skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh man, we not only get to use COBOL on mainframes, we get to use modern languages like Java and C too! When your idea of modern is a language created in 1995 and 1972, you know you're out of touch.

Let's face it, everybody knows that mainframes are dying. IBM knows it, these Enterprise System Media guys know it (whoever they are), and most importantly, every one of these big fortune 500 companies stuck with COBOL apps know it. How many new projects are started each year that target mainframes? Or, alternatively, how many companies who don't have any mainframes are thinking about purchasing some for their new service? I'm guessing close to zero, or maybe even actually zero.

The insane premium (in cost, in difficulty to learn, in everything) that you're paying for those bazillion 9s of reliability aren't worth it. Anyone who actually needs that kind of reliability has the technical knowledge to make it themselves using x86_64. According to his talking points, big tech should be loving mainframes and exclusively use them. But in fact, it's the opposite. The most savvy and powerful tech companies use commodity x86_64 while the not so savvy are stuck with their 1980s mainframes. In Emmanual Derman's "My Life as a Quant", he talks about developing a new bond analytics platform at Goldman Sachs. His team decided to build it on Unix (though Genera was floated around as an idea as well), because it was the modern choice and mainframes were legacy. And this was in the early 80s!

This article is so unenthusiastic, it's kind of sad. It's like the author knows what he's saying is total bullshit. I predict that in the next 10 years, IBM is going to stop selling hardware (I'm not even sure why they haven't already, but then again, the company isn't exactly a paragon of good management) and just release some virtualization package that can run all the legacy crap on x86_64. Or maybe this has already happened, finding any information on what IBM an product actually does is quite difficult. I get the impression that no one actually calls IBM to inquire about a product. Instead, I'm sure some middle management guy sells out his company for a $60 steak and some wine.
> A 2019 study found "a 14% increase in substance-abuse incidents the day after the [Alaska Permanent Fund] payment and a 10% increase over the following four weeks. This is partially offset by a 8% decrease in property crime, with no changes in violent crimes.

This is a legitimate question to ask.
I skip ssh-agent and use gpg-agent instead, which does both ssh and gpg agenting. Combined with monkeysphere, I store ssh private keys in gpg rather than in the encrypted ssh format.
Well most mobiles don't offer multi user and phones are often loaned temporarily to other people. For example for kids to play on.
The only way to ensure that happens is for the civilians to bother the spy agencies - i.e. civilian journalism with reveals the criminal activities of the spy agencies.

And we all know how well that approach is doing lately.
Have you seen how much opening a lightning channel cost? And opening a second channel, if you cannot find a route to your merchant? How about refilling your channel? Or how to close it, if a malicious node wants to steal your funds?

That's right, it will all cost the same as a Bitcoin transaction.

And how about receiving a lightning payment? Well... The merchant need to have a balance so he can accept your payment(!) Yes, that's another Bitcoin transaction right there. Or if you're lucky you can find someone who'll give you liquidity (for a fee of course).

It's debatable if micropayments will ever take off, but lightning never will.
> I don't know of any mainstream platform that died because of ads.

* Traditional television.

* Online websites of traditional newspapers - they wouldn’t have moved to paywalling if advertising was working.

* MySpace (not directly, but a contributory factor).
That is why google only hires the best
I have a neighbor who has a "Queers Hate Techies" sticker on his car. I don't like it, but I don't want him banned from YouTube or Twitter or wherever he's saying crazy stuff.
Yep.

TL;DR = extreme executive summary

Intro = introduction

Same number of letters, but different meanings

It's not a big deal, but the armchair lawyer in me cringes and throws an OCD tantrum when spelling, grammar, semantics, and linguistic conventions are abused. "Weight at the busstop" or "u know what i mean thatswut im saying haha he even said it tiwce" :sigh: :meta-sigh:
I've added the issue to the backlog!
One reason might be semantic markup. But with CSS display: table and related properties that's not really a problem.
That doesn't guarantee you that you generate a Sudoku solveable without backtracking.

The human techniques are all about forward actions only, never guesses.
C++ Ray-tracing in a Weekend accelerated with SYCL: Basic sphere tracing
I've never stopped using RSS. I'm now up to over 500 feeds. It took me a really long while to find a service I was happy with after Google Reader shut down, and it's still not perfect. However I've gotten it to where I can use it efficiently.
>> Please show me the ad hominem. I said I think you may be purposefully misunderstanding, that is not ad hominem

What you wrote was "I'm not sure if you're purposely being silly or what". Also, you called the other poster a "moron".

I see your account is relatively new so here is a link to the HN guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please have a read. They will help you have a civilised discussion on HN and you will be better able to get your point across. For example, the reason your post above was flagged to death was because of its aggressive and personal tone, not because of the opinion you express that is also held and expressed by many other posters on HN.
Reese's peanut butter cups [0] are a fairly popular "candy" item here. Try one if you get a chance, they're pretty tasty.

[0]: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reeses-PB-Cups.jpg
If you were aware of this option, you should've mentioned it in the intro of your post, before getting into a solution for a specific case not covered by it.
Not quite "never". You may not be aware because the Joe Rogan podcast was the only outlet that covered his apologies and regret for his behavior. For years since the incident he's been telling his followers in his own show that he was wrong about it and to not harass the families.

It's still the case that he changed his attitude too late, only after some of his listeners acted and the escalation became real.
If image maps only allowed rectangular areas, they wouldn't be terribly useful — you're right that it would be almost as easy to lay some transparent divs over the image.

However... image maps also allow for circular and polygonal regions, which can be really handy.

I guess you could also do that with a transparent SVG overlay, but using a map is easier.
I recently got bitten by trying to do exactly this, concat strings with sum, and spent a while trying to find out if I was being stupid (in this case, no). It damn well should work.

This works

from functools import reduce
nums = [1,2,3]
def add(p, q): return p + q
print(reduce(add, nums))
strs = ["how", "are", "you"]
print(reduce(add, strs))

so why not that?
Typically, assholes create hive minds. The way they treat people pushes others into passive submission and prevents dissent.
Worth noting that modern browsers support favicons up to 64x64
.. so, please correct me if I'm wrong, but this leaves open a loophole for the CIA/NSA monitoring stations within Germany - which are not possessions of the sovereign government - to continue to spy on anyone they like, as the German government has just washed its hands of any responsibility for that.
As a European, sandwich with Nutella on one bread side and peanut butter on the other is awesome (except for your cholesterol).
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I don't see it, but if it reads that way it wasn't my intention.
This was just a way to have a basic, rough estimate; of course the actual "feel" of data depends on the computations you're doing on it. That said, it's usually the case that the longer you can keep the data on a single machine, the better off you are. Distributing your computing incurs steep performance costs (that you'll have to pay for in infrastructure) and vastly increases complexity of the software.
I've never heard of that being an option at any bank. Who are you with? Sounds really useful.
Deploying a Microservice-Oriented Application to Kubernetes
Touché. Totally agree that DoH is a win, and "DoH that doesn't protect against some attacks" is more of a win than no DoH that protects against no attacks.
Actually - many do...
A lot of small companies/startups aren't setup deal with varying costs of living and what a 'comparable' salary would be, so they just pay what they would pay in the local market (SF).

edit: my bad, I missed the 'worldwide' part...I only have experience with remote work in the U.S.
They were never really supposed to be interoperable with pingback from what I can tell, see the reasons here[0].

You're right in the sense that it's a classic case of <insert XKCD standards comic here>, but FYI there is a pingback to Webmention converter now[1].

[0]: https://indieweb.org/Webmention-faq#Why_webmention_instead_o...
[1]: https://webmention.io/#forwarding
Was just thinking of using an image map the other day! My dad has a camera collection and it would be cool to take a picture of it and then map prices of the picture to links about each camera. Haven’t gotten their yet though.
Google rolls out DNS-over-HTTPS support in Chrome 83
<blink> and <marquee> can be pretty much replicated with CSS animations — there's no need for the tags anymore.
If Lambda Calculus and AIT team up, then this happens:

https://tromp.github.io/cl/Binary_lambda_calculus.html

This has recently led to a functional Busy Beaver at

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/353514/whats-the-smallest...

https://oeis.org/A333479
We don't just write generics over types of strings ([Char], Text, etc..) we write over Semigroups and Monoids.
Concatenation with <> is standard practice.
Any reason why? Seems to be a strong digital payments ecosystem in the U.K. and Europe that would've made it work well.
I'll make sure this feature is going to be implemented in the future. Might take a while though, there are lots of other features that have more priority :).
You cannot steal someone else's property even if you rightly believe that the owner wouldn't treat it very well. The same holds between civilized countries, of course.

It is obvious that the people who think otherwise employ double moral standards and would never agree to the theft of their country's cultural heritage under similar conditions.
I think its more that the German intelligence services are not liable to the German sovereign, but are rather still 'occupied' by the USA's own military/intelligence agencies.
Equal Access: Automated accessibility checker for web projects
Ads and news were always tied together. The problem today is that Internet + ads are tied together and that annoys everyone and diminishes revenue for newspapers.

News is a public good and should be viewed as such, its a core pillar of democracy that is now getting decimated. Guess what follows next. /rant

Rant no2: I was a subscriber in NYT, then one day i realized i don't read them as much and as a non-us citizen most of the content was irrelevant for me (I could find websites bashing trump everywhere for free). However, when I tried to unsubscribe their dark design technique had a step that forced me to call someone in order to cancel. I hate calling people and talking on the phone, so that was a no-go for me. Ended up changing my card to an empty one and let them kick me out because I don't pay.
Wait, you’re talking about the same company that had clippy, and moves around their ribbon as if the plot is none of our business?
Ever since seeing this video I've been wondering if there's some deeper mathematical basis for this puzzle, because of the extremely regular pattern that it happens to produce.

For example, the way consecutive digits are actually in order, but separated by a single square (and looping around the edge of the board)
Scot here, I mostly don't have problems with this in cities. Wouldn't have expected to find this in London (although generally I get some cash out in England once I'm there).

My mum and dad's home town though, whole different ball game. The bank charges extra to businesses to take the notes into their account but will happily exchange them gratis for individuals so none of the shops will take them.
I'm one of them. But the graph is going down and engagement is going down faster, hence the frantic acquisition of anything else that gains traction - IG, WA etc.

Tiktok won't sell and their curve is convex so let's see what happens in the next couple years.
If you're a regular citizen with no reason for suspicion, or just a journalist and still get spied on "just in case" then it's a violation of those rights. The constitution is there to ensure that people are considered an enemies that haven't been caught yet. Unless you have a concrete reason to suspect spying is needed, then it's not needed. And "may be a criminal therefore must be a criminal" is not such a reason.

It's just like the Police shouldn't treat people like criminals who haven't given themselves away and search their cars and houses arbitrarily.

The constitution should be there to actually defend those rights, not just so people have something to pound their chests about every day while being undermined by all kinds of laws and exceptions, making it selectively worthless.
There is something irreplaceable about the first time you solve a difficult puzzle, especially one that you anticipate to be daunting. As a Sudoku enthusiast (though not at Simon's level) this was surprisingly vicarious to watch for what's usually a silent solitaire experience. Well done!
Sure it can be.

Just needs an area light source or more than one spot source.
> a property of knots which remarkably turned out to have deep connections to all sorts of things including quantum field theory

Does this mean that the strings in string theory are knots?
This is where we run into a philosophical divide. Does a human life have intrinsic worth? That's what we're talking about here.

Even without tangling with that question, there's the argument that moving money around is itself a contribution. It's a marginal one, and if that's all you're doing, that means your total contribution is marginal. But that's fine, there's always going to be a spectrum of contributions between those that are paper-thin and the earth-shattering works of great import. Some jobs that look like hard work are a net negative on society. If you get into the game of saying "contributions below this specific level don't count", you end up splitting hairs and, because everyone's values work differently, you can't avoid bringing moral arguments into the frame.

Besides, we're not talking about giving everyone $30k a day. That's qualitatively different, not least because it's so far from the basic cost of living that it just doesn't make sense as a comparison. It is far, far better to just say "nobody will be in poverty" and leave it at that than try to attach strings to it.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23237716 (8 comments).
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Of course not, but it means that there is no type that abstracts upon all of them. For example, in Haskell, you can >>= and >> just about everything and it'll work. In OCaml (and I assume F#), you have to import the right kind of >>= and >>. This is quite burdensome and creates a lot of repetitive and nasty code. The lack of polymorphism in ML languages is such a bummer.
This looks extremely useful.

Ensuring that websites are accessible is important work. I used to work at a company where the CTO personally dedicated several sprints to refactoring the display layer code to better support screen readers. From what I remember, it was a bit of a tedious process, but nonetheless one appreciated by all of their customers who had disabled staff.

Tools like this could save a lot of time and make the web more accessible.
Who started this "exclusive" nonsense? This article suggests Spotify made some moves before Apple started:

https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/16/20696666/apple-podcast-ex...
NATO looks for ideas from startups to process radar data
I think calling it a PIN and asking for it so frequently is part of the problem. It certainly induces me to use a shorter one than I would otherwise like (since I keep having to enter it so often _right_ at the time I am trying to use the app).

Asking for it once at the time of a new registration, install, or a restore/reinstall would be far more preferable to me. Treating it more like a "filevault" key or an "encryption phrase/password", would certainly encourage me to use a much longer key and just put it into a password manager (and/or write it down and put it somewhere physically safe).
If you can't trust Swedes with your data, who can you trust?
Apart from photoshop video production audio and many other professional uses.

Like the previous response what does this buy me as compared to developing and running natively in windows - as there are native compliers that support cuda etal on windows.
And I appreciate that you are not trying to impute ill intent on me, although you may be underestimating my proximity to the transgender community personally. From my reading of the longer-form quotes – those that I have based my opinion on, I really don't think the context helps Rogan out all that much.

"Look, [Fox is] huge! She's not just huge, she's got a fucking man's face. I mean, you can wear all the lipstick you want. You want to be a woman and you want to take female hormones, you want to get a boob job, that's all fine. I support your life to live, your right to live as a woman. Fight guys, yes. She has to fight guys. First of all, she's not really a she. She's a transgender, post-op person. The operation doesn't shave down your bone density. It doesn't change. You look at a man's hands and you look at a women's hands and they're built different. They're just thicker, they're stronger, your wrists are thicker, your elbows are thicker, your joints are thicker. Just the mechanical function of punching, a man can do it much harder than a woman can, period."

"If you want to be a woman in the bedroom and you know you want to play house and all of that other shit and you feel like you have, your body is really a woman's body trapped inside a man's frame and so you got a operation, that's all good in the hood. But you can't fight chicks. Get the fuck out of here. You're out of your mind. You need to fight men, you know? Period. You need to fight men your size because you're a man. You're a man without a dick. I'm not trying to discriminate against women in any way, shape, or form and I'm a big supporter of women's fighting. I loved watching that Ronda Rousey/Liz Carmouche fight. But those are actual women. Those are actual women. And as strong as Ronda Rousey looks, she's still looks to me like a pretty girl. She's a beautiful girl who happens to be strong. She's a girl! [Fallon Fox] is not a girl, OK? This is a [transgender] woman. It's a totally different specification."

I'm not talking about a single sentence here. Despite whatever permissive or lassiez-faire attitudes he might hold, there is a constant drumbeat of "they're not really women." "Benign" transphobia is still transphobia, even if it's preferable to more aggressive forms. It's possible to be sober about physical differences that might exist between trans women and cis women without denying the former "full" womanhood. I'm not even necessarily disagreeing with the main point he's making, but I still find these comments to be transphobic, and I don't need to be a fan of his to hold an informed opinion here.
"everybody knows that mainframes are dying" Please name a single modern machine which can reliably handle billions of financial transactions on December 31 every year, when everybody is shopping? I know you can handle this with cloud, but it's not so reliable and you need many servers... On the other hand, you have a single machine with decades of up-time...
Personally, I'm not so much concerned about the means of culling. I'm much more horrified that those animals die for nothing. They could be slaughtered and sold for food and there are many people who would appreciate that food, especially if it was sold at cut price. But they're just destroyed because that's the only profitable thing to do.

This is wasteful and it is the wastefulness of it that turns the killing of animals that were going to die anyway into an atrocity.
Dell launched sweeping update of its Latitude, Precision business laptop lines
Can we add “Windows Optional Features” to that list? It’s basically “Windows Features”, except everything has a different name
you remember correctly: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200428005278/en/Sho...
A circle is 1-dimensional and not 2-dimensional?
> That'll be pretty much the increase in pay multiplied by how much of the cost of a product/service is labor, for all things your might have to buy, which includes housing, health care, food.

Not quite. Employers would be able to reduce salary costs by an amount more than the UBI, because of tax band effects, so costs of production for a bunch of stuff goes down.
In the SF Bay Area, you are (or were) able to see peacocks roaming about the Picchetti Winery near Cupertino.

And I would be careful around these types of birds because they are equipped similarly to cassowaries: they can kick to kill.
Yes, the only time I come across Awk now is as part of some shell pipeline. It just seems to have been crowded out of lots of places. I still think it’s cool though.
I understand the logic of not waiting for the CloudFormation team to do their work because it could introduce delays but it makes it a considerably less useful tool.

When considering Terraform vs CloudFormation I certainly took that into account and that's why I don't use CloudFormation for anything.

I wonder if there are any killer features of CloudFormation I missed when I looked into this (years ago now).
The reason AWK is not widespread is that it's only great for one case: working on a stream of lines. It's a pretty narrow niche.

Sure you can code anything with it, but there is always another language that will be better at this other thing, and still decent at what awk does. Awk looks more like a DSL than a generalist language.

So why learn awk to save you a few minutes for the rare cases you do need it? Just learn Python/Ruby/etc, it's a better investment, and it has a better crossplateform story.