skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of frameworks were built when object-orientation were all the rage. I'm not going to insist on avoiding them just because the APIs were designed to be inherited from.

To use a concrete example, it's going to be real hard to build an iOS app without inheriting from UIView at some point.
Maybe they happen when I didn't notice them but in 15 years of living in Austria & then Germany I think the number of power-cuts I experienced would be countable on the fingers of one hand.
FWIW. 256MB should handle the latest OpenBSD, with little issue (although an upgrade to 512MB wouldn't hurt if possible). The main issue is going to be pf.conf syntax.

OpenBSD has become a little bit more RAM intensive on boot recently due to relinking shared libraries and the kernel to randomize them (Think .o level ASLR), but 256MB IIRC can handle it. Boots will be slow, but if you've dealt with 6 year uptimes in the past that probably won't lead to much of an issue.
Why down vote this? People don't like vegetables?
Same. Never had a problem.
> at conditions that would generally be considered "non-flammable" if oxygen were involved instead

"Generally considered non-flammable" doesn't even begin to describe it. From (http://www.lateralscience.co.uk/Fluorine/Fluorine.html):

> the problem was its collection and containment. Fluorine chemically reacts with just about everything, usually very vigorously. He fashioned collection vials from platinum, palladium and gold. All were destroyed.

As to the GP:

> > the most dangerous, angry, reactive, poisonous gas we know

To continue the nitpicking, bear in mind that a gas is just one phase of matter for a particular chemical. What we're really after then is something from among the most reactive chemicals we know. I nominate dioxygen difluoride which will (for example) react with liquid methane at -180C. It's antics are summarized by Derek Lowe. (https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/02/23/th...)
AMEN! I thought it was good for prototyping and on-off devices but I’ve been appalled at how many products ship with it
I guess so. I'm not making up my 14-second number, nor would I pretend that I read at an extremely high speed compared to the average HN poster. It's not a boast. I wasn't speed-reading, I've seen speed readers and they can get up to 1000 WPM apparently - I think I'm in the ~400-500 range based on a few online tests I did.
A report (from a mathematician, cum grano salis) on Churchill's take on SIGINT vs HUMINT:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23597523

(for a brief moment I misinterpreted IMINT as an abbreviation for "Imaginary Intelligence". I've read a biography of Michael Collins which suggests that more of the irish war of independence was conducted by disappearing or altering files in the british records than one might naively think.)
> harder to hear.

Interesting. Would you really qualify that as being like "quieter volume", or was it more like it was harder to "recognize" words out of the dialogue?

> Obviously not the case in deaf-mutes who never learned to speak of course.

I wonder what reading is actually like for these folks, since letters symbolize sounds; they _must_ recognize word-at-a-time with no sub-vocalizing, right? I hope we get lucky and a random person with experience in the field stops by ;)
Russian constitution change ends hopes for same-sex marriage
Surely,

https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/default-memory-allocator-se...

https://community.oracle.com/docs/DOC-912448

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37069_01/html/E37085/gphwb.html
In a totally different domain, back in the university I participated in a similar experiment with bulk lagers, where we both rated and tried to recognize the beers. It turned out that there was a clear ranking that almost everyone agreed on, but nobody could recognize the brand. One participant even gave her favourite brand the lowest grade.
Woah, the title of this post was changed to "." as was the description. It used to describe how the persons username was taken by GitLab without any emails. GitLab also went through YCombinator, hmm.
Tesla former VP of quality explains Tesla’s process and quality issues
Yes they do. Does newscatcherapi respect them?
Students are also really fixated on being in the “right” year. I took a gap year. When I recommend other people take one, they sometimes respond that they don’t want to be behind by a year, either socially or academically. What they don’t understand is that being behind or ahead is a very arbitrary idea stemming from the structure of school. It doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things if you graduate a year later. Or if you learn a subject a year later than your peers
Interview With An 87 Year Old Farmer (1929)
Most ideas, like above 99% are crap though. Most people only care for their own little bubble.
China on highest flood alert as 38M people evacuated
I would love to see a documentary on this man, learn more about his life. I saw only his TV personality but the slim bio I just read suggests he had fascinating life and was kind as well.
I've been in both sides of this. Seems like there's a limited range of issues they consider "valid", which tends to exclude design flaws (c.f. "you're holding it wrong", staingate). Outside of that visual confirmation seems to help a lot, my success rate on the phone is low until I start sending photos (and they still take days for replacements with parts in-stock).

Anecdotally Dell and Lenovo will send technicians on-site to fix the issue. Easy when scheduled by appointment is table stakes; for stuff with iProduct pricing and positioning, they're not doing that great.
Selection bias is the most powerful force in education and indeed child rearing in general. It's hard to infer anything about the outcomes you might expect for a child in general from the observed outcomes of those who did choose to unschool.
The OPGW reference and your final paragraph are relevant for Transmission lines; the article implies that this robot is used on Medium Voltage Distribution lines, so not just substation to substation.
The base looks like the clearance is too low and wheels too small, but otherwise a nice idea. I'd imagine you could replace the base with a quadruped for better mobility.
Already has been for me. Thankfully they replaced them
>"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." - Babbage

To me, this belongs into the same category as Henry Ford's "If I’d asked people what they wanted, they would have asked for a better horse":

Google search does exactly that, trying to offer the right answer, no matter the question.

One day, they will link the user tracking and the search engine, and when you hesitate for a moment, google will tell you the missing information that you are lacking. Thus, the right answer no matter the input. But of course, what they tell you to buy when you are making a purchasing decision will be up to the highest bidder.

As to Henry Ford, self driving cars are faster horses. Seems like people don't buy cars because they want to steer by themselves all the time, they just want to indicate the general direction.
> For me, the last bit about having older and younger friends is something dearly missing from the typical school experience. Regimentation by age is present nowhere else in life, and I think it hinders lots of people straight out of school.

This hit me hard. An interaction I had with a highschool friend last week got me thinking. Much of my perception around relationships and age were colored by the fact that I went to school with the same 60 people for nearly 20 years straight (small town) and almost never interacted with anyone outside of an incredibly narrow age band. I didn't really disabuse myself of that (mostly subconscious) way of interacting with other humans until my late twenties. Wonder what I missed.

Also, just realized who I was replying to. Hey Clark, long time no see, hope you're well.
not necessarily the extension that would link to the url, but the file might be, in my case with Hugo, in posts/2020-01-01-title.md. but when that gets built, it will be in posts/2020/01/01/title.html... you could, in theory, not have the date in the file name, and just use the date from the md file, which then will still generate that way...
ADI + Linear in 2017 is more relevant to this transaction.
Is this curiosity, or a moving goalpost as part of an argument?

Seems to me that completely depends on the school. Maybe international students will only come to a particular school if they get a free ride, while local domestic students will pay the tuition for the convenience of being near home.

At tuition-driven schools (i.e. most schools, but not the big ranked research schools we always hear about), most students are there as sources of revenue, except for the stars they can entice with full scholarships.

At research schools, research grants are the main source of revenue. The rest is a sideshow.

Also in either type of school, if they live off campus (far more common for MS and phd students than undergrad) then they are less revenue per student. Schools are essentially in the hotel business too. We are learning all about this lately.
Hong Kong does indeed have excellent public transport, and you are right that public transport is mediocre in many territories, particularly in rural areas. But most places really don’t require you to have a car (for starters, because many people cannot afford one). Thus, there is almost always a relatively cheap and decent option to get around, from matatus in Kenya, jeepneys in the Philippines, songthaew in Laos, to the agua guagua in Puerto Rico and the marshrutka in the former USSR. That has been my experience in all the places you mentioned except the USA and Australia.

Let me rephrase my point a bit - independently of the quality of public transport, not being able to drive is not a big deal in most places except the USA. (An additional indicator for that might be the fact that the driver’s license operates as the de-facto ID card in the US.)
Caveat emptor.
Buy a dead cat on the bounce? Don't complain when it starts to stink. If debts are greater than assets, there stock is worth $0.
> I know I couldn't educate my kids to university enrollment standard other than in physics, maths and such.

Why not? And why would you have to?

I got my kids an English tutor and an Arts tutor once a week to help where I couldn’t.

College students are always looking for work so it didn’t cost a lot.

These days the amount of subject material on YouTube would allow your kids to self learn most subjects once they have the maturity required.

For example for drawing look at what self-taught artists are putting out with just an entry level Wacom tablet.

The exceptions would probably be language (speaking) and topics like carpentry which are very practical.
The post implies that supply and demand is driving up tuition costs, and is stating that higher education is heavily funded by tax.

The latter part resonates with me. Taxes provide major funding to big public schools like Ohio State, where most American students attend school. Phd programs are often fully funded by NSF and other government agencies. The article seems to be talking about private schools, which are much more expensive but not the only option. And while this may not be true at Harvard, across the country most Americans going to private schools are paying full tuition. This is a big part of the reason private school are viewed as unequal, wealth divides. Poorer american students often can’t go to many private schools where they can’t get financial aid to attend. The school will only have scholarships for a small number of students, and the rest need to be wealthy enough to pay the tuition.
> If your audience is developers who implement the SDK

I believe the audience is marketing and management.
Unschooling doesn't require homeschooling, there are many alternative (free/democratic) schools - in Berlin (where I live) alone there are about a dozen. It does not require more resources to run than a "normal" school, it's mostly that most parents don't want it for their kids (or are unaware of it).
Heart of Dark Chocolate (2010)
this one is an oldie but goodie

2/3 adventure travel writing

1/3 food writing
I had this problem with my left AirPod Pro for a few weeks and it was super-annoying. I chatted with Apple support and they replaced it in a couple of days. But it was annoying having to try a bunch of random things that clearly weren't going to work.
$18k
School for 20 years straight in a small town? What country is that? In the US there is usually just K-12 in a single school system.
Futurecam.app is now open source
Futurecam is a computational photography camera app for iOS that process 1Gb of image data per second on an iPhone 7. It can do things that SLR's can't, like changing shutter speed after capture. Check out http://futurecam.app to find out about more features and how it works.
I ran Futurecam as a startup for 3 years and now I'm moving on, so I'm making it open source, under the MIT license. https://github.com/kartickvad/Futurecam
I bought a Lenovo T4xx series laptop.

Yeah. Me too. A T410 back in 2010. It's its 10th birthday in about a week's time. It's so good that I can't find a suitable replacement that's more up to date and more convenient. The nearest alternative I've found is a Lenovo P53.
If the hypothetical crisis divides up the Internet so, for example, U.S. users only can connect to U.S. nodes, and connect to U.S. miners

You know that's not how TCP/IP works, right? It originally was a defense department research project that had the requirement of surviving a nuclear attack. Unless every undersea cable is severed and every satellite up-link destroyed, the internet will continue to operate in the event something bad happens.

I live in New England; I'm closer to Iceland than I am to California for network purposes.

Every full node has copy of the entire blockchain going back to the genesis block created on January 3, 2009. The blockchain may fork, but the longest chain wins and the majority of the mining power will pick that and bitcoin keeps on going. Full nodes will continue to verify those blocks.

Nearly all miners are in data centers with redundant power and networking, so many of them will stay online. Many of them are using hydroelectricity, so unless rivers stop flowing, most of them should be good to go.

Bitcoin already has a peer-to-peer exchange running on Tor; folks will still be able to exchange Bitcoin for fiat, to the extent that remains useful [1]. I’d imagine the software would be modified to support things other than fiat that would be useful to exchange. With a link-local IPv6 "subnet", you could have thousands of machines on a make-shift mesh network and all you'd need is an uplink to the internet to transact.

[1]: https://bisq.network/
Grant Imahara, host of MythBusters, dies at 49
> He assumes he's owed an easy and straightforward journey to citizenship, that his future as a foreign-student shouldn't be jeopardized in the least by the political whims of the local population, as if the ravaged parts of THIS nation which screamed out and democratically elected a protectionist president do not deserve to be heard at the international's community's expense.

I don't think that's it. What the person seems to begrudge is them breaking the implicit deal. No one will ever willingly pay $200k to a university if vastly improved career prospects were not promised at the end of it.

Countries are expected to have a cohesive foreign policy across Govts. When the world most 'credible' country starts changing policies based on which side of the bed the president woke up on, it can get quite irritating for those stuck in the midst.

> I wouldn't chose another place as my home--and apparently neither would Mr. Duruk

Being better than a rapidly Islamizing Turkey under dictatorial rule isn't a huge positive.

Also, it might be a coincidence, but it can rub people the wrong way that immigration is significantly easier for predominantly white Europeans (no visa needed to visit in practice (for audition, interview) and no waiting periods for immigration) as compared to people from Islamic countries (single entry visas) or Asia (infinite waiting periods).

> I have enough perspective to realize that immigration policy is ultimately beholden to the local population.

Agreed, as long as the country doesn't pull a, "I've altered the deal, pray I don't alter it further".

I have always maintained a "reject them at the gate" policy. Don't welcome them with open arms, and then leave them to drown in the deep end.
None of these companies are pushing the process side and are able to run on old, well-depreciated fabs. Their business is uninteresting to the fabless giants. Why? After all they have old fabs too. But most of the embedded suppliers are forced to be low margin providers (often commodity or quasi-commodity parts only a couple of steps up the food chain from passives). They don’t have any margin to give away to the fabless guys.

Analog is a bit different in that “node” doesn’t really apply, but they are also not in the high value part of the value chain for the most part.
One month ago, the French Navy lost the nuclear submarine "La Perle" meanwhile the ship was being maintained. The similarities with the "Bonhomme Richard" accident are striking.
> You don’t just design a good table schema independently and start querying it

This is only true for trivial problems, in the real world you are going to have tradeoffs. You can't design a schema for transactional and analytical workload at the same time, yet every type of business needs some sort of analytics on their data.

The great thing about SQL is that you don't exactly need to know what your future queries are going to look like. Or your dataset.
I think you're underestimating the amount of land you need to feed all that yeast.
> Is this curiosity, or a moving goalpost as part of an argument?

The reason I ask is because there seems to be a side argument on who is paying more, domestic or international students. I would’ve thought foreigners pay more (that seems to be the case in the UK), but would defer to your first hand expertise.

However, what the article is predicated on is just that international students bring in “enough” revenue that they can be used as leverage against the universities. I was wondering whether you’d concede that.
The ecosystem of preexisting C extensions to generalize from, for one
I spent a week or so pouring through valgrind and profile output optimising the very heart of the code for a Monte Carlo simulation at a major investment bank. Some of the lines of code I wrote in that week will have been executed billions of times per day since I pushed them back in 2007 or so. They are still being used.

I got a good overall speedup (over 5% in code that was already pretty well-optimised) but by far the most valuable optimisation I did was one of the most basic - hoisting variables out of for loops. This kind of thing

for(int i=0; i<something; ++i) {
int x=0;
//...do something with x
}

changes to...

int x;
for(int i=0; i<something; ++i) {
x=0;
//...do something with x
}

There are slightly more subtle versions of that, but at the time none of the compilers we were using (gcc 3.2, solaris 8 C++ compiler or Visual C++ 7) could optimise that without you doing the hoist yourself.
cable here (vancouver canada) is still limited to ~25 up. Not sure if that's a tech limitation or an ISP choice thou.
Somehow this reminds me of a recent article about a guy who stole a Stratovarius.

He played it for the rest of his life and never told anybody what it was.
It's better to use Celsius for such articles and in general too. Metrication process in US is really way too slow.
Yep! You got the motivation exactly right. The goal is automatic program "rejuvenation" w/o all the engineering and maintenance costs. Revectorization in the compiler allows programmers to capture much of the performance gain possible with wider instruction sets without having to write and maintain multiple code paths. It can be a big pain to understand and rewrite this vector code -- especially if it's in some external library or another team's code. But agreed that some really nice results are possible with the right engineering such as in parsing.

Do the binaries really get into the 200 MB range from different code paths, or is that due to data?
Some day every phone may have a bitcoin “wallet” that connects to nearby towers using the phones antennas. Everything will “just work” as far as regular users are concerned. You would be able to pay for good just by scanning a QR code on the other party’s phone, for example.
It is impressive that they were able to evacuate 38m people.
It's up 75% since mid-March of 2020; you certainly could get rich from that.
But it can do your washing !
Good recommendation.

That being said, I was disappointed with EE Times’s vacuous take on this merger this morning. They have changed hands, and managed to survive, but like most of the vertical literature are a shadow of their former selves.

Here’s the editorial, written by the publisher: https://www.eetimes.com/maxim-is-a-pit-stop-wheres-adi-heade...
So what if you choose to mask your email?
> It used to be that malware authors (virus writers in particular) were characteristically more "hardcore" than the average developer, [...]

A subgroup of them still operates like that but I feel like "it used to be" might be a bit outdated. It doesn't seem new for malware authors to utilize low hanging fruits from languages to infrastructure. We've had VBA macros that are or spread malware for decades now, it used to be a pretty regular sight in the early 2000s to see low-effort payloads to be written in some high level language and utilize some random IRC server as a C&C for example. Not everything out there is some state actor level APT nightmare, with more developers in every part of the market and even more users that simply don't care enough it seems like a normal development to see stuff like this more often.
A Squier Affinity Stratocaster was my first electric guitar. This was more than 20 years ago, so may be the quality has gone down recently, but there was really nothing wrong with it mechanically. The action was perfect (and fairly low), all the fret ends were well-dressed, the neck was perfect and it had great sustain. I didn't get any fret buzz even with Ernie Ball Super Slinkys. It stayed in tune once I learned how to wind new strings properly and stretch them out, etc. The pickups were shit, though.
That seems pretty cheap, tbh.
If it was an exaggeration, it was slight. I remember meeting people as a 3 year old in pre-school who I attended community college courses with.
>> because most people know what they want in life at 30

I'm not sure if this statement makes me want to laugh or cry.
It's threatening to their model of how health works. I suspect it's not just a down vote, it's a passionate button smashing one.

I was very pro meat and was researching counter arguments to my vegan mother in law when I, sadly, found out the science is about as contested as whether or not aliens have visited earth. I.e. a lot in the general populous but basically not at all in the bonefide nutritional science community.
I'm curious, do you have any data backing your claim that Ghost 'tried and gave up'? Just wondering.
That is well known to not mean almost anything. It is just a spectacular feat of mimicry, similar to birds that imitate chainsaw sounds or camera sounds. It is also similar to the ability we have to learn a song in a language we don't understand in any way - it's just a faithful imitation of sounds you hear, perhaps with slight context.
Reminds me of a joke (with kernel of truth)

What's the difference between public restroom wall and twitter? Anyone can write what ever they want. Don't follow any links. Some of writing is with $hit.