skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got multiple people to install voidtools everything and open shell as a result of this bad update.

I asked them after we applied the patch if they wanted me to revert the changes, but they refused, stating that having instant local only search and a normal start menu was a dream come true.

That is beside the point that if Microsoft can no longer even produce a wimp interface without third-party software needed to get us back to the baseline of Windows 7, that does not bode well for them.
No. My comment was just an ironic way of saying that there is nothing "given" by and from the Government. Whatever is "given" is actually taken from someone else and redistributed. I thought that was clear already.
'sudo find / | grep <search term>' has always worked as local search for me.
I wonder if the const syntax introduced in ES6 will ever result in const folding, or any JIT optimizations for code running in JS runtimes. Apparently, from what I've read, const is being ignored as far as optimiztions go and is only used as a way to prevent the developer from ever reassigning certain variables.
> A lot of the infrastructure is a variable cost. The system is built/upgraded to support a peak demand, and your contribution toward that peak is variable.

That can be solved by implementing time-of-use pricing and incorporating the "peak demand" infrastructure cost into the price. You would calculate how much infrastructure is needed to provide a "baseline" load (the trough on a demand graph), and divide that among the "fixed" portion. Perhaps you also add some sort of locality adjustment so rural/urban areas pay their "fair share". The rest of the infrastructure cost would be added the variable electricity price.

>And if you lump everything into the variable fee, at least you have more incentive to conserve.

That in itself isn't a bad thing. The problem is that with solar panels/wind power, you're also shifting the cost from people who can afford to install renewables (usually richer people with money to invest) to people who can't (usually poorer).
That onsen culture is exactly why geothermal is a nonstarter as a panacea for Japan - the sites where people are willing for plants to be constructed are limited and many of them still only allow for small plants. Onsen tourism is the primary source of income for many of these locations and these communities worry that large geothermal plants will kill the tourism industry.

There have been a handful of plants opened post Fukushima with more planned, but opposition to large scale geothermal has been fierce in the prefectures that could supply the sites. I'm sure we'll continue to see plants built, but I'll be shocked if it happens on a scale that can reverse Japan from being a net importer of energy.
I've noticed the English language media has been big on facts and events, but generally provide little context besides the usual unhelpful short quotes.
> I think you mean "unless the lossy algorithm has a perverse encoding."

That's right.

> It's true that no lossless algorithm can beat a lossy algorithm if averaged across all possible images

I concede the point. I thought that this argument applied to the average of any input set, not just the set of all possible images, but then I realized that it's actually pretty easy to come up with counterexamples e.g. N input images, which can be losslessly compressed to log2(N) bits, which will easily outperform jpg for small N. That's not a very realistic situation, but it does torpedo my "proof".

So you were right, and I was wrong.
As others have alluded to, I think you are confusing flu with cold.
Even as a grad student, my teaching evaluations couldn't negatively affect me. The only people it could have real, negative consequences for were instructors, who work on contracts. As an example, my department head (perhaps unintentionally) sent everyone an email saying any scores of less than 3.73 on a 1-7 scale were grounds for termination of that instructor's contract. I did not envy them at all, basically being highly educated customer service workers.
I hope you agree that innovation is much more constrained than it was in the 70s to 90s. You can’t do a V8 or V12, the turbo configuration is prescribed, or can’t do all wheel drive or a six wheeler, wing configuration is very much regulated. There certainly is room for improvement but it’s more detail optimization, not the whole concept. Adrian Newley has been complaining for quite a while that for designers F1 is not much fun anymore.
https://buggedplanet.info/index.php?title=Main_Page
Disabling Javascript by default avoids most of this, though it breaks some sites.
We spend our childhood wanting to grow up and do things adults are allowed to do, and our adulthood reminiscing about how good our childhood times were.

There is a certain percentage of movies, music, toys, and other forms of entertainment that play directly, and profit greatly, from this seemingly universal quirk of humanity.
Lycos is still around and its search is pretty good
We need software escrow for consumers.
Just for the record: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22272837
As we're in a closed energy loop we're going to have to address this, sooner rather than later.

Every starry eyed AI/ML piece has me thinking, yes but where's the power going to come from? And where's the power on top to encrypt all this?

And quantum computing? Super-cooling at scale? Aye right pal.

The elegance of the AGC and it's approach to computing could provide a good starting point to a solution out of our mess.

to quote from a 2004 paper by Don Eyles, one of the AGC programmers:

"When Hal Laning designed the Executive and Waitlist system in the mid 1960's, he made it up from whole cloth with no examples to guide him. The design is still valid today. The allocation of functions among a sensible number of asynchronous processes, under control of a rate- and priority-driven preemptive executive, still represents the state of the art in real-time GN&C computers for spacecraft."

https://www.doneyles.com/LM/Tales.html
The last time I looked at Angular Material was quite some time ago, but at the time I was really surprised because it didn't follow the conventions established in the docs, and the conventions it did use seemed nonsensical given the design of the Angular framework.

I can only guess that "same team" was a design-centric subteam for Angular while the engineering-centric team worked on the framework/documentation itself, or that Angular Material was under pressure to get implemented before all the best practices were established and by then they were stuck with the API.
I would be ok if it did things in a predictable and configurable way. But it sometimes feels almost random.
Thanks to both of you for mentioning this.

Every time I encounter this strange behavior in WIN10 -- I am so dumbstruck by it each time it still feels like it must have been a "glitch-in-the-matrix".

I mean, because no one would really release software like that, would they? At least not a multi-billion software behemoth like MS? Right? </sarc>
Help Us Name Our Company
very similar in principle to 10 years younger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressure_wave_supercharger
I’m only getting 4-5W usage on the 5500M GPU at 3440x1440@100Hz, fwiw. Which is a fairly high refresh rate for that res.

However, I only get the low power usage when in clamshell mode. Driving the built in display plus my monitor makes it shoot up to 20W usage.
Search everything is great. It does exactly what it says it does and is super fast.
The IE integration with Windows was to extinguish Netscape Navigator. So I'm guessing this move is probably to destroy chrome and indirectly google search.

Microsoft used their OS monopoly to destroy Netscape. Not sure if it will work today since they don't dominate the smartphone space.
Yes. I did exactly that. Also got a tax break since I put it in my 401k
He seems nice.

(wow, what a huge amount of fear mongering and conspiracy theories there)
Bill Barr Is Vetoing Campaign Finance Investigations, Too
Yea, except for the part where you’re paying 12,000 more over the course of a 7 year loan and the new car warranty ended at 4 years leaving you with a higher payment and you still can’t afford repairs.

It can be rationalized with emotions, but not financial sense.
> I bet they run Java

Probably Electron apps.
This is for me, so far, HN comment of year.
AMD Mac tipped in code (and Intel should be terrified)
One good thing to come out of certain rating systems, like Uber and Airbnb, is that the users get rated too. If someone is a terrible customer, then they can probably make things a lot worse for the driver or host than vice versa, and without these scores, drivers might not be able to warn other drivers about them. I would hope that with other modern customer service jobs, that reverse-ratings are always employed. It is a measurable way to improve the jobs of customer service workers.
Every time one of the many irritations I have with Linux makes me consider reinstalling Windows to give it another try, this kind of thing is just what comes to mind and stops me.
To me, Microsoft's PR message has always amounted to "Windows users are either too busy, dumb, disorganized, impatient, or unfamiliar with their systems to know how to do things, so we try to think for them." It was amazing how much more productive and powerful I felt switching to Linux. Like, I could suddenly FIX problems without having to install some sketchy .exe or driver. Can't understand why people stick with Windows when they have other options.
Every large-scale student evaluation I have ever seen has been massively uninformative because students on different courses usually have drastically different expectations.

At my university, the law school was top-notch (at least, it is the best in the country) and it got the lowest score by far every year. Why? High expectations, huge number of students competing hard. The best school? Theology. Why? Low expectations, not many students in a far less competitive environment (And I studied in both and in probably four or five faculties across the school...Law was the best, Theology the worst...not even close, the former had people from Law firms, you got full feedback on everything...the latter, you usually got no feedback on any work).

This is really the point...now, you can do some kind of grouped mean model or you can compare over time...but what is the actual point? The reason they do this (or did this at my uni) was to compare departments/courses...but everyone knew it was bullshit...people lost jobs (I actually met the Dean who masterminded this, he came from the private sector, taught a minor course in the business school, and was utterly clueless).
I think there’s a bit of an imbalance as customers can easily create new accounts
Most of the python I've written and maintain (which, honestly, isn't too much) was 2.7, so it is news to me too. Nice!
In all cases the worst solution to any problem?

That's not capitalism, that's anarchism my friend.
I agree that MMDS is probably not a good introduction for ML- pretty idiosyncratic choice of topics for that. If you are fine with lectures, I always recommend Abu Mostafas lectures [1]; I think they have an extremely good balance of intuition and math, and I love his teaching style. Pretty underrated imho. Since these are a bit dated, they don't cover Deep Learning. For this, I like Andrew Ngs lectures [2]. Hugo Larochelle has a pretty extensive course on NNs too - I have viewed segments from it, and liked them[3]. Have heard good recommendations for fast.ai [4] if you need hands-on experience.

[1] http://work.caltech.edu/lectures.html
[2] sample playlist - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNmqTiOnRfg&list=PLFKog8qYYq0Fs6lQf0jOuQD4XUQWYANPy
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGZ6BttHMPw&list=PL6Xpj9I5qXYEcOhn7TqghAJ6NAPrNmUBH
[4] https://www.fast.ai/
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I have been telling everyone to relax, these mass media panics about some virus happen every few years like clockwork. We are primed as a society to fear China right now so a panic like this is right on schedule.
Awesome idea, HIPAA for protection against the advertising industry and their digital intrusion/violation/surveillance of our privacy.

Something like APPAA - Advertising Privacy Protection and Accountability Act

What would you guys call it? what language is necessary to cover all the edge cases for the deceptive and dirty-playing advertising industry?
Yeah it really is insane. I have folders where I will be looking at the file and no search expression will show it. It has been like that for a while. Stunningly bad.
> Windows 10 may now be essential

I think you can stop reading right there.
The Canadian Football League would like a word with you.
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>As I mention, Superphénix is a Gen IV, and was finished building in 1981.

No, it isn't and wasn't. The Gen IV FBR types are only GFR, SFR, LMFBR and SCWR.

From the link I provided earlier 'In January 2018, it was reported that "the first installation of the pressure vessel cover of the world's first Gen IV reactor" had been completed on the HTR-PM.'
At this point.. I think it's fair to call it a MS tradition. I don't think I ever recall searching in windows to be useful out of the box (or even after tweaking).

Compare this to stuff like Everything..
Just did a cursory search on Lycos, and the top 5 "results" were all ads, the first one being a super-ad with six (!) sub-headings.
fwiw, using the prominent example of DarkMatter they're staffed mainly by Europeans, Americans, Indians. Nobody critics these people who voluntarily go there to work and instead we all pretend "Technology is Neutral".
I don't think that's necessary, and it might even detract a bit.

At my last company, we built a very similar tool in-house, using LVM w/ thin snapshots, instead of ZFS. The database snapshot host would receive streaming logical replication from our UAT and Staging environments.

Users (developers, QA, etc) could then take an instant snapshot of a multi-TB database, provide a Git hash/branch, and we'd instantly clone the DB, spin up the application and migrate it to the latest version.

That worked great, and the same thing could work with RDS. You could use something like AWS Database Migration Service to replicate from your RDS installation to your Database Lab host.

This way, you get to keep RDS for your actual test and staging environments, but you get streaming replication into your Database Manager instance for Dev/QA.
> as a society, we need 100-year products

A 28kbaud modem, analogue phone, consumer film camera or virtually any electronic good that uses valves: if they were designed to last 100 years surely you agree that would that be a waste of resources?

Think of 50 technological objects in the home from say 75 years ago. Now look at the models or brands that were then designed to be still useful now. Was the extra cost worthwhile or did the object become obsolete for a good reason? What would the maintenance costs for those objects be? Go to a estate sale of someone that bought quality technology items and kept them: review how many of them would be obsolete (because they are just not useful, not maintainable, inefficient, time wasting, irrelevant, dangerous, or otherwise useless for fair reasons).

Even worse, expensive well designed goods (e.g. jackets) that while still useful are thrown away because no one wants them... Human capriciousness needs to be part of the compromises we make when designing goods.
The implications are that now you get to see the order in which keyword args were specified by the caller. And in classes, you get to see the order in which attributes were defined. Both can come in very handy.
ShutUp10 lets you turn this on/off easily with a toggle, as with MANY other "features" of Windows 10 like all the telemetry:

https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
It also seems like Lycos does not default to https. Oh, Lycos. At least you're trying!
Whether this exists as a bargaining chip for price negotiation with Intel, or if Apple actually plans to release new Macs with AMD processor, it's nice to see AMD getting some well deserved publicity.
I browse all three, and didn’t see this pop up myself. I’m glad it popped up again.
Given the trouble we have hiring, it’s hard for me to imagine someone qualified to be a median talent software engineer would have trouble easily finding new employment elsewhere. (The median interview candidate is much, much worse than the median engineer because the worse you interview, the more frequently you show up on interview loops.)

If you’re median or better and in a city with a reasonable tech scene, you are probably going to have a straightforward path. If you’re median or better and not where tech is, look for remote jobs (admittedly harder) or move where tech is.

If your skills are notably below the median, staying put and working on your skills might be the most sensible course and changing jobs once you can interview and place well.
From what I read, the coronavirus reduces lymphocytes and that is what ultimately causes the serious symptoms. For people who can keep their white counts up, they don’t get so sick.

Edit: my thought is that maybe they could use blood counts to separate it from the flu
Colloquially people talk about the flu as if its like a cold but a little worse. But the flu can be very serious: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/symptoms/symptoms.htm

Fevers of 5+ degrees F (lasting 3-5 days), chills, aches, chest pain, etc. And complications (eg pneumonia) are fairly common and can be deadly.

I would wager that most "flu" cases people self-report aren't actually the flu.
I've used vanilla Ubuntu on my Dell XPS for the past year and it has served me well.
Realistically, even Chernobyl is more of an economic issue than a loss of human life one. There were 54 immediate deaths, and they believe that up to ~4000 people will die earlier than they would have otherwise due to cancer and other complications from radiation exposure.

This sounds like quite a bit, until you realize that in the US alone 13,000 people die every year from cancer and other complications related to exposure from coal pollution.

Chernobyl and Fukshima are tragic, but you cannot examine the fallout (literal and figurative) in a vacuum - you must compare it to where things stand today. Much of the world's energy is produced from sources that are far more harmful in normal operation than either were in worst case failure modes. We have significantly better technology for nuclear now, as well.

Wind turbines are bad for birds, and really NEED to be placed outside of migration paths. Photovoltaic panels create tons of toxic waste in manufacturing. Concentrated solar plants are pretty great, where they work. Geothermal is great where it can work. We should be exploring all of these where we can, work on further minimizing the downsides and solving the problems - a diverse energy strategy is a good one. But this demonization and avoidance of modern nuclear reactors is nuts, as it is one of the highest energy production options we have. They could make a huge impact in the goal of being carbon neutral. And they could do so in a way that is quite safe, especially compared to existing coal and LNG plants. I think arguing against nuclear is short-sighted and costs us one of our best tools at fighting climate change today.
Calvin and Hobbes: The Search Engine
You ordered snake dicks?!
I work in the public sector where the pendulum is always swinging between trust and control. It's partly because we're not entirely driven by MBA's and our success criteria isn't earning shareholders value, but it's mainly because we've been around for so long because we can't go bankrupt when we fail. There are advantages and disadvantage to both approaches.

In a system of trust the key benefits are better products, happier employees who have less sick days and stick around longer, more creativity and new solutions that are appreciated by the community. The downside is that some employees, managers or contractors are going to take advantage of the trust in such a terrible way that you'll have no option but to swing towards control once the media finds out. A good example from my country is a decade back, when we had a lot of trust in our public sector and an elderly care facility was saving money by putting dirty diapers back on the elderly if the urine in the diapers didn't weigh enough. Crazy, right? But that's the stuff that happens with trust, you'll also see managers contracting out procurement contracts to companies they own themselves and other stuff like that.

On the opposite side you have the MBA based approach where everything is streamlined, measured and conformed. This is where you can build two hospitals for the price of 1,2 because the plan for them are exactly the same. It's where you LEAN every single business process up, and harvest the benefits. It's efficient, clean, and it slowly exhumes your business of value. Because the MBA approach very rarely manages to create something new, it's just really great at maximizing your current system. Eventually a neighboring city is going to do something wild, like figure out how to completely wipe out dyslexia by trying some crazy new method, because they trusted some hippie teacher with a plan. This is where you're forced to swing back toward trust and value tradeskills (not sure if this is the right word in English) because your politicians can't survive another period of having the highest dyslexia numbers in the country and nothing in the MBA playbook can help them.

This is a little simplified of course, and I'm certain things are different in the private sector, but I dare say, that if your organisation sticks around for long enough, it's bound to see the pendulum swing between those two outlines.
The mountains are more of a problem. There is a famous Swiss village that only gets a few hours of sun in the summer because the prominence of the mountains around it is so high.
> After any Sponsored Links, the Web Results section shows information that comes from LookSmart or AllTheWeb.

From https://www.searchenginewatch.com/2004/03/15/how-lycos-works...
Myron Aub, a low grade Technician, discovers how to reverse-engineer the principles of pencil-and-paper arithmetic by studying the workings of ancient computers which were programmed by human beings, before bootstrapping became the norm—a development which is later dubbed "Graphitics". The discovery is appropriated by the military establishment, who use it to re-invent their understanding of mathematics. They also plan to replace their computer-operated ships with lower cost, more expendable manned ships to continue the war.

Aub is so upset by the appropriation of his discovery for military purposes that he commits suicide. As Aub's funeral proceeds, his supervisor realizes that even with Aub dead, the advancement of Graphitics is unstoppable. He executes simple multiplications in his mind without help from any machine, which gives him a great feeling of power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feeling_of_Power
This is because Swift is quite low-level when it comes to storage etc., so [0..<n] returns an ArraySlice.

However, this has nothing to do with generics.If you're willing to sacrifice performance, you could easily write

extension Array {
func take(_ n: Int) -> [Element] {
Array(self[0..<n])
}
}
Advertisers and government agencies ask for this...
Oh man, Tripod and Angelfire too? I’m back in the 90’s for a minute.
That logically makes sense, but the reality is agism is a huge problem in tech hiring.
So much so that it’s a trope to hire a salesperson with an expensive leased car, a flashy watch, and an overall expensive lifestyle.
First cancer patients treated with CRISPR-Cas9–modified T cells
Hard numbers have been winning, and thats been the problem. Any time you have a set of numbers to describe a thing, you're creating an imperfect model of that thing. When you only consider that imperfect model, the things moves in the direction of fulfilling that model. You can't say you care about employee well-being, unless you have a metric, or several metrics, it won't ever be done.