skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does seem though that now that stages can be landed and re-used, there may be little point in a SSTO system, since it just means carrying unnecessary weight, with no additional re-use benefit.
Kinda irritating that a nominally scientific magazine couldn't be bothered to articulate the molecular structures.
Thanks for the tip, lobste.rs looks good
I’ve always wanted a button to vote a straight anti-incumbent ticket.

Or at least I think they should display incumbent status on the ballot. That seems more important than party to me.
Do you suppose a lot of four year olds were watching disney cartoons for hours in their homes in the early 20th century?
I really hope they can launch their own store, with decent standards to entry, and a 12% commission. Steam is a dumpster fire.
I really don't care much this way or other way. Either way, I still use this software, and sometimes post bug reports.
If it's not finished rendering, it should not have a value set to begin with. Why is it populated with the wrong (opposite?) candidate?

Preset values AND slow updates can't be excused like this.
The Venn diagram of business models that lend well to VC and those that are possible to bootstrap has a pretty thin overlap. Generating cash early isn’t often possible with products that have an enormous market potential. It’s rare for an SMB to break through to a major market without outside capital as well.
eliminate barriers to genetic engineering of humans

remove all borders and switch to governance that is not based on physical proximity but shared ideas/values through online collaboration.
This is similar to how continuous load shifting works in some massively parallel database engines, though working from a different architectural perspective. This problem is at the core of how you scale out mixed workloads when the distribution of data and workload is intrinsically unpredictable and non-uniform. However, in the database cases the cache itself is sharded and a fixed size (basically RAM fixed to a core), for performance and scalability reasons -- the cache isn't a separate system.

Since you have all the local cache metadata and you can't change the cache size per node, you ensure approximately uniform load across nodes by continuously and transparently shipping the smallest number of shards (while under full load) that will give each logical node approximately the same cache performance profile. This works well in my experience. It sounds onerous resource-wise but the number of shards you typically need to ship even in a very dynamic and high-throughput system is relatively small if your algorithm picks them well and the total latency to ship a shard can be pretty small (tens or hundreds of milliseconds?) depending on the design. As a percentage of system load the cost of shipping is pretty nominal and it all but eradicates hotspotting. However, the whole system has to be designed under the assumption that you'll be doing this, it isn't something you can reasonably add on later.

It is great to see more work being published on achieving effectively and apparently uniform distribution of load for data models that intrinsically have unpredictable and dynamic non-uniform distribution of data and load. There are many high-value data models that can't be handled at scale without addressing this problem directly.
Texas has, in recent years, changed the dates at which they adopted DST more than once (it was something to do with Halloween trick-or-treating and candy lobbyists).
Heck, you can get away with that today, by just creating a virtualization platform like Xen, but with much more carefully-thought-out exposed virtio hypercalls; and then writing unikernels against that interface.

Though, from another perspective, this model is exactly what the "transitional" era of game consoles did. The Nintendo Wii U, for example, normally [i.e. during a game] has a unikernel running across two "application processor" cores, that sees those as the only cores and has direct ownership of the peripherals; but then the OS [running on a third, separate, low-power core that the game VM has no knowledge of] can, at any time, force the game VM into the background with an interrupt, whereupon it must relinquish one of its two cores, some memory, and not touch the peripherals at all until the OS says it's okay; and then the OS can use the borrowed high-power application core, memory, and peripheral-hardware ownership to temporarily foreground an OS modal GUI, like a game manual or a web browser or an instant message.

Sadly, this was all abstracted, for the game developer, behind an HLL [that is, C] SDK—which is sadly a "requirement" in the modern era, given that devs are going to be porting their games to/from PCs.
I'm starting to see 8 nostalgia. Very few these days will defend the start screen, but some people are starting to miss the rest of the OS. Which is understandable. It was the last version of Windows without many of the things some consider objectionable about 10: no telemetry, no forced updates, no big feature updates which might break things, etc.
Vector game monitors created a look that's either impossible or really hard emulate well with pixel-based monitors and scan-line-based CRT's. A beam of electrons can dwell on a single spot or narrow area for a relatively long period of time, making it glow mega-bright.

It's roughly the same technology as a CRT, except instead of periodic scan lines, the "beam aimer" can dynamically point to wherever it wants on the screen. It's kind of like some laser shows.

I'd love to see one again and show it to my (grown) kids.
Conversely I try to always have a Youtube video open because it allows me to exert control over the constant background distractions. The conversation happening a few desks away doesn't register over the Youtube video, and I'm prepared for the distraction that the Youtube video is providing.
Well, what does Android do?

The uninstalling procedure should clean the registry. "Uninstalling" is whatever the OS standardize as the correct procedure, Windows has one already, but it's reminiscent of the way people did packages by the time Linux software was distributed in tgz archives.
The assertion that the countries which do not use DST are "mostly in Africa and Asia" is an odd way to put it. The countries that DO use DST are more of the exception now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time#/media/Fi...
Have any info on that?
Yeah it reflects the terrible state of the rest of the industry... I really hope that Tesla and SpaceX weren’t so exceptional, but just two of many...
I'm curious, too, though I suspect the author either wasn't aware of Markdeep or just wanted to scratch their own itch.

I use Markdeep for most Markdown content, including Github, as I like being able to compose in my own editor, joe, but be able to quickly see the results before committing without having to explicitly compile anything--just tab into browser and refresh.

The "problem" with Markdeep is that it supports so many different features (including LaTeX math typesetting, but also ASCII diagram rendering) that it can be difficult stick to a common subset supported by, e.g., Github.
> Love chastity.

> Be not addicted to wine.

> Hate no one.

> Be in dread of hell.

> Fear the Day of Judgment.

> Attribute to God, and not to self, whatever good you see in yourself.

Wow! I had no idea this was part of the original code of conduct
I'd imagine they want to internally transfer to Instagram, WhatsApp or Oculus
https://sqlite.org/codeofethics.html
Almost-real virtual reality while walking on the streets (think of "Ready player one" movie).
Drones sending 4K live video while flying miles away.
The original is linked - https://sqlite.org/codeofethics.html
A lot of it is things like national parks, estuaries, and forests. Hunters tend to be huge proponents for conservation since they like to hunt.

Most people are tremendously bad at supporting tax dollars going towards the total prevention of their entry, and people taking hikes and camping is very healthy.

I understand it's a nice idea to have human free zones, but it doesn't seem particularly realisitic to me, and small amounts of foot track don't seem troubling to me either.

All those big game hunters that kill lions kill the old ones and pay big bucks to do it. That money goes towards conservation.

Edit: but also, what a weird imagination. Conservation as acts of domestic terrorism. I guess that's what the imagination's good for!
It used to have religious/god related stuff. https://web.archive.org/web/20180315125217/https://sqlite.or...

```
First of all, love the Lord God with your whole heart, your whole soul, and your whole strength.
Then, love your neighbor as yourself.
Do not murder.
Do not commit adultery.
Do not steal.
Do not covet.
Do not bear false witness.
Honor all (1 Peter 2:17).
Do not do to another what you would not have done to yourself.
Deny oneself in order to follow Christ.
Chastise the body.
Do not become attached to pleasures.
Love fasting.
Relieve the poor.
Clothe the naked.
...
```

Edit: why the downvotes? I am actually providing information on what actually changed. I didn't write the stuff above. This is what used to be on that website.
Its crazy to me that this style of thinking is re-surging.

Between this and recent nationalist movements, I'm concerned that our generation will be responsible for a regression in progress.
Are the SQLite developers monks and nuns?
one that doesnt deprecate itself every few months for no added benefit
It’s hard to keep electronics going in the ocean but there is a company called Saildrone that is doing sort of what you are saying. https://www.saildrone.com
Oh, I thought that was added a joke.
DeepMind Paper Challenges Generative Models’ Judgement
Thanks. I remember seeing that, but thought was a joke.
PROGRAMMERS:

We have timezone homework to do again :/
Markdeep - https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/
That's not how arguments work. He made a claim without evidence and I called him out on it.

Also effectively telling people to just find the results themselves is not an argument either.
Who makes the artwork? Creative types? Okay, cool.
I've not looked into it in detail (I used to be a "hacker" who spent lots of time disassembling, patching, and otherwise modding Windows in the 98/2K/XP era) but I read that the telemetry stuff is deep in the kernel too, so you probably don't want a "stock" Win10 kernel. Vista and above have various DRM-ish obstacles that get in the way, and the near-continuous updating of the newer versions also frustrates any efforts. Probably against the EULA too.

That said, there exists leaked source of an XP/2k3 kernel and people have managed to compile and use it with an XP userland. Anything is possible if you have the time, skills, and the complete lack of concern for EULAs. ;-)

MSFT themselves open-sourcing large parts of Windows in the future, including the kernel, would not be surprising either.

Another, possibly less legally questionable approach, would be to try getting the ReactOS/WINE userland to run on the Win10 kernel.
Wow. And I thought the youngest generation was pretty quick when it came to figuring out interfaces and liked old-school games.

I think that mostly has to do with subculture and what one's peers are interested in. I never had that much interest in platforming mechanics. (Honestly, I'm about as bad as that game journalist who got called out for his clumsiness with the Cuphead tutorial.) To a lot of hardcore "gamers" that marks me as a non-gamer. However, my clumsiness with platform mechanics isn't any different than most other's illiteracy with the Asteroid movement mechanic. It's just that certain mechanics are subscribed to and practiced more than others.

Also, most successful games nowadays come with fairly extensive tutorials, and even if they don't but are still popular, then there are tons of YouTube videos which can be used as reference. In the 80's, you just had instructions printed on the arcade console and a few screens animating basic game mechanics. We figured things out because we had to, or we got advice from friends who figured things out. In 2018, there are so many games, no one really knows what to do with them all, so you skip over everything that doesn't grab you immediately or you go and do what all your friends are doing.

So yeah, they probably would be as quick, but in 2018, only a very few are going to bother.
It's so much worse than this. The systems aren't "evil." They don't "know our weaknesses."

The opposite of love is not hate, it's apathy. The machines are optimized around numbers and parameters and have no idea what a person is or what a weakness is or what the concept of "weakness" means at all. They are statistical optimization algorithms designed to make one number get as close as possible to another number, by tweaking the values of a whole bunch of other numbers.

Like, a person who knew your weakness and had bad intentions would hone in on the weakness and then use it to manipulate you and take pleasure from interactions where you feel bad and they feel good. The computer is just existing at a higher level of ideas than your feelings, and will simply steam-roll your brain into mush as a minor side-effect of its effort to make that one number look like the other number.
Fortunately, Chicago burned to the ground, which gave them an opportunity to replan.

They adopted the Daniel Burnam plan, which reclaimed the lakefront from industrial shipping and attempted to put a park within one mile of every home.

The city is much better off for it, which just goes to show you that even destruction presents the opportunity of rebirth.
I'm very happy with HN as it is. If you want a bigger font then you can do that in your own browser with plugins, user CSS etc.
We are off-topic, in the way my original reply tried to bring out.

But let's pursue this line of thinking. Your claim is that significant elements of the public scorn professors because they are perceived as, and act as, an elitist caste. I call BS on this as well. A large segment of academia is very devoted to public outreach, including by pop science TV/youtube, press releases, free in-person and video lectures, public outreach, blogging, and posting papers on arxiv. This is the best of academic culture.

A sensible person can take advantage of this wealth of free knowledge. A bigoted person can invent some kind of culture war and play out stick figures in their head.

I come from people who had greatly varying degrees of education. Many didn't go to college, some failed out. A couple are (or were, RIP) sometimes bigoted towards people who have specialized expertise and training, but aside from those very few, the vast majority have respect for specialized knowledge in general, and academia in particular.

I think it does a great disservice to the common sense of that vast majority of non-academics, to suppose they are bigoted towards academia because of some kind of culture war stereotype.
Washington Post, New York Times, Economist, Wall Street Journal, Netflix. All worth it in my opinion.
"I have to admit it's behaving rather erratically"

https://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/cat/comic/page/42 (November 2005)
My approach to this has been to retreat to books whenever I find myself too immersed into any digital activity that doesn't yield any tangible results at the end of it (i.e. it's just a time filler). Books can be very engaging, to the point of "one more page" syndrome - but they're still finite, and much easier to put away, all in all. Plus, it is very rare to find a book that doesn't have even the smallest nugget of genuine contribution to one's experience and knowledge. And there's so many good books, you could fill many lifetimes with them.
It's really hard to find 75m worth of buyers. You can't buy and sell as freely as you please, like you said, because of liquidity.

I can buy JDST at 9am for $60 and sell at 9:45am for $60.60. On a balance of $2000, this is an easy $20 for basically no risk, imo.
Partly. It depends on how far you go back. The areas within former city walls (where people used to live) have pretty organically developed to being inner city business centers for most larger cities. Rebuilders honored this, but the initial development was probably not conceptionalized as a whole by a human beforehand.

This relates to the fact (and I think this is what the parent poster is referring to) that these cities started way before any cars or bikes existed, so cities had to work for pedestrians.
I can observe that other VCSes today are unlikely to thrive without making the proclamation that there can be only one. The two ideas are not mutually exclusive.
You could get a laser projector and port asteroids to it (like this guy did)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FkHjG759ABY
Comparing NoSQL to SQL... didn't MongoDB and CouchDB and others do this too .. where are they today?

Right they didn't take over at all. Sure there are companies who use MongoDB ... and then there are companies who have mongodb installed insecurely exposing their data to the world
How would you prevent the sale of accounts?
I guess i cannot use SQlite anymore :)
I was working on a webpage for translating SICP lecture, it is always something worth to split out. https://learningsicp.github.io
The subject of the NPR article was also kind enough to appear for an interview in this Youtube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5PyKSuPl2g
With the pressure put on antirez, Linus and now Dwayne Richard Hipp, I'm getting nervous when imagining of falling outside of the "accepted social norms".

The web was always a rough place, but it was a place that allowed separate cultures with different standards to develop. Lately it feels like this is being actively demolished, where only places of anonymity (4chan f.e.) or banality (Facebook Comments) are used to discuss contrarian opinions.

The biggest indicator that something chilling is happening to me is that I feel obliged to underline that I'm not in favor of the ideas postulated in DRHs previous CoC...
There was understandable confusion around whether the sentiment of the original CoC was serious or sarcastic. It appears it was serious, based on the new CoC and this tweet: https://twitter.com/drichardhipp/status/1054360847319994368?...
I once worked at a software company that once had its offices in an old abbey building. (Before I joined.) Apparently, as a condition of the lease, the nuns could come around and proselytize sometimes.
Is this why I eat crappy food when I’m under the weather?
Sorta. LaTeX wouldn't exist at all if TeX weren't Turing complete, not to mention the huge universe of packages.
Is it possible? Of course... if you can change the topbar color there's no reason you shouldn't be able to change the font size. As with the topbar color, changing the font size wouldn't even have to affect anyone but the current logged in user.

Will it happen? Probably not.
The 'oopsie' letters they're sending out to people who received death threats aren't going to give them much insulation against legal liability.
https://twitter.com/THE_natedogg/status/1055958716888039424

Those of you who work in Twitter's legal department are going to be facing some career-shaping decisions soon.
Just use both
I'm (somewhat) qualified to comment, having presented to an audience of lawyers in SF literally hours ago, and having been discussing/testing the market for most of this year.

I think there's roughly three groups - the old guard (senior partners at big firms), the younger ones who have gone out on their own, and the in-house counsel.

In my opinion, the old guard aren't tech-hostile, just disinterested. They haven't ever really needed to compete, and most have retirement on the horizon, so there's little incentive to invest money for a pay-off in five years' time.

Corporate counsel are still pretty unsophisticated when it comes to new tooling/platforms, except when it comes to cost management (where there's an enormous amount of interest).

The most tech-savvy are the smaller (3-30) firms who have broken off and are looking for ways to compete with their former employers.

That being said, it's still a very hands-on, enterprise-y market to sell to. I've been told that LawGeex, for reference, start at the (multiple) six-figure range to begin with.

We (https://lexico.io) didn't really want to go down that path, so we pivoted from automating legal drafting and review inside Word, to a broader paperwork automation assistant.
There is much to admire in the original

https://sqlite.org/codeofethics.html

Instead of being against something which has inspired many people for so many years and brought so much good, be for something.
Dreadful.
First offenders are governments. There should be provisions for (non-security) software build by the government or publicly-owned corporations to become open source. The UK does some of that i believe.

Private corporations pay taxes, which should be enough to be their fair share. They are not obliged to otherwise contribute back to public infrastructure, even if they use it.
You just gotta artificially select it the right way!
Reports of perl's death are greatly exaggerated.
I don't understand why you are being downvoted. The previous code of ethics of SQLite was a mess that should have nothing to do with this particular or any free software projects.
I come from Scala to Elixir and I personally prefer static typing for a lot of reasons.
I have come to very much enjoy the looser typing as I can write more code more quickly, serialization is less of a pain, etc.
Elixir is still compiled (and you have dialyzer if you really want to go that way.) You can match on a struct type and the compiler will catch a typo if you try to access a member that doesn't exist in the struct so you can go a long way to lean on the compiler.
All that said, I can attribute +50% of the bugs that hit production to things that a type system would have caught. I would prefer to go back to writing code with Scala/Akka and would choose those technologies in a blink for any system that I'm going to grow over time. development time _is_ slower with scala/akka (assuming you don't count time spent trying to refactor or fixing bugs a typesystem would catch) but it's probably an order of magnitude faster for computational tasks, not slower on concurrency related items, has a bigger/more mature eco system (which is huuuuge) and gives you OO beside FP which is highly valuable for design. The skill ceiling is higher with scala/akka so you can keep growing and learning.

And OMG trying to refactor Scala vs trying to refactor elixir?? IntelliJ is a jet powered pogostick for applying refactorings (to quote Beck) - It's very had to make large structural changes to elixir code without a static type system and tools to help you rename, extract methods and classes, and move them around. I can do things in scala I would never dream attempting without aa type system which is probably my biggest gripe for long term maintenance.

That being said, working with elixir has turned me into an Emacs junkie and I personally find a lot of value in that but it doesn't help me deliver better code faster, just gives me nerd points because I can check the weather and reply to email from my textt editor
That kind of empty loops are actually used for delays, waiting on interrupts to kick in etc. in embedded systems, where you typically fight against the compiler using volatile keyword.
Example from https://www.coranac.com/tonc/text/video.htm:

#define REG_VCOUNT *(volatile u16*)0x04000006

while(REG_VCOUNT < 160);