skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not that I knew of.

OS/2 1, the 286 version, was quite expensive enterprise software. I evaluated 1.0 in my first job.

OS/2 2, the 386 version, was relatively cheap. I paid about £40 for a copy, and it's one of the very few pieces of x86 PC software I've ever bought in my life.

OS/2 3 "Warp" did have a free evaluation version, and was distributed on magazine cover disks. However it took much of a CD and was not readily available on floppies.

https://twitter.com/AlvinGrissomII/status/108455170211465216...
You could answer this question:

>Is it easier or harder to fight discrimination in, say, employment when, "We don't hire negroes," is stated upfront, compared to when black applicants are denied for "cultural fit" reasons?

And expound upon this assertion:

>something else is clearly doing the lion's share of destruction.
Drinking clean water, watching Netflix and utilising over 50% of the earth's entire landmass. The best, most fertile, most productive half.

What are we planning on doing, digging up a trillion tonnes of the formerly fertile soil from previous areas and transporting it? I very much doubt that Antarctica and northern Russia have soils that are as amenable to agriculture after a few millennia frozen solid. Even if the area were enough, which it isn't, yields would likely plummet.

Civilisations collapsed in the distant past, migrated and fell, yet there was a glut of available land everywhere. So hardly surprising here we still are -- we were nowhere near limit. Somewhere else fertile and usable could be found. Borders weren't controlled.

To give a rough example, the UK currently has a population around 68,000,000. The black death in the 1350s led to the population falling from around 3m to 1-1.5m. London's population fell 60% from 120,000. I don't know the population during the Roman civilisation period, but well under a million. 200k perhaps? That's a hell of a lot more area per person, and a huge amount of scope to relocate come catastrophe.

p.s. The West has more forest than a century ago because most of Europe's forest was clear cut centuries ago. What's been planted particularly in the 19th and first half of the 20th century is monoculture forestry, completely unrelated to the former temperate rain forests and other mature native forests that once thrived, long ago. It's certainly nothing to crow about.
The problem is that we cannot comprehend how fast things can shift. I just came across this video in another thread that I think illustrates the problem very well: https://youtu.be/kZA9Hnp3aV4

Basically, we can’t see something growing exponentially for the disaster they it will unleash until the last minute (literally)

For instance, if something doubles every hour, we don’t realize there is any problem until the very last moment: one hour before, half the resources were free, and the hour before, 3/4. But two hours later, it’s 0% and we never saw it coming.

The point is well illustrated in the talk, I highly recommend it.
This is such a great simple resource. Most of these share urls are poorly documented compared to their JavaScript/tracker counterparts.
Trains in Hamburg: https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/hamburg/Software-Fehler-legt-...
There was a widespread belief that it needed a PS/2 and MCA, but it didn't.

I ran it on Librex laptops and several generic clones. No version ever _needed_ MCA.

It's just one of many things that doomed it. :-(
That's flimsy considerations, if you ask me. Japan does well with little land. Agriculture nowadays uses way less land than it used to.
They never got to the results of the competition and how the interpretable model did!

From https://www.fico.com/en/newsroom/fico-announces-winners-of-i...: "The team representing Duke University, which included Chaofan Chen, Kangcheng Lin, Cynthia Rudin, Yaron Shaposhnik, Sijia Wang and Tong Wang, received the FICO Recognition Award acknowledging their submission for going above and beyond expectations with a fully transparent global model and a user-friendly dashboard to allow users to explore the global model and its explanations. The Duke team took home $3,000."

Cynthia Rudin is one of the article's authors.
It’s not like your bank manager used to give you a phone call to explain in depth why your loan was declined. Most of these situations were already impenetrable from a human standpoint.

Humans are far more ‘black box’ than neutral nets, we just happen to be able to construct plausible explanations in parallel.
Since I ignored the Shia/Sunni situation, you assumed that was due to my ignorance.

I'm an Iranian (Actually a Jewish Iranian, hence, much more information about religion dynamics in Iran).

I agree that Shia/Sunni dynamic is unlikely to cause instability in Iran, there are many more dynamics that can be exploited:

1. Iran is very diverse regarding ethnicity. A dozen different ethnicities live in Iran which makes a Libya situation possible (Although unlikely)

2. A civil war, where government fight armed people, like Syria. I'm pretty much sure many countries would love to do what they did to Syria by arming worst possible forces.

> Even if (hopefully) Trump is not reelected, he's shown that the regime is much weaker than it appears to be.

Iran is under heaviest of sanctions. Economy is crushed. Yet, they control Iraq, they destroyed a U.S. drone, seized a British tanker, attacked Saudi oil causing major damage to Aramco's IPO (Biggest in history) and caused the bigger disruption in flow of Oil in the past decades and they got almost 0 reactions back and you are saying me they are considered weaker because a general was killed?
I love the palomar too! The only issue with it is that it makes tying pretied leaders tricky since you have to pull the whole terminal end through the loop. Not as versatile as some other knots.

I find it surprising how many people use clinch knots vs the uni in real life. It's certainly easier to tie clinch knots but I've never found the ease worth it, since the uni is so much stronger and can be used for more things. Once I got fast at uni the clinch knots went out the window.
If you are a noob with a domain and need to host your own mail server, you need mail-in-a-box. Look it up. It runs on a VPS and configures email and even a static site for your domain. It also comes with a dashboard where you can create additional email accounts.
I second your notion. I read The Martian on the website while it was being published there. (Oh hey, the website is still alive even though the story is gone - http://www.galactanet.com/writing.html)

Any recommendations?
Mine moved in the opposite direction last year.
Open loop means that they’re just using a mathematical prediction of where to point the mirror at a specific time, given the relative position between the heliostat, the target and the sun. adjustments to the mirrors are typically done every 10 to 15 seconds, which is sub optimal. Closed loop means that they’re actually using Computer vision to dynamically sense the specific angles between the sun and the target and then adjust the mirrors accordingly, no mathematical model required, and the adjustments can be done tens of times per second.
That would be "2K02". It's actually a (bad) abbreviation of "two[2] thousand[K] twenty[20]".
To deal with the traffic the article references, why not have a motorcycle taxi where the driver does lane splitting?
There's probably a self-help book about that.
So what you are saying that it's not actually a C REPL. It's a GDB expression REPL which is very different. What was the original point of your comment?
Thanks! Ya, it took a while to find them all but they're out there. Since they're needed for HTML emails, I'm hoping they'll continue working long-term too.
Nextcloud 17 on FreeBSD 12.1
Sorry but I have to give this a thumbs down for not being a very convincing or well-written blog post. It dumps some data and then immediately jumps to a statement about how "lots of syscalls = bad" without actually detailing what those syscalls are doing in the context of the runtime. And I'm saying this as someone who already runs Alpine on my servers and doesn't need to be convinced. Drew, I think you can write much better posts than this.
TBH I think 'most people' being able to work out the square root of 900 is rather optimistic (it would be nice to be wrong).
Hmm, heavier desks may have contributed, but at least in my early career I've not had an office -- it was usually 4-8 people per room.
Yes, it seems that preponderance of snowflakes are the journalists writing such articles and the squeaky wheels on twitter.
"Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters..

A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a 'Siberian' climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world."
Understanding Apache Spark on Yarn
1. I'm not saying they are good or rational people.

2. This is the only leverage they have. Do you want them to do drone strikes on the U.S. soil?
Filosofía oriental y yoga con niños
New Model for Understanding Why One Knot Is Better Than Another
Like I have pretty much always thought this when I read about ML or uses of it. The process and end result is just math so it has to be explainable in some way. I feel like not enough effort is given to understand the important variables to ML models or how are results derived.
When I see uses of it it's more like the following: "Oh, it works, that's good enough."

For-instance when a model starts being over fitted, one can say it's pretty much converging to something akin to a LUT (Look up table). While over fitting is generally undesirable it still might be interesting. Principally, if someone could figure out how basically it is indexing the data. Perhaps you could create a simpler hash function or find some rules for creating useful hash functions for that type of data.
It's partly relevant still because all tech is sold as a 'tool to aid humans'. Otherwise I agree. And the original question still remains. Anybody who solves the intermediate organization problem (doesn't matter how) will wins a special spot in human history (what remains of it)
But how did their model compare against others? The article only mentions how their interpretable model compared against their own ML attempts
If anyone's still interested, there's a free demo CD of the later successor to OS/2, eComStation.

http://www.ecomstation.com/democd/index.php?file=9

This is what it looks like:

http://toastytech.com/guis/ecsd.html
Curious if the generated C is any different for nim's echo as opposed to stdout.write().
How does one become a technical writer? I'm a software engineer, and e.g. I recently applied to Google for both a tech writer position and a software engineer position, and they interviewed me and offered me a job for the software engineer role but they gave me a form rejection for the tech writer role. I worry I'm stuck as a software engineer because that's what's on my resume.
Proof by Wikipedia link does not even make the list of fallacies.

2015, Gordon Moore: "I see Moore's law dying here in the next decade or so."
<http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/gordon-moore-the...

Brian Krzanich, the former CEO of Intel: "Our cadence today is closer to two and a half years than two."
<https://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/07/16/intel-rechisels-the-...

John L. Hennessy; David A. Patterson (June 4, 2018): "The ending of Dennard Scaling and Moore’s Law also slowed this path; single core performance improved only 3% last year!"
<https://iscaconf.org/isca2018/turing_lecture.html>
As a Total Annihilation fan, what displeased you about Supreme Commander?

I adored TA, but I"m REALLY struggling to come up with anything better than Supreme Commander.

TA's ships moved like molassess. TA's planes had enormous turning radii. TA's big units were effectively useless because they took far too much resource to build.
'Singapore Indonesia' von 'Heinz Duthel' – Buch – '978-3-7481-4478-6'
It's not about CO2 emissions, but rather the high-altitude NOx that contributes more to climate change than low-altitude emissions. However, it's debatable whether the amount is very significant, at least compared to other sources of NOx.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_aviati...
I’m thinking of something like the example below, where it takes the user through an example:

https://www.stanleyulili.com/django/how-to-install-django-on...
It's not that they don't know what they want. It's not that they change their mind. It's that they are oblivious to the cost (to you) of both. Furthermore, when the cost is fixed there's typically no incentive for them to be reasonable.

I find it funny how often I hear, "it's just..." Really? You hired someone else because of your lack of knowledge/experience but suddenly miraculously you have complete clarity on what it's going to take?
Compare-and-swap isn't quite the same as atomic increment. An atomic increment can't fail; it always increments. Whereas CAS will fail if a different thread has modified the value.

The highest performance design is to use a ringbuffer. To write to the ringbuffer, you atomic-increment the "claim" counter, giving you an index. Now take index modulo ringbuffer size. That's the slot to write to. After you're done writing to it, set your "publish" counter to the index.

Each writer has a "publish" counter, and the "claim" counter isn't allowed to move beyond the lowest "publish" counter modulo ringbuffer size.

Each reader uses a similar strategy: the reader has a current counter. You find the minimum of all publish counter values, then process each slot up to that value, and set your counter to that value. The "claim" counter isn't allowed to move past the minimum of all reader counters.

Hence, everyone is reading from / writing to separate cache lines, and there are no locks at all. The sole primitive is atomic increment, which can never fail. (The only failure condition is "one of the slots hasn't been processed yet" (i.e. the publish counter is <= claim counter minus ringbuffer size) at which point everybody waits for the slot to be processed.

You can wait using multiple strategies: a spin loop (which isn't the same as a spinlock because you're only reading a value in memory, not calling any atomic primitives), yielding CPU time via sched_yield(), or calling sleep. All strategies have tradeoffs. Calling sleep is the least CPU intensive, but highest latency. Vice-versa for spin loop.

Takeaway: there are no locks. Just increments.
Sunday: God’s Sovereignty
I think it's a real open question whether the interpretable models are actually worse, or merely worse in competition/benchmark problem sets. The more deep models I build, the more I'm convinced that behind every inscrutable parameter hides a certain amount of overfitting, with maybe a few notable exceptions. E.g., can you build a decision tree that's not obviously overfit but is also susceptible to adversarial perturbations?
Right. The real problem I see is the author accusing X of being unethical. Such an accusation damages any relationship.
Didn't they just?
Microprose and Digital Integration in particular were the masters back then for this stuff - I remember the Project Stealth Fighter (C64, ZX Spectrum in around 1987) and then the Tornado (PC) manuals with particular fondness, covering laser guided toss bombing and all sorts of stuff.

I'm amazed to discover that Tornado has gone open source and is still being modded by people: http://www.moodurian.com/

https://archive.org/details/Project_Stealth_Fighter_1987_Mic... for another blast from the past.
With a pre-registered, much larger sample size, Growth mindset replicated but the effect size was tiny:

https://psyarxiv.com/md2qa

On a 4-point grade metric (“A” = 4.0, “B” = 3.0, etc.), the average treatment effect was 0.03 grade points
It would break other features (like the "Watch Later" button) too.

According to Occam's Razor, this is very likely to be a bug rather than a conspiracy against YouTube Premium customers.
I remember the advice in Robert Atkins' book being to start with very little carbs (and ketosis) for a few weeks, but then increase carbs until you're no longer losing weight. That's how you can find a personal carb limit, at least theoretically.
In this case you're merely using history to make a relevant choice about the future. You're not honoring the sunk cost because of the investment, you're just using the lessons your learnt while making this investment.
> The ground around the immediate vicinity of Wanggongchang Armory, the epicenter of the explosion, had sunken for over 2 zhangs (about 6.5 m or 21 feet), but there was a notable lack of fire damage

it seems a bit improbable that a bolide would just so happen to hit the armory. Given that bolide events are rare to begin with, the low chance of hitting a military building is enough to make me skeptical.

I have no idea what contemporary chemical explosives were extant, but if there were any plausible agent I would favor that instead.
Understanding Naive Bayes and its applications in text classification
What do they not tell you about web development?
Ask HN: What is your favorite Best Of list?
It's that special time again when everyone and their mother are publishing their "Best of" year/decade lists. It got me thinking - what are people's favorite "Best of" lists - especially those that come from a unique perspective or that you find yourself coming back to over and over to check out the next thing on that list?
Nope, check this demo https://runkit.com/munrocket/double.js-hn-example
The byproduct of the chemical process is largely reabsorbed as the cement cures. The part that's from the fuel burned to heat it is not, and that's the part that matters in the long-term balance.
Biosphere 2 rainforest gets a shower after two month drought experiment
I agree that there's probably a good question about to what extent looking at benchmark sets is biasing our judgment.

But it's also unclear to me how to get a decision tree to perform as well on image recognition tasks the same way that a CNN does. (Of course, as you mention, the CNN will likely face adversarial examples.)
Sarcastic racism is still racism. It perpetuates the hateful stereotypes without claiming them, which almost seems worse.

I stopped being sarcastic in general when a friend pointed out that it's usually based in some form of hatred -- whether of yourself or someone else.
Machine Learning Teams
It’s the same F as in BFG. The gun, not the giant.
WRT [1]. Mitsubishi’s Diamondtron was the other one. Pretty much the only way to get a flat fronted CTR at the time.
Not true at all. See "Handmade Hero 021: Loading Game Code Dynamically" https://youtu.be/WMSBRk5WG58
> but not honoring them might hinder current (or future) cooperation.

Then you're not honoring sunk cost. You're honoring current or future costs, just like you should do.
This post reads like it was copied from /r/asianmasculinity
There's a lot of dark matter, content not indexed or not highly ranked by search engines. If you want to go really deep into a topic, PhD level etc., you're eventually going to want to look at a few physical books that simply aren't available online. But you'll find some echo of them online, at least the parts that are easy to explain and understand.

When people are telling you to read books they aren't referring to those kinds of books though; they're usually talking about popular nonfiction books published in the last few years. My experience there has been that books are slightly better edited and fact-checked than online blog posts, but it's not really sufficient and they are often still full of bullshit. There are good books and bad books and the range of variation is similar to everything else written.
My point exactly, it was a governmental tool that allowed these things to exist.

* the laws on the books calling for discrimination and what’s known in the south as “Jim Crowe” laws (spelling). Set forth by Democrats.

* the increase of government payments to lower income groups causing distortions in the nuclear family.

Also black youth unemployment say pre WWII was lower than that of whites. This is post civil war, where you attempt to say some slavery reference.

Lastly, would you openly say that racism is higher today than say 50 years ago? Of course not, and yet by looking at the metrics of unemployment or family stability, things are worse.
I'd say that for 20 hours project, it's generally not worth the hassle to bill hourly.
For small tasks people want to know what they're on the hook for, but once you go into the larger scopes with more variables and properly price your risks, you'd notice their reaction is much less welcoming.

I don't know the exact nature of your work - is this just doing generalized programming work, or do you specialize in something (e.g. setting up a Wordpress site)? If what you do is repeatable enough, at some point you'd make good money working per project because you'll become much more effective.
Of course it's more difficult to pull off when you do generalized work.

This however has one very significant exception, and that's when dealing with a corporate client which would lead to more work.

You see, any company that's larger than 20 employees separates the financial management from the technical staff. That means that if you've made it through negotiations and contract work setting an hourly framework with the financial side of the company, you're now another tool at the disposal of the technical people which could utilize you almost on a whim.

With a project based setting you need to go almost to square one and renegotiate all the way down every time you want more work. It's not just a hassle for you - it's a hassle for the engineers who'd love to use your help.

This, eventually, is what builds you a recurring revenue stream; making yourself available to the technical people at minimal friction. I've been responsible for a pretty significant corporate operation where my team was responsible for procurement of products and services the size of a respectable startup A round, and dealing with vendor onboarding, scope of work, legal approvals and financial signing at the VP/CFO level were a huge time waste. Contractors who billed hourly were much simpler to work with - waste time once and be on your merry way for months at a time.
I try remembering that now when I crossed sides, back to consulting. Try make the life of the people who need your services as easy as possible - usually you'll have mutual interests.
>You could answer this question:

>>Is it easier or harder to fight discrimination in, say, employment when, "We don't hire negroes," is stated upfront, compared to when black applicants are denied for "cultural fit" reasons?
You are begging the question. Of course it's easier to fight enemies who are out in the open, distinct, and widespread. And it's harder to fight enemies that are well-camouflaged. But it's also harder to fight enemies that are partially imagined, distorted, and sometimes nonexistent.

I take issue with your insinuation, as I tried to illustrate in my anecdote, that discrimination where black applicants are denied for "cultural fit" reasons, is widespread.

>And expound upon this assertion:

>>something else is clearly doing the lion's share of destruction.

It's pretty simple, really. If one concludes that discrimination isn't as prevalent as it was decades ago and has diminished as time has passed while also noticing that its attributed consequences are more prevalent, then it's reasonable to assume something else is to blame.