skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disney hasn't had a "regime change", and the regime question was quite clear at the time Mickey was invented.

Macedonia (Kingdom? Empire? Ancient ethnicity?/dialect?/polity?) had lots of regime changes. We can't even be sure that the Greeks, at the time of Philip & Alexander considered Macedonia to be "Greece." You could argue either way. You could also argue that half the world is the "real" Macedonia. Bagdad has a decent claim.

I can see how Greece sees it, that naming may lead to territorial claims. That aside, Names are just names. I don't think this name is a crime against logic/history.

This is like insisting that what gay "really" means is happy. It's neither true or false statement. It's nonsensical.
Let's say I look 10 years into the future. How does that change anything?
To reduce your losses.

Consider a landlord that stupidly overpays for a property. The market isn't going to cry about the landlord not being able to charge rent that covers their expenses.
Greece's logic in disapproving of the name Macedonia is that they fear that Macedonia (the republic) could some day claim the Greek province of Macedonia. By that logic, so should Luxembourg (the grand duchy) be able to claim the Belgian province of the same name.
I'd prefer stronger methods like logic proofs and constraint or contract specifications. Compilers could use those even better to optimize and check the meaning of the program.
Types are very limited logic constraints after all.

While at it, you could ditch some of the old language.

Ultimately, everything is just some place in memory, cache and/or CPU register.
Tesla app is insecure by design. This is what Elon Musk can do with that
Looks like the drill tower used to be there, maybe they just wholesale lifted the proprietary drilling rig out of there. I'm sure they had to invent a thing or two about drilling to do this research.
Beginner's Guide to Rust: Get to Know Rust
Well, the article is a middlebrow filler piece, filled with autobiographical cuteness, and little substance.

There is tons of great Joyce scholarship without those lightweight complaints.

And yet, there doesn't need to be, to be frank. Books are to be read and perhaps re-read by readers, not to be over-analysed for decades by obsessives.

For literary works, as a reader you either get it or you don't, and if do it's primarily on a visceral level that beyond the plot and the craft includes the emotions, the flow of words, the mental imagery etc. It's not meant to be some great riddle to be solved, as if it's the Voynich manuscript.
Greece didn't claim anything. Macedonia has been a Greek region for thousands of years. The so-called 'macdonia' state and the whole naming dispute emerged out of nowhere after WWII.
What kind of code is reasonably written as 40+ cores spinlocking the same lock? Seems like a strange design, IMHO…
So on both sides, the people that are unhappy would have wanted the other side to make more concessions?
I don’t think people are not replying to your comment because it makes a convincing argument. I suppose if you refuse to lend your car out for a $ it’s ok for someone to take it. Oh it’s a digital copy, so it’s ok for people to copy your work and give it away.
Railway-Oriented Programming (2015)
That's absolutely correct, my point was that once you've done the math - and assuming you are still paying a mortgage - it should give you a rent high enough such that no-one would agree to take it, unless you are willing to keep paying for part of it. It would therefore push the owner to either sell or stay in their property.

That's my blue-sky-point-of-view of the property market which doesn't reflect the reality, but I believe with enough people treating property as an investment rather than a personal need you end up in our current situation.

My personal view is that tax systems should compensate by being more expensive to own more properties than you need. (where to put a limit, I'm not sure)
A brief history of the Erlang BEAM compiler
It is not necessary that mutation would cause the loss of a previously developed resistance.

It is not just the bacteria that grow resistant to drugs, but the human body itself starts to develop resistances. One of the major factors behind this is the presence of antibiotics in the various meats we consume. Animal antibiotics are a huge gift to the factory farming industry. But to acheive better results, many animal farmers simply (and often illegally) use the highest dose of the antibiotic they can find. A small amount of these drugs eventually make their way to human bodies. Persistent exposure to such drugs then results in increased resistance to antibiotics. So where previously a regular dose of a milder antibiotic would have sufficed, now a high dosage of a strong antibiotic is required.
> people are having to spend far too much of their income on it [rent], which is setting us up for all sorts of societal problems in the future.

I wonder what the long term effects of this will be. When no one has any savings and no house when they retire, and all of a sudden have to live on a very small pension (which if the trends [1] are anything to go by may all collapse) what are people going to do?

[1] https://www.forbes.com/consent/?toURL=https://www.forbes.com...
Focus - Avoid distractions in your text
This is not the experience I'm getting. I'm running XUbuntu Bionic with i3, and the experience is butter smooth; makes Windows feel laggy and MacOS slow as molasses

on the other hand, there are no nice animations, transitions and 3D effects like shadowing; just pixels on the screen; however everything updates instantly.
Corp Fin Director Weighs in Big-Time: Digital Assets as “Securities”
BCPL main goal was to Bootstrap CPL, but then some people decided to use it on its own, and the rest is history.
"The adware components are silently installed by a downloader that is presented as a free and anonymous VPN service (s5Mark),"...

Err. Can we blame Windows if a user installs software?!
I’m surprised that question hasn’t been closed as off-topic!
Scaling Neural Machine Translation
Well, if there's no one (or very few) out there doing any CPUs that are as good, then why consider Intel as doing a bad job (as you seem to imply)?

Bad compared to whom?
Hotdog Not/hotdot with K8s, OpenFaaS and ImageNet
In the Netherlands you used to be able to get a 105 percent mortgage, so you could finance the notary, transfer tax, mortgage advisor and so on. Nowadays it is at 100 percent and you have to pay for those services out of pocket.
Nature Comm. Structure det. from single mol. XFEL with three photons per image
But the argument in the article and by various other scholars is specifically about Finnegans Wake. Joyce wrote several distinctly different books that should never be lumped together as “impenetrable modernism”. Dubliners is so straightforward that its stories are commonly assigned to school pupils. Portrait is a bit more experimental, but again it is often read by young people.

Ulysses definitely requires a good grounding in artes liberales at the university level (or simply being a very bookish person regardless of formal education or not), but if you have that, then you can certainly read right through the book. Some allusions or references might escape you, but you can always refer to a commentary, because it is pretty well agreed what everything in that book means.

The Wake is a whole other story. Joyce’s oneiric storytelling and sheer amount of puns makes it difficult to pin down even some of the basic plot. But don’t let that book or scholars’ fatigue and ultimately dismissive view of it turn you off from everything else that Joyce wrote.
How much can real estate appreciate in 10 years again? (though it can definitely depreciate, but depends on its current situation).

Also its future value may depend on how you're renting it currently. (Or even if your overcharging for rent and the property is empty because you are waiting for "the perfect tenant")

You're also assuming buying and selling property is frictionless.

If your equity is negative it might be better (or even be the only alternative) to rent it at a below mortgage cost to have fewer losses.
IDK, but I've been anxious AF for a chance to use Afghanistan's, and it doesn't seem to be actively administered.
An "Internet Archive" of sorts?
Is it "blaming" if the article factually reports that there's now malware that manages to resist newer security features?
IMHO, it's so much easier to write good, comprehensive tests while writing the function (FUT: function under test) because that information is already in working memory.

It's also easier to adversarially write tests with a fresh perspective.

I shouldn't need to fuzz every parameter for every commit. Certainly for releases.

"Building an AppSec Pipeline: Keeping your program, and your life, sane" https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_AppSec_Pipeline
Results of a Study to Understand JavaScript Bugs (and How to Avoid Them)
There's a difference though, in that the province of Luxembourg was indeed a part of Luxembourg (the country) not even 200 years ago. So it would be a much more legitimate claim.
Result will likely not appear in standard library, because it duplicates functionality of do/try/catch and async/await
Although it should be pointed out that many modern royal families still have a tradition of sending their sons to serve in the military for a period of time. I don’t have any figures on whether they go to actual combat, and if so, if they lead, or just take orders.
> while rents remained relatively flat

Unless you live in a more rural area in Germany that statement doesn't apply.
This tool lets you see–and correct–the bias in an algorithm
Hopefully at some point in the vaguely near future we'll see RISC-V come to the fore as a credible desktop architcture.
> Adobe Suite successfully made the switch from the upfront model to thriving subscription businesses

I hope this new trend of crippling software, after a set time period, comes to an end. I can understand web apps like Microsoft Office 365 becoming inaccessible, but apps that are installed on my PC and that I paid for ? That is a bad trend
This is a PITA for coherence controllers.
The UK has a problem with housing supply, which will take time to fix.

But what needs to happen urgently (and could happen virtually overnight if politicians wanted it to) is that renting needs to be made slightly less awful.

Renting a home is no longer something that people do for a few years while they're young. Many will be doing it for life, and the rules need to change accordingly.

Some ideas:

- A total ban on any agent's fees being charged to the tenant (already happened in Scotland, and been promised to the rest of the UK for months now).

- A year's notice before you can evict someone from a home. (unless they are not paying rent / trashing the place)

- A year's notice before increasing the rent.

- Some sort of government body that forces landlords to conduct repairs to a high standard, and obliges them to pay for alternative accommodation if the property isn't fixed.
That strategy won’t work against a sufficiently determined adversary, if they’re willing to eliminate all potential enemy combatants (= civilians) and capture all the resources of the defeated entity for themselves.
The problem is that people who are renting often don’t have the option of getting a mortgage in the U.K. People often rent much nicer flats than they could get a mortgage for - especially within cities. Alternatively, they’re renting flats that are non-mortgageable, and anything that the banks will provide a mortgage on is out of their affordability.

Basically - people who are renting are, in practice, stuck renting, and I suspect a lot of people can be pushed a lot harder than they are now - we’ve only seen the start of young adults continuing to live with their parents while working due to the cost of renting.
>> We can't even be sure that the Greeks, at the time of Philip & Alexander considered Macedonia to be "Greece."

This is plain wrong. There is absolutely no dispute what so ever among historians about the Greek origin of Macedonia. The new country of Northern Macedonia in no way disputes this either. Comments like yours are the prime proof that what happened is very very wrong.

This is a quote from Wikipedia about Alexander the great.

>> Alexander was awarded the generalship of Greece and used this
>> authority to launch his father's pan-Hellenic project to lead
>> the Greeks in the conquest of Persia.
I don't see how your post contradicts madaxe_again's. Are you saying those elites didn't profit from the pre-WWI wars?

Yes, the early 20th century was a turning point, but it only changed who was profiting.
P2P encrypted chat with Whatsapp like seamless web experience
I love seamlessly moving from mobile to web on WhatsApp.

Is there any opensource solution which offers this? I am particularly concerned about WhatsApp's proprietary code.
Show HN: Pilcro – Free Brand Artboards for Google Suite
Unsure what I'm more astonished about, that the correct case is that it would spin 29ms, or that a CPU instruction has changed it expected latency and prder of magnitude upwards.

I would expect any spinning lock to spin at most some slight fraction of the scheduling granularity, but almost always far less than the context switch time except maybe in some specific case of latency sensitive code.

Maybe thr long spin tine is for some reason trying to account for the very long scheduling quantas of windows server?

Superficially it seems misdirected in anything but real-time code since most schedulers would allow the thread to keep its quanta until the next scheduling if the thread wait time was low. The only case I can see this as not being the case is in a system that is overloaded and all CPU's have multiple threads that are all starved.
> folks wanting to get back to the small community feeling

Agree. The problem for me is that if I happen to find a small community, I still wonder if I'm missing out on something else.

Back then if you found an nicely made forum in your language, that was it. A couple 100 people and no real alternative to them.

Maybe that's why dating seems to be so hard. It's possible to meet a partner from literally all over the world. Where is in old times you were more or less limited by the village you happened to live in.

I don't want to chose good people... I want to have them slightly "forced" on me and learn to live with them. :/
I can either just press the microphone button on my remote and say what I'm searching for, or hit the search icon in the home interface, it's almost all the way to the left, next to settings and source.

If you don't have either, I have no idea. Read the user manual, maybe?

Edit: It's surprisingly hard to find images online of what the search screen looks like, I'm having absolutely no luck finding any, I only get screenshots of their older smarthub crap.
Oh, wow. I can't imagine being judged negatively for reading books. I read a lot and almost everyone I tell this to tells me they are impressed and wishes they read more themselves. Never apologize for reading, that just sounds crazy to me.
Travels with Charlie, Blue Highways, The Little Prince.
There shouldn't really be any outside of the kernel, and preferably none inside.
So many good stories that I thought were lost to time are on there (especially after shii took down his site). Thank god for the bibanon wiki.
According to Joyce "The only demand I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole life to reading my works". No one else, just Joyce! If seriously intended, I'd love to read someone's literary justification for this example of messianic arrogance.
Exactly. I expect a lot of people will decide to move to a cheaper part of the EU where their meagre pension will go further. Hey wait a minute...
That is by far his most readable work. And his earliest. He became steadily more impenetrable over time.
>I'm still self employed, child-free ... what do you call it these days: geek, nerd? you know the slightly overweight guy with a telescope that won't shut up about how great Babylon 5 was. Where do these people hang out these days?

Youtube, Twitter, Facebook and Reddit, and 4chan a bit only now they're talking about Firefly, the Expanse and Star Wars.

SF and anime fandom is bigger, more diverse, more involved and more complex than its ever been, but you're going to have to go where the people are to find it and engage with it, and you've already admitted you avoid going where the people are.

You need to accept that everything that used to be hip and exclusive to subculture is now mainstream and infested with millennials and normies and social media and that it's ok. They love their stuff just as much as you and I do.

edit: and Discord. I forgot about it because I'm old, but Discord is also a thing.
> purely design and doesn't serve a functional purpose it would be fine

Or if it does provide functional information (traffic-light style status displays for instance), it is fine if the information is also carried by other means.

> do it in Black and White first ... then add colors.

Exactly. That way anyone with reasonable vision[1] can use the result and it is enhanced for those with good colour vision, rather than requiring good colour vision to be properly usable.

[1] Other serious visual impairments (up to and including complete blindness) should be considered too where possible, of course. Keep contrast high, try to design with screen readers and other common aids in mind, ...
If a house costs too much, how about half a house instead? [video]
Sure it should. It's harder to work with people you haven't worked with much before, because you haven't had-then-dealt-with as many miscommunications and such.

I mean sure, it shouldn't change the validity of the technical design, but when it comes to implementation (i.e. merging the changes/redesign and modifying the roadmap and such accordingly), it has every reason to.
The actual data store is LMDB.
Great investigation. Does anyone know or can anyone intelligently speculate what would lead to this tradeoff in the CPU design?
In-house DNS is an obvious and convenient service to locate hosts on your network. But take it world-wide, and I don’t think it is a greatest idea that could work. Names are random and volatile, and there is no sensible geography that you may use to look for alternatives or to extend your experience. IRL when you want to party, you go to club streets and active places. When you want to buy, you go to big stores. When you want to rest, you look for a park. If you’re into something big and incompatible (like religion, subculture or language), you go to “your land”. But DNS cannot give you that — it void-separates similar and recognizable locations. It is so tech-y and not humane. This void is abused by many to push you to where you’ll spend your value and have nowhere else to go.

Of course, implementing that can be a rock hard task with many real-world complications and abuse prevention, but I would like to open my browser and not see the same fckng nine plates that I visit everyday, instead viewing the live, high-precision public map of the internet that is worth exploring endlessly. TLDs (if any) and country control in that scheme could be designed completely politics irrelevant.

(inb4: TMDH, SL, MC, MMORPG etc)
I really think the article summary is misleading.

The object code in question uses an instruction that's basically a microarchitecture-specific hack. IMO the real issue here is that the object code is optimized for an earlier microarchitecture and needs an update.

Disclaimer: I work for Intel, but not on their CPUs and I'm not a fanbois.
The title is misleading — no code is broken, though it is true that .NET programs that exhibit lock contention will be slower.

The root of the problem is that .NET implemented a rather baroque spin loop with several assumptions about the CPU and OS architecture. Unlike any other spin loop I have seen or written, they execute multiple pause instructions per loop. Arguably this was a poor choice.

It would be interesting to see the history of this design. It was probably done years ago when .NET was closed source.
Hi, sorry Im not sure on the API being used. But just to let you know you can access an API by creating your own endpoint to call, which then calls the target API. In which case your not exposing the target API's key as its backend code. Then you can ensure only your users are using their particular key and for example rate limit them yourself.

Hope this helps
It looks like Intel's manufacturing advantage will slowly disappear over the next couple of years. So it seems likely that alternative CPUs will become more competitive, ARM for example.
That really depends on the Tax laws in the area you are looking at.
Negative gains will help reduce the cost of the investment, and if you take capital gains fueled by the increase in population into account, it can be highly profitable. Even when rent doesn't cover the whole mortgage payment.
The insecurity of freelance work
Time for a rewrite in Rust? /s
Considering how strong nationalistic propaganda is these days in the Balkans, if this thing passes all the referendums, etc needed to make it a reality, it will be a huge win. Congrats
Google makes $550M strategic investment in Chinese e-commerce firm JD.com
After having spent some of my free time lately studying the b interpreter by Arthur Whitney (http://www.kparc.com/b/b.c), this looks quite straightforward to me.

That said, it is indeed tiny. Very nice project, as usual from FB.
Wait, I'm not sure what you're arguing here. The GP said that houses rent for expenses plus profit. I can't quite tell if he meant to delineate that to strictly rental income, but I understood it as meaning 'a land lord prices his property (the rent of a property, of course) so that he will make back his expenses, plus a profit, over the expected ownership time span'. So that includes things like expected appreciation, any tax benefits etc.

Is that what you are saying too? Because then there isn't much of an argument here :) I thought what you meant to say was that there is some factor other than financial that comes into play (or should come into play) when determining a rental price.
Quibble: LMDB is a memory-mapped file database. It is not an in-memory database, although it generally outperforms all other in-memory databases.
Early on there were some question marks ... but really it's not really a problem, there will be no legislation regarding it, and nothing really will come of it in the end.
Ficciones from Jorge Luis Borges
Around the year 2000, Intel decided that the future is Itanium. It didn't matter that the market hated the idea - there was no alternative to Intel, so Intel completely ignored the market's plea for an x86 compatible 64-bit processor that would be able to run old x86 code at native speed.

Intel's 32 bit offering at the time wasn't any good either; the pentium had such a deep pipeline (and not so smart prefetch/speculative) that the chips ran at a high frequency, ate a lot of power, but pipeline stages were idling or working on useless stuff a large amount of the time.

Luckily for the world, AMD managed to produce that alternative, the AMD64 architecture, which kicked intel's ass so hard that eventually they had to adopt it.

If it weren't for AMD's AMD64, and their cross-licensing deal with Intel (that allowed them to make an x86 compatible chip without specifically asking for Intel's permission), we'd be in an Itanium dominated world right now (or .. ARM would have stepped up, it's hard to predict an alternate reality) but surely with less efficient and less effective processors.

History does not repeat, but it rhymes. Intel has no Itanic this time, but it did become numb enough to let AMD outmaneuver them again.

It's not that Intel is doing a bad job, as much as they have too little incentive to do a good job.