skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Locality: traditional runtime computations focus on Big O, the number of operations computed. However, for modern computing, moving data around in memory can be very time-consuming

I need to nitpick here... Big O notation is a way to describe growth rates of functions. You can count data movements (or anything else) with Big O.
It is hard to make an apples to apples comparison against Chrono Trigger, but you'd not be grossly wrong if you described BoW as having a 100X bigger map. It is also much, much more populated with things to do, enemies to beat, mushrooms to pick, etc.
Won't the record labels and other rightsholders have something to say about this concept?
The bears were there before the farms. If the farms are creating a lot of new moths that weren't otherwise there,

Another possibility is the moths were there before the farms as well, and the land they lived on now happens to have been turned into farmland. If that is the case than it's not as likely anymore that pesticides would bring an equilibrium. Maybe there were even more moths before it the land was one huge monoculture. (just spraying ideas here, I don't know what kind of land moths prefer nor if it really is a monoculture there)
There is a live HD zoomed video stream from the space station. Maybe someday they will catch one of these.
I grew up in India with an Indian language at home and school medium of instruction, English. I'm generally considered very good at written English (attested by great grades, scores, etc.) and good at articulation but average at getting spoken English correct. But I'm improving at spoken English as I live in the US. Dunno if your situation is similar.
Did anyone give GitLab's metrics feature a try? Is it comparable to Nagios, Zabbix and the like?
Indeed, the core concepts are essentially exactly the same. This is a lot simpler of course because it doesn't need to do anything with drawing or sound.

I really like this project https://github.com/juchi/gameboy.js/ . I'd like to do something similar myself but more in the coding style I've used on the 16-bit VM.
What other paradigm focuses on components with encapsulated state? Definitely not functional! Isn't any nounish "thing" with state an object anyways? Why else could it be?
Show HN: A simple SSH VPN client
Thanks, I've had mixed feedback about that choice!
Historically I was a supporter of nuclear power, but as time has gone on, I've been questioning this.

My belief in the technology hasn't changed. It's my belief in humanity that has faltered.

It's not the technology that needs improvement before it can be safely used.
Digital Nomad, Digital Expat or Digital Loser? The Big Debate
"Don't hire the average developer" tops the list of best practices.
For you and GP: it's not enough to claim that a criticism is ill-founded. You need to show how it's ill-founded.

Your defense in particular sounds a lot like an argument from authority.
This was discussed on HN recently, in a pretty nice manner actually: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14772926
>The job parity isn't the same, I don't honestly believe the rhetoric of "other jobs will be created over time in new sectors." You can do so much more with less and it's only going to get worse for rural and suburban communities because it appears Ecomm is mostly growing in large metro areas.

History shows other jobs are always created as we create better tools. If you think ecommerce or any other new trend is going to be different, the onus is on you to provide evidence.
I'm aware that Butterick is the author of several fonts, but this article has a surprising amount of vitriol from someone who should know that the choice of a programming font doesn't affect anyone but the programmer who chose it. During the article, he takes several opportunities to point out that his opinions are actually facts.

Typographers usually have a lot of responsibility because their decisions can affect the readability of text for many other people, and this is why sage advice from experienced typographers is usually very handy, but in this case, he's complaining about something that each individual developer has to manually opt into. This is outside the realm of normal typography that he has authority in. The editor settings of an individual developer are extremely personal. Developers don't follow trends just for the sake of it. They set up their environment in the way they believe is most productive for them, because they know only their output matters. If an individual developer believes they are more productive with Fira Code, that's nothing a typographer should lose sleep over. If I believe that I'm ten times more productive when I code in Papyrus, that's no one's business but my own.
1059027 bytes for the Shakespeare file? that's impressive. I tried something called "PAQ*" compression but it generated a file that was nearly 2MB...
Moreover, "moving data around in memory can be very time-consuming" means that in the end, it is still about time, not about memory.

So the correct way would be to translate memory access to time, but that means modelling the memory hierarchy, modelling caches in general, and finally perhaps modelling the specifically used caching strategies.
Yea, all the cool scholars are doing more important stuff like coming up with 100 new genders.
please develop, I'm actually interested by this kind of challenges too! :) What's your idea? like, asking people to output as much text as they can in 512kb or 1mb?
I've been squatting and deadlifting for around 12 years now and can't recommend them enough. Most of my gains cam from these compound exercises.

When I hit the gym I pretty much just organise my routine around the squat rack. It is barely used (everyone is busy doing bicep curls in front of the mirror) so it works out for me :)

PS: shameless plug - I recently created a workout tracker in react/redux. If you're looking for a simple app to track your progress check out https://ewolo.fitness !
Curious to know why you suggest the iOS app store first.

As an iOS indie dev, I'm looking more into Mac and Web first approaches. The reason being iOS keywords are increasingly difficult to rank for, and you have more modes of user acquisition outside of app stores.
Yes, cars, alcohol and food are _much_ more expensive in Norway, mostly due to taxation, and to a lesser degree the high cost of labour.

Norwegian income tax is subject to a lot of deductions, so in practice people will never pay the full whack. In fact the average income tax has been estimated to be under 30% http://www.smartepenger.no/skatt/653-skatteprosenter-pa-lonn... (Norwegian language article)
This is how priority transactions work.Increasing block size would allow more transactions per second. Less people would then pay for the premium of fast transactions as the normal transaction is fast enough
> Law enforcement was designed to protect people (or their property) from the actions of other people, not themselves.

Not true in countries where a very large portion of the taxes I pay go to free health care and unemployment grants.
If you are looking for something simple I can highly recommend Trello.

It is very flexible - you can label tickets, assign them and you even have git integration!
I wonder if the devices today that give us the high's causes the inattention, beit the buzz from getting a text message, the flashing lights and appealing sounds of the slot machines best exemplified in Vegas casino's where the ambient lighting is subdued and oxygen levels altered? When looking at the drugs given to people with ADHD, like Ritalin http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/addiction/ritalin/, dopamine seems to be a common connection, so are we all just dopamine junkies using legal highs like high strength coffee to get the hit, or even using what some might consider biological warfare thats been used since the ancient Egyptians have worshipped cats or rather the Toxoplasma Gondii parasite that breeds in cats that alter our personalities and dopamine levels https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21957440 .

Perhaps the cure to this inattention is to find way to reverse the effects of dopamine in a cyclic manner thats under our control? If the Las Vega's casino's can harness the environment to give their players the best possible experience, where time flies or rather falls on the scale of importance, maybe the educational establishments and work environments could be altered to create the best learning or working environments for maximizing learning potential or maximizing productivity or whatever metric is the most important. Whilst doping is banned in international sporting events, could and should environmental doping be banned in educational or work environments considering laws are doing this under the guise of safety when considering using phones behind the wheels of vehicles as one example?
Could Lithium be a way to cycle or reduce the dopamine effect http://news.mit.edu/2016/new-clue-how-lithium-works-brain-bi... and if true, are people who experience bi-polar moods more sensitive to the cyclical effects of dopamine and catecholamines, who may in turn be excellent experimental subjects? or maybe simply getting enough exercise and increasing our vitamin D levels may be the answer considering how little time the population in general exercises and has exposure to the sun? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12758062
Yeah, make the poor pay more

That's the solution!

They depend on government handouts or other donations and making them pay more will solve the problem now
> I've never heard a particularly convincing argument for using the Moon as a springboard to the wider universe as opposed to Venus

The mere fact that Venus has a thick CO2 atmosphere surrounding a surface with a temperature 872°F should be more than convincing, let alone the 90 atmosphere pressure and sulfuric acid clouds and all the other icing on the cake.
They make sure the bears use the right TPS cover sheet.
Hacker Uses a Simple Trick to Steal $7M
It's the people that make up a country

And the country itself
Ugh to answer the last line of the author: I have been using them for that long and the up and downsides are very well known to me. He has an subjective opinion about them, states them as facts 'and everyone who thinks differently is just stupid' OK author...
Because there are no "nounish" things. It is a false construct.

Also see Actor model or "out of the tarpit". Also Barbara Liskov "Programming with Abstract Data Type". Encapsulating state instead of behaviours is a mistake.
Silence, Comrad - you will blow our cell! Or are you working for Warden - Catapulthead-svinoi!
I got an error too
Solovay showed that assuming the negation of the axiom of choice, there exists a model of real analysis where all sets are measurable. So really you only need measure theory if the paper depends on the axiom of choice in some fundamental way. But would you really trust an economics paper that depended on the axiom of choice?

For me, a good analogy is with engineers and real numbers. Engineers use real analysis all the time. But the results of an engineering paper should not depend on the definition of a real number, nor should the engineer care.

Edit: Hamming made the point better than I can:

"Does anyone believe that the difference between the Lebesgue and Riemann integrals can have physical significance, and that whether say, an airplane would or would not fly could depend on this difference? If such were claimed, I should not care to fly in that plane".
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> Can we find a way to help law enforcement police at the very least the really, really bad stuff?

Much like strong end-to-end crypto has already made it extremely hard to investigate potential criminal activity via wiretapping, and will make it impossible in the future once it's ubiquitous, cryptocurrencies and decentralized markets will do the same to the ability of the governments to track crimes by following the money.

It's not really a good thing or a bad thing, it's just a thing. Regulating it is not feasible (you can ban crypto, but enforcing that ban is another matter entirely), so societies will have to adapt.

The more interesting question is, what does it do to the ability to tax. "Diamond Age" comes to mind...
Erlang in the meantime, functionnal and actor model, does have proofs.
Ligatures in programming fonts really seem like something you'd only get into in the midst of a hardcore procrastination bout.
Reminds me of going to summer camp as a child in Estes Park (north of Boulder). Every summer, dozens of moths would inhabit the cabins, attracted to kids' headlamps as we read books before bed. Kind of disincentivized people to stay up reading, and we all went to bed straightaway. Can't imagine there not being an armada of moths waiting in the wings.
Rent control works great when it cover the entire rental stock.

See e.g. Berlin vs LA:
https://goo.gl/aNHzGQ

In Berlin all rents are controlled by default[1]. And despite similar purchase prices, rental prices are half of LA's.

[1] only newly built units or those renovated for more than 1/3 the value of the unit are allowed to be rented without price restrictions. This keeps the vast majority under rent control.
The bit about wearables reminds me of this quote from Neuromancer:

> He stared through the glass at a flat lozenge of vatgrown flesh that lay on a carved pedestal of imitation jade. ... it was tattooed with a luminous digital display wired to a subcutaneous chip. Why bother with the surgery, he found himself thinking, while sweat coursed down his ribs, when you could just carry the thing around in your pocket?
At constant force, Musk's statement is exactly true:

s = W/F
v = P/F
I got this weird error too in my mac
Any of you have any idea of how much the images from planet.com cost?
I wonder- if a planet continuously lost atmosphere of the aeons, shouldn't there be a small swirl of gas spiraling out from that planet?

If that is the case, wouldn't it be enough to have a ram-scoop satellite harvesting it?
> In industry it does. Every major bank and hedge fund employs economists, and generally they have a pretty good grasp of what's going on. Of course those models are kept secret, much like trading algorithms.

How useful are those models, however? Without knowing much of the field, I do see the managed funds not outperforming index funds over the long term. Would the current run to the large unmanaged funds not demonstrate how limited their trade secret models are?

In the case of automatic trading models, occasionally running wildly off the rails, there is probably still value, in that it does something we otherwise could not. A hedge fund manager that fails to outperform the index over the long term is not providing any value, except perhaps in providing a social function.
These tools will go away. You can't put that genie back in the bottle.
The fact that they go on disk is a pro, not a con; and the fact that they're one character not multiple is also a pro and a not a con: what's the point of the individual characters? Those were merely introduces as a necessary workaround to cope with input limitations. Kind of like C trigraphs - and nobody uses those because they want to.
You could create a semi atmosphere- by Electrically Blowing Up Sand? Sort of like simulating Atmosphere with a shotgun blast?
Q: Should random people on the internet dictate what you do and like? A: Hell no

I quite like the ligatures that come with Fira Code, and most of the author's issues are not applicable to it.

Maybe they should spend more than 5 minutes trying things out.
A lot of great music from the Maritimes can be found on the Thistle and Shamrock public radio program and website. Podcasts and live streaming are available.

The hour-long radio program airs Saturdays at 2pm locally in San Francisco on KALW-FM 91.7.
Yeah, Verdana is not great. I used to use Georgia, but when I started doing more on OSX I found that it didn't render well in all apps - the character strokes were too skinny. It looked great in Windows though.

For the last couple of years have been using Trebuchet MS. It's not designed specifically for programming, but it has many of the attributes of a good coding font, in particular all of the easily confused characters like 0Oo and 1Il are easily distinguished.

The one thing I don't like about Trebuchet is that it has a really terrible tilde (~). Sometime I will sit down with a font editor and swap in a better tilde.

I tend to use largish fonts on a high-DPI display, and Trebuchet really looks nice with that setup, both on Windows and macOS.

Someone else recommended Input, which is designed for programming and comes in both proportional and monospaced variants. When I tried Input it didn't look as nice as Trebuchet MS to my eyes though.

That will give you a few to try out!
Persistence of Long-Term Memory in Vitrified and Revived Simple Animals
Ask HN: .co/.io-domain vs. .com-domain
Hi HN,
Please forgive me if this has been asked before, but searching for this topic I could only find topics from several years ago.

With many good .com-domains taken nowadays, would you rather use a .co/.io-domain with a "good" name or a .com-domain with a "not so good" name for a product or business?
Thanks
Wow you weren't kidding. I have no opinion on the matter but that's just arrogant.
I think you are doing a "brand split" - i.e. the terminology has been co-opted by branding to mean something, almost, what it used to mean.

SSD as a "consumer label" means really fast upgrade to a modern PC, one could argue.

But solid-state-disks are a subject as old as the hills, and the phrase really doesn't necessarily mean performance, at all. It'd be better to describe it as "no-moving-parts storage", I suppose - less "brand theft" going on.
100 times more energy would result in heat dissipation problems. The stock human body runs at roughly 100W, the brain runs at around 20W or 25W. So it'd probably be worth it to upgrade a brain at your ratio, but I'd need confidence that the engineering problems are solvable. (2kW of power for the 100x brain cost, times 24 hours, would cost me about $5 a day if I bought it as electricity... $2000/year... pretty affordable).

I'd glaaaadly take a 10% brainpower upgrade that required 100% extra energy, though. I can afford the extra 500 kCal per day of food intake. My understanding is that most first-worlders like their food enough that they'd take a 0% improvement in trade for being able to eat another 500kCal per day of food without weight gain.

I mean, all that assumes that a "10x stronger brain" actually results in a useful performance upgrade. That part is pure fantasy speculation.
Hewitt never said actors weren't objects, quite the opposite actually. Heck, simula (the first OOP language) objects were very actor like.

Grand parent is talking specifically about encapsulating state and not just behaviors.
I have added a section about this question to the post. Let me know what you think :)
China's Xinjiang Residents Are Being Forced to Install Surveillance App
If we move away from optimal, then energy needs are likely not gone g to SoCal linearly. And ya, some of that extra energy wil,be used for cooling and such.

I would take the 10% upgrade also, but if everyone did...well...it could become a problem. As food isn't transformed into energy uniformly, obesity could still be a problem.
> they should never be used for showing code in an public or explanatory context

This I can definitely agree with.

The readability issue, in my opinion, is fine and coarse grained.

If I'm scanning my own code, having ligatures on is quicker for me to understand and is ultimately more readable. But (and this is a large but), when editing my own code, ligatures are useless and in the way. Thus I set my editor to remove all ligatures on active/highlighted lines.
The new beta navigation is so much better than the current navigation model. The navigation context is now easier to see and I find the colour quite attractive. :)

I can't wait until it is enabled by default in future versions.
Adding or removing individual SQL modes in MySQL's sql_mode variable (2014)
I'll check into that. The mandatory registration thing is a turnoff...
Being desensitised to humans is not necessarily a problem. The problems occur if humans are seen as threats (which they probably will if they are unused to humans), or more importantly, if humans are seen as a food source. That's when things easily become dangerous. As long as the bear managers don't bring snacks to their meetings, it should be OK.
How to renew your drivers licence online in NSW, Australia
Wow, I was under impression that a mama bear is quite protective of its cubs. How do they get near without getting attacked and driven away?
I had to renew my drivers licence online as i'm overseas. I was blocked on account registration by Javascript errors so i made this guide to help others work around the poorly maintained site.
I have an Oric-1/Atmos configuration, with a Cumulus peripheral, so I have another architecture example of this kind of things.

The Oric-1/Atmos is a very small, underpowered little machine from 1982, using a 6502 CPU with 48k of RAM and little else. It wasn't a super successful machine, but yet .. it lives on. (8-bit revival is awesome, btw!)

The Cumulus is a PIC-based peripheral which emulates the Atmos' disk systems - which were extremely difficult to get, if you were an Oric user back in the day (I was) - and as a result of modern hackers keeping the 8bit spirit alive, we have had "SSD on Ancient Computer (LOL)" for some years now.

This is a machine with, at most, 48k of RAM. Attached to a machine more than 8x more powerful than itself, which function is simply to emulate a very archaic storage system.

This storage system provides the little 48K CPU running at 1MHZ with 16 GIGABYTES of storage.

The problem is neither that there are bottlenecks, nor limits to storage, any more.

The problem is, as it has always been, what the hell to do with it, and .. well the answer is, keep running the machines, and keep writing software for it:

http://oric.org/software/

See also, this:

http://forum.defence-force.org/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=1273

EDIT: The wonderful Cumulus:

https://retromaster.wordpress.com/cumulus/
And why should that work in the sense of creating a fitter organism?
> In the 1800's and early 1900's, immigration was open and considered nowadays to be one of the great processes that got america to be what it is.

That is incorrect. Before the Hart-Celler act in 1965, immigration was restricted to European countries with a quota system based on national origin. We even had health checks and required residency of up to 14 years before citizenship was granted (changed to 5 years with the Naturalization Law of 1802). Up until the 1960's, America was about 90% white, so 1800's to early 1900's immigration law has very little to do with "what it is" today.
mysqlpump is a terrible product, both in the implementation and the design, in particular:

- it will create broken backups for databases with triggers; the bug has been open for more than an year;
- it breaks compatibility with the `mysqldump` output format, since it adds the database name to the table names (without the option to avoid this);
- it has an unclear product placement: it's not a subset of mysqldump (it has functionalities added), but it's not a superset either (it has functionalities missing).

The status of the mysql dump/restore tools is, in general, very underwhelming.

The Percona mysqldump version adds a switch for improving innodb indexes re-creation on restore (by moving the ADD KEY after the records insertion), but it's never been merged upstream.

Also, the pattern table matches is extremely useful for cases where it's required, but it's not clear why they added it to mysqlpump rather than to mysqldump.

Mysqlimport has a limitation (bug?) which prevents tables with mixed UTF-8 data and JSON columns to be imported (!!).
I work with someone who uses them and I find it impossible to read his screen. Unless you work completely alone, it's a terrible idea.