skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting that this has come up on the day when Pharo has also made it to the front page.

Smalltalk uses an image and holds live objects in memory at all times - there's no distinction between the source code representation and the running representation of the code. This allows the "IDE" (which is a misnomer because the development environment and the live environment are one and the same) to introspect on live objects and perform analyses on them.

TL;DR; Smalltalk has never used text as an internal representation and that removes the separation between the source code and the debug or live environment.
Hayne's manuals are always a traditional go-to: https://haynes.com/en-gb/baby-manual-3rd-edition
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Craig Murray's take on this report

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/07/credible-ope...
Yes, its essentially a heap. These just happens to be cache oblivious for performing binary searches.
My problem with Amazon at the time, was there was no mechanism to start that conversation. Most CDNs have account managers where you can have a call and discuss a TB/month commit, and price accordingly. I looked for ways to reach out to AWS to do the same, and no dice: they have the Hollywood principle in place, which means you'll get your account manager after you have already committed to them as a platform.

I'm sure that I would have got a better deal if only I'd figured out how...
The Hidden Privacy Risk of USB Charging Stations
When I tried something similar I found that Googles profile-based compilation seemed to really affect performance of their builds, and with my own build I couldn't seem to match their performance, presumably because I didn't have as good a profile, but maybe because they had some spiffy compiler optimizations they were keeping close to their chest.

Also, GPU is an economic requirement - it doesn't make a huge difference to user-percieved performance, but makes a big difference to CPU used, since all the render worker threads suddenly drop from 100% CPU to near zero... That lets you put more users on the same VM... There are some ideas I was experimenting with trying to do 'remote rendering' - ie rendering work is sent to a remote machine with a GPU. I got it working for basic image/text rendering, but not webgl/canvas/video encode/decode...
In general, a single GPU can handle hundreds of browsing sessions, whereas a CPU can only handle tens of sessions, so costs can be cut quite a lot by decoupling them. That and one can get better bin-packing by decoupling...
Agreed. I had to implement a transaction audit using SOAP in 2019.
> you either work in the United States or you are dramatically underpaid.

First off you might be surprised but money isn't the #1 priority for a lot of people.

In SV maybe, and even then when you factor cost of living, insurances, unemployment benefits, parental leaves &c. I'd rather be in Europe making half the raw salary and getting all the good stuff than being paid twice as much and spending 5k$ on a small flat in SF.

As an outsider it's impressive to see the shift in the recent years, back when I was in uni the majority of my peers wanted to move to the US, me included, and I did for a bit. Nowadays I literally don't know anyone who wants to migrate there in my circles, especially not with the current process. I think American people don't understand how broken their immigration, political and social systems are, and how bad of a deal breaker it is for a lot of Europeans.
Interview with Toby Unwin on His AI and Big Data Startup in Litigation
So live/daily is for zoom levels 0-9, and the archive goes back 20 years to 2000. Zoom in, and older imagery dates will vary based on the location.
All CDN use byte-range caching too.
Interestingly, another BLM (Bureau of Land Management) protest in Oregon did involve armed militia members and was widely denounced by partisans on the opposing spectrum.

I recall the racially loaded term "Vanilla ISIS" being used.
I may have misunderstood, but I'm using images in Obsidian without any trouble. Create a folder inside Obsidian, right click it, choose "Use as attachment folder" and then drag and drop / paste images into your documents however you like. It saves to this folder and automatically generates the markup when you put an image in.
> two of the best universities in the world

There's more than just two! Admittedly only Oxbridge are consistently top 10 but there are a disproportionate number of other UK unis in the top 200.
I'm looking to launch an internal wiki and Wiki.js came out on top for my requirements:

- easy to use for technical and non-technical staff alike: multiple editing options

- third party authentication: really comprehensive offering

- quality search: comprehensive internal and third party search offering

- ease of maintenance: largely everything is built-in, so no module/dependency maintenance headaches

- user management: solid user/group management system

With internal tools you need things to stick, and fast. As much as I am fond of mediawiki, the editing experience is a barrier to usage for many. And the extension ecosystem, while rich and diverse, is just more of a liability than a single installation. A quality search is also really important to adoption, so having options there is great.

I'd been using Docsify on a small scale with authentication through GitLab to edit, GitLab CD to build and Cloudflare Access to secure the front end. It works really well, but the lack of user management and the editing experience mean that it's time to move on.

It would be great to hear if this is a case of the grass always being greener on the other side.
To be fair, those days there (fortunately) wasn't really a useful cryptographic standard to use.
That is not happening in what I described. A webpage could decide to offer the cheapest working captcha as a default with a "Are you using assistive technologies?" / "Do you need help?" link to a more accessible service.

I don't think that is will be common in the wild, but it is an argument against regulating captcha providers rather than websites.
I miss nothing. Buts thats me. If you need visual basic scripts, maybe it is not for you. AFAIK it has its own scripting language. There is no risk to test the free version. You can actually use the free version, the limitations are not tremendous. I always buy it.
I think this founder particularily has history of exits, atleast on his LinkedIn. They might be just buying the story more than the details?
I already emotionally distanced myself from that company completely, but as far as I remember, their representative was "the hiring manager for Engineering", but very far from the Engineering department and very close to HR.

I honestly assume they simply selected for (as you said) pushovers or potentially liars.
Can this claim be substantiated?
"Reflections on Trusting Trust" - https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...
I am sure this could happen in today's USA, a first world country that has grocery shops with hand grenade gift department.
This question presumes that "the linux desktop hasn't happened". Something that is very much a definition issue.

* What is "happened"? Millions of people use Linux on their desktop. Probably more people (absolute numbers) use Linux today, than windows3.11 back then. Does that mean windows3.11 never "happened"?

* What is "Linux desktop"? Is chromebook a Linux desktop? A raspberry-pie? A laptop? The terminal on the counter of some large bank or PoS in a large shop?

What also strikes me in this, is that it used to be "the year of linux", until Linux emerged in every niche as clear "winner" (firmware, mobile, terminals, servers, supercomputers), at which moment the meme pivoted from "year of Linux" into "year of the Linux Desktop".

I'm not saying OP is doing this, but I have a strong feeling the phrase "year of Linux on the desktop" is mostly used by people who want to show that Linux is failing.

Edit: which it clearly is not: Linux is Open Source. Open Source has "won" the very moment one person is using it successfully. The fact that I'm typing this on my Linux machine means that Linux "won"; don't forget that Open Source software has no- or at least a very different business model than most closed-source software: success is not (nessecarily) defined by "market share".
VPRI has some nice writeups about extending the Squeak method finder in various ways:

Improving on the Method Finder: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m2009012_fnd_sine.pdf

Method finder for R: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/rn2013002_locatr.pdf

Connections to memoization: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/rn2017002_memoization.pdf

Larger-scale applications: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2014003_callbymeaning.pdf
I'm doing a similar project, and have a few ideas that might interest you - can you get in touch (contact details in my profile)?
The EU project needs to come to an end, and the sooner the better. Its an outdated dictatorship that needs to go.
It takes a long time to build doctors and nurses.
> It was widely reported at the time. Here you go:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/07/norwegian-p...

have you actually read the article?

> Senior Norwegian politicians and business figures have rejected Norway-plus

so not the Norwegian government

> The rejection is a blow to an influential cross-party group led by the Tory MP Nick Boles

so not the UK government

> They did not only "permit the changes", they signed the treaties. Including the obligation to join the Euro, something that the UK never intended to do and everyone overlooked because they were the UK.

the euro did not exist at the point the UK joined and accepted the acquis

if you go and actually read the TFEU you'll see the legal mechanism that states clearly that the UK negotiated that it would not have to join, in return for not vetoing the treaty
Baseline political paradox - humans demand extraverted confidence from leaders more than they demand competence.

If you're confident you can make mistake after mistake and no one will care unless everything comes crashing down - and even then there's a fair chance you can make it someone else's fault.

If you're merely very competent, taking time to research good solutions looks like indecision, not leadership, even if the results are far better.
Many many countries have payment methods that only exist in that country, but make up a large percentage of online payments within that country. I’ve personally seen Adyen chosen over Stripe at a few companies that were aggressively expanding internationally for exactly that reason.

Adyen seems to implement every payment method you can think of. And if you don’t want to implement them, their white label payment page is able to dynamically show payment methods based on user location and merchant preferences.
Nothing Would Ever Be the Same: Notes from the Manhattan Project
️ Topic Modelling: Going Beyond Token Outputs
By 'MediaWiki' I'm referring to the wikis and wiki farms that use MediaWiki or a variant of it. This includes:

- Wikimedia

- FANDOM

- Gamepedia

- Miraheze

FANDOM is the most massive wiki farm with over 360,000+ (as of 2016) wikis[1], which I'd give at lowest an estimate of 60% of the total number of wikis on the net, and is 88th on the Alexa rankings.[2] FANDOM is a wiki powerhouse, and you bet it uses MediaWiki.

Excluding WikiHow, I have never seen a wiki not use MediaWiki. As one of the guys that hops across many different wikis and wiki farms doing automated work, I cannot stress this enough.

[1] Brandon Rhea, FANDOM VP of Growth https://community.fandom.com/wiki/Choosing_Fandom?diff=next&... (dated June 14, 2016)

[2] Alexa.com https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/fandom.com#section_traffic (dated ~21 July 2020)
I don't know if that ever worked but searching for "Boris Bus" right now on DDG or Google yields mostly results and images of the infamous campaign bus.
But what does it mean, if it's beating an irrelevant benchmark for a task that is poorly defined? Is it really amazing if it's passing a test that doesn't mean anything at all, just because it wasn't trained to pass that test? So it happens to pass the test. So what? What did we learn from that?

I believe such a situation would generate much less debate in software engineering: "my program passes all my unit tests, but it still crashes". Well, yes. Your program passes all your unit tests, because your unit tests are missing the point, not because your code works.
> At one point Thiel is quoted with "The public transportation systems don’t work." Which is a bold and false statement, because public transportation can work extremely well.

I mean, it doesn’t work for him, since he doesn’t need it..

As someone without a car or even a license, who relies on public transport (albeit in Europe), I think this highlights the issues I have with economic inequality... Interests diverging until they become opposed.

(Just to be clear, I agree that Peter Thiel’s claims with regards to public transport is false in general)
Show HN: Developers at French startups wrote 600 tech articles
Predicting the Scores of the Postponed 2020 Rugby Six Nations Matches
This is still a tech site? As in people regularly share warning stories about how poking complex systems with a stick can escalate and those who encourage poking are sentenced to the quaries as a warning afterwards?
I have actually saw quite a few examples of Inversion

* Herta Herzog laid the foundation for the basis of modern media psychology, but simply inverting.

What do media do to people --> What people do with media.

This shifts focus from strong media influences to human being an active consumer of media.

* In statistical testing is fundamentally based on the principle of inversion, if the resulting statistic can be used as an evidence to reject the null or favour the alternative.
I have been doing a greater part of the things elaborated in the post as a solo founder/freelance software person. Albeit the scale of things I need to handle are relatively small.

What kind of a job profile should I be looking at if I am in a position where I absolutely need to have one?

I don’t slot particularly well in any one thing I feel, neither a great developer nor a great systems person. And I did do a bunch of recruiting and tech consulting too:
>They resist standard DC... but what about AC at a certain frequency, or pulsed DC at a certain frequency?

Um.. yes. This is actually exactly how you model coupling capacitors when analyzing circuits. You use them to connect two nodes. Apply DC and no current flows through once the capacitor is charged. Apply AC and the signal is transmitted to the other side. The strength of the transmitted signal is dependent on frequency and of course whatever else you have connected to the circuit.
I also had the idea to run browsers in the cloud and intercept the interaction stream to record and replay interactions, also for the reasons you say, because it reduces a large class of bugs. But not for test automation, rather for web scraping. I applied to YC with this around 9 times. Great to see you convince them this is a good thing!

Are you using the Chrome DevTools protocol? That's what I built on top of. You can see my open-source code for this here: https://github.com/dosyago/BrowserGap

And a demo running right now of the interactive cloud browsers (without automation, it's WIP):

https://start.cloudbrowser.xyz [0]

[0]: Currently on Show https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23904243

Fitz and Todd, wanna connect?
Show HN: Detecting Emotion from Speech Using Machine Learning
Hardwood floors will look great for 20 years or more, just follow one simple rule: don’t wear (outdoor) shoes inside. That’s going to be a tough tradition to break in the US though.
What Is Systems Design?
Bluetooth Reconnection Flaw Could Lead to Spoofing Attacks
I was excited for a moment when wiki.js.org rendered properly without Javascript but similarly disappointed when docs.requarks.io only showed a fairly typical white page.

Also noticed that it feels slow page to page, thinking that it might be an issue with my Firefox configuration I opened the page on a fresh profile and it's still slow, but if you open it in Chrome page to page becomes almost instant and is more comparable to MediaWiki. So maybe this particular performance issue on FF can be resolved but it does seem like a worse end user experience when compared to MediaWiki.
That's great advice about GPUs. Thanks!

I am seeing some lower CPU usage on a new machine with 4 Nvidia T4 GPUS I just set up.

https://gpus.cloudbrowser.xyz
> This can make on-prem solutions for a product slightly hairy.

EPL has the restriction that if you distribute binaries, you have to make the source available (you must state in your license where to obtain it). It seems that listing your dependencies libraries and linking to their websites (which I think is good practice anyway even with less restrictive licenses) would be enough, as long as you didn’t modify them.

EPL allows linked modules to be distributed under whatever license you want, so in a commercial product doesn’t apply to your closed source code or any libraries that choose not to be distributed under EPL.

So for on prem distribution, you just need to include a license file that lists all of your EPL (or other licenses that require the license to be included like MIT) with a link to where to get the code. Your own code is unaffected.

This isn’t GPL compatible, though, because GPL does “infect” linked modules too.

However IANAL.
The realistic Atlantis scenario is not sinking, but being engulfed as the water level rises. 20,000 years ago, sea level was hundreds of feet lower. If any industry was confined to coastal lowlands, it is all deep under the sea, now, and under tens or hundreds of feet of mud, besides.

Off India, there are mile after mile of large buildings under 60 feet of water. They were last above water ~7000 years ago.

There are many, many thousands of square miles of recent land between Indonesia islands, more between Australia and New Guinea, and between Britain and northern Europe. The Black Sea was mostly dry remarkably recently.
There's another one, closer to home: dang.

I'd always thought the comment's attributes name was because "dang, time to chastise another one" but it turns out that "Dan G" is (maybe) a person!

Man, look at all that karma fly out of the window... Oops. Wrong site!
10 bucks a month though...
Test Violet Webhooks Locally
Perhaps always invert but after approaching the problem from the front.

I would apply the 80/20 rule from both directions (so in theory perhaps spending up to 40% effort) to get the best chance of success. And really, you can't invert without first knowing enough about the problem you're trying to solve.
Different issue. ttpush is talking about using it in Germany, just with a US Apple account.
I'm always amazed by the Anglo-Saxon attraction for alliterations :-)
An important thing that one learns in academia is that nobody gives anyone the benefit of the doubt. This is a lesson learned the hard way: you make an unsupported claim and a murder of angry reviewers pounce upon it like hyenas hungry for flesh.

Outside of academia I see this thing very often. "Oh, I'm sure if it was easy to do that, they'd have done it". No. This is not how a piece of research work is evaluated, not even a piece of work in deep learning, a field that has abandoned all pretensions to science in recent years.

My personal advice (speaking as someone who has been attacked by the hyenas and paid my pound of flesh) is that one should always demand the highest standard of proof for any claim in a research paper. That, if one really wishes to know what's going on. Intellectual curiosity and scientific wonderment should not result in gullibility.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23897486
SemanticMerge
More free in the sense that you, the person making a derivative work or distributing the licensed software, have more freedom in what you can do. It’s not more free to your users unless you decide to license it to them under a similar license.

The original authors not receiving your changes doesn’t seem to me to affect their freedom, even if it kinda sucks.
> Same goes for NATO - the ERG want out, and feel the contributions are an unfair burden.

Got a citation for that? My impression is euroskeptics love America and NATO.
> It will be fascinating to see what happens as these two companies expand to compete with each other

Very unlikely, as both markets (smb payments and enterprise payments) is unlimited, there is a few chance they will try to compete with each other. On the other hand almost no company is able to be a leader in both the smb and enterprise space, because as you mentioned it, the cultures need to be different, the customer support need to be different, the product need to be different,... More info here : https://blog.luap.info/why-most-saas-companies-cant-be-succe...
Robinhood UK launch postponed indefinitely
What Is a Subscription Product?
Into the Twitterverse
I actually like that it omitted the inline syntax. It was the source of my confusion when I read the official Rust Book. Examples with inline syntax don't make it clear that `mod` goes in the parent file (since there's no child file, so you don't have the reference). "But it's the same as if you just put the {} in another file" was like "the proof is trivial, left as an exercise for the reader".
I've visited this place once. My girlfriend and I drove out quite a ways - the salt flats are prettier / more reflective, like what you'd see in popular Instagram posts, once you drive for 5 minutes away from the road that everyone parks on.

A storm was approaching from the direction that we came. I was counting the time between the rumbles of thunder and the strikes of lightning. It was about 5-10 seconds, which was close enough for me to rush back into the car after getting a couple of nice pictures.

My girlfriend and I parked our car toward the storm and watched for about 10 minutes. About half a mile back the way we came, we saw lightning strike the middle of the flats. It must have vaporized some of the mud / salt on the ground because there was a clear line of smoke coming up from that part of the ground. I was surprised that it struck a completely flat part, rather than our metal SUV, since we were definitely the tallest things around.

I insisted that we drive back, because despite knowing that we'd be relatively safe in a car, I wasn't looking to experience an electrical fire or, at a minimum, the worst jump-scare of my life. As I drove back to the parking lot, what shocked me the most was seeing people still out taking pictures back near the parking lot from which we came. The lightning strike occurred between our car and the people out taking photos, which means they were easily in striking distance. I was honestly scared I would witness someone get struck - these are salt _flats_ - anyone out taking photos is the tallest thing in the area for several miles.
Ransomware gang demands $7.5M from Argentinian ISP
such a narrow view, all the remainers also have a group hallucination
I just got the email, but there are no other announcements so this time it's link to Reddit.

An update on Robinhood UK
Hi there,

We’re saddened to share that we’ve made the difficult decision to postpone our UK launch indefinitely. We'll be closing our waitlist and taking down our UK website shortly.

The world has changed a lot over the past several months and we’re adapting with it. On a company level, we’ve come to recognise that our efforts are currently best spent on strengthening our core business in the US and making further investments in our foundational systems.

Since we announced our intent to launch in the UK, we’ve been fueled by your excitement for Robinhood and humbled by your response. We’re sorry that we cannot deliver the product we promised you this year.

Although our global expansion plans are on hold for now, we will continue our work to democratise finance for all and we look forward to the day when we can bring this mission to the UK.
Sincerely,
The Robinhood UK Team
The Modin view of scaling pandas
Trump consults Bush torture lawyer on how to skirt law and rule by decree