skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For any given product there is an expected demographic and a reasonable projected demographic going forward.

Older people are not a special case of a class of people incapable of becoming proficient with technology.

Current older people are in the position of having grown up before computers.

For any given tech product the computer incapable are probably not your biggest segment and that segment will shrink over time.

All of our 80 year old grandparents who mostly don't use technology now will use even less in whatever afterlife awaits and pretty soon we will have 50 year olds who encountered computers in their teens and grew comfortable with them.
Yeah, I understand that needs vary widely based on life stage. I realize many people want those things, I just was hoping to point out that for some of us, those things sound horrible.
Maybe displaying it in table Layout for all IE11 users would be a better solution.
Those people did sacrifice, but the US elites and governing diplomats didn't sacrifice those people for "the greater good". They sacrificed them to enter the war and ensure its place on the post-war world (as it did). They tried the same in WWI, pushing Americans to join a war they had no reason to be in.
I had a very similar experience to what you’re describing and most other folks I know that have ‘figured out’ a treatment share a similar experience as well (more info in a comment below).
I recall back then Dillon had some unconventional ideas how to do SMP compared to the traditional approach of ever more fine-grained locking as done by FreeBSD and Linux. Is DragonFlyBSD still following this design, and if so, how well did it work out, or if not, did they revert to a more traditional approach?
The solution there is to document every moment of your time spent on this issue, alongside the user agent logs, and present that alongside your salary, and present it.

Best case, they decide they pay you too much and you cause too much trouble, and let you go.

Worst case they make her upgrade her browser so they're not dumping mountains of money on her preferences and whims.

Either way, I'd be good with it if I were in that position.
>The flip side: there is no way to filter all the trivialities and show only the "best" posts.

Trivialities are fine. I just wish there was a language (as in, spoken language not profanity) and NSFW filter.
That's precisely what I mean.

I assume the downvotes are coming from those who disagree with the CoC.
Apple only allows the Safari Webkit engine to be installed on iOS. As a result, all third party browsers on iOS are using the identical browser engine as iOS Safari. Any browser incompatibility issues is likely shared across all iOS browsers.
No it is just wonderful and magical since it was made in France. There are thousands of kids software made for iPhone or Android but just because they were made in Asia and were culturally a little different got a lot of bad rap here in HN two weeks back. Fucking stereotypes.
Get mad at scribbles made with crayons. Insulate yourself from happy people.
Heat (motion of molecules) is noise (motion of molecules) in this context.
I have found for myself that taking Ibuprofen eases both anxiety and depression. It's not a cure but it surprises me how much of a mental effect a mild analgesic has.
The transgender populist fighting fascists with face glitter
Interestingly, that's basically the same decision the English House of Lords (now Supreme Court) came to in 1966. While they tend to respect precedent, they aren't bound to it (though only in that Court):

> too rigid adherence to precedent may lead to injustice in a particular case and also unduly restrict the proper development of the law. [The Lords] propose therefore, to modify their present practice and, while treating former decisions of this house as normally binding, to depart from a previous decision when it appears right to do so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practice_Statement
Interesting. It makes sense then to launch such satellites closer to poles. That explains why there are plans in Norway to build a space launching site at around 70 latitude near Tromsø.
Fantastic Christmas present from the Ruby team.

Ruby is alive and well despite all the rumors of it's demise. I predict a resurgence in its use over the next few years.

Can't wait to examine and try out the new features.
>People that use the service a lot are less likely to cancel, and more likely to recommend it to others.

I'm not sure how true this is with cheap(ish) subscription services. In many cases, the Planet Fitness model might be more apt. They rely on inertia and apathy to keep the subscription payments coming, but they actually rely on people not using the service very much and actively discourage "power-user" usage patterns.
Why the hell you make it GNU public license and then charge for it? Change he license or make it completely free.
it is perfect for civ 6.
To any structural engineers, what kind of tolerance are buildings like this usually built to?

How much movement can they take? 2mm doesn't seem like much at all.
They actually say "The mountains are high and the emperor is far away..."
Strange. When I had that card they told me 1% base + 0.75% bonus for $100k+ giving 1.75% total.

Reading the ad now, it looks like you're right. 2.6 points per $1 spent.
Length of programming means nothing, some people have 1 yr experience 10x over 10 years. You have to continually challenge yourself and build new things. Try building things you use. An editor, your own programming language, a database, servers, games, etc
Sadly, FreeBSD (and Illumos) are now defacto downstreams, since a lot of the active ZFS work is now happening on Linux. That's a sad fact, but true, and sticking our heads in the sand won't change it. (and may, in fact, make it worse).

My understanding from the message, and from talking to the devs involved is that integration with ZOL will make FreeBSD an equal partner. FreeBSD will be included in the CI, so that ZOL changes that break FreeBSD cannot be merged. Changes originating in FreeBSD will also be merged faster to Linux, and with review from the original author to make sure they are merged correctly. Eg, it is better for everybody (except perhaps the folks left on Illumos or other Open Solaris forks).
That is one of my favorites as well. I always think of his stacked-up-to-the-ceiling garbage bin image when discussing the current state of software.

This year he seems to be continuing with the theme: Taming the Chaos: Can we build systems that actually work? [1]

[1] https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2018/Fahrplan/events...
And just all round usability; you're typing to get the autocomplete suggestions anyway, keyboard navigation to the suggestions is just more convenient.
Yes, but that was only for OkCupid. For Tinder, the overwhelming strategy for most men is to swipe right on any woman that is even mildly attractive since it's a pure numbers game in most cases [1].

I agree the methodology on #2 is poor, but it's better than nothing and certainly better than anecdote. The other ad hoc "studies" I can find mostly point to more or less the same outcome, though, so I'm not sure it's worth wholly dismissing. If you have a counterexample with actual data I'd love to read it.

[1] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/from-53-matches-to-4-dates...
Constant decrease does not imply ever hitting 0.
> I'm happy to discuss them, but not to fight for them.

What is "fight for them"? You want to discuss your views but not be criticized for them? Are you surprised people fighting for social justice have a strong reaction against viewports they feel are attacking their very personhood?
It's mostly how complete the API is and how consistent. For example:
* Hash#merge takes a block for conflict resolution. I use this all the time for aggregating counts.
* #sample
* #unique
* Everything has a change in place option by appending "!"
Just because an instrument cannot hear it, does that really mean it does not exist anymore?
Right.

When we differ, there are many options besides deathmatch politics fueled by righteous indignation.

Seek understanding of others. Be secure in that, and who you are.

Celebrate differences and gain perspective.

Amplify good, talk through and maybe past bad.

I no longer judge much for past votes and difficult politics. I am most interested in votes and politics to come.

A whole lot is possible. Getting along better is the root of the possible.

We need more of the possible and line in the sand type conflict gets in the way.
That's for assault weaponry.
For one, this article could've been 30% the original length - it drones on and on repeatatively!

While I find the reasoning sound on why iPads can't be your full time productivity device, completely ignoring Microsoft surface in this space seems either ignorant or a paid Google ad for the Chromebook
If You Harvested Body Heat from 44,000 People You Could Mine 1 Bitcoin per Month
The ARMv8 server platforms follow a common standard, SBSA. Which is essentially taking the most-hated parts of the x86 platform, ACPI and UEFI, but once you suppress the gag reflex it does get the job done, and you have a mostly x86-like experience that you just boot a generic armv8 distro and it all autodetects stuff on the fly and it all just works.

Haven't heard of any of the single-board platforms adopting it, though.
The key term to search for is "discoverabilty" although there are other important factors at play
This attitude is what has allowed Linux containers to work as well as they do. You can put software built and tested on a very old kernel and it runs successfully on a modern one. Container operators do not have to deeply worry that every kernel update will break all their developer’s applications.
It sounds like a single entity is helping many workers take individual cases (under unique circumstances). This sounds just like a class-action lawsuit, except with extra steps.

If it proves worthwhile, it could potentially give workers an option to fight back against agreements that prevent class-action suits in the first place.

And with the economy structured as it is, we all certainly know the working class could use a win.
Why do you say 3.7.0 is more "stable" than 3.7.2?

3.7.2 is a maintenance release of the 3.7 series...I am not aware of anyone who considers 3.7.0 the version you should stay with.
British police: reported drone activity that disrupted Gatwick may not be real
This sattelite was some 8000kgs, vs. 4000-ish kgs for the previous-generation GPS satellites, if I remember correctly.
I find that hard to imagine.

Let's take the information 'The universe exists'. How can that information get lost? Wouldn't the universe have to disappear for that to happen? I have never heard about a model of reality where that is a possibility.
Maybe for sketchy stuff, but mainstream sites that stay out of legal trouble will prefer the regulated internet.
ISPC vs OpenCL is a very interesting discussion. I think the discussion warrants a bit more introduction.

The ideal is to deliver the illusion of true threads to the programmer, where each thread is mapped to a SIMD unit. This is because on x86 systems, an AVX2 SIMD unit (YMM Register) can support 8x 32-bit values (256-bits). That's 16x 32-bit values for ZMM AVX512 registers. So you get a huge boost to parallelism if you treat each SIMD-unit as a separate thread.

In effect: it is far cheaper to make SIMD-"threads", than to make "real threads". So you get Vega64 (4096 Shaders) or NVidia V100 (5120 CUDA Cores). Even on Intel, you effectively get 8x SIMD cores per actual core.

The question is how to deal with this mapping, to keep things efficient and reasonable for the programmer. OpenCL, and ISPC have different strategies for dealing with this abstraction and trying to efficiently map this illusion to the programmer. The general "Thread Group" (OpenCL) and "Wavefront" (CUDA) abstraction seems to primarily capture this SIMD-width question.

But there's one additional thing on GPUs that don't exist on CPUs: and that's the LDS memory (AMD) or Shared memory (NVidia). Shared Memory is effectively a manually-managed L1 cache on GPUs.

GPUs have very weak cache hierarchies. In high-performance GPGPU compute, it is preferred for the programmer to manually manage transfers to and from global RAM to the ~64kB Shared Memory region. And of course, only Wavefronts / Threadgroups are guaranteed to share a portion of shared memory.

Intel systems don't need this abstraction: Intel CPUs have a full and proper cache which is unified with global RAM.

So I guess Intel is "taking a victory lap" with this blog post: noting that all of the complexity of Wavefronts / etc. etc. isn't really necessary on ISPC / Intel systems.

---------

Still, Intel never really achieved the performance that NVidia V100 or AMD Vega64 can achieve. Even Intel's Xeon Phi has far lower raw performance than what NVidia / AMD was able to put out.

Its certainly more difficult to write high-performance code on GPUs. But with so much more raw power on GPUs, many people have been able to extract higher performance in practice.
The recent Netflix animated movie 'Next Gen' was made in Blender. The production company is also contributing enhancements they made to Blender back to the main project.
Note that with Southwest the cancellation credits are only good for 12 months from the original reservation.
Can't stress enough how broken the Chinese judiciary is. You'd think the bias has to do mostly with big cases involving huge corporations. Unfortunately I learned first hand how crooked the system is. The laws don't matter when the other (Chinese) party submits obviously fake documents as evidence and gets away with it. Don't ever under any circumstance expose yourself to the Chinese legal system.
>Intel works flawlessly

Kernel DRI drivers, yeah sure. Xorg's xf86-video-intel is a buggy pile of shit that hasn't seen a stable release in 5 years.

Currently the best you get on linux with intel is modesetting driver with glamor for 2daccel. Or use wayland, I guess...
A Love Letter to Slack (or, My Favorite Slack Features)
> I think I personally would still prefer to receive one of the old style messages, but that's probably just because I better handle people angry with me than disappointed.

That's actually not that unusual. I actually found this email a lot harsher, in a certain sense.

When you losing your temper and swear at people, it's scary and intimidating because the hindbrain recognizes that behavior as, "this person is very likely to hit me". And since hindbrains are hindbrains, this reaction still happens even if it's over the internet. But you also end up making a big fool of yourself and leading people to discount what you're saying out of hand, because obviously you're angry and worked up. People losing their temper are hilarious from a safe distance, which is among other things the basic premise of Lewis Black's entire career as a comedian.

When you calmly and methodically communicate using only facts and logic, you do lose the hindbrain "this guy is going to hit me" reaction. But you get something more powerful. Heated anger indicates an unresolved problem. That's why you're all worked up--you have a nice little adrenaline rush going because you've detected a problem and you're fired up to go fix it. Being calm, even cold, is much more final: it indicates that everything is resolved. This approach completely disarms the defense mechanism of saying "Linus is just a dick" or thinking that he only said what he said out of anger.
Interested to hear what flexbox features were unsupported? I’ve been in a same kind of situation but was able to support everything on “IE version” of the app by using flexbox.
> [...] only to discover that once I found an old machine in a closet that has IE11 on it [...]

MS has free downloadable virtual machine images to help with that kind of testing. They have IE8, IE9, IE10, and IE11 Win7 VMs, an IE11 Win8 VM, and an Edge Win10 VM.

They have images for VirtualBox, Vagrant, VMWare, HyperV, and Parallels.

Link:

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/v...
A friend of mine wrote a Chrome extension for better styling: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/learn-prolog-now-e...
one beautiful design decision ruby made really on was that every method would have the option to take a block of code when it was invoked. the code block gets passed to the method as a closure. this makes writing collection apis very pleasant, since so many of them involve passing in a single closure to operate on each element.
This rocket was worth billions in opportunity dollars. I’m sure not a single tear was shed.
Well, for now is about an year with few machines (personal desktop, home server, laptop and few friends machines) on NixOS, root included [1] issueless.

Various loads, even if not really "high" in server-like terms, very few not-clean shutdowns, mostly for testing, few fs resize (both in grow and shrink senses) + LVM resize [2], regular sync of different desktops via unison + converting in ss (snapshot) the latest cp (checkpoint) and back again after sync.

The only real problem I found is cleaner process that's extremely slow so on frequently changing fs like root, home, var etc you need to tweak config a bit [3] to make cleaner far more aggressive or require really big free space to avoid fs full from time to time due to extra cp saved...

That's really the sole problem I found. Respect of my ancient zfs-root setup is far lighter and logging is fantastic as a protection against accidental overwrite. Of course it's not as powerful as hammer and it UI is even more raw, for instance to diff a tree or a file you have to manually:

- change relevant cp to an ss

- mount the ss to an arbitrary location

- diff live vol/snap against the other mounted

A thing that limit usefulness a bit but considering that in terms of performance and overhead can be compared to a non-buggy btrfs with the overhead of xfs/jfs... It's really worth it!

[1] you only need to use a custom iso, something super-easy on NixOS, mine is here http://ix.io/1wIQ the only really important part is

boot.supportedFilesystems = [ "nilfs2" ];
boot.initrd.kernelModules = [ "crc32" "nilfs2" ];

you may choose zfs, f2fs, bcachefs, ...

[2] simply for grow resize first the LVM lv and after nilfs2, without dimension it grow the maximum free space available; for shrink shrink nilfs2 a bit more than the target size, resize the LVM lv to the new desired size, grow nilfs2 without dimension to occupy the entire LV free space. All operation are live, with mounted fs, it can't be resized otherwise!

[3] here http://ix.io/1wIS a really aggressive config, that on SSD essentially does not crate any noticeable overhead, on plate disk it make them spin regularly but it's just a matter of noise for desktop usage.
Crystal is definitely not production ready, I mean a language without thread support...
OpenBSD has a reputation for security but if you ask me its killer features are ease of use, documentation (the man pages are so good), and laptop compatibility.
It usually goes like... If you have an AS number, then you have a public presence on the Internet, now you apply/purchase your own dedicated IP addresses, and get them assigned to your AS number, finally broadcast your route in BGP. Practically, you own a portion of the Internet, and you own the IP addresses. You can set redirection, AnyCast, CDN...
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I guess you could argue that an interpreter is specifically a piece of software, in which case my point wouldn't stand.
`set(lens, b, set(lens, store, a)) ≡ set(lens, b, store)`

Somehow i sense this code has arguments in the wrong order.
A classic Linus rant has all the same basic information ("backwards compatibility is the first rule of kernel maintenance", "you've been a contributor long enough that you should know this", "I'm reverting your changes and no longer accepting pull requests from you"), but it also has the added comic relief of Linus swearing and ranting. Take away the swearing and ranting and this is just uncomfortable to read.
SpaceX will happily sell you a single-use Falcon 9 (or Falcon Heavy) if you need the mass for your launch. Of course, one should expect to pay for the privilege.
Not so new:
https://www.nachhaltigkeitspreis.de/wettbewerbe/forschung/pr...
Also depends on what moved, and in which direction. I’m sure the building sways much more than that in the wind, or expands more than that on a hot day.
Will insurance cover this if the building is no longer safe for residents?
yeh cause doing DOD projects from an American Company to increase GPS is a good thing
Most of what you just said about Word (tooltips, keyboard shortcuts, icons, programming environment) is also true of Blender.

But I don't really know what the equivalent of "just type some text" would be in Blender.
> I hadn't considered that the point of this article was to communicate outside of the U.S. Sure. For the rest of the English-Speaking world, use Centigrade.

The article started with “Americans” and not “We” so I assumed it was written for an international audience. I think the general theme of the article is pretty global and not just applicable to Americans. I can see the same thing happening here in Australia.

A small temperature change won’t have much affect on anything, really, except where it does. Those places will be where the temperatures hover around freezing point of water (in whatever units you choose). Regions that usually have mild frost or snow in winter won’t get that any more. That will have a huge change on the flora and fauna. Plant species that cannot tolerate frost will invade and displace the natives.

In Australia the warming effect is being felt already by wine growers. Regions previously too cold for grapes are being converted to vineyards. Regions currently growing cold-climate grapes are being replanted to warmer climate varieties.
Quite immature, especially when it comes to community and library support.

But dang it's nice to do stuff in it.
That’s what the article says but articles say a lot of things and I’d rather hear from someone more enlightened...
How one tweet can ruin your life | Jon Ronson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAIP6fI0NAI
What cop car weighs 500 - 1800lbs? Even a Smart Car or VW bug (lightest “cars” I can think of that I’ve seen used as a police car) weighs double what an average cow weighs.
You could split off the ad selling wing from the rest of it for a start. It would be drastic, for obvious reasons, but forcible de-merging huge businesses is always drastic, cf Hollywood, Ma Bell, and so forth.

Nothing would stop close partnerships but GDPR-style regulation would hopefully stop the most egregiously invasive kinds of data brokerage.

The truth is that regulation is always and everywhere a game of whack a mole, and as long as capitalism exists someone will have to wave the comedy mallet around.
Are You in a Relationship with Your Job?
> But what is the rationale for maintaining multiple 3.x branches?

Introducing new features bears an elevated risk of breaking thingss. Hence stable systems (and in extension, stable distributions like Debian) tend to use stable, bug and security fix only branches. This used to be more common.
It depends on how you define the modulo operator [0]--there are definitions where (-1)%5 == 4 and definitions where (-1)%5 == -1. Presumably the GP is referring to the former case.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulo_operation#Remainder_cal...
Why not just use an open source app like FreeOTP (android only)? The TOTP/HTOP spec requires no network as well so you can firewall the apps and they’ll still work fine.
I want to cry. I hoped that the way I phrased it would let me to stay away from this particular issues, not to fight over them and let me to speak about the opinions fighting in a whole.

Though maybe humanity not that bad and hopeless, maybe it was my English is that bad and hopeless?
~20 terawatts = humans

~90,000 terawatts = sunlight hitting surface of earth
I thought that part was implied -- he switched to the Pixelbook because it's a Google product that works well with the other Google (Google Suite) product he uses.