skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is somewhat covered by other comments, but it's not made explicit enough.

Is async-style the best possible tradeoff to achieve the best result when programming with blocking calls?

The fact that you should not be applying the same approach to a very similar problem (blocking CPU-bound code) kinda sucks, which means that you need to be employing multiple concurrency approaches in the same program.

I am all for syntactic sugar to make concurrency easier and less error prone, but I'd prefer it if the same approach trivially worked for all sorts of concurrent functions without heavy penalties to execution.
Well, if people can even successfully defend against murder charges if they acted in self-defense, to preserve one's own life, why should they not be able to defend against piracy/drug laws if the alternative is death? Some medicines are too expensive, in absence of a proper public health system, and being unable to pay means certain death to some people.
Reputational damage for the government?
This could be a really cool teaching platform if they would provide a more robust physics emulation (including the gyroscopic effects you mention) as well as direct interface to a simulated RCS control system with realistic operating inputs and constraints (eg you ask for a 120ms burn at 75% throttle and you get 125ms at 85%). Then gamify various operations like IIS docking, JWST repair mission, deorbiting X37 via momentum transfer.
I've never considered all the different combinations, but it is definitely quite a lot of work, and I'm planning on adding more.

My goal with this is to help developers and teams of any level, from beginners to experts, quickly get started building the highest quality product(s) they possibly can. I want to raise the bar and eventually set a new standard of DX and UX for both developers and end users.
Low but that isn't the point. Given the restrictions ordinary Australians have lived under and the vaccination rate (90%+ of those eligible) it's simply politically untenable to allow someone to bypass the entry rules.

It's not like Australia hasn't been utterly clear on its stance for months, he had plenty of time to remediate his vaccination status.
> Many of the types of analysis listed here are elemental analysis only, which are useless for trying to identify pharmaceutical analytes or determine their concentration.

That's mostly true, but if a pill has significant amounts of lead, arsenic, and mercury in it, you know something went wrong, and you shouldn't take it. Even XRF might be enough to allow you to safely use lead-based or arsenic-based catalysts in your synthesis.

> Out of all of these, microfluidic liquid chromatography is the least science fiction. There's plenty of literature about it but nobody really "has it working", and the reality is that it's not likely to ever have the same capability as benchtop HPLC.

Thanks! Can you think of any other plausibly miniaturizable general-purpose analysis techniques? Those are just the ones I came up with off the top of my head. I think microfluidic liquid chromatography doesn't actually have to run faster than the bear, just faster than color-changing DanceSafe test kits.

As for science fiction, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29816434 talks a bit about how today's science fiction is tomorrow's old news.
While I agree with the move (your face or name should have nothing to do with whether you get service) I see one potential problem.

If I was black I would probably prefer to be upfront denied than rent a place from somebody that is very racist and face possible problems from an unhinged owner.

I don't see a better solution here but maybe somebody else does.
There was a hardcore "Revive Arecibo" workgroup at two recent astronomy conferences. That telescope made important data contributions up to the end, despite its age. Alas, probably a pipe dream, since NASA/NSF has limited funding for all the fantastic stuff in the pipeline already.
It's the same culture these days in bikepacking and one bagging really.
As another commenter points out: it would send the message that the rich and famous get to ignore the rules everyone else follows.
>Essentially you end up with a home inside a shell.

Which then works against the headline design goal: a house that lasts for 1000 years. How many times would you need to rip down and replace the interior shell? How much more difficult would be demolition if you can't use large equipment and smash the whole lot flat, but instead doing by hand from inside, carefully avoiding damage to the outside shell?
Why has the value of Bitcoin dropped during the same time frame? Would a decrease in hash rate create scarcity in new coins, and push up value? Or is the creation of new coins so few that they have no impact on price anymore?
Activision goes to court to stop Call of Duty cheat software
Honestly that's because of hardware suppliers. Don't buy hardware without Linux support and this problem goes away. Windows, through sheer market power and mindshare, has created a situation where most hardware just works on Windows. This is not a rational expectation for other OSes. Trying to run Linux on a random Windows laptop is more or less like trying to run OS X on it. If it doesn't work that's on you
> Chretien was fully prepared to join in until it became very clear from protests and polls

I don't have a reason to believe this is false, but do you have a reliable source confirming this?
The answer I really want to give, but which isn't very helpful, is: go to a bookstore or to Amazon, find something that looks interesting to you, and buy it.

Don't worry about buying the right book at the right time, or if you'll like it in 50 years, or whatever. You'll have plenty of chances to get this right in the future.

The possibly more helpful, but self-promoting answer: I did a post twelve years ago on my personal blog about ten (plus five) books that were major influences on me. Many of those (11 out of the 15) are non-fiction, and you might get an idea or two from that list.

https://www.sportsfirings.com/?p=1401
I don't see any arguments beside cheap meta and labels from your side (which seems to be pretty characteristic of the people pushing the current vaccine campaign).

>Arguments like "clearly fail to control the spread" are low effort Gish Gallops that need to be treated as such.

The failure to control the spread has been obvious for at least half-a-year for anybody doing simple arithmetic on public numbers (and like others i have commented on that as far back then). Now beside being obvious, it is also confirmed by a proper scientific publication

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02689-y

" A person who was fully vaccinated and then had a ‘breakthrough’ Delta infection was almost twice as likely to pass on the virus as someone who was infected with Alpha."

"Unfortunately, the vaccine’s beneficial effect on Delta transmission waned to almost negligible levels over time. In people infected 2 weeks after receiving the vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca, both in the UK, the chance that an unvaccinated close contact would test positive was 57%, but 3 months later, that chance rose to 67%. The latter figure is on par with the likelihood that an unvaccinated person will spread the virus."
Italy extends Covid vaccine mandate to everyone over 50
I told Github management about the warrant.

They did not report his location to the authorities and allowed him to work across state lines without any changes to his employment agreement.

I later asked Github HR what their policy on domestic violene is. This is what they sent.

"Microsoft is committed to working with employees who are victims of domestic violence to prevent abuse from occurring in the workplace. Employees who are concerned about violence occurring in the workplace should immediately discuss their concerns with the Human Resources (HR) manager assigned to their group. The Microsoft Global Security group can provide guidelines and suggestions for increasing your safety in the workplace.

Employees who are experiencing domestic violence outside of work are encouraged to seek assistance from Microsoft Cares. Microsoft Cares provides information regarding counseling and treatment resources. Perpetrators of domestic violence are also encouraged to seek assistance from Microsoft Cares.

In some situations, employees may be eligible for time off work or other accommodation to manage medical issues and other negative consequences arising from domestic violence. Contact Benefits for more information."

They officially accommodate "perpetrators of domestic violence" as Microsoft-owned Github.
That's a really nice piece of hardware. 16:10 display.

If only they used four keys in a row for left|down|up|right instead of having extra-wide left/right keys and half height up/down ones.
Is that the reason for Friedman “leaving” GitHub?
I'm still confused, because I don't know how that connects to your question "Could covid not actually be just a disease?", because it clearly is as it's affecting people. If we assume that the cold is a disease so is COVID, by the same criteria. Is the cold not just a disease? If so, what is just a disease?
We call them 'Amholes'.
This required grant money to study? I’m not sure what the payoff is here. Or maybe it was simply that... a payoff.

If the article is going to claim that social networks have a huge influence on the mechanics of the game of naming, they should at least seek to explain how. All I got from the text was “We tried it and it just worked”.
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2023 seems like it’s about the right time to start launching mass market EVs. For as much hype as they have, EVs are still something purchased by early adopters.
Novi battery maker sends Tesla S to the U.P. and back on one charge
Is the news source actually a google drive document?
Lazy thinking, IMO. It's the sort of concept a child might come up with because it is so "simple". If you think about it for more than 5 minutes you see the problem, but it's too late, the lazy thinkers have mandated it.
Plastic liberated and entombed us
I suspect this is troll bait trying to get exactly the reaction you've given. I find the best way to discourage this type of behavior is a simple downvote and move on.
Github management helped him evade arrest by not reporting his location even though they were aware of the warrant.
So far, my best experience has been on a LaptopsForLinux laptop. Every feature I expect to work on a laptop works (which is surprising when you're using Linux). I did try and buy another "made for Linux"-type laptop, which was some Entroware model, but I remember experiencing a lack of Hibernate and poor battery life.

I also tried a Dell XPS, but there were some BIOS problems, the keyboard layout was awful (which is not a Linux problem), and Hibernate was spotty at best.

Bad keyboard layout was also a problem with the Entroware.

Hibernate works perfectly on my LaptopsForLinux model. :+1: I just wish there was a keyboard protector in case I spill coffee on it.

Maybe laptop nirvana will finally be reached with the Framework when it finally reaches these shores. [EDIT] It has arrived.
? Not sure why that inference? Hashrate going down is something Bitcoin is designed to cope with. It adjusts accordingly and no harm done.
They have little in common. Gadfly is for statistical graphs, roughly in the style of ggplot. Makie is general purpose, roughly in the style of matplotlib, but (I believe) better designed, way faster (after excruciatingly slow compile), much easier to extend with custom functionality, and awesomely interactive. There is a ggplot/Gadfly-like library built on top of Makie called AlgebraOfGraphics (homage to GGplot).
If you're one bagging for any amount of time I highly recommend washing clothes while on your trip. A laundromat works wonders, but bar that I often bring some clothesline and hang clothes that I've washed in a dry bag. Unless you're camping in high humidity conditions, you should be fine.
Have you met the people in the city next to me? Honestly I probably care more about a lost cat. /s
Oh - maybe that is why Nat was shown the door at Microsoft. That would actually make a lot more sense than him randomly just leaving one day.
I am not telling the Bolshevik are right or that they are a success story, what I am telling is that no matter the actual fairness of stuff, if you don’t help your society eventually they will take our things by force.
Taxes are the price we pay to live in a civilized society
It is. Right now your mileage will vary depending on graphics driver, compositor (KDE and Gnome have their own), etc - but for me it worked pretty well. Wayland's not _quite_ polished.
We handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400
The blog is hosted on https://goteleport.com/ - the open source SSH implementation which natively supports 2FA.

Full disclosure: I work there, but I am not the author.
Perhaps once the strangling started happening, the phone lost it's importance.
The big insurance companies own, at least in part, the large pharmacies. Manufacturing drugs adds a risk bundle of appeasing regulators and liability for adverse effects from the drugs made.

Insurance companies are happy to be the buyer and seller as that is plenty profitable without the legal risk.
Restricting SSH Agent Keys
I co-develop a userspace FOSS DNS client for Android. If you only bother with UDP, you'll leak DNS over TCP. I've found adware to increasingly use TCP to bypass such naive DNS-based content blocking implementations: https://nitter.net/rethinkdns/status/1434137438901846020
As someone who has built and shipped lots of projects, both for work/startups as well as personal/side ones, I would say that most of the time with building/shipping products quickly, tons of corners are cut. It may not be obvious at first sight but you could see if you look for it. That's typically how one person can build and ship something in very short time. As a simple example, in HN, tech circles and the software engineering industry we talk about node, react, microservices, architecture design, etc. but when you're one person trying to ship a product, there's a high chance you're writing some basic HTML, jquery and some php backend, rather than a react SPA with SSR/SSG. (Not saying this is how OP did it, just in my experience how I and a lot of others did it)

You're also right that it's infinitely easier to build and deploy things in 2020 than it was in 2010!
Is there more to it than why fashion comes and goes? Sadly I don't have access to the actual article to read beyond the abstract saying "some people don't want to follow the mold"
Somewhat. If he had kept his exemption status private and had the appropriate documentation to support it there is a good chance he could have entered the country without fanfare. I think the problem stems from the fact that a) that documentation wasn't up to the level expected at entry and b) he and his associates made a big deal about his vaccination status, thus making it impossible for the government to make a special exemption - atleast without the support of the Victorian state government which had already made it abundantly clear the price of such endorsement was being fully vaccinated.
It's misleading to mix up anarchism and marxism-leninism. While both are anti capitalist, ML is the one where you're just replacing one hierarchy (economic power) with another (party membership). Anarchism is fundamentally against coercive hierarchy.
Same here, no thanks, I don't want to be an early tester who pays premium price. There may be nothing wrong with this but I'd rather pass for now.
Maybe so. But delistings probably wouldn't have a big impact on the 1-day results, and the analysis already concludes that Cramer's long-term returns are not good.
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No. Hash rate decrease does not alter coin emission (scarcity).
The Cares program is kind of the catch-all “I have a weird non-work issue I want help with”. You could ask HR/management what to do if you were under siege by zombie geese with chainsaws; they’d say to contact Cares.

I’m guessing if this guy actually contacted Cares, they’d be more likely to help him turn himself in without violence, than to arrange a getaway to Cuba.
I'm curious what drivers you've had to compile? The only ones I've ever had to compile were GPU drivers for very very recent cards. On my current laptop, the only thing that doesn't work is the fingerprint reader (which doesn't even have a driver, makes me sad) - everything else is built into all the distros I've tried (Ubuntu, Fedora, NixOS). I am pretty curious in what places is the driver story behind?
I honestly feel like you have way too many options. I went to select for some imaginary app.

I do appreciate your work, don't get me wrong, but maybe iteration couldn't be bad to happen. Talk to few people, see what they say.
Probably not, unless I was home schooling, or if there was a topic my child had a high degree of interest in that either wasn’t being covered in school or wasn’t being deeply covered. Or a area that they are struggling in.

A lot of kids don’t enjoy course work, getting them to do more (unless they showed a high interest in it), is probably not a battle most parents are going to want, let alone pay extra for. Of course we all want resources if our kids are struggling with a subject.
Yep, there's a reasonable chance this analysis suffers survivorship bias. Outliers whose stock-prices severally crashed are less likely to be represented. Hence, impactful sell recommendations are probably missing from the data, explaining why sell-side recommendations don't appear to to perform as well.
TIL. Never used that!
I've been slowly going through sound cards (Focusrite, MOTU, Rode) during the pandemic trying to find one that my work Windows laptop will detect. All of them have worked immediately plugged into Linux.
>"The trend has crept into new software and new web building technologies. Sometimes depending on what you are building your website with it is harder than ever to add RSS feeds."

Even though the water isn't boiling, the heat may still be on.
They seem to have a preprint here [1]
[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.13385
I feel the same way. But this "bashing" is good, maybe they(Amazon) see it everywhere and make them change for the better(at least a tiny bit).
I've been using a "screen" keyboard (the Lenovo Yoga Book) for ~5 years now and it's a big initial adjustment, but one you eventually stop even thinking about. Being able to free up your keyboard space for more screen space (or, for the LYB, use alternative inputs) is actually incredibly freeing for your device and workflow, IMO.

If this laptop is priced right, it'll be an instant-buy for me to replace this old boy. I might even start carrying around a small Bluetooth keyboard so I can get an even bigger screen sometimes. Being able to decide whether you want smaller, more portable devices and/or huge screens to dive into seems to be a trend with most foldables; I can't wait to see it (hopefully) become an option in laptops, too.
Popular JavaScript package “Faker” replaced with message about Aaron Schwartz
Yes that's my understanding as well.

Only the parts that are consumed in energy production (aka not physical elements in other products). Then the EIA kind of makes judgement calls where it's messy.

The difference is one is measuring ELECTRICITY (where 20% nuclear would make sense), and the other is TOTAL ENERGY (which is electricity + transportation + energy used in heating physical processes etc)

In terms of nuclear this link says 8 Quad BTU (out of who knows how many units in TOTAL ENERGY)
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=10

and the other says 20% of electricity

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3
You can't really escape the physics here, you need a very strong and very homogeneous magnetic field for NMR and very sensitive electronics to detect the signal. That's not something we can do for cheap right now.

And even beyond that I don't think the area has enough volumen and is competitive enough to produce significantly lower prices. The high-field NMR area is almost a monopoly right now, the benchtops and lower field instruments are somewhat competitive. But even those are in price areas far beyond someone doing synthesis at home.
Spam cannot be dealt with. Illicit material sticking around is a feature. There is an economic incentive for material that creates a liability for the “seeders” to not be kept around.

To give it as much credit as I can: individual peers could do their own content moderation, deciding what they do and don't want to be around, and if enough people decide something shouldn't be there, it'll basically drop out of availability. But that goes against the whole “market forces” philosophy that it's supposedly based on, and also goes against some of the claims that the proponents of these systems keep making.

It's just a bad system, not even taking into account the pointless CPU cycle wastage. Blockchains sort of make sense for something where each block is based on the previous, but for arbitrary pieces of data? Chaining them like that is faddish unless it brings real concrete benefits over just doing the same thing without blockchain.
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All of this is supported by wayland, caveat: nvidia and wayland do not play nicely at all.
I told Github management about the warrant

In what capacity? How did you come by your knowledge of the warrant?
Thank you I hadn't looked into a replacement, just thought RSS feeds infringed on some techno-gatekeepers fiefdom and had been deemed too dangerous to live.
> or better WFH policies

The main reason I stay in my job is that our department is pro WFH.
That Bob Nyquist has a pretty cool roguelike on github called Hauberk written in Dart, amongst a number of other good related dev articles and best practices on his blog.

https://github.com/munificent/hauberk

Edit: I realized the link to Hauberk is at the top of his article, but it's worth checking out; mostly complete, good ideas, cool use of color.
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Thank you for explaining!

Yes, I don't know if the current room-temperature superconductor material (which really is room temperature, 15°C) will ever be useful for this; it was only discovered in 02020, so it is very unlikely that anyone is using it in a product today, even if they find a way to apply the necessary pressure (267 GPa, thus requiring ultrahard anvils). You're probably thinking of something like YBCO, which is "high-temperature" in the sense you're describing, requiring only LN₂, not "room-temperature".

Costs change over time. There was a time when solar panels cost 100k USD, too. A lot of the costs you're describing are NRE; others are costs that can be reduced.
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This offer a more elaborate analysis in the original paper [1] which seems much more interesting than the article. And BTW, they mention they did not receive any funding :)

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.13385
> Using different DPI on a different screen in a multi-monitor setup (common case is when you connect a low-dpi monitor to a high-dpi laptop)

Linux definitely does support this.

I use this exact feature with Gnome and Wayland daily to combine a 4K XPS13 with a 27” 1440p monitor.