skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Odd, I switched from that processor to the AMD 2700 last month and I'm enjoying the legroom.
Sun knew how to make mistakes. Sun made so many mistakes it's hard to list them all.

Here's a handy guide to when to use open source:

- when you're trying to gain mindshare and you're behind
- when closed-source == product death
- when your customers won't purchase from you if you don't
- when it helps you upsell to other more proprietary /
less-open products and services
- when you need it to retain talent and it doesn't
compromise the business

Open source is a business tool, not necessarily an end (though it can be an end too).
I once put an (intentionally) bad root password on a machine to be able to log in to the physical console, then configured the machine (it was supposed to be a router) and put it on the Internet, forgetting the bad password.

I remembered a few hours later, gone back to rebuild the machine as I assumed it would be compromised, and sure enough, there was some crypto miner on it. Sadly for them, the machine didn't have anywhere enough processing power to make it worth it and they should've instead been smarter and made better use of it (it had a very beefy network connection so plenty of potential for DoS attacks or hosting malicious content, as well as being in a privileged position to capture potentially sensitive unencrypted traffic).
That's not a bad idea, I love the Okanagan, though it might be a bit isolating. Salary is certainly one thing, but I wouldn't move for salary alone or that of my partner (I don't think). There just isnt enough personal value to be gained in salary increases enough to sacrifice being with or where you love to be.
My personal perspective (after 8 years clojuring, half of that professionally) is that Clojure keeps progressing, with ever better tools and ideas for getting stuff done, optimally. I remain optimistic.

At the same time, it still fails at my "golden test": can I gather 5 random freelance engineers and get them to ship a project within a few months, wasting almost no billable time?

I can (and have) with Ruby, Typescript. People can learn those on the go, being productive on day 3 or so.

Clojure is still bit of a journey on itself, involving quite a lot of stuff to learn, and plenty of choices to make.

That's not necessarily a bad thing, nor Clojure's "fault", but it's a real cost/risk that is still there.

I do envision a future where the mainstream is ideologically closer to Clojure, and Clojure offers an (even) more polished set of tools than today. With that mutual proximity, Clojure could indeed eat the world.
Always a bit disappointing when the article forgets to mention the disturbingly low number of COVID-19 tests that have been carried out in the US.

It's under <500 since the outbreak.

For comparison South Korea tests thousands of people a day, testing is free for everyone including non-residents and they have setup drive-through locations where you don't need to go to hospital to get a test done.

> Dr. Schaffner said he had a patient come in earlier this week who had developed symptoms of an upper respiratory infection after traveling to Italy, where a cluster of coronavirus infections has been observed. He referred the patient to the state laboratory, but officials there said she could not be tested because she did not meet the C.D.C. testing criteria at the time.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/29/health/fda-coronavirus-te...
Among other poor statistical methodology, it's not as though the average respondent to this poll is likely to have a reasonable sample size of appliances to compare. They're not saying "Out of the six refrigerators I own, the Kenmore breaks down most often." It's actually "I own a Kenmore refrigerator and it broke down at some point.", which is more or less entirely meaningless.
If they sampled the population to find the proportion of owners of each brand that reported their appliance breaking and compared those results it would be slightly more meaningful.
It's a matter of principle.

Some people don't want cores that you can't gather insight into how you are spending/wasting their time.

I'm not a direct customer of Intel or AMD, but in general I would trade off clock speed/cores/cost for insight into what my software is doing.
Modeling the effectiveness of respiratory masks in reducing influenza (2018)
As far as I'm concerned if a brand is willing to tarnish their reputation by building cheap crap, they deserve the stigma that comes from it. I don't mind paying a premium for certainty in the longevity of what I'm buying.
Major appliances used to last 20 years, but not today. This article tracks with my experience and with what several repair people have told me. Many of the "name brands" of yesteryear have consolidated and moved their factories offshore to save money. They've also started designing compressors specifically to last 5 years or less, and repairing or replacing a compressor costs more than a new fridge.

The other trick (more common on washing machines) is to build electronic control boards that last 5 years or less, so when the washer breaks you have to pay $500 for a new control board. Washing machines used to have mechanical controls that lasted 30 years. Now we have electronic controls with no moving parts that theoretically could last forever but they die in a couple of years, usually because of poor power supply design or overheating.

This is deliberate. The companies have figured out that customers will tolerate it and go buy a new appliance every 5 years. Every company wants that recurring revenue stream.

Why doesn't competition solve this problem? Many of the big name brands (Whirlpool, Maytag, Amana, Kitchenaid, Jennair, etc.) are all the same company now [0]. Kenmore and LG are still separate but on the whole there's very little competition. The government should never have allowed this degree of consolidation.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whirlpool_Corporation
probably, in some much less perceptible way than an alcohol one
In the US, websites like repairclinic and partselect have helped me save thousands of dollars in expenses on busted refrigerator and dishwasher. The first time I opened up that dishwasher was an eye opener. Cheap doesn't even begin to describe that piece of garbage. This was a 1000+ dollar whirlpool crap. Similar story with the Frigidaire refrigerator.
What is confusing to me is the sheer number of oddly shaped parts that seem to work interchangeably with LG, Whirlpool, Frigidaire and Kenmore appliances. The only logical explanation is that they are all the same parent company and/or all of these are made in the same factory with different labels slapped on in the end. Just a speculation since I never really researched this.
Indeed. From the case in the article:

> Brun del Re struggled to find a fix for his relatively new Kenmore refrigerator... the compressor, made by LG, had quit.
Not only is the process complicated to get to release, but scaling up manufacturing isn't trivial either. Just because a woman can make a baby in nine months doesn't mean nine women can make a baby in one month.
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Hi, nice to meet you. I am an anonymous stock market genius.
Name calling, binary thinking and whining aren't constructive. Good luck in the real world if you haven't yet learned the Golden Rule or grown thicker skin, because a degree won't matter if your attitude is reactive or poor.
Yet these are the same people complaining about rising tuition costs.
>You're being downvoted because what you're suggesting is fundamentally impossible and not at all how game netcode works.

In theory you wouldn't have netcode. You would just have "splitscreen" multiplayer where each player only sees their own display.
Hope you don't mind some criticism. I'm kind of a n00b...

How do I actually run the code examples that you've provided?

For example, I started a new Cargo project and pasted the Rust example provided into my main.rs. It failed compilation. Should I have added a few dependencies to my Cargo.toml first? Should I have upgraded Rust first?

I upgraded Rust, btw. And added lines to my Cargo.toml. No bueno. Now, I have to go hunting elsewhere for answers.

A few extra lines of instruction would definitely save the thousands of developers who're bound to get stuck.
I had this issue. in my case it was due to clogged up drainage. once I cleaned it out, especially around the door seal, the leaking stopped.
I could not agree more. I hope a market for brainless appliances remains far into the future. I would personally pay far more for appliances that have no DRM, no data collection, no intelligence of any kind.
A World Without Referees (2012) [pdf]
Why the Success of The New York Times May Be Bad News for Journalism
Oscars 2020: Best-Picture Typography
The difference is that Gmail was way better than its competitors at the time. The spam filter alone was a huge sell.

edit: the 1GB mailbox !
I too have brought a knife through security... not sure how much of it was me versus the fact that there were a whole bunch of Boy Scouts right in front of me, so they might've though I was with them or something.
>Not necessarily. Those notifications pop up when your cable is starting to fail as well

I think you're talking about the "this accessory is not supported by this iphone" prompt, not the "trust this computer?" or "allow this device to access your photos and videos" prompts. The first shows up if your cable can't be verified to be mfi compatible (via a special chip in the cable), and the last two only show up when connecting to a computer.
Alaska's been doing this since the 1980s.

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

I prefer Norway's approach of saving (to the tune of nearly $200k per citizen!) for a rainy day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Nor...
There's something like this in the movie Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6LGJ7evrAg

I wonder if this method of communication was EVER used by any civilization.
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14197512
It’s mathematically impossible to be off when using megapixels, that’s the point. It’s objective, not subjective. Bring back the subjective by considering “dpi” or “ppi”.

And no, I use dual 24” plus the Macbook Pro 16” native screen, and I run the 24s at native pixels (dual 4K @ 60Hz). I do, however, scale fonts up to 120% - 150% text size (depends on app).

This reduces the % of screen used for UI elements, while retaining “retina” text legible at arms length (same distance you’d read an iPad or magazine).
> The administration is not withholding grades

It clearly has the resources to provide you with your grades, it's not like the specific grad students are the only ones being able to grade random undergrad work. It appears it's failing to provide the service you pay it for.
The common talking points are

* Clojure is based on seqs rather than cons cells.

* Clojure renamed certain common functions, like car and cdr, so 30 year old Lisp example code no longer compiles.

* Clojure doesn't have implicit tail call optimisation for recursion.

* Clojure reveals its host platform when it has runtime errors.
"lot of people on HN probably see the current low wages as a natural function of supply and demand" - as a former grad student at one of UC's campuses - this is not as simple as you put it.

A lot of grad students are international students (like I was) and they simply can't work anywhere else due to their visa restrictions.
What got me started with Clojure was a coworker at megacorp. He's since moved on to a company that makes widespread use of Clojure in production. Startup time was a huge factor for me because I wanted to write command line tools with it.

The leaky abstractions were the other painful part – Clojure itself wasn't so bad, but Clojurescript (which would sidestep the startup issue) always seemed to leave me in callback hell.

Ultimately rust (and go to some extent) seemed to fit my use cases better.

If I had to do a web app from scratch I would think long and hard about going Clojure if only because it leverages such a widely used VM. Points 1 & 2 weren't issues for me, but #3 was (and there are similar problems with Elixir).
I agree at least separating identity and equality seem to be important in practice. I'm not completely sold on where the other lines should be.

I don't love the CL implementation, particular eql vs equalp on numerics seems fiddly, and it's hard to keep all the cases separate. Homoiconicity introduces the need for a "representation equality" i guess which isn't always needed, etc.
The university needs a couple shiny new buildings and the employees need a fancy retreat in Aspen, so grad students need to be happy with crumbs.

Poe's law disclaimer: sarcasm, a miraculous new technology that makes words have absolutely identical meanings in a completely humorless manner.
Steam Controllers support both WiFi and Bluetooth connections, and yet Stadia does not support them
https://github.com/ESWAT/john-carmack-plan-archive/blob/mast...

No, I'm not taking a vacation. Quite the opposite, in fact.

I'm getting a hotel room in a state where I don't know anyone, so I can do a bunch of research with no distractions.

I bought a new computer specifically for this purpose - A Dolch portable pentium-II system. The significant thing is that it has full length PCI slots, so I was able to put an Evans & Sutherland OpenGL accelerator in it (not enough room for an intergraph Realizm, though), and still drive the internal LCD screen. It works out pretty well, but I'm sure there will be conventional laptops with good 3D acceleration available later this year.

This will be an interesting experiment for me. I have always wondered how much of my time that isn't at peak productivity is a necessary rest break, and how much of it is just wasted.
UPDATE: I was wrong. Whirlpool did in fact make Kenmore branded appliances for Sears (though Whirlpool wasn't their only manufacturer.) So Kenmore's not independent after all.
The samples are only there to give one an idea of how one would access GTK from within certain languages — or maybe how easy, painless (?) it can be to use.

It is expected that one would know how to properly add dependencies — and if they did not, they should go read the documentation (from the 'Docs' link at the top of the page).

I hate to be dismissive, but did you rtfm?
The French did it. Check out the wikipedia page on the "semephore telegraph"
I didn’t think the device had any way of telling if the cable was malicious. So even if it wouldn’t ask repeatedly, you wouldn’t know if the cable was evil? So I’m not sure if the question “do you trust the device you just plugged in” does much of anything other than giving you a chance to reconsider? Also, is there a chance that the trust is lost on a weird AI timer? For example, a little while ago, my phone asked, if I wanted an alarm set to a specific time on a specific weekday morning, apparently just because I needed such an alarm for 2 weeks in a row. That made the pattern easy to recognize, but it also told me that the phone AI is trying too hard to learn about me. - I assume you’re always using the same cable? And I also assume you don’t get the trust dialog when plugging into a wall charger directly?
> Name Calling

I did not mean to come across this way or call you any names - can you point where I did so I won't repeat it?

My skin is plenty thick, and this back and forth isn't meant to be whining. I'm just curious about your approach to this and it is fun to hear others perspectives, especially on such a polarizing topic.

I'm a little perplexed on this reply to be honest. How is this constructive? I'm open to hearing how you think I can improve and help me understand how my attitude is reactive or poor.
It probably also has by now spent quite a bit of money on managing this strike (security/campus police (some sources say $300k/day), lawyers, PR, ...)
I'm skeptical that would work. If anything it's authenticated with the computer itself, not the cable.
I believe Darwin has a special unwinding ABI that it uses.
Grad students do hold a lot of the cards here. They are frequently required to teach and grade classes, and they perform research critical to their advisors career and the future success of the department. Schools stand to loose training grants as well if research output is diminished, and would fail to recruit grad students who are of high caliber and have choices to go to other schools, so the quality of research would further go down.

It's not a tenable position for the school to be in long term, and they are hoping they can scare other students back into line if they start axing students. If anything, this has fired up the students, not made them accept the status quo of loosing money for every year they live and work at UCSC.
AFAIK, acquiring Typhoon Studios in December was their first public announcement of a first-party game studio. The exec in charge of Stadia said in an interview that she was planning on building out more [1]: "We have a plan that includes building out a few different first-party studios, and also building up the publishing org to ship exclusive content created by indie devs and other external partners."

[1] https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-10-24-google-is-...
> I personally knew of a vagrant woman with a prior medical issue that bragged about happily racking up the hospital over a million dollars in expenses after staying in a hospital bed for a few months.

The on-paper cost and the actual cost are wildly disparate.

It's not uncommon to see a $40k bill get "adjusted" to something like $4k when insurance is present.
We have moved from an open web to a closed web so being able to freely move your data around is not a priority to the VC money.
If it is not my pc; & I am just charging the phone, I always select the Charge Only mode. No to Allow this device to access your photos prompt.
Google built a pretty successful social network, which even grew faster than Facebook for the first half decade. And like with their messaging services, they then decided it was better to just create a new one from scratch rather than trying to work with what already successful.
You're absolutely right in that they have the resources to get these graded. Another comment I posted down below describes my grade situation and how I've been asked to help grade (for pay). I imagine in six months time I'll have my grades, but the wait is absolutely wrong. Other students are attempting to graduate, but their requirements are not met because of withheld grades by their TAs. Can they afford another quarter or two while the UC gathers new graders? Who knows.
Years ago, I used to do something slightly crazy, that might or might not be possible still. Rather than my iMac being an external display for my MacBook Air, I put that one in Target Disk mode (over TB1) and booted the iMac from it. Still everything in one place, but actually leveraging the better specs. I believe it was Snow Leopard at the time, which had few issues doing so. While it worked surprisingly well, the main downside was I always had to shutdown to unplug. After about a year of working like that, my iMac got those notorious black spots, and shortly after, the first MacBook Pro retina came out (good times). Since then, I'm back to having a powerful laptop and an external display.
That's even more non-sensical. The only problem with the original sentence was the comma.
It's been described throughout history, so quite certainly.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? We're trying for something a bit different here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Why are they testing the absorbing properties of melanin in space, if it is like 100 time cheaper to test it in a lab?

Are the properties of the melanin in the fungus different of the melanin in other species? (Probably yes, hemoglobin is fine tuned in each specie, I guess melanin too.)

Does melanin absorb radiation better than aluminum (or other metal) compared by weight or volume?
Killed fewer than any of the others.
Livermore CA fire station
Yes, in fact. I did go through the links to gtk-rs provided. Added the dependencies. I still get a compilation error.

Shouldn't there be some continuity between the examples provided on the webpage and tfm?
I visited the page. Pathetic. I think someone did that page in an hour?
The vast majority of people in the "labor market" are making livable wages. This is not the "unjust system" that a minority at the bottom are complaining about. In any case this "exploitation" is temporary for these student teachers and most importantly as others have pointed out, most of these students are foreign workers and personally I think it's a little exploitive for them to demand entitlements while harming the school to get their way - if it really is so bad no one is forcing them to study here.
Companies are increasingly worried about what their employees say
Systems like this existed:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_beacon_system

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_telegraph

but were far too expensive to be used by average citizens like the modern Internet.
they tried some ideas https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-technology/hydraulic...

I don't think the benefits would be that obvious.

- unknown unknown, to them high bandwidth comms were not really a thing

- technical challenges

- rapid ROI opportunities ?

- frequency of communications and long distances ?

- benefits over simple fire / mirror systems ?
+1 for Bosch. Their service/repair documentation (eg. [0]) is especially fantastic.

[0] https://www.frontloadbearings.com/bosch-800-plus-series-dish...
You paid a bunch of money, then the school provided you with instructors that have to worry about where their next meal is going to come from.
> There doesn't seem to be any pattern to it that I have been able to discern.

How often do you charge your phone? I only get those prompts when charging with a computer, not with a charger. One explanation might be that it remembers your computer for 1 week (random guess), but if you irregularly connect your phone to your computer it might seem random to you.
A LOL from the docs:

> Can I run Aleph without using Docker?

> Can Britain leave the European Union? Yes, it's possible; but complicated and will probably not make your life better in the way that you're expecting.
See above citation around where it says 13% of Americans have a pension. Feel free to counter with a separate citation.
I'm pretty sure that more 418 have been sent by machines that are not teapots than by teapots. Solving semantics is pointless when truthfulness remains unsolved.
https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2017/10/26/all...

The $500K Club: Here are the hundreds of U.C. employees who made more than $500,000 last year
How would you suggest I say it succinctly?

I am saying it's fraud. It's taking money for the worlds poorest people. And BBC is not fact checking.

I'm really sick of people not calling out tech they know doesn't work. I'm sick of people just saying weak statements like it 'probably' won't work. Calling it for what it is. Calling it fraud might have legal issues, I think #fakenews works.

And I understand the next level, NGO's help poor communities by going there and inject money by buying beer and women and hiring locals to construct things that don't work well and will fall apart in few years because wells are boring and no one wants to fund them. But they also need wells.
Another huge benefit is some schools offer reduced or free tuition to your children.
Yeah it's funny how he was the only corrupt CEO in all of corporate America during that time. So weird how nobody else besides him and Martha Stewart ever got prosecuted for insider trading despite it happening ALL THE TIME EVERY DAY EVERYWHERE.