skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if you only count the people who used Smalltalk, and not the people who saw an old Alan Kay interview on Youtube, you're likely to be somewhere south of n=20.

To support your view:

A competitor "stole" a large maintenance project from us.

I suggested to someone at my company that they would have trouble recruiting as I assumed we were the biggest smalltalk community in Norway.

Their answer was that we were probably the only real smalltalk community.

They might be wrong, but I haven't seen anything to suggest that yet.

And that competitor kept calling all of my colleagues that had - at any point - worked anywere near smalltalk :-)

Even we do the vast majority of our development in other languages.
The optics on this are truly awful. They want to "work more with law enforcement" - at this time?

Now?

As the police are moving in to cities across the US military-style?
I feel like the resulting shape is more of a fluke here.

> The performance of the wheel was based on the final speed achieved by an accelerating imaginary car, vf. The wheel was driven with a constant torque, τ, and no slipping.

There is nothing in this fitness value that defines the shape of the wheel. As described here, there's no clear reason why the shape of the wheel would affect the speed of a car (no slip, no taking into account up/down movement of the car, etc.) Rather this algorithm seems to optimize for a certain radius and the circular shape is the result of the fact that all points converge to the same optimum.

I also find the fact that it converges at a finite radius using this model suspicious. If you look at this optimization problem analytically, the optimum is obviously a wheel with a zero radius: Force on car is torque over wheel radius. If radius goes to zero, then force goes to infinity and acceleration goes to infinity and car speed goes to infinity.
>>Israelis excel in the defense industry and their mandatory military service

Exactly, this means they are training police in MILITARY tactics, the entire point of this conversation was that the police need to be DEMILITARIZED, having them trained by the IDF is exact what we SHOULD NOT be doing
The question is, do we really need more bandwidth? What I see is that we're already swamped with the amount of information reaching our cell phones. Our attention is also a limited resource.
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Egeria was just a technology demonstrator. CubeWeaver is a cloud application which can scale over multiple servers, supports user authentication, model sharing and redundant data storage. I also added a lot of features that the pilot users were missing (like data import, csv import, aggregation, various formatting options, etc...).
Yes a view thinkpads here and there had been somewhat verified. Through I don't remember if it was fully certified. Like I think the fingerprint reader was always excluded from certification.
>IME whether you rewrite or refactor, the lesson is the same: You have to grind your way into the good architecture.

I think that only applies to things nobody on the team's built before. From my domain, HFT, if we hire a senior dev who's built blazing-fast futures arbitrage systems working for other companies, chances are if he rewrote our system it'd have a very nice architecture from the get-go, because he's already solved a similar problem multiple times before (and learned from the mistakes in those architectures).
Gatekeeping is the goal of debian packaging documentation? Right, that goal is certainly perfectly achieved.
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And there are altcoins without mining.
Monitoring in a Post Nagios World (2018)
I am not sure what you are talking about.

The Nvidia drivers provided by Nvidia work great. In Blender I got full CUDA support and even RTX raytracing support (RTX 2070 Super).

And as far as I know developing with the CUDA toolkit just works fine.
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There’s no estate tax in the US anymore up to $10 million after the most recent tax bill passed.

I’m not sure there’s much need to “dodge” anything anymore for 99.9% of people.
Any halfway decent static type system would capture that nullability and prevent accidentally using a null value without checking, so you seem to have slightly undermined your own argument here.
> to have the nvidia card kick in triggered by the OS somehow when really needed would be the non-plus ultra, but come on, this is science fiction

Can't smth simple & obvious like the macbook pro GPUs work fine, eg. Intel graphics for everything when on battery, dedicated graphics for everything when the power cable is plugged in?

This covers like, everyones uses cases, right?! I mean, you almost never plug into an external monitor without having the power cable plugged in to... and who tf games on battery?
I bought the JVM Specification book some years ago. It was fun holiday reading (seriously) seeing how they bytecode was put together, how try-catch blocks really work etc. It's quite readable as general interest, if you're into that kind of thing.

I don't think it's ever been much actual use to me in programming, but was nice-to-have background knowledge.
Not OP, but also packaging binaries into .debs, and the primary reasons for that (as opposed to using tarballs or rsync) are centralized package management, including dependency checks, and scripts to execute on installation (e.g., add system users).
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"Good enough" does not mean anything in itself. Good enough for what?

More and more of the use cases move away from providing higher data rates to smartphones, so yes, oone could argue that 4G is currently good enough for that specific use case, but that's just one among many.

5G is about supporting greater capacity in general (so maybe the same rate as 4G but to more users at the same time, which is important in dense areas), massive IOT, extremely short latency, high reliability. These are important use cases but they are mostly off the radar of the average person.
FWIW as an American expat, I think it does make a lot of sense for Europe to encourage local software and hardware industries. I think this may be where a lot of the FLOSS activism in Europe comes from.
Latency benefits would enable many new realtime applications both in business and consumer end and speed up many existing ones so they'd be much less janky to use, and thus more accessible to people.

It's impossible to see all the future exploits the new technology allows. All the things we do are built upon other existing ideas, moving to higher speed, lower latency connection is another step in progress.

Think about being able to download several GiB application on the fly just to view a demo for a house, or get the schematics for what you're viewing in realtime with AR
Ironically, that gets the service management wrong.

The memcached people have provided a systemd service unit since 2011, for 8 years at the time that M. Bernat wrote that article. One quite clearly does not use the -d and -P options, nor Type=forking. memcached is Type=simple per its authors.

Indeed, Type=forking in a systemd service unit is a good indicator that its author does not understand service management. It is invariably wrong because almost no programs actually speak the forking readiness protocol. (They fork for rather different reasons, which do not in fact adhere to the requirements of the forking readiness protocol.) See it, and you know to treat pronouncements about how daemonization works from that source with a great deal of suspicion.

One such here is "memcached is started with the -d flag and will fork when it is ready to accept requests". In fact, memcached with -d forks before pretty much all of its initialization, and long before it is ready to accept requests. It hasn't even opened its listening sockets, or opened any data files or started any worker threads, at that point. Client services started because "memcached is ready" can fail to even connect to it. It might indeed yet fail whilst initializing, and never become ready.

Really, memcached should have been runnable under inetd as a "wait" service from the start, which it unfortunately is not. That could have been adapted into a program that speaks the LISTEN_FDS protocol; and it would have a memcached.socket unit, with Accept=No and some ListenStream and ListenDatagram settings, and a Type=simple memcached.service unit. Then clients would have been able to reliably connect to the socket as soon as the service was started, and queue up until the service begins to accept() them when it becomes ready. Early socket opening in action.

* https://github.com/memcached/memcached/blob/c460f0e13a35dcec...

* http://jdebp.uk./FGA/unix-daemon-readiness-protocol-problems...
Of course it does. The police are Trump’s brownshirts, whether he knows what’s going on or not.

Edit: I mean, come on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eVPKpBKGCE
Implementing a VM is a unique experience. You take some bytecode that's initially a meaningless blob, sketch out an execution environment, and start implementing opcodes, one by one, and the blob actually starts doing real things.

Back at uni, I've done this with the ZMachine [1], in (non-idiomatic, newbie) Haskell [2], using Zork 1 as the blob. Sixteen years after, I remember the elation when my interpreter first printed out the familiar message:

You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-machine

[2]: https://github.com/nathell/haze
It wouldn't change the number you know, it would just change who it is. Its more like 'you're pretty unlikely to know a youngish person who dies of covid19' (of course, we have large anecdata sample sizes on the internets.... therefore its very likely that many people on here know somebody youngish who died from covid19 complications, but still a small percentage).

"I know a few people who know somebody who died" sounds consistent with what you might expect from 0.026% if everyone communicates with about a hundred people... crudely (and wrong, but order of magnitude): 0.00026 * 100 * 100 = 2.6 = "a few".

I phrased it pretty carefully, but I agree it didn't immediately clarify that mostly the victims will look pretty old.... just bebcause "people who are likely to die within several years" is going to be dominated by people over 70. FWIW a few different measures of "likely to die within 5 years" looks like one of the simplest single-index predictors of covid19 survival, much better than just age. If you're 40 and likely to die before 45 due to a serious health condition, Covid will be roughly as dangerous to you as if you're 82.
Bending Spoons are top notch. Super glad they're the ones handling this
-No worries, they'll just assume the content is malicious, then. (/s. I hope.)
Hello,
Developer of Startomatic here (Automated Insights previously). I know Stripe Atlas is popular with the HN crowd, but we think they didn't go far enough. Our goal is to include EVERYTHING you need to get a company launched, not just legal formation. Right now we include name suggestions, domain name registration, logo creation, legal formation, email/calendar set up, a "coming soon" website, SEO set up, and social media account creation. And all within 48 hours. We've got more coming soon. I'd love your feedback.

Thanks!
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I don't think a multidimensional spreadsheet (like Lotus Improv) makes sense for a single user. Multidimensionality introduces a lot of complexity and it is only justified by very complex models. Apart from some special cases this complexity is only there when at least 5-10 people are entering the data. Web application is much easier to rollout in a corporate environment. And I don't see any drawbacks. I don't have MS Office for example and use only Google Sheet for a long time already.
Great news! I hope more laptop models will follow.
My hobby is wildlife photography, mostly of birds. I live in hope that a manufacturer will make a 1000mm folded optic inside a phone one day, especially if it's not insanely expensive like an dSLR lens, but I suspect the laws of physics will stop them. That said, if manufacturers can bring the computational photography advances that phones get to the wider photography world that would definitely be a positive benefit.
I think people often misunderstand how bandwidth (and generally any utilization) works. It's not about using 10% of the speed for some time, but using 100% of it for a fraction. You're practically always bottlenecked by transfer.

Major improvement is latency, which not only enhances existing application experience significantly, makes development easier by removing lots of concern, but it also enables completely new tech that has been stopped because of the latency profile of earlier tech.

What you're propably thinking of is the smallest use case like a webpage (which can still significantly be sped up) or a video. But have you though about loading several GiB sized app for just product demonstration purposes on the fly? The things fast connections enable can be hard to even imagine. You could have an entire VR/AR experience where-ever you are
Fun fact, the reason why california banned open carry was to prevent the black neighborhoods in Oakland from policing themselves as armed citizens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act
So this is actually official terminology used by Project Management Institute in the PMBOK and refers to special budgets set aside for risk contigency :

6.4.2.6 DATA ANALYSIS

Reserve analysis
Reserve analysis is used to determine the amount of contingency and management reserve needed for the project. Duration estimates may include contingency reserves, sometimes referred to as schedule reserves, to account for schedule uncertainty. Contingency reserves are the estimated duration within the schedule baseline, which is allocated for identified risks that are accepted. Contingency reserves are associated with the known-unknowns, which may be estimated to account for this unknown amount of rework. The contingency reserve may be a percentage of the estimated activity duration or a fixed number of work periods. Contingency reserves may be separated from the individual activities and aggregated. As more precise information about the project becomes available, the contingency reserve may be used, reduced, or eliminated. Contingency should be clearly identified in the schedule documentation.

Estimates may also be produced for the amount of management reserve of schedule for the project. Management reserves are a specified amount of the project budget withheld for management control purposes and are reserved for unforeseen work that is within scope of the project. Management reserves are intended to address the unknown-unknowns that can affect a project. Management reserve is not included in the schedule baseline, but it is part of the overall project duration requirements. Depending on contract terms, use of management reserves may require a change to the schedule baseline.
Phishing is already handled by email. Don't click the zoom meeting link in the email from a Nigerian Prince and you will be fine. In general I don't see this being a problem with Zoom but rather a problem with clicking links from dodgy sources, zoom meeting links just happen to be one of many.

If there are others please list them because I'm struggling to understand the overarching thing you are getting at and examples would help with that.
Looks pretty good, but it also seems to have stagnated. Latest commit was in January 2019. It would be nice to have a shorter URL for rooms, so it's easier to share with others.
Keybase is dead. In the PR they were explicit they were hired to work on Zoom and not continue working on Keybase. Luckily there is keys.pub
That isn't a lot of data, at 4G speeds (~35Mbps) that will last less than 10 minutes. What benefit is there to make it run out even faster?

The biggest issue with 4G is the price, with 5G's limited range it will cost a fortune to roll out, so I doubt it will make data any cheaper.

Don't get me wrong, 5G does have it's pros. Rolling it out to areas that are saturated totally makes sense (plus better wifi). I don't see the benefit of rolling it out everywhere when we're not even fully utilising 4G. My router is providing both 2.4ghz and 5ghz wifi; 2.4ghz for range and compatibility with the smart devices. 5Ghz for speed within a limited range.
[Said with a sense of irony]

Luckily for my sense of self, I’ve only ever engaged in available light photography.

Ilford Delta 3200 when everyone else was using Kodak Gold 200. Fast fixed focal length lenses when everyone else was using f3.5 or slower kit zooms. Everything shot wide open all of the time, resulting in many dud photos with incorrect focus, and a few fantastic shots.

It’s an excellent way of justifying my box of ”real camera equipment” to myself, on the continuing onslaught of evidence that cell phone cameras are plenty good enough.
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> When is the last time anyone rioted, protested, or even remembered when an innocent police officer was killed?

When I lived in the United States, on the very rare occasion that a police officer was killed, our community would memorialize him.

But the fact is that police officers kill others at at least _twenty times_ the rate that police officers get killed by non-police officers.

More, if someone kills a police officer, they are almost always caught, and then gets decades in jail. When a police officer kills someone else, nothing happens to them, even when the police officer.

I lived for thirty years in the United States, and I saw the most terrible behavior from police officers - not just brutality, but gross incompetence and corruption (as in "bundles of cash being handed to cops").

Now I live in Europe, and police here are competent and friendly (and also very effective at dealing with violent drunks, I actually laughed to see someone just lifted up from behind by two cops struggling away in midair, hurting no one, not even himself). It's like night and day.

> Another police chief was found dead outside of a looted pawn shop last night.

I wasn't able to find even _one_ police chief who was found dead.

I did find a story about a retired police captain who was found dead, but no one else.
Only in theory. A Reuleaux triangle would need to be connected to an axle which is connected to the thing being moved. If it's on vehicle or trailer you have one on each side. The axle needs to go up an down 3 times per circle revolution.

If the wheels on each end of an axle aren't perfectly aligned the up and down motion won't be the same on each side. The speed of the up and down motion while moving down a modern road would be very fast. This would wear our parts far more quickly.

Theory and practical implications don't always line up. In practice it's not more optimal when applying to every day real world application.
> ...isn’t that like condemning all blacks when one commits murder?

I believe that's the case already, Ergo, racism.

If peaceful placards and singing kumbaya really did work effectively , for black people in particular all over the world, we'd have a very different discussion. Police brutality is an extension of the governments very existence - "legitimate" violence - which is turned up to war-time levels when minorities are concerned. All this is smoke an mirrors to the contempt of a man being killed by law enforcement officer in a way that would make Ted Bundy blush.

It seems whenever black people protest, the narrative seems to be of barbarians storming the city gates. An "over-reaction" if you will. Is it? The message of the protest is clear, if a tree falls - the ground will shake. Is that unreasonable?
Commenting on the PR-friendliness of something is generally the least valuable of contributions.
Regarding [1], you can simplify it even further by ditching jekyll altogether and writing the html directly.
Not the person you’re asking but it’s interesting to see how the sausage gets made.
Update: and it indeed seems things have now started taking a positive turn:

> The eighth night of protests saw less violence, fewer police clashes and more acts of civil disobedience.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/03/us/us-protests-wednesday-geor...
Sometimes, this company can’t seem to help but shoot itself in the foot.

The best thing, is to encrypt everything, in order to make all the traffic look noisy and randomized.

Then, for the paying customers, they can use a stronger encryption, that’s tougher to crack.

Ideally, this way, all the traffic being sniffed, will look randomized. But, with the paying customers, having a tougher encryption.
But these contracts are in a way extortionate. If a large fraction of restaurant owners use these services, you better use them too!

How did they ever get into existence then, you may ask? Simple, VC money ...
Behavior of microwaves is well-understood yes. Proving a negative would be rather difficult however, much like I find it hard to prove that no magical gnome exists at the bottom of my well, or that there is no renaissance-era teapot floating at the other side of our solar system perpendicular to our planet.
The problem is two fold:

> while large cameras have powerful special-purpose image processing engines, they have relatively weak programmable processors. At the same time, they have more pixels to process than cell phones, because their sensors are larger. These two factors made innovation difficult.

from https://graphics.stanford.edu/~levoy/

Also I think HDR+ and other similar stuff uses only around 12 pictures.
Last year I found a really nice balance: a DSLR with a really good, really long lens (a Canon 100-400mm telephoto) combined with an iPhone 11 Pro.

I use the telephoto for interesting things that are far away - generally wildlife. I use the iPhone for shots that the telephoto is no good for - landscapes, interesting things that are nearby.

This gives me the ability to take most photos without needing to swap lenses!

Admitting that my phone takes great quality photos and it's OK to use it even when I'm carrying my DSLR was a very useful psychological step for me.
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If a truck driver stops to deal with a blown-out tire, they lose money. Delivery windows are incredibly short - there are bonuses for on-time deliver, and penalties for failure.

So at least some truck drivers will ignore a blowout, particularly if it's in the last couple of hours of a trip.
> I don't see any value in compiling parts of code that only gets executed during bootstrap.

Not disagreeing with you there, since stopping to compile code/optimize at runtime contributes to sluggish interactive performance.
I have no idea, but I wouldn't be surprised to see those portions of Europe "back in the hut" again in December. That said, it does seem like if you're on the lookout, have very low case numbers, and are doing strong contact tracing, "sitting in the hut" is unnecessary except to regain control if you have a surge.
Very true. For me the only thing I want from regular camera is amazing zoom capabilities.

However if I compare pictures from e.g. Nikon Coolpix P950 which has small sensor but big zoom, the picture quality is not nearly as good as with phone cameras with smaller CMOS.

I wish camera manufacturers started to mount these cameras on a phone hardware, maybe even run Android directly, if they can't get their act together.
Right now in the UK I’m paying £8/month for 7GB 4G data, 30 day contract, EU roaming, unlimited calls and texts (Plusnet, SIM only).

Which works for me because I am mostly on wifi or (current situation notwithstanding) on a very short commute.
>to get everything back: you can configure your backup to get back only what you actually need (assume it's not all) and save cost

Another contender, might work for you

https://www.scaleway.com/en/pricing/#c14-cold-storage

C14 Cold Storage

Glacier

€0.002/GB/month

with free bandwidth