skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The phase out of CFCs worked for one simple reason: there was an alternative that worked well.

For all the noise and fury about climate change there is simply no alternative energy source that works very well.

Everything else: climate denial, climate alarmism, it's all noise and means nothing.

Neither the politicians (both for and against), nor the activists (again, both for and against) have any effect whatsoever.
Hi Sean,

I read some article about SCTP but I still keep wondering what the best usecase for SCTP is. Can you give some examples?
HTTP thesupplementcop com/gluco-neuro-plus/
Gluco Neuro Plus
Be careful about its restriction There are sure impediments with regards to taking enhancements. While it is figured to assist you with turning around diabetes, on the off chance that you are pregnant or despite everything you're nursing your kid, specialists won't prescribe taking any dietary enhancement, including GlucoNeuro Plus. A similar standard works for individuals who are as yet 18 years of age and beneath. On the off chance that you have been determined to have an ailment or sickness, you have to ensure that you are permitted to take dietary enhancements before you request on the web.
http://thesupplementcop.com/gluco-neuro-plus/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNAKQnTW6fg&feature=youtu.be
Weird that no Scandinavian brands made it on this list, do Americans not buy those? Stuff like the North Face is genuinely considered a pretty poor quality brand here in Denmark. Typically North American brands lose these types of tests by our consumer focused NGOs as well.

My inherited 150 year old Icelandic wool sweater is more water/wind resistant than my Fjällraven Hard shell though. So maybe quality just isn’t really what it was anywhere.
I just checked Chrome, apparently it doesn't support moving anything but extension icons? I far prefer the FF approach (also because of accidental moving)
Ya, but what kind of battery?
Planets in the Fourth Dimension (2014)
Every time I try to play a game that I paid for on iOS that no longer works because Apple doesn't care about backwards compatibility, I'm reminded of how thankful I am for Microsoft's efforts here.

I really think the amount they've improved Windows under-the-hood over time is impressive, especially taking into account the constraints they've had to work within.

On a related (though somewhat tangential) note I must say that I think MS tying WinRT (which as I understand it is the clean rewrite of the Windows API) to the Microsoft Store initially was a massive mistake. I still don't have a clear, confident impression of where I can or should use WinRT, even after all these years.
Brings back memories -- I had an SE/30 maxed out with 8MB of RAM, and ethernet with the D-shell connector, and A/UX. Still have it; it still booted, last time I tried.

I didn't find out until this year that I could have replaced the 1MB modules with 4MB ones, and have 32MB.
> My inherited 150 year old Icelandic wool sweater

Any picture :) ?
Places in Cameroon You Must Visit Before You Hit 30s
>the inability to hold down a job, eccentricity of style, rudeness

It's called the autism spectrum. These are not features.

Source: on it.
FWIW the second principle especially seems like a nondisagreeable principle. I find it hard to think how a person would support the opposite. "Whenever you can do something you should do that thing."

I suspect the motivation behind your statement is to trade this off against experimentation, in which case a more disagreeable version of this statement might be "we value conservatism of design over experimentation."
Cats Is Getting Patched Like a Video Game
Even in the medium to high end, the biggest trend for restaurants in the last decades is the dominance of the burger, not exactly a health food.

To be honest, most Chinese restaurants probably serve more vegetables (and roughly the same amount of fat and carbs) than a meal at a non-Chinese restaurant at the same price point.
Work for FAANG, team size is 6-8~. I'm oncall 24/7 roughly one week out of 6. Usually paged 1-2 times per shift except during 'peak' periods but we usually subdivide the rotation for those.

My worst shift I was paged during off hours twice, but was only woken one of those times.
Decentralized has become the de facto nonsense solution advocated on HN to any problem, it seems.
My bad, memories fade. It was 5.1.3 then, i think. I remember upgrading the cluster to 5.5 with some pain and fear of data loss, however the concrete version i was upgrading from eludes me.
If you care about an alkaline battery powered item, it's in your interests to change the batteries once a year --- it's the easiest way to avoid battery leakage.
WPS, Chinese Version of Microsoft Office, Finishes Adaptation with Homegrown UOS
Stochastic gradient descent only approximates the solution, and it may do that by looking at a single equation (or a small batch of them) at a time, without ever bothering with the whole system.
Surely easier than collaborating with Apple who are extreme lock-in proponents.

See for example projects like dxvk, which affected Vulkan spec:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fU4w2ZGxH4&t=12m21s

* http://jason-blog.jlekstrand.net/2018/10/transform-feedback-...

Good luck for such thing happening with anything Apple related.
People still talk about Jack Kennedy, the assassinated US president.

Apparently Jack is a generic name, too, for any small boy. So inns would employ a boot-Jack to help guests get their boots off, later supplanted by a gadget.
How I Made My First $1000 Online
My tier 3 team is on 1-week point-Dev rotations. Roughly 1wk in 9 on primary, same again on secondary. They take about 2-3 calls per primary+secondary. I’m on Tier 4 in mgmt roster, and on call every other week. Take escalations and fall thrus every 3-4mths. Tier 4 also plays duty manager during events such as product launches.
That is an impressively vague but rhetorically far more persuasive way to ask the actual, more specific question: whether the major social media companies should possibly be compelled to facilitate widespread free speech, especially if that is the democratic will of the people.

I would say yes, but before we do anything, I would like a very serious and in-depth public conversation to take place, followed by some non-deceptive public polling. Would you be opposed to such a process?
I'm amazed this was written by a 16 year old. Nice work.
The Chinese-food we get around here has always in my mind looked and tasted healthier than any of the other fast-food options (even if it wasn't actually). So by that theory, it would be the other way around from my perspective.
It already does for me at least
Slight error (no longer applicable): "iOS only. Coming to Android soon"

And that makes me very happy, because this looks like exactly what I've been missing. Just downloaded.
How can I change Hotstar password?
Largeish company (engineering staff around 1000, I think?), and my team owns the OS platform (packaging, config management), hardware purchasing, and the installer, as well as our private cloud, which hosts a good chunk of services (notably including dev machines, notably excluding the most money-making parts of the business). A separate team is first-line sysadmin+SRE for most of the company, so we don't respond unless you can't install machines or if every machine is broken, or if the private cloud (as infrastructure, not a specific VM on it) is acting up.

Private cloud was originally a separate team, and we had about 5 people on a weekly rotation, where you'd do support and 24/7 on-call for a week. Now that we've merged, it's about a dozen people on the on-call rotation, though we still have a subteam of about 5 for the weekly rotation of who's paying attention to private cloud support tickets during working hours.

Thanks to some work that we did a bit after I joined, we got the off-hours paging to be much less frequent - in particular we no longer page if any hypervisor is down, only if either a whole availability zone is down, or a hypervisor hosting personal dev machines is down and it's business hours. (Otherwise, higher-level services ought to have failover between multiple VMs, and devs working odd hours can use backup machines.) Usually that second condition gets noticed by the support person (in Jira) before it escalates to the on-call person. So it's rare to have anyone actually paged, and it usually means something unexpected is on fire. So, any member of the team is as good as any other at figuring out what broke and whether it can wait until morning, which is why we were able to throw all of the combined team into the rotation without training them all in everything.

There are still improvements I want to do, but the expected number of pages rounds to zero (it looks like we've had 6 off-hours pages this year) so it's certainly manageable.
It’s pretty American - I know a boy named John after his father John, who has been called Jack all his life.
I enjoyed Western Chinese food growing up as a kid. Sadly it seems for me that a specific dish can really taste different depending on which restaurant you pick for the day. It can actually be disappointing when ordering a certain dish and the taste isn't similar as another restaurant.
I went to University that had a similar deadline system (sometimes midnight, sometimes midday, sometimes 3pm - all depended on the lecturer/tutor).

If you had a truly extenuating circumstance, you could always speak to the lecturer via email or during their office hours. Some had more relaxed policies than others, while others had various penalties for being late.

As far as I'm aware, the difference between 12:00:00 and 12:00:30 wasn't ever really a thing, as any reasonable system can expect a few minutes of delay owing to computer problems.
> The current default collector doesn't give memory back to the OS.

That's a pretty irrelevant point, as the current default collector in Sun's JVM does reduce the Java heap based on tuneable parameters. While it doesn't return the virtual address space to the OS, that generally doesn't impact memory consumption on the "current default" OS's. (Certainly there are specialized cases where you might care about that, and for that there are other collectors and other JVM's for that matter.)

> So if you have several peaky memory usage apps, you can't try and get them to elastically negotiate heap size tradeoffs with one another - you need to pack them in with max heap limits manually.

That's simply not true. The default GC does adjust heap size based on utilization, so you absolutely can run peaky apps that manage to negotiate different times for their peaks in a constrained memory space.

> We fork a child JVM to run our peakiest jobs for just this reason.

Well, I guess that's one way to address the problem, but you've unfortunately misunderstood how your tool works.
Might want to image the drive on that thing before it inevitably fails and pop in a scsi2sd. An ounce of prevention, and all that.
Techstars

500 Startups

In SE Asia, there a few smaller ones like JFDI, WTF, 1337, but the success rate is nowhere near YC. Many have tried but very few people can do accelerators, and it's just as draining as running a startup for the people who operate them.
...and the new wave of immigrants take their old jobs. Rinse, repeat.
"nobody" was deliberately an overly extreme statement. As implied by my statement, obviously some people do tune their apps, but the people complaining that the JVM needs gigabytes of memory just to run are clearly not in that group.
What is legal is very much influenced by what is considered moral. See: slavery, sex outside marriage, homosexuality, free speech, the very notion of murder (stand your ground vs excessive self-defence) and of crime in general (whether malicious intent is present).

Sorry, laws of society are not laws of nature.
Eventually is not today.
The uni I work for is about to introduce this, but we're leading with transparency - everything the system sees is on a student-facing dashboard, and there's the opportunity to opt out. And we're targeting engagement rather than attendance - use of the LMS, watching videos, etc rather than basic attendance.

And we have had vendors attempting to get us to look at video-based attendance and attention trackers. This is a privacy nightmare so we have always said no, but as we are keen to get a handle on room usage and efficiency, we investigated using the existing cameras used for lecture capture to count the backs of heads - in this case how many is more interesting than who.
Generally speaking, yes, they do. But the answer is, as always, more complex than that.
Firstly, some types of games (text adventures, MUDs etc.) are more favorable for enjoynment by visually impaired people. When it comes to the traditional genres, it usually ends up being an issue, e. g. the mainstream games more often than not are not playable, but there's an entire genre of games which do not rely on visual information and instead use audio (usually stereo + might be some HRTF tricks).
People do care about fake chargers when they make their phone explode or their house burn down.
The problem with that mindset is that once all of the experts in government die off, then the ignorant descendants run into a mass Chesterton’ fence problem and start removing important bits.
It's impossible to operate a profitable restaurant? I mean, that's obviously false.

But let's say you meant difficult rather than impossible. Rising rents make things more expensive for sure, but regulation? Which regulation? I worked in a restaurant for years and I can't think of a regulation I had to deal with that wasn't about food safety and employee protections...
Another nail in the wall of Jewish-American Christmas tradition.
Putting the “Author” in “Authoritative”
Technically 24/7, except for clustered stuff that hardly goes down. More than a year since the last time; I think. Thousands of employees, team of 7 or so
> but 90% of people don't give a crap if it's 30% cheaper than the real thing and magically appears at their house the next day

...until it burns their house down.
Most goods aren't individually tracked. If I send three, and you send four of some ASIN to some distribution center, and it is a comingled SKU, to all indications, all seven items are in one bin, and can't be distinguished afterward. Having one bin instead of two saves space (and therefore cost) in the distribution center. If the goods were stored separately, even if they still did buy from any vendor and ship from the most cost effective inventory, they would be able to track down counterfeit goods much more effectively.
Electric vs. Hydrogen – James May reviews his own cars
Who makes a NSFW clothing catalogue?
This doesn’t answer the question I was really hoping to see discusses. The target dot on screen defines a ray from the camera outward. The muzzle isn’t on that ray, nor is it even parallel to it, but the muzzle defines another ray. Which does the bullet follow?
Similar bug was used maliciously by HK Police for identifying Telegram users. Telegram now has an option for identification by number.
Why printers add secret tracking dots (2017)
Japanese second hand cars for sale in japan
Huawei releases WeLink, its answer to Slack
Do note that A/UX was not a "path forward" for Apple. Mac apps were all cooperatively multitasked in a single address space so all the same problems remained. macOS (neé OS X) finally delivered Carbon which made the transition to modern features possible. That was not a trivial transition though - there were simply a big chunk of APIs that could never be made to work in a world of separate address spaces and pre-emptive multitasking, let alone your own app's behavior with respect to (or likely lack of) locking / thread safety.

Microsoft definitely learned some lessons from classic Mac in that regard but they still weren't able to promise 100% compatibility with the switch to 32-bit without compromises. Windows NT could run 16-bit apps in a rock-solid way but not all apps would run: some APIs were just incompatible. Windows 95 could run just about anything but had infamous reliability problems.

IMHO the takeaways are:

1) Platform transitions can be difficult, especially if you haven't done one before and don't know what will bite you about your current platform
2) Compatibility is key. Where you can't maintain binary compatibility offer source compatibility. If you can't offer 100% source compatibility, then offer as much compatibility as you can. Every little bit helps.
メリークリスマス！ from Toronto, Canada :)
another interesting thing: NYT mentioned the Chinese Exclusion Act...apparently around 300 MILLION Chinese were in China in the 1850's...and just 23 million "Americans" in USA.

Would America had looked more like China if no check were placed on immigration from one particularly huge country? Sure travel costs, but as long as fees were paid via labor, people would have financed it. And the word would have spread that there's money to be made in USA...
Alternative Method of Solving Quadratic Equations
I am interested. How do I contact you (email, skype)?
Sellers have complained that this opens up their supply chain to be courted by Amazon.

Ex: if i sell a trendy product on amazon, then they ask me for proof of purchase, they then know who to approach to make the amazon basics version, and take the wind out of my sails.
n=1, but I experienced similar Bluetooth issues with the iPhone XS Max, which would constantly lose connection when compared to the iPhone 7 I’d had previously. The problems disappeared when I tried the iPhone 11 Pro, so I concluded the problem was with the specific XS Max I had, and got it replaced. I also noticed pairing issues in the defective Max with a first-generation Apple Watch. It was working better with the replacement Max, but connected best with the 7 or 11 Pro, all the same. So Bluetooth definitely seems to vary in quality from handset release to handset release, and more than I’d expected. Similarly, I’ve had bad luck with some computers but good luck with others, I’ve yet to pin down why. Generally the best Bluetooth connectivity range (for me, at least) is on the iPad Pro and the worst seems to be tied between watches and other small devices, or Windows computers because the apps aren’t optimized for Bluetooth AAC streaming as much, I think. With AAC streaming, I suspect the song I’m listening to has a larger cache on the headphone to make up for listening range issues, but I could be wrong there...
To me, there is a clear indicator: human suffering.

A group that strives to induce suffering on the outgroup, or on uwilling members of ingroup, are "bad guys".

A group that strives to limit and reduce suffering, for the ingroup, outgroup, or both, are "good guys", as long they don't match the previous definition.

Corollary: "good guys" normally stay away from aggression.
I am currently homeless as well.
Wow, so are you saying that being in-college was not like that for you?

If so, that's disturbing given that college was once the time for young people to enjoy their freedom to the fullest. I remember driving from upstate New York to Boston one weekend on a whim with some friends - in the middle of winter, a memorable adventure.
Generally, it’s safest to assume that any waterproof material is non-breathable. If you exert yourself in them, you sweat and trap that sweat inside the membrane, often guaranteeing to soak yourself even if the rain lets up. Windbreakers with some basic spray on water resistance just work better (which is to say, not great).

Best thing overall is to just wear synthetics that dry very quickly (pair with waterproof bag for your backpack contents - trash compactor bags are amazing for weight efficiency)
The product name won't help. This could happen with almost any item Amazon sells because of how they commingle inventory.
SPIR-V “assembly” can be disassembled, the disassembly is fairly easy to read, and it's not that hard to write by hand, though rather verbose.

An advantage of SPIR-V is that unlike both text-based programming languages and traditional machine code, SPIR-V is very very easy for machines to read and write — even for JS code — and it has a structure designed to be (mostly) cleanly extensible.
My air pod microphone stopped working with the iOS 13 update. The only thing I want is for the basic functionality to work
Name Mangling
> It appears to be specific to Java. Other languages don’t seem to exhibit high memory usage with the same frequency or severity as Java, and that’s not because developers of other languages spend more time optimizing.

Clearly you haven't looked at the memory overhead in scripting languages. ;-) They generally have far more object overhead, but their runtimes are designed for a very different use case, so their base runtime tends to be simple and tuned for quick startup. There are JVMs designed for similar cases with similar traits. It's just not the common choice.

> If indeed this observed memory bloat is just a matter of poorly written Java apps, then that’s even more interesting. Why does it seem like Java has such a high incidence of poorly written apps relative to other languages? Is it OOP or some other cultural element?

Your prejudice is showing in the other possibilities you haven't considered: perhaps memory intensive apps are more likely to be written in Java than other languages? Perhaps Java is more often selected in cases where memory utilization isn't a significant concern?

You can find a preponderance of poorly written apps in a lot of languages... JavaScript and PHP tend to be the butt of jokes due to their notoriety. Poorly written apps isn't a language specific phenomena.

For a variety of reasons that don't involve memory (the design of the language, the thread vs. process execution model, the JIT'd runtimes, the market penetration of the language), as well as some that do involve memory (threaded GC offers a great opportunity to trade memory for faster execution), Java applications are often long running applications that execute in environments with comparatively vague memory constraints, and so the common runtimes, frameworks, libraries, and programming techniques, etc., have evolved to trade memory for other advantages.

But if you look at what people do with Java in constrained memory environments, or even look at the hardware that Java has historically run on, you'll plainly see that what you are observing isn't intrinsic to the language.
Taxing the Rich to Fund Welfare Is the Nobel Winner’s Growth Mantra
There is a philosophy that success lasts 3 generations, which is somewhat prophecized in this quote.

Each generation has it better than the last but at some point the knowledge of the fundamentals of life and success is lost and the process restarts.

Not a hard and fast rule of course, but an interesting concept.
Settings > General > Background App Refresh

There’s an option to toggle between Off / Wi-Fi / Wi-Fi & Mobile Data for all apps, and there’s a list of every app that uses background app refresh with a toggle button next to each one if you want finer-grained control.

How can that be made way easier?
Long hours: for 15 years I have frequented the same tiny strip center Chinese restaurant. No matter the time of day, lunch to just before 10pm, any day of the week, the same lady has been there working. That’s hundreds of samples with a 100% hit rate. It appears to be an 80 hour a week job without time off. The cooks may be the same, I don’t get a good look at them, but she runs the front of the store and takes my order.
As someone who's only used GLSL of all the shader languages, what are some of the modern features it's missing?
> Given the quality of Khronos SDKs and stubborness to C bindings, that might not be a bad thing.

None of which has anything to do with SPIR-V? It's a standardised intermediate language, not an API, and it has no dependency on Khronos tooling.
Show HN: CNC Engraving Toolpath Generator