skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jeff bezos is worth 143 Billion dollars [0] and he sells a billion dollars a year to fund his toy space company blue origin [1]. With your standard 4% takeout from investments, he could increase their funding by 6% forever and not lose any money. With the way Amazon stock is growing, that could be an order of magnitude higher.

Financials mean nothing to this company.

[0]: https://www.google.com/search?q=jeff+bezos+worth&oq=jeff+bez...

[1]: http://fortune.com/2017/04/05/jeff-bezos-amazon-stock-sale-b...
In 2017, US had largest decline in CO2 emissions
It's just a list of things he thinks he did wrong but really no explanation as to why those were the wrong things to do. Some are perhaps a bit obvious as to why they might hurt .. but it just ends up as a list of sort of truisms...

We don't know what the product even was, maybe that list hurt him, maybe he was selling solid gold propeller beanies ...
That's better, but I really got used to 16.04's method. It grouped the tasks, but a pause on the task group would open it and sub-subsequent alt-tabs would switch between windows inside the group.
How does AV1 performs when encoding fast (like realtime for twitch)? Is it possible? If yes, what is the gain over h264?

I really hope an open format will win "the war", but I can't see it work at scale if it doesn't support streaming.
Maybe. Though the pre-tech terms seem to be karma and Akashic Record.
I discovered this a few years ago. Best series ever.
possibly, I will try tomorrow when I'm on the laptop again.
So do we just stick with USB-A forever?
Personally I like to keep it simple, stupid and light which is xfce for me.

If I need a desktop, I always configure the system to use xfce which means 16.04 and 18.04's desktop GUI are the same.

It also means that the vm with GUI under Mac/Windows has the same GUI and also very light. I can configure 512M -2G RAM per VM and they works just fine.
This kind of things often ends up in a Streisand effect, seems very clumsy.
Since we're talking about Dijkstra, thought I'd bring up the letter he wrote to the University of Texas when they replaced Haskell with Java in their introductory programming course:

https://chrisdone.com/posts/dijkstra-haskell-java

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/OtherDocs/To%20the%20Bud...
The original iPhone was unsubsidized. It required a contract until it was unlocked, but you could only buy it at the full retail price, forfeiting any subsidies.
I'm scratching my head at the premise of this comment. The grandparent is positing that monads/do-notation would not be useful in Rust; this one appears to be trying to accuse it of saying that an effect system in Rust is impossible? Nowhere does withoutboats say anything about an effect system, or that anything is impossible. Did you reply to the wrong comment?
I don't know if we need more smart parents or rather caring/nurturing families. You don't have to be smart, but children of dysfunctional families are at a disadvantage for breaking the cycle.
Replacement rate depends on the death rate to be precise. If humanity had stuck with three children per couple at most throughout its entire history it would almost certainly be extinct.

2 is only the replacement rate for 'literally immortal up until a certain date' - morbidly with a corresponding high death rate the number could be 'greater than biologically the theoretical biological limits'.

Binary town's birth rate would go down initially due to the loss of participation reducing the reproducing generation by half but the time between generations being cut by half would mean an effective doubling of the per person rate. Without knowing their rate of death we can't know what happens to their true population over time and it goes without saying that the assumptions will break if their reproductive strategies change yet again.
My understanding is that Rust uses LLVM coroutines[1]. In order to have the behavior where the function does not start executing immediately, you would follow the example that you can find by searching for "injected suspend point, so that the coroutine starts suspended". So what this looks like is:

* Function call

* The coroutine creates its frame (I believe this maps to "future creation".)

* Function return (the injected immediate suspend)

* (sometime later) Put the work on the event loop

* Function call (suspend resume)

* Function executes until a suspend point

Eager execution has no injected immediate suspend, so it looks like this:

* Function call

* The coroutine creates its frame

* The function executes until a suspend point (function return)

That's it. The coroutine is responsible for making sure that it gets resumed appropriately if it suspends. Await doesn't do anything with an event loop; it just suspends and then puts the suspended coroutine handle in the target coroutine's frame with an AtomicRMW. If it turns out the target coroutine already completed, then it grabs the result, destroys the target coroutine, and cancels suspending (which is a jmp instruction). Otherwise the suspend completes and the target coroutine will resume the suspended one when it completes.

> If you have a program that only uses async & await and no concurrency primitives, the code in your program will execute in a defined, statically known, linear order.

This is true with eager execution as well. You can see some examples here [2].

One more side note, how eager execution was valuable to me in the self-hosted compiler:

pub async fn renderToLlvm(comp: *Compilation, fn_val: *Value.Fn, code: *ir.Code) !void {
fn_val.base.ref();
defer fn_val.base.deref(comp);
// ...
}

At the callsite we make an async call to renderToLlvm, passing in a ref-counted fn_val. If the body didn't execute immediately, the callsite might deref fn_val and destroy it before renderToLlvm gets a chance to add a reference, but because of eager execution, the ref is guaranteed.

[1]: http://llvm.org/docs/Coroutines.html

[2]: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/363f4facea7fac2d6cfeab9d...
Just out of curiosity... What does a 50-pack of Fartbags cost a person?
Also, having children later in life reduces the role that grandparents play in a childs life, reducing an important safety net.
Googler's workstations use Debian Testing (customized). It might be a good start.
Tesla drops $35k price reference from Model 3 page
Would not recommend upgrading. I tried it out in a VM, and it's not that it's bad. It's just how solid 16.04 is. It's a joy to work in that environment, and if I'm going to upgrade my OS when things are so smooth, it better be to have a better experience.
I also have a 2010 MBP with a logic board problem. How did you manage to revive it?
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Wow. Some of the bug reports here sound pretty obvious. I wonder if your touch screen is the reason why so many issues are occuring... That or Wayland/Ubuntu isn't right at all.

Thomas Abril
Consultant en Paris Sportifs
https://bookmaker-foot.weebly.com/
Here's the article before it was edited: https://web.archive.org/web/20180714180330/http://www.latime...
I remember the number of people who had that snap off.
It raises your testosterone when they win, though!
It is interesting that the review has a photo of the laptop in the author's most likely working environment, at a desk.

The laptop is closed and an Apple keyboard with PHYSICAL FUNCTION KEYS has been placed on top.

It is also interesting that the review doesn't mention the touchbar AT ALL.
Or removing/reducing neurotic (or even abusive) family nonsense, depending on the family in question.
"Talking about Toys R Us specifically, yes a PE firm came in and finished them off"

No. Bain, KKR, and Vornado took TRU private in 2005, in the process loading up TRU with debt. TRU was spending $400 million a year for paying off that debt, money which would have undoubtedly helped had it been invested in online operations or store refreshes, etc.

The private equity firms hoped to dump TRU on the market with an IPO, which TRU filed for in 2010 but that never took place, probably because it was crippled with debt by the geniuses who did the LBO.
Going extinct? Typical middle-child attention getting stunt.
Also note that Tesla will soon hit the production threshold for the federal tax credit. With this revelation (the 6-9 month delay for base models), it's pretty clear that no one will get a Model 3 for $35k and the $7k tax credit. IIRC, the tax credit will get cut in half after this year and will then disappear a year or two later.
What an awesome informational resource.

I really wish they had a Random Article button like Wikipedia does.
For those who want to see Dijkstra's mathematics of programs in action:

1) basic (great for kids, math novices, whatever): https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0470684534/ref=dbs_a_def_r... (ignore the two star review, this book would get 5 stars from me)

2) advanced (free, complete with videos): http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hehner/aPToP/

3) advanced: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0470848820/ref=dbs_a_def_r...

4) advanced, theoretical, from the man himself: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9781461279242
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I'd also recommend his Mythos series

Thomas Abril
Consultant en Paris Sportifs
https://bookmaker-foot.weebly.com
I haven't read the code, but there are 2 areas where I expect allocations:

- The continuation which is passed to .then, and which is typically a closure, must be type-erased, which requires an allocation. Storing the continuation in a std::function would allocate too. A short glance at https://github.com/scylladb/seastar/blob/master/core/future.... also confirms that there is a make_unique there.

- Since continuations are most likely not called inline on completion but deferred into the next eventloop iteration there needs to be a dynamically sized queue to hold the ready continuations. I am not 100% sure if that's the case for seastar too, but I would guess so.
I can't remember the last time I plugged my iPhone or iPad into my computer. And I can remember the last time I borrowed someone's USB-2/3 charger. It was like, two days ago.

I'm with Apple on this having been the right choice.
"Of course bankrupting a company you own is a bad thing."

Not if you already got your profit out of it and aren't carrying any of the losses. The company's creditors and employees take the loss, not you.
My 2015 rMBP runs both macOS 10.14 and Windows 10 just fine. Are you testing different hardware configurations as well?
Let me add some details:

Lets imagine you have 4 or 5 salespeople. And you wanted people to contact them through WhatsApp after you run your ad in FB.

You can create multiple ads with different phone numbers (with a short link to WhatsApp), or you can use the rotator to rotate the salespeople numbers so that you only use 1 link to rotate through the WhatsApp numbers.

Do you get the idea? I think it's useful for business that use WhatsApp as one of their sales tool or as a support tool...
Maybe you would enjoy i3 if you spend lot of time with terminal windows.

It’s a little scary at first, but 4 major key combos are all you need.

mod+enter: open terminal

mod+d: open launcher; the default is dmenu, but rofi is amazing.

mod+h: split horizontally when opening next window

mod+v: above but vertically

I personally have a setup with i3-gaps, rofi, and polybar: https://u.cubeupload.com/Bwbw223/170E026006774C45A65E.png

It’s a bit ugly stock, though...
I sincerely agree all you mentioned above. I believe emacs is the best editing tool, actually it is an Operating System. But I still not gonna use it, since it just not worth my time to master all of them skills comparing alternatives, which is just use Sublime and Atom. For me the choice equals to setup my own Git server, or use Github or Gitlab.
I would guess so, but looking at Nyaa atleast, there seem to be very little content encoded in HEVC compared to h264, which seems weird given how the 'anime scene' saw adoption of x264 10bit which is not even hardware accelerated.

With the supposed savings of HEVC versus h264, and the rather widespread HEVC hardware support in devices, I would have guessed that they would have embraced it at a larger scale by now.

Will be interesting to see what happens with AV1.
I thought the moral was going to be that accommodating toiletless cars cost more than simply building all cars with toilets.
AV1 is a video format, it has absolutely nothing to do with subtitles. AV1 videos are usually inside MKVs anyway.
I prefer Debian testing + KDE for desktop needs including gaming. Rolling distros are in general more up to date especially with Mesa and kernel updates. Unless you configure extra repositories, stable or LTS distros will fall behind a lot.
I'm in the same boat, and settled on LXDE after trying XFCE. Either one seems to work great even on cheap or old hardware, and there are way fewer surprises that more featureful desktop environments.
Unless you encode the subtitles directly on the video stream, this is a container solution, the previous Google codecs (vp8/vp9) uses webm, which in turn is based upon mkv, so I would assume AV1 supports subtitles as easily if it uses webm as well.
I don’t want to justify wars, or as you’re doing, judge them. I want to understand them, because that and not justification or judgement is probably the best way to stop them.
Surprised no one has mentioned Dwarf Fortress!

Development began in 2002, and the main author says 1.0 will be out in 14 years!

Extremely complex generative world with a vi-flavored interface. The game itself is like no man's sky/Minecraft.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_Fortress
and yet the complainers are still buying them
Why would anyone pay 2k to use a crappy keyboard? It's unbelievable.

I still admit macos is a nice *nix os.
from a purely diplomatic standpoint, Im not so sure Iran was wrong to keep these documents. as its been proven the US is somewhat of a fair-weather friend with its treaties lately.

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

Iran signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in 1968 and ratified it in 1970. To date, Iran has never built a single nuclear bomb but only proven it can through enrichment should it choose to.

Israel's only real power in this case has been extrajudicial state-sponsored targeted assassinations. Its something that generally lands countries like Libya on the US terrorist embargo list, but Israel not so much.
Regardless of their reasons

It's their actual job.
I have a PS1 emulator on my S8 specifically so that I can fire up WipeOut 2097 from time to time.
Great letter (2001). It predictably focuses on language quality and side-steps practicality-- the assumption being practicality isn't as important as learning a high-quality language in an introductory course.
I was thinking it would turn out to be one of those bizarre elected judges that the US has. But I think federal judges are all appointed through some resemblance of a sensible process, so I'm at a loss as well.
I don't know much about Simon DeDeo, but is there any reason that I should believe that he can make a fair assessment of Google Brain/Facebook/DeepMind?
Perhaps the judge should look instead to the court's and clerk's own record management. Something that is obviously in error, and the original cause of the risk.

Of course, they may well seek to quash such publicity. After all, who's going to make a deal with a system so incompetent it can't keep a sealed record safe from its own negligent mis-handling?
Yeah, you could. But there’s no pulse dialing depicted in the movie.
John Saro Balian, 45, pleaded guilty to one count each of soliciting a bribe, obstruction of justice and making false statements to federal investigators as part of a plea agreement he reached with prosecutors. The document was ordered to be filed under seal but appeared on PACER, a public online database for court documents.

I'd say that last part is the part that got LAT in trouble... I rarely support the whole "under seal" thing, especially when it's in order to protect a corrupt dirtbag cop, but this "ask for forgiveness not permission" stuff won't fly with many judges...

But yeah, this guy is scum. Not only has he gleefully profited from both sides of the ruinous Drug War, but his police status has allowed him to escape the draconian punishments that normal people suffer.
IIRC, federal judges can be removed by impeachment. Very unlikely that this judge or any other would be impeached just for a controversial ruling, though: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_judge#...
I think Leslie Nielsen is probably one of the most underrated actors of the 70's and 80's - he was a fine character actor, natural even - but as the straight man, he's fantastic.
Well it’s one founder’s mussings on why they failed. Just getting it out of their system. Maybe it was therapeutic for them. Maybe other people will say “aha!”

There is no expectation or obligation for anyone to have a unified theory on business failure. It’s okay to just have a personal story.
This is correct. The reason that the scene uses MKV is because it has better support for multiple audio, video, and subtitle streams and handles streaming as well as "streaming" from RAR compressed and split archive files.
It's spelled lucrative.

From Latin http://latin-dictionary.net/definition/25941/lucrativus-lucr...
That's maybe 100k units sold every 2 years. Not a big factor.
I thought I had read at some point that generic associated types we're equivalent to HKTs in terms of what they can express. Or maybe that they were theorized to be so. Is that not the case? (Not critical, just curious)
TFA (and other reporting) says the keyboard is marginally more reliable. But 1) it's still a keyboard with almost no travel, and 2) not only is the touchbar still there, but the non-touchbar option is gone.
How well do you suppose that would work on say, a satellite connection over wi-fi?
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I suspect the assumption is that this cost will go down if insurance/liability (i.e. injury and property damage) costs are drastically reduced by self-driving cars and fuel and maintenance costs are also reduced by all-electric drivetrains.

Still, $200 seems far-fetched in light of the average American 1200 miles monthly. At under $.17/mi (not counting deadheading), that might not even cover depreciation/capital cost.
I agree - could've gone the MongoDB route...
I don't think Iran is the threat they're made out to be. My husband's family is Sunni Muslim and deeply religious. Despite that, they all see Saudis and gulf Arabs in general as the most intolerant and hypocritical group, even though in theory they should support Sunnis over Shias. My father in law told us about Saudis funding these Madrassas in Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh where they preach hatred of the US and Israel. All of this is anecdotal evidence, but still surprising.
Moral: The engineer who conceived of the innovation was forgotten and not compensated for it, and the train owners made the bulk of the money.

Sounds like software engineering to me!
IIRC, and my memory of it is faint, they don't seem to require a phone number if they can otherwise identify you. For example, try it via a VPN or Tor.
Ubuntu Budgie has been a rock for me. Utterly stable. Very useable.
The Mac's market share is roughly 10%. But in the high end, where all the profit is.
50/50 splits don't work well in practice. Splits right in the middle of the eyes. And assumes all tiles have the same importance and deserve equal screen space. Whereas with large central monitor the positioning and split ratios are very important. 50/50 rarely works well. 60/40, 70/30, are more sensible
I've seen a few mentions of patents in this discussion. Does anyone know how close AV1 is to infringing on any patents or when we might find out? This is the most recent article I found - http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/News/Online-Video-New... and it seems that the market doesn't/didn't know enough to know if there are patent infringements.

Yet this article from Mozilla seems like that from June the situation might have changed now that a 1.0 stable spec is out. Given that inspection for infringement has been part of the codec creation process it seems promising that they will be safe. But patents have proven themselves to be funny things.

That said, have there been any updates since June from lawyers/other blogs/etc about the patent situation yet?
We don't really need much — humans can at least survive with very little. But what's the point of that? Rapid transportation has been a tremendous boon and without it we'd have average living standards similar to the Roman Empire.
Apple app store search is down
How to download YouTube video with Android apps Directly to PC, laptop
I wish I didn't. My experience was so bad I'm actually back on Windows for the first time since 12.04 and might stay here.

It was an X/driver issue and it took me a few hours to fix to just get X to load. Meanwhile, Windows worked fine as I furiously Googled the issue.
Equivalent to people with dongles that break off?
Honestly, doesn't sound like enough to retire on so good luck. Oh and damn he eats out a ton.
The way I accepted it after years of confusion, and without still understand the word: A monad is any type which supports 2 specific operations. One maps an type into it's monadic form, and the other allows to apply functions to monadic types and returns the monadic type again. The latter is sometimes called bind or flatmap.

For Future types, the first thing could be called MakeReadyFuture(type), the second one Future.then(result => functionWhichReturnsANewFuture).
Heh - my school had AppleIIs and BBC Micros. My first year at Uni we used a VAX 11/780. I guess we had somewhat different experiences.

On the other hand, I think the most impressive and smoothest transitions I've ever seen in the entire personal computer space were Apple's transition from 68K to PowerPC processors, and almost as smooth their transition from PowerPC to X86. I'm still incredibly impressed with the attention to detail they showed getting those major changes to work so smoothly for users.
Around 1990.
That's the point. Let Python be Python. Don't ruin what Python is by trying to make it be everything / things it is not.

> for critical applications with high correctness demands
If you have that use case, pick an appropriate tool. There's more than one programming language ya know?
My husband had Windows installed on our only desktop at home and recently I installed Ubuntu 18.04 to do development. I hated it on Windows 10.

It's not as great as developing on my 2015 Macbook Pro but its acceptable.