skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll look into whether a VPS is viable, but we often have poor internet at our LAN parties and get the best experience when the server is local.

It's a vanilla server and I also get around 4 players. The real problem occurs when people are generating new terrain while flying on an elytra, sometimes causing the server to crash altogether. When not exploring, it will frequently report "Can't keep up!" messages even when hanging around spawn, which I think might be due to the truly insane amount of hoppers we have (although haven't seen this as much in the recent update).

If you're curious, the CPU is a i5-3570K @ 3.40GHz. The game is certainly playable, but it struggles under load like I described.
In the world of tech consulting, consultants follow a model called PPT: People , process , technology.
Recognise that people are the weakest link. Like many commenters mentioned, please educate your parents not to fall for common scams. Ask them to call you in case they receive a call/e-mail from IRS!
Process : Is there a low-fee/no-fee debit card you can setup for them with probably a 100$ or so for their casual shopping? Worst case they only lose that much.
Technology: What is their use-case? If it is casual surfing/FaceTime/Skype, can you set them up with an iPad Pro/iPad with ad-blockers of course. if iPad is out of question, how about an Ubuntu Laptop with Firefox and Ad-blockers? The way I look at it, Ubuntu keeps a lot of virii at bay and certainly any "Microsoft" call-center scams! You need to only watch out for phishing scams.
No one wants to upgrade 20+ libraries every couple of days just for a couple Haskell-specific packages. I am going to try some of the other solutions mentioned for now.
Big discussion when it was published 3 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12421687

(Shared for information purposes; it's not a dupe as it hasn't had significant attention here in the past 12 months.)
One could argue that it is a lip service that was say that as a society yet do not work to improve public transit or take the extreme but reliable step to put breathalyzers in all vehicles.
Woah, what do you use it for?
That's beside the point, as we are talking about fragmentation percentages. The point is, Apple has full control over their hardware, so obviously they will have less fragmentation. To have a fair comparison, we should compare to Pixel where Google has full control over.
its happening because of no fear - the law system, law is good, but the people who in charge from judges, advocates, police, politicians all are corrupted. the way it has been implemented, practices is highly questionable. many rapes are not even recorded. you may also note the scale in which the country operates - 1.3 billion people, everything should be done for such a scale. once it has become a developed nation, you may expect some betterment.
This is interesting to me, lots of noise around "machine learning" in the GPU rather than graphics which kind of validates Google's TPU, Apple's AI co-processors, and Nvidia's Jetson. Saw a system at Makerfaire that does voice recognition without the cloud (MOVI) and I keep thinking having non-privacy-invading computers you could talk to would be a useful thing. Perhaps ARM will make that possible.
they're still the best in the mobile review space. though that may say more about typical mobile phone reviews than AnandTech.
In the outlying areas of the SF Bay Area we have both rats and coyotes. You don't see rats out on the street much but watch a dumpster full of food waste at night and you'll eventually spot them. Coyotes catch some but the rats breed quickly.
Thank you for pointing that out. I'll have a look for myself and based on what I see I might send request in anyway. At very least I'll be able to definitively conclude what the response of these companies will be.
Wasn't that thorough. ODNI report from 2017 was broader in scope (https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ICA_2017_01.pdf). The 2019 Mueller report looks restricted to areas where there was possible collusion (just some of the social media stuff that was retweeted by Trump campaign people/stuff related to the DNC hacks/etc.).
It's not foie gras as a food that is the problem; it is the captive force-feeding by which it is typically produced.

Sousa has proven that not only is force-feeding unnecessary, it produces an inferior product compared to his methods.
Being born in the 1980s I was curious to see what the American Black population's poverty rate was in the 1980s. To my surprise it was as high as 35% [1].

1. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/demo/visualizations...
See also https://plaintextaccounting.org for more on the broader ledger ecosystem.
is 5g a threat to the ISPs?
Maybe some cowboy fame-hungry fighter pilots got jealous of SEALs getting all the juicy post-retirement book deals?
Do you work on a desktop machine? At home?
Higher prices are will cause reduced demand.
My company...
It's not a scare article if it's just rephrasing exactly what NOAA said in a public congressional hearing.
The last time this topic came up on HN and generated some level of discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19674218
One of the large Australia carriers is promoting 5g as a "paid add-on".

There is some marketing material saying it'd cost an extra $15 per-month on top of your normal plan's price. With "first 12 months free" to try it out. This is a 20-30% premium for average prices.

I can see the uptake of 5g in that case being less than 5%.

4g is already fast enough for most things, so very few will actually need faster.

I'm not sure if they are completely clueless thinking people will pay extra, or they are trying to discourage large uptake.
I personally find Slack to be utterly abysmal at actually keeping information, stuff that scrolls up beyond the fold is effectively lost. Maybe that's what GP meant?
> "Microsoft, the richest public company in the world"

Not even the top 15 [1], they are 16th.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/global2000
Instacart says it’s fixed its payment problems. This gig worker says it hasn’t
That's a bit of an easy critic of Scrum on its literal sense rather than a critic on what doesn't work or isn't agile or is fragile. I've seen Scrum badly and imperfectly implemented everywhere I've been, yet I think this is preferable as having a strict interpretation of its principles and processes. I don't care actually if Scrum is intrinsically not agile (or Agile): I think what matters and is actually what's happening is people adopting Scrum with agility.

It has good principles like backlog, sprint and daily meeting. If teams only pick one of those or anything else and that it help them, great! By the way holding solely Scrum accountable for failures is narrowing down the analysis to only one part of all things that can go wrong and have nothing to do with Scrum. That's a cognitive biases concentrate.
Can you still access the App Store? A few years ago in 2017 I found my old iPhone 3GS in a drawer. I fired it up and it still connected to the App Store, and I was able to download some apps I'd bought back in the day. Even some apps that hadn't been updated or available for newer devices for years, including Lemonade Stand, an old favourite. It was great seeing my kinds play that on my old Phone.

I got my daughter a newer device later that year, so don't know if it still works. I've lost track of it again.
I think the platform should be held liable if it causes damage to individuals by spreading false information about them. For example we could start by handing out fines to platforms if they do not remove damaging or false information in timely manner.

I don't think the platform needs to go entirely, I just think it needs to get an incentive, financially for starters, if it fails to adhere to standards set by legislators.
This report might be interesting as well.

https://disinformationreport.blob.core.windows.net/disinform...

The two biggest caveats about it in my mind are that 1) all the data was provided voluntarily by the tech companies, with no indication of how they determined what was a Russian account, and 2) they don't really have any way to measure what actual impact it had on the election, or how effective the disinformation campaigns were
Thank you for your work. (Does that count as a question?)
I would appreciate a small section on the README file that explains how to compile the program, what are the requirements (e.g., what debian packages to install), and a minimal cli use case.

Also, running "make" prints a daunting 96 lines of text of which the last 50 (the ones that you get to see) are mostly useless. If I run "make build" it starts to download stuff from the internet, which I find extremely impolite, as I already downloaded the source code. What is the point of not including all the neeedded source code in the source distribution?
You'll also end up with more jobs, food options, culture, better public transit, etc. More options all around.
There are a ton of options in the US for places to live with low density.
Businesses (restaurants, retail) in SF can't find workers because of the cost of living. None of the cities you named have that issue in the way that SF does.
This is all data, not furnitures. You owning it and storing it on your homeserver doesn't prevent a third party from knowing where you live and what you ate for breakfast.
As somebody that does business development, I really don't want to intrude on people but at the same time I need to generate leads.

What other tips do you have for someone like me? (I'm pre-sales for a vendor that sells products and projects around 1 - 10 million$) for a large vendor.
> consistently named with internal NT APIs

I know, but these are mostly not part of WinAPI either. The public API surface has very good names, WriteFile or CreateDirectory is IMO better than POSIX write or mkdir.
See Planetary Resources [1] for an example company working on this already. Bottom line: we might theoretically have the technology to make this happen, but realistically it would take decades and many billions of dollars to get an asteroid safely into earth orbit and put a mining station on it. There are a lot of challenges that need to be overcome (launch cost, spacecraft design, anchoring to an asteroid, stopping its rotation, bringing enough delta-v to get it moving, steering it into the right orbit, stopping it in the right orbit, mining in micro gravity, refining the mined materials in orbit, delivering materials from orbit to the ground or establishing in-orbit manufacturing, etc.) before it would actually be practical. Also note that current targets are actually near-earth asteroids, not the asteroid belt ones you're probably thinking of.

Side note: if you haven't already, I highly recommend playing Kerbal Space Program for a while to get an intuitive understanding of the challenges of space industry. It's really fantastic for learning about orbital mechanics, the tyranny of delta-v requirements, and challenges of in-orbit docking maneuvers. It even has some missions where you can try to capture an asteroid.

[1] https://www.planetaryresources.com/
I started getting crashes recently and so I did a memtest64 run. A couple of errors... but only in one of the tests.

I backed the memory clocks down from 3200 (which it's supposed to be rated for) to 3000 and it passed with no errors.
RAM usage as well as you no longer need to keep both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of OS libraries in memory at the same time.
Ubuntu 16.04 is still receiving updates - unlike typical Android phones from the same era.

While you might not get the latest kernel with it, as far as I can tell, there is nothing in its package manager that doesn't run on hardware from 2016.
Unkike typical Android devices from the same era.
That actually makes his original argument more valid, as that implies that the volume setting is infinitesimal, and thus a finer scale actually makes sense as it makes finer, more accurate adjustments easier.
Quantum Computing: Learn Now and Prepare for the Future
Related previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19674218
Well the Phi is sold/packaged as an accelerator so it's not quite the same. But I was pretty sure i had seen >= 32 core Xeons (though those were likely with now-nerfed HT so kinda moot).
> It's an empirical fact that we must act on our desires;

Is it?

> when I examine my actions closely I notice that all of them can be traced back to some desire or combination of desires.

But when I introspect, the opposite happens. When I examine my desires closely, they disappear and I am left with "well I often engage in X, Y and Z goal-seeking behaviours."
The day Apple releases their first ARM powered laptop, will will be a turning point. This comment written on an ipad, the best product to come out of apple to yhis day.
https://github.com/sanemat/tachikoma
The Unix names are more ridiculous in my opinion: /usr/: in the beginning what is now /home/ but when the space in /bin/ got too tight binaries moved simply there
The parent comments point is that it could have been regarded as fiction at the time, but that was lost over time. If that were the case, we would not know that it was ever considered to be fiction.
you just described perfectly how scrum works at my company in Germany.
It's not nothing, but it's interesting to note that the amount they spent is dwarfed by the amounts currently being spent by top democrats (and Trump's re-election campaign), several of which are in the low millions of dollars.

> According to Facebook, the IRA purchased over 3,500 advertisements, and the expenditures totaled (sic) approximately $100,000

I think everyone would like to know how much actual influence it had in the election but I'm not sure we will ever know definitively.
Was it the following video by Optimum Tech?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxcDeq4SQII

I recently purchased an NH-U12A and can confirm it is excellent.
I don't entirely understand this 'butterfly' effect people like to claim in regards to things like this. Take for instance the most recent US election. Nearly 100% of the mainstream media was against the person who ended up being elected. This included nonstop negative coverage as well as polls, which we can now see were quite severely flawed, including one prominent source claiming he had less than a 1% chance of being elected [1] - something that could discourage voters. This seems to have had no effect, or even a paradoxically positive effect (for the person they were attempting to discredit).

In terms of scope, scale, and reach you're talking about the difference between a butterfly flapping its wings, and a nuclear weapon. And the butterfly is supposed to come out on top? I think many people simply lack the empathy to understand that people can see things in very different ways without in any way being misinformed, and so they look for explanations for why the other person 'must be wrong.'

For instance two things are both true: migration can help improve the economy and overall wealth of a nation; migration can hurt workers in affected fields within a nation. Instead people who are partisan focus exclusively on one side and simply pretend the other does not exist. This leads to an inability for people to grasp with why people would see things differently. It's because they intentionally avoid seeing the negative sides of their own views, or the positive sides of views they disagree with. So it leads to people mutually arguing that the other side only believes what they do because they're being lied to and manipulated, or alternatively - that they're idiots.

[1] - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/sam-wang-p...
Having the 24-core 2970x and can comfirm, it is very nice for Rust development.
When reading through the list of malware, I would've really appreciated to see in which year they were discovered. That data allows me to put everything into context.

I wish more people would be aware of the importance of dates.
Electrogravitic manipulation. Amazing, but if the science/tech behind it became public, it would be quickly weaponized.

Some day, maybe...
https://github.com/hww/makerlisp
One manager I’ve worked with had the brilliant notion of “x2+1” time of what the dev says.

Anecdotally this has worked out remarkably well throughout my career - from single dev to cto - even stuff that I _new_ was going to take for example 2 days, if done properly ended up in like 5.

Didn’t matter if I was doing the estimate or someone else. At some point I just gave up and started doing the “my gut says 3 hours, so it must be 7 hours of work then, and send that up the chain. That cheeky “+1” had saved my ass more times than I can count.
beaten out by new arrivals

They don't even have to be "arrivals"; many are foreign investors who don't currently live there.
Haskell is a bit rare and so are its libraries rarely installed on systems. I can't remember, as arch has a proper package and I built hledger only once on a different system, but those downloads might be just libraries.
From what I understand, it doesn’t matter that it is publicly accessible content, you still need consent from each individual that is a GDPR data subject before you process their personal information. It also doesn’t seem to matter whether it’s a US company that doesn’t do business in Europe, although you have to wonder what teeth the law has under such circumstances. IANAL though.
Seems to me that we can forgo some measure of higher speed internet in order to preserve our ability to study and forecast the weather (and so the climate.)

I put no stock into the health scares, but reading about how these frequencies may interfere with scientific research and perhaps even natural processes in nature makes me question the value 5G actually would provide.

Why exactly do we need this? Is this about people making money? What benefit does this provide aside from high bandwidth wireless entertainment?
>Vast tracks of six-bedroom single-family suburban homes

Tracts

I hate to be "that guy" but tracks/tracts really bothers me, second only to turrent/turret.
There's using an outdated version, and then there's C.

The more commonly used language specs, IME, are C99 and C89!

That's 20 and 30 years of 'stability'.
I've used the original ledger [0] for a few years to track my day-to-day cash flow and appreciate the simplicity. I create a new file every year and manage it with standard Unix tools, plus a few shell and Python wrappers to make entries and reports a little easier.

The hardest part is just getting started and getting into the habit of maintaining the ledger. Once you start tracking it's difficult to stop! Seeing all of your accounts line up is a reward in itself.

[0] https://www.ledger-cli.org
I feel the same way. I've been watching this project for months. I really want to support it, but I don't think I'd get enough use out of it to justify the cost.
I'm starting to entertain the thought that we were scared by Western media into believing that the Russians are trying to scare us of 5G technology as a preemptive strike to discredit any future negative press on 5G...
> that reason ought to be the slave of the passions,

I don't think you will find Hume actually arguing this. People read this into him because they glide so easily from is to ought.

> or that it must be so

This is a factual, not a normative claim.
> Doesn't Debian support 32-bit systems?

Yes. But I think it’ll only a matter of time before they stop, too.

> using 64-bit has little value if you have less than 8 Gb of RAM.

Address space brings much value. No need to worry about address space fragmentation, also you can safely use memory mapping, even for large files.

Extra registers also very nice performance-wise, both general purpose r8-r15 and vector xmm8-xmm15.

Finally, when you code AMD64 you can rely on having at least SSE1 and SSE2 SIMD, their support is a requirement.
Data ownership doesn't imply agency and control. In the future I own my data, so what? Does every company simply just demand access to all of it so I can use their services?

For data ownership to really matter users/consumers need to be able to bargain on equal terms with companies, probably collectively.
Bankruptcy. If the market-clearing rent for an area drops below what the developer needs to pay the interest on the construction costs, it doesn't just sit idle (if it does, the developer just goes bankrupt faster). Rather, the developer goes bankrupt, he and the bank both take a haircut, and the property gets sold to a new owner at whatever price the new market-clearing rent can support. The new owner then makes a profit renting at reduced market rates.

This happens periodically in the Bay Area - it happened on a large scale in both 2001 and 2009. It's the best time both to make a real estate investment (folks who bought housing in 2010 are sitting pretty now; I'm kicking myself for not) and to be a renter (I rented a lovely apartment for $1400/month for 3 years in 09-11 that had gone for > $2000 in 2007, and is at about $2800 now).
“At the time” was a few hundred years after his death. There isn’t even Roman records for him, let alone his crucification. Christianity also underwent several drastic dogma shifts between their early years and what eventually came out a thousand years later, a Christian today would barely recognize an early Christian’s beliefs at all. None of this is unique to Christianity of course, all religions undergo similar evolutions.
Laptop filled with worlds s 6 most dangerous virus is on sale for more than $1m
Sad autocorrection of "ARM" into "Arm" in the title on the text!
POSIX make doesn't specify any feature for multiple outputs.

Some rather obscure makes that you and I will never get to use have had the feature.

GNU Make has, for a long time, supported multiple outputs in pattern rules. Pattern rules have the limitation that the files involved have to be organized around a common stem. If you can make your situation fit this restriction, then you can effectively have multi-target rules by way of pattern instantiation, and this will work with even old versions of GNU Make.

Some two months ago I added the feature to GNU Make to express direct rules with multiple outputs.

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/make.git/commit/?id=8c888d9...

So bleeding edge GNU Make lets you do:

y.tab.c y.tab.h y.output &: parser.y ...

It had to be done via a bit of new syntax because

x y z : w

already has a meaning: it means that x, y and z independently depend on w, not as a group built together.
But the POKE operation is specifically about writing to a given address. So it does capture what you are talking about. (Whether it is any clearer than "write-what-where" I leave as an exercise to the reader).
Thanks for this analysis, although I wouldn't agree that R9 profit margin is lower than Ryzen 7. It would depend on the yield though, so if yields are low for 8 core chiplets, the R7 would cost more to make than if yields are higher.
The kids these days write JavaScript.