skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clojure/ClojureScript is this satisfying combination of "boring" and stable, yet at the same time cutting edge. I think people need to get over their fear of the parens and start paying more attention to it.

Having used Clojure exclusively in my professional life for the last 2 years, it saddens me that we don't see more converts from JS. It's such a great language for today's reactive frontend paradigm. Everyone in the mainstream seems to want JS to turn into Java and are massively migrating to TypeScript. I can't help but feel that TypeScript is just an evolutionary dead-end.
Can't go wrong with Beej's Network Programming guide!
https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/

Also, the ZeroMQ Guide has some fun networking concepts.
http://zguide.zeromq.org/page:all
Instead of watching TV what if i browse reddit or HN and keep commenting? How is that any different? Sure I am not using my brain when watching tv but I am not really turning it off. I am still trying to process the visuals and in some cases trying to understand or predict what might happen. How different is that from mindless browsing?
http://www.autoblog.com/2015/06/12/elon-musk-reality-check-t...
Exactly. If I swapped to an electric vehicle, I estimate I'd need to "fill up" at a gas station maybe 5% as much as I do now.
'Serious cyber-attack' on Austria's foreign ministry
Parcel – Fast, zero-configuration web application bundler
Maybe. What are old people watching? If it’s anything like what I see at my relatives and at assisted living facilities, it’s also of cable news and weather.

Staring at repetitive, content free crap cannot be good for your brain.
Steady on my friend.
This was actually proposed as a solution with a full demonstration video. I don't know of it was Elon himself who did it or someone else though.
Which has since gone away but can be found here:

http://web.archive.org/web/20110418031915/http://dev.hasenj....
In theory yes, but only if battery is being leased from a nationwide entity.

However, practically it takes more than 10 minutes to securely remove and attach the heaviest thing in a car no matter how easy we make it. Super charging will already make it < 10 minutes
Go competes with GC-based and scripting languages, not really with either C or C++. Rust is "C++ like" in a broad sense, but highly simplified and offering memory safety, so it's also competing both with C (except in deep embedded where some platforms might not support it) and (to a lesser extent than Go, tbh) with higher-level or scripting languages. While it's not literally applicable to "anything and everything" it's actually pretty darn close.
This has been tried, in fact the original Tesla Model s had a swappable batteries[1], but it has never worked for a variety of reasons.

[1]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlaQuKk9bFg
But you're missing the nuance that exemplifies the risk. Will sales (on a low-margin product) improve enough to cover the renovation's cost (hundreds of thousands, to million+)? And the additional ongoing costs of running a "spotless" store? Gas station pumps don't wipe themselves down. And can a guy who owns a few dozen stores compete with chains that own hundreds?
IIRC the OSI criteria were even modeled after the DFSG. OSI was basically a project to decide which license is open source outside of a Debian context.
I’m going into Scala + Akka. There is a slight possibility my company will adopt it instead of current stack.
Unsupervised learning
This is substantially true of English as well; we can construct a grammatically valid phrase such as "the sleepy gorillaesque lamppost".

With, of course, some exceptions. I'm confident there are exceptions in Japanese as well, being as exceptions are the rule in natural languages.
The notion that it should take 40 million pounds to fix this is just so reflective of the disconnect between the bureaucracy and the people that actually get work done that I probably couldn't think of a better example if I tried.

I can think of a couple ways to make that faster for free. Many dozens more for a lot less than a million pounds, forget 40. Arguments about "but corporate / compliance / vendor contracts / red tape" be damned. (Edit: Most of the replies to this comment are exactly this sort of thinking - It's too complicated, there's too many vendors, we can't do it, it's too hard, no one will do it for free. This is the exact kind of lack of political will to get anything done that I'm talking about. It's someone's existing job to do IT, task them with making it better - plugging in the computers to the wired network is a good free first step. Cleaning up the GPOs so Windows login doesn't take 60 seconds (!) is another freebie. Yes, these systems are complicated. That's not an excuse for them to be garbage).

The decadence of IT spend is horrifying. I suspect most of it winds up lining someone's pocket.
IT Jobs Are Boosting the Economy, Even Outside Tech Hubs
There is a lot of debate going on as to the root cause of this problem, but that time has long passed. There is an organization in New Orleans that is taking action. If you would like to take action then please consider volunteering, or donatin. www.sonofasaint.org
Better Place was an early attempt at this strategy that ended in disaster, though I don't think you can attribute it to the underlying strategy. Here's a post-mortem on the company https://www.fastcompany.com/3028159/a-broken-place-better-pl...
> Animals operate with causal models of a very small number of parameters: these models richly describe how an intervention on one variable causes another to change. These models cannot be inferred from association (hence the last 500 years of science).

* Tegmark and Wu's AI Physicist: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18381827

* AIXI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIXI
> When I look at the job market in my region of Denmark, almost every job is for JAVA, C# or PHP. No-one is hiring for Rust, graphql, go or any of the other hipster languages / frameworks.

Udviklings- og Forenklingsstyrelsen has a huge project written in Clojure, ClojureScript and R and they're hiring all the time.
The man page for zstd mentions that using the --ultra flag will cause decompression to take more RAM as well when used to compress. Does this indicate a huge increase in memory to decompress, or just a trivial amount per package, say something large like... `libreoffice-fresh`? Or `go`? They're two of the largest main repo packages I have installed... (followed by linux-firmware)
That's how a modern Windows Terminal Server/Citrix/whatever infrastructure works, smartcards and all.
The end of the article talks about this specifically. Basically if half the gas stations close down, you just have to be in the top 50% to stay in business, and because of less of competition they can even increase margins.
When you know the correct keywords it's easier to search that way.

I wonder everyday how I teach my colleuges how they should learn more about linux. My best attempt so far is to skim the man pages of at least coreutils rpm. That and TLDP.

It's like knowing Google Fu, much is in finding useful keywords.
> Even the handles on the gas pumps get buffed down regularly so that “the customer does not put his hand on something dirty,” he says

This is what most UX designers do for a living. They think about the small details which get overlooked while everyone is in a rush to build out x feature/functionality.

It's what creates emotional connections to products and services which builds strong customer loyalty and helps word of mouth.

Just like how they used to know your name at your local small grocery store, those intimate details go a long way. And in commoditized situations people are willing to spend more time/money or go out of their way to use your product.

Dan Norman talks a lot about this in his "Emotional Design" book. It's the design stuff that goes beyond merely functionality and most efficient problem solving (ie, obsessing about fewest clicks to do x, instead of the wider experience where adding a communication step might improve the emotional experience).

But often it is a luxury for many smaller firms struggling to just get the functionality part right, which is why this person buying up gas stations, providing time and capital, and giving them the attention they needed is working so well.
If I become an author of an algorithm or trained network that can break the world (do a Big Bad) and upload it to GitHub claiming that it can break the world and you absolutely must not use this can I be held responsible?
This is still a disaster with hyperthreading where you can have two threads contending for a lock on the same physical core.

Even if your thread won't be scheduled off the core I don't know if you might still have irqs stealing time during the critical section.
Per the post, the speedup on decompress is _13x_ while the size is 1.008x.

For those figures, this will be better total time for you if your computer network connection is faster than about 1.25mbit/sec. For a slow arm computer with an XZ decompress speed of 3MB/s the bandwidth threshold for a speedup drops to _dialup_ speeds.

And no matter how slow your network connection is and how fast your computer is you'll never take more than 0.8% longer with this change.

For many realistic setups it will be faster, in some cases quite a bit. Your 54MB XZ host should be about 3% faster if you're on a 6mbit/sec link-- assuming your disk can keep up. A slow host that decompresses xz at 3MB/s w/ a 6mbit link would a wopping 40% faster.
Thanks! That's a great link for more than just Torvalds.
A related question that I’ve been thinking about: What technologies/languages/tools/stacks can I learn now, that will still be relevant and useful in 2025, or 2030?
Steam's Hardware Survey for December 2019 Places Linux Gaming at a Yearly Low
It's 6 sided, not 7.
A lot of truth in this article, but I disagree that trump has anything to do with this trend. As other commenters have pointed out, this trend predates trump’s ascension. The author admits vapor wave predates trump, as does Burner art and certain Japanese styles which I think played a major part in producing and popularizing this aesthetic. Trump’s aesthetic bears superficial similarities with this aesthetic, but I think in the same way that a stopped clock is right twice a day.
No matter how elegant and correct something is, if people can't generally use it correctly, and doing things in a way that will allow them to shoot themselves in the foot is easier, that's what they will do, and then they will complain about it.
Fantastic resources, thank you!
Console #16: Fake Like Factories and Surviving the Surveillance Apocalypse
You’re right, that makes it even better.
Is Parallel Programming Hard, and, If So, What Can You Do About It?
> I can think of a couple ways to make that faster for free.

Such as?
It's a heap of absolute nonsense at the moment though.
How to migrate from Elasticsearch 1.7 to 6.8 with zero downtime
For my own ultra-secure (offline) storage, I use a strong password for a KeepassX DB stored on a LUKS-encrypted USB drive that's only plugged in when needed. Layers are the way to go ;)
To emphasize: Disney has 90 years of back catalog, including a ridiculous number of pop culture touchstones dating back that far.
Those factors can change. Currently charging at night at home is cheaper today, only because power company makes it so. Ideally cars should charge when the sun is up, in day time. If they were self driving, it could charge while we work. Don’t assume everyone work place will become a gas station
The electrolytic capacitors in your Mac II are most likely dead and need to be replaced. It is reasonably easy to do if you are at all handy with a soldering iron. There are also many people that offer recapping as a service. Try asking on 68kMLA.

https://68kmla.org
Well yes and no. Even if you don't add any type annotations you still get some implicit type safety. You have to opt out with an Any type of something to totally turn that off.

Our experience is different with tests.
I have been working through the Kurose + Ross textbook, and will be trying to implement some of the concepts/exercises in the book in Go. I've also been reading through the networking sections of the Unix + Linux System Administrators Handbook
A Simple Web Scraper in Go
1) If you want to see an example of that in the Bay Area, the Mile 8 convenience store/gas station at 19th Ave. and Irving is pretty amazing - great selection, two clean, inside restrooms. Closes at 8 pm though. Cheapest sandwiches, snacks and coffee in the area.

2) The article has a good explanation of how an immigrant community works together to dominate a niche using a favorable banking tie and a labor stream. A similar story is that most Bay Area motels are operated by Gujaratis (fixed), and in Canada minimarts by Koreans. Both have strong banking ties for pre-approved loans based on sufficient family labor and the community track record.

3) The Albanian resistance movement in the last Serbian war was funded by a small construction firm in New York. The owner fed back enough weapons and snipers to ground the UN helicopters (!) persecuting them, as well as lobby in DC. There's a very impressive video online.
Dealing with Loneliness
It just occurs to me that I answered the wrong question: the comments that prompted mine were about where OP author Dan Wang went to college — NOT Girard.

My bad.

FWIW, Wang went to the University of Rochester in the U.S.
Source: https://danwang.co/about/
Polar Projections with Mapbox
Connecting with Your Guardian Angel
> I have the pleasure of having my grandfather's Model M ('87)

Yikes. Thanks for that little kick in the pants :)
Active discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21959692
That’s another thing I wonder about. What’s so wrong about the placebo effect? If it makes people feel better we should embrace it. I think a lot of things like yoga work because they are done in positive environments by positive people. Whereas a lot of regular medicine is performed in pretty negative circumstances. So the same treatment may not work in a doctors office but it may work in a yoga studio.
>retype username

That's even worse than the non-sso sign in flow. It definitely doesn't have to be that bad.
> "providing a better experience for customers can increase sales".

Right, but what does that actually mean. What is he actually doing to make the businesses more attractive to customers.
At least being online means they can fix it quickly. (Until the next marketing update that adds a vulnerable script, natch.)

Back in the IE5 days they had similar bugs in res:// (DLL resource) pages, running in the then-highly-privileged My Computer Zone. Took years of reporting the same kind of crap before they finally deprivileged it.

New browser, new code base, new devs... all the old bugs are new again.
That type of litmus test is hardly new, even in UK politics which tends to trail the worst US "innovations" in politics and campaigning.

Blair got a fair few votes as he had a nice smile, the Tories tried to demonise him with their "demon eyes" campaign. Go back further and there were elements of the same in Michael Foot losing election against Thatcher. He famously attended a national event in very poor weather and wore a brand new coat, chosen by his wife, that the right wing press tried -- very, very successfully -- to brand as a donkey jacket, and him a bottom of the heap disorganised type, when it was just a normal, formal and supposedly very expensive duffel coat.

Or Attlee against Churchill at the tail end of WW2. Churchill was going around in style, using an election train and limousine. Attlee was going around casually mixing with the troops who were starting to come back from Europe, and talking to the people, as one of the people. Thus Britain's great war winning leader was resoundingly kicked out, in a Labour landslide in July 45 -- between VE Day and VJ Day.
Let's have a coffee with the Standard Model of particle physics
When logging in to gmail (gsuite really) for work, I notice that I’m briefly redirected to accounts.youtube.com after putting in the otp even though the account has no youtube association. Any ideas why? I’ve tested blocking the domain and it still lets me through (after hitting back after falling to load). Is this just “because Firefox”?
I'm not a native English speaker and the fact that this is such a common error among native speakers baffles me because the rules that govern these things are very simple. Conventions about when to omit the 's' after the apostrophe differ from one set of guidelines to another (see e.g. https://www.dailywritingtips.com/possessive-of-proper-names-... ), but that's the only non-uniform thing about it.

There's nothing weird about "it's" being incorrect. Pronouns have their own possessive forms. You say her keyboard is white, not she's keyboard is white, and his shirt is yellow, not he's shirt is yellow -- why would you say it's collar is white?

You guys have no idea how easy English is, you should be happy about it and love it and cherish it forever! My native language has a phonetic alphabet, so it's easier to figure out how to pronounce words (i.e. no "lead men in battle" vs "the pipes are made of lead" bullshit). But forming possessives for plurals is waaaay more complicated than "add 's, except if the noun already has an s at the end".
Countries with fewer cars driving fewer miles still manage to have gas stations, so I think basic market economics will kick in. Gas will get more expensive, or stations will get a little more sparse, or both. After all there will still be a demand.
Beej's guide is fantastic. I found it from the suggested reading on one of the OverTheWire wargames. I think of it as the true sequel to K&R.
Love it! I just recently started using Syncthing and may implement what you've outlined here.

As a fellow paranoid, what mechanism are you using for the separate backup?
Mysterious: Latest memo from Howard Marks on negative interest rates
If a thread can do no more for the moment, then either it is finished, or it is waiting for something to happen. In the latter case, the best thing is to be woken on that event, and the next best is to poll for it. Sleep is only the best solution when that event is literally the passage of time.
The fanbase OP was talking about is talking about the new content though. Apples new content is meh.
Thanks for letting me know! It should work now; I just upgraded from the free plan, which should increase the maximum simultaneous connections from 100 to 200k.
Show HN: Reddit Watch – Web App to Download&Mux Reddit Videos (Vue.js+ffmpeg.js)
Agree with other meta-comments here on the question itself. FWIW some other random biased suggestions:

* Kubernetes
* Rust
* Terraform
I think it would stay about the same.

You would have slightly fewer drivers as people would charge at home. However, that's probably a low percentage of the total.

For those that stick around, the duration of a visit will generally increase (filling up 200 miles worth of petrol takes less time than 200 miles charge, even at 100kW or more).

I'm more likely to buy something at somewhere I perceive to be 'overpriced' if I'm there for longer, want somewhere nice to sit and eat, etc.
see https://www.rfc-editor.org/retrieve/ for individual document maturity levels (for this you might want to monitor "Experimental" and "Proposed Standard")
Learn everything about vanilla JavaScript really well. Just vanilla.
Unless the batteries are standardized every manufacturer needs their own distribution network for their batteries. I don’t think that’s viable. Making the battery swappable would probably also require some serious design compromises.
Avoiding quasiparticle decay may allow control&stabilization of quantum matter
I work for a system integrator that also offers Identity and Access Management systems. Some of our offerings have both modern directory services and SSO and multi-factor authentication solutions with access control policies like SAASPASS. Don’t understand how this deployment would cost 40 million pounds even with IAM consulting and training.

It would be good to see the actual breakdown of the spending as it probably includes other spending as well. If not, then it is questionable spending.
Pro Tools Comparison
Not true. Here's an example of how blockchain is changing real estate transactions and the title insurance industry:

https://www.deeds.com/articles/the-real-estate-deal-declutte...

This involves state and county governments recognizing a current problem that is easily solved with blockchain technology. In this particular use case, blockchain is used to prevent fraud and provide a more efficient process.
I wonder if there are any family with kids on content subscription service decide not to get Disney+ and instead get Apple TV+ if they were to choose between one of the two. I just dont see this happening now, in three years time, or even in 5 years.

And if they were to get another Content Subscription Service, would they choose Apple TV+ at half the cost of Netflix, or Netflix with hundred if not thousand times more content from Originals, Movies to Anime?

Then there is the Amazon Prime, which means it is Free for the 100 million subscribers in US.

Even The Grand Tour wasn't good enough for me to stick with Amazon Prime Video, and I have been watching Jeremy Clarkson shouting POWER for nearly two decades. At this rate I see majority of people subscribing to two streaming services at best and just go back to pirate other shows they like. And even if that was the case, there doesn't seems to be any show worth pirating from Apple TV + now, or in the near future.
I’ve used this with my most recent project 30 Hour Jobs. My goal was the quickest path to launch and this was hilariously easy compared to my old webpack config!

I can imagine at some point you might need more customizability with a tool like webpack - or maybe this will always be sufficient?
Calculus, linear algebra, and C will be hot as fuck this year.
It's been long accepted that a sufficient rabbinical consensus can out-lawyer God itself, it's like the SCOTUS mandate to decide what the wording of the constitution really means or the Catholic papal infallibility doctrine - can't really have a law system without that sort of thing, religious or secular.
Thanks for those suggestions! Agreed with all of them, especially having quicker ways to do common actions like add links, will be working on that next.
>Scientists Find Evidence a Strange Group of Quantum Particles Are Basically Immortal

source: https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-find-evidence-a-stra...
What Will Another Decade of Climate Crisis Bring?
> There’s also the fact that google recently forced Javascript and specific browsers to be used in order to be able to login. So I was locked out of my account for a while until someone discovered that the “rules” are a little more lax for Firefox useragents.

There's a ton of threat mitigation and detection of unusual activities going on behind the scenes. This is a big reason why my company uses GSuite SSO - it's basically impossible to achieve a similar level of security with a DIY SSO setup. Auth is very hard to get right with all corner cases considered.

JS trickery is key to detecting bots, and blocking super-outdated browsers like Konqueror that basically lack all modern security mitigations is a reasonable thing to do (and probably allows them to remove less strict fallbacks for those browsers that were previously abused by bad actors).
I think you're wrong on both counts - it's coming to multiple trusts (several friends and family have mentioned it), and despite the timing of the article is actually already in production or currently rolling out - I guess they forgot to release it before now.
They're talking past each other. Malte is really saying that yield() does what he wants on Windows and BSD, and Linus is giving a bunch of excuses for why Linux doesn't work that way.
Something low-level. C/C++.
Results of Sam Altman’s 2015 “Bubble Talk” Bet – Danielle Morrill