skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Over 900 computers of HP Elitedesk 800 G2 35W has crashed their harddrives the last week. In total the hospital has 1800 out of 5000 in this specific model. The harddrives has been a problem for quite some time (and other hospitals have experienced the same problem) but the last week the problems has increased making the hospital to go to "readiness state" (swedish stabsläge). The computers are 2-3 years old and was scheduled to be replaced in 2020-2021
> One could also argue that some of these (textile industry, cloud computing) are bad.

You could, but the textile industry freed women from endlessly spinning thread and making cloth. Pretty much nobody does that anymore. I don't want to spend my life making cloth the pre-industrial way. Do you?

In colonial America, archaeological bone evidence shows the colonists worked like dogs and died young. Not very romantic.
Multi-megawatt electric heaters don't cost much. In fact, I could make a backyard megawatt power sink in an afternoon for just a few hundred bucks. 1 mile of 22 AWG bare copper wire strung through the air should do the job. When turned on, watch the whole lot glow red hot like a big space heater.

The reason people don't do this is that the cost of a grid interconnect (the paperwork, approvals, etc.) outweighs the profit from the very short periods of time the price really is negative.
Thanks for the answer! :)
Is bug-catching like collecting Pokemon - gotta catch em all?
I'm trying to understand the semantics not the implementation. The semantics are clearly not "let x = .. in .." as anyone familiar with expression let-bound variables would expect. I wish I could avoid Python but sadly it is taking over the world. It's even taught at schools now and my kids will be learning it as their first programming language.
The thing about a coal, gas or nuclear plant is that they can't switch off as fast as solar. Solar can switch off in the span of a microsecond without much of an issue.

A coal/gas/nuclear plant might actually need the entire day to shut down operation to 0 kW output. And probably needs a day to get back to full operation. So in cases of negative prices, a solar energy producer can do the sensible thing and switch off while a plant operator will probably try to weather it.
It's called curve fitting (or machine learning if the techniques used are fancy enough).
I didn't imply it was optimal or not. My point was that's the wrong question.
As someone who plays a lot of Beat Saber and Elite Dangerous in VR daily, I don't agree. Sure some people get sick from VR but things like resolution and FOV are more than good enough for everyone I have ever showed something VR.
Compiling at Compile Time
>Most wealth was skimmed from other's work

Or you know, just by taking the surplus value of someones labor.
You got your data abstraction in my web app! You got your web app in my data abstraction!
This question isn't decided by market theories but by human nature. And human nature, sadly, makes inequality inevitable. Or, to put it another way, avoiding inequality will always be an ongoing struggle.
Just a note: I appreciate that you took the effort to post the links you did.
What is the non-moral argument for "wealth creators" to keep their wealth?
I've ordered quite a few from them (novels, maths textbooks, ...) and never had an order cancelled. :-/
There was talk the permissions used were a bit worrying:
https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2019/10/nsws-digital-driver-li...

On Google Play it included access to Calendar, Camera, Photos, Location, Storage...
So I've seen this advice before and I do see it's value, but it doesn't quite work for me.

I know that sucking when you're new at something is expected and merely a step towards the goal, but that doesn't stop me from still feeling inadequate.

The knowing/feeling dichotomy is something I struggle a lot with, and I haven't quite found the solution to that yet.
Site looks like a disaster on mobile.
last quarter AMD spend ~$400MM on R&D, had a revenue of ~$1800MM and net income of ~$120MM. Intel had a revenue of ~$19000MM, or about 10 times that of AMD, so it's completely realistic for AMD to double their revenue in a 'short' time frame.

So if we assume no other fixed costs, then to get $1800MM of revenue costs (1800 - 400 - 120) $1280MM. So doubling revenue would cost $2560MM. Then net profit could be (3600 - 2560 - 400) $640MM, or about a 5x of current net profit, which would put the PE at 18.

A PE of 18 would be very nice. And this is assuming there are no fixed costs besides R&D (like marketing of office buildings) and AMD only taking 10% of Intel's revenue.
some supply simply cannot reduce quickly (e.g. nuclear)

What is it about nuclear that makes it impossible to reduce as fast as gas or coal? From my layman's point of view, they all use comparable (steam) turbines to power the actual generators, so I would expect them to be equally capable of disengaging the generator from the turbine.

Is this perhaps due to design decisions, or simply a size problem? A foolish question perhaps, but I don't have more knowledge to draw from.
Why? Newton is still regarded as one of the greatest scientists ever.

Note that he too did most of his work in isolation, and he too was extremely proud.
Sometimes, the same way we eat for free. [As a rule, we don't, but we have a much greater need for food than free internet browsing.]

Othertimes, the same way we breathe air for free. [Some things are too difficult to contain.]

Still other times, the same way we drink water for free. [Some things aren't really free though they feel like it. Instead, we pay for them at another point.]
Right, this is why i explicitly said "the OS/2 GUI (Presentation Manager) API" and not the entirety of OS/2. The original comment mentioned "was there any better GUI programming layers" after all.
> Drivers licences in Australia are the de-facto ID. […] Most Aussies carry their drivers licence with them everywhere.

Same as in the USA.
yes, that behavior is expected of a shit-tier country like saudi arabia. Is that how Israel wants to be regarded?

first-world countries should be held to higher standards of jurisprudence (among all things) than rando third-world nations. if you can't deliver justice, then really are you first-world at all?

do you really think Israel delivers appropriate due process to its occupied territories? Let alone actual representation?

iirc Israel just rolled over and occupied Jerusalem within the last couple years. The US rubber-stamped it, not sure that changes anything.
So why has inequality not grown exponentially? There are many periods where it is about constant and/or declining.
I am probably a key demographic for them tech enthusiast, gamer with disposable income to cover these sorts of purchases, but the motion sickness aspect would need to be non-existent for me to spend any money on one of these.
I think there is a fundamental flaw in the whole discussion. We are doing alternative energy for two reasons:

1. As a means for alternative cheap energy;
2. As a means to gain independence from imported energy (oil, coal);
3. As a means to protect the environment

If a solar farm has to be switched off, because the power can not be sold, apparently 1.) has dominance over 2 and 3. If environment protection would have precedence, consumers should be forced to consume higher priced energy?
Seems pretty easy to fake. Make an app that shows a photo and QA code.
This is mass market retail we’re talking about. Unless it’s easily demonstrable, people are going to buy the prettier box on the shelf or the one that’s cheaper.

I’d bet money that when company X adds ECC and calls it “super stable memory”, company Y adds a button in the settings menu that calls fsck and calls that “hyper stable memory” and undercuts company X by 12%.
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The blog is called tabsoverspaces...
>>> 5.6 seconds before impact, it classified her as a vehicle. Then it changed its mind to “other,” then to vehicle again, back to “other,” then to bicycle, then to “other” again, and finally back to bicycle.

This is exactly why I keep saying that autonomous vehicles are not 10 or even 20 years away. More like 50-100 years away if that. Same reason as to why famously a group of researchers in the 60s thought that solving computer recognition of objects would take few months at max, and yet in 2019 our best algorithms still think that a sofa covered in a zebra print is actually a zebra with 99% confidence.

Had a human been actually paying attention to the road, I can bet they would start breaking/swearving as soon as they saw something, even if they weren't immediately 100% certain that it's a human - a computer won't until it's 99%+ certain, which is too risky assumption considering the state of visual recognition of objects.
For a while AirBnB forced you to write a review before you could book another place.

During that time, I always just wrote expletives in the review box and gave everyone 1-star. I'm not going to be the unpaid QA person for AirBnB!
You're right, there are definitely people who choose a specific lifestyle willingly and by all means let them do so.

We shouldn't assume it applies to anyone just because it applies to some indivuduals though.
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> OP

Both are correct in this instance (when replying to you I can't recall if it was the first post however I knew it was your parent / my grandparent post).

> Even all the heat generated by appliances and devices in the world combined is actually negligible in examining global warming.

I agree. Like I said, I don't agree with the original conjecture however it is still important to note that if one is only discussing waste heat production then the problem isn't just the generation of electricity. However the problems clean energy addresses are obviously more significantly other, far more hazardous, waste products. Hence why they're called "clean" energy.
They perform that role right now, but you could replace them with much much cheaper flywheels.
Not that it matters but you can use LTO with C++ and Rust, just need to compile and link both with LTO enabled.
If you look at the actual richest people in the world though, they largely make their wealth off the hard work of others (walmart family), through some kind of gamble (finance), some kind of parasitism (unearned income like interest) or by monopolizing that "magically existing wealth the OP doesn't believe in" (e.g. saudi arabian oil).

For every JK Rowling or Steve Jobs there's maybe 100 who either fully or mostly extracted their wealth while going to great efforts to pretend that they're really just another JK Rowling or Steve Jobs.
It's not just Australia, this pretty much applies to any other first-world country.
No. It's not to expose pretend science, but pretend science publications/magazines.

I believe (No, I don't have evidence) that fields of 'X - studies' have people performing research with rigorous practices. Yet, those holding to standards are marred by nonsense publications from people who disregard standards.

Edit:
This is enabled by magazines printing without... you know, Review.
You don't even have to pay many AirBnB fees - you can steeply discount a night, and then get your friend to book it.
Windows does as well! Finally. And will change everytime you use WiFi. Just in the setting.

Might have to be set per wifi network...

IE -
https://winaero.com/blog/enable-random-mac-address-in-window...
I know Pythran from the Julia challenge [1]

but you should link to some docs / examples / tutorials in this thread because the release notes doesn't do justice of what Pythran can do.

[1] https://github.com/SimonDanisch/julia-challenge/pull/4
Build your own React in 90 lines of JavaScript
I feel like I am pretty security conscious and thought the same thing at first. but realistically isn't all this just data the government already has on us?.
Via the stories from "talesfromthefrontdesk" I learned that hotels will pay a room for you in another hotel in case they cannot accommodate you (e.g. overbooking). IMO AirBNB should by law have a similar rule. This as (as you say) last minute prices are indeed significant higher than booking in advance. Further, the risk should be on AirBNB, not on the customer.
Arabia is a peninsula. Qataris, Yemenis and Emiratis among others would not appreciate Saudis attempting to appropriate Arabian to refer to those from Saudi Arabia.

And Arab refers to people from Morocco to Iraq so it’s equally unsuitable.
>> Although largely symbolic in nature, the climate declaration was adopted by a unanimous vote.

What are the expected changes that actually will help climate change?
Deploying a Ha WordPress Website with Amazon EFS and AWS Elastic Beanstalk
> ECC memory in the desktop and on laptops

Wow and here I though RGB lighting was pinnacle of pointlessness.
You can do either, whatever you prefer.

You could generate keys off the device and keep a copy elswhere allowing you to revoke the device's sub key and generate a new one for a replacement device.

You could have two, and only carry one. (Big downside is that you need to fish out the backup every time you register for something new.)

You could use something else as a second factor as well, and just treat the device as a more convenient option than looking up and typing in an TOTP code, say.
I don't see where I said one thread per core was optimal for Epyc or not.
How are you dealing with data races? Manual synchronization (memory barriers, and the like)?
> stay away from mainstream
Joe Rogan's podcast has millions of subscribers and multiple ads per episode (not counting ads on various cuts/highlights from the episode) — are there more mainstream podcasts on youtube?
I've followed the demoscene for nearly three decades, and the demos get put out every year have always been hugely impressive. The old Amiga stuff like Technological Death was great but the more modern demos like Intrinsic Gravity by Still (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZxPhDC-r3w) are just amazing.

You can get pretty far making demo effects in CSS and JS these days. A couple of my attempts over on Codepen;

Text flash - https://codepen.io/onion2k/full/WyLoNg (Warning: flashing images)

Bitmap text wobble scroller - https://codepen.io/onion2k/full/rYgxdJ
Aren't there a bunch of states and cities who still intend to keep pace with the Paris accord?
TestMace is a new cool competitor for Postman
I tried Oculus only once, the first one that was sold world-wide, I believe. It was cool, but that was basically it for me. My main concern with it has always been the fact that it requires putting a device on my head for non-significant amount of time and I'm not sure about its health effects. Anybody know any research or studies that were done to this end?
Maybe not totally on topic, but both the OP and the first article the author links in the text claim there are no natural resources, but both are seemingly not addressing one of the most frequently used natural resources: wood. In the text of "there are no natural resources" the words "tree" and "wood" do not appear.

In most cases we are indeed shaping the wood to be what we need, but obviously nature isn't going to grow door frames or rafters for us. It sure grows wood, though. No need to smelt it or refine it or really even figure out how to use it properly. It's not a "highly inconvenient form."

We get sheets and blocks of plastic shipped around that aren't in their final form, but they are the final refined substance, just as wood is.
How is C++ code better? Rust code is harder to write, but I don’t find it harder to read.
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It's bad to write SQL queries on the client side :-)
>>The important bit is that it notices that the obstacle is moving out to the road and should stop it

The problem here is that if I'm doing 70mph+ on the motorway and I see a plastic bag flying in my path, the correct course of action isn't to brake hard or panically try to avoid it - but a computer cannot tell a difference between a soft plastic bag and something more rigid. If the only classifier is that "there's an object in my way, I need to stop" then that's also super dangerous. In fact, there are cases where unfortunately the correct course of action is to keep going straight and hit the object - any kind of small animal you shouldn't try to avoid, especially at higher speeds - yes they will wreck your car, but a panicked pull to the left or right can actually kill you. As a human you should do this instinctively - another human = avoid at all cost, small animal = brake hard but keep going straight, plastic bags = don't brake, don't move, keep going straight. How do you teach that to a machine if the machine can't reliably tell what it's looking at?
> It's shocking but imagine you are a PhD student, you need 4 papers out in 4 years but you are operating in a field where our results are only accepted when they are positive and new.

Get the fuck out of this field. Those stupid things keep on being only because some people are willing to be abused. When a lot less people enroll for those programs maybe some change will happen. Or maybe those students could start rioting.
The US currently has about 25M small businesses. How many of them use digital advertising? What testing is done to ensure their ROA isn't a waste?
There are two solutions to the property tax income mismatch issue. Which often effects old or disabled people. One I think some places do is allow people to freeze property taxes when they retire. The other is just to allow people to take a property tax lean against their property. When it's sold the state gets it's cut.
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It's not the most readable Rust code I've ever seen and I guess that's not the main concern here. That said, I guess people find C++ easier because they're already used to the syntax.
Under-developed countries have a unique opportunity to develop sustainable growth. I applaud this, despite it being symbolic. Would great to see Hungary invest in things such as green tech and fast trains as it develops.
> Needless to say, I refused to stay there and Airbnb gave a full refund.

I don't think that's good enough. You were relying on that accommodation. Now the worst for AirBNB is that they won't make money. So there's no incentive to do anything about it. Further, if you suddenly need to switch accommodations the last minute price will be much higher than usual.

AirBNB should fix the accommodation problem they caused. They must/should offer an alternative.
Explain...

AirBnB offered you money to change the text of your AirBnB listing? Why would they do that?
What are some of the more interesting legal documents that you've come accross?

I've seen a lot of interesting ones from Steven Biss, where he also sued YouTube in the David Seaman lawsuit. He is the attorney representing Nunes against Twitter for someone having a parody account about him. He is currently representing a guy named Robert Steele in a lawsuit against Jason Goodman that has a lot of very unique and interesting documents regarding cyberwarfare, dirty bomb hoaxes, informants being involved, etc.
> The people bullish on VR are the same crowd who were bullish on 3D tv

No we're not.

I never had the slightest interest in 3D TV. VR was compelling enough that it made me change my main focus towards learning interactive 3D.
The C99 standard draft (n1256) says about “lvalue”, on p. 46:

It is perhaps better considered as representing an object ‘‘locator value’’.

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/WG14/www/docs/n1256.pdf
Most modern frameworks provide more functionality than raw Win32, such as automatic layout management and most of those are also cross-platform. People use those frameworks because of those features and/or need to be cross-platform, not because of Win32's ergonomics.

Win32 only provides the basic building blocks for the UI and Microsoft decided that this is enough (i disagree, i'd like them to add new APIs to Win32 for stuff like layout management, resizable dialogs, dockable panels, etc) and anything else should be provided by other libraries, so you just see people using these other libraries.
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I have the opposite: I know Rust, but I hardly know C++ beyond C (granted that I probably could figure out the not-so-easy c++ easier than I would figure out the rust version if I didn't know either). Don't get me wrong, I know what you mean. But the same can happen with many other languages too.
AFAIK WTL is still being developed as an open source project by the same main developer who originally made it.
Tech debt is something that saves time/resources now, at the cost of even more time/resources later.

This could include not writing tests, spaghetti code, poorly planned or poorly defined features, and so on.

I treat it much like financial debt. The best ones are the ones you might not have to pay off - experimental features that may not be used or that could be replaced.

There are some cases where the amount you save vs future cost is really poor, e.g. denormalized database or spaghetti architecture. It's quite a senior/specialist skill to get the right balance.
It depends, but if they are public they still charge an obscene amount of money to get access to them. Sometimes like $0.50 per page and a $20 fee upfront for administrative costs. Pacer ain't cheap either. This will be a Godsend.
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Rust is a very terse language. Inexperienced devs tend to write overly compressed code.

That example isn't too bad once you're used to the syntax and idioms but the lack of white space to space out logical blocks is what's making it hard to read.

Well, that and only what I can say equates to writing C++ in rust, much the same way you can write php in JavaScript if you squint hard enough.

Probably doesn't help it's trying to be a comparison which doesn't really work. A lot of that could be refactored out into idiomatic rust and it wouldn't look so bizarre.
Well, now, this is the fundamental I/O question of life, is it not?

TFA concerns wild variations on the ingredients.

Somebody had to be the first one to put pineapple on pizza, and to put main() on a struct.

So everything is ultimately related.
We had the software version defined as a macro in the header file. This worked absolutely fine for version 0 to version 7 and then stopped compiling at version 08.

It turned out, the original author had written it as a 2 digit number for consistency, like this: 03

In C, a leading 0 indicates the number is octal, so 07 is a valid number, but 08 is not.
I don't think it is very hard to parse. I think it is very ugly though. Which kind of makes it unreadable. I mean reading fn is not natural for me. Reading function is way more natural. I feel like the language designers didn't pay attention at all to how natural it will look to developers
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It lives on the stack, it definitely isn't volatile.
I’m surprised that anyone remembers Yahoo as being champions of privacy. Yahoo installed kernel modules on their servers to scan customer data at the request of the government, without even alerting their very own security team.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-yahoo-nsa-order-idUSKCN12...
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