skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually it was much faster some time ago. At least on Firefox. This emulator is basically a microbenchmark of the switch/case implementation of the browser. Firefox used a computed goto, which is perfect in this case. Now for some reasons it got slower. I have to take a look at the generated code to be really sure about what is happening here and what to do about it.
> sense that lispers really like

Lisp programmers's don't 'like parentheses' - parentheses is not what makes Lisp.

Lisp was designed to do programming with s-expressions (aka nested lists). That's its core original purpose. Lisp even means 'List Processor'. It was then early detected that this can be applied to Lisp itself, for example by interpreting s-expressions as Lisp programs.

'Parentheses' are just a part of the notation. If you take away the feature of s-expressions on the surface and thus also the notation, you are no longer programming on the surface in classic Lisp. You can always use alternative notations, but that will take away the seamless symbolic programming.

> failure in the sense that they have prevented lisp's cool semantics from reaching a broader audience

'parentheses' did not prevent that.

Over decades lots of original Lisp stuff was moved to other languages (garbage collection, image-based programming, functional programming, macros, etc.).

There are lots of languages which are somewhat re-invented or re-designed Lisps: Logo, Dylan, Julia, Ruby, ... One can already use those.

Lisp should drop s-expression-based syntax, so that C++ or JavaScript become different internally? This makes no sense.

> If you are a JS programmer or God-forbid a C++ programmer, you are already living in a world where the transformation from lexical syntax to AST is dozens or hundreds of pages with weird edge cases (e.g. JS semicolon insertion or C++ most vexing parse). If that can be reduced to 1 or 2 pages it's still a massive improvement from their perspective even if it looks like a downgrade to a hardcore lisper who eats parentheses for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Complain to those. Not to a Lisp programmer.
No, you'll need to percent-encode them first.
USB isn't up to spec on the pi4
It's you who has been distressed ("inflamed"), not me. And now kindly shut up, snowflake.
IKEA invests 200M euro to become climate positive by 2030
Bigger leap when it comes to finger wagging over word choice, smaller leap when it comes to things that actually matter.
Jony Ive Has Left Apple
>If it wasn't for jQuery, =no one would be programming web applications the way we do today=. jQuery was THE single advancement in creating the modern web.

Excellent!! You'd be surprised that not everyone agrees with the idea of browsers becoming their own micro-OS.
> The command line wasn't invented to provide a distraction free environment, it was literally the only thing available

You miss the point. It's not important why it was invented, what's important is why it continues to be popular in 2019.
Sure, "copy-center" attitudes like those common in BSD communities would have prevailed, likely, and we'd have entered the shared-source/commons-licensing phase a decade earlier. Without the option of copyleft, an entire pillar of philosophy would be missing, but it likely would not matter, since the world would still be just as corporatist. The main thing missing in that world would be a belief that copyright can and will be changed in order to better suit the people.
Honestly, I don't know. Yes, it's a hack. But it's also an effective hack. Young people don't go to doctors unless there's something wrong with their bodies that reminds them to go.
There's no real common modern usage of "Albion" except in the name of football teams (West Bromwich Albion, Albion Rovers, Stirling Albion) - so it doesn't really mean one more than the other in English. Some people might say it comes from an old celtic word and therefore refers to Scotland, others might say it's from Latin and refers to England or the whole island of Britain. I've no idea which is "right" but the word just doesn't come up in everyday English.
Is there any hope to save the system during a system reboot? I guess I would need to recreate the kernel binary from RAM memory.
Since it took me a little while to figure out what this was -- it's Firefox for Android.
They've been allowing for a good while so hopefully for a bit more at least.

TBH if they block third party I'm done with them. Def won't be accepting the default user experience.
Based on the couple of houses I have purchased in my life, rodents own a lot of things. Until you bring the cats into your life. Then the rodents don't own as much. You still don't own anything either, because the cats become the new owners, but they are at least preferable to the rodents. ;)
I don't read a lot of legal documents, but maybe it could also be translated as "unwarranted" or "not legally sanctioned".
I bought Sync for Reddit to get rid of ads. I've used it for maybe two years. Even if they block it tomorrow it would have been worth it because the experience has been tremendous. If I'm forced to go back to the official app I'll just stop using Reddit on my phone.

And also, they'll get third party usage below a certain threshold if people don't use it so... Don't help them!
..so just challenge them when confronted. Flat earth stuff is intelectual inquiry and not a loaded question like your example about squirrels. It can be easily proved wrong, so just do it.
This means there is a way to convert any or perhaps just Gaussian markovian model to an ANN and vice versa.

This is interesting because markovian processes are much easier to intuit about.
> the anti-aging guy

Aubrey de Grey?
Where I'm from, it's done at birth, it's just a standard part of a medical registration package thing your parents get. My parents kept my bloodtype card right next to my childhood vaccination records.

It's not like your bloodtype changes over time...
Very cool! I don't watch baseball but still find this fascinating :D
>and then someone starts posting malicious messages to make my username look bad

That's kinda easy, you create a real account and verify it/link it in all your other profiles.
Does it support page translation?
But that would not halting climate change now, but in a few decades when all the current vehicles have been replaced? Also afaik the CO2 difference between electric vehicles and fuel based vehicles is not even that great?

The scary part is that I think many things climate activists propose actually produce a lot more CO2 in the short term. Factories to build those new cars. Building housing to shorten the commutes. Many other things. Wouldn't it be better to use the existing infrastructure for as long as possible, rather than build new things to replace it?

I wonder how much of a proxy for CO2 output the cost of things is, anyway (since oil price affects so many things). If "cleaner" new products cost more, it makes me suspect they actually consume more CO2 in production. Of course you have to factor in CO2 production in use (fossil fuels vs battery powered cars for example). But often the advantage is not so clear cut. If the new things were better, there would be no need for political intervention to make people use them.
I enjoyed the stories, many were new for me, but this was a major foul:

> But the RSA encryption algorithm—one of the basic building blocks of modern cryptography—is elegant enough that it can be written out in just four dense lines of Perl code … short enough to fit on a T-shirt.

And of course it has nothing to do with the elegance of RSA, but the largeness of Perl.
I can't see any situation where Uber retains its current volume if it increases its prices.

I'm not a particularly price sensitive customer, yet I find myself taking auto rickshaws more and more. The gap between their fares and Uber are becoming a little to unjustifiable. I'm comfortable with an Uber being 1.5-2x more than an auto, but fares these days are often 2.5-4x higher.

My Uber usage is now reserved mostly for edge cases - going to the airport, going home after a night out, bad weather conditions
【Black Friday】The only app you need to get the best deals at any retail stores
C# 9
It's.. not?

The definition of "legacy software" in this discussion is: software that grew so many "temporary" fixes and workarounds instead of necessary architectural changes that it's in permanent maintenance mode, and entire parts of it are untouchable because nobody understands what they do due to the exponential increase in complexity stemming from the abundance of these hacks, exacerbated by system knowledge evaporating with engineer turnover.

That doesn't apply to either C++ language and compiler (rapidly evolving in the past decade), nor projects written in it, generally (that's not a property of the language).

On that note, we've integrated some Fortran code that was written in the 80s that I wouldn't call "legacy" under this definition: the algorithm was clear, and the implementation documented well enough that modifying it, if necessary, would not have been hard, and using it with our floor was very simple (it was one of the flavors of gradient descent algorithms that converged much better than several others).
Actually this is definitely false, in a very provable way.

This is the formula for the GDP:

GDP = C + I + G + (Ex - Im)

Consumption + Investment + Gov. Spending + (Exports - Imports)

Every dollar spent by the government is a dollar added to the GDP, which is the primary measure of economic growth.

Just because the government does something, does not mean it's bad or good. Generally, governments create a lot of value, and the surpluses not measured in GDP can be immense.

Consider if the government didn't build any roads - everything was toll-based - it'd be a mess, and a huge strategic drag on the GDP.

Because there's not 'market oriented' way to measure what government does (well, no easy way). what we do is just count 'a dollar spend = a dollar GDP'. In the private side we measure Consumption.

So what this means is that if the government borrows and spends billions on 'whatever' - the economy literally grows by the dollar amount they spent. Assuming that 'whatever' is value creating in some way, it can be a good thing which is why Keynesian theory types suggest that the government should indeed do that during economic downturns in the private sector.

Obviously, the big problem is that it's really hard to 'value' what the government does, but it's not black magic either. There are ways to do it, it's just hard.
eeghinrtvy?

(No idea what language is that, just guessing the output)
If you do the math in India, the drivers were basically not earning any money last year.
They spend about 30% of their income of debt. Another 30-40% on fuel and maintenance cost. Then 20% charged by Ola and Uber. There’s other miscellaneous fees that creep up plus insurance every year which atleast takes another 10%. So they take home around 10%. That 10% has to pay for food, rent, children’s education, etc.

The argument can be that they’re technically taking home 40% if you take their debt payments that’s paying for an asset.

But a car is a depreciating asset, so after 5 years they’ll technically have lost 50% of that money.

The 10% decrease in fees would go a long way for these drivers. I’ve spoken to a lot of them and it’s really sad what’s happened.

You may ask why did they join in the first place ?
They were attracted to these services by glamorous stories of cab drivers making 1500-2000$ a month on these apps. But all fo that income was funded by inorganic incentives that never fit into the unit economics. It was basically VC funding that was channelled into a few drivers income, which then brought in a lot more.

I feel strongly about this as I’ve spoken to multiple drivers who make very little money and work about 12-14 hours a day. You can see a lot of them just sleep in the car in the night to make sure they can make ends meet.

On the other side, they’ve stopped heavily discounting the rides at the consumers end, which means demand has decreased because they had artificially inflated demand by providing a service at discounted prices.

So that means drivers don’t get as many rides either.

It’s basically a double whammy for the driver.

Aggregators charging 20% of the ride costs is just unempathetic and stupid if they actually did the math.

But obviously they’ll have to recoup all the VC money they’ve invested. It baffled me for a long that the unit economic never made sense for the longest time.

They took no fees, they gave discounts and they attracted drivers by inspiring them of glamourous stories where cab drivers were making more than most employees in India.

Most cab drivers who saw this as a gold rush, took on a lot of debt to buy a car and drive people around. With time they’ve realised it’s all a sham but there’s nothing they can do about it. They’ve already committed to the debt, and if they stopped paying it, they’ll loose the car, which is all they have as assets.
If I had an infinite amount of time, I would love to convert this over to run in the browser / SVG.. I hope there are some enterprising young souls out there who are keen on the challenge!
You probably want to follow this issue https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/5630
I'm a long time user of SH3D.

- Yes it is dated (and very fast) - so what? The app is the important thing, the website works.

- If you need to find it, you will. I cannot recall failing to find download links (at least two of them on the home page)

- Mobile. Perhaps if you have a 21" screen on it!

ML? Not too sure about that here. Perhaps Ikea et al could run with that. I use it starting from reality. Perhaps hitching it up to a theodolite, EDM and other measuring tools would be more useful than a "what if I could read your mind and get it badly wrong" tool.
Does OpenBSD stabilize the system call API?
> since their supposed effect are long into the future.

And in the near future.
And in the present.
and in the recent past.
Maybe in terms of POTS modems, but otherwise no.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_modem

https://www.campbellsci.com.au/sat-inmarsat-bgan

https://www.orbcomm.com/en/hardware/devices/modems
Galvanic rust protection requires the entire structure be immersed in an electrically conductive fluid. Works great for boats and hot water heaters, less well for cars and motorcycles.
An Orwellian rectification that seems to be catching on.

"rectify — the Ministry of Truth euphemism for the alteration of the historical record:"
> It is a very slow computer for “normal computing purposes” though.

Can you elaborate what you're doing that is slow? In my experience, CPU wise it's plenty fast, matching typical desktop from 2008. Although memory bandwidth could be better...
Make you a good designer by simple drag and drop
That is really interesting. I was using it in vivaldi on desktop and chrome on android, fwiw. I have to wonder what wasm might help... maybe the additional overhead on the VT and framebuffer would be so high it'd be a wash.
I'm not sure reducing the density of information is a good thing. It probably makes it easier to read for someone who is not entirely familiar with a field but makes it slower for the people for whom the paper is written.
(Too dense papers are really hard to read, but that's relatively rare)
I absolutely agree. His lack of self-awareness and seeming inability to see the generally positive aspects of the growth of open source just doesn't sound radical to me. Quite the opposite in fact.
Sounds like a good thing to me. Taxis are not a good solution for major sporting events. The metro is the only infrastructure which can handle that sudden burst of people (in my city they run extra metro trains, each which can transport about 1200 people).
Pharmacometric Modeling and Simulation in Julia
The world's changed, man. He didn't. That's all there is to it.
Open source not free source get the movement above the ground. Sometimes what start (rms), what help (Linus) may not be the one that make it great.
I think they are targeting people who do not care for environmental issues and who still think that electric vehicles are something for beaus and weaklings

How is that different from people who want to loudly signal their environmental virtue while ignoring externalities such as the electric power probably coming from coal, the extraction and manufacturing processes for batteries, etc? This is a competitor to an electric humvee - an unnecessarily large vehicle is wasted energy no matter where that energy originated
I don't usually think of integer constants passed as an argument to a function as an ABI, but given that they're hard coded at kernel compile time, fair enough.

What I'm struggling to understand is why an additional layer of indirection is required to facilitate randomization in this case. It seems I must have a fundamental misunderstanding of how some part of the system works at this low level.

I'm also wondering what (if anything) is being lost to this mitigation - the syscall(2) manpage (http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/syscall.2.html) seems to imply that not all system calls necessarily have matching wrapper functions in the platform's C library.
Sorry I said radical because we use the same word in french but the meaning is probably a bit different, I should have said perhaps extreme or very opinionated?

I wanted to say that he cares very deeply about free software and the whole philosophy of it, which can make him appear as "radical" to some people.

I hope I was able to clarify.
That's not even remotely sound. Any country can live like the US. The technology is there, it has been there for 50 years. Nuclear energy, electric vehicles, better insulation and building heat/energy management, and so on.

Plus, it's not like those countries would even want to live like the US. No, they want better. Public transportation, affordable healthcare and education, and so on.
The quality of life improvement is pretty huge. Sometimes you just get better vision after LASIK than you can be corrected to. I tested at 20/15 and sometimes 20/10 after my procedure.
Not the ordinary Firefox for Android, though.

Specifically: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fe...

"Firefox Preview marks a release of the early version for an experimental Firefox browser for Android. Built on GeckoView, Firefox Preview is a pilot for early adopters, developers, and anyone who wants to help make a better, more private Firefox for Android."
> I just feel that when someone says that Lisp does not have syntax or that syntax is not important, it's plain wrong...

I completely agree. I just feel that not every programming language needs to have the same approach to syntax. Lisp is different from most languages in its way to have a data syntax in which programs are written. Thus the data syntax is textual (s-expressions) and the program syntax is structural (based on data structures like lists, symbols, numbers, ..).
I have this issue with a Zero W. Wlan0 would just disappear. I tried jessie, stretch, and now buster. It had been connected to a ultra-wide monitor (but not at 2560 width, obviously).

I can't get it to fail now, but it is not connected to a monitor anymore.
Machine learning doesn't have to be perfect (or even effective) to do its job in this context. It's like the Mechanical Hound in Fahrenheit 451 - as long as the public hears it's been let loose and then sees it catching someone, that's enough to reinforce its 'infallibility' and its usefulness as a tool of the state.
Sure. That's not the point. The point is corruption increases risk of doing business regardless of whether somebody gets caught. People dying because of investigating corruption only makes the point stronger.
Aside from the football teams mentioned, just about the only context you may hear Albion is occasionally old poetry and literature, or the famous 18th or 19th century French use of "Perfidious Albion".

It morphed into the modern Alba for Scotland, stemming from the same source, but I'm not sure quite of the overlap from Albion to Alba.
I understood the first three lines :P

So... what would be an example of such an external program? Something that accesses a SQL database and changes values on the HTML page? I ask this specifically since you mention that database access would be prohibitively slow.

Or would you e.g. use CGI to call some script that changes the HTML? Let's say, post something that was written in an input box?
Ridiculous meddling by the government. There are a zillion ways to circumvent this ruling - each of which are easier done by big guys rather than smaller startups. The only thing all this meddling ends up doing is making the space hard for startups to start in and increasing the cost of business.
So it is just the (alleged) twitter comment which you consider political flamebait?
Thanks! Never heard of this never seen this logo. Does BK use/imply something like this?
I hate AMP pages, but hadnt thought about using DDG to get rid of them. Switching now.
Interesting, I stand corrected. OED says it comes from Old English, from Latin, probably of Celtic origin, and also make mention of albus...

That may be their bets being hedged. :)
Not like Linux, it is stable for a few releases but not forever in the BSDs, for openbsd I think its fairly short.
So this says the app lets you design in 2d and renders in 3d. Has anyone used this that could answer a question- can I design walls too? I want to make kitchen cabinets.
I really hate this Pussy-Unicorn-Snowflake-COC-Bullshit.
I yell at ppl when they fuck things up and I don't give a fuck about feelings. Get your fucking shit straight or get the fuck out of the project.
Doing something

people get upset

blame it on the tech
Thanks. Couldn't reply earlier but this is definitely what I meant.
I've been using SportMonks for football data and they do cricket too: https://www.sportmonks.com/cricket-api
Expecting users to sprinkle 1/0 through their code is arguably what I mean by "debug unfriendly".
On a different note - are there spec to 3d design apps? I'd love to just write what I want and see a 3d render.
I don't see the issue with showing both an URL and a tokenized representation, outside Google's seeming motive to "kill the URL". In both versions, information that would be immediately available in the URL is potentially left out, which can't possibly help prevent phishing unless Google goes out of their way to actually verify that websites are what they say they are.

It's also hard to trust Google engineering to get something like this right after the Chrome "trivial subdomain" stripping debacle(https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=881694).
Even people with money don't go for regular medical checkups until their health forces them to. So while I agree with what you say in most cases, in this case I think giving poor the money would predictably result in zero of them going for preventive tests.

Some amount of "paternalism" is good for society. Someone likened health to car maintenance, but I can tell you that of the drivers I know, zero of them would get their car the yearly technical check unless it was explicitly illegal to drive that car otherwise. I'm starting to believe we should have something similar in places with public healthcare - there should be a set of free, mandatory, noninvasive checkups to screen for diseases that don't have symptoms noticeable by patients, and there should be a way to compel everyone to take those tests. It would be better for everyone's well-being, would save public healthcare a lot of money, and the doctors could stop attaching unrelated tests to getting prescriptions for glasses or birth control.
Swimmers Beware of Deep Brain Stimulation
DuckDuckGo also makes money through ads.
Fair enough. I mean dial-up modems of the 1990s used to connect computers to the internet over the phone network by making a local telephone call.

Those were the only type people in the broader public ever knew about. Otherwise, the word “modem” both before and since is just niche technical jargon, ignored by laypeople.