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1. You Can't Win by Jack Black - autobiography of a late 19th century safecracker and general criminal - long enough ago for everything to be different, but the differences are still recognizable

2. Stalin - the Kremlin Mountaineer - a great, and short biography of Joseph Stalin - one of the rare books that could have been longer

3. Stars Beneath Us: Finding God in the Evolving Cosmos by Paul Wallace - an astrophysicist looks at the book of Job and reveals it as the big picture view.

4. The True Believer by Eric Hoffer - the all time classic of the study of mass movements. Full of aphorisms too.
Papers aren't meant to be this crystallized nugget of truth, they are a progress report on an ongoing piece of living research. They aren't meant to be infallible.
Really frustrating to hear that argument. It's the same the right is making across Europe: "Just remove the social security net, then people will be forced to accept any wage.".
This is easy to derive if you have a little algebra, but it is shoved at kids before they can derive it, so they don't understand it (which is anti-math). The dull ones go along with it, but the brighter ones often think they are stupid. I (and independently others) have worked out visual proofs of both fraction multiplication and division for younger kids.

But I mostly think that "fractions as ratios" can be left until the child is older and has more chops for derivations.

The Greeks thought about these as different ways to measure intervals, and they worked out the idea of "common measure" as a good solution to dealing with these problems.
No, we didn't stock iPod/Mac competitors. There was good competition for cases and other accessories, but we weren't told the margins between suppliers for those. All I knew about margins was that Apple stuff was ~6-12% depending on the product, accessories were great, and software was excellent at 50+% margin (except for iWork/iLife), but we didn't sell much software.
KDE had the solution to this, long time ago: KParts allows you to embed the dedicated terminal (Konsole) into any other KDE program.

That said, I agred that alt-tabbing isn’t hard, and a tiling window manager makes it even easier (less window administration).
Black Box Thinking: The Surprising Truth About Success by Matthew Syed.

It looks at anecdotes and stats around different industries and people and their approach to failure and learning from it. Goes on a bit about incremental gains and how those who are successful are so because of many little things, rather than a few big ones.
I think you misunderstood the parents use of the term "model". All the things you describe here can be described in the relational model. The parent was arguing that the model is general enough to cover almost all collections of data. You appear to be arguing that for specific use cases specific implementations perform badly. These arguments pass each other unseen like ships in the night.
Does this work for any Thunderbolt supporting notebook like the XPS 13?
Output from scripts, for example. Not necessarily large. E.g. I run various scripts, and then I need the output of some them later. Then I don't have to rerun the script and redirect to a file, or scroll back trying to find it. I just search for some string in it, and then it is right there and I can copy or even edit the output right in place in the terminal buffer if I don't want something from it and copy that.

It's quite useful and convenient.
> how do you guys read research papers

my phd advisor started by looking only at all the displayed formulas. If there was nothing interesting or new, he would not bother reading any sentence of the paper.
Memorizing equations is "religion" not "math". "Understanding" is "math".
Apple allowing MacOS server on major cloud providers would be a game changer. I don't really understand their reason for not allowing this.
Her Hainish novels (SF) may be more to your liking, but I think all of her works are informed by the kind of mysticism that informed her translation of the Tao Te Ching. What made A Wizard of Earthsea dry for you?
In my opinion all types of food shouldn't cause guilt as long as they are consumed in reasonable amounts.
Source seems to be freely available so they would probably welcome pull requests
"it's easier to detect false information on questions you are familiar with"

That's so important.

The old "modern" news has _long_ assumed a local minimum of giving the remaining audience strong opinions on things they have not personally checked. Distilled; it's a final pointless outburst of pretend-informed righteousness.

If I'm waiting somewhere watching the network that shall not be named it's an odd mix of funny and terrifying; the stuff they implicitly assume their readers do not know is so trivial... at some point you must assume it's not an accident that they also pretend not to know the unmentioned basic info.

I could link a wall of specifics, but why? Most people don't respond to being told they are wrong (myself in 04' included).

Deliberately tangential example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R3BN4T6XMw
I think what you’re looking for is that languages are more language when they are interpreted by something that looks more like a VM, and interpreters are more VMy when they have constructs that look like “if” and “load from memory” (letting you choose how to act on observing current data, based on past experience).

If it’s easier to study the language as a what you term “direct,” it seems less languagey, or whatever.

I personally think this distinction is distracting because you can always create a (large) bijection between encodings and their output when interpreted and then it looks “direct”, without actually writing the VM (just a huge lookup table).

I feel like smart languages just look nicer to use because they compress better (length to output blowup is exponential), and we think that seems more like human communication.
My reference point is the UK, where we killed 89 civil service departments in the early 90s alone.
It's an audiobook but if you're interested in Chinese history I thought The Fall and Rise of China was fascinating. It is available on audible.
Hey, thanks! I have never heard of that website. Will be truly useful.
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I have the same feeling. If you ever figure this out, let me know. It looks very interesting, but I don't think my clients will let me remake their production with it and it is difficult to evaluate databases without data or a workload.
From the abstract of the referenced 1978 paper (Demillo et al): "One of the most interesting possibilities is that the mutation idea could form the basis for statistically inferring the likelihood of remaining errors in a program."
I didn't even see that! Yep. When all you have left to polish is some white space in a test script, the thing is pretty much complete.
> just one parity drive

That's not RAID5, that's RAID4.
Ask HN: What did you do to comply with GDPR?
Most of products are not 100% compliant with GDPR but what changes, if any, did you make to what you are working on in response to GDPR?
There is no such thing as 'local' when we are talking about CFC production.

Try again.
> but for me, Lua is just far more elegant,

It's curious... Lua is my favorite language due to its elegance, but I would love it even more if it used significant indentation (using tabs, of course) instead of "end" blocks.
What concernes me is that the article is strongly biased in the sense, that modern developments of non-relational databases just get ignored while ranting on their state from a few years ago. Schemaless databases do support full ACID transactions (MongoDB, ArangoDB), with some you can also enforce a schema and not everybody loves SQL. So having competition even on the query language-side, can only improve the status quo.

Yes, thinking about your data model will for sure increase your understanding of what you are actually doing... and every professional developer is doing this as well when choosing a non-relational database. Anythings else would be stupid.

For me the article rather shows that the modern developments in non-relational databases do affect vendors on the relational side of the spectrum. Otherwise, it would not make sense to invest so much time in writing such a long article.
It all depends on what kind of company are you in, what kind of people are your superiors, etc. How much politics and backstage dealing is involved?

In an ideal situation I would say call be honest and tell the stakeholders your view.

On the other hand, from my corporate experience, it's not always the best course of action. See - as lwj1001 already said - some companies play sort of meta-game, where certain things are known but never said out loud. If you are in a position to change the environment - great! (But this is not likely the best opportunity to do so). Otherwise... I would still say your opinion to those who need to be informed, or even better - write them an email. The reason is - you might have to cover your ass in the near future. The worst that can happen is that everyone assume everyone know yet there is someone who doesn't.
Good to know, I'm running 45.9 ESR release, where it still works.
Wonder if Notepad still just wraps the standard edit-control after these changes.

I imagine the latter would have pretty strict backwards compatibility requirements.
What is difference between Bulletproof and zk-SNARK (of ZCash)? Any advantage?
The rescue may have wound up using something similar to the sub idea.

There are reports that the kids were administered an anti-anxiety drug so they wouldn't panic, and strapped to a stretcher wearing a full-face dive mask. That would kind of be an open submarine.

There are conflicting reports on this though, as an earlier report said the kids swam through the deeper parts but were carried on a stretcher through the drier parts. However it seems like it would be easier to just keep the kid on a stretcher, especially if there was some risk of the sedative/antianxiolytic drug having an unusual effect on the kid.
https://dwmkerr.com/effective-shell-part-1-navigating-the-co...
Kubernetes/OpenShift Hype or Future
Hello together,

i am working in a 50 manstrong IT-Team at a german company. I started my career as linuxadmin 10 years ago and now i have the chance to switchover to k8s/ocp on the basis of a new project. Containertechnology is really new to me, but i like, at least what i have seen so far.
The majority of my business colleagues believes that all the k8s and dockerstuff is just a hype, gone away in short time. I think the step in this direction is a revolution like going from baremetal to virtual machines.
So, what do you think: K8s/OCP/Docker - Hype or Future?

kind regards
ggreen
The problem with all of those has always been that they only worked with an external display - there never was any way to send the image back to the laptop's own display.
My fiancee is starting computer science this fall. I'm already using this to teach fundamentals. Thank you!!
"fewer than 50 quantum bits"

D-wave's 2000Q released in 2017, is supposed to have 2048 qubits.
Editable plain text terminals are wonderful. Especially for running interactive programming sessions (like ghci, or python).

Unfortunately, some programs treat the teminal emulator as a screen with fixed positions to put coloured characters in. And this breaks down when your terminal is a text buffer.
More children's books:

Hello Ruby. Adventures in coding https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1250065003/ (But I might spend mroe time with a Scratch book).

Nine Open Arms https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1743315856

My Little Book of Big Freedoms https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1780555067

The Lost Words https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0241253586

All of those are perhaps a bit "worthy", and we read a load of other books. We're going to make our way through anything published by Little Gems. These are small, short, books with a clear font and nice illustration. I think these are great for reluctant or new readers. Here's one example, but they have a load: Mr Birdnest and the House Next Door (lovely illustration by Hannah Shaw) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Birdsnest-House-Next-Door-Little/dp...

And things like The London Eye Mystery (which may be a bit too old for my child, we'll see how it goes) https://www.amazon.co.uk/London-Eye-Mystery-Siobhan-Dowd/dp/...

We're still reading a few heavily illustrated books. I love Kate Hindley's work, so I'm buying The Knight Who Said No! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Knight-Who-Said-No/dp/1788002083
I'm 2/3 of the way through Enlightenment Now by Stephen Pinker, having seen Bill Gates describe it as his new favourite book of all time: https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Enlightenment-Now.

With the daily news cycle full of violence, hatred and despair, the book is an rationally optimistic (possibilist!) argument that the human condition has been improving since the days of the Enlightenment - and that the improvement is driven by reason, science and humanism. Definitely recommended.
Ready Player One.

Read it before seeing the movie.

If you were born in late 70s or 80s, you will enjoy the references.
They are deviating from standard PC architecture quickly with the introduction of things like the T1/T2 chips. They will want to depend on these things at some point.

The only 2 use-cases I can see for virtualised macOS are remote development/test machines, to which their answer would be "buy a real, local, Mac", and for continuous integration, for which their answer is currently fuzzy, but their acquisition of BuddyBuild makes me think they are likely to launch some sort of CI for developers in the future.
That makes a lot of sense I think. You get a terminal, but don't have to reinvent the wheel.
Whatever “BDFL” is. Climb out of your hole.
2 tips. Per https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html, “Show HN is a way to share something that you've made on Hacker News.” For things you didn’t make, please omit the “Show HN” prefix and just submit the actual title of the destination page.

Also, HN readers are savvy. In general, it’s probably better to submit the actual Web site, app, readme, or whatever (using the actual title of that page), not a page about it on an unrelated site.
No ability to upgrade? Sounds very familiar for every Apple user out there.
I wish there was a language that had the syntax of ReasonML, built on top of F# because the ecosystem of F# is much better

It's very easy to get lost in syntax when transferring from C like languages like JavaScript to F#, some concessions (like Reason has) to semi colons and braces might help those programmers (myself included) to feel at home
I'll wait at least a few months before believing any of this.

Apple being Apple, they might not be telling us whether this new keyboard actually does mitigate the issue. If they said something about this keyboard being more reliable, but then the improvement is not big enough for the bad press to stop, they'll look worse.

Not that I have any interest in defending Apple; I'm still using my 2015 MBP and avoiding the new ones, and I use Linux and Windows desktops. It's just that Apple can be really smart with PR sometimes, and I don't believe anything. Not even what they say they didn't fix.
Your reply to my question is basically "the output of scripts". I get that. But what _kind_ of scripts?
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> The Zoe (the new 41 kWh) goes around 250 km

250km is 155 miles, which is close enough to the 150 miles claimed in the parent comment.

It's also still below the 200 miles requested in the original comment.
I'm suggesting if you ever do get an ear infection to seek medical attention asap.

I had a random infection a few years ago and just waited for it to pass. Which it did, eventually, but my tinnitus became much worse afterwards. I'm guessing, because the infection did further damage which could maybe have been avoided?

I can't say whether you should stop wearing earplugs because you may sometimes be in a situation where they protect your hearing. But, for blocking out background noise in an office, they're probably not a good idea?
[based purely on my own experience]
Better movie recommendations may not be as visibly worthy as building sewers, but they are genuinely life-enhancing. As the amount of cultural works produced grows exponentially and human curators remain only human, this problem grows ever more important.
> What say ye all? Do you think that "True" has any place in the social sciences vs. the observational "I observe this to be useful in this context" or the almost psycho-analytical "I notice that when people believe X together, society does better"?

The problem with that is whoever takes it upon themselves to discard truth and consider 'what will have the best effect on people/society if they were to believe it' —is that you have to manipulate other people into believing it's true on the hope that your assessment of how it's going to affect people is accurate. It's almost certainly not.

It's interesting considering the human brain's criteria for accepting beliefs. It works pragmatically, not with strict adherence to truth—but, from what I can tell (and I've seen some research supporting this), the amount it's willing to deviate from (what it estimates to be) truth is proportional to the immediate demands of present circumstances. If you are in a crisis, it is willing to compromise and adopt a belief that conflicts with evidence, as long as it solves some immediate problem you're facing. But when that happens, you are accumulating something like technical debt. You become sort of 'out of harmony' with your circumstances, and problems will arise given enough time.

Why would it evolve to act in that way? It seems clear the answer is: because it's generally most beneficial to survival to adopt beliefs which best fit the observed data. It's a fair assumption that society holding true beliefs is also going to be most effective for survival.

So when someone manipulates someone else's beliefs because they think it will be beneficial, they are forcing that technical debt on them, and that's a decision only they should make for themselves. The same is true but amplified when considering spreading these ideas to wider audiences.

That said, much of contemporary social science and the humanities are rife with the opposite sort of thinking. This is heavily fueled by the fact that much of it doesn't consider 'correspondent' truth to be a real thing, so in their framework it is meaningless to say they are compromising the truth. Which truth? You can see this in Pragmatism's approach of literally redefining 'truth' to refer to something like 'the most effective belief to adopt'; and even more pervasive are all the schools of thought influenced by a kind of radical relativism which denies the possibility of truth. (It also clarifies a lot of philosophy once you realize the philosophers are actually thinking about the best mind-programs to put into people, rather than seeking truth as a typical person would recognize it. If only the sneaky bastards would say so to their readers' faces. But of course it would not be pragmatic to do so.)

It's a bad idea, and I sincerely hope the fields presently employing it fall into ruin, or are otherwise convinced to abandon it.
Don't forget native multi-model databases like ArangoDB
I got the one with the MX150 dGPU, because there was no other option from the students program I bought it from. But I personally would go for the one without a dGPU. Even-tough the dGPU version uses 2 heatpipes, there are thermal issues. As soon as the GPU hits 70°C, the cpu-package gets power throtteled to 5W... so it's not usable for graphic intense workloads. I would choose the one without the dGPU, manually buy and install the 2heatpipe cooler for better CPU temperatures and use a eGPU if I really needed the power. For the time being I just disabled the dGPU under linux with bbswitch. I'm still able to watch 4K movies with 60fps, no problem.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/8flj0i/t480_power...
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The value of Dapper IMHO is not the speed. It is precisely the interface. With dapper I can copy paste code between C# and SQL contexts freely. Exploring the database directly in SQL and then use the result directly in the program without a translation step.
You don't compute an end state, you compute a transition table. For each character you parse you look up the corresponding table and then you compose them.

Here is a paper on how to do this efficiently with simd instructions https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/data-pa...
This is not what Ask HN is for.

Consider doing a Show HN if your project fits within the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
20+ hours is impressive. Do you also use lenovo-throttling-fix, and if so, what are your settings for the turbo-boost max power?
That's marketing-speak from D-wave, though. 72 error-corrected qubits [1] is state-of-the-art.

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610274/google-thinks-its-...
Wire up a fan speed control.
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If I could recommend one book from what I've read this year it'd be When China Rules the World by Martin Jaques.

For fiction; Solar Bones by Mike McCormack. One-sentence novel about a man on the West coast of Ireland shortly before the crash hit. Won the Dublin Literary Prize.
The problem is that each professor trains more than a dozen PhDs over their career but they open up only one spot once they retire. Exponential growth in scientists isn't sustainable, no matter how many billionaires like science.
If you enjoyed it, you might like the sequel Lila as well.

I think I may have even liked Lila a bit more than Zen.
Oh yeah, let's make the MBP double thick so there is space just in case you need an upgrade...
Going through:

* Faust - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

* How To Read a Book - Mortimer J. Adler

* Python Machine Learning 2nd Edition - Sebastian Raschka

* Economics 19e - Samuelson/Nordhaus

Next in line:

* The Sleepwalkers - Hermann Broch

* The Will to Power - Friedrich Nietzsche

* Oxford Handbook of Business and Government - David Coen(and other dozens of lecturers)
whatever u do, beware: HR dept is there to protect the company from its employees. NOT the other way around - regardless how much anyone fanfares it..
Show HN: Deep React state with Context and lenses
Spanner is CP I think the A part comes from reliability of google network infrastructure which is not part of DB system's design per se.
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I can agree to that ;)
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Great. Now you can hang an external GPU off Apple’s glued-together POS laptops with paper keyboards, soldered-in RAM and drives, idiotic glossy screens, and gay-ass “touch bars”
That's the difference. Apple had an actual opportunity to restart from scratch and design it right but Microsoft never did
This actually sounds like a pretty good idea, do you need any help with the website or content?
You can now use Alexa to control your DirecTV set-top box
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1065085597/airtop2-infe...
After what Microsoft has done to the $8 billion acquisition of Skype, why should anyone expect any better from Teams?

Microsoft "fixed" Skype by removing the P2P functionality at the behest of the NSA and centralized it on its servers, and the company one of the largest "cloud services" provider, yet Skype keeps disconnecting and failing to deliver messages all the time. And that's without even mentioning all the torturing it has done to its UI over the years.
Linq works for trivial left join project style of queries. But for anything actually using the features of modern sql-databases it comes short quickly.

As a example try to express something like “sum(x) over (partition by y order by z)”

I do agree that SQL the syntax leaves a lot to be desired, and a proper relational language with a syntax optimized for actual development, and even better, optimized for 6NF style databases, would be awesome, but linq is not by any stretch sufficient to be that