skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thought: this was done in a laboratory setting where they were able to statically fine-tune the flow rates. In an actual rocket, it seems plausible that external forces such as the acceleration of the rocket, changing force from gravity, etc. could significantly affect the propagation of the detonation waves, so the flow rates would need to be dynamically adjusted in real-time (a non-trivial problem). Still, this is definitely progress!
Needs to end up in people's pockets for land prices to go up.
Just remember that Arch is a rolling release distribution so the updates you do get will be bleeding edge. I recommend setting up Timeshift and always backing up your system before updating; if you’re using BTRFS it’s instant (although ext4 is practically instant on modern NVMe drives).

Also consider Manjaro if you want an Arch-based distro but don’t want to go through the trouble of manually setting everything up on first install. I’ve been running the KDE edition as my main OS and it’s fantastic!
Nice intro. Awk is a useful tool when you want to do simple line-by-line processing.

Note: The article says that awk patterns can't capture groups. The standard doesn't provide that functionality, but if you use the widely-available gawk implementation, gawk does have that capability (use "match").
It takes a couple seconds to start the first time you launch it. Very much not instant.
"Bears who only consider the math of the business model as it stands today, either don't understand what makes a good investment or have ulterior motives"

not quoting the author, but fuck off.
shinesan
> In the UK it is illegal to chalk anything – hopscotch, art or botanical names – on paths or highways without permission, even if it educates, celebrates and fosters interest and knowledge in nature.

> One anonymous London tree name chalker said: “I’ll keep labelling as I go on my daily walks. I think it’s really tapped into where people are right now.

Looks like a pretty clear act of rebellion to me.
Surprisingly, they created a piece of OSS we considered using, but was directly related to our problem.
If this decision were based on projections/fears about property values they would cease or dramatically cut back all loans secured by real estate. I think this decision is driven more by projections on (1) the average borrower’s ability to repay given the swift and dramatic economic changes, (2) uncertainty around legislative changes that might temporarily make the terms of these and other loans less favorable to banks, and to a lesser degree (3) the pecking order for HELOCs in the event of foreclosure.

Italy suspended mortgage payments during their lockdown and (correctly, IMO) forced banks to bear some of the financial burden of the economy grinding to a halt. It’s certainly less likely for the US to pass a similar measure but it’s entirely possible that banks could be required to do significantly more “rehabilitation” on defaulted home loans than they have in the past. That’s an expensive undertaking for a bank even in the best of economic times.
Prices vary for a lot of reasons, and in the UK tax is a significant part of the retail price. Right now perhaps it’s more than half of the pump price.

Some parts of the US are under a dollar a gallon. Couple weeks ago it was as low as 89 cents a gallon in some places in Oklahoma. Looks like it’s up to 95-99 cents at Costco now.

But in Oregon, it’s just about $1 more a gallon. And not much of that is taxes. We have a different refinery system for the western US, we never get the really good prices here.
> 1) there's literally no evidence that it happened that way

There's no smoking gun evidence that is accessible, and there likely never will be. There is some circumstantial evidence that seems compelling. We know that scientists in Wuhan were working on this exact type of virus and were also working to make it transmissible in humans. We also know that there were issues reported in safety protocols at this/these labs. Finally, we know that the virus outbreak happened in the same city (and possibly within a very short distance) of these labs.

Presumably (I have no data on this and would love some from anyone who knows more), there are not many labs doing this sort of research, so the fact that the virus appeared in the immediate vicinity of one of the few labs where they were doing this research seems like a heck of a coincidence. It's not a smoking gun, but I'm a little concerned to see people in the scientific community writing it off as a near-impossibility. What's wrong with saying, "We think that this is unlikely given xyz, but the circumstantial evidence is concerning and we should reevaluate all research of this type."
Came here to say this. I've been on Manjaro at work and at home for 2 years now. It's the longest running Linux desktop distro I've ever maintained and it's precisely due to the excellent AUR repo system.

I've had to install very few things from source, mostly small, opinionated system tweak utilities. But even installing from source is easier than hunting down a PPA and a key and trying to keep apt from getting corrupted somehow.
The impact of Airbnb on residential real estate price rises
Something I don't see discussed much is the impact of AirBnb on price growth in the residential real estate markets. As I started looking to buy a house after being out of the market for a while I was surprised to see so few good options and then to look on Airbnb and see tons of great houses listed for short term rentals (which makes sense given the low interest rates). It seems if the local governments continue to allow short term rental platforms then there will be a lot more price upside potential for residential real estate and a lot more supply shortage and concurrent increase in long term rental rates.

Previously I had been thinking we were more in a real estate bubble but I hadn't been factoring in the Airbnb short term rental market being a real economic driver. So it seems tourism will be a major/larger driver in rental / house prices and increase as a factor as compared to local business economy / wages growth.

I'm curious to hear others thoughts on this. I'm also pretty curious to see how many houses come back on the market due to a massive tourism decrease / lack of viability for over leveraged Airbnb homes. Would appreciate any thoughts or anecdotes! (For reference: I live in Knoxville, TN)
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I think you’re missing the mark slightly by focusing on housing prices alone. There are two other key variables here.

One is incomes. It’s quite plausible that defaults in a year or three will turn out to be extremely uncorrelated with today’s credit scores.

The second one is interest rates, which are spectacularly low.

Those two things combined make it very hard to predict how much profit a line of credit type product will be able to produce.
> about $20 a barrel to produce the oil

The ten most profitable companies in the world are nine oil companies and Apple. No wonder!
We as a data privacy community have failed completely
For those interested in Venus, I'd recommend trying to keep up with Don Mitchell's stream of stuff on Twitter.

This thread where he produces updated imagery from the Soviet Venus landing is great [1]. He's also seemingly made a bunch of progress on his upcoming book [2]. He used to post everything to his website at mentallandscape.com, and it's still up for useful history / structure, but all his work for the past decade seems to be solely on Twitter (until the book happens!).

[1] https://twitter.com/DonaldM38768041/status/12346581956682670...

[2] https://twitter.com/DonaldM38768041/status/12487923285143674...
In the US, McDonalds Corporation owns all the land, and overall they own an incredible amount of the land and the buildings:

"The company owns about 45% of the land and 70% of the buildings at their 36,000+ locations (the rest is leased)."[1]

This article is from 2015, but I don't have any info that disputes it.

[1]https://blog.wallstreetsurvivor.com/2015/10/08/mcdonalds-bey...
There used to be one, does anyone remember Rotary Rocket? They had a small vehicle they claimed could SSTO.
LOGO changed my life! When I learned it as a kid, it made me realize that software was "castles in the sky" and you could do anything you want. 41 years later and a career programmer, I'm now using Lisp in our most modern product. :-) I'll always be grateful to Papert for his work in creating and teaching LOGO.
Thanks for sharing this. For me, this was the biggest takeaway.

> In every case, a viable option for the customer will be to “do nothing”. They don’t have to buy your product, or any product for that matter.
The best way to prove the case for your product is with your metrics. Doing nothing should be a very expensive option.

That fundamentally speaks for having a problem to solve and not a solution looking for a problem. I think this key distinction is a good sieve to filter out potential ideas especially if you're in the business of SaaS.
Hey, quick clarification - I posted this because I thought it was interesting, but I am not the author and can't answer questions about it.
The auto update certainly falls in the former you mean? These (older, less tech savvy) people clearly lack the imagination. That's why auto update has to be mandatory. This is again for consumer facing OS and not for the server infra.
Oh, "free" means "free to use", not "free software". Would've been a cool feature. It also looks pretty cool otherwise, but ... does it contain "AI"? The TLD and title seem to point towards it.
It's an interesting point, but seek times and rotational delays don't apply to SSDs.

There is another reason to do compression on SSDs: you have more storage free and thus less write amplification and your SSDs will last longer. In fact some SSD controllers (e.g. SandForce controllers used to do this) compress data to reduce write amplification.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SandForce#Technology

The trick that they applied is that say, if you had a 500GB SSD and you stored 400GB uncompressed which the controller compressed to 200GB, the drive would still report only having 100GB free, giving it an ample 300GB of free blocks, thus greatly reducing write amplification.

(Of course, the benefit of controller-level compression is gone with full-disk encryption. But I guess FDE was less popular when SandForce SSDs became popular.)
Can you elaborate? Identifying yourself (name) is part of the process when submitting a comment anyways.

And I don't see why we wouldn't want our government's servers to have logs that can be inspected when we have questions about integrity.
SimpleLogin [1] already does that and their aliases are more powerful. It's also open-source [2], can be self-hosted, and covers almost all platforms.

The Firefox relay seems to need SocketLabs [3], a paying and closed-source service. Haven't got my invite code yet but I would not bet on this Firefox service.

[1] https://simplelogin.io

[2] https://github.com/simple-login/app

[3] https://www.socketlabs.com/
Walking the Clojure Source History
Apparently HN does not have an escape character which seems like a real oversight. :-/
I am not disputing the fact that, the movie, the script or novels state huckleberry, nor am I disputing that historically someone not from the south quoted Doc Holiday as saying it, what I am saying is that the term is still used today, as it was back then and in the South where Doc was from the term is "I'll be your huckle bearer". It was almost assuredly a misquote from a person not from the deep south. My great grandfather used to use the term and was a child during the late wild west era. This was why I said it was funny that Tombstone popularized it, because outside of the south people think it is huckleberry due to the fact that, that is what he said in the movie.
Or KDE Neon, which is by far the best distro I've used in 20 years of messing around with Linux.

I wish they would have based it directly on Debian instead of Ubuntu, but I just stay away from Snaps and get on with my life.
I'm sorry for the late response; yes, you are right that for future events the "right way to do it" is saving the place + local time. I think we were speaking of slightly different things.
Larger buildings and new technology should both put downward pressure on price per square foot.
As a long-time Arch user, I can say that the switch is not for the faint of heart. Arch won't do anything automatically, including installing basic things like a window manager or a browser - Arch is more of a "build your own OS" experience.

On the flip side, this is incredibly empowering. If something breaks, you can just fix it, since you were the one who put it together in the first place. That's a big jump from Ubuntu, where everything just works, but you have less control. Arch is worth it if you think of it as a future investment, rather than a short-term easy fix.
> Can someone verify this? As someone who will eventually upgrade to 20.04, this is concerning.

Chromium was converted from deb to snap already in 19.10 if not earlier.
Very angry, but somewhat interesting.
I think there is a cultural bias in this type of application that favors disk space to reduce overheads on mirrors.
How does it work. Anyone post a small "fact" about something and people can up/downvote it? Any plan to combat brigading?
I've had no problem disabling automatic Play Store updates on my phone. It's in the top level of the settings.
Building ML pipelines with no code
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Correct, there are lots of abstractions under the hood it doesn't mean they need to be intertwined with our business logic. What's next exposing the microcode or physical RAM layout?

Even worse majority of ISAs are register-based, not stack-based. So this abstraction is virtual.

What I meant is that Forth wasn't designed from first principles.
Instead of solving the problem "how to help developer to transform business logic into an application", it solves the problem "how to help developer to program a stack machine".

It was fitted to a simple, but useful abstraction - stack machine. Same with Lisp, APL, C, etc. In case of the C language the abstraction was PDP-11 ISA ;)

Glorified data structures -> PL:

array -> APL
list (cons) -> LISP
stack -> Forth
relation -> Prolog

Glorified data structures -> DB:

relation -> SQL (RDBMS)
map -> NoSQL K/V stores
hashpointer -> IPFS
hashchain -> Blockchain
Merkle Patricia Tree -> EVM
Watch how SpaceX’s first human spacecraft performed during its key in-flight
I believe the consensus is the virus binds to ACE-2 proteins, which are produced as a biproduct of tissue damage. Given kids have had less environmental damage to their lungs, less ACE-2 and a smaller surface area to bind to
There is. Hard, but possible, just the way it should be.
No they fucking don't.

There were protests in San Francisco yesterday. San Francisco! The most liberal city in the US and there were people protesting the "SIH" order.

Get off your computer and go outside - learn that there are more jobs than software out there.

The country is fucking fed up with this bullshit and the data speaks for itself.

These fucking fascists are going to get reamed very soon. Newsom is going to be impeached or recalled over this shit.
His smug demeanor while talking about reading the support for no Net Neutrality seemed like a victory lap for getting away with short circuiting the system. He should be put on trial and his emails and texts should be admissible evidence.

As a reminder: the overwhelming public opinion and media coverage was on outrage over the fraudulent comments prior to Pai announcing that the public had shown support for ending Net Neutrality. That alone should be grounds for having him tried. At what point can you no longer legally get away with malicious lying for profit? I think he crossed that line, which is impressive.
There always has been (though perhaps not for Windows Home Edition). My Windows systems have never, and still don't auto-update.
Semi-serious question here: What are some of the "positive impacts" of big data/machine learning?

We have somewhat better (but still bad) image search, and somewhat better (but still bad) machine translations. Anything else?
> Maybe I'm in the minority but I like Snaps. I wish all software would auto-update silently in the background -- when's the last time you even thought about upgrading Chrome?

FWIW Snap isn't a requirement to do that. You can set Ubuntu to update .deb packaged software automatically.
Scott Logic is probably the highest-quality company technology blog I've encountered in a while. I keep returning to it for WebAssembly and WebGL topics and it is consistently high quality. I'm not even sure what Scott Logic does, but they sure know their stuff :)

Kudos, Colin and team.
Surely you recognize that this is anecdotal evidence, though? Are you suggesting that people are less likely to experience CC fraud if they give out their information to each vendor instead of using a central mediator like PayPal? The reason we used to give that information out so readily in the past was a combination of not knowing better and not having better methods, and it allowed for a lot of low-level financial crime, despite the fact that you were lucky enough not to experience it yourself.
I was warned far more than necessary about corrupting The Holy Windows Registry Hive, I think that’s the entirety of the problem with it.
It’s more the case that your usage of the term is outdated, but you still complain that the world doesn’t conform to your understanding
GO FUCK YOURSELF!
It's exausting to switch every time an upgrade is a betrayal
EAT SHIT AND DIE FASCIST!
A REPL only gives you instant feedback on code that you type into the REPL. If you make some changes to three modules and you want to find out the effect of those changes then you need to...recompile the modules. Having a REPL doesn't help.

I don't find that a REPL really gives me anything that I don't get from tests in Go. The only difference in practice is that I type the code into a text editor rather than into a REPL prompt (which is actually a better experience). On top of that, it's usually good to have that kind of code saved somewhere rather than existing ephemerally in a REPL session.
There‘s a simple reason: speed. Have you ever tried to use WSL 1 with npm? I doubt do, because it just takes 10 times more time than on „real“ linux.

Also, it‘s way easier to work with multiple desktops and windows position better than on Windows where it seems that they are opening always there where you don‘t look.

There are also quite a lot of others, IMHO.
> You make it sound like an irrational fear but there's a real cost/benefit ratio to consider when you upgrade a machine.

95+% of users have no chance of even making this cost-benefit analysis because they cannot assess the scope or risk associated with the upgrade even if they wanted to. They have to rely on vendors making those assessments for them.
The problem with snaps is that they are a stupid way to distribute software that doesn't solve any problem, while introducing many other.

Basically a snap package is a container, that means an image of an operating system just to run one software. Just this idea should be considerered stupid, is like saying every software is distributed in a Docker container. It's a great way to waste disk space, and also RAM since shared library are no longer really shared...

You can have software that update automatically also with debs, where is the problem? Unattended upgrades exists since decades, you install it, and it updates all your packages automatically.

You can even have proprietary software packaged in .deb packages, why not, if for Canonical that is a concern. You can even have software that runs in a container packaged as a .deb package, why not?

Snap has no real purpose to me.

Flatpack is something that makes more sense, since it aims at providing a way to package software for multiple distributions, doesn't really need a runtime, a daemon like snap, but it builds application bundles that you double click and run, without installing them.
Yes. In other words: money is fungible.
A favorite from a local pizza shop that opened recently https://dinostomatopie.com/ - very much intentional.

The design credit tucked in the bottom links to a nice writeup on making this site, but currently has an cert error - https://www.madebyneversink.com/
Yeah, startup times is something that you don't really notice until you have a system that is really fast and responsive, and them you simply get annoyed by when you're using a system with slow startup times again or get accustomed again with the slowness.

Startup times didn't bother me too much, but nowadays it does, specially for things that my brain assumes that should be fast. This is why, for example, both my Neovim and Zsh configuration is tuned to start in <0.1s:

time zsh -c exit
zsh -c exit 0.00s user 0.00s system 84% cpu 0.007 total

time nvim -c qall
nvim -c qall 0.07s user 0.02s system 100% cpu 0.081 total

It does makes a massive difference, for example spawning a new shell is instantaneous and when I know that I will make some small changes I much prefer to open a file in Neovim than Emacs (my main editor/IDE nowadays).
This is what happens when you allow fascists like Gavin Newsom to run wild.

FUCK OFF AND DIE FASCIST SCUM!

COVID IS A LIBERAL LIE!
Here's material from Carnegie Mellon going over different real-time systems https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/des_s99/real_time/

This page classifies a broad definition for real-time and then breaks into different categories (hard, soft, fail-safe, fail-operational).

Is the default definition of real-time "hard real-time", or does it always need to be defined by its classification?

My point around context is that no one in the web world is saying that soft real-time systems are hard real-time systems. That would be blatant misappropriation of a term. They are saying that "real-time" defaults to "soft" in the web world. Just like "real-time" defaults to "hard" in the embedded world.

I don't know if I would classify this project as the embedded world (despite it using hardware), because it's consuming a stream of packets and isn't at the actual physical device level. I may be misunderstanding what they're doing, but I believe this to be the case.

The broader reason why I commented in the first place is that your comment feels like gate-keeping of a term when most people are going to quickly pick up on the context of how the term is being used. I understand and agree with your point around hard vs soft, but I don't think it's as clear cut as you seem to think it is regarding what the default classification is in different contexts.
Interesting point about deployment. Though I haven't worked in orgs that would just let you drop an arbitrary binary on servers
>What I mean with an anti-aesthetics, is that they wanted the design to look good but not too good. They wanted a specific sentiment for the site and this sentiment excluded 'professionality'.

The right word for it is appropriateness I think. Texture created by randomness is appropriate in this case, of the kind you find in actual comic stores that get packed with stuff organically over time. Or think of your room when you were young, it's an anti systemic human touch.
Would you like to elaborate? I haven't properly used Phabricator yet, but have so far had no problem (maybe even a bit of joy) browsing https://phabricator.kde.org/
Very much agreed, the fact that nobody at Ubuntu noticed that the extra mount points is a best annoying is kinda impressive.

I’m not blaming Ubuntu, nor Snaps for this issue, but we had a new server come online and our monitoring noticed that two or three partition was already at 100% usage. Those where snap mount point.