skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those wondering what the part at 00:48 is, it is this patch which allows Win95 to run on fast CPUs:

https://msfn.org/board/topic/141402-windows-95-21ghz-cpu-lim...

There's various timing loops for calibrating delays, which were written at a time when CPUs were much slower. Win98(SE?) didn't have this problem.
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Pattern matching will break you.

I get frustrated at least once a week trying to use it in a language that doesn't have it. My brain just thinks in pattern matching!
I do not consider myself educated on the matter of vaccines and am ill-equipped to defend any position on either side :) To your point, proving a negative such as "vaccines definitively do NOT cause autism, ever" with 100% certainty is nontrivial. I simply haven't seen any compelling evidence that they are causally linked to autism, which is usually the claim.
Ah, so closer than I thought. Maybe two more cycles of new models would be enough for the HW/SW to get there.
I really don’t care about any of that.
What about plasma incinerators?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_gasification
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Coca Cola is the most recognized brand on Earth, Harvard is the most reputable university brand on Earth. It actually seems like a good comparison.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jacquelynsmith/2012/03/14/the-w...
You need a degree of fats in your diet for fat soluble vitamins to be included too.
See e.g. JSON schema, which has a wide language support and tooling (even some IDEs support it for validation while you're writing a compliant document)
It's not an irrelevant treaty. It is specifically the part of the EU agreement which regulates visas and travel in respect to non-EU countries (yes, I understand others have been allowed into it by reciprocal agreement, nonetheless it an EU directive). If a country can't yet be part of it or refuses to be part of it, why should they be treated as if they were? Free travel within the EU is the part that appears to be internal and not relevant in this case.
Last September, Professor Strumia stated that “physics was invented and built by men, it's not by invitation" at a presentation at the Cern the workshop.

He also showed cartoons deriding women campaigning for equality in science and presented the results of an analysis that he claimed showed that work conducted by female physicists was not as good as their male counterparts.

Did Larry Summers do anything as overt as this? CERN had to apologize after his presentation, which now includes a note:

Alessandro Strumia applied to give a presentation on “Bibiliometrics data about gender issues in fundamental theory”. The committee was skeptical of his motivations but decided to allow him to give a scientific presentation on data analysis. The committee is deeply disappointed that the presentation, which had not been shared prior to its delivery, included attacks on individuals and was contrary to CERN’s values, as set out in the CERN Code of Conduct. CERN’s official statement on the matter can be found here: https://press.cern/press-releases/2018/09/updated-statement-...
As others have pointed out the alternative to OTA isn’t never updating critical systems; you’re presenting a false dichotomy.
Pandoc and Mediawiki have been able to convert embedded LaTeX to MathML, for a while. Once Chromium supports MathML most CMSs will probably start providing suitable converters, and in the meantime MathJax will still work (and better, since MathJax's Native MathML output is faster than its CommonHTML one[0]).

[0] http://docs.mathjax.org/en/latest/output.html
Quid pro quo I guess?
OpenPDF 1.2.11 released, with signature wrapping attack fix
There's an interesting Dutch article from January about how the rights ended up with this company [1]. It doesn't say anything about patents, but it does say (my translation):

> The producer (AAA, later bought by Novartis) gets exclusive rights to sell the drug, for ten years in the EU, and for seven in the US. The only exception is hospital pharmacies preparing the drug for their own patients.

[1] https://nos.nl/artikel/2266712-hoe-nederlands-kankeronderzoe...
I remember Patrice O'Neal had a bit about this.

https://youtu.be/0xVF7yCKWno?t=60
OpenPDF 1.2.11 released, with a fix for the signature wrapping attack. For details see https://pdf-insecurity.org/.

https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF
Sure, when I first started my professional programming career, I worked in a couple of COBOL shops. Most of the developers there had never used anything else, and weren't interested in anything else. It was a job. Almost all of the programs were some form of "read data from a file, do something with each record, write it back to another file or print to a report." Not much different from assembly line work except more comfortable and paid better.
When I was a kid I used to do this to the computers at Costco, writing a similar script in Batch and inserting it into demo computers' autoexec.bat. It was like four lines and I'd live-code it right in the store. (Mondo bonus points if I was able to do it on the machine with the cloned screens). It was fun to see which adults knew the CTRL+BREAK trick... very few did :P

Also, Mac OS has had text-to-speech since forever... it would even cuss for you. So why not open TextEdit and unleash a string of obscenities after about a paragraph of commas and periods? Don't forget to turn the volume all the way up!

Never got me arrested... did get me banned from the school computer network on multiple occasions though...
I just tried installing golang and its available
CNBC's hour-long, wide-ranging interview with SoftBank's Masa Son
Sounds like a case of Trombipulation to me.

https://youtu.be/WaVzajICS-w
Not really independent. Ole Tange tried to get his 2nd parallel into findutils (to replace xargs and allow parallel processing) in 2005.
Because it was written in Perl, findutils refused to add it. So Ole Tange contacted moreutils in 2009, but they never answered, but later one guy of them, Tollef Fog Heen, rewrote parallel in C, with just minor API discrepancies. They say it predates GNU parallel, because the 2005-2007 package was not a GNU project then. It was added to savannah as individual GNU project in 2010, Ole gave up inclusion into findutils then.

moreutils parallel was written 2008, and added to moreutils 2009,
just when Ole asked them.
https://git.joeyh.name/index.cgi/moreutils.git/commit/?id=0f...

https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/history.html

Hence I called it a "fork". Independent, yes, but when you know about the project, steal its name and put it into wide distribution under that same name, because you think your name has a better chance of being adopted, this is called a fork. Like a pitchfork. Poking into the original authors eyes with a sharp instrument.
I think it does though. Or at least I intended it to.

In the first case I didn't particularly mean to specialize, but just to continuously do things you really don't even know if you can, to continually push against what you think is possible for yourself: create a js framework for instance, even a terrible one that you abandon after a year and move on to a completely different project, but that requires you to dig and research and stretch your brain. The second case was more you know it's possible and it's just following a tutorial to get up to speed on the techniques; someone else did the "hard" work, and you're not really getting anything out of it.

The first thing gives you skills that age well: you'll learn about lots of gotchas about the internals of how js and presumably other language runtimes work etc, which will help in lots of different positions; the second just gives you a line item on your resume until that fad is gone.
On the other hand, https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ is the new New and it's compelling on a whole other level. So are the GAN-generated game sprites and other pixel art we've seen over the past several months.
if you ask me, is this a good idea? I will tell you it's a terrible idea. If you ask me, could this startup make money? sure, there are lots of people out there who would pay for this.
If the client asks and I tell them I write it in Delphi, I loose the contract period, if they don't ask I generally get the contract. Been like that for last 20 years and will be for the next 20
What I meant was, are there people paid by the hour instead of being full salaried? Part time employees? How do these laws affect them?
I admit it. I find it retarded
Not to forget over-structured code, where even the simplest internal helper class has an interface and a factory. So the sweet spot seems to be somewhere in the middle :)
Blue Oak Model License 1.0.0
Japan Earthquakes 2011 Visualization Map (Fukushima)
Highly recommend this: https://codestool.coding-gnome.com/courses/elixir-for-progra...

I think it's probably the best way for an experienced programmer to get up to speed on idiomatic Elixir, why you do certain things, etc...
The BBC's characterization I think is unfair, I suggest HN'ers actually read the presentation.

While controversial, I don't think it's poignantly offensive.

I'm wary of researchers getting into flame wars and I guess CERN does have the right to avoid such things, at the same time, he seems to be making some points with a lot of data - the best thing someone concerned with opinions could do is actually debunk them instead of having him silenced ... because the BBC's article trying to shut him down may in fact have the opposite effect.
I'm learning about compilers and operating systems. And I don't know how much assembly should I learn. Ofc, I can't read whole x86 manual.
Facebook Shift Nods to Example of Chinese Super-App WeChat
GEMVs can be used to do GEMMs
Someone should correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think that this is a special feature of Erlang.

It's done by writing your handlers to accept a closure to use for future requests. It's not inherently different from doing this in Java:

if (req.isUpdate()) {
handler = Class.forName(req.getUpdateName()).newInstance();
} else {
handler.handle(req);
}

It's way easier when you have message passing and every level is set up to restart on crashes, but I don't think anything necessarily stops you from doing the same in any other language.
> I never understood why there isn’t something like this for iOS.

Android is natively Linux, so launching a chroot isn’t really all that hard.

On iOS things are very different and you’ll need to fake the whole stack. (Also Apple policies blah blah)
What we are trying to build is asset independent. We started with cryptocurrencies because it was easiest to integrate with. I understand your mistrust in cryptocurrency related projects. We don’t hold user’s tokens in our wallet. We are figuring out the best ways to add equities and forex as well.

Right now we are providing all the data feeds ourselves. If there is more demand from the users for manual entry of data, we might support it later.

Thanks a lot for your detailed feedback.
Why It’s So Hard to Buy the Market at the Bottom and Hang On
I was poking through the documentation - how does ArchiveBox generate the WARC file? I see the web page is archived in HTML, PNG and PDF using Chrome, but I don't think Chrome natively has the ability to create WARC files, does it?
Yes. In theory, maybe it's useful to have more flexibility to trade-off durability for performance (smaller quorum size hopefully reduces deciding latency [unless your small quorum contains the straggler!]) for specific kinds of data in the same replica group.

In practice though, it seems easier just to run separate instances of Paxos.
There's an imprecision in much of this article, particularly -- but not exclusively -- in quotes from administrators whose cluelessness is revealed thereby, the cumulative effect of which I find infuriating. Settle A before you move on to B, people.

Analogy: I place two champagne glasses in a box, close the box, put in earplugs so I can't hear glass breaking, then shake the box violently. Then, without opening the box, I decide champagne sucks forever and throw away the champagne bottle. That's what this feels like.

Example: What does the word "hack" mean? There are at least two overall "families" of connotations it has, one of which is in the name of this site. But if someone told you to hack, that is in no way enough information to carry out any specific action. That's how you know you're dealing with a derived or secondary concept. Too many statements here are being formulated in secondary concepts. Like the closed box of maybe-broken champagne-glass glass. And then those vague concepts are being related vaguely to other vague secondary concepts, and decisions made about those concepts based on that. Like throwing away the champagne bottle. What a clusterfuck. Idiocracy is here.

And it's quite possible this girl is innocent but Jesus H. Christ don't post your password on the WALL! Unless maybe you can satisfy yourself that you have sole control of the room!
What is required to integrate additional exchanges? Would you eventually want more?
Lately, with respect to the government, I think it's fair to shorten the statement to simply "the US can't get anything done."
i recently bought a backup yubikey for this exact reason. I really don't want to go through the pain of having accidentally locked myself out, just because I damaged my keyfob
Thanks, that make a lot of sense. I'm favouriting this comment.
Call me superficial, insecure, vain, pathetic, etc. There's no way I'm driving around in a car called the Polestar. It's just not happening.
Read the story first, but here is the wiki on the gambler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lee_Bergstrom

Great story.
It's a formal presentation at a CERN workshop that invokes "Cultural Marxism". CERN had to apologize for the presentation after the workshop. Of course they're pissed.
Great team! Excited to see where this goes.
One could make a pretty good argument that a government funded drug research system would end up with more expensive drugs (in the form of higher taxes) than a for profit system.

That sounds like a pretty interesting argument, but I notice that you didn’t actually make it. The rest of your post is full of claims sans evidence, and a lot of numbers out of context. For example how many of those newly approved drugs are novel therapies vs. rejiggered stereochemistry to keep a patent or compete in an existing field? How many are significant improvements over existing therapies and not just potential profit centers?
Imho the article misses a key point which is data locality.

If you look at specialized processors for say, convolutions, the majority of the benefits are coming from data locality being exploited.

(And no I've never heard the term "dispatch" be used for data movement)
Isn't the wavelength of 100 Hz 11.25 feet? Am I missing something?
I’ve met Jake a couple of times, he’s a good examiner.

TFA says he looked at the [EXIF] metadata of the photos. There’s nothing in here to suggest a comprehensive forensic analysis of the cellphone itself (eg from a Cellebrite extraction). A phone is a treasure trove of SQLite databases.
I guess. How many political murders are there in the US each year, though?
Can you expand on your journey towards a 2nd Bachelors? I'm in the same boat as you, hoping to get my second bachelors soon.
I cut ties with the discriminating CERN.
> transitioning to stocks is any better, because anyone buying today is pretty much guaranteed to be buying at the top of the market--i.e., if you're making a market, you're making one for suckers.

I am assuming you are bearish and overall negative given the sentiment of your comment. On Christmas eve when the market was at its lows, would you have guessed we would rally and explode up the first two months of 2019. It’s very easy to perpetually be a bear and shout that the market is overvalued. Eventually you will be right and a correction or crash will happen.

I’ve be in the market over 15 years, and can without a doubt say it is the best wealth expanding tool rich or poor US citizens have.
This wiki is the best source I know: http://virt10.itu.chalmers.se/index.php
All the IP of the strategies remains with the user who built the strategy. We don’t extract any data from those strategies.

We do have a marketplace where traders can publish their strategies publicly for other investors to test and invest in those strategies.

Thanks for checking us out.
Click the link below and have a look at the cartoon in question.

Though I can realize how some might be offended, it's not an offensive cartoon.

Or rather - the 'offensiveness of the cartoon' is only a function of one's sensitivity to intersectional issues.

So any cartoon/animation that is 'against' the intersectional view will be regarded as 'offensive'.

The very fact that this cartoon could be regarded as 'offensive' is ironically at the heart of this debate.

We all have a right to be offended, but we also have a right to express ourselves within reason. The cartoon I guess was a needless poke in the eye but it's really not that bad.
I've been reading recently about a structural/sociocultural/technological phenomenon that's actually holding women back in a field where women tend to dominate in representation at the academic level, but are regularly outcompeted by men at the professional level.

Piano playing.

It all comes down to the shape of the instrument, and hand-span, which is unquestionably (and uncontroversially) larger in men than in women: http://www.smallpianokeyboards.org/uploads/3/4/1/6/34165129/...
(from http://www.smallpianokeyboards.org/hand-span-data.html)

The interesting thing is that there is a solution to the problem, the 7/8 piano, which has an octave spacing of 5.5" as opposed to the 6.5" on a typical piano.

The thing is, no one really takes it seriously outside of a few universities and a dedicated group that's trying to advance this cause.

Even women who learned to play long ago grouse that "I can play a regular piano, you just have to use different technique!", but won't admit to themselves or to others that the technique they're required to use is a detriment to playing the instrument with ease.

The other issue is that these pianos are hard to come by, since almost every manufacturer makes pianos of the same keyboard size, and pianists are one of the few musicians expected to play on whatever instrument they're given.

The other interesting thing is that the majority of men would actually play better on these pianos, because they would suddenly have "rachmaninoff hands", but the legacy of having hundreds of thousands of existing pianos just sitting around prevents progress from being made toward this goal.

P.S. if anyone wants to make a startup company for building 7/8 digital pianos (of which there are none currently on the market), hit me up.
It's interesting to see code bases like this. It does sort of have it all, custom build system, IDL, implementations of things like XML and JPEG. Very symptomatic of the need slowly being filled in the C++ community for a popular build system and package manager.

I hope the author reconsiders their custom license that prevents any public forks of the code base. It's already very hard to get anything out of non-standard monoliths like this, with a custom license that chance drops close to zero.
I think the author misses what the purpose of deadlines is. They are contracts between organizations for when software will be available, which are used for other organizations to make informed decisions without needing very tight and constant communication. They're analogous to SLAs in service-oriented designs.

In a moderately large (say, 500+ employee) organization, deadlines are essential to get anything done. Suppose, for example, you're overhauling a billing system, making international tax calculations simpler. The finance team is making a hiring decision: they need to get tax stuff calculated before the end of the year; do they need to find consultants to help them with this, or is the software going to be ready in time?

If your answer to them is "I can't tell you, we just do stuff on the kanban board and don't think about deadlines," they're
(1) going to be less than thrilled with you, decreasing trust, and (2) unable to make their decision effectively.

I don't think "there's only "stuff" to be done" is an adequate alternative to deadlines and sprints if it doesn't address the reason organizations use those tools. They're primarily tools for predictability and scaling outbound communication about progress; I think the author mistakenly believes they're supposed to be motivational tools. They're sometimes misused that way, for sure, but that's not the whole picture.
Ruby's if/elsif/else statement returns a value making it a nice alternative to trenary operators. I have for the world not understood why one would do it otherwise.

Unless you want to use mutation you have to use it in python, and then you end up with ugly chains if you want brevity.
No. Amazon didn’t turn a profit, but the way to make the company profitable was obvious. Amazon is a mail order catalog. There are multiple examples of ver profitable mail order catalog businesses for literally a hundred years when Amazon started.

There are no examples of the working rideshare buisness anywhere in the world. It’s very strange, given that cabs are well understood. It’s even more surprising that rideshare companies are promising profitability on autonomous vehicles that don’t exist, and won’t exist anytime soon.
Along the same lines in theme with crafting potions for sale, you may find Alchemists [1] enjoyable as it's a game of deduction however you can still press-your-luck once you've reduced possible solutions into a tolerable risk. This allows for very methodical play to be rewarded but still allows those who are willing to gamble for leg up which can be a fun dynamic to balance.

One recommendation if you do play is to download the companion app. The game in essence requires a third-party player to validate potions with hidden solutions for the other palyers. The app takes care of role so everyone involved can be playing the game.

[1] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/161970/alchemists
Hunter gathers made large waste piles a 100,000 years ago. They are called shell midens and other things. We only see a fraction of these because sea level was much lower then.
There are really strong parallels between this and the Ted Hill NYJM fiasco. And, like the physicists in this story, professional mathematicians pointed out that Hill's paper was wildly inappropriate for the venue. Both Hill and Strumia tried to launder their institutional credibility into authority to make political arguments. Arguably, Hill was more successful, even if his stunt was more egregious.
As someone who's done a bit of Rust, I'm starting to see its influences just reading that list of features.
Is this real? If so, please elaborate.
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I've come across some crazy filenames under UNIX before and most originate from SMB connections to PCs. Ones I've seen had '*' and '&' in their names amongst other combinations. The craziest I ever saw had several '#' in their name and that was interpreted by the bash script as a comment!
Off topic, but isn't it amazing that shipping garbage across many oceans is profitable?