skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I work both for a consulting company that takes contracts from the public and private sector, as well as run my own consulting company as a sole trader. They are by necessity entirely independent, I use personal hardware for personal stuff, I don't have anything that could connect to the Internet on my work laptop and give me away etc.
A.I. is a big fat lie
That's cute, but wrong. Even the most law-abiding delivery company is going to end up with some parking tickets, so it makes sense to budget for them.

You may as well decry the budgeting for legal as saying the company wants to break the law.
Yeah you have a triple for different use cases; the sync call is `TryRead` so its non-blocking; `ReadAsync` for async reading and `WaitToReadAsync` to wait for data to be available without reading (likely then followed by the non-blocking `TryRead` in usage)
Noumea to Tonga is a lot shorter!
I don't think this is impractical.

I've been using this approach successfully for 8 years now on tens of open source projects and various company code bases of all sizes.

It does take a small amount of overhead (I measure this, and for me it's around 5%). But that pays off immediately as soon as you or someone else reads it a few weeks later when investigating an issue.
My friend, you've missed out on a lot of early American rock 'n' roll history.

Mercuries were the hot-rods of the early 50s. There are quite a few early songs that feature Mercurys.
Google confirms it uses dummy phone numbers to record calls with local services
Wrapping non-async code with a Task doesn't do anything. It's only useful if you need to pass a Task around instead, or need to move that work to a different thread. Otherwise you might as well block in the method you're already executing instead of adding more overhead.
Not to mention that you share the photos you don't post.
More likely a community policing of the commons. It’s not like Joe is secretly taking a package into the men’s room and smashing it. He’s doing it in full view and awareness of his co-workers in all likelihood. “Hey Joe, stop that, you’re killing our bonus!”
I mostly agree with you, but I think this might be going a little too far:

> You created a new function? That's one commit. Take a moment to explain why this function is going to be useful in future commits.

> You called that new function from several new spots? That's another commit. Explain why each of these calling sites requires this function.

In my opinion each commit should make sense on its own. It doesn't really make sense to create an unused function, so these two changes should really be one commit.
Here's a great talk (from Strange Loop conf 2017) by David Sullins about Rust concurrency:

https://youtu.be/oIikwmeGVYY
Teach an AI how to take and keep control of a battlefield. What could go wrong?
I knew the Tacoma would be on that list.. VERY reliable and rugged car. Toyota should be proud!
yeah you're right, its not even a little bit accurate.
That's awesome.

I really respect it when people are willing to put their money where their mouth is. Kudos to Gates.
So when did you guys first notice twitter screaming about it?

For me, at least right around the 2016 election...
TIL MSIL is now called CIL. What the hell!
You're right great Cheops, king of kings, we should stick to bronze swords, the next 100,000 year risk profile of iron smelting hasn't been drawn up yet.

Nobody in any environment or endeavour in history applies 100k years risk assessment on any activity. This is green fundamentalism and next comes mandatory veganism and forced sterilization.
Germany does not have a single wind turbine in a single location. It has vast numbers of them across many locations, many of which are situated in areas with near near constant wind. Across the whole portfolio of this production resource there is a certain minimum level of production which is consistently maintained. And, unlike a coal plant, there is almost zero risk of the whole system failing. In my country (Australia) we frequently see coal power plants 'trip' (breakdown), particularly in hot weather. [1]

And on the question of the definition of base-load, it was originally defined in terms of supply (production). Yes, the meaning has spread to demand but the idea that base-load demand must be supplied by 'base-load' power plants such as coal or nuclear is a piece of sophistry that quickly dissolves when it is examined closely. Just one reason being that their supply is not guaranteed (as I have described above).

[1] https://medium.com/@TheAustraliaInstitute/gas-coal-power-has...
Such closures have also been happening in many major U.S. cities for over a decade. And while I've yet to see any numbers, it looks like over 3/4 of used bookstores have folded based on where I live. Very sad development.
Original study has far more details:
https://www.iseecars.com/cars-kept-15-years-2019-study

For example --

* Some commenters wonder where the German cars are. Well, turns out they dominate the luxury section.

* Some comments suggest people don't really want to keep luxury cars fifteen years. Sort of validated -- that segment is broken out and has a lower average, but just a few percentage points. Sports cars? Almost no one keeps a sports car. Unless you count the Miata.

* 17.2% of people in the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose area keep a car more than 15 years. That's higher than any other studied metro area.
I think people don't understand the power of that data. I think they also believe that organizations only have the data they explicitly give. I think this, because this is what others convey to me when I talk to them about data. People are realizing now the extent and power. I talk about why Facebook doesn't need to listen to your conversation to make those creepy ad suggestions. This is the best way I've found to explain it
The Rams’ $5B stadium complex is bigger than Disneyland
The game where Mana won seemed to be primarily because he discovered an exploitable maneuver against the AI.
Linguistic off-by-one errors!
I think I misunderstood what you were saying. By "available" I mean that the version exists at the time of the read. As far as available wrt failure, this is no different than any other system. If you don't synchronously replicate data, you can cannot process transactions over data that is offline (and still guarantee ACID). The transaction cannot proceed whether or not you are using 2PC.
Never had a VS update break anything. Also having worked full time with a lot of different IDEs, VS is the best and if not for JetBrains it wouldn’t even be close.
Alternatively, just... have a git endpoint on your server with some post-commit hooks.
Flags are roughly equivalent to downvotes.
First of all, kudos to WD. This makes me feel good about spending $1500 on their spinning drives just last week.

But on a more practical note, what kind of board and toolchain does one need to get this going on an FPGA? Is there a readme somewhere that would walk one through the process?
Empty his tire. Make sure it's visible to him when he comes back.
OK, high pressure hose in a data centre piques my interest 8)

I stuck a camera on a stick at the southern boundary of my property, about three feet above the stream. The stream rose four feet for a while. I moved the camera.

Now, 0 to 80C. That is just plain odd. Here (southern UK) the temp range is something like -10 to +35C. Nowhere has 0-80C apart from a weird oven.
What you say is correct :)
games are simulations of idealized processes using generally a small number of equations. a sufficient neural network should be able to learn them but the real world has orders of magnitude higher complexity. Something similar happens with robots trained with physics engines.
Very cool! Can you cite the source in the gist somehow?
Also western nations have been doing this for the last 30 years. The house you live in today has appliances that are 3x or more efficient then it did 30 years ago. It's better insulated, it's more recyclable etc.

It also doesn't make a damn bit of difference of base load power comes from coal.
Just a friendly reminder to aspiring gamedevs. Global Game Jam 2019 is happening this very weekend. Theme is: What Home Means To You. And there are plenty of teams currently streaming on Twitch. As well as a Discord chat ;)

https://globalgamejam.org/
Is it really true you never want to refer to a code review history? It can provide important context missing from even a well-commented commit.

Regardless it's possible to have both. An example is hg's changeset evolution. With changeset evolution, each commit has two histories: the repo history and the changeset history. Commands like `blame`, `log`, etc. show only the repo history; a separate set of commands accesses the changeset history.

An example where this is useful: sometimes rebasing can inadvertently produce bugs, such as collapsing two identical lines which ought to have been duplicated. `git blame` cannot check if that happened. But the changeset history, by tracking the rebase, can tell you that.
I don't know enough about Git internals in this regard, but it's possible that in fact the index is just being compared to HEAD to infer that information. Index has a file called "bar" and none called "foo". HEAD is vice versa.
It is a great language. You will fight with the compiler, it will do its best to tell you whats wrong, and finally when it fully compiles with no errors, you pretty much never have to worry about the program in runtime.
> So, what about mining fissile materials?

I worked with Rio Tinto (mining corporation) for some time, and happened to know a few people in management positions at the Ranger Uranium Mine. I can assure you it was one of the most environmentally conscious operations the group was managing, and super-senior management seemed to take the whole thing very seriously. It was a source of much frustration, because as a company we had a good grasp of what acceptable mining practice looks like and Ranger was beyond the standard of reasonable. I dunno, what can you do? Follow the Environmental Management Plan.

Anyway, any comparison is a bit academic, because we can exhaustively list everything that has ever gone wrong in the nuclear industry but the renewables are too diverse for there to be a fair comparison. Which is why I suspect the environmental damage done by renewables is being glossed over.
If you don't mind going through a 40-page free e-book from O'Reilly, I can strongly recommend this: https://www.oreilly.com/programming/free/why-rust.csp (Direct link: https://www.oreilly.com/programming/free/files/why-rust.pdf)

It explains the concepts and strengths of Rust in a very easy-to-understand way. (Jim Blandy is also the Author of the O'Reilly Rust book.)
That's true. If we estimated the risks for the next 100,000 years then these numbers would change immensely.

A hundred years of burning coal has damaged our atmosphere a little bit; doing the same for another hundred thousand years would be absurdly catastrophic to our ecosystem, killing and displacing billions.

You'd also need to look carefully at hydro as well, as thousand-year-old mega-dams begin to randomly fail.

Nuclear risk will probably be lower as the shockingly naive Soviet-era and 1960s-era designed reactors are all replaced with new designs built with immensely improved understanding of nuclear physics, materials design, computer augmentation, and local climatic risks.
>Apparently is costs merchants $2500-$7500 per review

No, according to your own link, it's $2500-$7500 to get into the program, not for each review.
Huh? Maybe the headline is content-free, but the tweet it links and reply tweet could be useful esp for someone on the fence about Rust, and not just because of the person replying
Is it? I associate steganography with espionage and consumer printer identification. It's not convenient or practical for most things, but I don't think it has the dark reputation you suggest.
I’ve also seen this debate come up at work. Maybe it’s because I’m Asian, but I don’t buy the argument that bare feet are dirtier than shoes.

I myself wear work slippers, which some in the article also objected too. These slippers have never been outside.
Still remember how I once asked this guy (very politely, back before it was a "thing") if there were any plans to create an Android port of his Exoplanet app, and he sent a pointlessly rude response.
You’d think this would be bigger news.
I'd be inclined to believe he means wrapping an asynchronous method (with callbacks) in a Task.
One step at a time sounds like a better strategy.

Watch this and learn a bit more about why they're doing Starcraft AI. The Deepmind guys first appear around 32:00.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUTMhmVh1qs
Sorry for getting the wrong impression of you, but why are you showcasing your answer as profound by dividing my post into separate quotes and sprinkling your answers with links that lead to anything but "data"?

Your first link is just one jpg of a table on a blog of a progressive institute. The second one just a broad publication in German by the the German environmental ministry. Should I refer to its imprint as proof?

Then you make un-based broad statements and label critics as adherents to mythical beliefs

> Contrary to popular myths the German electricity grid is one of the most stable in the world.

To which I'd say, look no further than 10 January 2019 when Germany's policy of legally enforcing right of way for renewable energies almost brought down the whole of Europe's electricity grid. [1]

Furthermore the whole year of 2003 the German energy net authority had to perform 2 redispatches to avert a blackout. 2010 they had to perform 290, while in 2017 third quarter alone they had to perform 1.013 [2]

No one claims [that Germany is exporting more energy than it is consuming]. What is claimed and what is actually correct is that Germany exports more electricity than it imports.

Thats a non sequitur.

> This has already happened in 2018.

Clearly, your statement of the surpassing of "any goals so far" can't be based on that one data point out of a 140 page document? Or does this mean this was the only goal of the Energiewende?
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[1] https://derstandard.at/2000096185439/Europas-Stromnetz-stand...

[2] https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/All... (page 32)
Undercover agents target cybersecurity watchdog
Love this Tim Cook quote about why they aren't in the US:

The U.S. labor market "began to stop having as many vocational kind of skills"

If the incentives were there, you'd have those football fields full of tool and die makers Tim.
The "old people should not be able to vote" argument should die already. If anything, the weight of the vote of someone who's spent his entire life living in a place and paying taxes should be higher.

I didn’t make that argument, in fact it’s not even orthogonal to what I did say. I suppose you could say that if I took any position, it was that children and dead people can’t vote, but that still feels like an observation, not an argument. All I did was state how demographics have shifted, that is all.
The US is adding a lot of solar generation - in just the last two years our solar electricity generation increased by more than the total solar output of Germany.
That certainly depends on how devilish are the one you know and a random one.

Any advice on that level of generality is useless and better trashed.
Kinda ironic considering how much force a HDD at rest can sustain...let alone tipping.
Encrypted boot really bit me in the ass one time, that's one afternoon spent in the dust underneath the stairs in my student housing that I won't get back.

Would've been so much easier to repair that machine if the boot partition wasn't so weird.
Christian 'beaten and threatened by Muslims' in hiding after UK deportation
not a perfect analogy, because (1) billboard space is limited (2) this is restricting thingd that otherwise specifically would be recommended for me.

anyway, i, personally, would still give them (and every1) the space on the billboard. let every1 talk, even the crazy and the hateful.

more generally, i dont think any institution should be privilged over the individual to decide which ideas they get to hear.

just one possible philosophical position, one choice on a spectrum of tradeoffs.
African countries. Many see parts of Africa as ‘Chinas China.’
Ding

“Gilgamesh liked this.”
Personally I don't find any kind of ads creepy. I would prefer highly relevant ads to spam.
Eric, my problem with this analysis is that 15% figure for bugs that would have been caught by TS only applies to the "public" bugs, bugs the programmer committed because apparently the code appeared to be working (to him).

But the majority of my bugs aren't "public", because I see that things aren't working when I run the code and don't commit it. With the combo of IDE just-in-time help/suggestions/reminders/enforcement, a lot of mistakes that I will catch at some point later by the "other means" you compare to, before I commit and push (which is the majority of my bugs) are prevented or immediately pointed out. Stopping them before they start instead of having them cause write-run-debug cycles, which will stop them before they are committed, is a huge advantage to me that won't show up at all in the "public" bug analysis.

"Immediately tells me things that I will eventually discover later by other means after wasting time" is a big, fuzzy category in which most of the value I get from several typed languages seems to hide from many analyses, even those that mention IDE features.
Except most software engineers aren't qualified to go into data science.
Yup. Even the U.K. is in panic mode........

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jan/25/vodafone-pa...
Not just farmers, but farmers who were stripped of the most basic moral and literal education during the worst destruction of culture and morality mankind has ever seen, at lease by some measures.
I mean, if the phone company said I no longer had to pay the bills, they can have it. If the government agency let me keep my taxes, I'd be fine with it. I haven't interacted with any neighbourhood associations (they sound like a right pain in the ass) so I can't imagine I'd be happy to even listen to them whether or not my data is involved.

In fact, I'd also venture to say most people would make the same choices I have here.
I currently work in data science for an Australian power company. Renewables are the reason why we had electricity spot prices of A$14500/mwh three days in a row, rolling blackouts and the grid being nationalized for several hours.

Because of the unregulated attachment of intermittent power sources South Australia has no base load generation any more, this is coal or nuclear stations. Victoria had an incident with one coal plant shutting down on Tesday which was the first $14500 spot price hike. Then because of weather and plant maintenance the same thing happened for two more days in a row with the power regulator stepping in when the rolling blackouts started on Friday telling everyone to run everything at full blast.

A renewable only grid will cost an order of magnitude more to run than one based on coal or nuclear, if not more.

The above is hugely simplified for obvious reasons and only my opinion and not that of my employer.
Pretty crazy that one person has the power to unilaterally commit a billion and credibly promise another billion in funding.

Sure doesn't sound like a lot in the context of ~trillion market cap companies...but this is a billion un-encumbrered. No lawyers...just one person deciding this is happening.
Rust makes things that are technically possible to do in C++, easy to do.

Rust makes things that are painful to do in C++, pleasant to do.

Rust takes your template compiler errors, and gives you beautiful type parameter errors with underlines.

Rust takes your scary macro and turns it into a sanitary macro.

Rust takes your crazy diamond of death and towers of inheritance, and gives you traits, associated types, and composition.

Rust takes your runtime variant and insane union and gives you real sum types.

Rust takes your ASAN, Valgrind, debug alloc builds, and hopes and prayers, and gives you a compiler that let's you use memory safely.

Rust is like C++ without the jagged edges, the specification no one understands, removes the dangerous bits that no one person can keep in their head, and trades the useless abstractions for nice functional abstractions that actually are an improvement over writing C.
1st start with giving thanks for what you have. I don't know you but from your posting, I can assume that you and your kids are healthy and you have parents that love you. I'm sure that if you take a minute you'll find many many things you can be thankful for. Your situation is not as dire as you think. There's much room to move forward.

Being a psychiatrist at this time might be too ambitious but if you try you can study for a career that can be a stepping stone towards that. I don't know what it might be but speak to a career counselor to help you define it and take the time to make sure it's what you want and you can get a job once you are done studying it. It can be relatively quick, in terms of needed study, and it needs to be in demand.

Once you decide what you want, aim towards it. In terms of money, schools are open to help with financial aid. Don't be afraid of debt related to school, if it helps you get a career. Also, you need to stay away from for-profit schools. They want your money but don't care if you learn. In terms of time, night school is your best bet. Ask your parents to help with the kids while you study and go to school. Talk to them and ask them to be part of your goals. Don't try to rush, it's best to get it done rather than to rush and get overwhelmed and quit.

Once you have a job that pays the bills then you can go back and work towards the larger goal.

It's very important that you make a plan that looks at the next 5 years and the next 10 years. Make a plan towards the goals and review it regularly. Your stretch goal is to become a psychiatrist.

Keep this in mind, people overestimate what they can do in the short term but underestimate what they can do in the long term. So don't rush so much that you get overwhelmed and quit. But make sure you work towards the future you want.

Lastly, make sure you don't get pregnant again. At least not until you achieve your goals. Having another kid will not help the situation.

Don't wait for someday, start now. Good luck.
Microsoft launches its Clarity web analytics tool for A/B testing
Ah yes, I sure love lighting my country on fire so that village people can move from dirt huts to cement huts.
Any neighborhood with fully saturated street parking should probably just be off limits to delivery businesses, since every transaction is going to involve an illegal stop. If your street has a bike lane, Amazon should be fined for accepting your order. Bike lanes and delivery/pickup/drop off are fundamentally incompatible street uses and that’s not going to be solved by ticketing one violation at a time.
Remove the caps. Let us change job easily. Give green cardright away. Make immigration suck less.
The point is that the shut-down in nuclear did not increase the use of coal (the reduction in nuclear production was more than ameliorated by increased renewables supply). That was my initial point of rebuttal from the top-level comment. The use of coal increased for reasons independent of the shut-down of nuclear and mainly because export of cheap coal energy became more profitable, as argued in the linked article. So the public policy failure was in letting CO2 price allowances fall.

The linked article also states the aim of the Energiewende has always been to transition away from both coal and nuclear (fission at least) to 100% sustainable energy production.
Research shows that relieving aggression like that or yelling actually increases it over time.