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Dnsbl.njabl.org taken over
After shutting down in 2013 [1], the domain njabl.org has been recently [2] taken over by domain squatters.

Now every dns request on that domain resolves to some address [3], creating havoc on mailsevers that did not remove this service from active blacklists.

[1] https://www.dnsbl.info/dnsbl-njabl-org.php
[2] https://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=njabl.org
[3] nslookup anything.dnsbl.njabl.org
Inside a mildew-covered Tudor barn, and primed with much whiskey, Dave Thomas convinced me that the Open Source Movement was bad for invention and progress: Where it may do good, it also robbed developers of the opportunity to be paid fairly for their work, and that was bad.

Once upon a time, you could make a piece of software and sell it for $1m, but now you are competing with someone who would take a little "free software" and sell their consulting on top of it. You may be able to take pride in the quality of your work, but that consultant can't afford to so he won't. And things get worse.

If you sell a piece of popular software to many people for $100 each you could still make a lot of money, but how does your consultant fit into this? You're still competing with him, and he's willing to build on top of someone elses' work to do so. He's not delivering $100 worth of value (and doesn't charge that much either), so how can you still afford to make great software?

I feel shame if I can't make good software, and I don't want to make software so badly that I'll make bad software, but nobody pays well enough to make good software, and the market is so messed up it's almost impossible to sell commercial software that isn't bundled up as a solution of some kind.

I can get around this some by selling SAAS on prem., but there's a limited utility in this: I could never build a new Smalltalk this way. Rust and Go have seemingly massive benefactors, but paying meagre salaries to their swarms of developers and activists: Nobody is getting rich but the vassals who were already rich to begin with. I've got a great idea for a new kind of programming language, but I don't have even a few million I can spend building it.

It makes me sad that I can get paid so much more to not make software than I can get paid to make software.
Having had worked for Disney in Orlando I sometimes feel the same. I just don't get it, they're not bad movies, but it scares me to see just how attached people get to Disney. Now that they own Star Wars and Marvel I've lost interest in both just because I knew once they took Star Wars they would milk that cow as much as possible. I am still kinda mad they took away the awesome game studio. They really could of made amazing games, instead we've got EA making Star Wars games.
The single limiting factor against high production and good dimension advantage is Raw material production.
The fundamental principle of Anki card creation (2018)
When the desired output format is .stl, that's not a meaningful limitation.
Show HN: Minos Hypervisor support Raspberry PI 3 series
Is there legislation pending to alter the copyright term again? If not, then we are indeed closer.
I wrote:

> [Digital] Signals [when not transmitted optically] get transmitted as electricity with ever changing voltages [...]

You wrote:

> Your attempt to describe how digital signals are transmitted is actually just plain wrong.

Wikipedia writes:

> A waveform [...] as a digital signal [...]. The two states are usually represented by some measurement of an electrical property: Voltage is the most common [...]

Therefore I will leave it here.
I believe that a Refactoring Engineer would be similar to a contractor specializing in performance, security or systems optimization. I've had the pleasure of working with a couple of these people, and I have to say that I felt an initial (pride|arrogance)-based resistance but they were all friendly and had some really valuable insights especially since their expertise seemed to be lower-level than mine and they were able to look at working code and find places to improve.

In essence I agree with you that this should be an on-staff role, but perhaps the reason we are not seeing this is that the job is usually fairly quick (a couple of weeks/months) and for the business its hard to justify a full-time staff member to perform this service. There is also something to be said for how people in this role are able to gather a wealth of experience by working on a high number of code bases instead of being stuck continuously working on the same few software projects all year.
Thanks for this - i have studied very little maths, so even this perhaps quite basic stuff is like magic for me!

I love the revelation that log/exp shifts between Cartesian and (log-)polar meanings of complex numbers. That's enormously satisfying for some reason.

I note that the pattern in multiplying rotations also comes up if you do it with matrices:

a -b c -d ac-bd -(ad+bc)
b a . d c = ad+bc ac-bd

Does something similar happen with quaternions / geometric products in 3D?
Sleep. The recommendation is always 7-9 hours of sleep. 7-9 hours of laying in bed is not healthy or restful if you’re only sleeping for 3 hours of that time.
I for one am kinda sick of websites that shove all their content into a narrow band in the middle of the page. What's the point in having all this complicated layout bullshit if it doesn't actually make use of the space it gets on a larger screen?
I'm not sure to what extent I believe this.

There are a lot of overlapping distinctions, some blurry, I think. He chooses some for wizardry vs engineering but I don't know whether they're best. For example he puts "magic"=implicit, but I would normally say highly implicit code is "engineering" because it implies that someone has understood and explored the problem enough to write a very tuned framework or library. I think reasons for putting very implicit code in with wizardry could be that it might be that the person using it doesn't understand it, and that it's somewhat in opposition to strong typesystems

wizardry/engineering
high uptime/downtime possible
efficiency important/efficiency not important
large codebase/small codebase
not implicit/implicit (I disagree most with this one)
problem is understood/code is exploratory (I think this is the most important distinction)
high specialism/low specialism of coders
changes slowly/changes quickly
typed/untyped

I would say websites are engineering because the problem space is well understood, they need high uptime and they tend to be written by specialists (React guy, django guy etc).
> Is it?

Yes, it is, at least I am unaware of other general approaches to measuring general human cognitive ability.

> Then why don't we use it instead of other tests and metrics? I'm going to echo what other people have said in this thread and say that I've never encountered an IQ test in my academic or professional life among the numerous aptitude measurements.

See this comment thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18805263. Apparently, this is a cultural thing, in that some countries don't employ this kind of testing, but there are definitely countries where this is not at all infrequent. It is also possible that not all cognitive tests which are (statistically) g-factor-loaded are readily recognizable as an "IQ test" by most people. As was also stated elsewhere in this thread, the SATs test could be considered one such test.

> The same argument is indeed used against eugenics, human experimentation, and various other sciences which are tangent to ethically challenged practices. For example, gene editing of humans is a scientific practice that could have clear benefit but the potential for misuse (which we've already seen in the recent Chinese gene hacking case) must be considered.

I meant it in a broader sense: why would we use this current state-of-the-art model when we will undoubtedly produce better and more accurate ones in the future? This could be said for physics, pharmacology and any other "unfinished" field, which is all of them.
Good question. I suppose to test that you would have to give "placebo" scores to some people to see what impact knowing your score has - if any.
I don't mind paying for software. And though I prefer open source software I don't mind closed source.

What I do mind is lock-in.
> Thise with average IQ are quite able to outperform people with a high IQ if they have able to put in the legwork...

Yes, average can beat high with work. But still, high can beat high with work with higher probability than average can.

Average Kalenjin with just few trainings will outrun most average runners even if they were training for years.
> Germany and France enacted similar policies last year.

Source?
I agree that an n-grams approach coupled with beam search may also give similar results. I did that project for fun and learning about language modeling.
IAB Tech Lab and their Consent Management Platform:
https://github.com/InteractiveAdvertisingBureau/GDPR-Transpa...

and their other projects.
My experience comes from living in 3 major US cities outside of SV/NYC, take it for what you will. That's great that you can have a SAHM, but I don't think women should be basically forced to do that. I concede that having a SAHM is easier on a US engineering salary than in Sweden, but there are probably way more families in the US that can't really afford to have a SAHM and are in economic distress because they have to choose between staying home and losing income, and going to work and paying for child care (plus the issue of low parental leave). Because of this and many other issues, I argue that life for most families life is way less stressful in Sweden than in the US. Even for high income families, basically free health care, education, child care plus amazing work-life balance, parental leave etc makes having children as low stress as you can feasibly get.
https://research.nvidia.com/publication/2017-10_Progressive-...

> This both speeds the training up and greatly stabilizes it, allowing us to produce images of unprecedented quality, e.g., CelebA images at 1024²
I wonder if the people who cannot create any mental imagery can remember their dreams, or if they have any?
Data Breach Report: December 2018
If he was posting here on HN, he'd have been banned already because of his conflicting style.

Imagine how many such insightful people who can't help their style and will never post on HN.

Sadly, that makes HN a place where only certain kind of people can post which excludes leagues of Taleb.
If it meant “time in bed”, then they’d need the disclaimer about “efficiency”. Someone who takes an hour to fall asleep would be “inefficient” and need more time in bed, but they wouldn’t actually need more sleep.
As the developers of the Phusion Passenger application server we would get emails from Justin Bieber fans when one of their fan sites went down. Same for a couple of other community products that used our server. It was actually quite fun because we'd learn about some group of users who benefited from our open source product that we're normally not aware of. It was also a but difficult because like sqlite it's not easy to explain why our company name is on this error page when we're actually not responsible for the problem.
Cause Google is bad mmmkay don't question the hive mind
Microsoft was in the smart phone market with Windows Mobile (based on Windows CE) way before the iPhone was a thing and HTC was far from a third tier player. At one point, before the iPhone, HTC was one of the most successful smart phone makers in the world, manufacturing not only its own brand but also third party white label brands and was manufacturing 80% of all Windows Mobile/Pocket PC/Windows CE devices - including those sold and labeled by other vendors.
Citation? I have seen similar figures from a wide range of sources, but copy paste is a thing.
We knew that already in September, due to the way the hole was plastered up. With the wrong material. The spacewalk just confirmed the coverup by the engineer who really should have told his boss. With the right material to cover it up it would have been no problem at all, so it had to be fixed in space.
Only if you consider first world countries and even then it’s a stretch. The smart phone market made “computers” far more accessible than Windows ever did.
Another problem is highlighted by Joe Armstrong and Rich Hickey, which is that as soon as you move beyond the confines of a single program and start dealing with a system of programs, type guarantees become less relaible. So you have these types that may make complete sense in your program's world, but they drift out of sync as the larger system evolves. This is a general problem with any sort of proof mechanism. I still like types and think they can be useful, but they are only a single tool in designing a robust system. They have limitations and drawbacks like everything else.
(I'm an Algolia employee) We don't plan to add classification but would love to partner with anyone willing to work on it, providing them with access to GH repositories and/or API tokens. Let us know through our support channels.
History is that the iPhone project started in early 2005 and before that Apple was already prototyping touch screen tablets but decided on releasing a phone first.
Why does it have to be causal? A variable can be a real predictor of another without any of them causing the other one (for instance, they may have a common cause). That doesn't mean the predictor is of any less value.

I would say that results on certain cognitive ability tests (i.e. "IQ tests") being at least a moderately good predictor for future performance in certain human activities is a rather well proven fact. For instance, the correlation between an IQ score and future job performance on a job with complex requirements is about 0.5.

Of course, that does not mean the relationship is 1-to-1 and that it is a perfect predictor (which it obviously isn't).
I've used opendSCAD and also freecad for years (linux). Now I just ordered a new PC for running windows and Fusion360. Am I happy with that solution? ... not really. I would be happy to support an open source CAD project with 3-5€ a month if I got a decent and stable SW in return. I do likewise with octoprint. Why I'm in the process of changing? My time is limited and I feel that certain things should be faster toolwise. Additionally it happened more then once, that I had to scrap work of several hours because I hit a point with a reproducible crash. (yes - I did file a bug report ... it was answered more then a year later asking me for the buggy design ... which I could not provide anymore)

I understand that a stable SW and continuous improvement (especially in a complex SW package like CAD) needs a small team of full time developers. If somebody started a related croud funding campaign with a follow up patreon financing program ... I would be in!
The Tsetlin machine is based on Tsetlin’s automata, the so called finite automata with linear tactics. The are basically counters of rewards (up) and penalties (down) with various strategies of integration, proportionization and differentiation. They have minimum necessary for digital emulation of the perception functionality. They str not only due to Tsetlin but also yo Krinsky, Krylov, Varshavsky. Mikhail Tsetlin is the most prominent creator. It’s the work in the USSR in the 60s. So not new but very elegant!
This is pretty off-topic, but I used to love the PowerToys. I have very fond memories of browsing through TweakUI's options and trying things, and what surprises me most about those twenty-year old memories is that I remember how things smelled.
I don't think I'd choose Ink for parsing open-ended responses. Ink is an interesting language--it gives up some elegance in its programming syntax to gain more of a prose-like feeling. (I think the level of tradeoff is roughly comparable to HTML templating languages like Jinja2--it's an open question how an interface like Ink compares to block-based languages for beginners, but I'm optimistic). I am planning to include the ability to prompt for text input in an upcoming release, but the intent is more to support in-game identity-building. For example, you could prompt for the player's name and then refer to it later.

I haven't looked much in to languages for open-ended interactive storytelling, but I thought Nick Montfort's dissertation was pretty interesting--a technical treatment of a system for heavy-duty worldbuilding.

I'm also interested in using this system for language learning, particularly in multilingual classrooms/contexts. In some of the early classroom workshops, students were exploring how they get treated differently (and some people open up more) when speaking different languages.
Thanks for sharing these tips with the community.
Okay, Eagle Mode changed my life
You’re already paying less for sugar than you “should” because of government subsidies on corn.
First injury is more likely in residential areas. Tapping a car is less of an issue than tapping a pedestrian which are harder to detect and predict.

Second while the number is still a low enough number not to be particularly relevant other than to say the gross order of magnitude. However...

Google's autonomous vehicles have crashed 36 times in the Mountain View area

https://www.businessinsider.com/cruise-waymo-apple-which-sel...

Waymo spokesperson called the research "deeply flawed" and said it "reflects a poor understanding of the data as it fails to distinguish between a vehicle that drives hundreds of miles per day on public roads, with one that seldom leaves its garage."

In other words they don’t disagree with the number of crashes, even when excluding other areas.
My comment was a little unclear. But I think sometimes people just take lock-in for granted.

As for Fusion 360: once your producted is manufactured you can just export the 3D data. This will loose all steps to create the model but I think people think this is a nice trade-off for the lock-in.
2019 is Year of the Desktop
That talk is excellent and it got me interested in both scad-clj and the keyboard.
This is very predictable. What I find strange is how the episode "aired" in Saudi Arabia in the first place. From what I've heard they censor all the media.
Of course, everyone experiences games differently and what actually impresses or catches your interest is very personal.

What amazed my with Ocarina of Time was the incredible freedom, variation and sense of scale _for its time_. It came out more than 20 years ago, so it's obviously not groundbreaking anymore. If you look at that game and don't see what amazing freedom it gives compared to more recent titles, that's definitely understandable.

In case you played Breath of the Wild and didn't see why this would impress, let me explain what blew me away.

There's a whole host of things, mainly centered around how the world feels very dynamic. Much of this has to do with what they refer to as their chemistry engine and how different materials react to different "elements" (wind, water, fire, heat, cold, lightning, magnetism...). It makes everything feel less like just 3D meshes with some few pre-programmed interactions with key objects and more like an immersive world.

My favourite example was when I, thoughtlessly, cut down and chopped up a tree in high grass using a fire sword. The grass caught on fire, the fire spread and engulfed the wood I'd cut up, which turned into a campfire, complete with a button prompt to sit and wait by the fire. The apples which fell out of the tree also caught fire, turning into baked apples. All these dynamics bring life to the game in a way you don't often see.

The environment, its climate and weather also feel more real than in most games and interact in more ways than just visually. Going to a cold area you need to plan for how to survive the cold. Very hot areas will cause things to catch on fire, which burns up wooden weapons and cooks raw foodstuffs. Rain is a serious problem because surfaces become slippery and electricity gets amplified by the moisture.

Some of the dynamics in the game are very fantastical and unrealistic (e.g. the way lightning acts, striking almost exclusively metal and signalling for a few seconds ahead of time where it will strike), but that doesn't matter to me. They still help establish the dynamics and laws of physics of that world and in manages to help it come alive.
Funny story - Zoey Quinn tweeted about this a few months ago, and then Stardock’s PR guy started trying to argue with her about it (she ignored him), and then I responded to defend PR and FF, whom I’ve worked with and found to be absolutely upstanding. Brad Wardell himself jumped in to argue with me, accused me of libel and said I could be sued, accused me of living out of a car (???) and then muted me and told someone else in the thread that he had blocked me and that I was delusional.

So uh... not really making Stardock’s case look better.
Or in a slightly more exciting format: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7H0YFFV_oE
Fishing for certs
This is great. I'm going to start a YouTube channel in the next week or so and stuff like this is very helpful!
The people who did the fighting are completely different from the children and teenagers who were recently born. Do you think that certain people should get special legal privileges because of what their family has done in the past? That the aristocrats and nobility are entitled to more privileges than the common serfs, because of the accomplishments of their ancestors? That is the logical conclusion of what you're suggesting.
One Species Loves Our Climate-Wrecking Ways: Fire Ants
Love his writing style. Accessible yet detailed with fun historical tangents to set context.
Related code golf challenge: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/221/reverse-pol...
The thing with decomposable bags is that it's a bit more complicated. Take a look at the marketing issues section in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodegradable_bag
Three Stories Every Entrepreneur Should Know
can you comment more on your experience with FreeCAD? I've just started looking into learning that myself since I run Linux for a desktop, with no current plans to buy a windows machine just for Fusion360.

I've also been thinking recently that I'd be happy to contribute monthly to further the development of these projects, as it is understandable that such a complex development tool should require resources to be built well.
Make mechanics and forget the game [pdf]
> At quantity 200, you could have simple boards like these assembled for about a buck a piece.

I don't think PCB assembly would be that cheap, especially for a board with lots of SMT components. What I understand is that SMT manufacturing has a high startup cost, you need to supply the factory with full tapes of parts, and the factory needs to program the assembly line, often a factory is reluctant to take any offer below tens thousand boards because its high overhead. Even for service providers specialized in prototyping then, I don't see many provide QFN and BGA packages as options.

What have I missed here?
In theory, but NYCs rarely go that fast. This is changing though. I saw a news article recently about how they are lifting the speed limits on some sections of track as repaired signals come online.
I'm inclined to agree with you.