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VS Code has business value for them in keeping them relevant. Visual Studio is one of their shining pearls, mostly because it's one of the only ways to use .NET Framework and C# coherently (assuming you're running microsoft to begin with since none of their stuff worked well on other OSes before mono and even after mono).

They "weren't above" hiring open source engineers so they're clearly a good company? They hired a guy that happened to try and make python run on windows so they're awesome? What kind of logic is that? You have to take both of those eventualities super optimistically for that to be a plus -- pessimistically it just looks like they tried to ingratiate themselves and make python run on windows better so that more people would use windows.

This is the company that put ads on user's login screens.

BTW, the mono effort's patent status[0] (receiving a broadened patent "promise" from MS). A group of open source hackers bore the brunt of bringing their platform to other operating systems and the best they can do is a "patent promise" and the OIN "swearing to protect" mono as a project? I honestly don't even know what secret sauce could possibly be inside C#/.NET that would make me choose it in this day and age. Honestly why would anyone choose C# unless they had no choice but to run windows (in development or deployment)?

[EDIT] I removed some of my comments on .NET Framework because I'm very biased against it.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_%28software%29#Mono_and_M...
Would you mind naming a few of reasons that are valid in your book?
So is it fake/half fake/genuine?
Even with three failures I would not consider it a trend unless they are related in nature. For the current trend of "basically no failures" to go to "some failures" you'd need a couple dozen failures at minimum.

The alternative is to fix whatever broke Soyuz.
This may prove very problematic.
The next crew launches are scheduled for December, April and July.

Assuming that an investigation takes a year, that means a lot of missed flights and no way to reach the ISS until Boeing/SpaceX are ready.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17931209
For a long time Chrome was objectively the best choice, because it simply had better performance on almost everything. With the recent changes to Firefox (Quantum), that is no longer true. I have good hope this means that it'll climb back to a bigger percentage.
Good that they cut the steam I don’t understand the criticism of them doing so if this had turned to be a disaster I don’t think the family of the astronauts would want the whole world seeing the disaster as it happens live.
I borrowed the terminology from ryani’s comment above; it’s the same thing you are discussing iirc, weak reference expressed by an index into a container and some way to identify that container (expressed or implied).

I like the “dormant” name because unlike a weak pointer (say, in Java or Python), you can’t use it directly - you have to borrow the actual object to use it; so it lies “dormant” until you wake it up. It’s not (necessarily) weak because there is no automatic destruction once all other references are gone.
I do like the idea to have a statically generated site and have all the content in plain text managed via git. Unfortunately it is ideal for text oriented content only. Once there is a lot of images in your content it becomes a pain to manage it in a convenient way.

I tried pelican, but failed as didn't find an acceptable way to write a content. I have a kind of blog with around 30 to 50 photos per post and there is no way to put into the text as convenient as in wysiwyg where it is possible to select the picture I need.

Thus I decided to abandon the idea to migrate to SSG. Even though I tried it and dreamed about it a lot :)
Hey, the authors focus on CRDT for co-editors.
Could populism actually be good for democracy?
This is a myth based on a misconception about Russians. Stalin and USSR is not same. Hitler was not a friend. Fascism terrified all Russian people. Stalin dreaded Hitler and showed friendship in order to gain time. Hitler attacked Poland and it has no chances. The USSR just return the part of Belarus. Later, the Russians entered Europe as liberators from fascism, but they would never enter as conquerors. And, yes, later this liberation turn to ocupation for same reasons: if USSR was not strong it would have been isolated and destroed.
And the Russians themselves stop all this and left Europe when they finally realized that communism will never work.
Maybe the Russians are not the most pleasant people, but they didn’t do what the Germans did and communism is not fascism.
This will immediately make my project faster, thank you kind stranger!
Show HN: Derek – a GitHub bot for managing your Open Source project
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5 ways Google Pixel 3 camera pushes the boundaries of computational photography
Noone is saying they should opensource everything. But people are saying they opensourced their "core tech", and that is bullshit.
Looks like diversion from competitors.
It's not clear which of the authors' claims you are reacting to here.
The “grievance studies” hoax does not reveal what its authors think
NASA doesn't normally push timelines up like that.

They aren't "holding back" SpaceX, the validation, testing, and scheduling mostly has little to do with others, and more to do with validating SpaceX alone.
Apple Buys Augmented Reality Startup
Someone linked to this thing called subZero[0], which seems to be a starter kit that exposes APIs as GraphQL and REST from a Postgres database (it uses postgrest), maybe it's a good example of them working side by side.

[0]: http://docs.subzero.cloud/
What this article doesn't mention is that consumer energy prices have spiked recently and one of the reasons is that coal power plants were not being built. Is it really better for the environment to shut them down and ship the same coal overseas to be used there?
T4: Dropbox for data science, built on S3
To address OP's point about the need to have a bit more control and freedom in the complexity of the content (instead of having only markdown etc), Next.js offers an "export" script that will export the app as a static asset.

I made a static website with it recently and found it very quick to use, assuming you know React.
No config or setup required (something rare on js projects nowadays), really just "npm install react react-dom next" and you are good to go.

Build a react component at "pages/about.js" and boom, yoursite.com/about routes to this component.
Quick AI-related news digest (September edition)
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Indeed. If you take that to the logical conclusion, you reach the K/J/APL mindset - objects are not a useful abstraction. Just use arrays with correlates indexes and be done with it.
SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5 booster preps for next launch
What about breaks? You don't take any?
Our take on Intel's newly announced Skylake-X Refresh and Xeon W-3175X 28-core
The latest messaging was actually exactly this - that they had a milestone of readiness for DM-1 set for December, but that launch couldn't happen until January because of ISS docking schedule availability. It's not a big difference, but it could shave off a few weeks on the margins.
Magic Leap's Mica is a human-like AI in augmented reality
This is particularly insane since climate change is directly affecting Australia's other major industry - agriculture.
Why OT cannot be applied on P2P networks? Does Google Docs use a transformation-based server mean that all OT need a central server?
Only tangentially related, but today I was reading about collaborative editing using Quill.js (a rich text editor) and found a really nice solution based on sharedb (using ottypes/rich-text):
https://github.com/pedrosanta/quill-sharedb-cursors

Before I dive knee deep into this, does anyone have any opinion on sharedb or better alternatives? (it was listed in this post under it's old name, sharejs, as one of the more successful OT implementations out there so that's a good sign)
Clearly deforestation scaled. We need people to realize they are part of this and it is not some videogame.
Chip stocks are getting massacred in October on rising rates, downturn fears
> but in my experience Epita/Epitech doesn't produce good software engineers

How so? It's one of the best IT schools from France and the concept was even adapted in the US. As an example, I could point to Docker which was founded by epitech students.
Turning the DRAM off would save more power.
While I certainly understand the desire to hand-write parsers, I think people often underestimate how useful it can be to have an explicit grammar for your language (even if you hand-write the parser then just fuzz test it against the grammar or something like that). It can help so much with external tooling, and you can often analyse explicit grammars in ways you could never analyse a hand-written parser.

As a concrete example, I recently had to write a parser for i3 config files and trying to figure out what was and wasn't syntactically valid was so horrendous that I ended up just hacking together some half-arsed thing just about works for the one or two files I tested it but that I'm fairly sure is going to break horrendously at some point.
> Any two datapoints form a line, ie a trend.

Two datapoints are not a trend.

People who use run charts (control charts,time series charts) talk about trends being a set of five points all going the same way. http://www.qihub.scot.nhs.uk/media/529936/run%20chart%20rule...
I think static site generators need a more rigid content API. Problems start when these tools try to pack too many features trying to make everyone happy. They become small CMS and as the author mentions introduce poorly documented hard to grasp features.

Rolling your own specific static generator is quite easy, the bulk of the work being gluing libraries together. What is worse, using an existing tool in a way it is not meant to be used or maintaining your own?
I know it's a serious conversation but...

> Luckily that type of road doesn't exist

Speak for yourself.

In more related news I have a friend who helps out on Waymo and he's ALWAYS posting great articles about Waymo tech, always showing off amazing pictures of what he's working on, and he's always positing about how great things in the future could be. He's not the type of dude to over hype something, he's not the type of person who over exaggerates things either. He's not insanely fanboy-ish about it but he's definitely borderline. But, I guess when your vehicles are blowing the competition out of the water you'd be excited too?
The modern Western ideas of personal freedom with respect to property arose in conjunction with a particular economic system that made sense at the time. But, as any economic system, it has its constraints. Right now, it works because ownership of capital is pointless without a labor force to make it produce things - so you can have capital concentrated a lot, but the workers still get a slice of the pie for working it, even if it's not a big one.

Full automation essentially means that labor is no longer necessary - the owner of the capital can have it produce wealth directly (and robots can fix robots, after all - although the system breaks down long before that, since even when you have humans fixing robots, one human can fix a lot of robots - so you're still employing only a minuscule part of the labor pool). From a perspective that is concerned solely with economic efficiency, all those humans are now simply redundant - they can go and starve to death for all anybody cares. And from a perspective that is concerned purely with property rights, theirs is the freedom to do so, since any other course of action - say, expropriating some robots that would then feed them - would be in violation of those rights.

Somehow, I don't think they will care for it, though. If you make enough people desperate, you get torches and pitchforks. And judging by how revolutions went historically, those torches and pitchforks won't be directed against the capitalist class first and foremost - they'll be directed against those immediately accessible that still have cushy jobs and the associated lifestyle, i.e. whatever remains of the high middle class by then. And if we don't want that to happen to us, we've got to start working out practical solutions, and using our political power to force them through.
In Martin Amis's "Money" (1984), the protagonist drives a purple Italian sports car whose make is Fiasco.

No relation to the microkernel, except maybe the modest suggestion that a purple car would make a nice logo because it’s a great book.
Indeed. As a colleague of mine once noted, “eventually you write FORTRAN code, no matter what programming language you happen to do that in”.
That's incorrect. Ada has subtypes and new types for scalars and they behave differently. For example, a new integer type is:

type MyInteger is integer;

declares a new integer type that needs to be explicitly converted to any other integer type. You can also declare a new range integer type as in

type MyPositive is integer range 1 .. Integer'Last;

But you can also delcare integer and float subtypes:

subtype Day_Number is integer range 1 .. 31;

or (a bit pointless)

subtype MyInt is integer;

The difference between new types and subtypes is that no operations of the base type are defined for the new type since it's an entirely new type. A subtype on the other hand allows the operations of the base type, and their range is checked at compile time if possible and runtime if necessary.

In addition to this, Ada also has modular integer types, real types, floating point types, fixed point types, and decimal types in the numeric type system and all of them can be subtyped.

Of course, you can create a new type for any other type in Ada as well, but that's not what I meant when I was talking about integer subtypes.
Where Tesla's Supplier Says Lithium Market Is Headed
Thanks to you and the other maintainers for your tireless work on Postgrest (also as a member of the Haskell community)!

Is there a paypal link for one-time-donations? I don't use patreon and am not really down to increase my online footprint but would love to be able to donate (I also couldn't find any mention of taking donations on the github or in the docs @ postgrest.org... you might get more donations if it were at least mentioned?)
>>North Korea have tiny, impotent toy nukes and everyone around them are very careful.

What North Korea has is irrelevant. The scary part they have is capability.

Given enough resources, its the equivalent of possessing seeds with highly fertile soil, and having the agricultural know-how.
> Normally you only get one public IP and no private interfaces.

From my understanding, this statement is not quite correct, as Hetzner allows you to set up VLANs:

> With the vSwitch feature, you can connect your dedicated root servers in multiple locations to each other using VLAN via the administration interface Robot.

You probably still want to encrypt the traffic passing through those VLANs.

They also offer the option to install custom hardware, so you might even be able to get a second NIC connected to your own private switch.
Accion Systems takes on $3M in Boeing-led round to advance its tiny thrusters
Show HN: Ovale.io – Unified GUI to trade multiple crypto accounts
Excerpt:

"One of my favorite microchips of all time is FT2232H from FTDI — its dual channel USB to serial converter that supports various protocols and configurations. It can work with UART, I2C, SPI and JTAG protocols, it also supports bit-bang mode and multi-protocol synchronous high speed engine (MPSSE) — its pretty much a real digital electronics swiss knife. There’s also a single channel version of this chip called FT232H, but as for me it’s more convenient to have dual channel one: for example, you can flash firmware to your target device over SPI and debug it via JTAG in the same time which is very convenient. Also, there are some motherboards which use more than one SPI flash chip to store platform firmware (my Intel DQ77KB motherboard uses two). To work with this neat chip you can buy official FT2232H Mini Module from FTDI or make your own board."
Really nice article and really cool maps! And I kinda get both sides of the argument.
I think it's safe to say they wouldn't be logging anywhere near 10M miles if that weren't the case.

Especially when the graph shows that they've completed 6M of those 10M in the last year! (https://www.theatlas.com/charts/S1uAcpj97)
In australia we used to have a carbon tax, until the Liberal party & National party coalition was voted back in to federal government and repealed it.

You can see the impact of the carbon tax here:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2018/jan/09...

search for "The exclusion of LULUCF emissions shows just how greatly this affects our goal of reducing emissions by 26%-28% below 2005 levels by 2030"

Spot the dip?

if you happen to live in a less ecologically lamentable country, please lobby for trade sanctions on australia. we need a bit of encouragement to help feel the pain of our short-sighted decisions early.

edit: to add a bit of subtlety that isn't mentioned in the article, australia exports both thermal coal and coking coal. coke is used to produce steel. so while running coal power plants is not a great idea, some coal may still be necessary to produce steel. i don't have a handle on the relative proportion of thermal coal vs coking coal exports
CEO's wife, on stage, sitting beside her husband: “You helped him create the biggest family in the world. A big part of being a woman is to help men [like Adam] manifest their calling in life.”

This is awkward and uncomfortable, no matter what lens by which you consider it.
Astronauts make emergency landing after Soyuz rocket malfunctions
Thats fair! I just keep seeing a lot of comments whenever something happens about how "SpaceX might get to launch sooner", and it kinda annoys me because there's a pretty well set schedule and they aren't going to cut corners just because an opportunity arose.

You are right though that scheduling might let this move up a bit.
Cory Doctorow once said that good sci-fi doesn't predict the future so much as it anticipates the present.
What does this mean for people at the ISS? There are definitely people there now, right? I'd imagine this doesn't change their schedules for return?
Opinion: This article is chock full o' SMM/UEFI/Firmware technical information. Definitely worth a read.

Also, another excerpt:

"I sent my reports to Intel Platform Security and Incident Response Team at 15.07.2016 and after several working days and short e-mail conversation both Intel and AMI confirmed all of the security issues. Intel decided to release a single advisory INTEL-SA-00057 to cover all four vulnerabilities. Fixed firmware for my NUC of version SYSKLi35.86A.0051 was released at 10.08.2016 — not bad, especially as for the job that requires coordinated work of two different companies."
It's one of those things where it doesn't make much sense when you look at it case-by-case, but the aggregate of them becomes a real problem, and somebody has to pay for it. Ideally, since it's a common problem, everybody does - i.e. we tax productivity more, and use that money to support people whose wages are driven down or whose jobs are lost.
On the bigger TVs point, you’re sort of talking past each other. Noone* is buying a bigger TV because it suddenly fits within some power budget but nobody* would have bought a 60” CRT that heated the room like an oven. Nowadays, you’ll struggle to find a non-garbage TV much smaller than that.

The improved efficiency enables new uses which consume more energy, eating into the improvement.

* for small values of noone/nobody
For the benefit of non Australians:

> liberal party & national party

"Liberal party" is theoretically "both strains of non-Labour thinking": liberals and conservatives. But in reality they're the conservatives. Socially liberal folk wouldn't vote for the Liberal party but for Labour or the Greens [1].

National party are the farmers.

[1] This is assuming Labour is still moderate left. I like in the UK now so it's entirely possible they shifted like Labour here did.
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Source? Carbon capture and storage (CCS) seems to be a thing for sure.
You are getting dangerously close to promoting censorship of speech. It is true acronyms are often used to the detriment of the discussion, because lots of people may have difficulty understanding the intended meaning. Or the meaning is deliberately clouded in using acronyms. The better policy for this site would be, if one uses any ambiguous acronyms the first time in the discussion, explain them the first time you use them.

That said, I understood MSM as Mainstream Media from context and results of 5-second web search, it was not very difficult to find this. When something becomes a concept, a name is appropriate and useful and learning new concepts and their names is one reason people are here. Why would this name offend you?
Thanks! If you want to watch the entire take-off itself as well it starts @ 3:03:20

https://youtu.be/O8d9CqS2cvc?t=11000
> we’ve always been able to fix it in time to avoid it

...only provided those who decide can profit from the fix. There’s also “it’s hard to be aware of the problem if you profit from your non-awareness.”

Therefore: “saving the banks too big to fail” works. But saving the civilisation? In god we trust, he gave us the planet to just use it.
Hey that works pretty well. Thanks for the tip! :)
Have you noticed any noticeable decrease in the quality of debug information available with -g1?
NTFS deserves no praise. None at all. Not sure I've ever heard any to be honest.

edit: fine example as I got a downvote.

SVN checkout on windows NTFS 8 minutes 30 seconds

SVN checkout on same kit on ext4 48 seconds.

This problem scales to git as well, so is not SVN related. Anything that does lots of small writes, so basically anything unixy, suffers like this.
I remember having a copy of "busdriver imaginary places", where he does a lot of fast rapping, once I got the CD it was suddenly much easier to understand him.

Not sure if they were 320k though.
Not wanting to be part of a federalised EU (which is the objective of a lot of the member states/big wigs. let's be honest). It's been a continual bug-bear between the UK and others, probably best for both parties to be separate and allowed to pursue whatever they want.

I'm not quite sure how to phrase this properly, but the lack of democracy. What I mean is that democracy/politics need to be both there (which is the case with a lot of the EU) and also visible/tangible to your average citizen (which in my experience, living and working in three EU states is not at all the case). I could go on and on about how remote it seems, how even governments treat EU politics badly etc etc. Regardless the deficit is there and people don't much like it. Also add in dodging the EU constitution vote down, Greece, multiple reruns of votes in Ireland on treaties etc etc.

The EU is a horrible bureaucratic mess. I don't see much possibility of meaningful reforms, when they can't even agree not to have to move the whole HQ between Strasbourg and Brussels every month to a huge cost, to no gain.

As said, I reluctantly voted Remain but am now hoping that a Norway deal can be pulled from the fire but probably expecting some Canada style fudge.
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This seems very low, in the days of tapes it would have been nearly 100%.