skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, that's not attached to actual reading. Having access to their whole library, I still preferred to Google for preprint PDF. Even better a "research report", which usually is the same content, but before they were forced to remove half a page of text the last day, because the system forced different margins.

The problem is that many bureaucracies attach some kind of point value to journals on this list, and a different on that list and so on. It's reforming those that is a problem, especially since according to their metrics, which are defined by counting the papers in journals in the lists, everything works perfectly.
Looking at the install.inf file, I saw that they first remove a key from the registry with the name VDM in it. So I wondered what VDM means.

> Virtual DOS machines (VDM) refer to a technology that allows running 16-bit/32-bit DOS and 16-bit Windows programs when there is already another operating system running and controlling the hardware.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_DOS_machine

So how come otvdm is needed I wondered.

Same Wikipedia article explains it.

> NTVDM is a system component of all IA-32 editions of the Windows NT family since 1993 which allows execution of 16-bit Windows and 16-bit / 32-bit DOS applications. It is not included with 64-bit versions. The Windows NT 32-bit user-mode executable which forms the basis for a single DOS (or Windows 3.x) environment is called ntvdm.exe.

But why did Microsoft not include VDM in 64-bit systems? I thought MS was all about that backwards compatibility.
A classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUfv32dmVFw
AR and VR are a bit different.
It is easy to hate Elsevier, but the real problem is academia. Elsevier is just capitalising on an almost perfect business opportunity - take scientists’ work for free, get other scientists to review it for free then sell it back to all of them. You can’t blame them for doing this, or for being so defensive. We are the fools for participating in this racket.

We need a hard fork. Large prestigious academic institutions should band together and decide not to publish in Elsevier journals, that’s the only way forward. Funding agencies should also be on board.
A high speed rail line doesn’t even recoup its carbon footprint (I.e. the carbon output from construction outweighs the savings from fewer airplane trips) until 10 million passengers per year: https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2011/11/how-green-hig...
Indeed, the OP has such a dodgy sound to it. Like a satire of how the regime's puppets would wriggle out of their situation.
What is a Servo Drive?
>the individuals that I named were Persian speakers, who lived in a region that is called the Greater Iran today, and wrote most of their work in Persian

And yet they are called Arab mathematicians.
In the first installment of this series, the author use := for assignment, instead of setf. This is at least using undefined behaviour, as keywords are meant to be constant symbols, not themselves assignable to. Sbcl allows assignment to the function slot of a keyword, but LispWorks doesn't. Using undefined behaviour almost certainly guarantees incompatibilities between implementations, and should always be avoided. Here, it is a central feature. This makes the book untrustworthy, whatever good features it might have.

I must point out that setf is extensible (defsetf and so on) and therefore much better anyway.

(I must say though that one of the poor choices made in the C-family of languages is the choice of = as assignment, when Algol already had used := for this.)
At one point in time she banned the whole of Russia from accessing sci-hub after she felt that some Russian scientists had been insulting when they named a parasitic insect after her. Late last year Russia banned isps from accessing sci-hub.

It may or may not be hosted in Russia, but I agree it is not "Russian".

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

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/sci-hub-blocked-in-russi...
Is there a page which explains how this situation arose, why they get money from universities to access information produced at tax-payers expense, their role as gate-keepers, any work they actually produce which is useful, proposed alternatives etc. As someone outside of academia this is confusing. Why is someone getting stuff produced at tax-payers expense, peer-reviewed for free, and charging for it, and what's stopping this from being overturned?
Good point!

When this was proposed in 1989 [1], I think the intention was to get people to use it a bit! So it helps being close to Gregorian Calendar.

Though it didn't catch on, still an interesting proposal.

[1] https://www.webcitation.org/6WtW38bAU
> we must ensure that the information they have amassed gets salvaged.

Hopefully it all gets backed up by sci-hub before that point.
Because he was in EU he has right for compansation.
So, like any good geek solution, it doesn't actually solve the user's original problem at all.

Brilliant!
In most countries, there are severe penalties for airlines who allow passengers to reach destination immigration controls without valid documents, so if there's any doubt, airlines will not allow passengers to fly.
Walking NYC: City Island, Bronx
I actually believe part of it is that they rely on this editor[1] for the messenger and anyone who tries to use it on any device that supports IME (like phones) will find that it does not work at all.

[1] https://github.com/facebook/draft-js
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MS is already running a similar system to translate 32-bit applications to 64-bit mode (WOW64). Keeping compatibility with 16-bit would have big consequences for the NTVDM. The alternative would be to run NTVDM on top of WOW64 but such a system would be a recipe for disaster.

I don't think the compatibility with 16-bit systems is worth the headache/expense. As long as 32-bit Windows exists, you can still run the few relevant and compatible DOS applications so I doubt anyone is missing much aside from a few nostalgic gamers.
Serially commenting on a shallow article is sort of doubling down on wasted time, no?
I would have enjoyed Newton for one of the months, maybe replacing Archimedes.
Esther Lederberg - discovered lambda phage in bacteria but the Nobel Prize for Medicine for the discovery went to her husband.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell - discovered pulsars and went on to work with her thesis advisor Antony Hewish and Martin Ryle. They got the Nobel Prize for Physics and she didn't.

Ada Lovelace - invented computer programming but the credit went to Charles Babbage because he invented the hardware (one of the more well known examples; she gets some credit these days).

Rosalind Franklin - discovered the double helix structure of DNA using x-rays. Her theory was denounced by Watson and Crick who believed it was a single helix. They went on to win a Nobel Prize when they changed their minds and said it was actually a double helix after all.

Lise Meitner - discovered nuclear fission but the credit and Nobel Prize went to her lab partner Otto Hahn.
I wouldn't be so sure about that:
https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1158852855291269120
There is a $300 vacuum cleaner robot by Xaomi that uses a LIDAR. The part can be found for $70 on AliExpress.

Obviously not the same specs as Waymo's LIDAR but at least, it proves that it doesn't have to be that expensive.
Even when trying to identify objects, I don't get the push for trying to understand what they are. The way I see it (and I might be very wrong here), you should be able to get good enough results by identifying things around you that are solid (that's the most important part), and tracking their velocity. This should be doable without any kind of understanding of what the objects are. Then the car's control system should keep the speed and direction such that the car can always be stopped before any of the tracked objects hit it.

Having done that, you can play with identifying lanes of traffic and sidewalks and other "normal" features, and potentially ignoring objects there as long as they behave according to expectations. But I'd think the first order of business would still be ensuring that you don't run into solid objects, whatever they are, and whether or not they're moving.
IIRC the NT kernel can run multiple kernels-or-something side by side. It could probably be used to co-run Linux kind of like CoLinux does.

IIRC also, MS can use the Windows HyperV infrastructure to run the Linux kernel too, like they do on Xbox One to segregate games "Exclusive" OS from apps "Shared" OS. In that sense it won't be user mode either like user-mode linux is.

My bet is on the latter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_Windows_NT

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_One_system_software

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_Linux

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User-mode_Linux
No. WSL is a part of the NT kernel (part of their modular architecture, quite cool to read about) and can't be replicated with an alternative program loader like Wine. You'd need to run a whole new copy of the kernel to get a second instance of WSL, which can already be done through virtualization.
But it's focused squarely in freight, not passengers.

https://inlandrail.artc.com.au/
White labs are doing a good job of providing some choices to the homebrew market.
The logic behind “worse is better”
Israeli-Egyptian blockade.
Under MD cons I wouldn’t necessarily put night shifts. More often than not the way nursing units are staffed is a shift based roster meaning you’ll be doing evening and nights for your whole career. Contrary to popular belief a lot of medical work is business hours with on call for after hours work. Depends on the speciality some are shift based (ED for instance) but in general the nurses do more night shifts than we do over their career.
As a non-vegan* that has in the past greatly enjoyed calimari (and octopus), I've long felt that it presents me with an ethical dilemma because of how intelligent octopus, and to a lesser degree, squid, are. However, birds have incredibly dense brain matter compared to most other land animals, so if I start worrying too much about ethics in eating meat, I know I'd have to cut out far more than just the intelligent molluscs, and the whole thing is awkward.

Most people don't like that awkwardness, so it's not surprising that you get pushback.
This is what is confusing about this article anyway. You used to be able to run your VoIP application in the background all of the time. This has been closed for longer. But WhatsApp and Facebook are really old apps, supporting pretty ancient versions of iOS (last time I checked). They might have inherited the capabilities back from the time it was the only way to have VoIP?

The intended way VoIP application should work is using PushKit and CallKit to show a native call screen after receiving a special VoIP push notification message. Only when the user accepts the actual application will open.

"Background App Refresh" is used for silent push notifications, which should be used to download content when the application is not running. It could be used to download images in messages ahead of time, though could be abused just as well. "Background App Refresh" is not a reliable way to deliver notifications to an application since they're dropped pretty easily.
I'm no xtlang expert, but I've seen first hand Andrew and others hotswapping functions on the go, so it is definitely supported. Ben Swift [1] is the guy who has written a lot of the guides and documentation, and when I met him he was really friendly and approachable.

[1] https://cecs.anu.edu.au/people/ben-swift
There's also this bit: https://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/old-age-and-treachery....

However note https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19522987

> It does not. ripgrep does not use Boyer-Moore in most searches.

> In particular, the advice in [the freebsd mailing list post] is generally out of date.

although the out of date bits are really the Boyer-Moore ones: https://lobste.rs/s/ycydmd

> much of Mike Haertel’s advice in this post is still good. The bits about literal scanning, avoiding searching line-by-line, and paying attention to your input handling are on the money.

> But the stuff about Boyer-Moore is outdated.
It looks like the sea level for the northern side of the Mediterranean increased by about 1.5 meters since Roman times, due to isostatic rebound: http://people.rses.anu.edu.au/lambeck_k/pdf/242.pdf

The wikipedia page for Heracleion attributes it to "soil liquefaction", i.e. the whole city's underlying soft soil/sand became fluid enough to wash away. It must have been eroded to other parts of the sea, leaving the inerodible stoneworks lying there.
Books on Dewey B. Larson's Reciprocal System Physics
Neuroscientist used brainhack. It's super effective Oh, and disturbingly easy
* Winds are driven by the pressure difference (from high to low).
> The fact of the matter is that no other career path even comes close to the risk-adjusted lifetime financial remuneration of becoming a doctor.

Lifetime income is a very poor proxy for happiness. If you're optimizing solely for money, good on you, I guess, but I suspect that's not the case for most people.
"What framing?" - Surely, you must be joking. Trust me, classifying your previous statements as framing, is putting it mildly, it is a vile attempt at justifying the horrific human rights violations Israel has been committing for more than 70 years and pretending it's somehow the victim's fault. Only someone who is ignorant about the history of this colonisation project can fall for your narrative.

"But it doesn't help to label this "Apartheid" - It is apartheid, so it is labeled as such. Even Archbishop Tutu declared that the treatment of Palestinians reminded him of apartheid, only worse.[0] Actually it's hard to imagine a more cartoonishly apartheid situation. In the west bank there are even separate roads for Jews and Arabs.[1,2]

"Israel would cease to exist and I highly doubt Palestinians would protect Jewish Israelis....This is the most difficult and complicated conflict in the world in our time." - This is a talking point of radical zionist settlers. It's not a "complicated conflict" by any stretch of the imagination, it's simple settler colonialism. People who live in terrible conditions incline towards desperate measures. Stopping the land grabs and dismantling the largest open air concentration camp would be a good start for more humane interactions.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/03/israel...

[1] https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-makdisi-israel-a...

[2] https://visualizingpalestine.org/visuals/segregated-roads-we...
High speed rail tops out around 300km/h. Average speeds of 200km/h are doable if you don't have too many stops on the way. Five hours or so from train station to train station doesn't sound so bad compared to flying. It depends on the price of course. The Berlin-Munich high speed line is quite popular and takes around five hours. German high speed trains are slower than e.g. Shinkansen, so the slightly longer distance between Melbourne and Sydney should be doable in a similar time.
It's not just Elsevier but also other publishers. They are doing everybody a favor here by forcing the issue. They could just chicken out and make UC pay for open access at a bit lower rate and we'd not be having this debate. But instead they are acting in a rather tone deaf way and are probably accelerating the demise of their business. I actually published a few things with them when I did my Ph. D. back in the day. Given the current debate, I'd probably avoid them and favor other channels these days. Researchers being aware of this is not going to help their marketing.

IMHO all public research funding should be conditional on full open access. If you use public funding, the research results need to be open access for anyone. I'm pretty sure that is becoming standard practice already but in so far it isn't, that should pretty much be non negotiable when getting funding or for any tax money earmarked for research.
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Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
I think this [0] is TSARKA. I'm a bit vague on what they actually _do_ looking through the site.

The TSARKA president said something along the lines of:

> [TSARKA] is the first private computer incident response team in Kazakhstan.

So I _think_ they're a IT security contractor, and from other things they seem to have a leaning towards penetration testing.

[0] https://tsarka.org/
Yeah indeed it cauased a new set of global conflicts, but it also allowed western societies to raise above the tribal, relgious and ethinic devisions (for better or worst) something I'd argue no Arab nation managed to do so successfully.

In fact it seems that western societies are currently undergrowing new trasnision beyond the nation and local bordres, which could be why they're having new make x great again movements and raise of local populist.
The US's coup in Chile was done precisely to protect US business interests. That's why large companies like Anaconda were so heavily involved in the coup. The thing that all those incidents share in common is that they all started when the nations involved began nationalising or restricting US companies.

A more modern example of this sort of behavior might be the original US sanctions on Venezuela in the 2000s.
You're discussing "drivable area detection".

So far, most manufacturers cars have no problem with this. Maps and localisation are very very effective for it, and both camera and lidar based systems are pretty good at it. Nearly all players in the self driving world use a combination. Overall, it's pretty much a solved issue.

Object recognition, behaviour prediction, object interactions, etc. are the remaining unsolved issues, and that's why people talk about them more.
High speed rail isn't exactly cheap in terms of tickets. The path I used in the past (Zurich - Paris) is more expensive than the plane. I still choose the train because it's nicer and connects city centres.

Also, it's at 600km, and I do agree with the GP that my percieved benefit of the train would disappear if it was any further. I.e. it's at the limit of what I consider useful.

You can almost always get more planes going on the busy route.
Yes, I remember being surprised when reading in Poincaré's "La science et l'hypothèse" a variant of the famous formula, probably m = E/c^2 ... but in a different context than Einstein's (maybe the 3-body problem?).
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The article focuses on making calls, but moxie (from Signal) had this to say:

"PushKit is the only way to do e2e encrypted messaging in iOS. If they take that away, they're disabling the ability for messaging apps to function with e2e encryption. I don't see how Apple can frame that as "enhancing user privacy and security?" "

https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1158852855291269120
So it's not only about being able to answer calls quickly.
so essentially the physical books are expensive purely to pad out their bottom line? digital is a poor replacement for physical books in my experience
Disclaimer: I'm not saying Dewey B. Larson's Reciprocal System Physics is right or wrong, it's submitted because there may be an interest in reading this material (I love reading theoretical physics articles, even if they may be wrong; to me it's all about the ideas behind the writing, the modes of thinking applied, and the possibilities...)
As much as I agree. It will feel weird to leave (if it happens) the car centric world..

But it's probably an improvement in most dimensions anyways.
To the fellow commenters who take issue with the headline: how would you describe 8chan to someone like a parent or grandparent? If you would use something like “Internet forum or discussion group”, then how would you contrast it with something like reddit? What adjective(s) would you use?
I don't see it this way at all. It's more like using the compiler to write good unit tests. That's the hope anyway.
Supreme Court Case Tests Need for Websites and Apps to Comply with ADA
That article is bogus. Let's take the outline points:

"There are no fusion reactors."

Well, duh. Fusion power isn't that far off though. Even Lockheed has a self-funded fusion power program being run out of Skunkworks, which isn't known for ivory-tower boondoggles. Even so, part of the point is that He3 fusion is different from D-T fusion, which brings us to...

"Helium-3 fusion is even more difficult than regular fusion."

No, He3 fusion ignition temperatures are higher than D-T fusion. But in every other way aneutronic fusion reactors are easier to build and maintain than neutron-generating D-T. They can be smaller, lighter, generate less radioactive waste, permit more efficient direct electrical current generation, and require simpler electrostatic containment than Tokamak-like designs. You can literally build one in your garage.

"Helium-3 may be very difficult to locate and mine on the Moon"

This was invalidated by LRO's data on the cold traps in permanently shadowed craters on the Moon (and MESSENGER's data on Mercury), which were then validated by simulations of the Moon's exosphere and interaction with the solar wind. The regolith in these craters is as much 40% volatiles by weight, of which a economically extractable fraction is He3 from the solar wind.
From the second line of the article:

"BA said it is reverting to manual systems for check-in at airports."

The problem is that the manual process is slower and once a flight gets too delayed then it misses its slot and if too many flights get delayed it causes cascading problems since there aren't enough free later slots to put them in and you have to cancel.
yeah, you're pretty clueless. thanks for participating though
Virtual 8086 mode isn't available when running a 64-bit OS, so the virtual DOS machine code simply won't work there. This is less of a problem with most 16-bit Windows applications since the limited 16-bit functionality they need is still possible under a 64-bit OS but making this work requires some extremely hairy kernel code.
Random thought, with fight club math :) - The only remaining value journals like Elsevier have are their giant stash of papers, it's the sole thing perpetuating the whole absurd organization... so:

A. How much money do Elsevier take from universities each year?

B. How many years will it take for Elsevier to go bankrupt without income from said universities?

C. How much money will it take to buy *all papers* from the auction at the bankruptcy of Elsevier?

If A * B >= C then all universities could save the money they spend on Elsevier to put all of their papers in public domain (Assuming B is not impractically long and assuming Elsevier don't do something evil and down size enough to sustain themselves indefinitely while sitting on a hoard of papers).

Once the content is freed universities can invest their publishing money in something more worth while like open access distribution networks.
I also had a look at Valve's HackerOne policies recently and was unimpressed for a variety of reasons:

- The "Exclusions" are very poorly defined:

Valve will have the right to determine CVSS classification, report validity, duplications, exclusions and out-of-scope bugs in its sole discretion.

- What's "In Scope" is extremely vague. Yes, it's a list of domains, however Steam uses way more domains than that. Even then, not everything is tied to a "domain" as such, for instance Steam provides P2P networking. Executables are indeed mentioned, but again, it's vague.

- Payouts seem low.

The HackerOne profile is something I would expect of (and would be acceptable for) a 10 person company, not a massive corporation with millions of users.
Really high assurance code. Stuff like sel4 is used for.
This would be awesome...I have a bunch of old games that broke when I went to 64-bit Windows. Plus, VMware support for older OSes seems to be getting worse, so that's a less and less viable route.