skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you talking about WSL or some other way that applications can use POSIX on Windows?
made a comment when Apple acquired Shazam a few months ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18066724

>...Unfortunately all product paths I can foresee will surely lead to targeted replacement ads, played at higher volume

Any thoughts on other ways to monetize? ;-)
Anecdata: I regularly grow a beard and then cut it fully. Windows Hello on my Surface Pro works flawlessy during the growth phase, but it stops working when I cut it off. I guess it adjusts while my beard grows and then it can't recognize me anymore once I don't have it anymore all of a sudden.
OP was at a game jam, though. They were building a prototype. If they were going for a smooth 60hz, they were doing it wrong.

If there were pauses causing significant gameplay issues, it's doubtful GC was the specific cause. There was probably something very wrong being done - my guess would be instantiation of a managed resource like a texture or 3d model.

I doubt generational GC came in to it, and feel like the OP is prematurely celebrating his own insight in to what was causing the issue.

(Then again, maybe it was a VR game and pauseless 120hz was the goal.)
Here's the (ex) professor introducing himself in a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4XtmccsDo0
I do have a license, actually. I’m not sure I can convince my relatives to join in on the plan, though. It would certainly work between friends with cheap Baofeng portable radios, though the range sure isn’t cross-country.

Edit: range wouldn’t be cross country on VHF or UHF, which is what Baofengs use.
It's not unfounded ... for whatever reason, it seems very few people are allergic to soy, whereas more than 1% of population (Americans ? not sure) have 'allergies' to gluten.

My daughter has diagnosed celiac disease, so I'm glad for any pressure to eliminate gluten :) I'm also amazed at how many things you wouldn't imagine have gluten :(
Is it unlikely? Board games were already growing fast. Even CCGs were growing fast, not only through video games but still as physical games too. People want to sit down and get offline and spend time with each other, _and_ people who used to do that want to get online and hang out with each other.

All the RPG market needed was one publisher with good production values and broad distribution to discard a big chunk of its worst, thorniest rules. Wizards was happy to oblige...

Pathfinder saw it too with their precursor Beginner Box, which also threw out a big chunk of its worst, thorniest rules and sold like crazy off a Humble Bundle. They just didn't get the distribution (or the right YouTubers on board) until it was too late, and never plugged their Beginner Box into other content as elegantly as Wizards did.
Exactly. Also the scale of the "3rd party damage" is humongous in case of bio-industry. Many millions of animals per day are having the life squeezed out of m.

Abortions need supervision, paperwork, a studied persons decision. Slaughterhouse killing of often done by immigrants, unable to find any better work.

Where the embryo can potentially harm the mother, the animals we kill every day have zero possible negative impact on our lives.

So I agree there are similar cases, but all these cases are very ---very--- unique in their dynamics.
We view this closer to CFA, where it's not required (I don't think we'd ever get to this point anyway), but we want a world where many employers do recognize CSPA.

> Software Engineering is good right now because anyone, absolutely anyone, can dive in.

Yes, I wholeheartedly agree! CSPA actually bolsters this because there are no eligibility requirements to take the test. We believe there are a ton of great engineers WITHOUT a college degree and we want to surface them.

We're making it MORE accessible, not less. There's no real barrier to taking the CSPA, except the time commitment. Just register and take it.
Also people tend to remember group shenanigans and drinking leads to more of it than teetotaling.
I don't know about the rest of the country, but they had spent the last 2 years rebuilding their flagship store in Oak Brook Center west of Chicago. Last I was in the mall last fall, it was still under reconstruction.

Probably far too little, far too late...
This seems like a good way to focus universities on degrees and skills that are in demand in the work place. There is growing criticism that many academic programs lack rigour and aren't meaningfully related to the job market. Tying the success of the institution directly to the success of the students seems to be the ideal solution to that.
Thanks Globalist Elites.
Next up: GE and Apple.
There’s even more similarity because high altitude appears to be causing permanent brain damage - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/16443427
Not a very unusual one but a lot of employers are willing to pay for classes if they’re directly relevant to one’s job.

More unusual: worked at a place that bought a guy a motorcycle once, just because. (No clue how he swung that.) Same place claimed to be willing to directly underwrite employee mortgages at below market rates, although not sure if they ever did. (Maybe founders only perk.)

I’ve always thought it would be fun for someone else to pay for me to travel internationally for work or to meaningless conferences at hotspots like Vegas. (The kind that hire headline bands just to play the conference.) But as a lowly entrepreneur/engineer this does not appear to be in the cards.
Snapdocs (YC W14) is hiring a DevOps Engineer
>As someone who has worked with a couple data aggregation startups, I find it surprising I am unaware of the laws that classify it as private info(or even the legal definition of what "private info" is).

As a European, I wasn't saying that you have laws that classify it as "private info".

I'm saying that you _should_ have (or get) some such laws.

Including laws about the "possession of that data" -- GDPR for example covers both collection and possession, and which cases either brushes against the law.
Unfortunately, the reason they probably chose their own solution is that it was probably the easiest way to get it into production in a repeatable way in their mind with the least risk they would mess it up.
Also, it might be a good idea to store notes as an XML document. Then when they're imported into Trilium, they can be loaded into a sqlite instance, this makes storing and sharing notes as a file easier.
Yep. See here to purchase:
http://www.videopokertable.net
It’s not impossible to switch majors at CP SLO. My wife was a physics major at CalPoly SLO until she got tired of being the only girl in all her classes and switched to biochem.
For undergraduate studies, the federal government also subsidises classes at standardised rates depending on subject.

So no matter which university you go to you'll be paying the same "Commonwealth supported place" rate for your field of study. For engineering it's $9185/yr for what's usually a 4-year degree. [0]

Postgraduate study is strange because some universities charge full-fee, some offer commonwealth supported places for certain degrees, and some offer CSP as scholarships. My masters degree at UNSW for example was commonwealth supported so I only ended up adding $8k onto my loan for it.

[0] https://www.studyassist.gov.au/help-loans-commonwealth-suppo...
The key thing missing from this is the incentive for the education provider to provide courses that have real world demand, they get paid either way by the government and it's the rest of society that has to pay for that underwater basket weaving course.
Well, you are looking at the description of the software renderer.
Qt Quick is hardware accelerated (OpenGL) by default. A subset of it is supported by the software renderer. With hardware acceleration, performance is generally great.

Actual rendering overview (rather technical):
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtquick-visualcanvas-scenegraph.html

Cool blog post about performance improvement through draw call batching: http://blog.qt.io/blog/2013/09/02/new-scene-graph-renderer/
Last time that I brought a (local) technology magazine it was filled with ads. Paying for content and ads are not exclusive.
Even when you think of the worst (physical) pain you've ever experienced... it never seems all bad (even when it was life-threatening!) - I actually remember it kind of fondly?! Is it some sort of Stockholm Syndrome for bad things?
Examine has a good writeup, jump to "Men’s health and testosterone"

tl;dr: "Reasonable intakes of soy foods and soy isoflavones do not affect men’s testosterone levels, estrogen levels, or fertility, although case reports have documented adverse effects from incredibly high daily intakes of soy for 6–12 months. Men who are at risk of developing prostate cancer might reduce their risk by eating soy foods, but soy foods do not appear to benefit men who already have prostate cancer."

The case studies regarding feminization seem to have been cases of people ingesting 300+g of soy protein a day for 6+ months. That amount of protein would require nearly 100% of your calorie RDA if eaten in soybeans, so it seems likely these two people had quite odd diets that could confound drawing conclusions these cases. If they were taking a soy protein extract, I would want to study if questionable supplement purity/contamination issues had any effect - solvents and heat could transform some of the isoflavones or solvents could remain in final product.

https://examine.com/nutrition/is-soy-good-or-bad/
For most people who ride horses, a faster horse is the only sensible next step.

That quote quite succinctly points out a bunch of human behaviors.

Just ask the next person you meet about their solution on high rent, bad traffic, etc. to get a sense of what I'm talking about.
I addressed this in another comment more fully. For this version though, consider that even though it might be possible to do such a thing, the vast majority does not. You could potentially be sneaky about this, but the effort would not be worth the small savings you would make.

The current HELP/HECS system doesn't just work on paper. It's been used successfully for a while.

Remember, we are about repayments starting at 2% at 50k AUD (35K USD) and going up to 8% at $107+ AUD (77k USD). This is not a crazy, crippling payment. It is not worth making substantially less in your job in order to save such (relatively) small sums.

Australia is not a welfare state. We rank 5th in economic freedom [1] (USA is at 18). While the nation does have many problems, I do believe that Australia performs decently at balancing a free market and government support. While we used to have completely free universities, I believe that the current loan program is a decent midpoint between the US and European systems.

[1] https://www.heritage.org/index/
There is a cliff, as a person with an ISA with a similar program (Holberton School), there's really no disincentive to seek a high paying job. The ISA doesn't expire, if I'm making below the threshold then it just gets deferred until I make above the threshold.
A hit piece on Quillette? Why? I think we need more outlets like Quillette, and fewer outlets like Slate.

And why is this article tagged “Sexism” and “#MeToo”?
Either way, current estimates are that we're consuming about 42% of the lumber that's growing per year. I'm personally ok with this.
AFAIK it's pretty well established in the literature that some people naturally just need less sleep. We're not all made the same, we have different genes. There's this saying that humans have 99% identical DNA. What this fails to convey is that you and me probably have different versions of the majority of our individual genes (even though they might differ by just a single letter of DNA). In other words, genetic variation in the human population is huge, and it does have a measurable impact on sleep, stamina, personality, etc.

I don't want to sound like a biological determinist, but It's not all about willing yourself to do amazing things, there is some amount of biological reality we have to deal with as well. Consider that now olympic sprint runner prospects get tested to know if they have fast twitch muscle fibers [0], and if they don't, they basically can't compete, they're considered not worth training. For some reason, people like to imagine that things like sleep and motivation are different, they forget that the brain is a physical organ.

[0] https://www.irishtimes.com/news/science/what-makes-the-perfe...
<cynical view> Yes. It's called LinkedIn.

<even more cynical view> It's a closed enterprise product Facebook sells/shares/rents to the rest of FAANG.
Please read the link provided [1]. The percentage is not high enough to purposefully keep your salary lower.

[1] https://www.studyassist.gov.au/paying-back-your-loan/loan-re...
I'm going to offer a different explanation, but first, the standard one: Mozilla doesn't want to miss a paradigm shift, especially one where the only players currently in it are very proprietary. They learned their lesson with mobile.

One thing that many of us, myself included, are very excited about regarding the Servo/WebRender/Quantum projects is the ability for a fast, parallel web rendering engine to open new possibilities, such as how V8's JIT significantly pushed the envelope of what was possible. Now that JavaScript is acceptably fast, and we have WebAssembly for cases where control over memory layout is necessary, network speeds are the bottleneck of most applications. WebRender's big concept of rendering the entire web at "maximum FPS" is pretty awesome, but it's not pushing the envelope by itself, since framework and application developers have been treating "minimize DOM manipulation" as an important optimization. There's clearly potential with WebRender, but if a majority of used webpages are already rendering at an adequate framerate due to framework-level optimizations (and prior browser optimizations like Electrolysis and Stylo), it may be viewed as superfluous, despite potentially huge advantages.

I think the research in this direction is beneficial, and as a result, I'd like the Servo project to be allowed to continue developing cool stuff. As Servo won't replace Gecko in Firefox, it needs to try more challenging tasks to continue to push its envelope. WebRender has a ton of potential in the WebVR space, since a Web Components-based VR system would rely heavily on a performant DOM. Such a project would push Servo to continue development in preparation for a more functional future web.
An AY-3-8910 “Mockingboard” music tracker
I don't think it's surprising at all. As mentioned here, people are looking for alternatives to spending time online all the time. Then, as the article mentions, LOTR, GOT, and Harry Potter have primed the culture to be big into fantasy. And finally, we're a good 30 years past the peak of the D&D bashing by religious types and the stereotype of it being a game for basement dwelling stoners and creeps, which means we have a full generation of young adults who don't have huge preconceived notions about the game.
I'd put myself in the "want to eat less meat" bucket - I'm not a vegetarian. I eat meat, enjoy it, and don't have any health problems that preclude me from consuming it. I know farming meat at scale isn't good for the environment though, and if some kind of synthetics or lab-grown meats could provide the same enjoyment I get from traditional meat with less environmental impact at roughly the same cost, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
Surely You’re a Creep, Mr. Feynman
While attending a private university, I found professors who treated me like an annoyance, a child, and an adult. I had professors who were poor instructors, and professors who were great.

Since leaving university, I've found many situations where neither degree nor education matter much... and some where it did.

I'd believe many community colleges are underrated, and the modern university system has a lot of flaws and ways in which it poorly serves its participants (faculty and students alike), but the value in a specific path of participation seems a lot like a YMMV kindof thing.
But would a community college degree give me as high a level of education in as short of a time period as I got from Holberton (a similar program to Lambda School)? With an ISA, the profit incentives of the education provider and the student are directly aligned, so education providers are more incentivized to innovate and provide greater value.
If you need to keep the platform interface library, then the kernel needs to keep supporting it. If you can't break ABI or API, then you're merely shuffling the pain point, not solving it.

The solution is to just tell people to update their code. Or accept that some bad APIs will be baked in for eternity, and deal with it.
How Virtual Reality can change the way you interact with people
Just because the user is the one asking for the data doesn't mean the rest of the GDPR stops applying. They're still required to have appropriate safeguards, which means they certainly can't email it to you (at least not in plaintext).

Also, more specifically about the Right to Access, Recital 63 says: "Where possible, the controller should be able to provide remote access to a secure system which would provide the data subject with direct access to his or her personal data". (emphasis mine)
Yes, I think it is quite normal.

Alcohol is a cheap, ubiquitous drug that helps us relax today, for a roughly proportionate cost which we can pay tomorrow (plus whatever longer-term costs like liver damage or memory formation which we can ignore or put off for even longer).

It's not confusing or unintuitive. Alcohol helps us relax. That's all it does! Which leads to all the other behaviors that are secondary to suddenly finding oneself relaxed. At first, a healthy relationship with alcohol is a perfectly reasonable transaction. I think it is normal that we would have fond memories of being relaxed, even in the midst of the mild hangover that would necessarily follow.

We easily get addicted to cheap methods for getting relaxed. Why wouldn't we? Especially if everyone around us is constantly using it to get relaxed. It's disgusting to witness! Unless you also use it to relax, in which case it suddenly becomes tolerable or even amusing.

You don't need much to relax (initially). Like with most drugs, eventually it is less potent and you require more. Also, like with any habit, your default baseline (in this case, your default relaxedness) starts to shift, so that eventually you are actively un-relaxed unless alcohol is present in your system. Obviously, as this continues, you need more and more alcohol, which is toxic pretty much in direct proportion to its volume.

Edit: added the sentence about hangovers, for clarity
Whenever I wake up at 5 am and work out I wind up hitting a brick wall at about 10 am and have to take much more caffeine than usual to keep going.
There is one aspect where I think digital board games are superior: you don't have to spend time setting up, putting away, or resetting the game. If there was a way to do that in the analog version as quick as the digital ones, then I would more willing to participate. Another thing might be "saving" the state between long sessions: you can use a camera phone for certain parts, but its more difficult for when there are secrets and you need a neutral 3rd party (e.g. a card hand).

Edit/Update: My mistake. I've seen a few photographs of people playing D&D (even the ones in the article), and it seemed like there was more of a board and initial conditions represented by many pieces like board games. I've played board games like Settlers and Monopoly where set up requires more time and effort. Sorry again.
Professional law enforcement agencies are a recent development historically, and for a long time were resisted as something out of an authoritarian dystopia. Policing was the job of amateurs and freelancers for much longer than it’s been a civil service bureaucracy. Even death investigation was, until recently, a side gig for the town doctor.
Is the argument that suffering (even if only of animals) isn't worth reducing if we aren't the main source of it globally? I don't think we should use nature as the metric for morality, because a lot of really terrible things are very "natural".

Certainly we aren't going to "eliminate" animal suffering, the word the above comment used, but reduction is another matter.
The term I've heard to describe things like this (marathons, mountaineering, etc) is type 2 fun. Type 1 fun is actually fun while you're doing it, type 2 fun takes a couple of weeks to forget the suffering and to decide that it was in fact fun.
No worries. Be as picky as you want to be. I merely recommended the only cable I can actually recommend for the average consumer. Was sure to add for my home office for some context.

This cable fits the bill for running a connection between access points in my home. The speed is top notch, not seeing drops in speed for the many times I've moved large files across the network. Cabling seems sturdy and rugged, even while I was feeding it through various locations.

As long as it appears reliable and I get the speeds I expect, I don't really care much beyond that. It works, it was cheap, I don't ask many more questions.

Would this stuff hold up in a data center? Probably not. When I was wiring up homes or buildings, I always bought a high quality spool of Cat 6 from a trusted local provider.

They asked for a recommendation, I did a mental "what are they likely asking? As someone in their home, or as a data center IT worker hooking up racks of servers?"

I work remotely now, so I'm at home. Just assumed they were at home or similar. Maybe not the answer they were looking for. shrugs
Public education is non-optional: when the public school systems suck, we still have to pay for them. Yes there is a democratic process to change that, but the average individual does not have much sway over that process and in effect it is much more difficult and sclerotic.

If Lambda School begins to suck and isn't educating engineers to competency, they go out of business quickly. Voluntary vs involuntary funding is an incredibly important difference.
So basically it sounds like you'll never get caught.
Reliable source for that claim?

I'll be very surprised if the sanctions blocked hospitals from purchasing medical supplies. If anything, I'd suspect the problem was poverty.
So, Amazon is a major tech company attached to a warehousing and logistics operation.
They really need to turn off the visibility of the like count next to every thought and utterance, and return social interaction to some semblance of what it used to be throughout history.

Making it a social norm to get everyone on the planet to score everything that comes out of a mind should be treated as a violation of the ability to think independent thoughts and express oneself.

Throwing this arbit feedback loop into social interaction has changed social interaction and behavior without any debate. The fix to revert it is simple.

That is the only thing that needs to be spoken about. Everything else is a just a symptom of it.
Mitsubishi Pajero is even worse
"We can't characterise the type of mistakes that classifiers will make, or why those mistakes are, or aren't significant in an application. We can't engineer a machine learning system in the sense that we can't evaluate or certify that it'll work reliably or consistently."

These statements are false. It sounds like your extrapolating what you've read in a few blog posts and assuming that's how the entire industry operates. You don't read headlines about people digging through the data and error logs on a daily basis b/c it's not headline worthy but that doesn't mean it's not being done.
Cowboys' Elliott Runs 21 Miles an Hour, but Who Owns That Data?