skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My issue with such a statement is that it most likely inevitably picks from a very specific subset of shows: that is, american and british shows (although the latter may even be quite a small subset of all british shows, if you are american), maybe with one or two other-anglospheric-country shows mixed in (probably a couple canadian shows, and maybe if we're lucky, one or two australian), and ignores the huge swathes of international tv production. That's without even going into the problem of age (most likely, your subset is composed mostly of shows of the > 1980s at best, probably a significant subset would be > 2000s). I don't mean to say that this is a "bad" subset, that is, I concede that it's inevitable that it contains great, and in some cases, sublime shows: we've gotten better at media production over the decades, and the financial and talent pools of the americans are nearly unparalleled. Yet I can't help but feel like the americano-centrism of the "Best shows of all times" list is worthy of criticism (I have similar criticisms for most "best album / songs of all time" lists), given that I've seen shows of extremely high quality from both european and russian media. (Of course, I myself am guilty of this, with respect to shows from asia and the middle east, for instance, which I've seen nothing of. It seems as though most westerners will consume media of the following categories: either american, or from their country, with at most a handful of what could be considered for them, a "foreign" show.) as I feel like tv in general seems to be a medium in which americans don't tend to really stray beyond looking at what's produced by their country, unlike say, films, where, perhaps because of the more "high-class" sentiment that comes with being a cinephile, there's a stronger push to look beyond the borders in an effort to stay informed and "cultured" about films around the world.
keybase is not linked to phone numbers and has a mechanism for authentication via linking twitter/github accounts (no linkedin though)
It’s not a new idea. The heart rate monitor in an Apple Watch uses the same tech as a pulse oximeter, its performance was reported to be worse on darker skin, whether naturally or through tattoos back in 2015, and that wasn’t a surprise to experts then (https://www.vocativ.com/culture/health-culture/tattoos-apple...)
There are a few reasons this wouldn't work for Ruby, mainly the reliance on metaprogramming in some of the more popular libraries.

For example, the ORM ActiveRecord reads the database schema at runtime and generates the getters and setters for each column for the appropriate class. The class itself doesn't have any code listing these columns. Where would the inline annotation go?
The well? very interesting. I heard about it while BBSing in the 80s. I was too young in the punch cards era, but I had a chance to see 8 inch floppy working in my school and used the 5.25 floppy a lot. Back to HN my behavior seems to be more compulsive than yours (unfortunately) and I am probably much more influenced by current rhythms. Thanks for your contribution which offers interesting food for thought.
This is a very poorly written article and is steeped in mysticism and conspiracy-like rhetoric.

FYI, OpenDemocracy is run, written & edited by a Scottish Nationalist. The website is less about "open democracy" and more about anti-UK sentiment and is backed by like-minded funds/organisations (David & Elaine Potter Foundation, the Bertha Foundation, the Roddick Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Oak Foundation, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar’s Luminate, and the Open Society Foundation created by George Soros, the billionaire investor - https://www.thedrum.com/opinion/2019/05/16/how-open-democrac...).

It is very far from the neutral & transparent journalism it likes to present itself as.
The profit margin of a repeat customer is nearly unlimited.
If you're online interested in limited quantities, this Sharp display might well fit the bill:

https://www.adafruit.com/product/4694

It's a "memory LCD", which has very low no power drain when idle, but has an LCD's refresh speed (i.e., fast enough to display video).

You can also get some decently-documented eInk boards from Waveshare in 1" to 13" sizes, though the costs are definitely too high for anything but one-off Maker projects:

https://www.waveshare.com/product/displays/e-paper.htm

You may also find the PaperTTY project interesting for your TUI:

https://github.com/joukos/PaperTTY
> Software people can't even effectively specify the performance requirements of the artifacts that they produce.

This is Real Scottsman nonsense. Algorithms can be easily tested, and can be modified and optimized to meet a host of requirements, from computational complexity to real-world efficiency to fairness to privacy. We specify the performance requirements of software all the time.
Reminds me of one of my favorite jokes, I have forgotten who said it, maybe Dijkstra?

"Computer science could be called the post-Turing decline in the study of formal systems."
No wonder that one of the DevOps success stories revolves around HP printer drivers and firmware:

https://itrevolution.com/the-amazing-devops-transformation-o...
Along sort of those lines, here's a text adventure teaching Lisp with a built-in interpreter: https://eblong.com/zarf/zweb/lists/
Careful about this source.

NTD is a part of the media empire of Falun Gong and related exile Chinese alt-right groups in the US.

I would not count them as trustworthy at all.
The analogy I usually make is that theoretical physics has more or less nothing to do with mechanical engineering in much the same way that computer science has more or less nothing to do with writing software for a living.

In both cases, it isn't done to trust the theoreticians with power tools: or hold the guys in the shop responsible for the deep magic, either.
The announcement to move away shows a lot of planning.
> When the options are either wake up in a shitty world and have no money or wake up in a shitty world and have a lot of money I don’t know why people choose the former.

I am not seeing how this is helpful to you or anyone really, but respect that we all have different experiences.
I believe its same in US too
Like you won’t find dominos pizza delivery on third party apps they have their own service and it’s pretty good
In the meantime, if you want to stop giving some brain time to advertisers, uBlock Origin on desktop and NewPipe on Android will make sure you never see any ads on youtube.
The problem from my perspective is that video is a poor way to learn or diagnose technique. They can listen to the sound (albeit depending on their setup, inaccurately), but how do you tell if the student has tension in their shoulder (as an example)?
The regulator believing "this system isn't legible to us and so adds burden to our work" is roughly equivalent to the author's conclusion: "They want us to be compliant, not secure".

The correct response to all of this would have been an accepted means for individual departments to submit requests for updates/changes to the standard to be voted on before they are forced to comply. The issue at hand is no mechanism for feedback. You can only comply or leave. This is the consistent failure of top-down governance.
I wish that were easier. I've found that the cleaning involved is burdensome. It's recommended that you take the feeder down and scrub it with bleach every few weeks to prevent the spread of parasites between the closely packed feeding birds. Worse for me is that even when I can keep the feeder away from the local rodents (a non-trivial challenge), seeds fall to the ground and it becomes a hot spot for insects and rodents. The rodents here are causing major damage to my house and vehicles. It was just higher maintenance than I expected, so I stopped. But I do like having the birds around. Maybe I can start again after retirement.
Exponential growth is not necessarily fast growth. If r is .00000001 and the period is one year, then the curve would look flat on any human timescale.
The cartridge port on the N64 exposes a 32 bit address bus, Theoretically there's nothing stopping someone from cramming a gig of SRAM inside a cartridge to increase the memory from 8mb. It's directly addressable by the cpu, even if it's not the RDRAM bus.

Everyone here saying 8mb too small, well just add more ram.
Hmm good suggestion thanks, I just tried this but it exhibits the same behaviour.

I think it's running into this problem https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27494866/llvm-cannot-fin... - it looks like it looks at /proc/self/exe which I'm guessing returns a bad value? Not sure.
Tell me if this is a bug...

After driving a new car to work for 2 years, the traction control started kicking in on certain curves. I take a windy road to work and had never had traction control activate. When it kicked in, it pulsed the right front brake and slowed the car quickly, likely unnerving the guy tailgating me. This happened several times, both going to and from work. The road was perfectly dry, no snow or rain. Same turns at the same speed as always.

The clues are was that my rear tires had worn and I replaced them a few days before. And, I drive a Tesla Model 3. It's a rear-wheel drive version and the front tires still had good tread so I didn't replace them.

Why the right front tire?

What I finally brained out, which you may have quickly realized, is that the diameters of the worn front and new rear tires were then slightly different. The front had a lower diameter than the rear and therefore turned at a slightly faster rate when driving.

When I took a hard bank, the outside wheels also turned faster than the inside as they do in any turn. That increased the delta in spin rate the most between the outside worn front tire and the inside new rear tire. The traction control determined that the right front must be slipping and pulsed the brake on it.

I replaced the front tires and everything went back to normal.
My Thoughts on The Fish Story from Pixar's Soul
Dell's XPS 13 fills a similar role for me as a Linux user (also have a MacBook Pro but I'm using it less and less).

The XPS13 is the same size as the MBA11; I'm using an 11" MBA case for mine. It has a larger, 4K screen though and faster 4 core/8 thread CPU and better GPU.

USB-C on both sides and a MicroSD card.

The trackpad isn't as good as a Mac yet but it is acceptable to me and is improving all the time.
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[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/nsa-docs-boast-now-we-can-wiretap-...

[2] https://lists.randombit.net/pipermail/cryptography/2013-May/...

And room 641a
What a great oportunity for yet one more economic activity for people. Sad reality is that this economic activity would have no need if not the other econiomic actvities which have caused the problem in the first place.

This starts to look like cutting down the forest and then replantig lesser version of it because it feels not so cozy on plain field...
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So before the scientific method science didn’t exist?

And I guess theoretical physics is also not science.

Moreover CS does use experimentation to answer questions. That’s basically all of ML for example.
It’s middlebrow but I still love Whitman where he goes “Do I contradict myself? Very well, I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes”.
The malware would run out of RAM, then. It’s not like the files it’s writing to disk are enabling it to gain persistence.
I assume they're using something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTLinux to make it a hard RT system
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Probably just whoever was reading the paperwork on the day. That's an unfortunate turnout for the poster.

I've had exactly the same experience but different departure airport and won (flight didn't go, I bought am immediate replacement seat myself, didn't use the one that was reassigned to me so I could get there faster). I use https://refund.me, excellent success rate and very little effort.

It would be amazing to see the same rules be followed around the world. It's times like these I have a deep respect for the EU. Hm, does this mean that UK flights won't be subject to this going forward?
Donald Trump’s Mortal Sin
Oil is part of the nation’s commons. Nationalizing only one revenue stream is better and fairer, isn’t it?
I have a Macbook with retina at home and a ThinkPad without one at work. Yeah, retina makes text a little nicer, but overall it's not so big deal for me. It may be because, when I'm coding at work, I'm usually pissed off by a couple different things at least, so a less than perfect font is not even on my radar.
I may have told this story before (perhaps back in 2008 if this was posted then) -- but my first gig in tech was QA for Hewlett Packard testing printer/scanner/copier units. At some point I scanned a photo of my then-girlfriend and crashed the unit. Was able to do it repeatedly, provided I scanned the image in straight/cleanly. I didn't come across any other images that reproduced the issue, only this one photo. The underlying bug was a buffer overrun of some sort, was fixed before shipping -- and the image became a part of the durable regression test suite for that department.
Even if we manage to tackle the climate crisis, I wonder how we will address the accompanying ecological collapse that seems to be rapidly accelerating.
Yes, software often has requirements from the people paying the bills, and when those people are from large bureaucracy, requirements are often shaped by bureaucratic rules that move much slower than understanding of the subject area.

It's even more fun when there is a chain of those involved, because then you can get bureaucratic rules that move slower than the external bureaucratic rules which they are serving, which in turn move slower than knowledge of the subject domain.
Agree. Children's "science" books today are that way too: "Grossology", "Oh, Yuck!", "Totally Gross Experiments and Activities" to name a few....

Even the ones that are not hit-you-on-the-head scatological are still, as you say, trying to be funny and engaging but in a patronizing way.

Perhaps I am not the target audience but I preferred young science books that made you feel like you were learning real science — learning about the chemistry of plastics for example. The science wasn't a footnote to the experiment, it was the reason for the experiment.

Mae and Ira Freeman's science books for kids were great for younger readers. Kenneth Swezey's books. The classic "Golden Book of Chemistry" is a little slick, but still good (https://www.academia.edu/37919681/The_Golden_Book_Of_Chemist...).

Or maybe I just preferred the presentation of the older books...
A good thing about that film is that after seeing it if I can't remember how a differential works I usually can remember the steps they took to get to how a differential works and then figure it out myself from there.

That suggests that it didn't just tell me how a differential works. It taught me how someone who needs to invent a differential should think about the problem.
Some HN readers can grok Japanese :)
So Zuck did his part by suppressing the alt-right on FB and not flying off to France. Was there someone else screaming on the bus?
Well, a GPU is a cluster of SIMD units with fast memory

A GPU thread variable is just like a SIMD lane, and a GPU warp variable is just like a SIMD vector register

Nvidia's SIMD instructions are called PTX and they are similar to AVX-512

An AVX-512 core is like a general purpose CPU with a 512-bit GPU core built in

So paying for a single AVX-512 core is like paying for part of a GPU, plus the general purpose compute you need to keep the GPU supplied with work

If you could divide the GPU up, you would lose most of the parallelism, keep all of the communication latency, and still need the drivers etc.

Would a hypothetical virtualized GPU be competitive with an AVX-512 core in terms of price/performance? I don't know, I haven't done the comparison
The fact that governments and critical staff use zoom is beyond me

Let's just hope future dirt will be exposed if it exists,and more than that people become aware, since it was well-known that zoom sells data to a lot of parties, CCP included, for almost a year and it basically meant nothing, besides the somewhat fortunate event that decent alternatives have been developed and now exist.
Yes! Programs can be much more efficient with non-blocking operations and a scheduler. This doesn't just benefit high performance web servers.

You gain some distinct advantages too by doing this, because you can then just run a single thread in your worker pool and if you ever need to make the program multi-threaded - god forbid - you can add locks to shared resources (or in Rust's case the compiler will help you with this) and then bump up the number of threads.

CPUs are really really fast today, I think engineers generally underestimate the amount of performance you can get with a single-thread and non-blocking I/O.

Async language constructs make this process a bit easier. The only issue IMO is that it is awkward to call async functions synchronously, or that it can have hidden costs to do so. I think languages will improve on this.

I believe on Linux, using non-blocking system calls on threads can help reduce expensive context switches too... whereas spawning multiple threads and having them use blocking system calls can cause more context switches.

I will say though.. I've seen developers just async-ify everything in codebases without thinking about why or if it is beneficial.
It’s nice to hear someone “on the inside” say that.

I fully support offering degrees that train you for the practical aspects of software engineering without wasting time on things you’re unlikely to ever use in that field. At the same time, one of these things is not like the other, you can’t call them the same.
Data collection. unfortunately its not avilable online
Unless you're sunburned, dehydrated, have been drinking... Fighting cancer, etc
Unsure if related, but I cannot open my pending ticket with them. Direct link redirects to the main page with the message:

"Apple support options are currently limited. Thank you for your patience and understanding."
I'll definitely have to check this out – thanks.

Interesting to hear a Lisp interpreter was implemented in NScripter. As anyone who has programmed in NScripter will attest – it's not the easiest language to work with. Although it has a lot of useful built-in commands for creating visual novels, it's essentially a low-level language (especially inspired by assembly language). You have to handle program flow manually – no for loops, while loops, and no proper if statements. There are very primitive forms of variables, but no complex data structures. You can extend functionality using Lua, however.

I'm always amazed by what people have managed to do with NScripter, given its limitations and relative obscurity.
Printers being crap led to the Free Software movement and the GPL
This article seems to be from 2018 and the 90x is from $2 to $180.
I think that overstates the difference. I think a better analogy is architects vs. construction workers. Any decent architect will have a pretty strong understanding of the realities of construction, and an experienced construction worker who has moved around through different trades could probably design a decent house. But you'd only trust a trained architect on bigger, more complex projects, and you'd want disciplined, experienced construction workers doing the work on anything that is meant to last.
Amazon:

Dislike because of fake reviews and products. I stopped using them and mainly rely on its book reviews as 2nd source for recommendations + validation.

Solution might be to regulate and punish the abusers, not profit from them- a more trustworthy brand, not an abusive 3rd party online retailer could do the trick.
I ran into this trying to setup my new phone yesterday. It was annoying, and frustrating compared to the rest of the experience. For instance, I was shocked (and delighted) that I didn’t need to move my SIM card over.

But the sign in just failed, silently. It was especially annoying because my password is long and complex, and until I got my password manager installed I had to type it by hand. I eventually gave up and went about my day. It worked later in the afternoon for me.
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Why not just move the tires from the front wheels to the back?
Travel cancellation insurance is a thing that exists. It would be nice to see a travel cancellation insurance product which pays out based on the following automatically and easily verifiable outcomes:

1. Customer turns up.

2. Plane leaves within a certain range around scheduled time.

3. Plane arrives at destination.

4. Plane arrives at destination within a certain range around the scheduled time.

5. The price of the trip.

6. Weather events make things difficult.

Airlines could either integrate or not.

Maybe the premiums would have to be higher due to a higher occurrence of payouts, but maybe they wouldn't have to be so high due to the number of claims processing people you now do not have to employ.

Maybe I am oversimplifying.
More complicated functionality has moved to integrations/APIs in the past 8 years.

When you’re trying to ship an extensive application and building out features that few customers may ever use, types absolutely slow you down. When you’re integrating with a 3rd-party API, you have two differences:

1. relatively high confidence the API won’t change much, which makes implementing typed code lower risk and higher ROI

2. a slower feedback loop over the “reload the page” of rolling your own, so types catching issues earlier than heavy integration tests is much more valuable

I use untyped Ruby/Rails code for all of the CRUD, and golang AWS lambdas for anything integrating with SDKs/APIs. Best of both worlds, in my experience.
That’s funny. I completely agree, but at work lately I’ve come up against a religious fanaticism level of DRY and “we created an algorithm to match all these things”.

Great, you spent two weeks saving two percent of compute time and now only two people will ever be able to change this code. WTF?
I would like to see a cost comparison from true start to finish. What is the manufacturing/resource cost of making batteries? What is the efficiency or cost of producing the electricity to charge the batteries? How does this compare to making the photocatalyst and compressing and/or distributing the hydrogen compare? I remember seeing a breakdown of making batteries, distributing them, and charging them, compared with oil resource procurement, refining, and distribution. I'll take a look again, but does anyone have such a table reference? Thanks!
> On its face the law seems consumer friendly, but only when you try to use it, do you realize that you need to spend months/years wrestling with the company to get your measly few hundred euros back, and you might even need to engage a lawyer.

I don't understand how anyone can fall for this after all this time. It's the case with all law. The politicians are not there for the people.
Yeah isn't this why you should rotate your tires regularly?
> Resource webtor.io is not responsible for the content that was transmitted by users, and also for the possible harm that might be made.

That's not how any of this works, at all. If somebody does something illegal is it absolutely your responsibility and you must implement certain measures or penalties can follow (host can suspend you, DNS providers can kick you off, third parties shamed and cut ties with you).

If I post something illegal to this forum I'd expect it would be deleted and authorities contacted (and perhaps measures put in place to actively prevent harm from taking place at all, where possible).

The EU is taking hard line action against lawlessness online, this defense won't hold up ("sorry it was the users I'm innocent" ended many years back).