skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The transition to Linux OS and the purchase of new PCs are expected to cost the government about 780 billion won ($655 million), the ministry said.

You're doing it wrong. The government should have a robust hierarchy of support staff in place. While the transition will consume a significant amount of their time and therefore cost money, it's money that you were spending anyway, and was already budgeted. New PCs are not required for Linux, except in cases where their existing hardware is damaged or insufficient, which again should already be in the budget.
Just try a bidet, please. It's so worth it.

I had a "itchy butt" for the longest time. Tried many methods, saw many doctors (not fun!). Found no real solution. Flushable wet wipes helped somewhat, but didn't completely solve the problem and it would come back from time to time. Plus I was seriously concerned about clogging.

Then tried a bidet for a week, and... years of pain (I mean, itchiness), gone, just like that.
Sardinia too, at least in the highlands. The Basques and the Sardinians are very closely related: the PIE-speaker conquest basically never touched them. (~10% Steppe ancestry, with ~0% in some inland villages.) Unlike Basque, though, the neolithic Sardinian language didn't survive --- except in a few place names.
"The smallest=the most elegant=the most desirable" seems like terrible reasoning, and similar to the reasoning behind the infamous 'Uno':

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parts-per_notation#Uno

However, I don't entirely disagree with where you go with this, but in my opinion, one ought to:

1. Use the nat an normalize everything else (which might seem like an odd idea at first, but think about it):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_%28unit%29

But, if we assume you want to avoid the normalization, then it would seem more sensible, due to numerical efficiency, to use balanced ternary, which actually has, unlike what people who rather cluelessly apply the literal textbook (and terrible) metric of 'Radix efficiency'(an entirely artificial measure originally invented to account for engineering concerns related to vacuum tube spacing.) would presume, higher numeric efficiency than unsigned ternary, as shown here by a then Indian computer science student, Abhijit Bhattacharjee, whose work on this unfortunately only remains accessible via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20090312094241/http://abhijit.in...

He actually got a reply by Marvin Minsky(to an email he had sent him) at some point (also available via archive.org, but only if you do a lot of trickery which I can't do from my mobile phone, I've however previously verified the quote he provided on the bottom of the page and it does, by all things I could account for, indeed seem genuine), which I'll quote here:

"Yes it is a fascinating subject, and your explorations and descriptions are extremely readable. I hope it gets the interest of more mathematicians."
>If a bird shits on your hand will you use paper or water to clean it ?

If I didn't also have soap, I'd use paper over water. Water might leave you visibly cleaner, but you'll spread microscopic poop particles and microbes over a much larger area.
Although other kinds of weaknesses can be temporary while mental illness is uniquely binary and permanent.
What kind of performance penalty do all of these patches combined have on intel chips? I’m curious how much slower an intel chip is now versus before meltdown.
There is also netlifycms.
exactly. and i'm in academic software. its even worse.
Frotz text adventure app for iOS referenced in the article - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/frotz/id287653015?mt=8
I think this is not really true at all. Yasser Seirawan has written and lectured extensively about playing variations of the English & 1. Nf3 openings as white, and King’s Indian Defense and various Pirc / French / Caro-Kann lines that allow either player to pretty much veer out of theory-heavy variations and reach early positions in which there are no sharp tactical edges to the game and your opponent could not generally have forced any without entering a dramatically losing position.
>Then some jerk like you will come along and make that sufferer feel worse

That's absolutely ridiculous. Its absurd to deny reality to preserve people's feelings. One can acknowledge that mental illness is a form of weakness without treating people poorly. The problem doesn't come from the fact that people consider mental illness as a form of weakness, but from the fact that mental illness makes people less resilient to life's trials.

Pretending there's nothing wrong with being mentally ill doesn't do anyone any favors; in fact I'd argue it's worse than acknowledgement as it may discourage treatment at least as much as the current stigma.

I think the only one being a jerk here is you. Perhaps your definition of weakness needs adjustment, since you seem to conflate it with choice.
The first sentence, though personal, arguably managed to stay on the ok side of the line. But when you cross into "you're being so defensive", "it's time you distanced yourself emotionally from the issue", and so on, that's invasive personal commentary which does count as attack/accusatory/inflammatory (to put it in the terms you used). Nobody wants to be psychologized and patronized in this way. Even if your perceptions are accurate, it's the worst way to share them with the other person.

I get that that wasn't your intention, but keep in mind that these things come across as much stronger and less innocuous to the reader than they do to the writer. Multiply that by 10x at least when you're the person being targeted. When users make arguments in this way, it nearly always leads to angrier, flamier, discussion, so I do think the flags on the comment are correct.
This is extremely dubious advice. An offer under general contract rules requires intent to be bound. If the so-called offer letter says outright that it isn’t intended to be be binding, it fails the basic definition of an offer.
> Does anyone have a curated version of PyPI?

I'm not entirely sure what you're looking for, but have you tried https://www.enthought.com/product/enthought-deployment-manag... ?

Edit: example

$ edm envs create tester36 --version 3.6
$ edm shell -e tester36
(tester36) $ edm install ipython matplotlib pyqt
ECU and TCU firmware updates are not uncommon.
It's important to use dataclasses/attrs, pytest, mypy, pylint. Those tools transform python from an ad hoc language to a robust one.

For speed, pypy is the way to go.
I think a kind of "landing gear" would be preferable, as its operation could be station-independent, which in turn centralizes maintenance, therefore reducing running costs.

AFAIK, there currently isn't an actual Maglev network in operation (just point-to-point - no traffic, no stops), but if there would be, I think it's easier to have any train be able to stop anywhere on the track than to have it stop at specific locations only.

But other than that, yes, you're definitely right that any change of elevation of the entire train should be avoided as much as possible.

EDIT: I just realized, my last paragraph isn't necessarily true either, i.e. compare the situation to start-stop-sytems on cars, there's a sweet spot in efficiency, when turning off the engine and starting it would cost more than letting it run all the time.
It is my understanding that humans generally are limited to converting about 0.8% of the body fat into usable energy per day. If women generally have more body fat, then they would be able to yield more energy from it before hitting the 0.8% limit (which likely is spread out over the day especially in endurance events). Or there might even be some variance in that 0.8% limit, with women being able to convert a bit more per day than men. This would fly in the face of the conventional wisdom that women have a more difficult time losing weight than men. Certainly would be an interesting possibility to study.
Python was one of the first languages I learned.

Recently started using Go a little, and it does feel better but it just takes longer for me to write (probably because it's newer to me too). At work, people want things quickly. I'd love to be able to spend my time writing things properly in Go, but it's just not as quick and easy as Python is.
How many shares do you own bro?
You would have been right up to June 21, 2018. After that, you are wrong. See South Dakota v. Wayfair, decided by the Supreme Court on that date [1]. If your business is in the US, and your customer is in the US, you can now be required to collect taxes for your customer's jurisdiction even if you have no connection with that jurisdiction other than online or mail order customers reside therein.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Dakota_v._Wayfair,_Inc.
This phenomenon isn’t just confined to extreme distances. It is present during various high caloric stress events. Another example is potentially marathon ruck marching with a heavy backpack and possibly other hand carried gear.
I find it disconcerting that someone's remains would be violated due to being a murder suspect. This is one of many reasons to have your remains cremated, I suppose. It also avoids wasting space in a graveyard and whatnot.

I'm beginning to seriously hear people discuss that it's perfectly okay to use DNA people submit in these ways and even that it would be okay for the government to collect trash and other things that would contain DNA to add people to databases. Such arguments are usually emotional and follow the ''If just one person is saved'' trope.

This is rather harrowing, don't you agree?
good work stopping misinformation
Pypi still has a download counter, but it will tend to reflect which libraries are used in ci, so it's a biased estimate.
> Mental health issues don't excuse bad behavior.

Basically agreed.

> If you're sufficiently in control of your actions to keep developing a major programming language, you're sufficiently in control of your actions to [...] not be rude while doing so [...]

That's a lovely thought, but no. When I've had bad times, my social skills and emotional cope would sometimes go to shit and leave my technical skills intact.
There's no single number since it depends on your workload. Something that is syscall- and interrupt-heavy or does lots of task-switching will see far more overhead than pure number-crunching with properly allocated threads.

Synthetic benchmarks can get you a penalty from anywhere from 1.001x and beyond 2x.

Your workload also influences which mitigations you can safely turn off. If you're running a single-tenant system and don't need isolated security domains then you can turn them off.

Future software improvements (io_uring!) may also recover some of those losses.
>I think the fact that you are willing to chalk up the fact that women are winning these races on occasion to there not being enough elite runners has signs of a similar chauvanism.

Or maybe it has to do with the fact that men drastically outperform women in almost any other physical trial, and this therefore has the markings of a statistical anomaly? What's with this desperation to explain away any differences with accusations of sexism?

What's next? Chauvanism is the reason we believe that men can lift heavier weights than women?
They almost certainly are a different breed; there are a bunch of chicken breeds indigenous to India. The are Indian chickens bred for egg-laying and those for meat. Also, the age of the chicken when slaughtered is a pretty big factor in how much flavor it has, as is the diet, which is probably the major reason supermarket CAFO chicken is flavorless.

Obviously, another problem America has with chicken is its addiction to chicken breast, which is really tricky to do well.

Can I just point out that this is a pretty weird combination of topics for a thread?
At 3m20s Video Activates Siri on My iPhone?
That sounds like a good reason for the federal government to regulate interstate commerce, such as by preventing local governments from establishing such obstacles.
Constitutional jurisprudence has discovered the most amazing powers hidden in the emanations and penumbras of that clause, but sometimes it would also be useful to look at its plain meaning.
The 'Cossack' Wikipedia page explicitly says that 'Kazakh' isn't to be confused with 'Cossack.' Are they in fact related etymologically?
I had no idea. This changes everything for me
"weakness" is a bit of a judgemental word.
I agree with you're correcting my imprecise wording, but it still seems like there's an issue with the certification process if this particular "must" didn't get built in.

I guess my question is: why didn't the QA flag get raised on this or if it did, why wasn't it given any credence?

I'm not trying to armchair quarterback this, but I'm legitimately curious if this issue is one the certification process is expected to catch
If it wipes out a month of savings, a days income isn’t going to make a dent.
The body can only convert so much fat into energy at a given moment. Usually we have both carbs we've recently eaten to fuel us plus a store of glycogen. On Keto you should have little to no glycogen and only whatever small number of carbs you've eaten recently. If your energy expenditure exceeds what they body can convert from fat along with whatever it can extract from your limited carbs and whatever glycogen is hanging around, you'll get an energy crash. Keto might be good for ultra endurance events where there is little to no sprinting involved. Just keep a nice steady pace at the level that can be fueled by the body's capacity to convert fat into energy.
It looks like there is generally a 18% - 40% performance hit with meltdown[1]:

> On Linux distributions like Ubuntu 18.10 and Clear Linux the mitigation costs were about ~18% while both RHEL 8 Beta and openSUSE 15.0 had a nearly 40% hit.

If we look at MDS mitigation for older MACs[2], it could be 40%:

> Intel MDS Vulnerabilities Affecting 7th Gen And Below May Slow Macs By Up To 40%, Apple Warns

If we look at MDS mitigation generally (if Intel is to be believed) we are looking at ~10% for most use cases[3]

> Intel's benchmarks show a 6-14 percent drop in storage performance on a couple of Xeon processors, both with Hyper Threading enabled. Assuming that Intel is not showing a worst case scenario in any of these benchmarks, the hit to storage could be even bigger.

> It's in workstations and data centers that mitigations are likely to have the biggest performance impact, depending on the workload. In a separate graph, for example, Intel shows a 19 percent drop in "server side Java" performance after disabling Hyper Threading on a Xeon Platinum 8180 processor (compared to having it turned on).

In other words... total I have no idea what we'll be seeing. However, if we don't look at just "raw performance" in benchmarks when buying CPUs, AMD is likely a better purchase for most use cases at this point.

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=spec-mel...

[2] https://wccftech.com/intel-mds-vulnerabilities-affecting-7th...

[3] https://www.pcgamer.com/intel-posts-benchmarks-showing-perfo...
This kind of condescension is why people hate tech people. Is it any wonder they don't want to use Linux with sentiments like this being so common?
Phoronix just released new benchmarks covering MDS mitigations and the combined costs of all mitigations .

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=mds-zomb...
$100 seems like a pretty extreme threshold. Would make more sense to have a budget for a group or an individual, then only require approval once the budget has been depleted (though I guess this could potentially incentivize overspending instead).
Fraud. It was apparent they were hurting those quarters and the math didn't seem to add up. The we are profitable announcement was on the heels of high profile departures in their accounting and finance department.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/30/musk-says-tesla-cfo-deepak-a...
You seem to have a very low opinion of human adaptability to varying climates.
I do agree. The "if just one person is saved" argument and "why do I care about privacy if I'm doing nothing wrong" are the worst. I try very hard to keep emotion out of arguments but those two really trigger me and make it hard to stay calm.

I'm deeply concerned about the potential surveillance state that is emerging. I just read an article about a smart city attempt in Toronto that is becoming a nightmare.

There has been some pushback, but mostly by niche groups like the EFF and FSF (please join/donate if you can). I wish more people would think through the possibilities and stop trusting the corporations and governments that are driving this so much.
Very similar article by the same author a year ago:
https://www.sapiens.org/column/curiosities/ancient-roman-bat...

There was even a HN discussion about it:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16757044
Another contributing factor that has been theorized is that women are somewhat more buoyant than men due to a different distribution of bodyfat. As a result, they expend a bit less energy keeping themselves afloat and can instead use that energy for moving forward. It's probably no single factor but rather several working together to give women an advantage in long distance swimming.
How would the language packs have worked? Back then the translations were created by patching the resource tables of the compiled binaries. So notepad.exe with German localization would just contain the German strings instead of the English ones. There were no external string tables that I am aware of. That came with Vista, I believe. Since then, every language version is (finally!) the same base install plus the appropriate and exchangeable language pack.
I find the benefits of not wearing a helmet to be:

* Deciding to cycle for short or leisure trips is lower friction (I always wear street clothes, too.)

* I can hear better.

* I find myself more careful about intersections.

* Motorists seem to give me more room.

* I have one fewer item that can be stolen.

——

On the other hand, I find the helmet benefits to be:

* My head is better protected in a crash.

* I feel more confident choosing cycling for strenuous commuting.

* People aren’t as worried about me. :)
oh, hello, sales rep @ SalesProcess.io. How's it going?
If you’re dead, what do you care what happens to your remains?

I see no problem with exhuming a corpse to solve a murder case as long as there’s probable cause and a warrant, which there was here.
It's not like one group of PIE-speaking people conquered and replaced all non-PIE men in europe in a single generation. This type of thing would be happening over hundreds or even a few thousands of years.
Sounds dubious, source?
The $35k model 3 does exist (well, $35.4k after last week's price bump). But it's a software limited version of the $40k SR+ model and it's not listed on the website and you have to talk to person to order it who will probably try to upsell you as if their job depended on it.
I know how easy it is for things to seem this way. And I'm happy to admit being wrong on mistaken moderation. But I don't think any of this comes close. L'affaire Damore is what the HN guidelines call a "classic flamewar topic". The effect of dropping one of these into unrelated or marginally-related threads is well understood: it turns them into the same ball of fire that it did the last N times it came up. That's why pg added that guideline 10+ years ago.

When someone does that, we have two options: moderate it or let it burn. Who wants the latter? Only those who are eager to vent indignation and/or smite enemies, and though they tend to post a lot, those are not the users HN is for. HN is for curious readers, and curious readers find repetition boring. They thrive on diffs. In this case the diff was a new survey of male managers—that was the interesting part.

This is bog-standard HN moderation. You can't derive my "views on gender relations" from that. No matter how convincing the derivation feels, it's an illusion that springs up when moderation calls go the wrong way, relative to one's own views. It always feels like that. Were you on the opposite side, you'd have the opposite image. Indeed some people indeed do. This shows up when you say "James Damore's very name is something you hate". How could you know that? You can't. (FWIW, I don't hate either James Damore or his name.)

As for "rigorously separating personal opinions from moderation decisions", I'm far from perfect at that but can at least claim to have had a lot of practice. I'd be happy to receive further instruction from anyone more skilled at it than I am. There's a bit of a burden of proof there, though. People tend to invoke such phrases less out of passion for impartiality and more because the refs made a call against their side. It always feels like the mods are against you in that case.

p.s. The Wojcicki thing strikes me as stretching thin indeed. That entire business was a large institutional and media fooforah, not the merely personal sort of conflict that was alluded to upthread ("if you inadvertently offend a women and they complain"). Leaping to Damore was a classic flamewar tangent, precisely what leads to angry tape loops and nothing else.
What functionality would you like to have on PyPI, in addition to curation?
With 10 shotguns using the same AI? Why not?
A bankruptcy rarely means a company actually "dies"...but it would be quite the wake-up call for SV.
The Xanadu Hijack (2015)
Autism (or maybe some forms of it) are now linked to gut problems / inflammation and can be treated with fecal transplants:

University of Arizona experimental study on 18 children:

https://microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186...

A very successful treatment of one child:

https://youtu.be/KRXl_N0OtX4?t=1477
Unfortunately, electronic devices come with quartz crystal resonators, or rubidium or cesium resonators. After frequency calibration these will keep stable time relative to the atomic clock timebase.

There is no device available that allow you to derive a clock from the relative motion of the sun about the Earth’s axis, such that the changing definition of days and seconds relative to realizable clocks can be tracked.

Furthermore it’s kind of nice to have a stable and standard definition of seconds and days. For instance, under the “ut1 system” you don’t know how long a present second is until the present day’s final observations are made.
Shell Completions in Rust
On BitCoin this type of behaviour seems quite easy to spot but it happens elsewhere too - eg the S&P E-Mini futures and probably the Nasdaq futures.

It takes remarkably few contracts to actually move the market - especially during the Globex session.
I don't mind unusual syntax as long as it looks like C, so to speak. (C is weird, but I'm used to it, and context switching is easier the more similar a syntax is to C.)
We had a case of this in schools near my town a few years back. It's hardly unheard of, and cases tend to snowball a bit, especially once rumor and news coverage gets involved.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mass-hysteria-outbreak-reported...

There's some significant skepticism/criticism of the claims of impairment and physical brain trauma:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/26970...

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2018/04/07/ba...
> you are willing to chalk up the fact... has signs of a similar chauvanism.

You were making a good point until the ad hominem. The personal attack makes me want to discount everything you said.
Getting your DNA sequenced is a bit like letting an app have access to your contacts: in both, your choice has consequences for hundreds of other people. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem like it’s possible to undo the effects of something your friends/family might have done :/
When you take a life you forfeit any more rights you have, if there’s probable cause and a warrant and it can bring closure to the victims then it’s 100% acceptable.
That's an awful sentiment. You're essentially saying that disagreement is not welcome. Not every community needs to become a safe space. We've seen the chilling result that can have on discourse.