skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spot on, The City is a square mile for avoiding taxes, appropriating wealth and crushing workers.
On the contrary, these are problems that can be solved easily. Just need a bit of foresight is all.
The same can be said about nearly any decent text editor: vim, emacs, notepad++, sublime, etc. The Xi editor drives this down to a logical extreme; the Acme editor sort of pioneered this approach, though in a strange way.
> That's plain wrong. Every EU country must allow freedom of movement for workers from other EU states.

Much of what you just wrote is incorrect, please see jimnotjim's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16558745
> The claimed advantages of systemd are mostly relevant, IMHO, for mobile devices that change configuration often. It brings no particular advantage to servers or desktops, unless you tend to swap out lots of peripherals on your desktop.

Systemd provides huge advantages for administering desktops and servers as well. I'd actually go so far as to say those are the main reasons that systemd won (it's the default init system for all of the top ten Linux distributions by marketshare).
That has to be one of the coolest things you can do with your parents/kids :-)
These are motorised 'foot propelled' scooters, not small scale motorbikes. I don't know if these (and electric skateboards) are properly covered by UK law.
I have the same impression as well.

The problem with their landing page is the characters have way too much detail (& distracting), and it really detracts away the overall message they are conveying
Austerity and the rise of the Nazi party [pdf]
Maybe we can reforest the Sahara which cheap transportation of water powered by fusion.
Better climate control will also be probably possible
same here: see my profile for how I set up from scratch debian for desktop and debian for xen+kubernetes. I personally like to have complete control of what gets installed in my system in terms of packages, have been running debian for years and it's been serving me very well.

I do think it's good to have Ubuntu to compete in the "turn key" / "new linux user" / "enterprise support" spaces, but it's good to be able to run plain debian without issues these days.
Well yes, I mean every timing relative to the day/night cycle will be difficult. "What time do your kids go to bed?" , "what time are the main news?", etc. Saying 13:00 will not help me.

OTOH everything which is international will be easier.

This is a trade-off.

Now - I am also against DST, but would realistically keep immutable timezones.
If electricity would be free, I would convert to electric heating in a heartbeat. Replacing a gas burner with an electric coil should be pretty cheap compared to the yearly costs of heating.

The problem with that is that electricity isn't free. Even if energy production suddenly became basically free and we removed taxes and renewable energy charges, I would still pay €0.07/kWh just for using the power grid. And that's unlikely to go down since the grid would need massive upgrades to handle large but cheap fusion plants.
For the same reasons I don't run Ubuntu on a server, I won't run it on my desktop, either. Too many times my Ubuntu systems have gotten themselves into some weird state where I can't keep using it and have to reinstall from scratch. For situations where I need more modern versions of stuff, there are either third-party apt repositories, there are static binaries I can download, or I can compile them myself and install them into /opt.
Snaps are even better, but probably not worth the extra memory usage on servers
You might want to check his YouTubee stream[0]. He's currently finishing the lighting engine; if you browse through his latest video, you will occasionally see how the scene looks like.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaTznQhurW5AaiYPbhEA-KA
This is a highly biased article, imo.

i) The authors and commenters of the article have a strong incentive to get funding for their projects.

ii) The mentioned problems are mostly academic. The real-world implications are not tested, unknown, and likely overblown. Yes, one can create contrived examples. But that isn't same as real life.

The way spoofing examples are created is by feeding small perturbations of the same image to a time-invariant detector. It's unclear if such attacks have much practical value. E.g. a password screen won't allow you to try more than 3-5 values. Attacks must be detectable (due to repeated tries of small perturbations). Plus noise and other perturbations can be added to the detector.
I didn't mean to imply it was a bad thing. I meant to say it's hard to write positively.

Without straying too far from the original premise, it's worth pointing out that the idea of using a graph database for traditional tasks is in fact a new idea. Most people would not consider doing it, and that makes it new.

Notice an interesting philosophical thing that happens every time philosophical debates occur: We quickly get mixed up in a debate over the meaning of words. "What do you mean by 'new'?"

It's worth excluding such questions from debate. Questions over the meaning of words rarely go anywhere interesting. http://www.paulgraham.com/philosophy.html

Oh dear, look where we've ended up. But it was an intriguing place, I hope.

The overall point is that if you advocate something non-traditional on HN, you're in for a world of hurt. This place is nothing if not adversarial. You'd better have your I's dotted and your T's crossed. But those constraints are what make the medium so interesting.
From my perspective the mindset with Debian is that distribution packages are never going to be the super latest, but are going to usually work well.

If I need something bleeding edge it's straightforward to just download the source from wherever and install it myself with stow in /usr/local, which makes it easy to remove/upgrade if needed. I anyways do pretty much everything in VMs, so package availability for my "base" system (which I mostly use only to run VMs) is not that big of a deal. If I need bleeding edge I can always spin up an arch linux VM...
https://wiki.haskell.org/The_Fibonacci_sequence
I've subscribed. Interestingly, she is a Microsoft Tech Evangelist and uses a Sublime Text on a Mac and targets non-MS hardware. This speaks very well of MS as an open place that optimizes for developer happiness.
Correct, but it is the default setting.
I love Tadashi Tokieda so much, he's just one of the most delightful human beings I've ever seen. I highly recommend all of his Numberphile videos, and you should also check out his Toy Models lecture [1]. It's so much fun to see him show some weird phenomenon with marbles or magnets or whatever (that should be seemingly simple to explain with mathematics and/or classical physics) and then say "There is no theory for this. We have no idea why this happens. I'm working on it though".

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkfDYOZ1p4Y
> here are more than one programmer in my division that's turned apocryphal because they never have time to practice their art.

What do you mean when you say they "turned apocryphal"? I've never seen the term apocryphal used like that before.
Well, the tools aren’t from 2018. gcc is quite old. In order to set it up, you need to compile it and ld for the targets you want to compile to, rather than a single binary that knows how to compile/link all targets, like rustc/lld.

I don’t know anything about how it’s written, I’m not sure if this is a deliberate design choice or just legacy.
It's really pretty straight forward, I pick a simpler project from my list I'd like to do that seems like a good fit for the goals of the language, then I write it in that language.

Problems and friction are exposed pretty quickly, but you have to push through those to see if the good parts of the language make up for them. I find that if, after a short while, I don't have to force myself to write the code, and if I can dream up ways to solve any problems I encounter without turning to the documentation, then I've found a really good fit. Sometimes you find that the initial friction was largely just a matter of coming from another language's mindset.

If you find instead that you're not wanting to write code, that you're spending a lot of time fighting it or scowering the documentation or getting the build to work, then my opinion is that the language isn't worth learning anyway so it's best to move on.
>Natives, supposedly with better education and jobs, reap the benefits.

Natives who were more educated did reap the benefits and they don't want to roll things back to how they were in 2003 when slightly more expensive natives did those jobs.

The educated upper middle classes are, however, a minority.

>You don't need to be posh to benefit from migrants cheaply building your home, cleaning your bathroom, or taking care of the children

Maybe not posh but you do need to be upper middle class. If you're actually doing those jobs you are not benefiting from your wages being suppressed.
If you're interested in Swift just for Swift, then I would recommend against learning Swift through iOS development (just in case you were thinking about that). You'll spend more time figuring out things specific to iOS (cocoa framework, Xcode) than you will about Swift.
I like Geany very much, however the much better syntax highlighting of "modern but bloated" young-people-ides ("ypis") have spoiled me.

Does anyone know of some syntax magic addon that teaches geany state-of-the-art syntax modes, especially with mixed syntax files containing HTML, PHP, JavaScript, Vue.js template sections?

Sublime is an excellent example of great syntax highlighting, but needs special tuning for simple operations like "copy line" - not really a show stopper, but it is surprising to see how basic functionality does not come by default with many editors still even after a very long development time - try to toggle a comment in vim with one simple key combination...
After 6 months spent on "investigations" into technologies with no tangible outputs aside from a 1 page summary of those investigations, I'm nearly to this point. I just got really salty when our department clarified what positions were available for advancement, and I realized I've been doing those jobs for years with no signs of pay raises or titles.

What bothers me more today is that a title, a pay bracket, bothered me; that I am annoyed that I need to come up with a promotion packet. These, to me, are signs that this is just becoming a job. For all of my constant assertions about business relationships and other such comments, I was still holding out hope that it would be more.

So, yeah. Empower your developers. You're paying them a lot of money; make use of and recognize the value of that talent you're buying.
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I was of course referring to the example in the post I was replying to. If someone allocates an 8GB array but never uses it, that doesn't do anything. The code you're referring to has that array explicitly set as main.
Have you tried this?

https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/getting-started-cli/

If you are an lxd fan you probably want to move to Ubuntu or maybe even Ubuntu core.
RELIC: An Efficient C/C++ Library for Cryptography
Seems like a lot of effort to me. They are pretty lazy bugs. When I find one I pick it up with a tissue and flick it out the window. They are big and dense enough that you can send them really far away from the house.
New Nvidia Program Engages in Monopolistic, Anti-Consumer Practices
If that is the case then why business owners should be compensated handsomely when they succeed? while they reap the benefits of success ,failure should be owned by society?

I am not saying personal financial position should be destroyed but if you are a multimillionaire already why your failures should be outsourced to society?

And as far as growth is concerned, what's wrong with growing slowly? Cancer too is growth, it's just uncontrolled.

Coming to Trump, he repeatedly failed doing the same type of business.
They can talk about code at a deep level but if they try and sit down to write anything they can't. Essentially sales meetings turn programmers into just more sales people. It's incredibly sad.
ITER reminds me of the Space Shuttle, the Joint Strike Fighter, and (to give a private sector example) Intel Itanium.

Large bureaucracies seem prone to fixation on huge omnibus money sponge projects that "everyone can get behind" but that starve out everything else. The fact that these projects are so big tends to make them slow and not very innovative.
> The official response from the establishments of elite universities and the output of think tanks is almost the definition of "out of touch elites", no?
> I appreciate that you might have had mates who were postdocs who had legitimate reason to be worried about science funding (so do I!), but not everybody does.

Hah. No. I was talking explicitly about the many professors that specialized in law and economics relating to the EU explicitly raising their voices that this would put the UK in a terrible financial and political position.

> What you described above was the effect of hard Brexit.

No. What I described above is the effect of Brexit.

> Hard Brexit wasn't even on the cards until some time after the vote, and is still not confirmed even now.

Eh? Teresa May has been consistent that she wants a "hard brexit", to the point of calling for it months before she defined the fucking term!

(Finally defined in http://time.com/4635762/theresa-may-hard-brexit-britain/)

You seem to be at a severe information deficit concerning the information available to the public about brexit, before the brexit process was enacted. Please read https://voxeu.org/article/economics-brexit-pre-referendum-vi...
Just more signs were at the end of a business cycle. Hopefully everyone is prepared for the eventual downturn but they never are.

What about Telegram explains needing to raise $1B?
Realistically, though, programmers are just resources, as are creatives, as are their managers, as is every other employee. That's the way nearly every business works.

To expect otherwise from one's relationship with an employer, particularly in an at-will employment environment, can be dangerously self-destructive.
Undoubtedly not. This would be a non-precedential decision. You could mention it in another case but the judge would have no obligation to follow it. Also, your facts are going to be different, which further complicates things.
“The more visionary the idea, the more people it leaves behind” [video]
In other news, pumping the value of bandwagoning shitcoins is at an all time high.
Did your doc give you vitamin K as well, and did they check your calcium level?
China is keeping its security researchers from attending conferences
Do the math on global solar flux. There is NO way we will ever make a dent in that with artificial heat.
Yes, exactly what I do.

I found that using the new language as though it's the familiar one makes you quickly understand the limitations. As you try to bend the new language into supporting your own familiarisation, you accidentally learn the lower level details.
When even the most invested in the crypto bubble are skeptical, you should stay well away. This sounds like the blockchain equivalent of pets.com, the hype inflection point:

>“It’s a pitch that sounds good to V.C.s that haven’t participated but makes no sense to people that have been in the space,” said Nick Tomaino, the founder of a virtual currency investment fund, 1confirmation, that didn’t invest in Telegram.

>The most obvious reason to be skeptical of the project is that there is not even a prototype — just a 132-page paper promising what the system will look like one day. The Telegram team is promising to release the software late this year or next year.

>What’s more, Telegram is promising to do more than any other virtual currency and to fix the intractable problems that have plagued virtual currencies like Bitcoin, such as overcoming the network’s difficulty handling all the transactions that have poured onto the network as it has become more popular.

>An analyst at one virtual currency-focused hedge fund, Pantera Capital, wrote a scathing essay noting that the Telegram team has given no evidence that they will be able to solve the problems that have dogged everyone else.

>“I cannot, in 132 pages, gain the slightest intuition as to how to go about proving that the hard problems it needs to solve will be solved,” the analyst, Charles Noyes, wrote about the Telegram project on Medium.
I've been using Geany for a few years on my Raspberry Pi. Their "Raspbian OS" includes it now.

I have it installed on my Mac too. I still mostly use BBEdit on it, but Geany has some cool features that make it worth having on the Mac.
It's not that 'users are dumb' it's that the only way to keep users and lazy IT staff from telling people to just click through the warnings is to make it difficult to do so. How else can you fight the 'click through until it works because I have work to do' mentality?

Browsers could have bright red flashing lights telling users that they're currently being phished and users would still enter their credentials because doing nothing isn't seen as a meaningful alternative action.
There is some wage depression with some H1Bs, but there are plenty of other imported labor who are making the same as natives --those could be our women.
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Apple files patent for a crumb-resistant MacBook keyboard
Agreed, but what happens to all the unemployed people who don't own capital? The end goal IMO should be communism, not capitalism, e.g.:
https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/mar/18...
Hard to make porn without them.
Unfortunate, that your results for `n = 90` are completely useless, since F_90 > 2^32 which is the size of int.

Also, you could have shown a method which is O(log n), namely
[[F(n+1) F(n)],
[F(n) F(n-1)]]
equals
[[1, 1]
[1, 0]]
raised to the power of n.
Been running Debian with XFCE on Testing lately. No problems here.
How could you miss crypto mining? FusionEnergyCoin FTW
Again, I don't particularly feel strongly about it, but it feels off that someone trafficking large amounts of a drug, even if it's just pot, are let off. It demonstrates a clear willingness to to disregard law for personal gain.

In general, I don't really give a shit about drugs or drug use. Perhaps the feeling is just years of Drug War indoctrination, but it feels wrong and I'm trying to grapple with "Why" by asking.
You might be interested in Boost.Outcome (v2) or the proposed std::expected.
I wonder if extra dissipated heat while doing this would contribute to global warming. But probably scale of adding heat directly to atmosphere isn't comparable to insulation effect of CO2
You can have glass, metal and hard plastics for furnishings. Those are less problematic than upholstered items, wood, particle board, curtains, etc. Though you can run into acoustic issues with so many hard surfaces. Having a wood floor helps some with acoustics and is much cleaner than carpeting.
"the thing about the dods tracking capabilities" is true. They know what's up there, down to lost tool bags.

The instances you're thinking of are either "lost" as in "presumed dead" (like IMAGE) or non-Earth orbit probes (like ISEE-3). IMAGE was never untracked, and ISEE-3 was never supposed to be tracked (but its location was still known.)
Indeed. Look for the "UV index" in your local weather reports. If it's below 3 [on a sunny day, during wintertime] it means that the low angle of the sun, even at noon, reduces UV intensity to such an extent that your skin cannot produce vitamin D.
> " it is not even possible to reduce energy consumption to low enough that solar and wind would be sufficient."

I don't think it's accurate to say it's not possible, it's clearly possible as humans have lived without electricity and fossil fuels before, and all we'd need in order to survive would be for the existing renewable energy production to be made available for water processing and transportation. However, the chances of us collectively reducing our energy consumption in time to avoid long lasting environmental damage so that we can make our current renewable energy installations to cover all energy demand is very slim, so non-renewable clean energy technology like nuclear should be made part of our energy mix.
They _love_ to live under the cedar shingle siding of my house... Invariably the house will be swarmed a couple times a year.
Use the advanced job search and put in a salary range.
This looks great! Would you mind elaborating why Asana didn't fit for you?
Visualizing Deep Learning Networks
That's my experience, too. I have nothing against Ubuntu, but when I've had issues with it, they're always... some Ubuntu addon to Debian, and it turns out that I don't care about whatever feature that is. So last time I had reason to reinstall the OS for the main desktop machine, I just went back to Debian. Haven't had any regrets.

(All of my experiments with Docker/K8s/Terraform/etc. are running on VMs under FreeBSD/BHyve, another OS I'm solidly back to loving after being distracted by shiny objects, but that's a different story.)
If the amount of capital willing to take high risks from cryptocurrencies only increases a bit over time but more and more high-profile cryptos are launched successfully, wouldn't the capital in existing cryptos decrease, which effectively dampen down their valuations?

Obviously, this depends on the rate of incoming new capital vs successful crypo launches, but as long as the appetite for such high-volatility assets is limited, the ceiling must be hit some day. Wouldn't that then start the unwinding of crypto prices as less devouted believers increasingly sell as losses mount?
I'm OP. I posted this because I discovered this with relation to an article I read about MMT, and wanted to understand exactly what you explained, from a person with your qualifications. Your response would have been so much better had it not contained the judgmental side-note.

I think debating and dismissing old bad ideas is something that every generation needs to do, lest they reinvent it.

My personal belief is that if we stop inflation, it will eliminate the pressure for continuous "growth", because money can now be a store of wealth that no longer leaks value and therefore there will no longer be a need for continuous investment. Perhaps the pace of society can slow down and people can relax. What would your expert opinion on that be?
I can’t wait for the first fusion accident. I hope it obliterates the entire left coast.
The total number of ICOs https://www.coingecko.com/en/ico happening now is just insane

And how the market dropped and correct recover in a span of less than 24 hours is beyond everyone's mind
https://www.coingecko.com/en

The way to get through this is to assume that blockchain finance industry is unconventional wisdom
but the price of a lot of coins is far , far from the jan 2018 highs
> If the author of this article thinks more inclusion in business decisions

Not all ideas in a dev shop are about business decisions. They could be about reporting, monitoring, alerting, code quality, technical debt, etc..
Using fusion would only cut the cost of electricity by about a third.

About the third goes on maintaining the grid infrastructure, a third goes on building and running the power stations, and a third on the fuel.

Fusion is great, but it's not 'electricity too cheap to meter'
Is there a Hacker News for those interested in economics ?
Does anyone know how problematic a "bad" SNP in the VDR Taq gene is? (VDR=vitamin D receptor)
> if they change the law, it'll be super profitable

It sounds like the Uber model: ignore the law and try to get big enough to change it. Honestly, how much would it cost them to equip each garbage scooter with a garbage helmet? An extra dollar or two?

Santa Monica and West LA were bad enough before becoming infested with incompetents on scooters.
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