skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In German "ng" is always without a distinct g-sound (like German "Finger", or its n and g like "Ungeheuer")

Depends on the dialect. For example, older speakers of Swabian may totally say "Feng-ger" to "Finger", as opposed to the more "modern" Swabian variant of "Fenger".
"Objectively speaking" there are pros and cons to each system. The largest pro of 0-based indexing is of course that it can correspond to a memory address plus an offset, which is the reason C (and derived languages) use 0-based.

But it is also an objective fact that using 1-based indexing means that the index corresponds to the ordinal numbers, e.g. index 1 is the first element, index 2 is the second element and so on. This also have a number of convenient properties.

For example February is the 2. month, so if you have a list of the names of the months, you would expect month_names[2] to be February. With zero-based you would have to do month_names[month_number - 1]. And if you want to get the month number from the name, you would have to do month_names.index_of(month_name) + 1. Be careful not to switch up the +1 and -1!

As for music theory, a third is called so because it spans three half-notes. It describe the size of a range which is independent of the offset of the indices. By the same token decades are 10 years (not 9) and centuries are 100 years (not 99).
Not for me - seems it depends on libssl1.0 and buster ships 1.1
https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/

As soon as the trackpoint modules are complete this will be the dream for me.
Scientists photograph 'spooky' quantum entanglement for the first time
GP seemed to say it doesn't matter whether they experience pain or not because the convenience of experimenting on them outweighs any suffering they may undergo. That's not specific to this experiment.
About "Hidden Figures": It's worth reading the book: Quite a detailled history lesson!
Its just moronic how laptop companies are rushing to make smaller laptops at the cost of basically everything.

A ThinkPad-X220-sized laptop would still be absolutely acceptable both in size and weight, and could have all (or at least, most of) the ports that one could need.

And swappable battery, keyboard, ram, disk etc.
You feel pain, right? Well, an insect is a lot more like you than a robot... the mechanism by which it it decides what to seek and what to avoid is based on an infrastructure that's very similar to your own, even if much simpler. And the experience of pain appears to be something very fundamental in the wiring of living things, its avoidance being very directly connected to evolutionary success. So it is absolutely logical to assume this mechanism is fundamentally equivalent in humans and insects. The behavior is the same, the wiring is the same, why not use the same word?

For now, most robots's decision-making apparatus isn't anything like yours. So it really doesn't make much sense to use the same vocabulary. But that could change if we use neural-network computing in a way that appears to more directly simulate the functioning of living organisms. Maybe building an ant-robot that's really a functional copy of a biological ant isn't that far off, and in that case, sure, it might feel pain.

I don't see anything simplistic about this.
Available free online: http://thoughtmaybe.com/the-true-cost

Highly recommended if you even think about wearing clothes.
Web of Trust is still used in small, focused circles, for example kernel.org developers: https://www.kernel.org/doc/wot/
In Silverblue, your /usr is really immutable, so when you install package, you are installing it into different tree than the one currently running. Reboot switches to that newly constructed tree.
Oh come one. We'll sooner have AIs that will wonder if humans can truly suffer, than we will be able to determine if insects suffer.
So let me get this straight: they deleted their own account and because they didn't have any backups (because why would they) they're suing Google now. That's gonna end well.
Go to bathrooms in airports, conference centers at hotels, or higher end restaurants and you might notice a pattern. They are clean, smells of detergent, and has this piece of paper usually next to the door with a time stamp.

Bathrooms are clean if you clean them. It is also more hygienic and gives a better impression of the place. Saving money by gendered bathrooms and only cleaning the bathroom once a week belong in the same gender discrimination category as other cost-saving tactics that involve gender.
Cars with accident avoidance don’t learn to avoid things after experiencing them. For entities that do, pain seems like an obvious term.
I can't help but feel that without also adding a right to life for insects or similar this swiftly leads to the conclusion that we should pave over the rainforests to minimize long-term suffering.
EV West – Electric VW Bus [video]
The Importance of Plant Intelligence
"At the end of the day, bluffing is simply betting when you have a weak hand."

I was the one who introduced the term "value betting" to the conversation, applied specifically to weak hands.
Flatpak has a notion of runtimes, that are shared among applications. All the shared libraries in these runtimes will share their mmaped regions.

On top of that, ostree does deduplication based on file checksum. So if different packages ship the same binary, it will be only one copy on the disk and again, the mmaped regions will be shared among processes.
this seems to be Paul Graham's related essay http://www.paulgraham.com/langdes.html

edit: this essay is also part of the panel at around 42min in
http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html
Out of curiosity, what can you do with that large touchpad that you can't do with one with half the surface?

To gi e you some context, I always traded touchpad surface for three physical buttons. They're very convenient when working in Linux. All I need from the touchpad is pointer movement and scrolling.
Sounds similar to what Apple’s doing with Catalina. On https://www.apple.com/macos/catalina-preview/ they say:

Dedicated system volume.

macOS Catalina runs in its own read-only volume, so it’s separate from all other data on your Mac, and nothing can accidentally overwrite your system files. And Gatekeeper ensures that new apps you install have been checked for known security issues before you run them, so you’re always using good software.
Developer Tropes: “Google Does It”
The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge
> By extension of that argument you could argue that no server is a true server

No, it couldn’t. For example, I could say that nginx is a server on my computer, and it would be true because it’s running on my computer and is accepting connections from clients, regardless of whether it’s a client to some other service. My browser isn’t.

Why stop using the word ”server”? Just stop watering it down and the meaning will be perfectly clear.
I have an old book by Magnus Pyke called "Butter Side Up" which has a chapter on this. The bit about Streptomyces wasn't known then though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Pyke
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Butter-Side-Up-Delights-Science/dp/...
There are meeting rooms with old equipment with only VGA, no HDMI. Last time it happened to me, it was in a university.

But the worst are the ones with Apple TV or Chromecast. Very convenient for residents that went through the installation and setup process, not so much for most of the other people.
starter playing recently, and it's been a lot of fun. it's what I was missing in Elite.

that said, of you love Elite for it's fantastic flight mechanics, you probably won't love No Man's Sky, at least not for the same reasons anyway.
I don't really understand this contention in the second link:

>Today, many laypeople, scientists, and scholars continue to believe that the black body is biologically and fundamentally different from the white body and that race is a fixed marker of group membership, rooted in biology (26⇓–28). //

Okay, I'd fit there.

I've never heard the concept of different pain tolerance (only across the sexes), but black and 'coloured' people are clearly morphological distinct in a way that suggests genetic differences ... are they saying light and darked skinned people are genetically and biologically identical?

That doesn't correspond at all with things like sickle-cell disease / malaria insensitivity which are reported to be found more in people with a long ancestry in sub-saharan Africa.

FWIW suffering from pain signals appears at least in part social and learned -- toddlers can often be tricked in to not finding something painful. I certainly don't feel the identical physical stimulus of nettle stings in the age way as my older children. The v toddler doesn't know it's supposed to hurt and carries on, the older child seems to be hurt with very little damage because they anticipate the pain. I feel the pain as I've always done (maybe my reception of pain stimulus is weakened?) but can easily ignore it because I know a few nettle stings isn't really anything to bother with.

Personally I'd expect almost everything to show some variation with "race", and also with geographical heritage, and also with societal tradition in groups you assosiate with. (Eg maybe diet affects pain perception and historical cultural background affects die, maybe?)

The idea that we're all identical is silly. I see where the desire to say that comes from: but ignoring reality doesn't get us further forward because it doesn't fit reality.
From reading the RCA, this should be the trinity of mysql + orchestrator + vitess. If stripe can't get it right, there is no chance for the others.
Boost is awful even if you don't instantiate any templates. Just adding #include <boost/filesystem.hpp> will add 1 second to compile that compilation unit and we haven't even done anything with it.
They should have added some model for which foods to avoid based on any known carcinogens..
Yes, book value. You said “The __book value__ of large businesses often contains so many instruments or contracts marked to market, that the __book value__ is largely dependent on market value in disguise.” I thought TSMC was supposed to be an example of that, but its assets are cash and old-fashioned capital equipment mostly. Even goodwill is minimal.
Decentralized centralized-currency?
Programming in Martin-Löf’s Type Theory (1990) [pdf]
Initially I complained about RGB lighting of my mouse, but now it is used for CPU load and RAM usage, and it's pretty cool.
I didn't realise the impact until I remembered how common circumcision is in the US.
> Plant-based foods (i.e. derived from fruits and vegetables) are particularly rich in cancer-beating molecules . . . Evidence from experimental studies has implicated multiple mechanisms of action by which dietary agents contribute to the prevention or treatment of various cancers

I prefer to say that a lack of fruits and vegetables causes cancer rather than they prevent cancer. Logically equivalent, but it leads me to consider them normal and packaged food abnormal.

Anyone can define normal for him or herself, but this way motivates me to eat more of them, as does discovering through experience how much more delicious they can be.
136: It is done, unicorn languages, Weave Ignite, you can’t handle CORS, & more
Who says you need to compile anything? Nix allows you to download the binaries from their "build cache" if you so choose to, the same is true for guix.
What about this: https://www.keymouse.com/
Rationally, there is no difference what-so-ever between your ability to assess how another human feels pain, and how the robot feels pain (or any other "life" form in between). In all cases, you can only observe behavioral responses to stimuli and make conclusions based on that. Therefor, everyone (else) "feels" "pain" equally as far as you can tell.

There are 2 differences to speak of but they still don't change the above statement imo:
1. You have knowledge of the experience of pain within yourself. You then extrapolate that other people probably have the same internal experiences because they look like you and their external behavior matches your external behavior. But of course, that is just a thought and cannot be proven. Maybe some people feel pain differently to you or not at all (like the idea of "is my blue the same as your blue")

2. The robot was programmed but the nervous system wasn't. Therefor one might say, we know the robot doesn't feel anything but at least I know that I do. If you don't believe in a divine element of being, then a brain is itself merely a computer in the broad sense of being 100% governed by the same laws of physics as a CPU (and everything else). So any experience or behavioral response in you or anybody/thing else has a physical casual link to the stimuli (with a quantum RNG in the mix).

Therefor I'd say that rationally, every feeling of pain, is equally valid, even if it's a program. But we have decided, for emotional and practical reasons, to give more validity to the pain of some creatures than others on an almost continuous scale.
How do they do things like security updates (e.g. OpenSSL)?

I mean, if the system is immutable, do I have to download an install a completely new image? How often do such updates arrive?

And what does immutable even mean in practice? Do I have to start from a CD image or some special boot mode every time I want to install system updates?
Perhaps those AIs will help us get incrementally closer to finding out about insect suffering; in the meantime, we have to act under uncertainty.
It’s not moronic, it’s just not for you.

The moronic thing is to kill bigger laptop lines.

But I travel a lot and can’t use work’s laptop for my things, so I asolutely need something below 1kg to not kill my back with 2 heavy laptops, I don’t mind 12”, I’d like to also draw in it with a stylus, and I can’t use an ipad for offline programming... so the convergence of laptops to tablets is something I like.
I was poorly trying to highlight the etymology, probably: "pass-times" (pastimes).
Army to Test New Helluva Way to Die: Robotic Combat Vehicles
Probably still orders of magnitude less than the number that would be killed in insectivorous agriculture.
Galileo Down over Weekend
Svolt premieres Li-ion battery lineup, targeting EVs
> How often does this happen? I've worked with complete Linux noobies who were "forced" to use Linux in a VM daily and I've never seen this happen.

Depends on the noob, and just because you never met a situation like that doesn't mean nobody else experiences too (disclosure: it happens all the time)

I was somewhat a noob, I tried to edit Ubuntu's Yaru theme and I messed up and deleted the corrupted system files. There was nothing to worry since I already made backups of the original files, the distress came when I realized I accidentally deleted my good backup files (was bad regex). I wasn't really worried at that moment cause I hoped there would be some repository out there, I could just fetch my files. There was none, none of the latest Ubuntu version or any close old version. Turns out distribution packages are so big (sensibly) it's not that simple to deploy a remote master repository. That was my "wtf open source" moment. I still somehow managed to fix it without any stackoverflow or AskUbuntu. Anyway that's just one case top off my head.
Teardowns and benchmarks: All the details about the newest 13-inch MacBook Pro
Millions of human beings are dying of starvation, but no let's fret about the insects we might step on while we walk across the lawn.
Strongly in favour of encouraging this lunacy.

Let's all autoeuthenise and let the other animals get on with the stuff we stopped doing because it was morally wrong.
Plot Maps of Star Wars
Proving subjective experiences is pretty tricky indeed. If I were to poke you with a needle, I'd assume your vocalisations and gesticulations meant you experienced suffering, because your behaviours map to what I would do, myself, were I suffering from a needle poke. I can't prove that, however, any more than I can prove a fly suffers.

When it comes to humans, we generally don't worry about that lack of rigorous proof. But why does that generosity extend only to our own kind?
Ah, makes sense. Thanks for the info!
Two important ways: first, they're happy to publish physical, analog books, which the movie industry no longer does. That allows institutions like libraries and used-book stores to exist. Second, they've never put a rootkit in their DRM.
There are tons and tons of ortholinear diy-boards floating around.

The problem with curved boards is manufacturing (for diy) and the pcb. But 3D printing solved the first problem and they are mostly soldered with wires rather than experimenting with pcbs. So there are a few curved boards out there as well. Such as https://github.com/abstracthat/dactyl-manuform/blob/master/R...

As for touchpads they kind of suck as an input device (imo), but it would be easy to incorporate an apple device in the above. But people seem to be experimenting more with large ball mouses such as the kensington trackball or something like the point-stick that thinkpads use, where you don't even have to lift your hands of home-row.
Thanks for the historical perspective.
Not in the slightest. Most developers are not participating in the startup ecosystem. They are working in enterprise organizations, or smaller "lifestyle" companies. They do their work, then go home, and do the rest of their life. Coding isn't their hobby, it is their job.

This is a good thing for both sides - people who really do have the passion to code all the time have an advantage at getting better jobs, more pay. And those who don't have better work/life balance. Neither choice is wrong, they just have different consequences.

But because both choices exist, open source participation will not be a standard thing.
The trick is that while you can't actually decrease the total amount of energy in your fall, you can get some of that energy to work in your favour.

Think about when you flare a parachute, shortly before landing. What you're doing is trading forward momentum for vertical lift, softening your landing. The more forward momentum you have prior to a flare, the more lift you can get out of it. This is why you see experienced / foolhardy skydivers doing "hook turns" to maximise their forward velocity immediately before landing.

(Of course if you just stayed in the flare position continously, you'd have no forward momentum to trade, and would therefore lose lift entirely, producing the opposite of the intended effect.)

Anyhow, yeah, I doubt that tracking alone would help with survivability. My hunch is that you'd be trading 10mph of vertical momentum for about 40mph of horizontal momentum. Doesn't sound like a good trade. Although maybe -- just maybe -- you could execute a "body flare", whereby you kick your legs forward at exactly the right moment, to kill that forward momentum and trade it for lift. That might actually work (a bit)! But it sounds like an extraordinarily difficult manouevre. You'd certainly never get it right on the first try. Which of course is as many tries as you'll ever get.
I prefer the quality control that something like Debian stable provides, developers aren't always interested in packaging their application the right way or are just ignorant of how to package their application for one of many distros all with their own package format and tools.
> There's never been anything quite like Qbasic. Bundled with the OS, providing clear and relatively foolproof syntax, with an ability to get graphics onscreen extremely quickly. Plus, an amazing and decently large community of amateur game makers who grow up to be the next generation of professional developers.

The C=64, Atari ST, etc. all had decent BASICs and large communities.
And Borland's help systems too.

Sadly today with (internet) online documentation things are still not as good - even if often there is more information, it is scattered all over the place, often repeating (parts of) itself and slow to find and access. The main reason why i prefer to have a WIN32.HLP file from (i think) some Borland product whenever i need some Win32 function than search Google for it for MS Docs (the test is 99.9% of the cases the same anyway). Also why i have Zeal[0] installed with the docs of a few things i use and i download offline copies of whatever specs and documentation i can find for other things.

But in terms of help systems, i think CHM was the peak (in terms of functionality - the HTML-based content is a bit of unnecessary overhead and something like HLP's hypertext should have been good enough, but Microsoft wanted to shove IE4 everywhere so they can claim it was an integral part of Windows 98 back then).

[0] https://zealdocs.org/
Hmm the first result of a googling was a pdf for me
Thanks for your work on Bulma! Are you available for freelance work? I’m starting to use Bulma on a new project and could use some customizations here and there.
Hi, all :-) I'm the author. First of all, thank you, everyone, for your comments and interests: they are really appreciated and I think everyone touched somehow different things I thought as well before publishing it.

Excluding the fact that it could be written differently, more concise, more clear, etc - by the way, thank you for links and suggestions as well - the overall idea behind this post was to provide a 50-50 footprint (both funny and serious) around the human behavior in a complex organization. I think the first sentence that gives the reader an idea of the context in which the post will be placed is in the "[..], because today if you don’t speak about data and models, nobody hears you." But... I didn't think a lot about this sentence, I think it was just for laziness, and I don't wanna give my opinion over this topic.

Back to the Prim behavior, I think this is all human and, by the way, shared across all people in every kind of organization, not only inside companies. I mean, not the algorithm, but - bringing it to the extremes - the human nature of being selfish. The idea of providing a high-level formalism to imagine a common scenario we all live every day came spontaneously to my mind, without being so convinced in the beginning. So I tried to figure out if the metaphor would have been a good fit for this idea I had in my mind. And this is it.

When I finished, I read it many times, and I know the feeling like "what the hell is saying? I'm confused" because I felt the same reading my old posts in the past... I'm not 100% sure, but I think I learned from myself that sometimes I feel good in thinking something simply are weird or difficult to understand. I think it has been, as many other times in the past, an unconscious part of my writing process: I like the idea of being a bit wrong, confused, misleading, just a bit, to give more freedom and let the people change their mind while reading. Being distracted, somehow, arise doubts.

I don't know if I could be able to formalize it in a better way like suggested by iciac, definitely, it wasn't my intention to provide scientific proof or anything mathematically correct as suggested by dvt - and I hoped that incompleteness feeling had explained this better than how much it actually had done - but... again, this is it :-)

And I hope you at least enjoyed this flight of fancy. For any questions, feel free to reach me here, by email, twitter, linkedin, etc.

Have a nice day :-)
Well, the good news on that front is we're already eliminating insects https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/10/plummeti...
VGA can barely do 2K not 4K, so most 2K and all 4K computer monitors don't include it. So it's not exactly that VGA is 'everywhere', rather that 4K computer monitors are a small section of the market, enthusiasts aside. 4K TVs are much more common - but many of those still have a VGA port (I guess TV owners are much more forgiving?).