skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Java was once notoriously slow and still has slower JVM startup time than C++. Maybe JavaFX is slower. I’ve not written any GUI applications in java nor do I use many java applications. However, my experience with C++ has been very different: things can run and start very fast. If they don’t, it’s because either you did something very wrong or because it’s doing a lot of work that would be equally slow elsewhere.

I’ve used Qt, WxWidgets, FLTK, GTK+ and a FOX as my GUI toolkit over the years and, for my small applications, all of those start so fast I don’t notice it. The only slowdown I’ve noticed is with Qt when using QtQuick (I assume because it has to load, parse and then execute QML — essentially JavaScript — as well as the C++ code). It’s still faster starting up than PyCharm and Photoshop for anything that I’ve used it for.
Which study are you using to suggest 70? That's on the high end on any study, but not the highest.

The IPCC has min, median, and max estimates on these kinds of things. See Table A.III.2 in [1], 12 being the median.

So worst case by any estimate is that nuclear emits 110 gCO2-eq/kg. Solar PV (utility) max is 180. Hydro is an astounding 2200 (twice as bad as coal, due to biogenic methane associated with large reservoirs). By any estimate, nuclear is a very low-carbon energy source, in a whole different class than fossil fuel and biofuels. In other words, it's one of the few low-carbon options we have.

The minimum for nuclear is not 11 but rather 3.7.

[1] https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/ipcc_wg3_ar5...
People being kicked out from their jobs for questioning orthodoxies in society isn't nearly the same problem as philosophers being ejected from the field for questioning it. I'd also be cautious about saying the stories from Google for instance (all I can think of is Damore) were simply trying to spark genuine debate on the matter. Phrasing is, of course, also important, just as a professor saying "I'll give you an A if you sleep with me" to a student is different from him saying (in a news op-ed or such) "I don't think it's wrong to sleep with students in exchange for grades". Even most libertarians draw some line between locutionary and illocutionary freedoms of speech.

So while it may be a problem (though I'm skeptical), it's not the problem I was discussing. Academia rightfully tries to hold itself to the standard of free inquiry (if in good faith), but Google and Harvard have no such obligation, even to themselves. I think we probably disagree on whether there should be such an obligation.
Question: is the effect in the article exactly the same as Jare’s with some parameter tweaks? The one in the article is pixelated and sharp from top to bottom, while all the pictures in the links you shared have a lot of blur in them that varies from top to bottom. I’m curious what the relationship is between the two effects, is the blur just optional?
Microorganisms That Eat Seaweed Can Create Biodegradable Plastic
Thanks for your answer, I think that at the time of ReasonML presentation and a couple of other times I had the impression that there was quite of a push on that direction, but I may be wrong.
From software development classes in School to University, we were told the most powerful method of requirements gathering was observation.

Yet in my whole professional life I've never had a chance to do it despite putting the idea forward.

One of my old colleagues who managed to observe a client was met with hostility and questions from the people he was observing.

Other times clients want to dictate and have no dialogue in defining requirements.
It demonstrates dishonesty, which is what turns this from someone not knowing what they're doing into someone making the choice to engage in criminal behaviour.

All of his protestation - "I was only selling them for cost" (a lie), and "I was trying to extend the life of computers" (linux would have done that, and the free downloads of Windows would have done that) - is the defence he tried to mount against the criminal charge.

That defence was rejected by the court.
Some of the biggest livestreamers in China are farmers
Jill Lepore's These Truths is a good survey of American history published this year. Its focus is on the notion of America as experiment i.e. Will Democracy work? What makes it possible? And the wild exaggerations that result.
He works for an American company.
> Why would we trust private companies to make a healthcare decision that might sacrifice profit for my health?

I would say that if there was no government involvement, then their profit would depend on providing quality healthcare service. Right now there are so many regulations and government controls that I can't even choose between multiple providers, pitting them against each other to offer better service.

I'd actually love to purchase private insurance from another country if that was an option. Let's use globalization for good to lower healthcare costs for all. Imagine consulting with a doctor in India over an iOS app and ordering drugs from Mexico...

All of that would only be possible by removing the government from the picture.
Part of the problem is that most of the competition has made it from the 80s or 90s unchanged. For all of its faults, the "web stack" has benefited from far more development than tk or wx. I have tried a few things and web development is the best GUI development experience by a long shot.
I am idly curious whether the environmentalist movement was deliberately seeded with anti-nuclear sentiment by the fossil fuel industry.

Could be coincidence, but it seems awfully convenient.
It's not donations. It's regional development funds and social funds which are also distributed at regional level. They are meant to build up the capacity in certain fields in certain regions. The money tends to be a lot for some region and the administrations fail to manage and use them properly. The issue is not that they are given, the issue is how they are used. But they do not support individual companies, they are for the regions. Yes too many people are dependent on these nowadays be they are essential to infrastructure development and social support systems in many places.
Hmm, I wasn't sure or if a really short description and then setting up everything to get started isn't the best.

That said, I have to look at that section, as it might even be a bit dated.
What do others think?
Backdoors, dude, backdoors. Coupled with governments sharing data, officially and not.
>> I hate this attitude among Americans. Like there is some strategy you can play that will make sure you won't get screwed over in life, and that if you do get screwed over in life it's because your strategy was wrong.

That’s called life? You make it sound as though the existence of risk in life is an evil, rather than a plain fact.
Cities are already in enough competition the standard market rules apply. Really, cities run very close to break even +/- a few %. You can’t sell commodities at a 66% discount over market prices, and the same is true of cities.

So, in some imaginary realm where the math worked out sure. But, we don’t live in that world.
The name isn’t the issue. It’s the plagiarism. Every article is plagiarized.
No sympathy for site in question, but cashiers checks and money orders aren’t particularly low-friction for website users/online shoppers.
Seems like an exaggeration. I like your point but I don’t understand why you draw a line at bacteria.
I mean, for some jobs, you could make the argument "it runs in the browser or it is wrong."

But there's no point in turning something subjective into a one-bit moral requirement. Programs need to be fast enough to meet requirements and people have different opinions about what they require.

There is even an argument that slower is sometimes better. The large tech companies put enormous effort into reducing latency, but I'm thinking of writing a browser extension to add latency to some websites to make them less addictive. Where you stand on this is going to depend on what you're trying to do.
Also the broken window fallacy: yes the money will have had a positive effect, but was this the best effect that could be achieved with the funds? Maybe it brought a company and a few jobs but the same funds could have increased local pensions, increased teacher training or built a new wind energy installation.

The question is not "was this a useful use of money", it's "was this one of the better/the best use of these funds".
Ask HN: Know any other GitHub tricks like: ?ts=2
I discovered a long time ago that you could add the query param "?ts=2" to change the tab spacing when viewing a repo on Github. I couldn't find it documented anywhere or able to save as a default (when viewing random repos). I was curious if there are any others like this?

Here's an example, you can remove the ?ts=2 to see the original width.

https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/ec2e767e59395376fa191d7c56a74f53936b7653/pkg/controller/volume/persistentvolume/pv_controller.go?ts=2
I think this is a very good example of how windows is different in its goals and designs from Linux. I have a feeling this is the reason Linux has had a hard time catching on, on the desktop. Its easy to complain about a slow filesystem, but Microsoft lives in a different world, where other priorities exist. For someone building a server running a database serving loads of people Linux is a no brainer. You can pick the parts you want, shrink wrap it and fire it up without any fat. On a desktop machine, you want to be able to update drivers in the background without rebooting, you want virus scanners, and you want to have driver ready the moment the user plug's in a new device. Both Windows and Linux is for the most part very well engineered, but with very different priorities.
The blog post was mainly written about GUI toolkits, if your application was freezing for 78 seconds waiting for a screen redraw you might be willing to settle for uglier syntax.
I haven't noticed Linux doing that in the last few years.

But honestly, that could also be the NVMe drives.
Yeah the reduction of long-term radiotoxicity achievable by partitioning and transmuting spent nuclear fuel really is astounding.

I'm not totally convinced that uranium mining will ever be more expensive than reprocessing. For one thing, (and especially when you go to deep-burn non-reprocessing breeder reactors) the required uranium is so minuscule that extracting the (near infinite and truly renewable) uranium from seawater is practical using tech that's 3-6x more expensive today than traditional mining.

On the other hand advances in industrial controls and robotics could conceivably reduce reprocessing costs.

Either option would be fine for a much expanded nuclear fleet providing 24/7 low-footprint carbon-free energy.
You can also take rationality to religious extremes and ignore things outside our perception.
as a programmer, I would love it even more if everyone adopted the same date format. Makes date parsing a lot easier.
Don't you think that I have to shorten the stuff maybe if I put it up?
The consequences of not using nuclear alternatives will last 1000s of years too. There’s no way out of consequences.
So no particular argument stands out as relevant and compelling?

I can tell you I'll never read those books. Philosophy is a field that's never contributed anything useful and never actually reached a conclusion on anything.
I have read somewhere else the US Army standarized on it.
That's about as real an alternative as if I said you could just send me a mail instead of sending me an email.

> IBAN transfers...Transferwise

Obviously incredibly slow and a lot of work.

> Diner’s Club, Amex, Discover, JCB

Haven't seen these in Europe.

> Apple Pay (Apple Pay Cash)

Limited to banks that support it. In e.g. Denmark, that's only two of the minor ones, meaning far from the majority of people.
Thinking of 'did NOT like' - The Malazan Empire. Some folks are enthralled. I did the first two or three books in the series and just couldn't go on. I like the premise of "just throwing the reader in." You are just exposed to the world. No explanations. No descriptions to introduce you. It is just this new world. Magic systems, new vocabulary, taken-for-granted understanding of this new place. The problem? No GOTDAM descriptions to introduce you! I think it was the end of book two where they finally give a partial description of a character you've known since the first book: "oh, he had red hair this whole time?" - They introduce other races, but you don't know if they are human or not. In one case, I think you find out they are lizard like after several hundred pages of interacting with them. Maybe if you read the whole series and then start again things will make sense. I don't want that much investment in a leisure activity that was (at the time) making my commute better.
I had the same question. Apparently there are a couple of commands to look at:

fltmc filters

That shows the filters loaded, and presumably the ones with "num instances" of 0 aren't actually in use on any volumes.

You can figure out what each of the filters is by looking at the output of:

sc query type=driver

To figure out what the ones I saw in fltmc were, I used this:

sc query type=driver | grep -A1 -i -e cldflt -e wcifs -e storqos -e filecrypt -e luafv -e npsvctrig -e wof -e fileinfo
A philosophy graduate who had art history as minor here. I can totally relate to your comment!
There’s not really such a thing as a “push” at FB — each product team is independent and decides what to use based on its own criteria. So there’s never an org-wide mandate to adopt a certain technology. Reason has some adoption but it’s happening organically.
This is a biographical page about Cantor, rather than an article about the Continuum Hypothesis proper. (Which is explained, as are many of Cantor's results, as narration proceeds along his life and achievements as a mathematician.)
What is going on in WSB is quite complex. You have:

1) Patsies who believe WSB advice and lose everything

2) Degenerate gamblers

3) People who photoshop fake gains/losses for teh lulz

As a result it is one giant exercise in delusion and I feel bad only for the people who lose a year's pay on options that have a 0.1% chance of breaking even.
I have a friend (not near retirement age, but he was thinking about it early) who did his MS in CS in the US, worked a while there, came back to India, after working for a while here, decide to leave again, but instead of going back to the US, he got permanent residency in Australia. While talking with me about it before he left, he said the main reason was health care cost in the US.
I read the whole review. There’s nothing from Snyder that strikes me as an ideological critique. Each point is tied to factual errors leading to incorrect analysis and interpretation/presentation. There are a couple other reviews alongside Snyder that detail more factual and interpretive errors. What ideological slant are you seeing in Snyder’s critique?
I wonder if they consider the Cali fires an "environmental emergency imminently threatening the safety of human life"?
You should give the book a shot. It's received some pretty[0] killer[1] reviews[2] from sources more authoritative than an Amazon rando. And even if you go pretty far right[3], the reviews stay largely positive.

[0] https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/11/08/jill-lepore-amer...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/14/books/review/jill-lepore-...

[2] https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/books/sc-books-the...

[3] https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2018/11/17/liberal-h...
thanks. Interesting
> Does it suck, though?

That's the mainstream narrative as regards to minority groups in tech :-)

I too am not convinced that being underestimated sucks. Being overestimated may be stressful when you keep trying to fit the image that others may have formed of you and to meet their expectations. When underestimated, the most likely way is upwards, towards greater appreciation; when overestimated, one quite possible way is downwards, amid general disappointment of those who had higher expectations of you.

I am not sure which is better.
Notably the Windows shell does not support longlong file names, like, at all. The Windows shell and Win32 APIs are also easily confused by files using the NTFS POSIX namespace, which may have \ in their name.
I'm torn between the awesomeness and the morality of working on such a project.
As a c# Dev, I am constantly annoyed that Windows updates and sometimes installs require reboots or stopping all user activity, while I've never had to reboot or block during an upgrade on ubuntu
Introducing Proudflare, Cloudflare's LGBTQIA+ Group
All wars should be autonomous vehicles vs autonomous vehicle. A pile of scrap is better than a pile of bodies.
Good government incentives should support something that wouldn't otherwise happen. They balance out market inefficiencies. The lack of risk capital for startups or affordable loans for SMEs is an inefficiency. The reduction of costs for highly profitable mega-corps is not a market inefficiency.
This is a good point, and I will clarify what I actually meant by the imprecise term "crap".

It's their money within the boundaries of my responsibility to them as the parent. For instance, I reserve my right to say no to violent video games, too much junk food, etc. They are free to make monetarily bad decisions, but I reserve the responsibility of instilling my values and preventing them from making really bad decisions like becoming overweight or obese. Sure, they can buy candy with their money, but if they are buying too much candy I can't let them continue to go down that path.

The idea of interest is merely to encourage saving. I don't know if that would really work.
You can configure your local tmux to have a key press send the prefix command to a remote tmux with a single keypress.

For example, to bind C-a to control the remote session:

bind-key -n C-a send-prefix
American parents need to discipline their damn kids. Paying for chores? Completely nuts. Look how Asians raise their kids. That’s how Korea and Japan went from third world countries to rich ones in a couple of generations.
> if your application was freezing for 78 seconds waiting for a screen redraw

78 seconds was the compile time. The runtimes were almost identical: 0.45 seconds to run the entire test suite in the fastest case vs 1.3 in the slowest.
And it's a particularly interesting issue, because this problem mirrors the congestion control failure observed on most networks in recent years. We all have seen this problem, on a busy network, the latency will increase by two order of magnitudes, ruining other network activities like web browsing, even themselves require only a little bit of bandwidth. The simplest demo is uploading a large file, while observing the ping latency, it would just jump from 100ms to 2000ms. But it should not happen, because the TCP congestion control was just designed to solve it.

In turns out that the cause of this problem, known as bufferbloat, is the accumulated effect of excessive buffering in the network stack, mostly the system packet queue, but also includes the routers, switches, drivers and hardware, since RAM is cheap nowadays. The TCP congestion control works like this: if packet loss is detected, then sends at a lower rate. But when there are large buffers on the path for "improving performance", the packets are never lost when if the path is congested, instead, they would be put into a huge buffer, so TCP will never slow down properly as designed, and during the slow-start, it believes it's on the way going to the moon. On the other hand, all the buffers are FIFO, it means when your new packets have a chance to get out, it's probably no longer relevant, since it takes seconds for moving it from the tail of the queue to the head, the connection would be timed out already.

Solutions include killing buffers and limiting their length (byte queue limit, TCP small queue), another innovation is new queue management algorithms: we don't have to use a mindless FIFO queue, we can make them smarter. As a result, CoDel and fq_codel are invented to implement "DELay-COntrolled queues", they are designed to prioritize new packets that are just arrived, and dropping old packets to keep your traffic flowing.

And people realized the Linux I/O freeze is a variant of bufferbloat, and the very same ideas of the CoDel algorithm can be applied to the Linux I/O freeze problem.

Another interesting aspect was, that the problem is NOT OBSERVABLE if the network is fast enough, or the traffic is low, because the buffering does not occur, so it will never be caught in many benchmarks. On the other hand, when you start uploading a large file over a slow network, or start copying a large file to a USB thumb drive on Linux...

https://lwn.net/Articles/682582/

and

https://lwn.net/Articles/685894/
That is 10^20 bits or 12.5 exabytes. Still bit far (6 orders of magnitude) from the current state of the art. Also it is electrostatic, not magnetic solid state storage, leading the density race. The whole article this was mentioned is quite a good read: (paywall) https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4066743
> The ideas people have come up with to prevent future generations just blowing it up without knowing what they're doing, and irradiating the whole planet, are quite interesting. If you have a good idea, people will be all ears, because we don't have a plan.

We already have a plan. Publish the information on the internet. It will still be here in 1 million years. YouTube will outlast the Sun.
Yet that's tm what the op article was about: that the big ones get special deals.
> Simple answer to complex problems, outside science and engineering, are almost always wrong.

True, but it seems that the universe is simple at its foundation and complex in some of the things that emerge from it.

The standard model fits on a sheet of paper and it commonly makes predictions that are accurate to the ~20th decimal place. Neural networks can be expressed in fraction of that complexity and evolution is even simpler. Computations that emerge from these things are often complex beyond our comprehension, and hence it is a good heuristic to distrust simple explanations in the sciences about emergent phenomena such as psychology, sociology, economy and biology.
This helped me: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/1932#issuecomment-40...

Microsoft made some change a year or so ago that brought more of WSL into Windows Defender's view.
Yeah, I still observe this from time to time, with SSD-only storage and 32 GB main memory.
Most of these things are coincidental byproducts of how Windows (NT) is designed, not carefully envisioned trade offs that are what make Windows Ready for the Desktop (tm).

For some counterexamples of how those designs make things harder and more irritating, look at file locking and how essentially every Windows update forces a reboot, that is pretty damn user unfriendly.
can you acknowledge that "maybe" it's just that you cannot understand the whole thing? You know, many scientists engaged in philosophy (as if science is not a branch of philosophy, lol), as well as many artists, politicians, economists and most of the most brilliant minds every produced by the humankind. Why do you think they are wrong in that endeavour and you're right?
Even six years ago when I was shopping around to buy some Bitcoins it was already impossible to use Transferwise and most banks had blocked transfers to known cryptocurrency exchanges. When the financial industry wants something ostracised they are quick to move in the same direction.
Cutting a business off from the financial system seems like a fairly harsh punishment for plagiarism, especially when there are other routes for a remedy. We may never know if that was the reason, though, so it's hard to measure whether justice was done or not.
> Oligopoly. Discover card and American Express are both mostly accepted

Duopoly when you are in Europe. Discover card and American Express is not really a thing here.