skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mainframe hardware is crazy expensive. There was an old saying from an ex-IBM'er that each one came with a free engineer. Because that's how much they cost.
Unless they completely stripped all background tasks, there's still a few wakeup calls from the VM. I didn't mean the execution overhead from emulation.

For example hyperkit.docker not running any container does ~90 wakeups/s on my machine. This comes mainly from just keeping the VM alive. This also prevents deeper sleep for CPUs.
> I've read that it would be incredibly difficult to abuse psilocybin mushroom because humans quickly build up a tolerance. It's also impossible for a human to consume enough psilocybin to kill them.

"Abuse" has a much larger definition than daily use or fatal overdose. Someone ignorant of the effects or with poor judgment might take psilocybin while operating a gas stove, taking care of children, or operating machinery. It's also possible to take too much, take it too frequently, or take it in inappropriate settings and cause real harm to the user. All of which behaviors probably fall under substance abuse.

EDIT: I'm pro-legalization, but I think statements understating risk are just as harmful to society and statements overstating risk.
Also won't work well to protect your face from the UV reflection while skiing. Spring skiing in particular is often too warm to comfortable wear a full face mask.
In spring and early summer, electricity prices in the PNW go negative due to hydropower minimum flows and wind power subsidies.[0] You said capex is low, so setup a bunch and be prepared to get paid to make fuel!

[0] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=5110
Both are highly scalable. The CNT membrane is available in commercial modules now and can scale up further quickly.
Tapes are more expensive and have slower access time. Good for cold storage, not good as HDD replacement.
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> Sort of weird how most "social" games are both a( trash and b( almost entirely single player with a tacked on multiplayer 'tournament' mode in which you play single player against some other player's template.

Most “social games” are like that because if a game isn't like that, even if it has social elements, it's not considered a “social game”, even if on top of the social elements it has either gameplay-affecting (e.g., any of the wargaming.net games) or cosmetic (e.g., PUBG Mobile) lootboxes.
People as individuals don't change, but people as a group change deeply and rapidly. Our societies looked very different 100 years ago, and the rate of change has never been higher
Warning signs include:
Excessive heat, smoke, fire.
CAD software is just a bit more demanding that Outlook..
Best of luck! I do hope new Edge finds success :)
We will definitely take free power whenever possible!
Well, according to some statistics yes...

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/oct/30/religious-p...

but saying christians visit the elderly for a first date does not necessarily imply nobody but christians are generous in any way.
It was always fine to work with your Windows files via /mnt/$driveletter/…

Recent releases of WSL now let you access Linux files that are inside the distro from Windows using a special filesystem driver and magic path (\\wsl$\…)
This is like saying it takes away my responsibility to beat the crap out of my children whenever I feel like it.

Supplying reasonable and preventive healthcare to a child is a parental responsibility, full stop. Now of course every treatment should be weighed fairly based on the treatment itself, but the evidence for vaccinations hugely outweighs the evidence to the contrary.

This is not about personal choice, as child cannot be considered to be able to make those types of decisions, it is about proper parenting. Not only this, but these decisions impact on other children as well.

I live in a third world country where decisions to vaccinate children aren't based on pseudo science, but rather on economic barriers. When there are outbreaks it can be devastating including outcomes such as death.

> just forbid non-vaccinated kids to go to public schools, kindergartens, to ride public transport, etc.

I think fining someone to relieve them of the right of choice to vaccination also isn't as bad as taking away the child's right to it's own freedom. Locking away a child is not a right I want to give out in exchange for the right of non-vaccination.
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> > This will only feed their discourse.

> I don't care. Should we kowtow to every group with "discourse"?

Perhaps the word "discourse" means something different than I thought it meant. I meant to say that forcing vaccinations would only end up making their arguments more plausible.

I do not advocate kowtowing, I advocate carefully choosing a strategy which addresses the main threat here.

Nor do I advocate ignoring them, I merely disagree that fighting them will make them go away.
Official docs: https://docs.python.org/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html#ordering-compa...

> If you really need the cmp() functionality, you could use the expression (a > b) - (a < b) as the equivalent for cmp(a, b)
Intermittent renewable energy like wind also drives cost really low sometimes. This could be an alternative to grid-based storage of electricity. Comparison of capital cost and loss and value of the byproduct would be interesting.
kinda funny...
the talk is precise, touche, and cliche.
Like software engineering 101 from top-notched software companies.
Especially from those top-notched software companies which writing C++ code.
That is, if C++ were not coded in this way mentioned in this talk, the project is just doomed to fail.
But for Go Lang, even you don't coded in these mind sets, the project still works, and maintainable, just that, it's shit code.
> Literally everyone else uses prefix await, so this will be a problem.

Kotlin uses `.await()`.
For comparison, in Sydney, Australia, as of this morning, basic unleaded 91 octane fuel is about AUD 1.35 / litre at best. Which is USD 0.94 at today's exchange rate. Just under USD 4 / US gallon.

Of that, AUD 0.41 is federal fuel excise, and AUD 0.12 is GST.
See https://platform.uno/
I’ve never been worried about being fired for something. Not everyone makes huge fireable mistakes.
I don't see any reference nor any clear argument supporting your claim that RPN and postfix notation are different.

Again, RPN and postfix notation mean the same thing.

Here are some more references that show how these terms are commonly used:

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infix_notation

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_notation

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postfix_notation (which redirects to a page on RPN, which is very strong evidence that your claim is incorrect)

Ok, onto the next thing. You wrote:

> The article describes affixing the word "await" to methods in a programming language as a "postfix" and explicitly contrasts it with a "prefix", which is a linguistic term for affixing words, commonly contrasted with the term "suffix".

I'm not getting your point. I don't think you are summarizing the language accurately. Perhaps you could quote the section of the article at length.

Here is one quote from the article: "The lang team proposes to add the await operator to Rust using this syntax: `expression.await` This is what’s called the “dot await” syntax: a postfix operator formed by the combination of a period and the await keyword. We will not include any other syntax for the await operator."

Here is another quote: "Our previous summary of the discussion focused most of our attention on the prefix vs postfix question. In resolving this question, there was a strong majority in the language team that preferred postfix syntax. To be concrete: I am the only member of the language team that prefers a prefix syntax. The primary argument in favor of postfix was its better composability with methods and the ? operator."

These usages of "prefix" and "postfix" are consistent and idiomatic.

I hope this clears it up.
You can only have a single 4.x version on the box. They all install into the same folder.
You'll notice that I didn't say "your environmental impact will automatically be reduced to near that of a vegan diet by eating a pesco-vegetarian diet."

Changing to a new category of diet does not absolve you of the need to make responsible decisions. You could technically be a very wasteful vegan and have a higher carbon footprint than an omnivore. You could also be a responsible human being and eat a conservative vegetarian diet that is roughly equivalent to a vegan diet but much easier to execute.
Small joint jujitsu solved my problems for years.
Better and better? A comment on Hans Rosling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoIcsj9ysvs
>then it exactly mirrors the if/else-if/else structure.

But it doesn't mirror the if/else-if/else structure. Rather the mirrored semantics looks as follows:

if(a < b)
return -1;
else
if(a > b)
return 1;
else
return 0;

It's interesting that for all the claims in this thread about how obvious the ternary operator is, almost every single person got it wrong.

Is there a functional difference in this example? No. There isn't. Is there a functional difference in any example? I don't think so, but I'm not 100% sure. And the nice thing about not being clever, I don't have to worry about it.
At some point they are going to learn the only lesson in sales that truly matters to long term success: “make the customer like you.” And then we’re all going to laugh at them. Unless Tencents coffers are truly bottomless.
I'm curious what course you majored in?

We are inclined to see the best in our allies. Have you considered in this case your value as a connection, and characteristics as a person, may influence how others treat you? You may have had a different experience from a different perspective.

My observations were that most people are nice, but there are certainly cliques, and even some pretty bad bullying, at a different elite school.
human memory isn't comparable to digital memory. When we recall a person's face we've interacted with we don't beam that information telepathically to others and we (most of us) gradually forget the face over time.
Breaking DRM is against federal law, so... I'm not sure where you are going with this.

It sounds like you really want to bring that up with the Terms of Service of your government.
His earlier talk is great too to get the lay of the land...

Jake VanderPlas The Python Visualization Landscape PyCon 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FytuB8nFHPQ
Interesting stats on the battery replacement, but if my family/youth groups/etc. routinely took 20+ minutes for a gas station bio break, there'd be words. Especially if we had to do it every 150 miles (80-15%).
It seems pretty good at matching parens and braces for C code, although it decided it was finished before outputting the closing brace for the function (the prompt was just the signature):

void send_file(int* fd) {
int file_type;
char *file_name;
size_t name_len;
FILE *fp;
char *name = NULL;
if(fmt::error_code != 0)
return error("Could not set file type");
fp = &file->fp;
size_t file_size = fprintf(fp, "%02x", fp->fname);
if(fp->fname == fp->fname || _FTP_FILE_TYPE == 0) {
fp->fp->fname = 0; // Do nothing for errors
}
/* Write some info to fp */
fp->fp->fd = calloc(1, fd) + (1 + file_size);
fp->fp->sig = calloc(1, &file->sig);
fp->fp->buf = (int *)((size_t)sizeof(*fp));
/* Make sure fp isn't open */
if(!fp->closed) {
// Close fd with error()
fp = new(FTP_FDCALLTYPE) void(1);
fp->fdclose((void *)&fp);
return;
}
fp->fp->buf_len = file_size;
fp->fp->name = name;
file_name = name;
fp->fp->cwd = nullptr;
/* Don't close fd after this point */
fp->fp->fdclose(fprintf(f, "fd open", TRUE));

Not too bad, but I'm not worried about losing my job to a language model anytime soon.
For the reasons mentioned below I'm skeptical that this is a solution to the climate problem. However, certain applications such as air travel do not currently have safe viable non-carbon power sources. Even if this is more expensive than fossil fuel, limited amounts of subsidized zero carbon fuel (~1-2% of consumption iirc) can make air travel sustainable.

Best of luck.
But the commentor's claims seem limited to Christianity as a motivator for their behavior, which is hardly objectionable and a very different thing from your challenge-reading of their words.

Yeah, no. There's a pernicious narrative the United States that christianity has a monopoly on positive, moral behavior. Yet it doesn't take long to find examples of christianity creating atrocious behavior (e.g. Trump, Michael McWhorter, Joel Osteen, Billy Graham). Looking through the poster's comment history it's clear he doesn't miss a chance to extol the virtues of christianity, much to the detriment of whatever else he's trying to communicate.
What about dust, pollens, etc, from the air? Is there a maintenance requirement to clean filters or something? Does the efficiency of ingesting the water vapour and CO2 decrease over time until maintenance is performed?
I think you might be able to build one based on this Vega version https://vega.github.io/vega/examples/wind-vectors/
Plus you need to physically manage the tapes, it is hard work. The alternative being to provision a bunch of hard drives in a NAS and from there it is all software/automated (up to a certain capacity).
I completely agree. Most of the HN readers are too young to remember MS's bad practices.
Batteries still are the main issue with electric cars. The range, charging time and battery life are getting better but still don't match hydrocarbons.

It's just a great storage mechanism.

Storage is also a big issue when it comes to renewables. You could take in carbon in areas with lots of sun and ship the fuel to areas not well suited for solar generation.

This really would be a game changer for lowing the net carbon output.

This also means you could solve one of the big problems in the power grid, peak generation. Use the extra capacity during off peak hours to generate fuel that is later used to fire up power stations to supply peak demand.
Thank you for the detailed description. I wonder what impact may this technology have on nature. Plants after all need CO2 to exist.

Thank you. I’ll be rooting for you.
Is there an upside of arbitration for employees? From what I read it's mostly for the benefit of the company. How is it even legal to forcefully take away the right of settling matters in court?
Assuming that the generated gasoline is used, there's ultimately nothing removed from the air.

It does reduce or eliminate the need to source gasoline from "fossil" sources however.
Looks like a little bit of both. Linux has a lot to catch up because epoll is a mess. It is limited to file descriptors with a readiness semantic (sockets, pipes, ttys) meaning that it will never work with normal files because they are always ready while blocking whenever they feel like it. The second API fuck up is the fork/exec semantic. Oh and they tried to get away with edge triggered instead of level triggered. All in all epoll is a just a nasty case of NIH. The epoll developers just wrote code without understanding the prior art in their field (e.g. kqueue).
Not sure what the agenda is here but this reads like a piece sponsored by rich people intended to test the waters in terms of public opinion.

I think that geoengineering should only ever be done by consensus not unilaterally and only when we have a really good idea of the consequences after all our current situation has been brought about by myopic views on new technology.

Stopped reading when the article diverged into an imaginary future.

No, thank you.
Talk about creepy parenting. I hope she starts recording in his room and they both forget. Then, the next day she listens to him masturbate.
B&H Launching Payboo to Combat Online Taxes
Just received this via email from B&H:

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As the same type of person, I don't think it's laughable ;-) I rock my Ex Officio and Coolibar gear every summer. It's a heck of a lot easier than putting on sunscreen all the time!
> But shouldn’t the author have assumed that his competitor was playing mind games?

It’s not like a tactical feint as you’re suggesting - it’s unsportsmanlike behaviour in the norms of the game.

It’s like mocking someone’s dead mother during a game - I guess it may not contravene any written rule but you’re a pretty rotten person if you do it and you’d be better off not taking part if that’s your approach to things.

It’s such a basic contravention of civility that it’s cheating.
Sorry, upon re-reading you did not conflate the two.

My understanding is that there are few or no private bids for bonds at current interest levels. As you probably know the ECB recently announced an end to QE. Rolling over debt at an interest rate set by the private market is not sustainable. So, the ECB is somewhat trapped. They either renew QE or expose themselves to very high servicing costs set by private buyers.

Hopefully that's clear as mud? Maybe I
m missing something.
There are a lot of agreements like this in cycling. They're even regularly exercised in the Tour de France.

http://theconversation.com/unofficial-rules-of-the-tour-de-f...

Whether or not they're official rules, they do exist to a degree. While I've never heard of someone brokering a deal to not attack, I wouldn't be surprised if they do happen.
Eh...a lot of things that seem like they should be relatively stupid on the surface are loved and revered, maybe even enjoyable. I still don't get why people pour so much over baseball statistics, but clearly its an enjoyable pastime for many.

Some other sources of fun to mull over: Tamogatchis, fantasy football, pulling a lever on a slot machine.

I spent more time playing Adventure Capitalist than I'm really willing to admit to, but despite being an idle game I have to admit it has a fun core game loop that rewards you for checking in on it occasionally. I don't really recommend that game, since its ultimately a huge waste of time, but I'll just admit that it was fun while it lasted.

When I played Universal Paperclip I realized that the whole idle game genre has a lot of untapped potential. That game has neat shifts in gameplay as well as a story arc that ends in a pretty satisfying way. http://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/
So is it fair to say that basically your only constraint is the price of your input electricity?
Same at Brown. Sure nothing is 100% and jerks exist (in all socioeconomic stratum) but I didn’t see many barriers between the children of the rich and famous and those of other backgrounds.
Why is this horrifying? Is there some part of this I'm missing here?
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It's actually a famous quote, i.e.:

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”

- Henry David Thoreau, Walden
The idea is that advertising often gets people to buy things that are bad for them (like maybe an energy drink?) that takes up resources to produce. Maybe people buying virtual digital items is better for society than buying a brand new Corvette.
Interestingly, Genode actually also uses two rings for async bulk transfer RPC (packet streams)[0], only the rings are called submit queue and acknowledgement queue rather than submission queue and completion queue. And since Genode applications do I/O by communicating with a service implementing the block session interface[1], which uses the aforementioned packet streams, Genode essentially uses two ring buffers for async I/O just like Linux does (well, I guess it's more the other way around).

I can definitely recommend reading through the first half of Genode Foundations (the second half is just an API reference). It's really interesting and informative, and it's a surprisingly easy read as well. However, I'd wait till the 19.05 edition gets released, since that should be less than a month's wait if they manage to release it on time.

[0] https://genode.org/documentation/genode-foundations-18-05.pd... (page 92)
[1] (pages 94 & 116)
Yes, major versions install side-by-side (except v2-v3) because they aren't perfectly backward compatible and this is necessary for legacy app support. So, you can need all of .NET Framework 1.1, 3.5, and 4.8 now, and in the future .NET 5.x is added to the list.
https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/New-Zealand/gasoline_pric...

If you change that chart to USD and Gallons you'll find this around the cost of gasoline in New Zealand.
re: waste heat, I've been thinking forever that someone must capture this. I've generally assumed the economics don't work out or no one has cracked it outside of scenarios like regenerative braking. We waste so much energy that we could capture and put back to use.
Most people who go to ivy league are already from the top 1%. From statistics i read a while ago, like 30-40% of ivy league students have household income 300,000 +. There will never be a world in which a child of a single mother working a minimum wage job will ever have a fair competition against a double household of both doctors as parents but with exams this unfairness is slightly reduced. At the very least, unqualified people with rich parents won't get a free ride. The whole elite school MO of admitting a couple under-qualified poor kids is just lip service so people don't question the real injustice going on.
* producing solar panels and such also requires energy input, and these do have limited lifetime. What is the real full-cycle energy conversion ratio is?

I wonder what this is, too, but a typical 300W panel with 20 year lifespan will generate something like 20MWh over its lifetime. You can't possibly use anywhere near that much energy to manufacture it.
No, like this:
https://www.hex-rays.com/products/ida/tech/graphing.shtml

It is sort of like a flow chart, with the assembly shown for each chunk. I've loaded up functions with over 5000 blocks of code, including one function that was a third of a megabyte in size. Navigation becomes important.

Ghidra is supposedly slow at this scale.

I'm also told that Ghidra seems to not do struct offsets in that view, forcing the use of the decompiler. With IDA the struct offsets can be chosen and viewed, all without involving the decompiler.
It makes me feel old to remember buying physical media that will still work today, 30 years later. My fictive grand kids will be able to play those games long after the worms have gnawed my bones.

Whereas my library of virtual assets will probably evaporate into ether before I'm even retired.
I don't think it is that unacceptable. I remember Jalabert giving the stage victory to the other rider at least once in the Spanish la Vuelta the year that he won it (they had been part of a 2-men escape) and more recently Contador did the same thing at least once.
I can't find hardware that I both like and works well with it. The XPS 13 came close, but it had a coil whine you could hear from another room, and I didn't like the track pad.