skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Java Turns 25 Years Old: Rethinking Legacy
Key Programming Languages older than Java:

- C
- C++
- Lua
- Python
- Perl
- Visual Basic
- Haskell
- TCL
- SmallTalk
- Erlang
- Object Pascal
- Objective-C
- MATLAB
- COBOL
- FORTRAN

Key programming languages of same age:

- JavaScript
- Ruby
- PHP

Rethink legacy.
John Krasinski's Some Good News Sells to ViacomCBS Following Bidding War
We do this very thing at my work. When you have a million and one guidelines around what can and can't be installed on a device. Especially on one that has access to the internet, it is easy to say here is this container that has no access to the internet. That seems to make infosec happy. Also, makes local testing difficult if you need access to a web based API.

The other issue you do have is the issue of configuring them for each application, but luckily most teams have had at least one or two people take up the role of maintaining the images and the startup scripts.
I've been very impressed with reclaimthenets stories recently, some big revelations.
You use the platform, you abide by the contract. My only concern is that contract violations (or even gray area violations) are not always predictable by the customer because the legalese in the ToS is so vague.

You are overloading the term "own" and your use of "that file" is ambiguous. You "own" (in many senses) the local copy of the uploaded file. You only lease the space and hosting for the remote copy, assuming you pay your bill and abide by the contract. My coworker overflowed his Google Drive quota and learned that lesson the hard way.
Simple Haskell Is Best Haskell
Well, the paper has an experiment where they train an agent based on their system to play two of the three games (PacMan, PacManMaze and VizDoom) and compare its result to two other systems (an LSTM-based one and a model-based RL one, WorldModel). Their system gets the best score in Pacman but unfortunately the version that does better than WorldModel is the one that doesn't have the memory module whose usefulness is a central claim of their paper. WorldModel outperforms their system in VizDoom by ~300 points, though their system without the memory module "solves" VizDoom (i.e. scores just a bit over than 750; that is 765) and they claim that it's the first Gan-based system that achieves this.

A bit thin of the ground (especially when it comes to supporting the claim about the usefulness of the memory module) but the way neural nets research and especially RL research is going (from what I've seen, not my area of expertise) that's the kind of result that you can expect will get your paper published these days.
No proof. It's just a conspiracy theory.
There is a reason why "Research" and "Development" are listed as separate concepts when people talk about R&D. The point of most research papers is not to directly invent a working product, it's to produce fundamental insights that may be useful in future applications.
You joke, but there is a surprising amount of software that does not have its user as the primary thing it cares about.
>Native English speaker, specifically trained in non-regional diction because I used to work on-air in radio.

Well there's your problem (/s):
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Avp9aUkM5g0
> I love TextMate, too! Something you might find nice is how easy it is to run Mac in a VM on Linux; there are scripts that manage the entire thing for you, and it's pretty painless (and so fast; I was surprised).

That would be excellent! I like the idea of swapping host and guest with this VM strategy, sort of evolutionary platform switching.
They work better in loser pays systems. A legitimate complaint can't be shut down with escalating costs.
> The ai has created a functional internal model of an external system based on limited sensory input.

Sure.

> That is essentially a kind of consciousness.

That is a flying leap.
Yes. I got mine to appear through mysterious yet fully SIP-enabled means, but if all else fails for you you can temporarily disable SIP to change this.
There are, but I suspect they are not as prevalent in the software engineering profession? Even the CEOs of Google and Microsoft took that track.
I largely agree with this. I have suggested in the past that the mission of the US Digital Corps be amended to include the development and maintenance of infrastructure critical software in a transparent way.

Imagine for example if the software used in voting machines was managed by such a system. Always published, always analyzable, maintained and authenticated by people whose job is only to make sure it does what it is supposed to do.
I'm confused. does macbook send executable to apple servers or just the hash?
How is the fed subsidizing inefficient businesses? If you are referring to their corporate bond purchases, they have bought a mere 1.8 billion dollars worth [0] representing a minuscule 0.025% of their balance sheet and it's not like the corporations get free money from that, they still have to pay off the bonds. They are by far mainly buying our own government's debt through US treasury securities and the mortgages on US citizens houses through Mortgage-backed Securities as stated in the article. You can see their balance sheet right here [1].

[0]: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/feds-balance-sheet-tops-7-...

[1]: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h41/current/h41.htm#...
For sure, and the funny thing is that it can be replaced often by replaced by the simpler and more readable

DIR=$(dirname $(readlink -f $0))

However OS X doesn't have readlink, so the longer BASH_SOURCE thing makes sense there.

I started using the longer one, and then I gave up on shell scripting on OS X for other reasons, and didn't go back. So yeah there is a lot of random cargo culting.

In Oil I hope to provide an even simpler method that's built in (and it also has readlink builtin to support this)

https://github.com/oilshell/oil/issues/587
Once I had a new assistant and I asked her to book me a flight to Boston. She went to the travel booking system, typed in Boston, then called me back confused. "Which Boston do you want? There are 8 of them?"

I was caught off guard and told her I'd prefer the one in Massachusetts. I did not fire her. She was young, had a poor general education, and had never traveled outside her home state. Those things do not make her stupid.
> Are you suggesting companies really should keep 6 months of operating capital in the bank?

That's exactly what we're suggesting. Rather than going through this whole song and dance at least once a decade where the public has to bail out private business ventures, those private businesses should be able to fend for themselves against regular economic disruptions. This bailout and QE money isn't free and it comes with costs of its own. It would be better for the stability of the whole system if these companies could fund their own operations the next time there is a disruption.
On the plus side, emacs now starts far faster than most computers.
> and if there was a big switch that I could click to disable it all, I probably would

First, disable SIP to allow yourself to modify the system. Then, disable AMFI, the component responsible for code signature checking, entitlement enforcement and all that very useful stuff, with a kernel argument:

nvram boot-args="amfi_get_out_of_my_way=0x1"

Then you should be done.
Pay them more, then. It's that simple.
Only stated it like that to keep it concise. Ultimately, I guess my point is that it isn't a moral question. Moral incentives are hard to provide so policy centres around the levers we know to pull. Saying "businesses should" without incentivizing that is just saying "users are holding the phone wrong".

So yes, you are right that there are many parameters that can be tuned.
It's a core central thesis of MMT. Government spending should be constrained by the inflation it causes rather than the debt or deficit.
You seem like you are trolling and trolls aren't well loved here but I will attempt to answer your rather flippant and not useful comment with something somewhat useful.

Companies and the economy cannot handle having a 6 month reserve of cash, that is the assumption and there are plenty of economic theories that show that doesn't work.

Bailing out with taxpayer dollars is one solution and it's the easiest dial to turn. It will bail out a lot of companies that aren't "shitty" and are just handling a time that is unprecedented and needs to be handled. As with most things, it will also bail out some "shitty" companies. We don't have a great metric for "shitty" vs "non-shitty". Those taxpayer dollars to companies are not free (though with inflation they basically are free). They have to be paid back with a minor amount of interest over a 2 year period. Will everyone pay it back? Nope. But many will.

The point to remember here is this is unprecedented and we are attempting to solve a future problem. Let's imagine we don't bail anyone out with very cheap loans. A bunch of "shitty" companies go out of business. A WHOLE bunch of "non-shitty" businesses go out of business. When the world opens up again the people who have lost their job have no where to go. There are no "shitty" or "non-shitty" companies to go back to. They went out of business. Unemployment stays at record highs for as long as is necessary for new companies, both "shitty" and "non-shitty" to come back and start hiring. A bailout allows companies to hang on and then bring back employees ASAP after the virus situation stabilizes.

Are there better ways? Probably. Will be find them? Probably. We can learn from this situation and become better. It will require a set of new methods and economic tools to get through in the future.
> It's a lot harder to work through a rigorous model of how the economy actually works, that's consistent with historical and geographic precedent. That kind of thinking would help me a lot, but I'm not sure where to find it.

Even though it's not quantitative models, I can only recommend "Navigating big debt crisis" by Ray Dalio. Also, he published some chapters of his new book -- The changing world order -- online recently: https://www.principles.com/the-changing-world-order/#introdu...
Correct me if I am wrong.

Timescale DB Core ( if there is such a thing ) is still available under Apache 2.0. So nothing has changed. You can use it just like any other open source project with no restriction.

Timescale DB multi-node, originally not free and only available in Timescale Cloud. Is now Freely available under the Timescale License, a source-available license.

Timescale DB multi-node and its license only forbid you to provide TimescaleDB "multi-node" itself-as-a-service. And does not allow running it with any changes that is not upstreamed. You can still resell any software or services built on top of Timescale DB multi-node.

Again, correct me if I am wrong.
Know How These Foods Can Help Prevent Mosquito Bug Bites Insect Stings
There's plenty of evidence hydroxychloroquine works for SARS.

How would you justify giving hydroxychloroquine to hundreds of thousands of healthy people a year for malaria prophylaxis?
Gitlab 13 rolls out with new cybersecurity features and more analytics
It reminds me of older electric cars. They worked. They could get you around. But they did so at higher price, slower speeds, or other factors that a consumer wasn't willing to pay for. Thus they were regulated to novelty items that some work campuses would have and concept cars that would be shown from time to time.

But eventually we reached the point where they are not only competitive, they may be positioned to fully overtake combustion cars.

I wonder how many discoveries on electric cars ended up being fully dead ends along the path that took us to the point we are now?
Don't mean to be snarky, but this is not how easy it is to get ad revenue. It's how easy it is to get approved for ad networks. She didn't even get adsense. I find it completely unremarkable that anyone could set up a non-adult site that has human generated content and get ads placed. The traffic needed for real ad revenue is a different story. I bet that site gets close to zero traffic (not even enough to cover hosting). SEO (black-hat or whatever) is the trick IMO not getting ad revenue. Plagiarized new domains get no weight in the Google engine.
Interesting, I have opposite experience. Pacman looks so much simpler than aptitude, apt-get, apt-cache, dpkg. And makepkg - it just works. I have not managed to create packages on Ubuntu.

No outdated packages, no ppa. No upgrade. Install is rough but it nails how simple the system is.

Ubuntu is a good starting point. But there is so much more.
What do libertarians have to do with a central bank executing a massive increase in its balance sheet to execute a nearly unprecedented intervention into the national economy?

There are many words I might use to describe this policy. Libertarian is not one of them.
> deutschmarks

reichmarks
Was the avocado toast bit above your head or are you just generally oblivious to sarcasm?
I don't know where you got the idea that the purpose of an academic paper is to produce the schematics for a working commercial product. The fact that it's novel and interesting is sufficient grounds for producing a paper about it. Why do you think projects like these are solely the domain of blog posts?
I read that thread a couple weeks back (was doing some firmlink research and stumbled upon it) and I seem to recall someone there finding something that ran pretty early. Perhaps I'm misremembering? I am sure there is at least one way to get this done, but I'll have to go look into what it is.
Windows + VSCode + WSL2 + Terminal + PowerToys = Just one love, never looked back.
They are having this argument in congress right now. Republicans want to shrink unemployment because its bad for people, they don't want to give money to states because (that only helps blue states, red state budget deficits are different?), they want to shrink the size of unemployment because its higher than minimum wage in some places.
All sounds good apart from GoDaddy. Why not use a more reputable registrar?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4362478
Absolutely!

We wrote one of the first remote backends to Prometheus that supports both the remote_read/remote_write interface: https://prometheus.io/docs/operating/integrations/#remote-en...

Given how much interest we had using TimescaleDB for this, we recently built and released (in beta) a new "full-stack" of Prometheus + TimescaleDB + Grafana that comes fully configured and "just works" out-of-the-box:

- https://tsdb.co/prom-design-doc

- https://github.com/timescale/timescale-prometheus
I would love to hear about a study on the longest continuously-running pieces of enterprise software. I bet there's code in production written closer to the invention of flight than to today.
PM me afriqfes at gmail
Heading west from Clappison's corners near Waterdown.
If you have to `mkdir /nix`, what's wrong with `mkdir -p /opt/nix`? I don't see how one is "more stable" than the other. The big difference between the two is the later conforms to convention while the former doesn't.
So, the time between when symptoms first started and up to 48 hours after patients' test results came back positive.
I’ve worked with a few developers that have been adamant about developing inside of containers. What I’ve noticed:

Terrible performance. One of my engineers recently thought that 150ms was terrific for a HTTP request. Break out of the container and it was <10ms. YMMV.

Fragile everything: Because one expects a “pristine” environment, often any slight change causes the entire stack to fall apart. This doesn’t happen at the start, but creeps in over time, until you can’t even update base images. I’ve seen it a lot. It ends up only adding an additional layer of complication.

Etc.

There are definitely reasons to do this... But when a pedantic developer that needs everything to be “just right” does it, it often becomes a disaster, leading to shortcuts and a lack of adaptability.

There’s also the developer that has no idea WTF is going on. They use a standard Rails/PHP/NodeJS/etc container and don’t understand how it works. Sometimes, they don’t even know that their system can run their stack natively. I’ve been on teams that have said “Let’s just use Docker because X doesn’t know how to install Y.”

Docker is fantastic for many things, but let’s stop throwing it at everything.
>'Should' isn't a useful thing in this discussion.

Your own comment refutes this, you just use different wording. Policies are created with certain goals in mind, i.e., how things should be. You then see whether your policies have achieved this goal, and reevaluate accordingly.
Irreparable damage to what? To returns on capital? To societal structures? To mental health? Worthless article with zero details.
It's handy to be able to do this with things you already know you want to be able to do inside your container. The downside for me though, has been having to throw away all the careful tweaks I have made to my development environment over the years. The muscle memory of my long list of .bash_aliases. My custom git config with shortcuts. My scripts in ~/bin. Hell even installed software that doesn't fit in with the purpose of the project, think things like `jq`.

Also worth noting that the "permissions issues" he mentions are handled automatically by Docker for Mac. I had the exact problem of files created inside the container being owned by root on Linux, and all my mac-using colleagues just stared at me like I had horns on my head. "It works on my machine" still exists, even with Docker.
> No, not necessarily. In fact if they were able raise prices, surely they would have done so already? What they would actually do is either go without a janitor, or go without something else - a coffee machine, or computer upgrades or something.

I think you're underestimating the necessity of janitors, but for the sake of arguments, let's switch to another low paid shitty job that's definitely necessary. Say... slaughterhouse workers. A lot of food products are extremely competitive and run on super thin margins. An increase to gross costs means prices must rise or you'll be running a loss on each one. You can't just hand wave that off with coffee machines. Most businesses that aren't fancy tech companies are really cheap when it comes to employee benefits to begin with.

> The point is, unskilled labour is currently priced against desperation on the part of the worker. With a UBI it's priced against the actual benefit to the consumer.

I get that's the point. I contest that this strategy makes any sense. A lot the economy is premised on people doing unpleasant jobs because they require a paycheck to live. Current prices cannot pay for premium blue collar labor. The jobs that can't be moved will need to pay more and raise prices. Anything that can be moved will have massively increased incentive to outsource to another country.

And then you have a real trap. If everyone has a UBI, but prices rise, your UBI is no longer sufficient, but your doubly f*ed because there's fewer jobs in your country because labor is way cheaper elsewhere. So your would-be factory workers don't have a less than basic wage and no factory to work at.

More simply, however, if you recognize that we need these jobs to be done (we do), then you have a much easier option available to you than implementing ubi: raising the minimum wage.
Will this lead to huge, science-fiction-like conglomerates? Within a company, there are no licensing restrictions. So copying code, or other media like videos or pictures, stops being an issue.
Not at all.

It just means some people poked a pile of a bazillion if-else statements long enough, until the desired result came out. I believe everyone here knows the xkcd I am referring to.

Still, I think it's an interesting result. But, as someone on Fridman's podcast said the other day: recent advances in AI have all been thanks to advances in computing power, not any new ideas. The future if AI seems to depend on Moore's Law, more than anything.
The music or the performance of the music? Eliminating performance copyright would be a big deal.
Great question. Room's main differentiator between a lot of the other suggested products on this thread is that it's not just a collaborative whiteboard. It also includes collaborative document and code editors (and potentially more types of modules in the future).

Room also has video chat built in, where the videos of the folks you're collaborating with hover around the workspace.

Ultimately these attributes combine to make room.sh a cleaner and easier alternative to cobbling together some combination of Zoom, Google Docs, and Figma (to use some prominent examples) for your team.

Also, you don't even need to create an account to try it out! We'd love if you gave it a whirl and left us some feedback in the box in our navbar :)
Not clear to me how this meme that the half-life of DNA of about 500 years appeared. There is no concept of half-life for chemicals, there's one only for radioisotopes.

For this particular mummified dinosaur, if they found lots of somewhat preserved soft tissue, maybe hundreds of pounds, chances are that there could be trillions of DNA segments. Very likely no single gene will be unbroken, but with many fragments broken in different places the theoretical possibility to reconstitute the genetic code is there. You also don't start from zero knowledge. Humans and birds share about 65% of the genetic code [1], and dinosaurs are closer to birds than humans are.

[1] https://education.seattlepi.com/animals-share-human-dna-sequ...
This is incredible! Thank you for sharing!

I sync my Google Photos and Apple Photos and I hope they both also run the model on things I've uploaded from a different device. Wish the Google stuff was also queriable like this.
Well this really is still a health related message. I think it's obvious to pretty much everyone that it's really not economically feasible to stay locked down forever. So he is saying that, given that we do need to reopen, it should be safe if we take significant precautions when doing so.
How about every copyright claim has to be submitted in a handwritten letter with a picture of you holding that days newspaper. Then put the photo and handwritten note in an envelope and mail it in.
> pedantry around the definition of Open Source, which I understand ... it's close enough if you squint

Then I think that while you might have read and understood the definition, you seem to have missed the broader idea behind it.

> pay to play seems more than fair

That's irrelevant. Sure it's fair, but it's fundamentally _not open source_.

It's not about gospel or having power over you. It's about communication and well established meanings. Calling a fish a bird doesn't make it a bird, and resisting attempts by others to redefine the language I use is a Good Thing as far as I'm concerned.

(To their credit, Timescale uses the terminology correctly and I greatly appreciate that. I also think they picked the right licensing model given how things seem to work these days.)
Looks to be in Kentucky. Has both a Paris and a London, only 90 miles apart, so it's easy enough to pick a point on highway 64 that would be nearer to Paris either coming from Louisville or Huntington. Impossible to know which direction though without more context.
Since world electricity production is about 3TW, a battery factory with TW capacity would saturate the world’s charging capacity within three years? (In other words, way too big even for the world’s entire battery needs...)