skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Richard's piece leaves out everything of substance. I don't understand how this helps the ISOC mission, users of .org, the public interest of the Internet at large, or anyone at all except of course Ethos Capital.

PIR, the registrar in question generated $48 Million in support grants for ISOC in 2018 tax return. He's trying to make the case that selling this $50million revenue from grants is worth it. He think the governance of .org and the maximum possible cost increase will be fine.

What possible reasons has he given for any of that?

He vaguely indicates that it'll be fine, and instead asserts that $28/yr could be affordable? It is, but why not just jack up the price in the first place, if its a money thing? They could be getting $100-Million in ten years, why sell it off to a private capital investment firm with no track record of "Governance" and a mandate only to private shareholders and investors?

If you happen to check https://ethoscapital.mu/investments/ to read all about their clear mandate for Governance (whatever that means the the context of "Exposure to a Diversified Pool of Unlisted Assets") hopefully the irony[0][1] of their using the .mu (Mauritius) tld is not lost on you. Sorry if this last bit seems petty, but just wow. What about any of this makes anyone think this doesn't look like a gift to private equity? I would like to see the sale price.

[0] https://business.mega.mu/2013/07/29/internet-210-government-...

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20141110042124/http://news.islan...
Was earn.com acquired at a higher than fair valuation? If so the shareholders of coinbase.com should sue.
Hmm, join us in http://devtools-html.slack.com/ and we'd be happy to help you debug it.

If the tab crashed, you can get the report in about:crashes
That is solved problem with vr reduction in high quality lenses.
No dang, I love myself too much for self censorship. Until we meet again
WhatsApp not affected.The power of FreeBSD and Erlang. ( Not sure if they are still on that stack )
Diagnosing Atrial Fibrillation with a Camera from a Distance
I may be dumb, bit don't we have pretty simple and reliable gyroscope based solutions to this problem.
Nothing will happen until people start using microkernels. And people won't start using microkernels until companies make some basic optimizations for them.

There may be a way out of the loop exploiting hardware parallelism, or if they bring some improvements for memory locality leading to orders of magnitude improvements. But even exploiting memory locality, that would bring some very high and obvious gains is locked at the same kind of loop.
A History of HTML Parsing at Cloudflare: Part 1
The argument for increased iatrogenic injury is always brought up with new technologies (and sometimes used to dismiss their use). In this case, presumably, you mean increased amounts of invasive biopsies w/ potential complications, bleeding, pain, etc. Esp with false positives.

The converse thought is, with the increased resolution, image quality and addition of a 3rd dimension over plain film mammographies, how much reduction in false positives iatrogenic can one reasonably expect?
Yes, it's two-fold:

1. Those in private school do not have to be funded by the state, and so, given a finite budget, the average funding per child in public school goes up.

2. (Your point, if I understood correctly, and which I hadn't considered...) The tax take from private school fees indirectly helps fund the public schools. Without that tax income, the education budget (or some other public spending) would necessarily go down.
There is a reason the author is on the board that gets to decide this. I wish the relevant people would just pocket the money and book a plane ticket to an offshore location, rather than bragging about it on social media. That way at least some people other than the hedge fund would get something out of this deal. I can understand simple corruption. I too need a fast-ish sportscar and a decently sized mansion to fuel my habits. But this, I cannot understand at all.
I’m not totally sure I follow, are you saying most in (non-English, elite) India know that yoga isn’t really a Vedic practice and accept a syncretic history? Admittedly it’s hard to get a feel for that as a westerner when you see someone like Baba Ramdev hanging out with Modi and making anti-Muslim statements.

Mainly I was originally saying I agree with you, that we need to be careful of who writes and rewrites history, because it typically is done by those in power and is often done without acknowledging the actual nuances of things. Yoga is certainly not Swedish gymnastics, but it’s also not some old Vedic thing with sole claim as Hindu.
> things like websocket inspection aren't even in mainline FF yet

Releasing with Firefox 71.
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/10/firefoxs-new-websocket-ins...
PHP feature development is driven by a rather considerable commitee of core devs and representatives of major frameworks and libraries. All features are undergoing a voting procedure.

PHP JIT is intended to reduce latency and large codebase start-up delay, two biggest problems of modern PHP as for me. It's not about calculations.
So let’s say you’ve paid 20% of it as advance, plus you’ve spent a year figuring out Uber and Ola are fleecing you. In that year you’ve put down another 10% into instalments.

What then ? You’ll give up 30% of the money just because you don’t like Uber and Ola anymore. If the bank takes the car back, the driver loses all the money he’s toiled to make.

If you speak to a lot of them, they’ll tell you that once they clear the car debt and sell the car, they’d most probably head back home to their villages and just go back to farming.

They work a few hours a day and make 100-200$ a month. Vs making almost the same by toiling 12 hours a day in a car and in some of the worst traffic conditions.
by the time Google v NVidia will hit the highest courts, those will be stacked with AI overlords. I wonder what they'd think about being stuck in a proprietary API. :D
I forgot that my deep learning box has a GPU which can actually do graphics;)

Wow so smooth and beautiful fullscreen, this effect should be everyone's new homepage wallpaper.

These linear ruptures when dragging are border conditions of differential equations?

There was a similar more colorful demo some months ago, someone has the link?
> it’s easy to assume they are the same person.

Easy, sure, but you’re probably wrong.
Couldn't a microkernel forego the expensive mitigations when switching between kernel processes? It wouldn't get the level of isolation that it ideally should, but it would still gain a lot over a monolithic kernel with fully shared memory.
We are using Youtube embed - they control the player. Which device were you using?
You can run a full GNU/Linux distro, and apt-get install most stuff: https://f-droid.org/packages/tech.ula/
Please notify me when you're done with tiles, and re-implement the Win 7 Aero UI in Win 10.

Microsoft's biggest misstep in mobile was trying to unify the desktop and mobile experience into a weird amalgamation OS that doesn't work or feel right for either. Win 10 is an improvement over 8 but still awful compared to the straightforward, non-confusing Win 7. Apple understands users expect different OSes for iPhones vs Macs.
I'm pretty sure it's not true as most subway systems outside of the US (where we are not as lawsuit-happy) still cost billions of dollars and takes many years to construct.
Sure but you need to be sure that the thing you're attaching it to can hold the weight. Ie. if the martian floor was the ceiling, you'd have to be able to hang a plane off that attachment point without it ripping out.

In other words, your lip needs to be distributing force onto a sufficient volume of ground to make up 100_000 metric tons of martian soil, per meter of circumference.
Software Tools in Pascal (1981)
we upgraded a 100k lines PHP 5 codebase to PHP 7.1 in a month. if your php 5 code wasn't using any deprecated extensions (like the old mysql extension) upgrading is really easy. there are static analysis tools that spot the potential problematic code so you don't need to do it by hand. from that point on if you got any automation testing or unit tests you can have a good level of confidence that your upgrade was a success.
Monolith kernels like Linux have so much layers on top to emulate microkernel features, like user space drivers, containers, hypervisors that in the end they end up losing whatever advantage they had as bare bones kernels.

Additionally there are quite a few production quality microkernels, that people keep forgetting, because most only look at desktop OSes.
This is a bizarre theory. The Bhagavad Gita, which is quite ancient, describes Yoga in great detail, especially Chapter 6, for example [1]. Not to mention Yoga Sutras of Patanjali [2].

Of course, modern Hatha Yoga might have some new poses. But the practice of Yoga itself is quite old, and has been prevalent in India for a long time. (I am not commenting on place of origin, since I am not an expert.)

[1] https://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/gita/bg06.htm

[2] https://sacred-texts.com/hin/yogasutr.htm
I'm glad they put out this article - I've been thinking about picking one of these up, but the price surprised me. I wonder if the same reasoning holds true for their laptops? They're really nice, but the $1400 starting price is pretty steep considering the specs.

Side note: this is the strangest font I've seen in a long time. Why is the lower-case "t" smaller than every other letter? It almost looks like one of those fonts designed for dyslexic readers, but with no variations in the width of the letter strokes, I don't think that's the case. Anyone know if it was just a really strange choice, or if it serves some greater purpose?
Go after PHP has been therapy to me.
Let's put it this way:

Every function and macro description in the HyperSpec has a "Syntax:" synopsis right at the top.

Section 2 of the standard is "Syntax".
It's funny - i also share your views but i don't remember enjoying his lectures at Glasgow Uni. That was a wee while ago now but i really enjoy his modern stuff.
Some of the most annoying things for me in KiCAD are (or were, maybe some of them got fixed):

* Projects not standalone / portable across computers, which makes collaborating hard.

* Parts library management is not intuitive. Lots of confusing UI around library paths for example.

* Footprint assignment should be handled automatically or at least provide sensible suggestions instead of every footprint with the same amount of pads.

But there are two promising alternatives around: Horizon EDA, which the sibling post already mentioned, and LibrePCB (https://librepcb.org).

I personally only used LibrePCB for some project and it worked quite well, apart from some missing features, like missing design rule check. But the upcoming 0.1.3 release adds quite some of them.
Oh, you're right, I misunderstood the point where they said

> Can you imagine if I release my Twitter account, after almost a decade of constant cultivation of my other professional profiles (GitHub, GitLab, LinkedIn, etc) and then someone starts posting malicious messages to make my username look bad?

I thought they'd linked their Twitter account on their other professional profiles.
How do you align an array of hundreds of mirrors to a single spot with four photodiodes?
Isn't SoftBank able to get negative yielding loans (essentially paid to borrow money) from the BoJ also? And doesn't the BoJ own a signficant portion of SoftBank stock?

The Japanese economy sounds like a dystopian Capitalist hellhole to me. I'm hoping I'm just wrong about everything, and it's actually fine.
Can someone explain whether it is actually illegal (e.g. the person who will cut the lenses and fit them to frames will be charged by some kind of practicing without a license), or they just don't do it?

For the record, in the Czech Republic, I have entered strength, cylinder, axis and PD into a website, paid $18 and picked up the glasses a few days later, and I haven't noticed any problems with quality despite the rather high strength (-4D). We also have over-the-counter contact lenses widely available, though I have never used contact lenses.

($18 is a suspiciously cheap online service with basic lenses, glasses with lenses with higher refractive index and some oleophobic and anti-reflex coating usually cost around $150 here, but they will also make them for you without prescription, you just tell them the numbers)
See above: Ruby is good, but it's on decline and IMO soon going to be a niche legacy language for projects too big to rewrite, like Github and Gitlab.

Python was influenced by Google and that influence is hard to wear. Until now Python is definitely not community-driven. Also, look at this version 2/3 snafu.
This is extremely cool! Amazing work @flockaroo

The implementation very different from other fluid simulations I've seen, copying the comments from the source:

// single pass CFD - with some self consistency fixes

// ...the actual fluid simulation

// this is some "computational flockarooid dynamics" ;)
// the self-advection is done purely rotational on all scales.
// therefore i dont need any divergence-free velocity field.
// with stochastic sampling i get the proper "mean values" of rotations
// over time for higher order scales.
//
// try changing "RotNum" for different accuracies of rotation calculation
// for even RotNum uncomment the line #define SUPPORT_EVEN_ROTNUM
I have that issue with my 2016 MacBoo Pro, but I'm pretty sure it's due to my crap quality USB3+NIC that I bought.
The conclusion of the Nature article is not based on scientific consensus.

> This "cascade" of changes sparked by global warming could threaten the existence of human civilisations.

That's not supported by the underlying IPCC report (a 2018 publication that's one of the latest statements of consensus science): https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/SR15...

While the IPCC talks about "tipping points," it does not mean "cascades" that "threaten the existence of human civilization." It's important to understand that what the IPCC means by "tipping points" is certain irreversible changes in things like sea ice coverage, or collapse of maize crops in "certain areas." Those things might be bad, but they don't imply "runaway climate change" or collapse of global agricultural systems, or anything like that. See Table 3.7.

The aggregate effect of these local effects is estimated in box 3.6. For the United States, it says:

> The results for the baseline no-policy case indicate that economic damages along median temperature change and median damages (median-median) reach 4.5% of GDP by 2100, with an uncertainty range of 2.5% and 8.5% resulting from different combinations of temperature change and damages. Avoided damages from achieving a 1.5°C temperature limit along the median-median case are nearly 4% (range 2–7%) by 2100.

That's the bottom-line figure quoted in the article I linked. Avoided damages from keeping climate change to 1.5C are 2-7% of GDP by 2100. That means significant disruptions to the structure of our economy in response to climate change will almost certainly cost us more than what we avoid in damage from climate change.

The last section of the Nature article says that in the authors' view, the aggregate effect of these tipping points could be worse than the IPCC projects. (Note that the above GDP figures do attempt to account for tipping point effects.) That may or may not be true, but that conclusion is not part of the IPCC consensus.
hasn't google been done to death already? especially back when they started?
Or follow the model of banks profiting off of debit cards by charging exorbitant fees for common mistakes. They didn't need that a high percentage of their customers to pay overdraft fees before they were making billions. Forget to renew your domain on time? No problem, we've held on to it for you, just please pay this $150 "redemption fee".
The art of language design is staying true with its own established patterns. C# fights this battle with primary constructors or combined patterns.
What a fantastic call to arms! I'm tempted to get involved myself after watching this talk. I couldn't agree more with everything SPJ said.
I get a solid 60fps on my phone. The resolution in portrait mode is 760 x 260. It could be due to your monitor resolution, webgl settings, lack of acceleration or some other bottleneck.
Wikipedia could absorb a trivial cost increase so it's likely that a PE firm would target them with more steep increases. From what I've read about their price increase limiting "agreement" it isn't one, it's just a statement and isn't laid out in any binding contracts.

Maybe Wikipedia gets it's registration price bumped up to 3 million because the PE firm thinks the org can absorb the cost.
It's like the tale of the boiling frog. I don't like how with old school Javascript you have to add script tags to your html for each library you want to use, at some point you start using a bundler, then a package manager so you don't need to download them manually, then a compiler so you can use newer Javascript syntax, and so on and so on. Each step is better than the last one, but when you look back to the start things do seem simpler back then.
Ticwatch S2 vs. Fossil Gen 4 Sport vs. Samsung Galaxy Watch Active
QNX and L4 has had competitive performance since forever. And they have been heavily used in embedded systems, especially QNX. Basically, in my mind the only thing that stood between QNX and total world domination was that it wasn't open source. Many flavors of L4 are open source, but they're just a piece of what you need for a complete OS.
> Haha, I was actually the attacker in this instance :)

I need more sleep.
Have you ever hired anyone? Did you even look at the educational background of the candidate? Because I don't, I only look at the experience and skills.
If you're talking about "forms" as the interface, then sure. I 100% agree. But the moment things get more interesting, you'll fail. Video editing for example.
Lastly, I believe that if forms suffice, you don't need any of the recent CSS features. Simple forms without css should be fine. So no panels, modals, popups, nested navigation or single page apps.
No, specifically him. I’ve heard talk. I dunno what he did but he should apologize already.
nice to see more of these snake oil/fake SaaS by indie developers, enjoy the easy money while it lasts, because it won't for so long, or will it?
Not bad, getting 15FPS on mobile.
It is a direct quote from the buddha.

The point of it that some people don't start practise because they don't believe they deserve to be happy.
> What kind of academic research does not create value? And if so, maybe it deserves to be criticized the same way.

I have friends that study social behavior of ants. Is there any way to apply that?
You've obviously never tried to confront a flat-earther or their kin. You should try it some time. It's enlightening and scary and every bit as emotionally fraught as my example. And when you get to the climate-change deniers and the holocaust deniers, it stops being funny too.
Yes. Eventually this will be the only final solution.
Hoping for "just" a 10% price hike annually is like hoping that a mugger just steals your phone and wallet instead of stabbing you in the gut.
The funny thing is that despite his credentials, he made such a spectacular blunder. It makes one wonder when the other shoe will drop for "Let's Encrypt".
Financial auditors cannot sign off on a valuation, they can only say that the financial results as shown present an accurate picture of the company at the time of review. There will be a section for management to comment on specific line items, usually to give context for things like large one-off expenses, or other things that jump out from the numbers.

Valuation depends on estimates of the firm's future revenue growth, predictions about the business climate, etc. That's what investment analysts do, using the audited financial statements as a basis for developing scenarios for the future.
Good old cgi, brings back memories :-D

Back in the day this little book I wrote on it had 500,000 people read it http://expertwebinstalls.com/cgi_tutorial/index.html

Remember parsing Apache logs to see who visited your sites? :-D
It will also help with calculations, maybe the intention is to grab some of python's share.
Well the biggest problem is it's less of a $7.8bn valuation and more of a $3Bn minimum valuation (which is still probably far too high).

Startups don't really have valuations like a public company. You don't have anywhere near the same liquidation preferences in public companies as you do with startups. I'm pretty sure the bankruptcy protections aren't as good either.

And people keep making these valuation comparisons anyway. Probably because even in finance you can get loans and whatnot as if the valuations are the same.
Thank you for those numbers, it confirms my intuitive conclusuion: 1/3 of core team is a significant influence.
What do I do if I don't have mozilla or chromium email?
It’s the near-vacuum, plus the radiation environment, mostly. Temperatures on Mars can rise above freezing in the tropics, on a particularly warm summer day, but the average temperature on the planet is several tens of degrees C on the negative side. The author’s point is, I believe, that even in the southern polar night a human being can survive, for a while, with stone age technology. Whereas if the atmosphere around you isn’t breathable there’s not much you can do without (literally) space age gear.
Synchronisation between two cores is fastest with hardware support, so shared memory with cache coherence protocol.

Cache coherence protocol are all designed to keep everybody in sync. So if you scale to thousands of cores, you better sync selectively and application specific. Thus it makes sense to use message passing (actor model).

It is unclear where the it makes sense to switch. Somewhere between 2 and 1000.

Hybrids are also an option. Supercomputers often use OpenMP (shared memory) and MPI (message passing) in a two level way.
Not sure if I have anything else to add on top of what people are already saying but the performance of GL is extremely frustrating for the past couple of months. Viewing the diff of a PR can sometimes take around 20 seconds just to load the tab.

I think it's about time they dedicated some resources or addressed the public about the efforts they're making to address these issues. It's becoming excruciating.

I've used Github every day for years and years and I feel like every page load has been pretty much instant forever.
Earlier this year I spoke to a team on PHP 5.1 - EOL was 2006! They have a massive PHP 4 style codebase, all in-house (no framework), a team of devs that knows it intimately and doesn’t want to leave because they have no job prospects. Sadly, judging by emails I get, there are a lot such teams operating in small towns.
Oh man what if someone stole the sun.

(In all seriousness, the security risks are pretty low here. This isn't like stealing nuclear fuel.)
Why Are Music-Generated Feelings Weakly Bound?
> make it too hard for them to stay the person they currently are

Why do you think people's identity is tied to the auditability of complex computer systems?
not properly. android is about as full-blown a linux environment as that plastic router on which your ISP left the telnet open.
SAT is a proxy for IQ, which is a good predictor for life success, and that includes academic performance.