skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You really hit the nail with those simple percentage, its clear as day to me now.

So it seems to me that Groupon really makes sense for businesses with fixed & low variable costs, thick enough margins to come out ahead and either repeat business or extra spenders.

I think the advertising comparison makes sense here.
Windows 10 Is Getting a Built-In Linux Kernel
Efficient IO with io_uring [pdf]
> Imo, the reason perl failed was not because the syntax was obscure but because even once you learned the syntax, it was still hard to read perl code.

IMO, the reason Perl failed is that Perl 6 (which is a fairly awesome language in its own right) sucked up all the energy in moving Perl forward for too long and delivered too late, while competing languages kept providing usable progress (and avoided, as a consequence, looking dead, which may be as important as the actual usable progress itself.)
Instead of an X-server, it would be cool if Microsoft implemented a Wayland compositor that is fully integrated in the Windows UI. It would mean perfect hardware accelleration for Linux apps and probably a much better integration into the Windows desktop.
My two cents — change your name. Prometheus us too pretentious in my opinion. Also, Prometheus can be pronounced in different ways. Is it pronounced PromEEteus or PrometHeus? And its also ProMeth. :)
Is this pretty much like how Java is today?
Will "IE Mode" support "Compatibility View"?
and probably the reason they are married.
I agree. Shame on Oracle.

J2EE is widely popular and continues to have a vibrant community. Oracle just doesn’t have the vision of how to encourage and mature that community and turn it into the proverbial golden goose. All they want to do is kill it to get all the eggs today. They can just copy/learn Microsoft’s strategy and come out on top.
How is this different from what the US Navy has been trying to accomplish with turning seawater into Jet fuel? I know that they are extracting CO2 from the water instead of the air, but I believe the last I heard they had large inefficiency issues. And for them they plenty of power from their onboard reactor.
Demonstrated overall conversion efficiencies for CO2 to fuels are already in the 25-50% range, depending on the fuel. We are confident we can get to at least 50% for our process. We will not be taking renewable power away from other uses - in the short term we'll be using marginally useful power (wind at midnight, solar at noon, etc), as we need the power to be low cost, and any time it has higher value uses, it won't be cheap enough. So we are not removing it from other beneficial use. Also, as we scale, we will cause much more solar and wind power to be available as we will be buying a lot of it. In the long term, aviation and shipping are likely to still use liquid fuel, yes.
>Well, it is not really the case, there will be still two frameworks, just one isn't going to be developped anymore (full .net 4.8).

If "one isn't going to be developed anymore" there there will be just one framework.

"Being" here means what's the official worked-on implementation. Not merely existing, obviously the code for 4.8 wont go anywhere, nor will existing deployments suddenly vanish.
> This is not offline, but offline seems silly given today's technological options:

Agreed. There aren't many places where you'll be technically limited in today's world.

However, let's say your're in prison and wants to communicate privately to the outside world. Or, you're in a place where the government is actively/extensively monitoring all technology mediums (to the extent that they could even get your private keys). What are your best options?
Did you have point?
https://www.theia-ide.org/ is vendor-neutral open source governed by an open source foundation (the Eclipe Foundation).
Sharepoint 2017 doesn't have this problem, Sharepoint 2007 does.
But in Windows drivers are binary files which talk to the kernel through an API. Not much different than a binary user mode application. If binary user mode applications written in GPL are ok, then so should this.
Yes, at the moment only Linux is supported for the server. But please upvote the relevant issues so we know which other platforms people are most interested in running Code server on: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/24
What inequality? Poor people can be safe in autocars, and rich idiots can pay the fee as well as the full liability when they get in a wreck.
>this infra, that netflix has built, in datacenters,

Unless things have changed since 2015, reports say Netflix eliminated their last datacenter already.[1]

The Netflix "edge appliances" for CDN streaming are located in others' datacenters owned by Verizon,Comcast,ISPs,etc.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/netfl...
> On the flip side, you have people now adays that are chomping at the bit to test out Ubuntu 19.04 and Fedora 30 in order to get all the awesome stability and performance improvements from the new version of Gnome.

And there are other people running Debian Stable.

I don't think there's anything wrong with Microsoft's fast release cycle, but I think there's lots wrong with forcing everyone on that cycle. Microsoft already makes LTSB/LTSC—why is it limited to enterprise customers? Microsoft seems to be afraid of people actually buying LTSC and preferring it...
please submit the original source, not articles reporting about what another site wrote. Also, this is already on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19842817
I'm curious if others who garden have really bad weed problems that can't be solved with mulch & putting stuff down between rows?

I find cardboard or brown packaging paper between rows, & layering the whole garden with grass & straw reduces all but a few random weeds.

I don't understand the value of weeding robots outside large agriculture.
The million dollar question: Will Microsoft's developer tools draw in more business? (In my mind, the play is, if Microsoft is more friendly to developers, and developers sometimes hold the keys to what vendors to work with, new business could come in).

For example: I use VSCode, but I'm not sure I'd pay for Azure. In prior threads on HN, I recall reading some displeasure without service outages and availability issues.

Unless Microsoft had some other motive for caring about developer tools after a long period of not doing so. Regardless, their contributions to the open source community are welcome.
Or just let people drive if they like driving and hold them accountable, just like we do today. For those that don't like driving, create better options for them and let them fund it.
Exactly right. I don't understand all those teams reinventing the wheel building custom k8s distributions, rather than using something like OpenShift and focusing on their core business.

Running custom k8s in production is the 2019 equivalent of using Gentoo.
And Windows will soon come with a tabbed terminal! Finally! Looking to get the Surface Book 3 at the end of the year and dropping my 2017 Macbook whose keyboard I replaced 3 times.
Yeah. Horses aren't extinct, and neither are horse enthusiasts.
@await does look like line noise, but if they're considering giving other constructs a postfix syntax, I think the noise is justified. Overloading the dot operator creates confusion, it gives the impression that .await is somehow related to data access instead of control flow
Most importantly, Prometheus is a well-known software...https://prometheus.io/
> I’m still holding out for tabbed windows in the file explorer, though :/

Give Directory Opus a go https://www.gpsoft.com.au/

Friends don't let friends use Explorer.
Also you can get bulk discounts for most services if you're running a lot of instances. That probably includes RDS.
Since `await` is a keyword reserved for this purpose, could `(await expression)` ever mean anything else? What is the cost of ripping off the bandaid and starting there, as at least an alternative syntax that is consistent with the language?

match expression
await expression

It feels like a future proposal, to allow these keywords to be chained more conveniently with a postfix. It's cool that this can possibly be generalised for chaining ergonomics.

expression.match
expression.await

expression<-match
expression<-await
Battery powered aircrafts would require huge jumps in electrical storage. There are no signs of them becoming a reality any time soon. Not to mention the complete replacement of old planes is going to be very very slow.

I don't understand your rail/car replacing flying argument. There are no signs that flying is going to get so expensive that people would rather pay for it with so much of their time.
If John Mcenroe comes out of retirement, it could be a lot.
Google X did a project to remove CO2 from seawater and turn it into fuel. It was called project Foghorn: https://x.company/projects/foghorn/

They couldn't get the economics right, but did succeed in making fuel. Their tech lead is an advisor of ours and is excited to get there this time!
Why not go for the higher concentrations now? Why not target agricultural ethanol plants now? I grant that long term they are limited, but why not use them now?

Higher CO2 concentration seems like it ought to make your initial testing easier.

Likewise, if you are really more cost effective than distillation all the existing ethanol plants would love to replace their boilers with your system. It seems like a simple way to get a small cash infusion selling to them. They can convert their ethanol to gasoline as well, and have infrastructure in place.

What I'm saying is don't bite off more than you can chew. If any piece works now push it while getting the others working.
Great work! If this really works at scale distributed around the globe, fuming lots of CO2 into the atmosphere maybe wasn't a bad idea after all. Since we thus distributed it evenly around the globe, it can be harvested back anywhere. Say goodbye to pipelines (in the far future).
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It mostly goes by power not rack units, if you have 48U and only 15amps, you're not going to fill it up. 15A is not a lot.
just to answer my own question in case anyone's interested https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/announcing-wsl-2/ looks like it is a VM they're using rather than the WSL1 emulation approach.
>When was the last time macOS had an update that was exciting for developers?

Swing 5 just a few months ago?
Seems like France would love to have this technology to replace imported fuels, and the political problems that go with them, with fully-local nuclear-powered hydrocarbon production.
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My dad grew up in the Great Depression. He fought in both WW2 in his teens and in Vietnam in his 40s. The world was on the verge of ending during WW2 and for many years after during the Cold War because of nuclear weapons.

There's always an Arquillian Battle Cruiser, or a Korilian Death Ray, or an intergalactic plague that is about to wipe out all life on this miserable planet. The only way these people can get on with their happy lives is that they do not know about it!

-- Men in Black
https://www.quotes.net/mquote/61255

People pay too much attention to the negative parts of the news and not enough attention to the positive parts.

When Iraq left Kuwait and lit oil wells on fire on its way out, it was predicted that it would burn for years and be a global climate catastrophe. When crack teams converged on the country, invented new methods on the spot and wrapped things up in a mere six months, it was not given the same level of media celebration that the hand wringing about the end of the world got. It was a footnote in more dramatic stories.

People get anxious when they feel they have no control. There are things individuals can do, but most people feel it doesn't really make a difference and that's partly because they aren't likely to get pats on the head from anyone for quietly doing the right thing.

Some things that help:

Walk more, especially as a form of transportation.

Use more daylighting and passive solar. This can be as simple as opening the window instead of cranking the AC.

Eat less meat.

I've lived under sentence of death for a long time. I"m still here. I've largely stopped listening to the whining of people who didn't actually care when it was just me facing a horrible, gruesome death but now they are all scared about their future, wah.

If you don't want this future, then do something about it. Among other things, I gave up my car more than a decade ago. People can make such choices. Most people just don't actually want to be personally inconvenienced by the coming apocalypse. They seem to want everyone else to behave better so as to preserve their right to do whatever the fuck they want.
Hope the best for you guys, I really do! If realized, this could be too seductive for foreign governments that depend on importation of oil and polluting their air to support export industries. Cleaning up the air AND mining the skies for gasoline? Good deal imho.
Don't forget the rather high price for a "video game". I do find it interesting that the group behind it distributes the database of unit information that backs the actual game for "free" (it's just available, with AFAIU, no hoops to jump through)
Really interesting, thanks! That value at the moment doesn't say anything (really huge error bars!) apart that they demonstrate that LIGO/Virgo can be used for that. But, as LIGO/Virgo expects to measure much more mergers in the future something interesting maybe can be inferred then.
>iOS developers who want to sell their product on the Mac App Store" is a rather small subset of developers

You'd be surprised. There's absolutely no reason to be a "small subset" if it makes men easy money for quick recompile + some small GUI adaptation.
So, $400/mo is overkill power wise. What would the bandwidth bill look like? How much of an up front investment is it to buy 48U worth of hardware? Seems expensive...
At one point, there was only one instance. We got it pretty much as soon as the hardware engineers were finished with it. It didn't work very well, so that made things a little more difficult for us (i.e. if something happened we didn't expect, it was difficult to decide whether to blame hardware or software).
Not "getting" driving for enjoyment is not the same as stupidity, and you (the supporters of the association's goals) will have to convince a lot of people who don't get it.

This is not a good approach.
These days, using a couple of dedicated hi-res cameras may be a much faster way to aquire the page images

A scanner's workbench could be rigged with screens for live preview and QC. Then assemble/OCR in software. The main manual task is page turning, the rest could be fixed (light, exposure, alignment etc)
I would think so, but the founder says: we have a carbon nanotube membrane that replaces it, extracting the alcohols from water

This implies there is still water there. Maybe it was poor phrasing, and all of the water is consumed, but that isn't what is stated.
It's good to remember that the library of Alexandria was destroyed by lack of funding more than anything else. Lack of money to store and maintain the books that they already had, not lack of money to buy new books or replace anything that was destroyed.

Also as an aside, I've recently taken up the task of owning a classic car. What I've found is that it is far more difficult to find and maintain space for the vehicle, than it is to carry out maintenance and part replacement. When I see a classic car now, I think of it not in terms how much time someone spent to restore and maintain it, but how much cost was sunk into it over the years just in storage costs. If you assume that a parking space costs about $100 a month, and the youngest classic cars are about 35 years old, that's $42,000 in parking costs alone! Let alone whatever was spent on parts and maintenance.
I would think so, but the founder says: we have a carbon nanotube membrane that replaces it [distillation], extracting the alcohols from water

This implies there is still water there. Maybe it was poor phrasing, and all of the water is consumed, but that isn't what is stated.
Probably just the last line? Even still, we can easily build out way more solar than we need so if there remains a need for energy dense carbon fuels then why not?
Sometimes when I need ctrl+C, I really need ctrl+C right now. Being able to immediately cancel whatever stupidity I just typed is a very valuable thing.
That method only works for about one season, and then you have to redo it all. I guess if you like gardening redoing the cardboard isn't so bad, but I'd rather focus on the plants and not the cardboard.
> I’m still holding out for tabbed windows in the file explorer, though :/

I've you're willing to look at 3rd party software, I've been a happy user of Directory Opus for many years.
Apple Warned iPhones Have a Serious Battery Problem
One cool thing is that one could build huge power plants in the middle of nowhere, and not worry as much about transmission losses. Oil fields are already typically in the middle of nowhere, and fuel travels and stores easily.
Wow. I give it a prompt from a story on current events...

Prompt: _The Department of Justice on Monday protested a move by House Democrats to begin contempt proceedings against Attorney General William Barr, arguing the House Judiciary Committee was rushing the issue despite Barr's willingness to quickly disclose a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller's report._

Output: "Barrasso sent a letter to Justice officials Monday protesting that the panel and the White House "have not determined all of the details of this investigation, nor, specifically, have they released what documents may be relevant to this inquiry. In sum, the Senate has been advised of your view of the scope and scope of that investigation, however vague it may be, and it has agreed that any further inquiry into it must be expedited. The Department of Justice has made clear that it considers all information submitted" (eol)
Sadly, 1 capsule won't be enough.

We all need 2 ayahuasca shots...and some will need up to 4.
and there is only one other key requirement, it will all need to be done together simultaneously, otherwise you will end up with a sort of 'race condition'.
Would you want alcohol to be banned because it causes harm as well? It's about losing personal liberty - people will dig in their heels.
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Our current prototype is the size of a refrigerator. One of the cool things about our tech is that it can work well at small scale. We don't have to get to a billion dollar plant to get the economics right. We could make a system to fit in your garage and make fuel at home. This isn't our focus right now because we want to solve the problem of CO2 emissions from fuel, so need to scale as fast as possible. That's the commodity gasoline market.
The implied victim seemed to be IE, not Chrome...
By law, gasoline gets cut with ethanol, degrading engine performance. If I buy gas from you guys will it be legal to put 100% gasoline into my engine? If so that's a "killer app," (so to speak) for people who care about their engines, even if it is more expensive in early development stages.
A racetrack probably
Why? If human driving is really much more dangerous, then they'll be found at fault anyway.
Java is a programming language that can target many different run times.
>There's no proper defense for most people.

Education is a defense. Once a person is aware of the psychological dark patterns being used against them, they start becoming less susceptible. Whether it's by video games, salesmen, politicians, etc. education is the best defense.
>So a user might be duped into thinking they are safe when they visit a random site that forces IE mode.

IE mode doesn't mean it would have random security exploits or wont run in a sandbox, just means it will support the quirks and legacy behavior required to run legacy enterprise apps based on IE.

And of course it will obviously be totally controllable by some enterprise level settings -- what IPs/domains to be enabled on, whether it should be on or off, etc.
Paper ballots, hand counted, twice.

This is still the most optimal current system as it much harder to corrupt at scale. The proprietary systems we have can easily be corrupted at the time of aggregation. There have been enough examples of people demonstrating simple tally hacks that there is no way to know if any election is genuinely counted accurately.

That's not to say that its impossible. I think block chain has some promising potential here but databases that are proprietary are completely untrustworthy today.
Yeah I'd be afraid of cutting up the neighbors cat.
It doesn't have features like global definitions, numbers, strings, I/O, arrays, lists, data structures, ...
> Not much different than a binary user mode application.

well, user-mode applications do syscalls to the kernel, not direct function calls.
Priests believe in an interpretation of what they know and they know they believe because they have been indoctrinated to think so. It's very difficult and I don't want to disparage it, not actively right now, but latently--and that's similarly a learned behavior. However, if Goedels symbolic proof of gods existence, which is subject to interpretation of course, holds any water, than there might be an elementary truth, the knowledge that good does exist. Similar to Descartes "I think therefore I am", it might be trivial and discovering it might be part of everyones development. In that sense, priests wouldn't be any different. Ironically, I believe that I know that, the proof at least, subconsciously. I actively believe that. That's not good. lol.

What does that have to do with UX cliches? If you'd ask priests whether god is dead, they'd say, "why, horses are good enough"?!
If that stays on server only, it will be shame.
I was planning to write a cyberpunk dystopian short story which the nation banned all non-autonomous vehicles (basically, mega-corporations like Waymo and Uber have lobbied the government and spun the media with keywords such as 'safety' and 'efficiency'). But then there is a rag-tag group of people (car enthusiasts and motorcyclers) who demand the right to driving: to feel the winds and speed flowing over their shoulders as they indulge in the absolute freedom of movement. So they occasionally drive secretly and illegally, out of the eyes of the cameras of Waymo. The story starts with a chase scene with the Google police cars, which are also 100% autonomous. The rebels have managed to fake them by camouflaging their vehicles, but the police are now using special sonar technology which augments their camera vision. (And then one of the rebels know how to hack inside the autonomous-driving deep learning system, and then yadda yadda...)

But now this fucking "right to drive" thing is actually becoming a fucking reality. The future is, simply cyberpunk. Help me, I'm getting headaches.
"Learn once, write everywhere". Can't speak about performance comparison vs using Qt/.NET/whatever but the whole idea about React Native is that today, you can write a native app for iOS, tvOS, Android, web, macOS, Windows, and a few others, all using the same language and framework. You still have to understand platform specifics like UX guidelines but you use the same technology to build a fully customizable, and fully performant, native experience. It's sort of like using C++ but way more developer friendly.

The cons:

- an extra layer of abstraction

- need to write a plugin if you want to surface a native functionality to RN if it's not yet supported

- no visual UI editor like in native tools (Qt/VS), although you generally won't need it with React Native's code-first and instant refresh development workflow

- you need to be comfortable with React Native / JavaScript, obviously :-)
Brake pads are pretty common consumables, for a dealership to have no brake pads is a bit odd.