skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ecstatic. I've had 3 previous kindle iterations, but the Oasis is the first one I outright prefer to paper books (except for aesthetic or nostalgic purposes). Splashproof, fast page-turns (incl physical buttons which I usually prefer to swiping), endless battery life, comfy form factor, x-ray, whispersync.... thought I was splurging when I bought it at release but it turned out to be a bargain. Go for it! :)
Why is the latter more likely? Gain of function experiments are performed regularly in labs, also on coronaviruses. Lab escapes have occured numerous times.

Shi Zhengli herself suspected at first that it came from one of their labs, because Wuhan is so far from the bats that are the suspected original host.
Why would someone remove a non-GC database engine with a database engine with GC?

Has Go evolved better low-GC features? As I understand Go GC vs JVM GC, Go avoids major GC by simply pushing it to the future and consuming memory more readily.

But a database is a long-running program, so you have to pay the piper eventually.
Definitely courses for horses, and all that. Whichever way works quickly and accurately for you is the best way...

I've used multiple cursors for many purposes, initially as a dev it worked very well as a poor man's ETL - take a spreadsheet and perform a bunch of transformations (reverse first name and last name, trim these fields, add leading zeros to this field, concatenate these fields, delete this field, use some sublime plugins to generate incrementing IDs, etc.), wrap it in a SQL insert statement, etc. etc. I used it a ridiculous amount and at times it made me look far more efficient than I really am.

I'm on the business side now but even today I found myself cleaning some data with multiple cursors, sorting alphabetically, and then using a 'count duplicates' command I found on GitHub to remove duplicates and prefix each line with the number of times it was duplicated. I could have done it in excel, but it took me literally 20 seconds to do it in Sublime.
Which Lisp (or Lisp in general)? Because of homoiconicity?
Kim Kardashian to freeze Facebook, Instagram accounts
You're right. I was thinking I was paying for 50GB but I'm at 200GB just for backups and photos mostly. So, yeah, it's more like $5/month more but still will at least try out.
I have an Amazfit Bip, but the UI isn't as good as Pebble sadly.

There is some work in making a similar OS called RebbleOS[1] currently ongoing.

[1]: https://github.com/pebble-dev/RebbleOS

Hopefully it will be portable to other low-end smartwatches.
No wireguard at our house, but there is pi-hole and we're working fine for those two apps across devices (ATV, phone, mac, etc). Pi-hole has Steve Black's list and a few others, nothing fancy. But without more details, I'd just be guessing.
You might be surprised by the number of professional scientists and engineers who voted for Trump in 2016. Yes, my anecdotal experience shows they're in the minority, but they're not zero and it's a lot higher than you might imagine. I'm not going to go into the politics of why these folks supported Trump in 2016, though I personally know smart people who made good arguments for Trump in 2016, but an editorial such as this may definitely sway them.
>as a tech person, that makes me extremely uncomfortable, and someone who hasn’t figured out even a personal route around the problem, much less a societal one. god bless us all.

Work for a boring company that provides a core service and does not ruffle feathers or cause trouble to society. I write Angular/Python apps for a company that sells payroll products. Its not the sexiest job in the world but the company needs tech people, it operates pretty ethically, I am paid reasonably well, and the team does not cause unnecessary stress day to day.

Government tech jobs are probably similar depending on department. You probably won't be contributing to the downfall of society in many govt branches but instead providing a reasonable service to society. The pay is probably less though.
The iPad 11 Pro has:

- variable refresh rate display (ProMotion)

- a second Ultrawide rear camera

- four speakers instead of two

- FaceID instead of TouchID, whch brings Portrait mode for the front camera too

- a higher max flash capacity

On the other hand, it costs 200$ more and the processor is likely to be slower.

There are very few reasons to prefer the 11 Pro to the Air 2020. Maybe a company which already has many of them and has to buy some new ones.

My guess is that Apple will launch a new iPad pro in Spring, with a new A14X processor.
I saw those but there was the usual jaw-boning if Billionaire philanthrophy is good for our society. I understand the hand-wringing but that is akin to wishing that we were all born equal to perfect families in strife free lands with perfect health care and child care and the rest.......utopia.

Edit: See below ;)
OK, looks like the "security advisory" was posted before the playground was fixed, and with no good to anybody. That's nasty.
Soil loss and salinification is always a danger. It's better to farm as little and as un-intensively as reasonable, in my opinion.
Fossil fuels get more expensive the more you extract, while also squeezing civilization's neck via global warming, which makes it quite plausible that even if the world set out to exhaust all fossil fuel resources, it might fall apart before it succeeded.
Agreed, though the paid plan might have more parity with whatever they were doing with Jenkins.
While you have a point about 18yo, it is very difficult to overlook the main job of the military: kill people. NSA flies below the radar or at least used to, but it is very difficult to not notice that the US military mostly come to foreign countries and kill people there. Even if you are a teenager.

However, with FB it is less obvious due to their fancy talk about community and shit. I understand your outrage about facebook, but I don't understand you can give a pass to people who essentially say: "I gonna kill people, it is okay, they are probably bad people anyway".
I had the same experience as a math undergrad. Too many professors seem to have forgotten what it was like to be a student. They write books that are great reference material for their colleagues but which are utterly opaque to a student who is still working to build their foundation.

Textbooks often format proofs as a sequence paragraphs, but this really obscures the logical structure of the argument. As a student, I found it very helpful to write down proofs as nested lists [1,2] instead.

Admittedly, now that I have more experience, I do like my proofs to be more terse when I'm communicating them just to myself.

[1]: https://benrbray.com/static/notes/separating-hyperplane-thm_...
[2]: https://benrbray.com/static/notes/minimax-approx_nov16.pdf
I don't actually change tabs in a browser that often. I tend to have what I want open and I don't keep very many tabs open.

There's also to do with the frequency of the action. I don't open new tabs very much; and, when I do, I tend to already be distracted and doing something off-hand, like looking at Reddit. Deep in work, it's far more distracting and would be far, far more regular.

As for relevant operating system:

* OS X
* Linux (Mint, generally)

With multiple monitors, I've generally stopped using the virtual desktop experience.
One thing to remember is the music industry is significantly different than tech when it comes to contract terms, and terms that look or work closer to tech for artists (even if they are worse in practice), could look radically generous compared to standard record label deals. It's also possible that Kanye wants to start something that looks completely different. You're right though, it's hard to decipher in a tweet
Michigan produces ~25% of its power via nuclear. Ohio has 5 nuclear plants including several near Cleveland. Pennsylvania produces the second most nuclear power of any state and ~35% of its total power that way. Illinois has the most nuclear capacity in the country and generates over half its power that way.

The Rust Belt has tons of nuclear penetration already. It's the west coast specifically that is lacking nuclear power. Either because hydro/solar are better options or regulatory reasons, I don't know.
Until we completely stop burning oil, it's always more worth it (environmentally) to burn plastic, vs recycle it.

Once there is no oil burned, and it's all used for plastic, then it makes sense to implement your plan. But not until then.
It would help if we could decide what our taxes got allocated to directly. Like 50‰ nasa 0% racist border wall. I hate paying my taxes because it's going to bullshit like that federally. Or locally, funding mismanaged pensions.
> What I'd like to read is some analysis that SA did on their readership base to determine how many people they'd lose based on this decision and then the results of their experiment.

Even if it causes a drop in subscriptions, it's a long vs short term result analysis. If Trump is reelected and civilization collapses because of it, the number of subscribers will be a relatively minor problem...
Yeah archives can be affected by multiple threats. Fire, natural catastrophies, etc. are one. Those can be fixed within the organization, by creating redundant copies in different places. There are organizational threats as well, affecting the structure running the archive. It's the guardians of the archive not being able or willing to preserve parts or all of it. The lawsuit is such an organizational threat.
US Sanctions are universal they apply to any entity that has dealings with the US, if it violates the sanctions it can be sanctioned itself if it has billions worth of US assets on their books they are especially exposed not that a country like SoftBank would give up the US market to invested in a Pyongyang startup anyhow.

As far as ARM specifically well they have already revoked the licenses for Huawei and a few others and now there is the situation where ARM China is essentially a rogue entity being seized by the CCP.
Thanks - makes sense.

> Nvidia is the only one that wants vendor-specific code.

Isn't that because CUDA is better and that tight software/hardware integration is more powerful?

If it wasn't then presumably people would be using AMD GPUs for their deep learning, but they're not.
I hear you. I agree that what they wrote is limited to just the candidate and not the voters. I even agree that Trump is unscientific, illogical, fear mongering and dangerous. Wait. I went beyond what you said. Sorry.

But what is the corollary to Trump "rejects evidence and science"? It's that anyone who votes for Trump does the same thing.

You're right that they did not spell this out. But many people who hear the endorsement will immediately jump to that conclusion.
The West has not been able to build any sort of infrastructure for a generation [1]. It's not that we can't build nuclear power plants on time and budget, it's that we can't build anything larger than a sports stadium period and we can only get over that by drowning it in money and hoping for the best.

Green energy is great in this regard because solar panels are just roofing and wind turbines are just really skinny 5 story buildings.

Hell you're on a website that exists only because no one is willing to do the type of R&D that build the tools we use in the first place (unix, arpanet, computers) so we instead outsourced it to people in garages and hope for something that works, or at least looks like it works and makes a ton of money before it crashes and burns (hi twitter!).

https://www.spglobal.com/en/research-insights/featured/infra...
Leaks revealed famous world reviled Marxists Ellen Denegeneres and George Bush conspiring to send funds to sleeper cell deep state arsonists! Is the Bureau of Land Management planning to abort your children??? Watch this Tim Pool video, all the evidence is there!
It’s been the classic chat bot application since Eliza. I have no doubt one day there will be one good enough to begin to help people.
There is little reason to believe that. It could just as likely be sour grapes.
BTW, I'm happy this was brought up. I'm subscribing.
Closer to:

echo "Username is ${USER}"

As I recall (and Wikipedia seems to confirm), parameter substitutions were in the original bourne shell in 1979, so... Yeah, I'm not sure what's going on there.
Thank you! I am one of the founders, the accuracy will vary depending on how the person is wearing it, but regardless it will be well within clinically acceptable values for something like physiotherapy or rehab.

Yoganotch itself is new (2020) but we've been building these devices for a few years - have a number of peer reviewed papers published based on Notch (https://wearnotch.com/papers).
> We all know that parsing is an important part of designing and implementing programming languages, but it’s the equivalent of Brussels sprouts: good for the diet, but a taste that only a select few enjoy.

Ever since reading Crafting Interpreters I've found myself obsessed with writing parsers. I keep making new ones over and over, looking for little things to improve on in projects that nobody will ever use. I'm actually a little disappointed that parsing is considered "the easy part" of compilers; a "solved problem", compared to things like type analysis and bytecode optimization.
BRING BACK VINE
I refuse to believe that all air filtering fans on Amazon are sold out, especially considering their extreme popularity in countries all over Asia. And even if we assume that’s the case for the sake of argument, you can still buy N95 particle masks of many different brands which will protect you well from particles in the air. They also mostly protect you from viruses. There was a pretty massive supply shortage of them this spring at the start of the pandemic but I doubt they’re extremely difficult to get a hold of today, I have five in my kitchen that I bought online for about a dollar each.
> Unless we come up with a complete end-to-end model for safely handling the waste, I don't consider nuclear to be a viable option.

We only need to store the stuff for 2-3 decades, by which time it should be feasible to just yeet the waste into space.
> I haven't thought about it, but yeah if you do agriculture just for biofuel, it could be considered inexhaustible (and even renewable?).

Only if the inputs are inexhaustible. Industrial agriculture is driven by fertilizer produced from fossil fuels.
"Trains full"? The US only produces 2,000 tonnes of spent fuel a year, and has only produced 83,000 tonnes in the entire history of its nuclear generation program[1]. That entire annual production, even accounting for the weight of shielding and other safety measures, would fit on a single train the size of a typical coal or oil train.

[1] https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-fast-facts-about-spent-...
I think that's eminently reasonable. As someone with 15 years experience doing Cocoa dev, the intention to be a Mac dev indefinitely, and hundreds of thousands of lines of existing Cocoa and Cocoa Touch code, it's just going to be a slow transition. But there's no pressing reason to just stop writing any new Cocoa code (I literally wrote some since my last comment :-P). If I were starting now, I'd probably focus on SwiftUI with the assumption that it will be the way to start most new projects within the next few years.
Part of that "fall of society" has been the fact that people don't always trust their fellow citizens to upkeep the sanitation of public facilities. I can think of plenty of places where, even if they had a public fountain, I wouldn't touch it. It's not always some great capitalist conspiracy.

https://www.today.com/food/video-woman-licking-container-blu...
It wasn't fast. But if you were really concerned about performance on the CPC you wouldn't be using the firmware anyway.

Standard practice to do a delay on the CPC was a loop around CALL &BD19 - that paused until frame flyback, i.e. 1/50th of a second.
That's something of a technicality. If the output of the compiler isn't useful without paying for something else, it's effectively a commercial compiler.
The Bourne shell had parameter expansion in strings in 1979, just FYI.
It reassures me that there are examples of people who get hyper rich and retain some perspective on it.
My dude this is a joke. You are too stiff, are you alright?
Those are the fairly novel ways of exploitation. Finance, marketing, naked rent-seeking, and employment through temp/piecework have always been around, but technology has made them terrifying. And every single field involves mass surveillance.

I got into programming because I loved the machines and the abstractions, but I'm finding myself helpless because I can't make myself contribute to the goals of the people who want to employ me.
The way I see it is you can measure how economical these things are in a country where they don't listen to the people. So I look to China and see if they think it's worth it. And Chinese nuclear power is spiking. They're building loads of reactors and loads of renewables. It looks like their renewables growth is more than the nuke growth, but they're doing the nuke thing too, which makes it seem like the economics aren't the thing.
OK, another thread have pointers. This is your post:

https://web.archive.org/web/20191223200601/https://christine...

This looks like a childish attempt to disrupt the work of the project members with no benefit to anybody at all.

And you pretended you don't know why you were banned.
In a sea of militarized disinformation, this editorial is an island of sanity.
Most features of PDF can't be produced using SVG. The visual elements are just the surface of what PDFs can do and are used for.
I think it's sort of strange to refer to comparative advantage, which is taught in every "Introduction to Macroeconomics" class/textbook in existence, as an "arcane" part of economics.
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A little odd patting someone on the back for claims with no substance. It’s easy to make up a story with all sorts of feel-good ingredients to virtue signal in a thread about a bad guy. If it was all unicorns and butterflies, why not name the company so the morally-aligned folk can find safe haven?
I'd like to point out a few things.

First, the military is not a socialist organization, because the workers (soldiers) do not own the means of production. They don't have a say on where they fight and who they fight. The military is an arm of the bourgeoisie and is guided by the whims of those in power, not the people within the rank and file of the military or those who go and die.

Second, Yes, the military provides recruits with opportunities (e.g. postsecondary education, etc). But would they join the military without those incentives? i.e. If everyone had their basic needs met through redistribution of wealth, would they choose to go into the military? It's more like that they join the military, because it's one of the few ways of getting out of their economic situation. It's a form of coercion. It's the carrot that gets them to join the military institution.
Why bother with compostable plastics if we can just bury the plastics in a landfill and forget about them? The volume of plastics is insignificant, the only problem is plastics that don't end up in landfills but in oceans instead.
exactly this... I think there are more factors at play than “Didn’t you think about what you were doing?” such as, maybe they have a family they have to provide for and they actually like the people they work with and what they do it’s just Jim from sales all of the sudden suggests a feature that’s unethical but the company believes it’s the thing to build... at some point, leadership should be blamed, not the engineer who just implemented it so they can go home to their spouse.
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Serverless wiped it out
Yes we do have a long term solution for high-level nuclear waste. Right now.

Recycle it. You get far more energy out than the first pass as well. This technology is over half a century old.

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

Please stop saying we have no solution for nuclear waste. We absolutely do. It's just cheaper to keep storing waste than to build new plants due to the political barriers.
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Timefibers is an automatic website and app tracking is for productivity measurement
The name is a little close to this existing LevelDB fork, maybe consider a different name?
https://github.com/utsaslab/pebblesdb
https://www.xa.com/en/pseries?gclid=CjwKCAjwzIH7BRAbEiwAoDxx...

Potential alternative?
>While you have a point about 18yo, it is very difficult to overlook the main job of the military: kill people.

Yes. And I have never been faced with someone with a long military career. If they were interviewing straight out of a long career, it would definitely fit into the "senior person" context as mentioned.

It's a tough question, for sure, but I don't think I would be able to shy away from it. I guess we'll find out if I'm ever in that position... I should probably prepare for if that ever happens.

My stance on this has been getting firmer and firmer the more senior I get. I honestly wonder if I'd have the presence or guts required to ask that hard of a question.