skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please don't start on this theme again. Your posts are fine otherwise, and we value you as a user! But this was a big problem before and it's best if it doesn't start up again.
Home based satellite internet wouldnt be viable if it cost thousands of dollars per GB. There are low-volume satellite services that do have a pretty high charge per megabyte, but thats because they are intended for applications that only need a few dozen KB per day or so.
> You can keep a years supply of food in a small closet.

Yeah, I worked out the space requirements once, and it's actually feasible to stock a lifetime's worth of Calories in a fairly small apartment.
scaling python data processing horizontally
The marshmallow test makes no sense to me. You're telling me I get one marshmallow now, or I get one more if I wait 30 minutes and have to sit here bored looking at the one marshmallow I could have already eaten? The reward just isn't there. It seems like it measures kids who want to please the researcher.
It's a lot of information for a forum comment. I will provide a pointer though.

I think the book at cmosvlsi.com is pretty good for an introduction to the realities of modern digital IC design.

For more information on the topic of this thread in particular see slides 17-19 in this deck. I was asking if the cap on the far right of slide 17 existed in this design.
http://pages.hmc.edu/harris/cmosvlsi/4e/lect/lect21.pdf

On the trim: When I looked at the two phase timing figure provided I noticed if the bottom path through the clock driver was slower than the top path, due to manufacturing tolerance, then that could cause skew (see slide 24 in the deck I pointed to) between the phases which might cause phase 1 and phase 2 to get too close, or even overlap. The clock driver circuit looked pretty regular in the layout so I was guessing they might have redundant parallel drivers that could be enabled or disabled by the ROM bits which could change the relative strengths of the two paths, after manufacture. This would allow them to recover the part and improve yield. But I guess edge rates and periods were slow enough then that this was not a concern and just relative sizing was enough.
So BLM won't pay for babysitting for single mothers out protesting? So much for supporting women that quit their two jobs to support a cause they get millions in donations for. This is hilarious, drivel for the stupid.
But patriarchy and nuclear family bad.
> Notably that doesn't call out this meeting. The poster was generally present on the first day

If the first day is marked mandatory, then any scheduled events on that day should be assumed to be mandatory unless stated otherwise.

It's not reasonable to read that a day is mandatory and assume that you can show up for only part of the day and get credit for attending the full day.

> they just didn't attend a 7:15am meeting that they weren't even aware was a thing.

Toward the end of the article, the author admits that he simply ignored the calendar invite without reading the details because it was at 7:15AM his time:

> It was on the calendar, but at 7:15am in my local time zone, so by merit of that alone I had simply ignored the event (e.g. did not click it and read the description).
Renewables don't provide constant power without city-scale energy storage, which doesn't exist (yet) at any reasonable price point. Solar for example won't provide power after sunset or on cloudy days.

Because you can't rely on renewables to provide power throughout every day/year, you need to have natural gas/coal/nuclear available. Those have very high fixed costs (other than natural gas), but very low marginal costs, so once you have built them it is cheaper to just use them than to build additional renewable power infrastructure.
qutebrowser
Would you say that women entering the workforce starting in the 70's may have contributed to the overall flattening of wages? (The workforce essentially doubled). So while their incomes increased, the effect was to flatten the total average?
Why are we to blame?

We can't just start donating massive amounts of money and hope that management funnels it to Firefox.

The same management that receives almost half a billion dollars per year from Google is the management that just fired Servo, MDN and Dev Tools staff.
For me what's important to remember is not so much what a note says, but that I took it. Then I can look it up and see what it's about.
You are going to make the API available or the whole library
And then you reach for the link with the artist's name, only to find that it leads to his Instagram page. Says a lot about the contradictions of our time.
I think G's ones are supposed to be. They claim themselves to be the top 1% of intelligence.

No disagreement on the good recommendation as a signal, but I doubt that'll matter to the HC if I can't pass 3/5 rounds at the minimum.
Please don't take HN threads further into generational flamewar. We definitely don't need that here.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I’ve also seen organizations realize in that situation that they can change or automate things as to reduce the consequences of the exceptions, or to make rules simpler to follow, in justifying drawing that firm line. Trust is won when people see you as being fair, and part of being fair is knowing your perspective has been heard and considered.
RC alum here: I read most of the thread, and don't have much to add to the great points raised, other than to second that "missing the first day for this reason hasn’t happened to anyone else since we’ve been running RC online" seems pretty counter to the inclusive spirit of RC. I think better wording should have been used here.

The thing that struck me is that RC is 99.9% unstructured. Orientation day is the one mandatory day. I kept thinking - what a shame for the author to miss the one day in a 6-12 week program that they need to be there for.
From an aesthetic point, it is okay, and I like that it includes logos for almost every service imaginable. From an editing perspective, it is a mess. For example:

- you can select a rectangle object that has a transparent middle by clicking in the empty space

- you cannot option/alt + drag to copy an item or group of items

- "refactoring" is not easy because even when items are grouped you cannot move them as a group

- arrows sometimes don't update their endpoints, even when they have been connected to an item

- slow performance in the browser, especially for larger diagrams.

- saving is slow and versioning is even slower

These are just a few I thought of off the top of my head. These papercuts on their own are annoyances, but together makes it feel like the software is using me and not the other way around.
Running a user bot isn't that difficult
Same here. When I was looking for jobs, companies would always tout their snack room. To me that was a huge impediment that I'd have to fight against every day.
Microsoft under Nadella is infinitely more interesting than Google is under it’s current scourge of bean counters and MBA-graduates that seem to be running the place...

It’s not entirely comparable, but Google is basically in their “Steve Balmer”-phase.

Hopefully they can eventually get someone with competence and actual domain knowledge, and not some asshole who’s been taught they can lead whatever because they’re been “educated” to lead..
My BS-O-metre just went off big time. First off, this is an extreme generalization that does not pick up local differences. Take the Northeren hemisphere for instance, where meat is in many instances the most effective way to utilize our growing conditions to produce edible food. [1] It's just not possible to efficibely use our climate to make sustainable production of vegetables, so meat is in fact a better way to make the most of our growing conditions.

The alternative would be to let tons of cultured pastures go to waste, and instead develop extremely expensive and wasteful greenhouse altnernatives that would suck our energy reserves dry. That is why meat production is in fact preferrable in the North. It's just not feasible to produce enough food without spending a lot of resources on imports, due to growing conditions that favour greens that aren't edible for humans, so our best option is then meat for local and "short-travelled" sustenance. [2]

Second, there's obviously a place for meat eaters in this biodiversity. Of course, we're "too many" humans (who are of course meat eaters), but on the other hand we're sustaining our current population nicely with progresses made within both environmentally friendly transportation and not to mention advances within industrialized and automated farming. [3] Add to this that the population growth is in fact slowing down. [4]

Long story short, the world has a giant surplus of food. [5] The amount of food here isn't the problem. It's the adverse effects local politics, production and transportation that are the problems the grand level, and to that end you can't as a general rule suggest that veggies are the "best" option. Well, it clearly isn't in the northeren hemisphere.

In the end the moral question is, should we really force people to eat this, that or the other? I mean, there's obviously no harm in making suggestions, but when those suggestions aren't met with enthusiasm, then change isn't liable to happen without the use of force. And I think can all agree that we are nowhere near a Soylent Green situation, so we still have the option to give people a choice.

Personally, my bet are on those developing succulent and protein-rich meat alternatives. The second they can make a product that similar enough, but without the environmental overhead, then people will flock to it.

[1]: http://www.fao.org/3/a-i3437e.pdf

[2]: Norwegian language source: https://www.agrianalyse.no/getfile.php/134664-1553523670/Dok...

[3]: https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/ipcc_wg3_ar5...

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_grow....

[5]: https://www.dw.com/en/the-global-food-surplus/a-15452289
Dude you willingly forgot to take into consideration that we need to sleep 8 hours per day.
I've been wondering for a while if we could create an extremely simplified rendering engine that would only accept modern markup and css:

- forget everything about quirksmode and all kinds of workarounds that browsers have today.

- only accept Javascript from a vetted repository that contains things like autocomplete and ajax reload.

- and here comes the smart part: embed it next to an ordinary engine, ideally in Firefox, add a meta tag or content type or something that will get the browser to try to render it in this engine.

1. The idea is to get it to run extremely fast, and

2. get a few websites to optimize for it (Wikipedia?)

3. once people recognize certain pages loads extremely much faster in that browser they'll flock to it

4. more sites will start optimizing

5. since Javascript is extremely limited we get back to a saner content web
Because everything builds on behavior of elementary particles, which behave randomly, everything more or less must behave randomly.

Because of things like laws of normal distribution when lots of randomly behaving particles work together we have a way of predicting how the world behaves. But we can never make 100% accurate predictions because at the bottom there is randomness.

Butterfly effect amplifies the initial randomness, a small difference in the random initial state can cause big differences in the end-state. But, there even isn't any definite initial state. Therefore Butterfly Effect rules

This causes (in my view) the Arrow of Time. Because there are no definite initial conditions there can not be any definite final conditions either. Therefore it would be impossible to "reverse time" by following the equations backwards from a given end-condition, because there are no definite end-conditions.

Everything starts with a fuzzy quantum state of say momentum. Even when our equations are deterministic because the initial condition is not knowable in principle neither is the end-condition. And this must apply in the other direction too, reversing the equations and starting from indefinite end-condition we can not "reach back" to a definite "same" initial condition. Therefore Time can not be reversed.

Now I am not a professional physicist, this is just my intuition. Based on the above it seems intuitive to me why it is not a mystery that the Arrow of Time can have only one direction.
> ... for people to modify software for their own use

> ... private use/modification/etc

> It's my computer, I get to run whatever code I want to.

The patch changes none of that. The patch doesn't prevent you from disabling this restriction on your private builds.

It seems you still don't get the purpose of the patch. It is not designed to make _your_ private use difficult. It is designed to make _public_ contribution attempts like TFA that waste everyone's time again and again easy to push back against. TFA is not the first time something like this has happened. The kernel devs have repeatedly had to tell people off from trying to add proprietary-dependent or for-proprietary modules into the kernel. Adding a switch for GPL-and-non-GPL mixing makes that explicit and easy to catch.

> If they had their way I'm sure we wouldn't even be allowed to talk to them if we had ever used proprietary software at all.

I don't know where this antagonism comes from, but it seems like you're missing the point. Try to look at the posting from their point-of-view. It wasn't that the poster used some proprietary software on their own, but that they forced said proprietary software on every reviewer on the mailing list. Surely, you understand the distinction?
Why does apple require encryption for free apps.

At least make it optional.
That would change too many variables at once.
Very pleasant to the eye! Reminds me of http://www.zachtronics.com/exapunks/
> but rather about the proportionality of the response/the proportionality to the previous communication

Many of the comments are assuming that the event was not properly communicated, whereas the author admits that it was communicated in the orientation e-mail as well as placed on his calendar. The author admits to not reading the e-mail, not reading the calendar invite, and not reading the follow-up e-mail where they attempt to get in touch with him to understand why he missed the meeting.

Other commenters have also shared the exact wording from the RC's communications, which makes it clear that the first day is mandatory.

If I had just read the comments or just read the first 1/2 of the article, I would have assumed RC was to blame. However, after reading the details it seems that RC did all the right things, including trying to contact the author during the missed meeting for clarification.

Once someone missed a meeting and the follow-up e-mail about the missed meeting without explanation and admits to simply ignoring the communications and the calendar invite, it's not a positive sign that they're taking the program seriously. This wasn't the case of a single missed communication.
I tried Googling about programs delivered by Edusat but got no luck.
Try out miro.com, the tool wasn't built for infrastructure diagrams, but you can do some amazing visualizations once you get comfortable with the tools there.

That said, I love this MVP! I created a quick diagram of some video systems I maintain and the experience was pretty good. <3 the svg export
Tabs in 2000 with Opera v4, before it even had a freeware option!
That is clear. Thanks.
Do you have a source?

Flutter and React Native both work on iOS. And obviously Objective C still works
Corporations are "people" when it comes to their thirst for massive political influence, but just when they get into legal trouble, they are suddenly NOT a person, but a vague multi-layered blob, impossible to prosecute.
Those are easily removed and can also be disabled using their policy engine.
> will break sometime in the future

To be fair, with Mozilla, it would break sometime in the future even if it was documented.
OK people have begun commenting below, so have the courtesy to label your addenda with "edit" or the like, OK?

[outside the alt-right]

[Remember that this is the guy] etc.
It’s nice that fortran still runs strong in scientific computing. In my opinion it’s probably still the fastest route for scientist to go from 'hello world' to HPC on clusters.

If it wasn’t for Julia I would be using it as my primary language, alongside something to manipulate strings, plot and work with data more nicely.
This piece is terrible.

Full of straw men, dishonesty, ad hominems, and deeply one sided.

One way to make this piece better, the author needs to stop pretending that the only people who are supporting Apple against Epic have no experience shipping apps.

I have shipped many, and I vehemently disagree with the author.

It seems to me that there are just as many people on both sides of this debate with experience and just as many who don’t have it. The author’s claim is disingenuous.

Another claim that must be queried is the idea that Android users are by definition people who don’t want to spend money.

This seems like it’s a true observation, but unless we ask why it’s true, we can’t reason about this topic.

Apple will of course say it’s because of the effort they have put into building a safe platform, and the fact that they maintain a place where people are willing to spend money on software is exactly why they should continue to receive commission.

If we stop Apple from doing what they are doing, it’s completely plausible that we’ll end up with everyone having the willingness to pay that is demonstrated by Google Play, and software sales decimated by piracy.

It’s worth noting that I would love an environment without a gatekeeper. I actually agree that it’s bad for Apple to have this power.

I simply don’t see any reason to believe that forcing Apple to allow other stores (which is technically problematic since it requires that the state force Apple to maintain software) would produce the desired outcome.

I also think it’s completely disingenuous to dismiss benefits like security. That just makes it seem like the author doesn't have experience in the area. Malware is an obvious problem which clearly does exist.

Disclaimer: I love IA’s products. I think they are some of the best on the App Store.
use discord, so much nicer design wise, and the company actually gives a shit about their users, unlike micro$oft
Signal still exposed your phone number no? When you join groups that is.
That would be one of the different settings. For running unlisted extensions, iirc it's actually pretty trivial to get one signed; back when they abandoned Shumway it didn't take me more than a few minutes with the command line to get a signed xpi that I then installed on several computers. I might be remembering wrong, though.
> the tool automatically scans the faces of people pictured in other users' posts, even if they don't use Instagram and didn't agree to the terms of service.

This suggests to me that the number of people affected is much more than the 100 million Instagram users, and the potential fine much higher.
"Emergency" is obviously in reference to an emergency causing the person to miss the meeting (examples: a car accident on the way to the meeting; a canceled flight that would otherwise have been on time; a fire at their domicile that morning).

"I didn't read the documentation thoroughly" is regrettable, but not an emergency. Whether it is grounds for kicking the person out depends on the importance of the missed meeting (seemingly extremely), the due diligence of the organization (it seems this was the first person to miss the meeting under rules that have been in effect for months), and the cost of missing it for both parties (under no circumstances is it a "hole in people's live"; they are not sending people who miss the meeting to prison).
Hey author of the posted blog, as a Baltimore resident (and librarian!), I love the shout out to the Howard County library's "choose civility" campaign![0] Nice site.

[0] https://civilityandtruth.com/about/#about-the-name
Calling him nuts is one of those cognition-enders. No need for further analysis if someone is just plain nutz amirite?
lol, google voice is basically that, it's free, and lets you bring a number from another company for dirt cheap and after that, no more fees. or so i was told.
As I have said already, which you seem to be ignoring:

"This all-important fact is revealed in the very last patch of a 21-patch patchset, wasting everyone's time, and a lot of it. It's either utter carelessness, stupidity, or outright malice to ask for something like this to be included into a loudly-and-clearly GPL-licensed kernel.

----

In the end, all I have to say to you is:

If I walk up to you in the street and slap you in the face, unprovoked, surely the noble thing for you to do is to politely tell me off; but I will not hold it against you if you were to lose your cool and retaliate.
> A fully qualified domain name includes a trailing dot

The term is ambiguous, and many uses don't include the trailing dot. See IETF RFC 8499 section 2.

> DNS is strictly ASCII-only

DNS is not strictly ascii. At the protocol level labels are octet strings. You may be thinking of the LDH convention.
I've always passed interviews that focused on behavioral aspects, I've frequently struggled in algorithm focused loops (bombed 2/4 in my Google onsite because, again, I'm intellectually inferior). Besides, until recently G didn't include any behavioral loops.

> "compared to a very small subset of people I have failed"

Compared to nearly everyone at elite universities I have absolutely failed. I'm sure some of them will become the Jeff Bezos of 2050 as well - it's irrelevant that it's still a small number. I don't want to be compared against somebody that works at Cisco or IBM for instance for the work and mental anguish I've put in.
> B Lab Takes a Stand: A Commitment to Justice and Anti-Racism

A lot of these organizations seem to be ideologically possessed by Critical Race Theory. The above snippet is essentially identical to:

> B Lab Takes a Stand: A Commitment to Dianetics and Scientology
The oldest living American is celebrating her 116th birthday today
The heat anomaly at the time was concentrated over Greenland. https://static.skepticalscience.com/images/Temperature_Patte...

The current temperature anomaly covers the entire earth. https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/service/global/map-blended-mn...