skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fascinating. In the lead up to that, passenger trains used to be heavily subsidized by the mail cars:

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

Postal employees would sort the mail while it traveled. Parallel processing!

Centralized automated sorting helped kill that model, along with the fact that an air and truck system really squeezes the viability of rail.

I read once that there's a sweet spot for passenger rail at about 250 miles, but it loses to air any farther and roads any shorter. Can't seem to find that source though, and I might be off by 50 miles. TSA might be one of the best things to happen to Amtrak, hard to say.
The Craig Wright story is interesting because Gavin Andresen, who probably interacted more with Satoshi than anybody else, was dead set on Wright being Satoshi. He referred to evidence shown in private that he was unable to share the details of.

Later after Wright couldn't (or didn't want to) prove the Satoshi connection in public Andresen later expressed regrets going public with these statements, but never really took them back. It's hard to know, really. Andresen was release manager of the reference implementation for several years and widely regarded as trustworthy.

Other people made business investments based on these statements. Well known investor Roger Ver now seems to regard Wright a fraud, but not before headlining conferences with him and releasing a cryptocurrency together. So Wright has been quite influential, at least with some select people, and is absolutely newsworthy.
Good luck with that. :D
I'm sorry I mistakenly assumed your words weren't freshly written. Still, please don't take HN threads further into nationalistic flamewar. We don't want it here, and there has been a dismaying surge of it lately.
This is archiving, not a replacement for a mail server. This way you can delete all mail from your provider >30 days, for example, and still keep searchable copies off net. It's a nice middle ground and, yes, Google would still have seen all of your mail - however it wouldn't have access to it long term.
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Can trees be uniquely identified?
If yes, use tree-fingerprint and incentivize increasing age of unique trees. In return you get carbon offset credits that you can sell to make money.
Like crypto, but greener.

EDIT: grammar
I have a paid business gsuite for my personal mail also, but my purchase history was blank. Weird.

I actually would like to turn it on if I could... I have labels and filters set up on Gmail to try and do the same thing but having google do it for me would be great.
I get the point, and it is true to an extent that the best products/games are ones that people didn't even know they wanted (the original ipod being a good example), but this faith in valve is misplaced at this point. half life was an incredible achievement, but it was released over twenty years ago. the last great original title (imo) created by valve was left 4 dead, released over a decade ago. I definitely like steam better than any of the other distribution platforms, but in terms of actual games, they haven't done much worth talking about in the last ten years; they're just playing out the endgame on their old IP.
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Jira :)

It has workflow templates, which save a lot of time for me. Just few examples that I think might be useful for your case, besides project management template: procurement, content management, document approval.

A word of caution - Jira administration could be a time sink if you need more than presets.
This seems like the right thread to ask: so how does one go about learning to sail?
DSLs are not general reusable computing environments. The goal is to encode domain logic into the language in a way that simplifies common domain problems.

The problems may not look anything like the problems you can solve with a general purpose language. If they did, you wouldn't need a DSL.

Of course you need to understand your domain really really well to do this with any success.
Interesting - I heard the opposite about Saitama. Kei-cars, could be. I know the yellow plate difference. Thanks for the info!
It's like blaming the laryngeal nerve for being too long because you haven't fully geeked out why it's designed that way.
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Yep. I rock all season tires on my (not an i3) car as well. They’ll never be great in the snow, but I live in an area where snow is rare so that’s fine.

I can certainly imagine the “bicycle” tires must not be very good at all in the snow unless they’re the specialized winter version!
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Not long at all for the basic setup.

For encrypted DNS setup I used this guide which worked: https://scotthelme.co.uk/securing-dns-across-all-of-my-devic...
That's great news. I hope it will finally result in international support for more secure internet payment. I can do so domestically, but as soon as a transaction is international, credit cards is basically the only thing that's accepted.
The joy of Docker seems to be minimizing the surface area of the API at the expense of some extra image size.

I suppose the immutability of the layers amortizes the size cost as one starts to run ludicrous numbers of service copies.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20368325.
After glancing over the README here are a few of the other things I take a look at.

The "contributors" tab on GitHub helps get an idea for the health of the project: how long has it been actively maintained? Who did most of the work? https://github.com/dgraph-io/dgraph/graphs/contributors

For software libraries, I like looking at the brand new "used by" tab - https://github.com/huge-success/sanic/network/dependents - in addition to indicating project health it's also a great source of examples to look at later when I'm trying to figure out how to do advanced things with the library.

I love reading through the CI configuration - .travis.yml or .circleci/config.yml - because at the very least it shows what it takes to run the test suite, and often I'll pick up some fun new CI and automation tricks.

I use GitHub code search extensively: sometimes for searching within the project, but I'll also search the whole of GitHub for examples of people doing something I want to do with the library: https://github.com/search?q=sanic+cookies&type=Code
Overblown fears.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNYlvlreZiRRHo_v5Nmrfow (Sailing Zatara)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9rRsBE2nFbnUSjtmv6Jq6w (Sailing Yacht Ruby Rose)

https://www.sailingtotem.com/blogging-families-afloat (Blogging families afloat)
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Not all functional languages enforce immutability. Infact, most dont
I don't think that three is possible, and I told Baldo as much back in 2013 at APS March Meeting (hence my downvoted comment below). He didn't really care to listen to my explanation why because he'd already gotten a paper out of the experiment.
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> People need to be 100% sure that when they donate money to "running costs", it would not end up being used for something else like your new iPhone or a vacation in Mexico.

You may be right, but I wonder how many of those people would be ok with their employer saying "we're willing to cover living costs, but your recent trip shows we're paying you too much. We value the work and service you provide us, but we'd prefer to only pay the bare minimum that it takes to maintain that service. By all means, buy food for yourself, and a bed is ok, maybe a modest television, but a trip is right out."
Fed Hoyle write astro books for kids and mine starts "you are marooned on an island with a piece of string..." and leads through simple trig to astronomical trig, the equinoxes, time, distance..
It's not (just) a "secret suggestion", it automatically makes stuff visible again (with probably some ranking involved behind the scenes). And it's been announced from the beginning as something that'll be turned off for users that keep using it on comments the mods rather would them not do so.
Press release is up: https://www.debian.org/News/2019/20190706

HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20372855
So previously I believe the space shuttle style vehicle was thought to be inefficient, this seems similar. Is the usage different here?
Well, at least with those workers? That actually happened, with those three men, and they were expected not to survive. (Water does a better job than many solids at absorbing radiation, I believe...).
As an addendum - explanation of the electricity distribution losses on grid:

https://electrical-engineering-portal.com/total-losses-in-po...
I agree it's amazing, but the main differences are reliability and size.
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Taiwan is trying to promote more immigration and their economy has been in the doldrums for the past decade, at least when it comes to pay.

https://topics.amcham.com.tw/2018/11/taiwan-embraces-southea...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphjennings/2018/03/19/taiwan...
I know this to be true; it just surprises me Amtrak, as large as it is, doesn’t have more leverage / bargaining power here. I understand tying up a line can be an issue and the rail network is a relatively complex thing, but if it enables a service to make money and BNSF makes a cut, I’d think it would be viable. I don’t think freight lines are exactly at capacity (generalizing here), nor are they gushing with cash these days either. IIRC Union Pacific just laid off 7000 jobs.
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Wasn't the military using a huge radar to do that in 1961? Amateurs aren't even allowed to think about doing that, then or now.
Sigh. The author neglects to mention Zappa or Chalice, which kind of blows down the historyonic soapbox.
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What standard? How about "kilograms"?
As someone who ran a significant email service for several years and dealt with many variations of discovery requests, no it isn’t.

Nobody said that you need to run a mail server, just keep your data in your possession.

If you are worried about privacy with respect to your data, you only have limited protection for 180 days if it is on the providers server. (See Stored Communications Act)

In the US, the 4th amendment ensures that you are “secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects”. But when you put your papers or effects in the hands of a third party who isn’t your attorney, you lose much of those rights.

GMail IMO is the most honest of these services, as they are very clear that your privacy is limited in scope. Fastmail, Protonmail, etc imply things that are not as meaningful as one may think.

See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine
Religious flamewar is not allowed on HN. Please don't post like this, regardless of how wrong another comment is or how you feel about it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I just like the smell of the chemicals (yes, I know).
Isn't this like asking "why do this in a uniform way, when each application could do it in its own way?"

(Also, (1) even if "should cover most of the use cases" is correct, why not cover all of the use cases?; and (2) the mere presence of more powerful tools can encourage ingenuity to use them in ways that wouldn't have been imagined if we only had purpose-built, specialised tools.)
I mean, if it was simpler it wouldn't have taken 2000 years.
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Oh, I get why founders waiving their right to a jury trial if Atlassian screws them is a great idea for Atlassian. The question is why is it a great idea for the founders?
The point about Minecraft is valid, but DotA grew incrementally over such a long time (and with such a heritage) that it is very clear the audience was more involved in its making than any single developer.
What is the difference then?

Macros don't exist at runtime, functions do. You can't pass a macro to a function nor return one. You can't store a list of macros to apply to a value. Macros are nothing more than user-programmable syntactic sugar.

In a language like Haskell, you can do with functions most things that would only exist as macros in Lisp.
No it’s not. Most comm sats are in geosynchronous orbit. This thing is in low earth orbit. Only the Iridium constellation is within its range.

Most likely it is for messing with other countries’ spy satellites.
I saw somewhere that this can be enabled in Chrome from chrome://flags/, but I can't seem to find it in mine, v75 on Mac. Was it removed from recent versions?
The actual things people are already launching into GSO to potentially fuck with telecom satellites aren't "this".

"This", so far, has stuck to low earth orbit.
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The key problem for the fish getting acquired by the whale is usually leverage.

With the largest whales increasingly using OSS rather than M&A ("buy" the OSS by inserting senior engineers to in effect lead it), I fear there will be less demand, increasing the leverage imbalance.

Any other macro factors which may help the small startup either live independently, gain M&A leverage, or forge more paths to IPO or other capital?
Providing dependencies mainly. But then JVM development has multiple ways to handle that (fat JARs) etc.
I'm not sure if your comment is meant to be snarky. But seriously... What is Elon doing differently?
If you don't shade libraries, I imagine managing a classpath can become quite difficult.
We're a 95% JVM shop and we've moved nearly all our apps to Docker now. For ease of devops, really.
Yep exactly, we've moved all our JVM apps into Docker for precisely that reason.
Establishment alpha shares foobar seemingly to help startup founders, while also aiming to maximize the number of founders aligned w/ alpha's preferred process.

Here: alpha is Atlassian, foobar is this new M&A term sheet

Also: alpha is Y Combinator, foobar is the SAFE

Also: alpha is Y Combinator, foobar is startup school

...
Ask HN: What's your favorite scripting language?
For programs that are too complex for bash, but still need to use shell commands and process command line input. Props if it's included by default in major Linux distros.
I don't think so.

A profitable company can continue without being acquired. A merely "desirable" but unprofitable may not have this luxury for long enough for another acquisition deal to crop up.
Wow this is quite fascinating, are there other such articles that go in-depth into medieval or renaissance time education with this level of novel facts?
Huh, that's really weird. I've not seen Google Trends so obviously wrong like that before.
Guns are loud even with a silencer. Knife crimes are easier to conceal in urban ambush situations.
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Zultra: much (10x) faster than zopfli, about half as fast as ebiggers libdeflate.
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Have also read both; they're fascinating in different ways. Paul Lutus has a boat full of technology (diesel engine, laptop, radio, navigation tools, and more) but his book is an intensely - almost uncomfortably - personal voyage through his psyche, while he happens to be sailing around the world. A diary of reflections on life, struggles with people, views on science, observations on the stars and sky and waves, poignant writing on how being at sea affect people, while he happens to be sailing around the world. It's better for that, more relatable as a geek, sadder and more emotional; I consider it a good read, and I reflect on it a lot.

Captain Slocum's voyage of 1896(?) is so different; he took an old clock, and not much else, he lashes the tiller and goes down below for hours at a time to read or sleep without worrying about crashing into other boats, he tells stories of mouldy cheese induced nightmares during rough seas or chasing natives away from robbing him, or finding remote islands with communites of slightly odd people. Much of his writing is about the people he meets - they often know in advance he's making a historic voyage, so when he arrives anywhere, there's a big fuss, he's invited to dine with local dignitaries or captains of large ships, gifted interesting foods and boat parts, there's a lot of interesting things about the world of 1896. (There's also quite a bit of tedious place names and locations and passages where nothing much happens, I'm not that interested in the geography of it).
...and Wayland is the DEFAULT? Things must have gotten better quite quickly.
I notice m68k is not part of the release.
I use pihole + dnscrypt-proxy 2.*

A fair number of resolvers support DoH and dnscrypt-proxy also supports DoT. It's fairly feature rich, you can configure a hosts file and then some.

[0] https://github.com/jedisct1/dnscrypt-proxy
I agree that DSLs are the future for defining useful declarative code, and most languages/frameworks see turning to this direction (React JSX, Flutter Widgets and the other 100 HTML-like frameworks for example)

Also DSLs still can be written without macros, a lot of frameworks use functions and builders to define a symbolic representation to be consumed later.
As I understand it, it was mostly a technical result of Gnome being the default desktop, and Gnome defaulting to Wayland.
Following one feature through the code base can be one interesting way - especially if that feature is something you understand from previous experience. e.g. follow the life of a packet or a block read sya in a kernel; or one particular library call somewhere and just follow the path it takes.
You do have to be a little wary that you might be following an unloved/old part of the project that needs work; so you might not be learning the ways that they want new contributions to use.
>67ns at 3733C17

I'd go for that.
I look forward to using this! Have you given any thought to being able to sync a working context between computers?
I believe that even if humanity were given a book that perfectly describes physics on the smallest levels, there'll still be hundreds of years of work to find useful approximations and abstractions.

That's of course nevermind the effort involved in grokking the book. Especially, if particles are more subdivided than we think/know they are.

Think of it as knowing the rules of the game vs developing strategies for it.
Sorry for misunderstanding. I just think that it would be a clear invasion of privacy, and show a serious lack of respect and decency, to create fake, realistic nudes of someone without permission.
I love this idea, are you thinking a hybrid model? i.e. Overheads where possible, battery to bridge the gaps? that way in some places the trains could charge en-route.
To all viewers from any viewpoint relative to it? That's the bit I don't understand.
As I understand it (and I am certainly not qualified in any regard with respect to this type of engineering) he is aiming to increase velocity by decreasing diameter (ie couple meter diameter vs 10m diameter) and then also looking at how they can ‘juice’ the machine using engineering magic
I used to run Debian, but I switched to Fedora a few years ago and haven't looked back. Fedora is always sleek and up-to-date, unlike Debian, which due to its outdated packages always ends up looking like the plain step-sister. I also strongly prefer DNF to apt. With that being said, they both play crucial roles in the Linux ecosystem - Debian being the base for Ubuntu and Mint, and Fedora being the distribution which upstreams the most code.
Next question: give a formula that describes the best lens taking into account manufacturing tolerance on the lens faces.
this feels like a superfluous nit
Python's the only serious candidate that fits those requirements. Node is popular recently but I don't think e.g. Ubuntu installs it by default, or even has a modern version in its apt repos.
Arch w/i3.
On a related note, some people seem to think anything that doesn't run in AWS Lambda or similar is out of date, legacy, not cloud native.

I think such absolute thinking is misguided and is low on fundamentals.

Same thing with people arguing over what is or is not a 'systems' programming language.

In the case of this article however, I think the author just dislikes python and docker.
That's not really inevitable. It's a cultural norm that can be changed.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/06/09/6169288...

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/09/01/6412662...
It’s fun for small yards. I have a few plum and pluot multigrain. As you suggest it’s usually a game of wack-a-mole balancing the healthy vigorous variety with the slow one. The benefit is different fruit varieties at different times of the year.
I've been a regular HN user for six years and this is the first I've ever heard of it, so "announced" may be a bit of a strong term.
Running Debian testing is generally the practice I recommend on systems which are single-user, like desktops and laptops. It's quite stable and very up to date, except for a couple of months in the run-up to freeze.

Disclaimer: I'm a Debian developer.
So wait, we should have late shift workers depend on companies that subsidizes its rates relying on a "greater fool" theory of access to capital (VC, now Wall Street), exploits its labor force (drivers) and uses far less energy efficient vehicles (cars)?

Oh and btw most of these shift workers can't afford to ride Uber/Lyft much less if the fare is surging. A $7 ride is what, half an hour of minimum wage work? That's pretty steep. Maybe we have WMATA reimburse the worker, but who hasn't had a large gap between filing a receipt and getting reimbursed? Now add being potentially financially precarious, doesn't seem ideal.

If only we had a service that could transport large numbers of people using electricity to pre-defined locations so that they could have a far cheaper final leg of their trip. Oh wait...
In my opinion the only use case that is difficult to functions replicate are meta-information about the code (line numbers for errors, code file names, etc.). Not saying that it should be a feature to every language though

But yeah functions can pretty much describe DSLs, most of the time DSLs are written to build a declarative representation of some concept, that can easily be achieved with factory-like functions
As far as I can tell, it's only a tree of 5 or 6 different fruit, but multiple cultivars/varieties of each.
People that have used both Ubuntu and Debian, what are the cons of using Debian over Ubuntu? Also, which is the best supported desktop environment these days for Debian?
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Smells more of marketing than anything else.
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You can't really raise short term rates while increasing money supply. I'm certainly not going to dispute your point about bank profits, but what you are suggesting has been tried in the past many many times in many countries, and failed every time.
Why? It's no excuse not to do something.

It's like me telling my children they must not smoke, whilst lighting one up.

I'm in the UK. Globally our emissions count for almost nothing. Yet I want people to blame the UK for every misstep and failure on climate. I badly want the UK, and everywhere on the planet net zero, asap. The more pressure to do that, from all sources, the better.

Maybe when someone hits net zero we'll start to see carbon tariffs on all imports... Probably wishful thinking, but I can hope.
Debian Testing is always more or less up to date and in the several years I've been using it I've never encountered a system breaking bug. It all seems to get ironed out in the Unstable branch.

That said, Fedora is a fine alternative.
It’s as if you demand a bottle of something exactly like, but not quite exactly methanol and end up with methanol. Southwest demanded a 737 that met criteria the airframe absolutely could not accomplish. It’s Boeing’s fault for building it but it’s Southwest’s fault for buying the impossible.