skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s buy vs build but with people being routinely misled about how much it costs to build and the fact that it doesn’t have to be all or nothing.

Some companies are making billions of dollars, that’s why we see so much content about the cloud and very few about building your own cloud with dedicated providers, which by the way handle electricity, network and basic hardware maintenance for pennies compared to cloud guys. They even have some basic managed services like backups, S3-compatible storage etc. these days.
The available amount of delta-v would actually be spot on for an orbital launcher on Kerbin (in Kerbal Space Program).
> remote editing, say on a VPS with 512mb RAM with too many daemons running.

I really like the new VS Code remote-editing feature, where the GUI is local but you can work directly on the remote system.

Visual Studio has a vaguely similar "remote debugger" feature.

Generally I avoid remote development like the plague. As you said, the latency is quite noticeable through any kind of remote connection.

Pro tip for anyone using Windows: Modern versions limit RDP to 30Hz by default, irrespective of CPU power or available bandwidth. See this MS article on how to remove the limitation: https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/help/2885213/frame-rate-...

I always set this to 60 Hz on high-performance "workstation" VDI systems used by developers.
That seems the best reason for asking the question. Why work somewhere that thinks curmudgeons make good interviewers.
try pretty much any electron app, try a web browser on mobile (these days even a simple google search sometimes freezes my phone for a few seconds with the message "unresponsive script") if you can't feel it maybe you got used to it, but try some CLI program and you'll see the difference.
Really? I also value the evidence that numerical simulations provide, and if I didn't know of the problem at hand, the simulation would indeed convince me of the correct answer. But has one really understood something just because one has become comfortable with its behavior?
They just proxy it on the fly with camo: https://github.com/atmos/camo
Vultr has servers with pci certification.
I always thought that Venus is a better option than Mars for humans to colonize if you can cool it down by handling the greenhouse gasses.

Mars can't even retain water vapor.
On osm you can mark the kind of acces so you can indicate that is a service acces
I undertand the general idea you're trying to convey, but holy shit, you seem to be in a terrifyingly bad work environment.
A bit off topic - is it worth learning blockchain tech? Is it a viable career? If yes, where should be start - btc, eth..? Or something else?
Does anyone actually buy the paid version of your tool?
NYT special from 2018 on sugar is visually pleasing
I don't understand why you got impatient? Just let it finish and then you can share, easily enough across your entire network.
I've been using Carbon more frequently lately in some development documents in my current team.

We have a MediaWiki and, for some reason, the administrator wouldn't be bothered to set up syntax highlighting correctly. So, after asking a number of times, I thought I would just use Carbon and be done with it and have the docs looking a bit nicer.

Immediately, I thought about the issue of having code as images. You put an example in the docs but the developers can't just copy and paste it into their code. But then I realized I actually wanted this. I didn't want them to continue copy&pasting code without understanding a single thing they do, like they have been doing for the last twelve years.

I have it set up to remove the window frame and background, and use Iosevka. It's much less noisy that way.
I'm of the opinion that showing window controls (the top left/right buttons) and the window chrome on a code snippet is poor form. The focus of the screenshot is to be the code itself, there is no need to highlight the crud around it which is distracting to users coming from different OSes. It is reminiscent of of various sites that showcase their products on specific phones and laptops. You're wasting valuable space on something that appears dated and cringey just a few months down the line. A well put-together div, font and background will last longer.
thanks for pointing that out, completely forgot about lisps!
It’s very difficult to live life to the max when you’re dead, or in hospital for weeks.

The idea that a rampant COVID-19 would cost a few months of life expectancy, or that victims of the virus are not economically productive is not supported by the evidence we do have, e.g. https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/05/02/would-mo...

We all want the lockdown to end as soon possible, but when we do it, we need to do it right or else risk magnifying the economic and human toll the pandemic is taking. The lockdown is a bridge to a world of virus suppression, which in turn is a bridge to medical solutions that will eliminate SARS-CoV-2 from the human population, everywhere on earth, for good.
This is so true, and I'm stealing this.

One thing I have found programming helpful for in the thought process, though, is to uncover things that one thinks one has already thought through fully, but where there are gaps of detail one has leapt across without even noticing. Programming tends to reveal those.
Turing has more things that work out of the box, so if you do not have complex requirements its a good first step. Gen allows for composing models using its generative function interface, you can specify models in different ways. You can also have fine grained control over inference, rather than a few preset methods.
Gen has also worse error messages and docs.
Quantum Social Science
Just your osm user, and it uses oauth api
World of Warcraft Has Evolved with the Internet
All I Want for Christmas Is a Revolutionary Apple TV (2017)
MS Word has... many problems, but being WYSIWYG is not one them. I like WYSIWYG editors.

I write a lot of reports these days, and the Word editor interface drives me crazy. Like I said, it's slow, irrespective of the hardware. It can't even maintain a consistent 30 Hz on a high-end gaming rig when editing plain-text paragraphs with no special formatting. I suspect it's throttled internally, but it could just be badly written.

The editor is also very glitchy in the way it handles formatting. Lots of little annoyances just haven't been fixed and have been left there to fester for decades. It's all too easy to corrupt a document's styles to the point that the only reasonable fix is to carefully cut & paste all content into a new document, going through Notepad on the way to guarantee all hints of the original formatting are stripped.
Please note: Starting with Debian 7, the minor number is not part of the Debian release number, and numbers with a minor component like 9.4 or 9.7 now indicate a point release. Basically, only security updates and major bug fixes, with new updated installation media images. This, 10.4, is not a new major release of Debian.
That's a pretty absurd slur.

If you're going to claim Musk isn't an engineer then you're defining the term so narrowly it stops being interesting. Biographies of him are quite clear that when he decided to make SpaceX he spent a very long period of time indeed doing nothing but reading rocket science textbooks; it was the knowledge of rocketry he gained by doing that which allowed him to realise which problems needed to be solved, that they could be solved, who could do the work to solve them and most importantly to gain the confidence of other rocket engine designers and convince them to join him. He pretty routinely engages in technical discussion about rockets, what happened, what went wrong etc.

That's on top of his experience as a software developer.

So if you're going to claim Musk isn't an engineer then really neither was Bill Gates, Larry Page, or other people who did some initial work and had some expertise in what their company did but rapidly became a professional executive.
Ubuntu is based on Debian so things such as the way to install applications and the variety of applications available are very similar especially when compared to Fedora, Arch and others which use different package managers.

Main difference you might notice on Debian 10.4 vs Ubuntu 20.04 is that the default Gnome on Debian is a couple of versions behind. Debian only updates security patches rather than new releases between main Debian version releases (10.4 is more like a security update rather than a major new release). You would have to run Debian Testing or Debian Unstable/Sid in order to get the same Gnome version (3.36) as on Ubuntu 20.04.

Other than that there are no Snaps enabled/installed by default (you can install/enable them yourself if you choose to do so) and Debian Gnome is the way the Gnome developers intended it without any extra extensions and customization done (Ubuntu comes with several extensions and other customization enabled by default). You can install these manually yourself if you choose to do so.

Do remember to pick the non-free (as in it includes non-free firmware) ISO from Debian's website as chances are your WiFi won't work if you go with the official free software only ISO.

If you go with the NetInst ISO you can install minimal Gnome which comes without any additional software (untick everything on the last step, log in when the install is finished and then install gnome-core using apt install gnome-core).
Indeed, looking at the bigger picture I can't help seeing the absurdity of it. For all the praising of Tesla cars, which might very well be founded, it's just a freaking car in a market where demand fell off a cliff.
seems like it's actually a common thing in Scheme (linked in a sibling comment)
The Improbable Origins of PowerPoint (2017)
I have been using the Russian search engine yandex.ru lately. You will get different results. It reminds me of the google of previous times with less "SEO optimized" content on-top.
>Heroku

>Controversial. But I just like an all in one service and I really hate AWS. So theres not much in the way of services that I know are going to be around forever like Heroku is.

Heroku so tied to AWS that in a lot of places I’ve seen it mentioned as an actual AWS service. It’s obviously not, but to suggest it is somehow independent is a bit strange.
my first thought was "if it's self hosted, don't I have to index the entire internet first before I use it..?"

.. before I read it's actually a frontend/proxy to google, not a separate thing. This is fine, but the seems a bit misleading to me.
Return from the stars is my favorite. In a some sense it is still about how to deal aliens that we cannot understand, it is just the aliens is future society.
Emacs has always been written in Lisp, and it's possible for badly written code to make it lock up. Not a new complaint on low RAM machines where the gc and paging interact badly. But you need very low RAM by today's standards.
> An example: rotation and balancing of binary trees - does battling the inevitable core dumps during implementation really enhance any understanding of the principle of the algorithm?

It can especially if it is your first time learning about AVL, red black trees, etc. The process of implementing, debugging, etc can help you understand the algorithm and its underlying principles. Even more it shows you the practical merits and limitations. There have been times when I thought I understood an algorithm or data structure until I had to code it and then realized I didn't really understand it.

But generally speaking, you don't need programming to understand "big-level" stuff in CS no more than you need a pen and paper to understand mathematics. Church and Turing didn't program and they helped create computer science.
No, today the USA surpassed an absolute max of 78k deaths, with the true number surely being far lower when you take into account:

• The huge numbers dying of what would otherwise be called old age who simply happen to test positive at the moment of death.

• The financial incentives hospitals are given to code deaths as COVID.

• The rampant reporting of COVID without tests based on nothing more than suspicion (combine that with the second point)

At this point the death counts for COVID around the world are so corrupted they're basically meaningless.
+1.

Those are hybrid circuits with real components and magnetic cores inside, not a single-chip solution, but I wonder what types of chips are used inside.
> But C/C++ implementations maintain fidelity to the complexity analyses found in the algorithm literature.

Not in any meaningful sense. On modern hardware, the dominant factor affecting performance is cache efficiency, and that's not at all visible in C/C++ code. So you're not really any better off in C/C++ than you are in OCaml (to use your example): the asymptotics are valid, but you have no idea (without resorting to reasoning about compiler and CPU internals) when a small change is going to cause aliasing or blow out the cache and lead to an order of magnitude performance difference.
What does it take to keep a conspiracy secret?
Personally, I too find a future without books depressing. I do not have any scientific data to back me up on "physical books being better than digital ones", it's simply my personal preference. As someone that spends all day on the computer, I cherish the moments I spend doing something like reading a book, or running, or cooking. Something that feels a little more connected with reality.
U.S. military tracking unguided re-entry of large Chinese rocket
You can disable Safari using the "Screentime" restrictions. Having to go into Settings, find the Screentime section, enter a passcode and find the setting to re-enable Safari may provide enough of a effort barrier that you don't bother with whatever thing it was that sprang to mind as a potential distraction.

For even more effective control, let someone else set your Screentime passcode :)
If that’s your priority, there was also the Novena, I think?
About grey on white, it is said to decrease eye strain. [1]

[1] : https://uxmovement.com/content/why-you-should-never-use-pure...
We'd need to replace a lot of hydrogen Venus lost. Also, by being closer to the Sun, I'm not sure we can stop that loss without a parasol.

The good news is that we can use the parasol to funnel hydrogen from the solar wind back to Venus.
Maths is not experimental. This roundabout, handwavy, vague way to deal with things causes more harm than good, in my opinion. Try to understand a proper mathematical proof instead.
Not piling on but - did you pop him an email to check?
Docker Storage Driver Guide
A Android library, realize a WheelView based on RecyclerView, ask for star
Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font
Tester avant de déployer; comment tester ses déploiements ARM
> I don't think anybody who's thought about it for more than a few minutes wants the stay-at-home orders to continue indefinitely. I certainly don't, and it's not what my state has proposed.

Eh, well, I personally would like the lock down to finally actually happen.

Everyone prepare or get help to prepare and then actually have a lock down for 2-3 weeks and beat this virus. Instead we have this 1 friend meeting allowance and some non-essential businesses opening up or people acting incredibly selfish/stupid and doing parties, because they suffer oh so much from isolation.

These are things, that drag a semi-lockdown waaay out and make it actually bad for businesses. It would be half as bad, if not less, if people had discipline and we had acted with strong lock down initially or at any point since then.

I personally have not met with a single friend or person outside this household since the start of semi lock down here, with the exception of buying food, and do not plan to do so. I do not want to be the one responsible for bringing the virus into this household or giving it to anyone else. It might be easy for me as introverted or computer guy, but so what? Of course it will be harder for some other people! There are always differences. It's not like people could not survive 2-3 weeks actual lock down at home, when prepared properly and delivered food in emergency.

We could have a state organized food delivery service for emergency cases, where people did not prepare sufficiently. We could also have avoided people buying too much of certain goods by simply starting out with lock down + purchase per person limitations at the same time.

Another idea: Have a state supported fund for everyone who cannot work during lock down. Make it easy for the working from home population to support everyone else. Do not rely on private people organizing this themselves! I have yet to see the news announcement of there being some official place, organized by government, where I could donate part of my wage, so that people wgo cannot work currently due to the virus get some income. I have seen (and donated to) some private campaigns for gastronomy and similar, but not simply anything for trying to share wages.

The point is, that we need to get back to a point, where tracing all the infections is possible again, fast. Only then we should loosen restrictions. We could be there already, with a little discipline and more government support for helping people instead of relying on private actions.

("Here" is Germany in this case.)
GitHub Actions and PowerShell and Azure and Docker
For anyone who is wondering:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_sunshade
Sweden has a rather different welfare system, typical population density, income distribution, typical household demographic, urban planning and culture regarding social interactions, compared to many places that would use it as an example for what to do in this crisis. I think following the available evidence, interpreted by experts is the way to go. Ultimately the argument for Sweden's policy seems to be less based on cost saving than general wellbeing. A good bit of insight here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfN2JWifLCY
> About 8 years ago I discovered unconventional approaches to subconscious trauma healing, and have undertaken these consistently ever since, and my "disorders" have steadily resolved. All that's left is some latent anxiety, but that continues to improve too.

What are those unconventional approaches ?
Funny idea, but it failed: https://i.imgur.com/fXGEGCi.png

Strongly hinted fonts of win2k era looked quite nice, but this is just blurry mess.
Check out the nominations to sci-fi awards (e.g. Hugo or Nebula). The winners get most of the publicity but there are many great works that don’t win but are still quite good. The nominations are sometimes hard to find, the Verge e.g. has articles with the complete (?) lists for recent years and Wikipedia has a list of nominees and winners over the years as well.
The MacOS app Deckset has a pretty sweet syntax highlighting feature where you can selectively highlight smaller parts of the code in that way, and then step through it as an animation.

And at least you've got the original markdown and PDF/HTML exports for extra accessibility.
> I think the deeper issue here is the much-commented popular distrust or 2nd guessing of "experts"

Experts are human, and so they make mistakes like everyone else. See the German study on the autopsies and thrombosis, for example. A similar finding was reported in my country and immediately slammed by some high profile experts (same with convalescent plasma therapy). Some experts are saying that social distancing is useless against this disease. Others let out contradictory statements to the general public.

For those who aren't equipped to understand that at least part of it (some of it is narcissism, but that's another story) is part of the general scientific discourse, it is absolutely understandable to not trust them fully. And even more when the same experts (speaking of my country) said in February that it wasn't a big deal (but few if any admitted they made a mistake).
Love your attitude dude. You're gonna have a deeper understanding of how computers work than 99% of people on hn by the time you're done, if you don't already!
Reddit r/stocks and r/wallstreetbets can be pretty informative.
If you go with the NetInst ISO you can install minimal Gnome (or whichever desktop environment you prefer) which comes without any additional software. You have to untick everything on the last step where it asks you to choose your DE, log in when the install is finished and then install gnome-core using apt install gnome-core. This is Gnome with Gnome Software, Gnome Terminal and other major pieces but without mail client, office, games etc.
Artificial chloroplasts turn sunlight and carbon dioxide into organic compounds
COVID-19 impacts rich, western world, tuberculosis not so much.

COVID-19 kills in USA 3 times more people in a day with all mitigations in place than TB does in a year without any extraordinary effort on mitigation.

Statistics for USA [0]:
> In 2017, the most recent data available, 515 deaths in the United States were attributed to TB. This is a decrease from 528 deaths attributed to TB in 2016.

So, let's be honest, we - I mean people like me, or you here on HN - don't care enough to really help these millions dieing out of our bubble... That's the truth. We may be outraged that nothing happens, but I will not change my job and invest my privilege to help this people. Will you?

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/tb/publications/factsheets/statistics/tb...
Spring Boot Persistence Best Practices
Experimental Three-Phase Railcar
The corollary of that though is that your code is also not accessible. I've been struggling with this myself, I don't find it fair that my snippets, no matter how beautiful, aren't readable by screen readers.
The only solution I found is to keep providing actual code as a snippet or gist next to the image.
Useless Code Comments People Wrote in Their Code
Light-powered CO2 fixation in a chloroplast mimic with natural and synthetic parts

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6491/649
More fun are the couple of comments in the article. I am still not sure if it is sarcasm or an actually half-decent theory.
Ask HN: How do I tell an Indie Dev about vulnerabilities that I exploited?
An Indie Developer sells his source code and a license to use it. His site is built on top of his product.

I watched a guide he created for getting started with his software. As he was demonstrating something I noticed a potential vulnerability. Out of curiosity I decided to try it out and see if it worked. And it did (I didn't expect it to). It allowed me to download the source that he was selling without having to pay.

Now it's probably at this point that I should have emailed him to tell him about the issue. Instead, I looked through the source and found a second vulnerability. This time, I didn't attempt to try it out on his site. But assuming that he uses the same code on his site, it means that anyone can purchase a license to use his source for any price they choose. Granted, if someone did this, he would probably notice that they didn't pay full price.

In short, I found two vulnerabilities on an Indie Dev's site that allows anyone to download his product, and pay any amount for a license.

How do I tell this Indie Dev about the vulnerabilities? I'm concerned that telling him I exploited a vulnerability (out of curiosity, not malice), and then found another makes me look like a black-hat.
Good example of a perverse incentive that is built into capitalism. How can we as a society reverse this without resorting to nanny state behaviour?
I can definitely (not) do this: reflections on imposter syndrome