skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was priced in the past, but the numbers seem ridiculously low to me:

> To recap, the estimated range is $200 million to $1.7 trillion, which as suspected comes with cartoonishly large error bars.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/08/16/trump-wan...

For once, it needs to be an attractive number for Denmark, more attractive than the unknown, but probably huge future value of such a big uninhabited place. $5T is about 12 years of Denmark GDP, and 10-20 times earnings is a good company acquisition price metric.

We are talking selling it forever. Just think how ridiculously cheap previous land purchases (Alaska, ...) now seem in hindsight.

Denmark is not really in the position to really use that place, even in the future. The only thing they can do with it is sell it, so the question becomes when and for how much.
Can we survive technology? (1955) [pdf]
They should have a bidding war between China and Trump
JSON explicitly does not require floating point (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8259#page-7). As a data-interchange format, it's not interested in most of the issues surrounding floating point numbers (operations, rounding, exception handling, etc), but it doesn't even use the interchange formats of floating point either.

I'm sure that as a practical matter, it will be a rare implementation that does not work by deserializing non-integer decimal numbers into floating point numbers, but the JMAP spec does not require this behavior, and I believe it uses no decimals.
Great post and thanks for sharing! I've been seeing quite a bit of Render these days. Does anyone have any production experience with it and what are your thoughts? Also for those interested in using Elixir 1.9 releases along with Docker, I wrote a blog post a couple months ago: https://akoutmos.com/post/multipart-docker-and-elixir-1.9-re...
> It's very common for young people to not understand financial matters like options grants. That doesn't mean it's okay to benefit from their ignorance,

Is that one reason for a sketchy company to prefer to hire new grads?
For the kind of explosiveness that man
will be able to contrive by 1980, the globe
is dangerously small, its political units
dangerously unstable.-John von Neumann
there are might be some minor overhead for Elixir:

- all uppercase elixir atoms / module names adding "Elixir." prefix

- idiomatic Elixir code uses structs (sugar over maps), where Erlang uses records (sugar over tuples)

- some other idiomatic Elixir code has overhead over Erlang, for example access operator []
Yeah, I get that.

I was kind of hoping others might look, report how their July was. (I expect some hot European temperatures, not sure about the rest of the world.)
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The WebSocket Protocol is an independent TCP-based protocol. Its only relationship to HTTP is that its handshake is interpreted by HTTP servers as an Upgrade request.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6455#section-1.7
browser industrial wide collusion

anti-trust urgently required
Companies Hiring Remotely (Upd: August 2019)
Tesla launches solar monthly rental service starting at $50
But why? Uranium is not terribly uncommon. If you own a home, the top meter of soil in your yard likely contains several kilograms of it.

Ample economical uranium supplies are relevant if there is large demand for uranium for power production (weapons programs can get more expensive uranium from wherever). But that's not where the world is going.
You know what is a made for purpose protocol for transferring files? The File Transfer Protocol.
Converting to base64 generally increases the payload size. Being able to convert it that way is a workaround - not a solution to being able to transmit binary information.
In a hand wavy way, we already access the energy from stellar explosions, that's when uranium is naturally produced.
>Isn't this true for any skill

I'm not sure why it would hold that, if you do something for 40 hours a week, you'll necessarily improve if you do it for an even greater amount of time. And, besides, effectiveness as a developer is not just about coding anyway. A lot more goes into creating products and services than lines of code.
Absolutely. The whole std::future interface has been borne out of years of careful attempts to actually make these abstractions work in real life. async-std didn’t come from a vacuum. It’s a incremental improvement on tokio that benefits from being able to greenfield on top of the newly changed and standardized future trait.

Carl Lerche and the rest of the Tokio contributors deserve a citation.
I made a list of Filfre pages I liked after reading through the entire archives: https://www.gwern.net/newsletter/2017/06#the-digital-antiqua...
Wings3D I think is also used by the hobbyist 3D printing community because it's solid modeling, right?
I think you are underestimating the size of these companies. You say get a "real job" but YouTube pays millions upon millions of people and may be the largest employer by number of people paid. It is already a real job. There are many insanely huge YouTubers who have started their own websites and they have all failed with them. Even being the largest creator on YouTube they couldn't move traffic to their own website.
Williams is also the author of the bestselling book The Animator's Survival Kit which is considered an essential text for any aspiring 2D (and even 3D) animator.

He spent decades on creating his own 2D animated film called The Thief and the Cobbler which was beset by endless problems and delays. The film was never completed in the form that Williams wanted. The fascinating story of this film can be found in this 2016 article:

13 Facts About The Thief and the Cobbler

http://mentalfloss.com/article/74031/13-beautiful-facts-abou...

Another interesting fact: Williams worked as an animator on the 1968 film Yellow Submarine featuring the voices of The Beatles. I think you can see some of the visual influence from that film (such as the exaggerated forms) in The Thief and the Cobbler too.
Give me the speed of fastmail with the encryption of protonmail, make the two talk to each other out of the box, and actually make something new instead of just the same old thing.

Actually, loan some of your devs to protonmail because both their mobile app and their imap bridge are embarrassing.
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Hi Mycoliza! One of the authors of OpenTelemetry here. It would be great to see an OpenTelemetry implementation in Rust. If you're interested in bootstrapping a group to work on that, please let me know!
What average user has a ftp app installed?
do ppl bring engines to code jams?
The field of software engineering changes rapidly and is complex to master. To remain good at the job, one must continue to explore and learn. The only way that is going to happen is if you are genuinely interested in the field. The best indicator of that is that you have pet projects outside of work.
SoftBank to Lend Founder and Employees Billions to Invest in Fund
https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/...

Found some news that China already withdrew its bid after US pressure
I don't want to just pile on with praise spam, but this is really cool. It's great to see people building more tight, simple integrations with Open tools.
The earth already does that, we just call it our ecosystem. It's why we have clean water, carrots, coal and, and the end the chain, the internet to talk about it.
I'm really not being facetious here, but I want to ask - why not deploy this in docker containers?
Extensions can communicate with a native helper app actually.
This looks like an FTP capable extension.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sftp-client/jajcol...

Not sure if it uses a proprietary proxy though.
IKEA goes all in on smart home tech
Wow, it's impossible to Google that term. Every single result is related to "Photo ID."
Why it’s time to stop worrying about the decline of the English language
Do dedicated ftp clients include crawling and indexing?
Wikichip is my go-to for these things.
On desktop, almost everyone. Windows Explorer speaks FTP, MacOS finder speaks FTP, I think all major Linux desktop file managers do.

(Of course there's no guarantee they'll keep support for it, based on similar arguments)
That’s not at all what I asked.
Wow, that's a little disturbing. Some imaginative phrases there I wouldn't have dreamed of looking up. I'm going to try to forget some of that stuff.
Silicon Valley Looks North as Tech Giants Expand in Toronto
IKEA seem to be killing it in speaker area these days. Even as Swede, that's kind of unexpected. I guess they saw a market segment where a lot of wood is used (this one's plastic though), and there were high margins for the premium products and then decided to go for it.

There's obviously a great deal of outsourcing to chinese and taiwanese manufacturers going on here, but they seem to be very competent in the customer role.

I love my IKEA Eneby BT speaker from last year. (This one, with the add-on battery: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/00357636/)

I would love for IKEA to go into the standalone analogue speaker segment with a fantastic living room speaker, just to piss off those (often) European and quite pretentious speaker brands. Take on B&W and the likes!
They are talking about capturing the full irradiance of the sun for 1 second. You are talking about the little sliver of it that smacks Earth.
Yes, but when production is reduced we will have a huge spike of food price.

We may need more consolidation in these food production. As in by nature of business cycles.
Yes, open sourcing it would be best.
http://gem5.org
A lot of Google hate in this thread. Normally I'm on board, but I think you guys are making a big deal out of nothing.

When I click magnet:// links, my bittorrent client opens. When I click slack:// links, my slack client opens. With this change, when I click ftp:// my ftp client will open. Chrome has simply decided it only wants to spend resources focusing on http:// and make the unrelated protocols separate. I see 0 problem with this, it's not like they're killing the only or even the most popular ftp client out there. We should all be using sftp anyways...
"They were only in it for the money" is another lazy way to demonize the Gibson family while justifying the actions of the school.
Source?

I just opened ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ in firefox 68.
Wouldn't 777 words in any language give 90% coverage of all the words in a typical newspaper?
Supply and demand would rapidly reduce this timeline even at incredible energy amounts. There is a virtually unlimited demand for energy. We'd build more energy intensive machines if the supply was so vast. Powering millions of large fans to break up a tornado or a hurricane would now be possible. We'd keep inventing power hungry ideas until balance was restored.
For thinking out code? My answer might not be what you are asking, but...

A whiteboard, a text editor that supports bulleted lists, and my legs.

If I have a general idea of what components are needed, I write them in the list, drilling down with nested lists on details of each until I have thought through what I need to code.

If I don't have it thought out enough to know what the larger building blocks are, I sketch on the whiteboard to help figure them out.

If it is such a new idea that I just need to let it percolate in my head, I go for a walk and just let my mind wander around the topic.
That's very optimistic, but it's hard for me to see at this stage in the game, how AR/VR can make someone 10x more productive, especially when it just appears to be a VR window manager.
You broke my heart with Mac only. I won't forgive you.
> I think employers prefer engineers who are effective and have a past track record of success.

I have talked to startup founders who were very explicit that they only hired developers who coded obsessively outside of work. One was very clear: If you didn't have a public Github profile showing a track record of frequent commits on personal project outside of work hours, you would not be hired at his firm.

> I've mostly found that working on software outside of work has minimal correlation with productivity.

Same. That doesn't mean everyone is hiring based on that.
elixir is rails/react/etc for erlang.

you have (a rather nice) syntax sugar. then you download most of your components from random urls via a script you will never bother to understand how it works. which for some reason also grew to push the project to production and manage its life cycle and act as a makefile.
Most wireless speakers released nowadays have a digital EQ to compensate for differences in frequency response to simulate accuracy. However the fact that this EQ is now being utilized on a different set of speakers makes this build far from "high quality".
It looks like the processor is doing some form of DSP, so some smarts are required. It can also play from Spotify etc. and the binaries for that are probably bloated like most cloud services.

With this said, had this been a lower end product, the SoC would probably have been an Allwinner or MTK with a soldered Realtek SDIO WiFi solution.
Given that the market is so unbalanced in favor of programmers, and will keep being that way for the next 10 years, that's hardly an issue.
I've read a few accounts about what happened and all of them seem to make it clear that the faculty and students involved were wrong. I'm a college professor who tries to be a good ally and while I would suspect that race had something to do with what happened, everything I've read makes this seem like a case of mob mentality running wild. That being said, as the article does state, it seems like only a small number of students and faculty were involved in the protests.

I am, however, suspicious that there have been so very many editorials about this when so many people in conservative circles love to talk about "far left academia" who are "stiffing free speech" and are taking the terrible actions of a small number of people as representative of all of academia.
Its not just Chrome, Firefox is planning to deprecate it as well (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/chrome-and-fire...). Relevant Bugzilla ticket (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85464)
tech is moving so fast, if you're not learning in your spare time, you'll quickly fall behind. That doesn't mean that you won't be able to find a job though
I don't think I've ever come across a web search that led directly back to a ftp site. How much do they actually currently index ftp anyway?
> This is effectively a regressive tax. A tax that disproportionately impacts those with young children. Largely a tax on parents

It’s a good thing the government of Canada do not suggest you give dairy products to your children anymore then :-)
>But now our agricultural sector is competitive on the world stage against subsidised and protected competitors.

You referring to Fonterra?
IN a good future, Oberlin will erect a monument to the incident and be resolved to be a sensible institution devoted to real education.
You could write native apps on top of your proposed directory layouts, and it would be better than whatever people do today.
True, but it's enough. We don't need more that what we already got. We don't even use most of it.
Missing tattoos: Altered photo lineup by Portland police draws objection
http://gem5.org/Main_Page Is an open source CPU simulator.

I used it in undergrad to run benchmarks with different cache sizes and cache coherence strategies to see which were more effective. I'm sure Intel and AMD have much more advanced simulation tools though. Most likely multiple, or at least multiple levels of granularity (so you could do stuff like, simulate these potential branch predictor designs at a gate level, and then turn around and simulate the entire CPU at a higher level of abstraction.)
This was a really great article. I particularly liked the "cultural" reference at the end of this:

> 19/ “Computers are such a part of life that many people believe computers don’t invade their privacy…life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness is inevitably linked to a computer.”

> How’s that for east coast optimism?
Baby monitors already exist. I don't see how adding this into the mix fulfills a market need.
I mean Netflix and Apple both face extremely fierce competition, just not from those actual companies you mentioned. Replace Nokia with Samsung and Blockbuster with Amazon and Comcast (Hulu) and you'd make a little more sense.

Making cars efficiently is hard and Tesla is great at powertrain and batteries, two important but specific parts of the process, and awful at the rest. The German companies are incredible at everything else, including reliability and efficiency.

Sure maybe they'll just never be able to catch up in making (or sourcing) batteries and electric motors. Wouldn't bet on it though.
Do they index magnet and slack links?
That might be true for some physical/mechanical skills, such as sports. However, some quick googling shows that even professional athletes rarely average more than 40 hours a week practising over the course of a year, so even that's questionable.

And as for things like programming or any mental/intellectual skill like that? I highly doubt it.

As a general rule, you're going to see heavy diminishing returns on time invested. By the time you've spent 40 hours doing it, a few more hours on the weekend is unlikely to have any real benefit, and to the extent it causes burn out or takes the place of something that helps you stay healthy, it's likely to be a net negative.
JMAP (or IMAP for that matter) is the transport format. JMAP runs over HTTPS, so the connection is encrypted. The transport protocol says nothing about how data is stored on the MDA (the server). That's up to the implementation of the MDA, of which no standard exist. The MDA is something that you should trust, if you cannot trust the MDA, you shouldn't use it in the first place.

What you need to worry about it transport, and that has been fixed by mandating HTTPS.
Little Big Adventure was released by a french game company (in an "enhanced" version) in 2015 and is now available on Steam and elsewhere: https://store.steampowered.com/app/397330/Little_Big_Adventu...
But does more of the food in NZ ends up being imported ? Food importations have a large impact on the environment because tankers emits a shot-ton of CO2, which is not the case for locally produced food.
>people like you are one of the problems with tech culture

And that's any kind of way to talk to someone?! I don't think so.

I was very surprised that the only downvoted comments on this page currently are by people who apparently don't understand how if you love programming, you never do it outside work. On Hacker News! Repeatedly on this page I've seen the total straw man response like yours of "requires participants to be all-in 24 hours a day". No-one's suggesting that. I don't understand how that seems an appropriate or adequate reply.

>And this sort of attitude discourages a large swath of the population from bringing their talents to the field.

I don't know what you mean there.
none, shadow cljs does everything and seems so far to be easier to get running with full emacs repl-y goodness
the US govt has google on points one and two currently. this has been building since the last round of FTC comments: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GK8YUqQUHYqfmulKuDUwhYG2_GS... although many including google are evading. they dont care for some reason: https://cicilline.house.gov/press-release/cicilline-criticiz...
Not really sure what the major point is. Sure, there's a core set of "units" (words / Kanji characters) that are useful when trying to learn a language. I didn't even attempt to speak English conversationally until I had about 200 verbs and 500 nouns and maybe 100 adjectives memorized. This lets you have useful conversations and basic understanding when reading, but it's still a struggle to get that last 10%.
I bought a business ebook from a guy. He added me on Facebook. He was really smart. He brought in a lot of trading experience. I had startup experience which he was interested in. We clicked well.

I still did a lot of the hard work and money, gave him only a minority share. He was okay with that. Later on, I added a much larger share when he proved he could commit.

We made good, ambitious progress. I'm surprised he stuck with me through it all, especially since I didn't really know him that well. There were times he canceled his health insurance and slept on the office floor to keep things going.

Personally, I think partners who are strangers work better than good friends but YMMV.
Thanks, I have seen Lex, Yacc, Bison, do they still used in the industry?

Some used LLVM and some used GCC/Clang, I'm splitting over which is a better choice to build "statically typed" programming language.
> It would be much better for the society to let countries that have areas that can produce food properly do that and just buy it from them instead.

And then you have your whole nation dependent on Foreign Policy. I think we need tech to improve local food production to a level that is at least self sustainable ( so their citizen don't starve ) and have extras either produced local or imported.
I wanted to but I'm AFK for most of today. I'll try to comment some more later today, and I'll likely blog on this in the future.

EDIT: 'danShumway and 'ajnin together essentially summarized my thinking here.

Web is built and maintained by technically proficient people so it needs them to be comfortable. There is no unified group of "power users"; everyone doing something regularly becomes a "power user" in that context to the extent they are able to. If you remove their ability to grow, you're condemning them to wasting their time and reducing utility of the web for them.
Video + canvas = magic (2010)
Might need to postpone the announcement until April 1st 2020. He certainly missed that opportunity this year.
I don't know. Maybe this article is biased: China gets access to each country's raw materials - minerals, metals, wood, fuel, foodstuffs. Still, this doesn't usually mean long-term jobs for local people. Large numbers of Chinese are usually brought in to do the work. Country after country has discovered that Chinese investment helps China's economy a great deal more than it helps them. And in some places - South Africa is one of them - there are complaints that China's involvement tends to bring greater corruption.
I'm not sad by this. I'm tired of the ethanol industry and still amazed the ethanol requirement in gasoline exists.
This is by the way how everything with clojure is developed (If you use the repl/figwheel/shadowcljs/combination of all of these) !

Instant changes and no reload/recompiles.
The article is likely the exception, where people do grow and become better at grasping the depth and essence of the problems their solving and the breadth too. I’ve never seen people grow like that outside of elite companies, and even at that it’s rare.
Neither does the browser. The search engine does that. What should happen here is the search engine still crawls and indexes resources accessible by ftp, and the ftp:// url gets passed to the operating system to launch an appropriate native program. This happens for protocols like magnet:// and discord:// .

Whether Google's search engine will continue to do so for ftp:// resources once Google's web browser no longer handles them remains to be seen.
Timing is also important. Apparently Greenlanders don't feel very Danish. At what point in a rise to prosperity would they simply demand independence? Not even a sale, just Greenland being its own independent nation. It'd be unseemly for a modern progressive state like Denmark to demand tribute in exchange for freedom.

If I'm a superpower with plans for Greenland, using the usual tricks to create unrest that leads to calls for independence would be a likely first step.