skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, everything runs on the kernel... but I assume you meant in the kernel.

Graphics drivers are split into three main pieces these days.

1) Kernel space that mainly sets up the GPU's MMU, and adds a context to the GPU's hardware thread scheduler. There'll be some modesetting too, but that piece is really simple (and fglrx never used the main kernel API for that anyway, so it doesn't really matter if it was stable or not. But it actually was pretty stable over the time frame we're talking about).

This piece still works fine on fglrx with a modern kernel.

2) A userspace component that lives with the window manager setting up the actual display output, and accelerating compositing. Stuff like EGL works by making IPC calls to this layer.

This is the piece that broke in your case, and only because the x server decided to change.

3) Another piece that runs in userspace and is ultimately what gets called by graphics APIs and is linked into every process making graphics calls. This is the vast majority of the driver.
It is also obviously in github's interest to say that their service is beneficial, so a significant bias must be assumed.
Maybe your inability to clearly communicate stems from not having fully developed your ideas.
Great idea. I wish you nothing but success.

Few points:
* If you're targeting Indians. You need to price competitively. You need to make it hard to resist.
* Find a village/s in India where you can procure and pack.
* Post some videos of how it's prepared (tasty.com style).

Minor website issues:
* Fix coloring "Buy it now" barely visible - https://thebuttermilkco.com/collections/single/products/daal
* When user selects single. Images should show singles not multiple packs.
* confusing product categorization. click on "shop now" on the landing page. goes to https://thebuttermilkco.com/collections/all I could not find "Singles" mentioned the listing.
* on the shop menu it displays "Suites, combos, bundles" confusing just keep it simple "combos" and "singles" allow user to mix and match using cart? based on there selection apply pricing changes and let them feel they won a lottery by choosing the right combination.

All the best.
> Maintaining infrastructure on 3 cloud providers that don’t work the same is costly.

Maintaining the ability to move between providers is not at all the same as maintaining your systems on all three simultaneously.

> All of these services provide pretty steep discounts (as a percentage of original costs) for customers who are able to [...] make long term commitments.

Sure. But the question is, at the end of that commitment, are you locked in to that provider by the cost of having to redevelop for a different provider (which gives your existing provider an unearned pricing advantage), or can you switch providers because you had the foresight to make sure your deployments were portable?

> most cloud customers would spend more money hiring additional engineers to maintain more complicated infrastructure then they would save trying to take advantage of this trend.

Sure, because most cloud customers are small and are drawn by the prospect of not maintaining infrastructure at all (in other words, they're actually SaaS customers by preference), and the non-portability of G-Suite's integration with GCP as compared with Office 365's integration with Azure is relatively immarterial compared to the non-portability between G-Suite and Office 365.

But (right now, at least) at the scale where you are for example selecting a cloud orchestration solution, going for the one that provides better portability between different providers with an abstraction layer doesn't really impose additional costs (because you'll need to develop internal expertise in whatever solution you choose).
I feel that way when people write anything in a functional programming language.

"Here's this lovely new functional language!... written in Haskell, using Haskell's entire runtime as a basis."
OK I was with GP until this comment.
Doesn't he fly between 2 cities twice a week to be with his kids and his work. Seems pretty crazy to me.
So you think he's secretly helping the short-sellers?
I missed every single one of those past posts, so I'm glad OP posted it once again.

There are many reposts that I'm also glad happen. They're often a reminder of something I've forgotten about and that I'm glad to see again, or sometimes they're just something I missed.
Is there a FLOSS alternative that is equally easy to setup and use for both teacher and students?
Funny, almost every r-tree in the codebase at a former job of mine eventually became a performance problem and got replaced by square fixed-size buckets.

Of course, it helped that most of the queries we did could be phrased like "Find all things within a fixed (and known ahead of time) radius of this point." R-trees are much more versatile, but much slower to query and much much slower to construct/maintain.
The one he demonstrated?
To a newb just using Postgres should be new and exciting. It's such a rich database I am still learning, even after years using it.

Maybe that was just a bad example. But I don't know, even just using old HTML and CSS to set the page is always interesting to me, because there are always problems to overcome. How do we make everything fit on the page without it being cluttered? How do we let the user do this thing that they want while also not interfering with this other thing that they say they want?

After many years, I like to use old, established pieces, but fitting the pieces together is what I find interesting.

At the same time, when I was first starting out, there was a greater urge to roll my own. I remember rolling my own diff program, in PHP. It was worse at diffing than figuring out how to safely pass the inputs into the shell, and just using good old diff, but it made me happy and it was a useful mental exercise. Newbs need to stretch their wings and see how far they can fly. Their flight is probably much worse than just hopping on the ol' jet. It's a hard problem.
Well, there was that smooth scrolling script menace a few years back.
The UK is soon to be moving to an opt out for organ donation (with the usual caveat that family members can still refuse to allow it), I was saddened to see some people spinning it as "the government wants control over my body" when all it takes is a simple checkbox to say you don't want to be a part of it.
Children of the Cube
I gave talks at several universities (including several prestigious and one Ivy) when I worked at GitHub about git and related topics. One out of probably ten total had ever used git (or really any version control) in classes.

Granted, this was six years ago, but from what I've seen in interviews since then, it's still not commonly taught and something that's picked up outside the curriculum. My grad classes at Harvard use it, but I'm not sure how common it is at the undergrad level there.
And prednisone has a common side effect called moon face, which is pretty much this.
Regardless, blinking less often and focusing purely on a 2d image will degrade your vision
IMO, it's a Vashta Nerada problem (see <http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Vashta_Nerada>).

It's not that every single shadow in existence contains a Vashta Nerada, it's that any particular shadow in existence COULD contain a Vashta Nerada.

Likewise, not every phone on the planet is silently listening to your conversations and recording them for the benefit of the Secret Service (or NSA, or other such organization). The problem is that ANY phone in the hotel COULD be silently recording your conversations. And the probability that any phone might be used for such purposes is definitely non-zero.

Many hotel rooms now have Smart TVs installed, and many smart TVs from companies like Vizio and LG come with built-in cameras. Rinse and repeat the above concerns.

You don't have to go far beyond the recent problems at DefCon to see what will be happening next.
There is no shortcut or workaround when it comes to fresh ingredients. That doesn’t mean you can’t market and sell one, just that it won’t deliver.
First the chains ate the small booksellers. Then the chains ate each other.

Why should I be sad?

Yes, their passing will see the further increase of independent booksellers.
"But they haven't looked at a sample of exploits that were critical on an actual microkernel OS and seen how many would have been less serious (or not arisen) on a hypothetical otherwise-similar monolithic-kernel system."

Cuz they don't exist so far. Microkernel-based systems will have same kinds of bugs as monoliths if coded in same language for same hardware. From there, the microkernel architecture leads less bugs in number (less code), less in severity (more isolation), and sometimes less difficulty in patching or recovery. If looking for microkernel-based bugs, I'd look for errors in concurrency and passing data over IPC. Monolithic system are using more concurrency and middleware than ever now, though. Even more than microkernels from what I see if talking about all the strategies and their implementations vs a few, standardized primitives. So, even those areas central to microkernel design seem like problems shared with modern monoliths.

So, the status quo is that the monoliths mostly add problems and increase their severity. Vice versa, the microkernels mostly subtract them in number and/or severity. The field evidence shows this with most of the data on bugs and vulnerability coming from monolith users. From there, someone might want to try to see if the opposite is true. Burden of proof is on them, though, with the status quo being quite reasonable. And that investigation, as I said, might find "microkernel" problems that hold in how modern monoliths are used (esp service and web architectures). Still worth attempting since they might surprise us with what they find. :)

To be clear, that's all about the architectural patterns. I think combining all the potential benefits of microkernels in a system vs a simple monolith could lead to more bugs in microkernel. Most of the problems in software will come from complexity and QA level regardless of architectural style. So, my post is written with assumption that we're talking about large, complex systems done with one style or the other.
How do they know that the structure has only negative curvature and not regions with positive curvature? (like a bunch of soap bubbles that have coalesced)The structure in the paper labeled ztc-RWY certainly looks like it is ONLY positively curved.
There was once a case to be made that it would be better overall for the Chinese populace to have improved access to most information, even if that meant accepting censorship over some information. But given the country's growing authoritarianism, that argument gets harder and harder to make

I don't quite understand such argument.

Besides, the Chinese government might not want Google to get back neither. I wonder if the author is going to change his mind once he realizes this. hehe
I believe their current model only really works if more than one (or a few people) at your company are using Blind. At that point it becomes difficult to map Blind users to employees. In any case, simply being a user of it shouldn't be an issue, and if it is, perhaps you really should look for work elsewhere anyway.
Will there be the ability to disown, background, nohup processes and close the console, leaving the commands running?
If you’re a composer/conductor then you’ve probably already tried this, but for me two types of music work well (as I’m a similarly analytical musician):

- Minimalism, specifically Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians suite

- Atmospheric, specifically ‘Skyrim Atmospheres’ by Jeremy Soule

Both are so versatile: minimalism for journeys and coding; atmospheric for ‘creative’ periods, walking and sleeping. I do somewhat envy your ability to listen to white noise as it is infinitely replicable, but fear it a little distracting in of itself!
I signed up for this a few years ago when I was working for a larger company. It was full of people using the anonymity to be very petty. I deleted my account without posting anything.
Blind is approved by my CEO. Your employer shouldn't discourage you from being on Blind.
I've found at Thai restaurants I have better luck telling them how many chilies I want added. I learned this trick when in Thailand. I would order something "very spicy" or "Thai spicy" and I would always be questioned. One waitress asked me how many chilies and I've been using that ever since.

I've settled on 4-5 chilies for Som Tam.
The SEC is no joke, and while it’s probably not the most likely outcome, prison time is on the table here. Elon Musk really, truly fucked up and I agree it’s hard to believe. Then again he called someone who just helped rescue over a dozen people a pedo on the same platform, so maybe something is genuinely wrong with him? Love him, hate him, or indifferent, I think everyone accepts that he’s very bright. Given that, there must be some other explanation for risking prison so casually for no good reason. Sleep, stress, mental health, or something shady seems like the only likely possibilities for such a weird risk.
>No stupid styling hacks needed.

You’ve just replaced them with stupid DOM hacks.
And this example pretty much nails the theme: there is no technical reason for these problems. If a website screws it up, it's just bad design at this point.

Broad support for history management is well-established at this point: https://caniuse.com/#feat=history
Typed Clojure in Theory and Practice [pdf]
Trousers as well. Kept losing my phone until I got a case.
> people who can't think for themselves.

It's literally word for word from the comment.
It has some quirks, but, I'd be interested to know what you thing are its "massive and surprising" issues.

Also, it has 64-bit integers - https://www.sqlite.org/datatype3.html
more damning? We don't even know what was stated in the email. Other pieces will give examples of what happened and sometimes even evidence.
From what I understand "seeing" is an active proccess, since it needs light. If we want to observe small things we need more precise light, which means more energy. The problem is not that small particles are somehow become aware when we observe, but the observation itself adds energy to the system, thus alters it. Is this correct?
If electrons are the lowest level of granularity when it comes to determining state in computers then maybe it is the same in the mind?

I imagine a computer made of silicon with the trillions of grooves that the mind has in biological form would find itself to have a conscious just the same. Remove the silicon from the computer or biomass from the brain leaving just electrons behind and you would have a network I would argue gives rise to the seat of consciousness.
> The wavefunction is the simplest construct that explains our experimental results (it appears in every interpretation), so it's simplest to assume it just is what's really happening.

You are addressing a straw man. I never said anything about an alternative to wavefunctions—I brought up how they should be interpreted. Additionally, your claim, "so it's simplest to assume it just is what's really happening" has no more justification to it than the first time you said it.

> Hidden variable approaches are incompatible with our experimental results ...

He wasn't talking about a hidden variable theory, just about how to interpret the wavefunction, holding all theoretical elements constant: does it model our knowledge of physical states, or the physical states themselves.

The first one is simpler because we already know we are observing the physical states through an intermediary and that our knowledge is limited; the second one introduces a new capability to the universe.
Ancient natural fission reactor offers clues on storing modern nuclear waste
If anyone likes financial entertainment with a dash of the absurd, Zero Hedge was right on the money the same day he tweeted 'funding secured'

> "bankers close to Tesla have no knowledge of the buyout." Come to think of it, until just two hours ago, Tesla didn't either.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-07/tesla-jumps-saudis...
Ah OK, I vaguely remembered x87 as the reason for why Intel was willing to license x86 to AMD and it seems like it was in fact about 8087 predecessor that Intel licensed from AMD...
What happened on 1/1/17 to make you stop using it?
What bothers me in the context of regulation is how it seems like regulations as a group are frequently called out as "bad and unnecessary", but when it comes to specifics (i.e. specific unnecessary regulations or proposing targeted reforms) it's either crickets, or, in the case of some of the recent regulatory rollbacks, the ideas lie somewhere between "pants-on-head stupid" and "disastrous" [1][2]. Likewise, when people do call out stupid-sounding regulations, it's pretty common to find genuinely good reasoning behind them [3]. I guess I'd be a bit happier if I'd seen anything productive come out of the antiregulatory push in the past decade - instead it seems like it's mostly being used as an intellectual Trojan horse to increase the power of corporations and give them the freedom to pollute indiscriminately.

[1] - https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-s-epa-rolls-back-...
[2] - https://www.cnet.com/news/net-neutrality-is-now-really-offic...
[3] - https://www.marketplace.org/2018/02/02/business/uncertain-ho...
This still happens for sure, in the form of the mentioned "bro talk" and unbearable clique-type memes, but it is now augmented with many more useful posts.
Unless of course there would exist a revolving door between SEC and the companies they are supposed to enforce action on.

http://www.pogo.org/our-work/reports/sec-revolving-door.html
"Ownership" as a legal concept is not that simple: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.ft.com/content/7bd1b20a-879...

The meat of the article:

If I own an object I can use it, or not use it, sell it, rent it, give it to others, throw it away and appeal to the police if a thief misappropriates it. And I must accept responsibility for its misuse and admit the right of my creditors to take
a lien on it.

But shares give their holders no right of possession and no right of use. If shareholders go to the company premises, they will more likely than not be turned away.

They have no more right than other customers to the services of the business they “own”. The company’s actions are not their responsibility, and corporate assets cannot be used to satisfy their debts.

Shareholders do not have the right to manage the company in which they hold an interest, and even their right to appoint the people who do is largely theoretical. They are entitled only to such part of the income as the directors declare as dividends, and have no right to the proceeds of the sale of corporate assets — except in the event of the liquidation of the entire company, in which case they will get what is left; not much, as a rule.
https://github.com/xorgy/ldwm/blob/master/ldwm.c#L1799

Found that one out after some digging, seems weird to me that AWT manages to screw this up, to this day, maybe I'll understand what cool trick they do which makes this a problem.

> I use these on OpenBSD as well without too much issue.

Portability is a major benefit of these little window managers, I even ran my dwm fork on Minix3 (on real hardware!), with some minor Make changes [0] as a bored teenager.

[0]: https://github.com/xorgy/ldwm/blob/master/config.minix3.mk
“Social Networks” don’t scale socially
You just defined the concept of a masala. A masala is a mixture of dry spices in the correct ratio for a recipe. You can find them at an Indian store. I have also seen them at Target or on Amazon. The recipe for cooking is on the back side of a masala packet. Here is a link to a popular brand of masalas: http://www.everestspices.com/products
Yeah, I recently met a guy in the engineering corps who was super proud of the humanitarian work he's done and the opportunities he's had to travel, learn languages, etc. Could be that he got lucky with his placements, though.
If I use the System.Process API in .NET and redirect the Stdin/Stdout to a stream inside my application, does the framework spawn an invisible console and scrape the output? Or does this work differently? I always did it that way and thought the 3rd party terminal emulators also do that. Why do these emulators have to do it differently?
It's really more the established tech companies that draw the talent out here. In this generation, that's Google/Apple/Facebook; before that, SGI/Tandem/Sun/Cisco/Oracle/Yahoo; before that, HP/IBM/Ampex/Shockley/Lockheed/Stanford. They're the ones with generous relocation packages, a national brand name, and the ability to give an attractive offer to anyone in the world.

The startup ecosystem feeds off of that and California's outlawing of noncompetes. Employees get bored at working at a big company and have an idea for some way to employ the technology they've learned towards another industry. There's ample angel investors & VC floating around because of the profitability of previous companies. Oftentimes they have a spouse at one of the big companies who can continue to provide stability & health insurance.

The list of famous companies out here that can trace their ancestry back to one of [Shockley, Ampex, Stanford, IBM, HP] includes Fairchild, Intel, AMD, NVidia, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Atari, Dolby, Oracle, Salesforce, Memorex, Seagate, Apple, General Magic, Radius, Claris, E-Bay, StumbleUpon, Uber, Danger, Android, Nest, Be, NeXT, SGI, Cisco, Sun, Tandem, Siri, Yahoo, Google, Odeo, Twitter, Square, YCombinator, Netgear, Netscape, LoudCloud, Ning, a16z, Instagram, Whatsapp, Paypal, Slide, Yelp, Palantir, YouTube, LinkedIn, and likely many others. That's using a definition of "trace their ancestry back" as "a founder previously was an employee of or student at one of the other organizations in the set." Pretty much the only major Silicon Valley companies that are not included are the various YC companies (Reddit, AirBnB, Dropbox, Stripe, etc.) and Facebook, all of which would be if you extend the definition of "ancestry" to include "seed funder was in the set". (YC is in the set via Stanford => Yahoo => YC, Facebook's first investor was Peter Thiel, who got his BA and JD from Stanford.)
Speaking of coffee shops, I can't for the life of me remember where I heard/read this story, but there was a guy who owned a coffee shop who said that they got a big boost in business when Starbucks opened across the street from them. His claim was that Starbucks was approachable enough to turn more people in the town into regular coffee drinkers, and once they became regular coffee drinkers, they would often seek out something they liked better than Starbucks and end up in his shop.
How do they guarantee the anonymity? Is it only because the promise it? If we look at criticism against Proton Mail / Lava Bit you have the same problem that they will only be private if they can be kept honest? See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8755492

Also, how do they expect to monetize this? Selling users data that is anonymized?
Roughly 10 years ago, I briefly worked as a waiter in an Indian restaurant in the midwest.

Easily, more than 90% of the white people who wanted things "spicy" on the Indian spicy scale could _not_ handle it.

So the heuristic of interpreting the definition of spicy in the context of their background more often than not works out. (If it didn't, Indian restaurants who have been established for decades would have learned and changed their ways)

On a separately interesting note, I'm a brown person... I love spicy Indian food, but I have trouble handling it. Invariably I get all snotty, but I keep eating it. I have to keep a ton of tissues nearby to keep wiping snot, but my god food without the spicy kick is just too bland for me.

I wish so bad that I didn't get snotty every time I ate spicy.

It's kind of embarrassing and disgusting that when I'm eating out with folks, they have to see me constantly wiping my nose.