skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you can reduce the amount of code you have to write by 100x, architecture no longer becomes important. When all programs are so short, they become very cheap. And when they become cheap, they are easy to replace and rewrite. At this point, architecture becomes irrelevant because you've removed all abstractions in the first place.

If the components of your company's system never are longer than a page or two of code, rewrites become trivial, making planning for the future unnecessary. This is the real promise and value of array languages.

Or put more simply, the size of a code base is the dominant factor in its complexity. Less code is less complex code, is better code.

Also, loops imply mutation, which is the second biggest indicator of complexity. Mutation kills code bases and kills projects. When you decide to never use a loop and to never mutate, you're on the right path. Now the next step is to try and remove as many lines of code as humanly possible.

A good way to measure how you're doing is by comparing the size of your gzipped (or zipped or whatever) codebase to its uncompressed form. If they are close in size, you know you are on the right track. Or in other words, you want the size of your code base to be close to its Kolmogorov complexity.
That'd be the Debian alternatives system in action.

$ update-alternatives --list editor
I doubt that's the "why they keep buying iPhones" when other factors include wealth signalling, social fit-in and SMS bubble color fashion.
There's a difference between a random person on the internet "being ok with" something, and it being legal or illegal for a particular government to block that something.

> We're literally talking about a company which ... can _easily_ swing the elections in ways the alleged "Russian troll farms" couldn't even dream of.

If you have actual evidence that shows that's what they're doing, please feel free to present it. I'm generally wary of anything connected or potentially connected to the Chinese government, but I think we should have at least some baseline evidentiary standards.

It's possible that Trump does have evidence of this, and if that's the case, I'd (for once) stand behind what he's doing. But the CIA at least claims they have been unable to find any evidence of wrongdoing.
It's surprising how Telegram successfully lured public to believe it is a secure messaging app while not providing end-to-end encryption by default.

You need to explicitly start secret chat (under More button on the contact page) to opt-in for E2EE, something you get by default in every Whatsapp chat.
I agree with your observation. From my observation Dutch startups live by the motto “steady wins the race” and to a larger extent I think it speaks to the risk aversion ingrained in their culture - both in their startup and VC mentalities.

They would rather bootstrap and grow with stability then pull a softbank and use/give massive capital injections in the hopes of getting market efficient domination.
"- if you receive a stream of unencrypted postcards from Grandma on vacation"

That's such a bullshit excuse. Everything goes with outer layer of encryption these days, what matters is will Telegram offer to lock themselves out of the messages to which the answer is no by default. If you want to chat on desktop or create a group, the answer is no whether you like it or not.

So again, some niché use case of "it's probably nothing sensitive so you might as well send it in the clear because that says you're not a dissident" is thus not even valid. There's almost always outer layer of encryption.

"The availability of metadata, who can access that metadata etc etc plays a role."

Indeed. All the more reason to avoid Telegram that by default stores all that metadata.

"someone always have to pull the E2E: Good, anything else: Bad."

No the point is we'll never even get to the debate on reducing metadata as long as we need to play whack-a-mole with shit apps like Telegram that don't E2EE by default, let alone provide any kind of metadata protection, even sealed sender like Signal does.

As the author of messaging system[1] that provides both E2EE by default for everything as well as metadata protection (more than any other app out there) and advanced protections like endpoint security, I don't really like you putting me into some square of caring only about E2EE. All I can say to you is, first things first.

[1] https://github.com/maqp/tfc
Deregulation of the power grid in California.

Competition focuses on price with a presumption that quality won’t suffer because users will switch. Well that isn’t necessarily so, it’s a hope rather than a hard fact. There are many examples, that I leave as an exercise to the reader, where a customer “chooses” a lower cost item with poor quality, including harmfully so.
Transcript of a Calvin&Hobbes strip:

Calvin's Dad, sitting at his desk: "It used to be that if a client wanted something done in a week, it was considered a rush job and he'd be lucky to get it."

CD: "Now, with modems, faxes, and car phones, everyone wants everything instantly! Improved technology just increases expectations."

CD: "These machines don't make life easier - they make life more harassed."

Calvin, in the background: "Six minutes to microwave this?? Who's got that kind of time?!"

CD: "If we wanted more leisure, we'd invent machines that do things less efficiently."

https://pics.me.me/it-used-to-be-that-if-a-non-with-modems-3...
Indeed but now the problem is this Version 7 will likely be in beta for many more years to come...
It probably honers your $EDITOR env variable which often defaults to `nano`. You can change it to anything you want including `vi[m]` :)
There's no need for anonymity. I don't understand why that's relevant.

> extremely volatile asset with ~2x price swing within recent couple of years

Can be hedged with futures. Also S&P 500 had ~1.5x price swings recently and no one cared. The derivatives market has solved the problem of volatility in all markets not just Bitcoin.

There are already several billionaires who publicly say they have lots of BTC, prob many more who don't speak up. Jack (8B), Chamath (1B), Paul Tudor Jones (6B), Winklevii (1 B), Peter Thiel (2B). Eventually it will be known as the tax haven coin (already kind of is) and that will be its killer app.
That was good. I love .NET Core so much ... Good to know a little more about the internals of the IOC container.
They had those rules, but the rules have been outlawed in many places because... they are shitty and anti-consumer
Start non-profit for that purpose that will manage the database.

Ther database will hold only entries signed by telco companies. Some rules will apply on what happens when a number changes.

Everyone gets access to the raw database, and to query the database.

In case of mismatches there will be an agreed arbitration process, with agreed upon fines to the party no being responsible. This or some other contract.

This sort of solves the problem.

The key win in the blockchain - is the decentralization. But we know, in the real world how to arrange cooperation using centralization. it works. It's done every day. So this case is mostly useful when you want to avoid regulation.

Another win of the blockchain - a lot of work has been done verifying that it is secure. It probably is the mose secure system for those sort of problems. And that's a good reason to use it in many places.
I mean sure you could have the government manage the central database but maybe the Indian government is not equip to run such a database. Plus you can avoid some of the problems with high costs or stagnation that can happen with centrally run systems. I don't think there's any particular reason to reject blockchain if it works in this case.
+1
detroit is awesome
That redirection will make the shell truncate the file long before sed has a chance to open it.
lets not into TLOU2 lol

technically perfect

storywise and characterwise a shitfest though
as much as I can see, Rust is a special case. So I mean most of the modern languages. After all I consider C++ modern as well :)
It's a truncated file:

$ cat test
moo
$ cat < test > test
$ cat test
$
As someone who doesn't play any games at all and looking for a new hobby, would you recommend picking this up as one? if so, which platform/games would you recommend? (something light/fun)

some background:

I'm 45, I don't think I can handle anything too intense (even watching TV gets my heart pounding, I get too immersed and don't exactly enjoy too much adrenaline); I used to enjoy the Atari console in the 80s and then later played games on my Apple IIc and then PC, up to around year 2000 or so. Now I own an iPhone SE and Macbook air 2015, so nothing too powerful. I don't have a TV (but a decent computer screen).

EDIT: so many great suggestions for things I didn't know existed. Thank you so much!
To be fair I would pay more on the Apple/Google store if I knew that a) I wouldn't need to give my CC details to a random company b) cancelling would be hassle-free
Since E2E encryption is not enabled by default in Telegram, I believe it's used by 2% of their users at most. Messages of the rest can be read by Telegram team.

https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&q=are+telegram+cha...
The version 2 (which you do at your own pace) provides the theory/maths behind it.

Which version of the course is considered version 2?
Any estimate of the die size ?
This is hopelessly naive and overly credible.

Companies with power and leverage won’t switch to an “open api” and generic ui. It’s better for them to offer their own proprietary experience and to be able to improve it.

Even if what you described was something companies would buy into... sounds like instead of N App Store programs to run, there’s be N App Store websites/urls to visit. what about payments? You’d need a trusted platform operator to avoid everyone having their own payment system and users having to enter details multiple times.

Also API to WHAT? Every App Store on windows has api access... to the os and install mechanisms. Any further value add services will require a trusted online partner (payments, security reviews, downloads?).
I agree, as a non-SV-based dev, it seems to me that the author can’t see past their own bubble
It all depends on the nature of your application. A video editor and a command line utility are so different!

Sounds like you already know the big players so I won't repeat them. Instead, here are some off-kilter ideas:

1. Casual use, general interest, notification-requiring, simple single-file data requirements, tolerant of desktop / mobile split sessions? Try making a chat bot for Telegram, FB, Discord, Slack..

2. Dynamic, visualization-focused UI with simple options that need to be tweaked interactively? Try Imgui[0] or Godot[1]

3. Scientific or data-centric stuff pulling in data from here and there, but meant for interactive exploration? Try Wolfram / Mathematica or an IPython notebook / GoogleColab

[0] https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/wiki/Software-using-dear-im...

[1] https://medium.com/swlh/what-makes-godot-engine-great-for-ad...
So we need to add into EROEI all the energy needed to deactivate/retrofit de old technology used in planes and large boats. If I don't do this exercise I will be as in denial as the ones that don't believe in climate change.
We need to reduce air and maritime travel. We need to invest in trains and also avoid unnecessary travel. Fuel taxes in the previously mentioned sectors may be a good option because at the moment they don't have taxes on externalities.
We have only a few years to prevent climate change getting out of hand and there are simple and effective solutions. We do not have a carbon budget for solutions that are not yet viable on paper.
They already did sue Google: https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/13/21368363/epic-google-fort...
If they had a problem with the walled garden they wouldn't buy it. Say "walled garden" to the average iPhone owner and they'll say "So? That's a good thing".
The ads are terrifying, mainly because it shows the company has enough money to waste this much on ad production. It also makes me wonder how much the problem in China is top-down vs "middle-out". It seems that the CCP wages a brilliant kind of information warfare:

The ads build up an image around the creation of this technology as an equalizer and solution to middle and lower-class problems. The ad for face recognition, for example, is factored around making the lives of factory and service workers easier. By doing this, they gain buy-in from all social classes. The little guy lives a better life, the middle class lives in a secure and fair society, and the governing class can ensure everything runs smoothly.

I've always thought of China's government as a rather Orwellian top-down state of control. I've realized lately that their propaganda is sophisticated enough to make their populous believe it without coercion. What westerners might see as Orwellian is to them an innovation which helps the working class.
> Does any platform allow anyone to charge its users without going through the platform?

Microsoft Windows?
> slot machines

To note, pachinko are a widely installed business in their country.

Same as medal games in game centers, there has always been a need for super simple, mindless “games”, with or without money exchanging hand at some point.
These two books are based on the 2ality blog and also free to read online:

– JavaScript for impatient programmers (covers most of ES1–ES2020, incl. many advanced topics): https://exploringjs.com/impatient-js/

– Deep JavaScript (covers advanced topics): https://exploringjs.com/deep-js/
Nice collection of quite useful tools. Some of these can be easily replicated by using a more modern shell (bash, zsh) like mispipe, others are just shortcuts (e.g. ifne, chronic).

But what immediately stood out to me is `vidir`. I really like the idea of editing file names with an editor. Using loops and regex in a shell for mass renaming can be a mess. It should be way easier with `vim`.
This tool made me install moreutils.
Can Corsair One run Linux? I have heard that water cooling software for example does not have Linux support.
What flexibility will drivers be forced to give up if they are classified as part-time or full-time employees by Uber?
Can confirm, way back I wrote a small guide on how to install and configure Wireguard on the ER-X (and other EdgeRouters), and to date this article is still by far the most read one: https://merlinscholz.name/post/wireguard-on-erx/
http://archive.is/wip/OhtsY
Can you provide some examples of a better way to use redux? The react and redux toolchain is so flexible I'm always interested to see what ways other people come up with to use it.
How for Personal Injury Law Firms to Adjust to Working Remotely
SMT means multiple threads executing concurrently on a single core. Multiple cores each executing a single thread is not the same thing.
What the difference in just deleting the whole directory and recreating it with `mkdir`. Or just do an `rm -rf dir/*`?
Where is their MTProxy tutorial?
Well the better prices is just a theory. I don’t even see it planning out. The cheaper fees don’t even have to be passed on consumers - if you had a beat selling property, why would you discount?

If epic wins, they’ll eventually raise prices and reap all the profits. Why wouldn’t they?
Thanks for the recommendation will definitely give it a try
Pentagon plans to use AI to support rapid crises responses
Indeed so it does. Even used one without spotting that.
https://www.thalidomidetrust.org/
U.S. Air Force leaders express interest in advanced air mobility vehicles
Not a bad idea to refine your VR mechanics, after all, word is that they were added to Windows originally to help people refine their mouse skills
I use a rpi2 with a DAC hat attached on top, hooked up to amp and speakers, powered by and Ethernet connected to a time capsule nas. It all fits nicely on a shelf.

I could have used a thinkpad with a usb DAC, but it would require more space, more power cable, ... It would provide a built in ups and screen, which I don’t need.

I think rpi are OK when the whole service it provides could be read only, with no local storage / state.
SMT is a well established teem in computer architecture and means running more than one thread per core.
SMT is multithreading within a single core. Timesharing a core at the hardware level.

Having multiple threads by having multiple cores is a different thing.
Is it possible to make some of these moreutil commands aliases of some combination of coreutils commands?
That's a fascinating read. I'd never thought of that implication of antitrust law.

Owner-operator truckers are in the worst position, as that paper points out.
When I got there I scrolled down to read then when done I expected one click to return to HN. Actual result was each click of back going back to a previous point in the doc (maybe based on my scroll position¿) after 7-8 I was back to the top then to HN.
The Expensive and rarest Foods in the world
-Decentralized Identity (see W3C DID)

-Votes aren't verifiable by everyone.

-Privacy

Just to name a few.
Kind of, not if you are serious about GPGPU and not stuck with a laptop card.

However the 3D programming experience still beats Intel drivers.
Speechelo – Turn Text to Voice with AI Engines
Hidden directories, links within dir... (usually, you want a "nofollow" default for destructive operations)
Why? Why not expand and build fucking O'Neill cylinders, Ark/Generation ships of hollowed out asteroids, Ring worlds, Dyson spheres, whatever, until the end of the universe? Then we can die, transcend, whatever!
I dunno, speaking personally, the world has so many problems that it's best (for me) to not think that much about them, or be exposed to that much information about them. Maybe this is a bad attitude, but ignorance is bliss.

If I was like Bill Gates or something, I think I would have a different attitude. Only when information can actually inform my decisions does it become meaningful. No matter what I hear about global deforestation, I'm not going to do anything about it. So why even hear it in the first place? It just serves to pollute my mind and make me feel bad.
E Ink Kaleido Color E-Readers
https://goodereader.com/blog/product-category/color-ink
I would start by either improving the OCR, or piggyback on GCV/Amzn, who have better tools. For instance, what if I drag-and-drop their sample image to this demo page https://cloud.google.com/vision ?

All text is recognized, and as far as I can tell, there are no errors.

There are a lot of difficulties with older text, but I would start with low-hanging fruit such as trying to use better tools. On top of that, you have the problem of making sense of the layout, fixing common typos, etc.
> Your link just seems to indicate we shouldn't allow China to have this kind of data.

How do you get that from the article? The only mention of China in the article is the photo caption "Microsoft’s MAPP patrol vehicle in Durban sports a facial recognition camera from China-based Hikvision."
It's just a package manager with multiple registries (solved problem) and paid packages (not a hard problem).

Gog Galaxy already exists, too.
Try chess. Lichess.org is good place.
"None of the two offer you their server's code."

Signal server source code:

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server

"The vast majority of Telegram's usage is not end-to-end encrypted at all."

This. This is the backdoor right here. It was never going to be shady flaw in the implementation. It's SO much easier to put it out there in the open, spread misinformation about Telegram being at the forefront of privacy battle and silence all criticism (my links were shadowbanned on their subreddit), and to attack straw men like people posting example's of Telegram's bad track record. tl;dr: damage control.
I was wondering about tee for that:

$ cat test
moo
$ cat < test | tee test > /dev/null
$ cat test
moo

...seems to work. Am I just getting lucky with a race condition?
That it doesn’t keep track of regrowth makes the data point sound very negative, when it’s far from clear how it should be interpreted. What is it I’m supposed to take away from the tweet?

“Taken all together, the greening of the planet over the last two decades represents an increase in leaf area on plants and trees equivalent to the area covered by all the Amazon rainforests. There are now more than two million square miles of extra green leaf area per year, compared to the early 2000s – a 5% increase.” https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/human-activity-in-china-an...
There are many other maps apps, such as HereWeGo for HERE maps, and MAPS.ME for OpenStreetMaps. Both work well and have very good coverage, OSM generally a lot better than Google at least in Europe.

Downsides are that they don't contain such a wealth of place info as Google Maps does, and surely do some tracking too (from which you should be able to opt out thanks to GDPR).
I sat on Intel's Larrabee session at GDCE 2009, they were selling the world how Larrabee would wipe out the competition, without really understanding why everyone else was moving into GPGPU.

Apparently they still don't get it.
These are all of the Color E INK e-Readers from 2020
> using reaction time to score better

Having never heard of Beat Sabor, this made me think it sounds like Guitar Hero. YouTube confirms. I really did not ever get the appeal of GH, but BS looks pretty fun.
I wouldn't be surprised if console revisions/upgrades begin coming out with even more frequency. There was only a 3.5 year gap between the PS4 and PS4 Pro. Only a 2 year gap between the Nintendo Switch and the revision with vastly improved battery life (not as big a deal as PS4 to PS4 Pro, but still a big deal for anyone who uses their switch on the go).

Personally I think I'm going to wait until the PS5 releases and then see if I can find a secondhand PS4 pro at a good price.
All the money this guy donates is just going to be added to the CEO's salary

If you really love MDN or whatever then why not fork it and pay for hosting its competitor. Just import all the pages to Mediawiki and put it up online.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/snowf...
Sega v Accolade also seems relevant here, and held that reverse engineering to create unlicensed Sega Genesis games was fair use and thus permissible (though in a later settlement, Accolade did become a licensed developer).
I use `chronic` in almost all of my cron jobs so that cron sends me an email with the output only if the command has a return code of != 0.
Except they are building on top of SYCL, which is already late to the game, as CUDA does C++17 as well, and is polyglot, whereas One API is C++ only and hopes someone else will create bindings, Khronos style in not understanding how to widespread adoption.
I don‘t believe being more perfect in license enforcement is going to save Apple in their anti-trust struggles but I can believe some lawyers may believe that.
He makes awesome YouTube videos on various small electronics projects like this, including some more complex ones with custom PCBs and stuff. The website is more used as a reference/script for the videos, and the videos are much better if you actually want to see the projects visually.

I’m a big fan of his Casio F91W mods and his Pi Zero projects. His overall design/aesthetics are flawless too.

https://www.youtube.com/c/NODEtv
Almost* everything you need to know about SPACs
Since a blockchain can only be used to verify activity on itself, blockchains are poor replacements for anything but markets. Anything being done that has access to an environment mutually trusted by all parties has no need of a blockchain - you just access a database in that environment.

Moreover, there's no reason to run a blockchain on a trusted party - i.e. 'corporate' blockchains - for the same reason: since you already have to trust whoever is maintaining it, it can't verify anything new for you.

The only reason these things exist is the large amounts of capital available to anyone who can shoehorn a blockchain into their business model.
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