skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I've checked data for 2017 and USA does not look too rosy anymore, matching most of western EU.
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After long time, I found a font which is really eye soothing for windows terminal.

If Powerline support gets added, it will be one of the best.
> You'll be surprised how `!=` looks like with this font […]

For anyone curious, you can see it here [1] (check the last character).

[1] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/cascadia-code/ma...
Thanks for sharing; fascinating read.

Related study:
"Silicon-rich mineral water as a non-invasive test of the 'aluminum hypothesis' in Alzheimer's disease." [1]

ps: also interesting that this is known since at least 2012 [2]. I wonder if this is still a valid hypothesis, or if it was debunked before.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22976072

[2] https://www.nutraingredients.com/Article/2012/10/16/Silicon-...
What business are you in?

That's true that ISPs and WISPs can't really use Stripe (many use Adyen), but pure-VOIP companies offering hosted PBX and such are welcome at Stripe based on feedback I received from several people who work at Stripe.

SignalWire too should be able to use Stripe.
Consolas has been my favorite monospaced font for years.

I prefer proportional fonts for reading and writing code, and my current favorite is another Microsoft font, Trebuchet MS.

But when I need a monospaced font, like in a terminal, Consolas is it.
> a la Trantor in Foundation, just one huge mega-city that fabricates all of its needs

If I am not mistaken, Trantor relied on an external supply chain from other planets in the empire in order to survive. It struck me as enormously brittle at the time and indeed in the books.
I am removing GCC/binutils from Android.

I wrote: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/prebuilts/clang/ho...

It has nothing to do with GPL. It has everything to do with Google having 50+ LLVM developers and 0 GCC/binutils developers.
>There was a big moment this decade where metrics like life expectancy and quality of life decoupled from energy consumption.

For most Americans life expectancy and qualify of life are dropping measurably. By your logic we should increase energy consumption to reverse these losses.
Re concrete, I’ve been hearing a lot that we are running out of sand (the kind we make glass out of and the kind we make concrete out of).

Is that true? Anyone have numbers/research on sand that’s good?
This is something interesting. Just now tried it in VS and it's pretty cool :)
That's much less important than the date, which is 8 years apart.
> Humanity has always harnessed most of it’s energy extremely inefficiency via plant photosynthesis. However, the amount of food per acre has steadily grown across thousands of years.

A more interesting metric would be calories-harvested over calories-input.

Food per acre has certainly increased. A lot of the increase is through selective breeding, GM crops, and other technological efficiencies, but a lot of it is from increased fertilizer, which is just calories/energy in a different form (fertilizer is just a store of energy -- that's literally why you buy too much of it in bulk and you're put on a fertilizer-bomb watchlist).

You can grow more food per acre by throwing more energy at the problem, but that doesn't necessarily mean you're doing it more efficiently or sustainably. One way of looking at all the fertilizer runoff, for example, is it is quite literally leaking input energy out of your harvest, decreasing your efficiency.
It looks different from that, let's have the spoiler: it looks like '=/=', but with the equal signs attached and the forward slash just 'on top' of it.
Because a bank can’t foreclose on your education if you default on a loan.
The USA had nothing, AFAIK, to do with the opium epidemic. That was all on the UK.
I've seen this a lot in OSS. Virtuous developers will at least give credit.

Others will claim it was their own work, spice up the wording and build their own personal brand.

Could we refer to these cases as "plagiarism"? It's the proper definition after all. Forking is different as it relates to code, not ideas.
I guess the county government could authorize them to break into a county courthouse.
I think the word you’re looking for is “ligature”.
Just have $1b worth of gold
So I've been bitten by this twice already, including just today.

1. This was the last bug preventing us from booting a MIPS Linux kernel.
2. An out of tree MediaTek display driver in Android was causing a kernel panic.

To be clear, this is explicitly undefined behavior in C. But this optimization to me feels like semantics from C bleeding into LLVM IR a little.
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I sense an undercurrent of incredulity here. The AR-15 accessory market shares some similarities to the after market PC market. The kind of people who play dress-up with their guns remind me a lot of the people who customize their workstations. Sometimes it's for a "need", sometimes it's for a "personal aesthetic" and sometimes it's just a hobby.

One of these days I'll go through the process of getting a threaded barrel and suppressor for my AR so I can shoot on my rural land without ear protection. You need subsonic ammo to truly make it ear safe, and 5.56 is kind of a bad sub sonic round (not enough mass, has a tendency to key hole on earth), so maybe I get a .300BLK upper receiver.That means a new bolt carrier group. Maybe I'll get one of those slick nitrile ones, or the bronze coated one so it looks cooler.. I already have a 1911, so I'll probably get a .45ACP upper instead of the .300BLK. Ammo is also cheaper.

Maybe I get rich and buy a drop in auto sear so I can turn ammo into noise. Maybe I'm a weirdo nerd so I buy one of those rail mounted chainsaws to help me trim the hedges. I like the color purple so I'm probably going to get one of those acrylic transparent lower receivers. Those are cool. Giselle triggers are nice.

There's different barrel lengths for different applications. A home defense rifle might have a shorter barrel, maybe a folding stock, tactical light and a red dot sight. Do I use a holographic sight like an eotech, or do I use an aim-point? Aimpoints can last like eons on a single battery, but eotechs are really easy to use.. I could leave an aim-point ON next to my bed for 5 years and it wouldn't run out of juice. That's one less button to press if I needed to use it in the night.

I like a bipod, longer barrel, and a 2x optic if I want to use it for plinking. What style of sling do I get, if any? Single point, double point? Probably depends on my barrel length and what I've practiced with.

Maybe I need special magazines because of preferences or local ordinances. We could debate direct impingement vs. piston gas systems like you might hear two people discussing intel vs. AMD.

I've got these small boulders that have really been bugging me. I've hit them with a sledgehammer for a few hours, but they're indestructible! I could buy a rock drill, or maybe masonry disks for my angle grinder.. I'm trying to use this "problem" to justify purchasing a .50BMG upper receiver. Wholly impractical, yeah.. but I could blow up my boulders from the comfort of my deck a mile away. Kaboom!

If you're left handed/left-eye dominant you might want the ejection port on the left side and an ambidextrous safety. Once cool thing about the AR is that the charging handle is ambi by design.

I could go on, but does this add any context to what someone's "needs" might be?
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Hey that's great! Thanks, will give this a go.
Um, because the images have the text "Unedited Iphone XS" on them..? But ok, I don't want to go over and dissect every single image here. That is of no benefit to either of us. The larger point is your "let me throw something out" simply muddies the waters without basing it in fact. "I don't believe it" is not really a basis for making a claim about someones work, and actually is quite unfair to both the author and the audience. Sorry, I'm a bit touchy about photography like that ;)
I agree and this seems to be the main problem: we are losing privacy today but we will suffer most of the consequences tomorrow.
So most of us are not aware of the real cost we're paying and unable to make an informed decision.
Chade-Meng Tan wrote an excellent book about practicing and teaching meditation and mindfulness at Google - "Search inside yourself".

Meditation has helped me immensely to cope with heavy burnout and find a balanced approach to work.
IIRC, Google engineers used fleetwide profiling to see that many cycles were being spent in memcmp() == 0 calls. They weren't checking the return value was anything other than zero. If you don't care where two buffers mismatched, you can speed thing up by converting that idiom into a call to bcmp during optimization.
> But when I need a proportional font, like in a terminal, Consolas is it.

You mean monospaced font? I’m curious why you use proportional fonts when writing code but not in your terminal.
FINALLY the field of Economics is waking up to the 20th (yes) century...

I've always loved the questions economics asks, but found the methodology for finding answers to miss out on ideas from computer science
Readers should now this is one of the main Bitcoin developers behind the "fee market" and in 2017 celebrated $50 fees, caused by his ideas.[0] While being the CTO of Blockstream, a company whose business plan is to create side-chains like LN. By keeping on-chain fees high they managed to artificially create a need for side-chains, which they could fill with LN and recently Liquid.

Anyway that's a lot of words to not answer my questions other than guessing their intent to eliminate large cryptocurrency balances (using LN means they do have to hold Bitcoins).

I used the term "LN coins" to signify that LN have fundamentally different properties than Bitcoin, whereas your wall of newspeak suggest LN and Bitcoins are the same. They are not.

LN operates by trading unconfirmed Bitcoin transactions, and holders are expected to challenge fraud not to loose their coins. Yes this mean you have to be always online (or you need someone else to be for you). Also you might not be able to pay someone, because there is no route with sufficient funds. There is something called the "inbound capacity problem"[1] which limits how much you can receive.

In fact LN developers are saying that LN is not ready and should not be used in production, simply because it's not ready. See for example a recent CVE which has been exploited in the wild.[2]

Implying, as you do, that using LN is as good as using Bitcoin is far worse misinformation than you misinterpreting my choice of words as if I said LN is another cryptocurrency. (Also funny how you react to that, as if all cryptocurrencies other than Bitcoin are scams, which is of course not the case).

[0]: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2017...

[1]: https://blockonomi.com/lightning-network-inbound-capacity/

[2]: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/20...
First, this phenomenon is well known, and it's easy to find citations if you look at the raw data [0]. BTW, the cause of the periodic change in temperature is believed to be the periodic variation of Earth orbital eccentricity, obliquity and precession [1][2], which causes the Earth to receive more or less solar radiation.

> So temperatures go up and then hundreds of years later CO2 levels go up.

> CO2 is not the driver of global temperature changes.

Next, OP's argument is not a a good one. If you know p->q, it doesn't imply q->!p. Thus I reject OP's argument as invalid, unless more information can be added to improve the argument. In fact, q->p is entirely possible. It's how an oscillator circuit works.

And here's an interesting case: Perhaps the planet Earth is more similar to an electronic circuit than most people think. Although the idea of orbit variation can explain a lot of things, including the δ¹⁸O time sequence (an indicator of temperature) obtained from the ice core records, but some serious issues remain unsolved. If you convert the δ¹⁸O time series into the frequency domain via FFT (i.e. putting it into a "spectrum analyzer"), you expect to see a 413,000 years cycle spike which is the periodic change of Earth's eccentricity. However, this is not detected. There are many hypotheses, but the most interesting one is: perhaps Earth's climate is a nonlinear system worked like a frequency modulator. It transforms some AM "carrier" signals, such as the 413,000 years cycle, with astronomical information, to a FM signal in the δ¹⁸O time sequence. This paper attempts to demodulate it with limited success [3].

See? The climate of Earth is a complex system with a myriad of positive and negative feedback mechanisms that are still not fully understood. So if the OP wants to claim that CO2 is not important to the global temperature, he should attack the climate models instead (I really hope the model is wrong and the reality is much brighter), not presenting oversimplified statements.

It's not worth debating the issue further, per Guidelines,

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle.

I shared the possibility that the Earth creates a FM signal that contains astronomical information, since it inspires intellectual curiosity, which is what the site exists for.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vostok_420ky_4curves_inso...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_feedback

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20091211025437/http://www.geolab...
Android and CrOS have not had stability issues related to the compiler since switching to Clang.

And Phoronix didn't send me any reports; I reached out to Michael and he said he'll send them to me next time he tries.
nearly and likely being key here.

The 2007 / 2008 financial crisis was partially triggered by the fact that this age old adage is not necessarily true.
> "Reducing" (by means unspecified) sounds uncomfortably close to mass killing.

he's calling for basically this elsewhere in the thread.
That's what it sounds like to me. It's trying to out Arch Arch.
>This article doesn't mention the declining insect population at all but I would think it's clear that a quickly declining food source would be a major cause of population decline.

If you cast a wider net you'll see that this mass extinction goes beyond birds and insects to all living creatures including plant life. Year after year we destroy more and more of the forests and other natural places while saturating the earth with more and more of our garbage and synthetic trash and plastic that will never decay but will serve to poison the ecosystem we all depend on to survive. The vast majority of public concern is focused on, "global warming" which is only a tiny part of the damage we are doing. Anyone who even attempts to raise the issue of our massive overpopulation, which causes and exacerbates all of our environmental issues (as well as many of our social ones) is instantly castigated and derided as a lunatic or a Malthusian, while we add another billion people to our already shattered ecosystem.

I pity the kids!
The second and third paragraphs of the above comment are bound to age poorly.
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will you also make an android application available?
I think it has more to do with responsibility. Humans are capable of understanding the harm caused by our choices and that brings responsibility.
The consequences of this technology are quite obvious. Noise pollution. Flying camera systems pollution. Drone pollution.

There are also obvious privacy issues - if such drones will ever allowed to become commonplace, some percentage of drones will probably look like Fedex, but would be operated by other actors.

I think, proper application of such drones could be emergency services. Perform emergency delivery, use drones to establish a temporary passage for an emergency vehicle, ...
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The question to ask (IMO) is are they dying at a higher rate than people not involved in court cases (adjusting for age, gender if appropriate), and even then I wouldn't be surprised if the stress of being involved in a court case causes a somewhat higher rate.

My suspicion is that you're only noticing it because they're in the public eye, and so reported, but the actual number of people dying of unexpected causes is not that remarkable.
Besides the points already mentioned by shadowgovt, another big advantage of drones over existing modes of delivery even if drones have to follow existing streets is that they can be self-flying fairly easily.

Unlike self-driving cars, self-flying drones do not have to worry about people running into their path, cars parked in the parking lane adjacent to their line suddenly opening a door into their line, or sharing the road with unpredictable human driven vehicles.

The drone route regulations will be starting with routes that have no other traffic except birds and insects. The routes can be designed so that there are different levels for north, south, east, and west travel, so except at the endpoints a drone never has to worry about encountering another drone moving in a different direction. It only has to deal with drones coming up from behind or coming up on drones ahead of it.
Whoops, sorry for the very confusing typo, and thanks for noting it! Corrected now. That's what I get for commenting on HN when I should have already called it a night... :-)

With the typo corrected, yes I do prefer proportional fonts (and as mentioned especially Trebuchet MS), and all the editors I use support them. I just find them much more readable to my eyes than monospaced. Except in a terminal where apps assume monospaced font - so that's where Consolas shines.
Fun fact; AMDGPU driver can't run when built with LLVM right now because they:

1. build their driver with a stack alignment of 16B (standard for x86_64 userspace).

2. use floating point in the kernel, which the kernel has limited support for.

3. The rest of the x86_64 kernel uses 8B stack alignment.

Code from 3 calls into 1. And then they have sse2 instructions in their driver (double precision arithmetic). Guess what happens?
This is mentioned early on the page:

> A user without prior knowledge may see this distribution as the exact opposite.

It's simple in the terms of that an experienced person can easily understand how it works in many details. Not that an unexperienced person could use it easily. It's like a Ford T. Simple to build and repair for an old school mechanic. Probably not user friendly for the average driver today.
I appreciate how your ranked Neurosurgeon at the bottom -- because under the typical system, future earnings are not NPV'd, so in the case of Neurosurgeon, you only see the liability but don't account for the extraordinary earnings potential.
The article links to a few concrete examples. You'll have to use the Wayback Machine to access them.
No out of tree patches; I just use that repo for github's issue tracker. Previously the LLVMLinux team had an out of tree patchset that grew too large to be upstreamed, IMO. We picked up their work, got it upstreamed, and have been carrying the torch ever since.
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As a Canadian, you're currently detaining Meng Wanzhou, Huawei's ex-CFO, at the USA's behest, for allegedly violating the USA's unilateral Trump-tweet sanctions against Iran. The Chinese are furious about it. You can be sure their media is portraying that case with just as much outrage as Mr Bag-full-of-airsoft here.

I don't mean to start a round of whataboutism - just to point out that none of this is happening in a vacuum. I do agree that as a Canadian - probably not the best time. Mining minerals is a bit of an exaggeration though. He'll be detained for a couple of weeks, then deported with a 10-year ban. This is countries playing power games, nothing more.
> If the building administrators decline the #red_team audit; then we submit that back into the report and put them on our "naughty list"; which means well try 2x harder to embarrass that particular person

You sound quite unprofessional :/
Chris from Databricks here.

Glad you enjoyed the write up and glad to hear we aren’t alone.

We also had difficulty creating a repro outside of Spark (JVM). I tried with Python sockets without any luck. That said, hitting the issue requires the right mix of dropped packets, socket buffer sizes and MSS. I don’t think there is anything special about the JVM influencing those variables. Now that I know more, maybe I can craft a minimal repro in another language.

A datapoint I didn’t mention in the post is that we had a significantly higher repro rate when talking to S3 through a VPC endpoint. The only difference I could see was that the VPC endpoint connections had an MSS of 1412, while the MSS was slightly higher (1436 IIRC) on non-VPC connections. Yet to draw conclusions from that.
> Rather what you, the reader, are judging it to claim to be.

Sure. I'm picking up what the writer is putting down; he puts down numbers and linguistic claims, so I pick those up and say "hmm, this looks like a scholarly article" -- that's the tone I perceive and I can't say for sure whether that's what the author intended.

> In particular 9nGQluzmnq3M's comments about the Japanese language don't line up with my own experience, having used it as the primary language in my personal and professional life for several years. Someone with only a beginning grasp of Japanese flaying someone else with a tad less Japanese; that just strikes me as... harmful.

I'm not sure where this comes from at all -- now it seems like your judgment of our opinions is stemming from your judgment of our Japanese ability, but I'm not sure how you're even doing that.
Ok, so which paragraphs is it we should read what between the lines from,then?
They don't know how to win, I will show them.
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It read it as him asserting his jurisdiction over the county, and this whole case seems to boil down to an implied conflict between the county and the state over that jurisdiction. I’m not a lawyer, but it doesn’t look like there’s a very strong mens rea component to this accusation. I imagine they’d have to prove that the accused acted negligently, supposing it is in fact true that the state didn’t have the authority to authorise the test. But then who else is also culpable? Coalfire? The state of Iowa? The particular state official involved in this engagement?
I had to take a required CS class in COBOL programming. I think these courses are focused on teaching the concepts and techniques rather than expertise on the particular tool they are using. Plus, if you think you’ll get to focus on just the cutting edge tools in the workplace and won’t have to deal with some bs legacy crap, you may be slightly disappointed.
Interesting. I recently swapped desktop from Windows to Linux because of the instability from updates. I have a macbook pro I also use which is generally faster and more stable.
> Lots of people died from an Arab Spring that was kicked off by L̶i̶b̶y̶a̶n̶s̶ ̶l̶e̶a̶r̶n̶i̶n̶g̶ the State Dept's opinion of their government.

FTFY

> The resulting revolutions wave left a trail of bodies but didn't make much change.

A lot of the lack of change can be attributed to that same State Department. Secrets for a reason indeed.
There was Objective-C++, which combined Objective-C and C++. You could literally write both languages mixed together. Honestly, it was a Frankenstein monster. The semantics were very vague (especially since C++ uses raii and obj-c uses reference counting in a garbage pool).
It's font ligatures, it can be enabled by setting CSS `font-variant-ligatures` property with some fonts, such as "Fira Code" font.
It always shows average prices to me when I insert people and dates, so it probably behaves differently according to users/markets or it does a/b testing.