skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>they are meaningfully more open and tolerant of dissent, investigative journalism and the like than some other countries, including China. //

I'd agree with all that. I just don't have any evidence to suggest they're watching us less or have greater ethics when it comes to invading citizens/subjects privacy in secret.
Rather than stacking it should be lining up a variety of skills, because it is horizontal integration rather than vertical.
Carbon Nanotube Synaptic Transistors for Large-Scale Neuromorphic Computing
May I ask, what did ‘not perform well’ entail in this case? The reading interface, capturing, or something else?
Not to mention that the "it just works" experience is much easier to provide when you control both software and hardware. No driver mess for the end user.
SpaceX seeks $750M leveraged loan
Fast Abstractive Summarization with Reinforce-Selected Sentence Rewriting
What you know to be true yes, just don't call it science.

"I think I have given sufficient examples that disagree with what you are saying."

You haven't given a single one. You are talking about people who are already rich and can afford to moralize over what food they put in their mouth. That's a very different kind of people than I talk about.

"I don't know which aspect of the Chinese economy you are referring to. The electronics part, where there is no lack of signal from the countries it exports to, or its investment in green tech, in which case we may consider the Govt. one disproportionately strong actor in collective signalling."

I am talking about the fact that the chinese market isn't free and open yet does very well.
The example pages are unbearable slow and lagging on my 4-core 7700HQ CPU.

I don't know what the reason is, but it sure isn't a minimal framework.

I am no web developer, mind you, but I have yet to see any case where such heavy load really increases the benefit I get from a site. Usually it is quite the opposite.

It is my opinion that any web-developer using these sort of megabyte-sized frameworks should have their license revoked.
But that’s what I was saying originally —- I’ve heard about this trick of connecting a monitor to improve performance but I’ve never seen it make a difference. Is there something else you have to do?
The problem is that the same applies for Police, Mental Health, Child Protection services. In those organizations, it does incredible amounts of damage.

In fact, part of the attraction of working in, say Child protection services is the damage you can selectively inflict on others. Same for the police, but much more direct. 15 minutes of research will tell you that they're not doing their duty for the money.

This is WHY you would want the power of government artificially limited by an independent and powerful judiciary.
For folks who are trying to be more focused, it seems like this emphasises the importance of training yourself to re-focus your attention
So for the past few years we've been hearing time and time again how amazing these Apple chips are yet were is the software that actually pushes them?

Wheres the example of software that truly shines on these chips? Wheres the software like After Effects, Houdini, Octane Render that you can truly see the power of the machine rev up when on the right hardware.

They're wheeling Photoshop out as proof of this devices power yet as a designer I certainly don't consider Photoshop a heavy piece of software anymore and the only reason it ever chugs is it doesn't use the machines power effectively, mostly single core and disk speed constrained.

This power has been available to iPad developers for a few years now so shouldn't we be seeing truly powerful pro apps that take advantage of it emerging? Are these chips actually powerful for real world pro tasks or are they just talented at providing Geekbench scores.
John Hennessy on the Leadership Crisis in Silicon Valley
"Macs mini"

https://www.theonion.com/william-safire-orders-two-whoppers-...
s/lazy/efficient
>You start by thinking it's just noise and there's always someone in the office who will say that, but after a while you get suspicious of it happening at the same time

I felt the same way when I used to watch bitcoin. It's the coherency that is oddly convenient.
No need for 'RTFA', just 'RTA', you'd been flagged/dead but I thought I'd resurrect you and explain why.
For mac / ios software, some teams literally do use stacks of mac minis or old laptops in a closet.
The End of Culture Fit (Forbes, 2017)
I don’t really think of preprocessors the same way as something like this library or bootstrap, that provide specific prebaked components and layouts
I don't know about that. The two most common spouse occupations, of people I knew at Google in NYC, were lawyer and some sort of financier. Often (more than a few of those I knew) the spouse made more money and Google was effectively daycare for the other.

And in hotbeds like NYC, with the opportunities all over town, there's little career reason to go somewhere else. If Google left NYC, they'd lose most of their engineering team to other tech firms in the city.
Cloudflare and Recaptcha is ruining the internet
Look at that naïve little coder who thinks that the company benefits from the bugless products.
Google launched a new service. Google stocks grew. Everyone is happy, you just helped people make some millions.
Shenanigans is an understatement. The government "compensated" Telstra for giving up it's network monopoly and after dropping Labor's plan of fiber to the property for existing connections bought the copper network anyway so Telstra double dipped.

I've already had my NBN connection out for a whole week due to a failure in the copper.
Off the cuff guess based on chatting about the annoyance to colleagues, and based on the colleagues and team, around 2002-2003.
This was about twenty years ago, as three of us travelled round the republic of Ireland in an old transit van in the summer holidays from University.

We were a bit lost and I pulled up next to an old fella and his collie dog on a one lane road out in the middle of nowhere. I asked him how he would get to Limerick and after looking around with a pained expression for a few seconds, he turns to us and says, "my sister takes me".
NVMe SSDs aren't byte addressable even when their underlying storage medium is. Optane SSDs use 512B or 4kB sectors just like any other block storage device. Actual byte-addressable Optane DIMMs are just starting to become available, though only to major cloud computing providers so far.

Using mmap with infrequent msync calls would mean you're running with looser data consistency guarantees. That may be suitable for some use cases, but it doesn't necessarily make for fair benchmarking.
They have been doing something like that for years: if you get locked out of your account, they show you pictures of friends and ask you to identify them. I know this has nothing to do with what the article describes, I'm just stating this for the record :P

https://www.androidtipster.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/fa...

(It's an old Mac and an old design of Facebook... Just so you can see how old this screenshot is!)
button is a tag, submit and disabled are tag attributes -- surely you don't need these classes, they're either superfluous or you're not doing semantic HTML.
I certainly trust governments to decide what is and isn't fake news.
Also the test stuff and the compiler itself. :-)

Regarding non-own dog food, http://wiki.call-cc.org/Software lists some projects using CHICKEN.
Offer them a nice cup of tea...
> but presumably most would have been scuttled or headed for South America by then

I saw a programme a couple of years ago about a port in Northern Ireland which had quite a few U boats moored after the war.

There is a picture here from Lisahally
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205160207

There were also over 30 which surrendered in Loch Eriboll, Sutherland. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scotland/7479898/Mas...
I'm not assessing anything, I think the guy is the greatest person ever put on this planet. I'm just saying what I think the board is doing.
+1 for the reasons to use Tachyons.

Very easy to learn and reference in future.

Documentation include examples that can be used as base for minor customisations.

From someone coming from non CSS/UI/web/design background, Tachyons is very approachable in ways others are not.

My website made with Tachyons: https://aravindh.net
Writing Network Drivers in Rust [pdf]
California voters reject efforts to repeal gas tax and rent-control limitations
Kara Swisher is like that sometimes, and I don't like it too. On Steve Jobs last interview to her and Mossberg, Mossberg was trying to capture how Steve thinks, but Kara was only interested in the current event of apple dropping google on the maps app.
In the discussion about Spectre.css (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18403909), a few people asked about alternatives to it. So here is a list with some alternatives. Might be interesting for others, too.
"Do not learn if you do not understand"

Seems strangely backward to me. Understanding is my end goal when learning.
Chicken sounds super interesting but I’ve never used it. Anybody have a tutorial(s) on how to get started using chicken? And specially how do you do to 2D graphics with it?
I was a HAM in the US, mostly just to get internet access via packet radio (and play with higher power wifi) back in early 2000's. I participated in a few field day's which were really awesome. The community was pretty cool.

I didn't take this hobby over to Europe when I moved, and let my license lapse. How's the community over here (specifically the Netherlands)?
Ask HN: What careers outside technology as I get older?
I’m wondering if maybe I should leave the technology industry and do something else.

Older people I think find it harder to keep a dependable career and I’m not sure I want to continue in technology anyway.

But what else to do? I can’t imagine anything else that might be an effective way to make a living.

Any ideas?
WeChat reaches 1M mini programs, half the size of Apple’s App Store
Affordability should still mean that you get value for your money, not that any surplus wages disappear in the pockets of the land owning class.
I personally use Remotix for VNC, Remotix has integrated the Apple specific VNC protocol which allows for more performance, file transfers, etc.
So previously a private company monopolized the business and now government would monopolize it. I wonder which one is the worse...
How to Remove Negative Feedback on Etsy
> am I missing something?

Yes and no. Firstly, these sort of manipulations happen on exchanges too. Historically, the main difference has been that it's in the exchange's interest to spot this stuff quickly and stamp it out.

Also, and this is asset dependent, it's generally easier for an individual to manipulate a stock price than FX or Libor (back in the day) as they're much less liquid. As such, more focus was put on detecting and prevention.

For many FX markets, it's practically unfeasible to manipulate the market without collusion. This is because of the huge liquidity. So the reason why this was a big deal, and the reason for the convictions, was because of the collusion. Without that there wasn't much to see here (arguably there wasn't much of an effect anyway but the private prosecutions should throw more light on that).

Libor is an interesting case. Similar to FX, it was nigh on impossible to manipulate in a liquid market without collusion. It is true that the rules do not apply to an observable rate but, in practice, it was trivial to tell if a single institute was doing something fishy so they didn't.

Where it all went to crap was when the banks stopped trusting each other. Libor is the uncollateralised borrow rate. In the period preceding the crash everyone stopped lending uncollateralised as they weren't sure they would get their money back. As such, the premise of Libor became flawed as it depended on an answer to the question "what rate can you borrow uncollateralised?". It didn't have an option for "there isn't one", and worse, the setters were pressured into not giving an indication that that was true.

So, in the Libor case, if the borrowing had been on an exchange and the rate set from an observable price, things would have been better in the sense that it would be obvious that there was no liquidity (although everyone knew that anyway). But, ironically, it would likely have been much easier to force material moves as a single entity because of that illiquidity. And we'd still end up with the same convictions as they were due to collusion.

Finally, for FX, it's not obvious that an exchange would help for the same reasons. It's difficult to manipulate without collusion because of the liquidity. An exchange won't change that. And exchanges are no less susceptible to collusion than the current FX market. Arguably, they may be more so if there were multiple exchanges each with less liquidity but that's just speculation.
What workflow app? I'm on iOS 12.1 and I don't see a workflow app.
Fwiw, from an outsider's perspective, I hear more and more grumbling about LIBOR, lately. Disilliusionment with it is reaching the main stream, for better or for worse.
The private company one is worse
"Thousands of years ago"? Islam isn't even 1500 years old!
I used to work for the foundry, which is the equivalent of Adobe, but for the film industry.

Before that I worked at a number of VFX houses.

What I love so much about listening to "filmies" is that their insistence that film grain is authentic. (fortunately this video is matter of fact, unlike the vast majority of people spewing out opinion on such things, the presenter actually seems to know what they are talking about)

Most of the film grain you've seen in the last ten years (possibly since about 2000) is fake. Certainly if there is any VFX work, then the film grain has been "degrained" and then put in back afterwards. (I'm not talking monsters, I mean set extensions, sky removals, general touchup.)

And yes, that even includes movies that were shot on real film. Which was most films up until about 2010-12

The best part, most film grain you see is the work of maybe three people. https://www.fxguide.com/featured/furnace_discreet_-_beta_pro... This is from 2003.
Duchamps Urinal: How the liberal West is dismantling itself
I hadn't found Texas, thanks.
>The template is simple: Write generic advice that sounds nice, and is never controversial. Make sure it's super vague so you don't have to take any accountability for it, you can move the goalposts of what you're saying

In technical terms, what you are suggesting is that the article is making a claim which is unfalsifiable. But actually it is falsifiable. All you have to do is find a person who has diverse skills but is unsuccessful.
I just want to chime in here to say: when I recently tried to purchase an iPhone SE from Telstra's online store, the device was out of stock. They couldn't tell me when they expected to have it back in stock, or it was being end-of-lifed. No straight answers.

I spent 15 hours, over two weeks, on the phone to Telstra trying to get the order cancelled and my money back. I gave up with that.

And went in to a Telstra owned Telstra store and politely but sternly demanded my money back by asking the managed to call his escalation point(s) until he found someone who could authorise the return of my money.

After half an hour he was asking me to leave and I repeatedly said "not until I have my money back". I wasn't being threatening at all, rather I was pleading with him to understand my position.

He picked up his mobile and said he was dialling the police.

That's how Telstra treats it's customers.
> Go’s threading model uses a lot more memory than Erlang and Elixer

Interesting. Can you say why?
Can't speak for anyone else but I gladly take a hit in my disposable income (it's not that much of a hit) if it means I can live in place where a lot of interesting stuff is happening aside from work (Berlin, NYC, Amsterdam, etc.). I don't need a big flat and I have few expensive hobbies.

Maybe it will be different in my thirties and forties but right now I want to either live in a (cool) city to work on exiting projects or be travelling. It may sound pretentious to some, but it's what I want.

I would imagine quite a few people feel similarly. In that way a campus in New York City makes sense I believe.
Just write down the grammar by hand first, then write the recursive descent parser strictly based on the grammar.
To be honest “eco friend” sounds a lot more like what I’d want my children to be involved with than “shotgun shooting”. According to the website the requirements for “Eco Friend” are essentially doing no harm to the environment, making a safe campfire and attempting to be kind. All worthwhile skills but perhaps it could be rebranded to sound cooler, like “Ecosystem management engineer”.

Also if the Girl Scouts could see their way to making merit badges for “fighting the man”, “radical feminism” and “understanding white privilege”, I think their members would be better armed to understand the world in a useful manner. I’d be happy to sew on those to any piece of clothing.

Maybe some Boy Scout badges for “non fire related cooking”, “hanging pictures straight” and “basic household budgeting” would also improve the world and give their members useful skills.
The same server is used for the IMDT tests. From what I saw, IMDT is basically a thin hypervisor that maps the SSD into the address space and then handles the page faults before the main OS ever sees them. I don't think this requires anything that any arbitrary CPU/MMU couldn't handle.
That's fair, but I also think absence of evidence is meaningful in proportion to the likelihood that, if evidence existed, it would be gathered and disseminated. In other words, the more closed the society, the more we should assume the worst when the facts are unclear.

In absolute terms whistleblowing is a dangerous game in the west, so it is likely that there's plenty being successfully hidden from us -- and the evidence we do have suggests that surveillance is very intense and intrusive. But I still lean toward the belief that it is probably relatively more restrained, and less likely to be used in completely dystopian ways, than in more secretive and repressive states less constrained by the rule of law.
The Synfony project use princexml to generate their documentation (including The Book) and it's phenomenally good.

https://symfony.com/doc/current/index.html#gsc.tab=0

Select offline, The book, 4.2 and it generates the book on the fly.
Fukuyama basically argued that the end of the Cold War marked a point of no-return after which all countries would have slowly but inevitably converged towards globalised, market-based, open societies. All the stuff you mention pre-dates that.

The worst we got in the Clinton era, when Fukuyama was writing, were the crypto wars and the Clipper chip, which look incredibly tame today and were both resolved in the public's favour.

So yeah, in the '90s, a lot of people thought "the West" had turned a corner. Fukuyama went beyond that and posited that the world had turned a corner. And instead, we fell right back into fascist nightmares as soon as we were attacked by a bearded guy on dialysis that we ourselves had armed a few years before; the Russians and Chinese decided that not starving was preferable to being "democratic", whatever that might mean; and most of the Middle East, Israel included, doubled down on its eternal fervour for holy war.

That was my point - history never "ends" and nothing is inevitable, including a return to feudal rule. Many progressive movements tried to tell the elites that, by singing a triumphalist note for late-stage capitalism, we were planting seeds for a massive backlash. They were ignored, like they would be ignored in 2003 on the risks of war and again today on the risks of ignoring global warming and rejecting migrations. Sooner or later, chickens will come home to roost, and it won't be pretty.
That's a fair argument. I do think it's absolutely an appropriate lens for this issue but can see why someone like judah might find it grating.
.. which is odd, given how much of a villain she is in the Australian context.
"I aggree to all terms" .... there are no terms to view....
Most articles go in a tab in my browser, either I read it eventually or I realize I don't really care and close it.

Academic papers that I read and figure out I might wanna re-read or reference later goes into Paperpile (using their browser plugin).

For projects I work on I keep working notes in markdown using Typora. Some links to libraries or articles might find their way into these working notes if I think I need to come back to them later. The markdown documents are then usually committed to some git repo.
Have you tried TLA+ and PlusCal?
A plain old text file synced across my devices with Dropbox. Dummy, but it works.
ps. I use this approach for my notes in general
Sometimes? She is always like that. Once she has someone in her grip, she won't let go, ever. I don't understand how she can be so one-sided as a journalist, if we can even call what she does journalism.

A few years ago she decided she'd get Uber down. Oh boy. Every single thing she was writing was worst than a People magazine article about the Kardashians. 0 objectivity. Straight up fake news, etc.
Even worse, it doesn't make it clear that Kottke isn't the creator.
Is there any benchmark comparing two architectures , one using OTP, the other using containers + kubernetes ( let’s say in go or java) ? In terms of availability, performance, maintenance cost, etc.
The referendum requires 2/3rds of the representatives of the people to vote to affect the change

1) this wasn't a referendum. It was a Legislative Statute.

2) it needed only a simple majority.

3) California DST implementation has been in violation of CA law for decades. CA law has been late April to late September since 1949.

4) to actually change DST still requires an additional 2/3rds majority vote in BOTH houses of the Legislature in the same session.
Learning is not the same as studying, but if English is not your mother tongue you can easily mistake one word for the other. e.g. in german it is the same word. I assume it was written by a polish native speaker. Apparently in polish they also only have on word for it - uczyć.
iOS is too restrictive for a development/productivity machine since it doesn't allow to install software from outside the app store (something like homebrew would be a security nightmare). The UI model of iOS also is still too touch-centric (while touch input provides zero advantages for a command-line interface).

But attach a proper(!) keyboard with touchpad to an iPad Pro, put macOS on it instead of iOS, and there's your next MBP ;)
The reason for this back then was a slower internet connection. If Google had the bandwidth when they first started they would have inserted images and videos to their search results and ads.
Difficult to portray her as a villain?

Telstra is widely regarded as the worst company in Australia to deal with as a residential customer.
Nothing is wrong with it; it's just more opinionated than Apollo.
Around 1980 seems right. This was an Australian science show for children. Loved that show.
A language whose only documentation is paper or PDF (it's not the case of Mercury) is not a language that's going to thrive in this age. It's probably a waste of time to get involved with it. This is why I use documentation format as heuristic.
> I never got it to work

There was an Thompson Twins game[1] distributed as a flexidisc for the Spectrum. Never got it to work - just couldn't get the disc to play reliably.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thompson_Twins_Adventure
Previous discussion from 2016 (50+ comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11758034