> chronyism (not sure of that spelling) Since you mentioned you weren't sure: it's "cronyism", no 'h'. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cronyism This is despite having an etymology that - at least according to…
Yes. From the release notes: 2002-06-17 (2.5.0), "Parse (but do not implement) foreign keys." At one point there was also a tool which would generate trigger rules to enforce foreign key constraints. (2008 Oct 15…
Armadillo Aerospace was Carmack's own rocket company. And tbh I'm not sure it was ever a plausible contender for commercial success, more like Carmack wanted to play with rockets. But that might be unfair; I would…
Surely satellite collision avoidance is not based on visual checks? I would assume it's a combination of globally shared known trajectories plus radar tracking stations.
They store energy but there's a limit to how quickly you can get that energy out, hence a limit to power. And I suppose you can kinda talk about them "storing power" in the sense that power is what you might be…
What makes it "production grade"? How are you defining that?
Taxis (and Uber etc) also take up space on the road when they only have their driver and no fare paying passenger on board, so I don't see that a Waymo is any worse than that. Both human-driven and robo-driven taxis are…
In type system theory I think what you're looking for is "effect systems". You make the type system statically encode categories of side-effects, so you can tell from the type of a function whether it is pure…
You might be referring to a different period, but I'll note that the anti-war protests in early 2003 (immediately before the invasion of Iraq) were quite literally record breaking.…
It may have in the future. Crubit is one effort in this direction: https://crubit.rs/
For one of my projects my server needs a private key, and it reads this from a file descriptor on startup and then closes the fd. The fd is set up by the systemd unit, which is also configured to restrict filesystem…
I don't doubt you're correct about the incentives, but one point seems amiss... > If there's any, even the slightest, chance that buying from a business might one day reflect badly on the civil servant in the…
If you scroll down slightly you get a low contrast button "○ PREFER STILLNESS? READ AS PLAIN TEXT →", which takes you to a plain text version with a rather patronising introduction that says "You chose the quiet…
Assuming that you are the author of Emissary, this could be a Show HN, I think. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Absolutely. I think some of these people need to be reminded of the Bill Gates' quote about lines of code: “Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.”
The graph I see in the article displays a single data point per year. You're not going to see seasonal variation in a graph with that resolution. Is there another graph that I missed?
Oh, ok. I misunderstood - I think we agree.
It's not a false choice - "Trust" and "don't trust" are both perfectly viable options. The editor works fine in restricted mode, you just won't have all your extensions enabled.
Yes there was, Asimov added it in Robots and Empire. "Zeroth Law added" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics#:~:text...
Is crawling really solved? Any naive crawler is going to run into the problem that servers can give different responses to different clients which means you can show the crawler something different to what you show real…
Looks like I was probably wrong about this. There are a lot of "doom running on a vape" videos on YouTube - very easy to find, that's what search is for - but the best primary source I could find quickly actually has…
Already been done.
Eh... both are in common usage, including by institutions like the BBC. https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20240308-daylight-savin... (you can find both "saving" and "savings" here, I guess they couldn't decide which…
HN title-destroying rules strike again. It's "How Wolves Became Dogs"
If latency of input->visible effect is what you're talking about, then yes, that's a great point!
> chronyism (not sure of that spelling) Since you mentioned you weren't sure: it's "cronyism", no 'h'. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cronyism This is despite having an etymology that - at least according to…
Yes. From the release notes: 2002-06-17 (2.5.0), "Parse (but do not implement) foreign keys." At one point there was also a tool which would generate trigger rules to enforce foreign key constraints. (2008 Oct 15…
Armadillo Aerospace was Carmack's own rocket company. And tbh I'm not sure it was ever a plausible contender for commercial success, more like Carmack wanted to play with rockets. But that might be unfair; I would…
Surely satellite collision avoidance is not based on visual checks? I would assume it's a combination of globally shared known trajectories plus radar tracking stations.
They store energy but there's a limit to how quickly you can get that energy out, hence a limit to power. And I suppose you can kinda talk about them "storing power" in the sense that power is what you might be…
What makes it "production grade"? How are you defining that?
Taxis (and Uber etc) also take up space on the road when they only have their driver and no fare paying passenger on board, so I don't see that a Waymo is any worse than that. Both human-driven and robo-driven taxis are…
In type system theory I think what you're looking for is "effect systems". You make the type system statically encode categories of side-effects, so you can tell from the type of a function whether it is pure…
You might be referring to a different period, but I'll note that the anti-war protests in early 2003 (immediately before the invasion of Iraq) were quite literally record breaking.…
It may have in the future. Crubit is one effort in this direction: https://crubit.rs/
For one of my projects my server needs a private key, and it reads this from a file descriptor on startup and then closes the fd. The fd is set up by the systemd unit, which is also configured to restrict filesystem…
I don't doubt you're correct about the incentives, but one point seems amiss... > If there's any, even the slightest, chance that buying from a business might one day reflect badly on the civil servant in the…
If you scroll down slightly you get a low contrast button "○ PREFER STILLNESS? READ AS PLAIN TEXT →", which takes you to a plain text version with a rather patronising introduction that says "You chose the quiet…
Assuming that you are the author of Emissary, this could be a Show HN, I think. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Absolutely. I think some of these people need to be reminded of the Bill Gates' quote about lines of code: “Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.”
The graph I see in the article displays a single data point per year. You're not going to see seasonal variation in a graph with that resolution. Is there another graph that I missed?
Oh, ok. I misunderstood - I think we agree.
It's not a false choice - "Trust" and "don't trust" are both perfectly viable options. The editor works fine in restricted mode, you just won't have all your extensions enabled.
Yes there was, Asimov added it in Robots and Empire. "Zeroth Law added" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics#:~:text...
Is crawling really solved? Any naive crawler is going to run into the problem that servers can give different responses to different clients which means you can show the crawler something different to what you show real…
Looks like I was probably wrong about this. There are a lot of "doom running on a vape" videos on YouTube - very easy to find, that's what search is for - but the best primary source I could find quickly actually has…
Already been done.
Eh... both are in common usage, including by institutions like the BBC. https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20240308-daylight-savin... (you can find both "saving" and "savings" here, I guess they couldn't decide which…
HN title-destroying rules strike again. It's "How Wolves Became Dogs"
If latency of input->visible effect is what you're talking about, then yes, that's a great point!