skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And after you put it together, remember you need a power supply, a CGA? card and a keyboard to use it (and a DD or HD if you want to do anything besides looking at a screen)
HTTP/2 server push would seem like a better solution here.

That way you don't have to base64 encode the content (bloated and more cpu to decode), and don't blow out gzip compression dictionaries.
Yeah I mean they do have Google search, google analytics, play store etc. Plus apps on Firebase/cloud if they really wanted too though I trust they wouldn't.
Funny. The three founders in the header image are all Republicans or Libertarians yet they align themselves with the Democratic Party in the post.
This is definitely true.

"Lines vary at field offices, but Gonzalez [DMV Spokesperson] said the average wait time is about two to three hours -- an assertion that Patterson [Assemblyman] is challenging."

"People have got two-hour wait times on top of the two- to three-hour wait times in the waiting room," he said. "The DMV is not only failing to do their responsibility, they are essentially trying to cover it up."

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/California-lawmaker-a...
You're right that for most, there isn't a business case to care about access to these sanctioned countries (there are more than just those two that Google is blocking). I wouldn't say you won't be locking out any users: people in Iran obviously do use, say, source control. But sure, the monetary loss is very limited.

But ideology can be a powerful reason. And people in Open Source can be very ideological. Certainly for me, this makes Gitlab a no-go. I want my code to be accessible by everyone. I do wonder what kind of pressure could be applied to Gitlab in terms of free software developers shunning the platform.
Dark Matter was a recent one that was definitely up there, except it was canceled at the end of 3 of its planned 5 seasons...
I'm on the other side. Most coworking spaces I've tried are too quiet. Not enough interaction. If I wanted to be left alone, I could just stay home. It's the human interaction that's keeping me sane.
Into the Solar Wind
If any other kind of agent can make market moves, then that agent has to supplant humans at the 'top'.

For example, the pet market is absurdly large. What drives this market? The actual needs of animals? Of course not. It's the wishes of humans that make that market as big as it is.

It doesn't even have to be that humans are smart enough to control the new market-playing agents. It can also be that human desire can so vastly dwarf whatever external agency has a wish to be in the market that the whole industry ends up catering the wishes of the humans.

Right now, human desire drives the market for robots. Can you even imagine a point at which robots could develop enough agency to even come close to supplanting the human desire for more and better robots? When does the tail stop wagging the dog here?

People sometimes forget the sheer scale of human economies. Sure, maybe your pet non-human agent might be able to command a few hundred thousand in market activity. Is it even going to be notable over all the other existing types of non-human agency already on the market, like pets and HFT?
> What the fuck is with the idiotic voting going on here lately?

Maybe because it was a short low effort statement on a rather complex topic? I mean I'm not innocent of doing this but I never complained about down votes...

On topic, in the case of China I highly doubt being the country with the highest population puts too Much pressure on you, especially if your "arch enemy" america is at a quarter of what you have. It has more to do that they realize supporting the older generation isn't possible with the system they are currently running (it's based on the German system and they see what kind of problems we have over here even without a one child policy). But apart from that in general an aging population hurts society on a purely psychological level. So it doesn't seem that unreasonable to stop a very restrictive policy that arbitrarily crippled population growth and then in turn try to reverse the changes in society and mind set it created (little emperor syndrome to name the most popular instance).
Fun fact: A song from a musical adaptation of Naipaul's novel "A House for Mr. Biswas" was re-adapted and used as the theme for James Bond movies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6EuzGhIyRQ
It's a bit like "Network Boot PXE" with specific functionality for RPI3s stuff, see
https://cattlepi.com/flow/
My guess is that a lot of the C hold-outs will never switch to another language. C represents the siren's call for them: the best performance, requires skilled handling, no seatbelts, stable definition.

A lot of C's endurance is related to programmer psychology, so it would be futile to design a better C.

C++, Rust, Go, Java will continue to drain the pool of C developers until it's only used for maintenance of existing projects.

This is why it's extremely irksome to see people recommend mixing C and e.g. Python for speed, or other such Frankenstein's monsters - it's just prolonging the agony of whoever will maintain that.
On the contrary. Take risks, just not at the expense of leading a fulfilling life. Youth is a terrible thing to waste on projects that have a statistically miniscule chance of success.

Long-term solo projects are like taking a lengthy road trip. If your emotional gas tank is too low, you're going to end up miserable as you push the rest of the way, and neither accomplishes much of anything. Creative endeavors are best pursued in a happy state, which is to say not stressed out about finances nor teetering on the brink of crippling depression.

The point is that people can have their cake and eat it too. As counterintuitive as that may seem, it's usually the case that most endeavors are not as urgent as they may seem, and that the risk involved is best taken from the most advantageous position possible. The time cost incurred by one's ancillary needs will likely end up a net benefit to the project in the end.

The tricky part is, most people who end up working on solo projects absolutely don't envision themselves working on them for so long, so they're ill-prepared to begin with. It sort of happens by accident.
Yes. OS X's Finder was an adaptation of the NeXTSTEP file manager.
US Passport Card is an internal passport used to travel to dependencies of US, and more people than full passport holders have that. It is nationally issued.
It varies by state. Some (like Arizona, IIRC) are very mail/online-heavy. Others, like Montana, at least partially outsource the vehicle registration function to the counties. California keeps it all under one central bureaucracy.

The unfortunate part is that this includes issuing the only widely-accepted form of ID, which has nothing to do with vehicles.

A web search for "uk photo id" brought up several competing "proof of age" cards, which I assume are privatized and accepted for alcohol, tobacco, and similarly age-restricted commerce. How are other things, such as banking, handled?

What about passports? The process here is, arguably, as byzantine and time consuming as some DMV transactions, also requiring physical presence for initial issuance, but at least the document lasts 10 years instead of 5 (CA.. other states vary).
This. It’s like the situation with police shooting at people reaching for documents in the glovebox - presumption or fear should not be enough to deploy lethal force. Authorities should always strive to reach the best scenario, i.e. everyone safe and sound including perps. This is particularly true in situations where the perp shows clear signs of mental illness.
Where does that certainty arrive, that we will go out with a grandiose bang?

Why not instead, shrink and shrivel to a rat thing, adapted to live on planet sized garbage dump, optimized for continuous fighting with its peers and survival in a toxic environment. No need to think about tomorrow- god unwills it.

Occasionally, a head-albino is born, a demonic creature whos head is big enough to murder its mother and ask uncomfortable questions.
Usually these are worshiped, then sacrificed and eaten to prevent the cycle from restarting a new.

History of a species, is not about show business. There rarely is somebody before or after who will read it.
I think that's the mostly useless official exchange rate rather than the defacto one.
Totally agree about Nature needs the odd wildfire.
On the point of the bombing maybe the Vacuum bombs aka Thermobaric bombs could be a solution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermobaric_weapon
They burn more intensely so could the advancing edge be bombed so what is on fire burns out more quickly so that t can not advance? Although many will be familiar with the Fire triangle, if you can burnt an area at an accelerated rate, the fire can put itself out. As the vacuum bombs are essentially just fuel that suck/use the oxygen in the environment, they could steal the oxygen from the fire. These are also slow exploding bombs as a result but it would be interesting to see how they work on the advancing face of a wildfire. Hard part would be getting the right sized explosion, the Military cant control the size of an explosion that well, but Reaper drones could be used effectively with their laser targeting.
The author has commented and it seems this is unintentional.
From https://cattlepi.com/flow/

> because of how the root filesystem is built, any changes made to the filesystem will reside in the upper layer of the union [fs] and will be lost on reboot. This is good, because it means that all the state you have on the device is expendable, and you can likely rebuild it after a reboot. If you rely on the state of the device, you will have to figure out a state to persist it outside of cattlepi.

This seems like a showstopper for me because I want to run a webapp with user registration, logs, etc. I'd certainly want to keep these things around after next reboot.

Can the user-writes be persisted on the device? Maybe on another partition?
Thanks for having the patience to put all these Obj-C myths to rest.

The Obj-C community (or what's left of it) is trying to make a martyr of an error-prone, cumbersome programming language.
Or let air traffic control diasable any plane while it’s taxiing.
Saudi Arabia’s PIF and SoftBank Not Interested in Tesla Buyout
And mechanics.
> Pretty much anything that requires the attention of people will end up being ignored eventually.

Perhaps, but your example is not supporting evidence. The PACU alarms were muted, precisely because they were so hard to ignore.

> Monitoring hardware is very sensitive so it will fire off alarms if anything changes, no matter how small. The more sensitive a test is, the more false positives you get.

This is fixable. The problem is the same as the one in the Therac-25 case ... severe and inconsequential alerts are indistinguishable.

Here's an particularly enjoyable piece of literature crafted around an instance of alarm fatigue: https://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/smithcordwainer-deadladyofclownt...
Okta's PassProtect Chrome extension also uses k-anonymity.

https://www.okta.com/blog/2018/05/add-passprotect-to-your-we...
A sleek Matlab/Simulink programmatic interface
I don't know, like 8 years ago I would frequently recommend people to use Stackoverflow. At least a dozen times I did this, not a single person followed my advice, I gave up recommending the platform. I started to think that actually only a miniscule percentage of programmers do use the platform to its full extent. Like me before I created an account, the rest just lands there through Google.

Speaking of me, I'm really nerdy and I'm able to turn this "I care that what I write accords to society's rules and about the consequences" switch off. Anyways, until today, external users cannot see my real name although I'm connected through my Google Apps Accounts. It's just some stupid pseudonym with my first name and numbers.

> I wonder what would be incentive for Stack Overflow to change. Imagine SO ignores all

> of those complains, what happens? I doubt anything would happen to it.

The platform would die eventually. Everything changes, the programming languages, the culture around tech and eventually the people. As mentioned in comments and the article, the oldschool IT as I got to know it the first time in a social setting was elite and of low social competence, up to an annoying extend even for me, being white and male.

I mean imagine applying for a job today, gettings the same benefits, working hours and salary, would you rather take the oldschool IT job in the cellar or the flashy startup job in a nice office?
Running a recursive resolver isn't really that great from a "trust no one" perspective, because the .com nameservers are getting a decidedly not tiny subset of your access activity.
To add unbounded credence to this idea, it's basically what Macgyver did using nitroglycerin to put out a wellhead fire in the 1985 episode "Hellfire"
The problem I have with the Bayesian definition of probability is that it isn't a definition, is it? Since probability is a ratio, you need to define two amounts. So what does the 1 in 1/6 actually mean? And the 6? What does it mean that someone is 1/6 certain of something? How does one measure certainty? The more I think about it the more I'm convinced Bayesian probabilities are a flawed concept.
perhaps the

> Obviously, this is a project for an advanced electronic hobbyist and computer enthusiast.

is somewhat tongue-in-cheek: this could be the thing to get a kid who's already soldered together a bunch of (less expensive) analog hobby kits .. or the adult who's into that sort of thing.

it's pretty much the same thing as building model cars, airplanes, etc. although it doesn't teach you exactly how the thing works, the perceptual task of doing the soldering and checking out the traces gives some idea of how things piece together.

as far as vintage electronics go, IBM PCs (probably?) aren't that difficult to find for those who're essentially interested in abstracting away from the hardware.
201808 Parker Solar Probe
This is why the World Bank can claim to have lifted the poorest who earn $1 a day above this limit, wage inflation gives these people $2 a day, but the cost of living has increased to $3 a day, so they are now worse off despite the headline claim to having being lifted out of the $1 a day poverty. For thousands of years clever people have been manipulating stupid people.
What about Japanese typewriters? Kanji is similar enough to Chinese characters.
It's probably the massive blue peak around 450nm. This wavelength maximally activates cryptochrome protein which might influence the circadian rhythm. In CFFLs the blue is more spread around in the spectrum.
I remember upgrading the RAM from a paltry 128KB (i think). See all of those empty sockets?

Notably missing, and fair warning:

- Floppy controller

- Floppy drive! 5 1/4”

- Hard drive controller (RLL)

- CGA or Monochrome Display Adapter

- Serial port adapter if you want to modem (25-pin 16450 UART)

- PC-DOS

Good luck. These are harder than you think, have no sound but a “beep”, and can’t even keep the time between reboots.
Why should they be? The difficulty and quality of the work isn't dependent on the severity of the bug. Basically you would be creating a lottery.
An alternative approach to building early-stage products
Voxeltoy: Procedurally Generated Voxels
There is no such thing as "big boys" in software engineering, there's only humans which have certain cognitive weaknesses.

C is really good at exploiting those, while at the same time giving programmers a feeling of power.
If I left enough space in front of me, then I can adjust my speed without braking. If I left enough space in front of me, then reaction time isn't a limiting factor.

I think you just can't imagine leaving that much space. Which is not surprising, because if people in general could, then we wouldn't have the traffic jams.

It seems to me that tailgating by definition is following too closely to be able to react in time to what's ahead. You seem to feel it can be something else.
C still represents the closest approximation of what is happening on a chip, quasi-atomic operations acting on finite resources like registers, memory, and I/O. Even if you don't know assembly, you can reasonably understand what various chips will do with your C code, especially low level C code that occasionally dips into assembly (e.g., handling interrupts or chip-level atomic operations).

Rust, Go, and Java, with their memory management and cross-platform portability, and general non-determinism may eat away at the edge of C, but can never replace it.

I could see them fully replacing C if features like garbage collection and byte-code interpretation were handled at the chip-level, so languages would not have to necessarily deal with them. Could also see it happening if a chip's out-of-order execution was exposed at the language level. That would not necessarily make C worse, but Java may be more adept at handling it.
Show HN: A simple interactive resume-making tool
Even a single AZ might consist of multiple datacenters.
That's dangerous. Imagine this remote control gets hacked and planes start getting disabled in mid air, or even while trying to take off.

An hard to copy ignition key makes a lot more sense.
Open source ideas
The answer is that yes, I don't -- fully -- trust anyone or anything I don't personally know. With that said, there are criteria by which I decide to trust a given company more or less, such as their business model, age, track record, size, and target audience. For example, I have some trust in apple because their business model relies on selling hardware and they have a decent track record (apple v fbi). I also have some trust in microsoft because a significant portion of their target audience is enterprise -- banks run windows me, the economy runs on excel. They have enterprise software that come with certain guarantees, and if they break those guarantees for me, a $10 customer, then they'll lose the $10 million customers, so I feel secure in using their enterprise software. However, this is tempered by windows 10 spyware, and makes me more reluctant to use consumer versions of their software.
So providing a feeling of power over the language and it's abilities is not a legitimate advantage of the language?

Isn't that why everyone loves python, solving a complex problem in a handful of easily readable lines of code?
Would you mind expanding a little. Google has led me to a brand of window maker, and to of course, black hole event horizons but I am not clear on the specific egress horizon.

I can guess what you intended but would be interested in the specifics.
Would be interested in how the talk with his investor continued...
On a positive note, at least you're just writing buggy programs and not killing your patients somewhere or causing industrial accidents.

Unfortunately, as software continues disrupting various industries, it's less and leas certain that even buggy programs written by someone who thinks that safety is overrated will remain harmless.
Any good government system must endure that onslaught of madman, must contain them when they come to power and allow for other madman to reduce them to ashes.

Its not easy to build these right.
Bans Alex Jones from youtube (tbh fuck that clown)

Fires the memo guy

Complies to DMCA

My favourite is Google officially comparing EU’s right to be forgotten law with russia’s anti gay propaganda law... cannot get lower than that.
A Programmers Lament

King of sorrow, Prince of bits

do make this a server hits

WHILE TRUE AND FALSE OR ELSE IF NOT

loops will break and . comms .

Much fading of the Blinken lit
What i learned from chatting 7,000 strangers on internet
ChiptuneBlaster – WebAudio based player for about 400 chiptune file formats
But by adding random data, differential privacy destroys the ability to apply the usual statistical analysis techniques to the dataset.
Hollywood writers are glamorous? Hilarious. I've lived most of my life in SoCal and that's not really the general perception. Even movies about writers like Saving Mr. Banks don't depict it as a glamorous life, though Their Finest does a little bit.

Ultimately what drives screenwriters is their need to create. For those of us who do creative writing, be it for screen, dead tree, or compiler, there's this internal need for the work to make itself manifest. We're just the conduit for the story. That's why people put up with the conditions in the writers room, it's all for the story.
Please just remove anything that interferes with the scrolling at all.
You have an issue with speed and size of someone on the footpaths, I could run fast and cause more problems than someone on a scooter on the path. Besides its not like Scooters will ever be that popular because people love transporting stuff around in their cars and they need/expect a certain level of protection from the elements which scooters, bikes and motorbikes will never exceed. Its a bit of a storm in a teacup which is why the UK police are not prosecuting electric scooter users at the moment.
Thanks :-) - should be fixed now.
I know it's standard nomenclature but I find the label "creative" for only a subset of creative endeavors very grating.
On the town planning idea I think that fits neatly with my "votable backlog" - there is a list of priorities that the (technocratic) town planners need to meet - perhaps "walkability" is top priority, (shops, GP, social centre within 5 min walk of new houses), off street parking etc etc. Perhaps guidelines on facades etc

then with that list the town planners use their expertise to meet the priorities set.
Greenarrays is still going. They've made some new app notes.

I've found the 64x18b word limitation of memory per computer much less daunting than I did at the beginning, simply because how amazingly terse you can make your code. You also end up just simplifying, making your look-up-table or other array 8 or 16 words long...sometimes 32 or 64, but that's a bit more work.

One experiment I've done with it is harnessing 95 simultaneous cores for a virus vat, with a 47 core vat enclosure keeping it from hanging. The last 2 nodes are I/O and the probe to see what's going on. The virus is exactly one 18b word.
Vi and Emacs are older projects with a larger community, and thus there's a ton of plugins out there even for niche applications. Xi is much newer, and attempts to solve many of the problems that Vi and Emacs face (examples: in Vi's case the difficulty of writing extensions, and in Emacs' the difficulty in maintaining and extending the core of the editor written in C). Xi also focuses in areas that weren't considered that important when Emacs/Vim were first developed, such as asynchronous operations and collaborative editing.
Should be fixed now (there's nothing trying to interfere with the scrolling, just an overflow setting to hide the hamburger menu that seemed to cause the laggy scroll on iOS. (Hopefully I didn't make it worse - redeploying while being Hackernews #1 is always a bit scary)
Better than wasting away in a corporate cube hell.
The difference here is that you treat one person at a time, and the bug doesn't get triggered every time. A bridge just happens to be used by a lot of people at the same time. The bridge didn't collapse three times until people figured out something was wrong.

This applies to the vast majority of fields where software is in use, except maybe planes, trains and nuclear power plants (where I sure as hell hope are a bunch of hardware safeguards in place). So in a sense, we software developers just got lucky here that our mistakes only kill one or very few at a time in most use cases (if at all).

It's still insane how according to the article they apparently just had that thing developed using emulated hardware with no proper security audits, safety guidelines or formal verification.