skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember reading some BeOS API documentation where it said something like "paths are UNIX-like, entry_refs are MacOS-like and they each have some pros and cons". Can't find it now, though…
And yet, some random composer or musician from 100's of years ago (Say, one F. Chopin or J.S. Bach) transported to today would have absolutely no problem recognizing and using the instrument.
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If you use any complex tool enough you will rapidly come up against its limitations and bizarre design implementations.

Is there any reason to believe any other architure that tries to be, approximately, everything for everyone would fair any better?
Company issues press release on new product. News companies relay information to readers. Readers complain the info just looks like a press release.

But as a reader, I do want to know this stuff.
I've also tried several times literate programming. I actually like it for small libraries that requires a good documentation but little maintenance.

What I like in this experience is how literate programming forces me to spell out each of my assumptions and justify every choice, just because I then have to program with the reader in mind. And I found that sometimes those assumptions were not as sound as I though. For that reason I would recommend anyone to give it a try.

By the way, I also had to write my own tool, extracting the code from the documentation instead of generating both code and documentation, which allowed me to use both my favorite document format and programming language.
They layout will persist until the keyboards themselves are gone.
Thank you, I am going to use this as my wallpaper for a bit!
Based on what I know about cave diving, it seems both terrifyingly dangerous and also just plain terrifying. Just this image is enough to put me off forever: http://i.imgur.com/7Vr7F1r.jpg
In Scandinavian countries with almost no h1b equivalents the amount of women in tech is substantially lower

http://www.thejournal.ie/gender-equality-countries-stem-girl...

Few of my acquaintances are high school teachers and almost all the girls have an image of IT as nerdy / geeky with overweight guys banging on the keyboards.

IMO you need to get rid of the image of STEM being social awkward, male dominated field.

I took some of their girl students to my office and showed them various kinds of IT work and how it can be interesting and surprisingly a huge number of them signed up for IT in their University
I learned that as The Copernican Principle from Algorithms to Live by. Also based on a power law distribution.

As in we are not special. If we know nothing about the lifetime of an object, we on average can expect to show up precisely halfway into the thing.
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Tesla may finally start promoting the Model 3
Ah yes, the "art terrorist". Someone who has spent too much time sniffing paint cans and not enough time studying history.
>I think we need a Geneva convention on microelectronics and informatics products.

Such convention is not very useful when you can't detect and prove a violation.
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and think vi is great
>It's the willful and deceitful spreading of lies and portraying of scientists as bogeyman rather than the bringers of bad news.

Well, science is a noble aspiration and a great methodology.

A scientist, on the other hand, and "scientific results" in actual practice can be anything, from great, to non-reproducible crap (most papers), to trite BS (lots of papers), to lies and distortions to sell some product, corporate interests, or ideology (a heck of a lot of them).

Just because someone is called a scientist doesn't mean they do science.

Increasingly they work more as "promotional" and/or "support" departments of corporate and government interests.

And the public might be too ignorant (lack of knowledge and terminology) to articulate this properly, but is not so stupid (lack of IQ and/or experience) to be able to tell something fishy is going on.

Not to mention that usually mere technology is conflated with science, and just because we can technically produce e.g. thalidomide, it's assumed to be good as well (because it's a "scientific result"), and it's proponents bad (luddites). Used thalidomide so it's a clear cut example -- one can find many others.

>The biggest abusers of tech tend to be those in power, closely followed by corporations, but the second is happy as long as they make bank, the first as long as they can use it to cement their position in power.

Agree. And their biggest enablers to abuse tech, and their biggest apologists, are scientists, or increasingly, technologists.

After all, they're their employees. It's not like in the 19th century in the UK for example, were scientists could be lords and independently wealthy, and could call a spade a spade. Or like up until the 70s, when it was easier to be a vocal critic and still find a job elsewhere. With the tight grip on tenured positions, and the decline of the scientific job as a status, they are more dependent than ever.
From the surface, it's easy to say just follow the guide cables the divers have no doubt installed

Someone asked my cave instructor, if you lose the line how long should you search for it? The rest of your life, he replied.
Which makes it even more annoying when you try click an icon you see and it’s replaced when Siri finishes, making you open a different app by accident. Terrible UX.
That'd exactly my thought as well. Maybe Google Search is not big enough in terms of market share to trigger an investigation? Or the authorities didn't think of it?
Ironically, you've given us no facts by which to judge your position.
I can't for the life of me remember which of his books it was in but I remember him writing about having guests around and cooking with them, then eating. This was so different to my life where my Mum spent the time in the kitchen on her own, it just sounded far more convivial, a different way of living that I yearned for.

Does anyone remember which book and chapter it was in?

GTFA gives me this link on kitchens by Christoper Alexander:

https://www.thekitchn.com/christopher-ale-164084

Although this isn't what I was after
Siri Shortcuts is same as Google Assistant routines. Only they didn't make an extra app for it. Say" I'm Home" and a lo of Assistant Actions will get triggered.
> Computers were silos which where hardware incompatible with one another.

Current OEMs seem to be quite willing to return to those days, as solution to their thin razor margins now with the rise of mobile computing.
Please if you ever succeed in any timeless design, please don't make it like the linked article.

It's horrible, it takes like 1/4th of the screen horizontally, with majority of the space taken by the blank spots.

I don't know why people nowadays make everything look awful so it looks "the same" on all devices.

Please don't do that. It makes it more difficult to estimate the length of the text, it's irritating since you need to scroll constantly and it looks bad.
Looks like this is mostly running interpreted "Emterpreter" byte code (the .wasm blob is about 52 KByte, but there's a 1.9MBytes emterpretify.data file, which (I guess from the size) contains the bulk of the logic. If this is indeed true it doesn't really use WebAssembly's strengths, since only the bytecode interpreter is running in WebAssembly, while vim itself is running interpreted.

Emterpreter was added to emscripten to workaround the problem in the browser runtime that you can't execute long-running blocking functions from within the browser loop. Emterpreter essentially allows to yield and continue from the middle of C code, however it's intended to only run as little code as possible like this (for instance only in the outer event-loop of an application), and call into asm.js or wasm code, where the actual work should happen.

Again, whether this vim demo works like this is speculation on my side, based on the relative sizes of the .wasm and emterpretify.data file sizes :)
In the comments of the Q&A you've linked they say it's not plasma, it's just normal flames with ions.
Might be the case, I stumbled upon him just two weeks ago but didn't find much critic of his work. I'd love to hear any.
Wow. This is really, really awful. Thanks for sharing that video
I came for the software architure ideas, and stayed for how people relate to each other, and building are woven into people's lives.
> I understand that most western countries have societal controls grown over the past centuries. The Chinese did not, and are catching up quickly by implementing similar controls as we have.

A sibling comments asks you what you mean here. I'd like to know, too. This kind of sentiment is depressingly familiar -- it seems to me that a lot of Chinese people like to vacillate between "China is the best", "China is just doing what other countries are doing", and "China is a developing country" as the situation requires, seemingly without being aware they are doing it at all.

> China is now the dominant world player

This is true, but not in the way I think you would like it to be. If strength is measured only in concrete production or something, then yes, China is by far the strongest. But that's not where real strength comes from. It comes from good ideas. China is not just behind on good ideas, it's actually shackled. Good ideas are dangerous to the CCP, so they are actively suppressed. The natural result is the epidemic of IP stealing that China engages in. You can cheat on your homework and get good grades on tests for a while, but life is not like a test in school. You cannot cheat on the test that nature gives you. To succeed in the test of life, you need innovation and critical thinking skills, and the CCP will not allow there to be an environment in China conducive to the development of critical thinking skills. Nor will it allow the kind of environment where people listen to their own inner sense of right and wrong. People in China are not generally trying to be righteous, they're just trying to become one of the VIPs with back door access to the power. People in China don't trust each other, and rightfully so. Think about the massive secret costs this is imposing on the entire country.

The CCP is a bit like cancer, and a bit like a parasite. It will continue to drain the vitality from China as long as it is in power. Obviously, it is trying to shut the door forever on the possibility that it will ever not be in power. And it is stoking nationalistic notions of superiority as needed to get the support of those it is vampiring.

So it is deeply sad to me to see someone celebrating the spread of the CCP cancer as if it is a happy development. The rest of the world is watching in horror as you guys happily help build your own prison. China really is #1 at something now, leading the way as a technological/surveillance dystopia, serving as a warning to the rest of the world why we have to prevent what is happening in China from happening anywhere else.
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The options-holders and shareholders may have perfect information about the share structure and preference structure of the company, but unless they're in the room when the deal is being done, they won't know what that means in terms of final value.

The value of anything is the lesser of what someone will pay for it and what the owner will sell it for. The PE team may have raised expectations about the value before the sale, so that everyone thought they would get something despite the preferences. Then they sold it for less...
Have your tried Assistant Routines? They're in the Assistant Settings. Multiple actions get triggered with single command
I feel some details might have lost in 500 years :) The council probably liked the decadence of the happening and they added some fuel. It was probably unreal to be at a "festival" you never seen before so I can understand.

Just like experiencing a techo party for the first time no one seen before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWUiLJnEYJI
Video of wttr.in author's short talk about console oriented services at CCC/entropia's GPN18 conference two months ago:

https://media.ccc.de/v/gpn18-164-using-and-creating-console-...
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It's not tomorrow, some people already screen for dwarfism or deafness to give them to their child.

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/05/health/05essa.html
I became passable at software development and could then create stuff I like.

I didn't realize just how creatively challenging and empowering software development is when I started studying engineering, I knew I was ok at math and just wanted to get a job. I got the skills to do stuff I was passionate about because of it, and I do all the things I'm passionate about off the clock.
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I would point out that this is not completely accurate. Those houses should not be length-contracted, but instead twist-rotated.

Rotation that I am referring to is the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrell_rotation which comes from a paper "Invisibility of the Lorentz Contraction" by James Terrell.

However, to implement this accurately, one would have to combine pixels from multiple frames in order to "see" these houses from different angles and combine those into a current frame. I am not sure how technically feasible this is, especially since those bridges might obscure visibility of some houses from certain angles.
I'm not really here to argue one way or the other, as trying to quantify these things usually leads to science funding being reduced. But saying the ISRO (or any space org) will improve lives should be met with some skepticism, no matter how popular that justification is. There is also some fact-checking to be done:

> This leads to "down-the-hill" technological advantages in related fields (for ex. medical, industry, etc.)

That's not clear at all, and even if it does happen, it is usually more of a happy accident than a regular thing. An effective counter-argument is that funding those fields directly should then be as effective or more.

> Since the research is public domain

I could not find any indication this is the case, but I'm limited to English. They do have a list of technologies that they have transferred on their website, but seems to indicate you need a license, and hasn't been updated since 2016: https://www.isro.gov.in/isro-technology-transfer/technologie.... I'll refrain from judging how applicable and ground-breaking those technologies are.

> This ensures (though some may argue otherwise) a credible deterrent to enemies, ensuring longer periods of peace. This directly improves lives of the citizens.

That it "directly improves lives of the citizens" is purely propaganda, and easily disproven by the number of peaceful nations that do not have space programs/long-range missiles. Looking at history, disarmament is more effective for peace than an arms race.

> There are numerous examples of technology developed to enable space flight trickling down to medical and industrial uses.

It should be easy to list them then. It is true that e.g. NASA has successfully spun off several technologies used daily and in the medical field: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spinoff_technologies / https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2017/index.html (as an aside, NASA's publications are a joy).

On the other hand, the ESO seems, well, less impressive. Although at least their page on technology transfer is somewhat comprehensible by a lay person: https://www.eso.org/public/industry/techtrans/develcontract/

> In fact, the same can be seen in Formula 1 races. Many technologies we take for granted in modern mass market vehicles (ABS immediately comes to mind [...]

Ironically, ABS + F1 isn't a great example of this. ABS' history is interesting and varied, but the most apt analogue might be Concorde, which used one of the first - if not the first - electronic anti-lock breaking system to avoid needing braking parachutes. (Concorde of course being funded by the British and French governments. Whether the money invested into Concorde was worth it, hard to say.)

In terms of improving peoples lives, I imagine F1 is probably closer to a colossal waste of money than a net gain for humanity (I would argue the sport agrees based on e.g. the proposed budget cap). But that doesn't make great PR. (Also doesn't mean F1 should be banned, just that it isn't a great example.)
I use Markor for the same reason. Flat files are just the most convenient way to handle your data.
> It still maintains familiar menus, while the look and feel still looks modern.

Modern Windows menu UX is most certainly is not constistent, but Ubuntu linux is. In contrast i do feel MacOS looks very old fashioned for a long time.
My personal recommndation for "modern" would be Next.js. It abstracts away all the surrounding "stuff" and lets you skip to just directly defining pages as React components, which gives you a complexity baseline that's only slightly above just writing HTML directly.
Well if the US does it too, that's alright then.

Caveat, I'm a European (well a Brit, so almost European) and I'm appalled by US and yes British violations of privacy and surveillance overreach. Things like the threats to cripple or ban private use of strong encryption are appallingly damaging and misguided.

However nations with an elected government accountable to the people doing this stuff is one thing. We still have the right and mechanisms to protest and these protests have frequently made a real difference. strong encryption of private communications is till legal and threats to it have gone nowhere. The fact that governments from multiple political groups, in multiple countries have looked at this and decided that the benefits to their electorate outweigh the dangers offers at least some comfort. It's at least possible that they are right, although I would prefer much stronger checks and balances.

Pervasive active harvesting, analysis, intervention, censorship and subsequent punishments of 'private' communication by a totalitarian state, with the open goal of enforcing ideological obedience is not the same thing, and it's not ok. At all.
Xbox One and PS4 use relatively ambitious chips, integrating an AMD multicore x86-64 CPU, with and AMD GPU.

This project seems a good deal more humble: as far as I can tell from the article, they're making single-core 32-bit x86 CPUs, and they aren't touching AMD's GPU solutions.

I imagine it's far easier to get AMD to agree to sign off the licensing agreement given that it doesn't really compete with them. Also it looks far easier to pull off, so there's less reason to have AMD themselves put the work in.
If you understand french, I advice you to listen to this podcast by Franck Ferrand which explains lot of aspects !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA7K8gfLQsY
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> BNT ("bomb, not TNT")

I think BNT should stand for “BNT is Not TNT”
ok, that's pretty cool! Some things are a bit slow like character repeat is a bit wonky, help doesn't seem to work... but otherwise, seems like vim to me
I understand the intent of this fund but I think that it's both racist and sexist.

Why doesn't someone create a VC fund for people with disabilities instead? Or maybe a fund for ugly people? Or a fund for socially awkward people? Or a fund for people who have a lisp? Or a fund for people who have bad posture? Or simply a fund for the underprivileged? Those would be a lot more fair.

Life isn't fair to everyone. Some people just have to work much harder than others to get the same results. There is nothing that can be done about this.

Trying to do something about this equates to discrimination based on arbitrary superficial features.
To be fair, the absolute last thing “modern cinema” needs is another formulaic measurement of demographically correlated screentime.

I am not personally against girls seeing depictions of other girls in movies (have you consulted with the anti-bodyshaming sect?) however this claim to “social good” is telling of a desperate effort to ignore actual social problems, none of which are so conveniently morally distinct from the economic disparities Google instigates and defends on a daily basis. Studies show little girls who are homeless have bigger problems.
Much of it is independent enthusiasts dissecting public information.
because that's were most of the trading volume is going to be.
WebKit is the only renderer on iOS.
I am seeing a trend in this thread, that people think that Google Assistant doesn't have something whereas in reality it has already implemented all and more than what Apple did this year. Either, they are biased and are making assumptions, or they use Siri and are again making assumptions . Partly, another reason might be that Routines is within the Assistant Settings so people haven't discovered. Still, seems odd at a site like this. Frustrating.
If I continue the logic of your reasonning, the employer should have a technical test the candidate needs to perform in order for the employer to ensure that the candidate is not simply lying about his competences. If the employer gives the test, the employer hires him because he succeeded, then it is more the employer fault to hire him in the first place, not the employee fault because he performed the test.

The moment a person becomes a citizen of a country, he is entitled to the exact same right that the citizen next to him. There is no distinction of a citizen who was born in the country vs a citizen that was naturalized.

In your case, if someone profits from a lie, then we correct the process so that people cannot profit from it anymoreinstead of revoking things you gave by mistake (things _you_ gave by _your_ mistake).

If you hire someone without checking that what they say is true, then I am sorry but you're just stupid. If a country give citizenship to people without verifying that what is written in the application is true, then I think the process is incredibly stupid.
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The GNU Hurd Kernel
Next.js is amazing. Hopefully someone smart enough makes it in rust.
This is similar to what happened in Malaysia when Uber closed down. The clone app got so much traffic it fell apart.
>If you base your assumptions on Peter Zeihan and his Book the Absent Superpower, this would basically be China trying to get as much manufacturing out of the US as possible to force it to be a customer of Chinese goods indefinitely and secure access to the US consumers.

Why wouldn't they want to do that? Isn't that what any self-respecting country, much less a superpower, would want to work towards to?