skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, that doesn't change anything about how the reunification was done and how the East Germany history was summarized into the wall and the state police, leaving everything else out of the picture, as this article points out.
But if they all just compile down to WASM, why should anyone care? It's not like you'll need to install a new plugin for each new language you run across. You have a WASM interpreter already, you don't have to know or care about the process by which the site you're visiting turns source code into WASM bytecode.
We are looking at the health care problem from the wrong angle. Nobody should be needing most of these drugs to begin with. But we have a food culture and system that feed civilization disease causing foods and that's where the cycle starts.
One thing that scares me is seeing how he's putting money into swaying how the media report on things. That one billionaire is willing to do such a thing to support the public good is great. How many are doing so for less laudable ends?
Inside the new battle for the American West
This trend is a big problem. We have to get to the bottom of it!
There are a things in it that are not in other Smalltalks (e.g. slots, revamped streams, GToolkit).

The point is to be a system to be improved over time.

Squeak is more conventional I'd say.
No, modern browsers won't honor MD5 (or, for that matter SHA-1) certificates. But there's nothing they can do about 1024 bit RSA keys in DNSSEC. Starting to see the pattern?
> that allowed the Soviets to build their own bomb just 4 years later

I think (not sure) Andrei Sakharov referred to Klaus Fuchs materials as a 'distraction'. Meaning it actually impeded their progress due to interference by Soviet political leaders. That's in line with a comment about the true nature of nuclear weapons 'secrets'. The secret isn't the design. The secrets are in the skills and technologies needed to manufacture a weapon. Which makes me think Klaus Fuchs and others were basically idiots.
Everyone is happier if everyone works harder. It doesn't necessarily have to be that he's nefarious or hypocritical. Sure, in the short term people will be happier if they work less (assuming they dislike their jobs). But arguably he might be looking out for everyones wellness function (not trying to find ways for the country to work hard while he's retired), since people working hard and America growing will yield greater individual happiness than everyone taking it easy. (Not to mention the fact that the US is in an inescapable economic arms race with China and other nations, which will make things even worse in the even longer term if stagnation continues.)
> “Where it is impossible to create the conditions necessary to make competition effective, we should resort to other methods of guiding economic activity.”

- Friedrich Hayek, The Road to Serfdom, p.37

Free markets work as expected where the alternative is dying at worst: They fail completely. If you're lying unconcious in the ER and there's zero regulation in the country of unlimited capitalism worship, the hospital can charge whatever the fsck they want. And yet, there are still a few people in the US surprised they actually do so.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/chrisladd/2017/03/07/there-is-n...
The best hack is to move to SF, get a Bay Area comp package at a remote friendly tech co, then make the case to go remote when you’ve developed enough trust within the org.
iPhone XS and XS Max Teardowns: Better ML, New Battery Shapes, and Beer-Proofing
SA (and Russia, to an extent) is a different best than the rest, though, is it not? When people say SA, they mean money owned or controlled by the royal family, who are directly analogous to an organized crime syndicate.

Whereas, there are plenty of Chinese people who are not directly responsible for human rights violations. Does Jack Ma have more blood on his hands than Bill Gates?

Failure to recognize shades of gray serves no good, either.
> However... Can you imagine tens of rich VCs being able to agree on something potentially destructive for the entire sector? What if money "dries out" for VC funds?

It's very hard to believe that SV has to rely on "dirty" money to survive. Those tech VCs appear to be a politically-homogeneous group, which lives and works in a specific city. It sounds like something that is very much doable, tbh. And if SV cannot vet the money they rely on, how do they have the audacity to speak out in unison on situations like Trump or Theranos.
One last thing. If you aren't good at business or willing to become a business person, it's okay. As OP mentioned, working along side someone who is good at that sort of thing might be just as rewarding. Just be sure upfront you make it clear you should get your share.
Isn't a JQuery Plugin something that executes on the client-side? If so then how can something on the client-side compromise the security of a server? Isn't the fault on the server-side?

Or is this a PHP server-plugin which if installed on a PHP server makes them insecure? But of course anything you install on server can make it insecure. No?
Are you sure that your first sentence is a reasonable assumption?

Is it not better to be clearly stronger, so as to be able to negotiate from a position of strength?

And again, to be clear, these are good-faith questions. What is it that we lose, as a society, by spending as we do on our military? What is it that we gain? There are solid points in both columns.

How does China's spend of ~228 billion compare in purchasing power to the US's 610? How does Russia's? What can we do to de-escalate the otherwise runaway cost of defense, while still maintaining a position of strength? I think Eisenhower's Military-Industrial Complex speech* from 1961 was exceptionally prescient, and we've done a poor job heeding the warnings. I also think that the general disdain I see on HN for most anything defense-related is an outlook only possible when one hasn't experienced living in actual conflict zones. We need to be able to talk about defense needs with clear, rational heads.

* http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/eisenhower001.asp
I seem to remember they had some quite innovative digital products early on, my first digital camera was a Kodak.

In retrospect I'm not sure there is much they could have done, the likes of Canon and Nikon had decades of experience making cameras and electronics. Competing against them was always going to be tough.
I don’t think you finished the essay. It is very clear they don’t believe the policy proposed can be implemented and it is only slightly less clear that they think it is undesirable.
Yeah as awful as what happened to Kashoggi is, Saudi Arabia was been savagely murdering people for decades and nobody blinked.

It’s not just the Turks— this whole thing is an internal power struggle over dynastic succession with hundreds of billions of dollars at stake.

Nobody making a stink about this in Congress gives a solitary shit about press freedom in Saudi Arabia. I guarantee there is some money being funneled to all those guys from some interest in Saudi Arabia opposed to the crown prince.
I think the problem is the shift from 2 different kinds of independent. In case of stealing, for example:

The constitution means (this has been clarified enough) that you get convicted if you steal, irrespective of other factors like skin color or religion.

The modern interpretation is that every race and religion must steal at the same rate, irrespective of the truth in any particular case.

This is the shift people seem to have trouble with.
Yes, you raise a good point and it does seem it would be hard to discern root causes just from the bones left as trash by previous civilizations - should probably have said it could be speculated, though lamb and cattle can survive on a diet that cannot sustain a pig, the pigs would be competing with humans for the same calories.
> "Ideas are actually the easiest thing, execution is the hardest."

This. I've seen many people with "good" startup ideas, but doing always > talking.
Price transparency in food seems to work alright.
Single-board computer guide updated: Free software is winning on ARM
Changing zoning of course doesn't magically create houses and there's not much evidence that Vancouver is constrained by lack of zoned land. The parent is right. CoV and Metro Vancouver have been constantly rezoning and adding supply and massively adding multi-unit housing. The fact that there still remains low density land is not relevant.

The numbers of multi-unit under development in Metro Van at the moment is unprecedented.
I am sick of these practices. They will only hurt those who work for tips. I stopped tipping once I realized this borders on extortion. I don't give a damn you won't serve me next time, your manager will have a different opinion when proper reviews will appear online. It will also push me into making my own food. I got really fed up with this practice when certain gas stations put labels that filling yourself is against the law. Tipping IS A MATTER OF CHOICE and is NOT OBLIGATORY!!! If you think subversive actions like coercing people to leave tips will go unnoticed, dear managers, YOU ARE WRONG!

Business doesn't grow through pulling strings but through good service. It's our money you work for, not the other way around.

Any attempts of coercion will be met with only the due amount.

Tired of this stupid thing, freakin' enough.
Yes you can know. It is not like this was the first bad thing Saudis have done under his command.. Not to mention the usual evils of such oil nations like spending bilions on personal yachts, art, mansions, etc..., having slave-like labor in your country, kidnapping, behedings for many non-crime (in civilised world) things, etc. "reformer" thing is a joke and a mask.
"No one would support a policy that required them to buy this time back from the state in the form of a tax."

America's puritan relationship with work, and it's toxic interaction with free-market economics has reached it's ultimate conclusion in an economics that calmly and rationally lays out an argument that the working class, who:

1) for perhaps the first time in history have their essential needs met without spending most of their lives at toil, and

2) who indeed are happier than similar cohorts have been in the past, should

3) have their leisure time taxed in order to encourage them to go back to work for capital earning wages they don't want, instead of spending their time as they please.

This article really lays bare the grim reality of our world order: the owners want us working, even if there's nothing for us to gain from it. Indeed, any potential surplus which might under a rational system result in leisure, will instead be sucked up by an owner-controlled state through confiscatory taxes which are designed solely to get us back into the mines lest we enjoy ourselves too much playing Overwatch, being with our families, or just generally not wasting our lives in low-paying retail and service jobs.
Agreed. There's no effort against bad actors that bad actors haven't tried to work around. Waiting for perfection means waiting forever. The right thing to do is to take the first obvious action, see if things get better, and then iterate.
That's fine. Your conscience will be clear, and if you have a winner, you should attract other money. The biggest drawback is if your project is easy to replicate, in which case you have to ask if it should attract smart money in the first place.
That ship already sailed way over a decade ago (or longer) and changing it now would just massively add to the confusion between what Perl 5 and 6 are. You can't retroactively rewrite every webpage and reference in history, and it's not a particularly hard to explain that they're essentially separate languages. Perl 5 will continue to be maintained and evolve in a compatible way, and Perl 6 is a much different language altogether. They quite literally "forked perl 6, and continued developing perl 5".

Forking an existing, newer language just so you can do what amounts to a meaningless, useless major version bump of an existing, established language, is pretty much the exact definition of a breaking change for frivolous reasons.
The funny thing that back in the NeXTSTEP days there were so few Objective-C books that I noticed myself and other programmers were buying Smalltalk books also (not that there were a lot of Smalltalk books).
> this 2003 movie is doing a great job illustrating resurgence of nationalism in Russia circa 2014-2018.

Could you elaborate on this point somewhat more?
Maybe it's not to cover healthcare costs but to cover other living costs. With climbing life expectancy; the decline of pensions; the 2008 market crash; and other factors such as the exorbitant costs of end of life care, today's healthy seniors are looking at running out of money to pay for the essentials before they die.
One can save an image. I've done this thing https://github.com/Pharophile/HOImageSaver for example.

Nowadays, an image should not be considered as a long lived artifact, one would have a CI job to create the image. See https://github.com/hpi-swa/smalltalkCI

There is also Metacello with BaselineOf constructs etc.

Advantage is that when you get an exception, you just go back in the stack, fix, and then proceed forward instead of looking at a stacktrace and wondering what happened (yes, pdb is nice but not the same feel at all).
Ask HN: What would you work on without internet access?
My job frequently takes me to places without reliable internet access. What kinds of projects can be worked on with no or unreliable internet? I don't want to be forced to stop working on my side projects just because I don't have all the data I might need.
Rockstar Lincoln QA tester: “Overtime is Not optional, it is expected”
YCombinator Startup School heavily emphasizes leaving your day job and committing 100%.

A. This is a luxury many people do not have. For example, most women are unable to do this, in part because they can't get the same financial support for their business ideas as men.

B. I'm a fan of YC, but "consider the source." They are an incubator who only funds people doing this full time, not part time. That's their business model. So that's what they know. That doesn't mean it is the right answer for everyone all the time.
> they still produce more calories per input than beef and pork.

True, but irrelevant. I never said anything about meat. Since the advent of agriculture until modernity, most humans ate very little meat, this is definitely true.

> Most views are 2x - 4x people fed per acre from plants versus meats, with milk and eggs splitting the middle.

True, but irrelevant as well. Not only I never said anything about meat, but the discussion here is about milk vs. vegetables. Plants today are better yields in terms of calories per acre due to fertilizers being abundant, pesticides being available, and cultivars having been improved for better yields. However, it is irrelevant for the discussion at hand, because the plants that are better than milk are corn, soy, etc., not vegetables.
Why would you pay?
Just my 5 cents on making linux-commands-examples.com into an actual business:

1. Do a Google Trends research on the Linux commands people search for (and get trouble with/get confused with). Pick ~5 most popular ones.

2. Find 2-5 pages on the Internet for each command where people asked for help and didn't get a 100% satisfying reply.

3. Write a description page (or article) for each of those commands, explaining the stuff people struggle with. Publish link on pages found at #2. Unless you write something cheesy there, people will actually be helpful and won't ban you.

4. Install Google Analytics. Set yourself a proxy goal of 1000 users per day. Start analyzing: how many views per day do you get from a Linux command with score of X in Google Trends with Y links on it from other forums? Back-propagate your goal to actionable items: write N more pages on topics A,B and C, M links for each.

5. Once you get >1000 visitors/day, you can start monetizing it. A very rough ballpark estimate is $1 per 1000 views (give or take, more like 0.1$-10$ depending on a plethora of factors).

6. Once you get a flow of at least $1/day, do your back-propagation again and make a system for yourself when you can look at a topic in Google Trends, quickly search relevant forums, and know exactly how many $/month would an article on this topic bring you. Then compare this income with your effort to write and promote an article and decide whether this is a business you want to do.

P.S. You can also get traffic on writing articles like "did you know those rare time-saving features of commands X, Y or Z" and publishing them on Reddit, HN and other similar sites. Once you figure out the right style to do it so that people will consider it helpful advice and not spam, you can get decent traffic.

Disclaimer: I use those techniques to advertise my paid tool for developers. It may not pay off for a purely ad-monetized content site.
Well, his position makes perfect sense: he is a co-founder of Venmo, which was acquired in 2012 for 26 million dollars.

http://kortina.nyc/work/
You don't have to address every wrong you did in order to start doing right.

It's never black and white with people.. and you're not actually looking at the real problem if you're unable to see the nuances.
A hidden complication for Linux desktop audio
Maybe the problem is not with a comic, but with a reality it reflects.
Why would you expect char to be signed?

If you mean just because it's signed on x86, fair enough; but it sounds as if you think signed is just a more natural option. My intuition goes the other way, for what it's worth.

Anyway, here is one possible reason. It used to be that if you wanted to load a single byte from memory on ARM, the only way to do it always treated it as unsigned. So if you wanted to work with signed chars, you needed explicit extra instructions to do the sign-extension. This isn't true for more recent versions of the ARM ISA -- there's an LDRSB instruction to go with the older LDRB -- but it may be one reason why that choice was originally made.
Right. Players in free markets neither maximize nor minimize waste. The goal is to maximize profit.
Another +1 on soliciting feedback from teammates on a regular basis. As long as the manager is impartial, doesn't take sides, respects privacy, etc this can benefit both the subordinates and team. Grievances get aired and steps can be taken immediately instead of hearing about issues in the subordinates' peer reviews at the end of the year.
>it's silly to choose every user being able to run a full node over every user being able to write to the blockchain

There's no purpose in asking a user to run a full node to write to a blockchain. A user/client runs a node to verify they've been paid. If you're trusting someone else to tell you you've been paid, you have centralization. The entire purpose of bitcoin is to receive payments without a trusted, third-party intermediary. Only the people who can run nodes can tell they've been paid.
The unemployment rate is under 3% in several states now, including places with relatively low cost of living. There are jobs available for young men who want to work as long as they are willing to move.

https://www.bls.gov/web/laus/laumstrk.htm
From my experience, it usually did.
Not a specific approach to your problem, but a resource that may be useful is https://github.com/dbohdan/structured-text-tools. It lists an extensive set of command line tools useful for working with this class of files.
That doesn't sound like change. But bringing that up makes the judgement less premature. My point wasn't that he was good. My point was that people can change,and that past misdeeds don't necessarily define a person's future actions.
Well i think that has a twinge of negativity to it. I think what people forget is how important simulating quantum physical/chemical systems is. That's a problem that is extremely intensive even with our large numbers of approximate algorithms on supercomputers. At the moment you need almost a PhD in both high performance computing and the science to get anywhere. But what if physicists and engineers could simulate a complex quantum chemistry experiment in a Mathematica notebook? I imagine it'll change industries (think about how many engineers there are now that are effective with basic off the shelf AI tech right now).
Who are the "worst offenders"? That's the big question and it really depends on your political point of view.
Not true, I work on a 4K screen and it is clean. Win10 latest. Windows VM, some settings to tweak in Pharo but it works.

Upcoming is Bloc, which uses Mozilla2D as rendering engine and is vector based.

Next Pharo UI will use it.

See https://github.com/pharo-graphics/Bloc
How to configure PXE network booting for Kali Linux
That sounds pretty inexpensive. It looks like the previous standard of care cost $10-15,000 and wasn't generally curative. Meanwhile, the long-term cost of a progressing hep-c infection is quite high.
This is cool but only works with metamask installed. Means 99% of your users can't use it, and doesn't work on mobile.
Can you give me a pointer to some spec for them? It seems mostly obvious, but if there is an implementation out there, I'd like to check it out. Thanks.
Really both are the same thing up to group homomorphism (double covering in this case).

Dual quaternions only add a cheap way of blending several rigid transformations together, which is useful in computer graphics for skinning meshes around articulated rigid bodies.
Type-driven development, meta languages, specs, provably correct code, and automatic code generation were some of the big overlapping themes at Strange Loop [1] this year. All the talks posted online this week [2], and I've posted links to some of the related videos below [3].

It's a good indicator that the time has come for an idea when multiple lines of research and projects from disparate domains begin converging on the same idea from different directions.

Several facets of the puzzle I've been working the last few years have converged towards this area so it's good to see that it's not just me, maybe that means we're all on the right track. But as 'pron and those who have been working in this area have pointed out [4], this part of the puzzle is not yet solved, and one of the primary open issues is how to scale it to the system level (beyond provably correct programs to provably correct systems).

One of the questions I've been pondering is how can we combine provably correct software specs with hardware specs identified for any given system to find the optimal data structures and algorithms given the constraints of that architecture.

Does something similar already exist? What's the best software currently out there for simulating ideal data flow for a given hardware configuration and a given set of system constraints?

[1] Strange Loop https://www.thestrangeloop.com

[2] Strange Loop 2018 talks (80 videos) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcGKfGEEONaBUdko326yL...

[3] Related videos...

* Vellvm - Verifying the LLVM, by Steve Zdancewic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6gSC3OxB_8

* All the Languages Together, by Amal Ahmed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yVc5t-g-VU

* Towards Language Support for Distributed Systems, by Heather Miller https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeBbiQZYmuY

* Data Driven UIs, Incrementally, by Yaron Minsky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3xX37RGJKE

* Proof Theory Impressionism: Blurring the Curry-Howard Line, by Dan Pittman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrVPB-Ad5Gc

* A Little Taste of Dependent Types, by David Christiansen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxINoKFm-S4

* You are a Program Synthesizer, by James Koppel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldkF-4WNZqA

[4] open issue is how to scale it to the system level https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18253680
The image of a dead child on the turkish shores 3 years ago instantly changed the attitude of millions of people towards refugees . It seems certain events trigger gut reactions to people , and that may not be virtue signaling. I think it's fair to say there's a lot more than that here.