skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, obviously some things will need to be persisted, and some of those things might be some of your queue entries -- so a persisted network queue (and network things to dequeue from it) can definitely be a necessity for that reason as well.
Don't know about the book thing, but great minimalism requires much more knowledge about design because you have less stuff to mask the clunkiness and your lack of ability.
Of course, you lose support for 2FA, have crappy notifications and activity feed and so on, plus it is entirely unsupported so I'd recommend against that...
> Improved performance for Mac and Linux users, by enabling link time optimization (Clang LTO). (Clang LTO was enabled for Windows users in Firefox 63.)
Precisely - I think this falls to the classic problem of who to blame in accidents involving self-driving cars. Is the manufacturer at fault? The driver? Certainly statements like this suggest it could be argued in this case.
I don't think any engineers deemed any available information about Columbia as "insignificant", not that there was very much information to go on due to lax execution by camera tracker teams. Management on the other hand was... not effective.

I think that's really the crux of your statement. Humans seem to be terrible at working together in large organizations, or at least running them. Organizations seem to learn from mistakes only temporarily, or at all (as you pointed out). Consider the self-driving car group at Uber as a recent example.
The authority to conduct such searches should simply be removed. Border searches are nominally for the purpose of preventing the importation of something that's illegal to import, but it's trivial to transfer information that's illegal to import (e.g. child pornography) over the internet instead.
One year later in the US.

The thing I remember as a kid was the hype for the PS2 building right as the Dreamcast was released. This was still in the era where most families would only have one console, so they ended up saving their money aiming for a PS2 instead of a Dreamcast.

I think if the Dreamcast was released sooner or later it would have done better than it did. Either before the PS2 hype, or closer to the PS2 so the hype died down a bit.
I recently got into the first wave of Cloudflare's domain registration, but I have had a pretty good experience with Namecheap over the years. It looks like I can save a few bucks here and there, but my next expiring domain isn't for a few months so hopefully I can read other's experiences by then.
Design Systems London 2018
You remember a few years back when "performance is a feature"?

Well, sanity is also a feature. When none of your competitors are doing it, then it starts to look like innovation.

I mean, the transparent fee structure alone is why I push dabblers toward DO. I'm looking at you, AWS.
The hoarder finds some value in hoarding. In extreme cases of hoarding where you find the house is filled with items often the value comes from the hoarder not having to worry about inadequate supplies. A person who hoards food because of previous issues with having adequate food is sating their need for security.

This isn't an extreme case but the same reasons still exist, hoarding the scooters is providing value. Take efforts to reduce value. Like start letting the scooters talk to each other and you'll be able to find the cycle in the graph where the hoarded scooters only talk to each other until one pays outs handsomely and it joins the rest of the public scooters. Or make a scooter pay out less if it has been idle for an extended period of time even with low battery value. Or the opposite, make a scooter pay out more if it's getting higher than average use.
Comcast rejected by small town–residents vote for municipal fiber instead
> What ultimately did it in was the PS2 -- a superior console in virtually every respect

I beg to differ. Graphically it was, but it should be given it was two years younger. Sound quality it was too but honestly very few people would have noticed on the typical set up of that era.

However the Dreamcast has 4 controller ports built into the console itself, rumble packs from day one, a portable gaming unit (ok, that was a bit of a novelty), support for using your save games on actual arcades, easy way of sharing save games, online gaming (a good 4 years before the competition too!), downloadable content (which was typically free back then).

The Dreamcast was easily the more interesting console out of the two of them. If the reputation of the two companies had been equal then the DC would likely have won out. But the PS1 was already a proven success and Sega had messed their fans about with all the failed Megadrive /Genesis addons. So a great many gamers didn’t even give the Dreamcast a chance. In a sense, their expectations became a self fulfilling prophecy.

I was gutted when the DC failed. No console before nor since has really captured my imagination quite as much as the Dreamcast did. But ultimately I wasn’t surprised either because Sony had already won even before releasing the PS2. Few people cared about Sega (or Nintendo) at that point.
NASA Invites Stephen Curry to Tour Lunar Lab After Moon Landing Comments
Yeah, that's a funny aspect of realistic accuracy, where, if you're doing it in one place, you have to do it elsewhere as well, else you'll ruin the immersion.
https://cnab.io/
> Miller also suggested that Uber might want to drastically scale back its testing program. "I suspect an 85% reduction in fleet size wouldn’t slow development," he wrote.

The vehicles create a firehose of data for the engineers/devs to deal with when there's large fleets. Things are ignored, and you have to dedicate more and more time to create good tools to filter through anomalies, incidents, and disengagements. With a smaller fleet, they'd see less problems come up but perhaps be able to diagnose and act on more of them.
> Uppercase variable names and lowercase module names is easier to read in Erlang

This is ENTIRELY subjective and not a rational argument. It's in fact the exact opposite for me, but my prior language was Ruby.
> Conspiracies are hard to maintain

An oft repeated trope that holds no place in the repertoire of someone that's read history.

Look as recently as the Manhattan Project for an example starkly to the contrary of your assertion.

Large groups of people can conspire. It does happen, more than we can ever know.
They bought mass-produced, disposable goods because that's the kind of product that was in stores. Stores themselves were fairly new. Not that long before, goods were artisanal, produced in low volumes by skilled craftsmen. Obtaining such a product frequently required a personal relationship, a long wait, and a lot of money.

The 1950s American consumer culture enjoyed by the parents of middle-class Boomers was a time of significant gains in living standards, both perceived and actual. Refraining from that life would have meant being left behind on the margins of society. Their children, Boomers, didn't build the world they lived in: they just all tried to optimize for their well-being and choose the least bad out of options presented, just like everyone else. Moral questions about collective responsibility are always odd, because swimming against the wave requires one to value a moral code over their stability and prosperity: either because they're far from peril and afford to take a stand a moral stand, or because their safety is already precarious and they have more to gain than to lose.

The people getting by in the middle preserve that by conforming. They buy the disposable stuff in the store, because the alternative has a higher upfront cost. They project a political stance that works best in their peer group, but in the presence of opportunity and information, they won't vote in a way that might endanger their status. The collective actions of each generation's majority is what led us to where we are today, but it's a mistake to treat their choices as a selfish display. Self-preservation is normal. Examine the factors that limited their choices. That's where the course of the future was already decided, years ahead of time.
We're expecting that one of the apis that the WebAssembly Working group will eventually "standardize" will support creating gpu-accelerated graphics, so yes, most likely wasmer will eventually support GUI applications.

As for the filesystem, it does support all the normal, posix operations on the filesystem.
Well they might have to spend another 18 years to make it a dark scroll bar on Windows when you have a dark theme first :)
Edge’s move to Chromium will increase productivity, but raise long-term concerns
The nature of competition requires an advantage of some kind, or advancement won’t be very fast. The limit to what I think the free market would allow would be the government splitting funding for research and for production, and for any contractor to fulfill production orders without paying for licenses.

It seems more likely that splitting foundries would be successful, with some sort of anti-trust mechanism to prevent a foundry and an IP developer from having too much favoritism (or advantage from scale).
I don't think they're saying that change is bad but that THIS change is bad - a regression for a hard fought thing. Characterizing all such critiques as the same reduces the toolset we have to answer things like the alt right.
Neuroscience Takes the Stand
This extension emulates the effect pretty well: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/multi-touch-z...
We're talking in stereotypes, but I think it has more to do with your feelings about competition than about lunchtime conversation. When I was working I really enjoyed lunch (with the right people) and I'm definitely more into nerdy things.
presumably through the web interface
Yes, I understand how feedback control systems work. The question was whether they really have the fidelity to do it at hundred picometer resolution.

I am dubious because this is a pretty incredible feat. This is the length scale at which atom-atom interactions become important. That implies that the crystal lattice structure of both the read/write head and the underlying platter will affect the dynamics of the system!
Sony did the same BS with the PS2, whose MIPS core was called the "Emotion Engine" because it was touted as being powerful enough to allow the console to feel, or at least simulate, emotions.

The turn of the millennium was a weird time for gaming.
FreeBSD 12.0 is now available
Any individual merely accused of a salacious crime has his face spread all over the evening news just to pump ratings. Guilt, innocence, evidence or trial outcome are utterly irrelevant. So it's quite wide spread.

Of course the power dynamic between an ordinary joe and broadcasters is far different than between large corporations and broadcasters. This and worries around sponsors means there is already considerable self censorship when criticizing the latter. But I would not be surprised if industry lobbyist ultimately craft legislation to allow the former while preventing the latter through some high bar liability laws in such away that they get five already sympathetic SCOTUS justices to sign on.
Yup. Piracy would have increased console sales and it didn't. Really as simple as that. The software was definitely there at the time. But, Sega you know, is Sega and ultimately all the good faith they had built in Western countries with the master system and Genesis had worn out with their mediocre add-ons and console (Saturn. I might add had great games.).
Hi,

Sorry to hear about the bad experience, that shouldn't happen. We explicitly design Nextcloud to be seamless for small installations like yours - but if you need support, you can simply purchase it directly on https://nextcloud.com/enterprise/buy/ so you don't need to wait for sales people. We'll fix your issues for sure.

Keep in mind: using a bog-standard LAMP stack is your best bet, but you can always add the 1-day installation help to let an expert guide you through the decisions on how to integrate in your infrastructure. We have hundreds of customers with literally tens of millions of users deployed, so by now pretty much every problem has been seen and can be fixed ;-)
If they want their claims to be taken seriously, then they really should.

Without that, it's just hearsay, hearsay by agencies who have deceit as part of their job description and as such should be taken with a massive grain of salt.

Imho they've also become shy about openly sharing sources because it allows them plausible deniability, they don't want an Iraq style curveball [0] all over again, where the attribution of the misinformation can be too easily traced back straight to them.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curveball_(informant)
The article is underselling Erlang's meteoric success. "Adoption was slow during the first few years." - After 5 years there was an international conference devoted to Erlang, a global community around it and the language enjoyed commercial success from the beginning.

It just goes to show that Erlang fills a real niche that is ill served by most other programming languages. Programming distributed systems remains painful in 2018 - not because there aren't any theoretical solutions to make it easier, but because there are astonishingly few practical systems that offer built-in support. Erlang is such a practical system and if you didn't already look into the language it is well worth your time to pick it up. :)
The release notes state otherwise.
In case anyone else is confused as I was, the "64" in "Firefox 64" appears to be the version number and not referring to a 64-bit edition or something other special edition.
> The CSS Scrollbars Level 1 spec standardizes features for setting scrollbar width and color

I would like these features to be standardised to hands-off-my-fricking-scrollbars.

I’m fed up with impossible-to-grab 1px-wide scrollbars because “everyone has trackpads”. No, they don’t.
Answering my own question... it is, indeed, markedly better than the last new release I tried. It was really janky looking for a while. It still doesn't look as clean as Chrome's tab bar, but it's reasonable now. So props to the Mozilla team on that.
There is not any innovation here.
It should be:
"Linode fails to start cloning amazon, yet.."
Small part of the 'Gilets Jaunes' is happening outside my Belgian door, so I yes I noticed that.

But, this is more of an example of the problem: the state is propping up crumbling social infrastructure with extra taxes, and trying to greenwash them. You can see it in the things Macron promises to do now: Raise the minimal wage of the protesters. In the same way, the main complaint from the protester is that they are average salary workers, and they can't make ends meet anymore. It doesn't matter much that the straw that broke the camel's back was a green tax.
> [Amazon's] customer service is fantastic in my experience.

Try not having Prime. I tried that once, for a short while. The difference in service was striking.
Importantly, I would argue that this feeling that you need to feel some level of pressure is an important part of a sales organization, and is actually a good thing (when managed properly).

Not in a hopeless, we are doomed way, but you can make a lot of money in sales, but you have to go out and make that happen. In your mid twenties you can make the equivalent of an investment banker or top lawyer, and you don't work anywhere as many hours as they do.

Note: I work in external recruiting (which is a very sales heavy role).
I should note that everything should work fine on updated Chrome and Firefox, but no guarantees on other browsers!
Ahem, at the cost of burning a bit more karma, iTunes still returns no cookie, perhaps it’s because I’m on the NL Store? Might be, eh... USA != rest of World. Netflix? I still haven’t figured out how to bypass the signup hero but I might be daft... maybe it’s a regional setting? Who knows!? PBS? Oh well... it’s their right to restrict access to their legitimate property, I guess I’ll have to wait for it to enter public domain, or hope it capriciously enters the catalog of one of the content services I do pay subscription for...
Some bits of StackOverflow are pathologically awful.

If you gave an example question here people might be able to tell you how to ask it to get useful answers.
Isn't the problem this is trying to solve what GraphQL already solves? Instead of two different queries (one for the master record, one for the details):

{
post(id: $id) {
id
title
text
}
}

{
commentsOfPost: comments(postId: $postId) {
comment
owner {
name
}
}
}

Shouldn't it just be

{
post(id: $id) {
id
title
text,
comments {
comment
owner {
name
}
}
}
}

?
Depends. If you use vendoring, which is supported by Go modules, then you should be able to avoid needing any internet access. If you want to grab the dependencies fresh, then obviously if you have a github dependency, it will require git and the ability to access GitHub.com.
Basic google search will show lots. Short version is they've been hacked notably at least once.

https://www.google.com/search?q=linnode+hacke&ie=utf-8&oe=ut...
Sorry to hear it broke.

Try logging a support ticket on portal.nextcloud.com. LDAP is an enterprise feature so it is an area where we strongly focus on customers and their issues first, and if none of our customers experience this problem it can take a long time to get resolved as we're always very busy...
Uber and company came in with technology that worked better than the old government bureaucracy at cleaning up and regulating the market.

To me, at least, this assertion requires some substantiation.

It seems to me that what Uber has been better at than traditional taxi services is solely the technology. I can only expect to hail a taxi on demand if I'm in a big city, airport, train station, or other transit center; if I'm in a rural area, suburb, or even a smaller city, I'll probably have to call to arrange a pickup and hope it actually arrives. (My personal luck with calling for taxis has been...spotty at best, while for Uber and Lyft so far it's been 100%.)

But "cleaning up and regulating the market?" I don't see how ride-sharing services are doing anything to regulate the market, and "cleaning up" is pretty hard to measure. Ride shares tend to be cheaper than taxis, and I don't doubt that part of the cost of a taxi fare is due to regulation -- but a large part of it comes from the uncomfortable fact that Uber and Lyft are both subsidizing rides with VC money. If they actually charged enough for the ride to make a profit, average ride prices would easily double.

Also, while taxi regulation is pretty corrupt, well, Uber is maybe not the poster child we want for how unregulated companies are gonna do better on that front.
I don't like the term "digital native" at all, but I have to disagree with your age ranges. We mid-to-late 80s children might have been a little older when computers were introduced, but it was absolutely a part of growing up - first computers, then mobile phones.
I used to go to Amazon to look at reviews, regardless of where I was shopping. Now, in the rare moments I'm shopping on Amazon, I go to other sites to read the reviews.
Sounds cool, open source by any chance?
If anything, my simulation is being generous, at least for the C64: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4h9a2QGdQM

That is, drawing from BASIC though. Games weren't saddled with that, so they drew faster.

A comprehensive comparison would be hard, but just by straight instructions per second: An old 6502 is probably 1/2 a MIP with each instruction dealing with 8 bits. A new AMD Ryzen is 350,000 MIPS, with each instruction able to deal with 64 bits. So, 700k times faster, not including the difference between 8bit and 64bit.
most beautiful code i've ever seen
So are you accusing the release notes of lying, or do you have actual facts to back up this assertion?
Another vote for Airtable. It's truly a game changer.
I use ~1200 tabs. I used to deal with what you and ksec experienced in Chrome by periodically killing all Google Chrome Helper processes, and a few months ago switched to Firefox (less sluggish) from Chrome. Last week I decided to try Chrome again and was pleased to find that (with the same tab set) Chrome 71 is amazingly fast; new tabs open instantly, I can immediately enter a search query or URL, and the browser remains stable over time. So it's back to Chrome for me; it is now only slow when starting for the first time, when it processes the 1200 tabs for a few minutes.

(I do use The Great Discarder, but did so before switching to Firefox, too.)
I worked at a storage company, and they reinforced to us how not only does the OS lie to us, but the hard drives also lie to the OS. So you can't take anything you get from a hard drive as reliable, you have to test the data once you get it, ex through CRC, etc. Data can get corrupt at any time.

As densities of data get higher and higher, it doesn't take much to have a catastrophic data failure. The only way to protect against this is having multiple replicas of your data.
> Even your compiled machine language is ultimately far more abstracted from what the processor actually does than it was on, say, a 6502

Funny that you bring up 6502; that reminds me of 1541 disk drive for C64, which had mostly same 6502 as the host computer (albeit running at slower speed).
Agreed. There's really little or no good reason for a website to be able to change the scrollbars at all.
Some of the highlights:

* OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.1.1a (LTS).

* Unbound has been updated to version 1.8.1, and DANE-TA has been
enabled by default.

* OpenSSH has been updated to version 7.8p1.

* Additonal capsicum(4) support has been added to sshd(8).

* Clang, LLVM, LLD, LLDB, compiler-rt and libc++ has been updated to
version 6.0.1.

* The vt(4) Terminus BSD Console font has been update to version 4.46.

* The bsdinstall(8) utility now supports UEFI+GELI as an installation
option.

* The VIMAGE kernel configuration option has been enabled by default.

* The NUMA option has been enabled by default in the amd64 GENERIC and
MINIMAL kernel configurations.

* The netdump(4) driver has been added, providing a facility through
which kernel crash dumps can be transmitted to a remote host after a
system panic.

* The vt(4) driver has been updated with performance improvements,
drawing text at rates ranging from 2- to 6-times faster.

* Various improvements to graphics support for current generation
hardware.

* Support for capsicum(4) has been enabled on armv6 and armv7 by
default.

* The UFS/FFS filesystem has been updated to consolidate
TRIM/BIO_DELETE commands, reducing read/write requests due to fewer
TRIM messages being sent simultaneously.

* The NFS version 4.1 server has been updated to include pNFS server
support.

* The pf(4) packet filter is now usable within a jail(8) using vnet(9).

* The bhyve(8) utility has been updated to add NVMe device emulation.

* The bhyve(8) utility is now able to be run withing a jail(8).

* Various Lua loader(8) improvements.

* KDE has been updated to version 5.12.5.
Is there any tracking progress, what parts of Firefox are now rewritten in Rust and what will be next?
Yes I get that but A. All spreadsheets are multi dimensional, so why point it out. B. The blurb seems to conflate it with structured/typed data.

I've tried reading the link, but it isn't making much sense at the moment, but doesn't seem to be using dimensions in the same way as I would expect a spreadsheet to?