skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically, as soon as something is released as free software, you must have the 4 freedoms: use, study, share, improve. This means, that it is not important, who contributed the code and what else they did, in the context of using that code in any of the 4 freedoms ways. It frees the code from the control of the creator in that sense and the creator cannot take it back. Anyone who releases as free software will give up such control.
Oracle once having provided something to free software (My guess: They only did it because the GPL forced them to.) does not mean, that we have to like Oracle. These two things are not connected.

I am not sure about the state of Mnesia, however, I wrote, that it is an example. If I had found a Wikipedia list of DDBMS, I would have posted that. However, I am sure knowledgeable people will be able to name a few more.
> There is nothing in economic theory that makes a calculation of broader costs vs benefits possible.

There are vast swathes of economic literature and theory dedicated to the study of external and social costs and how to best estimate and adjust for them. Claiming there is no concept of 'social profit' in economics is akin claiming there is no concept of testing in software development...
I agree with your point about asset inflation but I think that the author of the article is well aware of it based on these lines:

> Doubling the amount of gold in a country will have no effect on the price of cheese if you give all the gold to rich people and they just bury it in their yards, or use it to make gold-plated submarines (this is, incidentally, why quantitative easing, the strategy of buying long-term government bonds to put money into circulation, did not work either). What actually matters is spending.

Are you suggesting that negative interest rates are some kind of solution? I think they would make the problem worse, just like QE; the effect would just be to expand the money supply by injecting more money into the economy on the basis of arbitrary rules.

With negative rates, the incentive becomes that everyone should borrow all the time (because borrowing becomes profitable), so then the question will quickly become "who is allowed/qualified to borrow?" and the answer will either be "rich people" or some other kind of unfair arbitrary criteria.

Negative interest rates are a terrible idea. All the extra money will be absorbed by cryptocurrencies, advertising platforms and other speculative investments.
Coincidentally, one of Tom 7's SIGBOVIK 2018 papers [1] actually describes the emulation of uint8_t with floating point operations and nothing else. A working library is available [2].

[1] http://tom7.org/papers/fluint.pdf

[2] https://github.com/ixchow/fluint8
World's oldest person, 116, eats diet of bacon and eggs (2015)
Intel has put out a legal fix statement last time around. Similar announcement this time?

Looks like bringing ARM power efficiency and crazy parallelism to windows is only a good thing for consumers.
I was pretty sure it did, but if not that's even better. I didn't set this manually and it's off, so presumably that's just the default setting.
Think we can point the James webb at one and get a farewell Pic?
Because they know that it'll be incredibly popular and will force them to continue backporting updates. They want to move forward and users want to stay on one place. In the past users managed to keep Microsoft from moving forward. Now they want to force users to move forward. Nobody is happy in both cases, it seems.
Ask HN: How many tech companies are using JavaScript for their whole stack?
I’m currently building a mobile app and the entire stack is Javascript/Typescript. React-Native FE with a node backend. It’s nothing fancy just a simple API that sits in front of a Postgres DB. So far it’s going amazing. Since I’m constantly switching between BE and FE having them both in the same language saves my brain from a massive context switch.

I’m just wondering if it’s all too good to be true and I’ll eventually hit some bottleneck where the JS solutions doesn’t scale. Would love to hear what other people’s experiences are.

If you’re interested here’s a shameless plug of what I’m working on: https://hevyapp.com
I, too, develop for Android and, like you say, we have the "luxury" of being able to do it on both Windows and Linux (and macOS as well, if I wanted). Even .NET development is more cross-platform than ever, with .NET Core.
One of my points was precisely that developers were an exception in this regard, as our tooling is generally cross-platform. You can't say the same about people who do their work primarily using Adobe tools, for example.
And even developers sometimes don't have this luxury: for example, if you do iOS development, to publish on the app store, at some point you must use a Mac to sign the app. Of course you can use stuff like Xamarin and use the Mac exclusively to sign, but this is often inconvenient compared to just using the officially endorsed stack.
Overall, requiring a "traditional desktop operating system" to work is less and less the case for the general population.
This is the big flaw in how inflation is measured. Assets (eg. for pension savings) and especially housing costs are for some reason not included in the Consumer Pricing Index despite them being a huge expense from person's monthly paycheck.

One can argue the reasons why. Is of the same problem with KPIs in general thay we only measure things which are easy to measure and omit the difficult but often much more important things to measure?

Or is it a conspiracy plot in which the governments realized that the only way to repay those ever increasing government debts is by inflating them away. Ie. borrowing at 1% akin to CPI reported inflation instead of at 8% which is what the actual inflation might be.
I use google cloud shell all the time and it works really well. It spins up an ephemeral container, but it persists the home directory.
I partially agree. The reason I disagree is that single player games with compelling story, although my favourite, eventually run out of content, even if it's compelling and if the world is open and freeform. But multiplayer games evolve as the player base is what provides the story and dynamics. In many online games there is potentially limitless gameplay and content, the game engine and environment serve only as the playground for players to build from.

An example is GTAV. Where there are lots of structured things to do yet the players constantly make their own meetups, car shows and other shenanigans.

A notable exception could be Minecraft, where you could have your own single player world and so long as you are interested it can keep evolving.
I, personally, love telemetry and always enable it everywhere. I want developers to know about my habits and consider it when deciding, for example, which features to delete.
Quote: "The problem is that these huge cylinders, which can cost between $500,000 and $1 million each, are custom-made, and researchers say that only a few companies, like BlueFors in Finland and Oxford Instruments in the UK, are producing high-quality ones."

There, the next unicorn - why only UK & Finland and not a Silicon Valley start-up as well? In the end it's just tech that requires investment, and God help us, there are plenty of venture capitalists looking for next unicorn. I mean the quantum computing field is so hot these days that everyday you find a new article about it.
Ha Joon Chang - Economics: The User's Guide
Stranger things have happened, but https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1 makes me believe there is ~somewhat~ of a conflict between Canonical and Microsoft.
I disagree. I have about 10 books on my shelf published by various editors but which have been printed by amazon printing services. I had to return several because of poor print quality. Some had splotches, some missing or blank pages, some had horrid patterning all over the book.

I own a ton of books, and my decision process is generally:

- go to library
- read/like a book
- buy it for late reference

For this reason I rarely checked books as I ordered them (I assumed they were fine). After realizing a couple of books I had were unreadable (and way past the "warranty"), I now flip through the entire book just to check for glaring print problems.

Thank you amazon, I guess?
While the breach/fraud/mix of both/whatever happened was basically out of your control (though should've been considered as a risk; paper wallets have been around as a much more secure storage mechanism for a while), a similar scenario could've occurred if Bitcoin crashed and you sold low, or if it crashed and never recovered.

I don't understand why someone would put 100% of something into a highly volatile and risky investment. Even if this were the ordinary stock market and it was 100% of your savings invested into one or two companies, it'd seem just as absurd.
One: Ungoogled-Chromium still adds to web engine mono culture, so that wont be a good solution.

Two: I did mention GNU IceCat, for those worried about Mozilla. So all your points about "Google is not worse than Mozilla" drip off like raindrops off a raincoat.

Aside from that, I do not see Google implementing privacy enhancing features in their browser, nor do I see it happening in Ungoogled-Chromium. Mozilla developers on the other hand did provide us with some tracking protection features during the last months. So I am not buying what you are trying to sell me.
I think it's purely software translation from x64 -> ARM.
And 3. Quality Control
As problematic as the voting system is, in the end the quality of the contribution is better vetted than any Google result. I often search even for products only on reddit first to get real customer insights and contradicting options than the overoptimized Google and Amazon reviews.
> you deserve whatever may happen to you.

Nobody deserves to be ripped off. This comment is absurd and you need to evaluate your morals.
Can I plug my Veusz GUI plotting application? It's written in Python, so it's also a Python plotting library. It's more a object-orientated library than matplotlib, so plots are built out of widgets.

https://veusz.github.io/
I think I speak for many people on here when I say, we don't care about your drama and don't want this forum to turn into another failed Reddit social justice crusade forum.

If the poster above has an informative post, I'll upvote it regardless of who he is.

It's about the content, not the people.
Any comments or suggestions are much appreciated. I'm particularly interested in opinions on quality & pricing. For example, should I put pricing on the front page? Is the pricing too low or high?
KonMari method in under 1000 words
One of Debian's draw backs is that simply finding the download page on its website is an arduous process.
A journey seems like a meaningful unit of work here. Sometimes the start or end of a journey is more dangerous. The decision to even start journey would look at the per journey risk perhaps. Think of space launches, as an extreme example. Risk per distance or per hour, if you consider orbiting for a while, could be low but risk per journey quite high.
I really enjoy reading these posts from Rachel. I think I have read like 10+ of them by now.

Can I be so bold as to suggest something for improved readability? [Edit: turns out I cannot. Immediate downvote!]

Breaking that wall-of-text into 2-3 sections with headlines would probably improve readability greatly. Honestly, it doesn't matter that much what the headlines say - the important thing is breaking up that wall of text into separate pieces.
“If Stripe Launches the same features” is a scary reality that I’ve been through twice. As a software developer with a young family the urge to pivot and take risk becomes less and less. Good for you for having the enthusiasm and energy to keep going.
> Anyone have any ideas about which open source codebases UTF-8 validators exist in?

Rust's std library -- the canonical way to read a text file to a string is to (implicitly) use `std::str::from_utf8`. If I remember correctly, the current implementation doesn't use SIMD specificially but will of course contain vectored instructions if the compiler can select them on the platform you target.

I did a comparison with another SIMD based implementation last year. Maybe it's time to update it: https://github.com/killercup/simd-utf8-check
Cerebellum "little brain" controls complex motor skills.
Someday someone is gonna make a bunch of money selling CPUs implementing a WASM VM ("death of javascript") and/or lambda calc (Reduceron) in hardware.
Matplotlib belongs to the worst category of software: very powerful and very awful. Nothing makes any sense and it’s so profoundly unintuitive it almost feels like I’m being pranked. But, of course, use it I must.

Pandas also comes off as an unintuitive joke, but my displeasure with it has mostly worn off. Matplotlib however makes me feel angry pretty much everyday.
I’m thinking this is similar to cascade failure ?
DeepMind, Google Brain, Google AI..
If the acquisition goes through they can just close that as WONTFIX.
Procrastination is about more than just willpower or laziness
When I eat bacon it has to be at least a pound at a time, I would be lucky to make it to 50.
Sure, adding more data is also good. Often new data can make the old data more valuable, too, I'd guess?
I loved that thank you
Just use http://cdimage.debian.org
Sure, creating a really good custom data visualization takes time and effort. Using default color themes in a non-ugly library - only minimal care.
Maybe I'm missing what you mean. Sometimes a flight of fancy is fine, eg while brainstorming or creating fiction!

But the world values grounded workable solutions to real problems too. Being practical is good for these.

I find myself exasperated when, given a practical and an impractical solution, some people turn their nose up at the former as uninteresting.
Personally I'm glad they are catching murderers and rapists this way. It's fantastic and as far as we've seen there is no downside when this tool is applied within the context of a state that has rule of law. Even in a totalitarian panopticon like China, it's hard to picture exactly what downside a complete dna database would have. I mean we can contrive scenarios. Maybe a resistance cell is busted while everyone is out and the government is able to deduce the members from dna traces. But it seems far fetched. Even in that scenario, traditional policing techniques are likely to be more effective. I.e. wait until resistance members are present THEN attack the cell. Interrogate prisoners to give up accomplices etc.

Dna identification is pretty cool because the vast majority of cases where it's useful are cases where traces have been left at the scene of the crime or on a victim. That fact, the mere existence of a scene or a victim, constrains the use of the tool mostly to legitimate circumstances.

If my dna were used to lock up a relative who commits a rape or a murder I would be sad but I would consider it justified. I'm not going to do either of those things so I am not worried about whether the police would use dna to identify me. And considering the lack of scenarios where DNA could be misused, this is actually one of those situations where the innocent have nothing or next to nothing to worry about.
In general, the amount of time/energy/cost invested in something is not a prime indicator of whether it is copyrightable, under the law. This is a misconception.

Facts are not copyrightable no matter how much time/energy/cost went into compiling them, and this is clearly established law.

Google's case is that an API specification or implementation is more like a set of facts. Which as a software engineer, seems pretty plausible to me, they do seem like a set of facts, a description of fact about how software works. On the other hand, unlike facts, they were not purely observed, but were indeed invented by humans -- but recipes aren't copyrightable either, even though they are not observed but invented too. Neither are the rules of a game. These are all considered more like 'facts' than creative works. Doesn't matter if eg you spent years and millions of dollars researching food chemistry to make your recipe.

I don't think its entirely clear who will win, but I don't think Google's case is as weak as you think, although i agree that Oracle's contention isn't entirely off base. . In particular, in general, how much time and energy went into making something is not generally one of the most significant factors in determining copyright or fair use. (Additionally, the well-established law around reverse engineering and creating clones -- that it is allowed -- is in Google's favor, as that analogy seems pretty strong too). Copyright law is -- has always been, or at least for 100 years -- about a bunch of competing factors balanced against each other.

And when it comes to technology advances, has always relied on analogies to previous technologies and industries, and who has the most persuasive analogy. And then we have the fact that the people deciding what analogy applies best may not entirely understand the technology as a social fact...
What is the x64 architecture?

What is the difference between x64 and AMD64?

Why is it called "64-bit Intel app" in the headline?
My first guess is they found an increase. A close second guess is they didn’t have appropriate controls in the study to draw a valid conclusion.
I don't think that has ever been true. What companies that are lauded in this community engage in fraud and corruption?

Some people side with the hotel's and the taxi drivers versus AirBnB and Uber, but I don't think circumventing rules and regulations to significantly improve these services is quite the same as fraud and corruption. Especially considering those industries are frequently associated with fraud and corruption themselves.

Not that I don't think Uber and AirBnB have manoeuvred themselves into positions of power that they are abusing or exploiting, but that just means they should be better regulated.
Those MMC versions are called RPI compute modules. They didn't "bring the world down" because they required a separate board for them to be mounted on.
Or try being in an elaborate sitting or laying position (like fetal pose) and without moving a muscle, ask your cognitive brain "what muscle will I move now in order to Stand Up". Then just tell your motor brain to Stand Up. You'll be surprised how often "you" would get it wrong...
"And they’re openly advertising their products with Privacy motifs."

Because advertising is . . . trustworthy? Advertising copy is meant to sell products. Apple sees a niche market where people are calling out the invasive tactics of tech companies, so they want to aim for that market. Not that they actually have to provide a fully privacy-focused product; they just need to deliver an appealing message. All they really "have" to do (scare quotes because they don't really HAVE to do anything) to live up to this claim is implement some privacy-focused element to their products. At the same time, they can also implement very privacy-invasive elements. As long as they are less privacy-invasive as their competition, they can reasonably assert their claim as a privacy-focused company. That's still a very far cry from being a privacy-CENTRIC company. Bonus privacy invasive element is to pay some genius to text customers' nude photos to themselves.
The disappearance and return to print of John M. Ford
Kubernets doesn't support simple scripting like passing variables and such? I know that Borg supports that via borgcfg, we basically have Borg templates for everything so you rarely have to write a new one from scratch. Not sure why it wasn't ported to the outside world.
With SpaceX pushing down launch costs, it would really be possible to launch these probes regularly and in large nunmbers. Maybe there could be an NGO that collects donations and builds thousands of always the same exploration probes, to reduce cost. If each proble was named by whoever donated the money for it, that would probably increase donations further.
Oh my god just use wine.

This is getting ridiculous!
Bad trend for user freedom when the industry keeps acquiring and consolidating and further fattening the already fat giants.
Speaking from the Austrian perspective, the original definition of inflation is an inflation of the money supply. Price inflation is a separate but associated phenomenon.
This is not really the case and especially not a drawback of the distro. The net-installer is pretty in-your-face and the other images are rather easy to find.
I, personally, enable telemetry everywhere it's disabled by default, or even just when I'm asked about it. I turn it off if it's on by default and they don't say exactly what they're collecting.
Haha - I got burned by this so many times in a row trying to buy genuine I bought direct from apple. Some of the fakes are terrible some ok but none genuine
That’s right, second is Apptweak
I think this means do things that need you to think consciously about your body coordination. So dancing, rock climbing, motorcycle Enduro racing etc
I pretty much see that happening

I will be gone by then, however in a couple of decades anything substantial based on GPL will be gone, and it will business as usual regarding UNIX wars.
The fact this is so easy to spot tells me Amazon gives two craps about any of this
DIY game console that outputs on an oscilloscope (2018)
Since version 4, plotly isn't horrible. It's okay. It does basic things fine enough that I use it almost exclusively. However, I most plot for personal analysis, not for presenting to others.
Soon decisions like this won't make headlines because it will be normal not to invest in industries based on increasing suffering.

Do we support investing in blood diamonds, no matter how profitable?
Canonical is working towards an IPO.... so I will! :)
There are different levels of maturity of airline operations and plane reliability between countries, and this is recognized by both the EU and the US. They both have different lists of airlines (for the EU) and countries (for the US) that are not allowed to operate in their respective airspaces without a wet lease (a lease from another company where that company assumes maintenance operations and provides the personnel to operate the plane).

It also doesn't really make sense to put regional carriers from small countries (eg. Gabon or Kyrgyzstan) in the same bucket as strictly regulated large carriers that follow the ICAO standards.
Keeping your procedure short still has value, even if they just do one thing after another, and are only used once.

That's because separating them out into separate procedures enforces a simple interface: communication only happens via arguments and return values.

When a reader sees a block like

DoAll() {
// A
...
// B
...
// C
...
}

then they have to manually verify that the variables in A don't interfere with what's happening in B or C. (Either accidentally or by design.)

In C-style languages you can use {}-delineated blocks to get most of this benefit of the short-method style in the long-method style.

In eg Python you can use nested functions to achieve your readability goals of not having to jump around while still keeping your state from interacting.
He said programmers are likely smart, not others dumb. Jeez what's with everyone picking imaginary Internet fights everywhere
Don’t go for the monster quantum cables, they are usually a rip-off!
GPIB, a bus system from the mid 60s, requires a response time of <100 ns to a particular signal. That's one of the reasons why it's still practically impossible to implement in software only 50 years later.
Thanks! So far, so good after 1.5 years. Truly sucked stuffing more capital into the business as there is a lot concentrated there that is somewhat illiquid, but our working relationship has soured enough that it made sense. No regrets.