skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah...the Meiko was pretty nifty, and Occam was an interesting language.

Like I said, ST Micro picked up the Transputer line via acquisition. They morphed it into more of an embedded product, and targeted things like set-top boxed. Pretty sure it was the ST20 line. Unfortunately, a very quick look at the web site makes it look like ST did what everyone else in the embedded world seems to be devolving to: everything is an ARM. So...there are probably descendants of Transputer still chugging along out there, but doesn't look like it has a future.
This is probably true if you're putting a reverse proxy in front of a traditional three-tier monolith, but a programmable proxy is often useful. Sure, you can extend lots of proxies in C or Lua, but most application development groups don't hire for expertise in those languages (and may not have adequate library support in those languages).

If you're a .NET shop, it seems very useful to have a reasonably fast toolkit for deploying specialized proxies. It's still early days, but I'd expect this to become as fast as anything written in Go or on the JVM, which seems sufficient for many use cases.
And I think that's why these are so viral. When you see a question and your friend's answer, it makes you feel like you're responding as well.
At this point, the slogan "black lives matter" seems to be more of a partisan talking point than any kind of indication that the person using it does, in fact, consider black lives to actually matter. Up to and including shooting white people somehow being more of an attack on the notion that black lives matter than shooting and killing a black teenager, just because of the perceived partisan affiliation of the shooters...
That wasn't quite what they said. They basically said that this isn't about Amazon, not that it's about these specific people.
An ESLint plugin to detect and stop Trojan Source attacks
Pattern matching in Factor (2009, PDF)
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How fast do we actually need to learn about Mars? How far are we willing to go, how much are we willing to spend just to speed things up there?

We don’t live in the 1950s or the 1890s any more. We are not willing to sacrifice the lives of our explorers like we did when we went to the moon or Antarctica in the 1960s and 1900s respectively. We are not engaging in juvenile races to “get there first” which is both expensive and dangerous.

The space exploration of today is more collaborative and careful then the explorations of the past. So we don’t risk the lives of our explorers nor the unnecessary expenses of getting things done 20 years when we can do it in 50 for far less money and with infinity more safety.
> LFP

I'm so thankful to see that acronym supplanting LifePO4.
True. But what differences there are, are critical.
Secure email service. Would be nice to actually mention that in the title...
This looks like another useless generalizaton to me.
Alternatively, from archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20170828212225/https://www.reddi...
I am not aware of any other way to wake up a MacBook with the clamshell closed. Step 1: plug it in. If it doesn't turn on step 2 is to hit keys, right?
Off-topic, but can you recommend some geology podcasts, either science-centric or for the layperson?
The source is The Sun, equivalent to National Enquirer.
So I was excited about Project Hail Mary and went to the Wikipedia page [1].

Can someone who has read the book tell me if the current intro is a spoiler, or something we learn in the book's first third? ("He gradually remembers that...")

I know Wikipedia doesn't put spoiler tags, but they are usually confined to the "Plot" section.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Project_Hail_Mary...
Interesting, could you point at some further reading?

My wife studied volcanology, I helped her with some of the maths involved, seems like a fascinating subject!
Do you plan to offer pricing in USD? You might also want to consider multi-language options for customers. Great idea for an app!
There's clearly a spectrum of consciousness between us and insects, there is no one clear-cut threshold, and some people are lower on it than some animals (see some neurological problems). Therefore arbitrarily deciding to put a strict care/don't care threshold on a species border is irrational. It makes much more sense to have a care/don't care spectrum, and not to limit it to one species.
> And, yes, probably took a lot more time.

But it was less stressful, because you didn't have daily standups and biweekly sprints.
Suppose I only have one level of employee and they’re all in CO.

To keep the math and my HR processes simple, I pay them all $100K/yr and grant them all initially $200K in shares plus $100K/yr in refresher shares, vesting over 4 years. Someone who just joined will make $150K in the next 12 months. Someone who joined 2 years ago will make $200K in the next 12 months if our stock is UNCH since they joined. If it doubled since then, they’ll make close to $300K in the next 12 months.

Bam, my range is $150K-$300K/yr and I have the fairest, most equitable pay structure I could imagine. Layer on top of that complexities of people actually having different levels of productivity, different amounts of unvested stock appreciation, and you can have even wider spreads. Add to that having had to “buy out” someone’s unvested shares or bonus at another company to get them to switch to yours and the spread gets wider.
> The huge advantage of biometrics ... is the ease with which a user can unlock their phone

This does not prevent involuntary unlocking - it actually can allow for eased against-will unlocking.

«Ease» and security may sometimes not be friends.
I'm sure there is a complex Venn diagram to be had here. Anyone making blanket statements about wants/efficiency/etc is a fool.

I have an hour commute each way if I want to go in and a dedicated 12x12 office bathed in natural light. There's no possible way a company office could come close to the productivity and comfort I have here, even on video calls.

Another chunk of the population lives in apartments not much bigger than my personal office and have a 10 minute walking commute into an office. If I were in that situation I'd maybe enjoy going into an office to do work more (but I probably would never choose to put myself into that specific living scenario).

There is likely everything in between those extremes. You also need to question intro/extro personalities, how much and what type of collaboration is part of the job, etc.

We used to live in a world where there was only one option: come into the office where the paper work lived. Now we have a choice. Let's take maximum advantage of that.
Kind of related: what was it in Hollywood that did away the old time-y presentations like this in animations? The grand orchestral music, the personable-but-still-authoritative male narrator, amazingly well-paced script. Was it Hanna-Barbera and how they commoditized animation?
Yeah I also find it surprising that people are shocked that Facebook have internal studies into e.g. whether instagram causes depression in teenage girls (answer: inconclusive), like they’re a bad company for investigating whether their products have negative effects on people…
Nesper author here, unfortunately I haven’t had time to fix the compile issues on all the esp-idf branches. Please feel free to file an issue as I don’t use es-idf/Nesper often now but I’ll respond to issues. The main branch should be more stable too.

I’ve been moving development to Zephyr RTOS since it supports many more boards and is more stable. I’d recommend trying it out but note it’s a WIP. I haven’t figured out templated examples yet. I’ve covered lots of api areas but not all. My goal is to make it into a broad MCU platform for Nim — Nephyr: https://github.com/EmbeddedNim/nephyr

But yah Nim can run on most anywhere you can compile C to. Some people just got Nim CMSIS working. I’m hoping to get more people involved at github.com/EmbeddedNim project to support more mcu’s. Testers are welcome!
Mandatory XKCD:
https://xkcd.com/1168/
I actually lasted exactly 7 months myself, then went to work for 1 year. Quit again and now it's been almost two more years of coasting. I think it's time for me to get a job.
That is revealed in the first third of the book. I would prefer not having that info before reading, but it is part of the basic premise.
> I got fired from every job I ever had before I started working for myself.

Why?
Yes, that would be a good way to go. In practice I think bank-switching would be of great value even if none of the programs use it directly: currently context-switching is implemented by dumping the running process to disk and loading the new process from disk. If I had bank-switching then I could context switch much more rapidly by just giving each process its own bank(s) of memory.

It's slightly more complicated than just having 1 register to drive the upper bits of the address, because if you just blindly switch on some of the upper bits of the address then suddenly all of your instructions go missing and the CPU starts executing whatever arbitrary bytes happen to be in memory. So you'd want some way to switch out just the parts you want to store data in, while leaving all your code still mapped in.

I have an RC2014 with the bank-switching memory expansion. The RC2014 handles it by splitting memory into 4 (I think?) "pages" of 16K each, and allowing you to select which bank backs each page separately.
> So a government that would love to read your mail would do better to realize that they will only be able to read the uninteresting mail and for the rest of it they'll be staring at white noise

This is the crux of your argument, but it's false. E2EE has been available for decades but it wasn't used widely, by everyone including criminals, until it was pushed as the default.
I want it too but Nim is 13 years old so not a young language. Compare it to Zig, which is 5 years old and I don't see it coming anywhere outside its niche.
https://www.genie.xyz/
There already exist many services for this:
https://sudoswap.xyz/#/
https://nfttrader.io
https://swap.kiwi/your-nfts

I don't understand how the author didn't run into these.
Ex-college professor charged with setting California fires
According to court documents, Maynard’s alleged arson spree included blazes he started in July and August behind crews fighting the Dixie Fire, which became the second biggest wildfire in California history, scorching more than 1,500 square miles (3,900 square kilometers) and destroying more than 1,000 structures.

And not isolated:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/24/us/palo-alto-fawn-fire-ar...
I wish they were saying "trust me." What they're actually saying is, "I won't tell you anything, and don't trust anyone who does."
Unknown Dürer drawing bought for $30 at a house clearance could sell for $50m
Higher resolution means higher power consumption. If you follow laptop reviews, you'll see that getting a 4k panel will set you back at least an hour of battery consumption compared to standard 1080p, perhaps two or three depending on panel and battery size.

I like high-res screens. But in general, the best course of action for a laptop is to get the lowest possible resolution that still works for you. Personally, I have a hard time seeing how an upgrade from 1440p-ish to 4K-ish makes any discernable difference on a 14" and how it justifies cutting into my power efficiency.
I find myself cross-referencing salary information on Glassdoor. I'm thankful people share this info on Glassdoor but it does seem like an imperfect kludge for simply demanding an answer from HR that they just refuse to give.
People love to ask me this. One guy said deer are being run over by tractors so as a vegan I’m killing deer.

I don’t really see how only eating plants is a random line. As I said in my original comment living in an industrialized society includes some amount of harming animals (for example carbon dioxide emissions harm animals).

I’m actually designing a solar powered farming robot for regenerative agriculture so we don’t have to use harmful chemicals to do farming.

But in my mind there is a clear distinction between accidentally harming insects while harvesting lentils and intentionally breeding animals in cages for slaughter.

If you think that line is arbitrary and you can’t understand it, I’m not sure I can help.
The thing is, I don't think the one page cheat sheet is very useful.

npm is a great example of why: pretend that all you have is `npm install -g`. That's sort of how a traditional package manager, like Homebrew, works. But that's not typically how you use Nix, just like you don't typically globally install npm packages. Instead, you write package.json files -- which isn't very hard, because you already know JSON.

But in order to write the Nix equivalent, you have to learn the Nix expression language. You can just copy a template shell.nix file and modify it slightly (as you might for a package.json file), but it's likely that that will be frustrating, because... well, because you still have to learn about garbage collection, and channels, and lots of other incidental things that don't map as cleanly to traditional package managers.

There are cheat sheets, though. I linked my Homebrew <-> Nix translation guide above, and the NixOS wiki has one for apt-get:

https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Cheatsheet

But this requires so many asterisks as to be not extremely useful. For example, that page lists `nix-env -u` as an equivalent of `apt-get upgrade`, but it's not. `nix-env -u` is hopelessly broken and will not do what you want. There actually isn't a "right" way to upgrade packages if you're using nix-env. It's just not a thing that Nix can do.

Which sounds crazy at first glance, but remember: nix-env is like `npm -g`. Even though that's a first class concept in most package managers, it's sort of bolted onto the side of Nix, and accepting "the Nix way" of doing things is important to have a pleasant relationship with the tool.
It's not a major spoiler.

He remembers that within the first few chapters, well before you're a third into the book.
This is particularly true when you're thinking "is this use of X a horrible hack or a performant best practice?". Someone laying out and linking to the guarantees on offer by X in a completely unrelated use case will clarify everything.
For cars, you would want to automate the swap anyway, so you'd presumably have handling equipment to swap and move batteries between the remove-recharge-store-install steps. I don't think you'd want to use humans in that application.
Bitcoin must be controversial, as it's disrupting much more than the supply chains: the whole global financial system. Nobody knows if it will be successful or not, we need 10 more years to find it out.

Can you imagine a non-controversial or non-volatile way to do it?
Buying some leftovers from some supplier is likely not the same as securing a reliable supply for periodic few thousand unit sales for a few years.

There's likely some sweet (sour) spot of "not enough" that the supplier will care, and "too much" to satisfy your demand from some stock leftovers.
"The Algorithm" or "Its Zuckerberg's fault" etc are all simplistic, comforting narratives to distract from the horrifying truth. The Clickfarm bots and fake account NPCs have collectively achieved an emergent intelligence. We humans aren't the majority of our social networks anymore, and we don't have any idea what it is the bots are pushing for.

The people we want to hold accountable for this mess are being run over by this steamroller just as we are.
genie.xyz has nft swaps, not exactly like you've outlined but in the right direction.
I just tested it, the close button works perfectly. I'm not required to do anything.
IJKL instead of HJKL? Charlatan!
As pointed out on r/rust, the approved Governance RFC states quite unambiguously that the Core Team is accountable to the community wrt. their behavior:

> Subteam, and especially core team members are also held to a high standard of behavior. Part of the reason to separate the moderation subteam is to ensure that CoC violations by Rust's leadership be addressed through the same independent body of moderators.

https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/1068-rust-governance.html
Airport bookstore Books I loved reading this year
I learned C# 2.0, when the offline MSDN was still a thing. That language environment I can still work in with ease, from memory, without consulting online resources. Good offline documentation (and good library design) works wonders.
That's quite a leap from "scan SSID" to knowing "all about your home network" and sounds like hyperbole. What can I gather from just passively scanning SSID and possibly putting out some probes on a properly configured WiFi network? I imagine some things like number of hosts, MAC addresses, traffic stats - which is not ideal, but hardly what I would call knowing "all about it".

I'm quite the privacy nut, but I always think its ridiculous that people cry foul about what people do with data that is being broadcast over the airwaves. If you really care about privacy and don't trust WPA2 then don't fucking use WiFi!
Okay thanks. That's on me for being too impatient I guess.
Protecting critical infrastructure against targeted cyber-attacks
Small correction: in mathematics, such a thing could also be called a graph.
How is it different from vanilla Debian?
Benchmarks are silly and here are some results on Druid vs. ClickHouse
I partially liked Hail Mary. Most of the book was good, but I found Eva's character too hard to suspend my disbelief.

IMO, I found her character "lazy" on Weir's part. I wish he tried a little harder to make her easier to believe as a real person.
Druid founder @zedruid writes a (satirical) benchmarking blog post about Druid vs Clickhouse and Rockset. The results are technically valid, but should you ever trust a benchmark?
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The Skylab reboost mission was originally targeted for 1981, IIRC; but it was going to fly as a Shuttle payload, and in the meantime, Skylab de-orbited a couple of years early (just as the Shuttle flew a couple of years later than planned) due to a poorly-understood phenomenon. (The ionosphere extends upwards when it gets hot due to a solar maximum/solar flares, which increased the drag on Skylab, which caused it to drop into a lower orbit ... positive feedback ensued).

Skylab wasn't great, but if it hadn't re-entered prematurely it could have been fixed up (new solar panels FTW!) and refurbed internally (methane scrubbers!) and used as a learning platform for a new space station, rather than the USA going nearly two decades without one.
> to the community subreddit and tagged with announcement

I'm not sure this really changes anything, it is a community announcement. I think this is something a community would want to know even independent of any other drama, even if they were resigning on good terms.

I guess I should clarify that I don't see letting the community know about something as necessarily equivalent to volunteering to debate or even to fully explain. I don't think this stuff is a binary category between never intending a message be read by the public (even if it's technically public) and doing something like a national TV news interview. Rust has a community issue tracker/repo that it uses for organization; posting notifications there (and in other community hubs like Reddit) feels very appropriate to me.
That site runs so slowly in Firefox on my computer. I didn't try it on anything else since that just turned me off too much.
There is even the (proprietary) desktop like interface called DeX on Samsung devices - so there is definitely potential.
Wow, that's the definition off my existence.

Seriously, the vast majority of my career has been boring and frustrating. I never knew the word before this.
I was originally a biology major and only ended up finishing the minor in part because of this. We had a lab assignment to do a live vivisection of a limpet to be able to view some of the circulatory systems in play in a still-living creature. We were supposed to paralyze them first, but whatever I did was incorrect. That thing was writhing and squirming and trying to get away and showing all the outward physical signs of being in pain the entire time.

Limpets don't even have brains, just cerebral ganglia, so it's likely it isn't really a sentient creature that has any conscious awareness of what is happening to it, but man, that scarred me. It felt like I was torturing something horribly and I knew that was not the career for me. There is no way I'd have ever been able to do that to a mouse.
> “My grand, macro thesis is that real interest rates have to stay low, and that’s because the rich have all the wealth and like saving,”

I feel I'm the choir and this guy is the preacher, leaning as I do towards full-on socialist, so I'd like to hear a counter argument from someone who believes the opposite.
> It's not; the ship has sailed (to the moon!).

May I ask you how you know that? Language is very much dependent on context; social groups, fashion etc. Your experience might not be as universal as you think.

Note that I'm not trying to debate you on the issue, I am just curious about what kind of evidence inspires such as bombastic pronouncement.
The opposite. These presentations were 100% within the propaganda period of the USA. These sorts of cartoons were top-down funded by the US Government for WW2 and eventually, the cold war (well, this cartoon is 1952, well within the Cold War period).

But all of these cartoonists were good at their job _because_ of WW2 propaganda cartoons. US Government practically bankrolled Disney (and other cartooning groups) to ensure we had unity throughout the War.

What changed is politics. We're no longer in a World War nor a Cold War... and propaganda techniques such as this cartoon are now frowned upon.

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This is "good propaganda" though. I think our country needs more of it these days. But it'd be a difficult political battle to get people used to propaganda again, especially because there's no communist threat anymore for us to point to.

If we were to ask the US Government to spend $50 million bucks making a similar production cartoon today on a variety of US-subjects (imagine an up-to-date version of this cartoon on the modern Stock Market), can you imagine how many people would be pissed off?

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In any case, as US Government propaganda money dried up from the post-war period (1960s), the quality of cartoons dropped down. People still agreed upon the commissioning of educational cartoons for children (ex: School House Rock), but not upon educational cartoons for adults.

> Was it Hanna-Barbera and how they commoditized animation?

Hanna Barbera needed to commoditize animation to save money. With less money flowing into the industry from the post-war period (much less propaganda being made), the quality of cartoons suffered.
A lot of the programming I did was pre-Windows. But, yes, MSDN was a pretty remarkable developer resource at a time when developer resources were pretty fragmented/hit and miss.
> If they outlined specific issues...

I can't tell if a specific issue occurred, or if everyone is just assuming that there was an issue because the post is so vague.

They seem to make it clear that their primary complaint was about the organizational structure: They wanted to have authority over the core team, but they weren't given authority over the core team.
That is not what the word "unaccountable" means.
In hindsight, I can see this quote is generating a lot of discussion about the content reporting, but I intended to focus the latter part of the sentence, which I thought really highlights the ridiculousness of social media.
It's not that hard to estimate the payload of a rocket once you know its dry mass, amount of propellant, and specific impulse. Which SpaceX does.