skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fishing expedition. The money probably isn't theirs (there are plenty of places Charlie could have made that money since release, given what he does and what he's been involved in), but on the off-chance it is, they may win OR get uncomfortably close in discovery to stuff he doesn't want light on, and he'll settle.
This is my bad. I didn’t mean to single out Christians. I meant to single out Humans. We are all guilty of justifying terrible things because they work for us at the time. I used Christianity because I’m slightly more familiar with it. But my point which I didn’t make clearly and maybe is still wrong is that what is doctrine is always and has always been flexible depending on an individual or a community or society’s selfish needs at any given time.
DSLs in Groovy
https://www.finma.ch/en/news/2018/07/20180720-mm-rothschild/
Discover Independent Folk Music – Skunk Radio Live Auditions – SDA
There are some very real problems where oppressed people of various sorts have a real need to be able to "speak the unspeakable" in order to sort their own problems. New ideas are also inevitable heretical.

Sorting the wheat from the chaff is a challenge. Trying to not throw the baby out with the bathwater is a challenge.
I've been using XFCE for about 3 or 4 years, and I really can't complain, it simply doesn't get in my way, it doesn't force me to relearn the UI, it even works with my old 800mhz EeePC, and the theme used with Xubuntu doesn't look as ancient as people say.

I remember trying Mate in the past, but I also remember I had issues running GTK3 software and I didn't feel motivated enough to dig for a solution. What I wanted was a hassle-free DE, and XFCE was the one for me.
> You do not know what you are talking about. It is very clear (based on the above statements) that you have minimal, if zero real computer science education.

I don't know why you're attacking me personally. I went to a UC school with a great computer science program and have a masters degree... does that count?

> Not having generics / sum types, etc., do not disqualify Go, as those are merely semantic conveniences in other languages.

Sure, and Go is merely a collection of semantic conveniences over Brainfuck, it's Turing Complete, so what do we need Go for?

The point is that Go heavily limits a programmers ability to create new abstractions and write reusable algorithms. For writing glue code, cli tools, or web services, that's probably fine. But there's a purpose behind those pesky data structure and algorithms they teach you in school, and when you run into what I consider to be the "real problems" Go is not a "real language" that can tackle those problems without the same pain as Brainfuck.

> actually their presence in a language would cause me to reevaluate said programming language

This is completely ridiculous. I hope you realize this statement is completely ridiculous. Just because a language has something you don't understand or don't find useful doesn't disqualify it from being a better language than Go. You have your own blinders on.

> Go is a breath of fresh air that is badly needed.

Go appeals to the lowest common denominator. In fact, one of the goals was to come up with a language that new grads coming in to Google could easily pick up. It's designed to appeal to new people. This is fine, Go is a great language for a lot of small tasks. But as you grow as a developer, you need to tackle larger problems. Go is not a language that facilitates tackling larger problems.

> Please stop with un- or ill- informed FUD.

You certainly need a dose of skepticism. Radically following one language or one technology isn't a good move for an engineer. Go has flaws, and if you can't discuss them then you're not separating the technology from an argument from emotion.
Can I offer a different complaint? Mine is: you updated your post to reflect that it had been flagged by HN users, but not with material new information you acquired from the thread before that flag had occurred. That feels a little dishonest.
How does that work in relativity where d = sqrt(x^2 + y^2 + z^2 - ct^2). If it is moving backwards in time, it seems the spacetime interval would point the other direction.

It would also have to be moving faster than c.

I'm basically arguing that anti-matter is anti-mass/anti-energy, which is not true but still fun to think about.
This article is very old (in internet years) and Mongo moves very fast. So most of the things in the article are way, way out of date. Very smart people working at Mongo understand where they need to get and how to get there, and they are well along the path. Bad old code is being replaced with better new code, limited mainly by backward compatibility bother.

It is still the case (and will remain for a long time -- also internet years) that to get reliable behavior, you need to use non-default options. Queries need a variety of extra flags that say, "please make this write durable", or "please be sure to give me the right answer". And, when you use the flags, they reliably make the DB slower. If you use enough of them to get ACIDy distributed reliability, it's hardly faster than other DBs.

So, in another two or three years, it will be an OK choice. In the meantime, PostgreSQL is arguably the better choice. And, of course, PG is not sitting still, so may still be a better choice in two or three years.

But most people using MongoDB don't care, because the overwhelming majority of uses of data storage just don't matter very much. When you see the list "people who bought this gewgaw also looked at this lot" on the bottom of a page, chances are that's Mongo telling you, and who cares if it's right? What matters is you didn't have to wait an extra ten seconds for the stupid page to load.

Still! Every time you order from Cisco, the order goes through a Mongo store. Since they have been using Mongo for a long time, they either make durability in their application code -- which, dangerous secret, is much easier than doing it in the DB -- or just aren't too arsed about it. (I'm betting it's the latter.)
Ask HN: What are your biggest challenges or opportunities around product demos?
I've been talking with other founders who rely on product demos to sell their software.

There are some great opinions out there about what to focus on, but not a lot of hard data.

I'm working on a survey to gather some real-world metrics on how Saas businesses are using product demos. Are they still relevant in an era of product-led growth?

Before I finalise the survey, I wanted to make sure that the data I'm gathering will be helpful.

So what are your biggest challenges around product demos? What would you most want to learn from a piece of research like this?
Diablo 2 Remastered, via Steam, with Linux support. UwU
Not at all—morally and with a humanistic-bent—I don’t cheer for the deaths of my loved ones or their peers. But like taxes, death is inevitable.

Economically, I’ll consider it from a Machiavellian perspective:

The sooner limited, choice, resources are freed up for the younger generations the better. The Old were useful because they spawned, and raised, the young. As replacements, knowingly.
I love seeing successful Cassandra shops

( https://monzo.com/blog/2016/11/30/laying-the-foundation-for-... )
Why do you see this as a mess?
Reminds me of this article on how the hipster Airbnb aesthetic is taking over the world. Interesting to see a similar hypothesis that algorithms are optimizing away character in favor of inoffensiveness. Except in our news feeds.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/06/hipste...
Go long until the (imminent) next stock market crash. Then, sell before it happens.
> I know very little about Elon Musk...

> "We can not jump to conclusions about the mental health of Elon Musk only by the change in the tone of voice in his speeches and his physical appearance, but joining these factors to the excesses that he has been committing on Twitter and the controversies that he happened to be involved, the diagnosis is getting more evident."

Even a trained mental health professional can't diagnose someone without spending time with them.

An amateur diagnosis of a celebrity that the author has never met is just clickbait.
I hope I’m not telling my child they are lazy, entitled, or other generally ignorant statements about their generation and the society I hand down her.
I read that a couple times. I found it unsatisfying because you are dropping terms that happen to have a coefficient of zero without a clear explanation of how those terms are even well formed in the first place.

I suppose this could be answered if you explicitly stated what set the geometric product acted on. As a guess, and from skimming Wikipedia, it’s the direct sum of scalars, vectors, bivectors, etc, up through n-vectors. So 2 + x∧y + 3x∧y∧z is a valid output. And it’s probably straightforward to show that the geometric product is actually defined on this space.

(Hi Marc!)
So do you not use FDE? I'd think that to protect data at rest, especially on a laptop, it's good practice to power down whenever you're away. Otherwise keys are just sitting there in memory.
No difference in the actual math used, just differences in how you approach understanding of the problem.
I'm currently looking at Amethyst (1), because it integrates an entity component system.

The game is inspired by the Honor Harrington series of novels by David Weber.(2) The ships in that universe can accelerate at 500g or more, so they can scoot across a solar system in a reasonable amount of time (hours), but need to accelerate/deaccelerate the entire time to do that. Consequently, course selection and manuvering are significant decisions that can decide the outcome before the fleets even engage in combat.

The individual units are intended to be as smart as possible, keeping proper spacing, following the rules of engagement, and such. You, the fleet commander, will be issuing orders much like a modern naval commander would. And I will be appropriating as much of the lingo as makes sense. "Set course 126 mark 31", "engage at maximum range", "target group baker-3".

The game itself won't try to accurately represent the actual size of a typical solar system, but instead have everything scaled to that scenarios can play out in half an hour or so. I may also scale up the size of planets considerably, to provide obstacles.

Initial plan is for a 2-D game with fairly simple tactical and strategic views. But 3-D with a Homeworld style interface would be cool.

(1) https://www.amethyst.rs

(2) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorverse#Setting
Actually, platforms that de-platform tolerant platforms like Gab are the real intolerant ones.

I'm being (slightly) facetious, but the point is that Popper's argument, or at least this naive interpretation of it, can be used to justify any intolerance. There's no obvious reason you can't use Popper's argument to justify McCarthyism or the Muslim ban or even Japanese internment on the grounds of the alleged intolerance of their intended targets, or the existential threat they posed to liberalized society. In fact, most actual justifications of those things are based on Popper's argument; it's of the same species as "the Constitution is not a suicide pact" or "are you going to convict Jack Bauer?". This is literally how people tried to justify every violation of civil liberties in American history.

US judicial precedent around the First Amendment has varied over time. The hoary cliche that "you can't shout fire in a crowded theater" comes from a Supreme Court ruling in 1919, Schenck v. United States, that the First Amendment did not protect advocacy of draft resistance. That ruling was overruled, and the standard set by the court in 1969, in Brandenberg v. Ohio, was "imminent lawless action". And I think that standard meets Popper's bar without the risk of it devolving into totalitarianism for the sake of protecting us from totalitarianism. Which, incidentally, has been the sales pitch of every totalitarian regime ever. The next batch of Nazis are going to get power by telling us they need it to protect us from the Nazis.
You can sell at a profit by moving someplace where housing didn’t go up at the same rate (e.g. to another area or to a smaller house).

Housing as an investment and friction around moving keeps you tied to a particular area, which can be argued is better for a community.
How Goldman Sachs Gambled on Starvation (2010)
What this can provide over gifs, is accessibility, although I haven't checked it with a screen reader.
Yes, and that would be a wonderful thing.

Or if we love constantly increasing prices so much, why not have it on food, computers and everything else?
Is there another part of the market where you apply this twisted reasoning? I thought 1992 was a pretty good year for Japanese sports cars. I think building new cars after 1992 should have been illegal. We can keep 1992 cars affordable through price controls.
I have! I’m not an expert at it, though.
>But like taxes, death is inevitable.

Taxes yes, but I am not so sure about death.
I’ve never heard of renting as being “short” the housing prices but that’s a great way to think of it.
Ask HN: Which is better: GraphQL vs. REST?
> Totalitarianism is gaining power right now through bad actors operating under the cloak of free speech. The bigger their communities get, the more they infect the communities around them.... Your mechanism against totalitarianism will lead you straight into a dictatorship.

Those might have been the exact words of a 1950's McCarthyite. How can you be so sure that you're just just as wrong as they were?
Given the supply of land is fixed (the old real estate joke about their not making any more) while the population and the economy are both growing, we should expect to see a rise in land values over time in real terms.

Housing land (houses are a deprecating asset) should be an asset class that mirrors population and economic growth.
Dirty Dozen: Things We Think Can Be Recycled But Are Generally Not
But you only put 20% down.

Let's say your 100k house is now 200k. Your initial down payment is 20k. When you sell your getting much more than 8% compound interest
That picture is misleading. Although the pain relief effect of carfentalin is ~35 times higher than fentanyl, the lethal dose of both drugs is about the same. So carfentanil is actually safer, in the sense that it has a higher therapeutic index.

https://twitter.com/davidjuurlink/status/859227636400349184?...
If you look at the ISO url, you'll notice something that looks like a short Git SHA hash. That's the exact git checkout of `nixpkgs` used to build the ISO. All system-level artifacts built with nixpkgs wind up with it as part of their name. Very handy.

This means you can plug the sha from the ISO that you link to (nixos-graphical-18.09.776.6a3f5bcb061-x86_64-linux) and get this URL: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commits/6a3f5bcb061

And the ISO URL from NixOS.org ([...]/nixos-graphical-18.09.1023.06fb0253afa-x86_64-linux.iso) leads us to https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commits/06fb0253afa

If you check both, you'll see they're both commits from the upstream `nixpkgs` repository, just a couple weeks apart. So it looks like your torrent is likely an old official ISO that could be upgraded in place the same way the newer ISO would need. (Note, I haven't confirmed that, someone could've uploaded a malicious file with a nice filename, etc. Don't take my word for it, etc.)

(edit: ah, and if I had to guess, the 776 and 1023 as part of the filename is probably the number of commits since the original 18.09 tag was created.)
So first of all, Apple invented a new language to replace Objective-C (they also added generics to Objective-C), you might have heard of it. Secondly, some kernels have already been written or partially written in C++ (the NT kernel for example). Of course, not many people are writing kernels, but those writing new kernels (fuschia, redox) are being written in either a mix of languages or a completely new language. Otherwise, older kernels like Linux were written decades ago in a very different landscape when other languages made little to no sense. Things have changed.

So your comment is kind of unsubstantiated. And as I said, things have changed, and things will change. We can either do as you imply and keep using C and languages without "sum types" and "real generics", and keep creating security vulnerabilities and broken software, moving at a snails pace because we have poor methods of reuse, or we can aspire to build better tools to build better software. I am squarely in the latter camp, I think we should aspire to keep evolving.
I agree. There are a number of ways to model the process of creating the mixture that will avoid the water vs. wine bias that is the essence of the "paradox" as stated.

The main lesson is that the Principal of Indifference is "not even wrong". (It's nonsense.)
I dunno, which is better, a screwdriver or a box-end wrench?

Which is better, peanut butter, or a jar of Gold Bond foot powder?
Wow. If it's not reproducible, can it even be called science?
On windows and mac, because there's no choice, things like this are offered as software to install. Would doing the same on linux more likely cause "pain and suffering"?
I think the idea of Pop is that it's for people like scientists and engineers who need to use their machine as a tool for computation, but may have no knowledge or interest in system administration. Likely quite comfortable on the command line, but also likely couldn't tell you what systemd is or how to use iptables.

For many people in that audience "Linux Distro where the latest CUDA just works" is a huge selling point. That is unfortunately not guaranteed to be true of Ubuntu, necessarily, although things have gotten better.

I just switched to it recently and am very happy, it feels like it was perfectly designed for how I use the computer.
If System76 starts to be successful why can't I just spin up a competitor and copy everything they do? I don't even need to do the work to copy them, I can just use their open-source designs and software. With zero overhead I can sell everything they make cheaper.

How are they not doomed to go out of business?
I've seen this all before, in the 1970's. Nothing new here. Just the name changed, then it was the "Establishment" instead of the "Boomers".

You can see it in the movies of the time, too, starting with "A Summer Place".
That person being George R.R. Martin, the author of Game of Thrones.
I don't see any advantages of using a desktop environment over using a tiling window manager like i3wm. Therefore debates such as Gnome VS KDE never really makes sense to me. What are some reasons to use a desktop environment rather than i3?
This is not a characteristic of dynamic typing, some statically typed languages supports variable shadowing in the same scope. A dynamic (or hybrid) typing system is IMHO simply a system which provides a variant type as first class citizen.

You're welcome to your humble opinion.

Your opinion is not generally accepted, though. The most common definitions of static versus dynamic typing boil down to whether both names and values have types and those types must be compatible (static) or whether only values have types and no checking for compatibility with names is required (dynamic). That is:

a = 3
a = 'foo'

The above probably fails in a statically-typed language, because 'a' will be a name of a type incompatible with the value 'foo'. In a dynamically-typed language it's perfectly OK.
You can buy a three bedroom house in Topeka, Kansas for $75k. Regressive taxes are a much bigger problem.
Is there enough money in colorizing old movies to bother?
KDE is an extreme distraction and a waste of developer man hours. Not just for the people who made it, but also for those who wrote apps for it. Imagine how much better the Gnome ecosystem would be if all that effort was channeled there instead? Even a fork of the Gnome ecosystem would be better than a completely different API.

As a user, Gnome works just fine. Get over yourselves KDI guys. Sometimes you just have to walk away!
Square inches is also a single dimension.
I disagree. Enterprises make up a huge part of that market share, and with an increase in cpu sidechannels, they could easily start upping the pressure by asking for non-ME/PSP systems. Of course theyll get told no, but somewhere that metric will grow until it gets the attention it deserves.

Even if a battle is uphill it doesnt mean its not worth the fight.
The Airpods cost a lot because: a) Apple but also, b) because if they sold them for $55 they would never be able to keep up with the demand. Airpods do look like qtips, but now that they've become such a common site, my eyes have gotten used to them. I'm waiting for them to make matte black ones!
What makes it the right-hand rule rather than the left-hand rule?
The only hard ceiling on real economic growth is Kardashev II at the very least, if not Kardashev III; until then, the material wealth of the human race is either going to continue to grow, or else we will have big enough problems that canned beans and water purification tablets are the only meaningful investments anyway. And those beans and tablets are going to be a lot easier to hold onto if you own a house ;)
From the article:

>Former U.S. officials said the internet-based platform, which was first used in war zones in the Middle East, was not built to withstand the sophisticated counterintelligence efforts of a state actor like China or Iran. “It was never meant to be used long term for people to talk to sources,” said one former official. “The issue was that it was working well for too long, with too many people. But it was an elementary system.”

>“Everyone was using it far beyond its intention,” said another former official.
ES6 is sugar coating the turd. Life is too short.
Tear it down and build it over, especially if you're an investor and can buy a bunch of mouldy homes on a block.

Example in the US is smaller suburban houses that happen to be located near commuter rail stations. They are torn down and replaced with new, bigger houses. The neighborhood across the tracks from my house is another example: Doctors and professors have bought and "renovated" all of the smaller houses.

I notice something similar with hotels. My experience in a hotel is 100% proportional to the age of the hotel. The newer the better. Hotel owners rarely renovate unless they are in super prime downtown locations. They just let the hotel deteriorate while lowering their room rates while someone builds a new hotel next door.
I don't believe him.

I got a C- in Linear Algebra in college... I remember my Linear Algebra prof saying "maybe I'm being pedantic" when explaining a concept and I was like "wtf are you even talking about?"

I avoid all Math - and I think black boxes are great. The few times I've used functions with quaternions in game programming (I'm not a game programmer) they seemed really easy to use. I'm skeptical that a concept that is easy to understand for people with a Math background is easier to use in code for people like me.
Vi Hart's YouTube channel is quite entertaining: https://www.youtube.com/user/Vihart
If you had like to brutely honest, you should put randomly selected set, along with the hand-picked set - labeling each set how it was selected. This is a cancer in current deep learning research. You see paper with such a glowing cool examples but in reality they are just hiding all problematic cases while being fully aware of it. If this happened anywhere else in any other domain people would say they got ripped off and outright lied to.