skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also not true. Apples valuation is around $365 billion, Denmarks _GDP_ is around $370 billion per year.

I'd argue a sovereign country's assets are essentially invaluable, but in Denmark's case there's the interesting historical fact that the US government offered to buy Greenland several times (and always being rebuffed by the Danes), so at least there's an estimate for the value of that island alone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_the_United_State...

> If the United States wants it for the strategic value of its property, both on land and offshore, and to project military power, the answer is that a value of $500 billion is not overly rich

EDIT: I got the numbers wrong. Apple Inc. is currently valued at over $1 trillion (I used Apple's total assets from their Wikipedia page) and they mention Denmark's net worth which is indeed in that ballpark. I'd still argue that you can't compare the valuation of a company to the net worth of a sovereign country.
It's trivial to remove telemetry these days.
Mozilla doesn't provide binary packages for all architectures and OSs supported by Nix/NixOS

Maintainers also sometimes need to patch software to conform to their distribution's norm. For example, Debian patches it to accept extensions installed with APT.

And I'm glad distribution maintainers always recompile software themselves, it helps making sure:

1. binaries are really made from the open source code (I know, it's not bullet-proof)

2. it's actually humanly possible to actually compile it from source (my pet peeve in this area is Kafka: it's used everywhere, but no one seems to know how to actually fully compile it from sources anymore)
Exactly. No point in even trying anything, if it's a good idea someone has already done it.
Google vs. Oracle: The Supreme Court will decide software development’s future?
Have you tried demanding something from Russian authorities? They have a transliteration table and Семён is Semen, no changes allowed.
Quick fact for everyone:

Billionaires have more sons, which is somewhat proof of this for humans
> The whole ecosystem falls down like a card house [...]

> praying my Python and other projects survive [...]

And this is exactly why I never update. Every 10 years or so I go through the pain of installing a new version of the OS, mostly because the browser no longer works on most websites. But then, now that the web becomes more and more uninteresting to me, I might as well keep the current version until the hardware breaks down.

Security? Sure, but not at the cost of ruining half of my installed software on a regular basis!

If there was a statically linked version of BSD, I would switch to it in the blink of an eye.
I thought you were going to say ALIENS!
An A4 booklet of the paper, if you're into printing out the interwebs: https://mbarkhau.keybase.pub/pdfs/blake3_a4_booklet.pdf?dl=1
Maybe someone will protest and come claim them? Maybe netting them so you don't destroy them could be an option.
Haha, good one!
Apple showed them the way. Before iPhone Android was a nokia knockoff.
> - If your code requires constant maintenance you are doing it wrong.

Disagree. Your code should reflect the business you're in, and changes to the business are what creates opportunity and let you turn your skills into profit.

Clean code is absolutely a means to an end, and if you've got a codebase that's just sitting there fulfilling some static business purpose then yes, it makes sense to leave it ugly. (Similarly with code that you know is being end-of-lifed soon - if there is not going to be a need to make changes to the code in the future then it's fine to load it up with technical debt until it sinks). But that's the exception rather than the rule.
I personally completely agree with all the thoughts exposed in the post. Though mostly I was intrigued by the figure labeled "Some important details for colonizing the universe.": http://johnsalvatier.org/assets/colonizing-the-universe.png Unfortunately author used it just as an illustration without giving any details. The dust and heating related constraints are self explanatory, what surprised me most was the slowdown fission/fusion curves. Since everything else on the plot seems to make sense I presume they just depict that whatever amount of fuel you take with you the amount of extracted energy will decrease following such a path as you accelerate closer to c.
I'm also aware of this online editor.
http://petscii.krissz.hu/
I wasn't actually able to find any real documentation on how Synology's SHR works.

Their recovery documentation [0] indicates that SHR is just plain mdadm + LVM and a couple of NAS recovery sites [1,2] indicate the same.

In the end I got a Reddit post [3] with a response from a Synology representative who says that the btrfs filesystem will request a read from a redundant copy from mdadm in order to correct checksum errors.

I wonder whether this is unique to Synology or whether the change has been upstreamed into the main Linux kernel.

[0]: https://www.synology.com/en-global/knowledgebase/DSM/tutoria...

[1]: https://support.reclaime.com/kb/article/8-synology-shr-raid/

[2]: http://www.nas-recovery.com/kb_hybrydraid.php

[3]: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/5yb13m/anyone_...
Oh, hey! I worked with you on a Racket VSCode project a while ago and wondered why you suddenly stopped responding. The GitHub ban might've been the culprit there. Glad to see you working on another interesting project!
SIXEL for displaying bitmap images, yes.

But I mean that term apps should have better support for ligatures - as in font/type ligatures - for doing proper mathematics.
I'd be interested in a citation, first thought which springs to mind is sample size and size of the bias.
This is a problem the package maintainers and the distros have brought on themselves!

They put countless hours into stitching roadkill into a complex quilt and then scoff at users who complain on the rotting stench.

They split packages from the creators into multiple pieces to meet their own idiosyncratic aesthetics. Firefox and other pieces of complex software should reside entirely in its own hierarchy. I have been using Linux and FreeBSD since 1997, SunOS and OSF/1 before that, this is good as it gets folks.

The only hope is Nix, OSX, Qubes and folks that care about progress. Everyone else is building ships in bottles.
I think another HW (Semiconductor) company is facing the same problem; its competitor is surging ahead full steam and the future may put the smartphone as one of the inflection points where it all began, connecting the dot backwards of course.
Defender all set to sign five-year Chelsea deal after Lampard admits talks
Note this other recent Space Invaders effort. Space Invaders in C.
"a memory accurate reimplementation of the 1978 arcade game Space Invaders in C."
http://blog.loadzero.com/blog/si78c/
I guess it was caused by a network error, but it still ended up with the repository in a corrupt state (with the patches "existing" but invisible).
Let's go by the price of land in Denmark. 25,000 Euros per hectare in 2009. That's for agricultural land.

Greenland does not support agriculture, but it does have natural resources, and can have a good strategic value. So let's say it's 10,000 Euros per hectare, a good discount.

It would cost 2.6 trillion Euros, or 2.9 trillion US Dollars.

Everything has a price, I wonder if that would be acceptable for Denmark and under what conditions.
Farmer had a million-dollar hemp crop – until South Carolina bulldozed it
Although the post doesn't mention it, you might also be interested in reading about parasocial interaction[0]

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasocial_interaction
Stop procrastinating, go to bed happy with your progress
Related and b/c it's mentioned in the article: https://www.mashed.com/182485/the-untold-truth-of-mukbang/
And that's fine! I just wish I didn't have to use it (before it is actually considered ready, at least).
Galaxy Z Flip, that's what Samsung's next foldable phone is called
> You need to indicate no-data-here in some fashion.

Well languages that have non-nullable types still allow you to do that - you just have to be explicit about it. In TypeScript (using --strict mode which disables nullables), youd need to define the type as union type and make use of the "null" type: `let a: string | null`. So you tell the compiler that either "null" is a valid value for a or a string. The compiler will assist you and catch possible bugs (such as dereferencing a without checking it against null first)
Pointers and references practice (2019)
Many applications were never designed to be compiled entirely static, as much as I’d like that to be the case it isn’t possible.

Containerization satisfies the contract the application expects.

That is really the problem it fixes, dependency hell and dynamic linking.
GDP Is Not the Same Thing as Turnover(2011)
Two States. Eight Textbooks. Two American Stories
Lot of mainstream languages nowadays support non-nullable types, i.e. TypeScript and C# (taken from F#).
Kitty also has their own custom protocol for images. That's exactly what they try to accomplish in this discussion thread, to get one common protocol which is used by all modern terminals. The developer of Kitty is also in there.
Sea lions are cash cows in the Bay Area. Farther south, fishermen: ‘Shoot ‘em’
The original code was clean.

The thing about the handling of different shapes is that they have idiosyncrasies. Resizing one side of a square resizes all of its sides; resizing one side of a rectangle resizes two out of four sides; resizing one side of an arbitrary quadrilateral only resizes the one.

These are very different abstractions, with different behaviors. Even though all shape functions technically use the same code, they're not conceptually doing the same thing. Linking these abstractions by way of a shared extracted functions is inviting bugs.
How cool! Nice to see you again. Yeah I had an overflow of issues coming and github ban and then a personal trauma that made me put down so many of the project. Please email me and I'll add you to my GitLab. We can resume the progress there if you still like :D
What lengths we will go to blame anyone but ourselves.
This just seems like a puff piece for Republican party values.

Not journalism. Not an opinion piece. An ad.
Unless they use sexed semen (more expensive, but means they at least aren't producing male calves and then sending them off to be killed).
thanks I'll fix that too :D
Many of us already saw it differently back then and often had to face ridicule when pointing out concerns with these services.
As another commenter pointed out, this seems like dollar stores' competition with deeper pockets just trying to get rid of them.

If cities truly cared about their residents'poor diets, they would ban the foods these people are buying ( soda, junk food, microwavable garbage, etc ).

Once the dollar stores close, then their customers would have to buy their junk food at a supermarket.

Also, I'd suspect that Costco, Walmart and large supermarket chains lead far more to poor diets and especially obesity than dollar stores.
You don't have to use the Nest at all, Pijul can work on your own server via SSH, the protocol just runs commands through SSH.
One can turn that around. There is a lot of good music and talented people around but the machinery around music media and distribution and life style is such that most people end up listening the same few composers and artists world wide.

So it might look that the composer or artist themselves are somehow unbelievably special.

The talent shows for example have produced quite many popular artists here. One could see that as "see, anyone can be successful!". Or one can see that the machinery can choose which talented and hard working people they make "successful".

The journalism around music is especially naive. They constantly mix up people, phenomena, music, promotion and popularity happily.

People to a surprising degree like what they think they are supposed to like.
Maybe somebody who wants to extend this game? That would be funny.
Thanks pmcjones,for chiming in. I hope you live a long life.

The general trouble today more than ever is that main stream medicine is exceedingly cartelized, commercialized and profit driven that it is difficult to disentangle the legitimate good therapies from the one that in some cases are downright harmful.
Besides the obvious "you get what you paid for" (i.e. cloud-based services ripping you off when they fall over), this seems to me to represent a unique opportunity for software vendors to take over the abandoned platform, and rejuvenate it with a non-cloud/locked-down firmware release.

Maybe there is an opportunity for a forward-thinking software group which strives for competence on these kinds of platforms, and is prepared to take over the abandoned customers? Sure seems like an opportunity to me ..
I've been making languages for quite a while now. And between all of them I've really like the idea of case insensitivity. Nota is mostly about what I wanted to have and couldn't find in other places. It's way of identifiers too was an important thing that I wanted to have. Having apostrophes, case insensitivity and spaces was an important thing that actually even effected the rest of the grammar design
> I'm not superstitious, but if I were and I had a problem with number 13, I totally wouldn't want to sit on row "14".

I imagine the way you're approaching this is not unrelated to the fact that you're not superstitious. That is to say, if you were superstitious, it's possible you wouldn't feel this way about the fake 14th row. Not having to see and think about the number 13 may be enough.
SIX Reasons You Should Learn to Code
It’s foolish to assume supernormal returns on investment in a highly competitive market without either innovation or insight, yes.
Yea, it's really annoying when IS vendor said their solution needs 16GBs of RAM for every computer when it's just all basic stuff like dashboards, graphs, tables etc. Even modern PC games still don't require this amount.
Not exactly roguelikes, but MUDs [1] are multiplayer games with a roguelike feel, but they are more like the ancestors of MMORPGs, TBH.

A telnet program should basically be enough to start playing. There are some "MUD client" programs that enhance the interface (dunno about MAC OS), and some sites offer enhanced web interfaces as well.

One of the most popular, Aardwolf [2] is very newbie-friendly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD

[2] https://www.aardwolf.com/
Nota is not much about calculator itself, it's about fun with ASCII art. there exists tons of more powerful calculators with much much better rendering. But I really agree, if we had a better system than text-only terminals it would have been sooo amazing
People rely on devices to store information, but that's not a bad thing
Who can afford for their main email account (gsuite, paid), cloud hosting (if you use it, maybe even for business), means of payment (gpay), backup and storage (drive) to get banned/locked without meaningful support just because you happen to post a comment on a yt video that some googler or algorithm found offensive/non-pc or you happened to log into your account from the wrong IP address, city or continent?

As soon as I started travelling frequently, gmail/google was not longer an option. You can't rely on it. Can't trust it.

That, on top of everything else is a dealbreaker.
Also there is a deep need for better fonts. Currently only Menlo renders things right.
The best way I’ve had this explained is that refactoring != DRY. Some methods have a similar structure, but if the problem they’re solving isn’t fundamentally similar then it’s not truly refactoring and you’re setting yourself up for more work in the future.
Egumarsh, 30 – Promote Your Website, Products
Unless you live in a cold climate and use electric heat? Endlessly gzipping /dev/random would simply cause your electric heater to run less frequently.
Ask HN: Thoughts on Earnest Capital
Earnest capital made a quite a buzz. But 1 y later, it's about 10 investments for a total amount of maybe $2m ?

Also, some investments are "tools.for bootstrapping" which they push in emails. Do I really need your special tool at $100/month to "transparently report monthly statistics to investors" ?

Getting any capital is not easy. Every new investor would be welcomed.

But this seems very under whelming to me.

Any thoughts ?
That's not why they avoid those neighborhoods. It's because they steal. That's the problems the big supermarkets have out here in Los Angeles when maintaining stores in poorer neighborhoods.
I grew up in America, and that view of milk as a children's drink was pretty common in my Scandinavian/Germanic heritage in the US.

When we went to restaurants, children ordered milk to drink, but an adult never would.

Milk was fine to put in your coffee or tea, but not to drink a cup of it. Milk was fine to use with cereal or to cook with, but not to drink plain.

I do not doubt your perspective at all; however, there are definitely at least parts of America where milk is not for adults to drink. My recent ancestors were dairy farmers in the upper midwest. I cannot think of a single time my parents or grandparents drank milk straight up. I won't say it never happened. It could just be my faulty memory. But if beer or coffee or juice was available, pretty much every adult would drink those. Even juice was pretty iffy. Juice for breakfast maybe. Any other time, and it was a child's drink as well.

Obviously, this is just one anecdote. Don't take it for data.

Having also lived in Germany and now Sweden, I will say that I believe milk is not often drunk plain by adults in either of these places.
> If anyone has gotten their account suspended, what was it for and how can I avoid it?

For logging in from the wrong location (or network?). Most of the times you just get an email about log in attempts. This was for logging in from JP while usually logging in from DE/EU.

How can you avoid it? Using a private VPN I suppose when using Google (avoid cloud IP address blocks though, else you'll get captcha hell).
Whether a greedy heuristic is faster or not is dependent on the structure of the graph. For the example in the article about mountains and grassland, it makes sense that such a heuristic would speed up the search, since the algorithm can't get stuck in dead-ends.

But in a problem where the algorithm can get stuck in dead-ends, it's possible to construct examples where the greedy heuristic is (much) slower than plain Manhattan distance. Here's an example:

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Yes, he mentions it in Effective Java. When designing APIs, collaborate with 3 clients if possible.
I would not put too much weight into those benchmarks.
Those micro-benchmarks are useful to detect performance regressions between commits in a same system, not to compare different systems.
Aggregating micro-benchmarks is even less sensible.

A better type of benchmark is the more realistic stuff TechEmpower does, but they only test web frameworks, not OSes.
Life expectancy is mean not median, and the median wouldn’t work like that either.

Of course, some people loved to 70, I think there would be virtually no circumstances where that would be expected (ignoring ad absurdum takes like “age 69 and 364 days”)
Don't date robots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrrADTN-dvg
> I came as a 10+ year Debian user to Archlinux because it did too much automagic under the hood that broke and took a lot of time to fix.

This assertion makes no sense. Debian Stable has always the paragon of stability to the point that it's actually criticised for it. The Debian Testing release is even famous for being more solid than other distro's stable releases.

Breaking changes in Debian are practically only remotely possible in Debian Unstable or if you purposely install packages from backports or PPA repositories that have no assurance of stability or even maintenance.
This is a better source of this news without the clickbait:

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/nasa-s-tess-missio...

Strangely, this is like the 9th time I've seen this post on HN again and I'm shocked as to why it hasn't been of interest to anyone.
> If "your side" is being loose with facts,

But "my side" isn't being loose with facts. That's my point. Data visualization techniques are always lossy, that's just how they work. The article tries to paint this lossiness as deception, and that's wrong.
Makes you wonder if IOT will end up IOTA (Internet Of Things Abandoned) what with these surges in IOT devices being dropped and abandoned and yet, still connected to the internet and what I feel will happen, become ignored and forgotten.

I'm firmly of the remit that any IOT I get has to be open-source, but this truly rams that home. Though even with open source, the fear of binary blobs hiding under the FCC or other common excuse because it's radio related, just don't help.

Now, say Spectrum did the right thing and release the source for all this abandoned kit, any signing key for firmware so those inclined could give them a second life. Though for those who don't avail of that avenue (most won't as compiling source and the like not your average user comfort zone) and with abandoned devices, well. You start to see how messy and complicated such matter can play out. Let alone the aspect that if they release the source and some criminals abuse that to subvert abandoned devices, it opens up exposure to legal redress for Spectrum above and beyond the situation now.

But then, havn't mobile phone networks been able to lacklustre update devices they sold for years and gotten away with it!
I know someone who suffers from anxiety and takes propranolol. She says it helps with the physical symptoms of anxiety (e.g. racing heart), but doesn't help prevent anxiety in the first place. Still, she finds this somewhat useful, as feeling physical symptoms of anxiety can cause a sort of feedback loop, where it leads to more anxiety.

So yes, while beta blockers can help, they are no panacea.
If they ever dig a tunnel this long.
Agree. Overzealous HN title editing at the best of times.
That's funny because I've been running Debian Sid for 15 years as my main OS doing weekly updates and the two single cases of breakage I've seen were glibc6 transition (which was announced and expected) and proprietary video card drivers. You must be thinking of Ubuntu specifically.
> Likewise for Firefox, which is why the BSDs don't get official releases

We mostly don't want official releases, we prefer our package managers.

Firefox is absolutely not like Chromium, Mozilla is very good at accepting patches and the upstream repo pretty much always works on FreeBSD. Just git/hg clone and ./mach build and here it is.
> Cryptographers commonly advise non-experts to use a library to do things for you

On the high level, the problem is that libraries are usually "CRC32", "MD5", "SHA256", etc. There's no guiding resource that I have found that matches use cases to libraries, which is where the initial question comes from.

That is, unless you meant a library that covers the entire use case, but there isn't always one.
> one shouldn't suppress truth and normalize deceit.

My point is that the article is claiming deceit where none exists. Data visualization techniques are always lossy, that's just how they work. The article tries to paint this lossiness as deception, and that's wrong.
Are you sure merging code for different datafeeds would be better though? In such cases, what is identical and what is not, should be references to eachother in comments. But you don't know beforehand which approach would be better, unless you know the datafeeds will stay the same as now.

The sad story here is that if you know the datafeeds will stay pretty static, there's little to gain making an advanced abstraction over them. Which is why you often find duplicated code that haven't been touched for years.. The original target was met with a naive approach, and no new changes lead to stale codebases.
Round Robin Implementation in Csharp