skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://kingjamesprogramming.tumblr.com/ contains a selection of "verses" generated with a markov chain trained on SICP, the King James Bible and some other works. The results are oftentimes hilarious and some of the Lisp related quotes are very thematic:

13:32 And we declare unto you the power and elegance of Lisp and Algol.

Lisp, whose name is Holy

(and one that doesn't necessarily mix in something from King James)

A powerful programming language should be an effective program that can execute any Lisp program.
At a recent funeral I was shocked and disgusted at how the preist manipulated the emotions of my relatives. That a nation state shares my suspicion is something positive in my view.

I am not opposed to spirituality. I think organized religion subverts people from their own quest.
> will installing snapd not install AppArmor as well?

It can't, because AppArmor is a kernel-level feature that also requires some level of integration into the rest of the distribution. Red Hat/Fedora-based distributions already use SELinux in place of AppArmor, so using snap on those systems can't have full security capabilities (making SELinux and snap work together would be non-trivial, and I don't think anyone is motivated to do it).

Flatpak uses other mechanisms for limiting the access that applications have, so does not rely on either AppArmor or SELinux being on the host system.
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Difference is that a lot of people don’t care about ED just because they released a flight simulator first. So for me ED will always just be that.

The promise of what SC wants to be is what is keeping people excited. 6 years in and the demos are still amazing. It’s nice to have a game to hang your hopes to.

If we actually get to play it one day I’ll br even happier :p
> Sigh safari is the new IE. Making everyone else suffer from nonsensical hacks.

I can confirm that, most of my time spent for browser support is on IE11 and Safari. Everything in Edge, Firefox and Chrome generally works fine.
It's just more honest than the stuff nations in the west do. Look at Mexican people in the USA or Muslim people in Germany.

It's not subversion but difference they fear / hate / fight against.

Attitudes like that come from strong nationalism and not enough education.
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In which way could Mozilla be coerced in building a backdoor into its software by the Australian government, in a way not being seen by the public? I can't imagine that an Australian law would either lead to shutting down open source projects nor lead to make them (or parts of it) closed source. Would Signal do this? I don't think so, they'd loose all trust immediately.

The only problem I see is that open source projects might not accept contributions from Australian residents or citizens.
I mean, if we stick with the spirit of the article I think that it's even more likely to be Fortran. Seemingly interesting, accomplishes certain very specific tasks well, turns into an absolute monolithic nightmare when encountered in the wild.
If Bill gates didn't get it, how would an executive from a brick and mortar get it. Unlike today, the types that created SSL had little to no overlap with traditional MBA types.
Yes, this is why macros have been abandoned in most entreprise languages (C#, Java)
What's sad is the spectacle that has arisen around this novel area over the last several years, the breathless enthusiasm, the handwaving away of concerns, the absolute mindless utopianism that has surrounded this stuff.

Are Smart Contracts interesting? Sure. But they don't address all areas of contract law very well, and they certainly seem like they could well be misused as a way to circumvent a lot of the protections we currently have in place.

Are cryptocurrencies interesting? Again yes, but they don't actually appear to be a very good fit for anything in particular, and they do seem to have a lot of poor economic ideas baked in.

So while blockchains are an interesting set of data structures, a lot of the hate and disparagement comes from the (almost 10) years of relentless hype coupled with the complete failure for any of the great promises to appear. Instead we see exactly what was predictable - hoarding and speculation, scams and fraud.
It seems quite obviously political to me.
Depends on the scale. With few users, you'd better query database directly. With enough users (when it makes sense to introduce complexity), I would adopt Change Data Capture pattern. A small process reads/follows database logs (journal) and when a new post or comment is added, updates the cache asynchronously.
Same here. But then people balk at the price. shrugs
I'm a technical person and I like it for it's simplicity and it's power.
Check these out:

* https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism

* https://github.com/hooram/ownphotos
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No, that would be malbogue.
Right now it would require a destructive process. Such a process is being used to test the effectiveness of cryonic freezing on rabbits. [1] [2]

Obviously I wouldn’t want to sign up for such a process any time soon. However, it’s almost too obvious that the test would be:

1) train animal to do a thing

2) freeze, slice, scan, process data with existing AI [3] to turn into connectome

3) simulate, see how simAnimal reacts to trained stimulus from step 1

4) repeat with more complex animals, perhaps even ones which would have been euthanised and see if they still know their owners, until you reach humans

And while that assumes cryonic doesn’t turn brains to mush, that’s without relying on Elon Musk turning SciFi into reality al-la Neuralink/Neural Lace (which, again, I’d be terrified of at this point if anyone managed to make one).

[1] http://www.brainpreservation.org/asc_rabbit_fulleval/

[2] https://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/19877/20160211/cryo...

[3] https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/07/improving-connectomics-by-...
They just replace it with state ideology though.
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MIPS is alive and well - almost all consumer routers run it.
Every article I read on c-sections misses some really important facts:

1. c-section mortality and complication rates are often not separated between the women who get c-sections pre-scheduled and women who get them after hours of damaging labor and something already going horribly wrong. In fact, when I looked at the data for my own c-section, it seemed to indicate that scheduled c-sections were as safe if not safer than vaginal birth.

2. Vaginal birth leads to lifelong incontinence and sexual dysfunction in many women. Would I take a miniscule chance of death in exchange for not peeing my pants for the next 50 years? Yes. In exchange for having a way higher chance of a pain-free sex life again? Yes. Quality of life matters. Your relationship with your partner and with your own body matters. So many of these studies basically end in the hospital - i.e. did mom and baby survive, but then do not look at long-term outcomes of the MOM at all. I know many women with these issues. Women with horrific tearing and scarring, too. They're still dealing with it years later. It's not trivial even though these studies make it sound like the only thing is whether you live, not how you live.

3. c-sections do not carry the risk of baby being deprived of oxygen during birth. No risk of cord getting stuck around the head, etc. The people trying to convince me that I shouldn't have a c-section because of very ambiguous studies dealing with asthma or allergies are totally missing the forest for the trees on this one.

Lastly, and this is an experiential point from someone who has actually had a c-section: the whole thing was completely painless. I was on my feet the same day. I only had a bit of trouble going from laying to standing in the first couple of days, but I otherwise was in pain and could walk, sit, take care of the baby, everything else. By the time I was out of the hospital on day 5 I felt completely back to normal and could do anything and everything. Is it major surgery? Sure. But I can tell you that women who had vaginal deliveries were still in pain weeks after the delivery and for months if they had extensive tearing or episiotomies. Most of my friends on the "natural" train, now having done that and seen my experience in comparison, wish they hadn't gone that route because they're still dealing with the damage it caused them.
Lisp is the most beautiful. Brainfuck is the simplest.

I miss punchcards so much BTW, I used to draw on them when I was a child...
I agree with what other posters have said in response to this comment, but also: what you're implying is that what BMW will be able sell in 2025 is equivalent to what Tesla already sold in 2018. By 2020 Tesla will already have launched the Model Y, and by 2025 no doubt many other popular lines such as the planned pickup truck, and significantly expanded their battery manufacturing capacity: they're already building new Gigafactories, in seven years who knows how many they'll have. Seven years ago they only sold Roadsters; now their North American sales numbers are on par with the Honda Accord.

Aiming to sell in seven years what Tesla sells today isn't going to be enough to catch up. No doubt someone will turn into the Google and Samsung to Tesla's Apple; this isn't a winner-take-all market. But it seems like Tesla's pretty far ahead and still accelerating, so there'll be quite a few Kodaks along the way too.

TBH I don't think the biggest danger to Tesla comes from BMW or VW going electric — it's from Alphabet's Waymo and GM's Cruise going self-driving. That's a potentially huge industry shakeup, and is an area where Tesla doesn't necessarily have an advantage... Although considering the amount of data Tesla collects for free from every car (each one has onboard LTE and WiFi — that the customer paid for! — and uses it to collect and upload driving data for Autopilot), they might be able to compete. We'll see. Their big bet here is that they can use their data collection abilities to advance the state of the art in computer vision fast enough that they don't need lidar, which is a controversial opinion; TBH I think it's a no-brainer that eventually it's possible — humans navigate with only two eyes, whereas the cars have eight eyes and a radar, and never get tired, bored, or drunk — but I don't know if they'll get there faster than Waymo and Cruise can build out their proposed fleets. That being said, if Tesla's right, they'll be right in a way that gives them a pretty serious additional moat beyond battery manufacturing capacity: lidar is much more expensive than radar, and Tesla would be the only firm able to operate with that cost advantage since everyone else teched into lidar.

Anyway, I don't think BMW (or anyone) will beat Tesla merely by going electric. They might still die, but not from that.
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Ask HN: Should I be trusting the pre-installed OS on my computer?
I recently bought a new laptop. It came with Win10 pre-installed. It was awfully convenient, and I didn't bother replacing the OS with Linux as I originally intended to do.

However, after using the computer for online banking, wire transfers, business emails etc, I'm starting to wonder, is there a way to trust the OS in the first place?

It could easily have been a returned laptop with malware installed. Even if Secure Boot was enabled (it wasn't) it wouldn't be that hard to install a zero-day if you have physical access to a machine and admin rights.

So is there any sort of hard guarantee for the consumer that they receive untampered software when they buy a new computer?
I'm really bad at rebase, but doesn't rebasing a branch A onto branch B, remove all the history from A?
What is Organisational Design?
Kazaa, not so much wish it was around but I wish the experience was around. I would be up late downloading all sorts of random stuff some really strange videos people made, or some music someone created or modify. Didn't have the legal hurdles people have with youtube or soundcloud so you would find some really random or strange things people created. "If_You_Like_Korn_limp_marilyn.mp3" was all the info you got and you would never know who the band was or anything.
There is evidence:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3660619/

> Title: Cancer risk in 680 000 people exposed to computed tomography scans in childhood or adolescence: data linkage study of 11 million Australians

> Conclusions: The increased incidence of cancer after CT scan exposure in this cohort was mostly due to irradiation. Because the cancer excess was still continuing at the end of follow-up, the eventual lifetime risk from CT scans cannot yet be determined. Radiation doses from contemporary CT scans are likely to be lower than those in 1985-2005, but some increase in cancer risk is still likely from current scans. Future CT scans should be limited to situations where there is a definite clinical indication, with every scan optimised to provide a diagnostic CT image at the lowest possible radiation dose.

And about "a single radiation dose": As soon as you get a CT the chances that you will have only a single one in your life are greatly reduced, because you just had that one. So it still is better if the count remains at zero, or your precondition can easily be invalidated.
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It's actually still available but not for a long time - Google's Inbox.
Within China there are approved churches of various denominations. For whatever reason that is apparently no longer sufficient.
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No, it is a reaction against the terrible technology.
totally agree - also the Indiana jones games
And the never released pebble core ! It would have been the perfect partner for running with GPS tracking and bluetooth music ;)
As a Firefox user, Moz://a has plenty on their tab and does not deserve special treatment.
Health services are in service of the patients, not on your commoner opinion of what health should be and how it should be imparted.
Yes, I know about that. But that is quite a straw man.

You could say the same thing about the implementation of the protocols that the banks use, who also store your money as an imaginary balance in their computer systems.
The majority of incidence of female incontinence is attributed to child birth. It's a very high risk that no one like to talk about...mostly because who cares about women? And who cares if they pee themselves for the rest of their lives? They're alive aren't they?

I'm not joking, when I talked to my doctor about this they totally dismissed this concern in a manner that suggested that women should just be fine with a diminished quality of life after child birth. That that's just the way it is and should be and if you don't like it, then don't have kids.
Windows 95 did have tcp/ip built-in.

On the one hand I want to say that anyone who didn't bet on the internet early when they had the chance was kind of a dummy. After all it was the era of exponential growth of all things related to computers. Prior to the internet video games, personal computers, and mainframes had seen exponential rises to outlandish levels of success. And with both video games and PCs there were countless stories of scrappy little startups of a handful of people beginning work out of a garage or some-such going on to become wildly successful in new business areas that had been invented only recently.

On the other hand, the internet was just too different and too impenetrable for a lot of people to understand its potential at the time. In the '80s and early '90s it was primarily used by academics and scientists. It seemed very wonkish and very nerdy, not the sort of thing that would appeal to the public at large. And even as the web grew exponentially throughout the '90s it still took many, many years for that perception to shift.

At the same time, people who were sufficiently clueless that they couldn't tell for themselves what was going to happen with the internet quite easily bought into all sorts of fantastical alternative narratives. At the exact same time that Amazon.com was banging out book orders in a small Seattle garage other people were fantasizing about shopping in virtual malls made possible by VRML. Or, on the other end, there were folks thinking that slapping up some PDFs and an "order form" (that you printed out and mailed in or maybe just manually typed in all the descriptions and product codes of all the stuff you wanted) was a perfectly adequate sort of online store experience in a time that was just spitting distance from the 21st century (though even today some stores like that still exist). The clueless were so clueless they couldn't tell fantasy from reality, and had no hope of making correct decisions.

And then a few years later when dot-coms truly took off things got worse not better. People finally saw the business potential in the internet, but now there was so much dumb money flowing into the industry that the easiest way to get huge piles of cash investments was to have the most ridiculous idea imaginable as long as it had a small chance of becoming enormously popular. By that point the only people who were going to survive were those who had extensive first hand experience with the internet, understood what it was about, understood it's limitations as well as advantages, and were capable of being ruthlessly pragmatic in their attempts to exploit those advantages (as amazon was, as google was).
and GNOME 2 at that!
If you got a long-lived branch is extremely cumbersome to rebase that everytime you need something from master, especially if you are not the only developper on it.

Maybe our stories are too big, but a feature branch in our company lives at least 3-4 weeks with 4 developers working on it.

The only time I use rebase is when I got local commits, and I want to pull changes from my team mates also working on the same branch.
You also don't know if your brick and mortar bank has been hacked. It's a silly argument.
What is Artificial Intelligence
Hard to say as I haven't really played Artemis except once briefly a few years ago. It is indeed difficult to gather a crew. Some differences:

* SNIS is "properly" 3D, as opposed to the "submarine" style limited 3D support Artemis has.

* With the turret gun, SNIS feels a little more "millenium falcon" than "enterprise".

* Graphics in SNIS are miles better, but still no great shakes by modern standards (though the gas giants look awesome, if I do say so myself.)

* Artemis has a lot more mission scripts available. SNIS has a mission scripting system (Lua based), but there are not very many mission scripts.

* Artemis is more properly a game, while SNIS is more of a sandbox. (More mission scripts would help here.)

* SNIS is (I think) comparatively less buggy, and I have run sessions for hours with zero hiccups. I don't get the impression from what I've read that Artemis is quite so stable, but I might be wrong.

* The SNIS server processes are entirely headless with no UI graphical or otherwise, while the artemis server is also the "main screen" client (as I understand it).

* It's possible to have a constellation of SNIS server processes and traverse between them via "warp gates", building an arbitrarily large universe given enough servers to host it all (or, it can auto-start and auto-shutdown servers on a single machine on-demand to give the illusion of an arbitrarily large universe.) Artemis has no similar concept that I am aware of.

There's loads of other differences as SNIS is not really a copycat of Artemis but rather just taking the general idea of a bridge simulator and not much else.

I would be remiss not to mention the existence of another open source spaceship bridge simulator, Empty Epsilon. There's a forum for the genre: https://bridgesim.net
It's a chilling distillation of the fact that making us happy is tangential to underlying corporate motives.
China in particular has a good reason to be weary of organized Christianity ever since a guy claiming to be the younger brother of Jesus started a civil war that killed at least 20-30 million people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Rebellion
I should have specified my threat model above, I'd ideally want zero-knowledge encryption on all tools, since Google is a threat in my model: assume that the NGO has a database of whistleblowers that needs protection
I agree - it starts with criminals - because it is an obvious target, but once the capabilities are built then they are used in whatever way the government likes.
The mailbox that was acquired by Dropbox. They invented the “swipe your email to do things” trick and then no more. They have clients on iOS and Mac that work seamlessly. I still miss it very much.
Good article. I'll also add, progress on AI may also be severely restricted by energy usage. We can build supercomputers which by some measures match the complexity of biological systems, but they consume huge amounts of power compared to the 20W of the brain.
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Visual Basic (the original version, pre=VBA that was embedded in office)
Spot on. I have a partially finished byte-compiled Scheme which I abandoned when it grew to big for its original target platform, sigh. So much to be said for something that actually runs.
“...when the deliverable has a hard deadline and huge revenue potential.” for other people

Forget the lack of a big reward, the developers doing the crazy overtime are often going to get layed off when the game ships.
> Smart contracts can’t even do anything interesting without a trusted source of data input

At least read the writings of Szabo before you decide what smart contracts are and aren't good for.

There are many several interesting applications here and now around trustless atomic swaps. Not necessarily between assets but cryptographic keys in general (for example DRM systems).

> It all seems like a marketing scheme to sell cyber beanie babies

Well, if it has a marketing budget then it isn't really trustless as there is some central authority to market it. Be careful out there. Rapidly increasing valuations attract scammers like sugar to flies.
The last time someone tried to build a "Chinese branch of Christianity", it resulted in the Taiping rebellion [1] trying to turn China into a theocracy and millions died.

The Communist party definitely doesn't want any parallel hierarchies outside their own ranks. Where religious imagery could benefit them, it has already been incorporated into party worship/Chinese nationalism. Propping up minority religions would not be an efficient way to exert control they already have.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Rebellion
I'd argue that today we have an even larger variety in CPUs.
They're all ARM, but they exist and almost anything can be made to run on them. Well, not trivially, but it can be done. ARM is also supported by Ubuntu, Arch, Debian etc.
The only problem is that most of ARM hardware is made just for phones etc, where *nix doesn't work great because of manufacturers and their closed-source firmware.
What defines a blockchain for you?

I agree that a token based currency is not required, I'm just interested in what people define a blockchain as for intellectual curiosity.
As if they've tried them and then abandoned them? Java, fone one, didn't even have generics and closures when it came out.

It didn't have macros because it was intended for the ho-hum enterprise programmer of the time, who, the thought was, would not know what to do with them.

Instead, they re-invented all those things badly (e.g. through gobs of XML and ugly reflection based metaprogramming).
Blackberry 10 OS had the same thing -- a unified location (called the hub) where all of you communication would go. It was great, except that third-party apps rarely (and decreasingly) integrated with it.
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