skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume you're already aware, but Rust hit 1.0 in May 2015. The further back before that, the less it resembled the Rust we have today; there were some major differences in early Rust (green threads, a heap-pointer operator, etc.). I don't think it's a stretch to say that no Rust job today actually requires Rust experience that dates back further than 1.0, and any job description that requires that likely was written by someone who doesn't know what they're talking about.
Used this on Archlinux. Pretty nice!
Guessing here, but ... CLOCK_MONOTONIC for the win?
Rare L.A. Mega-Storm Could Overwhelm Dam and Flood Dozens of Cities
Questions to Ask at the End of a Technical Interview
Are there any really, really extra-sane people to serve as fecal donors?
I agree.

Having a Nikon and being able to shift shutter speed / aperture with a dial is very important.

You can kind of think of this as a remote control. Yes you can have a touchscreen as the only interface for a remote control, but you always have to look down at it to use it.

On my remote I can control volume and channel without looking at it.
Is there a link between gut bacteria and diet?
You might find this interesting:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/human-performance-outlie...

Interview w/ a doctor focused on the links between gut, autoimmune, and mental health.
A Whale's Afterlife
It means a bias of coming together toward a tester's preferences. Do people excel on the few narrow performance meausures you find most correlated with intelligence?

There are divergent aptitude tests measure quantity and diversity of answers to a given question opposed to the one desired answer. Divergent tests are rarely performed, but at a stronger measure of creativity and problem solving which is typically what people actually want when they say intelligence. The reason why convergent testing is preferred over divergent test is because it is easier to measure and those simplified measures are easier to compare.
Is there a link between gut bacteria and diet?

Yes. There are lots of articles (based on studies) on this. For example:

https://www.bing.com/search?q=diet+gut+microbiome+tribal+stu...
@root_axis (since I can't reply directly):

> PoW systems are the only ones where "higher value transactions" need security proportional to their size.

Every other currency is either backed by men with guns and transactions are reversible (fiat) or you have to spend a roughly proportional amount of resources securing it (e.g. gold). I didn't look at the data, but judging by US military spending I'd guess that the strongest economies also have to spend the most to keep their system safe.

You can still argue that the assumption of pseudonymous actors in bitcoin makes the proportion factor larger (=system less efficient) than for systems that can use identities and attribution and I'd agree with that. But that's only because it can operate with less assumptions (no identities), which I see as a feature.
I've created 80+ ebooks using Calibre, but it's too over-featured for casual ebook reading. I've used IceCream for that but I'll give Bookworm a look.
Same with the yogurt; I'm actually planning to start taking probiotic supplements to simplify that aspect, as well as a fiber source called phylum husk.

Sorry to hear about the Borderline. Just remember that mental health diagnoses are less rigid than traditional medical diagnoses. You've heard of mind over matter; mind over mind is even more effective.
Because it's negligible
Perhaps you’re misunderstanding my point. I’m not against environmental regulations and I don’t expect market mechanisms to eliminate externalities. On the contrary, I want environmental regulations that reduce (ideally eliminate) externalities in the cost of energy. This should, almost by definition, be the goal of environmental regulations. Cap and trade on energy producers, for instance, can and probably does do this.

As for the stuff about cryptocurrencies being associated with scams and wealth inequality, to me that’s entirely independent of environmental impact and should be dealt with (and probably can be dealt with using existing laws) regardless of the environmental impact.
Fwiw I didn't take it as condescending
I do. I'm using a Microsoft Surface Go for reading using multiple apps at the moment:

- Freda for ebooks

- Latermark for articles stored using Pocket

- Libby for ebooks borrowed from my local library

- SumatraPDF for PDF documents and CBZ comics

The tablet form factor lets me read while in bed and, as long as I occasionally pay attention to my surroundings, while walking.
I'm not sure how to comfortably read a pdf without my laptop. I'm sure a tablet would be the best choice, but my laptop is fine for it.
> they filter for people that are ready to follow orders without complaining.

Well, if that was the goal, boy did we ever fail to deliver on that one ;-)
If you review the safety and environmental procedures and precautions for the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, and the US military and federal government in general, they were rather lax through the 70s or 90s depending on your perspective. The scientists at Los Alamos hardly seemed to understand how dangerous are the chemicals they worked with - all of the wastewater was dumped untreated into the pond in the center of town until 1962. Same with all the water from the world’s first plutonium milling facility - dumped untreated into the desert. That created a pollutant plume ~550 feet deep. All of the waste from the Manhattan project (plutonium, uranium, beryllium, lead, PCBs, solvents, radioactive rubble of all sorts) was put into unlined landfills in Los Alamos with little documentation. This happens to be upstream from 90% of the population of New Mexico, on sandy soils 2-5 miles from the largest river in the region.
There certainly are people with use-cases like that, but it is rare to find people who both have large, sudden spikes that are not better handled in other ways (e.g. combination of CDNs and micro-caching), or where the load can not be trivially smoothed out enough (e.g. there's enough work with relaxed latency requirements or that can be scheduled to off peak times, or where the spikes are not small enough relative to base-load that it still pays off to put most load on dedicated equipment and use AWS or similar to handle spikes only.

People often think they have workloads like that. I've done work on plenty of setups over the years were people were certain they had lots of big spikes, but most of them only had moderate day/night cycles (and usually a lot less spiky than they thought, because they'd never bothered to measure).

Only in a few cases I've seen usage patterns that justified spinning instances up/down very often, and for those cases, ironically the availability of clouds have made dedicated hosting more cost effective, because if you host everything in VMs or containers anyway, you can now get to far higher utilization levels on your on-prem/colocated setups, and be prepared to spin up some cloud instances (automatically, if you wish, it's not that much effort), and tie them into your cluster when your load warrants it. It's not suitable for all workloads, but it works surprisingly well if anything.

I do see that argument a lot for using cloud providers, but the vast majority of cloud setups I've seen end up having very static workloads growing at rates that gives plenty of time to prepare.
Doesn't in Europe all research papers be made free by 2020:https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/may/28/eu-ministers...

Something Aron Schwartz envisioned?
I tried, but the paragraph symbols kept breaking on all the keypunches.
Using Facebook to Find People from Country A, Now Living in Country B
I’d rather not have environmental regulation that needs to decide the value to society of every activity. If the regulation just internalizes the costs of energy production, then I don’t care what you use your electricity for (up to some obvious and less-obvious limits, which can be and are handled by completely separate laws).
One nice experiment showed the big difference biota make may be choline absorption.
https://medium.com/@russjj/choline-is-it-the-key-to-modern-i...
Semi-related: But does anyone know why unplugging headphones while audio is muted causes the audio to become unmuted? This is easily my least favorite bug and results in a 10 second shuffle of frantically finding the mute button again, sometimes with the laptop closed. It seems like something that would never pass QA in previous iterations of Apple, though I could be remembering the past more fondly than was true.
Amazing work chidog12,
I've tied using TextRank for text summarization before, but the results are mostly hit or miss.
I've found that, elements in the page like "Follow this reader", Share on twiiter, facebook frequently oocur in these articles and due to the voter based ranking of TextRank , they get picked up as high ranked sentences.
Which of the algorithms mentioned in your site were most effective in extracting useful summaries?
They test for puzzles that appear as visual shape complexities which require use of the visual cortex. That is something a person might refer to as a visual abstraction. That isn't a practical abstraction, such as requiring a person to form an answer from the absent of acceptable criteria (to abstract or form something new to solve a problem).
Grandma's Little Helper: An Aging World Needs More Resourceful Robots
In case it's down, here's a remixed version (since it's using Glitch) https://pewter-winter.glitch.me/
Based on what I've heard from some natives I befriended online, there is allegedly rampant corruption, many people don't really trust the government, and there's a big problem with organize crime (the Yakuza). I'll note that I'm not Japanese and I've never lived in Japan, so I am unable to ascertain the veracity of this claim, thus I would suggest taking this statement with a gigantic grain of salt.
Ymmv, but I've found it helpful.
I agree with you when you say in most companies "languages for teams" means "languages for the JVM"

But I am curious, is that just out of familiarity or are there things that JVM ecosystem has that are just not there elsewhere?

I understand that some of the distributed data processing ecosystem (Kafka et al) are _built_ on JVM but there's nothing inherently stopping people from using these things from other languages.
DASH and NANO had several initiatives this past year to achieve adoption in Venezuela due to their humanitarian crisis. It was small, but there were some good results especially by DASH if we believe the media they produced. There was a movement to donate DASH/NANO and get merchants to accept it in exchange for goods. All merchants need is a sticker that displays their QR code and a terminal that can confirm the transaction, which can be done by any smartphone/tablet/computer/IOT with minimal effort. Keep in mind, this happened while DASH and NANO are quite unknown and all crypto was in a bear market, meaning there were few people following the projects that could donate and promote the events.

The hard part is not adoption within poverty-stricken nations, rather adoption in developed nations with complicated tax codes and lack of incentives for merchants to invest in more payment processing tech is the true challenge ahead.
Not sure about that. But https://github.com/gordonklaus/ineffassign catches that.
I'd add to that: Most people have far more stable workloads than they like to think.

"Everyone" seems to think they have massively spiky loads, and almost nobody does. There may often be demands that could spike (e.g. because "someone" has not randomized the start times for batch maintenance processes through the night but start them all at the same time), but more often than not the spikiest demand comes from batch workloads where nobody cares if it takes a bit longer. In practice when constrained that often simply smooths out the overall capacity use.

(of course that does not mean that there aren't people with spiky enough workloads for it to make sense to put at least some of their workloads on VMs for cost reasons; but measure first)
In the future I'm guessing fecal donors could become a thing like plasma donors are - as in it could become a paid "side hustle?"

These sane, rational folk should surely flock to that opportunity!
All the new optimization code has C++ and/or python (2.7) bindings.

I don’t think TRI has made ROS wrappers but it could conceivably be done without much pain I think.

Not sure there is much in there about new stuff from BD. There is some deep RL stuff now though, not really sure how much the course has changed since 2015.
AI: Arms Race 2.0
Show HN: Don't Hold Your Pee Anymore (NY Edition)
I don't think tossing 16 SSDs into a single enclosure is a fair comparison with S3. I also think that storage is absolutely in scope for an article like this.
Additionally if you find local development unpleasant you can always try remote development via something like https://codesandbox.io/ which will setup a project with everything you need.
I suppose it's just simple math that multiple Bay Areas > Bay Area.
It's worth remembering that Kodak was one of the premier high technology companies of its day. George Eastman endowed MIT and other technical schools, because his fortune was built on the work of scientists and engineers. Even well into the 80s and even early 90s they had top notch scientists, engineers, and inventors working for them. The late era management is a different story entirely and serves as a cautionary tale.
Over Time, Buddhism and Science Agree (2014)
Thinking Through Interfaces (Course Website)
It saves inheritance tax.

If you're married a lot of things are easier if one of you passes away, otherwise things have to be prearranged. Are all household bills in joint names, are all investments with named beneficiaries, are all assets defined in a will, are all credit agreements covered, are there end of life choices documented?
> MySQL has been out for 23 years

> PostgreSQL has been out for 22 years

feeling old intensifies
well, Drupal is out for a long time but Drupal 6, Drupal 7 and Drupal 8 is different enough that your job experience in one might not be particularly relevant for others...
I have a 2017 MBP, and it regularly has audio issues, among other issues. Sometimes I'm able to kill the audio daemon, and get my audio back. Other times I have to reboot (sometimes I have to reset the PRAM in order to get audio back). I have audio problems at least once a week. I know two other people with 2017 MBPs that have the same regular issues I do. I assume there are many more.

I feel that recent Apple laptops are no longer premium machines regardless of the premium price tag.
I tried it, except for some burning smell microwave seems fine. The smell dissipates soon.
It seems to work better if the turntable is not spinning.

For some reason I was not able to reproduce the effect with drinking glass, linked above, though.
Swift 5.1 Release Process
Outline:

https://outline.com/eHJzua
How is backpressure handled in the SOCKMAP solution? The description sounds like it just attaches all incoming buffers to the outgoing part of the socket irrespective of the number of already buffered data. That could be bad, if it means the memory usage is unbounded.

The other solutions definitely all would block if the send buffer is full.

Apart from that question it was interesting to learn that io_submit actually works on sockets too. I definitely need to read more about this one.
Just a bug report, bbc.co.uk is getting truncated to co.uk i.e. third level domains or tlds like co.uk or ac.in are being treated as domains.
Good insight of choosing the framework fit for you
I think the question is how does this compare/contrast with the dict command, a common utility that uses the Dictionary Server Protocol to query dictionaries from the command line.
Sounds like it would be a better solution for a full on VR rig rather than AR. Still put the person in the same cockpit, but the view would be from the VR goggles instead of multiple screens. When the pilot reaches in VR for the controls, there would be physical controls to match what's seen in VR. This would allow the pilot to have the correct sense of location with what they see.
The original paper is a good read to get some insight into the thought process: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/MCReps/MR35.PDF
The article comes from CDM which is a music production website, MacBooks are very popular in that field, and basically all audio producers use external audio interfaces, it's not an uncommon use case. This is not the first time that this type of issues happens (from memory, last year an OSX update broke compatibility with Native Instruments Maschine, a very popular music software). So I think the point that the article is trying to make, is that music producers are one of the most Apple-leaning crowds, and yet they feel like they are being ignored by Apple. But at the same time I understand your point, this is a small market in the grand scheme of things.
This is only tangentially related but has anyone here read the book 'The Fiber Menace', and if so, what are your thoughts?
Have you tried reproducing this with other headphones, 2 channel ones etc.
That is a different problem, called illuminant metameric failure. See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamerism_(color)

Illuminant metameric failure can happen with relatively normal LED and fluorescent lighting, particularly with a low color rendering index. You can get an orange object to appear black under the "white" lighting of RGB LEDs. Different orange objects would be differently affected depending on exactly what frequencies/wavelengths get absorbed. The objects could appear red, orange (good!), dark yellow, green, or black.

Under low pressure sodium, the eyes do adapt. Some cars are white, some cars are grey, and some cars are black. There is no yellow.
Craig Wright Willing to Testify Under Oath to CFTC That He Is Satoshi Nakamoto
Getting a definition or spelling correction for a word or a list of synonyms and antonyms, maybe a brief etymology, without interrupting my workflow at the command line or opening a slow heavy program like a web browser or office suite.
Here, here.

QuakeC enabled the community to demonstrate the possibility of good AI in 3d shooters in the late 90's. It spawned an era of popular titles being programmable. Some of those early bot authors went on to become lead programmers of further games, why did they forget their origins?

It does help a game to live beyond its years -- many previous games could become popular again with community AI improvements, and I'm not comfortable applying binary patches and they're not very portable either..
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive (and in this case, supercilious) comments to Hacker News?

If you know more, it would be really good for you to share some of what you know, so that we can all learn something. If you don't want to take the time to do that, that's fine, but in that case please don't post.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Not convinced it will completely replace current techniques, if it does start significantly outperforming more old school control systems we’ll still need a lot of progress in explaining what the controller learned and proving that it will work within the assumptions the engineers make.

Personally I think the future will be merging parts of control theory/dynamics with machine learning.
But I would still as a depositor have the promise from the bank that the bank will give me back my cryptocurrency when I want?

If I do, there is practically zero difference how banks would work with crypto and fiat. And that promise can be used as money just like it can now with fiat. Thus banks would be able to monetarily multiply crypto at will as well.

If not, well, how exactly are you planning to stop me and my bank making such a contract? You know, the bank can pay me some interest on my savings is I let them lend the money forward, so both banks amd my incentive is to allow the lending of my deposit.
Because the vast majority of systems never need that scale. In other words: while it's an interesting niche situation, to most people how to handle small static workloads is much closer to what is actually relevant to them.
"People" didn't go to the moon, the US government went to the moon. And they were primarily driven by the motivation of military development and the growth of soft power. After the landing on the moon there was unprecedented public support for further expansion. Aside from the general public the astronauts themselves, practically all of academia, and even people such as Wernher von Braun, the chief architect of the Apollo program had expressed not only desire by technical capability and ideas of how we could get to Mars.

But the wills of the people and the wills of government often conflict. And government generally wins. As the military and soft power tasks had been effectively achieved, government interest in space rapidly waned. There were also extremely petty reasons. Nixon, in part, also did not want to drive what he felt was JFK's legacy, and instead aimed to create his own; something he certainly achieved. There's a great writeup on his views and decisions regarding space and NASA here [1]. He is one of the biggest reasons that space died, though it must be said that any president following him (with a compatible congress) could have just as easily resuscitated it as he killed it. Trump reportedly was willing to offer NASA an 'unlimited' budget if they could get a human on Mars before the end of his first term. Something that's unfortunately almost certainly technically impossible given the state of our dilapidated space program (relative to where it could be today).

The point of this all is that the 21st century will be the first time the people go to space, let alone to another celestial body. And there's no reason to expect we'll turn back. The nice thing about a capitalist system is that so long as the money is there, things will happen. You can look at society as a venn diagram between money and desires for space. There's far more than enough of an overlap there to sustain space indefinitely even without the incredible wealth of certain players such as Bezos.

[1] - http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/jason-callahan/20...