skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My daughter did competitive FS too. Pricey but worth every penny. She has grown up to be an amazing person.

Family and friends couldn't believe the cost or that we were foolish enough to pay for it. But it really was a worthwhile experience. After pre-juvenile we were probably paying 20-30K+ per year including travel. The joke among our circle of skater families was that having a kid in competitive FS was like buying a new car every year. LOL we drug her skates everywhere we went so she could keep in shape.
> They don't.

This is counterfactual, and I'm not interested in debating facts.

> I consider the moral-fascism of modern illiberal progressive rhetoric to be rather abhorrent.

I'm sorry, but this is word salad. You don't know any of my concrete political positions.

> Are you fine with being socially outcast?

I am extremely comfortable with reactionaries being socially outcast. I belong to a few different groups that are traditionally (and violently) targeted when reactionary movements gain social and political power. Minimizing the ability of reactionaries to undermine systems of government and public discourse directly serves my end of continuing to exist in a liberal democracy. I'd quote Popper, but that's a little bit too cliche at this point.
Now how about Windows 10 for my Raspberry Pi?
I'd buy it only if one of the panel is an e-ink device.
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> It's a poor example because that's not how products containing dangerous levels of a substance are dealt with.

Well, it would actually be interesting, given that various RoHS-style approaches seem to rely entirely on bans and labelling requirements. Fees would be an interesting middle ground for things that can't be banned for product quality† reasons, but for which labelling is not a sufficient deterrent for low-value uses of hazardous substances.

added:

† Lead is a very useful material. In many cases, using lead instead of alternatives in a product can dramatically improve consumer safety. For example, lead solder is more ductile than lead-free solder; in a product that vibrates, lead solder can dramatically improve the useful life of a product, as far as I've been told. Furthermore, the higher temperatures required to make joints with lead-free solder increase the failure rate of components being soldered.
Would this let them emulate the switch?
The situation is a bit different now but 1930's Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act [1] seems like it was quite a lose/lose scenario.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot–Hawley_Tariff_Act#After_...
So with renewed interest on aircraft emissions (due to Greta Thunberg et al.), I thought of drawing attention to this promising concept from the 80s. It's still being worked on by Safran: https://www.avweb.com/recent-updates/business-military/safra... with apparently the noise problems addressed. The basic idea is it generates similar amounts of thrust as a turbofan while consuming 35% less fuel. It was a great idea, but fuel prices were low and aeroacoustics wasn't at a state to handle geometry this complex. I wouldn't be surprised to see us flying on these in 50 years though.
> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

Yet you assume my comment is referring to one comment and unfairly attacking it?

This entire page is uncharacteristically rife with misinformed comments and people oddly invested in shutting down anyone with anything positive to say about Intel

And:

Please don't put words in my mouth.

I didn't accuse AMD of astroturfing. If anything I literally implied the opposite, an organic reason why there's a movement to emphasize "AMD bad Intel Good".

My point is it's to the detriment of having real discussions about either when they come up on HN.
A metric butt-ton of advertising on FB and Google
Correct. We have life insurance. We have a trust. All the normal stuff you do. What I am looking at is what are the things that I do / maintain for the family and how will that be handled if something happens? Having an overly complex technical setup is one of the areas on that list. My death would of course have the normal emotional impact it would have for any family. I am trying to make sure that everything else around it that I can sort, I do. My daughter works hard everyday at her schooling because she is determined to be a doctor. My job as a parent is to give her everything I can to make sure she is happy and successfully in her life for as long as I can. The is the promise I made when we had her.

Some of the comments here are taking the piss...let see how you feel when you hold your baby for the first time.

Btw, for context, in the last 3 years I have had perfectly heathy friend that was in perfect shape drop dead from unexpected heart issues at 38. He had 3 kids. Another friend with 2 kids was killing in a car wreak at 44. Looking at the things their family’s have had to deal with is the reason why I am thinking about this.
Yeah, this looks really nice. Probably also gonna stick with my laptop for now, but I could see this being amazing for note taking. I could really see this taking off at my school.
That's what I was thinking.

It's not entirely accurate to say "nobody" wins. Politicians can definitely "win" in trade wars.
That only works in case of democracies.
Ah! Got it! Thanks for pointing it out. Will fix it!
I've seen this misattribution a few times today.

Adams didn't say that. He was quoting computer scientist Bran Ferren in his (Adams's) article in The Sunday Times "How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet". It's reproduced on his personal website here: http://www.douglasadams.com/dna/19990901-00-a.html

The actual quote is slightly different: "Technology [...] is stuff that doesn't work yet."
> They don't make perfect products at the beginning, but they eventually nailed it after some iterations

This is not limited to hardware: early versions of SQL Server were far from perfect, but they kept improving on it. Makes some kind of sense if you have deep pockets and your product targets a very lucrative market.
Contrived hypothetical: It's tuesday evening, and I'm updating my to-do's before tomorrow. I have 3 hours after work, and 3 tasks:

1) A meeting (Important Urgent) 1 or 2 hours

2) Buy a gift for someone's birthday (Important - can be done any time but must be done) 1 hour

3) Check the marketplace for a limited sale (Urgent - much better if done immediately, but doesn't matter so much if not done) 1 hour

If task 1 takes only one hour, I do 3 then 2. If it takes two hours, I do 2.

There's two contexts above. Obviously as you pointed out, once you actually get to doing a task, there's only one context. But the point is that when adding a task to your to-do list you don't yet necessarily know what that future context will be.

Your choices here are to either make a priority queue for every possible future context (reasonable for this simple case, but doesn't scale to a more complex one), or mark tasks with the relevant information that will let you easily assemble the appropriate priority queue on the fly, once the context becomes clear.
From their original stance against FOSS, yes pretty wild.

From UNIX point of view, not so much, given that they were one of the first licensees for PC hardware with Xenix.
Thank you! That's kind of my goal, so I'm glad to hear you confirm it.
> 1. An oversupply of newly minted PhD's literally waiting for tenured profs to die so that there is an opening

Wait, a work-relief program for ... PhDs?

Surely they are intelligent enough to find some form of employment beyond what Uncle Sam can only provide.
Her (2013)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/
How would that be any different than what they tried with the Fire Phone? You can already buy cheap Android phones that can do all of those things using either Google’s services or Amazon services
Maybe, but maybe not. The fact that AMD has implemented a similar instruction set but is not vulnerable to many of the existing speculative attacks that plague Intel suggest that they could just have made more secure design decisions, whether it was intentional or not.
This comment doesn’t make any sense.
If I understand this correctly, the underlying problem is in GIFLib, which calls reallocatearray, a wrapper around realloc that guards against overflows when computing the size of the memory buffer to reallocate from the number of items and item size.

However, reading https://github.com/aseprite/giflib/blob/master/lib/openbsd-r..., I don’t see how that could lead to a double-free, unless realloc double-frees, or unless a different reallocatearray gets linked in.

Also, that comment on how realloc isn’t portable feels scary. I can see that introduce subtle bugs in libraries used on a different platform from where it is developed.

Hence, I think one should forbid the use of raw ‘realloc’ in portable code.
Chances are if they do it had nothing to do with the facts.

They were already primed to find an excuse to punish them, but the facts are that, an excuse and never the reason.
Is a replacement coming? Do you like the company otherwise?

If your only issue is the other guy then in theory this could workout better for you as when the CTO's replacement comes in you all have nearly equal footing.

Who is your boss post his departure the CEO? If so be proactive and set time up with them to ask questions and voice concerns. You could possibly carve yourself a comfort zone.
The question is not if there are subsidies, but whether they are legal subsidies.

> “The WTO has now rejected every allegation of unlawful subsidies to Boeing with the single exception of one measure—a Washington State business and occupancy (B&O) tax rate. Boeing has pledged from the beginning of this case to comply with the WTO’s rulings, and the B&O tax rate will be no exception. Boeing will support the United States and Washington State as they take steps necessary to fully comply with today’s ruling.

> In 2006, after attempts to negotiate a bilateral agreement, the U.S. Government (USG) filed a case with the World Trade Organization claiming Airbus had received $22 billion in illegal subsidies. U.S. officials estimated the economic benefit of those subsidies (in 2006 dollars) at more than $200 billion.

http://www.boeing.com/company/key-orgs/government-operations...
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Between this and the Samsung Fold it feels like we have entered into the netbook (form factor) era* void. We're past peak smartphone development and are in this space where manufacturers are stumbling around for the next "it" device but creating nothing that is truly revolutionary. Yes, there are "some" use cases where a larger screen on my mobile device would be useful…. But by-and-large I still want it to fit in my pocket and be comfortable navigating single handedly . Adding dual screen & doubling the device thickness is not the solution I am looking for.

*Netbooks were low-powered mobile devices (basically mini laptops) that launched in 2007 and basically disappeared (as a viable market category) after the iPad and its kind were launched in 2010.

EDIT added "form factor" for clarification
Minor correction:

The Duo is the Android phone.

The Windows X tablet is called the Neo.
Exactly! Keeping all of those stateful connections open is a much bigger issue than loadbalancing simple HTTP polls (that you could cache super aggressively). I think this is what this blog post really misses and shows that they have not much of a clue how to operate things at a worldwide scale.
I think that the American Corporation is not in crisis, and is doing a better job at performing its primary function of benefitting shareholders better than ever.

I think, on the other hand, that public benefit corporations and other governance structures are in crisis, because it is evident that they are getting outplayed everywhere you look.

EDIT: Non-profits have been doing well though. It seems easier to go "all in" on a charitable cause, or "all in" on a greedy cause, but combining the two into an amalgamated pro-social gung-ho business (a la public benefit corporations) is not easy to do.
Not that I care (I don't even know who these people are), but the statement, "We don't make enough to cover our mortgage or our bills"... doesn't really tell me anything.

For example, what is your mortgage? $1000 a month, or $15K a month? And how much of your "bills" are from credit card charges from shopping sprees or whatever?
Win32 is an OS API, which doesn't necessarily relate to the CPU or other chipset members. Do you mean it will Win10 for ARM will support code targetted at ia32/amd64 CPUs via emulation?
So Windows X X?
Re: and for anyone who thinks this isn’t webforms back from the dead

For getting smaller and internal projects done quickly and without stack drama, Web Forms does the job just fine. It's not going to win an art contest, but it's usually quicker, cheaper, and simpler than the alternatives. You wanna pay more for art and fashion? Go ahead!
So, limited use case, no specialty, and overlaps almost completely with a tablet.
please elaborate on why not? I would think they'd have to be relatively sterile. Boxes are stacked flat, can tops must be in a pringles style stack until they're assembled into a can.

Where are they contaminated?
I'm surprised that this article didn't consider HTTP/2 or QUIC at all. In either case, the disadvantages of polling are dramatically decreased (persistent connection or lack of need for one, header compression, etc.). Having long-lived connections with web sockets is hard to do at scale (pinning a user to a single server, pushing caching down a layer or two in the stack), and when you're Google the back-end efficiency of stateless requests is hardly a concern.

If you're on a browser that doesn't support a new version of HTTP, you're probably also not able to use web sockets. Supporting two dedicated transports (one for fallback, one for marginal efficiency gains over the fallback) for a small feature like this seems crazy.
I don’t think it’s easy to make such successor.
However, I think the best approach into making a better search engine is to start with meta search engine, and collect analytical results of users decisions. At the same time, that search engine needs to develop its own.
If you stay with meta engine, not many is going to find it authentic, and it would be a cluster.
However when you start as meta engine then you implement your own engine using it, that’s when users will be comfortable in using
Eh I'm not too interested in multitasking on my phone. Even on my 12.9 iPad Pro multitasking is mediocre. If I want to be productive I simply go to a laptop or desktop.
> Basic functionality in all of them will be badly broken and there's more or less nothing you can do to fix it.

I disagree.

The performance and battery life differences between different phones running the same chipset is insane.

Read through https://www.anandtech.com/show/14716/the-black-shark-2-revie...

For some benchmarks, the top phones are 50% faster! Storage benchmarks (not shown in that particular review) can be even more dramatic. Battery life differences can be huge (multiple hours) at the same capacity.

Each manufacturer customizes the heck out of the kernel, and also attached firmware. LTE speeds can vary dramatically with "the same antennas". Same for WiFi speeds.

The current Android phone I am using works great. It is surprisingly fluid and rather nice to use, though I'd argue Windows Phone 7 was still nicer (or at least more fun) to use, that ship has long since sailed.
Is issue related to what you're talking about?

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/128554619

As of Android Q you can no longer execute native binaries that aren't shipped in the .apk, is that related? (not a systems dev, hence the question)
Perhaps he meant DVR. My MythTV DVR setup records stuff I think I want to watch, then a few weeks later, it deletes most of the shows to make space for more stuff I may never watch.
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Could you please elaborate on problem you are working on? How many rps do you want your service to handle? Thank you
Many borders follow natural features like say a mountain ridge, and such features affects air movement patterns, humidity/clouds, etc.
Awesome design, makes me want to put one together just to see it work. :)

One concern: I saw some designs with the rotor outside the stator, physically mounted to a wheel. I'm not a mechanical engineer, but as a guy who considers himself not quite dumb enough to fail at everything...

I hope they build those motors tough. Typical electric motor mounts create a situation where the only real stresses on the motor are rotational, along the axis of rotation, or in the case of a pulley / gear-mount setup, you are usually limited to 1-2 additional push/pull axis. But on a wheel? That wheel is going to want to rotate and move on all axis, which now needs to be supported by a motor, which also includes permanent electric magnets.

Awesome lighter motor, awesome that we can sandwich the rotor between stators (more layers more torque!).
“Including workers in ownership and governance is necessary to lessen the hold on corporate wealth by affluent white families.”

Why should this be a goal? Is there something wrong with affluent people, or white people, or affluent white people?
There is a lot of Win32 using code out there.

It may even be the case that MS's long-lived flagship products (Office, VS) are not completely free of it.
I noticed that there is a checkbox filter for the list called "All female team". What a strange filter. Are these companies that will not hire men?

Edit: after looking at some of the team pages of the "All female team" list, some of the companies on the list do not have all female teams. So what does that filter mean?
All one has to do is look at the issues plaguing the current crop of geared turbo-fans to see where this really struggles in the real world. Attaching an ultra high RPM gas turbine to a relatively slow moving fan, whether a prop or ducted fan, is not an easy engineering exercise. The amount of heat generated in the gear box, the expensive materials that heat requires, and the operational needs of many start/stop cycles are making these engine styles difficult. That's not to say its not a worthy goal. It just seems that we're just on the cusp of making these things a reality and I think the geared turbofan will end up being the winner vs the propfan.
This would go against the culture of the company.
And going against the culture is SUCH a difficult thing that I would almost say it's impossible.

The culture of Facebook right now is a dumpster fire of making money out of ads at any cost and disregard anything else. The majority of their employees are in their mid twenties and are mainly and almost only motivated by money.

Even the VPs are cynical caricatures of an ultra capitalist world with no concern for anything ethical. Good luck on changing the culture to start worrying about security. It would require at least a complete overhaul of all the execs.
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I would suggest that " version number <1.0 is the universal signifier" is the failure of assumption.

Many software don't abide by that.
Plus EU taxes often cover healthcare so there's another huge chunk of change gone for US residents when comparing.
How is offering high-interest savings the equivalent of throwing money into a fire? A bank offers higher interest than competitors to attract more deposits, which it lends out (with leverage) at a higher interest rate than what it pays to depositors.
The ideology of generating shareholder profit "has caused immeasurable harm"? Really? The author is casting aside decades of economic growth, peace, and innovation.

> New policies could ensure that all the stakeholders who collectively generate a corporation’s prosperity then benefit from its wealth.

I don't agree with this slight-of-hand. Employees are stakeholders, sure; they will lose their job if a company goes under, and may not get a promotion if growth at the company stops. But they are NOT owners of the company in equity terms.
Because a kid has no idea what she is talking about. Why is MSM giving a kid a platform to talk on when she has no experience or education on the topic. She is not an expert.

MSM using kids to push political agenda for the sole reason to get an emotional response from people. Climate Change is not new, its been going on for thousands of years.... Earth gonna do, what the Earth gonna do.

I concur, this topic does not belong here.
It it were real, it could explain lap-dances.
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> We're not even close.

What makes you say that? I've certainly known quite a few people who've gotten into fender benders in parking lots.
Great read, I also like how it seems totally unfinished. Some memorable moments were (paraphrasing from memory) “I maintained the currency for the town which was very profitable for me” and “that’s the best part about being a reasonable person, you can come up with a reason for anything”.
Loading this article involves my browser making 141 separate requests, downloading a total of 6.9mb of data. Based on the numbers given the article, that's more than eight hours worth of tennis scores.
They look like telephone poles to me.
They've had Linux Azure offerings for quite a few years, and famously contributed a fair bit of code to the Linux kernel to make some of that possible.

They also released those Nokia branded Android devices.

It is not like MS has been doing consumer hardware releases for that long or anything!

It'll be interesting to see the support, IMHO one thing that keeps people (software devs and consumers) from buying into a new Android OEM that is selling an "Ecosystem" (e.g. Samsung Note) is the fear of a product line being dropped.
How cheap and easy is it to come up to develop a new version (even if it is a reskin) of Windows 10 and dual screen hardware? Surely it cost more in engineering than the marketing coverage they are getting.
For people saying dual screen is a gimmick, have you not wanted to replicate multi-screen setup on your laptop (while traveling or when not on your desktop)? Power users have always wanted more screen real estate!

I've been eyeing the Asus Zenbook Pro Duo[1] ever since they've been announced (currently using a Macbook Pro 2015). I usually carry around an Asus portable second screen for my laptop in my backpack and this dual screen laptop trend is exactly what I wanted! I'm definitely upgrading to a dual screen option next.

Although I have no hope from Apple, I'm still waiting to see what the next MBP iteration would be. All they need to do is stretch that stupid touchbar enough to be a respectable second screen.

[1] - https://www.asus.com/Laptops/ZenBook-Pro-Duo-UX581GV/
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The Colour of Magic is probably not the best place to start. He hadn't yet hit whatever it is that makes Discworld click for people.

There is considerable debate about the best order in which to read Discworld[1]. I know a lot of people who recommend Guards! Guards! as a good place to start, as being good in itself and the beginning of a very popular story arc. (Discworld has a number of running plots, which sometimes interact but can be read independently.)

So if you didn't care for Colour of Magic, it might be worth the effort to pick up one of the later books, after he'd worked out his style and worldbuilding. There's still no guarantee it'll work for you, but you won't really know if you start at the chronological beginning.

I'll note that I myself am agnostic on where to start. I like Pratchett (enough to have read all of Discworld) but do not love his work the way many people do.

[1] https://www.discworldemporium.com/content/6-discworld-readin...