skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a good reason they call him Moscow Mitch.
Should I use this theme for my site?
Progress is not necessarily halted by not having something in production. Perhaps it needs more work in testing. The article says 3000 successes/2 failures. That is too high when you have 10kg things falling out of the sky.
Not sure how things work in Switzerland, but at least in the US I think these aircraft would be under the purview of the FAA who likely would require some rigor. Likely something similar in CH.
A couple weeks ago, one of my physical stick of RAM completely stopped working after yet another Linux out-of-memory-force-poweroff situation. No idea if that could be the proper cause, but I do find it a little funny.

I just arrived at this thread after my entire system stalling completely at yet another low memory situation.

Let's just say I'm extrememly grateful to discover some of these userspace early OOM solutions in this thread.
No one is saying that Google is engaging in "systematic" harassment here.

But it may very well be that they are willfully (or simply incompetently) turning a blind eye in this one particular case.
The electric vehicle Cannonball Run record was broken twice in one month
Paper ballots get counted publicly. Anyone that would like to witness it can attend for any amount of time and call out miss counts. Totals are read out on live TV.
ElectriCushion music magazine now accepting submissions
https://mystudentvoices.com/learning-in-a-creative-experienc...

There it is.
Thanks. Believe it or not, I had to look up "stikkied," which led me to encyclopediadramatica, and now I know that I don't want the chans. I do wish that I had the free time that those people seem to have.
A. My workplace does not require people to work after sundown on Friday. Orthodox Jews work there.

B. My workplace does require people to work after sundown on Friday. Orthodox Jews don't work there.

This isn't necessarily a religious thing though.

I also don't expect a vegan to work as a BBQ taste tester. AFAIK veganism per se isn't a religion.
nice dodge, how about answering the question, how do you define a monopolly?
I personally think that some engineers should just help create some dockerized name servers that can be deployed and do away with ICANN altogether, that way you can have your own TLD without paying $15,000+ dollars a year.
The US has had gas shortages and gas rationing several times within living memory. Maybe you should take up long-distance bicycling?
So far as I can tell - nobody has (yet?) been hit on the head with a delivery drone.
No. Geosynchronous orbits are so far away that cameras can't see much detail. Sun-synchronous low earth orbits are much closer and they always pass over the light side of the planet allowing for consistent observation.
And if the policy is created by people who have no idea what the needs actually are and get it wrong? It's all well and good to say "just follow HR and the law", but it's frankly pretty naive. What happens when your very existence is determined to be political? This is often the case for trans people.
Aren't 3 letter domains worth a fairly insane amount of money? Did they sell them?
As an additional potential recovery mode: ETH Zurich's Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control [0] has done amazing work on quadcopter recovery after rotor control loss [1] (I believe they are down to controlled flight with only one or two rotors left, but I cannot find the link right now). I've been waiting for this to filter into the real world but have yet to see it.

[0] https://idsc.ethz.ch/
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek0FrCaogcs
Shift-option-command-v: paste text without any formatting as opposed to simply using command-v
A lot of modern society is a bit stacked against women actually having children. Women managers have as much a vested interest in the system as anyone but, by virtue of being women, don’t have the same kind of awkwardness and shame that a man would have.
There's valid technical reasons for having a coaxial octo within a total craft body+arm size radius of 1.5 meters as well. You can generate more thrust and carry more payload for the same disc loading area.

Four large motors and four 28" CF props produce less thrust than four arms, each arm with two motors stacked, and eight props.

Octos are not a conservative, redundant, fail tolerant design decision just for the sake of protecting expensive gear. Many of them still have 1+0 non redundant power systems.
With $1B from Microsoft, Open AI Wants to Mimic the Brain
This is a very old problem, I used to see it decades ago when making tape backups. Tar would use move the entire disk through the buffer cache so that eventually everything in it was paged out. The classic solution was to use unbuffered versions of the disk device for backups.

What I've always thought is that there should be a working set size limit on a process which includes the buffer cache somehow. The idea is that the process may not use more RAM than this size- if it exceeds it, it must either fail or swap out its own pages, not those from any other process. This would fix the problem for tar- it only needs a tiny amount of memory.

I think the situation is very similar with the web-browser example. The browser should not be allowed to force all unrelated data to be paged out.
Is there a way to enable such an option for an entire process, in the same way as e.g. ionice(1)?

Whenever I take a backup of my computer it winds up swapping everything else out to disk. Normally I'm perfectly happy letting unused pages get evicted in favor of more cache, but for this specific program this behavior is very much not ideal. I'm asking here since I've done some searching in the past and not found anything, but I'm not sure if I was using the right keywords.
Perhaps you didn't read the article but that's exactly what they had. The drone would flash light, deploy chute and make big whistle sound if it detected a crash. The problem is that it still does count as a crash. In the second crash chute system, itself failed.
I have taken several trips to Los Angeles without using a car. It's not convenient, but it works if you allow enough time - the bus lines do at least exist.
Do spoilers for a decade-old comic book/tv show really matter?
It just has to kill something. The choice is between killing some things, or freezing everything, for way too long (many minutes).

I'll agree that Windows and macOS aren't perfect here. But I expect better, that's why I prefer Linux. (Better networking, better filesystems, better configuration and debugging of core system services, easier installation of stable C libraries for development or scripting ...)
> But Amazon has repeatedly shown that it isn't harming consumers.

Oh so that whole dash buttoon thing where they doubled the price of your items without telling you, that wasn't harming the consumer, it just knew they wanted to spend double on those amazon basics batteries.
I'm of course aware of the basis of these documents as an American. However, a lot of the core ideas behind the US' founding were that it was possible to form "a more perfect union". I.e. one where government was done 'right', I.e. democracy. There were certainly anarchists at the time too, but the form of anti-government sentiment we have now seems to be almost pathological; memetic rather than considered.
I wonder if it wouldn't be more helpful to try and design a Geiger counter that could last 10,000 years. I'm picturing a ring of large obelisks made out of some radio luminescent material. Actually it would probably be better if it changed between ugly colors rather than glowed. If it's pretty people would demolish it before the ribbon is cut.

Have all your pictograms try and communicate that some color = you're going to die, as well as "If you move much beyond this point, you're going to die _fast_."

Here's the important, albeit macabre part: After about 100 meters towards the center of the exclusion zone, you need to store enough radioactive material, preferably near Geiger obelisks, that going there will kill you _very_ quickly, for 1000's of years. Quicker the better. People need to associate the deaths with the area!

I assert that when 50% of people get cancer a month after entering a dump zone, it's hard to associate those illnesses with the cursed area until a lot of people are doomed. If 3 people go somewhere and none return, it becomes part of local lore.
See Pytorch Lightning vs PyTorch Ignite vs Fast.ai: https://towardsdatascience.com/pytorch-lightning-vs-pytorch-...
Canadian resident returns after 11 years in notorious prison in Tehran
I think they're referring to specifically the trend that negative usage of the term SJW is usually by cishet (non-LGBT) white men regarding discussion of policies/politics that would not directly benefit them.
You're right, I should have used "and" instead of "e.g." there for the EEs in particular.

I-bonds are not necessarily long-term bonds, other than the 12 month non-liquidity window up front. No?
Macbook Computer Augmentation Software (MCAS)?
Minority Report in action. P.K. Dick was a prophet.
Does the Raspberry Pi suffer from this? All but the latest models have less then 4GB of ram & their storage is often slow SD flash (technically it could be fast but most people have cheap SD cards) so it's fits this scenario perfectly. I guess most users aren't pushing a lot into memory like GUI browsers do.
It depends dramatically on two things:

1. the type of time travel in effect. I'll assume Marvel-flavor time travel, where going back is really jumping to a different universe that shares the same history till the arrival time. But if it's something more complicated then relaying info back might Marty McFade the prognosticator out of existence.

2. the level of information available to the prognosticator (future communicator). Is it near-total, so they could tell the recipient to "duck… now!" or is it just public info like stock prices, weather, and what's on the news?

Best case for the recipient is that for each change they make, they still have an ally relaying valuable info from the future that includes those changes. And also that said ally has near-total information to help protect the recipient.

Worst case for the recipient is that after they make one change, they are now in a timeline where their future ally no longer communicates with them. This is also the most detectable for others in the recipient's time because the recipient will likely make some big bets based on the one-shot info they receive, and won't have additional info to help avoid detection.

To continue the thought experiment: if you developed that technology in the year 2120, how would you use it, and would that be detectable in the year 2020?
People like to think that generic domain names are somehow common property or something, and anyone holding that property for profit is somehow evil.

It’s as if someone bought the lot across from your house, and then sold it for a profit and you say “Hey! That’s next door to me... they are evil to hold or sell it.. what if my friends/parents, etc want to live there!?”

Why do people think generic names shouldn’t be priced at what the market demands. And with name domains... who says you get that name when there are probably tons of other people sharing your exact name. Should you get a house on Smith Dr, just because you share that last name?

Stop treating generic domains like no one should own them... they’re valuable internet real estate, and they deserve to be priced accordingly.
I've held the opinion that we shouldn't be using multirotors but VTOLs when it comes to aerial deliveries. The multirotors are extremely energy inefficient, have very low MTBF, short-range and very low payload cap. On the other hand designing safe reliable VTOL is hard but solvable problem when thrown enough resources because you can draw a lot from existing aviation tech. However, Amazon has gone through quadrotors to VTOL and then they switched back to multirotor again, surprisingly. Unfortunately, most of the delivery vehicles are being built by relatively small limited resources startup-like groups. While multirotors are very easy to build, they have an enormous number of problems. I think if there was a well-funded group of 500 or so engineers working over ~5 years, there is a decent chance we can have safe reliable commercial-grade VTOL for autonomous point-to-point deliveries that can be adopted as standard. Unfortunately, this is a big capex project.
(joke ..) It's easy, just remember to add +1 from "Cmd Shift 3" .. the whole-screen screenshots shortcut.

(seriously) Cmd Shift 4 also has AFTERTOUCH - so do the command, draw out the grey capture window, and keep holding the mouse button WHILE trying using different combinations of Ctrl, Option, and Shift. Allows you to resize your capture window.

Without the initial SHIFT dumps the file to the Desktop. With the SHIFT adds the screenshot to your clipboard.
It also makes it easy to use Ctrl-[ instead of reaching for ESC, which as a heavy Spacemacs and iTerm user is a lifesaver for me.
I don't know how it compares but Minetest is always a thing
https://www.axios.com/environmental-group-keep-open-nuclear-...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/environmental-groups-change-tun...
If you are willing or able to live within reach of public transport or bike/walking, a no-car life is awesome. I did many years of tense heavy US traffic before I moved to NL, and I must say it's so awesome to not own or care about a car.

The US is mostly not designed for car-free situations. That's a long story, but it ends in "limited decent public transport options". To go into that topic would be too political here. Suffice to say, unless you live in a progressive part of the US (or you move to within walking range of your job), you need a car.

Europe has the advantage? of being much older, when cities were more dense. There's no place to affordably park a car, so you must walk or bike, or use a bus/tram (or metro/train if you're lucky).

There are certainly times in summer in the Netherlands during peak time when a full train (standing room only) really truly sucks. But that's less than 1/4 of the year. The rest of the time I can work, sleep, look at the attractive fit people, or even talk to people. My days of driving in big Texas city traffic were certainly not that. (Guns actually do get plucked out of glove boxes and waved as a threat from time to time.)
DON'T RELY ON FUCKING SOFTWARE.
I prefer highly significant Bladerunneresque origami unicorns.

https://br-insight.com/library/significance-of-the-unicorn/
Which is all very well, but Macs have never had an OpenApple or Reset key (the Command key used to have an Apple symbol on it, but now just has the cloverleaf symbol).

Suggests your experience with Apple computers dates back at least to the '80s! :-D
Yeah. OOM-kill handling wants to be a silver bullet, sort of. For instance, Linux kernel provides
a number of I/O schedulers or net schedulers, etc. to pick from, but OOM kill is "one size fits all".
And it doesn't really look like things are going to change [1][2][3].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/alpine.DEB.2.21.1810221406400.1...

[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181024155454.4e63191fbfaa0441...

[3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181023055655.GM18839@dhcp22.s...
I could use the extra processing power and better GPU, and would be willing to pay for said things - I certainly 'need' those things.

But if, as a media professional in both film and audio, and as a professional software developer for iOS - the detriments of their newer hardware unfortunately vastly, vastly outweigh any potential performance gain - what 'Pro' segment is Apple aiming for, exactly? Whose needs are they fulfilling?
My 8-year-old daughter has paid a lot more attention to Roblox than Minecraft lately. Being able to connect with friends there is definitely a factor, but I think she's also drawn in by the seemingly endless supply of new content. One game or genre getting boring or frustrating? There are dozens of not-bad others waiting right there, clamoring for attention. And honestly, that makes me a bit uncomfortable: it feels like it's actively encouraging a short attention span and shallow engagement.

The thing that I miss most about her Minecraft phase is that as far as I can tell, at least on a tablet (where she usually plays) Roblox is all about consuming other people's content rather than creatively building your own. That makes me sad. I'm sure she'll shift gears again eventually (in fact, she and her friends have been occasionally picking Minecraft back up lately), so maybe I shouldn't be so antsy waiting for that time to come.
Ehm, and how does the OS know which is the “offending” process?

I think you are confusing the issue raised here with your desktop experience.
Again, if you subscribe to the principle of free speech, it would be wrong for the police to remove people trying to advance new or even repugnant seeming ideas.

Direct threats to violence though will likely not be protected as it would stifle free speech. But, saying that some speech could "maybe" or "potentially" lead to violence down the line is usually not an argument against allowing it.

Besides, it should ideally be a democratically elected civil government who decides these matters, not for profit private companies and its leaders.
They're already aligning with Russia through SCO (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Cooperation_Organisat...) and there's already been talk of merging with the CSTO (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_Security_Treaty_Org...) which would be a full on defensive alliance.
> everyone reasonable agrees that "kill the {jews,muslims,hispanics}" is intolerant, no?

Does "everyone reasonable" also agree that "kill the {nazis,racists,transphobes}" is intolerant?
‘I don’t smell ’ Meet the people who have stopped washing
The default is simply to use it for a personal email address. Then redirect HTTP requests to whatever page you'd want someone to see, like a github profile or whatever.
> ...at least in an urban setting, in Europe...

> The problem of the US is that outside of major cities...

What urban setting does the US have outside its major cities? Arguably, that is one of the major problems.
Exactly. In fact, the lineup was so absurd that the for years the 'MacBook' was lighter than the 'MacBook Air' - and more expensive - all of the logic from Jobs' original 'pro desktop/consumer desktop - pro laptop/consumer laptop' ideology has gone far out the window.
Is Amazon taking revenge on the Seattle socialist who took on the retail giant?
#3 is pretty neat. Paper: https://www.epfl.ch/labs/lapd/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ms3...

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Inre #1–2, Is anyone selling custom parts produced on that Carbon3D printer? That is, someone that ingests a shapefile (or whatever) and mails back a part printed on one of these machines?
Ah I misread and was thinking this was heliocentric orbits.
This is great stuff!! As a hobbyist glassblowing and 3d-printer, this is exactly the kind of content I’ve been looking for. Thanks!
They were absolutely wrong. Their claim was that a specific line on a chart held deeper meaning, despite having no basis in science. They were totally incorrect.

Don't let these charlatans off the hook, they largely have no idea how the market works.
and cntrl+e: end of line

aka Emacs keybinds.
> Encouraging [internal] dialogue and communication but not understanding its limits at scale is one of the biggest mistakes [Google] has made. [Google] was built on principles of open company-wide communication and sharing of information, and while it clearly doesn't work as intended anymore, there's too much inertia to change the course.

Couldn’t the same basically be said of Google/Facebook/Twitter’s public communication platforms too? :-)
Unfortunately, nuclear seems to be toxic in Germany. There's no way any of the parties are ever supporting it, much less the green party ("Atomkraft nein danke"), which is gaining a lot of political ground in parliament and across the country.
out of curiosity, how does that work?
The portfolio does not allow you to compare one candidate against another and the same guy I had to fire also had a great portfolio, probably like yours and was a good fit on paper. It doesn't tell you how well the person works nor how quickly the person is able to deliver. And quite frankly, no one has time to read through all your code either. And even if they did, how does reading your code help me compare you against another candidate with a completely different set of credentials in an objective way? Without understanding the context under which the code is written, it's useless - I don't know what problems it solves, if it solves any problems anyone actually had, what constraints you were operating under and what challenges you faced and how you were able to handle them. Say, if I were to give you a thousand github profiles, do you think you can realistically rank them in order of how good the owners are?

As I said, this is just not how things are done at modern tech companies and there are good reasons - hiring managers generally don't have the authority to arbitrarily bypass standard processes because hiring managers are inherently biased towards hiring someone good enough for the time being, even if it lowers the bar. So the goal isn't to hire somebody that the hiring manager feels is good enough, but to objectively compare thousands of candidates against one another in a systematic way that keeps the bar sufficiently high enough. You should understand at least what the problem is before you can criticize the solution.

Also, generally speaking, if you pay attention to research into hiring, the two things that really stand out are that 1) general abilities are more important than specific skills and 2) standardized processes outperform ad hoc evaluation. If you're asking to be evaluated on ad hoc credentials that cannot be objectively compared to others (most people's best work cannot be shared) - you're asking people to forego processes. And that is simply not known to work very well, mainly because it's not evidence-based. Your unique set of accomplishments that cannot be compared is not known to correlate with any measure of performance because there's no way to say, people who tend to have accomplishments like yours tend to perform at a certain level.

I also don't know what you mean by "top-shelf" corporation but I'm not aware of any top software company that doesn't basically do this - your claim to have been a hiring manager at a top-shelf corporation isn't consistent with your lack of understanding of the realities faced by top-shelf corporations where there are far more candidates than qualified due to paying well above market and the need to ensure that the bar is kept consistently high, regardless of the motivations and qualities of individual hiring managers and interviewers (unless your top-shelf company isn't actually a software company, in which case it's likely not top-shelf at software).
> If there's a domain you want, but someone else has it but is not using it, that's not squatting. If you let your personal name domain expire, and someone else registers it, that's not squatting.

But these aren't mutually exclusive with your description of the legal definition of squatting, right? If someone just happens to have the same name as you, and buys your expired personal domain name to use as their personal website, of course that's not cybersquatting. But isn't it cybersquatting if they purchase the domain with the intention of selling it to you at an above-average price?

The US legal definition you posted seems to imply that, with the phrase "trafficking in." I think simply offering the domain for sale with the knowledge that it is probably more valuable than the average domain because of its association to some well-known name or trademark absolutely qualifies as cybersquatting. But I could absolutely be mistaken. That's just my relatively hasty reading of the US law.
And you've turned swap off on Windows?
Roblox has grown big on other peoples IP. My kids are only interested in it so they can play a Minions game or a Spiderman game.

I guess that's how YouTube got big too.