skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
[OP] Depends what you want. I amuse myself optimising cost/resource usage; I know it's playing at the margins. I think 'sharecropping' is a bit harsh... in this particular case, my Android phone is actually running AOSP, so by having a debian chroot it's not so different from running an old laptop 24/7 (admittedly with more binary blobs, but no Intel ME!).
I used to think the same, until I started using LAPACK extensively. It might look confusing at first, it may even be the most confusing api, except for all the others that are more confusing, and unusable from 3rd party platforms.

When I learned it, I realized that it is excellently designed.
Those links discuss the Bitcoin Cash fork. This article discusses a new, different fork in November.
No, Mg is used for alloyed aircraft wheels, so I'm sure its not like Mn.
You won't get any updates. Oh right, it makes no difference.
Sociopaths are violent, the coloquial use is actually reversed from the clinical use. Psychopaths are what most people who use "sociopath" mean. Sociopath != social psychopath. Sociopaths are 100% always violent and zero empathy. Terrifying people. Stab you for your cell phone scary, not politically outmanuever you or work in sales as a profession scary. Psychopathy is the spectrum in question, and it does increase as you get higher power jobs. The recipe for psychopathy would be high cognitive empathy, low emotional empathy, high need to control environment. A low IQ person with those characteristics might be violent or not, and probably adapts to those traits pretty poorly socially speaking. A high IQ person with those characteristics would figure out how to use them to their advantage. It isn't that you have to be a genius psychopath to be successful, it is just that being a genius and removing the constraint of caring about harm to others certainly helps.
Has anyone been able to get headless mode to work with socks5 proxy, yet?
Also I haven't seen any data on what happens if you break a bone in low or zero gravity. Would it even heal?
Remembering to turn off or disable/delete cloud resources is a thing of the (very distant) past: you can automate away that problem with ease. AWS provide free services for doing this.
Some cultures have hard time admitting, for example, that societal and legal rights for women and men should be as matched as possible.

Some other cultures got there mostly.

When these cultures meet and interact, the former just become stronger in their misgivings.
I'm making the assumption that she's not checking up on all of the accounts after a decision has been made. (Also, I'm not sure that you're updated when the decision is made)

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What I'm getting at: I don't believe she has access to the facebook equivalence of the mod logs. She/and we can only speculate what happened.
But do we know if, say, good intelligence alone (i.e. excluding physical strength/stamina/etc.), requires a sufficiently narrow genetic profile that anyone thusly engineered would be unusually susceptible to an epidemic?

Otherwise, countries which embrace "eugenics" (not sure if the word actually has expanded to mean what you think it means) most certainly do deserve to outperform countries which don't: the next generation of people in the pro-"eugenics" countries will literally be better humans.
This was over a decade ago and in NYC, so it was basically impossible for me to be alone or far from a hospital within 30 minutes of getting a shot. When I started to feel the reaction coming on, I had plenty of time to grab my bottle of Benadryl out of my bag and take a couple swigs while I was walking down the sidewalk. I'd wager it looked interesting to other NYers.
Its'n the same. With RDP, you are sharing a whole desktop. With X protocol, you can share WINDOWS! You not need to run the whole windows manager/desktop on the remote machine. You can simply launch the X11 application and allow the local client to manage the windows. It's far more efficient and far more responsive (if is compressed and cached like does NX).

I remember connecting to my desktop from a computer on the university using NX protocol and running remote apps like was on local. And I don't had a superb internet connexion.
The out-of-Africa theory is junky agenda-driven science. It was debunked a decade ago.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-the-out-of-afr...
I dreamed of working on Firefox in 2004, took some scenic detours, and got here in 2014. It’s absolutely amazing now. But my first year was extremely difficult, especially as a new remotee. The Brendan Eich thing happened on week 3. Chrome was eating our lunch, and Mozilla was focused on shipping a phone. The company was split along that fault line, with platform engineering straddling both sides. We were losing. We wondered if we’d survive. Some of the Glassdoor reviews reflect what was indeed a tumultuous and uncertain time.

The culture was in tumult too, “old guard” vs. new. Some reviews were written by people who made terrific contributions at one time, but couldn’t turn the corner and took that anger out the door with them.

We re-org’ed (so many re-org’s!). We have an amazing executive and director-level team. We’re well-run, in great financial shape. Our culture has changed (inevitable), and I like where we’re going together. We’re lined up behind Firefox, and we’re doing terrific work again.

I tell interviewees that working here can at times feel like living in a Reddit thread. There are amazingly thoughtful, generous, and mind-glowingly smart people working on the hardest problems across continents and time zones. Sometimes there’s acrimony or trolling. We’re all here because the things we create together can only be made here. We go head-to-head with competitors 50-100x our size. I could go to those companies, and I wouldn’t have a fraction of the impact and the responsibility I have at Mozilla. No company is a fit for everyone, but for someone like me, it’s hard to imagine being happy anywhere else.
So, you don't have more money than the average person in Europe? Because that's the "stereotype" you're trying to debunk here, the rest are the reasons the stereotype exists.

WRT iPhone integrating with Sony TV - how? Not something I've ever heard of before.
No.

State of the art embryo selection is something like +0.5 IQ points, which might be profitable but can only be charitably described as 'subtle'. Regular embryo selection is currently too weak because you have only a few eggs to choose from, most of which will not lead to a live birth, so even with the great GWAS results coming over the next few years, the gains will be small. Similarly, CRISPR is not that great because while we have identified lots of SNPs which allow prediction of intelligence, few of them are causal, so you would need hundreds of successful edits to get a truly noticeable boost like 10 IQ points.

What is necessary for large gains like +10 is one of: ability to create scores or hundreds of eggs to do embryo selection allowing picking best embryo out of hundreds rather than out of 5 or less (perhaps using egg->stem-cell->egg induced pluripotency & specialization techniques, currently doable in mice/rats but not humans); iterated embryo synthesis using the same induced pluripotency to coax a set of stem cells through many generations of sperm/egg->embryo->selection->egg/sperm for a cumulative gain; CRISPR scaling to hundreds of edits plus better identification of causal variants; and whole genome synthesis to create a single hyper-optimized genome from scratch without bothering with selection/editing. The timelines I would hazard guesses at something like 5-10/10/5?/15 years respectively.

So embryo selection right now is a curiosity, but with the right breakthrough, it could become important, and even if it doesn't, at some point CRISPR and genome synthesis will allow for big gains.
My only real worry is about the system being used to remove entire classes of minds from being born. Yeah, you can make a plausible case that an embryo that would develop without arms should be aborted. But maybe you can make the same case for someone with severe autism? What about gay people? If a mixed-race couple have a child, should they be allowed to only keep the lightest-skinned embryos? These are all classes of people that are disadvantaged in various ways, ones that won't have a "normal" "standard" life trajectory.

And I worry because once you start erasing variation in what a human is, you lose the opportunity to have a discussion about it. Once there are no more autistic children, you can't say "we shouldn't abort autistic embryos actually", because there are no more autistic people to point at and say "hey, that's a normal person, we shouldn't be aborting those". Additionally, even if we don't eradicate autism, plenty of people would choose to screen for it, so fewer autistic children would be born, so treatments will be much slower to develop.

What worries me even more though, is that we could start selecting for economic incentives. China already have a problem with too many males and too few females due to the years of the one-child policy, which led to people aborting female babies. What if people can start selecting for "sociopathic jerk" genes? It's a fact, or at least an accepted truth (which in this case is the same thing, since it's people making decisions), that sociopathic jerks do much better in life than others. But can you imagine a world where every single CEO is a sociopathic non-cooperative jerk?

I worry, in short, that the slope might turn out a bit too slippery.
Ask HN: How to scale a freelancing graphic design business?
"Earn $100 for sitting in an airplane seat for eight hours."

No f'ing way for $100, or even $1k. I'm 6'5", 250 LB. I'm dreading a 5 hour flight next week.

Southwest has the best legroom; my knees are only slightly jammed into the seat. Those CRJ-700 regional jets; I cannot physically sit down. Fortunately those usually have economy +. I told my work if they give me any trouble for booking that seat, I'll file an OSHA report.
> Draw the line at intolerance - the only thing we should not tolerate is intolerance itself.

The law should be codified hypocrisy?

By this logic, we should we be allowed to steal from people who believe in communism because they don't believe that property rights are morally justified. If they don't believe in private property, why should they get it?

Here's a better idea: don't start shit, and if someone starts shit with you, you can do whatever needs to be done to protect your rights. This has the advantages of A) not being absurdly hypocritical and B) not violating people's rights in an effort to preempt behavior you think might hypothetically emerge from the expression of those rights.

> I didn't see anyone mention violence.

How do you propose to enforce censorship laws? Ask nicely?
An odd article that doesn't even acknowledge its title, let alone answer it.
http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/18/undercover-vid...
Efforts to manufacture bikes in the U.S
> Where do you draw the line and who decides that?

If I wasn't clear in my other comment: other scientists. Cultural sensitivity wasn't a factor in my comment.
This "fork" is really just the evolution of the main chain, that's all. It'll have more claim to the Bitcoin name than the "core" Bitcoin with small blocks. Keeping the transaction history is sort of the entire point.
Uber, but for hackers in remote parts of the world to connect with someone who will go into the building who's smart lock was just hacked and steal the stuff.
How to “scientifically” determine race was a huge problem for racist regimes like Nazi Germany, Apartheid South Africa and the Jim Crow United States. They ended up with various kludges, because there is no such thing as pure “white” blood, nor a convenient clean line between white and black or any other such socially-constructed category.
You just got them a customer :)
> The example given at the emit conference was: You have a lot of code running in AWS, but all of a sudden, you would like to start using some nice features around google ML, and for this you need integration with google cloud.

I'm at the conference, and this isn't a great example. You don't need to set up a Google Cloud Function to use the Google ML APIs (or pretty much any Google APIs), you can just use them over the REST API.
The Unix you're using today likely does not share a single line of code with the Unix you were using 30 years ago. It was rewritten.
Why? They're hosting content you want to see? Can't you just watch their ads?
What good are boots that you can't wear in the rain and you have to polish more than 50 times per year? Even if polishing only takes 12 minutes, you'll spend more than 10 hours per year just on maintaining that one pair of shoes/boots.

I just want my feet covered; I don't want another hobby...
Credit Card Companies Are Cutting Ties with Hate Groups
> in retrospect you may have meant to say exactly that

Yes, but in retrospect I can see that maybe I should have more clearly separated the two questions. Thank you for the video. I watched it. I didn't know that SQLite looked so often at Postgres. But other parts of it were vaguely familiar. Maybe I saw it a long time ago and forgot about it.

> there are some mostly-ready-only situations where a file-lock
> isn't a problem (perhaps a small CMS, blog or similar)

I haven't used SQLite much, but it promises greater size and speed than most people would guess. As you can see from its website and the video you shared, D. Richard Hipp keeps tabs on where it's being used. "Developers report that SQLite is often faster than a client/server SQL database engine [when used as the database back-end on an application server]" (https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html) --- which is exactly what most people use a database for.

> The sibling post of this comment gives a real-world SQLite example

--- of an application that I wouldn't use SQLite for. His mention of the writer blocking readers suggests that he wasn't using it in WAL mode. I had thought that the rollback journal and WAL were two names for the same thing. But SQLite didn't come out with the WAL until 2010. As it explains on its website, the rollback journal and WAL are alike, just backwards versions of each other. In rollback-journal mode (still the default) SQLite writes changes directly to its original database file but first backs up a snapshot of the data to the journal. With WAL mode turned on, the database first writes to the WAL, which eventually writes back to the original database (https://www.sqlite.org/wal.html).
The Inuit people, among similar cultures, are having a problem with diabetes because their bodies adapted to a hunter's diet of high protein and fat low in glucose prior to the introduction of agricultural products from colonialism. Darn, that's actually a biological difference too.

https://www.txbiomed.org/news-press/news-releases/inuit-diab...
Since the comment mentions a personal interaction, I think it's fair for Don to set the record straight, although his comment was more than a bit long. "To clarify, Raymond is not my friend" would have sufficed.
This is getting pretty meta-, but I also don't think we were restricting ourselves to Nintendo. :)

You're focusing on specifics, whereas I had been focusing on the more general theme of the thread.

To me, the theme, as set by icebraining, was generally: "does modern game programming benefit from using tools of old?"

Here, "tools" is a very general word, not limited to just assembly languages. sdrothrock expanded a little by saying "languages/approaches/IDEs", and "approaches" and "IDEs" are also very general words.

Your post, to which I initially responded, was:

> But why? There's a reason we don't use the old tools anymore.

Because old tools typically do have niche communities of varying size using them, I take "we" to mean "the majority of programmers".

So I understand your argument to be (I hope I'm not mistaken): "There should be no reason to use old tools, because there must be a valid reason why the majority are not using them anymore."

It's this reasoning that I disagree with. The reason the majority are not using them is because the majority of them look to use what the majority are using. It's a positive feedback loop. The remaining users, the ones that decided to use a modern tool before it was popular, probably chose to use it mostly based on a very important decision that can be made for any tool: how easy is it to learn how to use?

Now, a typically inversely correlated feature to this is: how powerful/flexible is it?

As examples, think of the choice of Vim or Emacs vs Visual Studio or Eclipse, or the choice of CLI vs GUI. It's a choice between ease of use (the popular choice) vs power/flexibility. Most will chose ease of use, but we shouldn't underestimate the importance of the minorities that chose otherwise.

So to answer your question, "why?", in the post I had given, I was providing examples of tools that are considered "old" but still held benefits over modern tools. The point was to answer your question in the general context, rather than suggest for them to use something specifically.

Now, if we talk specifically about what an ex Nintendo dev can do with their old tools, I've have no idea. :P But if it's true that "a lot of them have refused to adapt", like sdrothrock said, while it might be simply due to learning inertia, I would also consider the possibility that there might be something that was lost to the majority that might be worth recovering, something that that niche would consider important enough to keep.

I don't know what kind of system you use, but if it involves use of a command line, consider that many think it old and useless. They'd ask, "But why? there is a reason we're not using CLIs anymore. After all, there's GUIs!". Here is a highly upvoted StackExchange question asking just that:

https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/101990/why-are-termin...
Comes from the word uisce, which is the Irish/Gaelic for water. Technically the Irish for whiskey itself though is 'uisce beatha', meaning 'water of life' ;)
Really interested in hearing if the ideas on how to transform game programming into a more productive form panned out. Did you end up using the ideas in a later product?
I've been using General Biotics 115-strain pre- and probiotic product called Equilibrium [1]. You can find more info in the Science section [2].

[1]: https://www.generalbiotics.com/orders/new/

[2]: https://www.generalbiotics.com/science/
Yes, there do exist violent collectivist groups which have the uncanny ability to have their antics be broadcast on the news. Also, they each care specifically about their own race and racial identity, not about whether or not their children will have an optimal genome.

How is all this related to anything I said in my top-level comment?
This is exactly what I mean by the paradox of tolerance. If we're tolerant towards intolerance, we're going to be outed.
I took the comment to mean that the complaints of many racists are really often more about what they perceive as "culture" rather than actual genetics. They simply use skin color as a signal and a proxy in assignment because racism is essentially a form of mental laziness.
Ask HN: Micro VC and Super Angel check sizes
I'm about to hit up some Micro VC and Super Angels. However unlike most startups I'd like to ask for smaller check sizes, rather than larger, because it decreases dilution and makes the deal close faster (perhaps).

If I were to ask for check sizes of approx $50k, how would that sound?

I'm talking Bay Area.
It is often interesting at the C level how things work. Ambitious people work their way up until they get to "the point" where they are either going in or going on. I got to watch this at Sun with Ed Zander as he made his way toward the CEO spot at Sun. When Scott "chose a different way" (which is what people seem to say when they mean "You are not getting the executive position you seek.") Ed left Sun and went off to become the CEO of Motorola. Marissa Meyer trying to become more senior at Google until it was clear she never would, and then on to Yahoo!.

Sometimes they work out, sometimes they don't.
That's why I said Dropbox, you don't need your own laptop with you.
> I don't think surface-mount was a thing yet in 1979.

For hobbyists, very unlikely. But there were large package (much larger than even what we consider a "large package" device of today) SMT devices.

SMT had been a thing for probably over a decade by 1979.

A lot of the miniaturization and SMT stuff that we take for granted today was done for the Apollo Guidance Computer:

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

There's a picture in that article showing flatpack SMT ICs - note that's from 1966.

Of course, that machine was bleeding-edge state-of-the-art for the time period, and anticipated hobbyist machines of the late 1970s.

If you're interested in this kind of stuff, it is fascinating to review the history of electronics. Things were pretty much strictly vacuum tube for a long time, but even there were a lot of innovation. When transistors came on the scene, things got weird quickly.

A great way I found to explore this, from a "contemporary interested layman hobbyist" perspective - is to go on google books, and look up Popular Science magazine. They have virtually all the issues scanned and available to read. Start from about 1940, and just peruse the issues. Plenty of great articles on interesting technology of the past eras, along with electronics projects and such using the "latest tech" of the period. You'll find some interesting things in there that you likely never knew about.

For instance - toward the end of the vacuum tube era, in a "last ditch" effort to keep them relevant, vacuum tubes went "solid state" - if you saw some today, you would think they were large metal-can transistors from the 1960s or 70s, but they were actually miniature metal-can vacuum "tubes" using similar construction and materials as those transistors; they had to be assembled inside a vacuum chamber! Most of them went into a few brands of high-end transistor televisions, but needed some tube components for their power-handling capabilities. So, hybrids developed...

That's just the tip-o-the-iceberg!
Can confirm, the Sharp phone I owned in Japan had an absolutely fabulous screen, 1080p in 4.5" (I long for compact flagships), vivid colour with customisable profiles, including an electronically switchable privacy filter (using the toggle buttons in the notification shade) with 3 designs! The OS had been optimised to run smooth as butter, even with crapware. Too bad it also had to have all the docomo apps.
I've been consistently seeing a pattern of white nationalists adopting blockchain technologies. The head of the Canadian nationalist party used to run his own Bitcoin firm [1], Gab with its happy alt-right green frog wants to do an ICO [2]. And now this!

I wonder if their de-facto underdog status lends itself to the decentralized operations that blockchain technology offers.

[1]: https://travispatron.com/

[2]: https://twitter.com/getongab/status/898231810399907840
It's neither cherrypicking nor misleading. 'Compare averages' is your idea, I honestly don't understand why that's interesting at all. Much more interesting (and sensible) - here's an app that represents the current state of 'peak Electron'. What's a 'peak Qt' app?

There are much better things to complain about in my pick of Electron apps. Here's one - VS Code is a highly specialized app from a field in which users are perfectly ok with highly non-native UI. Sublime, IntelliJ IDEA, NetBeans, Emacs, Eclipse, etc are all deeply non-native yet popular. So that's a bit unfair but hey, there are Qt-based dev tools out there as well. But again, I'd be happy with any example of a non-shitty (UI/UX-wise) Qt app.
Still out of Africa.
Norbert Blum on P vs. NP
There is also Freenome, which raised a $65m Series A to bring something similar to market:

> Last year, we raised $5.5 million to prove out the potential of this technology. Now, it’s time to make sure that it’s safe and ready for the broader population.

https://medium.com/freenome-stories/freenome-raises-65m-in-s...