skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I apologize: “relatively late” draws a misleading conclusion. I really meant that it wasn’t a precipitating or contemporary part of the beginning of the war, the primary objective of which (from his policy — obviously many supported it for other reasons) was the preservation of the union.

The rest of your comment speaks to my point: it was a tactical effort to try to split the confederacy but as far as I can tell failed in that effort. It only had “force” in the parts of the country not controlled by the federal government.

Fortunately actual emancipation was ultimately extended throughout the union, at least in theory.

Here’s what the national archive has to say on the subject; in particular the second paragraph speaks to the limited scope of the directive: https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured-documents/emancip...
I think the factor of a billion relates to the expectation for boron fuel with spherical compression. See for example their latest paper, page three, right column.

They do seem to be making quantitative predictions based on simulations. I don't think I've seen them boil it down to a simple scaling law though.
There are a fair bit of tech aware services which use it. I wish Paypal/banks would support it though.

- Twitter

- Bitwarden (password manager)

- Dropbox

- Google

- Gitlab

- Github

- Nextcloud
I imagine it is. I meant they had such issues in the past (hence the "this time for real" approach) so it may be that they cut different corners in order to meet some other targets that are marketable.
As far as I know, this is a legend. Chips do change their behavior when encountering an AVX, AVX2 or AVX-512 instruction, though.
Democrats Want to End Endless Wars, with a Catch
Memory issues were my initial guess, but I'm running ECC RAM at stock speeds (although I had to go direct to manufacturer and wait a few months to get my hands on 2666MHz ECC DDR4 modules, at the time). Bumping up my DDR4 voltage just a tad did appear to help, but I would think prime95 would be less likely to fail to catch a DRAM voltage issue. I really didn't want to go down the oscilloscope rabbit hole (but I commend you for doing so!), although once upon a time I would have relished it. I guess I'm too old to have patience for things that don't work as advertised, but then again, as I've gotten older I've found that fewer and fewer things work as intended, anyway :/
Email and usenet both existed and ran just fine before Section 230.

There's good reason to think that low-volume, heavily-moderated forums like this one would have no problem without the CDA.

> Social media as it exists today would be risky for any entity to host that couldn't afford to vet all content before serving it to others.

"As it exists today" - and why should we assume that the present manifestation of social media is the best possible one? Why assume that large-scale content moderation is an unsolvable problem? It may be that the only reason present-day tech companies haven't solved it is because they don't need to.

If all their employees who are currently focused on getting people to click ads switched over to developing efficient moderation, could it be solved?
These stats suggest 4K isn't particularly prevalent:

https://gs.statcounter.com/screen-resolution-stats/desktop/w...

Infact, it seems to suggest that even 1366x768 comprises the majority.

So, can you quantify 'a few years'?
> Lion cubs play-fight to learn social skills. Rats play to learn emotional skills. Monkeys play to learn cognitive skills. And yet, in the last century, we humans have convinced ourselves that play is useless, and learning is supposed to be boring.

What a load of rubbish. Human children play to learn just like our animal cousins. But after language acquisition we have a far more efficient tool at our disposal. Am I supposed to learn that electricity is dangerous by playing with a car battery?

That's not to say that this isn't good and adults can't learn some things more effectively by interaction, but, please, let's not play down the importance of language when it comes to adult learning.
>> Creating more renewable energy is pointless unless it reduces/replaces the use of fossil fuels.

>It does.

Maybe read the article before commenting? There's a whole section in there explaining why this isn't happening (for heating)
There's facter (used by and developed for Puppet): https://github.com/puppetlabs/facter

Pass --json for JSON output.
Google Is Letting People Find Invites to Some Private WhatsApp Groups
The fact your only contribution to the argument is a personal attack reveals more about you.

People are discussing the tediousness (and value) of applying specific 'modern' language to a historic piece. Nobody denies that a slave being forced to have sex is being raped.
I let mine lapse a couple years ago because I realized I don't actually care that much if a package comes in 2 days or 3-5. I then noticed a lot of my Amazon shipments were coming in 3 days anyways.
individual freedom. I hate nanny government regulation. The government's role isn't to protect people from making bad decisions.

Harmful is subjective. Don't ban my plastic bags or straws.
I guess the question is: if your leading point is that lying is OK and necessary, why should we believe anything in this comment at all?

edit: which is why it's critical to be honest with your customers at all times.
Yes, I often see Java developers using an embedded H2 database [1] for development and test, and a "real" database in production, and there are always unexpected issues of false-positive tests and functionality due to this. Terrible anti-pattern. I am glad "Dev/prod parity" is recognised in The Twelve-Factor App manifesto [2].

I do what you suggest: run dev/test against a real PostgreSQL (of the same version) running in a container. In fact, I take this further and run builds against an actual PostgreSQL, since I like to generate code based on the DB schema using jOOQ [3].

The build proceeds like so:

1. Spin up a fresh PostgreSQL container

2. Run my schema migrations against it

3. Run the jOOQ code generator against it

4. Compile code

This provides some additional guarantees, including:

1. My queries are fully type-safe from my code down to the database schema level

2. My schema migrations can be run against an empty database

[1] https://www.h2database.com/html/main.html

[2] https://12factor.net/dev-prod-parity

[3] https://www.jooq.org/doc/3.13/manual/code-generation/
While currently they are using "green screen" in those instances, given that the camera positions are already being tracked, and the image displayed on the screens is known, it would be possible to re-render what image the camera should have seen if the foreground elements hadn't been present and use the difference with the recorded image as a mask for further post-processing.

(which would be very cool as it would also allow using a low-resolution version of the background during production that could then be re-rendered with a higher resolution image after the fact)
My wife and I purchase a lot of things from Amazon. We're taking a more critical look at what we buy ever since we had a baby.

We bought our car seat and stroller from Amazon, and we were honestly not sure whether it was certified for use in Canada. I shouldn't have to doubt any purchase I make online from a reputable retailer, but it seems Amazon no longer makes the cut for me.

For what it's worth, the car seat _did_ have the right stickers, but stickers can be faked too...
Just lie back and think of your country. It makes it so much more tolerable.
This would be quite spicy to hear.
Sugar Sync down since February 18th
BIND9 can use LMDB for storing the configuration of dynamically added zones. https://www.isc.org/blogs/bind-release-911/
At Tock this restaurant group owner is building a Spotify for reservations
Perhaps for the next holiday, you can buy her an adapter so she can plug her USB drive into her iPad, and remove one more reason to device shift to her computer.
This reminds me of Supreme's Box Logo Tees. Those sell for irrationally exorbitant amounts. What I found also irrational was Carlyle Group putting $500M into the company.
True but it's interesting that once you have an oracle that given a molecule provides you with an antibiotic score, you can show it directly molecules that are easy to produce and or likely safe for humans. This should help significantly.
>> Even if there was 100% renewable energy for electricity production in 2050, that wouldn't help with emissions that stem from heating unless you'd also make people heat with electricity. And to do that, you'd need to lower the prices (or raise the prices of alternatives).

>That's right. In a future with large electricity surplus it makes sense to switch to electricity for heating. To make that attractive new price models are needed.

Again, maybe read the article before commenting. Because the article explains how the pricing structure is incentivising people to continue using fossil fuels, even with a large electricity surplus.
The USSR was never actually catching up. With access to more accurate historical data we now know that much of their reported economic development was based on falsified official statistics.
What is contact tracing and how do we use it for coronavirus?
I quite liked Mistborn - only read the trilogy.

I'm worried about reading the Stormlight Archive because it's unfinished and ASOIAF and The Kingkiller Chronicle have burned me in that regard.

Does it actually look like he'll finish Stormlight though?
Assuming you're talking about the temperature, it's always been a source of human pride to me that the hottest place in the entire universe, as far as we are aware, has been created at the LHC on Earth.

Barring other species as intelligent as ours elsewhere (which is of course possible, but unknown), the very hottest thing in the entire unimaginably-large universe full of exotic stars and black holes and supernovae, was created by a tiny group of apes on a minuscule planet orbiting a smallish, boring star on the unfashionable side of a galaxy.
Making them continuous means requiring everyone to use a computer to calculate simple things like income taxes. Brackets aren't even a case of perverse discontinuities because the higher tax rate only applies to the money made in that bracket. Looking at just income taxes you never take home less money from getting paid more, it's a quite reasonable balance between computational simplicity and a rational progressive tax structure.
I wonder why the Russians or even the Chinese or Indians haven’t publicly attempted to clone Microsoft Windows (a desktop os). There is a Russian Linux distro. But I would think it would be more productive to have an international software arms race than a military / space arms race.
Batching is the multi-threadedness of databases.

Its also important to remember that in databases, you are more often optimising for IO usage than CPU.
I don't think the goal is to sustain the reaction here... I think the goal is to make a pulsed reactor, where you start the reaction on each pellet in turn. You could imagine a laser firing at 1000 pulses per second, and firing a stream of 1000 pellets per second into the reaction vessel that each pulse hits.

Pellets could turn out to be the size of a grain of sand.
[points at article]
Collections signal major shift in Ansible ecosystem
There's nothing wrong with starting a sentence with "but."
Irish drug dealer loses £46m Bitcoin codes he hid in fishing rod case
I agree. How do you jail a foreigner? You can’t even class action against sellers nowadays to protect the other buyers because of forced arbitration agreements. But if they had to be insured, the insurance available would be non-existent.
This blog post was written in 2011, when the book “The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9–5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich” was a best seller. The book was a guide to convincing your boss to let you work from home so you could have more time to build a side hustle business.

One of the main premises of the book was to validate your side hustle with fake Google ads to see how many people clicked on your product. This was a very trendy idea at the time.

I knew several people who tried this trick, and it backfired for most of them. In the real world, customers are very averse to potential scams on the internet. They quickly notice if a company is pretending to be something it’s not, and they remember that the company was misleading for a long, long time.

The modern equivalent is a landing page that captures the user’s email to wait for an invite to the “current private beta”. Making a webpage that pretends to crash on checkout as this blog author suggests, is a terrible way to retain user interest and build confidence in your brand.
OK, well it's certainly not intended to support the whole OAS spec (and indeed, the ones I contributed certainly don't, just the parts I needed at that specific point in time). This is particularly the case with OAS2->3.

The intention is that people use the generators as a base, and if there's something you need that's not implemented, you write the implementation and contribute it back. No single person is going to implement 100% of the spec in their day job, so as an open source project, coverage will be patchy until enough people extend the implementation to cover their own API surface area.

I don't think "it doesn't cover the whole spec" is fair grounds for criticism (though out-of-the-box generator errors are another story).
Generating Fast Sparse Matrix Vector Multiplication from a HL Generic Fn. IR [pdf]
The 100-year history of WWI's biggest painting (2019)
That's a really shitty move.

>a USB of the conversations he had secretly recorded while attending a Eurogroup discussion in Brussels

People in private converse completely differently (more freely) than in public. Judging people on what they said there by a public standard (it's impossible that this will not happen) is extremely unfair. Especially since Varoufakis knew that he will be recorded, he has probably chosen his wordings accordingly.
'Natural gas' and not 'cow burps'?
Goodbye, blue eyes: why an Instagram filter had to be altered
I agree that inviting contrarianism can be a useful way to communicate (though it probably isn't the best way to present a convincing / 'useful' argument).

But the medium for many essays lacks an interactive forum. Reactive comments from the audience is only a recent phenomenon. Before the net/web (~1990), the essay lived strictly in a broadcast-style medium. Then, the message had to live or die on its own merits. Careless or provocateur authors risked quick dismissal by an annoyed readership or eventual decline into insignificance.

And the degenerate devolved form of contrarians, media trolls, didn't yet exist. Halcyon days they were.
Are humans more complex than mice or just different? I've always assumed the latter, but I'm in no way an expert.
I rely on several of these “exploits” in order to be able to do my job on my work machines. I think even IT knows about these tricks but luckily they look the other way.
Racket is more of a meta language. For another example, see Gerbil Scheme (cons.io). It is a meta language written on top of Gambit Scheme. Gambit was chosen because it can compile to portable, efficient and fast C code. Gerbil on Gambit currently tops the R7RS benchmarks [1].

Actually, Gerbil used to be written on Racket. As you can see, it now benefits from Gambit's strengths without having to re-implement them...

[1]: https://ecraven.github.io/r7rs-benchmarks/
IE6 is back, baby! All that’s left is deep integration with some proprietary Google “standard” (I’m thinking AMP) and it’ll be the early 2000s all over again.
New GTK Website Design Goes Live to Help Boost Linux App Development
My hypothesis is that our attention spans have decreased and this is a function of technological improvements. Because we seek out dopamine rewarding experiences we can satisfy that brain circuit by consuming novel content faster. We are basically attention seeking drug addicts. Take for example older movies vs modern movies. Today's special effects speeds up the pacing so that older movies feel boring. The same can be seen in TV shows. Seasame street is almost a case study where you can watch the change in realtime. Also older vs modern cartoons follow the same pattern. You could say it's almost frenetic. The effect holds for older vs modern video games as well although some games are different. YouTube as well.

One interesting thing I've observed is that with games like Minecraft and YouTube that kids are starting to become content creators. Where kids use to put on plays for the family in the living room, they can now effectively do the same but for the whole world. It's really fascinating.
What i find disturbing is when I start looking for other sources, google gives me a news item on https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/pioneering-te... but there the article has been retracted? Also another one that is behind a paywall it seems (cannot tell as the paywall is broken). So I have 1 story on 1 website and the company website itself. The news-site claims on their about page that they value old-school journalistic values (I assume they mean, they investigate a story before publishing) but it's hard to take that claim seriously without more credible sources. For me this is interesting technology to keep an eye on, but without more confirmation and research, this is cold-fusion for now.
I never realized prime95 was still updated! I seem to remember there was a time when the newest prime95 releases were several years old and simply assumed that was still the case. I just ran whatever copy I had in my downloads archive at the time; I just checked and it was version 29.3 build 1.
Coronavirus-infected Americans flown home against CDC’s advice
what an odd comment... I find it difficult to believe that you would run into CPU limits before data movement costs slowed you down.

Also RDBMS are not that difficult to scale, especially easier than an ad-hoc ORM/whatever on your application side.
That article is mindblowing, how do the tech side and the creative side work together on this kind of a project? How much does the technology shape the story telling?
My workplace hosts its own Windows update server, so they have total control of Windows updates.
http://paulgraham.com/talk.html
Rank based on apartment data, like surface, district, price, year of construction, number of rooms, etc.
So based on it to rate apartment, in the end, to sort it from the best to worst :)
>There is no such thing as an absolute truth, after all. And pretending there is, and it's even attainable, is intellectually dishonest.

You seem to be stating this as an absolute truth.
That 1 time in 10 is still a factor, though...

Many retailers still operate on the old expectation that when you order something, you'll get it in "6-8 weeks", which nowadays, is frankly ridiculous!

I ordered a crib from a local Canadian retailer, and the thing arrived after THREE MONTHS, and I had to pick up the box from the warehouse myself!

You have to give Amazon props for their logistics systems, they've gotten it down to an art. If I were to order the same crib from Amazon, it would've been at my door in 2 days' time.

Might've been a fake crib, though heh.
These videos helped me immensely when I was getting my Electrical Engineering degree. I didn't realize going into the degree a bulk of the coursework would be focused around fourier/laplace transforms and linear algebra.
The underlying OCaml naturally.

Having learned ML via Objective Caml's predecessor, Caml Light, ReasonML seems to be just sugar coating for those with aversion to ML classical syntax.
0. Never "marry" an investor you're uncomfortable jumping into "bed" with.

1. Never work too close in proximity to an investor, or there's the potential for them to getting too hands-on or just showing up.

2. Ignore lowball offers. That's the initial round of "sucker offers." You don't need to take those seriously or let it challenge your value, because they're also probing for any weaknesses and your anxiety level/hastiness to complete a deal. I would politely laugh it off and make it clear I didn't just freshly fall off the turnip truck into the world this morning.

3. It comes across from what you're saying that you think you got played for a sucker, so it sounds like they don't respect you enough to pay you what you created. Is there any direct evidence of this rather than just suspicions? Are they supposed to pay you for them selling/licensing it? Do they keep you in the loop if there are licensees interested?

4. Licensing - Did you ask for royalties? Are there patents involved? Have a lawyer look-over any agreements, because you maybe owed payments.

5. I have to ask an obviously trivial question - This isn't like my mom's former coworker who claims her MBA classmate "stole her business plan/idea" for Papa Murphy's (yet didn't execute on it), right?

6. Handling the investor: there's basically three readily-apparent options:

i. Make no waves and never work with this investor again.

ii. Waste treasure on a lawsuit and find it difficult to ever get funding again.

iii. Ask around. See if anything unprofessional has happened to others in the portfolio. There maybe ways to compel them to behave more generously and professionally by social means.. because a VC's reputation is just about all they have, and they won't have a network without it.
The whole "electrical energy directly so no steam generators necessary" part of the discussion is fairly irrelevant.

Steam generators might have fairly low efficiency, but if hydrogen fusion works at all it'll use so little fuel and have such a low marginal cost that we can just do more of it to make up for any efficiency losses.
Thanks, sounds interesting, I will check it.
I grew up there. Every school had classrooms with Pravetz 8D (apple ii clone) running Karateka and those classes were full!
I was in kindergarden when my parents signed me up to learn computers and by 1st grade, I was writing chatbots in Basic. Fun times.
I'm curious too because looking at pictures of the VRM it looks like it has less output filtering. My guess is that the board firmware tells the CPU to be less aggressive until it can deliver the power because it has a less overbuilt VRM (still 90A power stages though...). That probably means more of the phases are always active which in this case is probably an advantage as it means there is no long ramp to turn on a phase. I'm going to guess the fact that the phases are doubled also means the board is less likely to turn off phases as it would lose two not one.
I feel like you should understand how a relational database works before using them, especially if it's at the scale that you're running into "CPU limits"
I hate all of the same things you do about Windows 10, but many of these misfeatures can be turned off at work. For example, there is a consumer experience policy setting that disables the start menu ads and auto installed games, but the setting is only effective on enterprise versions of Windows.
You can't use a phone or a tablet without a Apple/Google account

This is false. You can use any iOS device without an account. And it's not even hard, like in TFA.

I think you're just conditioned to believe that having an account for everything is normal. It is now.
From your link:

> AMD has confirmed this issue doesn't affect EPYC or Threadripper processor

The CPU Michael was using was a Ryzen 7, not a Threadripper. But I don't know if TRs were later found to have the same problem, which wouldn't surprise me.
Yep. People often confuse understanding audience with verbosity. Waffling and context both add word count.

edit: I could reduce this to "Waffling and context both add word count." but then:

1: It's not clear I agree with you

and

2: Triplets--like the three sentences I wrote there--are an artistic device that improve clarity and help prose flow.
I think the essence of those conversation have already published by Varoufakis in a book he wrote.