skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. Very cool concept.

I think it needs some sort of prompt about the tilting. Also the mechanism might need some calibration, I tested it with my SO and the tilting was too sensitive for her to control it accurately.
Completely agree, see the mess that's been made in Kazakhstan: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-4312681...
Sorry about that. Looked official to me and was linked to from the Red page and from your Github, but sorry about the mistake. s/creators/community/
What's the advantage of using this over something like XMLHttpRequest?
> "They should just support ApplePay, Google Pay and a credit card and be done with it."

They should take cash.
i would have no idea how to make this game.
> There's a Knuth quote about how the aim of TeX was to allow anyone to create properly typeset documents.

(Emphasis added by me)

I have probably read every single word Knuth published on the topic of TeX, and what you said seems very different from what I've gathered of Knuth's philosophy and style. Knuth intended TeX to be used by someone who cares about typesetting, and the program comes with a nearly 500-page manual (The TeXbook) that was very much intended to be read. In fact, he expected anyone who was preparing any special sort of book (a multilingual bible, or dictionary, or whatever) to change the program itself, and has expressed surprise at people using elaborate macro packages like LaTeX or doing everything in TeX macros.

(BTW the page you linked at https://www.tug.org/whatis.html is also pretty good and note that it says a lot about typography and the finer details of typesetting, and less about ease-of-use: search the page for "support" and "TeX is not the tool for you".)

> often seemed to default to bitmap fonts

Actually, TeX uses only font metrics, and the output of TeX is merely a set of instructions about where to place what characters from what font. (A compact binary encoding thereof, in the form of a DVI file.) A separate program is needed for actually using the font and rendering the output. (These days everyone uses pdfTeX or some other program that combines the two and uses vector fonts, but that's the original design.)

In any case, for the original task that TeX was designed for (completely specifying the appearance of a book, in a future-proof way however technology may change), it is absolutely crucial to combine it with a program for bitmap fonts (and that's Metafont -- it produces only bitmap fonts). Think about it: the rasterization (converting to bitmaps) has to happen somewhere: if you leave it up to some other technology (the one used by the printer or whatever), then you're back to the same problem that led to the creation of TeX, where in a few decades fonts may be produced by some completely different method and you may no longer be able to produce a book whose appearance is identical (except for the typos you fixed or minor rewrites or whatever) to the earlier one.
Should it have some type of timer, perhaps a countdown for accomplishing a mission, with time lessening each round?
Just barely :)
It's red and it's chasing you! Was pretty clear it was bad to me :)
Yes, perhaps the best example I can think of was actually a failure -- my Uber that was supposed to arrive in "5 minutes" was actually driving away from me at the time, turning into FB HQ a minute later, and then spending easily 10+ minutes getting lost driving from building to building on the campus. But their algorithm can predict (usually!) which car will be nearest me the soonest; not which car is currently closest to me (regardless of occupancy) or which car is empty and nearby.
It is a performance trade off.

Sure you can use JSON and make everything strings and do something like

{ type: 'int8', value: '52' }

but then parsing out the data ends up being a huge overhead.

I once saw an XML variant of this, where someone decided to make the ultimate Distributed Computing System and serialize every single function call, take up over 1/2 of a CPU core for de/serialization for just the one app running on that machine.

While I could admire the purity of the design, it was utterly insane as an actual thing to bring into the world.

Protobuf is a good mixture of "strict typing so everyone is on the same page", "freedom to do stuff", and "perf isn't horrible."

There are other encoding systems out there that offer even more freedom, e.g. cap'n'proto, and better performance, but with other trade offs.

On the opposite side of things, my team had been serializing straight C structs out over the wire, but every field addition was a breaking change, and communicating the changes to our structures across teams was a nightmare of meetings and "has your team merged the changes Bob made so we can roll out our new format yet?" We needed 3 teams to roll out changes at the same time!

With protobufs, we were able to make changes to our wire format incredibly rapidly, we had a nice source control managed asset that defined our format, there weren't any confusions as to how data was laid out, and clients using older versions of our definitions just missed out on newer features, nothing actually broke.

It was an insanely large improvement, and honestly for the managed platforms, the performance wasn't appreciably worse than trying to convince Java to read in uint8s and write out uint8s.

My team was working on an embedded platform with RAM measured in kilobytes, and it was worth us eating the overhead just to get rid of the countless meetings we had to hold whenever we made a change to any of our structures.
> Because from my perspective it seems like you had an opinion and then you backed away once I challenged it.

From my perspective you made a mistake and now you're too proud to admit it.

What you "feel" I meant is wrong. I didn't even make a point. And I explicitly told you what I meant!

Interesting that you're now framing this as a "religious war". What I think is less interesting is that I have to defend myself against things you think I might have said according to what you "feel".
Good news. The customer service rep said they are forwardning my request to the Networking Team after I shared https://www.troyhunt.com/heres-why-your-static-website-needs... and pointed out how easy it is to steal login info.

A video is worth a billion words.

Hopefully, Networking doesn't blow it off.
> Comparing good use of LaTeX with poor use of word processors is unfair; the most that can really be said is that you are more likely to be introduced to LaTeX in a class taught by someone who really knows how to use it, and more likely to be introduced to a word processor by playing around with it or under the informal instruction of someone who doesn’t understand it very well, and that, for this reason, the number of people who use LaTeX but don’t use its document-structuring features is probably close to zero while the number of people who use word processors and don’t is enormous.

I agree with this very much. My husband and I wrote our Masters theses with LaTeX so that we could support various layout features with relative easy. I created a LaTeX template, and all we needed to do was write our chapters and sections in separate files. A bash script parsed the template and chapter files twice, and spat out a nice PDF.

Oh boy, did I ever get my butt kicked by the hassle of LaTeX support for custom CJK fonts. Oh good, just use that package. Oh no, that package doesn't work unless you use that engine. No, that engine doesn't support custom fonts, use a different one. Oh no, this other engine doesn't support that package, but here's a similar package whose arcane settings you need to tweak just right. It took nearly a week for me to get my template to match the university style guide without throwing hissy fits after each compilation — and then I added BibLaTeX to the mix, and it's a wonder the wall doesn't bear an imprint of my head getting my inline APA references to respect those font and layout choices, too!

For our purposes, just writing our theses in Pages would've been a hundred times simpler. After we submitted our theses, I created a Pages template, modified all the paragraph and character styles, set our preferred fonts with CJK support, checked that the line heights were consistent, double-checked the paragraph and line spacing, saved the template, and we've never looked back.

I'm with the author in that I'm absolutely fine with sane defaults, and I'm sure most people are, but sane defaults for an international world. I'm glad scientists and engineers have an easy way to typeset complicated equations and what have you, but it's such a pain in the neck to (a) support non-ASCII characters (b) in a font that you like (c) with consistent line height when using CJK fonts.

Just my two cents as a non-scientist who really loves the power of LaTeX but obviously has different needs to most of its users in support of the author's message that writing documents in LaTeX is not some universal ideal for every writer.
Agreed. I'm vegan but I would definitely not turn down eating animals caught in the wild, especially if I was part of the hunt. But I would also never hunt just for the sport. It's the mass production of intelligent beings* in horrible conditions that bothers me the most.

Fishing is another dilemma. Technically as per above definition eating fish (unless bred) would be fine, but then again we've destroyed so much of the fish population already. If I were out at sea then sure, but just for pleasure right now while being land based? No thanks.

*) this first part of the sentence alone is enough for me to not want to have any part of it
We have a special simulator build which can run several nodes in a single process, and this has been used in the past to test different topologies and network graphs.

But yes, there's absolutely no reason that you couldn't stand up a whole load of VMs or containers and run Yggdrasil in each of them to play about.
Probably Larabee. Too early and too expensive for its time.
For the record, I strongly disagree with Jackie's opinion. It does need more context though. China is a low trust society that doesn't have a strong rule of law. What this translates into is fake medicine, fake food, newly built buildings and bridges that either fall apart or are falling apart, police and low level government officials who need bribes for mundane things and so on. Jackie mainly wants a stronger rule of law. (He's just wrong about accepting a government with unlimited power. eg he thinks protests are bad) Of course, you're not going to get all of this from someone who didn't receive a lot of formal education, speaking in the 3rd language that he learned, in a small sound bite.
That an iPad Pro is too expensive for most people is a perfectly reasonable argument, much stronger than "the iPad Pro has no purpose."
It's possible that Intel will announce a 10C Comet Lake but then AMD can quickly counter with a 16C Ryzen. Then Intel has no response unless they can cram an 18C -X die into an 115x socket.
I wouldn't be sure about that. Depending on incentives, a Nissan Leaf can be even cheaper than a Toyota Corolla.
Just the amount of space devoted to them exaggerates their importance to the field (though Menger, Kirzner, and Hayek -- possibly Mises as well -- would still make my cut. But a list that has Salin and not Akerlof or Arrow (just to start with the A's)? He mentions Coase as being on there, but I don't see him, and Coase is literally the most-cited economist of all time.
Note: mobile Chrome but not Firefox.
I think skipping UBports was the right call. UBports is too design constrained and they shell they've been working on in its place uses much better design and should support a much wider variety of applications OOTB.

Full disclosure: I am the maintainer of a critical open-source component that influenced this design decision.
Is anyone really surprised?

"We're not going to pay you enough to ever actually own anything, so you'll have to rent most things for the rest of your life, and you're still going to be living paycheck to paycheck."

"Gee, maybe I'll find something else to do than maintain the institutions you rigged against me because you didn't want to invest in your own retirement."
There's nothing wrong with a cell phone provider collecting aggregate information on where their subscribers are on their network. Its reasonable for them to do so, as it helps them analyze how to properly prioritize network upgrades (where to build towers, add capacity, etc.) It is not reasonable for them to sell individualized data to anyone and everyone who feels like tossing them a few hundred bucks.

Its reasonable that a hospital would know a good deal about me. They'll know current diagnoses, previous diagnoses, medications, probably some generalized family medical history, extensive identification numbers, etc. Its important for them to be able to have this data for them to do their job of healing me. However, its unreasonable for them to then just sell this data on the open market. That's why we passed HIPAA/HITECH.
Rewrite your functions to be generator functions. They don't even need to be based on the desired level of precision to always be decidable.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong (not the best at math), but the ocean is massive. The entire amount of brine they mention (31.5 million cubic meters) fits in one 300m square cube. Even if you drop it in an enclosed 1km-wide area of seawater, it will barely increase concentration by 0.01%. It would take millenia for us to increase sea salinity by this method, and all that treated water is eventually coming back.

Even if you took the total daily water consumption of the entire human race - 150l per person * 7 billion, or 1^12 liters, and made it extra salty, it is dwarfed by the total of 1.26^21 [mostly sea]water on earth.

This would be harmless assuming we are not adding anything to the byproduct, which unfortunately seems to be the case according to the other comments.
This news is so old, I was sure the date on the article was 2009.
Merging text-based markup is a lot easier than e.g. PowerPoint files.
The PHEV prius doesn't have AWD. It's a higher trim for a normal prius only. And the Crosstrek gets pretty poor mileage for a hybrid after the battery is empty, probably because it has "full" AWD. The Prius has a more limited form of AWD, though it is likely enough for most AWD vehicle buyers needs.

If you are interested in a PHEV AWD car (I am interested in PHEV, my wife is interested in AWD), other vehicles to check out are the Hyundai Outlander, the Mini E Countryman S, and a few more expensive BMWs and Volvos. Kia might have one? That's pretty much all of them. Crosstrek seems like the best to me, but has definite downsides and is a compliance car not widely available in the US.
All good points. First things first... I assumed you're an American. If you're Kenyan, then I was wrong and you're coming from a more educated perspective. Please understand that Americans have some wild assumptions about the rest of the world.

The articles on Kenya's debt situation were very enlightening, thank you! It looks offhand like it's problematic, but not unsolvable. See where things are in another ten years. But a debt crisis isn't any better for lenders than it is for debtors. What good does it do China for Kenya to default on its loans?

As for 5% growth... that's really good. Maybe not the best in Africa, but far better than the mature economies of the West (most of Europe has hovered around 1% for the same period, and the US is 1.4%). That makes for an attractive investment opportunity, especially by non-state actors who are even less interested in defaulted loans than nations are.

As for China's interest... well, their manufacturing-based economy needs a steady supply of raw materials. Africa has those. And China is not interested in military occupation to enforce resource extraction, colonial style. That leaves trade, and trade has to be mutually beneficial over the long term, or one party will just stop participating.

(edit: As an aside, it's absurd and annoying that your comment is getting downvoted. I really wish people would stop using downvoting as a "disagree" button, especially for things they don't understand.)
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There's no guarantee this won't have gimped FP64, Hawaii for example had 1/2 rate FP64 but the consumer cards were 1/8 speed. But even 1/8 would leave the 1/32 NVIDIA cards in the dust.

If they don't gimp FP64 it won't leave a whole lot of reason to buy the MI50 for probably 10x the price.
SOAP had a lot of the right ideas. It didn't fail because the concept behind it was bad. The main reason it failed was that, although the "S" stands for "simple", it wasn't. Maybe it was simple compared to CORBA or something.
On /r/amd a user posted a different photo [0] taken from the stream which - to a layman like me - looks like there is circuitry (or whatever?) for a second chiplet.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/gzXaoJz.png
You neglect to mention that they also do internet.

And for anyone else, yes they do have account log in.

@OP find another supplier, or if they're a monopoly complain to the regulator.
I can't point to specific suits off the top of my head, but I've seen a few from inside my former employer and heard my friends tell of instances where someone wasn't granted a position and sued on the basis of descrimination.

The issue is generally not that an org is descriminating, it's actually generally the exact opposite. The org is trying to institute policy which protects them from these suits and "standardizes" the hiring process. It's typically subunits or managers in the org who get fed up with the process because they can't hire who they want to efficiently, and circumvent it by writing these job descriptions. HR audits these employment calls and has no clue what half the words in the description mean or what the position actually entails, so it is not flagged.
It does not _require_ a VCS, but you can bring/use your own quite easily. Why? because most of the slide sources are in text format, so working with them under version control is easy compared to the big binary blobs known from powerpoint/pages/...
For most of us males, prostate cancer is something we will eventually get, but is unlikely to kill us. Breast cancer seems a lot more dangerous. I of course worry about it, but it doesn't seem nearly as dangerous as breast cancer.
Interesting line of thinking, thank you for sharing.
Asking for a ... friend. What is the mitigation against attacks like this? Seriously, it would appear that every organization is at risk of having a trusted insider hand over keys to a competitor, criminals, etc. There must be a way to detect or protect against this, right?
I'd venture to say that None of those are beamer/LaTex problems. They are all exclusively at the hand of the presenter. Someone who doesn't care enough to learn how to properly give an engaging presentation, or was never given the opportunity to do so will make those kinds of presentations.

In my undergrad Honors Physics program, I was required to attend two different workshops on giving presentations (on top of the university requirement of Speech & Comms class) and a technical writing class. Suffice to say, my beamer presentations are not identical, nor so they include "extra" slides. It doesn't take much to drop slides, so it should be easy to comment out a number of slides for a tailored presentation. That's just a lazy presenter.
> the escape hatch suggested on the internet, `partial_cmp(...).unwrap_or(Ordering::Less)`

This is often a Bad Idea, as you get unstable sorts and you are right back to the same problem.

- Explanation: How do I get the minimum or maximum value of an iterator containing floating point numbers? — https://stackoverflow.com/a/50308360/155423

- Example: https://play.integer32.com/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...

See also:

- How to do a binary search on a Vec of floats? — https://stackoverflow.com/q/28247990/155423

Instead, use a wrapper type or raise a panic.
The largest strike in history is happening in India right now
> If their economic growth and general influence continues along anything even vaguely resembling its current trajectory, they will be the most powerful and influential nation in the world in the very foreseeable future.

I agree China will become the world's largest economy in the near future, it remains to be seen if they will be able to escape the middle income trap. China demographically is getting older and is set for a decline in population. What happens if the population starts declining before achieving high-income status?
>20k link clicks. However only 2k visits are shown by both google analytics

Worth pointing out that if you run say cloudflare and g analytics you get similar discrepancy numbers. (Also about 1:10 in my experience).

Read various theories on why - most focus on js tracking vs pure traffic.
They can’t do 8 GB there are no 2GB HBM2 modules apparently and they can’t cut the amount of modules without cutting the CUs in half.

It’s essentially just to keep up some production volume this is their HPC die sold to the consumer market its the Titan V equivalent die of AMD minus the Tensor Cores just for much much cheaper.

It’s likely going to be a flop gaming wise, 2x8 pin power connectors put it at 300W TDP with performance only matching that of a 1089ti/2080 in the best case scenarios AMD currently has.

The 1080ti can be had for under $600 if you can find it the 2080 is around $700 but you get RTX and DLSS which while isn’t that useful yet is going to be more useful for gaming than 16GB of memory.
Perhaps a good candidate for mining coins like LivePeer (one of 8-10 actual solid blockchain projects IMO).
Fortunately that already happened; HPE and Dell have Epyc servers that are comparable quality to their Xeon servers.
Do all cars come with a trip planning feature? IE, if she had rented a BMW or Volvo, would she be able to use the Tesla app or similar?

From my perspective, people are used to being able to pull off the highway just about anywhere and fill their tanks. Having to plan everything down to the mile, even for a mostly highway trip through populated areas, is a major change of thinking.

For example, take this trip...
https://www.tesla.com/trips/#/?v=MS_2017_100D&o=Reston,%20VA...

In my ICE car, I usually stop in Richmond or Williamsburg to get a snack and use the restroom. Based on Tesla's app, I now have to stop twice (once to pee, again to charge). And that second stop is longer than a 5 minute fuel fill. Not the end of the world, but different. Also, there is no charging station at the destination, so I now need to manage my mileage while at the beach to ensure I can get to the closest charge 10 miles to the south (which then adds time to the start of the return journey). Again, not an insurmountable obstacle, but it sure does add complication to a trip I make several times/year with a car full of family and pets.

Edit - I'm not trying to be snarky or difficult. I really have no idea how people plan their EV trips, as I don't own one (and probably can't any time soon, as I don't have a dedicated parking spot to install a charger at home).

Edit2 - if I change the charger routing to the smaller battery pack, it recommends two stops, adding even more time. This would likely be the case for any EV except Tesla, or possibly a Bolt?
How about dumping it into a shallow pit and letting the water evaporate, creating new salt flats.
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I wonder who the hosting provider was. I'm not seeing much in the news about one that "unexpectedly ceased operations", just the expected background news of scattered outages.
But you don't need to do that with an ICE car so you.
I feel that the difference is that SOAP was a proper spec made by multiple parties, for better or worse. And GRPC is just a published spec from Google with code from Google. Of course it won't be such a mess and it will be good enough. Is it good to rely on Google adopting its tech as an industry standard? That's a philosophical question.