skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When we plugged in our Acorn Electron (it had no power switch), it would be on and ready to use immediately (unless it hung). Nowadays it takes a minute for my work laptop to boot. When I'm lucky.

I also totally agree with his complaint about things disappearing when you try to click on them. Most of his rant is just about how crap Google Maps is, though.
Probably a minor detail in the grand scheme of things, but I would imagine they also had trouble competing for engineering talent. For instance, ReachNow was owned by BMW, a privately held company. The salaries they were offering devs were very low, and they offered no equity compensation (which would have been illiquid even if they had).
You're right that if ZFC is consistent then it has a model in which this polynomial has an integer root. The issue is that the "integers" in the model are different from the actual integers. So you can't take the root out of the model and use it to prove ZFC inconsistent.
For you perhaps; I find these very hard to use. Something hand-eye coordination that really does not work for me while a mouse is no issue at all. And I tried because the idea feels nice.
Hedge Funds Hacked into Bank of England Briefings
Yes, even there. [0]

[0] https://github.com/nodejs/node/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Ap...
If the end effect is greater body count then yes, it is a bad thing.
Yet if you check how fast it renders a character to the screen it will almost certainly be faster.

We've made trade-offs in the computer space, input latency and rendering of the screen (also in terms of latency) has suffered strongly at the hands of throughput and agnosticism in protocols. (USB et al.)
It feels a lot closer to write for MCUs if you write for 16-bit programs nowadays. The only difference is that MCUs are much more barebone and so less managed, but the constraints set by hardware however is the most distinctive common spot.
Just purchased a copy. I've heard a lot of good things about it.
All HN front page links nicely formatted
Building a WebXR Version of Doom
Perhaps the US government needs to gets its priorities straight, and investigate the leaked information itself instead, since the impact of that on the people is much more harmful.
For developers coming from other languages, typescript and the tool support in VS Code is what makes frontend engineering tolerable these days. A big difference with just a few years ago. I insist on it in most projects I'm responsible for. I see no good technical reasons not to use it at this point.
I suspect that for a surprising number of sites it's secretly #3: they track the clicks to keep track of what you're reading on the page.
That's exactly what your users don't want you to do!
“Stamping out” anything moves it underground. The transaction volume almost always goes down and the risk for those remaining in the market almost always goes up.
You can still activate Plus for XP over the phone
Australia's Hottest Day on Record Second Day in a Row
> This would not have happened in a language with a proper type system as the type checker would have rejected the program at compile time.

How about in Rust, then? [0]

Bugs happen in every language. When memory corruption occurs, you can segfault.

[0] https://users.rust-lang.org/t/rust-guarantees-no-segfaults-w...
VietJet Spotted Renaming the Boeing 737 Max
That's windows. In Linux, I get this from cold boot (on an Thinkpad T495):

> systemd-analyze
Startup finished in 8.878s (firmware) + 1.666s (loader) + 1.592s (kernel) + 3.265s (userspace) = 15.403s
graphical.target reached after 3.176s in userspace

It's crazy that the slowest part of the whole process is the firmware stuff.
Of course we don't live in a free market, all western economies have a mixed social-capitalist market [1]. It is the constant tension between the two that must be balanced, because practically markets can't account for every externality.

But there are some extremists on both ends who pretend, both of which are quite rare but the "free market" ones are the most often mischaracterized as wanting zero government instead of a smaller one as they thousands of examples of an ever growing list of government interventions making people worst off or simply pilfering money that should be going to those who produce jobs/wealth into the hands of people whose only skill is having political connections, all wrapped in some social justice/equity nonsense that ultimately leaves the poor worse off and economies stagnating.

[1] In fact the US has the largest administrative state in the world in terms of things like licensing and economic intervention, despite is ridiculous perception as a champion of markets. The only one who may be worse is India. And for all of the talk of 'deregulation' in the US, it only happens rarely and almost exclusively for the top 1% businesses like the top 5 mega-banks, while squeezing out the smaller banks from competing. It is not a general trend in any way that is supported by data, western nation states have exploded in size and scale since WW2. Yet the deregulation myth persists.
I can just point to Sweden. The meaning of prostitution has change in the public discussed to be the same as rape, regardless of consent. Being pro-prostitution here is the same as being pro-rape which is very anti-feminist in eye of the Swedish public and people with such views are seen as far-right.

The two arguments that people here use is that a person that do sex for money would not had done so voluntary, thus there no consent. The second argument is that paying a person to do something with their body is the same as buying a human being, which would be slavery.
> The earliest known photograph of Stonehenge, not featuring a family, is thought to date from 1853 - 22 years earlier.

Just to be clear.
Hmm. Borland and Watcom compilers came up in my research. Will look into them for help next time!
> tracking pixels: it’s not the gif, it’s the query parameters

Sometimes it’s also the base URL too.
What syntax is that? Decorators?

Why use mobx? To write less boilerplate? To be more productive?
What are your criteria for something being an Electron competitor?
Why do you think that the... Democratic Party... doesn’t want to “legislate morality.” That is the essence of what all politicians do. Bernie Sanders talking about the 1% and 99% is trying to legislate morality.
As predicted: https://www.9news.com.au/national/sydney-smoke-city-continue...
You'll be getting a headache from the excess CO2 buildup with the windows closed.
If you want to effectively control and monitor indoor pollutants, you also need to buy a CO2+PM2.5 portable monitor. They cost about $80 on Aliexpress.
If you include DLC's? Easily. One of the train simulators goes into thousands if you want all the choo-choos.
Intel Core I3-9350KF Review
Are you pressing the button to start and externally timing the process of arriving at a usable desktop and have you explicitly disabled fast boot? This isn't a new feature in windows 10.

Internally my computer tells me the process takes about 5 seconds from the OS start to graphical environment but in reality there are several steps. For example this doesn't account for the period of time between hitting the power button and the OS itself starting to run, entering full disk encryption password, unlocking volume.

I would be surprised if a full restart actually took so short. Maybe not loading a menu or unlocking a volume is sufficient to explain the difference?
The Linux platform is really really really not famous for the convenience, ease of use, stability and reliability of its audio stack. Or of its stack of audio stacks, actually...
Open Sourcing the Jenkins Config-Driven Pipelines Plugin
great work! I love Tatham's puzzles. Every night I run through Cube, Galaxies, Guess, Inertia, Net, and Pearl -- but with my SE, I've got the puzzles as large as I can go before I am unable to actually play.

The overall experience is so pretty.
Software always is and always will be unfinished.
Not so quick! The thresholds between "hot" and "warm", or between "house" and "palace" are not defined in the grammar.

Unless you can find Sanskrit dictionaries from 2500 years ago giving exact measures of houses and palaces...
If India is not a good place, then why Dalai Lama is staying in India, he could have gone to some other countries.

Buddhists who came from Tibet considers China have occupied their place, neither did these guys ever ask for Indian citizenship, When Dalai Lama goes to other place, he does it that way because to be an example indicating China have occupied their land and it rightfully belongs to them.

One cannot get a citizenship of a country and ask for a country from another country.

As an Indian we would be more than happy to have such people.

Next regarding Tamil Hindus of Srilanka, Many people from SriLanka live here in TamilNadu.

Nobody is denying them in India, They don't want to loose their land in SriLanka.
If they come to India, they need to start from scratch, which is painful for anybody.
Considering all the time I have wasted in recent years wrestling with text selection and cursor positioning on touchscreen devices, this discussion seems delightfully pointless: they are both so much faster than the third option that any difference between the two must be insignificant.
MCU?
Since ZFC can't prove its own consistency, you can't actually prove any statement is independent (an inconsistent system proves everything). Instead what is proved is that if ZFC is consistent then the statment is independent. There's a theorem called Gödel's completeness theorem (a somewhat confusing name in the light of his more famous incompleteness theorem, but they talk about different things so there's no conflict between them) that says that a system is consistent if and only if there exists a model of that system. So the way that you normally prove "If ZFC is consistent then S is independent" is by assuming ZFC is consistent, using the Completeness Theorem to show that it has a model, altering that model to produce models of ZFC+S and ZFC+¬S, and then using the Completeness Theorem in the other direction to conclude that both ZFC+S and ZFC+¬S are consistent.
Not sure why you think that English should dominate international matters. I personally think that Chinese has the same amount of legitimacy to be the Lingua franca for generations to come as English.
The target audience isn't people who need to use Skype, Snapchat, or Uber. But I'm sure it will be possible to run some of those android apps through anbox. Spotify has a Linux client, and for YouTube there's the FreeTube client, which actually protects users' integrity.
ZipCar solved the problem with parking by getting fixed spots in public parking lots. I don't see why Car2Go couldn't go the same way.
(Hopefully) Ease and flexibility of development for 3rd party applications?
How to Improve a Software Company
Serverside doesn't have access to my tracking cookies. It has to be a request initiated by my browser to the third party domain
Blender is a fairly good example of visual software usable with a keyboard only. Especially in older versions there were a lot of functions you couldn't even get to with a mouse. These days everything has a way to get to it from both the mouse and keyboard.

Turns out that an interface like that is really hard to learn but also really fast once you do. Extruding a face along the normal is as easy as getting it selected somehow (which I do with the mouse, but there's plenty of keyboard based selection tools too) and hitting e, followed by z twice, and then either entering a distance on the keyboard or moving the mouse to move it a bit. Personally I love the interplay between keyboard and mouse: you can pick whichever method is most effective. For selecting specific things or moving stuff until it looks right you use the mouse, for selecting in bulk or moving stuff specific distances you use the keyboard. Or a combination. Whichever is convenient.

So I think if you can solve the discoverability problem of keyboard shortcuts it'd be a real productivity boost for power users.
> While I don't think he's 100% correct, I do think he raises a lot of interesting points

One of the things I got from this was that maybe we should do more to design structured interfaces instead of counting the number of clicks needed to transition to the page you're looking for.

Many enterprise applications (especially web based ones) are horrible to navigate, and some people spend most of their working days in them. It's terrible.
Having a phonemic orthography does not stop changes in meaning.

As an aside, if the language is living rather than dead a phonemic orthography doesn't prevent change to spelling and pronunciation either, you just get extra alternative spellings and pronunciations, rather than divergent spelling and pronunciation.
What's bad about speculation? Or do you mean short term speculation? There are many bitcoins that did not move for many years. I do not get why speculation in ETFs, land/housing and other assets is accepted as normal, and with Bitcoin it is somehow bad.
> and as long as this remains the case

And how do you think this can change but by having projects whose main language is not English?
Oh boy I can relate to a lot of things in this article. Like switching technologies back and forth, focussing too much on polishing instead of just delivering the damn thing.

You just think "ah, let me get this perfect and the customers will flood in automatically", but that's just wishful thinking.

In my case I think it relates to a fear of launching public and being criticized and judged.

I'll do it better on the next launch.
That’s nonsense and magical thinking. Sanskrit is a language like any other. Latin meanings haven’t changed for a long time because it’s a dead language but they certainly changed while it was being actively used. Sanskrit is certainly similar.
That's the conventional wisdom. But Senators aren't as partisan. They thrive on plausible deniability. They're unlikely to overrule Roberts, who will preside, rule on motions, witnesses, subpoenas. Even one or two defectors can turn it into a serious trial. There are witnesses and materials being suppressed, if those are subpoenaed, are they significant and relevant? Do they get the public more involved? What if those subpoenas are refused by the president, as he is with House subpoenas? Who blinks? But we've never seen a contentious Senate impeachment trial.

The conventional wisdom, is really speculation. It's not certain. Anyone who claims to know what will happen, doesn't know anything. The more Republican senators insist this is pointless because the outcome is certain, the more it tells me how scared they are about having to make a decision. If they convict, decent chance they get primaried. If they aquit, they risk losing their general election. And they have some sense history books yet to be written are watching.

The Senate can't do anything until the articles are delivered by the House. And right now it looks like that may not happen immediately. That's incredibly unusual. The House wants some assurances of witnesses and documents being produced. They could sit on the articles and string this out for days. Or months.
Before Electron people had the arguments about bloated apps when it came to WPF and Qt. And Java apps, like WPF (and most Qt apps I’ve used lately) lacks true integration with native OS widgets so as a user I get an uncanny-valley feeling.

At least with Electron you’re essentially forced to style everything - and ever since Windows 8 (or Windows Vista) Microsoft has been actively uglifying native widgets.
Why would notscript not work on a browser that has no concept of JS?
My dad had a digitiser tablet for doing CAD, this big slab in front of the keyboard with a mouse like thing but instead of a ball or optics it had a crosshair made out of copper on it to precisely pin point where you were on the surface. There was an area that represented the screen and around it were all manner of UI shortcuts.

I remember it was much more accurate to use than a mouse, and better interface than having toolbars all over the display.
You didn't go far enough:

Air pollution linked to overpopulation. Overpopulation linked to high birth rates. High birth rates linked to sex. So in conclusion: Celibacy cures depression and suicide.

Of course, why stop there? We could keep going deeper.
The amount of people who know Mandarin as a second language outside of China is tiny.
So not a lingua Franca.
> command-line interfaces are less discoverable and harder to use, starting out. Even as a programmer, I struggle to remember the flags to many common command line utilities

Not to disagree with the general point you're making, but autocompletion of commands just using the tab command is how CLIs get discoverability and it's kind of cool.

Whenever I "don't know" I just 'cmd -<tab><tab>' and suddenly I am presented ith a list of options that I can filter by continuing to type the option I suspect I need, or tab to the one that I see on screen. Then if that requires an argument <tab><tab> it let's me select the, for example, file that is needed as the argument.
Show us :-)

I'm sure writing mIrc was not "zero pain" back in the day. And Jabber needs a XML parser which is more complex than a JSON parser.
> If you live right next to a highway, garbage dump or power plant

In cities like London most of the city is like that. probably same as L.A. or New york, the whole place is next to a highway + powerplant + garbage dump
Pretty sure that Bitcoin is the one exception, simply by being first. Thus, it is the single most suited experiment to determine, whether a digital store of value is possible at all, (the argument being that if it cannot be a SoV or can easily be replaced, so can the next, thus none should be entrusted with significant savings).
For a similar demythologising take on the Buddha read 'A Bull of a Man' by John Powers, professor of Asian Studies and Buddhism in Australia.

"The androgynous, asexual Buddha of contemporary popular imagination stands in stark contrast to the muscular, virile, and sensual figure presented in Indian Buddhist texts. In early Buddhist literature and art, the Buddha's perfect physique and sexual prowess are important components of his legend as the world s ultimate man. He is both the scholarly, religiously inclined brahman and the warrior ruler who excels in martial arts, athletic pursuits, and sexual exploits. The Buddha effortlessly performs these dual roles, combining his society's norms for ideal manhood and creating a powerful image taken up by later followers in promoting their tradition in a hotly contested religious marketplace.

In this groundbreaking study of previously unexplored aspects of the early Buddhist tradition, John Powers skillfully adapts methodological approaches from European and North American historiography to the study of early Buddhist literature, art, and iconography, highlighting aspects of the tradition that have been surprisingly invisible in earlier scholarship. The book focuses on the figure of the Buddha and his monastic followers to show how they were constructed as paragons of masculinity, whose powerful bodies and compelling sexuality attracted women, elicited admiration from men, and convinced skeptics of their spiritual attainments."

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003MKB5ZE/ref=dbs_a_def_r...
It is the lingua franca because most of the inventions came from the United States, and people who invent or discover have the right to name. This is why most of the stars have Arabic names and computer science is largely English. I think this can change very quickly if all parties are continuing on their trajectory.
You can probably run this app using WINE on any modern Linux 64-bit system. Or maybe even Mac OS X Catalina.

(The Linux x86 maintainers are semi-seriously considering deprecating the horrible machinations needed for 16-bit on 32-bit to work, but 16-bit on 64-bit Will be supported for the foreseeable future.)
It depends a lot on the customers. The tools we make are mostly B2B and are "premium". We are never first to market, but our tools are trusted over our "competitiors" ( I have put that in quotes and one of our competitors owns 30% of our firm), and this means get more customers because of the trust in robust tools (rebar reinforced concrete).
Microcontroller unit.
There is no direct correlation between the size of an executable (64kb) and the size of the RAM usage (can be hundreds of MB). I could not find any information about the total memory usage of the application, is it described anywhere?
How do you feel about runtime type checking and model validation in Redux? Will that ever be a thing? This is the killer feature that made me abandon it for MobX State Tree.
Maybe sometimes it is not loaded yet? (Just a wild guess)
They pass notably different types of bills and are reliant on different sets of key supporters.
Is that wall clock time? I get 13s but actual wall clock time is more like 26 from power on to desktop. Around 30 seconds to opening a browser.
“Imperial” is an adjective referring to empires. You literally just said Mauryan _empire_.
They will definitely keep tracking users based on info available to the server, like IP address. However that is orders of magnitude less precise than what is in place now.
The only way for something to be profitable as online business, aside from e-commerce, is being a "platform". Ephemeral, little assets, just man-in-the-middle. Operating costs are basically determined by server centers and employees...

Anything real like cars on the road seemingly goes belly-up within a few years unless VCs throw money at it for no reason other than hype.
Financial Times Person of the Year: Satya Nadella
It would be much easier without the moving target of new Javascript features that browsers have to keep up with. With a real, mature, nonbroken language there would be no need to add new features every year. Someone said that Python is badly suited for the web because not event-oriented, whatever that means. Well, JS didn't have async/await until recently, and there's still lots of code that uses promises, yet even promises aren't supported by ancient browsers. It would have been so much easier to use a language that had ironed its sophomore mistakes somewhere on the desktop, before the web limelight. Instead, they created an all-new "web language" to ensure decades of volatility and reinventing the wheel for all the world wide web...
You can write MobX stores entirely in idiomatic JS without decorators.
I use ShareNow daily, because I enjoy it. They will not last in Europe, deep in the red. Operating costs far exceed what people would be willing to pay for a ride. Essentially you have to provide people with brand new cars all of the time, they have to be clean, filled up and evenly spread throughout the business area.

None of these are cheap to realize.
You're treating feminism as a simplistic monolith rather than a multifaceted movement across different cultural groups and sects. There are plenty of differing opinions and trends within the umbrella of feminism that don't always agree with one another, often the divisions seem to fall across generational and national boundaries. It seems to me though that feminists, and the left in general, in the US are very much in favor of the decriminalization of sex work.
It seems like neither outliers nor the consensus. Rather, it seems like lots of people call themselves feminists but there are passionate disagreements among those people about

- the rights of sex workers

- the status of trans people

and a bunch of other things.
Toddlers like smartphones!
First Strapi Plugin
Bank of England Hijacked Audio Feed Was Used to Leak Information to Hedge Funds
I help maintain a project with a very large segment of users who I suspect do not speak English. I have some help from Chinese-speaking members, but overall I can get by with an online translator. It’s not perfect, obviously, but it’s good enough for support in most cases. Usually the bigger issue is technical incompetence rather than a language barrier.
Yes, that's the typical explanation, but no, the images are most definitely loaded, thanks.