skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And that group will be even smaller than the group holding it as a commodity, meaning there would be practically no one to trade with as the massive majority of the population has to figure out some alternative. I wouldn't be able to take your gold and be confident that someone else would accept it as payment when I needed to buy something, because maybe they don't have any surplus they can gamble on gold and instead of getting something they directly need in exchange.

Whatever the population rallied around as a medium of exchange would have to be accessible, ubiquitous, and hard to duplicate. Gold hits 1 out of 3, because once the financial system collapses no one without gold will be able to use their inflated $1,000,000 bills to buy it directly, leaving only that tiniest minority with actual gold and a vast majority that can't wait for gold to bootstrap itself into a reasonable medium of exchange.

Want to make sure you can retain your wealth & have it back after we rebuild from a financial collapse? Sure, have some gold. But if you want to to have an immediate ability to acquire things during that collapse, gold won't help. If your heat goes out a month after financial institutions collapse, No HVAC engineer is going to fix your boiler for gold unless they already have enough people giving them food and other services for their work that they can risk taking something in return that doesn't have an immediate use.

I'm not saying gold couldn't be a medium of exchange. Obviously it has in the past. I'm saying that current ownership patterns don't make that practical, especially in the short term, say 1-2 years, after a serious financial collapse.
There is most certainly a lot baked into the language-specific editors that isn’t in IDEA proper.

That said, the fact that they all share IDEA’s gubbins makes it massively easier to jump between languages and frameworks for small jobs than I ever thought would be possible.

Having a set of tailored environments that also share keybindings and most common features makes for a fantastic (and really under-appreciated) value proposition.
Git-plan, a better workflow for Git (alpha release)
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/lyznr8/introdu...
> Playing a game of chance works the same way mentally as other games, you get enjoyment from them both.

It doesn't. That's the issue. See Skinner's box. Random variable rewards cause addictive behavior, because of evolutive pressures our ancestors exprienced.

Couple that with a money extraction system and you get a way to easily extract money from people unaware of this 'exploit'.
ROM space was definitely at a premium, similarly the PS1 booting splash screen was a rendered 3d graphic, with synthesized sound, not a static image with PCM data.

You can have some fun with causing it to corrupt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VcbhDbCY7Q
You're probably being downvoted for the 1st sentence. And for the Edit.

Why is it ignorant? OP is just stating a fact. Is OP the PC police, or is he the canary trying to warn that the "cancel mob" might attack this project if they took offense at the name, I can't tell.

You saying it means "bird" is also just a fact...
Flickr is no longer associated with Yahoo. It's owned by Smugmug. Even if you can log into Yahoo that probably won't give you access to Flickr any longer. (Smugmug also cut back significantly on what Yahoo provided for free accounts.)
After remarking on how boring jet engines are, the page gets vague and states that the turbofan increases "fuel efficiency", without explaining why or how. I've seen it assumed elsewhere that the efficiency of turbofans is due to thermodynamic effects. In this case, what the author wrote is vague about the mechanics of it, at best.

In fact, turbofans have better propulsive efficiency because they accelerate more air to a lower speed. Fuel efficiency follows from that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propulsive_efficiency#Jet_engi...
I remember around a decade ago, when metacritc shut down their forums. Also citing an inability to keep up with moderation duties. I suppose in their defense we were posting a lot of download links at the time.
An interesting concept from Turkish is each word can directly give you all (or single) objects that do or can respond to that action

yap -- make
yapan -- the one who makes
yapanlar -- all those who make
yapılan -- then one being made
yapılanlar -- all those being made

This would be like functions having a standard way to return lists of all objects they're related to

Or direct solving of some complex queries like 'Who can open this door?'

In Turkish that would be open_this_door_an, where '_an' is the standard way to get a list of all objects capable of doing it
Switzerland is a country of its own class and in most cases shouldn't and can't be compared to the rest of Europe. Yes,the salaries are higher, much higher, compared to other countries in Europe,but it's not that high either. Switzerland is very expensive. Also, because it's a high cost country,a lot of of the tech jobs seem to be on the high end of the spectrum, which means some JS+ HTML knowledge wouldn't result in employment, which may be the case in some places in the US.
Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators for Spacecraft: Plutonium 238 Production
The proposal was always TPP or some transnational treaty like that.

You know, the one that went over like a lead ballon and likely cost Hillary the 2016 election?

Likelihood that this kind of treaty coming into force now is essentially nil.
I began using WordStar in 1980 for development (in "non-document mode") on CP/M. It was the best thing ever available for that platform, and it had some features that I've never seen duplicated elsewhere (such as "column mode" cut and paste). Back when I was using it, the standard computer keyboard had the "control" key directly to the left of the "A" key (where the "Caps Lock" key is now). I was never happy that IBM moved the control key, and I was even less happy when Sun Microsystems followed suit (but for a while you could still order the Sun keyboards with the control key in the right place). I got in bad habit of moving my left hand one key left so I could use my left pinky to hold control down while using the "magic diamond" to move the cursor around. It took me many years to un-learn that bad habit.

By 1996 (when this article was written) WordStar had already committed suicide by pushing "WordStar 2000" on everybody, which completely broke the old user interface.
> it is actually not possible to measure the same particle in the same basis twice in a row

If the robot's protocol is to measure the particle twice, it will measure the same outcome twice.

> that the particle "actually" was spin up

I didn't say that it was up, I said that it is up. Very important distinction.

> But it emphatically does NOT say that this outcome is actually real.

Seems like a distinction without a difference to me.

> but you cannot actually measure its trajectory

Bubble chambers do measure particle trajectories. https://cds.cern.ch/record/39474
I agree, I also think sibling comment about vs code being a generic text editor is a fair point.

I’ve tried to move to vs code several times as I like using the “default” (same reason I use Ubuntu) but webstorm is just better IMO.
Root cause: The Amiga didn't have curves in its graphic primitives.

Just this week i read an article in a 1986 Byte magazine which included a comparison of the Amiga and Macintosh graphic privatives. The Amiga had color routines, but the Mac had circles, curves, rounded rectangles, and a few other desirable shapes that the Amiga lacked.

Except for the text, the Kickstart image is not a bitmap, it's the output of a vector drawing program using the built-in ROM routines. No curves, and that's what you get.

Edit: September, 1986, page 251.
I first saw your comment on this topic a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26115086
I've used many wordprocessors but WordStar still is my favorite, I first used it under CP/M and later on the IBM PC. Anyone who has used it knows that once you got the feel for the WordStar keystroke diamond it was magic to use. I still have hundreds of files in WordStar format and I can either import them into a GUI WYSIWYG WP or I can still use them in WordStar 7 running under an emulated environment in Windows.

WordStar came in various varieties with version 7 the last before it changed direction to WordStar 2000 (which, incidentally, was well before the year 2000). This put death knell on WordStar as its
keystrokes were different to previous ones. Making a stupid and unpopular change like that ought to be a lesson for every software developer

When WordStar 2000 was released I recall that when at an exhibition having an argument with Seymour Rubinstein, CEO of MicroPro, WS's developer, about these stupid changes. I told him bluntly that I would not be upgrading from version 7 as I saw no reason why I should relearn all the hard-earned keystrokes for little advantage. The fact that WordStar 2000 failed, it seems that I was far from being alone with that view.

Incidentally, for those who are not familiar with WordStar, MicroPro or Seymour Rubinstein—Seymour Rubinstein was the inventor of the now infamous EULA—End User License Agreement! WordStar was close to the first program to have an EULA attached (from memory I think WordMaster (an earlier WP that predated WordStar), was actually first—someone correct me if I'm wrong).
I wonder if the use of a .win domain had any influence. I've seen nothing but spam and malware / phishing from these $2 TLDs.

https://symantec-enterprise-blogs.security.com/blogs/feature...
It's possible you have a custom, non-standard understanding of the term. According to Merriam Webster, it has 5 meanings, and none of them refers to the government.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nation
Same thing happened to a Bitbucket account of mine. I know the email and password, but the primary email is under a domain I lost access to. At some point, Bitbucket decided I needed to verify my email in order to sign in. Support was utterly unhelpful.
Founders at Work and how Viaweb was done (2009)
Yeah I see it as two items - total architecture rebuilds and redesigns for an organization’s IT system vs. blowing away enterprise resources each night and restoring with a known good application each day or week.

That would be amazing but incredibly complex. Each week I guess you would run a script to re-build your architecture in AWS with the latest builds and patches. Then run a config script to re-import all your data.

It would be painful to figure out, but you could essentially store a copy of your data at another AWS location and fail over within a day or two just given your two install scripts (the architecture build out and then the config script to read in the data), Depending how often and on how many systems you did this on, you’d basically make attackers restart every night or week. And ideally you’re patching as quickly as possible, so it might block some of them out quickly.
Storing a cookie which is not strictly necessary to provide the service, requires explicit consent. This is a PECR requirement, not a GDPR one. Tracking the source and campaign of a user between pages is not required to deliver the page.

So you may rely on legitimate interest to process the data, but you need the consent to store the session cookie to collect the data in the first place.
Nah, Google offered a free browser and the author's customers' and their customers chose to use it.

Remember all the "best viewed in ie6" or "only works on netscape 3 or above" banners? There has never been universal accessibility on the web. The dominant browser changes over the decades and it causes problems for everyone when one becomes too popular.
> how is it that everybody is treating Google like a fragile grandmother with dementia, going out of their way not to hold them responsible in court?

Yeah, it's a really good question. We got all these fully staffed insanely rich companies causing measurable harm to people. They just insist there's nothing they can do to stop it. Why does everyone believe them?
I will write something most likely controversial for HN, but I think what you write is very North-America and computer related "centric".

As for the context, I am French, over 40, Master in France, PhD in Denmark and working in Germany. My work is chemical engineering at large, oil & gas, crop science, pharmaceutical but also food and flagrances. I am working with 50/50% men and women. My wife is working in oil & gas.

I haven't witnessed a single time abuse like there are in IT in the last 20 years. And I have been working, living and studying from California to Japan.

In fact I am still chocked to see all these codes of conduct to contribute to open source projects or attend conferences in computer related stuff.

How can it be that you need such things?

So yes, PhD is hard work. Yes you have moments where you lose faith. But life is like that too. Life is unfair and hard, but suffering abuse is something which never came back from all my friends doing PhDs in engineering in the EU. Both men and women.

To the point that I sometimes wonder if the word abuse has a different meaning for me as a non native speaker as for people from North America.
That's a fantasy burden you've constructed. What would even count as "proof"? Anything that incrementally changes the field of possibility? Or something that definitely proves what happened?

Microsoft has done untrustworthy things. They've also build the most successful (esp. in the longer view) commercial computing ecosystem because it hit the right balance between stability/robustness/usability. Many elements of that include proving some minimum burdens of trustworthiness (not to be confused with earning absolute trust).

The US government... cf the 20th century? You mean the greatest secular advancements in the human condition in history? And as for the age of "American Empire" (post WW2? Post Cold War?)... are you referring to the relatively most peaceful, humane, self-effacing hegemon that has ever been known the planet (not to be confused with a perfectly peaceful and human hegemon)?

This flippant stance combined with absolutely no countervailing context and fantasy burdens of proof... please.
Manifest Money Fast
Thanks! I can't stop reading.
Short of writing your own, you'll have to wait until the shrillness of "OMG you have to learn community-building NOW or else you'll be sleeping in a cardboard box on the streets" reaches the same levels as learning programming so that sufficient numbers call out the BS in such hype.
Jetbrains provides plugins for Intellij that support almost every other language they have a "dedicated IDE" for. That's what I do and it supports almost every language I throw at it. The exceptions that I know of are Rider and parts of Android Studio
I always remember this exchange with real writer when I see & hear WordStar :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5REM-3nWHg
Ahhh thanks, now I get it :D

Never used LastPass myself. I use zx2c4 pass with yubikeys (and QtPass GUI and Passwordstore Android client) which works great.
The trickery here is basically pushing the type system to the extreme for relatively simple things. I wonder how the type system might cope for more complicated things. Another consequence is type errors. You won’t get something about trying to add a length to a time but rather something like “can’t unify type Pos1 with Zero,” or “error Units<f64,(z,(z,(z,(z,(s<z>,(z,()))))))> does not implement trait Add<Units<f64,(z,(z,(z,(s<z>,(z,(z,()))))))>>.” This is confusing enough in a trivial example but I wonder how this would go if the example were buried deep in the code.

The encodings used in the haskell library were not a church encoding (they could only express integers between about minus 9 and 9) though to be fair they claimed to be only there until better type level literals. I don’t know about the rust implementation.

Coq and Idris are quite weird languages. The reason they use Peano arithmetic at the type level is that it is easy for them to reason about. But in dependently typed languages where the type and value levels aren’t really separate, if you want to prove things about your programs, they also need to use these numbers which means you either need special language support for making them fast or you have slow programs, which is not suitable for the topic of efficient systems for computer mathematics. The other problem is that the computer can’t help much with the types and they require a lot of manually specifying things which many practitioners would consider trivial enough to be tacit. This is not good for having an expressive system for computer mathematics.

Another example of a system which tried to offer better mathematical foundations is fortress. They started out as something like “fortran but better at mathematics and without so much history” and ended up with something a lot more like haskell with a typeclass-like mechanism and mostly function language. They had a lot of issues with making the type system work with mathematics (one case is that it is hard to specify that something can be a (eg) a monoid. In mathematics, it’s often obvious or said very simply, but computers aren’t so good at knowing what is obvious. It can be complicated to say eg “this is a monoid with identity 1 and operation x,” or “this is a monoid with identity 0 and operation +” because your type system needs a way to disambiguate between the two monoids (or the language will need some bad ergonomics where it is very manually expressed). If your type system ends up needing to know about the names of things and having eg type classes dispatch on the operation or something, it could become tricky.
Looks great. And I appreciate the docker-compose example and architecture diagram in the README file.

https://gitlab.com/programaker-project/programaker-core

Keen to give this a go.
Ask HN: What has been your best purchase in the best year?
What Is Confidential Computing? (2020)
That's interesting.

> Surprisingly, Bluetooth devices require nearly three times as much energy to transmit a bit of data at the physical layer than WiFi devices.
Love my HP50G. I rode a motorcycle during college, so consequentially I always had my HP50G on me wherever I went since I never took it out of my backpack.
Again, no sources to back up any of your claims. As Hitchens once famously claimed, "What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."
For me mostly the aspect ratio looks too wide. Not sure if it also looked like that on an Amiga monitor, did it have square pixels?
Google incentivizes and encourages users to entrust and entangle important, and often financial, aspects of their lives with Google's services, and in exchange, Google gets to profit greatly by mining their data. They also charge users money for many of their services, too.
I don't have a deep personal affectation for WordStar, although I do appreciate it's keyboard layout, but what I do miss is writers having opinions about these things.

These days it seems that it's mostly "whatever version of Word that came with my Laptop/Times New Roman 12".

We programmers still have our "holy wars" (although I see a decrease of passion here, too, with safe choices like VSC or IntelliJ being more and more the default.)
But back in the days, even writers with non-CS backgrounds could wax poetic about XyWrite vs. WordStar vs. Word (DOS/Win/Mac) vs WordPerfect. (Heck, WordPerfect even made lawyers have an opinion of their own)
My first step when evaluating new (software development related) technology/product/service is to google Hacker News for it. Great value for the time spent. You may try cutting leisure browsing time and use HN as a tool.
Bulimia Nervosa
For whatever reason my high school had HP48s for my junior year math class, which got replaced the following year for TIs since “that’s what you’ll be using in college”. I much preferred the RPN and ended up convincing my parents my life would be easier with a new HP49g (which wasn’t a lie, it was). That thing helped get me through my math major and I’ll always remember my old school professor who taught my complex analysis course amazed that it could even solve those equations (which I’m sure the TIs could do as well).
It’d be interesting to read a followup article on how these policies played out.
My question is, in a condo parking stall, who pays for the electricity? My guess is each unit has an assigned stall, do they pay their own electricity? What prevents their neighbour parking in their stall for a few hours and using their power?

Is the cost of the electricity rolled into the condo fee? How is that fair for people without EVs?

I'm glad I own my own house and don't have to deal with "one-size-fits-all" crap like this anymore.
We do a version of this with our clients, where we use our forecasting software and host a "live" forecasting session. We make people forecast "cold" on something: likelihood of hitting milestones, competitive intelligence, industry trend, whatever, and then have someone come in and give a talk on what we've asked people to forecast. We follow that up with more forecasting and get to see if people were influenced by the expert or not.

Perhaps the most valuable part is the discussion after making that second forecast. We identify a lot of bias and assumptions people were making that they then learn from the next time they have to make a forecast like that.
As soon as the pandemic started, airmail services stated to shut down. Normally, airmail packets “hitch a ride” on commercial airliners already making the trip. But when those ceased, airmail service stopped. So what happened? All of the pending airmail got switched to “surface mail,” which is code for shipping on a boat. I had several packages go from an ETA measured in days to an ETA measured in weeks and months.

I imagine that the whole thing cascaded from that. Online orders that would normally take a plane trip got redirected to the surface, and then the pipeline kept backing up. Until the world is connected and back to normal, bottlenecks like this will probably still exist.
3. The crypo space is actually doing this fairly well: end users remember a 12-word seed phrase, and that can be used to recover the multiple private keys that make up a “wallet” (bad term since wallet already means something, but that’s what the hardware vendors went with).

Otherwise I’d say it’s clear you’re in the space and I agree with your assessment.
Interestingly enough,just a few years ago €50k was an absurd salary in a lot of Eastern/Central European countries, however fast forward to 2021 and it's not that uncommon for those with experience. The quality of life would be absolutely incomparable having such salary in let's say Talin va Paris.
Because book quality has nothing to do with release date.

Books aren't fruit.

And because "classics" means a huge, multi-century or millenia long filtering process, where it has been found good, useful, and insightful for generations upon generations of people.

Also, because all the best of your modern books will soon enough be "classics" too, and you'll be as dead as the people who wrote the older classics. So what makes you think you or your compotemporary authors have some unique insight just because you happen to be living at the moment?

Only a belief in an arrow of progress where non-technical things (morals, books, ideas) get monotonically better (or at least, where the dominant vector over time points to better) would justify not reading the classics. But then again only someone ignorant enough to not have read the classics would believe such an idea. So reading the classics will cure you of that too.

(Even for technical things it's not always the case - there were civilizations more advanced than those that followed them, or periods where we went backwards in quality of life, knowledge of science, etc., for centuries - but at least with technical knowledge it's possible to amass and improve. You don't amass morals however, and even the higher moral ideas and ideals can be used for the worst attrocities).