skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thing is that before Windows this was the case.

The sound card had its own Midi and sound effects chips, for example. Now reduced to one chip if that on the AC97 capable motherboard.

The modems had their own discrete processor to handle the communication over the phone line. Now again reduced to a WinModem chip and/or a NIC or WiFi chip.
I quit one job in 1995 when they decided to abandon SunOS/Solaris work in favor of Windows NT. Someone at Microsoft had sold this company on the idea that if their developers used Windows NT (3.5? 3.11? can't remember) they'd be 5 times more productive. This was obviously untrue, and I didn't want to get caught between the hammer of management and the anvil of Windows NT.
My own personal favorite is RestructuredText.
> What about those African languages made up of all clicking sounds?

I am unaware of any African language, or any language in general, that only uses clicking sounds. Which one are you thinking of?
>I was told "your technical skills are senior level" "but you are too emotional" to promote.

Funny. I got a direct opposite experience. Being told that I got technical skills, but I focus too much on the technical side and don't consider other engineers' emotions. The team was pretty toxic though and I'm happy I left as soon as my lock-in expired.
With Android Pie, users can just set the DNS to dns.adguard.com and be done with it at the DNS level. Works great on my Pixel so far (past couple months).
Mormons have always been shall we say criticized for their unorthodox sex lives. They didn't up in Utah because they liked the fresh air.
In fact Nevada and Utah split because non believers didn't want to share a State with them.
I worked in a lab for the US government building cubesats for a summer during college. I can't answer everything, here are a few answers.

1. Last time I heard pricing per pound to orbit was ~$10,000 per pound. This was for the shuttle though, so I don't know if this has changed.
2. I would guess this depends on the launch provider. Whoever's launch you're piggybacking off of will probably get to make this decision. I never heard of any real restrictions, but this wasn't my area of expertise.
3. You'd be right about that. I don't know about pricing, but your payload will need to go through vibration testing and the like
4. No clue on this one
5. You'd probably have to physically make the trip (and I'd think you'd want to. Seeing a launch is always cool). Timing will depend on whose launch you're piggy backing off of, but we needed to have everything done a few weeks before launch day.

Hope this helped a bit.
More petroleum product?
What are some sites where ads get through with
1Blocher?
You did, however, specify an ordering placing Rust and WebAssembly ahead of your list of frameworks.
Interesting document. TL,DR: even dozens or hundreds of nuclear weapons used on a recurring basis are not a guaranteed way, or even an especially effective way, to counter guerillas operating on their home turf. US forces concentrated in 14 individual bases would have been far more vulnerable to use of Soviet- or Chinese-sponsored nuclear weapons than the enemy troops would have been to our own.

Additionally, the successful use of tactical nukes against US troops would have encouraged both third-world countries and insurgent forces all over the world to ally themselves with the Communists to obtain weapons of their own, which was literally the opposite of what we were supposedly trying to accomplish in Viet Nam.

The conclusion, as usual, is that the only way to win this particular game is not to play it.
We have a product for this. Consumer shared Adblock VPN. Or dedicated cloud or local builds for businesses. https://ba.net/adblockvpn
Companies always seem to think that the talent is out there. They just don’t have it yet.

Sadly it’s often the opposite.
LG Gram 14 with i5 8th Gen with 8gb RAM and 256gb SSD. It has one extra slot each for RAM and SSD that I plan to fill later. Linux Mint 19.1 with dual boot to Windows that it came with - everything worked right out of the box. Things I love are 990grams weight, 14 hours battery (4.18 series kernel and mostly I use terminal, vim, Firefox; when I compile java applications regulalry, still get 9hours of battery); backlit keyboard and a very lovely FHD display (though the glare from lights is a bit more).

It doesn't have dedicated graphics card and it doesn't feel sturdy like an all metal laptop - though it has survived several flights in a regular backpack in overhead compartment.

I switched from MacBook Air to this. Mainly because the sharp edge in the front was getting tiresome while typing. Plus I didn't think any of the new Mac's are worth the outlandish premium for my mostly terminal driven work.
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A lot of grocery stores (Whole Foods comes to mind) have a self-serve machine in the grocery department that squeezes fresh oranges into a plastic bottle for you: http://c8.alamy.com/comp/JT6NJ6/self-served-orange-juicer-fr....
Popular quote by Jim Acosta (CNN):

CNN’s Jim Acosta tweeted “voter fraud in this country is actually very rare.”

Considered to be a justification for to continue voter fraud (because getting ineligible people to vote (and multiple times) ) -- is likely helping democrats).

[1]
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/voter-fraud-exists-even-thou...
DNS ad blockers can’t block on the level of granularity that path based ad blockers do.
Brave is just chromium with some baked-in extensions now.
Clickable link -- https://www.depintel.com/silas_download.html

Get started with a short tutorial: https://www.depintel.com/documentation/_build/html/tutorials...
Unfortunately they denied my application when I tried to get one during my college years.

I felt envy seeing some my peers (who had no existing repos, or far fewer than me) get free PRO accounts while github probably though I should just buy one.

Long story short, I created a bitbucket account and later made heavy use of gitlab.
Great! We (technologists) should be using machine learning approaches to practical real world problems, particularly those problems whose solutions allow humans to be more productive. That's what I mean by augmenting human intelligence/capabilities.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18648043

There was another HN thread about the "indestructibility" of prions, and I believe there is a growing consensus that they are not removed by existing techniques within dentistry.
Simulating Returns for Micro-VC (Alternative Fund) Term Sheets
Google will never allow it. They dont need an international airport in the middle of the campus.
Most ad blockers that people use on Android are open source, e.g. uBlock. While due diligence is good, I don't think I've seen any evidence that would suggest gorhill wants to sell my data. You can't compare an ad blocking extension to an entirely different browser (Brave) as a whole. uBlock runs on regular old Firefox for Android.

I appreciate that it would be nice if Google gave us the option to block stuff in Webviews, but it's not a replacement for having a real ad blocker like uBlock that is much more complicated and has many more features. I think the person you are talking to is mainly criticizing Apple for not letting you use such an ad blocker on their OS.
Generally speaking, the bootcamp process has a wide variety of different "classes" to take, covering a broad range of the Facebook stack, and no one engineer is ever expected to learn everything. So in this case, an embedded engineer would likely attend primarily backend focused classes, and would then choose from backend or embedded systems teams to work with, while someone interested in mobile or web frontend technologies would each have completely different experiences from everyone else. And ultimately, your experience coming into Facebook has far less to do with which classes or technologies you learn in bootcamp than what you're personally interested in. If you're interested in mobile, but only have experience in backend applications, that's fine – that's exactly what bootcamp is there for! We want to help you learn the technology or context that you're interested in so that you can find a role or team that you'll be happy to work on.
Sabine Hossenfelder has received an incredible amount of shit that she absolutely doesn't deserve, including in this comment thread.

What she's talking about is all stuff that's well known in the physics community. She is willing to say it publicly.
Oh, interesting.

Do you know what sort of time frame a "real trial" will happen in? I'd love to give the source a once over when I can do so on reasonable terms.
YouTube is probably like 8% of Google's revenue, not to mention that even if it became a separate company it'd probably just serve Google's ads. And it's the only domain other than the main one that matters enough to separate.
Should You Allow Laptops in Class? What the Latest Study Adds to That Debate
Big enough potential dollar signs in the eyes is enough to impair most peoples' critical thinking, sadly.
Depends on the circumstances. I'm pretty easygoing but ultimately, bridges have two ends and either end can be set alight.
I'm refuting that they gave away user data, which is factually false. Here's Facebook's explanation: https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/12/facebooks-messaging-par...

"In order for you to write a message to a Facebook friend from within Spotify, for instance, we needed to give Spotify “write access.” For you to be able to read messages back, we needed Spotify to have “read access.” “Delete access” meant that if you deleted a message from within Spotify, it would also delete from Facebook. No third party was reading your private messages, or writing messages to your friends without your permission. Many news stories imply we were shipping over private messages to partners, which is not correct."

It's become clear from engaging in this discussion that people aren't interested in facts or context, but have a chip on their shoulder about Facebook. Others have also been misinformed by inaccurate news stories.

I don't even use Facebook, yet it's pretty easy to understand the facts if you're actually interested in them.
You clearly haven't invested in PC gaming because your vision of how it would play out is quite misguided.

I play exclusively on the PC, and only update the majority of hardware (CPU, RAM, motherboard) every 7ish years. GPU about every 4 to 5 years. When a system is first built, enjoy the new AAA games on "ultra" settings, and lower settings on new games do that at 5 years you're picking "medium" or "low" for quality settings.

80 hours for 2 games? Most gamers log hundreds of hours into a game over a year, not 40. Games like fortnight, pubg, destiny 2, far cry, sky rim, Witcher 3, etc, can easily rack up several hundred hours of play thanks to exploration of deep content or multiplayer modes.

If I do the math, it's a few cents per hour of entrainment. Much cheaper than any other venue. Even hiking at the local forest preserves charge more money for bringing in a car and parking.
And someone called Nvidia not simply handing over their IP to the entire world a “childish tantrum.”

Linux needs to get over itself and recognize that it’s part of a larger world, and that its “my way or the highway” attitude is unnecessarily constraining.

The fact that people are coming to you and saying “I’d like to use my Nvidia card with Linux but Linux isn’t supported” does mean it’s a problem—and the problem is Linux’s, not Nvidia’s.
I think that is why Nasa's Havoc mission is maybe the best idea yet... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-vK9pqonAE

You still have to maintain the floating city like you would an orbital one, but you get the extra added benefits...

Venus makes the most sense to me... You get the benefit of gravity similar to earth, 70~ deg f temp and gases that allow you to maintain pressure and possibly harvest for fuel...
Yes, I've read this several times: it's the handover that is most problematic.

However, IMO you can do things to mitigate this but it involves paying workers who aren't working at full capacity; basically doubling staffing costs I think. If you have a large shift handover period, a staff member doesn't take on a new patient unless they can finish their active input within the shift, it goes to the people sitting idle waiting on the next shift - people are never under a single worker for less than a half-shift; so you can't start with one nurse for half-an-hour at handover and then get passed on, you'd start with that nurse and get half-shift + ½hour. At the back end of the shift the nurse -- and other personnel -- would not be taking on new patients who couldn't be signed-off within their shift, meaning they have fewer patients, meaning they can focus more on handover of the patients for whom it's necessary.

There's probably holes in that, it's like reverse pipelining.

You might get enough effect by having a smaller overlap and having workers shadow the worker who is going off-shift but that's not really reducing handovers so much.
Correctness verification at the level that data scientists need can generally be achieved with optional typing (presuming a well designed type system)
It's like asking "name a large business which depends on the internet for its existence" back in 1995.

A better question to ask back then would have been "which large business will depend on the internet in 2015".

Note that the internet in 1995 was pretty bad (in terms of applications and from technical point of view), and the hype led to dot com crash 5 years later. Yet it's hard to overestimate the importance of the internet in today's world.
And Nvidia has rules around access to its intellectual property. If Linux can’t follow them, Linux doesn’t get Nvidia’s code.
Try the sync option. From the man page:

> All I/O to the filesystem should be done synchronously. In the case of media with a limited number of write cycles (e.g. some flash drives), sync may cause life-cycle shortening.
Actually you have a lot more rights than that. Your rights stop when you want to distribute unmodified or derivative works without authorization. Nothing is stopping you from remixing ANYTHING* if you have no intent to distribute it.

*if it was legally acquired. Remixing illegal stuff would still be possession of illegal stuff.
There's a cargo cult blogging thing going on in ML, where you also have a large number of tutorials written by variably-competent people written not to inform, but to look good. As I'm sure you know, the results are fairly mixed.
How does that compare to control? 200 : 30k sounds like it's lower than normal "infection" rate?
Do you think the golden age of the internet is drawing to a close?
Fixed in January:
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2019/CVE-2...

edit: the updated, point release ISOs will have the fix
> That "elsewhere" might be the word-of-mouth on steroids that I talked about in the article.
I'd argue that still falls under being a marketing expense. Word of mouth on steroids is a fantastic thing, especially so as a strategy for rapidly generating market awareness and validation of your product. But after that initial validation in the market, it's entirely possible to find your business in a position where it no longer get much value from more word of mouth. Particularly if you've shifted from a passive to an active sales org or shifted upmarket to enterprise sales.

Optimizely[1] is a solid example of that. They used to have a free Starter plan, and had priced plans that scaled from hobbyist pricing level through to small/medium business pricing levels. They've shed all of that at this point in time, and now have three unpriced plans listed on their site and an enterprise sales process could rival Oracle or IBM in the level of self-assured salesmanship and abrasively aggressive price discrimination/discovery. Having used them at a previous company (starting with the free plan and moving to a ~$400/month plan), I was pretty shocked when I reached out to them more recently to adopt at a new company. Budgets less than $50k/year aren't worth more than a one-liner "no thank you" from their sales staff, budgets between $50k - $100k may be enough for them to do you a great favor in allowing you to become a customer, and budgets above $100k/year will at least get them on the phone long enough for them to tell you what the price floor is for your industry and company size (with actual usage volume being next to irrelevant). Word of mouth on steroids became irrelevant to them to the point where they completely shed not only their free tier but also all of their legacy small/medium business customers, too. And it didn't actually hurt their business any, and likely helped it in the eyes of the high margin customers they're going after now.

Contrast that with Cloudflare. Offering a free tier has real costs associated with it. But those free accounts also serve a valuable purpose to their product, and the word of mouth benefits are just icing on the cake. A core selling point of their product is the advanced threat detection and security capabilities that are enabled by the sheer size and scope of their network. The loss of their free tier customers would drastically reduce the visibility they had and in turn degrade the offering to their enterprise customers. Their free tier is a fundamental component of their business/product itself, rather than just an acquisition/marketing/pr cost. Which insulates me as a free user from feeling like the rug is going to get pulled out from under me at any moment when their sales strategy shifts.
Could amyloids be a proxy for aging in general? And systems declining in their ability to remove amyloids the cause of aging?
Yes indeed, while the market for say Python books is saturated, there might be room for a Python for X, where X is some shared characteristic. E.g. Python lessons to prepare for a coding Bootcamp.

The vendor product idea sounds good. I think the money there is from consulting or software products, as the book won’t sell in volume. However the book can position you as the expert so people buy other things from you.
Gopher.
What I take from it is that the point of Brave is to keep your data yours. It wasn't to get rid of ads entirely. The internet has become a data mining project in which your time, attention, and data is straight up stolen (or worse given away) and then monetized by companies that have long realized that data has tangible value.

The point of Brave (to me) seems to be that it gives you the tools to keep your data secure and provides a way for you to willingly trade it for something of value (BAT). This is done by enabling ads. In essence you are the one being paid for your attention instead of Google or Facebook. The ads are serves by brave but purchased with BAT. So the same people who want to serve you ads need to buy BAT on the open market. This is what gives the token value.

So the point Isn't to get rid of ads. The point is to give you a way to actually get paid for your data. Your data has value and people are going to get paid for it as long as it A) exists and B) is useful to sell you stuff. I think that a tool to actually make people realize the value of their own data is something that we desperately need in this space.
shrug I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. Of course nobody wants to build the single most important part of a company around a single person. My point is that for some deep niches, building entire teams around it, and pulling away the people who know most about those things in order to have them 'mentor' a bunch of people who in no way will be able to reach the require depth for a long time just doesn't make sense. And from my understanding, it is this sort of situation the GP was referring to. I don't think, and from my experience which of course suffers from insufficiently large sample size, this situation is not all that uncommon.

(as an aside, I especially object to 'taking advantage of a diversity of perspectives/approaches' being a universal good/requirement. I have seen many cases where having one person just get on with it absolutely beat the design committee. But again this perspective is probably skewed by being involved mostly in deeply specialized numerical software, where exceptional value mostly comes from having both deep domain expertise in something unrelated to computing and deep technical/programming knowledge)
What you are proposing is silly. The government is going to destroy a trillion dollar brand with no compensation to shareholders. Steal what's likely the most valuable piece of real estate in the world and turn it into a link farm. And somehow split a search engine with thousands of employees, who knows how many physical assets, etc. into separate companies that somehow continue operating?

This just doesn't make sense. No American politician would even purpose that for (rightful) fear of their career.
It’s the Real World–With Google Maps Layered on Top
> Btw, I encourage you to keep at Zig for diversity in systems, language space.

I don’t think that “Basically like C but a tiny bit better” deserves to be associated with the word “diversity”.
They can share only future profit which is in the form of stock.
Does a [bullet from a] handgun [effectively] kill cancer cells in a petri dish? I'd expect it to smash the dish and move the cells but except for areas with localised heating not to really do anything else?
iTunes is not a particularly great example of Apple providing excellent UX- but that aside, I doubt that they deigned to pursue P2P because of “delegitimization” or fear of having to deal with regulation.

Did these P2P services even offer any major consumer benefits aside from convenient ways to pirate media? Because that’s a value proposition that could return as the proliferation of streaming subscriptions (having to juggle multiple accounts at once to gain access to desired content) may cause some to simply kiss goodbye to streaming and return to the Pirate Bay. But even with legal challenges taking out the Groksters and the like, I fail to see how P2P for other purposes were damaged. They could’ve simply lost out because of lack of interest from both consumers (poor UX, no value add) and tech companies (saw no interest in pursuing such tech).
You argue based only on the assumption that human is a consumer and dong targeting in mass has no negative externalities.

At the end it's behavioral modification.
Does anybody have experience with thin clients connected to buffed workstations or servers?

My laptop is pretty good for scripting and light compile jobs, but if I could just code on it and forward the heavy computing to my other buffed computers it would save me both battery and time.