skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Escorts" is a term for someone who guides you somewhere.
AMD Threadripper 3970X under heavy AVX2 load: Defective by design?
Sure, there are. But houses need to be insulated. Consumers need not waste energy by just using it -> for example don't open the window to cool down, instead of lowering the heating, etc. etc. Standards need to be defined for new houses. Also provide solutions for existing houses. Provide business models. To create that market and to make some impact means that we are talking about decades.
Setting Up a Work Study Group for AWS Certification
https://xubuntu.org, you're welcome.

Or use Windows 7 if you have to. Windows 10 is just malware and bloatware built around Windows 7.
Check the publications page for the encouraging part. They might be wrong but they're doing real science. I've personally spoken to a fusion scientist who thought they might be on to something.

Exponential progress does sometimes have results that seem too good to be true. In this case the progress has been in picosecond lasers, which for a while have been getting ten times more powerful every three years or so.

What's great about this is it should be pretty cheap to test. The petawatt lasers only cost tens of millions in the first place, and China is finishing up a 30PW laser which they plan to let other researchers use. If Hora is right then that should be powerful enough. Even more powerful lasers are being planned elsewhere.

HB11 isn't the only company working on aneutronic fusion. The largest is TAE (formerly Tri Alpha), with about $700 million invested. There's also Helion and LPP.
> The test vaccine was developed in just six weeks by University of Queensland researchers using world-first molecular clamp technology

Regulators may move slow, scientists do not.
For anyone else wondering, IPA = International Phonetic Alphabet.
> you might as well call people sexist for preferring to date a particular gender.

Just give it a few years. I know that Slate (a mainstream publication) a few years ago published an article which mentioned in an aside that it is bigotry for a heterosexual man to refuse to date a male who identifies as a woman. I will be completely unsurprised if in a decade or two the same argument is applied to gender preference, period.
Longitudinal wobbling motion in nucleus of Au187
also #fragments aren't sent to the server at all, unless this changes that (a major major change if so)
Is this a real concern?

I always treat User Settings overridable, because they happen either in security context of user or within user registry which lives in %userprofile% - the user has full access to ntuser.dat file.

IMHO for real security stuff, Computer Settings are way to go.

> Some exploits may be able to drop a file somewhere on the Windows filesystem as non-admin. If the exploit dropped a “%USERPROFILE\ntuser.man”, with an autostart registry key to execute a file off of a remote SMB share, then the exploit now gained reliable code execution simply by dropping one non-executable file.

Well, if malicious guy can write your %USERPROFILE% folder, it's already no-go. You could potentially plant powershell profile scripts etc.

> By dropping an empty ntuser.man file in %userprofile%, ProfSvc will fail to load registry and thus prevent the user from logging in

You've already got bigger problems if someone can write %userprofile%
Udev/libinput merged into FreeBSD xorg-server
The idea of that quote is that using the anchor would only scroll to that part of the page if the word "cancer" is present, and if the page uses lazy-loading then it would fire off more requests than it would if the word wasn't present. It's a bit of a stretch though.
And this has always been true in PR and board room battles, but now is seeping to everwhere. Perhaps the rank and file will start to understand how execs and politicians have always suffered from the microscope.
Sorry, I was a bit too combatitive.

Anyway, my critique is of the 'if we had gas plants'. But we don't. I see building a wind farm without storage as a similar thing to building a coal plant without a high chimney and filters. Sure, your making energy but your just making everyone deal with your shit while making everything worse.

Renewables are, currently, incompatible with the current grid past a certain percentage of total production. Anything past that point requires a much more responsible approach. Aka storage is to wind what a damn is to hydro.

Now gas can help. But gas isn't storage, it can only help smooth out the bigger disturbances.

But since we're already having issues with storage and we're still just at the 'smooth out instabilities' part... I have no idea how we're going to deal with baseload since no one wants to touch nuclear and we can't build them anyway even if we wanted to.
I reinstalled a computer about a month ago, same thing but I didn't have to mess with BIOS settings, going back 2 steps and disconnecting the wifi worked.
Every day it seems more realistic to just install Windows 10 LTSC [0] instead of dealing with this crap.

0: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/ltsc/
It awfully simple. I took screenshot from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsaUX48t0w8 , then label things: particle, wave, interference, and quanta. Nothing special at all.
What's the limit of vertical SQL scaling and what kind of applications (I'm talking not only about the functionality, but also realistic level of popularity) can end up hitting it, in your experience?
Purple stuff is high-priced because they're one of two companies you can buy their signature feature from. It's the Wacom Principle. They could honestly sell it for far cheaper, or sell a gel grid mattress topper, and get far fewer returns, but I suppose the higher margin is more profitable.
The author of the Cyberpunk Manifesto (1997), Christian As. Kirtchev, is also Bulgarian. He has a collection of Eastern European cyberpunk stories on Amazon (no idea how good they are) and is apparently active on Twitter too.

- http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/cyberpunk_manifesto.html

- https://www.amazon.com/Chemical-Illusions-Anthology-Cyberpun...

- https://twitter.com/cyberkristiyan
Newer: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/g...

Fossil fuel usage is significantly going down and adding gas power plants for very agile backup for renewable makes sense, too.

Keep in mind that the Energiewende is a long term project for rebuilding the whole energy landscape in an industrialized country of more than 80 Million people and one of the larger economies in the world. The time scale is 50 years from 2000 upto 2050. Even the current point where we are at 42% of renewable energy (up from 6% in 2000) for electricity was unbelievable 20 years ago - for example given that Germany does not have much hydro-electric capacity. From 'the grid would collapse' to 'Germany will be losing all industry' everything was claimed.
Agreed. In my opinion, great writing has to be within the context of the time. A lot of us speak in a manner similar to how PG writes. You wouldn't consider great writing from 1890 with the same set of rules as you would something written in 2020.
I think the fallacy is in the premise: "An essay should be useful."

Well, useful is always in the eye of the beholder. There is no such thing as an absolute truth, after all. And pretending there is, and it's even attainable, is intellectually dishonest.

Sure, an essay could be a formal piece that approaches an almost "mathematical" approach. After all, an essay a first and foremost an argument presented by the author. Even a flawed argument is still an argument. And a flawed essay is still an essay.

The fallacy here is being implicitly reductionist. If your premise states "an essay should be useful" then you're basically reducing the definition of what an essay is to a formal argument based on logic and falsifiable facts, and rejecting any other text as "not an essay" or, worse, "not useful" - whatever that might mean - or, worse, "nonsenses" or "a dumb thing to say".

A quick glance on Wikipedia dispenses such reductionism rather swiftly:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essay

Not-withstanding, I think PG's essay does contain some excellent personal advice on writing style and technique itself. No more, no less. His sin is confounding form and function. The former always follows the latter, never the inverse.
This is a false dichotomy, to put it mildly.

Bill Gates singlehandedly did more to eradicate Polio & several other deadly diseases than multiple Governments, WHO, and several development orgs over several decades!

This demonization of the billionaires is uncalled for, many of them do plenty of good for society on balance.
> Additional CPUs are $7,000 USD per core, and replication is labor intensive

Probably still cheaper than trying to impement scalable transactions in higher layers.
The ex date is the first day when the security trades without rights to the dividend (or rights, or coupon etc). It's not the day when holders are entitled to the dividend because if you trade on a particular day, you don't own the securities until settlement occurs which is on a later day (different markets have different conventions here for how much later). The company/issuer will have a record date for administrative purposes when they take a snapshot of the ownership register so the ex date is the first date on which settlement will take place after that record date. The payment date may even be some weeks after this but is set by the company but this isn't really relevant to when the ex date is.
You probably should not trust a single politician nonetheless you should have some confidence in the democratic process, right?
For machines on Windows 10 Pro, click on the “Domain join instead” button during OOBE. AD joins cannot be completed during OOBE, so it falls back to asking you to create a local account.
That’s the current value of bitcoins. <100k€ in 2012 when he acquired them.
Great news for FreeBSD notebook users! libinput provides the best experience for trackpads on FreeBSD, but up to today this required manually patching xorg (e.g. https://blog.grem.de/pages/t470s.html ).
Google Play store warns on ToTok: This app tries to spy on you
The top OS for the year is - Linux
(15.3T)
and i dont know how to interpret this.. Is this due to the web server?
Again? Some enterprises never learn.

Also, on one side they get points on the developers side, but they lose more on the consumer side with those practices.
Higher hourly pay, but less hours per week, maybe.
NVIDIA has also removed the possibility to set up an NVIDIA SHIELD TV without a Google account, there is no option to skip logging in during setup. The requirement for a Google account is not advertised on their site [1]. Other devices with the same Android TV version have a skip button on the Google account screen.

[1] https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/shield/shield-tv/
I think win 7 is no longer getting patched/supported, as of January this year.
Not going to lie... I setup win10 2 weeks ago and I didn't see (notice!) the local options.

As I use Outlook.com/Onedrive I didn't care until I opened up my terminal and noticed my username was the first 5 letters of my email. What the hell. I don't get why they would do that instead of just using your firstname or asking you at least. or at the very least use _everything_ up till @ instead of the first 5...

This irked me beyond belief and after googling a bunch of crazy ways to 'fix' this, the easiest turned out to be creating a local account 'chris', deleted my MS account, then attached the MS account to 'chris'
This is one reason behind universal basic income as a welfare program. There are no hoops, no cutoffs, no distortion of incentives.
I feel like the tech in general is getting user-hostile... Everyone (websites, apps, cars, tvs, etc.) wants to track you and collect as much data as possible, websites nag you to install app on your phone, dark patterns everywhere, "smart" devices that won't work without an internet connection or become bricks after a while, smartphone manufacturers forcing you to buy new phone by making apps slower on older devices, more closed protocols and walled gardens - the list goes on and on...
Pete Buttigieg’s top fundraiser and Nest’s founder are a Silicon Valley power C
I think it's possible in professional edition but you have to be offline on home edition. (I messed up and installed pro for a home key, so I did it back to back with same ISO)
At https://www.hb11.energy/our-technology they list a number of papers they've published supporting their approach.

On ignoring the H B-11 reaction with high intensity lasers: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms3506

On the reaction avalanche: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/laser-and-particle-b...

On the conversion of alpha particles to electricity: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/laser-and-particle-b...
I was wondering the same thing. It does concern complete graphs only, but note also the additional requirement of edge-disjointedness (that is, every edge in the large graph is covered by exactly one copy of the subgraph).

>A typical decomposition question asks whether the edges of some graph G can be partitioned into disjoint copies of another graph H. One of the oldest and best known conjectures in this area, posed by Ringel in 1963, concerns the decomposition of complete graphs into edge-disjoint copies of a tree. It says that any tree with n edges packs 2n+1 times into the complete graph K2n+1. In this paper, we prove this conjecture for large n.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.02665
The size of the keys is such that you could convert all of the matter in the solar system into a computer, and still not have enough compute performance to reasonably have a chance of recovering the key. People are a lot easier to break.
That headline seems really bad. Windows has been in "bullying" mode for years now. Installing without a Microsoft account has been very difficult for a long time. The change now is to refuse to install at all without a Microsoft account, which is not "bullying" any more, it's something else.
There have been experiments, but only at lower power than required for fusion. From their latest paper:

> A significant case of nonlinear deviation from classical linear physics was seen by the measurements, how the laser opened the door to the principle of nonlinearity and could be seen from the effect measured by Linlor [9] followed by others (see [7] p. 31) when irradiating solid targets with laser pulses of several ns duration. At less than one MW
power, the pulses heated the target surface to dozens of thousand °C and the emitted ions had energies of few eV as expected in the usual way following classically. When the power of the nanosecond laser pulses was exceeding a significant threshold of few MW, the ions – suddenly – had thousand times higher energies. These keV ions were separated with linear increase on the ion charge indicating that there was not a thermal equilibrium process involved.

Lasers adequate for fusion are just now becoming available.

https://www.hb11.energy/news-and-publications
The chance that some random service run in the Bitcoin space exists in even a years time is vanishingly small.

Yes, even yours.
Bought a surface a few months ago, nice hardware, but windows 10 is horrifically spammy/scammy. Immediately replaced it with arch.
And don't be fooled into thinking that Windows 7 is less secure because it isn't supported anymore. Windows isn't safe either way, it all depends on in how you use it.

Use uBlock Origin to block ads, trackers, and other third party insidious code (preferably use uMatrix as well if you're savvy enough). Enable your firewall. Don't download files from untrustworthy sources, etc.

Personally I only do financial transaction on Linux, and don't use a password manager on Windows. I actually only use Windows to play a game sporadically, or to use software that hasn't got an alternative on Linux, which is becoming quite rare.
Can someone explain to me how can a system that penalise any opinion that differs from mainstream be considered something good? I get this sinister feeling and need some comfort.
No temp agency. I was an employee of two separate and unrelated companies.
ACLU is one here listing many of his outright struck down ones including sticking Haitain asylum seekers in Gitmo indefinitely. And that is restricted to the obscenities that the courts have called out instead of accepting as the norm.

https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/william-barr-has...

My personal philosophy is civil rights are not up for a debate or vote. Normalizing them is itself a form of damage that mere politeness can never justify.
We also gladly steal hotel mattresses too!

https://www.wellness-heaven.de/wellness/study-theft-in-hotel...
Thanks to yourself and randallsquared below for your responses - I'd since posting read the following Abstract by the authors, which hinted that the underlying science was viable: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/laser-and-particle-b... , however my only awareness of existing 'laser fusion facilities' was the American National Ignition Facility (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Ignition_Facility) , which I think I'd always written off as a covert testing facility for weapons that skirted Nuclear Testing limitation treaties.
No mentioning of the classic from the 70's: Systemantics :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics
This proves once again what could happen if one is not to follow the herd.
If you'd like to start a company along those lines, be my guest. Purple et al. are the ones who come up with and advertise their trials; you don't really have any basis to blame customers for using it as it was presented to them.

Perhaps these are a sort of the perverse capitalist incentives the hippies keep warning you about. ;)
We’re living in a coal energy disaster right now. People fear the wrong things.
> Specifically, it points out that nobody in 2020 is building 500 square foot homes, or shitty black-and-white televisions, so you don't actually have the choice to buy one.

If people wanted to buy them then builders would build them. It’s like why they don’t sell feature phones in the US, although they’re still common in India and Africa.

> It's not, though. The American wage-earner in 2020 has to live in the America they have, not the America that they wish they could have.

If we’re talking about public policy responses to the perceived inflation in cost of living, then yes, reducing the need for college should be part of the discussion.

> Colleges don't allow freshmen and sophomores to opt out of paying for them.

75% of college students are enrolled in public institutions. If people wanted to make college more affordable by restricting spending on these amenities, they would do so. If you compare budgets of American colleges to German colleges, American schools often spend several times as much per student. Even in K-12, American schools have vastly more programs. For example in Germany, high schools generally don’t have extra-curricular activities like after school sports. Americans keep voting for having these expensive amenities because they choose to spend more in order to get a higher quality experience.

> Outside the tech bubble, they don't.

Not true. There is very detailed data on this. On average, employers cover 75% of the premiums for family coverage: https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/family-coverage.

Ignoring the employer compensation hugely changes the author’s math. He acts as if the worker is paying $20,000 for family health insurance. But the worker is on average only paying $5,000-6,000 of that. The employer is coverage the other $14,000-$15,000. The author completely ignores that employer contribution.
Well PyonR is not a replacement for Racket. It's something totally a different project altogether. Rhombus is supposed to replace Racket. We could have PerlRacket or AwkRacket or RubyRacket and none of it should effect Racket, because you are using Racket as a language to build things, not exactly using RubyRacket as a replacement for Racket.

This is how it rings to my ear. Racket as is, is in some way frozen when it comes to features and big changes. Rhombus is where the next set of awesomeness will happen. Lispers who happen to be core users of Racket have no use at the time for non-existent Rhombus, and its not Lispy so their whole use case ends here. Racket won't be continued to developed in the same breath as Rhombus, so Racket is also dead here. C based language devs have a lot of good stuff already, so they don't need Rhombus either.

Eventually this could lead to the exact situation Perl was in the 2000s. The core development was frozen for 5+ years. The language usability just fell year over year. Perl 6 took forever to even start with the implementations. Pugs, then Neitza, then Rakudo. Eventually they came to a point, where they announced Perl 5 development would just run parallel as a separate project compared to Perl 6. By then a lot of dev mind share was lost to Python/Java. Now neither Perl 5 nor Perl 6 have significant mind share. Perl 5 certainly has lost a lot of its users.

Also in general trying to be everything to everybody is a bad idea in general. Ask Parrot VM people. It doesn't work the way you expect. You won't solve anyone's specific problem, and it takes forever to get done.
It's not a change. That's what bullying already meant.

What does "bullying" mean to you?
For anyone looking at my HN history, apologies for being a broken record.

For the elderly variety of normal people this is a disaster: All the behind-the-scenes UX and setting flipping, the forced installs, and the performance dips that comes with all this means that low-confidence users feel like they're working on quicksand. The experience becomes unpredictable and scary and the iPad gets more and more use and the PC gathers dust.

I don't get why this all is worth the cost of squandering the good will MS has built up elsewhere.
Well yeah, depends on the boards limitations.
GPT-2 was developed by Open-AI. They recently switched to Pytorch themselves for similar reasons [1]. I didn't claim that all research that matters is happening on Pytorch, but it is very true that most non-Google research is [2]. Having used both, Pytorch has been a far better experience for me, and lately, most of the reference implementations I care about are released in Pytorch, so it makes it very easy to experiment with and also pull into my own code base if needed.

Also, for an intro class, Pytorch would have been a better choice imo, because it has a simpler and cleaner API. In my experience, it was a lot easier to get up and running with Pytorch compared to Tensorflow.

1 - https://openai.com/blog/openai-pytorch/

2 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21216200
These are certainly good points and valid problems, but "leaving it to a pro" as the OP suggests doesn't fix them. That pro will likely use WordPress or Shopify anyway. Until someone makes a CDN that isn't siloed and truly separates content from presentation, this won't be fixed. Almost no one can afford to build a complex e-commerce site from scratch and, if they did, it wouldn't be portable or re-usable, either.
Obits in the national press:

NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/20/technology/lawrence-tesle...

WAPO: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/larry-tesler...
Right, that's not the point. The point is that taking a pay cut, with apparently no other change in circumstance, somehow rendered her ineligible for a social service she was already receiving. I want to know what rule made that possible, as it appears to be critical to this discussion of perverse discontinuities.
dude, Wozniak in 1984 talked about how even Apple Inc. did only have audio cassette tapes to copy more tapes to sell their Apple I and Apple // computer software on - before eventually they had enough money to buy a floppy disc drive. Their chief financial officer was kinda elated about his tape based home finance software predating Excel.
Right on. This article is bull
PyCon US 2020 Packaging Summit: Registration and Topic Proposal
Homeless stand in for lobbyists on Capitol Hill (2009)