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It’s official. A new media campaign has begun.

The zombie fad is dead. Space aliens are the new default.

After this we will cycle back to dinosaurs, and after that, we’ll have a toy marketing cartoon blitz, and run a contest between 80’s/90’s style garbage toy cut-outs like power rangers, ninja turtles and G.I. Joe.

It’ll be like Reagan all over again, except two terms of Trump instead, then we’ll vote in his veep for a term, dump him for a democrat and then crash the economy and stoke fires and blame the party lines (right gets pork barrel payola, left gets tax shamed) as readily as blaming farts on the dog, BAU.
well the alcubierre drive (which is purely speculative math around negative energy, not something that can be engineered) should move mass without accelerating it.
100% agree, at hackathons I start off by telling my team that the backend doesn't really matter we should just focus on a good interactive demo at the end (which is usually met with major eye-rolls).

The only thing is that with Rails you can build the backend so fast and simply that it can be better to just use Rails if your team knows Rails.

But my new thing is onboarding teammates who know React or Vue into Ember quickly then using Emberfire to build SPAs fast. Then we use cloud functions and firebase to take care of everything else.
Risk-Averse Explore-Then-Commit Algorithms for Finite-Time Bandits
Before you ask why something appears to break the laws of physics, you should first ask whether it's likely you truly understand what classified, cutting edge military technology is capable of. Remember that the SR-71 Blackbird was developed in the 1960s, and it seems advanced even today.
The author of the newsletter is Paulo Matos, who, in addition to having a friendly and down-to-earth manner, is also a very serious and accomplished engineer. The Racket community has more than its share of people like that. When I was recently looking for someone to take over administering one of the Racket email lists, I was glad one of those people (Paulo) volunteered.
Really cool talk by Bryan Cantrill about the joys of mmap in a "simple" use-case: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vm1GJMp0QN4#
> The main difference is that most Windows apps are statically linked. A game from 1998 will very often come with its own set of .dlls that were built with the game and unless the underlying Win32 api changed, they should "just work".

Delivering a set of DLLs is not static linking.
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What also works quite well is moving away from the screen altogether. Grab your (paper) notebook, sit down in a park, take it out when you feel the urge to write things down.

This especially helped me with my programming. Sketching a program on paper forces you to more or less skip the concrete code, but think more about flow, structure and goals.

When you are at home with your multi monitor workstation, it can sometimes make sense to take your laptop and sit down at thw kitchen table to break habits and start a focused session (easier to have a youtube video open on a multi display setup).

In the end it all boils down to maintaining a perception about your own work processes and trying not to lie to yourself.
A library for mmap would have not helped with any of the Windows or Breakpad issues. It would have also been more work up-front than mmap, since none of the problems of mmap were known to us at the time.
I feel like a lot of the people commenting on this thread would really benefit from reading The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan (who was himself once a UFO believer).

He has a really good section on UFO sightings, which he compares to stories about abduction by demons from Medieval times.

His main explanation for the increase in UFO stories in the second half of the 20th century is the decline in other forms of abduction myths, like the demon one. People report seeing what they're expecting to see based on the stories they've been exposed to.

The massive increase in aircraft obviously helped too.
I have observed the opposite. Slum lord owns over 50 rental properties, but does not live in the city, and tenants are registered voters of the municipality.

My anecdote for the morning.
On Windows, you can easily install lots of parallel versions of libraries.
Selfish Mining in Ethereum
Shouldn't we rather call it the Distraction Economy?
> it only happened once here

You don't know that. Maybe there were super intelligent lizards before us. Lets not be ridiculous. We can't even know if it is a current situation because anthropomorphic ideas and agendas (or even timeframe) do not necessarily reflect other life forms - maybe fungi is already connected to other dimensions like in recent star track episodes ?

There is also thinking that merging pre-mitochondria with bacteria into more complex cell giving birth to complex multicelular life was singular event on this planet and so must be very rare, but its unpprovable really and even if true just lowers the odds.

> you'd need new physics to get from any A to any B at an interstellar level and even more new physics to pull right-angle turns at high mach numbers in an atmosphere.

Really ? Aliens having totally different understanding on universe and tech then us sounds amazing ? Just if you had a time machine and get back lousy couple centuries would make us look like aliens.
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I would more likely consider it a software bug than anything else. Some sensor data is feeding in and making it appear that something is there.
Internet-wide piracy statistics are meaningless, they basically show you how popular a game is in countries where properly licenced software is far out of reach financially, even with moderate regional pricing applied (you can't go down as much as you'd need to make it viable without risking massive losses from region-faking first-worlders, which is kind of like piracy but would not show up in the same stats)
That's why e.g. Iosevka has language-specific ligations so you can chose between the standard, the slightly extended ML ligatures and the whole set of Coq craziness.
TLDR: The developers of the GNU/Linux userland libraries do not care about binary compatibility.
I just remembered I too bought the game 10 years ago, as part of the Humble Indie Bundle. I also found the old email but it didn't "just" work.

Interestingly, the part of the chain that failed was their then email marketing provider, that hijacked all the links in the email to provide click tracking, doesn't exists anymore. So all the links are dead even though they would have redirected to pages that are still functioning.
[IANAB] Get the minimal dose for humans or rats and reduce it linearly to the weight of the shrimps. Perhaps it's better to use the concentration of cocaine in the human brain instead of the total dose divided by the total weigh. (Shrimps don't have bones, is that important?, IANAB)

The neurotransmisors are more similar in all animals than expected, so I guess a similar concentration in the brain is a good assumption. 1/1000 of the human concentration is probably safe for shrimps.

An alternative is to study it in the lab. Get a few shrimps and get them high. How hard can it be?

My guess is that this study is more useful for the police to get a general map of drug use than to see if shrimps are in danger. I guess that the shrimps concentrate the drugs, so it's easy to collect some water and filter the shrimps and put them in a blender, than collecting a bigger sample of water and concentrating it.
I would really like to believe in alien spacecraft. But so far the only "evidence" I've ever seen has been incredibly poor quality images and video that could be pretty much anything as far as I can tell.

Anyway I believe that people may sometimes see something, but its much more likely its secret military aircraft. But if there was a good recording of something really fantastical then maybe.

Also, Newsweek is the kind of publication that happily publishes whatever the military asks them to.
Still no promised VP8 support.
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A radar bug and a FLIR bug, that exists in 3D space such that multiple seperate jets maneuvering around it see it as having a position?

That's an issue in itself if so.
As someone who uses dart everyday - it's quite nice language. All I'm missing is case / data classes, non-nullable types and pattern matching, but they're changing the language and all of those will eventually come. For now, I will use built_value and built_collections ;)
Sure, but try playing it with Comic Sans or Wingdings or Lobster or any other font and you'll realize why there are fonts for certain applications.
The guy was an Apple engineer, so most probably he was also technologically literate enough to know the difference(despite whatever Tesla's marketing material claims).
I'm tired of long compilation and failing compiler ;)
Wow it's been 10 years already?

(Check my purchase email, it is from 2010)

Time flies. And WoG was such a nice game!
Those can be integrated with dependent types too - for an example look at F*.
Kind of funny, but you might consider getting a refurbished ThinkPad from a couple of years ago. If you're ready to replace some parts, a T440p will be fast and good for years to come.

I got my X230 and it's so fast I really question the need for the new CPU generations...
i makes a lot of sense, just think of

Kaufleute = Kauf ++ leute (merchant / trader, from kaufen = to buy)
Kaufläche = Kau ++ fläche (chewing surface / morsal surface from kauen = to chew)

But I am sure only professional typographers + a small minority of pedants (in the good sense) would be aware of this.
Congratulations Psyonix team!
We're talking about aircraft operating in Earth's atmosphere.
The worst part is that while articles about a disease like this are a mere annoyance to us, for people with loved ones with the disease or suffering from the disease itself it becomes a cruel joke.

These are people who scour the internet looking for any information they can find and carefully read articles like this looking for a bit of hope that there may be a solution. But it’s bullshit. Don’t share these articles, for their sake.
Just make your default activity reading (and put zero pressure on what, as long as its on paper) or exersize. That worked for me.
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Yes, but if the file is on local disk its exactly the same situation as the page file.

OP seems to be trying to cope with NFS errors....but if you are using mmap on NFS you have bigger problems...
well being strapped to two jets engines makes for a very noisy environment
Regarding #2, there are quite a few instances of eminent domain, where the government forces the sale of the home, and this is not limited to government infrastructure projects.

We have examples of folks losing their homes to build gas pipelines and shopping malls.
In some cases feature detection is not enough because while the browser may define the method you need it’s implementation is broken. A good example of this was indexeddb was horribly broken in safari and even doing feature detection was tricky so you had to check the user agent to see that it probably had a bad indexeddb and work around it. It’s never ideal and there is always possibly and more clever work around but sometimes you have a tight timeline and need a site to work in a specific browser.

Note: I think safari has since fixed indexeddb?
If you roughly know your access patterns in advance you can reduce the page fault costs with madvise.
Protein also stimulates insulin release. You’ll get a bigger spike of insulin from eating a steak than a plate of spaghetti.
Flight Control :(

I wish they update the game to make it compatible with latest iOS.
No I do not what some ide to start fucking about with code and introducing god only knows strange edge cases.

And I use profanity (Engineering language) for good reasons here can you imagine any other engineering discipline allowing this to happen - oh yes the CAD system added a ligature in the bridge design blueprints !!
I believe Symmetry edited their comment to correct it, or maybe I misread. Anyway, it's correct now.
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Just google news search Yeti. Hundreds of news links yesterday.
Thus preventing the users from being able to use the fair use rights from US copyright.
Glad Germany has a federal VAT + EU has a system for VAT implemented.
You should use Gross National Product or Gross National Income for all of these comparisons to correct for the distortions you mention. Small countries that are well governed and regulated enough to have a large financial sector look even better using GDP per capita than GNI per capita but Luxembourg, Hong Kong, Ireland, Singapore etc. do very well even on a GNI basis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GNI_(PPP)...

Average individual consumption is a better measure of the standard of living though unfortunately all we have reliably is household final consumption. Again, the rankings are quite similar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_household...
The article points out the infelicity as applied to mappings of files into multi-threaded programmes. What
fpoling suggests is a solution to the POSIX signals problem where anonymous mmaps are not an option.
Thought experiment. If we assume that "alien intelligence is here" in some form like UFO sightings, why not also assume they are on the internet?
I believe someone would learn so much more about us from reading wikipedia, than flying a UFO above north carolina at 90k feet. No?

And if they mastered long-distance space flight and life discovery, what stops them from reverse-engineering how to connect to an unprotected starbucks guest wifi. Or even posting here like you and me sometimes do.

Do you think they would be more perplexed by the stuff we do to each other in real life (micro; prisons, crime, violence. and macro; governments, military, borders). Or with the way we treat each other on line? (scams, trolls, harassment, narcissism, mistreating privacy data)
> programmable programming language ... appealing ... not so helpful

This has also been my observation, and that of many actual Lisp hackers I talked to. It also mirrors the experience the developers of Smalltalk documented: at first they had ultimate flexibility, every object could in effect re-define the language completely. Not so good.

On the other hand, we also seem to be stuck a bit in a local maximum of expressiveness that, to many including myself, seems obviously not expressive enough.

What if ... the idea of a programmable programming language is actually good, but the implementations have not been as useful as we thought?

I think what is missing is a good meta-model and a good "language library", for want of a better term.

With most programmable programming languages, you are basically given the "it can do everything, now have fun" treatment. So everyone has some fun, implements "their own, incompatible versions of common utilities" then realises this isn't quite as useful as it was thought to be and gives up.

Going back to OO, I would claim that most OO "languages" by themselves are somewhat useless. What makes them incredibly useful is their class libraries. It is of course the languages that make these class libraries possible, but that's a second-order effect.

In fact, Smalltalkers have the saying "Talk small, but carry a big class library" (repurposing "speak softly and carry a big stick, you will go far.").

For me, the most useful meta-model is the analysis of software into components, connectors and styles that the software architecture people came up with. It appears to capture most of the variations in how we build software and has a useful, empirically built taxonomy.

In this meta-model, the connectors pretty much define styles, so the "language library" I mentioned above becomes a "connector library" in actual usable artefacts. Interestingly, existing languages seem to be describable as a set of connectors, and the connectors are very much related, so this does seem to solve the problem of lack of guidance.
Matt Levine may be the most clear thinking financial reporter ever.
>> WYSIWG is what you get, but not what you want.

Nothing stops you from allowing the user to access the document itself to clean up the automatically-created mess.

It should be more like the XML/visual editing modes of .Net platform UIs.
Difficult. Probably I would fail your interview but on the job I've been told I'm a natural leader.

I have a very deep understanding of my domain. Maybe that helps.
That's pretty much equivalent to "magic!", and is the opposite of high G-forces.
Must be it, a golden oldy about Scottish speech recognition (2010): https://youtu.be/NMS2VnDveP8
> I think the best advice for me was "Add sample data to avoid an empty nest."

I respectfully disagree with that view and I say that as someone who has implemented a product with sample data during the onboarding process.

Users don't care about your data. They care about their data. The easier you make it for the user to input their own data and get some value out of it...even if its something trivial...the faster they'll be able to relate their problem to your products ability to solve it.
By one-file, I mean one executable file. Also, emacs does not have the defaults most people expect since the 90s.
I would appreciate if you could share that Youtube download script.
Indeed, incentives like travels, conferences, and gifts are part of all pharmaceutical companies marketing plan. It should become common knowledge to stand a chance to change.
Human Exceptionalism Stifles Progress
Data Visualization using different chart types
My only point of contention after skimming through the article is with the trial period. The other side of that coin is that, if it's too short then users bookmark your site thinking they'll sign up later and forget, and if it doesn't exist then users may end up not signing up at all and going with the free option instead. In practice it really depends on the product's criticality.
Sure, but you still end up with double-caching and frequent entry in the kernel. madvise will never give you as much control and flexibility as just getting the system out of the way and doing the work yourself. (DB systems can also use fun tricks like compressing their cached pages.)
> Unfortunately, there's no good way to have a font have sets of ligatures per <whatever you're working with right now>.

But there is, see Iosevkas ligature sets which switch different ligatures on and off. The editor can just opt-in which one to use.

There might not be sufficient editor support for it but you can work around it by generating different versions of it as default and then configure your editor to use that font. Not elegant but workable.
On the other hand, if you're offering something that breaks with an established paradigm -- i.e. first-time viewers don't know what to expect, a short storyboard to clarify your model might be invaluable, and worth fussing over.
Yes, and for any type of car (v.gr. if you only included two types of Mercedes or, say Lexus, then you might get something totally different...).

Cannot say that I am shocked, though.
Gosh, that's one I wouldn't have thought of. As an occasional tinnitus sufferer it seems a good idea. I wonder which bit of the ear moves to protect it.
Theres a steam bundle of all the games for folks who somehow don't already have them. I donno if 9 hours of the HN spotlight shining on them created the bundle, which would be creepy-cool, or if its been there forever. At any rate, it would be a good deal for programmers who don't already have the games. I enjoyed the experience of reading the TIS100 manual, its probably worth a significant fraction the cost of the game itself LOL. $70 will buy you a dozen hours of the latest FPS sequel, or hundreds of programming puzzle hours...

Now, for another blast from the past, who remembers programming MSP430 code using the "Lockitall LockIT Pro"? Its a somewhat more serious "game" in the same genre. I found a printed manual for my Lockitall next to my TIS100 printout. I see the website is still up. My printout has a copyright date of 2013. I remember I was inspired to buy actual '430 hardware to play with, and that dev board is still laying around in my basement somewhere.
I think there was a citylab article posted a few weeks ago, where they determined the most profitable rental incomes are in low income areas, I believe somewhere in Wisconsin they mentioned.

The article differentiated two different investment strategies:

Low income property with a decent profit over monthly expenses.

High income property with little to no monthly profit, but large appreciation in value over a short time period.

So, instead of buuying one or two high income properties, one could purchase 5 to 10 low income units.

I found it interesting and a new perspective for me.
The system is truly beyond fucked.
It’s been the Betamax to pythons VHS for a long time.

Outside of rails, ruby is pretty unpopular.
Is Music still Human? Do you also feel streaming dehumanizes music somehow?
I've played all his games and they're all fantastic. EXAPUNKS is probably my second favourite, but I'm an EE engineer so SHENZEN I/O is especially satisfying to me. Zachtronics games are my vice. As a recovering self-confessed video-game addict I only allow myself to play educational/puzzle games now, and they toe the line just enough - while being fun as hell.
Although I carry a "smart" phone (originally acquired because I needed it to test stuff I'm working on), I have deliberately chosen not to receive email or other notifications on it, or even to connect it to a data plan. It just makes calls and sends texts when needed. If I'm away from my desk (which is not one specific location, as I often move my laptop around the house), I'm essentially away from the internet.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-05-01/people...

The way you do this is:

1. Press F12 to open developer tools.
2. Click the select element button (in Firefox, this is the top-left icon of what just popped up).
3. Click on the header of the section you want.
4. If you're lucky, it has an id="tax-dialysis" attribute on it.
5. If not, find a nearby element which does.
6. Put that id prefixed by an octothorpe (#) symbol at the end of your URL.
7. Forget that Hacker News isn't markdown, and doesn't do numbered bullets.