skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Couple points (I've worked on app servers):

1- This is exactly how we should all be thinking about server engineering moving forward, as we aim to drastically reduce carbon footprint within 11 years. Efficiencies at the language level are one of biggest bangs for buck here. Just by redeploying, you can reduce energy consumption by perhaps double digits. Imagine how hard that is to do at the hardware or energy farm level.

Think about it: You, brave software engineer, can literally make a significant contribution to saving the world by adopting a more energy-efficient language, if you are fortunate enough to deploy something at scale.

2- Rust is killing it in these metrics but developer productivity / friendliness is important to overall success. Looking at these results I have a conjecture that is maybe provocative: The top two candidates for long-term success at supplanting Java on the server in my eyes are

a) Go

b) brace yourself.. Swift

Swift is extremely young on the server, to the point where I'd expect your natural reaction to be "WTFLOL?! never heard of it". But here's some food for thought: the Netty team, one of the top performing Java server stacks, has been recruited by Apple and is chewing through all that stuff and just launched their NIO2 release[1] which I've heard is already very close to Netty.

Go has an amazing concurrent garbage collector and has really pushed the envelope with that.[2] Swift is unique in the server world in that it uses reference counting which sidesteps the whole GC collection problem, which could translate into very low, very consistent latencies as well as memory usage. It's still quite early days for Swift, but these are the two languages I'm watching the closest.

[1] https://forums.swift.org/c/server

[2] https://blog.golang.org/ismmkeynote
It's built for massively distributed systems and is efficient at that I believe. It's not really designed to be a replacement for numeric languages like C/C++/Fortran/Ada...etc. It's a high level language, so what you gain in user development efficiency, you lose in performance. Someone knowledgeable in Erlang could confirm though as I'm being general.
Pretty much all of them? On my home screen, music, maps, calendar, photos, camera, wallet, news, reminder, phone, messages, mail and safari. Work fairly great too :). Seems they know what they’re doing by the massive profits they bring in.
I did love that console. Football, armor battle, pitfall,burger time etc. The keyboard adapter however wasn’t good for programming. I think it had like 2kb of memory. The keyboard adapter only game “mindstrike” game was pretty fun.
Though, ironically, the migration might be the only thing that keeps the schools running, because it results in more Prop 13 reassessments.
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One theory is that the high rate on groceries is a way to make you carry around the card every day, so you're more likely to use it on other things.
Elon Musk Clarifies Tesla’s Plan to Retrofit Cars for ‘Full Self-Driving’
Apple didn’t say why exactly the product was canceled, but people familiar with its development told Bloomberg News last year that the company faced challenges with the software, overheating and the ability to charge multiple devices on any spot on the mat.

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-29/apple-can...
> It is absolutely the expectation at most jobs that you can drive if need be.

You're making a broad generalization based on nothing but personal anecdote. In my personal experience, on the other hand, I don't know a single person who has ever needed to drive for work.
Conference events centered around drinking and gambling, and when I pointed out that women may feel uncomfortable there, the conference organizers shrugged.

This is Finland, where the party culture is different. What did Finnish women say? Altogether, it's an American woman imposing her viewpoint on a culture that isn't hers. Cultural imperialism at its finest. I wish I wasn't serious.
A distinction without a difference. Some experiences promote better outcomes than others. As a society we promote those that are demonstrably better vs those that are not. Why should this new terrain - digital - be exempt?
Yes. The limitation to the use by major email senders is during the developer preview. According to this, Google plans to end the preview and release to the general public this fall: https://www.blog.google/products/g-suite/bringing-power-amp-...
> around minus 50 degrees F

== around -45.56C (https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=-50+F+in+C)
I think this is what is so cool about Common Lisp. You can literally get pretty darn close to C in performance and still be at the highest levels of development efficiency/prototyping speed. I don't think too many other languages can say so. Take Python. It has really fast development time, but very slow performance.
> inequality probably hurts society overall

Inequality does not hurt society, lack of social mobility hurts society. If we had a society as equal/unequal as we have today, but had perfect social mobility inequality wouldn't be a problem.

Politically this is a very hot topic and people are becoming increasing hostile towards rich people. I don't think there should be a problem with people getting rewarded by outsized sums if they create a business or add value in whichever way. I do think there should be limits to the amount of money someone can inherit - should it be possible for someone to inherit 10 billion dollars? that just seems too much.
> That’s right, we need to enter the key when the server boots. Wait, but what happens with a power failure? Are all requests with page views to your server failing after a reboot?

> Then we found Dropbear, a very small SSH program, that you can run via the initial ramdisk (initramfs). This means we are able to allow external connections via SSH. We don’t have to fly to Iceland to boot our server, yeah!

Or you can use Mandos to be able to sleep through a reboot: https://www.recompile.se/mandos

Disclosure: I am the co-author of Mandos.
WTF kind of silly question, asking why a "woman in her 50's would get a ham radio license." The questioner must not really understand radio or cumputer technology. Covert comms are pretty easy using Tor, Telegram, or numerous other applications. Amateur radio frequencies are easily monitored by governments and hobbyists - you can't expect privacy and are prohibited from commercial usage. Also, why do all of the studying and testing just for a comm channel to another country?

What kind of legislator troll asks a question like that, on a Qanon level of dumbassery?
JPMorgan, Nomura Job Cuts Add to Wave of Pullbacks in Finance
tl;dr's aside, this is a fantastic article and should be read in it's entirety.

I must say, "formidable paleontologist" Jack Horner comes off as a royal a-hole:

"But, when I asked Horner about DePalma recently, he said at first that he didn’t remember him: “In the community, we don’t get to know students very well.”"
Fair enough. I glossed over the Digital Ocean part, or at least failed to appreciate it--you are (or will be) independent and not contributing to centralization of DNS.

Thank you! We need more people to run their own network services in order to preserve our freedom and privacy.
Can't we just somehow copy that beautiful keyboard/case to make a modern open implementation of it? We can upgrade all the internals after copying the original format, and do all the prototyping with 3D printing.

Please tell me someone else has a screw loose and wants to do this too.
My comment was a little cynical I just want to say thank you for the interesting context on Niantic and agree that the ability to repeatedly overcome obstacles and pivot/adapt a product is critical to most successful start-ups.
Of the small amount that I've seen, this is the language that I wish Go were. Obviously, much of the benefit of Go is the standard library coming with "batteries included", so I'm interested to see how this develops over the next few years.
Tims a miser, which is great for supply chain management but when it filters down into the hiring and the end product, well we're already beginning to see the results of that in the sales numbers.
It's more like complaining about an expensive meal like it was a crazy idea to begin with, and someone points out that expensive meals can be necessary. Air superiority will obviously be one of the most expensive elements to maintain in a modern military. whether the meal should be 200 or 500, whether the restaurant could have been a much better value, it's going to be more than most any other food you buy and the problem was not in deciding to eat at an expensive restaurant, but in more specific choices of which restaurant, what you ordered off the menu, etc.
6% on groceries with $95 annual fee.
LOL, he must have been in Jones's logbook, or picked up by the NSA monitors.
I think practically, for useful analysis in business it would be wattage per unit of useful work (or datum processed as you suggest). For instance, I work in finance, so what is the wattage per option price calculation?
Yes. Easylist/EasyPrivacy here is intended to block ANY third party tracker. This is a tracker. I use this adblock list and I don't care what country you're hosted in, simpleanalytics is a third party tracker and should be blocked.

> "
EasyPrivacy [...] including web bugs, tracking scripts and information collectors"

Simpleanalytics is all of the above. There is no arguing this.
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With contactless payment systems like Apple Pay, there's little need to carry around more than one default credit card.
I see a lot of programmers on HN talking up Rust and Go. But those definitely aren't the languages I see when searching for jobs.
That’s what you get for being a dumb-ass.
It's not a matter of not having the physical space, it's a matter of my brain doesn't associate things that way. My computer isn't a library. It's a box full of my things. It's got my pictures, documents, music, movies, programming, music, art and miscellaneous projects, and various other things all stored where i need them to be. I don't need a relational database or tagging system for them. Everything's got a place based on its type or purpose for existing on my computer.

When i look for things on my computer, i don't have a vague concept of an idea of a thing i'm looking for, i look for specific things for specific purposes. Why would i need everything on my computer related to cats showing up if i'm looking for say, a cat sprite in a game i'm working on vs a picture of my cat or say a cat meme? I have no need for the other two things if i'm looking for one of those things. Yet in your system all those things and more would show up should i search for cat. That's pointless. I'd rather navigate to my programming projects and assets folder for my cat sprite, and go to my pictures folder for my own cat or meme cats. There's not many situations where i'd ever need all three at once.

For a library or massive database, sure, a file system may be insufficient. But as system for organizing things i need and use for specific purposes, it's not ideal.
People with disposable income to spend on web subscriptions are exactly who all the advertisers want to advertise to!
In case people read this as some outsider with sour grapes, Caterina (the author) founded Flickr with her now-ex, Stewart, who is the founder of Slack. So whatever she’s exposed to when visiting Finland is the VIP tech star version of how women are treated.
But most families will easily recover that just on their grocery shopping alone.
> There's still an open question and a debate to be had about whether the aircraft is WORTH the insane cost, and WHY the damn thing cost so much to begin with

There's no question about why it costs so much. The cost is including ~3,000 planes and covers up to 2070 in maintenance costs. That's a ridiculous number of planes to be maintained for decades. We'll never come close to building 3,000 however, the program will end long before that.

Russia's new Su-57 planes are at least $50 million each. Their GDP per capita is 1/6th that of the US. Imagine paying for that if you're them. Equivalent to $300 million in the US economy, except Russia is a very poor nation and can't rationally afford anything close to spending even $50m per plane.

Let's go with Russia's $50m number however. 3,000 planes at $50m = $150 billion just to get them built. Russia would probably spend another $600 billion maintaining those planes over four decades. The F35 unit cost is around $80 to $110 million depending on the version.

The US is getting a stellar deal in scope to its economy compared to what the Russians are spending on their latest planes.

The MiG-35 will cost at least double what the last MiG-29 variation did, or around $40 million. $240 million when adjusted to US per capita output figures.

For Russia it's even worse if we look at the absolute scale of their economy (from which the cost of those planes must come out of), a mere $1.6 trillion, or nearly 1/13th the size of the US economy. If you adjust the cost on that basis, it's like the US spending $650 million per F35. Nobody would think that's a deal. Russia isn't even remotely close to matching the US in adjusted terms on its new jet costs, their wild spending is on another planet entirely.

The Chengdu J-20 looks to cost $50 million per unit or more. That's in China, where they should be able to do everything radically cheaper than the US, and where they also have a GDP per capita 1/6th that of the US. $50 million is an astronomical sum for them to be spending per plane based on their economy. Or if we adjust based on the absolute size of their economy (the US economy is roughly 47-50% larger), it still pushes that unit cost up near the cheapest F35 variant.

The Eurofighter Typhoon, an older plane, costs as much per unit as the F35.

I'm not seeing any evidence that the F35 is expensive compared to other jets in the latest generation when you adjust for the US economic output level.
Another good guide from The Wirecutter, that covers more than just cashback:

https://thewirecutter.com/money/credit-cards/
The US police system has, and expects, a high degree of police militarisation.

It's simple expected that, in the case of a report of violence, weapons, or drugs, that the police department will dispatch a large group of very heavily armed people many (or all) of whom will not be wearing obvious police uniforms, who will proceed to storm the building, often at night, using battering rams, sometimes flash bangs, and at least the threat of overwhelming force. There will usually be some yelling about them being police, but since then happens as the doors are being knocked down, and often while the targets are asleep, this can be easily missed.

These tactics were chosen to make it likely that the targets cannot flee, cannot dispose of or hide evidence, and that those who want to resist the police (standoffs, hostage situations, setting up ambushes, etc.) cannot do so effectively. These tactics are also intended, at least, to reduce the risk of police officers being injured or killed. They were chosen despite the knowledge that it will cause people who would not want to resist the police to do so anyhow out of confusion, and that it will lead to the death or injury of targets, bystanders, and pets.

So in the above story, the SWAT did what the team is designed to do. Why would there be consequences? The point of these units is to respond to reports of violence swiftly and with overwhelming force, which they did. That causes deaths, usually of the targets (or their pets, of their families) but sometimes (as here) of people entirely unrelated to the target. This is accepted by the courts (and more importantly, society) as perfectly fine.

There will be no penalties unless they go way over the bounds of what's accepted. If it comes out the police themselves faked the call, or planted evidence, then that will likely have penalties. But in most cases, mere violence will not.

See, for example, this story: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/01/13/india...

Here a SWAT member tossed a flash bang into a room without even looking, it turned out it landed next to a 9 month old infant. That wasn't enough to get him disciplined or anything, but it did get the conviction of the targets quashed, and even that was really unusual and surprising. After all, there was a report of cocaine and a handgun, so obviously a military assault was needed, right?
I think to your point, that was how Steve Jobs use to run the company. Under Tim Cook's leadership, things have changed. When Steve Jobs was still around, I attended WWDC under the student scholarship, but he never greeted any of the students or ran any events. On occasion, there would be the "job fair." These past few years, Tim Cook has taken the time to greet the students, chat with them, and take photos with them. There's a softer side to the company now, and it's starting with admitting to failure and making mistakes.
cat /etc/debian_version shows the file

cat /etc/debian_version /etc/debian_version shows the file twice

Shockingly, cat sixel1.six sixel2.six sixel3.six or img2sixel file1.jpg file2.jpg file3.jpg works in the exact same way: cf https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-testsuite/blob/master/3-sixe...

Simply screenshot and edit the result when you are done.

But if you want to create another tool, for example to trim white boarders and concatenate, by all means please do!

Follow the example of https://github.com/hackerb9/lsix who wrote a great tool!
If you're still using COBOL, power usage is likely very low on your list of concerns
If your spending is high enough: Chase sapphire reserve. Has an effective annual fee of $150 but strong benefits. You can cash out or get a 25% bonus when using it to pay for air travel.

It’s metal which seems nice but really isn’t. You can’t stick it into many machines and eventually it delaminates.
If the algorithm increasingly leads you to videos that are pushing you to create modifications where things are maliciously wrong, dangerous, or illegal, then yeah I would expect YouTube to have some accountability here. It's not about right vs left, it's about malicious intent and misinformation and the algorithm feeding that cycle.
Radicalization aside, is anyone just annoyed with how much worse the recommendations are compared to how they were? Damn near impossible to discover anything given how biased it is towards "popular" content as opposed to, y'know, related to what you're watching
It takes a lot of focused work to keep them cohesive and performant

https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/rejected_requests.htm...
You get the feeling that Robert DePalma might be the Andrew Wiles of paleontology. It's kind of rare when you read something in plain sight - in the New Yorker - and you recognize it should be much, much bigger news than it is.
For those, like myself, curious about the digitization process: https://great78.archive.org/preservation/
Nobody is talking about free speech as a matter of constitutional law in these instances (although even that applies to more than the federal government, i.e. state and local governments.) People are making a normative claim that it’s better for institutions like YouTube to have liberal speech policies than restrictive ones. If you want an example with opposite political valence think of NFL players kneeling during the national anthem. The NFL can legally punish players for exercising their constitutionally guaranteed rights, but it nevertheless has a chilling effect.
Part of the benefit of edge implementations of serverless is that the scripts are deployed globally over a managed network. So deploying on the edge distributes the gateway as close to the user as possible (in this case IXs in major metro areas) and manages all of the traffic routing and loadbalancing. Which _almost always_ improves performance compared to a more traditional cloud implementation
Because it's not only "broke" things that people want to fix -- it's also half-arsed, inadequate, slow, limited, etc things. And terminal graphics are all those.
Do you need help with the definition of "free market"?

> In a free market, the laws and forces of supply and demand are free from any intervention by a government, or by other authority. Proponents of the concept of free market contrast it with a regulated market in which a government intervenes in supply and demand through various methods, such as tariffs, used to restrict trade and to protect the local economy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_market

Adding regulations to a market makes it less of a free market, even if those regulations are good for the people.
Debt-Trap Diplomacy
Very interesting!

We have wanted to do a similar conversion from the results data in our TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks [1] to energy efficiency. I've wanted to go as far as converting watt-hours to some average carbon emission rate for electricity generation in a given region.

I imagine the carbon emission per request would be amusing, if nothing else.

[1] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/
I wonder if it can be simulated in Universe Sandbox (2).
I'd love to see a video of the recreation of the event they describe if anyone has a link to it?
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19368040
We're working on it. You can install and play around with Multicore compiler today though the wider library ecosystem is yet to catch up. https://github.com/ocamllabs/ocaml-multicore
Except you also need to do `--exclude *.o` and whatever else is present in the .gitignore of any subdirectory. I personally use "git grep" when searching in source trees, as it automatically gives you gitignore support.
Thanks for the data! Are you sure that the USAA card gives 2.5% cash back? Their website says it's only 1.5% [1].

[1] https://www.usaa.com/inet/wc/bank-credit-card-preferred-cash...
I'll stop here, but this is a bit of an avocation of mine, and this is unthinkably amazing. To think something like this existed... I almost think there has to be catch, because it's too good to be true.

"He planned to remove the entire burrow intact, in a block, and run it through a CT scanner back home, to see what it contained. “Any Cretaceous mammal burrow is incredibly rare,” he said. “But this one is impossible—it’s dug right through the KT boundary.” Perhaps, he said, the mammal survived the impact and the flood, burrowed into the mud to escape the freezing darkness, then died. “It may have been born in the Cretaceous and died in the Paleocene,” he said. “And to think—sixty-­six million years later, a stinky monkey is digging it up, trying to figure out what happened.” He added, “If it’s a new species, I’ll name it after you.”"

and

"The block told the story of the impact in microcosm. “It was a very bad day,” DePalma said. “Look at these two fish.” He showed me where the sturgeon’s scutes—the sharp, bony plates on its back—had been forced into the body of the paddlefish. One fish was impaled on the other. The mouth of the paddlefish was agape, and jammed into its gill rakers were microtektites—sucked in by the fish as it tried to breathe. DePalma said, “This fish was likely alive for some time after being caught in the wave, long enough to gasp frenzied mouthfuls of water in a vain attempt to survive.”"
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No doubt someone at the founding of the US Constitution had the same ideals of such a perfect world, where criticism of Christianity would only be permitted from their basement.
I think they included compile time if the code is JITed at startup.
Type inference and immutability by default took way too long to become mainstream.