skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what I'm saying why is Brazil bad in this regard? How is any other place better?
I think it's just people wanting to talk bad about something they don't know.
Statistics is nothing if you are not living it, statistics can be hidden too, look at how many donators vs organ transplants in China.
I remember those: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_Systems

The pad did indeed have a special reflective pattern.

There was also a circular-shaped mouse from that era, now I can't remember if it was DEC or Sun.
The only reason I've heard anyone in reality desire it is for when the sun is present i.e. later in the day. It's why I prefer DST of standard time as a permanent thing. More sunlight in the evening, that's all there is to it for me. But I'd rather standard time with no DST than the switching we do today.
The CIA Will Use Its New Dark Web Site to Collect Anonymous Tips
When the customer demands a written explanation of exactly why a small change took 4 hours, an engineer has to investigate that completely and write up an analysis in language and sufficient detail for the customer to understand. The given letter would take me a couple hours to revise and get the wording just right and diplomatic. Since the customer is challenging the billing and there is the subtext of fraud, the letter needs to be approved by management and reviewed by legal. The engineer and others are also taken off other tasks to work on this letter project. Providing a legally sound and technically accurate letter of this nature likely costs around $1000 to provide, plus lost opportunity cost.
There's a download link to the right of the abstract. Here's the PDF, in case it's not showing up on mobile, or whatever: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.09828.pdf
Every new design is building something that does not exist.

We already have pulsed lasers with average power output in the kw range over several hours. Even better, this thing does not need to fire for hours at a time so you can skimp on heat dissipation. But, you can buy 2kw laser cutters off the shelf.

Really, scaling it up in a lab is one thing, but getting everything else to work like dealing with vibration, portability, and targeting is hard. So, while this design had slightly better tradeoffs, that does not say much about the design space they where working with or what they consider useful vs required. Ex: What frequency is this?
I've worked in a web agency that billed by the hour.

Clients would ask for justification on why something would take 5h of support instead of 2.5h because the previous similar request was done in half the time during the development of the app.

What they don't understand[1] is that if they ask for an urgent fix after deployment, they're going to pay for a developer that had free time this very moment to pull and install the project. That dev then need to read and understand the codebase, make the fix, test it, make a pull request, ask for someone else's billable time to approve the pull requests, merge any conflicts, schedule a release, push the release, test again and document the new feature. And that's if the request is in fact as simple as it look like.

Often, requests look very similar but are very different to each other. "Why does it takes 3 hours to add a button on the sidebar while it takes 1 hour to do it in the content of the FAQ page?" Well, one is done by the content team and require no code or release. The other needs to be done in the code. Etc.

[1] They are told in very simple words that this is how it works.
I'm still not sure this isn't really an Onion article...
Additionally the whole process of becoming a prominent politician selects not for the best administrators nor planners nor visionaries. It selects for people who are best connected, most charismatic and most ruthless.
Because one solution passes the cost on to those people that use the service, and the other passes it on to everyone.
Lol. I've seen idea after idea, dismissed and misunderstood on Internet forums, from hackernews to reddit.com/r/machine learning. Time after time I see ideas, my own and those of others, that were dismissed, spawning papers by researchers.

Such a toxic atmosphere, I don't know why I bother posting.

I am well aware of what meta learning is. If you think that because the idea above comes under the umbrella of metalearning it isn't an interesting idea, then I don't know what to say to you... and the fact that it's downvoted just goes to show the lack of creativity and intuition exhibited by your average hackernews member.
A tube driver’s view of the East End – in pictures
To be honest, WSL translated Linux syscall to NT the same way that it translates Win32 calls to NT. NT has its own API and has a thing called "personalities" which they used to implement both OS/2 and Win32 binaries support, and recently Linux. So where WINE is an additional layer on top of Linux syscalls, WSL1 is on the same "level" as Win32.
They use Debian.
https://stadia.dev/intl/en_us/about/
>> 100mm point at 5km does not seem like it would take that large of an aperture.

It gets trickier than that. From the perspective of the target missile the laser is a pinpoint source, easily ignored/blocked. You have to hit is with enough power to actually do damage. 50KW over a 10cm seeker head won't be enough. A missile is supersonic. That seeker head is already being bombarded by plenty of IR/heat and is actively cooled. You need to focus down to far less than a centimeter to start burning things.
For comparison, US police have killed 323 people so far in 2019[1], and the US is widely regarded as the shootiest, killiest first-world country.

Illinois, which has twice the population of Rio and contains the notorious crime-ridden hellhole known as Chicago, has had 5 police shootings in 2019.

Assuming a similar trend over the full course of a year (that number is for 3 months), that gives Rio a murder rate by the police of 27.5 per 100k; that is higher than the murder rate by criminals in Newark, NJ.

In short, that is just an insane number of people being summarily executed on the street without charges or trial by the police.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/police...
> GPU vendors aren't that diligent about making sure old games run properly on their current hardware offerings.

The compatibility situation has improved a lot, thanks to Vista. Windows Vista required D3D9-capable GPU, actually used it to render desktop, and Microsoft’s GUI stack uses the hardware too, e.g. modern WPF is still based on DX9 because compatibility reasons.

While GPU vendors indeed don’t care about gamers running 10 years old games, they can’t ignore business customers running 10 years old LoB software. As a side effect, even very slow (by modern standards) integrated Intel GPUs are usually quite good at running older DX9-based games.
Hey HN,

I've been working on this website for the last couple of weeks in an effort to offer a more curated guide to Neapolitan Pizza in cities across the US.

Currently I have 6 cities listed, with plans to add many more. The basic idea is that when you're going to visit a city, you could see what the good options are on here. Or for locals it could help you find a new favorite for Neapolitan Pizza.

One of the ways it tries to curate more than what Yelp or Google do, is to list the standard prices of a Margherita pizza at each of the restaurants so users can easily compare them (think big mac index[1] for pizza). It also shows just one photo of the restaurants pizza and one photo of their restaurant to give you a feel for the place.

There is not a plan to add user reviews, as every location listed is curated and therefore suggested to be a great place for Neapolitan Pizza. There is the ability to pull up the location on yelp/google/their website to find out more.

I've also packaged it up into a basic shell of a react-native application for Android (essentially just loads the website): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thegoodstu...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac_Index
It requires a shitload of physical fitness too, though. Yeah, the person who wins may not be the most fit, but they're still at roughly the same level as all the others who are in the final. That still makes one of the best cyclists in the world. It's not like you could possibly have someone not good enough to get into the top tier of competition somehow win a top tier race. Athletic ability plays into it way too much for that to happen.
In the movie Platoon they say: "The first casualty of war is innocence".

I can understand that. In despair, a lot of people in my Brazilian family think like you. But the problem is that this mentality opens a wide space for a whole different class of criminals. And that's what is going on in Rio : small business owners decided to bribe police officers in exchange of security. These corrupt policemen wiped away ordinary criminals but then they just replaced those, became organized crime by themselves, practicing drug traffic, extortion, monopolies in natural gas distribution and all sorts of illegal activities. In Rio they're called militias.

In the end, there's no alternative to the rule of the law. In the long run, a lynch mob mentality will only create bigger problems on the long run.
> The issue is less about which fancy algorithm/data structure to use and more about even defining in human terms what would be expected in certain merge conflicts

Exactly. When it comes to rich text editing which can have semantic trees (e.g tables and tables within tables), merge conflicts are so tough to handle.

Consider this: one version deleting a column in a table, and the other version splitting the column and adding a new row - by this time it's sort of impossible to find a meaningful representation of the table without manual intervention.
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Connectivity. ICs are more or less 2D structures. That leads to less efficient connectivity and packing.
I have lived in both rural and urban areas. I still fail to see how dress affects level of customer service I receive.

Yes, you may live in a more wealthy area, which may attract those with more expensive looking dress. But are telling me that you've personally witnessed a person denied customer service simply due to the fact that they do not dress in expensive clothing?
what surprises me is not that non-developers don't understand that simple changes are not that simple and will take longer than they think to implement.

it is that former devs who are now managers don't remember this when they are in a new role. maybe it is the pressure from their superiors to do things quickly or maybe they no longer have the developer mindset
Dynamic linking on Unixes works fine and achieves what it tries to do: build a single program with pretty much no difference with what it would have been with static linking, with no non-portable extra annotation needed at source level.

The dynamic linking model under Windows is completely different: the various PE are way more separated, to the point of causing all kind of craziness at C++ interfaces boundaries even if everything has been compiled with exactly the same compiler (and it better be the case to begin with, if you really have C++ interfaces under Windows -- which for the same reason is often not really recommended). It also has advantages though, for example it is better for some plugin models (but again: not all - it depends on the interface design), and obviously it is way better to run even the most basic regular Win32 programs given how Windows is designed internally with sometimes 2 libC used at the same time and a fat and mandatory dynamic-only user space layer. If you use your own .dll Windows let you build programs that are not covered by the C or C++ standard models (e.g. multiple different C++ implementations used at the same time by a single program). The Windows design also has been influenced by the Win16 era, which had even more exotic requirements.

The models are so different that people used to one usually focus on all the issues the other has, and internalize all the details to the point it can often affect their own design without thinking about it -- it also makes some programs (or even just libraries) harder to port from one system to the other.
Voicing dislike with brutal honesty is far more effective. And it's the truth. Why should the truth be watered down? Just to make a few sensitive people feel better? That's not reality. As far as I'm concerned, that is fraud.
I'm interested in hosting a static site on s3 but worry that some
smartass could rent a botnet and hammer the bucket just for lulz. It
might only take a minute for the charges to bankrupt me, and I can't
find any failsafe solution in the AWS documentation. I know I could
make a billing alarm trigger a lambda function to disable public
access, but it might not be instantaneous. Is there any reliable
information to be had about the financial risks?
Why would that matter, though? Even with better support, people gaming on Linux is still a tiny fraction worldwide, Asia is no different there.

I can only think of 2 possible reasons--
(1) the support costs are too high for the number of players (online competitive game, I'm sure there's quite a bit of dev time involved in securing the clients & preventing cheating that is Linux-specific)
(2) Valve is supporting Linux, epic is busy feuding with valve, and this is similar to a petty toddler breaking their toy so they don't have to share.

Could be either, but I don't see how market penetration of windows in Asia could explain it
To me the main concern is that this shouldn't even be a code change: this stuff should be a matter of configuration. In a well-written system the dev time for it should be zero.

But in general, the whole letter feels wrong: either the complications of such a trivial change depend entirely on legacy code that isn't responsibility of the current maintainer, and therefore the client knows well how hard and expensive even simple changes are (and this should have been made clear when the project started); or the maintainer is asking the client to pay for developments (refactorings, tests, or a different, more general implementation of the feature) that weren't agreed beforehand.
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Rotating the agent alone, right, but it's part of a larger set of tools usually. I don't think anyone is implying that security conscious users are only doing that.
Oh goodie, I get a new kernel version to compile repeatedly for the next few days.

If any of you are successfully rocking Linux on an LG Gram (especially the 17Z990), and you have decent ACPI support, I'd loooooooove to see your kernel config file. Please.
Here is my comparison of terminal typing latencies on mac.

https://imgur.com/yFDuVpR

Terminal.app is still going to by my go-to terminal
DEC had a puck mouse with two tilted wheels on the bottom.
It all seems to come down to sleep when looking at lifespan. Despite knowing about all the risks from not sleeping enough I still struggle to want to sleep a full 7 hours.

And as the article mentions I do see those links in my personality associated with people getting a lack of sleep.
On the contrary, you could take the WhatsApp stance and say that everyone deserves a more secure email platform, not just those who know enough about technology to know that the default browser is not good enough. Not saying it's an easy task, of course, but that could be a goal for protonmail.
They have to be ok with that before the fact. You just have to make sure they understand what it means.
"handyman vs. civil engineer." I'm going to use this the next four or five times and see if the analogy helps.

I mean both are valid depending on what you want. Are you asking me to whip up a script to answer a one-off question or a pipeline to answer that question for every customer every quarter?
Not even that. The rare competent people are consistently being sabotaged, denied and removed from posts to put people from "our team" in name of power.

(Recent example in US was what happened to EPA.)
Even if the missile is not destroyed, optical sensor systems must necessarily absorb some light, and will probably be destroyed. This is a possible tactic employed by less powerful lasers, too.
I got an official response on how it works:

Thanks for your interest in B&H Photo and for this feedback. Like most of our customers I want the benefits of the tax revenue when my state paves roads, improves schools, and so on. Like most of our customers I'd also like to have as much of my hard-earned dollars in my pocket as possible.

The Payboo program does not change when or how much your state treasury receives from a purchase made here. State sales tax is paid as it was yesterday and last week but now, when that's done B&H issues an "instant rebate" to you for the amount of tax you just paid.

--

regards,
Henry Posner
Director of Corporate Communications
B&H Photo-Video, and Pro-Audio
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regards,
Henry Posner
Director of Corporate Communications
B&H Photo-Video, and Pro-Audio
http://www.bandh.com/
Optical mice existed prior to Microsoft's IntelliMouse.

In 1989, I owned an optical mouse (Logitech S9?). The biggest issue was that that mouse required a special gridded mouse pad.
The media coverage of Rio de Janeiro's violence is a bit inconsistent. For example, if you go by the numbers the capitals in northeastern Brazil are more violent than Rio but Rio still gets much more media coverage.

That said, The crime and violence situation is still pretty bad, specially if you compare to first world standards. In certain parts of the city, residents live at the mercy of drug trafickers or paramilitary groups of currupt police officers (milicias). Even in the relatively safe Zona Sul, where the well-off people live, most have been directly or indirectly affected by violence.

For example, here is a non-exhaustive list of personal anecdotes:

- My grandmother's sister was murdered back in the 90s, when her house was robbed.

- One time my parents were stuck in a traffic jam for hours, They later found that the source of the problem was a shootout between drug trafickers and the police, which blocked a major traffic artery of the city. People had to get out of their cars and lie down to avoid getting shot.

- A friend of mine works at the federal university. One they they came to work and there was a bullet hole in one of the walls.
I believe the concept of nnn is that all the source code is contained in one file. If you wish to add extensions onto nnn, you can then write a c file and include it in nnn.c
Fluid Sim
Politics is entertainment -- sports teams. I don't think we can change that. Read the comments section in the WSJ -- always so depressing.

I truly believe that philosophy is the answer. Unfortunately, modern philosophy has been stripped of rhetoric. And political philosophy is just sophistry.
> Last software shop I worked at, they promoted a guy to "project manager" for being the ineffective programmer that no one had the heart to let go.

This is exactly the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilbert_principle
That’s one of the advantages to carrier politicians. It’s harder to sell the exact same lie across different campaigns.

Though this can devolve into word games and meaningless platitudes. “I will fight for the American people.”
Try pronouncing it "D-rules".
I can live with that. But I can't live with a web browser terminal emulator that markets this as a spectacular feature. I mean, c'mon really? Where is the level where JavaScript masturbation needs to stop?
On the flip side, I've seen far too many teams move at the speed of molasses, for reasons unrelated to the intrinsic complexity of the problem. Bureaucracy, analysis paralysis, no automated testing, accidental complexity, tech debt, poor retention of experienced developers, poor compensation resulting in sub-par hires, insufficient training and mentoring for new hires etc etc. I wouldn't be so quick to assume that every single development team is operating at their most ideal.
Well, not handling collisions helps a lot with exposing bad CSPRNGs. If they (and e.g. OpenSSH as mentioned in the original 2014 bug report) did handle collisions, it could've remained unnoticed.
Woooooooohooooooooo!

We basically packaged our own RHEL8 on top of 7 and I’m glad we don’t have to do that for 95% of the packages anymore.
You don't just have to hire dedicated people. You also have to manage those people effectively.

That tends to lead to the typical old-style IT organization which is nowhere near as responsive to the needs of the business as it could be, and this is a competitive disadvantage.

The value proposition of cloud is much more than just technical. Engineers who don't understand why cloud is "winning" are focusing on the wrong factors. The technical aspect is only a part of the picture.
> In Poland AFAIK it's illegal to spam individuals

Still happens despite of regulations and it wouldn't be that bad if you just could get the info from person calling you, who got your number and demand removal from database but as you probably know, they love to hang up the second they hear this question. I've heard that the newest trick is to give the victim the premium service number saying "that's how you can get your phone number removed".

Personally, I'm still dealing with periods during year when all 3 phones in my house from Orange are receiving calls from same spam number - two mobile contracts and one landline. I explicitly demanded which was check-marked on my subscriber's account that I do not wish receiving spam calls even if that means my bill is cut by 5 PLN and I'm missing chance to win something (sic!); so it seems even service provider doesn't bother with legislation here.

> they note this down, and call again the next month.

It's probably due to rotation of people - one shift comes in and then next one and nobody cares what called person has to say. It's still a potential "client" for them and the mindset here is "maybe after n-th time they'll gave up and purchase our stuff", I believe
I wish some open source enthusiast offered to contribute in return for the re-factoring you are looking for ;). I am (generally speaking) the lone developer of this project for 2 years. And with ctags and cscope I don't find any problem in developing.
Swap has to get paged into real RAM when there is a page fault (presumably evicting something else). I'm guessing that this is actually mapping the NVM directly into the process, so individual loads and stores write directly to the device instead of actual RAM.
> at the entrance to the store

Ya, this is the problem. I don't think they're supposed to, but these guys seem to start helping people with actual problems (or sales) and then you can't find them or know who you're supposed to talk to.

What they really need is a self serve app for check-in, and in-store kiosk running that app, so people can check themselves in instead of waiting in line to check in. I realize this presents some other challenges, but self serve kiosks are an important part of retail these days and apple has adopted it in other ways (ex. in-store checkout).

Other than the mess around making and checking in, the servi ce is fairly good once the rep actually starts your appointment.
I doubt it, unreal tournament 99 had a Linux build. Assuming their engine has been iteratively developed, there has likely always been the ability to build for Linux, even before Android existed.
Almost the entire body of social science is based on generalizations from limited studies.
Another data point: Later sunsets lead to lost productivity, more obesity, more diabetes, and more breast cancer. Probably due to fewer hours of sleep.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/04/19/how-livin...