skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When something hard becomes easy with the aid of technology, our expectations and demands of quality tend to rise. Maybe this is a good thing?

What great innovations or paradigms in music has happened recently? For example, what hiphop did in the way it combines beats and poetry revolutionized music as we know it.
The first commit on github is a 77k lines commit that appears to be a migration of the project from svn to git. So you're looking only at later commit history.

The original project lived here: https://sourceforge.net/p/guake-gnome-vte/code/commit_browse...

He explained that and linked to that in his his issue though.

Edit: Linking to the full commit history instead.
Yep. Also pitching the nose to far down to prevent a stall.
> it's important social ambience that I can participate in as much or as little as I want on a given day.

If I had this luxury, I would enjoy working in an office too. Unfortunately, I'm stuck in an open office plan without that benefit.

Godwins law (the remote work version) on HN exists because the current open-office trend is absolutely hated by many.

I would be interested to see actual numbers on the like or dislike of open-office plans.
Opening up the next chapter of Class D audio amplifier performance
And I like own my scrollbar not have it change scale and scroll magically.
hello guys,

I'm sorry that my first comment was not enough informative.Now, I'm refering to the paper that I read couple of days ago [0]. If you look at the figure 8-9, FC has some issues with IO.

[0]: https://blog.acolyer.org/2020/03/02/firecracker/
This is nonsense. Banks don't fail that easily, your overestimating the relative size of fraking and the idea that the Fed has 'no ammo left' is just nonsense that no the waste majority of monetary economist would disagree with.
I'm more worried about cross business optimization than single products like chrome.

Android is way more nefarious than a web browser. And they give it away for free to device manufacturers. I almost wish for the old days where everyone had their own OS, monoculture is terrifying.
I told you dude, sea lions...
US regulators will force Boeing to rewire 737 Max jets
Moderation of one's own feed is not the problem here, the problem is that a community like this is likely to remain perennial if the first impression of it is wierding out the average would-be user.
I think the situation here is accidental removal of AUTHORS file only. (With accidental .gitignore config)

I think legally, (also ethically)

Copyright (C) 2007-2013 Guake authors

Should be fine as long as they keep his name in authors file.

Edit: Actually they switched to pbr [1] , so AUTHORS file is generated on build. Not tracked on git. Original author is in AUTHORS file

[1] https://github.com/Guake/guake/issues/1703#issuecomment-5965...
Its was always a idiotic thing snake oil salesman tried to sell to idiots. Just as Peak Coal was in 1850, but people lever learn and its always a great way to sell books and get invited to give talks.
>can Apple really assume the software will come for an ARM based Mac?

This is what Catalyst is for, no? Mac software is now iPad software. Macs are now somewhat more capable iPads. The golden age of computing is over.
As a dev I don't mind coming into the office, infact I probably would never want a 100% WFH situation because I know I would get too comfortable to be productive when I need to be. But I'd like more days of WFH to break up the mundane office culture and burnout.
The oil price rose until it was worthwhile getting oil out of tar sands and with fracking. Both really bad for environment, btw.

Also, Renewables.
The Virtue of Closed Problems
> Not everyone has a quite home where they can focus.

Exactly what I say about my open-office. It's not quiet, and I cannot focus.
Sub that database graphic out for the Kafka logo and it sounds exactly like everyone else's recommendations lately.
No it want. A supply shock to one industry even a big one does not lead to banking failures. The fracking industry is incredibly dynamic and can operate cheaper incredibly fast, and if price rise can start producing again quickly as well.
Getting your workplace ready for coronavirus
What an absolutely fascinating idea! As the field of software engineering matures, how million line repos get maintained is going to become a subject of academic study.

> If you wanted to fix a bug in a function you would have to write a new copy and explicitly update callers to use the new version.

Finding all callers is the hard part though! And in modern languages, that need to be addressed both at compile (or "compile") and run time.

Assuming you've got all the call sites with what constraints you were given and have imposed, the second part, where you call a specific version of a function, is where it gets tricky.

Is the bug in the calling code or the called code? because huge software maintenance is obtuse. The original programmers have all long since left, so what we're left with is a smattering of random specific version calls, with only the tiniest of tidbits of history, locked away in someone's email, and saved in the previous ticketing system.

So it sounds interesting, but I worry (though I worry about a great many things), that the programmer three years later, ends up coming across calls to three different versions of some code, with no guidance on which ones can be upgraded, should be upgraded, and must not be upgraded. I can't say which one would involve digging up more ancient history though.
This makes me remember how annoying Django and its third party packages sometimes get.

Say I want to spin up a simple project that:
- has a few new fields for the User model, thus requiring to create a custom user model
- has registration APIs (signup) requiring the new fields in User model
- has authentication APIs (login, logout) but using a new field in the User model
- has user authentication management APIs (change password, forgot password, etc)

Enter DRF, and django-rest-auth.

One would think that they will make your life easy. But hell no.

Having a custom model and requiring their integration in the APIs provided thereby by rest-auth is a huge pain in the ass.

First of all, allauth some how comes into play.
Then, you have to write a funky new custom account adapter that replaces the one allauth uses by default
Then, define custom serializers and views and urls for registration, login, logout, etc.

And run into many other problems revolving around setting some X_Y_Z settings local to the third party package.

It's truly mind boggling that this hasn't been solved yet.

Maybe I'll just write something that does all that so that I don't have to cry in pain when using rest-auth and drf with Django for basic project already setup with custom user registration, and authentication and authentication management.
What counts there is power density, not torque density, isn't it? Quadcopters don't typically gear their motors down, instead preferring to pitch the rotors at shallow angles of attack.
Concept / Introduction guide for neo.mjs – The webworkers driven UI framework
Windows 10: Why downloading this update could be a serious mistake
Dead On Arrival
Show HN: High quality customer support for your product (per-response pricing)
For non-perl guys: It is a cryptic example, because it uses ‘system’ variables in a non-obvious way, not because of syntax. I can read it syntactically just fine, but have to look up for names to understand what it does. A fully uncodegolfed variant would require the same effort here.
On the other hand, Wordpress is for the reality that most people don't have a developer on hand (nor should need one) to update their website.
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Given the current situation in the world, it can give them a little advantage.
A RealWorld Comparison of Front-End Frameworks 2020
It's idiotic to assume that resources are endless. Getting the timing right on the other hand is hard, especially given that predicting something will change the outcome.

Just like what is currently going on with climate change. Hopefully acting upon the negative trends will improve the outcome.
> The truth is that people will be more committed to their job if they're on site.

I would be way more committed to my job if they gave me the flexibility to work from home.
It might be one of those “be careful what you wish for” situation. First, you enjoy the freedom and lack of commute. After ten years your employer folds and you notice you’re all alone.

Work may not be everyone’s primary source of social life, and indeed there seems to be a growing mindset that socializing at work is bad, somehow (probably part of the US culture to reduce all of life to shareholder value).

But even in those cases, my experience has been that I am far more likely to participate in social events on days that I have worked at the office, either because I’m already showere & dressed, and used to “going somewhere”. Or because social events tend to happen closer to where ever I’m working than where I life.
Unlikely. I had similar issue and finally found my old password. Did you have 2f auth on?
China just outlawed the consumption of wild animals. They're actively confiscating all wild animal meat. But since there is still a market for it, the ban could just make the prices go higher and the situation could effectively worsen.

They implemented a ban on ivory a couple of years ago as well. But this ban should have been implemented earlier.
Reinventing a less scalable version of Kafka/ESB is basically what this is.
That may or may mean that it works.

The usage later on may be more or less tolerant of what people actually put in the bins.

Here, a lot of people throw food waste in plastic bags in the bins, which works about as well as you think. There are people who spend Monday to Friday fishing around around in the compost by hand, fishing out and emptying the bags. More thoughtful people throw food waste in compostable bags in the bins, but those bags aren't quite compostable enough (the city composts for six weeks, those bags need twelve at the very least) so those bags, too, have to be fished out by hand.

It works. I imagine the cost could be lower and those poor people could be employed in less soul-crushing work.
Taking an Uber or Lyft pollutes more than driving thanks to deadheading
AWS WAF Adds Anonymous IP List for AWS Managed Rules
"if implemented sanely" - oh well. The original idea was nice.
I wonder what prompted them to use smooth (treadless) tires?

Large and soft tires are certainly good on snow, but smooth?

Maybe that actually works better on ice?
Ask HN: Bloated engineering titles?
Why do we have this meaningless titles like engineer, senior engineer, lead engineer, manager etc. I think it restrict responsibilities and creativity of an individual and create unnecessary hierarchical structure. Higher level goal should to be work together and solve problems at ground level by putting your bloated title aside. Somehow the incentivization process in companies doesn't promote that behavior, rather it is more about showing your individual supremacy over others to get rewarded more. Would like to know if others feel same way ?
Redis tests are written in tcl! both perl and tcl are awesome!
Yakuake is what inspired Guake.
I wanted to use Yakuake without needing to install libqt in my machine.
There's an interesting interview where Metcalf shares his memory of the memo.

An excerpt:

"Metcalfe: My mom used to say if you can’t say something nice about someone you should just hold your
tongue. But Bachrach was a not nice person. Or is for that matter; he may still be around for all I know.
He was sort of a grouchy physicist on another floor in another lab, and he read my memo. And this is a
physicist. The phrase you didn’t catch in his now famous memo -- this memo’s posted all over the world
because everyone thinks it’s a hoot that he wrote this memo -- he said the problem with Ethernet was that
it was not quantum noise limited, which is a very physicist thing to say. Of course it’s not quantum noise
limited! That wasn’t the point. But he resented the fact that we were not using every shred of bandwidth
that was capable. I told you how we decided on the clock speed. There were gigabits per second of
capacity on that cable, and we were using a pitiful few megabits of it. But he was concerned that it
wasn’t... And he did a nasty thing, and it was sort of an early lesson in nastiness, which is he wrote a
memo. He didn’t come see me. He didn’t say, “I just read your memo and I have a few questions about it”. He didn’t do that. He sent a memo to my boss’s boss accusing me of writing something that wasn’t
new and it wasn’t quantum [noise limited], completely making an idiot of himself. But it didn’t feel that way at the time. It felt kind of nasty. The next thing I know I’m in my boss’s boss’s office having to explain how this guy’s an idiot. Which he is, or was. To put it more kindly, he was from a different universe. I was in a computer science universe, he was in a physics universe. We were solving different problems and he should have minded his own business. Or at least come talk to me before sending a memo to my boss’s boss, so maybe I could save him the embarrassment. There are many places where I go where that memo is on the wall, pinned to some cubicle -- “the old Bachrach memo” -- because it’s just such a great example. Now Bachrach, I ran into him a decade or two after that unfortunate memo, whereupon he was letting it be known that he’d helped invent Ethernet. How he got there I don’t quite know, but it had something to do with this memo being really instrumental in fixing some of the early
problems with Ethernet, which is a complete hallucination."

http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Oral_Histo...
The key quote from the linked article seems to be "It’s essentially two concentric radial motors bookended by two axial ones."

My question is where's the cooling? You can put more magnetic field and torque into an ever smaller area, always true, but still going to have to dump heat out via some path. And the bigger the path for whatever is cooling, the lower the magnetic flux density and torque. So I'd be interested in hearing how the cooling system works. Its not like their copper is more conductive than everyone elses copper, LOL.

yetihehe suggests drone use, plenty of air movement there.

Some of the quotes in the article sound very aerospace. Everyone is dancing around the concept without saying it, that the main advantage of removing or downsizing the gear train is along the lines of aerospace style "simplicate and add lightness" which is often much more expensive than it sounds. For example, imagine an electric general aviation airplane, you can't have problems man-rating the electric gearbox if your electric Cessna-172 doesn't even HAVE a gearbox between the electric motor and prop. Likewise for EVs, complete elimination of the gearbox would seem to eliminate all gearbox related maintenance and repairs. Honestly, the car manufacturers might not be amused at the concept of selling fewer more reliable cars. (Edited to add, also see car racing entertainment, if you enter an EV in a popular automobile race, you can't drop out of the race due to gearbox failure if you have no gearbox to fail... is that good or bad for ratings?)
The key capability is mentioned in the first sentence:

> You can now identify and block requests to your web applications from VPN, Tor nodes, proxies, and data centers by using the new Anonymous IP List for AWS Managed Rules.
Noscript usually works pretty well for this sort of thing, as well. Also very interesting to see what domains a site is grabbing its javascript from (and which sites are calling from 20+ different domains for a simple news website...!)
I don't understand this either.

Another example pops into my mind an article about a man who raped a fellow student in university.

The article was ending with "X is continuing its education at Y, and he has Z gold medals and competes for university swimming team".

This is just adding insult to injury.
Looks like a beginner-level sklearn task. Linear regression would probably be ok, if not, there is random forest or a 2-layer perceptron. No use for a deep network.
I have done night skiing when I worked in Detroit.
A Phil/Comp-Sci Pseudokoan
Setting: An academy somewhere between ancient Athens and modern-day Singapore.

A young monk asks the Zen-master Roussos: “What is the best computer game ever?”

Roussos replies: “Manic Miner on the 48K ZX Spectrum.”

“Wonderful, my game-playing neural-network has long since mastered that game.
Eugene has been toileted” said the monk.

The novice then continues: “What is the second-best computer game ever?”

Roussos replies: “Clearly Sonic 2 on the Megadrive. It even came out on Sonic Tuesday.”

“Fantastic, my GAN just stylistically blitzed through that too. And the third best?”

Roussos graciously replies: “Elite on the BBC Micro, or perhaps Populous on the Amiga.”

“Indeed, much trickier, but both recently Armageddoned and ELITED to beyond Thargol.”

So, the zen-master enquires: “Could your game-playing Turing-machine know the warped mind of Mathew Smith if I fed it his Z80 machine code?”

“Ah…” said the novice.

R. Jones, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Liverpool. Hsdjon12@liv.ac.uk
Neither am I, in retrospect.
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Domain Driven Design Distilled is the best place to start. It compresses the topic down into only 200 odd pages rather than the other giant books on the subject. I'm reading it at the moment and it's starting to click far more than it ever has.

Also, don't just try to watch conference talks and read blog posts to understand it. It leaves too many gaps and a fuzzy understanding.
Perhaps it's just nostalgia, but I miss my BlackBerry Bold.

A buzz in the pocket, email symbol on the screen, main button to open the email, right-click button to forward, physical scroll to a recent colleague and select, lock & back in pocket.

All that before 3G. Easy, quick and no fuss, muscle memory took care of most of it.
WFH is a great option, but - having worked in that kind of environment for a few years - I much prefer working in an office. It's definitely true that I'm more productive when I WFH, but honestly, losing that human touch and spur-of-the-moment creativity, which for me requires human interaction (bouncing ideas off each other), is a bigger negative than the positives of getting my work done
Only in America and even there that's only true in theory. In practice it is a lot easier to invalidate a patent with an earlier patent than it is to argue prior art with a publication (this is, of course, depending on how the patents are written).

Patents can also be used "defensively" in ways that prior art cannot. So it's not always just about prevention.

Personally I think whole system could use an overall. Not just in America either.
Ives Klein is famous for his work on the actual material of painting. He even invented a new blue pigment. Looking at this—a complete canvas in solid blue—is indeed fascinating. And looks silly on a photo because the color cannot be reproduced...

...which makes it even sillier that they sell prints, using off-the-shelf colors, in the museum’s shop you have to go through on your way out.
It says a lot about my knowledge of ML that I went into this post fully expecting it be about Autobots and Decepticons.
such a huge feat of engineering and then they put smooth tires on it! humans are amazing.

what are some other examples of inexplicably bad engineering decisions on otherwise well built machines?

the front wheel drive nissan lemans car comes to mind
Would you love it arriving as a letter to your boss's boss, with no prior discussion? Also, it includes quite a lot of unneeded pejorative rhetoric that adds no value.
My use of the word "commercial" is not apt. I meant to say "mainstream" languages.
In the minified code there are still a lot of Math.PI, Math.sin, Math.cos… could this not be optimised further with something like s=Math.sin…?
> But you know, when the rest of the world "doesn't get it", _maybe_ the reason is not that the rest of the world is dumb?

Look at the kind of replies you get on every hn thread on APL/J/K - the majority of the negative comments around readability are emotional/gut level responses.

People aren’t trying to understand K examples for a couple of hours and failing... they are making snap judgements based on their experiences in other languages.

That is hard to overcome.
How come a 11L Diesel engine only made 300HP? Was the engine that ineficient at the time, compared to a modern engine?
Indeed, the tone is pretty bad. The usage of exotic ingredients in traditional medicine is real, but the "aphrodisiac" thing is mostly a myth.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-hard-truth-ab...
resource limit reached.....
They could have waited a few months for the winter and tested it on the snow.
Also just being able to work without distraction. It's very hard to explain to young children that they cannot disturb their parents for several hours and many people won't have a spare room just to work.
That's a worrying bit of information... Bubonic still around in times of coronavirus.
Can Italians Follow the Rules?
Just a tiny nitpick: there is no need to qualify TLA+ with anything (especially "raw", as "raw TLA" is already used for something else). There's TLA+ and there's PlusCal, a language that compiles to TLA+. True, TLA+ also refers to the gestalt of the TLA+ toolbox, but whether you're referring to the tools or to the language is often clear from context. E.g: "At my company we use TLA+, but we prefer writing specifications in PlusCal." "At my company we also use TLA+, but we write the specifications in TLA+."