample" as the author does; surely that just reflects his ignorance of anything beyond big corporate projects. Most of the programs I'm interacting with daily are built by volunteers; that's pretty typical of the Linux ecosystem.

Sure, Firefox has corporate backing, but the half dozen or so extensions that make the browser useful for me are all built by volunteers. uBlock, uMatrix, TreeStyleTab, Stylus, etc etc.

My backup software, borg? Built by volunteers. My music software, mpd? Built by volunteers. GIMP, useful for quick edits? Volunteers. My text editor, most of the games I play, terminal utilities, torrent clients? Volunteers too. Even the enormous amount of packaging work and bug triage done for my distribution (Arch Linux) is done by volunteers.

Even KDE and Gnome, I suspect, don't have many devs hired by corps to work on those projects. (Though I might be mistaken.)

Maybe by lines of open source code, rather than number of projects, you'd have an argument that corps do most of the work. But when it comes to the program ecosystem on Linux desktops, you're completely surrounded by a bunch of volunteer projects.
Android exposes almost nothing from Linux to the NDK, specially after the lockdown on Nougat.
> dart on the server is not officially supported

What gives you that idea? The Dart VM is listed on the platform page for command line and server side programs. https://www.dartlang.org/guides/platforms
Just do it. Most old school sysadmins want to write their Perl and sh scripts not terraform and cloud formation scripts.

I got my devs to embrace GCP, AWS, ansible, terraform, docker, k8s, devops and SRE before most of the admins. Most of them left to go safe companies where they can stick to their old ways.
Cycling Robot
I still find his work mindblowing. He's like a mix between Goya, Picasso and Dali but almost half a millenium ago!
Mechanically jet engines are pretty simple devices, though - basically just a bunch of connected fans. But when covered with wires and pipes and such, they may look quite complicated at first glance.

What line of business are you in that your team was considered inefficient in comparison?
Open source makes sense for widely used, preferably infrastructural things. Operating systems, various network servers, programming languages.

Most companies' has a very limited audience and a very narrow purpose; it can't benefit from the network effect.
You can use AutoIt's Python wrapper, its somewhat reliable and I use it in automation in production.
Or it could be the causation is correct, but for a rather unsavory reason, the wealth came from economic rents due to IP protections. The argument that IP defenders need to make is that these innovations could not have happened without strong IP protections, and I’ve never seen a compelling argument for this.
A lambda is no different in scoping rules than a regular function def. If you put a def in a loop, you'll find the same behavior.

Closures are only created for functions defined inside other functions. Thus the term non-local. They're variables that are neither local nor global.

Don't call it broken when it works as intended.
The certs are cheap $150 each. If you have that many you can create your own internal exam
Very interesting. I'm affected by high blood pressure so I monitor it pretty closely.

If I need to get my blood pressure down, there are three levers that consistently work:

° reducing sodium - note: I really like salty things, so it's very easy for me to push 6-7k mg or more, especially when I was in college eating cafeteria and frozen food constantly. Also, drowning things in hot sauce, to which I am mildly addicted.

° exercising.

° cutting out alcohol and certain other vices.

Everyone's different, so if you're worried about it, talk to your doctor and consider starting a monitoring program. I like home monitoring; IME knowing exactly the impact of my choices on my blood pressure helps me make good choices.

It's good to hear the guidance might become a little more sane - it is extremely difficult to eat a normal (by any American standard at least) diet and be less than a few thousand mg.
That's three good stories from Paleotronic in just a few days. They seem to be doing well.
So far, I've used it to connect with remote mySQL/mariaDb and SQLite. In my opinion its pretty reliable, a lot than Sikuli.
> MS Office was essentially feature-complete by Office 95

Were Excel data tables the same before 2007 (or was it 2010)? Right now they're very easy to use but not sure about earlier.
Why would Amazon want to inherit UPS's union and pension liabilities? Easier to just start from scratch with the latest tech and zero legacy costs.
If you are in a position to make decisions for that many people, is it a safe assumption that you have a fairly robust knowledge of how to enact organizational change? Because based on my limited knowledge, major change like this has processes to be worked through which will help answers some key questions -- what is the current and future state, who will gain/lose, what will your communication plan and transition plan be, etc.

You have much more knowledge to give those answers than we do. What to tell employees, and who can/not be saved from losing their job depends on those answers.

I will say that open communication, with complete answers of what people should expect, will help the change to happen without losing the trust of those who do get to stick around. You will have some harsh truths to share. If I worked for you, I would want to hear them as soon as there are enough answers to not leave me in limbo on how it affects me, personally. Not sooner, not later.
I'll say that I don't think it's very likely that the CIO / CTO of an "old traditional" F50 would be coming to HN for advice on a migration of data centers to cloud. You would be talking to one of the big professional services consultancies.
Not generally: most compilers make use of the SSE instruction set which doesn't have extended precision. Occasionally old versions of gcc on 32-bit machines will still use the old x87 instructions (which do have extended precision), but these are becoming increasingly rare in the wild.
your name on the network is your wallet address, and not your own, actual name. hence psuedonymous. you’re inventing some bizarre definition of the word.
Beamer is nice if you have a few weeks on your hands to spare. :P If you need to throw together a presentation for 3 days from now and you don't already know exactly what it should look like I wouldn't recommend it.
But they're talking about all source sodium, not just added sodium. How much sodium is in the rest of your food?

EDIT: one tablespoon is 18 gm of salt. That's over 6 gm of sodium.

EDIT2: Also, the study you're talking about says this:

> We noted that most of the world’s population (about 95%) studied consumes more than 3 g/day of sodium, regardless of hypertension status and only 22% consume 6 g/day or more of sodium—the threshold above which we note an increase in mortality and cardiovascular disease risk.
With any WSJ article, just open twitter and copy&paste the title. Any link to WSJ from twitter will get around the paywall -- even tweets from the official WSJ twitter account.

here ya go:
https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1007786098859413504
In my limited understanding, guanxi has the taste of corruption, not openness. People doing favors for those they know rather than a free, open, arms-length market which provides more liquidity and opportunity. Is that wrong?
One of the little talked-about but very prevalent problems in research is the endless number of lobbyists behind “scientific” findings and the products they promote.
I thought since Netflix paid for the content they produce, they would benefit at least some amount from the product placement, such as Toyota in Narcos. I don't blame them, it is business after all, but I notice when it pulls you out of the moment.
> That's precisely his point: Experienced users deal well with open-source software, because much of that was designed with them in mind.

I'd call myself experienced but I could never use Open/LibreOffice. It wasn't just the UI; they just couldn't even open MS Office documents without destroying half of their layouts.