skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure why HN is so market friendly, but when it comes to nuclear power, most are very much in favor.

Although nuclear power is the most market distorted energy production there is. If societies - see Fukushima - wouldn't pay for the risks insurers don't take and heavily subsidize nuclear power profiting energy global companies, there would be no nuclear power.

If as a startup I'd get that amount of money from our government, I would have no need for customers.

So hurray for free markets and that Germany stopped this nonsense.
That's not true. I'm pretty sure they only include people who has some interaction with the app, in phone the app needs to be in foreground.
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But AFAIK LED brightness is usually controlled by pulse-width modulation, which is essentially adding flicker.

There are people with flicker sensitivity that have headaches when exposed to flickering light. A link to a HN discussion that touched the problem of PWM and flicker in the comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13330611
That is just the WWW site root. The announcement proper is at https://devuan.org/os/debian-fork/stable-candidate-announce-... .
A simple fix I'm thinking about would be IMDB simply ignoring all the pre-release ratings once the film has been released and received a number of more reliable ratings.

Additionally, they might ignore all ratings from people who clearly submit fraudulent ratings.

It's not fool-proof, because you can still use throw-away accounts to nuke the ratings after release, but it would fix and discourage the most obvious fraud.
git is also a really bad name, and I've had awkward conversations with hiring managers about it in the past ("You want someone with experience in... what?!"). ("git" is a mild oath in British English, for those who don't know. I think Linus did know.)

But the reason that people don't complain about the name every time git is brought up is because git comes up in conversation a lot. CockroachDB is also a really bad name - I do agree - but the reason almost every thread about it on here is partially derailed by chatter about its name is, I think, simply because it doesn't come up all that often.
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Im too lazy and on a phone but you gotta trust me on this one.
Amazing and well-detailed video - kudos to Tom!

One question - what, if any, is the difference between the NES's PPU (Picture Processing Unit) and today's GPU?
Of course, people come out of the woodwork to say that "Hey, it's not THAT hard! All I had to do was work hard and everything worked out!" while ignoring the privilege / wealth / community they were fortunate enough to grow up in.

Even having the OPPORTUNITY to achieve is a massive amount of privilege.

Grow up poor and talk to me about coin flips. Have a lazy alcoholic chain smoking father and talk to me about coin flips. Be sexually abused for years on end and tell me about surviviorship bias.

Have your parents asking you for loans because you are the only person in the family making any money, instead of your parents being a source of stability in your life, and talk to me about coin flips.

Basically be total trash surrounded by the extremely privileged developer community and talk to me about how hard work and dedication pays off.

The coin flips are more than just you running your business and the thousands of hours you've put in. It's the environment you've grown up in, it's your wealth and stability, it's the early education you were lucky enough to receive, it's knowing that if it all goes to hell you can always crash on your parents couch and get a job doing something similar somewhere else. Not all of us won that coin toss. ;D
Ask HN: Software for templated emails?
A while ago I gathered email adresses to > 100 tech journalists and bloggers to pitch an iOS app. Each email needed to reference a specific article written by the journalist (relevant leads only) and a generated promo code.

Manually writing each email was off the table, and using something like MailChimp or Mailgun would have been awkward (or impossible), so I wrote Enmasse – an app that creates email compiled from text templates and JSON data.

There’s a fancy video example at https://beckman.io/enmasse

Here’s the thing: I’m planning on turning this into a web service, but I’d love to hear other ways how people deal with templating emails. Maybe a tool like exists but I just haven’t found it yet? Are there specific tools for marketers that I’m unaware of? Someone wrote an excel script...?

Thanks!
> Although drivers, especially libpq (no pipelining, no mixed binary/text results), are more frequently an issue.

The Go lib/pq driver is some pretty old Go code and has numerous similar problems. We try to keep it moving along but it's got some stuff that makes it hard to work on.

> One thing I was wondering whether you might also be interested is something like 'commit identifiers' (WAL LSNs in pg's case) for slightly relaxed consistency models. That allows things like committing on one node, and when later doing queries on replicas specify that data needs to have replicated at least up to that identifier.

CockroachDB is always serializable. It is linerizable on individual keys. We've discussed having a causality token before that could be passed to other transactions or connections that I think would allow for more linerizable guarantees. If I'm understanding your question correctly then yes, I think these would be very useful to us. (I've asked someone more familiar with our consistency model to address this more because I'm not confident in the accuracy of my reply.)
Many neighbourhoods did not convert to sodium lights until the 70s and 80s.

For the better part of the 20th century we used mercury-vapor street lights, which bathed the streets in soft blue light. The complete lack of red wavelengths in these lights would make a red car look black, and made humans look like vampires.

The animals and the humans will be just fine.
MySQL is a topic of discussion on the systemd-devel mailing list right now, coincidentally.

* https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2017-Ap...
There is nothing whatsoever in the link you've posted which contradicts anything in my comment above. What's more, some of that does not add up:

> Most likely, it would have occurred in the same way if Germany had not phased out nuclear and promoted renewables.

Yes, if Germany both did not have renewables and also had not phased out nuclear, the amount of energy generation from coal might have remained the same. But if they had not phased out nuclear but kept the renewables, the energy generation from coal would not have kept the same, because they would have had the nuclear to use instead of the coal.

And another really silly comment here:

> Nuclear plants are gradually shutting down, but what is missing is a mechanism to retire the coal industry.

If the sun is not shining and the wind is not blowing, you can't generate electricity from solar panels and wind. So you can't phase out coal or nuclear power and replace it with solar or wind, because there is no way to store the electrity. It has to be generated on demand. Already wind power in Germany is oversupplied and they are paying people to switch off the turbines.

And here, repeating the same nonsense again:

> In Germany it took a long time for renewable energy not to be portrayed anymore as a niche activity, unable to provide large-scale power. In international debates this notion still seems commonplace. Mistakenly, as we have tried show.

And you've failed, because you've completely ignored the issue of supply and demand. There has to be either a way to store the electricity, or a way to generate electricity when the sun is not shining and wind is not blowing. The only way to store electricity which isn't pie in the sky is hydro, and Germany doesn't have enough hydro capacity to store the electrity, and won't have it because of geography.

> Important issues still need to be solved, such as safeguarding security of supply with high shares of volatile renewables

Which is what the coal is doing, now that the nuclear is switched off, and the whole of the rest of the article is not worth the pixels it's printed on.
Because a) it's a tax, and b) it would impact gasoline prices, and thus their freedom to drive everywhere.

I.e. the very reasons it should be introduced.
I never ever found disqus bad as a user interface, it was swift and efficient. I had no idea about the amount of tracking though.
Where did you find that color temperature bulb? Around here, the best I can find is in the 3000-35000K range.
I was thinking of exactly this as I read the article.

In a situation like this I'd probably directly ping taviso or someone else from the Google Project Zero team. Their contact information (email, G+, twitter (DM)) is not impossible to get at.

From there, I could get advice about next steps (the Project Zero team are going to know a few people) or maybe they could run with it themselves (depending on the bug; I don't know what the response would have been in this case).
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> Is there really anything to add that couldn't be done as a library

Yes. One example is tail call elimination. Without that being standardized, programmers are dissuaded from writing recursive code. And it can't be added with a library.
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"Perhaps Holmes should call up the folks over at Magic Leap, they know a thing or two about getting busted for fake demonstrations and overselling technology." [1]

[1] http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/04/theranos-staged-fake-bloo...
I understand that the box reflects the file changes, however that does not really help me.

I need an Linux Dev environment, that includes all the tools for emacs. I used to just live in the VM, but current performance is terrible, so I'm trying to see what my options are with just connecting to the VM from the host and editing from the host. That means though that all the tools are on the VM (REPL, etc) so I need to find a way to connect running emacs instance in the VM
while there is an explicit delineation between the internal `kv` package[1] and the overarching `sql` one[2], your specific concern regarding a query optimizer is not strictly an isolated component at this moment in time. query optimizations, last I checked, was not an explicit pre-processing stage but rather done so when constructing the AST representation of the query with each node being an `iterator` as described in the Volcano Evaluation System paper[3]. there was some work underway to move towards an intermediate representation[4] to go through the standard query optimizations, no context into how far along this effort is.

[1]: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/tree/master/pkg/kv

[2]: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/tree/master/pkg/sql

[3]: https://paperhub.s3.amazonaws.com/dace52a42c07f7f8348b08dc2b...

[4]: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pull/10055
Lithographer's tape. Unfortunately not currently available.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000QDRVNA/

Well, there's some Scotch brand, here:

https://www.amazon.com/3M-Scotch-616-Lithographers-Tape/dp/B...
It's not an everyday platform. It was created to compete with/replace the terrible systems FBI and others have spent billions on without results. It's used by large corporations, nonprofits and domestic and foreign governments to make sense of intelligence. It's like Google for intelligence... can be used to find human traffickers, LAPD infiltrating political groups or other govts assassinating journalists.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/nitashatiku/protest-palantir-muslim...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-11-22/palantir-...
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I wouldn't automatically jump on the conspiracy-theory bus: SOX and other regs for public companies are a great deal of work (while they provide some assurance to investors). Private companies get to keep more things secret, choose what/whom to reveal certain details and don't have to do as much reporting/audit, although it's still a good idea.
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Why is this downvoted? it's true : https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/theranos#/entity
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Such a disappointment. Wunderlist was the best in a very crowded market. It would have been ok if they had launched with something comparable to what it intends to replace. But this is missing so many key features (yes, many are planned) that it is a huge let-down to long-term paid-up users.
You don't say? Can you cite any recent high profile examples of that kind of behavior in public officials?
Better: Load Disqus comments on demand when pressing a button. Have seen this approach on some websites. The usage of GitHub for comments seems really wrong for me. Then better opt out with a system like Isso.
That doesn't work because each of the trackers needs to receive their own cookie in the request to properly track users across sites.
palantir might be "Google for Intelligence", but judging by previous discussions on HN it looks like it's actually "Accenture for Intelligence".

I.e. they don't seem to have scary innovative technology as much as a horde of people doing integration work (and some good reusable tools)

See discussions from 1 year ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11646587

And 2 years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8872054

Google for Intelligence is what they have been selling, but it's unclear they have actually delivered.
Hmmm... I hate to say it, but spoken like someone who's never been out of work against their will for any length of time.

I realise you're trying to make an argument in defence of the welfare state but you sound like you're suggesting that people should just accept their own obsolescence and be grateful for government handouts. Most people would have a tough time swallowing that and I can't say I'd blame them.
For all those fondly recalling learning Scheme first, allow me to provide the opposite perspective (kind of).

Learning Scheme as my first language scared me away from programming for years. Yes, solutions to problems were often elegant and puzzle-like, but accordingly, the tools and patterns often felt constrained and roundabout. For example, consider recursive patterns vs conventional looping patterns.

In that class I often felt I wasn't learning a 'real' production programming language, but rather a language designed to teach me programming concepts.

To that point, I think Python offers a much more robust and straight forward tool set, while also being friendly enough for the young developer to sink their teeth into.

However, in retrospect I was just a bratty kid, who was learning a lot of valuable fundamentals. I'd like to think some of those have stuck with me to this day, esp. as functional patterns have come into vogue.
We had been using S3 in the past and needed to move to Swift due to high cost of S3. Our integration just took a day. Most of the things went smooth and as far as I remember, only some of the meta properties were different, that's all. I can't recommend Swift highly enough.
Several years ago this was a big issue in Los Angeles for filmmakers - there was a distinct look that people expected from a night scene in Hollywood, sunset, or pretty much anything in LA. Filmmakers would hunt down the last few neighborhoods to switch and film there before the streetlights turned blue.

Now to get the same effect, you've got to provide your own lighting.
An alternative that is much easier to adopt, is to use unexpected-check http://unexpected.js.org/unexpected-check/
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There's no reason to use a low-frequency carrier for PWM. Drive the LED at a multi-kHz speed and it's fine.
A chrome extension that would pull data from Google Sheets would be nice.
Bluetooth headphones are more likely to be the long-term solution, no cord to damage, get tangled, etc. And BT is a widely implemented standard.
I remember discussing this with a German acquaintance in the early 90s. Extremely anti-nuclear because of Chernobyl and the food contamination scares in its aftermath, and it didn't seem like a niche view at the time. Presumably that legacy lives on.
Hadn't heard about the movie but now I for sure look forward to watch it.
> git is also a really bad name,

That's stretching it a bit too far. Just because it's a "mild oath" in British english, doesn't mean it's bad name for rest of the world. I for one have never heard about it and don't think git is a bad name at all.

Cockroach, on the other hand, I don't know of anyone who would get a good image in their mind hearing it.

So you think if people keep saying cockroach a lot, suddenly cockroach will magically become some nice clean creature in people's mind? That's like saying if you keep saying "ShitDB", someday people will think it's a good name.
Hey, don't you dare give them any ideas! We're barely done finishing up with the current standards' implementations...
Where have you been for the past 5 years? (-:

(By the way, the mis-spelling "SystemD" has become a shibboleth over those years. Spell the name properly, lest you find yourself lumped in with the pot-stirrers and provocateurs by the rest of the world.)

There was a whole hoo-hah in Debian over what to replace System 5 rc with: upstart, OpenRC, systemd, or something else. It got raised to the Technical Committee, sparked several resignations, went to a vote of the entire Debian Developer membership, and lasted for a long time.

* http://jdebp.eu./FGA/debian-systemd-packaging-hoo-hah.html

Contrast Debian with Arch:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11834348
Let's not jump to conclusions: Waymo maybe looking to sharp-elbow into ride-sharing. These are still allegations and there's no verdict/settlement yet.

In general, the bigger the venture, the bigger the damage of acting dishonestly and the bigger the bulls' eye for lawsuits painted on the side. Uber, being the category first-mover, is going to attract a lot of hate by being giant and uncool, even without the political endorsements.

It would be great if Lyft, Uber and Waymo did ride-sharing and were as honest/socially-responsible as possible. That would be better competition for selfish passengers like me. I prefer Lyft these days but may look at Uber again if they show they a consistent pattern of honorable behavior.
Let's not jump to conclusions: Waymo maybe looking to sharp-elbow into ride-sharing. These are still allegations and there's no verdict/settlement yet.

In general, the bigger the venture, the bigger the damage of acting dishonestly and the bigger the bulls' eye for lawsuits painted on the side. Uber, being the category first-mover, is going to attract a lot of hate by being giant and uncool, even without the political endorsements.

It would be great if Lyft, Uber and Waymo did ride-sharing and were as honest/socially-responsible as possible. That would be better competition for selfish passengers like me.
I remember this when it first came out. The sequencing combinators are a bit like Occam's SEQ and PAR, though with the difference that just one of their arguments will succeed.

A couple of years later I worked at a startup with a DSL which worked on similar lines (closer to Occam) but introduced the notion of a "race" (somewhat like the parallel combinator in Webl) so that a number of parallel tasks could be terminated by the one that finished first (possibly some kind of timeout). Occam doesn't have that notion at all. Nor does Esterel, or any other similar language that I know of...
He's saying those people need to find a new socially beneficial purpose, and that having a dole keeps their families from starving while they do so.

It's a fact some jobs will become obsolete over time, and those people should be happy that the dole is there to pay for their retraining rather than letting them starve when their craft becomes obsolete. It sucks for them their trade died, but how is it remotely bad the government helps them stay afloat so they can retrain?

No one is saying they should just linger doing nothing.
It is not crazy. I'm fairly certain though, it won't reach the adoption you imagine.

Why would a nation ever adopt anything like this? Can you give me a scenario?
Cit. " In general, the procedure works best for other European languages like French, Portuguese and Spanish. "

[I am easily wrong but] may the highest "similarities" be due to the neolatin root of some european languages ?
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> If societies - see Fukushima - wouldn't pay for the risks insurers don't take and heavily subsidize nuclear power profiting energy global companies, there would be no nuclear power.

Nuclear power is much less subsidised than solar power or wind power. The whole solar panel industry would not have existed without endless subsidies. As for the risks, nuclear remains the safest form of power.

http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energ...
> The business goal (the product itself) is 10000x times better than Groupon.

To illegally set up a non-compliant taxi service that doesn't pay taxes, that doesn't pay minimum wage to its employees, that has been banned already in several countries, that ignores human safety introducing illegally self-driving cars, it is not a very good business model.
Tom also built Learnfun and Playfun, which was Lexicographic
Ordering applied to... playing video games.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom7/mario/

Truly awesome stuff.
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