skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The interesting and missing thing from a lot of discussions is what the investment bet is (beyond flipping before the musical chairs ends.)

AFAICT, assuming things keep progressing:

-- General purpose quantum computing is easily 8-10 years out: https://twitter.com/lmeyerov/status/1177632571636584448 . HW vendors might become lucrative around then, and soon after, SW. As a language & framework tool designer, I'll probably poke my head out again in a few years again.

-- Niche stuff, especially military, can be done over the next few years, with subsequent ROI in the 5-10 year range. Need funny secure radar tech with lossy analog circuits? Go for it!

-- Medium term: There may be some wins around say HFT doing probabilistic optimization algorithms on super lossy/unreliable quantum circuits, and maybe national label + pharma stuff for the same. This might be interesting for a larger-than-expected audience (breakthrough events for synthetic bio, genomics?), and as a tool designer, blaze the path to general SW, which is also interesting..
This should be top comment. I came here to chat about potential downsides introduced by complexity of having multiple threads accessing the internal data structure. Until someone runs this in production where they actually use the performance it delivers over and above vanilla redis, I'll probably hold off. I'd like to know it's stable under very high load with contention.

No offense to the creator(s) and I have a ton of gratitude and respect for them pushing the boundaries. But I also know Antirez is a smart dude and Redis has delivered insane performance thus far with few issues.
Perl won't become the next COBOL, as COBOL only got that way because of the reasons outlined in the article: the financial sector used it extensively, and their systems are too mission-critical and they're too afraid to break things by upgrading.

Contrast with Perl, which was mainly used by niche hackers (in the original, respectful sense), used in the types of products that live by the SV valley motto of "move fast and break things".
Electric motors that run in factories out last generators.
Why would there be a concern for overpopulation? Population is falling in every developed nation now, if you ignore immigration. People don't want to have a lot of kids when they have money and education, and this is happening to every nation as it develops.

>If we still had a significant population of people born in the 1700s, what might U.S. politics look like?

Not that different, because 1) there just weren't that many people alive back then in the first place, and 2) most of them would be dead anyway, because immortality doesn't make you impervious to accidents, murder, tornadoes, etc. Even with immortality, people are eventually going to get killed somehow.
chargeback?
Enjoy having no support or economic progress from us - bye

Make no mistake, Apple can be replaced in a sec. It needs China not vice versa.
That was very intense.

Anyone with knowledge of crowd control able to chime in about what it is the police are trying to do on a tactical level?
How many of them can actually buy a license with a national average salary of $17 a month?
What makes this even worse is that this is only a huge issue because Adobe moved to the whole 'Creative Cloud' thing rather than the old 'buy each product outright' model. With the old model, it wouldn't hurt these creators all that much if their accounts got deactivated, since the software would just not get updates.

Now on the other hand... they're screwed. It's a 'brilliant' example of how these 'cloud' based services are a bad deal for the user, because it puts them at the risk of getting locked out their own purchases due to legal hassles like this.
Yellowstone closes to wheeled traffic in about early November and doesn't open for winter (snowcoach)until about mid-December.

Winter is great if you have the clothing/equipment/interest but Nov/Dec isn't the best timing and, even though it's open over Christmas or thereabouts, I've been told that animal viewing tends to be better later in the winter season.
In 2008, I worked at livemocha.com. I remember there was a formerly Chinese national that mentioned the same problem. The company received complaints (from users, I think).

The story also reminds me of one dev's solution to conflicting instructions on how he was to label a button. So, he hard-coded special rules for each individual boss and both thought they got what they wanted.
As the market scales up, OEM parts are going to be a thing.
For some apps, where you can easily scale app servers horizontally and be stuck in a single redis (because redis cluster mode is not well supported by drivers, or because it can't access some atomic LUA operations) you can get redis to be your number 1 bottleneck. Specially because you can throw more cores at the PostgreSQL so Redis quickly becomes the only thing that doesn't scale.
The rich spend a smaller share of their income, so a VAT scheme would in practice produce a regressive taxation scheme, with the lowest incomes paying relatively the most, because they have to spend all of their income.
I think it's fair to say that people living in Venezuela have bigger problems than access to Adobe products.

They live in an extremely socialist country with crippling economic worldwide sanctions, massive inflation (300,000% or something like that). Their own money is worthless and most use US dollars to transact business.
I had nothing but bad experiences with Mojave. Everything was noticeably slower, and stuff seemed to crash more often. This was despite the fact that Mojave shared a base with the very stable iOS 12.

Now we have Catalina, which shares a base with iOS 13, which according to numerous reports is very buggy... I don't want to touch Catalina with a ten foot pole. The fact that my copy of CS6 would stop working is icing the cake.

I should get one more year of security updates on High Sierra. Not sure what I'll do after that...
Sure I do: there are other countries out there, you know, and they do tax very wealthy people more. There's more to the world than America.
One word - H1B. It's either do as we say or get DEPORTED. We are no more than the highest paid slaves in history, we can't afford morals and personal opinions.
>less ethical option

Are you getting that because of this flag issue or is there more behind that? I would argue that Apple is, by far, the more ethical option.
fork() on Linux (and many other OSes) shares pages between the parent/child processes in a copy-on-write scheme
I am definitely inexperienced with R. The intention of this post was to highlight a key point of friction I encountered throughout my introduction to the language. Namely, I was introduced to R (by someone more senior than myself) as "data science in a runtime/IDE", but there quite finite boundaries where the conveniences of R stop and other tools begin.

What motivated me to write this post was the lack of discussion of R in this use case. I actually stumbled into using "Rscript -e" one liners while looking to do basic stats in a Linux CLI.

That being said, I still stand by my point. Taking data from "out in the wild" (log files, tarballs of images, unstructured text) and making use of it can be frustrating in R because cleaning up edge cases, removing unwanted data, and getting everything into the correct container/type often involved unintuitive chaining of function calls. This is coming from the perspective of someone who worked with Python/awk/sed prior to being exposed to R.

If you have good counterarguments, I'd be more than happy to hear them and addresss them in an end note in the post.
The 32-bit support is probably not easy to carve out into a separate self-contained package.
I live in Montana - Coyotes howling are a bit spookier when they are outside your window. :)
Hired where? We moved manufacturing to China. They can't work anywhere whose production isn't held hostage by the Chinese government, one way or another. For Apple this decision was made by Steve Jobs and Tim Cook back in 2004 or something like that. They can't get their independence back because a low-level engineer decides to be idealistic, the check was cashed a long while ago.
Pretty important, as methane has 30 times the warming effect that carbon dioxide does.
Zero Day Snafus – Hunting Memory Allocation Bugs
https://cjil.uchicago.edu/publication/how-united-states-uses...
> Facebook just published a blog about moving petabytes per hour.

For the curious: https://engineering.fb.com/data-infrastructure/scribe/

Edit: HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21181982
This is more like when they dropped support for PowerPC emulation. It's less about forcing people into the future than about forcing Adobe and friends into the present.
The regex stuff in stringr, and read_csv from readr are adequate for almost anything if you're talking about ordinary delimited file import.

What does awk give you that these don't?
"these people" have been in free software for decades champ. I met Chris Webber in chicago, at free software events literally 10 years ago. Andy Wingo is similarly long term involved. Keep eliding everything actually about this to throw up straw men. Its clarifying, as I noted in another thread. And, his "dirty laundry" is driving women out of spaces supposedly dedicated to freedom. Not sure why thats so difficult.
> Is it simply a reminder to their people of who's in charge, at this level of pettiness?

Most countries have petty border disputes.

A famous country occupies territory in Cuba where it built a military prison. Cuba claims that the military presence is occupation of territory it rightfully owns. The famous country refuses to leave; it claims it only leases it based on a hundred-year-old document, and sends $4k checks yearly. Cuba denies, and refuses to cash the checks.
Tembo – spaced repetition memorization for everyone
Now I'm suddenly tempted to write up some kind of program that'll automatically archive not just the Wikipedia pages themselves ¹, but also their citations and external links. Or maybe (probably) someone else has already written such a program.

¹ I vaguely recall Wikipedia already provides some way to download all pages in bulk, but I can't seem to find it (if it even exists anymore, or if it ever actually existed instead of me just hallucinating it)
The thing is: if you can output (through highly automated processes) a device that yields even just 1% more energy than it required in production over its lifetime, you have the opportunity for an exponential growth in energy production at your hands. Higher
EROI might indicate a steeper growth, but you can achieve the same by just scaling up production.
And for additional context, I believe every major OS vendor and many apps that bundle their own locale data have modifications on top of the stock CLDR database. Those modifications are mostly handled by legal teams, not by engineering.
Seconded. It's just different enough from Illustrator to be unsettling for the first few days, but the core of it is immediately and very obviously excellent. I persevered (it's vastly less money) and I'm very pleased I did. It's significantly smoother and faster in daily use than Illustrator (at least on my machine) and that counts for a lot for me. Updates are thoughtful and contain useful features. There's very little now that I actually have to work around and some parts of it are just intrinsically better - snapping candidates, for example.
Since this is basically plywood++, does it have similar failure modes? Like what happens when there's a leaky tub frequently wetting a structural piece of CLT?
Not the workers problem.
The tech decoupling had already happened.

Arguably the one and only big tech that has a significant Chinese stake, is Microsoft.

Google/Facebook/Netflix is banned, Amazon retreated. Oracle had just closed its research center.
There might be a place for a WikiKnowHow...
I still do exactly that. Best portable music player :).
"I support rifles for hunting, but there are limitations on the types of rifles, rate of fire, real use cases and etc."

Can you explain what those limitations are? Your mention of use cases and what is neccessary may conflict with others'. For example, quick follow up shots are necessary when hunting multiple feral hogs to reduce their environmental impact.
> An abusive relationship is an interpersonal relationship characterized by the use or threat of physical or psychological abuse.

I.e. the author is manipulating facts. Trust has nothing to do with it. Obviously, if a person does not trust anybody, not every relationship they get into is abusive to them.
I completely agree with you. Moreover, I witnessed the same scenario in other projects, and it always ended the same way: once the charismatic leader was eliminated, people gradually lost motivation and everything dwindled. When people realized it was not worth it, it was already too late. Now that we lost Stallman it will be extremely hard to find a person even remotely as principled as he was.
Haven't those developers had access to the beta for months? What's the point in the beta if people aren't getting ready before the release?
Internet50 Event at UCLA
While I get the performance improvement with multi-threading, won't you lose ordering of updates?

In many use cases that's not a problem, but I imagine for some it's a dealbreaker.
Of course but I think the point is that we can stop supporting the continued benefit of these. Money talks and both people and corporations can talk the talk by not supporting these countries and not caving to them.
Redis unstable introduced threaded IO, but it's still not as fast in my benchmarks.
A better question might be: how many companies actually know about this executive order? It took effect August 5, but Adobe is just now taking action on it. I'm pretty sure the company I work for has both free and paid Venezuelan customers and we (afaik) haven't cut off business with them.
I live in Manhattan. I can afford to live literally anywhere in the world, probably more comfortably than where I am now.

The question is whether the people who cook my food, do my laundry, plumb my home, deliver seltzer to my bodega, butcher chicken in my grocery store should be able to afford to live within a reasonable distance of my home. We can choose to build cities that make it nearly impossible for them to do so and for them to live in constant fear of homelessness (with many eventually sliding into it) or we can build ones where they can comfortably afford a modest home.
SVG can do relative coordinates fine: "m 10 10" (m dx dy) rather than "M 10 10" (M x y). But yes, they're text until you compress them.
There were databases that ran on 8 bit computers. They were not as powerful as SQLite, but they could do the job.
Could this run on TI calculators? They use Z80 but I don't see them mentionied. Looks like a cool project!
Its amazing that the free speech zealots here are flagging my comments. but this is real, and also appropriate and I'll keep posting it.

ahh yes, purged, like the stalinists, I get it, a perfect and not at all over the top howlingly absurd ideologically confused snarl word. Excellent contribution to this discussion, you've outdone yourself.
You genuinely believe Tim Cook has more leverage than China?

By what fraction do you think Apple's profits would drop if it had to rebuild all of its factories outside of China? By what fraction do you think China's GDP or tax revenue would drop if it kicked Apple out of China?

Even if that situation were reversed, Tim Cook answers to shareholders via a board of directors. He's legally obligated to maximize shareholder value. Who do you think the Chinese officials who want power over Taiwan answer to? What legal obligations of any kind do you think they are under?
> Are you sure they don't just disagree with your use of the word sovereign?

Yes, when people debate Taiwan’s sovereignty (for, independent foreign relations and a military, against, limited recognition) they understand the local context. That there is legitimate dispute with respect to its status is news to a surprising number of Americans.
I agree that this appears ripe for abuse -> the company could make this process as long and as painful as it wants, and pay no costs for this.
Can they simply force employees to waste unlimited amounts of their time?
The problem is less one of many people not living in the SF Bay Area than that of those who do live or work there, there simply isn't available, affordable, or adjacent housing.

For some industries (viz: YCombinator, startups, and VC) there really aren't many options outside the SF-SJ corridor, NYC, Seattle, and Austin being among the few, though largely of vastly smaller scope.

There's also the matter of those who've grown up or raised families in the region who find that they either can no longer live their themselves or that their children must move elsewhere. Fair or not, this destroys relationships and community cohesion.
Statistics is statics, but do you know someone rejecting something valuable because of the gender? How is harassment defined in this respect?
They do not, sorry.
No, the nicest thing we can say about the leader of this organization is that he lead it with principles around free software that nobody else can match. That he has been outright prescient in his outlook on what will happen as corporations disrespect the rights of users via their software.

He created the free software movement, created GNU. We're standing on his shoulders, only now (after 20+ years of standing on his shoulders) caring that yeah, he's not a perfect person we had hoped for.
That is quite an achievement!
It's got to be more complicated than that. I've used Parallels to run complex DX10 games such as a Tomb Raider 2013. I'm not sure what wizardry they use to make that happen, but it works really well.

Parallels is, perhaps not coincidentally, not as terrible at running macOS as some other solutions, but it's still fairly poor.
That's weird. Mojave has been rock solid for me, way better than High Sierra. But I guess mileages vary.

I'm not updating to Catalina either, I plan to stick around on Mojave until they release something that actually makes me want to upgrade. (maybe when Catalyst matures)
For instance the proposed solution where the compiler becomes a service that blocks compilation of a unit until it has seen all the module dependencies.
> What irks me the most, is the lack of server-side language support for cloud offerings, on-premise Enterprise products, etc. If Microsoft can support Klingon for translation purposes, then just maybe they could support Inuktitut a little better.

I've noticed that in terms of language support in general. Of course, languages with Western and/or wealthy populations seem to have better support. In Elasticsearch, I can set up a field for Irish or Latvian or Basque analysis out of the box (each with ~1 million speakers or fewer). But Zulu or Uzbek or Malay (each with 10 million+ speakers), and sorry, no support.
Acorn is another option.
South Park's latest episode was about Chinese censorship in the West.

'South Park' Scrubbed From Chinese Internet After Critical Episode
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/south-park-banned-chi...
> Perl is by far the most 'fun' language I've ever programmed. Once you get familiar with a lot of the idioms, it is extremely powerful, and the amount of processing you can do in a line or two of perl would take 10 lines in Java and 20 in C. And 15 years ago, these were the languages it was competing against.

On top of that, if you found some exception or special case later that you needed to add support for...it was usually just a quick tweak to the Perl program, but often half a rewrite in Java or C.

This meant (and still means in a lot of cases) that when you need to do processing on data whose format is not well specified and so you expect to not get it right until a few iterations, doing it in Perl can often be a lot faster than most other languages.
With audio hardware it’s looking like substantial rewrites to core code because of underlying is changes. I think it’s just a lot of work on a short timeline for small development shops.
GPS Tracking Device Found on NYC Bus Leads to Cyberstalking Arrest of Mobster
It certainly can. We try to take those types of discussions offline though--Bob and Betty can have that talk after the standup.

And to clarify, I also find daily standups to be tedious and generally unhelpful. Once or twice a week seems to be the sweet spot (for me/my team).
There are enough people who depend on those for their income that congress would do something. I don't know what, but the litigation would be the top concern of congress and that pressure would ensure that things got wrapped up quick somehow.
It's simple and clear: western country censors media as well.
> it's a different sort of income, with a VASTLY riskier risk profile

Yes, earning the money with labor is vastly riskier. Telling a financial advisor where to put money incurs no risk to your life.

Compare that to being a welder, tree feller, home builder, where your health or life is a daily concern.

I really don't understand why those who go out and work hard every day have to pay more in tax (as a percentage) than those that just sit on the couch and watch their wealth grow.
Apple is clearly focused on making money at all costs. It feels like breaking into the Chinese market is focusing all their business decisions - particularly the focus on cheaper phones, one OS to rule them all.
I use R a lot, and nothing in this post rings even the slightest bit true to me. This guy's use case for R seems to be very unlike almost anyone I've ever heard of. Towards the end of the article, when he's talking about how all he really needs from R is the summary() and boxplot() functions, it really becomes clear that he's never done anything more than dip the very tip of his pinky toe into R.

There are lots of valid criticisms of R, but this article doesn't touch on them. It's so off-base that it's the proverbial "not even wrong".
Honestly it shouldn't take any more time than previous updates for Mac apps. I'm pretty sure all of my work projects were made 64-bit clean in 2014?

If you were already using Cocoa, and were heeding deprecation warnings for the last 10 years, there should be zero issues.

Of course, with lots of software (especially projects started decades ago) it might have been difficult to do this. But the only paths forward were

(A) expect to drop support once 32-bit was removed

(B) gradually replace components which were dependent on things without 64-bit versions

(C) wait until 32-bit support was removed, then have a terrible time updating

And the writing on the wall has been there for a very, very long time.
Ah dude no problem, you can actually play Halo on Xbox now
I hate to defend a big corporation, but they do seem to have a point: where exactly are the standards for being able to determine whether a website is or is not accessible? Even for sighted people, there's no real standards for anything at all. How do you determine whether a website is "standards compliant"? You don't. These days, you just make sure it looks OK in Chrome, and years ago you made sure it looked OK in IE. There's supposedly standards from the W3C, but no one actually follows them.
Won't it potentially allow out of order updates? Or am I missing something.
Malfunctioning Sex Robot: On John Updike
So this year on RedisConf Antirez demoed threaded version for Redis (only transport needs to be multi-threaded, core remains single threaded). Numbers were already amazing. I will pick the community version of Redis any day over forks.
The glorious DevOps shift for savvy developers
Have we really stopped being human beings at this point? Does even truth even matter anymore or just the shouts getting most retweets?
What part of "Yeah, he fucked up in approaching those women and making them uncomfortable" and "It's still too high a number" consists being "cool with harassment"?

FWIW, I will not be responding to you any further, as your comments seem to have devolved into personal attacks.
Does this have any implications for Secure Enclave like chips?