skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not great with mine, but I really love using them. I took some of my engineering finals with it and finished well and quickly.

They just make the calculation more "real" and I feel like I'm actually working out the problem instead of just punching numbers into a thing that gives numbers back.
Current rights owners of Kickstart and Workbench (I don't even know what company owns that now, it's being reselled again and again) are aggressively trying to extract last money from it.

Also, there's hatred to open source in general in Amiga scene. Interesting comment in one discussion about MorphOS: https://lobste.rs/s/vkpekg/morphos_3_10_released#c_ktgnn3
Do you know if they are still using it?
Any mention of Julia immediately degenerates into bikeshedding about indexing.
I believe it comes down to your programing language preference. If you are into OCaml the Mirage Unikernel is rather complete. If C or C++ is your thing there is IncludeOS (potentially adding other language runtimes next year) and for Haskell there is HalVM.

There are others as well, but AFAIK these are the ones with active development happening. Please correct me if there are active ones I've forgotten.

All three support compiling your application as a Linux binary, meaning you can do most of the development and debugging using the tools you're used to, IDE with visual debuggers and the whole shebang.

Once you want to run in a separate VM you can still debug, but it becomes a tad bit harder. I know how to debug IncludeOS application when they are running under Qemu or KVM. Qemu can act as a gdb remote, you just need to get it working, which is a bit of pain.

And now you have the option of running it the way it is describes in the paper. I've never touched this so I don't have a feeling for how hard it is getting it to run.
There have been some messages on the development mailing list about adding support for create index concurrently when using Postgresql, which is a big pain point for larger migrations.

It's a bit tricky as you cannot use it in a transaction though
The CIA literally hacked into congress[0]. Seems like the US intelligence agencies oversight is a little lacking at times.

[0] https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/31/cia-admits-...
Ask HN: What's the fastest way to gain expertise in a new domain?
Whenever someone asks how to come up with business ideas, people often suggest [1][2] to get expertise in a domain other than programming. I think that's great advice.

I'm wondering what the fastest way is to get this expertise though.

The ones I've come up with are:

- Get a job in the domain/industry

- Talk to experts from the domain

Do you have any other ideas?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17104598
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18270124
High-Church sounds fun. I would go if Angie from Sweden went to that church. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdGgljB_hYvI7ZXTfebLymw
She writes really cat-chy schlock that I love and sing along to "I get high, eat pussy every day, and every day is kind of the same" Encapsulates the world in which I would want to live. I think that by saying that a church service is not a concert for entertainment is disingenuous or at least profoundly lacking in introspection. Music and lies go together but also music and entertainment.. Never ever do you have music and fear and jealousy - that has to be communicated with the sermon.
I really doubt it’s that critical to get to another planet. Or at least, if it is, we could correct that without leaving ie start treating this planet with a little respect.
This reminds me of this video which attributes the decline of the Simpsons to the changes in writers and how the type of comedy itself changed.

I still catch episodes when possible, the old ones definitely have a different depth than the current ones.

The fall of the Simpsons: How it happened: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KqFNbCcyFkk
I used “many believe” because it is very difficult or impossible to know. Do you know what was the real reason behind the war against Iraq?

If anything “many believe” should nudge you to do your own research.

Or you can complain about “fake news” or “trolls” or whatever is the phrase du jour to discredit strangers over the internet.
It wouldn't be a Slate article without it
Skoda enjoys a good reputation because you're getting VW build quality for less than a VW or Audi. Their use of common platforms and drive-train technology helps with this.
While it is possible to do, there is an important cost benefit analysis to make. All of the benefits the article lists can be a drawback as well. Say your specific network needs tweaking to get good performance, with a unikernel you must do this with all applications, while for a "traditional" monokernel you can do it once and it works for all applications.

That is not to say the approach is not interesting, but it'll probably be for in some kind virtualization, where you abstract away the OS entirely, and run applications directly on the hypervisor.
Whenever we talk about Simpsons decline it always occurs to me that even in decline... the Simpsons is still pretty good.

Perhaps that says more about its high points than the "decline".
I've added a similar example here: http://perl11.org/blog/bolt.html
The first marketplace to search and book any pet care service on-demand
Yea, it's expensive to tear down, usually almost double that even in cheap areas. It's part of the problem to the point where some of my friends discussed setting up a tear-down company rather than trying to mess with conventional real estate.

Edit: Also totally unrelated, but I have always wanted to know what the raw cost for a basement/foundation usually is.
The issue is that it fixes on problem by introducing many others, but I rant here about parking enough.

Suffice it to say adding free parking introduce horrendous incentives, destroys streetscapes (your shopfronts are now parking), is expensive for everyone even if they don't drive, and makes walking, cycling, and taking public transport less viable and less pleasant.
Things to Pay Attention to in the Lease Contract in Turkey
>I can't have a Soviet concrete-block box-house built [...] //

They're competing with you buying a pre-built house. There's no need to charge that little, in addition people will often pay more to have their own house built, and new carries a premium. So there's no pressure pushing them to make houses low cost. Buy the land, hire a builder .. they'll still charge you too much because your alternative is still to have a pre-built house.

Rent-seeking ftw.
Regulation is certainly part of the cost.
And few days after this:
"Singapore, EU ink landmark free trade agreement"

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/business/singapore-eu-i...
Reduce that feeling of lonely coding (working)
Later episodes are rated lower, thus writers who mainly wrote later episodes have contributed to episodes with lower rating. This seems like circular reasoning, and doesn't say anything about an individual writers' contribution to the quality of the show.
Agreed. I want them to have the capability. I also want them to use it properly and only where appropriate and consistent with law. Maintaining access to potentials adversary's systems is fine and necessary since they're doing it to us. CPB potentially (I haven't heard any allegations but who knows what they do with it in the back room) loading malware onto people's phones is not fine.
Numbers scale exponentially tho. Let me put everything in USD base and then do a napkin comparison:

Montreal:
- av salary: cad$70k -> $55k
- av rent: cad$860 -> $656
- net: $47 128

SF:
- av salary: $135k
- av rent: $3.5k
- net: $93 000

Taxes are very similar so let's keep them out.

Again obviously this is back of the napkin, and there are other factors, such as healthcare etc. but actually, unless you have a very specific situation (lots of kids, lots of health issues, etc) it still seems better to be in SF, COST WISE.

I'm not saying life is terrible in Montreal, I love Montreal :) But having done both, in the technologies sector, the difference is huge. If you work in another domain this is not true, but engineers are paid so much in the US, it's hard to beat.
Kaspersky was founded by a Soviet military officer. This is intuitive if you consider that.
This is cool to see as I once owned the domain school42.com because I wanted to build something similar but more focused on allowing teachers to do 1 on 1 teaching in a large group setting. Ideally I felt if teachers could see all their students work using something like Web Sockets, they could visit 1 on 1 either digitally or physically when a student was having trouble. Since this was a digital platform, you could set up simple triggers to determine if a student might be struggling.

I dug up some really old notes that referenced my reasoning for the name.

"42 is the number used to define the meaning of life, learning is also arguably the meaning of life. It also sounds like school for 2 (teacher & student). This will hopefully help one to one learning."
As Elon Musk said you could have crates of cocaine on the surface of Mars ready to be transported back to Earth and it would still make more sense to buy it locally. It's just too expensive right now. Future spacecraft might change that but as with everything else this will come with scale and this scale right now doesn't have enough customers to justify itself.
Podcast: Choosing the right technology to learn
Inexpensive chip-based device may transform spectrometry
Show HN: A Visual Canvas for Assessing Emerging Technologies
PVS-Studio Now Supports GNU Arm Embedded Toolchain
Yeah this is too bad and a big issues. Good, cheap schools. People come study and then realise opportunities are not that great and go work somewhere else. Most of friends left after their studies.
The urgent case for a new ePrivacy law
offtopic, but is your garage air conditioned?
I thought the hack went "make us a list of one" with the hope that once they're over the hump of making a list that inertia will push them to do more.
Bitcoin Hidden in Music (listen to decode private key)
Does it support Scala? Or I didn't see it?
The secretive United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) approved 99% of all applications. There's no oversight there.
>People have a misconception about WebAssembly. They think that the WebAssembly that landed in browsers back in 2017—which we called the minimum viable product (or MVP) of WebAssembly—is the final version of WebAssembly.

They do? When people point out that WASM can't do stuff they are simply pointing out that WASM would need to be extended. That is a pretty simple concept and a very important observation because historically that is the phase where everything falls apart.

Creating an intermediate language that all the higher level languages can compile to is not a new idea. It has been done over and over again with little practical result. Some current scepticism is in order.
Uber Charging London Passengers More for Rides to Go All Electric by 2025
All of this is thermally limited. If your cooling system can pull the heat away fast enough, for some period of time the chip will go up to 5GHz on two cores.

It's quite likely that a normal air-moving fan + heatpipe radiator will not let you do this for more than a few minutes.
As crazy as this feels to say, ordering a dvd and figuring out a way to consume it in this day and age is a huge ask! I haven’t had a DVD player in my house for about 6 years now & no CD-ROM drive in my laptop.

And, again I can hardly believe I’m saying this, it would be such a hassle to physically insert the disk when I felt like watching!

It’s got to be on HBO/Netflix/Hulu/Amazon or available on demand from my tv provider or I won’t watch it outside of theaters. Convenience has bested my better judgement shrugging emoticon
Yes, it's very distracting.
Ask HN: How do you handle recurring payments in your SaaS product?
Chatops for Azure Devops and MS Teams via YellowAnt
> anti-"political correctness"

News flash, the vast majority of Americans are anti-"political correctness."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/large-majo...
We cannot afford to be indifferent to internet spying (2013)
I'm sick of dealing with code written by people that had no clear thought process before they started coding.

It comes through in the code, it's messy, there are entire classes and functions that are never used. The logic is all over the place. The code is messy to look at. There are edge cases that haven't been handled.

Well engineered code I should be able to look at understand what the developers thought process was as he was writing it.

I've seen a Dev write a piece of code, that wasn't that big, maybe a few hundred lines then later that day he couldn't explain how it worked in a meeting. Even going through his code line by line he couldn't follow what was happening.

If he can't follow what is happening in his code or explain it coherently, how can anyone else!

And it was because he dived into coding something without thinking.
What relevance does this have to Hacker News?
This analysis doesn't demonstrate anything, unfortunately, except that ratings declined over time and that writers changed over time.

Any factor could have caused the show's decline (like less time given for script writing, less collaboration or rewrites, management directives to change aspects of the show, etc.) -- and it would show the same result.
I would argue that Apple actively doesn't want to support your two use cases because they'd much rather sell a device to each member of your household and make it incredibly easy to share the page you are looking at between each member of the house.

This is what frustrates me about consumer electronics, that if you have a use case that the vendor doesn't want to support then you'll be constantly frustrated over what could be a simple software change.
Hard Costs of Third-Party Scripts
Stanley Hauerwas (theologian) had this to say about music in worship:

One reason why we Christians argue so much about which hymn to sing, which liturgy to follow, which way to worship is that the commandments teach us to believe that bad liturgy eventually leads to bad ethics. You begin by singing some sappy, sentimental hymn, then you pray some pointless prayer, and the next thing you know you have murdered your best friend.
Check out actix-web: https://actix.rs

Does my proclamation still seem disingenuous to you? If so, why?
I found only two caveats:

- it doesn't use transactions, so if migration will down, then you will need to fix state manually (one point of improvement), however you cannot run `CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY` in transaction.

- it can use `CHECK (column IS NOT NULL)` constraint for safe `NOT NULL` replacement for huge tables, that isn't compatible with standard django behavior.

So all this cases highlighted in README.
Just a question. Can an .ogg audio track be looped without a gap (silence)?
Maintaining the capability to infiltrate systems by exploiting software flaws and running a dragnet surveillance state two very different things and it's perfectly possible to have either one without the other. It just so happens that in the US the NSA runs both so they tend to get conflated.
See also: Dead Homer Society, if you prefer reading.

https://deadhomersociety.com/zombiesimpsons/

Pretty compelling argument for the end of the golden age being season 9, maybe 11 or 12 if you're being very generous, including analysis of writer and other personnel changes, and an attempt at explaining what exactly is different about the earlier seasons compared with the later ones.

Seems like the video's making similar points.
My argument was that in situations where the difference between 0 and 1 based indexing makes a difference it's ususally 0-based indexing that leads to simpler code.
If the Thalmic Labs name doesn't ring a bell, they're the former makers of the Myo gesture control armband (which was just discontinued).

By all customer accounts I've seen it was an expensive gadget that never worked reliably enough to be useful for anything, so hopefully they do better with glasses.
I am in a fly-over and there are "upcoming" areas - pockets between the city and the suburbs, within 10 mins of downtown and other "prestigious office areas" that are almost sure to take off, but total ghetto now. It's not worth risking $200,000 to build a fancy house there, but it's worth $15,000 land, $15,000 tear down, and $20,000 pre-fab.

At least, that's my very-limited POV.
I think the decline is largely bullshit nostalgia. I still watch Simpsons and I still think it's great.
Are you seriously proposing regulation of one specific private company just because you don't like the way they run their business? Man, I'm glad you're not in charge.

Google is not a government service, and YouTube (forget about YouTube-As-You-Want-It) is not a constitutional right.

Have you forgotten that you are talking about an advertising company? That's what Google is.

Don't like the business decisions of a private company? Don't patronize it.

And hey, if you think that you can do better (and that people would give a shit) you can start your competing business. There are many alternatives to every one of Google's business lines, and there are very low barriers to entry.

Fundamentally, though: why are you using a company's product that you dislike so much?
Ask HN: Are there any event based notification/messaging saas services?
I'm struggling to find an event based messaging/notification system to send customers emails (or push/sms etc) based on actions they perform within a product that takes into account the actual properties of that particular action or event.

For example:

User adds product X into their shopping basket and doesn't purchase it within 24 hours, send them an email about it.

User looks at 4 different products to buy but does not buy anything, send them an email 24h later about those specific products.

User buys a product, send them an email 2 weeks later to ask for a review.

User favourites a product, send them an email when it's nearly out of stock and they haven't bought it.

All these things seem pretty standard to me, I just can't find a service for something like this.

e.g. Intercom can send an email 2 days after a user favourites a product, but you can't easily pull in the product details, and if the user favourites a second product 24 hours later, things get harder.
Wow, that's must be some real uncompetitional place. Nobody likes to be called out on anything!
Filters That Fight Back (2003)
Launch Pad Water Deluge System Test at NASA Kennedy Space Center
Offensive to whom exactly? Are you literally insane?
Shame https://github.com/cloudozer/ling seems to have stalled.
GitHub – October 22 Incident Update
Jepsen: MongoDB 3.6.4
I thought it was basically impossible to get a decent architecture job without being exceptional/connected. That's what turned me off from the field.
But if you're an architect skilled in designing vomitoriums, or whatever, then how does adding the mythological QWERTY design add to that.
OK, OK... how about 10? Can you live with 10? 'Cause I just made this for you: https://www.bookofjoe.com/2018/09/10-things-an-anesthesiolog...
Scales of Feedback Time in Software Development (from Compiler to Monitoring)
High refresh rates. I can't afford a gaming desktop right now but if I did I would definitely look either for a 1080p 144hz or at most 1440p but then you have issues with fractal scaling on linux. The fact that I want to run linux also limits me in using an AMD gpu only due to the miles ahead hassle free drivers they have.
A simple set of tools to make using Redux easier
To clarify, your statement that, "It uses a special sort of invented numbers which square to zero even though they are not themselves zero." is not entirely true. In case someone else is looking at this, what the OP is referring to is dual numbers. That is one way to implement things, but not the most common way for fast tools.

Fundamentally, automatic differentiation is the methodical application of the chain rule. Forward mode results from the application of the rules for directional derivatives. Reverse mode results from the total derivative. The reason that we have a reverse pass in reverse mode can be seen from this perspective. The directional derivative is `(f o g)'(x)dx = f'(g(x)) g'(x)`. Note, we compute `g(x)` before `f(g(x))` and the derivative `g'(x)` before `f'(g(x))`. Therefore, we can compute the derivatives as we compute the answer. If we want the gradient, which results from the total derivative, we have `grad (f o g)(x)` = `g'(x)* grad f(g(x))`. Although we still compute `g(x)` before `f(g(x))` during our computation, the gradient requires the computation of `grad f(g(x))` before the application of the adjoint operator `g'(x)*`. We do the evaluations on the first pass, and cache extra values, and then compute the gradient on a reverse pass because we need the adjoint of the total derivatives in the reverse order.

Or, at least that's my bias in how to derive things.
Yeah, I kinda do sometimes, but not that much. My biggest distraction by far atm (and always) is Youtube though :/
Why can that create an enforceable attorney-client relationship for a lawyer, but equivalent medical advice cannot create an enforceable doctor-patient relationship?
Rumprun[0] is another big one in the C camp. Though I think you can use basically any software that conforms to posix.

[0] https://github.com/rumpkernel/rumprun/
Well, to be fair, I doubt very much someone in a 2003 anything, much less a Toyota, is having the same driving experience I'm having in a brand new Camaro SS ;-)

Honestly, I've owned my share of old cars. Everything has a cost, sometimes it's money, sometimes it's hassle, etc. The marginal extra cost of a new vehicle is a rounding error financially at this point, so the biggest value is not having to worry about anything.
That’s a good take on it. The demands the deceptive arts place on the performer’s intellect and agility can be more impressive than their actual effects.
I would not. The Simpsons seem inherently antiquated now. (To me! This is an opinion, not an assertion!) It’s hard to put my finger on why I feel like this, but I think a large part is that it only recognizes the stresses and anxieties we had leaving the reagan era.

This is not to say, by any means, that the humor doesn’t hold up. It does! But it doesn’t help soothe living in a capitalist-realist society the way, say, Futurama or Idiocracy do. It seems to more address the anxiety of trying to meet the impossible standards of society.

EDIT: meanwhile, someone in another thread introduced me to Max Headroom. That still holds up today.
Amazing. How have I never seen that before? Made me laugh primarily because it resonates quite strongly for me (although I suspect not for everyone).

There are Christian artists I've really enjoyed. Iona spring immediately to mind, although I haven't listened to them regularly in years, but the relevant points are:

1) Their lyrics tend to have more substance to them.

2) Even if the style isn't your cup of tea, there's some real and undeniable musicianship on display.

Although way poppier, and with edgier lyrics, I'd probably put Switchfoot in the same category.
I've seen desks like this at Staples. There's a simple linkage, and the entire desktop raises.
Yeah, I own an old pickup for all of that. Having a new car also has upsides.
The Price of Saving Grand Central Station
Interesting, I'll check this out indeed.