skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't offer a refund. If they have been a good client overall, offer them an alternative. A concession of some sort. Perhaps a discount for next couple of payments (if subscription based). Work something out where you don't lose money from your past but you may have to give up something in the future. The reason is that you already have worked hard in the past to get that money. A concession in future will first put the responsibility back on client and you have the freedom to say "we can give you a concession but we may reduce some of the features/support etc".

I would reply with something like:

"Unfortunately a refund would not be fair to our team based on the work we have done so far for you. However, you are an excellent client and we would love to give you some type of concession for future and we can offer you xyz. I hope this helps you. Let me know if you have any questions on this concession offer"

Use words where you make the client feel guilty about asking for refund (because frankly, they shouldn't). However, you still sound like you are trying to help them. Win-Win.
We use it in our main application. We have more than 2000 rules and with JNI, we have been able to add web services.
If you only reflect a portion of the power, say 80%, then only 10 kW is absorbed as heat.

I suspect the flow of air around the missile provides effective cooling.
You overestimsate the amount of random research a Professor is able to do these days.
Looked more closely, indeed you’re right.

That section discusses an optional mechanism how the kernel gets notified about new IO requests submit by the application. It’s not for IO completion polling. For that use case, having a kernel thread per uring makes perfect sense.
We want to replace fossil fuels with renewable fuels, at the largest possible scale, over 300 billion gallons of fuel per year. Point sources of CO2 and biofuels can't scale to this level.
Time is money, sometimes the cost to purchase somethings COTS is a no brainer (especially if it offers support!).

Bootstrap has the other advantage of being pretty well designed so if your template isn't quite right they are easy to change, something which I've found to be rare with other COTS solutions.
Why Robotaxis in 2020 Are Impossible and More Truths About Autonomous Vehicles
That is a horrible set of shortcuts. Who uses the Game bar or dictation bar? Who needs a shortcut for Settings? Are you really opening your settings screen so often that a shortcut actually improves your efficiency? If so, do you do actual work on your machine or do you just play with Windows on it. How many seconds in a day are you going to save with the Settings shortcut, and isn't that number going negative when counting the time it takes to learn and remember the short cut?

Who needs a shortcut to Ease of Access settings, or to the narrator? Who needs Start+, if you already have Start+D?

Start+Ctrl+D opens a new virtual desktop? Despite me never using virtual desktops? And now I have to learn all about virtual desktops (while I don't need them) to correct my accidentally pressing the Start button too when I was typing Ctrl+D. Thanks guys, for making every key-combo some or the other shortcut for stuff I don't need. My windows experience is quite good but for the growing fear of accidentally hitting some unknown shortcut and screwing things up.

Microsoft, please start removing shortcuts that no one needs, you surely must have all the telemetry data to support my point by now.
Strongly agree with this. My company has its own coding standards and openly acknowledges that they are not objectively "the right way to do it", because such a thing does not exist. Instead, they define rules to make our code (relatively) safe and consistent.

The Linux kernel has another set of rules that differ in numerous ways (e.g. not wrapping single-line statements under a conditional in braces). Their rules are not strictly better or worse, just different and define their set of common idioms.

Another thing that the MD said to me during my interview was "code ought to be boring, testing can be interesting".
The output of a computer program can be unsolveable, even though the source of the program has finite characters. It's the same thing. (Literally: you're building an interpreter out of cards.)
Adding to your list: tanneries, machine shops, and dry cleaning outfits. All of which use solvents that are, succinctly, not good for human health.

Old rail right-of-ways are also to be looked at with suspicion. Once upon a time trains sometimes left point A full of waste for disposal at a facility at point B and arrived with a lot less waste than they were loaded with (thus saving the folks at point A a lot of money).
What does this mean? I can shape a network some other way?
Here's a demo of Unity3D's new retained mode UIElements user interface for the editor, that lets you wrap old immediate mode IMGUI code in IMGUIContainer wrappers!

https://youtu.be/MNNURw0LeoQ?t=17m37s
> ...all the things that happen to poor households generally happen more intensively to black households.

That was kinda my point, but black communities being over-represented among the population at risk does not mean necessarily imply that this action was a targeted predatory action against the black community. If you sample the population of these areas, you're obviously going to find samples representative of larger marginalised communities.
Do you have WSL installed? It's not part of Windows by default (at least not since I checked)
The existing RIM-116 does spin in flight. However it's designed for use on surface ships, not aircraft.
Using the Abstract Factory Pattern
The cold war was not honorable. You let non-US/soviets do the actual fighting. In almost every other conflict on the world, the US and Soviets were picking sides and supporting militants. Millions were killed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_proxy_wars#Cold_War_pr...
Let's invert the argument:

Before abolishing unified time

I want to call my Uncle Steve in Melbourne. What are the working hours there? Google tells me it is currently 7:00 to 15:00 there. It's probably best not to call right now.

After abolishing unified time

I want to call my Uncle Steve in Melbourne. When are the working hours there? it's 8:00 to 16:00, same as it is here, of course! Same as it is in New York, Bangalore and Hawaii, at the South Pole and on the Moon.

You get the point...
What I learned after writing Clojure for 424 days, straight
Could you give a source for that? My understanding after some search is that effect of high-altitude water is hard to evaluate. I agree that at high altitudes contrails may evaporate and the water then may not fall down... Is it possible that jet exhaust water vapor accumulates in stratosphere? That would be terrible.
That's it - thanks!
I never saw cremation as environmentally friendly. I won't to feed worms and trees when I die, not turn to CO2 and heat up the atmosphere.

My plan for years now has been to get buried in a wicker coffin in a forest. Not an enclosed coffin, no embalming, no neat graveyard, just as natural as possible underground with a tree on top.
Secure ultra-fast 5G internet – America first National Security Strategy
I think it's also dependent on whether you are a morning or an evening person. I'm very much the latter, and if there was more sunlight early in the morning I would better be able to get up and be on time at work with less stress. I can continue as late as I want in the evening or night without outside light, so I have little need for a later sunset.
This is why videos are allowed to autoplay if muted.

Otherwise sites would use GIFs or something like this, which is much less efficient.
We should train another neural network to produce the initial values for the target network. Training data would be the initial values of the sub network along with its loss. Then we have the network generate initial values that are more likely to lead yo useful sub networks.
> Not really, this is just a simple case of settler colonialism

wrong on so many level it's not even funny.
worth noting One Punch Man started out in a web toonish delivery mechanism before being turned into manga.
All car manufacturers will do both once SDC tech is commoditised which will happen almost immediately
It's funny, I was seriously considering doing just that a day or so ago. I think I might.
Understanding Perceptions of Problematic Facebook Use
> So, you're saying that you think what Internet Explorer is a great browser? Because everything Google did, Microsoft did (modulo monopoly lawsuit) back in its day.

But not vice versa, which is among the reasons the analogy is flawed.

> a monopoly doesn't need to own 100% of the market. What defines a monopoly is omnipresence and leveraging existing market imbalances to expand into other markets.

No, that's wrong. What defines a monopoly is absence of competition in practice (the common test for which is pricing power, which demonstrates whether the market sees “competitors” in a named market segment as actual competitors or players in isolated adjacent markets), not mere omnipresence. The leveraging you refer to is abuse of monopoly if a monopoly exists, not part of the what defines a monopoly.
anovikov and I are referring to filesize.
Russia didn't move to a single timezone, they moved all their timezones to permanent daylight savings time and later moved them one hour back to permanent standard time.
Ooh, neat!
Warning: May be inappropriate comments ahead.

I stumbled upon the topic many years ago when I was looking at online publishing and making money. And Webtoons in South Korea caught my eyes, It was in its early days but I first thought it was some idea that will be destined to fail. Simply because I don't believe there is a market that are willing to pay for it, the content were; Amateur at best. And it was too easy to private.
I was wrong. I knew I was wrong because it is gaining momentum not only in Japan, but also across in SEA.

There are two distinct category that Web Toons, and specially South Korea Webtoons excel in. LGBT and Adult Content.

In LGBT I have no idea the audience were huge, with distribution channel like the web, even a small percentage would be a massive Number. And it was amazing to see lots of female secretly fantasise about Gay Man. And unlike man where many are privating porn, they are very much willing to pay for it.

Then there is Hentai, ( the world actually means something else in Japanese but its English form is mostly used to describe Porn in Cartoons or 2D ). I mean, who enjoys it? And even if they did, who is wiling to paid for it? Again turns out the audience is actually gigantic. Pornhub even confirmed this when they release their data analysis.

One day I chatted with an old friends, he is a real life translator who used to do subtitle for Anime as hobby and ask him what is he up to. Turns out he was doing these Webtoons translation from Korean and was making good money. Good not in terms of amount, but in terms of time spent vs money made. As it was much easier to do compared to Animation.
> I won't to feed worms and trees when I die, not turn to CO2 and heat up the atmosphere.

If you're buried won't you turn into methane and then CO2 anyway?
Continuations: A Simple Sketch
The "bad/good" attribute is not helpful, but if we replace that with "people who obsess about memory safety or not" then the conclusion holds.

The security problems of C and C++ programs are caused by the fact that it takes effort to write safe code in those languages and most programmers/companies can live just fine with the safety they can reach with less effort. Bugs are opened, the code is patched and the world goes on.

And because those people don't obsess over memory safety, they won't switch to Rust either, unless something else happens to force them to. E.g: great job opportunities, official toolchain in Rust, etc.

Maybe C and C++ are due to be replaced, but hopefully not by Rust, because at least back in 78 they could create a language that's at least moderately fun to use.
The one thing I do not like about neural networks is that they completely abstract the programmer from the problem they are solving. After the neural network is extensively trained, it’s very difficult for even the creator to look at the resulting data structure and make sense of how the problem is actually being solved. I think this is one major reason why neural networks successes have been so confined to specific problems; it’s nearly impossible to predictably modify and improve on a duly functioning and trained multi hidden layer network without starting from scratch and completely retraining it.
Show HN: A Neural Network for Graph Similarity Computation WSDM'19 (PyTorch)
I played Netrunner a lot, and it beats MTG in base rules(as i do mean absolute minimum of MTG rules) complexity.

When it comes to cards themselves, and their effect on gameplay, it blows netrunner away.

Just look how effect layers are constructed, or even a simple stack and priority itself, not to mention infinite loops.

I do agree that i had way more fun playing Netrunner, mostly because you cannot be mana screwed/flooded like in mtg - as you can spend action to get resources or cards.
Don't forget Margaritaville where it's always 5pm.
Contrary to what I said above, it seems the effect of jet exhaust water is more complicated and hard to evaluate... the problem is that unless there is enough water for condensation, water molecule is lighter than oxygen or nitrogen molecule, which means the high altitude vapor isn't likely to fall down quickly.
China only has a single timezone, and it's nearly as wide as the IS.
what's up with this infantilism that's going around in your posts?

you know this is a complex issue, but still prefer to ignore the facts. seems to me you have an agenda.
This article does not commit to an answer - it's essentially a "cold read" response. No hard information like "celebrity endorsements used to work, see XYZ", either.
Ray-Strips: A Compact Mesh Representation for Interactive Ray Tracing (2007) [pdf]
Just signed up hoping for scala but it wasn't there.

Is that something you would be looking at adding?
As a step in that direction, have you considered propanalol with a trained therapist? It's non-narcotic
You said:

>Imagine power plant stack exhausts channeled through this technology

What's I'm saying is, if you have spare energy available to power the converter, you're better off reducing the hydrocarbon power plant output and replacing that output with your 'spare' energy supply. Doing so would be dramatically more efficient.

The only case this doesn't apply is if there is no way to substitute your spare available energy for the output of the hydrocarbon plant, but I can't think of such a situation, at industrial scale, off the top of my head.
ogv.js does Theora, VP8, VP9, and AV1 video and Opus and Vorbis audio:

https://github.com/brion/ogv.js

https://brionv.com/log/

A demo which lets you select various codecs to try out. You can, for example, play 720p VP9 video in Safari with the WebAssembly build of the decoder:

https://brionv.com/misc/ogv.js/demo/
Some friends and I tried playing Nomic using GitHub and CI. We played three games before getting bored and moving on:

* https://www.jefftk.com/p/nomic-report-iii-conclusion

* https://www.jefftk.com/p/nomic-game-2-another-conclusion

* https://www.jefftk.com/p/nomic-game-3
Locked Computers
You are not providing any evidence that links desire for punishment with high crime rates.

You are talking about "longer sentences, increased incarceration" and that's not the point.

Ironically, large part of modern psychology and neurology has developed in the US.
Why did old PCs have key locks? (2017) [video]
More cards is not seen as an advantage. There are a couple cases where you may want more cards, but usually up to about 75. It's about drawing the right cards, not just many, and more cards makes your deck less reliable, simply on the likelihood of drawing the card you want.
Hi this is imake from the Elk team. I'm happy to discuss any claims you feel are unbelievable.

To reiterate what I mentioned in an earlier comment, our true value is in the full experience of developing blockchain applications for embedded devices, which we strongly believe is 10x better than solutions that exist today.

We didn't share details on hardware specs, and part of the reason we haven't done so yet is because we don't want to frame the conversation into specs - we won't necessarily beat other boards in the market when it comes to specs, and it's not our intention to do so.

Our intention is to make a plug-and-play Arduino-like device for embedded blockchain development. We want to an experience where you won't have to fuss over setting up a node, tuning its parameters to run well on a low embedded device, handle crashes, etc.

That's part of the reason why we chose to build our own hardware, it's because nothing existed that would allow us to give the developer experience we have in mind: breadboard compatible, 3.3v and 5v tolerant, integrated emmc preloaded with our OS, plug-and-play as a regular micro controller board not a single board computer, an RGB LED for indicating status, and no irrelevant and unneeded ports (HDMI, Audio, Ethernet, camera, etc).

We'll be adding more details and shedding more light into our development experience in upcoming blog posts. Please subscribe at https://elk.cc to learn more.

Happy to address any other concerns you might have.
Well, that's a bit like asking "what's with the obsessive emphasis on programming computers, after all they're just objects that compute?"

Yes, neural networks are objects that compute; there's even this "universal approximator" theorem that says a basic, albeit sufficiently large, neural network can approximate any arbitrary function (from a broad class of functions) to arbitrary precision. However, the theorem says nothing about whether you'll ever actually _find_ the neural network that corresponds to that function. This is what training is for, it allows us to find (the parameters of) the NN that we want to do some computation.

In other words, training is how we program NNs, but in general it can be really hard to arrive at the "program" you're looking for.
> but you don't have a right to consume every piece of media ever created in every region around the world all the time.

Oh you do. Artists and general creatives often tumble into the trap of thinking they can control the spread of their work following public release. You cannot control the zeitgeist of a generation. If your work is popular than the moment you print it, its spread is out of your hands. IP, copyright and legal action are lossy mechanisms that work against the prevailing system. I'm not saying they don't have value (they very much do!) but when your product is consumer-grade content that don't have infrastructure you own baked into its operation you'll find your stuff being obtained illegally if you don't make it available legally and quickly.

I've seen break-dancers expect to be able to have exclusive rights to movement into perpetuity enforced by community-driven shaming tactics (doesn't work) and I've read enough scanlations to know that the Japanese approach to print manga is negligent of the ramifications of globalisation. When you publish, its gone. You have to be more prepared at publish time in the modern era.
You have creature type (a list of tags basically). A Human Soldier or a Goblin Wizard is common in MTG.
Unless you really really want a Battle of Wits deck (which is maybe tier 7) there is really no advantage and quite a bit of a disadvantage to running more than the minimum allowed number of cards.
Pulsed femtosecond lasers have repeat rates in the megahertz. The total energy is very high. When I took laser physics in grad school, they were able to drop a razor blade through the beam and slice it in half. That was in 2013.

So yeah, pulsed lasers can do it, and I'm certain the Air Force would rather be using them. They are finnicky though.
> we absorb CO2 and water vapor from the air into an aqueous electrolyte....to get the fuel out of the water...we have a carbon nanotube membrane

Considering the partial pressure of CO2 in the atmosphere is miniscule, the eventual concentration of the product will also be very low. And because the water molecule is the smallest, you will not be extracting fuel from the solution, but rather extracting water until the fuel concentration is sufficient. Together, this implies that the energy expended in separation must be high, and therefore the process must be inefficient. Is this correct, or have I made a bad assumption somewhere?
How PowerDNS Is Open Source and a Successful Business
Relevant: https://twitter.com/TeddyEAC/status/1125665801493798912

> To clarify, Easy Anti-Cheat still provides native Linux support and will continue to do so. Earlier comments by a partner reflect ordinary day-to-day prioritization decisions on anti-cheat issues across all platforms and not any change in long-term priority for Linux.
A Blog Adventure: Writing a Proxy for Postgres to RediSQL, Day 1
'cause I screwed up and didn't pay enough attention when copy/pasting out of two different browser windows.

There's a May 6th dates 8.0.9 version that fixes the intermediate cert chain issue that disables no script in the TOR browser. Which is _kinda_ critical if you're hoping it'll not leak too much information via javascript tricks...
I think we might be talking about two different things. (You're losing me with the "dying people" remark. Not sure what you're driving at)

I'm only suggesting common repository hosting would be a benefit to humanity, so that source code can be persisted beyond the whims of a private company and accessible by all.

I'm not suggesting that anybody should be forced to use it.
If you base yourself in QC you'll have access to cheap and 100% green hydro electricy 24/7.
Back in college, I started using what I knew for what I wanted to do. I ended up with a blog using Java EE and Postgres. Total overkill (it's FAST!), but it's been fun over the years to toy with not just blog things (like implementing Markdown, full text search, and backup/restore), but HTTP things (like SRI and CSP).
Ablative is also used in terms of the mechanism of carrying away the heat with the evaporating material. A non-ablative heat shield like the space shuttle's just takes a lot of energy to heat up but will still carry all that energy with it and it'll slowly diffuse into connected components (that then heat up a lot due to their lower specific heat capacity).

Edit: I didn't think of space but in space this could even be more viable since the ejecta from the ablative heat shield will just stay with a body in free fall and further scatter incoming radiation at least a little.

I rather thought about shorter engagements where a missile only takes tens of seconds and needs to be destroyed quickly. Each second an ablative shield buys improves the chances of a hit.
It's in the headline image.
Beyond Rome: AMD's EPYC and Radeon to Power World's Fastest Supercomputer
Function that supplies value, can also encapsulate alot of data generation code. After that you can write a strategy to select which data generation algorithm (supplier) shpuld be used.

Thats my cause.
https://github.com/copy/v86
Indiana does the Arazona thing, where they don't do time change. They likely want to stick with it.
The Internet Has a Cancer-Faking Problem – Munchausen by Internet
ProtonMail is dropping support for Internet Explorer 11