skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of the answers here are missing something. In the old days, the OS was often on a ROM that was simply mapped into some unified memory location. Thus the system went from a state of "off" to "ready to go" pretty much immediately. There wasn't a need to copy the data from the ROM to RAM and then execute some stuff to get into an initialized mode.

If you hunt around a bit for things like "atari 800 memory map" you can find diagrams showing how this all worked. In fact on some systems, you could selectively map certain things from ROM into the memory map to get more RAM if you wanted.

Today, the move to put the OS onto disk, the memory hierarchy, and virtual memory eliminate this approach. You basically have to let the virtual memory system map things from disk into some page space, and often things need to be copied into RAM, work their way up the cache hierarchy and be executed somewhere in order to set the system into an initialized state. I've honestly forgotten nearly all of the details so maybe somebody else can provide a better explanation.

So the reason computer can't boot instantly:

1) We have a complex memory system these days that prevent mapping the OS into the memory address space.

2) OS's aren't in ROM anymore. They sit on disk in a state different than when under operation.

3) Simple engineering willpower. Nobody wants to bother to figure it out because once the system is booted it doesn't really matter (with modern sleep modes and whatnot).
In addition to the CO2 generated during production, there is also CO2 emissions from both the transport of the raw material inputs and the finished product to its point-of-use.

I have no idea how that compares to actual production emissions, though.
That is a US-specific article. In the US, animal agriculture contributes about 2.8% of US total CO2eq emissions, whereas US transportation sector contributes 26%.

https://skepticalscience.com/animal-agriculture-meat-global-...
> post-modernist, nihilistic garbage

This argument predates postmodernism by two centuries.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusian_trap

If anything, postmodernism wouldn't acknowledge a way to classify people into "worth-living" and "not-worth-living"; if not by ethics or humanism, because it would find most or all criteria in the filters to be bullshit.
AMP is slower for me because I have to press on my screen twice to get to the actual page I wanted to go to.

Hence AMP requires at least 0.5s between the time I click on a Google link and get to my real destination?
Have you considered that once they're dead, they stop farting? Methane counts too!
Lists like this are models to help frame your thinking, not immutable laws set in stone. Maybe your idea can still work. If you want to do it, do it. Just proceed with caution.
I totally agree in regards to starting a SaaS onboarding process and ask for nothing. In fact I did that with a page builder I once built. Basically it dropped you right into the page building tool itself, so you could play and build a page. Then to save the page you just entered an email and password. It was excellent at converting into trial accounts. The platform had other problems and wasn't successful, but I was really proud of the painless onboarding process.
I can hear the sounds of 100k HOAs screaming in the night thinking about someone doing this in “their” neighborhood.
>I haven't seen much evidence of this.

Fake news isn't binary - it is a continuum. For many, fake news is merely an extension of misleading news which has existed for a long time (recent examples are things like the crowd level at the toppling of Saddam's statue).

And to be frank, many of the alarmist 90's email chains (warnings about fake scams, etc) fall into the category of fake news. They're written like news articles and passed around, and are totally fabricated. It's just that today they have fancy looking web sites - but the concept is the same.

Misleading news is as old as news itself. When I was a news junkie, I knew the effort it took to distinguish real news from misleading news - both coming from the same established news agency/company (be it NY Times or CNN or Fox News). The only difference now is that fake news sites tend to publish only fake stuff - the difference is merely a matter of degree.

As much as it's annoying that people are calling everything fake news, I don't want to encourage people to go back to easily trusting traditional news sources - NY Times, etc. It's naive to think that people calling everything "fake news" is an artifact of Russia or Trump. There's been a very legitimate distrust of news organization for a long time, and all we're seeing is the lack of nuance in this distrust. Trump/Russia merely tapped an existing vein. Had they not, this level of distrust would have arisen soon anyway.
Thanks! Maybe it's because I was overwhelmed by the transcription work itself, but while I know this meaning of 'foils', I was totally misled. Tesler was talking about this drawing program and all I did was fixating on geometric shapes, haha. Cheers!
I could never pick up the fundamentals concept of OneNote. What's the deal with it?
YouTube’s challenge with children represents something much bigger
Yes, that was it. It was also way shorter than what I imagined/wanted.
What's worse is you have college kids going around calling themselves socialists and communists.
I guess they stopped teaching history in college.
Unless you need to create a new solution.
It's probably a good advantage but not as good as all the experience he undoubtedly built up in those years. What about those decades of observing what's worked and not worked? Decades of practice implementing other people's things while watching out for That One Right Thing?
Yup, wrote a toy processor in Bluespec. It was wonderfully easy to do, and typing was pretty handy too.
Introduction to Reinforcement Learning
SQL and the Problem with Time Series (2002)
superkuh said:

>Starting with google: AMP does not actually make loading any faster. Google just uses it's search monopoly to make it seem so.

This is a complete misunderstanding of how AMP works. Google isn't abusing a monopoly to make AMP-pages appear artificially faster; they actually are faster. That's because they're safe to preload by design, as lern_too_spel explained already.

The monopoly comment makes even less sense when you consider that other search engines do the same, and even host their own AMP caches.
MCAS: How 737 MAX system gained power and lost safeguards
Profiles and containers solve two different problems. Multiple profiles will keep websites that you only log into from one profile from leaving cookies that can be seen by the other profile, but containers prevent one website from leaving cookies that can be seen by any other website even on the same profile, and prevent that website from seeing any cookies other than their own.
If I pick up an array language to ramp up on 2019, should I start with APL or J? I know that both of them were created by the same person, and that J is supposed to be an evolution of APL’s approach, but I don’t know if it would make a difference to a beginner like me. I kind of like the weird charset :)
Funny enough, the people I know with the most extreme dress and grooming habits identify as socialists.
You clearly didn't read anything I said, so whatever.
That would become a technical debt, especially considering we do very little to reduce our use of plastics, which seems like the obvious thing to do before any other change.
Just in case anyone else was curious about the numbers that removes 8% of carbon per year for 30-40 years.
It's the other way around from my observation. My wife subscribes to these high end fashion magazines. You'll see a runway style featured in there, something like tribal prints. Six months later or so and you'll start seeing tribal print everything in mall stores. Then you'll see it in Target. Before you know it, everyone is wearing tribal prints and they don't know why.

There's a scene in "The Devil Wears Prada" that tries to convey this process:

"You think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select… I don’t know… that lumpy blue sweater, for instance because you’re trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on your back. But what you don’t know is that that sweater is not just blue, it’s not turquoise. It’s not lapis. It’s actually cerulean. And you’re also blithely unaware of the fact that in 2002, Oscar de la Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns. And then I think it was Yves Saint Laurent… wasn’t it who showed cerulean military jackets? I think we need a jacket here. And then cerulean quickly showed up in the collections of eight different designers. And then it, uh, filtered down through the department stores and then trickled on down into some tragic Casual Corner where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that blue represents millions of dollars and countless jobs and it’s sort of comical how you think that you’ve made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry when, in fact, you’re wearing the sweater that was selected for you by the people in this room from a pile of stuff."
There are products (Venmo, Zelle, Popmoney, Quickpay) that solve problem.
It’s also really rough for me on Windows too. I try it every months a new release comes out and I don’t last a day.

Sites render badly (names colors and fonts look wrong on Firefox but look the same on Edge Chrome and Safari (macOS))

It hangs multiple times a day

Some heavy JS sites are much slower in FF than Chromium

It takes dev tools minutes to become responsive on the site I work on, while in Chromium they load up very quickly.
Reflex: Flexible Framework for Relation Extraction in Multiple Domains
It's disrespectful to deny the agency of the oil companies and military contractors who sat in the White House for many years.
It's down. TypeError: Cannot read property 'Color' of undefined.
lol. anyone have to read past the headline to know it's bad?!?!

everyone forgot the only purpose of amp? to give in to google so that you can get not-banished from their search results.

why would anyone apply a pernicious SEO technique to email?

what's next? an article on why rat poison on bread is a bad idea?
Almost all the low hanging fruit has been done, at least in software.

It's time to do hard stuff now
Thank you. This is a really click-bait title. Even after you start reading, it takes nine (!) single sentence paragraphs to reach anything substantial.
I think that both GPGPU and FPGA are areas of development and exploration with different types of focus on the hardware and software. Both are important and will lead to other forms (e.g. TPU NNs). I can easily see FPGA SQL queries working well and being further optimized into a more specific QPU since the scale of the problem pays for development of efficiency gains.
Counterparties don't care if a treaty is withdrawn from or merely violated.
I'd love to chat with you, I am the CTO of a health care startup and we have been deployed in hospitals across India and recently obtained our FDA and are moving into the US market. I have spent a lot of time prior to this startup in healthcare and know first hand how broken the system is as a whole. But can always learn more and I love discussing these topics with knowledgable people.

Much of what you say is along how we have approached our solution(s). We feel healthcare IT and systems are broken, EMR's/PCR's etc are just heavy weight, annoying and not functional for the nursing or physicians that have to use them. They ask you to do work that shouldn't need to be done if the system was designed properly. While we are not an EMR solution our focus is to remove the noise from the equation and get down to what matters, individual patients and the data physicians & care teams need to be able to see that is usually hidden under the covers.

My personal email is my username at gmail.com, it is also in my profile. If you would like to reach out to me I'd be happy to discuss my thoughts and would love to hear yours as I am sure we can both walk away more knowledgable.
Yes. Font weights are all messed up, and colors too. I’ve seen fonts that are barely readable on FF because the contrast ratio between the font color and background color is tiny, however it looks correct on all other browsers.
Recycling is carbon neutral - it doesn't cause co2 to be released nor does it sequester any. You can argue that the process itself generates co2, but so does producing virgin plastic.
Trump is all in on Obama's drone warfare policy
I think GP is referring to the usage in translated material, not its usage by native speakers.
I wonder if corn were not subsidized to the extent it is, would alternative food sources grown on-site be more competitive, like grass?
Billionaire Paul Singer Is Driving the Outsourcing of US Tech Jobs to Israel
My big Firefox problem is the lack of media key support. I like to hit play or pause on my keyboard and have my streaming music start or top. It's probably the one big thing that makes me run Chrome all the time.
I am deeply grateful that working in tech startups my entire life from college to retirement, I never worked anywhere that had a dress code.
It is a typical propaganda slogan pattern. "Let's fullfil our 5 year plan commitments!"

It shouldn't be a command "do this...!" as if coming from a dictator, but a request to work together as if coming from a worker comrade. Because it is a Democracy. It's right in the name -- DPRK ;-)
>The program claimed that hair length can affect human intelligence, in part because of the deprivation to the rest of the body of nutrients required for hair to grow.

Heh, reminds me of Lysenkoism. What is it with socialists and their outright denial of science?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism
There are still so many Windows CE devices on the go it's amazing. I often see them as an inventory tool used to scan barcodes or count items it's the perfect device and it's been around forever. Stores don't want to their inventory systems if it works don't change it. And these devices on old hardware never seem to die or there is a modern supplier of the devices.
By crossing the Rubicon with his one legion, Caesar put himself on a path of no return and in open conflict with the Senate and Pompey who vastly outnumbered him military. There was no guarantee that he would succeed. Upon crossing he declared "alea iacta est", knowing full well what he set in motion. Edit: My point here, is simply that not everyone would cross the Rubicon. Most would turn around, deeming the risk too high. Related to a startup, the risk for failure is high if you look at the statistics. If it is a "sure thing" you are not really doing a startup or you are conned. A startup kind of by definition has to be a high risk venture. Like PG's example of a merchant ship going to the East Indias in the 17th century.
Trivia: some compuers have a single level memory store, so there are no separate disk and ram concepts from se PoV. I think as/400 and maybe Multics are like this. But i don't know if they boot instantly from whete they left off, probably not. It would be within relatively easy reach though.
>don't want to show 8 seconds of empty page to users without JS

That's incorrect. AMP pages support noscript.
Java Creational Design Patterns – Abstract Factory Pattern
Israel's non-signatory status in the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, combined with their refusal to admit the obvious truth of having nuclear weapons despite their not-so-coy threats of using nuclear weapons all combine to paint an unambiguous picture: Israel is a rogue state. They are dangerous; a threat to world peace.

To their credit, Russia, China and the USA are all signatories. Israel, North Korea, Pakistan and India are not (what wonderful company Israel finds itself in!); they are all rogue states. Of those all four have border disputes, all four have nuclear weapons, and all four have made themselves a threat to world peace. Of these four, Israel is the only one that continues to lie about having nuclear weapons.

If Israel does not qualify as a "rogue nuclear nation", then the term has certainly been diluted.
How about something a little less demonic, like finding an economic system that doesn’t rely on endless growth as a catch-all for humanity’s problems?
The thumbnail (1 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuCqRqzvXkM

The more detailed (48 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuQB3x4ZNeA
That seems like a weird regret to have. Like most things there often isn't that much you can do when as the situation evolves as you don't have the luxury of hindsight. Transforming into something completly different isn't going to happen. What they should be bitter about is not being able to compete on their own terms. Microsoft is still one of the, if not the, leader in many market segments. They just haven't really been unable to use that fact. But that is of course a much deeper problem that you probably wouldn't drop in an interview.
SMB ports being blocked is unfortunate, but it was probably the only reasonable response to all the worms and stuff that were going around on those ports.
Malthusianism more or less espouses an equilibrium - short on food, people die, more food available, people have more kids, cycle repeats. Not that all the humans need to die. There's also a great deal of difference between "I believe there may be a lack of food" (but not passing a value judgement on the situation) and "I believe people need to die" (claiming the "greater good").
Granted I’m only 42 but I’ve never experienced a hint of ageism here in Scandinavia. Maybe it’s an American thing? But to you who complain of ageism, would you be fine working for the same salary as a 22 year old that shares a cheap studio apartment with some mates? Or would you be willing to put in as many late nights as a childless youngster would? If not, I don’t think we are actually dealing with some kind of nefarious discrimination here, just a rational market.
I use FF as my daily driver, and have for years.

But at work, I use Chrome. I bet most of you do, too. There's kind of just not another option.

For one thing, if you work on a product that has to meet accessibility standards (and if you don't: consider advocating for doing so anyway, it's good for users), FF's accessibility testing tools are frustratingly hard to use. Google's lighthouse is just way way more advanced.

And, my company (like most, if not all) _targets Chrome_, so I need to be doing most of my work in the target browser.

Personal browser choice is one thing, but products actually being built with non-Chrome browsers in mind is another. If people leave Chrome then discover that websites don't work as well (probably because those sites were built with Chrome in mind, and only ever tested in Chrome), they'll go back to Chrome.
What about all the other forms of pollution? This article focuses entirely on CO2. Do these newer cement alternatives have fewer waste products too, or more? Are those waste products recyclable?

CO2 feels like just a weird focus, compared to the toxic lakes of sludge in China near manufacturing hubs, the massive drifts of plastic in our oceans, the coal ash pools at all our coal plants, the nuclear waste still kept at all our nuclear plans, and all the other waste and pollution we product. Reducing one at the expense of another may not always end up in a good net result.

This article totally ignores all the other factors of pollution and doesn't take an fully balanced look at all the waste produced in these materials.

Ultimate to reduce harm to our environment we need to produce less entirely. That does mean fewer buildings, cell phones, new things, etc. But no one really talks about that.
...which Iran claimed was violating Iranian airspace and the shooting Trump claimed was a rogue general's mistake, not a state act of aggression.
> Fossil fuels are excess carbon atoms sequestered safely deep inside the Earth. Unless you can find a way to put them

Not Uranium.

> There is no politically viable way for this to happen.

It’s sad because we have the technology (that could surely be improved if trillions of dollars were suddenly poured into).
You must be confused. AMP doesn’t necessarily save any bandwidth, and it’s not hard to find sites where the amp version is actually heavier.
Does this offer any functionality above Qualtrics?
The issue is that we seem to have triggered two positive feedback loops; methane release from melting ice and loss of Arctic albedo. This means the Earth will continue to warm even in the absence of new emissions, in a runaway fashion.
Ask Egypt, or Saudi Arabia, or many other Middle Eastern states. They like ballistic missiles for some reason I don't understand.
The whole premise of this article is that Libra will be financially insolvent and will need to be bailed out.

This makes a pretty huge leap from "Facebook = bad" to the Libra foundation not having sufficient controls on their treasury and becoming insolvent because they didn't actually back every Libra coin with real currency.

Say what you will about Facebook, I'm certainly not a big fan of their track record on privacy, but they're doing this right. They're setting up an independent foundation with representation from 100 companies, and every one of them has an equal vote. The Foundation will be regulated by swiss banking law, which is one of the most strict in the world, so I would be highly skeptical of any claims that they will be "insolvent" any time soon.
This only works if we are sure that the forest will stay a forest for several hundreds of thousands of years, the time the offseted co2 needs to disappear and absolutely nobody can assure that. Not consuming fossil carbon means it will stay in the earth mantle for a geological time.

So carbon offsets by planting tree is a scam, and we need better than that.
The ownership, creativity, unknown. The ups, downs, fears, joys, camaraderie. The charge-the-hill attitude. The late nights and early mornings. The chaos, the clarity. Evolution, growing up. The first team member who you didn't directly hire. Walking up a flight of stairs and seeing the activity below -- all of which wouldn't be there without you and/or those close to you.

These things aren't just about money. Life is short. Spend it doing things that have meaning to you.
This argument is pretty poor IMO - hair styles common to certain light-skinned people, skinhead and mohicans (say), are banned in many schools and places of work (in UK) too.

It's weird to me that people get dictatorial about hair (but understandable in the sense that people will control what they feel they can to assert their dominance; petty power plays are rife in human society) but it doesn't seem racist.
And they are only available to customers that have access to the US banking system.
> US still hasn’t figured out how to easily pay back your friend the $10 they gave you the other day.

Cash worked pretty well for a long time. Checks, too. The problem isn’t how to pay your friend back, it’s how to make it so that you actually do pay them back in a timely manner.
> We believed that these superficial decorations would make students being distracted from studying

The coach of the Argentinian National Team in the early '90s, Daniel Passarella, at some point denied NT call-ups for Real Madrid player Redondo because of the latter's hairstyle. Which was a shame because Redondo was a hell of a player in his prime.
The Origins of APL (1974)
Just do some work in a dead framework for a couple years and then you'll be good to go. Even something as recent as Ember has little to no information on places like StackOverflow for the last 3-4 years, so you actually have to look at docs and source code instead.