jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Minix3 is to a fairly large extent a refactor of NetBSD to have a microkernel base; osx kind of did a similar thing with freebsd. Also there are ways of running old OSs on top eg Linux on Genode.

NetBSD is a good starting point as the drivers are portable (via rump kernel; eg Genode uses this for their filesystem drivers) so you can reuse them in another OS as a starting point, plus it is reasonably simple as OSs go, plus the BSD license is friendly.

There were a bunch of related talks at https://operatingsystems.io/
I can't really comment on R, but thank you for a great toolkit that has really helped me at work. Being able to use VS to plug into a git server and write python code is lovely.

I may use the R equivalent if it existed, but I'm not terribly competent with R.
It's actually quite interesting to think about it. Considering Intel hitting 14nm with Broadwell, there's only a certain limit to which we can push things or make them smaller. There has to be a point of saturation with things. BUT that's where the interesting part will be. The new revolutions that spring up new manufacturing materials which can defy the limits of the current ones.
I'd just love a service that can tell me where something I want to watch is available, particularly among the services to which I'm already subscribed (netflix, prime, directv, hbogo, maxgo, showtimeanytime, etc.).

For instance, I got the urge to watch Funny Farm a couple days ago and couldn't easily check availability without pulling up each app.
Hence my mention of ClassicShell.
ok let me through some fuel on the fire of that discussion...

i think AR went Arel, because AR's syntax and internals sucked badly, yet admitting that by putting effort in DM would badly hurt the ego of one or more AR devs.

sidenote1: if it wasn't for the humble merb devs, rails3 would never be what it is today. these merb guys gave up a little of the name and fame of their brilliant project so the community would benefit from not being split. DHH abused that humbleness by not even mentioning them (the project nor the devs) in the announcement of rails3! that's just plain wrong...

sidenote2: DM is great stuff -- still waiting for the version that allows NoSQL backends as well though.

sidenote3: i'm ex-merb user, now rails3, yet never touchin' no AR.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmed_Data_Processor

PDP-1 18 bit
PDP-2 24 bit
PDP-3 36 bit
PDP-4 18 bit
PDP-5 12 bit
PDP-6 36 bit
PDP-7 18 bit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-7

"In 1969, Ken Thompson wrote the first UNIX system in assembly language on a PDP-7, then named Unics as a pun on Multics"

CDC "super" computers also had 60-bit words.

Moreover, the original ASCII standard had the 7-bit characters, the improvement over even less bits used for characters before that (6 bits == 2 octal digits). 8-bit bytes weren't something you could expect except when buying IBM (which had EBCDIC, not ASCII).
Redistribute some wealth from those profiting from automation to the unemployed.
Cultural variations in meeting-and-mating practices are all around if you read the tiniest bit of anthropology on the subject. Can you clarify what you mean by "just a parameter within the framework of evolutionary psychology"?
and yet, humiliation is the best way to make an enemy

I think its much better to have nothing to do with these people. we need to stop trying to create the centralized states our DC politicians are in love with and that are necessarily more fragile, requiring life support from the west.

I think many people feel very threatened by the west, its technology and its overpowering media. the more we keep pushing it in their face, the more they will keep looking for a way to make us regret we ever did
I highly doubt the border would just "go down". That would be an economic and logistical disaster for South Korea.
Yeah, but you don't just wake up one morning, strap on a bomb and go. Rather you spend a few weeks or months at a jihad training camp in the mountains first, and then get sent off to blow yourself and maybe some infidels up.

So there will be suicide bomber training mullahs who have a track record of training martyrs to be effective suicide bombers, and those whose graduates more often than not fail.
I like the idea a lot, but it didn't work terribly well for me. Other than my gravatar, none of the suggestions seemed particularly relevant, or well suited to be an avatar.

Couple of notes:

1) make all suggested avatars square

2) suggest some avatars based off my initials. Picking a photo I like will be hard, but maybe if it said "George" or "GH" in cool text that could work.
You seem to have found your destiny. Why do you even care what other people think/do? I would say: follow your path perseveringly and you will end up fine. Not having the urgent need to think about the "investor route" is a good thing. Everybody additionally involved is going to meddle one way or another.
On another forum I used to post under my real name. From a discussion where a disagreement arose, albeit be civil on line, the discussion turned nasty, and I was increasingly harassed until I was genuinely concerned for my personal safety.

You might say that if everyone was identifiable then it wouldn't happen, but how would be verify the identities? Someone could take exception, then track you down off-line.

Call it irrational, but that's my personal experience. On in exceptional circumstances would I post under my real name again. Being on HN is good, but not good enough.

Finally, the source code is available, I'd be interested to see someone enhance it to require real, verifiable names and see how popular it becomes.
Lots of shenanigans going around recently as almost all of Ledger’s purchaser history was leaked:

https://old.reddit.com/r/ledgerwalletleak/

Doesn’t help that almost everyone recommended buying direct as the safe choice to avoid fraudulent devices and/or unscrupulous vendors leaking their buyers...
I suspect most elites hold little of their portfolio in cash.

Sure, if the government taxes/borrows/prints to invest in things that help the economy that can have a positive net effect. I don't think hunting for neutrinos is a terribly great way to stimulate the economy.

The best argument, I suspect, is the same as for NASA in the US: the fraction of the budget spent on it is tiny (assuming this is true in India's case).
The difference in what year and what act does cast doubt on the authority of your information. And it does limit your tort liability because, after a number of suits prior to the act, built on flimsy evidence, the vaccine manufacturing business in the U.S. became unpalatable.

Beyond that, other countries can and sometimes do do this. There's been discussions of limiting liability for Ebola vaccine manufacturers in the UK, because of the rush to market for them.
I grew up in a remote rural area of a third world country. My mother & father taught me to read. And I developed interest in reading books at the age of 6 or 7.

When I was 9 or 10 years old, someone (may be my cousin or my fathers' uncle) gave me a book on simple electronics (it was in my native language). That was the first time I read about P-Type & N-Type materials and some other physics. It was so fascinated to me that I used to read it all the time to understand. The book also included about very simple digital logic design and concepts like NAND Gate etc.

I didn't understood at all what it is all about. But It developed my interest in Physics and Electronics.

By the age of 13 or 14 I learned myself about soldering, creating very simple chips and some LEDs on-off work. I never learned any math or could develop any mental model about true electronics but all that work created an infinite desire to know about the nature of "materials" & physics behind everything.

My parents put me in school which was 12 KM from my village, I used to bike every day 24 KM two way with some other friends no matter if it was summer with 43 degrees or winter with -2 degrees. And I was just 9 years old young kid. I started skipping school and start searching more books like that great Electronics books. I bought many but couldn't understand the foundations at all.

That same book had chapters how you can create a sequence of LEDs which keep going on & off one after other and make some interesting visual. I opened every electronic device at home and tried to understand its chips but couldn't get at all what is going on.

None of my friends studies beyond class 8 but I kept going. I started studying physics at the age of 15 at school but it was all so bookish and memorisation that I never liked school at all.

But I studied Physics, Biology & Chemistry myself and enjoyed every single moment of that time. That was the only time I studied Sciences and developed an intuition about the scientific world.

My parents took loan and sent me to a bigger city for my Bachelors degree. But the education was so artificial that I couldn't learn anything more at all. Every single book was in English (which is not my native or national language) I feel so empty & everything useless. At the same time my parents were sending me more money than they could afford.

I went into depression & at some point in my Bachelors' degree I found out about Internet & "Software".
I started learning about Web Site development. I learned HTML, Adobe Dreamweaver & Fireworks. Then I learned a bit of C++ & C#. (I remember I started learning about C# in April 2002).

I got a job as a programmer in an off-shore office of a USA company. I then saved some money and escaped from that country and came to Sweden because of free education.

I studied Computer Science & developed an intense love with Mathematics (even though I'm not good in maths) & Programming Languages. Now I'm working as a Software Engineer but I have deep love with Electronics & Physics. And that all goes back to the days when I was reading that simple electronics book.
> it's only bad if you, as the interviewer, have a specific answer in mind.

This is true of all interview questions. The goal is to get a sense of how a candidate thinks about things and works through problems. Asking a sequence of clarifying questions is a huge part of that, and very similar to the process of requirements gathering in day to day work.
Why it's relevant?

Because this Apple patent:

http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=H...

http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2015/01/apple-in...
Serving garbage is more destructive, I like that!
Nothing will suddenly disappear, but it will suddenly become impossible to increase production. Since it's the rate limiting reagent, that limits the economy to flat or shrinking.
You should submit a pull request to fix it then. :)
Parking signs in DC remind me of logic games: http://www.griffonprep.com/logicgame.html. You'll see four signs on a pole, made with no contemplation of each other, and try to figure out whether you can park. Worse are the complicated signs for roads that are one-way only part of the day, or where left turns are prohibited only part of the day.

And in Wilmington, DE, you can park for free on holidays, but the city celebrates Vetrans' day in October instead of November.
> least amount of decision making powers in a company as massive as FB/FAANG

They have the power to choose not to work there.
Realistically, how often do you need to redefine a class and care about having to restart your runtime?
It's scary that three tech companies can censor a president like this.
Why go through the trouble of generating a blob of executable code at runtime rather than just including it in the JS source? The security guarantees are the same.
Same for me. Other than an ASCII smiley here or there, if I can't say it with simple text as a complete sentence, I don't say it, and video chat backgrounds are annoying.
One thing to note about Telegram's secret chats is that they're device-specific. That is, if you start a conversation on your phone, you can't pick up that conversation on your laptop: https://telegram.org/faq#secret-chats
It depends on the hoster and how much you're willing to pay. If you're paying $2.99 a month then yes, you're probably going to have a less than predictable experience.

I work for a shared/dedicated hoster, we're geared price-wise at the higher end of the market and we provide shared hosting for our business customers.

Our shared environments are closely monitored and never oversubscribed. We're constantly looking out for customer sites that misbehave and shut down those that are resource hogs or service affecting.

We have loads of customers running the internet facing parts of their businesses on shared.

Shared hosting, like all other things, is a case of "you get what you paid for".
So I guess you don't use any Apache licensed products at work either? Since the only reason Facebook added the PATENTS file is to keep the new BSD license in line with their old Apache license. http://www.apache.org/licenses/
Care to criticize the referenced research rather than jump to conclusions from anecdotes? There's a link to the PDF right there in the article.

http://www.econ.brown.edu/students/Gareth_Olds/assets/olds_f...
I think even in the best case scenario Welfare State is only going to be one small factor in the rate of entrepreneurship, so Americans can easily be more entrepreneurial than Europeans despite the lack of welfare state. Culture, education, role models etc are all also going to be important. I think this data shows increasing welfare in America could increase entrepreneurship even more.
I actually presented a paper at the 2nd International Conference on the Web in Chicago in '94 about "Extending W3 Clients" which including a suggestion for adding a standard bytecode interpreter to web browsers.

I stopped working on that when I found out about Oak/Java in early '95.
Everything by Asimov and Heinlein and the Dune series by Herbert.
Also "Watership Down"
As someone who thinks Lisp is pretty cool and uses Emacs to study it and is about 100 pages into SICP: I still don't get it. Common Lisp macros went entirely over my head too. A programmable programming language? Aren't all languages like that? I've only been programming for a couple years so I'm afraid I might not recognize the value of Lisp until I use more of the "less powerful" alternatives.
Gimp and LibreOffice are usable?

Fonts are so broken on Linux—which is the platform that would need this the most—that you can barely select dropdown options if you're on a hidpi monitor.
<3

Also nobody is going to offer me VC money for a weekend project, so you're safe!
Software engineers opining on Excel vs LibreOffice strikes me as pretty funny. Imagine someone who programs sporadically asking why anyone would pay for intelliJ or Visual Studio.

Even if Excel is just marginally better than LibreOffice, if you use it day after day to do your job, the $150/year cost is basically nothing (especially when enterprise software that does a lot less can routinely charge $1000/user/year). Meanwhile, It Just Works™. Plus, it's a huge pain to learn something new or deal with the aggravation of compatibility issues. Any LibreOffice document will tend to open up nicely in Word or Excel because otherwise, it's worthless if you want to share it with others. But the opposite definitely isn't true.
If you click through to the datasheet, you can see the frequency response of each of the 5 probes. Each probe is capable of picking up signals down to low frequency, but they only have good gain around a particular frequency band. So it's not as if this is one probe that is equally good at detecting all frequencies.
That doesn't mean they're not expensive in other ways - It's enjoyable, but actively dating can be both emotionally taxing and just time-consuming, especially in the initial stages when you're working out if you like someone, or just looking for someone at all.
But why should they do this? MS Office 365 is 150 USD per year per user. For the vast majority of companies, large and small, this is a very small price for a software that is so engrained in daily business processes and activities. If a company is at the point of deciding about cost cutting by cutting excel, it probably is beyond salvation (certainly in the developed world, but i dare say even in developing countries). And the productivity loss of the first year would probably negate any saving.
I would be if I could pick and choose different parts of the protocol. I don't want each interface to have multiple IPs, and I don't want to jump through hoops to assign static IPs to devices. I don't want to have each device reporting its domain to circumvent the IP problem, and I certainly never wanted 128 bit numbers.
Yes, 100 is the LCA.

The problem I should have started with is that regular LCAs are not useable for conflict resolution because there can be multiple different LCAs.

For example, in the graph at https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/72538/lowest-single-c... which LCA do you use to merge 3 and 4?

So you have to use some sort of "unique LCA", which is 0 in the example I gave. But even that does not work as I showed in 2nd example.
Nice. Imgur is dead now that it requires login for every image it perceives to be 'explicit' (as if its goal is to protect the children rather than harvest their data)
It's not often you find someone whose criticism of American healthcare is "it's not mean enough yet".
The website is saying how good the framework is but I really miss seeing right on the homepage how code written using this framework looks like. Flask's website is really good at this, for instance.
When I started reading it, I actually thought it was written recently! I didn't realize the truth until he mentioned the tuition for Dartmouth Tuck...
I suspect that a bubble is preferably defined by investor behavior, not worker behavior, even if the workers call themselves "founders" or "entrepreneurs."
Most reviews say the Razer gets between 4 and 4.5 hours on battery. The MacBook is 9 hours and some reviewers got more than 9. Color is personal preference. I think aluminum looks better than plastic.

Nice job trying to use the specs page for the outdated non-Retina MacBook that nobody buys. Here's the real specs page: https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs-retina/

13" MacBook is 1.57kg, 15" MacBook is 2.02kg. Razer is heaver than both.

And nice job ignoring the processor, RAM, storage, and the overheating, "fanboi".
What does weighed down by caste mean? Go to google news for India and search for ‘Dalit’. Count the number of people beaten up and killed for being lower caste and trying to drink from an upper caste well or marrying an upper caste person. In the last month.

Individual anecdotes don’t mean very much. My parents had an inter-caste marriage 42 years ago. Does that mean there was no casteism then?
Excellent post. Thanks for your in depth insights!

Are there any Wayland resources for even more technical information you'd recommend?

For the record I use sway for months and can also report that the experience has been great (including hotplugging multiple monitors over Thunderbolt etc.)
discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21628149

Linux # Threadripper : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21628482
This is actually completely wrong. TFL in the summer granted several licenses for Uber competitors which have now been growing fast inside the city. It's definitely not a take against ridehailing, just against Uber.
Being "friendly" and "well-liked" sound like the kinds of goals children would come up with on their own because they crave attention and positive reinforcement, not what adults should be teaching them.
Link to the (mobile-only) website: http://www.singularitydating.com/

He even made a commercial that's pretty funny https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wWkAHOph6A
Serious question, why search Google in your terminal with Lynx as opposed to `googler`? The actual result pages can still open in Lynx but the experience of navigating the results is very nice.
> three major manufacturers of NAND memory — Intel, Micron, and SK Hynix — have announced that they will be taking measures to address the oversupply

Isn't that illegal? To fix the market by colluding and price fixing?

How is this different from the act that Mercedes, BMW and VW are getting fined for for colluding to not release emissions tech?
I would actually be worried about brakes not getting used instead of them getting used and worn out. Having replaced my KIA's breaks due to dragging. After all they are hydraulic system with moving parts that can get stuck if not used enough.
> “We did not expect such a strong second wave,”

I don't think the world was ever out of the first wave for starters
Not all systems have sane defaults or queues built-in.

I'm just saying this needs consideration when you reach a certain scale.
Vlang has multiple methods of optional memory management. This should not be so hard to grasp, as this is the case for other languages too. Take Nim, for example. It has several: gc:refc, gc:markAndSweep, gc:boehm, gc:go, gc:arc, etc...

Vlang has both the options of Autofree and GC, or you can do it manually. As the language is still developing (like other languages such as Crystal, Odin, and Zig), users should know these memory management options are experimental and still being refined.
See http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=192
Running a unity build [1] means the compiler only has to parse and reason about the headers once. So you lose the parallelism of multiple TUs, but you gain on not doing the header crunching over and over again. Whether your codebase will benefit from that is a matter for testing, but many do.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_build
In this case, I'm glad that, around the time everyone was talking about moving to Signal, I threw out the baby with the bathwater and ditched my smartphone entirely. I'm so disappointed in this action by Signal, and very glad I never bothered to loudly promote Signal to friends and family.
> public votes to decide the amount of money I have.

Unfortunately, there is no alternative. The value of what you have is decided by what people are willing to pay for it in markets. If people decide that they value the forked ETH that doesn't provide the money to the people who stole from the DAO more than the version where those people have all of the money, then it is going to be more valuable. You don't escape this problem with fiat either.

Basic market mechanisms like this are pretty much inescapable.
The problem here is that you’re right and this is a likely way we’d find out. But it’s also lots of other possibilities.

So assuming that it’s true is not a good idea since there’s no evidence that it’s true.
MobileCoin's features make more sense than Monero's for this use case.
I'm not saying crime is going up. I'm saying the stats are useless. It could be going down, and they're still useless.

Yes, I am talking about NYC. I'm sure every other city is a relative statistical utopia. But I have no information on those cities, given I don't live there, except for the official stats.

They could be shaving off exactly 10% every year, and the trend lines are fine. Or they could shave off enough to make crime go down slightly every year, which is what I'd do if I were a chief who had to answer to a mayor, and didn't really care about statistical fidelity.

Just because you're looking at a chart, doesn't mean the chart reflects reality. And it doesn't matter if you don't have a nice other chart to look at. Sometimes you can't answer questions accurately from your chair 500 miles away.
An actual working implementation was psdoom, in which one could visualize processes in the Doom game environment, then wander around killing them :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSpHc945G38
Call me a sweet summer child but I actually believe that our (German) government is still by the people and for the people.
Yes, that looks pretty good. I bought mine over a year ago and it has no memory - if you want to log, it has to be connected to a computer, so I sleep tethered when I use it. This one looks like quite an improvement.