skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I programmed in BASIC for the Apple II there were some tools to optimize code - cramming everything possible in single lines and making variable names shorter increased speed a little and made the memory footprint of the program smaller. I'm sure the BBC had similar tools.
Or: Lindy Effect, survivorship bias, some kind of incentive that selects for quality over time, etc.

Music is almost purely for entertainment and not for information so tastes can afford to be variable. And books are published on all sorts of topics so even despite this, among old books you can find weird things that disagree with each other.
This process is a great carbon sink opportunity when you think about it so long as the tree is buried. Plastic trees should be disincentivized in that regard.

We need more tree harvesting + landfill themed activities.
>> Still looking for a cheap MicroVAX or a PDP-11/93.

LSI 11/73?

Hopefully, the SoL has arrived, I bought my 1st uVAX II motherboard, KA630 from a Field Service Engineer I Played Lax with for $500. Pulled out the 1/2 width PDP board, made a few console changes and voilla, VMS magic. In between was the interminable tape drive but it messes up the story.

I left for Maynard/Nassau a few months later, the 6 best/worst years of my life. Watching us piss away the WS market to salvage big iron was the worst but as GB much later pointed up -- VMS was the gold and we had no idea how to mine it.
Don't editorialise titles.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Could just be thanks to technology office politicking. Some senior engineer or manager says "I want to work on blockchain projects", invents a reason to do that within Facebook, or maybe their boss really wants to keep them there, and somehow they get enough buy-in to create Libra. Now they have a blockchain project.

This seems more likely to me than someone at Facebook saying "We need a our own money system," evaluating blockchain against a centralized design, and deciding for technical reasons that Facebook Money should be a blockchain project.
Even if you can sue them into oblivion, there will be a different company under a different name doing the same. It's just too lucrative.
This was the worst part for me. You could literally see the words online of the resident who said that if nothing was done this would end with charred bodies.

It's not such an exaggeration to say that corporate manslaughter was legalized here.
> an empty dead section titled something like “who is talking about us” with no content

The design does not make it obvious but "they talk about us" is actually a clickable button, not a section heading.
It turns out that grace periods (called a "redemption grace period") weren't proposed until 2003. I'm not actually sure when this process was approved by ICANN - sometime between 2003 and 2013.

The latest version of ICANN's registrar accreditation agreement, in 2013, includes grace period provisions. https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/approved-with-specs-20...
Those images being exported to the planet are not representative of the USA. Hollywood is mostly Jewish and Homosexual, those are the products of these minds instead. I doubt actual American programming would resemble any of these sitcoms.
Wow, the project homepage has a great dynamic command-line generator that lets you specify what you are trying to do. This may exist elsewhere, but it's the first time I've seen it and I hope to see it on more projects! https://www.visidata.org/
Same for me in the early 80s. All boys and girls took shop, home ec, and typing. And Hunter Safety, as part of phys-ed.
No, I called you precisely on labor theory of value. It is nothing short of incredible you manage to read between the lines in a one-liner.

It is obvious that you can't really have any social advancement without any supporting social dynamics. Also odds are overwhelmingly against any given individual becoming a billionaire from a commoner background… yet the examples are numerous, and particularly in tech.

I'm not commenting about merits of Graham's observations as am not a venture capitalist. But the LTV bit you were on, that's some ancient bullshit. I lived in the tail end of USSR, could observe first hand how well it worked.
No. They are completely different computers. The Microbit doesn't have BASIC or video output. It's also vastly more powerful than the BBC Micro.

Not sure, but it could be more powerful than the Acorn Archimedes, the first ARM workstation, apart from IO capabilities.
Musings on Fusion and the Interstellar Ramjet
If a sufficiently large nation state orders the companies involved to deny or override a transaction, is the gossip protocol/blockchain useful at all in denying this? Or is this one of those mechanisms only used for keeping out low level/underfunded attackers?
We also need mandatory condoms because we know AIDS is a killer.

We also need to ban all alcohol because we knows how it kills people both directly and indirectly.

We know how guns kill, we need to ban them all.

We know how knives kill we need to restrict their ownership.

Trying to have a disucssion with folks like you is pointless because rather than striving for balance you only take into consideration one half.

You are, as much as you may not enjoy it, just like an anti-abortionist or a religious person. No matter what point is brought up the responese is always the same:

Babies are dying.

It's happening because God willed it to.

People are dying and we cannot let another one die.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXWhbUUE4ko
Totally - that was my using the word "complaint" to simplify the terminology!
Doesn’t release nearly as much as burning it.
Has anyone tried selling the plots in advance? Pay e.g. $49 today for a tree in ten years?
Load balancing across read replicas is usually handled by your connection bouncer, say pgBouncer/pgPool/etc though you may also do some amount of more complex both L3 and L7 balancing if you get really big.

Sharding is usually a matter of actually splitting the masters. There are many techniques for achieving this. If you want the database to do all the work you will probably want to use something like Citus for PostgreSQL or Vitess for MySQL.

You can also build bespoke topologies using PostgreSQL logical or MySQL binlog replication.

Failing that you can do application level sharding if you don't want the database doing anything fancy for you and manage each shard as an independent database cluster.

By the time you actually need to do this you will be able to afford one of these options. :)

In the meantime you will save a ton of CPU, storage and development time vs a "NoSQL" store as databases like PostgreSQL are inherently more efficient for all but the simplest of KV access patterns.
How I Made $19,000 on the App Store While Learning to Code (2011)
I live in Kazakhstan and I can confirm that I'm observing this behavior on Google websites (they don't MitM all websites and I think they don't MitM all connections, just some percentage). Simple IPsec VPN works fine.
Yeah, seems like the key point here is be careful architecting your infrastructure around a somewhat arbitrary construct like 'customer'. The relevant entity to scale around for Slack is likely 'active users' or even 'messages'. Which may map loosely to 'customers', but that's almost incidental.
Disjointed story - if MacBooks were replaced, "money not an issue" - what are you complaining about then ? Why write this sobbing tale?

The story lost credibility with me the moment I saw that all his "stolen" goods list he put with affiliate links to Amazon :) ...
Or maybe they are not required to solve the captcha because bot traffic from these nations is too sparse to have this make sense.
After much digging Jamstack is Js, APIs, and Markup--page renderer as far as I can tell.
Every time I have to use Regex I muddle through various tutorials and try stuff until it seems to work.

A horrible but practical way to use them.

Being able to describe them in an Excel-like fashion and have it spit out a working Regex would be nice.
Allow me to reminisce.. in 2012 I created a JavaScript VM extension that executes custom functions inside native Excel. The extension also had a corresponding web-based front-end for creating apps that read/write directly to Excel. This was my baby, but investors (ie, YC) didn't think it was disruptive enough. Now I see these apps (ie, AirTable) pop up every month. Should I open source it?
Could be the same pilots who do cherry drying:
https://youtu.be/UBe9GEhc7pE
Gotta disagree before Peak Oil was the buzzword it was Hubbert Peak Theory and his curves from the 1950s.

And while it may not be 15 years ago, some of earliest edits to Peak Oil on Wikipedia from 2007 state:

>the core of peak oil theory: peak oil does not mean that we will run out of oil, or even that we will cease to make major oil discoveries, but rather that we will be unable to maintain current levels of oil production.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peak_oil&diff=992...
So, who'll be the first to build a Y-combinator in Excel?
Good post. Not a "show hn" though, is it?
Microphone for dB measurements should be put 1m away from the noise source. Not at 10cm and not at 5m. That's how the noise level gets defined.

I've seen noise levels on cheap indoor air condition units that have unbelievable good figures; only that they measure at 3m; go figure.

Smart phones indicated noise levels are irrelevant since they lack calibration. I don't understand why people discuss their figures.
Hello @bookofjoe !

Last time we spoke I mentioned how you enjoy leaving many scary Coronavirus stories yet never come back to comment of them.

Why is that @bookofjoe ?

Do you seek to have a discussion bookofjoe or are you karma farming?
Why is it important that Hollywood studios don't go bankrupt and die, but not restaurants and hair salons.

I can't think of a more "non-essential" business than Hollywood movie production.
SARS-CoV-2 D614G variant exhibits efficient replication
You could take it a step further and read academic reviews, which are about the size of a book chapter but are otherwise meant to be self-contained pieces of writing on a topic.
Correct—reading material doesn't qualify for Show HN. Otherwise every submission could have "Show HN" on it. We've taken that out of the title now.

Submitters: before putting Show HN on a title, please read the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.
What year was this? I can't imagine Android BlackBerrys doing this.
I think that they want to block specific URLs without blocking entire domains. For example block specific youtube video without blocking entire youtube.

Of course technically they can spy as well, so one should assume so.
Have you tried setting up your Raspberry Pi to boot from USB memory?
Even if she could only open her restaurant for production companies whose employees are tested daily, it'd be a better situation. She probably can offer way better food than a trucked in catering can provide which is probably the alternative. The catering company probably suffers a lot as well from covid, so let both have their venues open, and make the people decide whose food they like best. As a benefit, the people would distribute between the two venues and would thus be further apart than if they used one venue.

This situation is incredibly unfair to her. She has to pay the rent but can't open. She has to pay no rent and gets customers.
Where do you live that does that? In my area, students and Boy Scout troops do fundraisers where they come around and pick up the trees. They take the trees to landscaping suppliers, who in turn them through a wood chipper to make mulch.
This incredibly cheap, low-energy-consumption soc with an incredible community behind it, yes. Like... yes, the chip is all kinds of weird and messy under the hood, but in practice it works well for people.
Agreed on the bad usability, but that's par for the course with most Electron apps. You get the laziest possible "stuffed a webpage in a window" UI. And maybe it's even a nice UI in some ways, but it's usually pretty clear that it's not native software.

Re: moving away from Electron, not as far as I know. They had a major update a year or so ago to make some big efficiency gains by not running a separate Electron instance for each organization, but the new version is still in Electron: https://slack.engineering/rebuilding-slack-on-the-desktop/

One can hope that they'll take the iPad version and make some improvements to let ARM Mac users get that instead, but currently they've chosen to disable downloading it from the Mac App Store.
Citus was acquired by MSFT in 2019, hence the integration. Vitess is primarily a MySQL-based solution, and I imagine that AWS would rather have its customers on Postgres-flavored DBs, given that MySQL is currently owned by Oracle.
It sounds like this is indeed the case.

"As you’ve probably noticed, we are improving the product on a regular basis. The desktop version of Excel for Windows & Mac updates monthly, and the web app much more frequently than that."
Not yet, no. I hope with companies like JetBrains working on their Nim plugin https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/15128-nim we'll see more focus put on a smooth IDE based debugging experience in particular.
Um, downvotes? Are you saying that that link is not to the full contents of the article? Or are you saying that you think it is bad to give people access to data? Or are you saying that one should not circumvent the paywall of the WSJ because it is stealing?
I expect it to be added to Chrome and Firefox blacklists. Not sure about others. I don't think that Java even have a concept of CA blacklist.
But people who didn't study linguistics can still be impressed by Plato, and then quote him to impress others.

So, it's ultimately a question of why do you even want to study philosophy in first place. I suspect that for most usual purposes, Plato is perfectly okay.
I mentioned this below in the other thread about it.

Sounds like he was rebelling hardcore against an overly restrictive, maybe typical (?), 1st generation immigrant parent background?

"Ultimately happiness is really just about enjoying life,” he wrote in the 2010 book..."

This is often what you hear from someone who has doesn't have much of a sense of higher calling, or doesn't quite know what to do with his capabilities other than go for satisfaction in the short term. And leaves you feeling empty and unsure of what your life should be when work evaporates as your sense of self?
I picked up one of these fanless cases, with aluminum heat sink built in, seems to work pretty well - https://flirc.tv/more/raspberry-pi-4-case
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I don't disagree with it being written well. I don't feel like using C and pointers is helpful for getting the point across.

After reading for a minute I realized it's all about pointer and C specific stuff, I am not going to revisit that just for an article...
The motive behind ORM is in the name: it is to Map Objects to Relations.

The promise is that a Java (then Ruby) developer, could simply design the objects needed for the program, and the fields which need to be persistent could be automatically mapped to the database using ORM.

The reality is quite different of course, there's a reason ORM is so widely derided. But ORM is more about skipping the bookkeeping involved in setting up persistence for application code, rather than testability or opacity of SQL.
There are examples in the author's presentation at SSTIC '19 -- in french only https://www.sstic.org/2019/presentation/GUSTAVE_FuzzItLikeIt...
Your link does not support that - whilst it admits the possibility that the effects "must be very weak or affect only few individuals" it does not suggest that "more research is required", and suggests that other environmental factors or the nocebo effect is to blame. I read the last sentence of the conclusion as suggesting that researchers stop wasting their time with false reports due to poor experimental setup.

You have the need for scepticism round the wrong way. Scepticism is needed when dealing with claims that some humans can detect radio frequencies, despite no single human that has been tested being able to demonstrate such a skill, and no proposed mechanism for how this should be possible.
I’ll believe it when they actually ship it to the general public.

I was a huge fan of Aptera when they first came out, how many years ago? Was that before Tesla?

Since then, we’ve had nothing but radio silence.

It’s interesting to see what they claim will be possible, but it’s all snake oil until they actually start delivering it to the general public.
In my opinion, the Jetbrains tools are very affordable when compared with the huge productivity boost that they grant me.

I agree that intellij and eclipse are similar, but as soon as you work with C, C# or Python, there's very few good open source alternatives.
So what’s the point? If you don’t trust the certificate you won’t be able to browse the internet at all.
> Where exactly is the "stigma" of mental health

Are you blind? It's EVERYWHERE. ALL THE TIME.
>What are the missing pieces to get people using this?

It's generally slow and it needs port forwarding to work correctly. Its design (whether you look at the java router, I2P, or the C++ one, i2pd) isn't really noob-friendly, either. That's more than enough to deter almost everyone from using it, it seems.

>Is there a need?

I'd say there's an ever-increasing need for anonymous, uncensorable platforms on the Internet. I wager we will progressively notice an urgency to turn to this kind of applications in the coming years. I hope I'm wrong on this one, but I don't think my guess will be too far off.
This lets you do things like localize a complex formula to one spot that might otherwise be used many times within a workbook. How does that make things more unmaintainable?
The pulse was still nowhere near directional enough to only impact a single person over long ranges and not essentially act as a massively detectable EMP.
As as said above, even much better fireproofed buildings may collapse quicky if the circumstances are bad enough.

Fireproofing alone is not a solution.

I think I have not seem a single highrise in my life without 2 staircases, or emergency staircase anywhere, even in very old buildings.
I use these too! The case contacts with the CPU inside via a thermal pad and the entire outside of the case becomes the heatsink. It's a really clever design. Stays cool, no fan.
Edit: Someone corrected me, I quoted the survey wrong. But here‘s another source (YouGov survey, 2012), saying that 43% had a real tree and 17% an artificial one: https://statistik-dresden.de/archives/5195

> Also, I don't know anybody here who has a fake plastic tree - these aren't really a thing here, basically people either don't have a tree at all, or they get a real one.

Plenty of people in Germany have plastic trees. According to an Emnid survey from 2017, 1/3 preferred an artificial tree: https://presse.vonovia.de/de-de/aktuelles/171220_kuenstliche...
That seems an odd claim though I can't disprove it. Why would I buy an artificial tree every year and have to dispose of it every year. I mostly have a small artificial tree (along with a very old pre-decorated even smaller one) because it's a nice thing I can grab from my attic, put up in a few minutes, and stick a few decorations on it.

I did the live tree thing for a while after I bought a house and my neighbor even has a Christmas tree farm now. But, absent kids and not usually in the habit of throwing Christmas parties, I'm just not inclined to put a lot of energy into decorating for Christmas. Having to buy an artificial tree every year would sort of see to defeat the purpose of saving effort.
Operation Warp Speed falling short on Covid vaccine delivery promises
That site has no links. Do you have more info?
Ask HN: How to figure out if someone is smart during a casual conversation?
Hi,

I'd love to be able to figure out if someone is smart during an informal, casual conversation.

Do you have any ideas?
Although I liked the 'elegant' code after reading it, in general I would try to shy away from 'elegant' solutions that are actually harder to understand. Unless you are working with high-performance programs, most of the time you don't care about one or two extra branches. It's usually more beneficial to write code that can be easily understood by a future-you or by another person in your team: less time invested in understanding code, more time dedicated to actually fixing issues that matter. If performance becomes an issue, you'll catch that in profiling easily (because everybody here is profiling before trying to improve the performance of a piece of code, right?).
And when the self-certification is fraudulent, presumably they will face few or no repercussions.
Semantic knowledge influences visual working memory in adults and children
A concise intro to Variational Auto-Encoders
I understand the general point (and value) of reframing the problem or the solution in a way that removes special cases ... but in this case I would actually prefer the first solution over the second. The second solutions reminds me of the old-school perl culture, and JavaScript culture, where 'cleverness' (which always manifests itself as terseness as if lines of code were expensive), takes precedence over maintainability and understandability. Your code is going to be potentially maintained years in the future by developers of all levels - make it easy on them by practicing the principle of least surprise. In this case, this means using a traditional implementation of a linked list that most developers would be familiar with.
You can install Termux on Android devices and use Emacs there. I use it on more or less read only on the smartphone and actively on a tablet. Both rsync with my desktop from inside Termux.

And Orgzly has already been mentioned.
Author here. Thanks for fixing the title, I should have seen that!
Which has received a good deal of skepticism from the scientific community.
How do we really know that brains use hard attention?
Is this in the uk? Assuming the parent is renting I'm pretty sure the parent can just refuse and the landlord will need an injunction to get in. Good luck getting one in this period.

The right of quiet enjoyment of your home trumps any contractual provision of inspection.
If you are interested in this sort of journalism, I can recommend everything around the occrp project. They built a huge database for investigative journalism across the globe, trying to track the money behind incidents [1]

[1] https://aleph.occrp.org/
How does an interviewer measure good taste? You the interviewer could have been the result of a variety of metrics, none of which are good taste related. Bad taste is endemic in corporate and corporate startups(if you enter the millions in funding budget) for the simple reason that adequate taste is more reliable.

Edit: Within 30 seconds this got downvoted by cowards with no response. Enough with lurker culture. Say something.
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The ballpoint pen has become a new symbol of China’s innovation economy (2017)
I've been very happy with these as well.
Defining ‘similar’ robustly is the meat of the problem, and what we’re finding deep NNs to do well.
Yes, other software can do most of what GeForce Experience can do. Not everyone wants to install and run 5 different things when the one included with their graphics driver can do them all.