skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a student, I found the bottom-up approach quite interesting in a lab format. (Though it was an FPGA lab - learning about CPU architecture was a side benefit. And it was at M.Sc. level, so we were somewhat familiar with the basics.)

We built some fundamental blocks in VHDL (e.g. buffers, mux, adder, memory, decoder, ALU), combined them into a basic CPU with fetch/decode/execute stages, added a load/store unit and control flow instructions to make it turing complete, then added optimizations like pipelining. We wrote some code to run on it. Then we switched to a LEON3 off the shelve softcore and implemented our own AMBA peripherals to interface with some real sensors/actors.

The ability to view the NAND gates your code synthesizes was great. Tracking signal propagation delays motivated certain basic design decisions very well. Writing code that runs on a CPU that you also wrote is so incredibly rewarding. (And it's interesting when a bug can be either in your program or your CPU.) And finally integrating a real-world softcore really showed how practical this can actually be even outside of Intel / AMD.
Nobody suggested nationalization.

Driving away or destroying businesses that harm the country is the goal, not a consequence that only you realize.

Asserting that doing so results in net capital loss is going out on a limb at best, safe havens have historically led to business flourishing.

The US isn't comparable to a powerless nation, there's zero risk of Johnson & Johnson thugs beating police in the streets.

Awfully convenient that your logic ended up justifying inaction.
Seth Godin's 'Akimbo'
When it doesn't work, I just apply more voltage.
At work, I have been using Windows 10 Pro for a couple of months now after sticking with Windows 7 for as long as I could. I cannot remember seeing any ads so far.
Port to Hugo? Many people over there love minimalist themes too. I personally think Hugo will overtake Jekyll in terms of popularity for static site generation. But I love the theme, well done!
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Complicated and Complex Systems in Safety Management
Here's some expressive code. If you aren't familiar with Ruby, how long would it take for you to decipher what that does?

def sum_eq_n?(arr, n)
return true if arr.empty? && n == 0
arr.product(arr).reject { |a,b| a == b }.any? { |a,b| a + b == n }
end

The exact same code in Go would span multiple lines, but would most likely only be constructed of a few basic programming idioms that every programmer with a few months of experience can identify.

Code is read 10x more often than written, it should be easy to read and skim through. "Expressiveness" of code is a quick way to get incomprehensible crap that works, but no-one but the creator can decipher.
FWIW, the proposed costs for doing what you recommend with Hoover Dam is $3 billion:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/07/24/business/ener...

Couple this with water shortages exacerbated by global warming and hydrostatic storage is by no means a panacea.
Have you gone to the actual blog in question?

Suggested replies to a bully who says “you have a small dick” are things like “Yeah? Well it was big enough for your mom last night!”

Seriously, that’s one of the recommended replies. Most of the other replies I saw were equally puerile.

So far as I can tell, there is nothing uplifting or positive about the site. It may be well positioned for SEO, but it brings nothing good to the thorny issue of how you resolve the problem of someone bullying you.

Frankly, I don’t think that this is the kind of site we want to be celebrating.
Absolutely, giants like Google or Huawei could pull this off, I really don't know if we'll see Java without someone like that. Personally I'm keen to see Mozilla's JavaScript VM (is it still called SpikerMonkey?) ported, but I doubt it will happen until we see more widely available/affordable RISC-V hardware.
Let’s not forget French farmers were until recently protesting the trade deal.
Musicians and artists have been co-creating with machines (including AI) for about 50 years. We play with the machines. Look at any artist working with AI and you will see that the human artist does a lot of process, experimentation, editing and presentation. I think it's a weird personification to declare that computers will do everything themselves.
Yes, centralized production needs transmission infrastructure that's already built.

But any solar power production needs energy storage infrastructure which Tesla is trying to do with batteries.
I would like to understand the science behind how bacteria can live under the 50 gigapascals of pressure that one would find in the base of a skyscraper.

My intuitions currently tell me that finding life underneath such mechanical stress is comparable to finding life inside the lava of a volcano or on the surface of the sun.
Hey Kalid,
I didn't know you roamed here. I love your site. I have recommended it to everyone who asked me for math resources. I really like your site. Thank you for building an amazing resource.
Indonesia picks site for new capital city as Jakarta sinks
> He doesn't know - but he feels he does not need to take the risk to find out because the stakes are too high for him (since he'll need to borrow from a bank or his retirement savings).

Then that should have been the main crux of his argument, without the need to start making up questionable numbers and making comparisons with other titles; particularly when it's an open letter on a subject nobody really seemed to care about prior to the previous article.

It seems his audience, his customerbase, is so extraordinarily specific that the letter would really have been better addressed to his fans and nobody else; instead, the two posts come off as unsolicited whining which I believe is what is rubbing people the wrong way.
American experience with painkillers in Germany after surgery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfTMRrJrM7Y&t=7m31s
a privacy catastrophe

Much less so than a native application.

Native applications can access the web in less restricted ways than websites.

Native applications have more access to your local machine than websites.

Websites for the win!

What we need is a user friendly browser.
Be an Elegant Simplifier
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697436#c14
I disagree as well. A little while ago, my parents complained that their computer was getting too slow. I took a look and its a little old and they had Windows 10 on it. I removed it, installed Ubuntu 18.04 and since then, they have never even mentioned it.

All they do is check email, watch Netflix, and do some word documents sometimes. I had to initially show them where to find LibreOffice but other than that, they've been happy since.

Ubuntu has reached that soft spot where its perfect for anyone who is in need of a simple, easy to use computer that does not do work using some specialized software.
Your aha! moment helped me to have my own aha moment when I was having a hard time building a mental model to really get phasors, so thank you too :).
This was very interesting, thanks for posting your findings!
Truth. The saving grace to achieve further progress when stuck in PPP/modem hell was discovering WvDial on Debian. Quite literally cut out all of the noise.

I recall the one of the early Linux distributions I tried had a funky X Server of sorts. I think it was Metro-X or similar to this: https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2299 Bask in the beauty of those xlib/Motif widgets. This was an absolute saviour until I got a more "normal" video card.

And Winmodems! You're taking me back, man.
People have a perception that third party parts are inferior. Maybe Toyota limits access to some OEM parts by others for whatever reason.
I am not sure how hacking Hugo or Jekyll could help me add commenting, searching etc. without using a third party service. Don't get me wrong, I still think they are great for small blogs and I use them myself as well for static sites but for a serious blog project or a money site, I think it is much more practical to go with a full blown solution like Wordpress. Regarding speed, with caching plugins and optionally with CDNs like cloudflare, Wordpress can be pretty fast. And for regular users who aren't tech savvy, hugo or jekyll are almost a no-go.

>if the author couldn't handle writing markdown and using a terminal command.

I would say this represents more than 99% of the bloggers. Even I prefer a WYSIWYG interface to markdown any day even though I consider myself somewhat tech-savvy. I find markdown to be very hacky when its a bit more than just headings and paragraphs(eg. nested lists with ordered list inside unordered list are so hard to do in markdown)
I didn't say you should never ssh into an instance, I just said you should ask yourself why you're doing it first. Every one of the reasons you listed is a great thing to be cognizant of so that you can make a list/ticket/whatever to fix that problem so you won't need to ssh again to solve that problem.
For one thing it was the only distro I tried that gave me battery life comparable to Windows without me having to mess about with powertop etc. And everything very up-to-date. Impressed.
Ultimately, the site profits because bullies are mean, and the victims go looking for help.

But this site doesn’t really help, it just perpetuates the problem, because otherwise it would go broke.

That’s called a conflict of interest.
Ask HN: Is there an idea/software to reverse-train or change mnomics?
Because mnocis that can't be retrained or changed or unlearned could be hell
Blood Test Seems to Predict If People Are Going to Die Soon
Can you link more info about Sony's devkits using FreeBSD?

BSD would've been a strange choice as the Playstation 1 debuted on December 3rd, 1994. "FreeBSD 1" came out just 13 months earlier

The Playstation 2 "TOOL" machines ran Red Hat for some of them, which was a bit more mature by 2001

The Playstation 3 and 4 though both run Net and FreeBSD under the hood internally though
Hmm a 1st party commenting service can ban you too? What makes you feel safer w.r.t. getting banned, if you were to use say a service provided by Ghost, instead of e.g. Disqus?

A difference could be that, with a 1st party commenting service, your whole blog might get banned, instead of only the comments. (Depending on how banning gets implemented.)
The YouTube playlist on AA I linked has some extremely clear explanations. Depending on your level of familiarity already ymmv. I certainly got quite a lot out of it.
Are you implying robinhood is front-running trades? That's an extraordinary claim indeed. And even if they were, it would not impact you in this particular case.
From the grandparent:

11 78D seize-un mille sept cent octante-quatrorze.

Or, in English:

11,78D Sixteen-one thousand seven hundred eighty fourteen.
No further opinion on Macron but...

In this case it was the US breaking a multilateral contract they negotiated themselves and pretty much all European nations tried (and are still trying) to save the deal.
The first time I installed Debian was 2002, and I hit X config issues. I eventually got it working, but I swore off the Linux desktop because of it.
https://codewithmosh.com/
I think you are suggesting that they looked across the field and picked out an existing high performing investment rather than suggesting that's it's easy to find something low volume that will do well in the future.
Platooning kind of messes up highway traffic because people need to either cross a ton of lanes to get in and out of the platoon (if the platoon is on the left), or non-platoons can't get on/off (if the platoon is on the right). If everything was forced to platoon on highways it would work. But that's like 30-50 yrs later, after the tech is introduced, barring some really radical legislation with huge popular and state support.
> Is it as bad as the article describes?

I run Windows 10 Pro (English, region: Bulgaria), so I don't know if that's the reason, but I don't have any popups (notifications or otherwise) and I have 4 static gaming tiles that are essentially ads since I never asked for these games at all and they're 3rd party products. I assume those come with some bloatware deal that Microsoft made with King.
To be fair it was their first car. They have come a long way since then.
>3% tax on revenues earned on digital services in France

A tax on revenues???? Not on profits, but on revenues, which do not deduct operating costs????

It looks like France is continuing its reputation as a reverse tax haven, IOW a place that the rich keep their assets away from. https://www.nomoretax.eu/france-wants-back-rich-people/
Thank you, manual google paster.
Thanks Krylon--it sounded strange to me, hence the question.
Studying Human Error Is Not Enough in Child Welfare Safety Management
How do you refill the white smoke which escapes sometimes when you do that?
OTOH chances are low that a UK plug will burn down your home.
Heads up, Mozilla is on the way to be notorious Google services/Google Cloud user [0]. Recently, they started adoption of the Google Spanner in the Firefox-Sync related backend services, while in others they adopted the Google Pub Sub. The use of GA and GTM might seem like hypocrisy but my guess mozillians don't have enough workforce and/or assets to control infrastructure to roll their own analytics platform.

[0]: https://github.com/search?q=org%3Amozilla-services+google&ty...
To Power AI, This Startup Built a Really, Really Big Chip
Cruise-line companies are building private Caribbean play zones
Bad news are good news, so kudos to Jeff to riding this wave.

There are no ugly games, only markets. People should listen closely to him as he gives very sound advice. I read nobody in here stating: "Well I am also 25 years successfully in the business and here is my experience switching from ugly to artsy games." So why bother?

Jeff is right when he says that he focusses only on the buyers and not on the haters. Haters drive the bad news, which is good news for Jeff. He will never be ignored nor forgotten.

Rock on, Jeff!
There's a very, very big difference between "rolling out 14nm" with unknown yields, performance, etc. Vs Intel's venerable 14nm process.
Hmm interesting approach. What about reply notifications? If Jane replies to Joe's comment? Maybe with Zapier or ifttt it'd be possible to construct automatic reply notifications. ... But then, what about unsubscribe, hmm.

> saved to a Google spreadsheet(this needs to be made publicly readable)

Hmm, then, people's email addresses cannot be remembered, meaning, no reply notifications?
I think it is.

-phonetic spelling
-no exceptions, no irregular word forms
-simple grammar, few conjugations
-much faster vocab acquisitions due to correlatives

These are all huge advantages. Even if word stems are 100% new, the amount of total memorization required is drastically smaller.
We did try to cherry pick stats that were relatable to the average person. There's a problem in talking about this in that the numbers can so big they're basically meaningless, which is why we introduced things like the equivalent number of plastic bags.

That said, I'm not sure your stats are correct.

Assuming the sources are correct, I found that the combined liquid fuels from an average barrel of crude oil will produce a minimum of 317kg of CO2 when consumed [1]. If we then extrapolate from that base amount then 28,397 tonnes of CO2 is what you get when you burn about 90,000 barrels of oil.

Which is quite a bit different to 76 barrels.

If we're starting from a similar base amount then I think maybe you misread tonnes in my post as kg, as 76 barrels is closer to 24,000kg (24 tonnes).

[1]: http://numero57.net/2008/03/20/carbon-dioxide-emissions-per-...
Tl;Dr: ran out of funding after pivoting a year ago. Also was in market with low margins and strong existing offline relationships. New client access in marketplace wasn't compelling enough to outweigh new costs.
I use BullionVault to buy gold.
Excellent movie.
It could be done with some kind of multi-key approach, everything encrypted. I'd be more worried about not loosing data and that the correct data was put in there to begin with. Up to date revisions and everything.
The amazon forest is dense. There are a lot of trees almost on top of each other. Grass and underbrush, then taller bushes and smaller trees, then middling trees, then really tall trees, and the different layers have tree crowns above each other.

To get that biomass, to get a bush and two or three tree crowns above each other, you need a lot of well-adapted species. You need compatible species of trees, and you also need enough other species to make a functioning ecosystem.
Just imagine the waste in a $1T government :-)
There's Zola, a bit like Hugo but written in Rust,

https://github.com/getzola/zola,

and, looking at the readme, a bit more features than Hugo, e.g. built in search (how does that work?).
IMO it's hugely different, at least in the server space. In the 90'es _all_ servers ran on proprietary platforms (OSes and micro-architectures). To succeed with an alternative, you had to convince your OS vendor (Microsoft, Sun, ...) to port. The most famous attempt Windows NT (ran on x86, PowerPC, Alpha, and possibly more), but the effort fizzled.

Today, the MAJORITY of servers run Linux, even on Microsoft cloud platform, and a significant part of that is using primarily open source (eg. "LAMP"). If, say, RHEL supports your platform, it's fairly easy for most to move.

Yes, it's not easy to migrate, but it is _way_ easier than it used to be. Now, non-server application is a different story.
I actually wanted to like Cortana and really tried, but between the service actually being down, somehow not being available just from my device other times and the phone assistant app straight up not being available in my region it was just never good enough to like.
There are a few clickbait articles out there, but don't believe everything you hear. Repairs, the very few I've had (two flat tires and one camera issue) have not been that bad. Flat tires were: mobile service came to where I was within 20 minutes, had me sign a paper, and put on an identical loaner wheel. That was that. Took like 2 minutes of my time. Then had to go to the service center for the swap back, which took around 20 minutes. Camera was a drop off at the shop and then I ubered to work on Tesla's dime for two days, because they were out of loaner Teslas at that time. Yeah could have been faster but it wasn't bad at all.

The horror stories were a catalyst for a lot of changes, I believe... the reality may be not as bad as you fear.
I think this is an awesome idea.

Im sort of taking the approach of learning the definitions of things via Anki in a real exploratory way. Just read about something that takes my fancy then I keep finding I run into definitions I've learned before and this time something that was previously gibberish made more and more sense.

Recently I read the paper posted here about how an optimal regulator needs to model what it's trying to regulate. I was amazed at how much more of it I had access to due to learning some definitions here and there.

I've picked up a Rubik's cube lately and am learning group theoretic concepts to help me solve it. I'm finding it a neat way to engage with the maths in a practical way too!
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No, what we need is a proper permissions model for desktop applications. The idea of permissions being per-user is almost useless in this day and age where most desktop machines have one user (or a small number of users sharing files) and where most applications are downloaded from untrusted sources.

We need proper automatic sandboxing of native apps, restricting file, network and resource access without prior permission from the user.
I'd love to know how much money they make out of this stuff, my guess is not very much at all.
Sticky corners (with 2 monitors) annoy me more. Drag your mouse pointer to the top corner of the screen, trying to take it to the next monitor - nope, it gets stuck.

It goes from annoying to very frustrating when I am trying to click at the top left of the window on my 2nd screen, but someone at MS decided the mouse will get stuck on the X and close my current window instead. I have very good mouse accuracy from years of computing (and video games), so I can click very accurately and this would always catch me off guard until I slowed down my own actions to double check where the pointer is.
AFAIU their RISC-V variant can also be proprietary, akin to FreeBSD based products such as Junyper or macOS
But then the browser is able to collect history across app usage though, which makes it more dangerous, not less.
I did something similar earlier this year: I installed modern Debian on a PII machine from 1998. Turns out those are the oldest "modern" x86 chips supported by Debian. The only special thing I had to do was install it to the disk in a VM because I didn't have a way to boot from a CD on that computer.
The List of Work and Study Music
Simple neural network library written in Rust
Amazon fires: Leonardo DiCaprio gives $5m for rainforest

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-49472920
I guess you would also spend a fair chunk on keeping the legal means to your liking... which is also legal. Win-win!
Is Object-Oriented Programming “Dangerous”?
It's because the internet giants always declare zero profit, because they pay their own subsidiary in a tax haven a high "license fee". France tries to close that loophole.
I'd bet more on wind, hydro, nuclear, and some natural gas providing the baseline evening power over batteries.
These judgements are orthogonal, one doesn't preclude the other.
> I don't have that much cash on hand. Nowhere near.

After watching his recent very interesting GDC talk* - he mentioned high six-figures income ($800K+). I guess he spends a lot :)

EDIT: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stxVBJem3Rs
I was buying nothing the-week-it-came-out in 1998.
Yes I agree. That's why I am a proponent of hosting your blog posts and comments yourself using Wordpress or other similar CMS on a VPS or a shared host.

Also, Ghost doesn't even have a commenting service of their own and one would need to rely on Disqus to add comments on a Ghost powered blog :)
I could live with Confluence if it played better with Markdown
Re number 2, my wife just doesn't get that when I'm working from home, I actually need to work
Form the related firefox post:

"The tab discussing the importance of Privacy loads in the background, bringing along with it the Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics. Hello, Google."

The irony is palpable
Why Defensive Programming Is the Best Way for Robust Coding
I am wary of the very cheap VPSs. I have seen many complaints about lack of customer support, long downtimes and poor performance for these ultra cheap VPSs on lowendbox. Vultr is generally my goto.
Like iOS then?

Oh, evil golden cages, right?
Installing Mandrake 9.2 (2003?) was in many respects better than installing Windows XP. The graphic installer was incredibly smooth, it had a real integrated partition manager (something that looked like Paragon PM), and a much more accurate estimate of expected time. If you had old enough hardware, everything would just work perfectly. I still have fond memories of Mandrake.

For Red Hat the big jump was with version 6.0. The earlier release, 5.2, still had the text based installer. But still, I do remember looking up the horizontal and vertical frequencies in my monitor's manual :)
I really like my microwave oven that has just two controls: one dial for power (scale defrost - full power) and one for time (mechanical clock up to 30 min).

It is not likely to break because there is no PCB with bad capacitors. It does not have a clock that I would need to adjust at every DST change, and it does not have an array of confusing buttons and controls.

Everyone can use it, without reading the manual.

And it cost me €39, including 24 % VAT.
Thank you! I'll post to Hugo and Hexo in the next step.