skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chinese Tycoon to Buy Irish Plane Lessor for About $2.8B
Freestyler might work.
https://github.com/openstyles/stylus/wiki/Stylish-Alternativ...
Don't know if it's maintained and can be trusted.
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-About you-

* Enjoys being part of the whole product life-cycle up until the end-user

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* If you feel this is for you - use the above links to apply or send your CV to jobs@qed-it.com!
It works well in the projects I've worked on, but I'd love to hear specific cases where it breaks down for you, since I've never worked in code bases developed by a large team.
The point of hadoop might have been that, but it never actually delievered any real value to most users - it's an abysmal failure from a computing efficiency point of view; here's an example http://www.frankmcsherry.org/graph/scalability/cost/2015/01/...
Well yeah, stuff goes extinct all the time, but on scale of millions/tens of millions of years. the pace we're seeing these days is unprecedented and the pace is more on level of mass extinction rather than business-as-usual evolution state.

Sure, we can keep looking at the half-full glass focusing what is not extinct yet, but over few generations, we might be pretty lonely on this planet when it comes to complex life. It's more an indication of how badly we're screwing our own environment, also for ourselves. It's clear that life itself will survive much harsher situations compared to mankind and repopulate once we're long extinct.
> There is an axiom that software gets bigger, for no particularly good reason, for at least 40 years.

Sounds like a computer variant of Parkinson's law: "Work expands to fill the time available for its completion."
There are cross-cutting (unintended knife pun) concerns, and I Usually do give them their own directory.
Unfortunately, Pinion systems haven't really gained any significant market share due to a) really high cost b) inability to downshift under load, c) a 1.5lb weight penalty and d) the frame must be built specifically for the Pinion system[1]. Still, always great to see new approaches like this as bike maintenance is a huge barrier to adoption.

[1] https://www.singletracks.com/blog/mtb-gear/the-pinion-gearbo...
Well, that's an odd question. Sure, biological sex is an objective fact, but you can't call gender identity a fact. It's a part of a more complex identity which people unwillingly or willingly emphasize. I refuse to define my identity based on my sexual attributes, because it only concerns myself and a potential partner. For the rest of the world most of my attributes of identity are masked by other peoples' perception of my actions. People can identify my actions and my attributes as unique, and they have a shortcut label as a help to identify me - by my name. So, what if a person is not as unique as others? Do they need to emphasize some attributes to appear more unique, to be distinguishable? Why? They are unique in any way, objectively. But in their own eyes? I don't think so. So, there is a clear distinction between biological/physical attributes (facts) that are a non-disputable part of the identity of a person and subjectively perceivable attributes (perspectives). It's a fact that I'm a man, but things other than that don't really matter, because they are perceivable only subjectively.

Identity is based not only on facts. It's also based on wishes, labels, lies and social constructs.
Looks like the same story as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17368168.
Hey, as someone who would love to do such a thing, I've often wondered, outside of simply being wealthy beyond my imagination, or working while traveling, how does someone fund such a trip?
I'm sorry, I was working on the mobile-friendliness of my site last night before I went to bed, but decided to prioritise sleep over pushing out the change. I wasn't expecting this post to get posted here, and now I'm kind o frustrated that so many people had a sub-par experience with my site. I'm pushing out an improved layout ASAP.
Word 2016 takes 2 seconds to start on my pretty beefy notebook (2017 Lenovo X1 Yoga). Pretty sure that when you measure it, Word 2003 or so would take a similar amount of time to start on a 2003 PC, even though all of CPU, RAM and disk storage are vastly faster nowadays.

Why does the Word window not appear within milliseconds of me clicking on the application icon?
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weight is a big factor between cheap and expensive groupsets
From my house, in North Wales, I can see a vast landscape shaped hugely by ancient hands - Snowdonia. The hills were once heavily forested, and held springs and glades in which Mesolithic, Celtic and Roman peoples lived and farmed - but they are now all moorland, as the trees were felled thousands of years ago, for construction and grazing.

Much of what we think of as natural landscape was made by man.

Even that which is patently unnatural passes without much consideration- the neighbouring farm sits smack atop a Roman fort (situated on an inconvenient hilltop between a known fort on the conwy river and a known fort atop a mountain, which has a view to the sea on one side and our hill, but not the river, on the other) - and my garden atop a Roman road - and nobody knows. The dead giveaway was when we took the mouldering plaster (gypsum atop lime) off the internal walls of the house, to find dressed masonry, and one slab with part of a funerary inscription upon it - the cottage was built from spoilage from the road and tombs that lined it - 400 years ago they would have just been some handily squared off chunks of stone, ideal to build with.
True, but many of those contractors will themselves be classified as energy companies according to the S&P (GICS) sector classification.

For instance, energy services companies such as Schlumberger or Halliburton belong to the energy sector as well.

But it's true that there will be a ton of low value work that gets outsourced to services companies that are mostly classified as industrials (construction, environmental services, transportation, etc).
Even I have thought this for a while and India in it's current state has been a good example of a failed democratic state. While dictatorship cannot be the answer, I wonder if we should have some other alternatives mode of ruling too.
> but isn't that how Nature works? Nature has encountered countless extinctions before us (where's the Megalodon now?) and at least 5 mass extinctions, so why should this dynamic cease now?

This mass extinction caused by humans is an order of magnitude faster and affects far more varity of species and plants.
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Update: I see you added a demo. I tried it on my own domain and got a made-up email address that I've never created/used.
Found a small bug:
Was searching for cs + kreme records (cs and kreme)
clicked to check for stock on hhv, hardwax, deejay.de and juno

Juno showed expected search results - actual page of the record;
hardwax was queried for the label name - total stasis - ok;
hhv showed completely irrelevant results although they do not have that record in stock at all;
deejay.de query was malformed. An attempt was made to search for "total stasis" (label name) but ended up in searching for total 20stasis.

I've noticed that deejay.de expects to query with whitespace being replaced by a plus sign
/total stasis ends up in /total+20stasis and /total+stasis is a correct param that gives the expected results
> Have we really progressed memory speeds to the point that reading memory is faster than execution speed on the processor? That just feels wrong.

Sort of. Random main memory access speeds aren't there, but L1 is; as long as your memory accesses are sequential, proper coding can stream sequential main memory into L1 and keep the CPU working.

But it's effectively a lost art - the vast majority of programs spend a significant part of their time stalling on memory access.
Firefox: View two different browser tabs at the same time
Soon all this bad press will be absorbed by German Bayer.
I think that if changes are small, you can just update the structure in small increments as needed, just like you'd do any other refactoring.
Counter point: singapore.
I'd down vote this if I could...

It's far from the correct title. A good part of the optimisation of all modern analysis DBs is in-memory... this is no different and as such he's compared his work against 2 of the major other systems in the space.

I see a lot of critics here... I think the guy should be congratulated for his work - which if you've read through all pages, appears to be done single handed!
It's not uncommon for in-memory database servers to have installed RAM in the order of multiple terabytes.

Source: I work at SAP's internal cloud team. For our internal customers running SAP HANA, we offer baremetal machines with up to 6 TiB RAM.
For 200k I'd consider working even on JS and front-end xD
It does not. The SPA is so sluggish I’ve learned to just force a page refresh after clicking on anything because a full page load is actually faster than their bullshit SPA.
The CSS Paint API
Ummm, trees incorporating protein from animals? I'm not sure that's how it works...

Nitrogen at best, but not protein...
Absolutely shocking statistic! But not surprising with the rate of overfishing combined with fishing quotas resulting in redundant catches being thrown back!
Ok. Optiver was under $1 million per person so wouldn't make the top 10. IMC likely would not have been in the top 10 either.
You want a layered, federated, representative democracy. Not just a democracy.

By layering and federating, you introduce noise into the system. One layer may be controlled by one party, another by another. You are purposefully introducing noise and isolating possible corruption vectors. With enough noise and isolation, each time power switches over at a node or layer, there's widespread "corruption cleaning" that mostly involves running out all the corrupt guys from the other party and setting up your own corruption that works in a different way.

Looked at another way, the system has to have a way to be wrong. If one person or one party controls everything from top to bottom (or the system stops being layered and federated), then there's no feedback loop -- and there's your unholy nexus.

Personally I'd add term limits to the mix, mainly because I think whatever the government is, it should be understandable and controllable by an average citizen. Also if you're in for a long time, it's doubtful you'll change your ways -- and there goes the feedback loop again.

You never eliminate corruption. That's a fool's game. Instead what you want is to isolate it in such a way that over time it's easy to identify and remedy.
Some of the registrars I use have announced free-for-life WHOIS protection to appease the GDPR.
When I recently checked my domains, none provided real contact information except for my .CH domains (yay Switzerland).
Not a course, but I've enjoyed SE radio podcasts.
I agree that you'd probably want to reduce the number of tasks. 5-6 would be fine. As someone who does a bit of JS as well as maybe 10-20 other skills I'd be happy doing most of these, but I would need to be able to look up the syntax for a bit of this stuff. I think having a small number of tasks and then talking around is better than having a prescriptive pass/fail. Almost anyone could work this kind of stuff out with the internet and Stackoverflow but would that make them a good fit for your role?
I appreciate your willingness to at least contemplate that Bitcoin might have flaws, which is better than most Bitcoin advocates.

But you share one of the habits that makes these discussions so frustrating. You substitute marginal examples and handwaves at the future when asked for clear present evidence.

The Lightning network might possibly one day increase capacity to infinite TPS. It doesn't yet, and reasonable people think it never will. E.g.: https://reddragdiva.tumblr.com/post/175418385308/why-the-lig...

I am saying that based on the evidence I find, despite 10 years of enormous free advertising, approximately nobody uses it today for money transfer when compared with other money transfer options. Do you have clear evidence otherwise? Not anecdote, not what it possibly does, but actual evidence?
Hi everyone, author of the blog post here.

Thank you @kroltan for sharing this.

I know the mobile experience and accessibility of my site have some issues. I have a change coming t fix it, but feel free to report any issues you encounter.
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I don't know what it is, but it's absolutely disturbing. Insects are, by comparison with us mammals, incredibly resilient. Anything that is reducing insect populations on a massive scale is bad news for the entire world.
Why Serverless/FaaS is not there yet
New AWS auto-scaler started life as private show for Netflix
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> You see that now. But in 1985 most people thought email was silly, if they knew about it at all.

> Why replace the mail? The mail is fine. It's only when you look back on it, with modern eyes, that you see how great it was.

These statements may support your argument, but they have no basis in reality.
I know very little about ecology, but my understanding is that lots of insects, including but not only bees, are key to plant reproduction. Maybe my math is wrong, but fewer insects probably implies fewer plants, with a delay. Given that I'd like to survive and all, I'd like there to be plants so I can eat them. And breathe air and whatnot.
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We haven't had a hosepipe ban around here yet so it's not a proper heatwave :)
> The API provides no way to add/override/hook arbitrary MSRs while handling guests's rdmsr/wrmsr instructions

Isn’t that what this is for?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/api/hypervis...

Or are you looking for a higher-level API or something?

edit: and for CPUID:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/api/hypervis...
IMO The lack of mosquitos is the single positive aspect of a crippled nature. Allegedly a Pharao had a slave covered in honey to get some peace from those beasts. New Zealand is paradise except that on some beaches you just can't stop unless you want to get drained.
Conservationism is about conserving a place in the world where humans can survive, full stop. It's not just food, it's disease, it's mycology, it's everything, and if we're not careful, we will render the planet uninhabitable for naked apes.

You're right, in the sense that of course the tardigrades, archaea around deep ocean vents, and blue-green algae will continue trucking along more or less whatever happens. We, however, are not tardigrades.
I don't follow. Boolean.TrueString is "True", with a capital 'T'. I don't see that anything on SO is out of date.

The StackOverflowers note that the implementation technically doesn't match the spec, but in a way which can only be observed by using reflection https://stackoverflow.com/questions/491334#comment34617036_4...
Microsoft's $399 Surface Go hits most of the right notes
Argh-P-M – Dissecting the RPM file format (2016)
Gender identity and sexual preference don't really matter. They are natural attributes of a person, just as natural as eyes and ears. The only thing I can do is to ignore people's attempts to appear more unique than others by treating them as regular human beings.

I haven't seen any person identifying themselves by their eyes, or their umbilicus (which is in fact unique on every single person). Because it's normal thing. If gender identity is a normal thing, then let's ignore it altogether?
Most animals are programmed to evade annoying swimmers.
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I love text-based browsers, and this is the one whose display looks best (but i would like to disable images/animations). This being a work in progress, the most important feature needed immediately is a boost in performance. I have a very powerful workstation, and just following a link and rendering the next page takes almost a second. (In lynx, w3m and in elinks it is instantaneous.)
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What makes England (London specifically) a desired locations for all the financial fugitives? I don't hear these kind of cases for any other country.

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-natio...
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Somalia population 1987: 6.1 million.

2017 population: 11.4 million.

Just one country, but that might have something to do with it.

2100: 58 million. I can only imagine the environmental destruction that will go along with that.

https://www.populationpyramid.net/somalia/2017/

Meanwhile, what do countries like Somalia produce to enrich our civilization? The country has zero scientific output:

https://www.natureindex.com/country-outputs/generate/All/glo...

And foreign aid makes up 23% of their GDP.

In business it is common to dispense with non-performing assets. Can entire countries and peoples be non-performing? This might sound harsh, but in the era of resource depletion and global warming, mother nature herself is going to be harsh.

I think our aid should be wholly in the form of contraception, not food. A ballooning African population is good for nobody.
Merge doesn't happen, participants resolve the issue or raise a conflict with the central authority. Same as with Ethereum :D
Trump was brought to court by former driver He was ruthless and owed me overtime
Lobsters weren't always "edible", not sure how it was viewed in Native American culture

But if they're more than what you can eat and if using them as fertilizer works, why not
It's just a concept. CeramicSpeed have said they would like to partner with someone to design the shifting mechanism[1].

[1] https://cyclingtips.com/2018/07/ceramicspeed-driven-drivetra...
Wait so BAT with its $250M market cap has < 600 sites in the Alexa top 1 million??? That's like 6 hundreths of a percent. That's a terrible rate of adoption considering the hype behind BAT.
> There is potential for drastic fall as per the unsold inventory which may take over 7 years

I have been hearing that for the last 7 years.
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Over time I have started to dislike long read articles.
Most of the time articles all over the place and inundated with useless fillers.Stuff about length of hair or type of earphones are just fluff.

And the article confuses the message as well. For example,

In the mid-1990s, just two Indians featured in the annual Forbes billionaire list, racking up around $3bn between them. But against a backdrop of the gradual economic re-opening that began in 1991, this has quickly changed. By 2016, India had 84 entries on the Forbes billionaire list. Its economy was then worth around $2.3tn, according to the World Bank. China reached that level of GDP in 2006, but with just 10 billionaires to show for it. At the same stage of development, India had created eight times as many.

What has number of billionaires have to do with anything? As per Forbes, 100 and 1 billion are the same.

On the Nirav Modi and Mallya saga, India's bankruptcy system was broken and many times banks were in doldrums trying to recover dues. There is a new bankruptcy law which should help to smooth things out. But then the article spends too much time talking about Mallya and reduces an important piece of legalisation to a mere mention.

So, while I agree to the premise that India's rise has been astounding and corruption/cronyism is a problem, this article is not worth anyone's time.
Not at all annoyed about that. It is the principle he pushes and I have no concern at all that this one password manager he explicitly names is one that he gets some benefit from. That site doesn't run for free, you know. If you read info on his site, you should have enough sense to think to look for free alternatives if you wish.
Making differences irrelevant is not the same thing as eradicating them.

Sorry, using your arguments, you cannot say that the fight against discrimination of any kind is a moral thing to do. It's in fact problematic, as it eradicates differences, in your own words.
Singapore might be a flawed democracy, but it still is one. The ruling party does fear losing vote share in elections and adapts its policies to win public support (e.g. in the 2011 elections when the opposition won 40% of the vote).
I am very familiar with uBlock and such. I have a local DNS at home which blocks a lot of stuff for the whole family at home without using plugin-blockers. My wife don’t know a life with ads and is often surprised when visiting friends: “what a nightmare of distraction”

What I mean is an app that connects to an instance (vm, server) a brow.sh.

I would like to install this in a lxc container and connect to it from my mobile via VPN and use HTTP-proxy settings or and with an specific brow.sh-app for my mobile. Could this work?
I do fear that cars are going to have the opposite problem to phones... Where Apple sacrifices battery life for unnecessary thin-ness, I fear car companies will sacrifice it for unnecessary speed and size.

Edit: and who knows what'll happen if Apple gets into the electric car business!
Elon Musk sub 'impractical', won't be used
Switzerland is also famously attractive to that demographic (generally, don't know about Indians specifically).