skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's one way of looking at it. Another is that the West's see-no-evil hear-no-evil approach to the Saudis has always been fundamentally unstable, and an event like this was bound to happen at some point. Glad that if finally has, even if it did take the murder of a journalist (who had a dubious stance on democratic rights to begin with) to light the touchpaper.
Seems like there is a conflict of interest. Governments are dependent on investment returns or the whole house of cards falls down. Yet they are given the responsibility of regulating the investment markets and controlling the money supply. Quantitative easing led to a massive bull market. What's the downside of a government dependent on increasing asset prices?
I can see your point from a policy level. However, once you have generations of government employees on this scheme such that their retirement planning is based around it, then it becomes much harder for everyone involved to adjust.

From the article, it seems that teachers don't have Social Security withheld, so they don't have that as a fallback either:

Teachers, like any other public employees who don’t have Social Security withheld, are not eligible for Social Security benefits; even if they earn Social Security by working a side job, those benefits are adjusted downward based on their pension income.
They make contributions but not nearly large enough contributions as would be required if they used accounting best practices, as for example those that the insurance industry is required to use when calculating reserves for annuities.
> I wish they would fix that and make it communicate clearly that they don't have this show, and the following are just the alternatives.

I'd like if they'd say "we have this show in the markets X, Y and Z. If you'd like a change, write an email to <insert mail of studio here> or tweet to @studio."

This way, studios could finally be subjected to shitstorms. After enough of these, maybe they'll turn down their greed somewhat. I don't want to pay six different streaming providers, that gets more expensive than US cable tv prices...
And yet it's true, since they haven't been used in the way they are now. There was no DeepMind in 1943. Computer science stuff usually takes a few decades to mature.
What do you mean by "this information"?
come get https://git.habd.as/comfusion/high-tea
Several private insurance companies been in business nearly as long as the US government I believe..
I do get a little joy on my monday morning that there are still people out there doing good work who can just tell people in a pig's eye when they are pressured to do stupid things.
Does this mean they'll skip to 7nm? I don't believe it.
UBeam is a really bad idea too. It "works" under controlled conditions, but it's horribly inefficient and would not be practical under regular conditions. It's more like Juicero than Theranos.
Developer Is the Next Blue Collar Job
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Is going PWA an option? 99% of the apps can just be that; A PWA. Unfortunately most consider having an app on the store is a mandatory thing for branding. I hope PWA does the same to Apple what the web did to Microsoft; in a good way, remove lock-ins
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If you drop the pejorative classist connotations of "blue collar," it always has been in the sense that programming is a craft.

Some "blue collar" people make great money too. There are numerous skills in high demand in areas like welding, specialized construction techniques, etc. that can net you a six figure income.
Arguably they did a couple of things (e.g. appliances) at least competitively. But the competition in those areas definitely increased from the big box stores, department stores in general have been in significant decline, and Sears as a whole was quite a mish-mash.
You mean something like this: https://i.imgur.com/EoNd3ev.gifv

I hate the ones that have permanent non-scrolling header/footer (title and social media buttons generally) taking up a significant fraction of my phone's screen.
Generally what parent says and to add: Does the company have a good/stable/solid vision/strategy? Do you believe it is/can execute on it?
Solving epistemology doesn't solve ontology. Bingo.
It generally is not going to help you write application code, no.

Heavy FP folks sometimes study it out of natural curiosity though.

There are a few examples of libraries that are directly influenced by category theory, but they are few in number.
That's cool, so US bonds only then?
SBC with DisplayPort are hard to find, but some displays only provide DP for licensing reasons. So that would be a nice thing to add.
Be that as it may, it's good if being a brutal absolute monarchy is a liability you can be attacked for, even if those attacks only happen when there's someone on the other side.
somehow the jelly windows never got old for me :)

I think here is the newest version existent: https://github.com/compiz-reloaded
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You should read Tom Duff's original email about this:

https://www.lysator.liu.se/c/duffs-device.html

A quote of the man himself about this: "I feel a combination of pride and revulsion at this discovery."
I remember testing it on my Ubuntu partition soon after I learned about the project. I recorded a little video showing some of its capabilities. It became my most viewed video ever on YouTube with over 500K

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjQ4Nza34ak

Some good quality images of it running with my blog in the old days:

https://www.javipas.com/wp-content/lg1.jpg

https://www.javipas.com/wp-content/lg2.jpg

https://www.javipas.com/wp-content/lg3.jpg

https://www.javipas.com/wp-content/lg4.jpg
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Hayek, like Adam Smith, has been quoted to intellectual death by libertarians who haven't actually read him.
What a wonderful introduction of category theory. I didn't know about it before reading this, but I must say I am intrigued.
Yes, modern compilers do loop unrolling nowadays, so Duff's device doesn't really have a use. But it's certainly a wonderful bit of history. I found Duff's device when I was researching coroutines in C.
Chan is also a friendly figure on Twitter and will chat about restaurants (located almost anywhere) with anyone.
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wkhtmltopdf maintainer here. That's really cool!

Did you manage to find a workaround for https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/packaging/issues/2? If so, would appreciate a PR :-)
Some people are a bit crazy and love the X220 enough to attempt a FullHD mod (with custom hardware and rerouting of the external eDP signal/lane internally). Not for the X220T though.

A kit was for sale here:
https://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=122640

Edit: better wording
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I just sang that to the tune of "Only Fools and Horses".
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campaign finance will never be reformed, political movement needs to be able to operate in spite of money contributed

I doubt Citizens United will ever be overruled
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No, this is just a wonderful bit of obsolete hacker history. Unless if you mess with retro-architecture for fun (like old PDP machines, be they emulated or real), then it's somewhat relevant.
The truth is saundi arabia has been trying to control the region for awhile and started to lose control. Ask Quater if the Saudi's would try to influence or threaten a country for no reason other than having a brighter spotlight.

When the Saudi's tried to threaten Canada recently by pulling out investment and students you could see this was going to be a challenging year for them. Aside from open up space for other more deserving students in Canada the Saudis did little damage and changed the way the world started looking at them. We are seeing them fall further and further each month.
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Well in reality the insurance industry is highly regulated and ultimately backed by the promise of government bailouts.

(Of course some companies from a pre-government-guarantee era are still in business, but "some" isn't enough when we're talking about your retirement savings)
Likewise re: subtlety, the Windows Vista/7 Win+Tab animation used a 3D card stack, the Windows 10 ones uses a simple zoom-out. Both are 3D, but people seem to prefer the ones which don't scream "3D!" as much.

There's acryllic everywhere too, which is blurry transparency, but you might not notice it either.

That said: I miss Compiz wobbly windows. They were cool.
>THE HALAL restaurants established by Muslim migrants in Britain quickly inspired an almost religious following among non-believers.

I think some people (not massive numbers, admittedly) avoid Halal restaurants/meat because the method of slaughter is less humane and doesn't typically involve stunning the animal first.
Kentucky's pension is screwed for all of the same reasons many other public pensions are (in order of importance):

- Overpromising of benefits

- Underfunding mechanisms that allow deferral of contributions

- General mismanagement (I can assure you the best and brightest investors and fiduciaries don't work at public pensions)

- Corruption (ie related party deals)

The idea that "evil hedge funds" are responsible is silly. This might make for more clicks but the investment committee made the decisions to invest, so blame them. This isn't about hedge funds.

I've long argued that public pensions should be illegal. There are too many areas of interest misalignment. Things that can be abused, will, and public pensions are perfectly designed to facilitate these kinds of shenanigans. Anyone looking for what the next great crisis will be, this is it.
It adds transparency and accountability. And it’s up to the government employees if they want to bring in a private company. As a taxpayer, and employer of government employees, I would like a clear accounting of how much payroll is.

I don’t want politicians buying union votes with unsustainable promises that get kicked down the road 20 years later, and I don’t want to hear “my predecessors didn’t properly fund the pensions”. You create a system loopholes and bad incentives, of course they are going to be used.

The solution is simple, time saving, and efficient. If a private entity can’t afford to offer annuities without the power to increase taxes, then they are obviously a very, very expensive benefit, so why should only government employees get them?
The fact that their "HTTPS website" is basically a file list on their webserver doesn't fill me up with confidence...

https://dn.odroid.com/
The Mer-people in the Gulf are welfare queens
right, but the the gp said halal establishments always used vegetable oil instead of beef fat.
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Thanks for the info and I agree - it was a pretty doomed UX to begin with and definitely not the first time 3d made an appearance on the desktop. The keynote definitely had a wow effect to it though, and it came from an unusual “competitor”.
I suspect most such high profile events tend to be as part of a series of events / the state of things.

Let's say this truly was a one off and Saudi Arabia was a better place, I doubt we'd see the same response if this was a one off event.

You should also add Turkey's response to the list of randomness. Turkey didn't have to make a big deal about it, had they not done so we would likely know very little other than that someone went missing there.
Private companies do it all the time, it’s called freezing the pension plan.
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Agree completely about it being invasive to ask. My point is that if my directs trust me with (volunteered) info about their most treasured non-work priorities, then they'll be more likely to trust me when I need them to reprioritize. I think we agree with each other; my point is descriptive rather than prescriptive.

Put another way: If I clearly don't care about their families, then I clearly don't care about their families.
What do you do about any confusion arising from MG also being a long standing abbreviation for Machine Gun?
Wobbly windows and cube animation for extra oomph! :-)
Luxi Mono, monospaced with serifs, very readable for code and text.
https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Luxi-Mono
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Just a small nitpick: Solaris wasn't GPLed, but remains CDDL
Can someone who has access tell us what information the paywalled article is using to make this claim?
EDIT: an r/hardware post is claiming the article is based on anonymous sources that the author knows at Intel. The article claims Intel is abandoning the 10nm roadmap --> no Icelake 10nm+? Intel also had some issues with 14nm which is why Broadwell-S and Broadwell came out at the same time. Whatever the case, Intel will probably have to respond to this.
I don’t see what the benefit of that system is as opposed to paying someone market price for their labor. If anything, it just allows an avenue for taxpayers (mostly in the future) to be stolen from.
Judging by the number of answers I see which were valid and good answers in 2011 and are horrendously outdated now, it's not just grown up, it's grown long in the tooth.
You are clearly uncomfortable with your own choices in the original post. It's laundering. Legal or not the choices you made were unethical.

“We believe there should be a huge area between everything you should do and everything you can do without getting into legal trouble. I don’t think you should come anywhere near that line.”
-Charlie Munger

Your choices, your life, don't expect me to celebrate or make excuses for it.
No. I think ethics =/= laws.
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I've used stackoverflow for years and have never heard it put like that.

"Stack Overflow ultimately has much more in common with Wikipedia than a discussion forum. By this I mean questions and answers on Stack Overflow are not primarily judged by their usefulness to a specific individual, but by how many other programmers that question or answer can potentially help over time."

Personally I would have been much more understanding of the process of using stackoverflow if I knew this, and so would many of the people who get stung expecting an answer to their question.

In reality the user is contributing their question to the community, not asking a question in the traditional sense. That's my take anyway.
Greg KH already decides what goes into the "stable" Linux series (4.y.z, for instance 4.18.15), which is what most people actually use. Besides, he assumed after the 4.19 merge window, and he's handed the 4.20 merge window back to Linus; it's in the merge window that new features come in (after the merge window closes it's mostly only bugfixes), so it's still Linus who gets to decide.
> Define regularly

More often than what is considered a standard 99.99% uptime SLA? (about an hour per year.)

You seem to be making it out like a couple of days a year of lost [1] developer productivity is no big deal.

That said, these things happen and you should probably check your workflows if you're all that blocked by GitHub being down.
Process node-size names are more or less semantic marketing games these days anyways. What TSMC calls 7nm is roughly equivalent to what Intel called 10nm.

Its likely that Intel will roll out a node at that size, but being forced to abandon their previous attempt is a crushing blow that has set them back years, and will likely set them back years more to come.

It takes years to develop a node size, and they have had to throw out most of their work.
I agree. There are different requirements in software development jobs and some of them do require college education while others don't. It's a vast field now and not every job is the same. We just need to be careful not to look down at each other just because we assume someone's job needs less qualifications.
Related: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/10/22/188
Can't agree more.
I would, until the neighbors started threatening to sue me in planning meetings and the local authorities demanded $30,000 of architect's drawings and then I was told I had to have two parking spaces for some reason and that my house was too small for any decent individual.
Agnostic here.

Sure, why not? Group codes of conduct are a form of mutually-enforced morality. Why not pick up a template that seems to have worked in the past and reuse parts of it?

It all won't fit, of course, but why re-invent the wheel? I'm really much more interested in the track record of how various of these items worked out (or not) than I am in impeaching the source. Who cares about that stuff?
A device that can pull drinking water from the air just won the latest XPrize
problem is that there is no access hatch, you have to remove the whole plate to get to the drain.
Sadly I think we hit peak getting along about 2 years back.

As in the microcosm, so in the macrocosm. If you think about even the difficulty of maintaining stable relationships with the handful of people you know it's actually really damn challenging. Occasionally you have fights and disagreements and sometimes you think fuck it I just can't deal with you anymore or right now. If it's like that for everyone on Earth in their personal lives then that's what Earth is going to be like in aggregate roughly speaking.

I don't mean to be a downer about it. I just think we have a very rosy view of "the world gets better and progress gets made and that's the natural state of things". I've come to realize that that doesn't really hold up to scrutiny when you look at the history of the world over the last 12 to 13 thousand years.

As it stands this is mostly a happy accident. Scariest thing is it can all go back the other way.
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When I wrote my bachelor thesis about democratic methods in online communities, I found out that all these crowd-sourced sites had one major problem.

When they start, senior players in their field of work laugh at them because they don't have much content. So they try to get as much as possible, trying to get as many new creators on board as they can.

Later, when they have grown enough, the senior players in the field laugh at them because they have mostly garbage content. So they try to increase the quality of their content.

The problem here is, now they accumulated a vast mass of creators who love the site, but only a fraction of them creates quality content.

They unleash a task force of moderators on them that kick out the low-quality creators, which improves quality, but bad for the morale of the whole community.

Wikipedia did this and Stackexchange does this too.

I think, instead of alienating existing creators by deleting their content, they should simply make high quality content more visible.
Awesome, I thought only 4.20 will have it. Have you tested it with Bluetooth?
and he is still alive?
Complexity is a feature in modern financial products. It creates a larger knowledge gap between those selling the products and those buying them.
Stimulus: A modest JavaScript framework
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I agree. In terms of fancy visual effects and CPU usage, I prefer my window manager at the opposite end of the spectrum, e.g. i3wm.
I recall some tentative stabs at it, but I think the hardware's unreadiness really puts a damper on development efforts. There isn't much point jumping out years in advance, with the way display managers have gone over the past decade it's pretty much a trivial problem now. (Or at least, trivial as such problems go. Still a lot of coding and I'm sure a lot of fresh new corner cases, but nothing fundamentally unknown or impossible.) We know that if the hardware was there, we could create such a desktop environment now. Anything you did now would run the risk of being completely obsolete before the hardware got there.
As long as the same problem doesn't occur again, I have no hard feelings against them.
Why couldn't Intel get this working with other fabs could? Hubris, lack of talent or really bad decisions?
According to the article, Mustafa al-Madani was supposed to be used as decoy for Khashoggi. He even put on a fake beard and glasses - but somehow he failed to remember that he had full grown black hair on his head. Maybe it's just me, but that would be the first thing standing out. Assuming the killing was planned, it was a really botched job - yet one that unfortunately will probably be still worth it for the Saudis.
As newer generation C++ programmer, can confirm I'm guilty of writing things header only when they "probably shouldn't be". But it's not so much I don't understand the old way. Having everything in one file is just so much easier to work with. The price you pay for it is relatively low(for small projects like this library).
Greg Kroah-Hartman is the stable kernel maintainer for quite some time. In addition to multiple subsystems. Probably the best guy to work with out of all the maintainers.

The idea is that Linus stepped away for a second to reconsider his style of responding on mailing list and which caused the Code of Conduct silliness.
I think it's an emperor's new clothes sort of situation. All it takes is for some event to happen so that people can't politely ignore the rot.
Interesting, did they also sell the Golfs in Yugoslavia? I know that at one point, Eastern Germany imported a few VW Golf, Mazdas and Citroens, but AFAIK those were one-time deals, and nearly unobtainable for normal citizens (both because they were rare, and also very expensive, even the Lada was almost considered to be a luxury car in the GDR).
Yes it is. https://enterprise.github.com/faq#faq-3
These banks are UK banks that required by UK banking laws to know their customers (KYC [0]) and follow all applicable anti-money laundering laws. Every journalist in every news organization, mainstream or alternative, would love to break that sort of news if it were true.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer
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Ask HN: Who's using Blockchain in production?
I was just wondering who is using blockchain in their production as a part of their product/service ?
Just like the arbiters of COC enforcement - extremely vague.
That's a really good observation. A lot of very highly ranked answers no longer apply, and still they are very visible due to their score.

If the idea is to be the "wikipedia of programming", I wonder if "votes" are enough. Should there be an active initiative to prune stupid/bad questions? Revisit old answers?
> I miss Compiz wobbly windows. They were cool.

Last I checked, Kwin still had that functionnality.
My mom is retired and part of the Kentucky Retirement System.

Fun fact most people don't know about some of these- you forfeit your social security benefits when you participate. Because of this my mom cannot draw my dead fathers benefits.

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/education/2018/03...
Is stable different from latest? I am not sure how much independent decision space he has, otherwise we would have d-bus in stable long time ago. Maybe I don't know the process well enough but I would be surprised that Greg can merge something that isn't approved in latest.

Fingers crossed it is only 4.19, I am kind of seeing this as a bigger event but I may be wrong.
While I probably agree with your thesis, you have not actually addressed GP's assertion that the US subsidizes Drug Research. There is no question that we pay more for drugs than others. There is also no question that it is better for the consumer if we have cheaper drugs.

What you haven't answered is whether the research can be supported without the American market subsidizing of that research.

It is in fact, expensive to develop new drugs and something has to pay for that development.
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