skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regulation another tool in the toolbox, but I don't think it should be the default tool to apply in many cases. It is pretty much the last resort: the market has failed (for any number of reasons) and there are no (dis)incentives that can be applied to alter the situation... so now the government needs to step in and tell the market what to do. This is not without risk as governments often screw this up whether intentionally due to lobbying/other interests or unintentionally as a result of just not understanding how to get the desired outcome. Then there's the reality that regulations tend to take on a life of their own as the regulators build their power bases on top of them.

On the other hand, with anything that consumes energy (whether electric, petroleum, or other), there is a lot of opportunity to influence behavior as there's both an up-front capital cost and an ongoing operational cost involved. Usually, the purchaser is paying directly for the operational cost. As a result, there's a direct path from the price of the consumable to the user of it. In these cases, incentivizing via the pocketbook can work quite well. And if that turns out to not be enough, more incentives can be added on the front-end via credits/taxes on the new/old thing to help shrink the price delta between them. So there's quite a bit that can be done before you get to the point of regulating. It also has the advantage of being easier to fine-tune than regulation.
Lengthy discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18081920
Interesting points but I only agree with one of the 3 examples you've provided:

> People definitely buy more and bigger TVs if their cost of operation is cheaper.

In all my years I have never, ever, heard anyone say that until now. People buy bigger TVs because it's cheaper to buy, or because they offer better features (smart, 3D, 4k, curved, etc) or because they move house and their new room is bigger so want something proportional. Or even just because they're used to their old TV and want a visible upgrade.

However I have never heard anyone say "this TV is bigger than my old one because it's cheaper to run".

(obviously I'm not saying "nobody in the history of consumers have said what you claim", but I would be astounded if that was a normal buying trend. More likely it's a niche quirk you've exampled)

> They also buy more power-hungry phones – energy efficiency increases in general haven’t turned into energy savings!

From what I gather, the trend for power-hungry phones have outstripped energy savings anyway. It's improvements in battery technology that have enabled people to continually upgrade. So I don't really see the cost of electricity vs energy consumption improvements being a deciding factor here.

> More efficient use of energy also simply makes people have less incentives to conserve it (switching off lights and appliances when not used, turning down heating/AC, driving less, and so on).

That's a fair point. It would be hard to judge just how significant that impact is though. But I definitely agree there will be people out there who do leave lights on because they're cheap to run.
I used to have a couple of Technics SL-1210, but sold those after I stopped DJ'ing about a decade ago. Stanton ST150 is my preferred choice these days.

http://www.stantondj.com/stanton-turntables/st150.html
Just to clarify something : Université in france is a very special type of public educational entity, that for example does research. In no way can any private school pretend to be one.
Must be really cool to win something like that, but how hard would be to convert this back to normal funds again? Would any of the coin exchanges allow you to just withdraw $2M?
Hard Drives that are included in the product are usually covered under normal warranty. Considering that modern harddrives include G-force sensors including logging drop events, it should be provable if a harddrive failed due to a drop or not (ie, read out G-force events and see if they line up with failed sensors).
Citation: "When KFR is being used, the October 2018 Update will delete the original, default Known Folder locations. Microsoft imagined that this would simply remove some empty, redundant directories from your user profile. No need to have a Documents directory in your profile if you're using a redirected location, after all."

Sorry for harsh language, but this is not a bug. This is a complete brain damage of those who decide to implement such behaviour.

I have redirected Documents. And there are A LOT of programs that directly try to use C:\Users\user\Documents instead of redirected.
I've been replying to you but I think my account has been $hadow0anned.
That's a fine argument. But then the author decides to call the people who wrote protobuf idiots and amateurs.
I also don't get it?
The update that deleted files wasn't ever an automatic one. You would have had to manually update. Fingers crossed they didn't mess up another. Seems unlikely.
"Bad food" isn't the issue. Lethal food poisoning is the issue - a single instance of contamination can kill a number of people and make a larger number very unwell.

This idea that small businesses are somehow exemplars of food hygiene is nonsense.

Some of the oldest laws made relate to food safety.
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> If it comforts you, “the button” (the nuclear launch protocol doesn’t involve a literal button) requires confirmation from the Secretary of Defense, and the current Secretary of Defense, James Mattis.

This is not how it works, the president has the sole authority to decide to launch a nuclear attack. Quoting from Wikipedia[1].

> This verification process [involving the Secretary of Defense] deals solely with verifying that the order came from the actual President. The Secretary of Defense has no veto power and must comply with the president's order.

And from another article[2]:

> If the Secretary of Defense does not concur, then the President may in his sole discretion fire the Secretary. The Secretary of Defense has legal authority to approve the order, but cannot veto it.

That quote is paraphrasing e.g. this source in the New York Times[3]:

> “There’s no veto once the president has ordered a strike,” said Franklin C. Miller, a nuclear specialist who held White House and Defense Department posts for 31 years before leaving government service in 2005. “The president and only the president has the authority to order the use of nuclear weapons.”

Furthermore, the reference to the "button" (nuclear football) and the Secretary of Defense being involved is only a reference to the protocol around that specific launch system, but there's other methods of launching nuclear weapons available to the president, and which operate at his sole discretion.

Here's what ex-Secretary of Defense Bill Perry said about it[4]:

> “What is clear, is that the secretary of Defense does not have veto power on it. This is a decision of the president’s,” Perry told Politico’s “Off Message” podcast.

> [...]

> “The order can go directly from the president to the Strategic Air Command. The Defense secretary is not necessarily in that loop,” Perry said in the interview.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_football#Operation

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Command_Authority

3. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/05/science/donald-trump-nucl...

4. https://thehill.com/homenews/news/360277-former-pentagon-chi...
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If this can remove CO2 from the air, I wonder if it could do so quickly enough to make an "air scrubber" for a future spacecraft...
I don't want to sound complacent, but I don't see that 2% is necessarily a bad sign. I suspect that 2% of the power-consumption is integral to well over 2% of the economy, for instance. Improving energy efficiency is always good, of course, but I'm not convinced there's a whole lot of low-hanging fruit that people need to be economically incentivised to implement.

That said, there are projects like Erlang on Xen [0] (a bare-metal-ish system) which enable unusual deployment patterns like spinning up a VM only after a request has been received, which could, presumably, make radically more efficient use of virtualised platforms. Not sure if anyone's done this in anger though.

Edit: I suppose higher prices would lead more people to do simple things like configuring their test servers to shutdown overnight and on weekends, mind

[0] http://erlangonxen.org/ , also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5431392
Learn languages (human languages). Important for mobility. You won't have time to study a language for 2 hours every day later in life.

Build big projects steps by step, 30 minutes every day (code, write a book, run a YT channel). Otherwise you'll wake up at 35 not having build anything significant of your own.

Don't be afraid, take risks, be bold.

Get tech education and study math.
Man, the arguments I've had with Germans about getting rid of nuclear. It's ridiculous. Instead, now we're incredibly reliant on coal and gas because there's no way we can cover our base load, much less 100% of our energy needs, with renewables.

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/l...

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/l...

This is incredibly depressing.
As a colleague put it: The majority decides what's right and wrong, regardless of facts or expertise.
But then under what circumstances will the zero page thread ever be scheduled?
that's the reason why I went with Win+WSL in the first place, I feared all the driver crap.

So... our choice now is between a great OS on laptops with next to no I/O and totally unacceptable keyboard, OR great hardware running on an OS that's put together with duct-tape and strings?
> "Competing with other companies with autonomous-vehicle programs like Uber, Tesla, Apple, and GM’s Cruise, Waymo is leading the pack in terms of road miles driven."

I'd think Tesla would be leading in terms of autonomous mikes driven given that they have sold 100k+ vehicles with Autopilot.
Astronauts escape malfunctioning Soyuz rocket
And here I thought the main point of having a food truck is to sell essentially the same stuff regular restaurants do, but with extra markup for the hipster factor.
Just keep in mind that most higher education is "free" anyway in France (either around 400€ a year for registration fees or totally free for people which have a government scholarship) and there is no exams entry at the university. Some formations are selective and some require some money to enrol but overall the only innovation this "school" provide is... the absence of teachers.
So the zero page process runs when one core is busy but the rest are free?
There's been some Protobuf spinoffs that claim to be "Protobuf but better" or "Protobuf but with changes from experience", like (iirc) Cap'n Proto and FlatBuffers, and full alternatives like Thrift and Fast Buffers.
Even Roy Jenkins (former old Labour cabinet minister) superb biography of Churchill concludes he was the greatest Prime Minister of the 20th century. He draws that conclusion even after pointing out Churchill's many flaws and mistakes. What human isn't flawed? Roosevelt, de Gaulle, Ghandi, all had flaws and racism too.
>> Mr. Brezhnev had developed an addiction to sleeping pills that, combined with alcohol, was undermining his ability to think straight.

And this person was the leader of evil empire for 18 years!!! How lucky we are that he hasn't started the nuclear war.
I think that's not quite what was asked for. What was asked for is one JS file with a function that takes a string and returns a string. Not a node package, not a website. Check out Three.js, it's a big library which can be used as one file three.min.js.
The main issue I see for this is debugging. With transpiled languages (unless you have great tooling) the debug stack is normally in the target language rather than the development language, so there's a lot of cognitive overhead in figuring out how the machine-generated output maps to the code you actually wrote.

Also, since this is essentially metaprogramming, any domain where performance is a concern is going to be problematic to handle.

As far as cross-platform support, the LLVM approach seems like the right one to me.
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I own a second hand Macbook, it has an issue with the screen and a slow harddrive, I am not fixing it because I do not use it anymore (I never liked laptops and this was the cheapest way I could test on a Mac at that time).

If Apple had it's way in future in a similar scenario, I could not fix it locally and cheap or the working parts could not be reused to fix other people devices.

I had a laptop that broke before(my fault), I went with it at shop and the motherboard needed to be replaced, I did not want to spend money on that but I could sell to them my remaining working components if I wanted too(screen and RAM) I did that and I still have somewhere the CPU,motherboard and the rest of the components.
There was a notorious course in my graduate program on Image Synthesis taught by seasoned professionals who really knew what they were talking about. And from the outside, it had really high pass rates, too.

Student interest was high, so when I enrolled in the course, we were around 25 students. By the mid-term it became obvious that most of us were interested, but couldn't put in the required 200% effort (compared to the credits we would receive).

Many (including me) dropped the course, and in the end, I think around 10 people sat the final - who did of course pass, since they were selected that way throughout the year.
Are those jobs comparable to the ones those people would have had before? Or is it just a glut of cheap labor that is exploited because it's cheaper than automating things?
SAR heading towards the expected touchdown location for the Soyuz spacecraft
Hope not - otherwise an alien civilization might find us someday with everyone frozen in carbonite like Han Solo.
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Yeah, for some models, especially small-scale ones, it can be hard to get a performance gain. There are actually ways of avoiding the locking, e.g., by staging the desired actions and then carrying them out afterwards, resolving conflicts as needed. We actually have a paper on this as well, but I'm going to stop pushing my research at this point ;)
It says escape, as in past tense, in the title, but is there confirmation of this? The article body seems to suggest they are still in the air?
For text and live video from Nasa - https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/10/10/live-coverage-two-man-...
FreeBSD has recently removed this as well.
I'm confused; in Rust, you use Box when you want a value to escape the function. That's the whole point of Box! Likewise I can't think of any situation where you'd ever want to construct a value in an Rc without that value escaping somehow, because in a single scope you're better off just handing out shared references (I think you may be confusing Rc with RefCell, since they are often used together and RefCell can be useful within a single scope--but note that RefCell never allocates). You have no need to cleverly promote these things to the stack because nobody is using them for data that they don't want to live on the heap; you have to go out of your way to use them! :)
I realized I commented with another account, so I guess I'll post again...
The question is, who is going to pay for that safety net, and is it really still a "safety net" when a majority of the citizens have to rely on it?

It could be argued that since automation drives the need for these arrangements, it ought to be taxed accordingly to pay for the measures that mitigate them.
NASA Twitter feed has near real time updates on the developing situation:
https://twitter.com/NASA
It can't grow indefinitely, because the reaction with the carbon consumes the reactant in the material itself. I suspect the surface coating is a bit like the layer of aluminium oxide that forms on the surface of aluminium in that it seals off the mass under it from reacting with the air, and when scratched, the material underneath reacts with the carbon in the air to form a new coating.
It's interesting that the behaviors began since 2013 and nobody recognized.
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What other choice though? I mean especially for Laptops. I find Macbooks now completely unacceptable, as a 13 year mac user, and Linux still seems to have the old issue of unreliable driver support.
First the mysterious hole and now this. Quality control at Energia is looking really questionable. Commercial Crew can't get here soon enough.
It's still going down according to @NASA@twitter.com about 4 minutes as of this time, like in Kazakhstan, the crew is well.
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Have you looked at gatsby? It doesn‘t fullfill all points but it comes closer than any other SSG. I think it fully satisfies 3, 4, 5 and 6.

The content API that is not limited to filesystem data puts it in a different category than other SSGs for me. They also seem to have the ambition to take on wordpress. It can involve some configuration though. It doesn‘t make the use case in the article trivially easy either.
I'd probably mess up the arithmetic, but I wonder how many skyscrapers or Great Pyramids could be packed in a volume of 1 cubic mile. That's how much oil we use per year.[0] (All sources combined are equivalent to about 3 cubic miles of oil.)

It would be nice to find a way to bump that up a couple orders of magnitude without actually pulling that much oil/equivalent out of the ground, since there literally isn't enough there.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubic_mile_of_oil
NASA TV reports that the capsule is down and the S&R team is in contact with the astronauts, who are in "good condition".
The lack of capital is probably a factor stopping people from doing that, this feels like a "let them eat cake" scenario.
China's population doubled in 50 years. It is estimated that the One Child policy prevented 400+ million extra increase.

It's not possible to draw equivalence between Taiwan and the mainland. The mainland's population exploded after WWII. It has more than doubled since 1950.

Using words like 'evil' is emotional, not rational.
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"The Soyuz capsule has landed back on Earth carrying two crew members. Search and rescue teams are in contact with the crew and are en route to the landing location."

"Search and rescue teams report they are in contact with the Soyuz crew, who report they are in good condition. The teams are en route to the landing site."

https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1050316612304175104

Possible implications:

"You can be sure Soyuz launches will be grounded indefinitely. Commercial Crew has to conduct a successful uncrewed launch next year before flying astronauts to the ISS (and no - they will not 'fast track' anything that involves crew safety)."

https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/10503184728598405...
The key word is could. It could also create a hyperstratified neo-feudal society a la "Diamond Age".

That's exactly the point - we need to be conscious of these possibilities, and steer towards the one that is preferable.
Perhaps the solution should also involve drones?
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The Soyuz-FG which has been used since 2001 has had a 100% success rate till today. Seems pretty good to me.
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I agree, it's an image they purposefully built for themselves since the Prussians, but I don't think it's the reality.
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I've been in my WeWork for nearly 3 years. As a (largely) solo worker it made a massive difference to my working life, and I've made the money I've spent on it many times over from meeting people there.

Some people live and breathe it. If I was 22 and an employee of someone, and still into drinking a bunch of beer every night, I'd probably live and breathe it too. Your work life and the people you meet would be better than 90% of your friends.

That said the gloss wore off for me in about 6 months. You realise you can't be 100% productive and drink beer every day. Events are great, but most of the time it just means I have to find somewhere quiet to work. Etc. Etc.

That said, I'd still recommend it in a heartbeat. I have no intention of moving unless I have to. The staff are great, the internet is super fast, and I love it at the weekend when it's mostly a big, empty quiet, well stocked building.
Why does so much of the news these days sound like the introductory chapter to a 1990s soft sci-fi novel?

Yesterday I read about Papua New Guinea establishing a cryptocurrency zone that’s exempt from local laws and can issue its own passports. Today it’s a coworking space founder who acts like a cult leader, has his own festival and wants to build entire towns owned by his company (and is funded by a shadowy Japanese conglomerate — pure William Gibson!).
Dirt under your fingernails doesn't scale. If it did, it'd have happened already. We need solutions, not attachment.
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Number one cause for amazon deforestation is cattle.

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

All the more reason to go vegan.
That's a gross generalisation and I would strongly disagree, this boogeyman of the evil union gets trotted out every time in tech forums like hackernews.
It doesnt have to be behaviour of the consumer. It can mean that the value proposition of application development can move to more less-efficient programs. e.g. we have more and more memory in computers so developers often say "meh, memory is cheap" when developing Electron apps that take hundreds of GB. This can definitely result in "meh, CPUs are efficient" (even if it's a non-sequitor in this case).
We should keep this between us, please don't let any politician read it.
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You're wrong, and the reason is that your definition of "far left" is nowhere near far enough. Neither Sanders nor Ocasio-Cortez are far left, and Sanders isn't even a socialist (despite using that label).

Actual hard left - the kind that actually believes in Marx and revolutions - is not a hive mind, but it is true that it tends to be a lot more acceptive of grassroots violence, and things that enable it (like guns). Which is not all that surprising, given the history of the movement.

Look up Redneck Revolt or Socialist Rifle Association to see what I'm talking about.
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It's a good question. As others have noted, jemalloc attempts to mitigate fragmentation, but you can't ever compact in a language where you can hand out pointers willy-nilly, so you would expect fragmentation to strictly increase as uptime approaches infinity. That said, Rust code doesn't tend to be especially allocation-heavy in the first place, and repeatedly allocating/freeing in a hot loop is already something that tends to be avoided as a core tenet of performance tuning, so allocator traffic may not be very heavy in the first place.

I don't have any long-running Rust code myself, but I do know people who have had Rust servers that have been running for upwards of six months and they seem to be pleased at both how little memory it consumes and at how reliable it's been (you don't ever get tremendous uptime if your code isn't robust in the first place :P ).
This occured minutes ago.

This live stream coverage shows the failure in the end
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8d9CqS2cvc

NASA live stream last minutes have audio track (in russian and translated to english) following the failure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDcYgYQbHg8

Both streams were abruptly halted, but links work for now.

Crew survived.
> Commercial Crew can't get here soon enough.

You mean the option with 0% success rate so far is better than the one with 100% (till this incident)?
I agree that the Soyuz has been very reliable historically, but two major incidents involving it within a few weeks has the appearance of a trend.