skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can get Tcl-level homoiconicity with fexprs, Lisp-style macros, Smalltalk-like lightweight block syntax, or Algol-style call-by-name lazy evaluation rather than strings. Lisp moved from fexprs to macros in the 1970s for reasons that may not apply to Oil. You may also be interested in my comments in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22150740 about typing; I regret having taken so long to respond to your thoughtful comments.
It was somewhat offset: https://imgur.com/a/I8YxrAt

I'm not sure why I didn't take pictures of the drivers side, but the front panel wasn't nearly as damaged.
Doesn’t that make perfect sense though?
CalDigit sells a thunderbolt hub that has thunderbolt pass-through, though not if you want to run dual 4K displays @ 60hz (the one thunderbolt port becomes the second DisplayPort).
More to the point, the real world doesn't run entirely on Real Computers.

It happens again and again:

There's a plateau of Real Computers, where Real People do Real Work, because they wouldn't deign to deal with the oddities and lack of performance peasants put up with on their Bitty Boxes.

Then something nasty happens, and those Bitty Boxes become more capable without becoming correspondingly more expensive. All of a sudden, the companies selling Real Computers no longer have a value proposition: Their stuff may not be hugely more capable, but at least it's massively more expensive!

Eventually, not even the Real People can continue to ignore the fact the Toys are smoking them in every benchmarkable metric aside from cool factor.

It happened to DEC when minicomputers fell to PCs, and it happened to Sun and SGI when the "workstation" category got folded into the "somewhat-more-expensive-than-usual PC" category.

Linux originally ignored the extreme low-end PCs, but in 1991, it was pretty clear than 16-bit x86 CPUs were more trouble than they were worth in the Unix-like world and it wasn't a good move to mutilate the kernel to fit on a kind of system which was rapidly becoming obsolete. However, Linux is not ignoring the current Bitty Boxes, the SBCs which can run the kernel with no compromises once you navigate the weirdness of ARM-based hardware.

(Yes, there is a project to run Linux on 16-bit x86 chips and other MMU-less CPUs. It's called ELKS and it was never very active.)

https://github.com/jbruchon/elks
Intercity rail is great. In Germany it allows people to self select the density and lifestyle they desire, while still working in bigger agglomeration. I can see this being a big economic and quality of life benefit.
Is this using google's tacotron2 or wavenet anywhere? How does this compare to them?
It seems the post is a response to SIGGRAPH 2019 course “Geometric Algebra for Computer Graphics” and not a stand-alone introduction to GA. Maybe the title suggests otherwise. That explains why there are no figures. I have a basic knowledge of GA but everything seemed clear. I was confused a little bit by "anti-scalar" which is usually called "pseudo-scalar".
Check Webflow and Squarespace.
My prophecy that solar and renewables will continue to scale is based on their performance to date which is not so much prophecy as standard extrapolation. Your proclaimed "serious environmental, regulatory, or economic challenges" are so far entirely mysterious which are just somehow or other likely to "show up". Wouldn't you be more comfortable suggesting things will continue until they level out at some point? (like they did with nuclear) than hoping something huge will "show up" for renewables so that somehow nuclear can catch up. Any time that nuclear might catch up - constant output wont be needed or purchasable at constant price. It will compete with storage and carbon neutral fuels for the high prices and with renewables for the low. Its going to need a massive economic breakthrough, which its already had decades to try and develope.

Its not some people not liking nuclear that is its problem, its few people are willing to pay for nuclear. Nuclears land, water, staffing and security costs are not low impact and not cheap which is why its not winning investments now, despite the powerful politics which likes to spend big money on near permanent assignments, and plenty of PR, nobody can justify it.

EROI of renewables is fine and continuing to improve. Nuclear's calculations always assume the plants will stay competitive and be run for 40+ years at full capacity (hello renewable competition again). Renewables assume the equipment will not be extended after 20 or cheaply upgraded, but they don't need to fiddle benchmarks they are already far quicker and cheaper to build and run. Fwiw good luck with something showing up.
Steal from themselves? The caption is just copied from their original story that used that photo.
Pretty tame announcement overall.

Little ominous though how heavily it’s reliant on linus being available. I hope the business continuity planning is up to spec
Ah, yeah, I don't know, I'm not that knowledgeable about it. Maybe Texas is less efficient than the Saudis, maybe the tech is older or something, but they're not losing money on those fields.

Oil is black gold.

FWIW, oil is massively subsidized: war isn't cheap, eh?
> immoral handout to the middle class is the mortgage interest tax deduction

Quite ironic because it's interest itself that is extremely immoral and parasitic.
That is a novel not an article
There's no real point in defending yourself in a civil trial if you can't afford the legal fees to start with (civil trials don't have criminal penalties -- you'll just pay damages, worst case).

Theory is she probably paid a lump sum for defense for her in criminal trial, which is absolutely the rational thing to do.

Holmes will, best case, come out of this whole saga bankrupt but free. Whether you think this is appropriate punishment for defrauding rich investors is up to you.

yes, there was also over/underdiagnosis in Arizona. That's not the criminal trial though
I agree. Amazon is probably the worst choice for this, since you never know if the product you buy will still be the same one that was reviewed.
Low Dose Lithium May Stop Alzheimer’s Disease in Its Tracks
I feel like I've been reading about this tire design for as long as I've been reading about 20xx is the year of the linux desktop". I expect neither to happen.
A good follow-up to this would be to get the afl-fuzz error report and send it to the maintainers. Maybe they're not even aware of those problems.
I'm not a fan of documentaries, but once this is all over I would definitely watch one on this. She was so young when she started the company, it's hard to believe she intended to defraud people from the start. I can't excuse any harm she caused, but I imagine she just got in over her head and couldn't let it go.

Edit: read some more about the people involved, sounds like it was worse than I thought. Sad :(
Bernie Madoff had a family and was found out when he was I believe 70. Holmes is in the prime of her life. Holmes has most of her life to lose, where as Bernie spend the large majority of his living large.
What struck me was the link to Hoag's Object which came up a couple days ago. And that even though it's a bazillion miles away there's another much more distant ring galaxy that you can make out way in the distance beyond it in the picture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoag%27s_Object
All the fond memories of things I've done in the past don't provide me much comfort when I'm really down in the dumps.

I expect the same holds true for Madoff, Holmes, etc.
your database is a human-readable text file that you can grep/awk/sed freely, and a line-oriented structure makes it perfect for version control systems.

But in fact it's not great for grep/awk/sed/, etc. For those tools to work well, you'll find you need to keep each record on its own line.
Yeah ... about that. The CH wax dust isn't good respiratory-wise either. As an avid Alpine skier I used to hot wax, scrape then use the drill mounted rotary brushes pretty much every weekend until I discovered wax "dust" in my coffee! (early morning tuning!). I'd usually tune late at night I guess I never noticed the wax in my beer can/bottle! That was the last time I used them.

Now I use the Pro-Glide from SkiMD, rather than hot-waxing, scraping and brushing, you crayon the wax on cold then use it as a friction device to "melt" the wax in with some very light brushing. Much much quicker, uses far less wax and produces very little dust, highly recommended:

https://skimd.com/pro-glide

I never really used Fluro-based waxes because it doesn't last long and the guidance was that you needed to "get it out of your base" after racing as it supposedly did long term damage to the ski.
I agree; at Satellogic we had on-orbit error-handling problems due to Python 3's string encoding, where coercing binary data into a Unicode string caused an exception in our exception handler.

Python did eventually acquire a sensible (lossless, errorless) way to convert back and forth between binary and Unicode — UTF-8B, known as surrogateescape, described in PEP 383. Unfortunately, it isn't the default everywhere. PEP 540 makes it default in some cases.

This is the reason Oil is written in its own private fork of Python 2 instead of in Python 3.
Note that Rosenhan was a social psychologist. The list of faulty or outright fraudulent experiments done by psychologists grows ever longer. The entire field seems bankrupt to me. Part of the problem are perverse incentives. Get one positive and interesting result (which you can tailor to the zeitgeist for maximum impact) and you can live off books, TED talks and lectures for your whole life. Recent examples include power posing and confidence [1] (poor experiment) or changing political bias regarding gay rights [2] (outright fraud).

If psychology wants the status and rewards of being considered a legitimate science, it needs to make dramatic changes. In the meantime any initial result psychological research produces must be considered not just preliminary, but suspect.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_posing
[2] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/348/6239/1100.2
For the reasons I listed in my comment.
Devs prefer one language over the other, because they consider it to be better for their use case - it is not because of religious reasons.

Clients typically don't have the technical expertise to dictate what technology the dev should use. If the client knows what technology they need, they should simply look for those devs who have expertise in that technology.

Half the languages that you see succeed today(the other half are those pushed by megacorps as the only developer platform), are because of dev preferences - not because of client requirements.
> if you were Christian, you would get Christian judges, a Muslim would get the Muslim court and a Jewish person would likewise

Do you know how this worked with disputes between people of different religions?
Goals for 2020
What about here in the US? Wikipedia is blocking my access to their website on my iPad because I'm too poor to afford a new one:

https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2019-December/1050...

Any news stories about such development? Or do they only care about Turkey?
Nice work, looks like a solid tool - have a suggestion for my recent debacle. I had to buy a dock to use my Apple Thunderbolt Display with a new USB-C MBP. There were few that could do it whilst also offering power delivery. I went with this dock which I notice isn't on your list, nor is the ability to filter for Thunderbolt 2 support. https://www.amazon.com/OWC-14-Port-Thunderbolt-Compatible-OW...
I have actually seen a lot of different explanations why the sRGB EOTF has a linear part, and can come up with a few more theories myself. In the Poynton FAQ, it says it "minimizes the effect of sensor noise in practical cameras and scanners". Wikipedia says "The purpose of the linear section is so the curve does not have an infinite slope at zero, which could cause numerical problems." Poynton's book Digital Video and HD: Algorithms and Interfaces talks about "veiling glare" and then says that the sRGB function almost perfectly inverts L* from the CIELAB color space (a pure 2.2 gamma would not do so). His thesis[1] goes into more detail.

One possible theory why there's a linear term is so that negative values are well-defined. In consumer HDMI, reference black is 10 (as opposed to 0 in sRGB), and reference white is 235 (as opposed to 255 in sRGB).

Since there no doubt be experts here, I'd love to see an authoritative answer. (I'm considering writing an explanation of sRGB and if so would really like to get this right)

[1]: http://poynton.ca/PDFs/Poynton-2018-PhD.pdf
Yes. Here's a woman who was told to pay over $9000 per song for 24 songs she shared online.

http://www.startribune.com/ruling-stands-brainerd-woman-must...
There is one other aspect about buffets: food is available quickly. This is primarily useful when traveling, if one wants to have warm food with significant cooked vegetable content (keeping in mind the aspects raised in other comment threads) without adding an hour or more to the trip.
https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/the-inventor-out-for-blood... ?
Yea but most people are comparing Chromebook boot their Windows laptop or equivalent.

No idea what Windows boot time is these days but I'd be shocked of it's under 20 seconds.
I would highly recommend reading the book Bad Blood, which is written by the WSJ journalist who uncovered the fraud. It is very good.
For daily habits, do it everyday. Not just workdays. If you don't do it two days a week, it's not a daily habit.
>That's not the premise floated by the more recent, popular, anti-US WW2 propaganda however that proclaims the Soviets won WW2 while intentionally ignoring all actual historical facts from WW2.

The premise floated is that the Soviets paid the most to guarantee victory in WWII, hence "won" the war. US entry in the war may have been a significant turning point, but the Soviet involvement dwarfs the US involvement.

>There's a reasonable argument that the Soviets helped delay the possibility of the Nazis developing nuclear weapons. Historical evidence suggests the Nazis were nowhere close to developing a nuclear weapon though and they had largely abandoned the project in early 1942.

Without the incredibly taxing years of war with the USSR, Germany would have had the resources to all sorts of other things. Not only could they have furthered their own advances, they would have been able to disrupt the UK's assistance and limit US access to necessary resources. You can't simply say the US would have still been able to win that race without the Soviets war.
Why, because it offers SQL support? That just makes it a relational database that supports SQL. MS Access supports SQL.

If you were to draw up a feature list of Oracle, PostgreSQL, MS SQL and SQLite, SQLite would have almost none of the features of any of the actual RDBMSs.

Here's some examples from MS SQL:

- Support to PMEM devices and bypassing OS storage mechanisms for optimal file read/write access

- Availability Groups and synchronous replica pairs

- Users and permissions

- Secure Enclaves

- Certificate management functionality

- BI tools

- Database tuning advisor

- Machine Learning services

- Service Broker

- Replication services

- Analysis Services

- Reporting services

- Notification services

- Integration services

and so on.

Draw up a set of features for JSON files and jq and compare to SQLite. Is it closer to MS SQL or JSON?
If you understood who Ray Blanchard is you would understand that it is. Insofar as a negative can have supporting evidence.
I think Holmes thought she could wing it until what they were promising was possible. Not a bad plan, it just ... didn't really work out.
Suppose we identify some policy that discourages startups unintentionally, and for no direct public benefit. For example, a bureaucratic snafu in the process of opening a business bank account. Should we fix it?

If we do, then more startups will get off the ground. Some of them will make it big, and their founders will get rich. Our action will have made society more unequal.

So clearly we should leave it, right? But that doesn't seem right. So maybe inequality is not exactly the right framing of what we care about.

We've had progressive taxes for a long time, and that's good, but they have not prevented inequality. So again, is it really the measure of goodness?
New findings suggest how stress may trigger gray hair
This is just false.

Any solution that requires receiver/amp/combo and wires is going to be limited where you can deploy it.

Before wireless audio like Sonos, most people have a stereo in one room in the house. Now many people have speakers in almost every room in the house.

I got rid of my Onkyo receiver and JBL studio series to go with Sonos because it is a better listening experience in the real-world. Audio being synced across your house is the real deal.
It's been commented by others, but I just wanted to chime in that when I was a tech lead I was _very_ happy if I could close one ticket a week. It took me a while to accept just how much I had to delegate because while I _knew_ how to solve the problems faster and better than most of the people on my team (i had more experience with the product and more experience writing software) I simply couldn't productively contribute to the codebase _and_ do my job as a tech lead, which was _mostly_ answering questions and making decisions about how to proceed all day.

I'm not saying your lead isn't an idiot. I just wanted to give another viewpoint on why "tickets closed" is a terrible metric to apply to a tech lead. If you're fixing tons of bugs and closing lots of tickets you're probably not tech leading as much as you think you are.

Being tech lead isn't about being a productive coder or being the _best_ coder. It's not even about knowing more about coding than the others on your team. It's about eliminating the technical roadblocks for your team by answering questions helpfully and making good decisions about the direction to move the codebase, and having meetings and discussions about the future of the codebase. All of that takes a ton of time.
More so when you realize she just married a millionaire hotel heir who won’t be liable for her wife’s debts because they were incurred before the marriage...
There's still a bit of "manual" work to get someone up and running on our Meta appliance, so unfortunately you would have to go through our sales process. However if you just want a video or screen recording of how it works then I can put something online in the next hour or two.

For baking the machine, we use Ansible under the covers and have a set of Lisp scripts to manage everything. As for image formats: qcow2, raw, vhd (and vmdk in the .ova file).

Not trying to hijack Gravitational's thread, please contact me (email in profile, or 'aw-' on FreeNode) if you want to discuss more.
Thanks, it would be possible to allow uploading a JSON resume, but unfortunately it wouldn't be easy to allow downloading back to JSON Resume format, because I structured the project as more generic (users can have any number of skills, lists, text, ect.) vs JSON Resume scheme being very concrete.

Will look into adding the uploader part though.
I thought the author worked for the Journal?
My interpretation is that "order" and "disorder" are subjective. One person's order is another's disorder. For example, my wife and I have differing tolerances of "order" as it pertains to the tidiness of a room. That may seem far separated from the topic at hand, but if a thing is able to be somewhere, then it's purely subjective as to whether it's the right place, ie. ordered. There's a time component to it as well, I might have a bunch of in-progress things laying around, but that's the correct place for those things for the current moment, for me. In parallel, however, it's most definitely the incorrect place, at all times, according to my better half.

Potential Configurations = n
Configurations considered "order" by me: x
Configurations considered "order" by milady: 1
Configurations considered "order" by the universe: 0
Configurations considered "order" by the universe at this point in space and time: 1

That which is, is order. That which isn't, is not.

Reminds me of this scene from Hi Fidelity:

Dick: It guess it looks as if you're reorganizing your records. What is this though? Chronological?
Rob: No...
Dick: Not alphabetical...
Rob: Nope.
Dick: What?
Rob: Autobiographical.
Dick: No way.
> “It’s why at this point I refuse to do anything but native in my career.”

Point well taken! If I may ask, would you say that

1. it's a problem inherent to developing on mobile (whatever the underlying reasons, hardware iterations, idk), and that OS APIs are indeed trying to solve as best they can (it's just a hard problem),

or rather

2. that it's a problem somehow created by OS vendors of their own volition? (a.k.a "evil microsoft walled garden", cue "Apple's take on that" and Google's similar moves for Android and we think Fuschia) In essence a business-driven reality.

I actually don't care about "evil" (hence the wording, it's funny) when it's just business strategy; my deeper question is really about the problem space.

Like, is this forever (native versus cross on a fast-iterating platform), is this industrial politics or technical limitations, could some other platform do it "better" (thinking of SailfishOS, or the Linux phones like the Pine project etc.)
You’re not wrong. These are called twheels and have been around for a couple decades. They were invented by Michelin in 2005 and started being sold commercially in '12. They have uses in controlled low speed environments like warehouses employing forklifts or lawn mowers. But they're Achilles heel in the wild is objects/matter (rocks, dirt, ice, snow) getting stuck in the spines and then they're out of balance and useless at speed. They're also loud at speed.

Popular mechanics has been talking about these being "the future" forever. They probably have a twheels article template by now.

They aren't the future, they're the present and have limited applications. They do look very cool, which I suspect is why they keep getting write ups.
Hacker News paydirt! I'm going to bookmark this one.

Thanks for sharing!
Austin median home price is around 400k and without prop 13
Sorry, you’re right, fixed.
Ask HN: Can we talk about technical details of FB?
I mostly haven't used Facebook. I had a FB account twice under my talithamichele Gmail account. I deleted it twice, then tried to set up an account with my full name Gmail account.

I was soon locked out of that account. I recently managed to reactivate it, and I'm currently locked out again.

They asked for a photo of my face for confirmation, which I provided, then I got another "fuck you" message advising me they are checking my submission and I still can't access the account.

I am wondering if part of the problem is I was homeless for years, mostly haven't participated on FB and there aren't a zillion photos of me on the internet, especially not on FB, because I haven't lived the standard middle class life for a long time.

I never used FB to connect to family. I'm a former military wife. I have relatives who don't splash their lives all over the internet because they have security clearances, etc. My mother is in her 80s and wants nothing to do with the internet. Etc etc.

So there may be no photos of me anywhere on FB. I'm wondering if that's a factor in me being perpetually locked out of my account.

Talk to me. What do you know about FB authentication procedures?
wasn't me who downvoted, but my guess is it's because of the guideline against commenting on whether someone read the article.
I wonder what she was really thinking. When I read the book “Bad Blood” I got the impression that she was mainly concerned about covering up and keeping up impressions and wasn’t even involved in the actual technology.