skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I want in a language of this class is some ability to transition code from a slow/dynamic/generalized/exploratory phase to fast/static/specialized/checked. Both D and Nim offer features of that nature. (Something like Rust omits itself by forcing memory into a central role, leading to a lot of annotation boilerplate - it's correct for writing Servo or similarly complex parallelized systems, but I am not writing Servo.)

When I left Nim, it was because I had serious concerns about the project being able to tame its rapid accumulation of features. I had no faith in all the things it advertised to actually work correctly. The dev process I witnessed was "cave in to toxic people who whinged a lot." D has a lot of warts from being around longer, but in the end, what I want to write code in anger with is something that can boast a well-engineered compiler, and D has not one compiler but more than one.

That was years ago. To win me back you'll have to market a demonstration of similar stability.

Zig is in a different category from any other option because its design allows me to tackle a piece of low-hanging fruit: a modernization of old C libraries that does not reinvent the universe, create a new ABI, introduce a runtime, or otherwise disrupt the original context. I can write basically the same kind of code in the same kind of style, but the language automatically pushes my attention to more edge cases and undefined conditions, and the compiler simplifies the build process, removing the preprocessor noise that tends to appear in substantial libraries.
Octopress is similar to this for google drive but I don't think its been updated in years - no support for custom domains, themes, etc but the idea is great.

http://octopress.org/
OK, I'm impressed. But I think that we've been talking past each other. When you say it's the norm, you mean among your peers, right? Technical people. Start up, enterprise, etc.

Me, I've been talking about PC users, generally. Not just Linux, and not just technical people. Sadly enough, I doubt that FDE is very common, let alone the norm.

And even worse, for many it'd likely be a curse. Inexperienced people don't do well at keeping track of complex passphrases, keys and so on. I've seen that over the years in forums where people plead for help to access TrueCrypt volumes. After losing passphrases, accidentally formatting, and so on.
How are yt comments any better now?
+1 for this - I star things to come back to and try out. I've started Vue for this reason, unlike React which I use in working hours
Since we're comparing stories, I spent 16 months living in backpacker hostels, including 12 months in the same one.

People always ask me how I managed to live like that, but they don't realise that you tend to adapt to your living conditions fairly quickly. If you can manage a couple of months, you can manage a year.

It's actually weird for me to live in a house with only a couple of other people now. I got so used to having people to hang out with practically on tap. There's always somebody to drink with, or watch a movie with, or snuggle up next to. It's strange for me to come home from work to an empty house.
Can you point me to the announcement? Hopefully you're not referring to that recent weird tweet that has been disputed by several MS employees.
It's by the physical location of the university/campus. (If the offshoot campus is in another continent, it is counted there, but there are few published AI researchers in offshoot campuses so far that I've seen.)

I certainly agree that the US strength in cutting edge research in many fields significantly derives from its recent immigrants. If the US becomes hostile to high-potential immigrants, its strength will decline.
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Yeah, same way I 'favorite' something on Twitter. I might disagree with the tweet, but I want to come back to it later to read the conversation, etc.
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The unemployment numbers don't mean much. This economy is hanging on by by a few sectors that are barely successful. The 1% won. And when I watch Norma Rae--I realize that movie couldn't be made today. The cotton owners just moved the machines to another county--eliminating unions, and workers.

Oh yea, opiate addiction is not due to befuddled doctors, and corporations. It's due to a country wide depression. People are misserable on so many levels, while spirituality is kinda dead.
There's a type of Haitian spicy peanut butter, sold under the brand Manba in Montreal. I loved that stuff.

https://manba.ca/T31jCjVS/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Box-of-...
The limiting factor of Optane is actually the controller. The power consumption of the controller itself, as well as the costs of getting high bandwidth to and from CPU and memory. Current products are striking a conservative balance and in the future they could get much faster.
It's not perfect, but it's way better. The spam is mostly gone. Inane comments are lower in priority.
I use NeoBudget (virtual envelope web app with a mobile app) - you need to manually import your transactions, but it has been rock solid for years: https://neobudget.com/
99% of anything is something else.
Provocative and simply wrong.
I didn't know Alexander and the Macedon's were ethnically Greek. That makes more sense now given their accomplishments in that era. Thanks for the link.
We undervalue ourselves most of the time.

We overestimate our fears most of the time.

An idea is nothing. Execution is everything.
I'm sorry to hear that brother or sister :)
Some of Blue Planet was filmed in aquariums. It's an open secret that David Attenborough documentaries use footage of captive animals to create a narrative.

However, they don't kill the captive animals, which is the key difference.
fitted my mind's view of how things should work

Why so? Could you add some detail to this comment?
Life can be great and very fun and we always have time to get fit.
Wouldn't xenocide be a more apt description? A quick search for genocide gives the definition of:

"the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation."

While xenocide is described as:

xenocide (plural xenocides)

The killing of a stranger or foreigner.
(science fiction)
The genocide of an entire alien species.
(US, colloquial)
The intentional killing of an entire foreign (plant or animal) species.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/xenocide

Either is fine really, just seems like a semantic curiosity.
I've been using Elixir for the last two years, for pretty standard web app stuff, and have never had to write my own libraries (although I contributed code to some in their earlier days).
I happen to be in the same physical location as the maintainers of both. This should be re-opened. I’ll chat with them. But first... I’m also confused. The component is the rustfmt-nightly codebase. You’re still seeing problems with the component?
I seem to recall Dropbox-powered static blog generators being all the rage a few years back...then they all shut down.
Massive in extent, it covers large parts of the planet, and in duration, could last for weeks or months.

The threat to Opportunity isn't that the storm could rip it apart. It's that even a low-pressure wind can lift a lot of fine dust which blocks out the sun and leaves the rover without power from its solar panel. If it lasts too long the rover could literally freeze to death.

NASA has an image from another major storm in 2007 [1], it blocked 99% of the sunlight. This one is worse.[2]

[1] https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/7948/a-darkened-mars-sky/
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/8qvnrw/mars_rover_op...
How is it different from cable? One person can dig a trench and lay cable through a large yard in about two hours. This is essentially how cable tv and internet are hooked up.
ugh, any spreadsheet will do.
meh, I've given up. At the end, it's whatever your client wants and will ultimately pay for. React is popular in enterprise circles, Vue.js is also popular amongst new front end developers and seasoned.

In a few years it won't matter as deep learning will generate front end UI with just a wireframe sketch.
This approach has never answered the question, "What happens to citizens businesses don't value"

Do we just let citizens in our society starve because rich people didn't need them?
I'm doing C#. It's better than Eclipse, sure, but the gold standard imo is IntelliJ.

- I can hit C-F and count to 2 before Find in All Files opens

- "9 build errors. Build successful" [0]

- random pain points [1]

- intellisense is often not what I want (though sometimes it is) so I alternate between Esc & Tab

- you can't make this stuff up [2]

Maybe I just need to reinstall. The window/panel layout is great, I will say. It's easy to use. It's familiar for a lot of people.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17703004/visual-studio-d...

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24468370/linker-cannot-o...

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=visual+studio+has+stopped+wo...
You can see the older HN article here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17310738

Looks like they are moving their office suite of software to React.js.
Both and Chapel.
Indeed, to the contrary I find the Apple aesthetic of making products that look like featureless blobs with an apple logo on them to be bland and ugly, but I suppose it fits with their direction of locked-down devices and fostering ignorance: the less the user can do with it, and the more control Apple has over what the user does, the better.

It's disappointing to see only 4 USB ports on the high-end Mac Pro, when high-end PC motherboards are available with double-digit numbers of USB ports.

Related: http://www.electricstuff.co.uk/backwardspc.html
As you say, direct damage from wind isn't a major risk on Mars, contrary to the book. However, dust storms do happen, and according to the article they can affect huge areas and block out most of the sunlight.
While money isn't everything, it does seem to change everything...
It's also quite a bit longer, though I agree it's worth the read.

> You succumb to survivorship bias because you are innately terrible with statistics.

This one line is probably one of my biggest takeaways, and I wish we had a good term for our poor-intuition-about-stats.

Recently, I've seen it conflated with "innumeracy" here on HN, but that misses the point, as educating someone in statistics doesn't necessarily remove the natural intuition, which remains poor. We still need to be aware of it and the, not necessarily obvious, effects on our judgment it can have.
Relevant reading: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1074580/clearcase-advant...
Ask HN: How do you manage your manager?
One of the things that is not taught in university or talked about enough in our industry is managing your manager. I am asking this because I was recently asked by my manager not to give talks in really difficult to get in industry events, despite of getting an acceptance. While I like the company I work for, it seems the un-preached way of managing the manager is to have a thick skin. How true is this? I'm also curious to know how you manage your manager?
I'm pretty sure the 6600 was done in 10K ECL, which was a bipolar technology, not FET. In ECL, the transistors are biased such that they never saturate, which decreases switching time at the expense of power consumption. Also, the inputs are configured as a diff-amp, which helps switching speed also.

Some time after the 6600 (1980's) I was a logic designer working in 100K ECL and compatible gate arrays (144 transistors per chip). Each gate array required 5 Watts of cooling. We had one 20,000 BTU Ton water chiller for the CPU, and that was the design-limiting constraint.
React is the heavyweight, no doubt, but it also feels heavy for smaller projects. VUE is a great option and believe it or not Meteor just announced 1.7 with at least one killer feature: Babel-free JS for modern browsers.

https://blog.meteor.com/meteor-1-7-and-the-evergreen-dream-a...

It's good to see Vue gaining steam as more options = better fit per project.
I wonder what it’s like on Apple’s campuses?
I’d guess their employees all have new laptops, or at least Touch Bar equipped models.
How many have the Bluetooth Magic Keyboard & Track Pad at their work station too?
If they do use external keyboards how do they charge them? From a monitor’s USB3 ports? wall outlet with charger nub? USB C to USB 3 dongle? You have to have one of those methods to charge by Thunderbolt on the Touch Bar laptops …
Seriously, that seems like a viable metric to understand satisfaction with the onboard keyboard & trackpad.
Or maybe Apple doesn’t think this is as big an issue as it is because so many people are now relying on alternate input devices.
>They control the iOS-based world in a way they could never control "computers". They're trying to get as many people as they can into their new Disneyland-ish ecosystem, where everything you do is approved and monitored and everything you buy is bought through them.

This sounds so dystopic.
I hope that being able to publish software without having to bow to a gatekeeper won't become a thing of the past.
I didn't know happiness until I had a daughter. I thought I had a pretty happy life until she was born.

After that, i learned to value my lonely hours :)
How is it even difficult to reform copyright? You focus on the term, and set a timeline for it to ramp down. Say 5 years per year.
every community of non main stream languages that I know is very nice and helpful.
Yes, if UBI wasn't UBI then of course it wouldn't be UBI. The very definition of it, is that it provides a floor for people where a standard of living _is_ maintained.

There are arguments that UBI is not attainable/sustainable, but that's different then getting the definition wrong
Yeah, that makes sense. If I had to deal with a lot of that then workstation restrictions would probably be a lot more appealing.
Heroes can be disappointing.
> all that economically productive stuff that no sane person actually enjoys

If that's the culture of modern greece then that explains a lot in itself. I guess the tentacles of socialism are still strangling Greece and it's legacy has been embedded in their culture [1].

> We have a good life at low cost

Not to make this political but that lifestyle clearly hasn't exactly been sustainable and has been heavily subsidized externally AND internally. Which will cripple future growth for years to pay for yesterdays misteps.

The fact all economically productive people leave to other places says as much about the anti-business enviornment present in Greece as much as it does about people's lifestyle choices there. No one wants to leave their hometown to make a living or do great things. It's always a consequence of trade-offs (ie, taxation, regulatory sanity, access to talented, hardworking, and educated people, excitement/apathy towards the future of the country, etc).

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/01/greek-disaster-is-all-about-...
What does heavyweight mean?
Summary of the linked Wikipedia entry: a nuclear heat source driving a Stirling Engine connected to a regular electric generator.

A test reactor has been constructed, called KRUSTY or Kilopower Reactor Using Stirling Technology. It is designed to produce up to 1 kilowatt of electric power and is about 6.5 feet tall (1.9 meters).[12] The goal of the KRUSTY experiment is to closely match the operational parameters that would be required in NASA deep space missions[13]. The prototype Kilopower uses a solid, cast uranium-235 reactor core, about the size of a paper towel roll. Reactor heat is transferred via passive sodium heat pipes, with the heat being converted to electricity by Stirling engines.

Sounds neat, I'd like one at home. Electricity is always handy, and the waste heat can be used to keep my house and cars warm.
Interesting, I've been using a non-touch XPS for about a year now and the feature I've unexpectedly grown to love most is the matt screen, which has great viewing angles and and much less glare.
Since 1532 according to https://wonderclub.com/Wildlife/mammals/norwegian_lemming.ht...

Lemming suicide is also mentioned on page 66 of the first edition of Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas de Quincey: https://archive.org/stream/confessionsofeng00dequ_1#page/66/...

This was published in 1832 and revised in 1856.
They feel so slow though, do you find that? I use a late 2014 model as a build machine. It's a Core i5 2.6 Ghz with 8 Gb RAM and a regular HDD, and it takes ~20 mins average to build a not very large Unity game. The last build Xcode took 7m 45s and exporting the IPA took 9m 17s. I haven't profiled where all that time is going yet. Maybe I should have sprung for the Fusion Drive and i7.
Will React Native finally support exchanging BINARY data (ArrayBuffer, TypedArray) across the bridge?

Thus far I have to send binary data as base64 encoded strings! See react-native-fetch-blob for an example, when I read a file.

Current state:

Example, issue: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/1424 (closed but not solved, quote: "We are trying to keep issues focused on bugs and this is more of a feature request")

Documentation for native modules, which kinds of data can be sent back to Javascript: https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/native-modules-... (here the iOS docs, but it's the exact same for Android/Java)
>That's akin to installing randomly downloaded software from warezRus.com

All right, then say that. Say that you view Docker Hub like warezRus.com or a site that opens in Chrome like this https://www.google.com/search?q=chrome+red+warning&tbm=isch

Don't say that "unless the image was created by a trusted party (a party that you trust, not that someone else trusts) then there is no reason to assume that it friendly." That is going too far.

It's a continuum, but the "Okay, I'll run it" end of the continuum shouldn't be something you "trust". It should be something you're willing to run. Like everyone else, I'm typing this on a device that I shouldn't "trust". You should replace your idea of parties you should "trust" with parties you are willing to run something from. If Docker Images isn't one such party, then say that.
Then again the Parthenon has has been around for nearly 2,500 years (finished in 432 BC), and during that time has been considered by people from all over the world one of the most beautiful buildings ever built.

What building by modern architects will even be around 500 years from now, much less revered as an example of beautiful architecture?
Impacts by asteroids, meteoriod, etc. could raise dust clouds.
We used to have one called the "The First Amendment to Bill of Rights."[1] Maybe someone could see if that's still on the books. Was there anything in there about whether the govt could kick the crap out of you while you do it?

[1] “Congress shall make no law respecting (...) the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
I think the flutter approach is probably the better one, since the ux stack has more control over how things are done.

Instead of being wrappers around complicated native UI libraries, it's a 'game engine' over a lower level graphics layer. It's a smaller surface area to screw up on and create abstraction leaks. You don't have to be a iOS/Android and react native expert to fix hard issues, just a flutter expert for the most part.

It's just too bad the language run time is dart and it's run by google, which is infamous for being fairly ADD with projects.
Hi all -- Sorry for not updating sooner -- FIFA changed things significantly from 2014 and I had to do a bunch of updating to the scraper to use headless chrome to pull in updates via JS to get all the events working again.

Everything should be working in real time for tomorrow's games. Real time goals, matches marked completed after they are officially over, and an event stream of goals, subs, and cards.

Sorry for delay, hard to scrape data until it actually exists, and besided the 50+ emails I got in the past few months asking me to make it work for 2018, I was the only one making PRs ;)

Should be good to go for tomorrow, please file a github issue if you see any problems.
The parallels do not go very far, unfortunately. When software fails, and kills people, it is rarely investigated. It's development is rarely investigated. When that is done, however, the differences widen even further. There is no degree to which software development can be done incompetently that criminal negligence charges can succeed. We saw this proven within the past decade when some of Toyotas cars engaged in "unintended acceleration." Despite the developers being denied even tools as basic as a bug tracker, and despite following only 4 out of over 90 'required' or 'suggested' coding practices advised by the automotive industry, the courts ruled that because no actual standards exist for software development, the management of the company could not be held criminally liable for the deaths they caused.

This problem will re-appear. When a bridge collapses, if they found out the company building it hired the cheapest engineers right out of school, denied them access to tools or training needed to do their job, kept them removed from decisions about scheduling, ignored any concerns voiced about needing more time for proper development and testing, multiple people (the ones who wear suits) would go to prison and the company would likely be destroyed. If a few executives were put in prison over shoddily made software rushed to market, I imagine we would see changes in how software is developed of monumental proportions. But not until then, apparently. And that day doesn't seem to be coming soon. Perhaps self-driving cars will herald such a wake-up call. I know I'm certainly not trusting one until things change drastically.
This blog post describes twitter's move from Lua Torch to Tensorflow. I am surprised to see it so highly ranked on the front page because there's very little content here. Basically, they describe the sorts of data structures they use and list a couple of advantages of Tensorflow vs. the out-of-date Lua Torch framework.
Are we supposed to just shoot ourselves in the foot because some people want to do it? At some point this level of difference in political views can only come to violence if one side is "we should tax the richest more" and the other side is "if you're poor then you are going to starve".

And before anyone calls that hyperbole, I don't see how refusing to provide some sort of garunteed welfare that provides food and housing is not "if you're poor you are gonna starve" in a system where access to food and shelter is tied to your income
note that the heavy lifting there is done by libcaca...
Right you are. Amusingly their about page lists a graveyard of 'em: https://blot.im/about

13 out of 22 are dead.
If you wish to daemonize it have a file change listener run it when it observes file system changes in the appropriate directory. If that is too much work a quick hack would be:

watch -n 10 composer dumpautoloaf --no-scripts &

Full disclosure: I did not verify this command would work well
Before we got married, my wife said she would move with me to California if I ever got a good offer from a major tech company.

This year I got an amazing job offer, and my wife threw a giant fit, told me she's not coming, and said "I took a gamble and lost. I never thought you would actually get an offer".

Now she's refusing to get a job, wants me to continue paying for our house that she's living in on the east coast (in addition to rent for my apartment in the Bay Area), wants me to pay for 20 flights per year across the country so she can visit friends and family, and has called me every mean name in the book.

So my career is going great but my marriage is falling apart.
As the father of two girls, I relate to all of this. I'm sure you've heard this 1000 times, but they grow up fast, so enjoy they time you get with your daughter.