skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This! If we, the US, have the money to spend trillions to spend subsidizing the fossil fuel industry and the military industrial complex behind it, we have the money to green the economy, rebuild infrastucture and develop countless new industries and technologies.

There is so much upside and opportunity in attacking climate change and pollution, I cannot understand why so many are willing to bury their heads in the sand. Decarbonization and undoing the damage we done is the chance for a second industrial revolution, with a much higher quality of life.
Five of the apollo astronauts who walked on the moon were MIT graduates, including Aldrin.*

Tech Square was built for the space program but after the Kennedy assassination when the nexus was moved to Houston, MIT put project MAC (later LCS and the AI lab) there; Honeywell had a chunk for Multics, etc. It was just office space though; I don't think the CIA office in 545 was related.

* (Only two Eagle Scouts did; Charles Duke was both.)
It's okay to me.
The problem being solved IS (manual) DOM manipulation. It's messy and error-prone. Using React et al to generate the DOM as a clear function of state is much better.
Really? I think this crowd is actually pretty positive on Apple for the privacy stances et al.
That is what I do. The backup server can access the production server, but production can't access the backup. But my setup requires the backup to go to disk on the production server and not stream out directly, so that aspect is annoying.
We tried to migrate an old gigantic legacy software from REST to GraphQL and left it in midway. We were just not convinced by the effort which goes into creating and maintaining the GraphQL layer.

We went ahead with JSON RPC

https://www.jsonrpc.org/specification

JSON/RPC is much simpler to implement and consume. You just have to expose server-side functions as endpoints and when it comes to build authentication and Authorization you can build using (Python or Typescript like) Decorator or just a Higher Order Functions which wraps the functions to be exposed to control the input and output in aspected oriented way.
It's like people don't know you can just install Linux on anything for free.
I am developing a new rich editor for web. I have heard of org mode, but I have never used it. The direction I am heading for is seamless markdown, inspired by https://typora.io/

Seeing how popular this is made me feel worried that seamless markdown may not be the right direction. What do you think is the good features markdown lacks? I know markdown doesn’t have calendar and some features, but some markdown engines support add-ons.
I think these are multi-user versions of QB Desktop, normally restricted to a LAN, that are being hosted to allow access from the internet. The hosting entity also provides backup.
And I think you underestimate the degree to which social actions are mutable. Street parking, diamond engagement rings, acceptance of homosexuality, “miscegenation”, drug use, alcohol use: these are all things that became default culture within a generation in many places.

Human nature is a rapidly alterable thing. Things that were unheard of become acceptable very fast with shifts in society.
That's actually correct, though you can also tune them for harsher local weather. I actually visited a heat-pump factory in Guangdong back in March. They make heat-pumps for residential projects in both freezing cold Harbin (Northern China) and hot as hell Guangdong (Southern China). Those are different SKUs that get tuned based on expected regional needs. The temp-vs-efficiency curves get all wacky but it still works. They also had a new product that combines two heat pumps: one for summer, one for winter.
The fukushima plant had a poor safety factor, in re the backup cooling power source. It's not as if the disaster happened in a vacuum, there was also a tsunami and the plant was not build outside of a potential tsunami zone.
Agreed - it is probably slightly less harmful than smoking barring exploding batteries but is still a clear case of nicotine merchants being pieces of shit about "not advertising carcinogens".

It is a cliche but they are way better off not starting in the first place.
Quickbooks is not involved.

It's like a Wordpress hosting provider getting attacked. Wordpress is just software hosted there.
We have over 1 million files in our dropbox and it's never been a problem..
Not very dissimilar from golang as far as (badly implemented) code gen goes.
"Non-techy" is Impostor Syndrome for "somewhat techy".
And yet, the Energy Saving Trust suggests that it can save 100 pounds a year even compared with a modern gas system, and much better against all other alternatives.

I'm not sure if those numbers include government incentives but if they do then they're still a good proxy for the actual costs with a reasonable carbon tax included to internalize externalities.
> It is far from obvious that the best solution is to make local sacrifices, then hoping the world will follow.

case in point: Europe. taxes over taxes over taxes has pushed energy cost to the point production is non competitive https://businesstech.co.za/news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/G...

net result: local decade long slump plus most heavy industry moved to countries that have less energy cost and less regulation, so it's not clear if the world is actually better off, since you also get pollution from naval transport
AWS Device Farm improves start up time by 90%
See the Skia/Flutter note below. Skia has been open-source since 2008 -- it's the wasm bit that's new.

https://skia.org/dev/flutter
I am not, but it is https://www.pornhub.com/model/cybering. Obviously, NSFW. It has the setup module right now, and an in progress command line basics. The topics will get more advanced after I get through the prerequisites. Thanks for checking it out!
Austerity. That's laughable. Where would this be?
Duolingo Built a $700M Business with Its Addictive Language-Learning App
I think this image from elsewhere in the comments does a reasonable job of showing both what an argument map looks like and why you might want one.

http://www.argunet.org/wordpress-argunet-2/wp-content/upload...
it's censorship and controlling thought and debate but honestly, I think we need some of that in the US right now. too many conspiracy theories and stupid ideas are afloat, flooding the entire nation in a pool of garbage. it will be heavy handed but overall for the good of the country's stability
Everyone has its corner. Apple is irrelevant in web. Google in enterprise. Oracle in mobile. We can't expect one company to dominate all markets. That's not possible, not to say unhealthy for innovation.
It's certainly very search engine friendly. You essentially get a curated list of all and ONLY items of potential interest to you.
> "if it works, break it and make it better!"

Fix it 'til it breaks is what I always say :D

Needless to say my 3D printer had a lot of down-time haha.
Xero is not a Quickbooks hosting provider, so not really equivalent.

Like suggesting DotNetNuke when WPEngine goes down.
Rice's theorem is pretty clear on this. You PROVABLY CANNOT inspect a piece of code and answer any nontrivial question about any nontrivial property of it.

"Is this code evil?" is a VERY nontrivial (bordering on philosophical) question

Adding buzzwords like "AI" into the mix doesn't affect this in any way
Yeah, well, it's the best IDE I've used for PHP (or any other web development) in a couple of years.

"Think about it for a moment: this kind of open source kills genuine businesses due to the monopoly position of the company “sponsoring” it."

I hate to break it to you, but the only open source projects that last are sponsored by big companies. Most people don't want to work on edge-case bug fixes unless they are paid.

You should be thanking big companies, regardless of Monopoly status, for giving us such great, free, software. Which I might add, took lots of money to create.
> Chickens are an obvious option

Chicken are fed with soybeans. What would you feed ants so you can feed them to chicken in turn that would be more efficient?

The fish aspect seems more reasonable, if we can't figure out how to feed farmed fish with plant products.
What I generally need is a CMS that requires minimal maintenance over the time frame of a decade or more. Static html generation, doesn't have 50 bazillion dependencies, written in a language that isn't moving fast.

Actually, what I really need is a stable, portable file format, since editors will continually bloat up and die in the natural life cycle of software projects.
If you want to live in the cities, it's fine. If you want to live in the suburbs, it's fine. If you want to live in the country, it's fine.

Different people have different needs, enjoy different things, and enjoy living different ways.
The original post does talk about it, but it skips the basics, presumably on the assumption that they're already known.

> will the Linux kernel automatically start using RAM as disk cache if there's enough free space?

Yes, exactly.

> Is it smart enough to prioritize disk cache over infrequently used pages and then know to discard the disk cache if it does need to page stuff back in from swap?

It is, and this is what's controlled by the vm.vfs_cache_pressure sysctl that the post discusses how best to configure.
Should each vehicle be autonomous and make its own decision based on the data that it can capture around (light/sound i.e. radio waves) and possibly open trusted data (maps, traffic, weather, etc.) rather than being dumb and follow a control center that can fail, be abused or get hacked ?
I guess one who control the traffic data source, could influence the vehicle's decisions. Vehicles could talk to each other and propagate traffic information, but again vehicles have to trust each other. It comes down to a trust issue.
(Bullwinkle voice) "This time fer sure, Rocky!"
If you don't inspect and respect robots.txt, you shouldn't be surprised by sites actively blocking your crawlers. Ditto for when you try and work around crawling restrictions by hiding behind real browser UAs.
> Lisp machines were sold in the market, before UNIX Workstations won over thanks for being based on source code available at a symbolic price, thus cutting down their hardware costs.

And yet despite their early popularity they died of.

> ETHZ had their Oberon workstations servicing the complete CS department for around 10 years.

I don't consider something running in a CS department as a success. CS department run all kinds of wacky shit. That's basically why they are there.

> Midori powered part of Bing during its high time.

An OS that runs a single application in the real world. That proves nothing.

You haven't convinced me that a production grade OS implemented with a GC can tick every box an OS which doesn't have a GC can tick.

On the contrary actually. For all the experimentation that has been done not a single one has actually panned out. The possible programs you can create that have a GC is a subset of all possible programs that can be created without a GC.
Then venkat’s own model is self-contradictory.

He states clearly that middle managers provide the buffer between the sociopaths and losers. Thus, Stanley is clueless.

Venkat’s description of Stanley as a “loser” completely destroys his own heuristics that only clueless are in middle management.

So congratulations, you’ve found a flaw in Venkat’s logic. He contradicts himself. However, I still think the general heuristics he lays out are valuable (as you seem to).

Thanks for the quote man — you made me realize the issue isn’t quite as cut-and-dry as I thought it was. I see your point now. Thank you.
Keno: first of all, let me give a big public thank you to you and your colleagues. (For those here who don't know, Keno is listed as one of the authors of the paper, and works closely with Mike Innes, lead author and also lead developer of Zygote. Mike is also an active member of HN.)

Second, let me bring up what I think is a significant issue. My perception is that most deep learning researchers and practitioners -- that includes me -- tend to iterate very rapidly over new ideas. We want to test ideas in code as quickly as possible, and in practice we will not invest the time and effort necessary to figure out how to write cache-optimized kernels (e.g., for GPUs) every time we might need one. In fact, I'd say the default attitude is that it doesn't even make sense for us to use (what we perceive as slow) automated kernel-writing tools to search for and compile optimized kernels. In practice, it always seems faster and easier (from a developer-time standpoint) to write code that leverages existing, inflexible, prebuilt, handtuned kernels that have already proven to work well, are fast, and are already nicely integrated with frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow.

There was a good discussion of this topic in the forums a few weeks ago[a] in response to a recent paper published by some folks at Google in which they make a compelling case that this issue is holding back AI research.[b] As an example, they use capsule networks[c], the implementations of which have proven difficult to optimize (e.g., they copy a lot more data around than is strictly necessary, in order to slice and reshape data in a manner that is compatible with preexisting hardware-accelerator kernels).

What are your thoughts on this? Will Zygote provide any improvements or advantages on this front?

--

[a] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20301619

[b] https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3321441

[c] https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.09829
Interesting that there's lots of languages supported, but Python is conspicuously absent. Why no love for Python, Contentstack?

Also, article is more an advertisement than anything educational. And here I am making the situation slightly worse.
> You should see art more!

The more art I see, the more I dislike modern art (yes yes, ambiguous label, sue me).

The best I could say about the art of the artists you mentioned is that some of it is interesting, though not very. But when compared to masterpieces such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Leighton#/media/File:... or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_the_Terrible_and_His_Son_..., I'd get upset that galleries would waste more than a few square feet on modern art, to say nothing of the current sorry state of affairs.
People who want to try out org-mode but are familiar with vim shortcuts may want to check out spacemacs, it's an emacs distribution built to be useful for vim users. That way you can try out the real org-mode.
Uneducated guess: they host an RDS farm and give people RDCs\remoteApps to log on and use their local QB installs
Or the "portions" that Rey was buying from the trading post in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Trans community uses virtual world avatars to discover real life selves
The day I crashed production 4 times
NASA is auditable, the DoD is not. Therefore, it's more profitable to funnel money from the federal government into defence companies via DoD.
Hm, stable file formats... LaTeX doesn’t seem to be going anywhere ;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotor_ship
Do you do this as a full time job or is this a side project? the pace of work on this is really impressive.
> not too expensive

The evidence does not bear out this part, unfortunately. It's not NIMBYism that has killed the reactors in South Carolina, or is on the way to killing Vogtle's expansion in George, that's just mere construction incompetence.

The time to start building nuclear was in 2000-2010; we started, perhaps too small to make a big difference, but in the end it was good that more weren't attempted because it was a gigantic failure and drew far too much money away from better projects.

The problem with nuclear power aren't accidents during operation, or NIMBYism, the problem is that we no longer know how to build it. (And once you start looking into the history of construction in the US, it was also often the case that we didn't know how to build them 40 years ago.)
Senegal vs. Algeria Live Stream: TV Channel
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https://qiita.com/Senegal-vs-Algeria-Live-4k/items/c566dcc56d46ba923b4d

https://qiita.com/Senegal-vs-Algeria-Live-4k/items/108811bdb75ec0f8f4ba

https://qiita.com/Senegal-vs-Algeria-Live-4k/items/595dd0d8cb8ee508770a

https://mthtrains.com/sites/default/files/webform/senegal-algerie-en_direct-tv03.html

https://mthtrains.com/sites/default/files/webform/senegal-algerie-endirect-live-tv02.html

https://mthtrains.com/sites/default/files/webform/senegal-algerie-en-direct-tvv5.html

https://mthtrains.com/sites/default/files/webform/video-senegal-algerie-v-endirect-live-tv01.html
Good work guys, well done.
Rust compiler added to Android tree
>What do you think is the good features markdown lacks?

Orgmode adds things like todos, timestamped entries, outlining, cross-references, show/hide sections etc, which markdown editors typically lack.
I've also been thinking about building a tool like this for a really long time. I would be interested in collaborating, so I'll send you an email!
Interesting, thank you!
I didn't actually think such a thing existed.
Can you expand on the lack of scientific merits?

I gather it's a mix of sociology,philosophy,communication and logic?
"Headless" is a pretty old term in IT, basically for anything that operates without a dedicated monitor or view as part of the primary access.

For instance, Chrome not too long ago released the capability to run headless. Headless servers are hardware servers without a physical monitor, keyboard or mouse (i.e. you typically interact with it via ssh or RDP). Microsoft has also used the term for windows servers and embedded devices for years.
Notion raises $10M with $800M valuation
Have you tried loading a full browser session? Not just headless.
Kmart bought sears [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kmart#Headquarters
I’ve put open source between quotes because having a near monopoly company back it makes it feel like a product sold at a dumping price only to increase the company’s brand popularity, so they can cross sell other products. Given Microsoft’s size it can afford “selling” a product for free and open source for as long as it takes to monopolise that niche. I feel the same about google, facebook, and others. I dont feel the same about red hat (pre ibm) or canonical. It’s quite ok to monetise on open source, but not to use it to monopolise yet another niche.

What I want to support is open source projects built by genuinely independent communities or individuals. Also i support high quality paid ides such as those developed by jetbrains. As devs many of us want to be indies, but we dont want to pay for software - a bit of a catch 22.

The issue i have with large companies doing open source is that they use the movement as a marketing tool, and kill indie developers or small companies and truly independent communities, while their core products are still closed source and cross sold thanks to free bait.
I haven’t immersed myself into the details of the Room 641A scandal, but it does indeed sound awful. I do not approve of the operations of NSA/Five Eyes.

But let my re-phrase my question like this: Do we have any evidence that NSA can perform MITM on TLS 1.3? Using a federal US CA would be one way, tricking a CA to issue fraudulent leaf certificates would be another, but as established elsewhere in this thread, both those ways are quite noisy. Attacking the endpoint is another way, but once Mallory does that, all bets are off.
Near the top of the article it says peak 14k per minute (233 per second) and it sounds like demand is ever growing.
He is clueless because he provides the buffer between the masters/sociopaths/bosses and the slaves/worker bees/losers in the warehouse.

He is clueless because he doesn’t have the willingness or ability to be a ruthless sociopath , but he still doesn’t want to be a loser in the warehouse with Darryl.

Stanley is a low-status clueless, not a high-status loser. (IMO).

These are interesting perspectives all
around and I welcome further friendly debate. Thanks for sharing your thoughts guys. :)
The easiest solution to this is out-of-band backups happening at the storage layer. The details depend heavily upon your platform and storage hardware, but most SAN and virtualization solutions today allow one to backup hosted systems without being accessible by those systems (and no agents installed into the guest OS).
Seems to be my impression as well. Thanks.
Huawei’s Hongmeng OS was never for smartphones?
I am 38. I am sort of being pushed into management, both by the company and by my family. But I am finding management is not something I enjoy. I am not a bad leader but I feel drained at the end of day. That feeling of runner’s high or in the zone is rarely achieved in meetings or while making reports. After a few hours of programming, I feel more energized than when I had started.

Now I am looking to go back to purely programming positions but I think in long run it will be harder to get paid decently while competing with more and more fresh graduates.

So my plan is to create my own business. Running your own business means a lot of not programming but I want a business that simply give me freedom to choose my projects, when I want to do those, and from where. These freedoms should make up for boring tasks.

One non-tech business idea is real estate investments. I think flipping would be fun or maybe I watched too much HGTV. I enjoy fixing stuff at home though. It gives me same runner’s high feeling. For now I am slowly working on my real estate license. I figured that is the best way to learn market and if nothing else I ll save on commission on my next home.
> Most (all?) assets have liabilities attached,

The point is that not all liabilities have assets attached.
Think You're Too Old to Learn New Tricks?
Could someone paste the text, please?
Microsoft's R&D spending is staggeringly high!
That episode when Bear killed and "ate" the skunk was hilarious. I recall him saying that cooking it "smelled like burning tires". Hilarious.
> dying alone with their cats.

Wow I find this very condescending. What is wrong with living alone? What if your children are asexual and don't want to have partners?
there are on different levels, a search on a sql database will have real time results, while on solr / elasticsearch it's going to have a delay (from milliseconds to minutes). That delay gives the advantage to build a series of data structures much more suited for search than the ones on a database.

I built several search systems for classified listing sites, something like solr is a life saver once you get enough traffic. Is much easier to scalate than a sql database, and you can do much more things. The easiest example is a facet, for example you make a search on a car listing site, and you want to show how many cars from each brand you are matching, with sql you have to make another query, while in solr you can get those results in the same query. Now, add the model, the color, the gas type, the transmission, the place, etc. that actually grows easily to something unescalable, while with solr you can do easily.
They should use the desynchronized canvas flag for lower latency on the ink example.

canvas.getContext('webgl', {desynchronized: true})

https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/6360971442388992
Well, I'm no expert, but for the vast majority of people a detached storage space probably isn't even on their shopping list. And for most who put some priority on storage space it will be fungible with an attached garage or full / partial basement, which are much more common. And it never comes down to these two homes are exactly equal but for the ADU.

Logically, an ADU absolutely should be worth something but I don't see it reflected in my limited experience buying two properties with ADUs, one of them income-producing. Might be different for a rental ADU somewhere highly constrained on housing, but my rent-to-home-value ratio is comparable to what's being discussed here, too.
Danish study finds 95 percent of dead petrels ingested plastic
Kotlin Named Breakout Project of the Year at Oscon