skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
VHDL/Verilog does but you're not going to write many apps in that.

At a high level:

1. Brute force with automated tests. Great if you have known datasets and platforms.

2. Work from most constrained hardware first. Easy to say, hard to do. Back in the X360/PS3 days almost everyone screwed this up and developed for X360 first.

3. If you need to do N of the same things fast, use an contiguous array. If you want to enforce that make the array part of your API. CPU prefetchers are amazing and love predictable memory patterns.

4. Rust is one of the few languages that bakes semantics into the language that line up well with modern architectures. Specifically Rust can automatically apply restrict semantics. It also forces you to think about ownership upfront in a way that tends to be performance friendly.
I think it's a good publicity gambit, one that Facebook plays best by emphasizing that they are a platform and not a media company with editorial control or policies. If speech on the platform is illegal (eg: libelous or inciting crime) then with proper law enforcement engagement the problem is solved.

Of course Facebook is already on record of making editorial decisions and removing content so the above argument rings hollow and further plays into Warren's assertion (as well as the argument of many conservatives who claim they are being targeted because of their values which, if true, would would eliminate Facebook's argument of being a neutral platform).
Flash performance was always terrible on all platforms. It span up the CPU on my windows computer from the beginning and never stopped until its eventual demise.
Yeah, I've mentioned that it's a biased source. It's what I could dig up the fastest that gave the amounts of waste in units of volume, and the value is in the ballpark of what I remember reading elsewhere.

That 700m cube is still, in other words, ten thousand 30m cubes. Even accounting for spacing things out, that's on the order of magnitude of a large city. A single city made of high-level waste, in exchange for running 100% of today's energy needs on nuclear for thousand of years[0]. That's, again, not much relative to all the other kinds of waste we're creating. And in reality, it would be a city made of fuel for a different type of reactors.

There's a few times more of mid-level waste, which is another thing potentially worth caring about. Rest of the waste is considered low-level and is either buried or enters regular waste management pipeline.

I'm not saying nuclear waste is not a problem, just that it isn't particularly special compared to other types of highly toxic industrial waste. There's not much of it by volume, unlike most other waste it actually becomes less dangerous with time, and there are ways to put it to use that are blocked pretty much only by people saying nuclear waste is a big issue.

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[0] - Or, eyeballing the doubling time of 2.5% growth rate, something like 150 years of 100% energy at current energy use growth.
I'd say that's relatively cheap for a hobby, and much easier to find than I imagined. I thought they were $300-$600 since the last time I saw one it was fully mechanical, at a school, and as far as I could see it was the only one.
URL to same code search on Sourcegraph (which works): https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=repo%3Awebkit%2Fwebkit+malw...

(Disclaimer: I am the Sourcegraph CEO.)
> The Telegram Open Network is probably dead. The emergency order stops Telegram from “delivering Grams to any persons, or taking any other steps to effect any unregistered offer or sale of Grams.” This is worldwide — not just for the US.

This completely blows my mind. How does the SEC have any power in telling a hypothetical European situated in Europe if they can or can't buy Gram from European sellers..?
>I do leave the batteries in. Is it dangerous?

Should be fine if they're not swollen / getting very hot
Yeah, it wasn’t Apple that killed Flash, it was Adobe. It died the moment Adobe bought Macromedia.

Just think, if Adobe hadn’t bungled Flash or prematurely killed off Fireworks, they could be owning the modern digital design space right now, rather than desperately trying to catch up to Figma and Sketch with XD.
Unluckily, you can't just extrapolate from current trends for solar and wind, because storage becomes more and more of a problem as the percentage of power coming from uncontrollable sources becomes higher and higher. When going from 0 to 10%, you don't need storage at all. But, if you want to go from eg 50% to 100%, then you need MASSIVE storage to guarantee that you have power when you need it.

By the way, your point 4 for nuclear power doesn't hold ground. If you have lots of nuclear power plants, then you're going to not use (waste) a percentage of the power you produce at night by burning fissile material. But if you don't have any nuclear power plants, then 100% of the potential energy from fissile material that is available on Earth is going to be "wasted" (ie, not used).
OS X has SSH, and it is an option you can enable.
I really enjoyed that video. Soundtrack was brill
It's cheating to require a perfect solution before admitting a better one.

So, concretely, which source of universally available baseload power meets your criteria? Which would YOU advocate, given the urgent need to reduce emissions?
> If Apple worked with Adobe to optimize flash for mobile, it would still be alive and well today.

Why is it on Apple to save Adobe’a software? Why not Microsoft, BlackBerry, Google ... or Adobe?

> Instead Jobs decided business wise he could lock devs into developing native apps in the iOS ecosystem

iPhoneOS lacked support for Flash long before it had a native SDK. Jobs decided the answer was HTML, which is exactly the opposite of a locked-in ecosystem.
Webrtc is an abomination. The resource usage is plain ridiculous. Compare it to old skype.
I don't understand why the SEC (america) has jurisdiction to 'block' Telegram's operations (legal domicile in London) - am I missing something here?
> Regular gas stations rarely have a line of people waiting for a pump.

I can understand the rareness part, but some gas stations are known for being discounters, but I still haven't seen them use it, despite their traffic jams.
>In France, the UK, Japan and the United States there are dumps of radioactive waste that are off-limits for the next couple of centuries

In the US this might make people "feel bad" but it's not a real problem. In the southwest there are unimaginably large deserts where no one lives and no one ever will live. A lot of it is federal government property and has been used for nuclear bomb testing in the past precisely because it is land that no one will ever care about. See: Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.
I have first hand experience with mathematical education in post-communist countries. There's no way they did 2/3 of this in hs.
It will probably expand in both directions. There is work going in to new creation tools. They function best client side.
If talk in a few words - our monetization model is pretty simple, we sell coupons and promote posts.
>even though most of our “old” phones are capable of running newer versions.

Its astounding what older devices are capable of with the right software. I installed the community supported version of ubuntu touch on a nexus 5 phone which is about 7 years old now and was stunned to see it was buttery smooth. This device was running faster than my pixel 2. Even web browsing and web youtube worked fine. Apart from the horrible camera and lack of an sdcard slot you could actually use this as a main phone quite easily.
Google is blocked in China so naturally they'd need a Chinese alternative, with everything going on it's easy to fear monger but people need to chill out a bit.
Locale is probably one of the least intrusive ways to determine location, using GPS would probably cause an even further problem if people realise that there's a backdoor to avoid location permission

Any company that markets/releases in China and relies on some google service (maps/safe search/safety net/google sign in/firebase/etc) need to find an alternative, not because everyone is on the Chinese payroll but more often than not these services are business critical.
>On the front end I have two 1Gbit circuits (AT&T and Google)

Holy hell. How did that come about?
I can also say that it was responsible for the Web's most irritating era. After Flash came out every site suddenly had to have an animated homepage. It was fun once, twice but after awhile it was incredibly irritating. I'm so glad it's gone.
> But (purely anecdotally) the viewership seems to be limited to that demographic.

From the opposite perspective of a 20 something, my more technical friends with a genuine interest (the type to build their own PC/NAS clusters, Arch Linux/Gentoo users) are the ones I know that do browse HN regularly. We're still around but I also can see most people would rather browse Reddit.

I'd like to think the conversations here have more substance than on other sites and that is still a major draw.
I've wondered the same thing. It seems to only happen on mobile browsers, and on both iOS and Android. I wonder if people who are logged in are subject to the same?
Which is frustrating in places the Bay Area. Even if you can afford and benefit from Costco and buying in bulk, it's not easy to find space to store a single trip's worth of stuff in the tiny homes out here.
I don’t hate nominative typing but TypeScript has definitely coached me towards thinking more about data and operations on data. It does a lot to encourage you to move away from the traditional OOP patterns that make most people dunk on Java.

If I had to directly compare the two I think nominative typing is superior only in the case where you have two identically-shaped (down to the property name) classes that have different semantics. I feel like if you are in this situation you should take a very large step back and re-think your decisions.
Economist who slated colleagues’ work is tipped for Nobel
The problem isn't really that hard, we need to have vast far reaching austerity measures be put into place immediately or the human race AND human civilization will cease to exist.

People that make arguments like yours beg the question as to economic progress and standards of living. Standards of living should drop overall, but should normalize across the population. A smooth transition is not possible.
This is really fascinating, thanks for the clarification.

I know that data for CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere go back at least 541m years, i.e. the whole Phanerozoic. Does a similar dataset exist for methane?
At this moment talking about how few people has killed nuclear versus other energy sources is BS. We can compare both values only if we forget that we talk about a stuff that will remain lethal for thousands years, in a world that is getting unstable at a fast pace, with politicians even more unstable that act in totally random ways.

We will not have a trustable nuclear body count value until many generations in the future. Is not over until is over.
Breeder reactors are a proliferation nightmare. Any waste processing is an automatic proliferation issue.
Some of this stuff is variable and by region. E.g. Kirkland toothpaste in Canada is different than US. Toilet Paper differs by region.
For anyone else wanting to disable it (or at least learn more about it), the feature is labeled in iOS settings under Safari > Fraudlent Website Warning.
TF Serving has been around several years and is pretty mature. (It predates TFX). You can stick the model in the container or have the container pull the model from blob storage (or have no container at all if you really want).

It's too bad you didn't find a good guide - if you have the training dump a SavedModelBundle at the end, you can have a production-quality serving microservice up and running in about two lines of code - https://www.tensorflow.org/tfx/serving/docker.

But it doesn't really matter since you got it working.
Isn't Flash still viable for animation studios? I thought Flash Player is what's going away, effectively killing Flash playback on the Web, but Flash itself as an animation platform continues to be a supported, actively-developed and commercially available tool.
This conclusion of “a phenomenal success” is based on “a span of several days.” Again, several days.

I want this to be true. I support this policy decision. I don’t own a car, live in NY, and want to see the streets reclaimed from drivers. Love it.

But if someone declared this experiment a terrible failure after /several days/ I would laugh and say, “please wait a bit so we can examine some real data.”

Please, urbanists, consider waiting a bit before calling this “a phenomenal success.” Let’s have some evidentiary standards.
If the transmission and storage isn't a problem, why hasn't Germany's carbon emissions from energy stayed roughly the same? Since 2000 they've invested a lot into solar and wind, and yet they still produce roughly the same amount of energy from coal and gas.
> maybe

Just do it. You'll sleep better at night, and you'll have a higher chance of waking up.

I no longer buy any products from Amazon anymore that's made to go in, on, or protect my body.
In addition to doing so, just consider having multiples. I followed the fire code and then put an extra two in the basement near the furnaxe/water heater and fireplace. And an extra in the bedrooms hallways. One of those things where I think it's okay to overdo it.
I had the same problem with "The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book" [1]; the default (cheaper by a few pennies) option via Amazon Prime was sold by a 3rd party selling counterfeit copies.

I purchased another copy from Amazon directly to compare, and you could clearly see the difference in the quality of the printing, colors, cover page. Also some pages were different, so it seems the counterfeit used an earlier draft of the 1st edition.

I spoke with the author, and eventually they got the 3rd party seller suspended (at least from selling new copies), but apparently it took a couple of weeks of back-and-forth.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Hundred-Page-Machine-Learning-Book/dp...
Are pets really good for us?
I would think a little bit of piracy is okay with Amazon as vetting the authenticity of every seller would be too expensive and time consuming, and making it harder for a seller to get onto Amazon will only encourage the growth of competing platforms. I wonder if Amazon has a policy by which it makes payments to sellers cheated by counterfeit goods so long provided they sign an NDA about it?
If the state refuses to let me sail trash barges in the river that hardly means it's their fault I decided to dump all the trash in the river.
> You're completely within your rights to refuse an unlawful order from a police officer

Subpoenas are court-ordered requests for documents. If you disagree with them, you fight them in court.
Dunno about you, but I do all of the things you mentioned, regularly, on a solo project. My test burden is greatly shrunken (getting rid of all those “did I pass sane args?” tests that one needs between modules) and I have much more confidence that I’m not shipping broken stuff.

I don’t think writing TypeScript actually takes longer once you’re practiced and it eliminates entire categories of error. YMMV, of course, but in 2019 it’s hard for me not to think of a new JavaScript project as somewhat unserious.
Yeah, while the Flash era was definitely great for animation, that was really more because animation was the only real option for video. Streaming video has largely replaced that, and cheap cameras mean animation is way costlier to do now.

It is a shame that the tooling for animation online doesn't appear to be good. I guess the reality is probably that it's just cheaper and easier to render your animation to video, or release as a game. Game engines are working harder to target browsers as a platform, so the latter option will probably come full circle.
How do you bundle a spreadsheet into a PDF? Even embedded into word is a lot less usable and runs the risk of linking to the document and not embedding.
Yet Apple manages it, and they use Qualcomm components.
What happens to the Qualcomm drivers when Apple releases a new iOS version that works across multiple generations of devices, are they updated by Apple or does Qualcomm provide a new driver to Apple ?
I am not 100% accepting the ABI argument the drivers in the Linux kernel are not getting rewriting every release, sometimes there are changes and I don’t know if applying those changes to drivers is such a burden otherwise the kernel will be always broken
> no reasonable person could assume

You keep using that word, I don't think it means what you think it means.

I'm sorry, but there are plenty of people who would absolutely drop 20 grand and say, "When the sun is shining, I have power" without doing any investigation. I know a few of them.
Just as importantly, are we good for our pets - or just hairless health hazards?
Trial use case: a small FOSS codebase in a pointer-less language. The goal isn't perfect safety, it's to be safer than we are now.
Never stopped using Firefox. Chrome came from Google, the conflicts of interest were obvious.
Not even Kevin Costner could save Lisa.
This is why it is so important to buy a device that has open source drivers. If your device can run mainline linux without any patches then you can be pretty sure it will be easy to update for a very long time.

The only phone I know which fits this description is the Librem 5. Unfortunately it would currently be a lot cheaper to just buy second hand android phones every 2 years than to buy one of these but hopefully they can get the price down later.
> ou could actually use this as a main phone quite easily.

except it has none of the apps you need if you belong to 99% of typical users.
Interesting,

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

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092575351...

I wonder what the feasibility is in seeding the troposphere with hydroxyl radicals to accelerate the breakdown of methane?
> The most likely cause of a tight (but not dense) crumb is knocking too much air out during shaping.

I'm certain this is it. I worked as a baker for a few years, but I was making bagels. So my feel for dough is all based on that dough. Very different stuff.
Yes, I've never done a true double blind. That said though, she also went to France and Spain, it was only the Italian bread she could eat. The Italians seem very protective about using the ancient grains, so yes there is an effect, but its clearly not gluten. Australia is very keen on using the modern grains with high yield so its probably something else in the grains.
> if the ICO tokens are revalued to take away the discount to early investors would it then be legal?

No. The tokens are securities. They are issued by a single issuer to fund development of a product which doesn’t presently exist, with early investors in SAFTs buying them on expectation of profit.

In any case, how would you value the discount? You don’t know the price until a market exists. And by that point, the 171 early investors have already dumped their pump on retail investors.
You've probably switched off Safe Browsing. I wouldn't advise anybody to do that unless they're _so_ sure that they don't need Safe Browsing that when (most likely rather than if) they get infected by Malware or fooled by Phishing they are confident they'd tell everybody they know what an idiot they are.

I have it switched off on my home PCs (but on for work). But then I also don't carry home insurance and when I was flooded I believe my first Facebook message began "This is probably a good time for you to say 'I told you so'" because that seems like the right sentiment.
There's some Typescript type stuff that can probably get close.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/47914631/1924257

https://stackoverflow.com/a/53229857/1924257
Oklahoma quakes peaked at over 1000 magnitude 3 quakes in 2015, so you're not that far off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009–19_Oklahoma_earthquake_sw...
Moom - the best and most configurable window manager: https://manytricks.com/moom/

Stay - restore your windows positions based on your current displays: https://cordlessdog.com/stay/
Is there actually any widevine distributed content that isn't available otherwise at the same or better quality?
The thing about Intel’s sales dept is that they are able to muscle big clients with incentives from their “make comp” fund. Remember the lawsuit from years ago about Intel paying Dell not to buy AMD products? They’re still doing that, and haven’t paid that fine yet.
Hey, the reason I downvoted you here was that you is that you basically just quoted parts from the article and simply added dismissals or small jabs, but little truly constructive, and were kinda rude in the last paragraph. Judging by your other posts you can do better than the easy way out. Do you have something constructively critical instead?
> “And as to the publicly available profiles, the users quite evidently intend them to be accessed by others”

How is it evident that the users intend them to be accessed by scrapers and not just humans? Since the ToS forbid scraping, it seems very reasonable to me to imagine users making their profiles public because of that assumption that scraping is not tolerated.
Alternative: telegram launches anyway, and the SEC does... what exactly? Bans them from being traded on US exchanges? It would be impossible to stop the software, just as they can’t stop bitcoin.
Not just young people. As in other creative arts, if the tooling is over-complex or high-friction it can simply kill the creative flow. We should aim to make things pleasant to use for experts as well as beginners. There is a great deal of philosophical resistance to this idea hiding just under the surface, driven perhaps by a sense that difficult interfaces are a test of worthiness. Consider the barrier to entry to create a 'hello world' mobile app - it seems awesomely, perversely difficult compared to the intrinsic simplicity of the task. I would argue that this is deliberate gatekeeping - if ordinary people could create content, this would threaten an awful lot of business models, including and especially the business models of people who run app stores and take a cut of the profits. Can't have the techno-serfs programming, can we?
I wouldn't be able to guarantee "capital" (i.e. people with access to large amounts of it) are smart enough to understand the outcomes of sufficiently complex systems.

I think the mortgage derivative swaps crisis taught us that. Powerful fools are still fools, and there's nothing about the system as-is that prevents some fools from becoming powerful.

In that sense, it's entirely possible we have bad outcomes from automated systems created by people who don't understand them. And that's the ambivalent case.

The actively evil case is: "How much would I have to pay you to design an unethical automated system?"
Wow, clicking this link I just realized my Firefox/Linux installation still has the Flash player plugin. So I could view this gem of 90s Flash-only website.

It shows all the problem the web had back then: It took me four clicks to see actual text about what the authors are trying to say/sell. Everything before was crying "wow look at the amazing technology we can build".

For many web developers at that time (including me), this was a reason why we hated Flash (and intro pages, in general). At some level, the web got more professional after the Flash times, when content was written in HTML again, and SEO was a thing. Unfortunately, today, Javascript takes over the role of Flash and at many sites, without JS there is no text appearing/embedded in HTML only.
How adout we stop arresting non violent offenders? Then I'll be impressed. This is fake crap news and hn upvoters should be ashamed of themselves. Furthermore, in Seattle, the sugar tax doesn't apply to the home town hero, further sealing their monopoly as they hand wave through social issues.
At my Costco Monday morning is super busy with small business buyers. Afternoon is ok.