skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True but it would take insects away from being insects and it would take much longer to evolve than it takes to evolve against chemical agents.
It is reasonable to entertain the hypothesis. It is unreasonable to assume that it is true.
"When it adds value", or so it is said. Define when it value is added and you get the edge you need to cross when it becomes viable.

Say you are working on a FOSS project to replace something and the one of the dependencies doesn't work out. If you have the project capacity, it might add more value to roll a replacement.

Example: say you are writing a metrics collector, and you need something that can run inside a container because you want to deploy it as a sidecar. A dependency you use needs root network access for some reason, and you can't really bypass it using CAP_'s because it's hardcoded to look for UID 0. You can patch it if the code allows for it, but if it doesn't, you still need a fix so you might as well roll your own.

On the other hand, say you are in a commercial setting, then value is probably not added by rolling your own until it's either freeing up resources or addressing a business need.

Example: you are running a bunch of APIs behind a gateway, and the gateway exposes those APIs on a subdomain based on their name. But you kinda want them on the path of a single domain instead. You could do an ugly patch with a reverse proxy in front of it and rewrite all requests, but at that point you might as well implement a replacement gateway that does the same thing. While it might be a slightly bigger effort, it both frees up resources and gets a business requirement resolved.

There really is no one-size-fits-all rule, even if you take licenses, quality, maintenance, sourcing, cost etc. into account it still won't cover all cases. Say you are a small company but your software is used on billions of devices. Rewriting a part of a kernel would give you a few cycles less CPU time required for a task that multiplied by billions saves a lot of computational power, but you, as a small company, don't have the resources to do so. Even if the license, quality and maintenance is right, you still wouldn't rewrite something like that.
It's mostly fine for what I do but I really hate the infinite scrolling, add if I scroll down for a while it will eat so much RAM that it starts to slow down.

On mobile I just use Sync for Reddit, the UI is sane, fast and pretty.
Same thing happened to me around that age as well except it was only for a few days...
I wrote an article that covers this from a DevOps perspective, among other things. Perhaps you'll get some value from it: https://calebfornari.com/2019/07/11/devops-decision-making/
Thank God our arms have joints in three places allowing us to position them arbitrarily.

Once you type one handed or use a mouse your ergonomic keyboard is less comfortable than the traditional geometry.
Elsevier 100% does allow authors to post preprints (most due). However, there are some journals published by Elsevier that don't.
In 2004, Java had been out for nearly a decade and was Java 5 at that point with the collections framework maturing the standard library.

At that point, Java had just as much maturity as Go (2009 release) or Powershell (2006 release) does now.

Java is only three years younger than Python. It would be surprising to see people claim that programming python in 2001 was done because it was fashionable.
I think the appeal is that people intuitively understand that computers having a physical form at all is not required - that ultimately, computational ability will be integrated into the essence of every object, and lugging around a stupid, immediately-obsolescent device represents the failures and limitations of current technology more than the potential of computation.

That's why they spend extra money on smaller computers, because they represent the next step towards the ultimate elimination of physical computers, which is what people want.
an article about the demise of Mad from a publication that was regularly in its crosshairs. nicely ironic.

here’s some alternative coverage: https://reason.com/2019/07/04/mad-magazine-is-dead/
> studies have shown a reduction in the risk for serious diseases in circumcised men

What are those studies? It is very uncommon to cut off parts of children in Europe, Russia, South America and China (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevalence_of_circumcision) and such serious deseases should be much more common there. So what are they? On this scale we should see a pattern.
Manhattan is behind Staten Island and Brooklyn. Brooklyn has a natural barrier thanks to Fire Island.

So what remains is Staten Island.

i don't think this will be very effective tho
I don’t know the name for the transition, but you are talking about what are called registers in linguistics. (I do the same thing when back with old friends)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register_(sociolinguistics)
I’d say the UK (especially London) has a housing pricing crisis more than anything. And I hate how development in London is fracturing communities. If anyone is onterested:

You can concrete over the entire length and breadth of the UK and house prices would still rise: (http://uk.businessinsider.com/societe-generales-albert-edwar...)

Why building more homes will not solve Britain’s housing crisis: (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/27/buildi...)

Why solving the UK housing crisis requires more than new homes:(https://www.ft.com/content/f3143c7e-c56b-11e7-a1d2-6786f39ef...)

There is no housing crisis. It would be easier if there were:(https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/02/there-is-no-housing-cris...)
Never had those problems. I'm not a very dedicated redditor, though, just checking few forums once a few days and reading some topics. The only thing that I hate about reddit is that they want me to install their application on my mobile phone and that application is inferior to browser, so I don't even want to install it and I can't opt out of that warning which appears on every single page.
So? We heavily subsidize every energy source here in Germany, having done that since forever. Coal subsidies, nuclear subsidies (incl massive hidden, defacto ones), now renewables. If there were no subsidies the price would be in the same ballpark anyway, except the state would have no influence over where that money gets spent.

The "renewables levy" isn't meant to be permanent high at the same level. It is meant to be seed money for research and initial construction to get the ball rolling. Startup money basically. It works by guaranteeing companies a minimum price for renewable power to reduce their investment risk.
Nice catch.

> They make it clear in their notes that "are numbers" includes infinities but not NaNs.

This is definitely not very clear on the form, thought.
My friends in Germany still have the most expensive electricity in all of Europe, including Scandinavia.

They should have stayed on nuclear until renewable would be cheaper since the households are the ones feeling the pinch while big corps negociate lower fees or import cheaper electricity from France that's big on nuclear.

It's cool to be ECO and all but that's just taking the piss on the middle class and my priority is putting food on the table for my family not footing the bill for political-corporate ECO circle jerk.
Cedarwood: Efficiently-Updatable Double Array Trie in Rust
I remember playing Elite back in the DOS years, that made me go buy a PS4 and try NMS. After a disappointed start I phased it out. I know thaat now the games is miles ahead of what it set out to be on the original launch, but that shit has sailed for me. Now I got a PS4 collecting dust because of that (not much of a gamer anyway). If I read that NMS drops some major-mega-big-update I may start it deom scratch.
That must be the thing the dragons are made of.
I don't understand what you mean by "perceptual result".

Animals avoid dangerous behaviours because they cause them pain. Robots, including self-driving cars avoid dangerous behaviours, because they are programmed to do so. Why is the existence of robots programmed to avoid dangerous behaviour indicative of whether animals feel pain?
Burning Man 2019: Sneak Peek at Outrageous Art Installations
These are pretty good. I can actually follow the plot (as I have seen the films). Handy tool if you need to retell the plot verbally one day.
Let's not forget that:

- CO2 emissions of Germany is still 5 times more than a comparable (similar GDP/flatness/weather) than France for electricity production [1];

- Electricity production is roughly a third of all final energy and CO2 emissions come mainly from coal and fuel [2]. Two threats for which Germany has done very little for now.

- Germany is spending around 2 billions of dollars [3] for renewable energies, whereas it would have cost more than 50x less with nuclear, allowing to spend the rest of this investment into building insulation and thermal renewable energies.

- PV investments were computed from past market prices, not with the negative price obtained with non controllable source of energy [3]. Germany is only at the beginning of energy subsidies.

Investing in photovoltaics is politically efficient, not environmentally efficient. Please let's stop to focus on renewable electricity. Let's start focusing on carbon-less solutions. The hard problem is about coal and fuel.

The situation could not be more urgent, since conventional oil has reached its peak. Not removing our dependency on oil is strongly damaging for our economies. Focusing on non controllable sources of energy is just accelerating the damages. Please see https://jancovici.com/en/ for more convincing arguments :)

[1] - https://electricitymap.tmrow.co

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption#Energ...

[3] - http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NP_Eye_watering_cost_of_re...

[4] - https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/why-power-prices-...
Amazingly done, and without text. He also made these for various other movies including Indiana Jones, LOTR, Star Trek, The Shining. [1] I'm not fan of any of these franchises (anymore) but if I were... (read: in my younger years) I'd want such poster(s) :) the artist also has a shop.

[1] http://www.andrewdegraff.com/moviemaps
Ah, so it 'pays' with a low refresh rate. That makes sense.

That said, my point was that 4K computer monitors are rare (despite some communities of enthusiasts), and nearly everything currently in use has a VGA port.
Maybe now younger people will join me in yelling at passerby, "Get off my lawn!"
After college darkrooms, I briefly setup my old home darkroom in a downstairs half-bath. It just wasn't worth it and, to tell the truth, I was probably a bit burned out on photography at that point.

I continued to shoot slides on trips but it wasn't until I got into digital photography that I really fully got back into it.
For decades a Christian bookseller was known as CBD. Then that became a problem
If math is not a big part of the underlying domain for your software you won't need it at all. But being good at math (like not having problems with it) is a strong signal you'll be able to pick programming fairly easily.
I was introduced to QBasic by a friend in the mid/late 90's and spent a great deal of time on a community called NeoZones. The site allowed people to showcase their work, tutorials for learning, forums for talking with everyone else -- there was always something to dig into and such fun. I've never experienced a developer/programming community like that since. I hope there are still communities like that out there and would love to find some to be part of again.
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Hmm, I would have guessed "doubters" rather than "dodderers". It seems to fit the rules as well or better, and makes more sense contextually.
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old.reddit.com is okay, but it now requires the temp whitelisting of 2 or sometimes 3 javascript domains. Not just reddit.com like was required in the past. Given that, it's just easier to use the ceddit.com javascript interface to pull from the API and get the actual old reddit experience.

But even worse than the redesign is the new corporate culture of censorship. I left after they banned r/gundeals. They're boiling the frog over there. Nowadays I mostly use RSS feeds and if I want to talk about something I post on the notabug forums (federated+p2p capable).
But fundamentally (quote) different? Morphological differences seem more superficial.
"This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health", meaning that we paid for it with our tax dollars, but they still want to charge us $35 to read it. Fuck everything about that to flaming hell.

If the thirty-five bucks went to the researchers instead of some horrendous academic publishing parasite, maybe they would be able to afford to do a prospective study that might mean something, rather than using self-reporting retrospective questionnaires to ask people with memory impairment what they recall about their sleep patterns decades ago.
>> Equating reaction to stimuli with pain is too sinplistic.

Just to clarify this- my comment says that animals react to stimuli and that pain is a stimulus that they use to avoid dangerous situations (or behaviours). Not that reaction to stimuli entails the ability to feel pain.

So I'm asking: if (some) animals don't feel pain, then how do they know to avoid dangerous behaviours? What is the mechanism that keeps them from, say, jumping into the fire?

Does that help clarify what I mean?
I started really using Reddit when the new UI came out, plus I am 99.999% browsing on mobile.

So with that said, I don't have any problem with the new Reddit since it is what "Reddit" has always been to me.
Laptops aren't computers any more, they are thin clients connected a mainframe somewhere. That we call them laptops and the cloud doesn't change the use case.
I have not seen a desktop in a corporate environment in over a decade now.
And, for the sake of completeness, there is BaCon, a BASIC-to-C transpiler written in Korn shell, compatible with bash and zsh:

http://www.basic-converter.org/
Me too, but you must know that they will turn it off at some point.
Check out this 3D-printed recreation of a DataHand.

https://github.com/JesusFreke/lalboard
Due to RSI issues, I make extensive use of the Vimium Chrome extension (keyboard navigation of websites) and the new Reddit design works substantially worse than the older design.

This appears to be due to the new design loading "pages" as "layers" on the browser viewport - so you have overlapping layers all with intermixed links shortcuts.
Well, they also had spacecraft issues at the end of 1968 that they had to resolve before putting humans into it.
GP's point is that we give humans the benefit of the doubt. You have reinforced that notion.

>> the degree to which something can experience suffering is proportionate to the sophistication of its ability to think.

But we do not assert that human suffering is at all related to IQ or intellectual "sophistication".

>> Simple animals appear to be able to experience pain. However ... they don't appear to be able to creatively imagine and dread pain.

But we would not say that a human with a mental disorder that renders them unable to think ahead is no longer capable of suffering.

>> More sophisticated animals (e.g. dogs) appear to be able to understand suffering in a psychological sense.

By "appear to", do you mean that dogs react to suffering in a way that reminds us of other humans? That they have learned to make the right noises, to flinch, to yelp?

>> ... while it is clear that virtually every organism avoids death, it is not necessarily clear in which of these or other senses they experience suffering.

I suspect that, though you never mention humans here, you are implicitly not questioning whether humans can experience suffering.
You only partiality quoted 103. Quoted fully, it shows it's not at odds with my instructor's advice. Especially points 1 and 2

However I do stand corrected as code does say that you must always indicate if you are changing course or direction.

"Signals warn and inform other road users, including pedestrians (see ‘Signals to other road users), of your intended actions. You should always

- give clear signals in plenty of time, having checked it is not misleading to signal at that time

- use them to advise other road users before changing course or direction, stopping or moving off

- cancel them after use

- make sure your signals will not confuse others. If, for instance, you want to stop after a side road, do not signal until you are passing the road. If you signal earlier it may give the impression that you intend to turn into the road. Your brake lights will warn traffic behind you that you are slowing down

- use an arm signal to emphasise or reinforce your signal if necessary. Remember that signalling does not give you priority."
The new design is godawful and unusable, especially without JavaScript. Switching to old.reddit.com is a breath of fresh air. The juxtaposition seems like an ideal case study in how bad modern web design is. I swear it's almost like web designers are trying to make things worse.
My take.

This is a dangerous opinion, even if it is somewhat valid.

A harsh version of it is like this: the value of your work is the value it gives to the business. If you believe that when, then you will be a "0x" programmer if you are working on a project that fails because the business is failing.

The consequence of that one is that you should not work for failing businesses or businesses that will certainly fail. That is, join the IT department at Sears and you are doomed. (A risky business which may or may not succeed is something different.)

Another thing I've heard people say is that they want to "do the 20% of the work which gets you 80% of the way there". Well, if you are flying across the U.S. and stop 80% of the way there maybe you land in Las Vegas instead of Los Angeles and you're still alive. Try that on the ocean and you die.

When it comes to a "minimum viable product" you have to get 100% of the way there, even if you don't know exactly what that 100% of the way there is.

There is a certain kind of programmer who looks productive because they are getting projects "80% done" and leaving somebody else to do "80% of the work".
Saw you also do https://fullstackjob.com ?
It's called Plaudit.pub [1] and launched not too long ago. The aim is for preprint servers (and eventually journals) to display endorsements right next to the research they host, but more most of them, this currently requires a browser extension.

Also note that it currently only provides a solution for the endorsement part of evaluation - you'd still have to use, say, email or a comment form to provide actual feedback.

[1] https://plaudit.pub/
It really was fantastic. I taught myself QBasic out of the help screen when I was a teen. I spent many afternoons flicking through the extensive documentation and finding functions with interesting sounding names to read about and try as I programmed little games for myself.
i wonder if someone will replicate the old reddit using reddit's api. i mean, there are full featured mobile clients, i wonder if the api licensing would allow it.
On the topic of time-reference - An interesting cultural aspect when refering to 'tomorrow', a Western speaker means rather shortly, quite possibly next day.

Yet an Arabic speaker, when saying 'bukra', in fact may imply some indefinite point in future, quite possible not at all.

Just as being on-time or late may practically mean different allowances in different cultures.

Sure, there're other more precise expressions, perhaps being bilingual would expand one's perception of time-referencing.
I find that hard to square with the design of the Apollo guidance computer and associated software.

In researching, it appears this was less true at the beginning of the space program, by necessity.

It's fair to say that the Apollo guidance computer was revolutionary.
The literal spreadsheet -- a printed sheet of paper with rows and columns, with the rows and columns summed at their ends -- was common in business and taught in business school. Bricklin got his idea in a classroom for a reason. For my first company, in 1989, our "checkbook" was a literal spreadsheet: when you (hand) wrote a check, a carbon strip transferred the payeee, amount etc onto a spreadsheet underneath it.

But like so many things the spreadsheet itself evolved over centuries.

Likewise I used early word processors as a kid in the 1970s and there was enough variation in how they worked and thought of the buffer that it was clearly not "obvious". Even emacs and vi, which evolved from command-based editors (TECO and ed respectively) took opposite approaches (modeless vs modal) to their fundamental interaction model. And Bravo on the Alto (what you call Word today), while choosing modeless, took of course a different point on the interaction plane.

Nothing obvious about it.
This. I also enjoy being able to move the two halves around through the day, shifting the muscular load around. It makes it easy to accommodate different seating, standing and lying positions.

(I never figured out, despite 'ergonomics training', how I was supposed to hold my extended hands and arms upright for hours per day without shoulder and neck pain.)
I think I'll just stop regularly browsing reddit at that point. Hopefully tildes will have grown enough by then.
> but i just don't ever want to see an error like that

Then, do not mark your variables as mutable. This error only happens if you use `let mut variable_name = ...`

AFAIK, `let var`, e.g. immutable variables, behaves the same as in clojure.
I get the “sorry” message a lot too. The mobile version of the site is unfortunately riddled with bugs big and small, to where you can tell they don’t use it themselves. But I’m not downloading their app, sorry.
https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/
Note that there are browser extensions that automate this, for both old and compact on mobile.
I think Mike Cannon-Brookes cofounder of Atlassian has some involvement with this from mentions in the media/his twitter account.

Not mentioned in the article but might be interesting to Hacker News readers.

I guess the $50 billion valuation after hitting $140+ a share last week gives him some cash to follow his renewable energy passion. He hooked up South Australia with Elon Musk’s batteries after a twitter convention with Musk.
Yup and https://javascriptjob.xyz and https://golangjob.xyz
Yep.

i use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re... for firefox

and apollo on iOS.
Virtual Kubernetes
It's fine because I just opt out of the redesign.
It’s not the designers’ fault, it’s developers seeing everything as a technology problem rather than a user needs problem (and I’m speaking as a developer). The best solution for any given problem is usually the simplest, at least until you find that you specifically need extra complexity to solve a user need. Unfortunately modern client-side development is fixed in a mindset of developer efficiency above all, which doesn’t naturally lead to simple solutions.
> It boggles my mind that a redesign could be implemented so poorly on such a popular site.

It's not the first one really. I can count many products that i use daily and have gone down the drain. There is obviously some "change for the sake of change" or just to get a promotion here. Reddit, Skype, adsense off top of my head
Most-Positive-Bignum (2008)
The new design is slow as mollasses. It's ugly. It doesn't provide direct access to both the shared link and comments. Managing text formatting is slow and painful. The only positive point is the Ctrl+enter shortcut to post comments. I always use old.reddit.com.
> Swift had the same ABI issues as C++, but when most packages ship as source code, it's not that big of an problem

... and when there's essentially a single build system for Swift code. While for C++ there are several.
Shitty article.

It doesn't say anything about consumption (instead it talks about generation - useless) and there are no links to source of the stats.