skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take the benchmarkgames site with a big grain of salt. They're running on an old processor, and that biases results a lot. For example, someone submitted a patch that significantly sped up a Java benchmark by using `Math.fma()`. However, because the processor the benchmarks site is running on is old and does not support the underlying instruction that `Math.fma()` uses, it ended up way slower.

I ran several benchmarks locally on a CPU that's a few years old where the benchmarks site shows golang being faster than Java, without changing the code, and I got the opposite result (Java was faster). Especially the longer the program ran. For example, the site shows that golang is faster in the spectral norm benchmark. Running it locally with a larger input parameter:

golang:

time ./test 30000
1.274224153
18.81 real 70.19 user 0.38 sys

Java:

time java spectralnorm1 30000
1.274224153
16.18 real 105.95 user 0.45 sys

Or with the nbody benchmark:

golang:

time ./nbody 60000000
-0.169075164
-0.169012474
6.09 real 6.04 user 0.02 sys

Java:

time java nbody 60000000
-0.169075164
-0.169012474
6.04 real 5.94 user 0.06 sys
Moral of the story is actually to use a VPN regardless of what you do, so you can't be held accountable for someone else's actions or lack of security of IT department of some company.
At CES 2020, the AirPods Pro competitors arrived in droves
For your audio engine, I'm unclear on which of this isn't covered by JUCE (besides open source)?
There are 2,373 squirrels in Central Park. I know because I helped count them
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_nations

> The six territories widely considered Celtic nations are Brittany (Breizh), Cornwall (Kernow), Wales (Cymru), Scotland (Alba), Ireland (Éire) and the Isle of Man (Mannin or Ellan Vannin).
Think about this: this guy may well have doubts.
No - was pre digital cameras - but others have since
TDMA in a data center environment, anyone else have some heavy deja vu?
It isn't prejudice, or classism, or any -ism, it pure numbers. We have billions of people who have ideas about how the world works and a much smaller number of people who can work to disprove those ideas.

Camp out in an IRC channel like #physics on any network and prepare to be bombarded by idea people who just want someone else to do the heavy lifting, from math to the experiments. And woe betide those who want to say "by the way, your idea leads to perpetual motion/faster-than-light travel, so I will not bother." I personally have experienced soul-crushing numbers of philosophers who happen to think they've disproven special relativity who are also under the impression that the Michelson-Morley experiment was performed precisely once and everyone just sort of ... ran with it, never looking back.

Who has time to weed through this sort of thing? It isn't ideas that physicists lack for, not in the least.
This is a bit of a sorites paradox, though. You posted publicly on something with a large readership. Imagine the marginal difference between what you posted, and if you posted other individual efforts you had taken. Maybe the collective impact of the thread would have been greater to the point that it would have pushed a couple of other people over the edge into taking action they otherwise wouldn't have. I don't know either way but it's worth considering.

I went through data recently that convinced me that US Citizens should plant 20 trees a year (or pay a service). I'm hunting for a good service that does that, that isn't just planting trees that would already be planted anyway.
More context for those less familiar with the story: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_CF-105_Arrow
You become citoyen by having french values. Believing in the rule of law, about all rules of gods and tradition.

By ascribing to equality, and a certain egaliatarian ideal, that is ready to roast the elite on a stake, when it fails - under whatever propaganda presumptions, to uphold that ability to prosper for all.

Ecrasez l'infame
Through Keller they defined the last decades.
The word 'wisdom' in this context is translated from Prajnā (Sanskrit) or panna (Pali) and it has noting to do with learning, thinking or conventional meaning of wisdom. The better term might be insight or intuitive understanding and exactly the thing you might attain by meditation.
How come wind is 4x better than solar? I'd image a solar panel would last on average 30+ years with almost no maintenance. Does wind calculation include maintenance, decommission and recycling? Does wind have to work 24/7 to meet this number? Is production the major contributor for solar?
Almost every Canadian knows the sad story of Avro Arrow, yet most people in the rest of the world, including the US, have never heard of it. There are people in search of what is left of the program.

https://www.rcinet.ca/en/2017/07/18/the-arrow-legend-mystery...
WebAssembly = undefined;

inside `run_at` `document_start` extension does it for Chrome.
I rather have 10 Fukushima nuclear accidents than one big dam break:

> https://www.ozy.com/flashback/230000-died-in-a-dam-collapse-...

Fukushima is mostly restored already:

> https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/05/national/evacue...

> https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/20/national/beach-...

> https://www.pref.fukushima.lg.jp/site/portal-english/en02-01...

You can even read current restaurant reviews on Google Maps very close to Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

96% of the compound of the NPP can be entered with simple dust masks and regular uniforms:

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C83bsgU0Ysw&feature=youtu.be...

As for Chernobyl, in most cases the health effects of the incident are often grossly overestimated:

> https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2005/pr38/en/
In my experience the price you were shown and the price you paid were occassionaly different already.
Citation much needed, because that sounds like unsubstantiated wind/solar kool aid that's not worth much more than "nuclear propaganda".

My impression is that battery storage tech and infrastructure is nowhere near able to provide 100% of US power when it's night and the wind doesn't blow (which is surprisingly often)
And you are right to ask this question. Your costs when you live in the house will not be the same as when someone else moves in. It is also why I suggest you talk to a local agent or 2 because they will know the trends in your area.

I had a house in one city that the maintenance cost was outrageous compared to my other properties but it was in the middle of the pack (cost wise) for the city demographics and building codes. So it is hard to pinpoint even for an experienced real estate person without doing some analysis in your area specifically.

Here are a few of my common questions to an agent if I am looking at a new area:

1. Average time on market, from day of rental listing to lease signed.

2. Basic demographics and occupations of the people living in the neighborhood and surrounding area. Including average income.

3. Hardest to rent property details compared to the easiest to rent. e.g. 4 bedrooms might be super hard to rent in an area with predominately single people, but would be super easy in a family driven neighborhood. I'm looking for contradictions here, e.g. they say the area is predominately housing single people but the demand is for 4 bed/3bath houses. Either they are idiots, or it is group housing/party area which can bring up a different set of rental criteria. Or there is something super unique about this area and they should be able to articulate it to me or I don't accept that risk.

4. Average cost of maintenance for similar rentals. I usually ask, avg plumber cost, avg electrician if I don't have people in the area so this way I know what they are seeing.

5. Special lease terms that are needed or common for the area. And special county/city or HOA rules or costs I need to be aware of. Including parking fees etc.

6. Largest employers in the area by number of people.
WWW

Start a web-ring?
For profit with competition.
What about pushing it a bit more, and doing it once per month? Each month 1 idea + ~1 month of research to back it up and what makes it a great one worth of consideration. If you can share the idea directly with some initial market research, etc, that's a great value for people to start working on something.
You say that like people aren't capable of converting the current memory space back into an executable.
Mass market doesn't value admiration
Ask HN: How do you switch environments between projects
I usually work on multiple projects in parallel (e.g. current customer, bugfixing on old project, side projects), and switching between projects is a pain because nowadays they require multiple resources (db, multiple microservices, frontend, kafka, ...).

My workflow usually starts from the shell; I'm on MacOS and I use iTerm2 and Visual Studio Code, usually, so the workflow typically is:

- open a bunch of tabs

- go to the root of each subproject (e.g. backend, frontend)

- run docker in background if necessary (i.e. for the DB)

- run 'code ./' to open the editor

- run the application (e.g. 'npm start')

- open the browser at the right location

- develop

The workflow is tedious and if I need to switch between projects it has a significant overhead, so I was thinking about scripting it. Since everything starts from the shell I was thinking about using ttab (https://github.com/mklement0/ttab) and add a small script to run everything, but I wonder if there is a better approach.
It would be great if there was a way of freezing the state of a number of application and resume them at some point (like I would do if everything was inside a virtual machine, just without the overhead).
We can discover efficient ways to re-refine those materials and provide even more energy for the future (actually, such techniques exist for a lot of waste, but mining is still cheaper, so we don't do it). By the time this process is done, the waste simply won't exist anymore.
We are at the tipping point of price curves where building new natural gas plant will likely be a stranded asset before its end of life:

https://rmi.org/a-bridge-backward-the-risky-economics-of-new...

Given the nature of many utility executives of expecting static costs of renewables from old estimates (a problem that also plagued the EIA and IEA), couples with regulations on what sort of profits utilities are allowed to collect, I expect that we will invest in far more natural gas than is economically rational.

And that's excluding the economic externalities of carbon emission; if we properly priced things we'd probably only build natural gas in some very extreme cases, and we'd be retiring far more natural gas.

It's frustrating to have such fast technology change, but have it go unacknowledged by key decision makers and decision influencers in both industry and government.
Typical NASA fanboy response. Ad-hominem, no substance.

Refute the point. You can't. No curve = no sphere
Hardcore History covers some important bits of the Roman Republic, including Caesar's conquest of Gaul, that episode is currently free too - https://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-60-the-celtic-hol...

Punic Nightmares and Death Throes of the Republic cover other important bits of the Roman Republic, they're both incredibly good, but they aren't free anymore.
my work lab notebook.

i also write scientific manuscript drafts with it, as well as whitepapers and the like. And my emacs config, of course, though that's hardly distraction free.

the kitchin group at CMU blogs regularly on how to get the most out of using org to treat LaTeX as an IR, with fairly awesome success: https://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/category/orgmode/
Congrats on the release. This looks like the first C and/or C++ replacement I might actually give a significant whirl. I enjoy programming in C as a hobby-grade thing, but it gets challenging organizationally fairly quickly for the sort of full applications I usually build. And I'm also a big fan of the C# "mouthfeel," so to speak. I have tried Rust, and while I'm a fan of its design goals, etc., fully wrapping my mind around the ownership/lifetime system is just not something I have the mental capacity for right now. I don't use these systems langs enough professionally (read: at all) to justify the labor cost.

This also seems pretty damn polished for it being the first time anyone publicly has gotten a look at it. I mean, a full IDE on day one is nuts.

I know Beef seems sharply tuned for game dev (another hobby of mine), but do you see Beef as being usable for general purpose systems/application development? Is there anything about it that would discourage its use for a standard desktop GUI app? And because I'm curious and haven't seen this answered elsewhere, is the Beef IDE also written in Beef, for some tasty beefy dogfood?

edit: Nevermind on that last question, I found it answered in the guide (in the affirmative). Nice!
Adept maybe but that doesn't mean that living in space wouldn't involve compromises that people would rather not make / have to make on a nice big habitable planet.

Perhaps I'm wondering away from the initial proposal but think there would be some compromises that make life on a planet more desirable.
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As one of those people, I can say the reason is for the C-level processing power with the approachable syntactic sugar. Out of all the languages gaining popularity for their ability to run natively (Rust, Go, D, etc), I've felt that D is the most natural continuation of C/C++, at least syntactically. I haven't touched the language in about a year, but I'm personally rooting for it.
Okay, I can see your point about wanting to curb the abuses, but how do you accomplish that without removing the positives?

For instance, I find that the advertising done by Facebook and Instagram very effective for me. The advertising tends to cater to niche things I have actually gotten real use from (in my case, it's soundkits containing midi files, and/or software musical instruments).

I've purchased many of these and have been quite happy with both the offerings and the purchases.

Sometimes these are by small companies (one to two man shops, or 10 people companies), and sometimes well known large companies.

Under your thinking, and correct me if I'm wrong, but this sort of thing would be illegal.

Word of mouth wouldn't work for me in cases like this, since it's particularly directed towards things I like, but I don't have very many friends in the music producer community (learning it for less than a year), and it seems in my case, I've really only been "scammed" once, which was easily disputed and rectified via PayPal.

Now, I've been scammed before, online and off, with shady advertising, but this current model greatly benefits me.

If I'm correct in assuming that you're against this sort of advertising, is there a substitute that would work, while still bringing the benefits to both sides?

Because it appears to me that anything will have it's abuses and negative forms, but it really comes down to, is the advertising to blame, or the malignant folks who abuse it?
Interesting observation!

In Australia it is similar. Roughly speaking, the following cuisines have these types of price ranges:

Indian: $-$$
Chinese: $-$$$
Thai: $$
Japanese: $$-$$$
Italian: $-$$$$
French: $$$-$$$$
Local: $$-$$$$

It seems that Asian is fairly set on low-mid, while European can go higher and still do well. Same with Japense and Chinese. Italian has been so integrated into the local cuisine that you have very cheap to very fancy. French is rare so more expensive. Japense also rare, though sushi train type places are becoming more popular (though still on the pricer side).
I imagine 18131846280409076 George Smoots standing on top one another.
Then you obviously can't even educate yourself correctly. I'd recommend starting over and trying again. ;)
How about electric bicycles too...
That's something we joke about quite a bit in the research group - "back to the future!"
Germany invested 300 billions euros in windmills and solar, and achieved 0% emission reduction, thanks to its abandonment of nuclear power. Worse, they now realise that windmills last only about 20 years, while nuclear plants last at the very least 40 to 60 years. With similar amounts invested in nuclear they would be coal free by now.
You can literally see the curve by watching ships on the ocean. :D
Articles like these, describing the pragmatism, acceptance of all ideas, and deep investigation (as rigorous as many scientists for sure) of Buddha make me wonder if there was any other like him. Clearly, Goenka is not a Buddha and doesn't seem to have attained enlightenment.

And Buddha's thoughts on rebirth make a lot more sense when you realize that not being reborn was rebellious to the status quo where rebirth was seen as natural. It was one part of his learnings that I was confused about and now I realize he was being pragmatic again.

Did we have any one like the Buddha again? Do we have anyone at the present, is it even possible for someone to be enlightened presently? And if Buddha genuinely was the only one who reached this level, did he actually glean "divine" truths?
And like all such books, almost certainly it is wrong.

Backwards time travel or FTL are not measure of progress. Even with the field of "fundamental" physics:

1. There are lots of things we do not understand in cosmology (cosmological constant, nature of dark matter, matter/antimatter asymmetry, force unification at very high energy scales, gravity at high energies, etc). Each of those could potentially revolutionize our understanding of the universe

2. There are lots of things we do not understand at small scales (Casimir effect/vacuum energy relationship, plank scale effects, why the particle soup, gravity on very small scale, reason behind asymmetry in helicity/weak interaction and other parity/symmetry related effects, doing "useful" calculation with renormalization group, etc). Each of those could potentially revolutionize our understanding of the universe.

There is also a lot to be done in our understanding of computing (as in, nature of computation)

1. Computation related problems (Church-Turing thesis, novel algorithmics + computing platforms such as quantum computing). Is approximately correct/probabilistic computing a loophole for getting essentially/mostly correct results in P time for NP-hard problems? Nature of AGI/what enables sapience when doing computing.

Of course as we go into "less fundamental" sciences like chemistry/biology/etc then the amount to be learned is just overwhelming, we truly know very little.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War spoiler: Australia lost that one.
The downside to this approach is that those who are not tech-savvy will see something that looks like Windows and expect it to act like Windows. The moment they have to configure something in a terminal or shudder run something in WINE they're going to hand you the computer and say "Make it like it was".
Well, I used to worry a lot about my carbon footprint. Then I realized that it doesn't matter. I'm always just going to be that weird guy. I told Spanish colleagues I cringed when looking at upcoming transatlantic tickets because of environmental impact and they laughed! They thought I was joking. Honestly, I live in Ireland, Spain is likely to be destroyed, at least if you like producing food.

So I stopped worrying about it. There was a time for that and it's past.

However, more recently, I've been trying to live life like civilization has a decent chance of collapsing, and that has meant coppicing trees for heat, making a home out of materials that might be possible to produce directly (wood, not concrete) etc. - and that happens to be lower carbon. I worry about national defence but can only do so much.

But I still cringe at the thought of flying, especially for work trips of dubious benefit. I am terrified of positive feedback loops - Australian fires igniting coal seams, dark blue oceans at the same time we finish dumping all that energy turning solid water to liquid in tha Arctic, etc.

There was a time to stop the asteroid hitting Earth, but now you're better off trying to be on the other side when it hits.
Register renaming was IBM 360/91 1967

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomasulo_algorithm
While in the US, a nuclear reactor would be:

* Approved by Donald Trump

* Regulated (until last month) by Rick Perry

* Constructed by companies like Halliburton and Bechtel

* Operated by utilities like PG&E, collaborating with traders like Enron.

I don't know about you, but to me, the whole setup does not scream competence, good judgment, incorruptibility, and adherence to the highest ethical standards.
I think this used to be more common when in the 60s and 70s, when shelters were basically run by small groups of women volunteers and relied on word-of-mouth to get the word out. A lot of shelters are now public, get funding, and have websites so women can find them easily. I'm not not really sure how common unlisted vs. public is nowadays.
Not sure on the social norms here, I commented on the post of this news that didn’t rise to the front :

‘completes one orbit every 10 Earth days'
Excellent news for fans of the French Revolutionary Calendar.
'The French Revolutionary Calendar, created at the same time as the metric system, was an attempt to create a metric calendar and time system.' https://www.cooksinfo.com/french-revolutionary-calendar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar https://twitter.com/sansculotides
The tutorials were always very pragmatic to what I wanted to do as a web developer, and were written in a thorough but simple style that fit my needs perfectly. For example setting up a basic load balancer with Nginx, setting up and hardening a basic Postgres configuration, multi-master database replication, etc.

It was very clear that the people writing the tutorials actually used what they taught in production environments.

This is a stark contrast to "modern" documentation for Google Cloud or similar services where the people writing the documentation didn't actually have to backup what they were teaching with actual experience (because at their company they used proprietary technologies that involved copying and pasting from other proprietary technologies).

Of course they weren't all perfect but I put it up there as some of the better documentation I've ever worked with (perhaps made possible in the 1-off format where their scope was relatively limited and not trying to upsell an auxiliary service).
Fun fact: if the Fukushima exclusion zone was entirely covered with solar panels, it wouldn't even match the nuclear plant annual energy production (note to downvoters: that's actual fact, a 10 km2 plant in India has only 650MW of power, and hits this power only 1 to 2 hours per day).
>This page is well at the bottom of the first results page

It's at the bottom now, yes, but if this (and copycats) takes off, it won't be. I've seen cases where the search results get so dominated by oh-so-clever parodies that are mixed in with legit answers that you can't tell which is which.

>vim tells you how to exit it now when you try things like ctrl+c.

Which is great, if that version of vim universally replaced all the others, and every newbie was aware of ctrl-C.

For context: in 2011, I tried the project Open Hatch, specifically designed for newbies, and if you followed their tutorial instructions, you could get dumped into a vim terminal with no idea how to get out.

>I don't think anyone is in danger.

With respect, I'd suggest updating your criteria for making this judgment.