skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ha. I was going to guess it would be an AOM, I wouldn't have guessed a diffraction grating on a hard drive platter. That's awesome, and must be incredibly energy efficient.

The cost of switch ports and interconnects could all be dumped into making host interfaces faster, allowing for the switching time to be reduced.
Managing Developer Environments with Conda
:) I only create things, not document my stories.
Solar and wind needs to be coupled with a miraculous improvement in energy storage to be feasible. Currently, solar energy would be better called "natural gas supplemented by solar".
FWIW, I really loved oppslist.com. It was fun to visit it almost every other day (I am obsessed with ideas lol). If you ever want to bring it up, would love to help in any way possible.
In 2018, 69% of the US GDP was Personal Consumption. The contribution from Net Exports was -5%. Yes, minus 5.

All you're really saying here is, "it's alright that our CO2 emissions are so high because we're also such greedy materialistic bastards". That's not a great argument.
I'm glad other people responded with this counter position. Bernie is getting people excited and engaged but on his own he will not be enough. I recommend getting organized with socialists, as collective, democratic planning of the economy is the only way out of the quagmire of environmental death by competition: https://www.socialistalternative.org/2019/08/08/climate-cata...
> Aaaaand that's why Americans need to pay 500 bucks for an insulin injector pen while Indians pay 10 bucks for the same device.

I can't speak for insulin injectors, but I know for a fact that the reason Indian pharmaceuticals are often times massively cheaper is because they ignore patents by which the majority of the world abides.

Now in many cases, the patent system is set up for incumbents who have enough legal muscle to develop and patent isomers, metabolites, or "extended release" versions of successful drugs which are losing their patent privileges. But that's not the whole story. We know that some patents and copyrights are needed to encourage investment in R&D.

India (used to?) just blindly copy drugs, ignore paying royalties, and take the profits. I haven't ever been on any blockbuster meds developed natively in India. Have you?
It doesn't even need to be an alternative to Python or R, since it's really easy to interoperate with both languages. This is in addition to tools like eBay's tsv-utils.

http://code.dlang.org/packages/pyd

https://embedr.netlify.com/

http://code.dlang.org/packages/autowrap

https://github.com/eBay/tsv-utils
> This seems very similar to the FreePascal approach.

Also identical to Swift or C# (the latter being an explicit inspiration according to TFAA comments upthread).
Almost everyone at CollegeHumor is fired as new owner asks the internet for help
As always, thanks for open sourcing!

A hint from a "professional": It would help a lot if you'd give a single-paragraph positioning in the field of PLs. In your case at first glance it looks like "first-order (?), monomorphic(?) nominally typed, strictly evaluated, object-oriented (?), ahead-of-time compiled, with a context-free syntax and no (?) macros." As you can see, there are a lot of question marks you could answer ;).
> 7 January 1929 was a Tuesday

Monday:

$ cal 1 1929
January 1929
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30 31
Have you considered: https://haraka.github.io
?

I have being running it on a instance with 1 GB ram and it is running pretty smoothly.
> Rust came to be to address the issue with security and there is not really an alternative.

That will change in the coming months.

> I have no idea what I would use D for. And could i rely on D in the domain i pick it for ?

D is a general programming language. You can use it for scripts, number crunching, UI, and everything in between. It's been around a long time, and is part of the gcc collection.
Inkit? Pretty cool product https://www.inkit.com/
I'm talking about Finland.
I would second this route. Amazing and well researched podcast. Well worth it if you have the time
Because the public can see their crappy audits and complain enough that some congressman sees an opportunity to clean that crap up so he can put "saved billions of dollars by rooting out waste" in his re-election TV ad and peddle to a special interest group (the people who want to minimize government waste).

At least that's how the theory goes. You need people to actually care instead of just shrugging and saying "well that's government, nothing you can do about it" like they do for my state government (though I have lived in other states where the general populace did not seem to take government waste for granted like that).
Which are the exact same runways when approached from the opposite end.
Why come up with new ideas and solve hard problems when you can just be the User for X and become a unicorn based no nothing but smoke, mirrors and clever accounting like WeWork?
Australian Feral Camel
do you have data? a source? for that price nearly any individual in the world could "publish" an article on a major news outlet and make it look like it was written by the editorial staff.

this was a dumb move by vogue, but I hardly believe they were paid off for a few hundred dollars by a $500B company and ok with that.
It depends, pumped storage can be designed to react very fast. In particular pumped storage plants which were conceived specifically to alleviate surge demand can spend a little bit of energy now to stand ready, no longer storing further energy but with their turbines now "spinning in air" the generator is rotating with no load and then when you actually need that power you drop water through to spin it instead, 16 seconds from zero to 6 x 300MW turbines = 1.8GW at Dinorwig station in Wales.

Gas likewise needs to consider this at design time. The most efficient possible closed-cycle gas turbine setup may take hours to be prepared and spin back up from zero, but obviously you would not choose this configuration if your intent was to use this station to handle surges. Britain's fleet of closed-cycle gas turbine power stations (in the same network as Dinorwig) frequently ramp up and down a dozen GW in an hour across the country.

BTW Dinorwig's fast start isn't really there to manage surges, that's a convenient happenstance, nobody was worried about a duck curve from solar power when it was built. It's there because it's a Black Start facility. Most power stations need outside power to start, it's just easier and they're connected anyway, Dinorwig was chosen to be able to start from nothing if the grid fails, so in that sense it's like the box of matches by the furnace, just in case.
* Have a tangentially related person attend and take notes so the main participants can concentrate. Instead of jotting down your own questions, speak them aloud for everyone including the scribe to hear.

If you don't have a dedicated assistant, set up a rotation with your team to scribe for each other.

Only jot down a few brief personal notes for yourself.
AR Warriors – Real life Shooter
Why would you run Firefox in a Docker container?
CVE numbers can be reserved in blocks. Don't know if Mozilla does that, but if so, a new vulnerability could get an older-looking number.
#3 is incorrect. If you choose to “sell all” when vested instead of “sell to cover” then the RSU award will be just ordinary income. If you sell to cover and then sell the remaining vested RSU within a year (sans insider trading rule) any profit will be taxed as short-term gain.
Why are time machines and Starship Enterprises a good standard of scientific progress? Why not immorality, sentient computers, and stuff like that, which is equally science-fictiony but possible?
Smarking (YC W15) is hiring a tech lead to scale infrastructure
this is dumb, but I don't think vogue is that dumb. for < $10k many individuals and corporations seeking to wash their reputation by pumping "fake news" could afford it, and if that were true you'd see a lot more of this.

I can't imagine it would be that cheap.
Yeah, but I think his issue is with the anti-cheat software. If the anti-cheat is sandboxed, it can't see any other memory or processes that are running. It's a fair privacy concern.
Then we will have that quality of life anyway, when we are at +5C and we have global crop failures.
A prototype for the O/B system:

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/10586
This is appalling. I wasn’t aware of this before..this is almost like promoting pedophilia.
Adsense Mobile Speed Penalty (2019)
Oh yeah, you?
The VAX was, I think, co-designed alongside VMS. The two together were an innovative design, distinguishing architecture from implementation, a comprehensive isa, a roadmap for the future, etc etc. VAXcluster was amazing integration of both.

I believe the design was influenced by Djikstra's Structured Programming book but have no evidence.

My epiphany on the issues with the isa came when I discovered that the checksum calculation used by the VMS backup utility was faster when done in a short instruction loop over the microcoded instruction. MicroVAX II. Microcodes were a huge barrier between the speed potential of the electronics and the actual visible isa. Duh!

Cray knew this, but he didn't build product lines, just single point products. Sun built product lines with RISC and ate Digital Equipment's lunch.
Mathematical languages shape our understanding of time in physics
> The CVE was created last September, so it was known about at least that long

Mozilla could have reserved CVE numbers in blocks, and still be allocating from that batch.
Yeap. I have Oticon OPN's which have bluetooth support. I talk with people over my iPhone. The only caveat is that the microphone is the iPhone itself. I wonder if their Bluetooth support implies microphone support embedded in hearing aids?
https://outline.com/durb8c
> If you build a bunch of $2B shiny new gas facilities, as we are doing today, utilities will want to run them for decades.

Utilities will want to run anything for decades, but gas plants are crazy cheap. A $2B natural gas power plant is inconceivable. A 500MW plant costs more like $500M (probably less), but AFAIU they're typically built smaller. And construction is very fast, on the order of 1-2 years. We've been building many, relatively small plants, which means phasing them out can likewise be done incrementally.

All of which means that even if we need to ditch natural gas, it won't be that painful, ignoring the comparative costs of natural gas itself.

Sources: https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/assumptions/pdf/table_8.2.p...,
https://www.eia.gov/electricity/generatorcosts/, via https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=487&t=3
Why didn’t they choose Opus?
This confuses me. I've discussed politics for over 10 years online, both in very conservative forums and very liberal forums, and have never once seen a person mention this before. Sometimes I have even been on forums where name calling was quite direct. Yet I've never heard of this before.

A quick google search shows a number of mentions, but it feels so odd that I could've missed this, especially since a person who isn't in the know can easily make the mistake of thinking Democrats belong to the Democrat Party.

Has it historically not been an issue enough to call out? Is this only in some circles and not universally agreed upon? It just seems so odd for me to have missed this being a thing. It is like if one day someone told you 'fish' was a loaded negative term to refer to people who went to college.
http://archive.md/D9bYb
They probably didn't mean to do the double negative.

I used to work at an airport that was under 20ft above sea level.
Again, I chose that article because it is about the best possible lipstick that can be put on that pig.

The audit was a farce. From another article,

"In fiscal year 2015, for example, Congress appropriated $122 billion for the US Army. Yet DoD financial records for the Army’s 2015 budget included a whopping $6.5 trillion (yes, trillion) in plugs. Most of these plugs “lack[ed] supporting documentation, [...]”

“Because of the plugs, there is no auditable way to track Pentagon funding and spending,” explains Asif Khan of the Government Accountability Office"

https://www.thenation.com/article/pentagon-audit-budget-frau...
I try to use D for that (difficult because the libraries are fairly low level, I would say sparse but calling into C and C++ is pretty trivial) because, for the same effort I put into bullying python to do what I want, I can write type safe (generic) code that is both actually readable and ready to be reused if needs be. And sometimes orders of magnitude faster.

That and ranges (D/Andrei's preferred model for iteration) are excellent - in my view at least.
No native Cheese from India, though milk products are staple diet for centuries
Air filters create educational gains
>gym-rats used to hard training and daily discipline have much better start with meditation than people like me who are overthinking and analyzing

this right here is a good summation of why buddhism is just a cult of advanced physiology, those 'too much in their own head' and the truly mentally ill never do well in it. Buddhists like Alan Wallace insist this is a condition of fortunate conditions of karmic rebirth, in which those who have both social access to the Buddha's teaching and the neural complexity and health to integrate it successfully are in a 'Higher' rebirth caste than others.
When automation is an expensive waste of time
At least in California, PG&E charges a disproportionate amount as "delivery cost" even if the energy comes from a cheaper and greener alternative coop. For me more than half my total cost is PG&E fees and I am subscribed to a CC Coop.

With your own solar (I don't have yet), the idea is that you can transition more of your usage to electric (say change water heater from gas to electric) without paying a cut to someone else.
Possibly for generating previews remotely or with different configurations.
See the answer nabla9 gave. There is no real truth and the idea really is to just meditate and not worry about the truth or the nature of truth. So there is no point in the questions themselves.
They definitely are alive and delicious :)
So it was CPU in the box?
We are making some progress. Here's a couple projects to check out:

https://www.fastcompany.com/90329982/these-tree-planting-dro...

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/21/carbon-engineering-co2-captu...
Trying to emulate human eyesight in self driving cars is hilariously misguided.

1. We have a computer behind our eyes so advanced that we may never be able to come close to replicating it. It is capable of identifying, tracking and predicting the behaviour of multiple objects in real-time even in reduced visibility and can infer new objects without training e.g. a green firetruck or a RV with a satellite dish.

2. Our eyes are connected to a very adaptive and movable object i.e. our head. In order to perceive depth and identity objects e.g. an actual person versus a photo of a person we continuously move our head around in multiple dimensions. A car can't do this.

I would refer everyone to the countless examples of Tesla's Autopilot recognising humans in bus signs, sides of trucks etc and attempting to do auto-avoidance. That is an unsolvable problem with only optical cameras.
leaks aren't unsafe though. Things like bounds checking and aliasing guarantees are like 90% of the memory safety issues you care about, and those can be performant.
I know this but usually don't do it. Been burnt by it too. Reprogramming your brain is hard.

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Would there be any negative consequences to having an automated process go through and change it? Maybe the size difference might cause some issues with some things doing black magic with data in the file.
The most interesting thing I’ve ever seen was an argument between ants. As a student I worked on a project to use California grey ants for pest control in peach orchards ‘Formica aerata’ (it’s very effective). This involved capturing wild colonies (digging them up) and breeding them in captivity. To move the colony from the box of dug up dirt to the enclosure, I coated the inside of the box with liquid Teflon (future cancer risk?) and slowly flooded the box, the only way out was a bridge to the new enclosure. Over the next ten hours the ants would compete, some moving eggs and larvae to the new enclosure, some moving them back to the queen. Eventually, when the rising flood had converted enough of the workers to the cause of the revolution, they will make an attempt to move the queen, which she and and a coiterie of anti-diluvianists would resist. The bridge to new enclosure would be a solid mass of writhing black (like Venom from Spider-Man). The queen, noticeably larger than the workers would repeat an escape and climb back over the living bridge to the steadily submerging dirt pile again and again, until eventually overwhelmed she was dragged by the masses to the new home, flailing and struggling all the way.
"I want to be somewhere where people want to push the envelope and try new things"

That is too generic even though I hear you as a founder of a company who does many things. Unless you are the founder, most companies are looking for specific/specialized roles and not generalists. That doesn't mean generalists are not needed but you have to do a lot more convincing.

You said "haven't found a company who's interested in wanting cross-functional people". The problem with this is that there is nothing specific here. What are you really good at ? Sales ? marketing ? Technology ? Client Management ? You cannot do a little bit of everything unless again, you are the founder.

"What I really love doing is commercializing ideas".

Ok good. Now define this further. What type of ideas ? Again, in what domain/area ? For example, can you help setting up Sales Strategy ? Or Marketing strategy ? Or building a team strategy ? Get specific and you may find the ideal role.
If they're any think like every BigCo I've worked at then I'm sure the QA people have already raised hell and been ignored.
In slightly related news, does anyone know where in the Bluetooth spec soft power buttons are required? (press for three seconds to turn on, oh wait it was already on, not it's off, press for three more seconds...) My biggest complaints with Bluetooth are exacerbated by the fact that it's not possible to flick a power button off and back on again.
Yes, they are the result of full lifecycle anaysis from mining raw construction materials to final decommissioning.

Yes, for intermittent sources to lead to a low carbon system, vast energy storage or other low-carbon dispatchable load following is required.

Nuclear is the one low-carbon dispatchable source with very low life cycle land & material requirements and high energy return on investment.

For this reason, I like all low-carbon sources, but I love nuclear. Disclaimer: I'm professionally dedicated to solving the cost and public acceptance issues with nuclear.
The keyword here is "perception".
I am not convinced that the perception is deserved.
Who remains one of the world's great historians. Sometimes we read old books because we want to understand how these books influenced the course of thought. But sometimes, old books are just genuinely good in their own right and would be just as good if published today: Aristotle, Thucydides, Tacitus, Aeschylus, and a bunch of other authors fit this latter mold. I wish more people read them.
Nature article (paywall): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-019-0748-5
Url changed from https://electrek.co/2020/01/08/us-emissions-drop-2019/, which points to this.
It seems another reason to prefer `npx` over `npm install -g`.
> nobody's "expecting" you to keep them in all the time,

I do expect to keep them on, they are expensive device and I won't open the little carrying case and put them in each time someone may speak to me.

>press a hardware button which toggles noise cancellation instantly

That does makes it quite handy!
Machine Learning from Scratch Tutorials on YouTube
They’re not steadily falling. As noted in the article, they were up in 2018.
Is anyone, apart from Intel and conspirators, sure what Intel ME actually is?
> I feel like it's dying

I can't control how someone else feels, but I can tell you your feeling is very wrong. Just a few of the things people are being paid to work on right now:

Android support

Webassembly

Symmetry Autumn of Code projects

There will also be paid work on iOS once they find someone that can do the job (if they haven't already). And yet another annual DConf will be taking place in London in June.

These are just a few of the examples where folks are putting real money into the D ecosystem. The language continues to evolve (for example, moving to safe by default). This is by far the most active D has been in the seven years I've been using it.
That’s a strange take.
One, because a new vaccine hasn't been proven safe to administer yet. And even 'proven safe' just means that the vast majority of recipients won't experience permanent side effects. You're intentionally triggering an immune response in the patient. What if you triggered an autoimmune response? Now you have a created a whole new autoimmune disease (and I dunno if you've noticed, but we mostly treat symptoms and not that well).

That said, a few people react even to approved vaccines badly. Unfortunately this fact feeds the anti-vax people, who don't seem to understand how to model risks. Just going to the drugstore to pick up antibiotics that will save your life has a larger chance of death (due to a car accident). It's more dangerous to drive to the doctor to get vaccinated than it is to get vaccinated.

Just living is dangerous. I'm running out of fingers on one hand to count the number of times I've tried to choke to death eating or drinking something, and I've got half a billion years of evolution trying to keep me from killing myself just trying to absorb nutrients.

Nothing is guaranteed. Anything can kill you. Better to get on with life rather than wait for Death to find you.

Where was I? Medical ethics.

Medical ethics has some opinions on how 'informed' a person can be to volunteer for experiments. A peer who is in your field is presumed to know the consequences of their choices better than just about anybody. So yes, a medical researcher experimenting essentially on themselves is quite different than the same person doing trials on others.

See also the doctor who gave himself an ulcer to prove that ulcers were of bacterial origin. Won a Nobel Prize for that discovery. If he'd done it on someone else he'd have been in big trouble.
Vipassana meditation is specifically not based on 'analysis' of a conventional sort. It's raw unparalleled insight into your phenomenology (in the Husserl sense) - the generally-unnoticed details of your subjective experience. This is why it's considered so effective at going through the stages of 'enlightenment'.
Could somebody explain in simple words how can they achieve the 1024 colors with the CGA? Is this some kind of trickery? The article is too technical and demo-scene targeted for me...

If it is possible why there were no CGA games with so many colors? Thank you!
I don't beelieve it!
I just said time machines and faster than light travel are unlikely to ever occur; I do think life extension and AGI are not technically impossible, but rather inevitable (my training is in biology, and I work on machine learning).

For the first two, we'd need to have a radically different physics than the current model, while the last two, they seem like reasonable extrapolations from modern technology.