skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ISRO will make dead rocket stage 'alive' in space
Backwards compatibility which is all configurable by the network admin. If I have 2000 machines doing it one way there is no question that it's cheaper to add a new one without a 'new' feature.
Over a decade ago I worked on software sold to Cable companies. So I had set up a small cable transmission center, and I had followed with interest the cities providing cable. In short, they were doing a great job providing lots of channels at a tiny fraction of the cost - and often free internet too. And some even funded multiple government programs with high end packages at half the cost of Comcast.

So I approached my town and offered to travel the US (on my dime) and interview those who had set up cable, to write a report so that my town could use best practices (including how to fight off the cable companies as they try to elect different officials - a standard strategy.) But my town was completely uninterested. It turned out that Comcast had paid money to fund a city department, and that same group made cable related decisions. So they didn't want to rock the boat that was paying them good salaries (to people with absolutely no skills beyond knowing somebody who got them the job.)
And before that people complained about the various services having too many different projects dedicated to their own missions.

The F-35 seems to my non-expert eye to have been poorly conceived but creating a more versatile aircraft instead of a bunch of more specialized ones is not inherently a stupid idea.
Red Hat Talked with Microsoft, Google, Amazon Before IBM Acquisition
Could you model this as a cellular automaton? Kind of reminds me of that. Sounds cool.
I'm not sure if I'm countering your point or supporting it, but I think a better example than trees is to point out how human cultures bear (and arguably, exist as different entities because of) after effects of events beyond the lifespans of those impacted.

Example: the American trend of "you must finish all the food on your plate" has long outlived its origins, and has been continued on not because people consciously choose to continue so much as they dont consciously choose to STOP passing it on. Any number of social events that are not universal (tipping, suburbs vs downtown as being prosperous, etc) can be examined this way, and our reasonable but unthinking reactions to events help define our cultures. If we arent being conscious of these choices, how is this memory any different than the ants?
Ya, I had noticed on Github a few people were having install issues with Mojave, so I took the time to write up the steps in as much detail as possible. Ok cool, looking forward to your article.
> no one looked at Uber and went "ooh, illegal taxis"

I can disprove that all by myself, since that's exactly how I reacted when I first heard of Uber.
No, no changes were necessary and another thing that has to be fixed on a new install. For decades it has been:

- left click - page up/down

- middle click - go directly to this point.

Moving one of these to the other is confusing and a loss of useful functionality. Reminds me of "chesterton's fence."
On specifically startup time for large files (narrow use case, but thats what we got), there's this comment from user jakear from a while back on an Atom 1.28 thread [1]:

1.1GB file, 10M lines.

Code: ~10s, smooth scrolling, instant jumping.

Sublime: ~50s, smooth scrolling, instant jumping.

Atom: ~10s, smooth scrolling, very choppy jumping: ~5s loads per jump (also got some error messages about text too large for buffer)

1.0GB file, 40k lines.

Code: ~15s, scrolling somewhat choppy, quick jumping

Sublime: Application not responding after ~60s, waitied another 60s, no change. Same behavior each of the two times I attempted.

Atom: ~8s, smooth scroll, ~30s per jump, occasional "Editor is taking too long to load" messages.

Note: Atom enforces a maximum line length of ~500 chars before it wraps regardless of word wrap setting. This means the 8s load was only showing a couple lines worth of content. I find this restriction not acceptible for the long-line test case, but including anyways for completeness)
Full "report": https://pastebin.com/wUv8PSgp

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17369898
I feel that the most damning part of this suggested regulation is that it directly feeds into funds that already exist with no real evidence that the half a billion leaves us underfunded. There is also the idea that states/muni governments would make themselves less attractive for business to give that tax money to a subsidy fund... Instead of their local government monetary funds.
I badly want an intimate look under the sheets at how the vscode team does their development cycle. These updates are consistent and generally very high quality, and focused on a handful of features. I want to replicate it for my team. But I don't want buzzwords like "agile", I want to cut through all that and see the actual actions, behaviour, and tools that result in this kind of success.
Lisp has been used in AAA games for scripting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Oriented_Assembly_Lisp
"The design of everyday things" would be the book to read about that kind of stuff. It's a classic and very good, I would consider that a possible "minimum"
This isn't just something where you should go "oh, well, guess I'll switch". Please report such issues, and try to debug what is going on because it sounds like it might be a problem with your computer in general.
I am with r/fitness, where my overall opinion is the lack of quality and the same recurring posts and superficial questions. IMO this subreddit is good for going from beginner to intermediate. As for advancedfitness I wasn't aware this was a subreddit so thank you! I just spent some time going over it, I think our goals are similar but if I had to point something out it would be the diversity of topics, meaning I would maybe like more off topic posts. Although while typing this I'm realizing this is probably an insignificant difference and difficult to maintain. I'll have to think about it once I get more familiar with the subreddit. Thank you for pointing this out.
Fascinating. First thing that comes to mind is Family Systems theory of psychology. The idea is the family unit itself is treated as an entity that is sick, rather than any single “identified patient.” I like it because it provides a useful model for understanding transmission of observable patterns like child abuse or other behavioral problems across generations. If ants can do it for certain types of behavior, it certainly seems plausible that “human colonies” aka “families” can as well.
I've actually migrated to it from emacs for rust stuff - the RLS integration is really nice and it works well enough on both osx and linux.

I tried to use the git UI that it provides, but in the end preferred to manage my vcs from the terminal.

I'm reasonably happy with it - and I didn't think this was going to be the case when I first tried it out.
Serving up ads that are known to be offensive to the user isn't just a lost opportunity to make money, it's also going to encourage that user to start blocking ads, which the advertisers and Google/Facebook don't want.
SVGjs 3.0 Advent Calendar – Day 12
I just wish there was a way to have a local display for VSCode, but have the actual program run behind an ssh session. Including shells etc.

(and perhaps a "keyboard only" guide to vscode)

(and perhaps since it's running javascript anyway a quick way to find and change running extensions, something like emacs has)
Those enthusiasts do go all the way for the medieval dresses. As in buying wool and dying themselves, following medieval recipes.
They even have books on the garments and stitches found with ancient bodies in those swamp ponds. Or they recover them from wood carvings - as seen here.

We had a dinner following the ancient roman cuisine with one of these history buffs once. These guys definitely overdid it with fish-paste and spices- to show off there riches.
>- laws against big companies behaving badly
well, actually big companies do in fact use their influence to suborn those laws to get away with bad behavior and create barriers to competition. It would probably be simpler to put an upper limit on the size of any organization (government too) and use vigilante justice to enforce the limit, HHOS.
DroneCode SDK
I agree, but also feel it’s a consequence of a reduced role for public living in our cities. I think of this question: How many locations do I have in my life in which I socialize without buying something? There are homes, of course. A few city parks? I’m a member of no social clubs, so not much else. We are seeking alternatives to public life without having the urban and (more importantly) social infrastructure to achieve it.
> asm is probably more "powerful" than python, but I'd rather do string manipulation in the latter

I don't think that's quite what PG meant by power. That being said, I do not think I would be able to close the distance between our understandings, sadly.
The Fossils of the 21st Century
Speak for yourself mate also I thought we where supposed to be civil on here and not denigrate others?

Please do not tell me I am not a "Fucking Professional" if you don't mind.

And by your argument I am more a professional that 90% of FANG engineers as I do have some Mech Eng.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted. I can't stand these Electron apps, let alone a text editor that I'll write my code in.
That's the downside of working on classified tech, right? You get huge budgets and work a decade ahead of civilian gear, but you're doomed to see civs reinvent your stuff and take all the credit.

For instance, the NSA had public key crypto long before RSA was discovered.
> Last Update 21.07.2003

Not quite, but the design, layout and editing is indeed hilariously outdated.
I think the wrong comparison is being made - humans to ants. The memory in this case doesn't belong to the ant but to the colony, which could be considered an organism in its own right. Similar to how large companies have "memory" (and behaviour) that outlast the term of employment of individual employees.
While I agree with your analogy, it is entirely possible to sink an inordinate amount of time into learning design theory with those books, and have absolutely nothing to show for it in terms of a real world website that reflects good design principles in a way that is apparent to the average web user.

I've read "The Design of Everyday Things"; I appreciate its role in providing a kind of philosophical grounding for HCI education. But if I were building product to compete in the same space as Robinhood, or Airbnb, that book wouldn't tell me a damn thing about how to design a UI that engages users. And increasingly, a lot of "engagement" comes down to whether or not the app "feels" like a premium experience.

Unfortunately that feeling isn't something you can recreate by reading about the circumstances in which a door would be designed to be push or pull based.
woodpeckers. civilization.
Good stuff,

It is worth saying that there are still situations where any use of quantitative probabilities becomes something of an abuse. The most extreme example is Pascal's Wager[1]; if you can assign a "small but meaingful" probability to any X you happen to mention in the discussion, you can assign a probability to the existence of the Great Old Ones or the Flying Spaghetti Monster or whatever implausible entity is going to create a hypothetical action of negative utility sufficient to counter it's unlikeliness.

And, of course, acknowledging some stuff outside of the domain of probability means you need a fuzzy border between two realms, which also can't be determined by probability.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_Wager
I'm a fan of Laravel for the back end and vue or bootstrap for the front end for quick MVPs.
GOAL wasn't just scripting, it was the main language for the engine. In the one example I've ever seen of GOAL code, you can clearly see inline ASM for instance.

Interestingly Halo used Lisp for scripting, and that rarely comes up.
A lot of President Trumps seem to be doing that.
These algorithms are similar to the ones I developed for the computer strategy for the Empire game. They worked, but I was unable to get them good enough to reliably defeat a human player.

The first strategy I tried was simply randomness. It was pretty ineffective. A rule based one was also ineffective, as it tended to get itself into a box. But I found that adding a dose of randomness to the rule based strategy worked well.

Most computer strategies of the day cheated, or altered the rules to give an advantage to the AI. Empire didn't. I did have thoughts about creating an interface so people could provide their own AIs and then the various AIs could battle it out.

classicempire.com

There's been a lot of research on the Life game. But I bet Empire would be a much better research platform - the rules are simple, but the game play can get pretty complex. I had a lot of fun developing AI algorithms for it. I wish the ant algorithms were known at the time, I bet they'd help!

(One of the reasons the simple rules worked so well was the pieces had a hammer-paper-scissors relationship to each other.)
> I learned a lot from this discussion

That spamming a board with book recommendations can generate an interesting discussion isn't an excuse for spamming a board.

> and good content marketing actually provides a lot of information.

Depending what you mean by "good content marketing". If you mean companies paying people to share their professional knowledge, no strings attached, and writing this off as a "marketing expense", sure it can be good, but that's because it's a form of UBI for the people sharing their knowledge. As for most of the things explicitly created as "content marketing", it's mostly garbage that's wasting your time. It's only meant to give you some tidbits to hook you and position you to further monetization efforts - and the content rarely does anything beyond that. Consider that every time you read a content marketing piece, you could have read a honest article instead, were it not pushed down in SERP by content marketing.

Also, I've worked with people doing content marketing professionally. I wouldn't trust a word from their work. It's not just waste of time, you're probably actively hurting your knowledge.
it looks like bureaucratic bs gets in the way as usual
Yes! Thank you. I've worked with Telit devices recently (which also have an AT command set) and my brain got it wrong.
> The idea that some people have of the best minds of our generation being wasted just focusing on ads and APIs and worthless things is silly.

It is silly, but still true, and not only because there is "no money for big science"

The amount of research being done went up 20 fold since the golden age, but there were nothing close to repeating the monumental feats of 20th century like the Green Revolution, 5 successful complete disease eradication programs, complete public education coverage, panpopulational vaccination programmes, and on and on...
The Case for the 6-Hour Workday
John Berger on tenderness
Artificial intelligence boom, in 9 charts
There are things like TimescaleDB[0] that build on PG to give you columnar support. Time series DBs need to handle a ton of entries and be able to slice on the column which is supported by vanilla PG[1] but most of the security tools are not looking to timeseries PG largely.

[0] https://www.timescale.com/

[1] https://blog.dbi-services.com/optimized-row-columnar-orc-for...
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cite please you can get your CE status an I am a Junior Mech Engineer
eh, it seems you got it backwards, pg's main point seem to me to be productiveness, he even talks about python being one of the best(lispier) of the mainstream languages, so in that context python would be more powerful than asm and not the other way around.
To me GoDaddy always sounded like the moniker a pimp would use.
My entire point is that anyone who wants to use this font will shoot an email to the creators asking to use it under CC-BY, before escalating to the legal department. That's the human in the loop.
For the context, this was written at the time when there was still a lot of confusion on how to represent uncertainty. There were at least 3 different ideas besides using probabilities and in fact the probabilities were considered not good enough.

Judea Pearl pioneered erasing this view by inventing Bayesian Networks. More here: https://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/stat_ser/r476.pdf
Elixir OTP applications on Kubernetes
Buran was designed later, so the USSR copied the parts that worked well, like the basic shape, and redesigned the parts that gave NASA trouble.
Your second point assumes that scaling some attribute of value by a factor of two should be associated with an exact doubling of price.

These were literally the first three things I could think of, but I'm sure we could braistorm many more items where the price of a product or service that is twice as good along some axis costs more than twice as much.

It is therefore not a strong argument to say, "Now, for fun, let's integrate the price dimension to this report. Yes I have better (maybe 1.5 to 2 times as fast) Internet than my parents who are in Europe, but I also pay 3 times what they pay for it. "
I only know Pencil
Veonim – A simple modal IDE built on Neovim
Nah, this is definitely not evidence of brokenness. People rebuy things they've bought recently all the time, certainly more often than the general population. Maybe they want a 2nd one. Maybe the 1st one broke. Maybe they liked it so much they want a 2nd one to give as a gift. All kinds of reasons.

patio11 has a great tweetstream on this issue.

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/982208307057246209
Don't think of it like roads. Building roads is very expensive, laying down fibers is cheap. It's so cheap, that ISPs can afford to compete with like a dozen other ISPs in densely populated areas and with at least three in sparse areas. They won't get super rich like this, but it's still profitable and sustainable.
Another option for variable size types not explored in the article is to set aside some contiguous part of memory for these objects. The main idea is to store pointers as relative addresses from the start of the memory region.

You can then avoid doing any copying or serialization by directly sending the entire memory region as a unit.

The main difficulties with this approach is in deciding how large to make these regions and also handling free over this region. The first part is often not too bad depending on the application, but handling deallocation and expanding/shrinking memory regions can be tricky. This allocation problem is much more difficult to dismiss since it is necessary to solve in order to avoid making the user decide how much memory to allocate initially which is impossible for many applications. For instance, when dealing with strings, it may be impossible to get a good bound on the size of these strings.
Laws should have an expiration date. Otherwise in 100 years there will be 1 million laws.
As a different poster than Parent posted, people are not goldfish. In all those repeat purchase scenarios the buyers know what they bought and can buy again if they so choose (in the near future). If it's six months down the road, I can see maybe this would be useful.
so for starters it's some unquantifiable handwavey opportunity cost
Yeah I didn't think so.
When I used to do branding and would be training new designers I would tell them the first rule of logo design is "Always Be Checking to Make Sure Logo is not a Penis". For some reason logo that is slightly vagina is mostly ok though.

There is another school of thought that is "Always Be Sneaking Dicks Into Your Art". I have some respect for people in the second camp.
How employers are recruiting and retaining Gen Z
At home, I'm on an i7-4790K, my work laptop is an i7-8650U, so ymmv.

I've never found Code to be particularly slow, and will generally load in a couple seconds. I tend to have it open most of the day on the project(s) I'm actively working on. The benefits of the integrated terminal alone probably saves me more time than I ever spend waiting for it to load. It's always been very responsive in the application, and worst case scenario I've had is on occassion the syntax highlighting or context auto-complete may have a delay. But that doesn't stop me from being able to continue typing by hand and is generally as good or better than Sublime.

The extensions are all around REALLY nice to have. Being able to add support for more languages via extension has been great, what little I've used of that. And the integrated debugger has been very usable when I've used it. Git integration and Diffing could use a bit more work, but that's true of even dedicated Git applications.

I've really been beyond appreciative of the iterative improvements as well. Every release I notice something that I like in the release notes. I will say I did like the old open-docs layout more than the Tabs once I had gotten used to it. It still works okay, but I didn't appreciate that one regression in behavior. But most were more used to tabs, and I understand the resistance.
Accomplishments of few people are not enough to fix the epidemic.
Now's a great time to find a used 1080 or two for cheap.

No, you'll get something worn out after running flat out for a year in a Monero mining farm.
IIRC as the shuttle lands the nose tilts upwards, and it slows down due to the air resistance of the underside face of that delta-shaped wing.
Build a Slackbot in 5 Minutes with PubNub Functions
Impressive 20 req a second with just 15% cpu!
Right, the plaintiff needs to show prima facie evidence of all elements of their claims in order to defeat an Anti-SLAPP motion.

Unless Tesla has been concealing some facts in its court filings, they don't have prima facie evidence of all elements of their claims. Anti-SLAPP motions can precede the discovery phase, i.e., before Tesla can acquire that evidence. Moreover, unlike TV, such evidence must be presented in court filings. Ambush disclosures aren't a thing in real life.
the loss of...being exposed for deceiving its shareholders

the level of damage done shall not be diminished, folks
Yes, but US labor force participation rate is 63%. Down 3% from 2007 and the lowest since 1977.
That is part of why I switched away from Google & containerized Youtube in Firefox, its really easy to end up in CAPTCHA hell it seems. Qwant and DuckDuckGo are sufficient, and actually better when searching specific item names or part #, its pretty impressive how shit Google's results have become as of late for this use case IMO.
It would be interesting to see a case study of this, as well as how the interaction with the public community, and collaborators has worked. I do know that some pieces do burrow from the larger community, and it's interesting even what you can glean from GitHub alone.
I'd happily pay $79 for original content _in print_ that delves into why each of those tips works the way they do (you can connect each of those tips to fundamental principles of design, for example).

But for a compilation of tweets in a PDF? There are renowned books that go for less than that. I got 3 hard back volumes of Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming for around £70. Is this book of that caliber?
Maybe he should have been mad at whatever asshole decided to put the first 2 of 3 digits of 911 in the dialout code, jeez.
I must say this is the first time I've been really impressed by a client-side, real-time implementation. The API is simple and I can imagine building something real-time without thinking about the translation from one protocol to another like I would with web-sockets for example. I've never written a line of Elixir, but this is interesting enough for me to try it.
Ryzen shipped those extensions and they improve SHA performance quite a lot.