skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In general, yes, but a lot of its cross-platform capabilities are community-contributed/community-led, there are still some APIs that don't have cross-platform implementations (because it hasn't been a community priority), but also there are APIs that simply can't work on any platform but Windows (obvious things like Registry access, for instance) and will either no-op or throw clear exceptions on other platforms.

The "desktop app packs" for WPF and WinForms Microsoft has made very clear that they will not support anything other than Windows. (They also won't directly be a part of .NET Core according to diagrams, but packages installed on top of it.) It's also unclear if they can be open sourced (they probably cannot be), and if they can't be open sourced it is unlikely a community-led effort could easily work on making them cross-platform.
It has happened. Remember White Flight?
'Liberal Media Casts Liberal Politician In Good Light'
[By omitting things people won't like.]

Why is anyone surprised?
Announcing Eventide 1.0: Evented, Autonomous Microservices for Everyone!
Your point is correct, but you can apply it in the other direction; adding a sin tax also has knock-on effects and often produce unexpected market distortions.

I think your point just argues for pricing in more externalities, rather than abandoning the goal of pricing them and using even more opaque sin taxes instead.
Space Force Booster (Boyz) Club Thingy Took Tech to Impossible Highs
Still, the A-series multicore benchmarks have been pretty impressive as well.
That's great though! If the action that the "meat industry" takes is action that reduces its environmental impact, then we win!
You can pop LED's. Maybe not quite the same but also not as expensive.
There's a whole lot of stuff you can do, short of writing interpreters, to construct library-level support for a paradigm in a language that lacks language-level support for that paradigm.

For example, I would say that GTK+ is written in an object-oriented style. But, despite that, I would not say that OOP is a member of C's repertoire of language paradigms.
Audits done by a select few who were given privileged access by definition are not open or transparent. You don't just want conclusions to be published, you want the methodology and source material to be too so the findings are reproducible.
From the archives: Douglas Engelbart profile, 1994
> I don’t think that’s true - I think an atheist can gain a lot of understanding about human nature by reading religious works.

As an example, Leviticus is fascinating if read as "here's the political structure of a herding culture". It's visibly more of a constitution than a religious text, including the allocation of taxes, a permanent administrator class, a penal system, and a statute of limitations on debt.
> censoring hateful speech on Reddit led to les hateful speech on Reddit

Sounds like a great and repeatable outcome.
IIRC there was some concern that HQ2 should be on American soil or withstand the backlash of the current political climate.
with certain AMZN HQ services[0] only available in HQ1 / HQ-NorthWest-1

[0] like AMZN GetPromoted or AMZN WorkOnTheProjectYouWant
Are there any independent tests to back up the claims made about Berkey filters? I was given a Berkey filter and I spent some time trying to find independent validation of their claims. All I could find were just circular references between "sources" in the scammy "natural" health industry.
Yep, the table listed there is wrong. The text before the table also makes it sound like it's referencing paid parental leave, which is still wrong becauase the US doesn't require paid maternal leave either.
Bitcoin Mining Uses 7x Less Energy Than Aluminum Mining
AWS API to Get EC2 Instance Prices
The problems arise when you start getting into double digit core counts. At 4 you can make pretty reasonable MUXes still. Above that you need to start making serious trade-offs to either Fmax or latency.
I would believe it's a tech stack limitation a bit more if every web app they've launched in the last 5 years wasn't built on a totally different JS/CSS stack. Several use Polymer, but all very different versions of it. And Polymer is objectively bad if you care about non-Chrome usability at all.
I knew something was fishy when I enabled Bitlocker on an OPAL compliant SSD and it took a few minutes to encrypt it. OPAL drives are supposed to be encrypted by default, and I expected Bitlocker to use that, but it didn't. If only one specific set of hardware is needed, why bother?
I believe that ASP.NET Core should be able to move to .NET Standard 2.1 (Span<T> is the big reason they decided they needed to drop .NET Framework support). They dropped .NET Framework, but there's still a case that they can support .NET Standard here, for what that is worth.
>an educated workforce available made up of a generation that are contributors and not takers.

When this is this is the case let me know. All I see is system pumping out special snowflakes that only know how to bitch and complain and scream at the slightest amount of discomfort or offense.
Many languages that compile to native are rolling out WASM support, or have it in their roadmaps, but there are many more architectures and formats that you have to handle in native land.

I guess theoretically, if we agreed to support the main desktop and mobile/tablet OS’s and chip architectures, and then got everyone to use a standard compiler and IL format (LLVM maybe?) then you might get some of the way, but that would be a lot of work (cool if it happened though...)
Amazon is hiring fewer workers, a sign that robots are replacing them
The policy predates their entry though.
>Anyone know why this hasn't been implemented yet?

The same story for anything. The market pressure to precipitate this change isn't there yet.
Faster browser scraping in C# using Selenium and HtmlAgilityPack
I think GP comment actually meant that AWS has their own products that compete with similar products like Drop/Box and Office and they include revenue from those products as part of their AWS revenue.
Well, I don't think it's speculative to say that a recession is coming. Predicting exactly when is hard, but isn't it a near virtual certainty that it will happen?
Out of curiosity, as a non-american, am i the only one who understands the word "hustle" to be synonymous-with/frequently associated with con-men, shysters, spruikers, boosters, etc?

I mean, for me it has almost no connotations of busyness or hard work, but its basically all about defrauding/image-projection.

The phrase "side-hustle" stemming from an almost ironic ghetto-esque-referential joke: like a scam or something a low level gangster or drug pusher is doing on the side to make money. But with complete openness that a hustle is, like his other activities, criminal and fraudulent...
Seems like quite a bit more than a satellite office, but not quite close to another HQ. Really curious to see what kind of jobs will end up in these HQ2A and HQ2B.
Very nice blog post.

When we're at it, have a look at "Functors, Applicatives, And Monads In Pictures"[1]. No silly comparisons to burritos or something like that, only a few pictures that everybody can easily remember.

[1] http://adit.io/posts/2013-04-17-functors,_applicatives,_and_...
Can someone explain to me why fusion energy isn't violating the laws of physics?
This was ops point, if you tax the emissions only people can innovate and reduce emissions in all these areas to the same effect.
If you are in New York city (especially Manhattan), you can often get RonnyBrook milk at the Union Square farmer's market and various stores around Manhattan - it tastes so much better you might think it's a different class of drink.

It's grass fed; if you buy it in the farmer's market, it's a couple of days fresh; and they care about their cows. I bought a bottle once, which didn't taste as good as usual, and when I told the guy at the market (he actually raises and cares for the cows), he took notes to figure out which cow was unhappy/unwell.

Not affiliated, was just a satisfied customer until I moved out of NYC (and now have no good milk available :( )
That new HP laptop commercial featuring the fingerprint reader makes me facepalm every time. They advertise it as "reinventing passwords" WHILE ILLUSTRATING EXACTLY HOW INSECURE IT IS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTn0r0HPXVg
> Gab contains things which people like you don't like.

“Building heights should be subject to fewer regulations regarding line-of-sight access to green space” is a thing that some people like which I don’t like. Antisemitism is something different in both degree and kind. Putting them into the same bucket, to treat them in the same way, is disingenuous and wrong.
You should remind your friends that the data Flightaware shows actually comes from devices like the RTL-SDR in the first place.
>”These deep structures in the thalamus and brainstem help our visual cortex to filter important information from the flood of visual input even before we consciously perceive it.” Interestingly, it seems that the more the signal timings between the two brain regions are aligned, the better the reading capabilities. “We, therefore, believe that these brain systems increasingly fine-tune their communication as learners become more and more proficient in reading,” the neuroscientist explains further. “This could explain why experienced readers navigate more efficiently through a text.”

I read the headline and instantly wondered if the same result occurs as we age and continue to fine tune our reading skills. The above passage seems to confirm the age old saying of reading keeping the mind active. One thing I am wondering though is if there is a certain types of literature that the brains reacts in a more positive or less than observation way. For example, does our brain engage more when we’re reading a technical literature review moreso than if it was a novel? Or vice versa. Is this why professionals—lawyers are the main ones i can think of—who comb through hundreds of dense reading weekly get viewed as achieving such a masters ability in reading?
I continue to be impressed with the lesswrong "site" which, it seems to me, is the proper evolutionary step forward from a BBS onto the medium of the web.
That resource looks like node is faster than those other languages? I think you might be getting the down votes because your comment is being interpreted that it is slower.
Which laws do you think it violates?

Are you asking where the energy comes from?
Humans should actually adjust their diet to reduce global warming and there's nothing wrong in saying that - that's one of the most effective methods of influence.

I'm not a vegetarian, but I live with one and I eat really small amounts of meat now compared to what I used to. I have no issues with that whatsoever, it's often even better and tastier this way, despite of me being a vegetable hater. I really can't see a reason why people so ridiculously defend their meat meals like they're addicted.
That gives a whole new meaning to "surf and turf"... :)

All jokes aside, I wonder how they account for the extra salt that's in seaweed. I know cows usually have salt licks to supplement salt and other minerals; perhaps seaweed can supply all that's needed in terms of minerals?
Did you consider mutual recursive functions in your answer? For example implementations of parsers?
I'm surprised no one mentioned the threading situation in the comments. The main reason why you need a reverse proxy (like nginx) on top of your express app is because node.js is single-threaded. Yes, you can fork (which means a new process and IPC), but that's even more of a performance hog.

If you have to serve a large static file - guess what... no other request gets processed at the same time. It's a neat idea but until we get true multi-threading in Node.js, I'll stick with my nginx, thank you very much.
I sincerely hope this is simply missing a `/s` at the end.
They probably don't want to sell those chips for Android to keep their competitive advantage, and the PC market is probably too small to be worth the investment compared to the iOS market.
That’s not Atlanta. That’s Cobb county.
The Sun emanates energy using fusion. Why should it violate the laws of physics?
You've essentially proven their point. Outside a few problem areas, water in the US is remarkably safe and clean. The US population minus "nine to 45 million" definitely qualifies as "most places" in America. And that's not even close to 28%, by the way.

Most people in the world have it far worse off than the US. We tend to easily fly into a panic and start drinking bottled water instead, which only pumps ever more plastic and carbon into the biosphere. That exact phenomenon happened in Austin recently. People went into a prepper panic and raided the grocery stores anyway, completely cleaning out all the bottled water in the city. Again. The water was perfectly fine, it turns out.

My travels through the third world have made me more aware of how much we take our highly reliable infrastructure for granted. Of course we still have some problems to work out, but acting like most tap water is unsafe is hyperbolic and just not helpful.
The consequences of that are big. This will lead to commoditization of IP cores, cpus, and this will lead to a race to the bottom with the likes of Allwinner, Amlogic, Rockchip, NXP offering products competitive with Intel, Amd, Apple, Samsung. As the margins will go to near-0, companies like Intel will suffer the most.

This is assuming that semiconductor process improvements will significantly slow down or completely stop.
Clothing is the main source of microplastics. Everyone wears and washes clothing. Lots of people don't have microbeads in their cosmetics.

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jun/29...

> Multiple studies have shown synthetic fibers to make up the lion’s share of microplastics found in oceans, rivers and lakes, and clothes made from synthetics (polyester, nylon, and so on) are widely implicated as the source of that pollution.
Ah yes point taken: I was implying that the author had used this (nowadays) non-standard construction in order to add some sensationalism.
Disclaimer: also very anecdotal: However, most things are way worse than either GCP or AWS.

Azure is just now rolling out availability zones. There are strange constraints everywhere, like you can only use premium storage accounts with specific VM types. You cannot use the same premium storage account for blobs. In general, not all configurations of skus for storage accounts, vms and disks are supported.
You need to match availability set skus between scalesets and load balancers.
If you connect an internal 'standard' load balancer to an instance, then it cannot reach the internet anymore. You can only attach one internal and one external load balancer to a scale set. You can't use the internal load balancer to loopback (same as internal AWS NLBs, but AWS has other options).

And so on. It all seems poorly integrated. Budget 5x as much time for a similar deployment on Azure as compared to AWS or GCP. Add more buffer if you need flexible automation, as you'll bump into those edge cases often as people change parameters.

They have a ridiculously huge amount of features compared to the other two major cloud providers, but integration between them is iffy. It is improving.

AKS seems pretty good, although it's still new and people are reporting issues. But it is promising, you can actually tweak quite a few things, and I have high hopes for the compatibility story (even more so than GKE). AWS's EKS is a marginal implementation at best.

On Azure AD, the tables are turned: it's AWS that provides an inconsistent story. There are many options, none are as well polished compared to Azure.

They did learn from some AWS mistakes. But technically speaking they have a bunch of polishing to do.
> Nobody is pushing for widespread censorship. We are de-platforming specific sites that breed hate

Excuse me, but what kind of Orwellian doublespeak is this? How is de-platforming sites NOT censorship? And since you seem to want every registrar to join in the de-platforming, how is it not widespread?

"Nobody is pushing for genocide. We are removing specific populations that harm society."

Or "Nobody is pushing for widespread censorship of birth control methods. We are restricting the distribution of specific material that is harmful to the fabric of society."
The root of the problem is that many value their financial health over the personal health of others. I would argue that no government office should be able to have water filters, bottled water or 5 gallon jugs etc. Obviously individual employees are free to bring in whatever they want to work but the office should only provide the same tap water used by citizens.

Any company whether private or partially county/municipality owned such as power plants that gets a license to dump into nearby bodies of water should be forced to follow the same rules. I personally find it unlikely that flint would not have happened if local and state level officials had been forced to drink the water. The outbreak of legionaries disease after the fact was especially egregious.

I live in a decent middle class suburb and still pay $100 per month to have spring water delivered because known carcinogens have been found in the water supply for years now. I spoke to the city commissionaire about it and his brief response was well they keep raising the requirements so its not really his fault. They have been out of compliance for at least the 4+ years I have been here, likely far longer. What are the consequences for the families that cannot afford $100 per month extra or don't take the time to read the water reports?
You cannot not have growth at all cost if you want to survive.

Technology is a natural part of evolution and if you do not adapt to that you will not survive.

What you can have is growth with a less negative impact which will be incentivized by growth. But you can't suddenly stop growth and expect the results to be positive and the only reason you can even think about it being possible today is that you are piggybacking on what growth made possible.
I find this interesting as in my undergrad I was working with a 3M supplied poly-fluorinated ether which was said to be a highly stable compound. We were breaking it apart with all manner of amine compounds producing various levels of HF and and HF2 along with poly-fluorinated amides that had a small amount of research mostly pointing to negative environmental impacts. Nothing really came of it as my reactions had no applications relevant to the goals of the lab I was working in.
> Microsoft here sounds extremely hesitant to ever do the ".NET Framework 5.0" release that would break the .NET Framework world necessary to push a new CLR Runtime out.

Yeah, I think the question is "will Framework be the slow moving, but 'living' component you target for long-term, but perhaps not eternal, stability on Windows platforms or will it be a legacy component that Windows is burdened with only for backward compatibility with older apps".

I think Microsoft has sent signals out which point in each of those directions, but not yet converged clearly on one or the other.
World drone racing championship won by Australian teenager
You are blatantly wrong. Man, I've been in this industry for a long time, and I met literally thousands of cloud computing customers, from startups to large corporations.

The current state of affairs is that AWS still dominates. Your claim of 45% shows that you are simply repeating what some myopic analyst has written. Talk to industry experts, and you'll see why I'm right.
Thanks for the feedback. :)

To clarify, in the context of the article, "making errors observable from the outside" is not meant at the per-function level, but meant at the level of the whole program, which includes abort(). I should improve the wording there.

abort() is perfectly legitimate if you can't recover within the same process. It's not at odds with routing to the right stakeholder, as long as the parent process catches the crash and does appropriate error handling (e.g. "Send a crash report" dialogs or other watchdogs).

Regarding textual logging, I'm not sure exactly which part you disagree with. :) I'm aware that people commonly write regex-based extractors, and I've done the same, but having the choice I'd always go for a more schema-ful error reporting channel. That's more lightweight both for reading and for writing it, and avoids a whole class of regex bugs.
Oath Is Dead. Long Live Verizon Media Group/Oath
E=m*c^2

Fusion is simply a reaction in which a higher amount of the mass of the involved matter is transformed to energy.
That's the best one can manage when confined by the debilitating emotion of trust/distrust/respect/disrespect. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to rely on human intelligence? (It is a question I've been asking myself lately).
Downvotes, really? Why exactly? For speaking the truth?
> One thing I am wondering though is if there is a certain types of literature that the brains reacts in a more positive or less than observation way. For example, does our brain engage more when we’re reading a technical literature review moreso than if it was a novel?

I've often wondered this also. It would be interesting to quantitatively determine the effects of reading fiction versus non-fiction material on the mind.
That is true, some languages are sufficiently expressive to allow other paradigms to be used within them even though they aren't baked in. But it's not true that all languages can support all paradigms (either directly in the language as designed, or indirectly via library support).

OO languages and functional languages support each other's paradigms (more easily) than a pure imperative language would support either. And both OO and FP languages support declarative styles (like relational or logic languages) better than C would.

EDIT: It's also worth pointing out that C++ really achieved OO (initially) by using macros on top of C. So having a sufficiently expressive meta-language is also important to this. Via such a meta-language, you can achieve many more paradigms in a language than using the language alone.

But many languages lack a meta-language or don't have a standard meta-language which people can rely on.
Look outside your bubble.
Load dump is not about connecting two batteries in series to achieve 24V. It's about (accidentally?) disconnecting the battery while charging from the alternator - which is an inductive source. When the load taking the current is disconnected that current is going to continue flowing through the vehicle electrical system which will cause a voltage spike until the current goes down.

On a related note, I heard this 2nd hand from a guy who was talking to CAT about a module they wanted to have 80V over voltage protection for a crazy amount of time (minutes). My friend asked what scenario required that and it was something like this: Guy at a construction site can't start his bulldozer. He doesn't have jumper cables, but he's got an arc welder... I don't know if that actually happened but it would not surprise me.
More details here:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/11/supreme-court-wo...

I'd like to point out that this is may only be temporary victory. Roberts and Kavanaugh recused themselves, and they both would have voted in favor of the challenge if they had voted. If at any point in the future the issue is retried and the two justices don't recuse themselves, a majority of the SCOTUS would side with the Telecoms.
/r/consulting
How do actors stop breathing when playing “dead”?
That's also what it means for me (California). But I am aware of the other usage. I haven't heard it used positively outside of music.
It doesn't matter how many cucumbers you can grow in your back yard or how good you are at fixing your 69 Ford when the heart meds you need to live are $600/month.

Like it or not we're all in it together and we're doing kind of a sucky job of it right now.