skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The next intelligent species might notice these odd concentrations of unusual combinations of metal particles and powdered long chain carbon compounds, but there would be nothing to tell them it wasn't made by some unknown natural process.

So our fossil fuels could be the remnants of some long gone civilization?
I went back working on 24-inch 1080p screen from a 32-inch 4k screen
For security reasons you say? No.

I mean, LD_PRELOAD is very useful. I used libfaketime once to debug a problem in a project that I worked that only happened when you run the test suite in a specific range of time. This power is very useful.

Can it be abused? Maybe, however you should assume that your environment is trusted or there is way worse ways to modify a process that is running in your system. In some of them it doesn't matter if the binary is static or not.
"WebKit/Blink/Chromium" is a really poor choice in grouping, as far as the context of this conversation goes. Blink is not WebKit.
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The point of the GP is that there are many companies called "Amazon" or some variation thereof, registered in Delaware alone. Clearly AMZN does not own the word "Amazon".
A quote from the Brian himself illustrating how he is able to "publish" so much junk research.

> P-hacking shouldn’t be confused with deep data dives – with figuring out why our results don’t look as perfect as we want. With field studies, hypotheses usually don’t “come out” on the first data run. But instead of dropping the study, a person contributes more to science by figuring out when the hypo worked and when it didn’t. This is Plan B. Perhaps your hypo worked during lunches but not dinners, or with small groups but not large groups. You don’t change your hypothesis, but you figure out where it worked and where it didn’t.

This is horrifically bad research practice and basically guarantees that all of your results will be completely p-hacked.

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2018/09/23/tweeking-b... is another hilarious example.
> What this shows is that Amazon now effectively owns the word Amazon, stripping countries where the largest river in the world flows, of the rightful use of the term.

It absolutely does not. Nobody is going to stop calling the Amazon Rainforest or the Amazon River the Amazon. Nobody is going to prevent the countries who have the Amazon within their borders from promoting the Amazon abroad. The only thing that changes is, well, nothing. Because the countries involved clearly had no intention to apply for the .amazon gTLD until AMZN did. So they lose nothing.
I would assume many high profile publishers would be concerned in getting the facts right. Especially if working with freelancers, there might be interest to see in more detail the creative process. Just a random example for Google about a case, where journalist had been faking things [1].

Maybe there would be also use in areas like technical writing, rules and regulations or contracts. Having errors in these can actually have big financial consequences.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/19/top-der-spiege...
> 6. Most founders don't know their website visitor to trial conversion rates

This is surprisingly difficult to solve in 2020. The biggest issue is (in Google Analytics) how to separate traffic that could potentially sign up for a trial vs. traffic from people who’ve already signed up.

Here’s one way to do it:

1. When someone logs in set a cookie

2. If they visit your homepage later check for cookie

3. If cookie exists put them in a segment called eg “existing users”

4. Create visit to trial report in GA for traffic where users aren’t in “existing users” segment

But it seems like this should be simpler.

If there are other approaches that work I’d love to hear them!
I thought it was odd, too. But I'm very glad to see this. Open Source is a powerful and good force, it's awesome to see new people jumping in.
Well my trick is to get a little bit of everything then return and just get what you liked the most and go crazy. Sometimes there's an issue with too many things to try, but usually it works. I always take all-you-can-eat literally.
> People with engineering mindsets were in urban (non-farm) areas.

Many early engineers of the Industrial Revolution were farmers though, such as Jethro Tull.
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Sounds like Brazil was the one being unreasonable here. It looks like a shakedown of Amazon. Lest you think of Amazon as a big, powerful, org compared with Brazil, remember that the Brazilian government's budget for 2020 is over $900 billion dollars.
> One part of why Microsoft's ideas didn't really catched on was that we developers just didn't get it. Most of us were amateurs and had no computer degree. Instead we were so busy learning about semantic markup and CSS that we totally missed the rest

Should we address the elephant in the room? For us without a CS degree, Flash was easily the first choice, IE have lagging problems whenver there's more than three layers of <DIV>s around. Yes it has lots of cool capabilities but it's rendered largely impractical. Even Adobe Flex was about take over the "business app" world.

On the Microsoft side, .NET happened and Silverlight happened.

But ultimately, the iPhone happened. 1-charge per day battery phones happened.

BTW the article didn't mention <IMG DYNSRC> and background MIDI music support.
I wrote an article
about how we did this at my second company. It worked shockingly well:

https://www.reemer.com/articles/why-only-fools-write-code-fi...
Could be original authors knew that the DMA fetched value is on the bus and waited until certain kind of value was visible.

Perhaps to "fix" some weird DMA related bug.
They can ride quite a while due to the fact that there is only one alternative in commercial flight (Airbus). I hope there is not a time when both companies have such an issue at the same time. That would disrupt travel.
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China Names 2 Expensive HIV Drugs Produced by American Company Used in Their Treatment Plan for New Coronavirus
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-26/china-names-abbvie-s-hiv-drugs-in-treatment-plan-for-new-virus

The Beijing branch of China’s National Health Commission said that a combination of lopinavir and ritonavir, sold under the brand name Kaletra by AbbVie, is part of its latest treatment plan for patients infected by the virus.

(The AbbVie company specifically refuses to offer their savings plan and to deal with any US Gov't insurance plans like Medicare / Medicaid)
https://kaletra.com/

Interesting to follow what price AbbVie's stock opens at on Monday and progresses during the week:

https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/ABBV:US
"Self-reported" deserves more emphasis for sure, but the results seem legit:

> Results for this Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted Dec. 2-15, 2019, with a random sample of 1,025 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. For results based on the total sample of national adults, the margin of sampling error is ±4 percentage points at the 95% confidence level. All reported margins of sampling error include computed design effects for weighting.
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> Each sample of national adults includes a minimum quota of 70% cellphone respondents and 30% landline respondents, with additional minimum quotas by time zone within region. Landline and cellular telephone numbers are selected using random-digit-dial methods.
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> There is no viable way to solve the distributed problem of carbon emission

We haven't even tried. Tax all products, in particular imports (China etc) based on their CO2 emissions. The Western worlds (EU + US + a few others) still represents the majority of consumption / buying power, and has the option of enforcing standards on cheap-labour producing countries. We just have to have the will to do it. I hope Trump's anti-China stance (albeit for the wrong reasons) might spur other countries into thinking in this direction.

Edit: I'm also terribly annoyed by these stupid "pop-interventions" like "eat less meat" and "use paper straws". I don't want the government to tell me what to do (that's totalitarian and completely unacceptable from my perspective), the government should instead adjust the incentives so that all externalities are properly accounted for; then I'm free to drive less (or buy a Tesla) and eat more meat, whereas someone else (with the same budget but different preferences) can instead adopt a vegan diet and go on frequent roadtrips.
> there are business people who are apparently content running a business with such slim margins ... I'm left wondering why anyone would even bother

A percentage margin is expressed relative to the value of the sales.

Low margin on high value sales is as good as high margin on low value sales, in terms of how much money you make.

Low margin is only a problem in low value sales.

Why shouldn’t people running a business with extremely high value sales, due to low margins? I can’t see what you’d find that a bizarre thing to do?

I’d be happy making 5% if I was selling a jumbo jet a day, for example.

You can’t criticise just the margin in isolation like you’ve done.
Don't read. Read comments and save your time.
Well given the fact that Guyana is an English speaking country and a member of ACTO, it has as much right as US has over a hypothetical New York or California domain. Or it does not count because it is "South-American" and not proper English to you?
I use it for real time data (around 22G/month, compressed) and I can do all sorts of filthy stuff with the database while the real time processes are running.

Increasing the retry timeout can help, using WAL can help. I'm sure you've tried all this though.
.amazon is also a commercial TLD if AMZN buys it.
By available, do you mean 'It exists on the planet crust', or 'It can be accessed at a significantly lower cost than the forward (breakdown, e.g. the cost of equivalent oil) energy cost?'[1], and if so, do you have sources to back that up?

[1] If it costs more, or even not significantly (an order of magnitude at least) less than the cost of oil for equivalent emissions, than the economic proposition is dire. Solutions so far have those economic difficulties afaik, and we're still at a stage where we have easily available capture resources (i.e. we haven't depleted or saturated a number of them) -- we're talking about a planetary scale solution here
This is brilliant. I have a feeling this happens a lot more than we think
The original poster means: given that you have paid all your taxes, etc, the marginal cost for you of going to the library and taking out a book is 0.

Of course the infrastructure costs money to maintain, and the people working there are paid.
The legacy mode would surely run MSHTML.dll for the entire page.
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We do sell air and water, and there is nothing wrong with that.
That was mine too. It’s possible that this previously applied to primitives (cpu, memory, network, storage) and now refers to applications (keyvalue store, SQL database, message queues, etc.)
Racial statistics also only make sense in the US where skin color is associated with usually only one culture/origin, and while it's understandable in this specific context be aware than in other countries this is plain racism (and also illegal in some like France) because of the complexity and multi culturally and background that exist between a similar skin color.

Now sure there are socio-economics realities correlated but in that case instead of using skin color as a proxy (which again only works in the US) the correct thing to do is to use directly the variables of that socio-economics background, like education, income level, parent's wealth, ...
It is not just Brazil, it is ACTO, there are 8 countries from South America there.
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Born 94, I believe this is the second part.
Interesting exercise, but why not just throw the uneaten food under the table, or covertly take it to the restroom and toss it in the toilet?
"Then, around the turn of the 20th century, nature’s barriers began to crumble. Forests began to fragment,"

It's impressive how wrong that statement is. 1900 is when forests stopped fragmenting, not when they started. Between 1630 and 1900 forested area of north America declined from 46 percent to 34 percent. That declined only slightly to 33 percent in 1997 and has since increased to 36.2 percent.
The world is running at full speed towards a dystopia where private companies are more powerful than entire countries.
Sure, I agree it’s subtle. But it is: a) much higher resolution b) potentially to a specific third party who may not have access to cell network data. Like, say, an angry ex-spouse.
Because logic voltages change over time.

When the PC was new, the AT PSU produced a ton of 5v, since most of the logic was 5v TTL circuitry, or CMOS running at 5v. The various 12v and -12v rails were mostly for RS232 ports and drive spindle motors.

By the time ATX came along, most of the logic was 3v3, but there was still a fair bit of 5v load, and people were putting more drives into PCs so those needed a lot of 12v. Look at the wires in an ATX connector, there are 2 for 12v, 5 for 5v, and 3 for 3v3. Since all the wires are the same gauge, this hints at how much current the designers thought the motherboard would need on each rail.

But pretty shortly after ATX came out, two things happened: First, CPUs stopped being 3.3v, and a big chunk of the load on the 3v3 rail went away. CPUs got VRMs, which sometimes drew from the 5v rail but mostly drew from the 12v rail, to produce the 1.8v or 1.5v or 1.2v or whatever the CPU Vcore wanted. This shifted a lot of the load to those rails, and 12v was preferable since it would suffer less loss coming from the PSU, and could use thinner traces in the motherboard.

Second, GPUs were invented. Remember that graphics cards in the ISA/PCI era were mostly just a framebuffer and a ramdac. 3D accelerators became a thing, and started throwing heaps of silicon at the problem, which needed heaps of power. Graphics cards started getting heatsinks, of all things! And since the workload tends to be very parallelizable, the only bound on how much silicon you could recruit, was how much power you could supply. The motherboard's traces and slot contacts could only move so much current, so graphics cards sprouted additional connectors to suckle straight from the PSU.

As with CPUs, GPUs ran at core voltages which were A) constantly evolving, B) user-tweakable for performance, and C) incredibly low and impractical to run over long wires because of voltage drop. All these factors made it nonsensical to ask the PSU to produce GPU Vcore. So they all had local regulation that just ran from 12v, for the same reasons as CPU VRMs.

Ever since then, the majority of load has been on 12v. A modern PC draws basically nothing on 3v3 since all the logic has moved to local regulation, and the 5v rail is used more for USB than anything else. The negative rails are vestigial (used for some 80s-era logic and RS232 transceivers) anyway. And the strategy of local regulation has proven both efficient and practical. So why not use it for everything?

12v is a sane voltage to standardize on. It's a little lower than I'd like for efficiency reasons (24 would be better), but a ton of proven hardware is already in the field that runs from 12v and it's quite well understood. Going higher than 30 requires different silicon in the power converters, and lower than 12 starts to really hurt efficiency. It's a good compromise.

And a single rail will massively simplify PSU design, and improve regulation because there won't be cross-loading concerns anymore.
This is true.

We should be able to reach net-zero emissions in the energy industry by around 2040 (optimistic, but realistic target), and even produce enough clean electricity to power clean electric solutions in transport/agriculture/industrial/appliance sectors (which are the other main contributors to net GHG emissions).

The only problem is that a lot of this technology is still missing / not adopting fast enough. Electric cars and cleaner farming will probably get there in time, as well as lots of electric appliances and clean steel.

I'm worried about these though:

- Cement/concrete

- Aviation (electric is on the way [1], but maybe growing too slow)

- Livestock (synthetic meat promising, but once again maybe progress too slow)

- Shipping

- Appliances/civilian buildings: long lifespan to replace systems with electric alternatives, people won't just throw away a working heating system / stove etc

For those, we need CCS or reforestation efforts to be accelerated.

Our best bet in my view is to focus most investment in nuclear energy short term, with large minorities in CCS and transport+industrial electrification, and get electricity prices super low (and TPES super high)

Once we have abundant, clean energy worldwide, we will be able to easily reach net-zero emissions and even induce net cooling if we feel we have overshot the ideal atmospheric carbon level.

(In fact, we should be able to move it either way depending on our needs)

Net zero goal isn't about stopping climate change, it's about putting the control in our hands and having the ability to shift temperatures and GHG levels in the optimal direction in perpetuity.

[1] https://heartaerospace.com (YC-backed)
MS Access “allowed” it but depending on the version it could be quite problematic. We had a use case where Tableau connected to an Access file read only (but which another program used as a data store and wrote to it often) on an Windows file share, and once in a while the lock files would get screwy and we would have to manually delete the lock files to get things working again. Deleting lock files could be a huge chore because you have to figure out stuck processes and kill them. Task Manager wasn’t up to the task, so had to use SysInternal tools to help with that.

Access is really meant for single-user scenarios I feel. Maybe the locking mechanism has gotten better but for multiuser access I tell people to use a real SQL database.
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>but as a business owner in a different field I'm left wondering why anyone would even bother.

Because they don't have a choice.
the most crazy LD_PRELOAD was using 4.X kernel on a centos6 machine with LKL

https://github.com/lkl/linux

There are tons of extremely OpenVZ hostings on the interweb but with an ancient 2.6 kernel like centos5.

With LKL you can enjoy the benefits of modern kernel with minimal performance penalty.

Submitted an issue here: https://github.com/gaul/awesome-ld-preload/issues/1
The reality is that there are vile people in the world. When I got into tech, machines were open, and we could do amazing things. That all stopped when the jerks arrived.

We cant's change human nature, and while most people are fine, some are irretrievably bad.

If you create a platform, be prepared for scum to do everything they can to rip you off and stop if from working, just for the lolz.
They take small to mid size dogs too. Usually when it’s dark. Sometimes even while on a leash. Our 13 pound dog got attacked in our backyard. The coyote jumped a five foot fence with ease. The dog survived with some bite marks but the vet said usually the injuries are worse.

Otherwise they cause less trouble than raccoons who get into a lot of things.
well their claim is better than that of a company
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To this day, the best engineers I work with are farm people. I think it's because they grow up having to get shit done every day and when that tractor breaks down, you've gotta find a solution or risk falling way behind.
Lol. I thought that was only a band. You learn something every day on hn.
> Cement releases CO2 as part of it's chemical curing process. It contributes to about 8% of worldwide emissions.

There are 2 sources of CO2 during cement manufacture. One is from the decomposition of lime, the other is from the energy production needed to make the process work. The latter could be avoided by electrical heating, a solar furnace or other renewable heat sources. The decomposition part can be compensated by newer cement chemistries that reabsorb most of the CO2 during the curing process.

So there are alternatives, carbon capture is not the only solution.
Not sure why you're being downvoted because this is exactly what went wrong with the 737MAX.
> It's an ethical discussion

Positioning "maximize your personal convenience" vs "maximize ethics" begs the question of whether the two are opposed. I don't think they are because I don't think it's unethical for a company to use facial recognition (as the OP seems to assume).
Our library (Eldersburg branch in carroll county MD) is vibrant!

I work from it M-F to get out of the tiny apartment and away from the kids. The library runs "story times" a couple times a week for the kids. There is a small kid play area that we frequent during winter or rain when we want to kill an hour.

The coolest part is that there is a STEM center with robot, 3d printing, Legos & Julia/Scratch machines. I also work from the "teen" section (because it allows for talking and I have zoom meetings all day) which has: comics, xbox one, and study rooms available.

There are always people tutoring out of the rooms and kids hanging out gaming with switch/xbox fortnite. It's really cool.
Not open source, but Raima supports multiple processes on a single db file as well. https://raima.com/
Keep in mind the USA is huge and much less densely populated than India. Think of India as 4x the population of the USA in 25% the space. You need much less physical infrastructure to serve the population in India.
The purpose is to incentivize people to think twice about what they are ordering and how much they can eat, not to prevent people who are already intent on abusing the system. For that, you simply have to observe and ban people.
If I do go to a buffet I only eat protein because it seems to be the only way to get my money's worth.
Why are you downvoted? Americans are right when they say people from outside do not understand certain things about Americans (like the second amendment or why car culture is so prevalent) but many don't apply that standard to themselves. In many countries race is not a big deal.
There's also Dai on Ethereum, which is largely decentralized. Instead of being backed by off-chain collateral, it's backed by ETH and other tokens in a derivatives contract, and uses the median of a bunch of price feeds. Basically, you get stability by selling volatility to speculators.

The author also ignores Ethereum's scaling. ZK rollups on today's Ethereum can get it to several thousand transactions per second without usability compromises or centralization, and if the ETH2 plans work out then that'll be multiplied by the number of shards in a year or two.
If i go its to use the internet.
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Why should a search engine decide which of these is more important rather than what the user is more likely searching form?
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>There is an agreed upon def of serverless.

Sorta but not really. The fact people have worked backwards from marketing names to try and constructively define inherently self-contradictory branding (rather than create a descriptive category into which we place questionable names and ignore them) is an embarrassment for everyone except the marketing departments.
Race conditions not triggering when the transport is fast enough?