skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every IT pro should work in a mainframe environment at some point (2015)
It was touch and go there for a while, but I'm happy to have avoided contributing to those statistics.

Every day is a gift, folks.
As a long time user and a big fan of Foreflight, this announcement chilled me to my very core. Jeppesen is the very definition of rent seeking, predatory, lock-in company. I deal with them because there is literally no other source for the data my airplane’s avionics need to fly legally in our IFR airspace.

Foreflight offers everything Jeppesen offers (other than avionics data subscriptions) in a vastly cheaper and more usable manner.

Boeing also bought Jeppesen a few decades ago- I was a pre Boeing Jeppesen customer too. I feel a dreadful surety that new Foreflight will become predatory like Jeppesen. There were already signs that way, anyway, with each round of new features requiring a “higher level” of subscription with Foreflight.

Oh well, technology company startup costs being what they are (almost nil) I will excitedly await the next entrant if my fears are realized.

PS: Non professional use for me.
On mobile as you scroll through it cycles through some large photos, breaking the flow of the text. I had to stop trying to read it.
In my opinion, it is because they are freaking Orcale, they don't do anything for free. Heck they recently started charging for the Java runtime. Some that has been free for over 20 years.

I really hate to say this, but I wish IBM had bought Sun instead of Oracle. Even better I really wish Sun had managed to pivot and stay an independent company.
This is a quite old idea, called ensembling, and it works really well with all sorts of machine learning algorithms.
I'm a fairly recent PhD, but on the whole I had a very positive time. It took some time to figure out what I wanted my research to be, and that was the most stressful part (first two years/in conjunction with a Masters). After that, it became pretty fun, with a very flexible schedule, very talented, driven and supportive people around me, and the ability to work on what I want with a lot of academic freedom.

One thing I emphasize to all the new graduate students/people thinking of grad school is that, of course, pursue research that is interesting, but also to make sure to pick a good adviser, one who's PhD students can vouch for in private. That was key for me and many of the people I know to having a good versus bad PhD.
But that's not really what the post is about. It's about having an excuse to free your brain for 4 minutes. The fact that it's not a big deal to brew it is precisely the point. It's automatic, so your brain can wander.
A lot depends on advisor-student compatibility. Different students need different mentorship styles, and some students require a lot more hands on help than others. Research is incredibly hard, especially when just starting.

Much of my stress during my PhD was self imposed. I felt like I needed to keep up with the peers I respected, and I knew the metrics required to get the jobs I wanted were hard to reach. It's very easy to get stuck in your own mental bubble. That said, as a professor, I became much more sympathetic to my own advisor. It's easy to criticize when you haven't actually done the job.

Now that I'm a PI, I feel a massive responsibility to my lab members. Being a professor is far harder than any job I had in industry. I spent most of my time helping students do research and fund raising to pay them a pittance (6% success rates for my NSF programs). I also had innumerable other tasks. Seeing my PhD students do well and become leaders in the field has been immensely rewarding, though. Keeping the lab going requires that we all do good work (publishing great papers in top places) or my students won't get good jobs and I won't be able to get money to pay them or educate the next group.
Are there any resources to find companies that give back their profits to society, especially to environment?
Hell no, first class support for ZFS is a selling point, if it was GPL customers could go elsewhere to get that.
It's about what's trending. Recent stats on US life expectancy showed an overall drop. Heart disease and (I think) cancer trended down (as it has for years), but that was more than offset by the up trend in suicide and overdoses. I'm not sure what the definition of "emergency" is, but I'd say the data shows suicide and OD are the top concerns at the moment.
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going plant based improved my health dramatically too. i used to think i was carnivorous. turns out i was just speeding up aging
Even with a tiny change in relative proportions within transport, road vehicles still use vastly more fuel than aviation in the UK. Without absolute tonnage of emissions, and relative proportion of commercial and private, I can't see a way to invalidate his claim or prefer aviation as culprit. It sounds perfectly reasonable and the least controversial assumption from data available: cars are the big majority of the largest fuel user, though commercial traffic may get low enough mpg to emit disproportionally large amounts.
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I want to nip this falsehood in the butt as I am studying this for my PhD.

IBS has many causes one main of is people having an autoimmune disease due to the bodily production of anti-vinculin from molecular mimicry of the toxin causing food poisoning anti-cdtb.

The remaining causes are related to MAST cell destabilization, SIBO, etc. Anxiety is thought to play a role in symptom management in the same way having being anxious about a broken foot will make you foot hurt more.
Google is a corporation, the only goal of corporation is to make money.

So yes, that is the biggest reason - their business objective. It just happened that it also did something good for everyone.
Nasa astronauts are scheduled for the first all-female spacewalk in history
Former "National Security Advisor" is pretty senior.
The idea I guess is that many project historically use the power of the decimals to indicate major from minor versions.

That’s it.

This ”scared” and ”terror” talk is a bit unnecessary as the only one interested in numbers in a version no. is someone selling it.

Linus is mocking this very fact by arbitrarily raising the kernel version.
There isn't a "safe or bug free" codebase in any language for any complex software project. The only code that you could possibly verify as "safe" are simplest of programs.

There is always a trade-off between complexity, security and performance.
> Maybe you can address the observation already made by dotaro about Intel making literally 20 different variations of the same CPU's, scaling from the ULV end with low clock speeds and limited cooling options, all the way up to the HPC end where clock speeds, TDP, etc. are large multiples of what goes into the ULV parts?

Just because you can scale down an HEDT- or HPC-focused design to the point of making it run as a ULV chip under very challenging thermals, doesn't mean that the resulting chip will perform very well. We've seen this time and time again with x86 vendors trying and failing to enter the lucrative "mobile" segment. And it's not clear why we should expect a different outcome when mobile-focused vendors try the reverse play, by attempting to "scale up" their existing designs. One size very much doesn't fit all in the semiconductor industry.
> And computers can't, yet.

Yes they can. Computers have been writing safe code in various languages for decades: they're called compilers/transpilers. Maybe this is one of those situations where we define AI as "things we don't know how to program yet": we said being good at chess would require intelligence, once computers got good at chess they became 'just tree search'. It sounds like you're imagining that automating programming requires some currently-unknown approach, when others would say it's 'just compiling'.

Of course, we need to tell the computer what code to write. We do that using a programming language.

It could be the same language (C++), but that seems a bit pointless. Furthermore, since C++ allows unsafe code, using C++ to tell the computer what we want means that we're able to ask for unsafe things (if we want to). That makes the computer's job ambiguous:

- Should it always do what it's told, and hence write unsafe code when asked? (In which case, it doesn't solve the "write safe code" task we're talking about)

- Should it always write safe code, and hence not always do what it's told? (In which case, where do we draw the line? Would it be valid to ignore all input and always write out `int main() { return 0; }`?)

We can avoid this ambiguity if we forbid ourselves from asking for unsafe things. In other words, providing a guarantee about the code that the computer writes is the same as providing that guarantee for the instructions we give it (i.e. the input programming language).

For example, if we don't want the computer to ever write memory-unsafe code, that's the same as saying we can't ever tell it to write memory-unsafe code, which is the same as saying that we should instruct it using a memory-safe language.

That way, it's possible for a computer to not only write safe C++ in a codebase of arbitrary complexity; but (more importantly) to write safe C++ code that does something we want, and the instructions specifying what we want can be arbitrarily complex.
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This is from 2015.

It seems like they didn't get much far with the open source software they claim to be using/developing. On their website there is a link to a Dropbox folder where people can download some spreadsheets and documents to implement their method, but nothing more.

I am a little bit skeptical, because some of the claims are hard to believe. For example they cite noise reduction as a benefit, but no plantation, no matter how dense, provides any significant noise reduction.
I think the bigger problem is that A/B only measures certain things and following it blindly can have you descending in important ways that are hard to measure.
Lobbyist? He was the head of the campaign and selected Mike Pence! Trump wanted Chris Christie.
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That quote doesn't mean that the journalists have been convicted of crimes. It means they have dossiers/database tracking on them just for being there, reporting the violence, etc. Doing their jobs as reporters. If the agency wanted to find out what started the incidents in question, the agents should swiftly identify that journalists couldn't be the cause and dismiss them instead of keeping a database of them.
How practical would it be to produce a 2D UI using a framework built on these kinds of APIs? I'm wondering if there's a future down the road for multi-platform desktop apps with the convenience of Electron-like development and distribution, but where the native clients are able to be much thinner than a whole browser.
> Maybe you can address the observation

it's addressed. it's literally on the first line of the comment you're replying to.

> limited cooling options

and again, you can't just 'cool away' leakage currents, that's not how it works, that's not how any of this works.
I really enjoy the whole ritual. Heat up the water, grind the beans, SMELL them, pour the water over. It's honestly just a nice little habit that I find think is a calm way to start my mornings. Even if it takes a little more time, the routine of it is great for me.
The War on Terror is not an officially declared war through Congress. The last declared war was WWII
https://outline.com/qUN4fp
Yeah, US electrical grid generation is now only 28% coal, and that is continuing to fall.
> only goal of corporation is to make money

A corporation can set any goal the founders please. Making money need not be the dominant one. Obviously making enough to stay solvent helps with longevity.
Fentanyl is dangerous, sure, but until we address the root issues that cause people to take up opiods in the first place (over-prescription, sometimes, but certainly also hopelessness and mental health issues), it'll be an endless game of whack-a-mole.

I think the most cost-effective thing we could do right now to reduce fentanyl deaths is offer test kits free in pharmacies across the country. Anecdotally, the majority of fentanyl deaths I hear of are from people who think they're shooting heroin and don't realize their dope is laced with fentanyl.
Thats actually the name of a village: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanfairpwllgwyngyll

"St Mary's church of the pool of the white hazels near the pool"

But, its also kind of a cheat, since the name was established in order to be the village with the longest name for British railway station. - Some early tourist attraction-thingy. The isle of Anglessey has many natural and cultural sites, that are more interesting than railway station with a really long names though.
If you're interested in these issues, the book Lost Connections by Johann Hari is very good: https://jakeseliger.com/2018/07/26/lost-connections-uncoveri...
The Devil already has enough advocates. Please stop spamming HN with bad-faith noise.
FreeBSD isn't "switching" to ZoL but it's a consolidation of effort as the FreeBSD related personnel come on board to ZoL.
> Small projects should not shy from the monolithic design. It offers higher productivity for smaller teams

Wow. Has the author any real-world experience from using micro-services? Or is it just word-of-mouth? Because I have a complete different take on this.
There's a PDF of it available as well: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/356/6344/1249.full...
I'm genuinely interested in why you find it cleaner, please elaborate?
They don't seem to be offering that for OEL though.
That's nothing. I once had a "pro" put my (clearly-marked asymmetric) tires on backward. That was a hella wobbly ride away from the shop. Another "pro" once inflated my tires to 80 PSI.
That's just pure whataboutism
It's not, because it never made sense. She was a nobody and the things she reported on where reported by others.

One of her allegations of hacking was a stuck delete key [1]

[1] https://www.vox.com/2014/10/31/7140247/the-right-is-convince...
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How do they know/enforce that? (Put a different way, if I were a journalist what would stop me entering the same way as Joe Average)
Global vs local maximum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxima_and_minima

Related: what's the best for one part of the system, may not be the best for the entire system.
Being affluent or rich doesn't makes your life meaningful by itself.

Some very poor workers enjoy their craft and are 100% fulfilled by it, some very rich celebrities lost themselves in their money and fame. I tend to think that having a community has more importance than money in that regard.
People survived in the past by working 12+ hours a day 7 days a week, but they had strong family bond (someone sick wouldn't get paid, no welfare, no pension, &c ..).

If anything (too much) money enables you to go down the rabbit hole and amplify your vices.
I suspect it might rise more. With a culture that predominantly revolves around party/fun culture where you drink alcohol and consume drugs, when youth of other cultures are busy planning their life and studies & career, where youth in U.S. is more inclined towards partying and porn and care free lifestyle; No wonder the numbers might rise.
I don't understand this "upside" variation vs "downside" variation. It seems like the same thing to me. My gas car gets stuck in traffic sometimes and will vary regardless of the roads. In fact, that variance described was on the exact same commute, due to differences in time of day, traffic, and weather. Often it gets over 30, sometimes well under it. It really isn't so different from electrics in practical terms.
It's possible, I think, to appreciate and enjoy (and spend time on) good cooking - or coffee - without the kind of (IMO unhealthy) dependency suggested by "I can not imagine my day without aeropress or chemex".

Perhaps that was just hyperbole by Griceraae50100. I hope so.
Sounds like a succession of "almost bad" names: "Robertson" (robber), "Griffith" (grifter/grifteth?), "Forgeron" (forger)
Give this a go: https://outline.com/e3h5H2
And then there's this:

https://www.industrytap.com/worlds-15-biggest-ships-create-m...
If you are investigating or otherwise overseeing the border, would it not be useful to have a list of journalists who are actively gathering on-the-ground intel (for their jobs)? This is a weak attempt to make it look like the Obama era abuses a la Sheryl Attkinson.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/01/29/sharyl_at...
I quite like the idea of allowing advertisers to create profiles, but only with one week of data. I would support that as a regulatory constraint. You might get the same basic results analytically, but it feels less invasive to know that if I don’t want something to be known, it’ll be gone in a week.
French press for me. I buy my beans weekly from a local roaster and grind them at purchase.

I think I get mot of the upside of 100% fresh ground and pour-over with a bit less work. And I start cooking breakfast while the water boils, so no time lost.

At work, it's generic machine coffee. It doesn't taste great, but it keeps me going.
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As always, Azeria produces quality and informative articles! Goto place for learning about ARM techniques
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> Rust has one really outstanding feature -- a borrower checker that makes it memory safe. Adding that to C++ would be a compatibility-breaking change. So then, while they were at it, they changed lots of other things. It's a whole different language, separate syntax, generics that work differently than templates, different standard library, etc.

> I understand the desire to make changes. Many of the changes are improvements, and C++ can be ugly. But it's the devil we know. A version of it with the minimum necessary changes to add a borrow checker would have me using it already, and I expect I am not the only such person.

What you say would make sense if Rust were based on C++. I've never heard anyone say that.

I was under the impression that Rust is a derivative of ML, and (to me, at least) it looks very much like StandardML or OCaml with a borrow checker.

(I don't know C++, so I can't personally comment on how similar or different it is from Rust)
It seemed like an experiment in the first place. They have the possibilities to dump money for these kinds of market tests.
Terminal emulators benchmarking suite (2018)
> Except that nearly all the RISCs have a 16-bit instruction extension

Notably, ARM64 is one RISC ISA that doesn't have that sort of extension.
It's not based on Metal API. There is quite a bit of confusion in here, let me clarify. Originally, Apple called their (WebGL Next?) prototype WebGPU, and it looked like Metal. Then the W3C group was formed with all the browser vendors, and they agreed to give that name to the group's work. That doesn't relate to the actual prototype code, which was implemented in Safari preview and is about to be removed from there.

Today, WebGPU takes some bits from Metal and Vulkan, it is not fair to say that it's "based on Apple Metal API".
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ARM64 doesn't have a 16-bit instruction mode any more
30K per hour doesn't seem like a lot.
Of course it was. But also, comfortable middle-class folk get used to lots of comfortable things and can't imagine living without them. Like cars and roads and a warm house and a good grocery store. Unless those things change drastically then wanting and getting good coffee is way, way down on the list of 'unhealthy dependency'.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19316161
"Chrome has probably invested > 1 billion dollars into their codebase at this point. Certainly >100million into security."

Let's conservatively say Google pays 1,000 developers to work on Chrome, and on average those developers cost Google $300k each. That's $300 million a year just in payroll. Google has invested far more than a billion in Chrome by this point.
That still dosen't make spying by NSA 'good'.
I’ve seen several people in the industry claim that Basel encouraged many of the problems. I don’t know enough about banking to say whether that’s true or not.
We have fairly non-terrible coffee at our office available almost always on demand. Yet still there are a non-trivial number of us who opt to brew single cups either with Aeropress, or cone pour over.

The author nails it. Often it's more about the ritual of taking a few minutes to do something that isn't work. The fact you get a nice cup of coffee is a bonus. Others in our office do the same thing by walking out the front door and over to the indie coffee place literally around the corner.
There is an imgui port to wgpu-rs in progress - https://github.com/unconed/imgui-wgpu-rs . I don't know how feasible it would be to compile it to WASM later on, we'll see.
For me, the most useful page of the linked PDF is page 22, the tables of 1999-2015 stats, without any projections. I see numbers from the CDC for general population like:

Alcohol deaths per 100,000
1999 2015 Pct Increase
7.0 10.3 47%

Drug deaths per 100,000
1999 2015 Pct Increase
6.9 16.3 136%

Suicide deaths per 100,000
1999 2015 Pct Increase
10.5 13.8 31%

So, devil's avocado -- anecdotes aside, is this all just due to the opioid epidemic?

Ie, the US is in the middle of a widespread opioid problem right now, and suicide and alcohol use may correlate.

I would love to see some tables that compare this specific data across multiple countries over the same time frame, as that could help tease apart how much of this is really fallout from one single problem in the US, the opioid crisis -- and, if not, what factors might be involved ('are there other countries on a similar track? What do they have in common with the US?').

I wonder if OurWorldInData might be interested ...

Edit: others have posted the link below, with what might be 1 of the 6 sources of data that would be helpful for this comparison: recent global suicide stats by country. (Ideally we'd have this for all 3 causes, and then also for 1999).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_r...
That is definitely possible, but in my scenario the discussion wasn't that deep. It was more like the difference between NFS sending lots of small files and HTTP sending a tarball. The real differences were always going to be in the details of the implementation, not the choice of protocol.
Same thought, and my guess is that the gaseous hydrogen does escape slowly. But perhaps there is enough excess stored in the TiH₂ to give the tube a useful lifespan.
* It’s not a simple issue though. Thoroughly affluent kids get hooked. Affluent parents get hooked.*

Didn't some affluent, highly educated guys go to Syria to join terrorists? Anyone can feel left out, ignored - even the wealthy and educated people. Maybe the breakdown of family structures, not having good friendships/relationships, loneliness contribute to these problems? People long to be a part of something- when that doesn't happen, they numb themselves with drugs, join criminal gangs etc.

This is not something that can be fixed by passing some laws or demonizing the affected people, it requires a more empathetic approach than use of force or law.
How can ever parents do something like this. I can't imagine how did she survived, not just physically but emotionally.
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What you want is pretty much HTML isn't it?