skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> or a single "mother" creature

How did the "mother" creature come to be? By what mechanism did its complexity emerge?

There is no known or plausible mechanism by which complex life can arise without evolution, and technology which does not change its design is (very appropriately) by the definition above, not life.
I believe the lower-level access mode of Victoria HDD only works on 32-bit Windows. This was one reason I specifically sought out a 32-bit version of Hiren's Boot CD.
> Author seems overly dismissive of the sequels.

The author admits to having given up after the fourth book, God Emporer of Dune, which is, to be fair, a fairly radical shift from the original trilogy. I can see it putting off someone deeply invested in the original.
They stopped with new episodes a few years before that. I think the brothers just got done with it, I’m sure everyone else would have loved to hear new episodes.

They started re running in the mid 2000s, not very much new content even that early.
How is that a Linux-centric vision? Linux distributions have always tightly coupled application updates to OS (distribution) updates. In fact, this was often a criticism of Linux and one of the motivators for a lean immutable system like Fedora Silverblue, where you install and update applications out-of-band with Flatpak.
I would like to point out one detail which is the fact that these forces has been killing our civillians and soldiers even before I was born. They claim that these territories (East part of Turkey) should be governed by them thus they perfectly find it acceptable to kill "enemy soliders and civillians" and then uplaod every single video of their "operation" to their website and demonsrate their "great" achivements which is simply what we call as Terror. I am completely fine with creating their own governments outside of our territory but sir/madam, trust me if someone likes to invade your country and start killing your people you will not welcome them.

Seek out more info?

PKK (and possible links with YPG) Wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdistan_Workers%27_Party

PKK Website:
http://pkk-online.com/en/index.php

PKK Guerilla TV (This is where they put online videos of their terrorism in our territory, killing our people):
http://gerilatv.com/
So you should be able to do things like un-GPL code you’ve published?
> They were put in a lose-lose situation from the start

Sure, but it’s telling which lose they chose. If we don’t want this to keep happening, the consequences from losing us have to be greater.
SATA got eliminated for M.2 M-keyed (for NVMe SSD) in the redesign, see my other comment. mPCIe is still useful, because there are a lot of WiFi cards available in that formfactor that don't require firmware, for example.
I'd say yes.

Note that "alive" by the given definition doesn't imply "conscious" or "intelligent" (though that is certainly logically possible for software too, though I doubt that has happened yet).
Cryptocurrencies do have scaling issues, but it's very easy to process more than 10 TPS. Just because Bitcoin chose not to doesn't mean others cannot.
They could have also ended it when he got his cancer diagnosis.
My target price is around 900 EUR.
Yeah, nowadays I wouldn't include that anymore.
>Our nation has now committed to sending astronauts to Mars. Any life there might threaten them, and us upon their return. Thus, the issue of life on Mars is now front and center.

I'm pretty sure this is the whole point of the article.
> Lactic acidosis.

That's debunked hysteria leftover from its predecessor compound. We've been giving metformin long enough to see that it isn't causing lactic acidosis.

> Pooled data from 347 comparative trials and cohort studies revealed no cases of fatal or nonfatal lactic acidosis in 70,490 patient-years of metformin use or in 55,451 patients-years in the non-metformin group.

> There was no difference in lactate levels, either as mean treatment levels or as a net change from baseline, for metformin compared to non-metformin therapies.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20393934

In other words, you may find a few case reports of patients taking metformin having LA, but that's because you can have LA without metformin.
Let's look back at the promises made in the Title and Summary of Prop 1A, the original HSR funding bond issue:

"SAFE, RELIABLE HIGH-SPEED PASSENGER TRAIN BOND ACT.

Provides long-distance commuters with a safe, convenient, affordable, and reliable alternative to driving and high gas prices.

Reduces traffic congestion on the state's highways and at the state's airports.

Establishes a clean, efficient 220 MPH transportation system.

Improves existing passenger rail lines serving the state's major population centers.

Provides for California's growing population.

Provides for a bond issue of $9.95 billion to establish high-speed train service linking Southern California counties, the Sacramento/San Joaquin Valley, and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Provides that at least 90% of these bond funds shall be spent for specific construction projects, with private and public matching funds required, including, but not limited to, federal funds, funds from revenue bonds, and local funds.

Requires that use of all bond funds is subject to independent audits.

Appropriates money from the General Fund to pay bond principal and interest"
I would bet you were wrong. These are common memetic phrases and probably exist in the Simpsons. S.F is normal and everyone knows the film. Sting in a metal bikini
I thought this answer was quite fascinating...

https://www.quora.com/How-is-China-able-to-provide-enough-fo...
> Life of any sort

Aside from the narrow one involving the oxidization of carbon, I have a hard time coming up with a definition of life that doesn’t consider storms, planets, or star systems “alive”. In particular, they are all time-limited phenomena that are organized but somewhat unpredictable at macro scale and chaotic at micro scale.
I know people who do not view themselves as fundamentally tolerant people.

Further, I know people who consider intolerance as a core part of human nature, who would be prefixing their arguments with "everybody knows they are fundamentally intolerant". People who think tolerance is a fake position that people lie to themselves about purely to avoid violence or "ugly truths".

The existence of people like this isn't a position to be taken that needs backing by argument.
From what I’ve read in mainstream US news sources, Europe, NATO, and the US have no faith in Turkey’s ability to execute its plan. And setting up a mini-state isn’t something you can really mess up without having catastrophic humanitarian consequences.

And quite frankly, I don’t see any reason why Turkey would succeed. Just look how much trouble the (presumably better resourced and more experienced) US has had in setting up stable governments in Iraq and Afghanistan which (in my admittedly nonexpert opinion) seem to be the best historical parallels for attempting to create stable societies out of a legal vacuum with little-to-no useful institutions and peoples with minimal experience/exposure to operating in such a society.
I hope Facebook manages to launch Libra and that’ll be the final trigger for regulators to chime in, slap them on the wrist and break up all the giant corps. The degree to which they are invading our privacy and are greedy for power and control over people’s lives is beyond scary.
Hello friends! Thanks for checking out my project, it's always fun to have visitors :)

If you would like to hear the story behind the "Serenity" name, and what led up to the creation of this OS, I spoke about it a few days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3JkNGKZtqM

Also check out this 1 minute video of the Serenity Browser in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu9wONA1MHc

Ofc I'm happy to answer any questions about the system!

Previous HN discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19537807

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19986126
How is vim significantly less unix like than vi? The user interfaces are near identical and vi is very unix in philosophy and originated on unix.
Is there a TLDR on what's wrong with the name "Perl 6" for those of us who have zero context?
Yes. But I'm curious what other people does.
> How did the "mother" creature come to be?

It could be a human "mad scientist" creating hordes of Pikachus.

Suppose the scientist has also attained biological immortality for himself, and the Pikachus have spread to multiple planets over thousands of years.

You come upon such a colony planet, but you have no knowledge of their creator. They display no clues that hint at the scientist's role in their civilization (for a civilization it has become by now.)

You cannot discern how the Pikachus are coming into existence. Would you classify them as life? Why not?

How would your interactions with them and their interactions with the universe be fundamentally different than any other life you encounter?

What if they were robotic instead of flesh-and-fur?
I get hired all the time to fix legacy systems in Perl or to build new systems in Perl.

We're still out there, but it's not "cool" to talk about.
It helps reduce uninitialised variables, and if the condition is false, you don't have an extra variable hanging around in the scope that could potentially be misused by the developer later.
This sounds vaguely like OS/400/system i
Fired EPA Scientists to Release Suppressed Air-Pollution Report
Pearl Harbor was an act of war

Japan did not declare war until after the Pearl Harbor attack.
See my above post. There was fear that metformin causes lactic acidosis because its predecessor compound did. But the evidence doesn't support that.

Black box warning: Some drug regulators put alerts in a black box on their packaging.

Unfortunately, these same regulators don't revisit these warnings, leading to 'alert fatigue'.

And with non-metformin therapies being far more profitable, the push to get rid of that unnecessary warning isn't there.
> If Europe blocks its efforts to stabilize a part of Syria

It's not trying to do that, though that's the pretext. As with Turkey’s previous interventions in Syria and Iraq (and its ongoing internal campaigns), it's trying suppress the Kurds. If it's trying to create a pacified area, it's to avoid having a safe space for Kurds, not to repatriate Syrian refugees (except perhaps to repatriate non-Kurdish Syrian refugees to displace the Kurds, which is certainly a plausible Turkish strategic aim.)
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Ryu (fast implementation of float to string)
> Of course not, for example Alacritty, which telnet and ssh are depending on system's tools, like openssh and etc.

I'm not sure i follow... a terminal emulator is a display. it is basically only there to visualize your shell (i.e. bash, zsh, fish, etc).

From this sentence alone it sounds more like MobaXTerm or RoyalTS than a terminal. Which is fine, but shouldn't be called a terminal emulator, as thats not what it is.

> If you concerned Alacritty, you will see it also compared to rxvt, because rxvt is one of the most fast terminals.

thats a very feeble argument. Alacritty is - to my knowledge - the only terminal emulator with GPU Acceleration. So yeah, if you don't have a good dedicated graphics card, you won't really get any performance improvements over the usual terminal editors which only utilize the CPU... but its just plain wrong to equate their performance.

> What differentiates this from Microsoft’s new terminal? Features are listed, like coloring, folding.

i'm not sure i follow here either... the coloring is set by the shell - the emulator just displays the colors. and windows terminal does support colours

and folding doesnt really look like something i'd ever want to use...
That was the version that combined the original theatrical release version, the director's cut, and a bunch of other scenes that were cut out.

There's one scene that they put back in, toward the end, where Thufir Hawat pulls out his own heart plug; very emotional scene that IMO they should've kept in the original.
This is all nice, but simply adding proper mouse support would be a bigger stride to laptop like productivity. They don’t do it though for fear of canibilising MacBook sales.
Perhaps I'm falling behind the times...

I don't know, weren't iPad sales stagnant for years? [1] Peak iPad was from 2013-2015. It may be that (only) Apple believes that iPad is the future computing platform.

[1] https://www.lifewire.com/how-many-ipads-sold-1994296
Running Syncthing in windows without a console window
It should be a O(n log n) rather than O(n^2), so the speed increase for large n, which can be common n signal processing, is real.

If you think of FFT/IFFT only working for special cases, then works in the general sense.
I've heard fear is the mind killer used in the skiing in rock climbing scene. It's used as to encourage someone that is nervous about skiing a narrow/steep couloir or climbing a route at their physical limit. That crowd is very bookwormish too.
Anyone have a link to a non-paywalled version of the paper?
He loved his dad, but he didn't love what his dad loved.
Breaking down work into steps. Not all top-level tasks are truly of equal size.

Micro tasks are good.
How Does Redux Work?
In fact, Ruby is not performant enough for Shopify, Github, and [<large_company>, ...].

It's very misleading for large companies to say "Ruby on Rails is performant enough", as they rely on other languages for their performance critical workflows.

I remember sometime ago on HN a GitLab developer repeating the same sentence. Actually, GitLab does use Golang for some microservices.

It's wonderful that a combination of Ruby and <performant_language> is easy to develop/maintain and fast at the same time, however, the distinction with a pure Ruby system is not a trivial semantic matter, as it perpetuates the wrong and misleading idea that pure Ruby is fast enough to develop a complex system.
Excelize 2.0.2 is Released – Go lib for reading and writing Excel (XLSX) files
Yeah that's a symptom of ADHD. I wouldn't trade it for the world though.
My previous pet project (for 15+ years) was an x86 PC emulator, so I had a very good understanding of IA32 and how an x86 operating system works, since I had written a CPU that could run many of them. I just never wrote my own.

With that knowledge, it was pretty straightforward to bring up my own little system. The rest of it comes from my experience in C++ systems programming which I've learned on the job while working on KDE, Qt and WebKit over the last ~15 years.

It's a bit hard to explain how it feels, but I'm building this system "from memory" much of the time. Visually, I'm recreating what I thought were the most beautiful things I've seen in computer interfaces. Architecturally, I'm building the best "Unix" that I can, while making use of modern C++ and other recent concepts like JSON, etc.
BTW don’t panic, there’s also a trackpad option if you don’t want the ball.
> “If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it’s worth – and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago.”

> ― Steve Jobs
> In France, small aircraft like the Twin Otter were not required to have cockpit voice recorders, but Air Moorea had installed one anyway. This proved invaluable to investigators, so for the sake of future investigations, they recommended that all planes with capacity for 9 or more passengers be equipped with a CVR.

But earlier the author stated that the pilot

> uttered an expletive, the only word recorded on the cockpit voice recorder

So it doesn't quite follow how this crash caused the new regulations
Some people think China wrote some or all of this response:

https://mobile.twitter.com/SGBluebell/status/118281758814705...
True, but the key is that it wasn't civilian murder or terrorism. We did try Japanese leaders for the timing after the war, so perhaps the term justice is appropriate for that aspect of Pearl Harbor, but the actual military planning was appropriate.
Show HN: HTTP Catcher – Web Debugging Proxy for iOS
Your mileage may vary but in my experience writing a decent amount of complex Ruby and Python code, Ruby is often about 20-50% faster than similar Python. I don’t really know why that is.

That said, the difference isn’t enough to matter. Both languages are in the same performance magnitude and thus suited for the same kind of tasks.
Telegram generally isn’t end-to-end encrypted, and when it is it’s backdoored https://m.habr.com/en/post/206900/
I wasn't saying all crypto assets are necessarily securities.... just that these Telegram ones are.
Anecdotally, most those I know, while unhappy about it, are continuing to play. While I don’t think people are going to defend this, I doubt this will meaningfully affect them in the long-term.

It’s easy for companies, after some backlash by a loud yet small crowd on social media, to blacklist a certain high profile individual out of risk. It’s hard for that same group to make a difference against an organization as large as Blizzard. Most people still want their product.
New High-Powered Bitcoin Miners Revealed
Overpopulation and Climate Change
You know that you are timing the compiler and not the compiled program here?

Rather try "echo 'puts 1' > puts.cr && crystal build puts.cr && time ./puts"

BTW, you can dramatically decrease the cold startup times of ruby if you call it with the options '--disable-gems --disable-rubyopt' if that's an option to you. For many scripts it certainly is.

But even on a 8 years old machine with spinning rust, after the ruby stuff is cached in the OS filesystem cache, my startup time are smaller than 10ms.
Do you think people should be able to undo other legal agreements like mortages?
Don't forget: "The sleeper must awaken!"
Open Sourcing Startup Ideas
Common Voice - Mozilla's Initiative to Help Teach Machines How Real People Speak
We do, just not anything of the sort from Facebook.
George Washington, Other Slave Owners Used Newspapers to Hunt Escaped Slaves
If we take your argument to absurdity though and say that 'we should never suppress ideologies because we cannot know tolerance vs intolerance', then that leads to things such as allowing cults to operate unhindered, groups that plan murder in the open and so forth.

For example, the KKK. What would be the solution to solve that, if not for society to take an active stance against it? Should we let them continue on their merry way because it's impossible to determine intolerance and morality is complicated?
Bash Commands and Tips for Beginners to Experts
Applied Discrete Structures [pdf]
(Apple only)
Collective ego is also prone to selfishness, an individual can take on a group identity and make being the member of a group part of the identity they selfishly defend.

Unless I misunderstand what you're pointing to?
I'm guessing they're using the scientific definition:

"A distinctive characteristic of a living organism from dead organism or non-living thing, as specifically distinguished by the capacity to grow, metabolize, respond (to stimuli), adapt, and reproduce"

- https://www.biology-online.org/dictionary/Life
They're using it for academic research, which is noncommercial by some definitions. The companies that used it only used it to participate in the competition.
> stomach pain and diarrhoea never went away

I always wondered if that's what caused the weight loss: destabilization of the digestive system, so you grow to fear overeating/eating crap.

Dunno how one can say they work on the same pathways: we're not really sure how metformin does its thing.
The benefit of either a tree or a sequence or hashes is that you could identify where and when the active mailbox differs from the backups. If each message is its own separate file then it's less interesting.
I get it's 14 years ago, but you can't hide behind 'I didn't know' anymore.

I don't even care about Creative Commons licensing.

If you put a photo of a child in a public place with unlimited copies that it's possible for anyone in the world to grab and do what they want with, you can't complain when they do that.

I guess you can complain, but zero sympathy.

Things you publish on the internet are available in the bedrooms, homes, some prisons and asylums of conman, thieves, paedophiles, madmen, teens and republicans.

And half the publish platforms allow them to directly reply back to you.

When you put your photo or opinion in the bathroom of a cannibalistic murderer who's yet to be caught, what do you expect?
What people want is a stable currency that they can use where ever they want. That means at atm/mfm machines, pos, internet and p2p. They couldn't care less if visa/mastercard or JPMorgan is behind it. The issue is that without visa/mastercard is hard to convince banks and merchants to accept this new currency.
or rather to protect us from what is coming back; I remember that the Apollo astronauts were kept in quarantine due to that fear. I think it's sort of funny that the effort to make us a multi planetary species might as well doom us if we catch something unusual while on Mars.
This is a lie. Telegram has not evaded Russia, has continuously lied about not having staff in .ru.

These aren’t honest people, on telegram.org they still continue to push lies about the “secure” and “encrypted” nature of telegram.
There is a good business opportunity to introduce practices like continuous integration (and perhaps version control), and reproducible runs, to a crowd that needs it but might not necessarily have the skills or resources to set it up.
I guess that's it for Facebucks
Which, FWIW is exactly why Telegram doesn’t even try to be a secure messaging platform.

https://m.habr.com/en/post/206900/
Golang basics – writing unit tests
Sounds like multiprocessing.Pool.imap and imap_unordered? When dealing with io you also have async/await equivalent iterators like asyncio.as_completed().
Lê Đức Thọ – Only person to decline nobel price
You might be one of the 75% that don't have symptoms:

https://www.nhs.uk/news/medical-practice/three-quarters-of-p...
The link in the article was not paywalled for me (maybe it is for others?).

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-50234-9
I actually brought in the warm gray after spronkey suggested it here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19988813

I ended up loving it so it's stuck since then!

As for handling criticism.. it's something new I've been trying in the last year. I decided that I don't want to get sucked into negativity anywhere near this project, so I strive to maintain a positive outlook 100% of the time. It can be a bit taxing, but I'm convinced it's better than the alternative. :)
Well, it would require JS, but you could turn it into a button to show/hide an HTML tooltip or additional displays of the time. That iOS supports a mouse (in accessibility settings) or an Xbox controller but doesn’t properly support an “abbr” tag... it was acceptable in 2007 when we were happy to see the phone load nytimes.com with all its columns. It’s feeling very out of date in 2019, when 12 years later we’re adding downloads and “desktop safari” but we never finished the “desktop-equivalency” parts of the HTML5 spec. It would be amazing if Apple ported some of their iOS native components to web components or to enhance HTML5 elements. The farthest we’ve gotten so far are keyboard search button hints, if I recall correctly. Which is really quite disappointing, that an app made for jQuery UI would work as well as an app from today if you flatten and modernize the design, and add a bit of offline caching...