skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like you're comparing between languages that end up being the default choice due to their low learning curve (Python/Go/Java) and languages chosen because the default choice wasn't good enough (Ruby/Rust/Scala). The latter tends to be much less restrictive or more featureful which necessitates governance by convention/culture/guidelines since its significantly more difficult to be exactly prescriptive over significantly more variance.

For example, most Ruby found in the wild follows some variation found in the style guide: https://github.com/rubocop-hq/ruby-style-guide (same with Scala: https://docs.scala-lang.org/style/ and Rust: https://github.com/rust-dev-tools/fmt-rfcs/blob/master/guide...) and their communities generally care enough to try to enforce it. Most languages have an universally agreeable style guide these days.

I personally find the first set of languages to be more consistent syntactically (typically because they're simpler languages that have auto-formaters) but the latter set of languages are extremely consistent in patterns/ideologies. It seems like you care more about the former and didn't care to learn about the latter (which I'll admit, does present a higher learning curve and tends to be acquired through experience with the community than through a doc).
If you’re a fan or not of port knocking, single packet authorization is along the same lines, and has a much more robust mechanism that addresses most of the criticisms of port knocking. Your packet is cryptographically signed.

Take a look at fwknop for the implementation. The only issue with it is there’s no easy install for pfsense.
Brothers Karamazov spends a lot of time on serfs and Russian clergy.
Have you ever had a camp fire/bonfire? It takes a LONG time to get the wood hot enough to burn well.

In contrast your gas stove goes on and off in a moment.

Coal vs gas is the same way.
If they make a worthwhile adaptation, it will usher in a revolution. If they want to keep their advertisers, they'll water down the anti-corporate cynicism.
> Cyberpunk was thinly-veiled xenophobia about the Japanese

In both Stephenson (Snow Crash doesn't even feature Japan or Japanese much from memory) and Neuromancer, it really strikes me as more of fetishization than xenophobia. At the time, Japan was seen as (and maybe was?) ahead of the curve in sociotechnological development so it's natural to have them prominent in near-future sci-fi at the time.
Maybe I’m just tired, and I doubt this would be legal, but why not do it as a daily or weekly thing and the top payer gets half the total paid?
It's called macOS now... and really all they have to do is add support for 32-bit apps again.
Stephenson is great at starting stories. Arguably he does this several times in each book.

He can't write endings for shit, though. (Every book of his that I've read - Anathem, Seveneves, Reamde, Cryptonomicon/Snow Crash/The Diamond Age, and more - all fail to come to a satisfactory ending. But I keep reading, because the rest of the books are good...)
That is a reason why you move so that when the time come (which is not chosen you we are not talking about us invaded china here but china just blockage of Taiwan say), you have option. If Taiwan has a strategic assets at least you do not risk a war ...

Guess that is why Taiwan also would not want the asset out.

There have to be a political deal. If USA and Taiwan is competent.
I read the Interdata 8/32 and Z8000 manuals and explained the historical developments that motivated the development of C compilers to you, and you come back with "the first source I found online said"? C'mon, gimme a specific source talking about how a specific one's-complement (or sign-magnitude) compiler handled "~", or go home.
oh okay, freecodecamp course would be great :-D
I switched text editors and window managers! kakoune to textadept (which has been great) and i3 to awesome (which I'm still getting the hang of). I'm thinking about switching from chromium to luakit, too.
Is HN getting a lot of Reddit traffic recently?
FYI, On mobile Android in Firefox that font is ultra small. Thank God for reader mode.

Anyway sharing personal things openly on the internet where the context isn't always personal stuff is always hard.

We live in the age of twitter and social media where curt hot takes about things people don't understand are rewarded... nobody wants that done to them, let alone typical misunderstandings.
Superpowers don't usually go to war directly against each other -- they make their client states go to war against each other instead.
To be fair, the scoreboard in the post displays the success of the deploys too, which would address the third and fourth point. But of course, people can still game the metric with a ton of insignificant incremental changes that don't do anything.
That's what I said in the first place, google234123.
Snow Crash is one of those books that I envision so vividly that I feel like I've already seen the movie adaptation. I have nearly equal parts horror and excitement about the idea of a video adaptation. (Perhaps not equal parts-- it's probably more horror than excitement...)
You're supposed to draw a simple shape out of just a few lines - there's even a limit in place there.
If they get a bad writer, he will read the plot summary on wikipedia, go over to tvtropes.com and pick out some rough matches to the plot summary and start writing. I would not be surprised if this is how Man in the High Castle got converted into a T.V series.
The second season was bizarrely unwatchable.
Finally completed my side project [1], a website/app to check in which countries Netflix streams that movie or series you've been wanting to watch.

As a heavy VPN consumer, this is really helpful to me :)

[1]: https://captainflix.com
I liked Reamde, but it's an atypical Stephenson book. Full of action, fast paced, pretty short on exposition, although there are some diversions about handguns and intercontinental aviation navigation.
Paradoxical self-reference cycles seem to give rise to the halting problem, the incompleteness theorem, the liar paradox, and Russell's paradox (among other paradoxes and self-contradictions) so breaking those cycles seems like a practical idea.

However, in practice there really isn't a noticeable difference between a program that never completes and one that takes 100 years to complete. Both programs will almost certainly be halted (or at least paused indefinitely) by some external means. If a program takes too long to produce its desired output, then it simply isn't a useful piece of software.
vpn + port knocking should be good enough but I am not sure how to implement it in an efficient way (I currently only use a VPN)

https://www.howtogeek.com/105693/how-to-knock-into-your-netw...
I love the others (especially Lain is underappreciated!) but haven't heard of Patlabor so will check it out, thanks for the recommendation!
I just grow more fingers. Problem solved.
But isn’t the following expected to be true?

pow(0.0f, 0.0f) == (float)pow(0, 0)

If one is defined then so should the other. (At least, for developers’ benefit.)
Really? I couldn't even finish the third book. I found it incredibly tortuous.
Hold up, if a waiter makes less than minimum wage after tips, the company has to make up the difference. This is a federal labour law, and if treated otherwise, is completely illegal.
I was just thinking something like this as well. The best term for it is 'schema' but that moniker seems so, ill-fitting. For lack of a better term the 'schema' isn't really designed, it's discovered.

Thats how I know I'm on the right path. I start to organize the data and new things that appear fit naturally into what I've already discovered.

This is the epitome of organic design because you are simply the conduit between the truth and a schema definition. If you force yourself to not be clever and just interpret what you've found, your database model will be solid.
I think they’re moving towards pushing streaming first. I think cable tv’s days are numbered.
Hello from the world of finance.

You know how some people make websites? Well, what if instead of a website, we make a pdf that you can upload a document to and then click a submit button in the pdf. And for good measure, lets make it so it only works in Adobe Reader's internet explorer plugin.

Welcome to the Bank Secrecy Act e-filing system brought to you by the united states department of treasury.
You can go a lot higher on two hands, though it gets annoying to hold your left hand in one awkward position for long periods.

Still, a useful little thing I picked up in my teens. And taught at a conference one year when I was doing a presentation that was glorified babysitting for smart kids so their parents could attend other stuff at the conference.
My favorite thing about the eero is the Alexa integration... you can literally tell Alexa to pause the internet for self, and then her data is cut off until you go into the eero app and re-enable it. The only thing better would be to be able to shortcut it with 'Alexa.. earmuffs'.
If they could get Jason Momoa to play Raven I would definitely give it a shot.
I'm creating a collection of written interviews to mainly people in the tech ecosystem about productivity, like how to organize the todo lists, what tools they use, routines, how to manage emails & co.

I always want to know more about how people get things done but it's almost impossible to find high-quality content about it (apart from click baity resources like "what top CEOs do to be more productive").
An intercom that lets someone at the gate talk to the apartment in question to try to convince them to buzz them in?
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Please don’t make it infinite scroll instead. Begging you. Please.
'Mad Max: Fury Road': The Oral History of a Modern Action Classic
Here’s a sampling of published recommendations:

MIL-STD-1472G, Human Engineering, § 5.2.2, Displays—content

FAA AC 20-175, Controls for Flight Deck Systems, Chapter 3, Additional Guidance for Multifunction Controls

SAE ARP4032, Human Engineering Considerations in the Application of Color to Electronic Aircraft Displays

ISA-TR101.02-2019, HMI [Human-Machine Interface] Usability and Performance

IEC 62366-1, Medical devices – Part 1: Application of usability engineering to medical devices
A workplace where people only want to work instead of being comfortable enough to make new connections (of any kind) is a bad workplace. You should be able to make new friends, increase your network, and have a good time collaborating. I feel sorry for anyone who is in such an environment, especially when they are being approached constantly in bad ways on top of it (let alone harassed). So many things have gone wrong then. The workplace is still a workplace, not a dating machine, so people need to adjust their behaviors to the environment. Most people can manage to do this.
Neal Stephenson is not bad (unlike the Altered Carbon person), he can actually write, but he's so mind-numbingly boring. He takes one good idea and stretches it out while explaining it 20 different ways to make sure you absolutely get it. Plus, he simply doesn't have interesting things to say. His best books are essentially fan-service to nerds.
As this series is -in all probability- going to be.

Now Sprawl trilogy, dial me in. That's what I call cyberpunk. Uncompromising presentation, ideas that pummel you, a future that feels so current yet so far away. And the implications, the insinuations of what Gibson is methodically describing. Absolutely brilliant. All of that means that there is practically 0 chance this is going to be done right. So I'd rather never see it butchered. Read the books people. Focus on the social implications, the environments, the language and culture, the meta-story. The VR and cool tech are the icing in a much more meaty and philosophically heavy series.
> There are no doubt low-information people who believe the video, but my guess is that they'd believe some other random nonsense had this video not been released.

In a world where people think that Hillary Clinton and high society democrats satanically ritually abuse and eat children in the basement of a pizzeria, I think perhaps the level of nonsense people are capable of believing may exceed expectations.
It's a system like a local telephone system, where you dial up to a certain apartment and then they press a button that opens the door for you.
Does your average waiter have the time and energy to devote to suing the local restaurant when it doesn't pay? Most of the time, and as they should, they just go find another job. I would hate to become known as the employee who sues my employer if they don't pay me.
Oh is that what the silly bot was? I had no idea why I was collecting these donuts and ended up blocking the bot so I wouldn’t see its messages.
It's like a phone for the yard door. Someone buzzes you, you talk to them and let them in or not.
A classic cyberpunk novel, I'm greatly looking forward to torrenting this once it's out.

I'll never willingly give AT&T (which owns Warner/HBO) a dime of my money, and you shouldn't either. They're an eager participant in the surveillance state (since 1985(!)).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarnerMedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepting_v._AT%26T

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairview_(surveillance_program...

https://www.propublica.org/article/nsa-spying-relies-on-atts...
The intercom would be for a guest to use to request access. See Seinfeld episodes for an example.
Yeah, let's throw another trillion dollars at the defense industry.
I was under the impression that AWS needs to do mandatory guest power cycles in order to update underlying infrastructure (e.g. to mitigate Meltdown, Spectre, L1TF, MDS, etc.). Is that not the case? Has the instance actually been up since 2016?
In 2020, most people's only device is a cellphone.

They can't easily run ghostscript directly, and making a web service is easier than making an app (recompiling ghostscript for all CPU architectures, ...) despite the ongoing hosting costs.
You can count to a 100 on a single hand easily. Imagine each finger has four facets, and combining segments and joints you can count to 5 on each facet of each finger, gives you the ability to count to 20 on a single finger, so 100 for the hand.
I haven't tried it but combining both hands would then allow you to go up to 10,000
Apple buys NextVR, which broadcast sports and music in virtual reality
A hot war with cruise missiles and carriers like this piece is fantasizing about? Extremely low.
We could see a 4x boost in computer speed by scrapping all scripting languages and electron. Also the future seems to be more cores. A 64 core laptop may not be too far away.
I started working through this Bioinformatics Jupyter notebook and found that it is really well put together! If you're interested in working with DNA or proteins with Python I highly recommend it. https://github.com/applied-bioinformatics/An-Introduction-To...
How do you move data? That Foo object that previously referenced both a Bar and a Baz, but you refactored it so now the Bar, not the Foo, has the reference to the Baz? Or where you changed the type of Baz from Gleep to Glorp?

Erlang, due to how actors encapsulate state, and dynamic typing, allows you to do those things pretty trivially.
Maybe it’s because I read it as a teen, but I thought Snow Crash was fairly lively and comical for Stephenson ... at least compared to Cryptonomicon.
My best approach for this type of client is: Route 53 DNS+CloudFront+S3 static site hosting.

Because: you can route request from dns to CloudFront, then to s3 static site. And get your content cached/distributed automatic over the globe.

That’s is, super cheap and with a nice AWS SLA, and you can setup all with tls too.
I'm not sure if this could be considered a niche audience, but I install Adobe Reader by default on user machines, mainly because the built in readers with Chrome or Edge don't handle printing natively very well, due to not using the system's print settings immediately. You can bypass it with a shortcut and make changes, but it's not so great when users will select print and click ok, it's difficult to educate them against that. It's much easier to use Acrobat Reader and set it to open by default in that. So this may be the install base, SMB and schools, some large enterprise as well.

Whether that preference will get changed back to edge in a feature update is another story.
I see from my experiments followed by inspection of the compiled main.chunk.js the application is programmed to respond with an array of responses where accuracy is 0,30 (low) - for ex when I doodle jagged lines - "Engage more..."/ "Total Abstraction"/ "This could be anything". However, among this array of responses is also "Don't be vague or abstract".

This, as a machine-generated response to someone doodling comes across at once as naive as well as somewhat intimidating :P "Okay mommy, won't draw penis, but can I at least draw a few random lines and dots?"
I think you can support a search with a warrant, and support privacy.
Beautiful indeed
https://www.screencast.com/t/PRj4hT6pDzk2
So, many places that let you work from home now also have "flex fridays", why not the opposite. Have a day of the week everyone must come in person. Work from home the other days of the week. Stagger as needed.
Innovative and Smart gadgets by Korean startups to check out your health
Yup too Damn easy https://postimg.cc/K3DNK8H8
It is the very finest first chapter I've ever read.

Any tv/film adaptation is playing with the highest possible difficulty score for its opening minutes.

In fact, I'm not sure they could do better than acting out the entire first chapter with a voiceover to tie the transitions together.
I would be interested in seeing the supporting arguments and data for your latter claim. At a glance US gross manufacturing output lags China by about 7%, but per capita US manufacturing output is ~300% that of China. Between the Monroe Doctrine and NATO states, however, the "US manifold"'s productive potential is where it appears accurate assertions of relative dwarfism can be made. Without intimate familiarity of geopolitics, I would estimate all save 3-5 of the top 20 nations by manufacturing output fall clearly in the US sphere of influence.
They seem to be reporting on this article https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/politics/story/202...
Ahh I thought that was like a “throw up your hands in joy” emoji
I made this for my better half (she's is learning Japanese.) Point camera to object, app would read out detected object in your language of choice. https://travelshoppingbuddy.com/
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The irony in this is that it's yet another manifestation of the American Exceptionalism myth, merely applied with the opposite sign.

There's other stuff like that, too. For example, many Americans - especially progressive left politically, but plenty on the right as well - appear to believe that single payer is the norm in the developed world, and US is unique in deviating from that recipe for universal healthcare, even when discussing other options. When you tell them that one can opt to go with fully private insurance in Germany, or that Switzerland runs on something like ACA (much better done, obviously - but the same basic principle), it just doesn't compute.

Or gun control: some lefties literally refuse to believe that civilians can own an AR-15 in Germany, or a silencer in UK, or carry a handgun concealed in Czechia, without much trouble.
Iirc the first chapter was a short story that he later expanded. I enjoyed the rest Of Snow Crash (way back when) but found everything else he writes to be incredibly boring.
4649Dgx.png is taking forever to load. 1MB and 41s for me... just did a speedtest and got 70Mbps down and 60 Mbps up.
Personally I avoid knockd and instead use something like fwknop https://github.com/mrash/fwknop. You get the advantage of port kocking while protecting yourself from re-play attacks. The main dis-advantage is it is a more complicated procedure so it may limit you a bit.

How I set it up specifically: https://peekread.info/tech/20190513-fwknop/
Planning-related. Onsite teams allow first line of management to muddle through many issues in an ad-hoc way: walk over to see if A is stuck, if so go and ask B to help A, etc. This is not good: most engineers hate constant interruptions and best engineers' most productive time can get decimated. But this type of management mostly keeps the ship afloat.

This does not work with remote teams. There, a manager needs to have a longer-term plan, parcel work in a larger chunks, clearly write the tasks and minimal thresholds ("this task is done when you can confirm X"). The manager then sees when someone is blocked, what tasks are getting behind, etc.

This setup is actually better for the worker bees, too, who get clearly identifiable tasks and are not tracked on how they spend their time as long as their task is completed on time.
My favorite is Ernie Chen's "Quantitative Trading: How to Build Your Own Algorithmic Trading Business"
https://www.amazon.com/Quantitative-Trading-Build-Algorithmi...

Warning: it is a lot of fun, thrilling, but hard to make money. My winning algos took a while to research, longer to automate, and often lost alpha quickly.
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As much as this might be an impossible sell, I’m inclined to agree. Strongly suspect Baroque Cycle would actually be more watchable than it was readable.

I got through the series and it was well worth the slog, but that was at a time in my life when ploughing through 50 books in a year came naturally and I had time to burn. If I started now (30s, have kids) I’d burn out early in The Confusion—but being able to compress things a bit into a more easily consumed medium would help.
Stacking identical fans that run at similar speed is probably not effective. Jet engines seem to use many compressor stages though - none of them the same.
Nice, pinned on my screen phone.
Actually, many deployments are going into factories, fulfillment centers, and meat processing plants specifically to help keep workers safe.
I have similar feelings about the book. "an astronomical amount of suspension of disbelief" is a good way of putting it. There's too much detail and too little explanation, and so I felt like I couldn't see the forest because the trees were in the way.

Here's a HN comment I wrote shortly after reading it last year:

> Snow Crash is so bizarre. It launches you straight into the story with no explanation, starting off with some crazy pizza delivery man in a rocket car with swords and an electric zapper thing for people who don't pay the bill. The whole book is like that--it never explains how, why, or when, leaving you to piece it all together yourself. The entire time I was reading it, I was waiting for a 30000 feet view of the world. But then it ended, never having fully explained itself.

> I've never read anything else quite like it, and honestly don't know what I think of it. Are all of Neal Stephenson's books like that?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19704665
It's funny, I had the opposite reaction.

The first part was really a great coming-of-age story and was strangely comforting. The world is crazy, but there is a place for people who want to pursue knowledge.

The second part felt like an interruption. I'm usually completely unable to and disinterested in guessing where a plot is going, but I could have summarized the second part without reading it and that made it drag (still decent, still fun at times, but I wish either the twists had been better or that the author had relied on them less).
Of all of the Stephenson books I think Zodiac or Cryptonomicon
(both somewhat grounded) would adapt the best - Snow Crash has this dyed in the wool early 90s escapist VR vision of the internet that doesn't really make sense today, along with a ton of religious overtones and weird, rapey bits.
I think I found an appropriate song for this article

"Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-r-V0uK4u0