skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I'm being overly pessimistic, but my first thought is how long before someone claims MtF status for the exclusive[1] purpose of not really fulfilling this requirement.

[1] i.e. do not actually identify as female. I make no statements about genuinely trans people in this post.
Not necessarily "write" assembler, but understand it, and, as always we are not at the end of history. New dominant CPU architecture could arise, people understanding and writing assembler will always be needed.
Well count me among the folks who had to go to Wikipedia to figure out what Ford was doing building an engine famously made by Rolls-Royce. Thanks for the bit of history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Merlin#Manchester
> We need a decentralized platform for this and social media

PeerTube (YouTube lookalike), Mastodon (Twitter lookalike), and PixelFed (Instagram lookalike) are already that[0]. On top of that, they all follow the same federation standard (ActivityPub), meaning that you can follow and comment on a PeerTube channel or a PixelFed feed from within Mastodon. You don't really need three separate accounts, you can just have one.

They are practical on some levels, impractical on others, and they definitely do require some tweaking of how you use social media.

But they do exist, they are decentralized (as in, anyone can run their own instance), they are in active development, and they even have some fair amount of users. If I remember correctly, Mastodon boasts with around 1.5 million users at the moment. IMO, minuscule number for something that's considered a social network, but a gigantic number for something that's a decentralized social network.

[0] There are way more clients than the three I've mentioned. I chose to mention these three because they're lookalikes, meaning that you already kind of have the idea of what they are for.
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Just a few days ago, one of the restaurants I own was getting a new air conditioner installed as a condition of lease renewal. Of course, the landlord did not tell me the AC people were coming to do the work and just showed up at 7AM with the expected high temperature to be in the mid-90sF. It was already 78F when they started.

I asked my manager to ask the AC guy how long it would take. "He doesn't know", she said. Such an answer drives me insane. You mean he has no clue? Will it take three months?! 30 minutes?! How can we plan to work around no AC in a restaurant when the installers have no idea how long it will take?

But of course they had a rough estimate. Why didn't they give me one? It would relieve a lot of anxiety if nothing else even if it was wrong.

At the three hour mark, I was told it would be about an hour. After 5 1/2 hours, I was told half an hour. It took 6 1/2 hours to complete.

Here are the issues with all that:

1) If I had an estimate, I wouldn't have needed to drive to the restaurant and talk to the installers myself.

2) If I didn't get an estimate, I would have had to raise hell with the landlord who I have a good relationship with.

3) Once I had an estimate, I didn't feel the anxiety or need to constantly check on the progress which would have irritated the installers. And believe me, I would have irritated them!
What makes you think that they aren't trying to make them faster? There was an article on here not that long ago about companies that are trying to make super-sonic commercial flights work[1].

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/aviation-companies-are-plott...
Another alternative is negotiating a shorter workweek - you might be willing to stay longer at a job if you're working less than 40 hours a week.

I've done this, and it's pretty great. I interviewed someone who's been doing it for past 15 years: https://codewithoutrules.com/2018/01/08/part-time-programmer...
Easy ways to get kids to exercise
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Agreed. I've been saying for a long time we should do it differently, but so far I've had no success.
Tasks involve reading assembly are more common, and it's hard to understand it very well if you've never written any.
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If you are developing a compiler you will need to understand the output assembly. Learning to program in it is one way to get to know it. There is also plenty of little code snippets around run-time libraries and OS that are written directly in assembly (e.g. crt0.o, crt1.o & friends).

Basically: somebody has to provide the infrastructure between assembly and high level languages, so that everyone else can write in HLL.

Optimization of games or HPC workloads is also a valid use-case, but today you probably want to use intrinsics in C instead.
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To be fair, Media City has been basically a giant building site for years, it's not that bad these days I think. This said, on the other side of the Irwell / ship canal there is still Trafford Park, an industrial site (Kellogg's used to have a huge factory and HQ there).
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Disclaimer: I work on Linux at Intel.

I'll give you an engineer's perspective, and specifically about Meltdown since that's what I worked on.

I posted the first Meltdown mitigations in late October, publicly claiming to mitigate a less dangerous class of side-channel (https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/10/31/884). I figured that Linus would merge it (Linus knew the real reason by that point) and would "wink" at Greg and the other stable maintainers enough to get them to merge it too. At this point, we had months before the embargo ended.

In retrospect, that was a kinda silly assumption, but I was heads down trying to get the patch to work and didn't dwell on it much. I wish I would have made more noise about it, especially as we got closer to the embargo ending.
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I just accept, my browser settings clear cookies when I close.
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Even with that, India has done amazingly well in the space sector with the successes of PSLV in the 20th century and the recent Mars mission in the recent past.
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What I want is a smartphone the size of a credit card that can project any size virtual screen anywhere in any direction—no surface required.
I subscribe to:
- Netflix
- Spotify
- Google Drive/One
- iCloud
- RescueTime
- Lastpass
- Audible (1 credit per month)

I donate to:
- One small NGO that assist poor college students with basic stuff (rent, food, etc)
Scientists found brain’s internal clock that influences how we perceive time
Ironically good for an inadvertent diet.

(Omad = one meal a day)
Obligatory XKCD reference:

https://xkcd.com/673/
That existed for Microsoft employees a while back(not sure now). Heard many stories of people using it to get out of parking tickets rather than anything serious.
30-40 years is sudden for societies. Just because individuals can predict in advance doesn’t mean that the society at large will successfully absorb the enormity of a change and then adapt to it. Hence, sudden.

For what it’s worth I think we’re still dealing with the destabilizing shock of the baby boomers outnumbering other generations, and have been dealing with that since the late 1960s.
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Here is a video re Melatonin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q1ln6vaSE0
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Here is an interesting video re melatonin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q1ln6vaSE0
How can you agree that "the press may not be successful much of the time in telling people what to think" and at the same time think we're easily manipulated?
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Proof at last! I always felt that the chimney sweeps seemed way too happy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I-b_GJ4ltk
To Grok a Mockingbird
I don't believe that. Text for human consumption, in a well designed UI (and I mean even a CLI one!), should be different from text for machine consumption. Human consumption generally optimizes for characteristics almost diametrically opposed from machine consumption.

Of course, who am I kidding, in real life we have some sort of crappy text interface which is half-baked both for humans and for machines. But we've been using it for almost half a century and it's too widespread to redo, so there we are, plowing through it daily.
See! It is possible to identify sarcasm in pure text.
Agreed. I read this and thought, "Oh my God, why not use baffles?"
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They are going to use the results to set up a hedge fund. Not quite insider trading, but shady.
I wish it allowed for even finer control, though. What if it could prevent one specific function from running? Or replace tracking functions with no-op ones? Or hook into HTTP APIs in order to let you audit, modify or interrupt communications?
What these ships are mostly surrounded by are waterfields that go as far as you can see. Can they come up with some sort of rolled flexible solar panels that once ship goes into full sail they release their “solar tail” behind that floats on the water surface and captures sun and turns it into electricity for ships’ engines?

I mean 300 meters square of solar panel should be sufficient to push the ship at its nominal speed. For free!
This is your brain on air pollution
Economies of scale too.
I'd be willing to bet that every single one of the millions of people who have watched this movie in the last 30 years has laughed at "Hey, it's Enrico Pallazzo!"

I will go to my grave insisting those are the four funniest words ever uttered in a movie.
Interesting move, and interesting infographic there about chains in Europe and US. Noted McCafe doesn't register in US stats, but maybe that's because McDonald's coffee (no small play) is really inside the restaurants and McCafe was the route in the EU for shop sizes etc
yea thats what I am worried about
What’s the paywall strategy here
In my code, most asserts become log messages in release builds. This helps a lot when troubleshooting problems, customers don't have debuggers installed. I often work on desktop software, unfortunately it's impossible to achieve avionics level of reliability because I don't have a luxury of controlled hardware and software environment.
Black coffee is nice... when the actual coffee is nice. It doesn't take too long after the switch to realize the random kuerig selection offered at your office does not fit that category.
Is it really not? The dictionary says otherwise, albeit by back-formation (as is the English way).

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kudo
Yeah but an experiment wouldn’t have gotten them those fat VC dollars.

Fat VC dollars come when they think you’ll dominate the world of scooters and put them everywhere. If you spend some of those millions fighting city governments so be it. Bribe them, make them fail elections, find loopholes, extend court trials forever. This companies have almost an unlimited supply of money.
Mostly churning credit cards. Some manufactured spending.
Human "resources." Comparing people to metal ore that you can mine out of the ground is dumb.
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I thought github projects were only ok to use if the author provided a LICENSE file e.g. MIT or APACHE 2.0 , do these papers include a license clause at the bottom? Usually no right , so it seems to be a ‘grey’ area
Toyota :'(

Just look for the neatest font, with the straightest endings on curved ends e.g. r c g etc

Arial has angled caps, Helvetica are straighter.
I work on compilers and I hate assembly.
Can we intentionally liquifact the solid into a liquid?

Also, we can have articulated baffles that raise into place from below, cutting into the solid material.

I think this is a solvable problem.
Interesting, sounds like these are places you can do the bare minimum and do alright.
Whatever alternative reliably prevents buffer overflows, so pretty much anything but char*.
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That's a slightly different for of support. It's there to directly fulfill business needs. It's not to indirectly support those needs by making the employee happier as a person and thus more productive.

Currently most of the support you get from a corporation is strictly limited to what you need to do your job. The corporation will rarely offer it's services for your private benefit.

There are a few that do though. Of course, opening that door is tricky for a corporation as it may involve more than you bargained for. The bottom line is profit which is easily quantifiable. The increase offered by a happier employee not so much.
If Hacker News wants to have any sort of intellectual discussions left it is going to have to discourage downvoting. I am not making myself hard to argue with here. It is perfectly fine to write a few lines if you disagree. In fact that is the whole point.

Say you make $150k. As far as I know that is around $100k after taxes i.e. $8350 a month. Say your rent is $4k and another ~$1k in miscellaneous expenses. That leaves you ~$3k in discretionary income and probably a bit less for saving if you want to have some "luxuries".

If you have been in the housing market for a long time or otherwise have a better situation your living expenses might be a lot lower. If you are paying $1.5k (upfront or de facto) in housing costs that might effectively double your savings i.e. what you get to actually control from your salary.

But it is sort of worse than that. Because every additional dollar you want to make gets taxed with your marginal tax rate. Meaning if you want to have the same savings as someone with lesser living costs you have to increase you salary quite a bit. In this case you have to go to somewhere close to $200k. Which is a pretty huge gap for something that doesn't have anything to do with your actual work performance.

Of course this can all get better or worse depending on circumstances. Still, it is a big deal.
I think the issue would be salt water. Salt water destroys everything, I can’t imagine that a PV array floating in water would have a good life expectancy.

On the plus side, if the insulation fails you could turn container ships into accidental fishing boats.
Non-mobile link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicksort#Selection-based_pivo...
For example in UK, you don't have to pay VAT if you make under 80.000 or something like that. But, you still have to register as a company or sole trader with HMRC and say that you are involved in an economic activity.

And you still have to submit invoices. I doubt that any of these people send invoices through instagram messages...
In Spain something similar also happens: in August many companies let employees opt for "jornada intensiva" from 8am to 3pm instead of the usual 9am 6pm with an hour for lunch.
That's kind of the point. "Deliberate practice" definitely helps to hone particular skills which fill holes in your overall competence. When you're performing at ultra high levels, you probably already have optimal performance in most areas, and all you have left to practice are particular skills.

Also, how you measure "sports performance" and what a percentage point means at different levels seems crucial to the whole thing. Maybe deliberate practice only accounts for 1% of performance... but an athlete who's 99% perfect is twice as good as an athlete who's 98% perfect.
The Java text file has a comment asking the user to allocate more memory for jvm.
Hydrogen fuel cells are looking likely. Solar will probably produce too much electricity for usage during the day, so use that spare energy to split water to create Hydrogen fuel.
But if you would have to go to bed earlier, how is that better than staying up later?
The British East India Company being perhaps the largest, most "successful" (in an imperialistic sense, not a moral one) example of this.
I totally agree. I got my truck when I had a ranch with livestock, a tractor and all the work that goes with all that stuff. I'm now living in town about two miles from work and really don't need the truck but they're more easily acquired than gotten rid of. Most days I leave the truck in the driveway and drive the wife's Subaru.

As far as grid operations, it's not really that exciting to see in person. Access is tightly controlled and it's pretty much like any other enterprise application shop.

The control room is pretty cool, though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KatQ9Q_IQk
4.6 million people is "not a lot"?
I answered the poll. I'm happy with the current system but I answered that if we have to change it I'd take permanent daylight savings, which is what they are proposing now. The rationale is that I like to have light late in summer. Early morning will be colder in winter but it's always too cold anyway so who cares.

As a reference, Spain has been in the wrong time zone for decades (GMT+1 instead of GMT) but they have no problems with that.
Java and C# are also native compiled languages, with linker support.

You just have to look properly for those options.

The only thing is that not all of them are free beer.
1.84 and the 3-3-3 787 is by far my least favourite long haul option.
To learn what programming really is and how systems really work.

You can't really understand programming without having built a compiler. Or at the very least having done assembly programming. I don't think you can truly understand any basic programming concept like variable, pointer, reference, etc without learning compilers or assembly. Yes, a pointer "points" to something. But what does that really mean? When you realize that it's all just higher level concepts of specific assembly mechanisms of accessing data, you'll have a eureka moment. Don't see how you do that without digging into compilers/assembly.

And ultimately, it'll make you a better overall programmer since compilers/assembly is fundamental to every programming language.
Thank you for clarifying!

As I understand them, these studies of Learning Styles are focused entirely on pedagogical methods and their efficacy at teaching material to students. The implication, as near as I can tell, is that a student's personal preferences for how they might do things outside an instruction environment is not relevant to efficacy inside an instructional environment. You seem to be contending that a person's preferences for how to learn can and should be expected to impact the efficiency of their learning process - which sounds a lot like the Learning Styles idea!

After all, if a student might have resisted an approach in a counterfactual scenario but did learn successfully and as efficiently as a student who would not have resisted that same approach, then the same outcome is achieved in both theory and practice.

Have I missed something? Perhaps I have failed to understand your point?
I've been wondering why shipping companies haven't been doing this for years now. Whenever I brought it up with friends they would say it's probably not worth the effort, but I can't see how it wouldn't be worth it. It's essentially free energy to help move the ship around. Got to say, I feel vindicated by this story.
https://www.adweek.com/digital/google-still-stores-location-...
Monotype is the owner right now.
This video talks of shipping bauxite from South America to the US in 1941: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK4dEEoKNiE

Similarly, Wikipedia claims bulk carriers have been around since 1850: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulk_carrier

Doesn't sound all that new.
GNU Taler site like to state that at the same time stating they government will have overview into all transactions.

https://taler.net/en/governments.html

I call bullshit in the comparison to cash.
Growing up in Indiana, we never had daylight savings time. Standard time year-round. It was finally adopted after tireless arguing about how it was difficult for business to be an hour different from the rest of the country for half the year. Those against adopting it did use the "milking the cows" argument also.

I don't think at the time people could foresee the impact of online business, when it really doesn't matter where you are or what time it is.
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This is probably an unpopular or taboo opinion, but I believe in equal rights and merit based achievements. Basing employment, status or title on a persons gender or ethnic background is the opposite of equal rights, in my view. I see it as two wrongs trying to equal a right.
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Edit: I'm wrong, see responses bellow for correction

Original message:
I seem to remember (if I'm wrong please correct me) that the Magnus effect works regardless of the direction of the wind, whereas the sky sail needs the wind to be roughly in the same direction of travel.

They could be combined but as far as I understand these spinning columns are more generic
I don’t understand why silently truncating strings is considered to be acceptable practice.

If you have the length of both, simply assert the length of the destination is <= the length of the source. Problem solved (bugs become obvious in testing).
I'm old to development, and would like to ask for the same thing. But something beyond "Pragmatic Unit Testing".

You see, I've read that. I've read one other book on unit tests too, and been on 2-day long training in TDD, and spent many hours trying to write unit tests, and yet the skill still eludes me. It's like I have a blind spot there, because I can't for the best of me figure out how to test most of the code I write.

In the projects I'm working on, I find roughly 10% of the code to be unit-testable even in principle. That's the core logic, the tricky parts - like the clever pathfinding algorithm I wrote for routing arrows in diagrams, or the clever code that diffs configurations to output an executable changeset (add this, delete that, move this there...). This I usually write functional-style (regardless of language), I expect specific inputs and outputs, so I can test such code effectively. Beyond that, I can also test some trivial utilities (usually also written in functional style). But the remaining 80-90% of any program I work on turns out to be a combination of:

- code already tested by someone else - external dependencies

- code bureaucracy, which forms vast majority of the program - that is, including/injecting/managing dependencies, moving data around, jumping through and around abstraction layer; this I believe is untestable in principle, unless I'm willing to test code structure itself (technically doable for my Lisp projects...)

- the user interface, the other big part, which is also hilariously untestable, and rarely worth testing automatically, as any regression there will be immediately noticed and reported by real people

I'm having trouble even imagining how to unit-test the three things above, and it's not something covered in unit testing books, tutorials or courses I've seen - they all focus on the basics, like assertions and red-green-refactor, which are the dumb part of writing test. I'm looking for something for the difficult part - how to test the three categories of code I mentioned above.
passenger ships used to have black hulls from the coal loading ports on down to mask the markings.
*cries in Gnome
This is Reason, so of course there is an agenda - the government needs to take it's meddling hands out of our free markets and let us sell whatever drugs to whoever we want!
Anyone know how much Taiwan spends on R&D? My dated recollection was quite high (10%?)
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