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I'm looking forward to the second-order effects of open source scientific software being publishable in "high-impact" publications. It makes it much more attractive for scientists to use and develop open source, benefiting everyone.
Printing press. Without it, spread of knowledge would've been dwarfed and it put the industrial revolution in its full swing.
Visual 6502 is a godsend for emulation. For a brief time I dabbled in emulating the 6502 and every question that couldn’t be answered by the manual was answered by this.

Couldn’t live without it <3
I think there's a big difference between "I can't see how you can make real music on it." (didn't see anyone say something similar in this thread) versus "I'd have to practice a lot more before I can make real music like I already do on a piano".

Maybe not everyone is ready to invest the required time to see the benefits, and there's nothing wrong with that.
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Some people would take issue with the "It works well" part. https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2020-February... Turns out that scaling up a general-purpose triple store beyond 10B triples is really, really hard, and that few or no people in the FLOSS community (important due to Wiki's reproducibility and freedom-to-fork requirements) are paying attention to the problem.
China's security state is being used to crack down on the Wuhan virus
Then the measure is wrong.
There have been a lot of flying wings or blended wing bodies through history. Horten (Germany) in the 30s and 40s, Northrop since the 40s and some russian models from 30s and 40s as well. The concept isn't that new. It just didn't make that much sense so far in non-military, non-stealth applications. Excluding UAVs, the B-2 has build the most with 21, followed by the Horten H.III gluider from WW2 with 19 or so.

One issue could be airport infrastructure, the wing span would take up a lot of terminal / gate space. But if these planes are economically enough, who knows?
"probability" search term doesn't give a useful result. How is data fed into the system?
Yes, but IMHO spreading the simulation over multiple threads would be quite a challenge. As far as I understood, the simulation essentially starts with an initial state of high/low nodes/paths, and then for each node, switches each connected node throughout the node-graph accordingly, until the entire chip simulation "settles down", and then moves on to the next node.

Maybe this linear algorithm can be converted to some sort of parallel "cellular automata", which would then probably be a much better fit for GPUs than CPUs.
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I partly agree, but I think it is a bit more to it than that. Part of what made Perl, Python and Ruby so widely used compared to say LISP or Matlab is that they are great at text manipulation and interacting with the unix shell.

Julia is exactly the same. Anything people would use to write shell scripts, I would use Julia with instead and I have used many languages for this purpose: Python, Ruby and Go. Out of al these I find Julia to be the best language.

The fact that Julia is free, open source, available on all platforms and is good at text and shell stuff means it has a sort of Trojan horse ability to get into more wide usage.

I am not a scientific programmer, yet I use Julia for a whole bunch of stuff and find it very productive. Here are some examples of stuff I have written in Julia:

- Custom scripts for Swift and Objective-C app compilations.

- Various file conversion utilities.

- Code generators based on custom DSLs. Due to Julia's
support for macros writing a DSL is easier in Julia than in Python, Go or whatever "script" alternative I might have used.
- Various parsers. I find Julia very good at writing parsers. I have used this to create tools for manipulating user interface definition files for a larger C++ project.

- Editor plugins. I have written plugins in Julia for e.g. TextMate although I guess it would have worked on Sublime and other editors as well.

I cannot imagine anyone would have had a nice experience writing any of this stuff in R or Matlab.

Julia may never get big as a Web programming language, but for scientific programming, data science, data scraping/munging/preparation, scripting make up quite a large field together.

Julia may have some slow startup due to JITing but I found my Julia scripts to run much faster than the shell scripts they replaced and the Julia code was easier to read and faster to write.
That's doesn't seem a very defining characteristic. Row order/index is just an implicit primary key column.
What a weird coincidence. I currently live in the city, where there is a stark absence of birds -- besides maybe coronavirus pigeons and gulls that will mug you down a dark alley -- but I'm from and work in the countryside, where I've established an acute awareness of the local bird life. I particularly like listening to bird song; I find it very relaxing. As recently as last week, I was thinking about compiling an Anki deck to help me learn to identify birds by sight and by their song. However, I was discouraged not so much by the quantity, but the subtleties in the differences (e.g., the aforementioned pigeons vs. wood pigeons: one has black stripes on their wing tips, but I don't remember which)... Seeing this, this morning on HN, re-encourages me to pursue ornithology as a hobby :)
What I find fascinating is that the person pushing Jimmy to use crypto for Wikipedia does not seem to fully grasp the technology they are pitching.

1. He pitches it is great to track people posting illicit content on Wikipedia, then argues that crypto is pseudonymous, So why would you use that when web trackers we have today already know what I had for breakfast

2. Why would anyone want people to post illegal material on a blockchain when it is immutable? Let's assume the culprit goes to jail, but then you have billions of people now able to access illegal content, that can never be removed because it is on a blockchain

What a sales pitch.
> I now put a mollyguard over those things any time there's any chance of them being exposed and having unscheduled activations.

that's what differentiate a good engineer from not-so-good - they learn on own mistakes!
>There are a lot of things we could do with £100bn that would be better than reducing the time it takes to get to Birmingham by 20 minutes.

Its really alot more than that, inform yourself first before making sweeping statements.

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2019/08/20/taking-a-look-at...
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Great car ownership point. I love Costco and I grew up going there, but I don't own a car so going is infeasible. Instead I end up using a mix of local grocery stores and Amazon delivery. OTOH I'm certainly not noticing any widespread trends towards reduced car ownership around me unfortunately, but nevertheless I feel like the landscape will be pretty different in the near future.
IMO the yield is impressive enough for a prototype.

I can't wait for fabless electronics, even if they are orders of magnitude worse than state-of—the-art.

Sending (compiled) VHDL code to my printer would be hard to beat. We could afford slower transistors, if we had a larger surface to work with.
Wales was invited to speak at the Coingeek conference, an event funded by Calvin Ayres who is one of the main movers behind the Bitcoin SV ("Satoshi's Vision") fork.

After some dismay from people opposed to this (both people who are "anti-Bitcoin", and the Bitcoin proponents who are anti-SV), he stated that he intends to speak his mind and tell the conference that BSV won't help Wikipedia in any way.

Wales is no stranger to social media or publicity. The fact that this thread has been posted to HN shows that.
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The true measure of experience is the depth and variety of our screwups, and the quality of ones character illustrated by what we take away.
It depends on legislation.

AFAIU currently kerosene is very lightly taxed, if at all. If there is taxation of fuel or fuel-based payments for airlines, it will be reflected on ticket prices more than currently.

So the airlines can claw some of that back by introducing more efficient planes. But they will be expensive to develop and build, which is again reflected in ticket prices.
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Inkjet ink and "hobbydollars" don't mix very well. I'm going to guess that this process is going to end up being a lot more expensive than getting the devices via your average silicon fab.
Costco came to the UK in the 90's, I remember when it opened in Glasgow in 1994. My parents were some of the first members there and I was so proud when I got my own membership at 18.

Their Kirkland brand is always good quality and has never let me down unlike other homestore brands.

As a Brit another thing that makes it appealing, is for us, it seems like the "American" shopping experience.

Going to Costco is like an adventure trip/excursion. Compared to ASDA, Waitrose or going into the city to shop.
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I think mauve has the most RAM
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> Such aircraft are complex to control

I wonder if 737 Max is making them rethink this already. I love how it looks though.
Navigation graphics is still so much worse than in that ad.
No display for that, I was mostly interested in the single-stepping capability for investigating the chip behaviour and validating against my CPU emulators.

But when clicking the "play" button it's throttled to one half-cycle per 60 Hz display frame (requestanimationframe) so "usually" it should run at 30 Hz.

I haven't checked how fast the WASM version would run unthrottled compared against a natively compiled version of perfect6502, but performance should be somewhat close (much closer than to the JS version anyway).

As far as I have seen, the C rewrite in perfect6502 uses a handful compact arrays for the simulation state, unlike the Javascript version which seems to be more like a huge graph of linked nodes, where each node is a JS object, so the C version should be a lot more cache-friendly.
I admire that the author actually responded to some of criticism, accepted it and took it in stride. It's something I find myself having difficulties with more often than I'd like.

However, "even in turds you can sometimes find a peanut". I mean, come on...
And which is not something Spotify will change. Did you read the article? It goes into detail about that, the only thing that would probably change here is that the ads won't be read by podcasters anymore but inserted by Spotify ad-tech. They can't pay podcasters without getting a lot more money than they get from current subscriptions, they are still loosing money on their music subscription service. That's the entire point of their podcast pivot. Make more money. They have no money to hand out to podcasters. Podcasts won't be ad-free on Spotify, no matter if you're paying or not.
It’s probably just the MVP. It’s how products are launched these days.
* emissions per person-kilometer of flying, of course. I thought this was implied. It works this way with any optimization of any transport method.
Dreaming about version control with chunks – is "Git CDC" possible?
Or we could, you know, use those spare brain cells to do higher level things, as the high level beings we're supposed to be. I don't know how to knit my own clothes but I doubt that has a major impact on the onset of Alzheimer's :-)
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Implementations bear no resemblance to Agile Manifesto, XP or even Lean. "Scaling it up" seems to build only on processes and rituals, which always bogs down into beuracrazy and politics. Lastly, management seem hellbent on restricting the ideology to Development, forcing "Agile" over siloed teams rather than practicing and understanding agility themselves. =Fail on all accounts for 15-20 years.

This is well observed and understood, the motives behind as well, which doesn't ever seem to change.
Perhaps the baggage would be placed at the extreme ends, which should reduce the leverage that people moving about would have on the roll axis.

That does exacerbate the window issue, but honestly the last times that I've flown myself and my children seemed to be the only people looking out the windows anyway. Everybody else has a small screen shining in their face for almost the entire flight.
I’ve tried, but haven’t gotten interviews from the companies I’m interested in. I did get a offer from a hedge fund, but it was a severe lowball (50-70% of typical offers) probably due to my interview performance.
Yeah, I wonder how it would look like.

https://root.cern.ch/cling

https://blog.jupyter.org/interactive-workflows-for-c-with-ju...
I too am a web developer and have constantly been fascinated by new technologies. I had looked at android development but could not get a hang of Java. Recently flutter has been in the wild and so I choose to get my hands dirty by doing flutter challenges. I loved the process and the ease of working with flutter so I ensure that I spend at least 1 hour everyday developing in flutter. I look forward to getting off from work so I can switch on my home laptop and do some flutter. P.S : I will continue being a web developer.
I'm with you. I took 6 months off crypto/ eth community after going to the Aracon one conference and seeing trust fund babies drowning in VC money talk about "freedom".
That’s actually a great point, if you can get a lot of extra volume “free“ with a BWB design then it could make hydrogen a more viable airline fuel.
So now because one person used Nix building a container as an example in a blog post, and because one person made an inexplicable comment that Nix is complicated, people are just blatantly making up doomsday scenarios using out-dated Docker FUD?

Just because she used Nix to build a container image does not at all make it even remotely appropriate to compare Nix and Docker in such a way. And if you think Nix has anything to do with "containers" other than being able to run commands in a way that make a special tarball, you've entirely missed the point.

Nix is a language, not a container runtime, image builder, etc. And Nix is on version 2.

Sorry, just frustrating to read threads on HN of "people actually using a technology to solve problems that are well-known and have supposedly been the reason for popularizing the 3 largest buzzwords of the last 5 years"... against people who've never used it insisting that it can't work, doesn't work, won't work, won't work in the future for <handwave> reasons. Meanwhile people keep shipping reproducible, reliable software and infra with Nix. It's much more interesting to hear from people with real life experience and criticisms of Nix.
This reminds me to take a Wikipedia snapshot. It seems like it has become more of an ideological battleground lately, and I'm not sure how long their editors will be able to hold the line against various manifestations of astroturfer.

Lots of libertarian/anarchist types putting all their bets on blockchain without really knowing much about it. Jimmy's response was gentle considering the circumstances.
So much truth here
No... that is not system engineering. System engineering would be thinking about how the program to enable configuration templating with shell variables will work, how you can consistently add and remove templated, variable expandable configuration excerpts to be able to have configuration overlays, how you could design a configuration self-assembly service other OS configuration packages could call, writing that down, then implementing and packaging that in an OS package, so your other OS packages could depend, call and use it in a consistent fashion. Or thinking about how your standard database settings should be configured, writing a formal specification, then writing a tool to implement that, packaging it into an OS package, and then having your OS database configuration packages formally depend on it and call it to consistently create databases. These are just few examples of thinking about architecture, as opposed to writing how to documents.
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It’s also an abstraction on top of those servers, that separates your business logic from the underlying architecture to a degree that a lot of people find really appealing.

> but I don't see why - in principle - a "serverless", SQL-over-API-as-a-Service couldn't work.

It can, but there’s just not really any good ones. Where as there are products like Dynamo which are amazing from an operability standpoint (as long as your use case doesn’t run up too hard against any of its constraints). AWS Serverless RDS is pretty terrible for example, the engine choices are limited, the scaling story is terrible, it’s expensive, it doesn’t actually have anything close to the “on-demand” functionality described in the marketing material, and the interface is just a mechanism for passing SQL queries around (so you’d probably want to use yet another abstraction layer for constructing your queries). Spanner is pretty good, but it’s really expensive, and isn’t amazing enough on its own to justify moving to GCP unless you’re already there. You can also run an HTTP interface yourself for you RDBMS, but there isn’t really a mature product in that space. There’s no show stopping technical limitations there, it’s just not a well or widely supported feature.
I've seen people not being able to ride a bicycle (comfortably) for the same reason, until they re-angled their seat.
This has absolutely nothing to do with the 737 Max.

Airbus in particular has been using fly-by-wire for years. The issue with the 737 Max is that it felt different to control under different flight conditions from the classic 737 and Boeing tried to patch that difference in software. There would be no such issue in a new from-the-CAD-file-up airframe.
This is a shame, because I genuinely find SPARQL over Wikidata one of the most insanely magical things on the internet. It is literally like being able to just query the universe directly and there's almost no end of fun that can be had formulating new questions you can answer and then finding out it's actually possible.

Of course I now feel bad for occasionally hitting it with my frivolous queries, and would be very sad to see it limited.
Ask HN: Is it possible 2019-nCoV is already endemic?
Armchair virologist / epidemiologist, studied viral biochem in college. Hoping somebody can direct my thinking here, and maybe tell me what I’m missing?

‪Is it possible that 2019-nCoV is already endemic and the outbreak in Wuhan just represents a particularly virulent strain?‬

‪The “ease of transmission” — asymptomatic, across 12 floors of a building, etc — Occam’s razor might suggest it’s simply a previously unidentified mild pathogen and a recent mutation is wreaking more havoc in Wuhan than the typical presentation — which, under this hypothesis, would be very mild.

‪The facts as I understand them are that sick people we test for 2019-nCoV sometimes have it. But we only test people (right now) with connections to Wuhan.‬

‪Assuming we keep finding asymptomatic transmission cases pop up, we’re faced with two possibilities; this is the fastest-transmitting and most robust coronavirus we’ve ever seen OR people keep turning up infected because it’s already endemic in the global population.‬

‪If my assumptions are correct about how we’re testing for the virus right now there’s huge sampling bias, both hypotheses will produce identical results unless we start testing control groups in completely unrelated areas.‬

‪Is there something I’m missing? Can any real epidemiologists weigh in? I would think folks at the WHO / CDC must already be thinking about this?
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That every Git commit would take few hours and cost you transaction fee in Bitcoins.
No it didn't. If it was copying iOS screen for screen then surely it'd have started with the home screen, which was entirely different. The Android home screen was much more desktop-like with draggable icons, home folders, wallpapers etc, long before iOS did these things.

The Android top bar was also totally different. The Android bar was a full UI widget you could drag down to reveal a sophisticated notifications system. iOS barely had a notifications system at all when it launched.

There were really quite a lot of differences. That's why Apple was reduced to arguing nonsense like "we own rounded rectangles" and "grids of icons are iOS IP".
I think what's especially nice is the ability to do this without toxic chemicals. At least, I'm assuming that's the case.
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Surely Haskell and Rust would be fantastic examples of languages that have static typing and excellent type inference?
And after subsidising bus travel for 20 years we are left with nothing - other than, probably, an expectation to fund for the next 20 years too.

After HS2 is built we have an extrememly valuable asset which will generate returns for years to come.

Capital and current spending are very different, and it's quite unhelpful to compare the two.
The transportation industries are seriously planning on being disrupted in the next 5 - 10 years. Lots of telematics companies are, for example, betting on the fact that private vehicle ownership will be less of a thing within the next 2 - 10 years .. the sharing model will 'disrupt' things, etc.

You should not feel unease, but for sure try to imagine a world where ICE is phased out. This is going to happen. And when things get electric, they're going to get automatic ..
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The imperative DOM “framework” available is far more error-prone than the state->view, declarative model of React. It’s ugliness is more than skin deep.