skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He presided over the MULTICS project, which apparently was not prone to buffer overflows due to the features of the Pl1 language. http://www.acsac.org/2002/papers/classic-multics.pdf
Not necessarily lesser, but different. My brain doesn’t generally visualize anything, but it’s good at building a semantic web that connects cause and effect. If you ask me to describe the physical characteristics of a character in a book that I read, I probably can’t, unless it has an effect on the plot. But I have no real trouble keeping track of what’s going on in books like The Count of Monte Cristo where everyone has half a dozen names and different motivations they’re willing to show to different people.

I also listen to things at 1x speed because I don’t care for the audio artifacts from the speedup process, but I have to be in the right mood for it. If I’m too energetic, the book won’t hold my attention and my mind will wander to other things— I’ll mentally shut it off and have no idea what’s going on when I try to resume the book.
Perhaps that was Wootz steel from southern India?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wootz_steel
I love audiobooks (and anything media that comes with audio too) for learning languages. Inflection and hearing what's written is hugely beneficial to understanding, and it's much more memorable for me.
Sublime Text isn't expensive and I think others could learn from the creators how to deal with people who don't have money (yet) to pay for it.
> It would need to be rebooted from scratch.

With no readily-accessible source of energy, we would never be able to reboot. And everything readily-available has already been mined. We now drill deep below the ocean surface for oil.
They’re studying the long-term perceptual impact of advertising on test subjects who did not authorize being participants in this experiment. That goes far beyond “is our advertising effective?” and instead verges on “how does our advertising permanently affect human behavior?”.

I don’t trust LinkedIn to act ethically in such a regard. Do you?
A more problematic consequence of the lack of magnetic fields is that Mars is not protected from cosmic radiation.

However, the "habitable" space under the aerogel may mainly be used for agriculture or as a temporary working area for people in vacuum-proof suits. One thin sheet of aerogel also sounds like a flimsy way of keeping atmospheric pressure.
I think this looks very good.
The main thing though is that it is opt-in where you want it. If it became the default, or required then it would make the language difficult and unsuitable for many things, but as an option it's great :)
There is a video here:

https://www.facebook.com/GianlucaGiminiLTD/videos/1419410561...

where the Author shows 9 hours of work (condensed in 4 and a half minute)

From here:

https://www.core77.com/posts/53240/Five-Questions-for-the-De...

>The renderings are all done in 2D with an elaborate editing technique that mixes post-production and digital painting. So I would pick a sketch, then I would look for a picture of a real bicycle that seemed a good starting point for my representation. Then I would search for pictures of all the components I needed to match the sketch: saddle, handlebar, chain, etcetera. All had to be shot in the same angle and light. Then everything was put together with many parts designed from scratch. Especially frames.
Dataform still requires you to move your data to a single place where it can be queried together, whether that's S3 with Presto, Redshift spectrum, or something else.

There are lots of great products for moving data like this, Stitch, Fivetran are both great and we've used them ourselves, but they don't help you manage complex data transformation processes.
> How dangerous is one of these things without the surrounding targeting system?

30kg fragmentation warhead is enough to kill a lot of people.

Few kg IEDs kill and maim up to a hundred people, now imagine how a factory made 30kg warhead will perform.
The most interesting version of this that I've heard of is a "fusion candle", ie a pair of fusion rockets mated back-to-back and hovering in the atmosphere of a gas giant. One rocket thrusts downward towards the planet (ie. rocket plume going upwards), ejecting mass at greater than the planet's escape velocity. The other thrusts upward away from the planet, balancing both the planet's gravity and the thrust from the first rocket. Together they apply a net thrust on the planet, moving the entire thing along with any moons while the rocket exhaust provides heat and power for the inhabitants of the moons.

https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/36732/fusi...
This is the answer to the question "Why not build more Saturn Vs". We no longer have the tools to build the tools to build the machines to build the parts of the Saturn V.
Freedom fries? :)
Related article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20446645
I have the same problem, DDG seems to be sufficient but only for a niche of search results: mostly related to technology or technical searches or searches related to the US/websites in English.

As soon as you try to search something non technical or something local (non-US) the quality of search results drops significantly.
Ask HN: Imagine worse then error handling with sloppy exception handling?
So I have been dealing with a complied closed source program that fails in a grandious way. It leaves no logs behind, it just kinda blows up. You have to kill -9 it, anything short it does not respond to.

A coworker had this horrible thought that cases me to hate the world... he said- what if the logging function they use to write an error log has a trackback in itself and it has a global catch all in it so essentially it recursively is calling itself preventing any log output from happening but also maxing out the processor.

This thought gave me a headache, since exception handling and recursivness both are highly touchy subjects to any seasoned programmer. Fuck, might as well include character encoding and cache invalidation to make the perfect storm...

I will not mention this software writers since it's quite prevalent in all fortune 500 companies. Just gotta vent.
Hmm, I'm going to have to check it out again. I was under the impression that it's mostly for vector authoring, thanks.
I lost about 5 years of my life to WoW.

I was in a good place in 2005, had sold my house and got voluntary redundancy from my job. But emotionally not so great. Long story short, I spent the proceeds from the house sale and redundancy on a level 85 character from every class, on both Horde and Alliance, on both Euro and US servers. I only stopped when a relationship broke up, and I finally realised that WoW wasn't helping. I logged out that day and haven't touched it since (8 years ago now).

I went through a severe clinical depression after that, though, and it took me another 5 years to get back to "normal" (whatever that is). Looking back on it, I was depressed the whole time and was using WoW as a way of surviving the depression without having to face my demons.

I think the problem of video game addiction has nothing to do with video games. Video games are a symptom, not a cause. The problem is the usual existential crisis of modern society: what is the point of our lives? I don't think we can solve this by regulating video games. In fact, I think that video games may be a useful barometer for mental health, and a lot less destructive than the other options (alcohol, drugs, sex, etc).

But I also think that's a completely different problem from the one the article is talking about, which is luring small kids into spending serious money on online games. That one we can solve with regulation.
> First, the correct design was not obvious. For centuries, progress was stalled because inventors were all trying to create multi-person four-wheeled carriages, rather than single-person two-wheeled vehicles. It’s unclear why this was.

In the 1800, most people were poor, and any transportation should be aimed for people with some level of wealth, who would not like to labor to drive themselves around.
If Richie McMoneybags was going to buy a million-dollar painting, but instead decides to donate those million dollars to the McMoneybags Museum of Million-Dollar Art That Richie Wanted to Buy Anyway (that's in a wing of Richie's house and is only open to the public once a year), that probably counts.
Climate change doesn't care about which country either.

I agree with the fact that China and India need to focus on their emissions, but it seems ridiculously convenient for someone from a western country to ask a couple billion people to reduce their emissions while they themselves will find every opportunity to reduce their own accountability.

FYI - A US per capita emission is almost 20 times more than that of India. https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Environment/...
You're not the only one. I don't dislike audio books, but compared to text it's just not as immersive. When reading a a good text book I get transported into it. I visualize whatever author wrote and eventually it's not even reading - it's more like a flow of information.

With audio books I don't get that - which is OK for some types of books, but definitely not something I'd pick for fiction.
"The poor lacks much, the greedy everything." [Publilius Syrus]

Being content and being able to say that you have enough is probably one of the best thing you can do for your mental health. And happiness.
A guy did a teardown of the seeker head from a russian Knock-off of the AIM-9. Rather interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbxcS1AwquA
Your point of well explained in the book 'Rational Optimist'
The intensive farming actually increased wilderness.
With tech of 1960, it would have required 86% of land to be farmed to feed current world population.
Any static site generator (Hugo, Jekyll...) + https://www.netlify.com/
Is that not what google's ad business does already? Not sure where the difference is actually. Basically the request seems to be:

Pre Split:

- Company A
- provides: search
- sells: ad space

Post Split:

- Company A
- provides: search
- sells: ad space
- Company B
- (re-)sells: ad space

Seems like this solves nothing and can be repeated ad infinitum. There are many companies which already does what Company B does - what exactly will this fix?
Yeah, good example of "post-truth" world. Russia is rich and large and influential enough to influence even BBC. In fact, the ideology that drives the Russian side of the conflict indeed has something to do with nazism, while Ukrainians are just protecting their own country. Ukrainians don't fight on non-Ukrainian soil, while Russians do fight on Ukrainian soil.

Today, both president and prime minister of Ukraine are Jewish both by ethnic origin and by religion, by the way.
I think a much closer and more appropriate analogy is gambling. They're both forms of games and are both engineered to engage the player in similar ways. Their monetisation and marketing strategies are also converging rapidly. Buying gems and coins in a mobile game is largely indistinguishable in my mind from buying tokens for a slot machine.

The problem is games are not regulated in the way that slot machines and fixed odds betting machines are. As a result they are free to implement tactics that would be illegal in a gambling machine. For example the way some mobile games like Candy Crush calibrate the game difficulty to match the playing style of the player and adjust the odds of winning to entice them into buying coins to 'take advantage' of some perceived opportunity that the game then adjusts itself to take away from you.

I'm not sure how to address this though. How can we appropriately regulate Candy Crush, without unintended consequences for Kerbal Space Program fro example? I'm not even necessarily against pay-to-play, after all it's just an extension of the model for coin operated arcade games.

It might be controversial to suggest this, but it seems like some people actively seek out addiction. Maybe they are missing something in their lives and see an addiction as filling it somehow. Maybe we all do that in some from or other, we just call it engagement.
Why companies like Ocado produce gobbledegook -FT
Its a lovely article, I much enjoyed reading it. I now think of it as part of a long list of scattered around publications that tried to describe the same process. Each with their own flower bed of opinions I don´t agree with and soiled with technical misconceptions.

Having red a good number of patents and an interest in the innovation process I had to giggle a bit how the 100 year old design was described as THE bicycle. As if we've reached the final destination. Iḿ sure they thought the same about the bone breaker and the face smasher designs long after better ones were made.

We use to have a local bicycle shop ran by a guy who financially really didn't need to, it was his passion (and rumor had it it that he did it to get away from his wife.) I went there one day to ask him why he only sold normal bikes, you have a huge store but all the bikes are pretty much the same? He explained that he use to have 1 or 2 special designs but that people looking to buy a bicycle changed their behavior from circling the shop 2 or 3 times then buying something to making half a lap then standing there gazing at that "weird" bike for a minute... and then they just left! He apparently put a good bit of thought into it since the loss of sales didn't bother him. His eventual decision was that he didn't want to disrupt peoples train of thought. They are here to look for a new bike, I should facilitate that to the best of my abilities.

Most bicycle mods or improvements are not useful but they are all weird to people. I invented 2 myself that increase efficiency and the quality of the work out by a truly unbelievable amount. The process was wonderful, I made rusty old clunkers that felt like high end bikes. While there was some encouragement from cycling enthusiasts I didn't care much for other peoples opinions, the manufacturing and marketing was already boring to me but the moaning was truly something else. The funniest part was when I left a rusty old test bike parked among hundreds of other bikes, something I never did, then someone let the air out of both tires. It was poetry to me, I wasn't even mad. How dare I have something weird on my bike.

more on the normality enforcement: https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/59406/why-are-r...
Aren't all these thermite oxidisers metals or metalloids?

Bismuth(III) oxide, boron(III) oxide, silicon(IV) oxide, chromium(III) oxide, manganese(IV) oxide, iron(III) oxide, iron(II,III) oxide, copper(II) oxide, and lead(II,IV) oxide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermite
On one hand that would help capture CO2, on the other hand the change in albedo might contribute to further temperature increase.
In theory, agreed, but just about everyone I know spend their money in a way that multiplies their "wage slavery".
If tomorrow laws were passed that the entire lifecycle of a product sold in a country must fully respect the laws of that country (e.g. a banana sold in the US would have to be grown, transported, etc. according to US rules and regulations, or in other words as if it was done inside the US) then you could guarantee such abuses done on the other side of the world would at least be illegal and hold the company in the US liable.

But then the banana would probably become a luxury product and people vote with their wallets. Some countries that rely on this would be gutted and lose a lot of the income making their lives even worse. And it still wouldn't change anything that happens at home and is legal regardless of globalization (cut down a forest to make room for cattle? Lobby says yes).

The fact that it happens elsewhere just helps put people's minds at ease. Everybody can now have plausible deniability. But it could happen one town over, if it doesn't affect them directly most will still vote with the wallet. Some can't afford not to.

It's not globalization that does this, it's that people want cheap. And if globalization goes away tomorrow they will just find new ways, someone will always have to pay the price so all the rest don't have to. A poor town? An Indian reservation? Some wildlands? Someone will have to "take one for the team" whether it's at home or on the other side of the world.
There's a bunch of people in this thread saying "but what about the parents", and a bunch of other people in this thread saying "but dark patterns", and they're both missing the point.

If you're in the industry and making money from IAPs, especially from lootbox IAPs, the one thing you need to know is that governments are coming for you.

If you're Apple or Google taking 30% of those IAPs (and also not paying much tax) then government is coming after that money.

If you're a publisher selling games for children, marketed to children, with hundreds or thousands of dollars of IAPs then governments are coming after you too.

Articles like this are a clear and simple warning: fix your shit, sort out sensible industry self-regulation, or face EU wide regulation.

We have plenty of examples to prove that the EU or individual governments are not afraid of bringing in fierce regulation.
This is nothing new. These guidelines reflect the GDPR’s intent and everyone had 2 years to prepare for it before it went into effect.
Personally I think that the most practical decentralization solutions are going to be p2p.

And also I think the big challenge we have now is for people to really work together and support some of the ideas out there. There are actually a very large number of projects in this area. Most of them are both fairly useful and also fairly unpopular.

I think the key is going to be to get some social momentum behind some of the better solutions.
The more that comes out about this story the more boring it seems.
3160 is likely nothing compared to what he's being deprived of. I have massive regrets of the time wasted gaming through my teens.
The first time I tried using Icon (over 20 years ago), I couldn't get my head around generators and back-tracking. Then I tried it again a year or two later and it suddenly clicked. But then I missed the availability of libraries in C, and the module structure of Modula 3.

So I rolled my own, (https://wrapl.github.io), combining Icon's goal directed evaluation with modules, classes, and lots of C library bindings. Unfortunately I wrote a lot of it in 32 bit x86 assembly, so it's due a proper rewrite but I still use it for prototyping and text / data processing today.
Paul Graham developed this flagging system.
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UK unveils self-driving cars standards programme
The Chukudu is more practical and simpler than the penny-farthing.
And the roads in the Democratic Republic of Congo are rough.

Leonardo da Vinci could have built a Chukudu in 1490.
Me too, but not 30+ hours per week. And on something of my choosing. And...

Then programming usually does not come by itself: meetings, company politics, little mgmt, all usually come with it when programming professionally. Many of those tasks I consider less fun than the programming itself.
Your first paragraph is very interesting. Got a link or book you could recommend to learn more?
> I’ve been using malloc and free for 35 years, and through bitter and endless experience rarely make a mistake with them anymore. But that’s not the sort of thing a programming shop can rely on, and note I said “rarely” and not “never”.

Speaking as someone who often chooses the bitter path (because that's how I like it), this is an honest look at the state of things that I rarely find in articles about programming.
A UI for building data transformations (SQl queries) isn't on our immediate roadmap, but we have thought about it.

We are taking a bit of a bet here that the industry is moving towards SQL, and we see a growing interesting in analysts wanting to learn it.

Moat: Always a concern! Short term we think most of our unique value comes from the collaborative web development experience which is not OSS currently. Also staying platform agnostic is important to us. Longer term, we have some plans which without going into details mostly focuses on building value around a community and our SQL ecosystem, but not ready to get into details just yet.
Her is a useful overview on platform support to limit access to in game purchases https://pegi.info/page/game-purchases
Yes. It's easier to blame China this way and what would the West do if their favorite nemesis was gone?
Yeah this isn't a VC funded company, it's a small business. With 270k a month in rev you can almost always carve out a very nice profit margin for yourself.
I recently started recording some articles I wrote as audio. For the few I have tested, it made a significant difference. Some readers went out of their way to tell me how much they enjoyed the audio version.

Most people get distracted too quickly to finish reading an article. But with audio, the story becomes the distraction that keeps them listening to the end.
Could you please give us coordinate of that road? Or even a link to some map service pointing at it? :)
This sounds like the end of an email forward from grandpa, not going to lie. I've been close enough to my dad that I read with enthusiasm as he wrote emails to his surgeons' professional group, and this is such a trite way to do things.
That's not really the same job you would have to compare other Amazon with other warehouse workers (not that amazon works should not have good working conditions.

The Q is how does Amazon compare to similar Jobs and in the UK JB Sports seems to have similar problems with hundreds of workers taken to hospital over 4 years.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jan/29/140-jd-spor...
Because "unused muscle atrophy" applies very much to our technology as well. A lot of knowledge surrounding technological processes isn't really captured beyond institutional culture and individual memory. So if there isn't demand for some specific technology, the capacity and knowledge to build it will wither and die with the organizations and people who built it.

We can't do a Saturn V today. We might be able to do a Saturn V equivalent, though, as both NASA and SpaceX are retracing the steps towards heavy lifters.
Thats what I was wondering.

Mental does fit better though.
Pretty much every journalist outlet is trashy these days, even NYT. That’s not the point. The Gawker’s article on him was expose which he couldn’t stomach. This is the guy who paints himself as torch bearer of ultra-freedom and libertarian but harbors tendencies of Pharos that includes beefing up authorities with tech to control its citizens. His actions are much more than “questionable”.
He was a disabled adult with learning disabilities, I am quite sure that his experience is not the same as yours, as you would know, had you read the article.
I've been using DDG for quite a few years now. At first, I would !g to Google pretty often, but these days it's pretty rare I feel the need, and when I do, Google is no better. I'm not sure if this is because Google no longer has enough information to tailor searches to me (seems unlikely), or DDG got better, or whether it's just that I've got better at expressing my searches in a form that works well on DDG. I'm not quite sure what I'm doing differently, but I'm sure that after several years how I express searches probably has changed a little.
You should write all this up on a single place, it's very interesting.