skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually yes, a good butcher will offer you a chance to inspect the cut before packaging it, definitely including smell as an option. (Though arguably the things people smell for, you can often smell as it is being cut, without needing that much proximity.) Some of the higher end butchers even let you touch it (with gloves) if that helps you be satisfied with your cut.
As a game developer, I don’t think this is particularly noteworthy.

I’m sure it was a very important optimisation for Star Citizen, but it’s not like some amazing tech that will be important for the game industry or anything.

Star Citizen had some awful performance problems, and because the development is quite public, optimisations that programmers are working on get important sounding names and publicity all their own. If it wasn’t for that, this would just be an implementation detail in their engine.
The English speaking West's relationship to China can be seen in a few things in past years. One is the UK leaving Hong Kong in 1997. The British Empire, on which the sun never set and the blood never dried, and which is causing potentially bloody Brexit chaos in Ireland today, went to war with China in 1842 in order to force opium and heroin on its citizens. The US was junior helper in these opium wars. The UK stole Chinese territory and stayed there until 1997, and unbelievable affront of imperialism.

The US can be seen in having the Air Force play hot dog on the Chinese border in April 2001 (the US military was too busy doing that to protect itself from jihadis it had funded and armed in Afghanistan to overthrow Afghanistan's secular government and then betrayed by occupying Arabia - they would strike the US to end that occupation later in 2001). They crashed into a Chinese plane, killing the pilot, then illegally landed on Hainan island without permission. Then the US press and diplomacy became enraged that the Chinese were actually inspecting the plane and were holding these military personnel who killed a Chinese pilot. Then this is followed by human rights lover Trump's recent campaign against China.

It is in this context that the demonization of China by English-speaking Western liberals currently happens in. Liberals who are also attacking and demonizing Nicaragua, Cuba, Venezuela, and who applauded Obama's overthrow of Honduran democracy several years ago with the US funded Honduran military's overthrow of the elected leader. But the US attacks and bombs so many countries, as does the UK, it's hard to keep up with who they have a campaign against from day to day.
> I think in the future there will be a big shift off of runc (docker) as the k8s default runtime now that CRIO has made them pluggable.

I don't think there's going to be a big shift away from runc (though I'm biased, I'm one of the runc maintainers -- and runc is quite separate from Docker) for a couple of reasons:

1. Containers are still more than decent, and will always handle certain usecases and setups better than VMs can (due to the pliability of namespaces and shared kernels -- VMs have the fixed DRAM problem just like they always have).

2. At the moment, plain containers are arguably more secure than kata containers (though this can be fixed "fairly" easily with some minor memory penalties) because they disable a bunch of security features in their VM kernels -- so you don't get seccomp or AppArmor protections for your containers. Now, you do get hypervisor security, but there was a study some time ago which claimed that a well-tuned seccomp profile is about as secure as a hypervisor.

3. Hooks (like the NVIDIA ones) will always work better with plain containers because the whole idea behind hooking into a container runtime is that you can attach things to the containers' namespaces (with NVIDIA this would be vGPUs). kata is trying (and succeeding in most cases) to emulate these sorts of pluggable components with their agent, but fundamentally they're trying to pretend to be a container (which is going to cause problems).

I think kata is a really good project (and I'm happy that Intel and Hyper.sh joined forces), but I don't think it will replace ordinary containers entirely (even under Kubernetes). But hey, I could be proven wrong -- at which point I'll switch to working on LXC. :P
Microlearning
No, it can be afforded because a multi-use $6k device is well worth it if it can help save infants' lives.

I don't understand your argument at all. Of course it's worth it that this device exists. It works. And it only exists because we've spent money on development and acquisition. This is exactly when higher spending on healthcare is beneficial. Contrast with Bangladesh, where they can't afford these devices and as a consequence many more infants die (or they have to hack together inferior replacements from shampoo bottles that don't work as well).
Wells Fargo shifts many jobs overseas following layoffs in the US
That was before the funding took off, and Roberts decided to scale it up in response.

Edit: The page reads "estimated". "Estimated" isn't "promised".
No. Huawei doesn't divide the world. The world is divided and Huawei gets caught in the middle. Just like those two Canadians, they may or may not do something wrong. But that's irrelevant when they get caught in the middle between China and Canada.
Are you suggesting non US production will be reduced in kind? Are you suggesting ocean transportation will be reduced overall? Are you suggesting US oil / gas will not be sold overseas where it will need to be delivered via tankers?
I think "builds" was the wrong term. (I've edited it to "jobs" above.) GitLab CI is great, but I don't know if it fits my use case, which is running intermittent batch conversions. I was planning on using hyper.sh to spin up containers on demand, instead of having to maintain a job server and queue of my own.
With git, usually (maybe always?) exiting having saved an empty buffer is equivalent.
Uber/Lyft are great for getting between two points in an overcrowded city where you would neither be able to park your own car nor hail a taxi. Taxis are terrible because of the lack of convenience and lack of a rider rating system.
How do you want to mention cryptocurrencies without mentioning blockchain?
Maybe they don't have any customers for this product?

If they do however, it's a dick move to pull out the rug with this much notice over a period when a lot of people are away for much of it...
I miss the Internet in early-2000's China. Not as many sites were blocked and everyone was much more open-minded as the undereducated chauvinists did not yet acquire reliable Internet access

This sentiment is just Eternal September for the Internet writ large. It also over-blows/cherry picks the "bad" activities on the internet.

Those "undereducated chauvinists" pay for us techies to actually make a living through the internet because they use the services we build.

Gotta take the bad with the good.
It’s not playable, it’s a buggy mess. A $200 million buggy mess. CIG has never made a single deadline it’s set for itself.
We have quite different interpretations of the word "promise". For the sake of your real-world relationships, maybe don't throw that word around so easily, at least without someone actually using that word in the first place.
They use some of it to make cinder blocks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_Grimm#Methodology

Quote:

"According to scholars such as Ruth Bottigheimer and Maria Tatar, some of the tales probably originated in written form during the medieval period with writers such as Straparola and Boccaccio, but were modified in the 17th century and again rewritten by the Grimms. Moreover, Tatar writes that the brothers' goal of preserving and shaping the tales as something uniquely German at a time of French occupation was a form of "intellectual resistance" and, in so doing, they established a methodology for collecting and preserving folklore that set the model followed later by writers throughout Europe during periods of occupation."
Well I guess that is one valuable lesson to not choose no name company as your cloud provider. Big buddy is your friend.
I've known several people associated with masonry. One got kicked out after doing a 'mason in distress' sign at a judge to get his drug trial stopped. Another, who has held several senior positions within lodges, has a second secret life that he has to keep hidden from them. Is just all borrowed power games and as far as I can tell the deal isn't worth it, the last secret has got to be an empty box, the power being in the idea of the secret itself. Then you get to stand around and look all enlightened and stuff. Then you go home and the car still has a squeaky noise that nobody can identify and the bath drain is mysteriously full of hair.
I would find it helpful to also have listed the sites' revenue models. Advertising-based funding is an Achilles' heel apparently easily exploited by groups with coherent goals... Those sites that use donation models (especially anonymous sourced) seem to be more healthy, especially if said sites suddenly come under the glare of the latest "unacceptable of the moment" meme.

De-platforming seems to be a powerful tool for censorship.
It does have secret chats, which are supposed to be E2E encrypted
> In all seriousness I don’t think this is the worst thing for any of the three countries.

I don't think you are being serious. The fact that humans are still exploiting fossil fuels in an accelerated pace is the worst thing could have happen to the earth's climate change.
If the world was run in current nuclear power tech and coal power was invented, it would never be allowed to exist. It would be seen as some sort of crazily dangerous idea invented by mad scientist to kill people. It is too bad we don't use our education system to educate people so that we can to reasonable things like exchange coal plants for nuclear ones.

If these radioactive piles of waste are OK for coal plants, why can't nuclear plants just mix there waste with dirt till it is at the same activity and pile them up. Nuclear is so cool in that almost all the waste is just a little bit of stuff easily stored somewhere and if people were not so irrationally afraid of it, we could power most of civilization with it.
Horizon: Zero Dawn is one of the best RPGs I have played in a long time, and you can definitely plan out your combat.
Unfortunately (though with a heavy dose of schadenfreude), I fear the Banks are not just 'too big to fail', but have become 'too big to save'. It's been nearly a decade that they have been operating under the implicit assumption of 'too big to fail' and (without any evidence) I feel that they have taken on bets that they know are bad ones only because they know that Uncle Sam is there to bail them out. Unfortunately, even Uncle Sam isn't going to be able to save them on this one, I fear, as the bets have just gotten to lush over these years since 2008. The SEC has become completely neutered/captured and has let the leashes off.

I fear that the coming bear market is going to be very very bad for all of us.
Throw anything in the fire, yes. Critical mass, no. If it was a critical mass, it wouldn't be rural.
He said on Twitter he used youtubes video editor.
This is super impressive! Nice work.
I don't think there is a single folklorist who is convinced by this phylogenetic speculation. If you know some, I am eager to hear about them.
It's more of a game than the abomination that is Fallout 76.
I always found it weird how people starting thinking gay marriage should be legal, when in fact it should just be protected under the first amendment all along. It's almost like people don't understand their first amendment rights, and never thought to apply it to gay marriage.
I believe the landers were looking for historical traces of liquid water. Mars has a significant amount of frozen water around the poles, as has been known for a while, and this is just one example of some of it.
The thing is you are using a subjective pseudo-scientific conjecture ("group-hysterical episode") narrated to us by the media to describe the situation. I would not blame anybody for believing there was ritual abuse based on the testimony & the peculiarities of the case. I see the parents' reaction as being rational (not hysterical) given the information they were presented with. Even today, the case does not seem conclusive.

Maybe what was labeled as "hysteria" was really awareness to this type of criminal. It was the discrediting, pathologization of potential victims, general lack of empathy by the media, & conspiracy by law enforcement which caused the likes of Jimmy Savile (who was in royal circles) to get away with his crimes for so long. Also child sex trafficking being a widespread phenomenon deeply embedded in influential circles (otherwise, how would it be so widespread & networked around the world).

I agree in keeping the analysis open-ended by not committing to a particular narrative, however there's plenty of possibilities given the information that we know & what we don't know. Secret societies with influential members do not help the analysis since it's plausible that they would be involved with criminal activity & conspiracy.

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edit: I did more research & found then former FBI Agent Ted Gunderson's account (with photos) of the tunnels which lead to a ritual site. Also there were photos of satanic symbology found on plates & murals. Maybe I missed something in research or something else is amiss...

https://youtu.be/8TsQxzOkgMY?t=1348
Again with your "promise" claim, which is false!
I mostly agree with your points and sentiment, although I do want to offer a few things I observed to compliment your post.

China evolved from generally pro-west in the 1990s to mixed pro/anti western camps of today.

The early pro-west stance were mostly driven by intellectuals who have seen the stark contrast between capitalist America and communist China. They worshiped everything American, both good and bad. You can still see the lingering effect of western worship in many aspects of Chinese society today.

The pro-west stance is losing ground because people are no longer starving, and realized that they don't like to be treated as second class citizens, especially in their own country. Sometimes the backlash has swung the pendulum too far and caused some resentment towards foreigners.

To end it in a brighter note, I think the populace of China is becoming more aware of nuances of things outside of China, thanks to large amount of Chinese people returning to the homeland after living abroad. This will help prevent the pendulum from swinging too far into nationalism/anti-foreigner nazi state.
Free software and the revolt against transactionality
NWN Enhanced Edition is on sale for $6 on Steam, GOG, and Beamdog. $2 on Android. The multiplayer scene is having a bit of renaissance thanks to it, here's the live server list: https://nwn.beamdog.net/

Also, Darkness Over Daggerford is finally finished and polished by the original devs and is available as $4 DLC.
Is that ship really worth that much? I also have an AMD Mustang Omega. I knew it would be special someday!
It seems like the content for Star Citizen is not the actual game, but the various updates surrounding it. And fans seem to have a good time enjoying those updates, up to the point that the actual finishing of the physical "game" is becoming irrelevant. So I like to think of Star Citizen fans not as conventional video game fans but as Youtube subscribers paying for the update videos and the occasional kool demo...
The problem with "don’t make sense" is that very often they do but the arrogance/mistrust is stronger. Reading the comments on /r/robinhood is very eye opening. There is a big disconnection between the regulators and the regulated.
I hope this codes a prion that starts the zombie apocalypse
We decided to go against the wave of AI and we are doing great Feedback please
That doesn't seem like it would solve anything, unless I'm missing something substantial. Which specific browser engine it uses isn't as important for resource consumption as the fact that it's spinning up an entire browser engine per process.
Derek Smart was and is right.
So eletrons lets you code part of it in C++?
CCP is Evil.

HuaWei calls on US, others to show proof of security risk.

Well, here is the evidence. Could HuaWei explain what they help CCP doing in Xinjiang Concentration camp
? Why do they scan the data in oridnary people cell phone? And where does the income of HuaWei goes to?

The Evil may ask "can you prove I am an Evil?"

I CAN PROVE!!!
BECAUSE I KNOW YOU MURDER INNOCENT PEOPLE IN THE PAST, NOW, AND FUTURE!!!!!!
I remember lamenting the fact that nearly every party-based RPG seemed to have smaller parties with each sequel... it makes me wonder if they don't focus-group well or something.
I think it was probably self-delusional. The billion-consumer Chinese market was dangled like a carrot, just give up all your IP to a local “partner”. But the Party never had even the slightest intention of giving Western companies access.
Impressed is the nice way to put it.

Literally doxxing people is very scary.
>...is an Electron-based

Alt-F4
I've played BG2 on a tablet, and the interface is... Finicky. Playable, but everything takes much longer then it does on PC.
Old one but a good one -- check out Dragon's Dogma

It's an open world RPG with Monster Hunter combat mechanics (and tbh I think also influenced how HZD's excellent combat is designed)

You also need to plan your equipment / consumables before you go take on certain areas in the world.

It's a flawed gem but I love it to death.
Only theoretically. It is not possible to implement a GC as efficient as Java GCs for C++. Pointer arithmetic, placement new, and other low level features make it hard to determine pointers from non-pointers and to move things in memory.
Gatwick airport: flights suspended again due to 'suspected drone sighting
Me too, ( see thread for my comment ). I decided in the end that using my own ec2 Ubuntu t2 micro was simpler and far cheaper to run than using and configuring Fargate. I assume you want to execute untrusted code (e.g. run CI on behalf of customers or provide a repl.it-like service), like I’m doing? I couldn’t find a good service that did this well ( well I did find hyper.sh ).
Wait, 1989 was not a good year for Chinese liberalization...

I think the high point was really under Hu Jintao. The transition from Hu to Xi was a very tumultuous period. Xi, unlike his predecessors, had a very contentious transition and had to fend off numerous fractions inside the CCCP. After surviving that, based partly on the backing of the PLA (his father was a PLA general), he really, really consolidated power. He now has a path forward to be president for life. His ideas are now literally part of the Chinese constitution, elevating him to the same level as Mao. Liberalization is, in some ways, the opposite of centralization. Therefore, liberalization must be stemmed.

Hu Jintao, on the other hand, didn't really have that much power. There was always Jiang and his fraction. When power is divested, liberalization is more likely.
Ask HN: Is it still significantly cheaper to build your own CPU?
In college, I would buy parts off NewEgg and assemble my own gaming rig. $500 in parts got me the specs of a computer that would go for >$1000.

3 video cards, 2 CPUs, and a bunch of hard drives later, that rig is still my primary computer for coding, which speaks volumes about the future-proofing of rolling your own.

But I'm curious about the initial cost savings: For a mid-level CPU (SSD, decent video card and processor, good looking case, and a generous supply of RAM) is it still cheaper-by-far to build your own using parts available online, or has the commoditization of non-Mac computers made it so a college kid nowadays looking to save money might buy a refurbished Dell rather than slogging through youtube tutorials on cable management?
Gatwick Airport drones: Flights suspended again
Questions that keep me awake:

What is the endgame of this escalation of conflict between the US+Canada and China?

If there's no endgame, why are politicians escalating the conflict?

The last thing we would want is for both sides to continue to escalate the conflict in response to further escalation from the other side, because neither side wants to end up looking "weak," to the detriment of everyone.
They have 4 Tasks left to complete on the Roadmap in Q4 of 2018.

So 9 days, and Christmas/New Years Eve Holidays to deal with.

I think they are in real danger of fucking up their 2 roadmap within the first week of releasing it.

I hope for their sake they didn't publish this without getting a few of those tasks basically finished ahead of time so they could at least start off in a way that made it look like they could follow their own schedule.
NWN Enhanced Edition is on sale for only a few bucks! Check out my other comment on on ulzeraj's reply.
We've long known (since Mariner 9 spectroscopy in 1972) that Mars' polar ice caps consist of a combination of water and dry ices and grow & shrink each season through direct deposition of water vapor from the atmosphere (sublimating back into water vapor in the spring, with no liquid phase).

Mars Phoenix (which landed in the upper northern hemisphere and dug for soil samples) was intended to figure out whether the ground environment near the ice cap was conducive to life. It found that the soil does contain water ice distributed throughout it, but also contains hostile perchlorates.

More recently, satellite imagery has found evidence of liquid water, both in seasonal flows on mid-latitude slopes (as a briny mixture with low freezing temp), and in underground lakes beneath the south polar ice cap.

tl;dr: This Korolev crater pic is a fun pretty-picture post offering an opportunity to educate readers with a seasonal twist. No new science here.
That's not how TARP worked though. The lending arms of the major car companies as well as the mortgage arms of the major national banks were bailed out by the Federal Government effectively purchasing the "troubled assets" to remove them from the companies' books (so they wouldn't go bankrupt). The companies were bailed out but the government didn't just forgive all of that debt. People still had to pay their mortgages even if they were underwater. People still had their cars repossessed. People still had their credit ruined.
The book is terrific. I read it a few years ago, and then re-read it again last year. You will leave with a healthy regard for John Vaillant's writing, the men of Tiger team, and a healthy regard/fear/respect of tigers.
I have smoked weed since I was 16. Back then, I was just rebelling. Also weed made me feel good. I took a break from weed from 24 - 30, doing it EXTREMELY occasionally.

Recently I moved to Oregon and got a vape pen, and I learned something. I sincerely love how weed makes me feel.

It's not just the taboo of it being illegal. It just feels nice when I want to take the edge off. It helps me relax in the right dosage. It makes me tired at the right time of the night so I do not stay up late.

Is vaping weed good for me? Probably not. Is it worse for me than alcohol, eating too much meat, having a sedentary job, or not doing regular weight training? Absolutely not.

End the prohibition. Let adults do what they want with their bodies.
I would say that almost all of "them" are concerned with pollution, but people with that view are not the ones you hear about. They would just sound like reasonable people then. It wouldn't set off peoples' outrage (like you just stated) button and get them to click on the article taking about "them".
Second day in a row. 120,000 passengers disrupted. Can anyone with domain knowledge chime in on why it is not possible to detect the operators?
San Franciscan city officials have a hard time letting go of the past.

No - the Reason crowd has a hard time understanding the concept of a democratically controlled city planning process.

And in this particular case - the very concept of rule of law, it would seem.
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