skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of closed source operating systems or as they are called back then an operating system (open was the exception) were successful and failures. Just like today both closed and open OS fail
Haha, good old Universe Z. Didn't know anyone would recognize it. Thanks for the kind words!
Asking back end node developer CSS specificity in interview?
The autogeneration stuff works if you're talking Java to Java (or maybe C#) but for everything else it is a huge pain that's simply not worth it.

I agree with the article in principle but REST is an easier problem to handle especially with multiple languages
So does anyone know what devices would typically use the Realtek wifi chips? Mobile phones? Tablets? Routers?

I'm less worries about PC's, as driver updates are less of an issue there.
If you want to do this, look to Japan.

I'm not working in this field, but I know they put a lot of effort into not just the geology, but also the psychology of warnings, esp. compared to acceptable false positive rates.
> If you haven't researched your qustion for hours before

Is this not the point though? I generally spend hours chipping away at a problem until I'll resort to asking StackOverflow. There's no point wasting everyone's time if the information is already out there.
Perhaps not. Maybe the contacts you will recieve and the amount of money is enough to help you bootstrap stuff faster.

I have never actually started a company myself, so I wouldn't know. I just think I would be extremely satisfied if I could sustain myself without any investor money.

Seems like a better way to grow in my mind, if you're not aiming to be a billion dollar company anytime soon.
Red Hat makes money when people pay them for support. The harder Linux is to use, the better for them.

I think this goes a very long way towards explaining the current state of desktop Linux.
"TRUE/LEGAL/non-SCAM" elections are not a referendum about independence, whether you like it or not. They are evidence, evidence that doesn't confirm the very strong claim that "less than 50% of people want independence".

According to the latest such election (2019 spanish general elections), we had [1]:

1.626.001 votes for parties clearly supporting independence (ERC + JxCat + Front Republicà)

1.784.129 votes for parties clearly opposing independence (PSOE + Cs + PP)

678.451 votes for parties that claim other issues are more important (UP + PACMA)

The total numbers for/against independence are not clear and could swing either way. We would need either much more skewed results (to extrapolate from them) or an actual vote on the issue to support the claim that was made here.

Note that I haven't made the opposite claim (more than 50% of people want independence). I just said that in the current situation the way to know would be to hold a vote, and that Spain has always opposed this option.

[1] https://www.abc.es/elecciones/elecciones-generales/resultado...
If you do, it will even load it for non-interactive shells.

if [ -n "$PS1" ] ; then
[ -r ~/.bashrc ] && . ~/.bashrc
[ -r ~/.bash_login ] && . ~/.bash_login
fi
Can you elaborate on your recommendation not to go SSR? Seems there are pretty well understood pros and cons to full SSR vs. static prerendered pages. The "right" choice depends on your app.
Could the flow of information be the fuel that powers life? Astrophysicist Paul Davies says we need a new science which connects quantum physics and biology to answer this fundamental question. He draws on an earlier thought experiment of a mysterious force , dubbed the demon in the machine, which directs the transfer of information.
Similarity should be taken as validation, not a negative thing at all.
Agreed generally but as my own memory of reading these research papers and what wikipedia points out that lactase persistence is not caused by a single gene but there are several different gene variants that can produce this same effect.

And we know since the mid 2000s by a dozen or so genetic studies that these genes did not arrive from a single culture or single timeframe, but are an example of "convergent evolution" aka it was beneficial for humans generally and thus when independent random mutations occurred they persisted longer for those people were more likely to breed and thrive. This happened several times in human history and are not a singular event.

And thus individual humans may have Lactase Persistence in adulthood and other individual humans may not have the persistence. Furthermore how much Lactose you can process with the Lactase enzyme is a dependent process where some people can handle some quantities but not too much quantity of Lactose all at once.
Perfect timing, I just realized this evening that I might need backtracking https://gist.github.com/cellularmitosis/aa46e1e88c3bcd2db83c...
See also: https://awesome.re
I'd argue that people should stop providing volunteer labor to a for-profit company.

If SO wants more control over moderation practices, it should start paying moderators.

Incidentally I also think that a better/smarter voting system combined with less moderation could be good for the platform (note: not no moderation) .
The most essential skill of spycraft is extortion, not dining.
That doesn't address my criticism of the premise. I chose to critique the assertions made of why prayer helps. You address the question of whether it helps. It's one of these "distance healing" prayer studies, and a meta-study at that. If you dig down into any of these data sources, you will find plenty of wishful thinking is involved in the design of the individual studies.

But again, whether you believe that it works or not, I wanted to move the discussion to address the claims of why it supposedly works. What I mean by "bankrupt" is the idea that people believe there is an omniscient superintelligence who actively controls the universe on a micro level and takes a direct interest in your personal life choices, who at the same time can be made to change its mind whenever enough people get together to praise it in a transparent attempt to beg for someone's life.

Even putting aside the obvious scientific problems with this concept, I call it also theologically bankrupt because - while it's not completely inconceivable that the universe works like that - it still flies in the face of what most religions portray their deities as.
From the same channel : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsYwFizhncE overview of very elegant connection between blocks collision and PI.
Before even opening the link I knew it was something having to do with the use of pronouns. Sometimes I think we are concentrating on (and fighting over) the wrong problems. Anyway, there's a timeline of the drama directly from Monica:

https://cellio.dreamwidth.org/2019/10/05/stack-overflow-fias...

> "A queer moderator resigned in anger, with complaints about community managers, other moderators, and the "entrenched power structure", and vague accusations of bigotry"

>"a different moderator (henceforth OP) asked a question, tagged "discussion", on the moderators' private Q&A site ("team"): should we require people to use people's preferred pronouns? (Again, the moderator, who is trans, used the term "preferred".) OP self-answered to say, somewhat vehemently, that we absolutely must require this and using wrong pronouns is misgendering. I answered saying that we already have a negative commandment, don't call people what they don't want to be called (like wrong pronouns), which is proper, but this question calls for adding a positive requirement to use specific language and we shouldn't do that. I talked about writing in a gender-neutral way, that we rarely even need third-person-singular pronouns in our discussions, and not using a pronoun at all isn't misgendering. This was the top-voted answer, something like +53/-10 last I saw it. Note: Three different community managers posted answers after I did, and none said my answer was inappropriate in any way. (One disagreed with it, which is fine.)"
To be sure, that draft was written by the Defense Innovation Board[1], who are about as far removed from actual cogs in the machine as you can get.

The final release of that paper along with other SWAP study publications can be found here[2].

[1] https://innovation.defense.gov/Members/

[2] https://innovation.defense.gov/software/
By all means (to the creator of this list of lists), don't be shy on adding some bottom padding to those cards! Keep up the good work.
> This is conspiracist nonsense

No it's not. Read their official link, it's right there..

If you know how UN works you would know it works indeed bottom-up outside inter-governmental affairs. Their agenda (see link) is actually implemented mostly through local groups and NGOs in cities and communities all over the world.

Specific areas like groups pushing "smart cities", environmental groups, banning of cars and so forth, private as well as public, may have different names and arenas, but most use the very same UN framework for their guidelines and goals by the group's leadership.

The standardization of the education system is also part of this, with terms such as common core, national standards etc.. The directives, plans, goals, framework and ideology comes from a top organization, primarily UNESCO in this case, but is implemented by youth organizations [0] (but not only) and so forth.

UNs top-bottom model is for the inter-governmental structure, specifically based on regionalism [1], which comes in addition. This would be governments that state they will ban fossil-fuel cars by 2025, or reduce carbon emissions by 2030 or whatever it may be related to one of the stated UN goals.

It's organized to work complimentary.

And UN's origin is absolutely in the progressive field (socialism at the time of its birth). They share the same foundation as communist philosophy, from equality and social justice [2] to over-arching centralized governance [3] (the ultra-left would disagree with the latter, but in all practicality, marxist-leninist if you will).

[0]: https://www.un.org/en/events/youthday/

[1]: https://www.britannica.com/topic/new-regionalism

[2]: https://www.un.org/en/events/socialjusticeday/

[3]: https://en.unpacampaign.org/
Binance offers 125X margin borrowing for high-risk traders
Why is this? Insurance providers actually provide a valuable service (not necessarily implying that much of the enormous UK financial industry does not...) and is profitable and sustainable; I am surprised to hear it described as something to be "gouged". How would such a gouging occur?
I don't know if this is worth nitpicking, as an English person I'm less familiar with how people use "due process" casually; I assume its casual use means "a fair procedure was followed" and that is fine for your comment, but it is also "the legal requirement that the state must respect all legal rights that are owed to a person"[1]. In other discussions I've seen wording that moderators were "fired", as if they had been employees.

If she actually was an employee, fired under strange circumstances and denied legal rights by the state, that would be more serious issue and change many views on StackExchange the company. I nitpick because I think it helps to keep an appropriate context that much of this is arguing about perceptions, experiences, fair treatment and site direction, but is not about any legal-related accusations that I know of relating to moderators. Especially as there is legal concern about the content relicensing[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Due_process

[2] https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/333089/stack-exchan...
I think you might have a point :)

Many (most?) of us were too surprised by the stupidity of the pronoun wars to notice the deeper lesson - building a "community" of non-paid volunteers on the online property of a for-profit company is asking to be stabbed in the back whenever that volunteering effort is no longer deemed necessary.

And I have to agree with you, I don't think Stack overflow will lose anything of value if all those moderator volunteers resign or are removed. Maybe it's different for other stack exchange subomains, but SO moderation can be easily codified as a set of rules and outsourced.

The saddest part is the whining from the moderators. These people actually thought they had a real relationship with the company and that they had rights... that's mindbogglingly naive. :-(
Nope. You get payment and lose ability to sue on your own.
I will give you 5 millions of reasons. The lives and patrimony of oppressed non-separatist people living in Cuckoloonia that are exhausted of being harassed day and night by a minority of criminals in power and their army of brainwashed puppets.

Last night the separatists burned cars and bikes, really happy to have started finally their exciting new war in the real world. They crave for blood and having marthyrs to show to the word since years ago. They even have a name for it: WARcelona. Daddy's little psycho and mommy's little soldier.

Some days ago President Torra asked for rebellion against the same government that he swore loyalty. If is not surrealist enough, later he send the autonomic police against the same children. An adolescent lose an eye. A french tourist suffered a heart attack and died after being forced to walk 4 Km to reach the airport. A father must toke their baby and run away from his home in the middle of the nigth because the idiots were burning tires at the street and the smoke goes to the first floor of the next house. They were about to axfixiate the family living above without ever noticing it, or caring for anything. Do you know what was the answer that they gave to this father?: "take it easy, man"
Closed questions are still visible to search engines. Question closing is for those who have an obsessive need to categorize things and/or like to wield power. I have never seen a SO question, or have my own question closed, and thought "Wow, that really improves the site!"
"Being poor. How about stop being poor!"
Red, Pink and white veal. The colour of the meat is proportional to the amount of milk in their diet. The most sought after and expensive is white veal which has been exclusively fed on mothers milk.
It was an opinion. I am now sorry for being snarky - but my opinion did not change - whole article about the surprising iformation that spies meet at restaurants.
Create REST API’s with FreePascal
> Adult animals in most species can't even drink milk, they can't digest it anymore past infancy.

But we're not animals. Animals cannot drive cars (not even the babies!) and we do. We're different than animals in some aspects.

Some of us are able to digest milk
Yes, I am. I have lived more than 30 years under the illegitimate spanish occupation and I know what I'm talking about. Now, being an expat, I still follow the events closely, because a large part of my family is still there.
Not a Number (NaN) Details, Focused on Java and Clojure
Running any code in the CPU's most privileged ring, regardless of language, is going to give you access to directly programming the MMU, scheduling processes across multiple CPU's, control over caches to a fairly large extent, and the ability to control every device in the system. A large amount of this is achieved by bit-banging otherwise inaccessible registers in the CPU itself via assembly (ie. in the case of the MMU, GDT and IDT for x86), or via MMIO for modern busses/devices. The language doesn't necessarily "need" to have a complex model of the entire physical machine to be able to achieve all of those things. How much closer to the metal do you want to be?

You really want your programming language to have innate constructs for directly controlling the baggage the x86 CPU (or any other for that matter) brings with it? I don't.

You also want kernel code to be performant (ie. compiled by a decently optimizing compiler, of which there are many for C), allow you to disable garbage collection or be totally free of it so you can explicitly manage separate pools of memory. C ticks all those boxes which is why its still the most dominant and widespread language for OS kernel development nearly half a century since UNIX was first rewritten in C, and will be for years to come, like it or loathe it, and despite there being much more modern contenders (eg. Rust) which don't have the momentum yet.
Yes they are documented, though the documentation is really something like "-fawesome-optimization, enabled by default on -O3" and the "-fawesome-optimization" has documentation like "enables awesome optimization" without explaining much more than that.

And even then pretty much every project out there uses "-Ofast" instead of whatever "-Ofast" enables without caring about what it does or how its behavior will change across compilers.
I'm not sure if there is any single law that states nothing moves faster than the speed of light.

Quantum mechanics limit the spread of information to the speed of light, most wave functions including the fundamental forces propagate at the speed of light and acceleration requires increasing amounts of energy the close your come to the speed of light.

I guess one way to look at where this comes from is to look at Conway's Game of Life. A cell in this game spawns if enough neighbors are present and with some trickery you can make things that move. But due to the rules of the game, nothing moves faster than 1 square per round.

There is no explicit rule that the speed of light in that game is 1 square per round, it's just that the way the rules work, the fastest thing could only possibly be that fast. Everything is limited to this speed that doesn't exist in the game.

If you changed the rules to allow cells to die or spawn depending on cells up to 1 square inbetween in distance, the speed of light would be 2 squares and none of the rules will explicitly state this limit.
You are basically saying "lying to people can make you some money". Indeed…
> So when we upgrade the hardware, how much of it will be sourced from China?

FYSA[1], would it surprise you if that figure was precisely zero?

[1] https://www.dmea.osd.mil/trustedic.html
California has pretty strict laws against enforcement of noncompete clauses. But they don't forbid writing them in, so many are fooled.
The rise of “worse is better”
>> This is probably not true these days with modern COBOL

It still is. Which column (not row) a statement starts in matters and it's a syntax error to start the wrong statement in the wrong column. Sorry I don't remember any specific examples because it's been a few years since I last used COBOL.

I remember hearing that this had something to do with how the early COBOL programs were encoded on punched cards. Anyway there was some practical aspect to it that is now not an issue anymore with the changes to hardware.
I do the 15 hour flight between SFO -> TLV (United) and back about every 8 weeks. It's really not bad. I always go on a little sleep deprived and I just sleep about 9 hours of it.
Free Pascal has now a WebAssembly back end
It's the cult of recency that even infects Google search. Last week's news can still be worth talking about, last year's fact might still be a fact. HN and reddit also has the tendency that a lively discussion will simply start to fade out once the story has dropped out of sight.

Nice one, Tilde looks a really interesting mix. Votes are useful as a pre-filter in discovery, age the best way to organise discussion. I wish you the very best of luck with it! Bonus points for the dark theme option.

From first impression it looks fit for beta - is there functionality still missing? I'll take a closer look over the weekend.
You should look at Please: https://please.build

Bazel-like in many ways; written in Go.
It also builds code repeatably & hermetically (interpreted languages excepted; at google python is built super hermetically where a python binary + environment is bundled with python script(s) into an executable; some companies like dropbox have copied this). You run build, and you get binaries for N kinds of systems (e.g x86_64, ARM). It builds a dependency graph of your code that you can query and results in cache-able builds (only rebuild the part you need). Since building dependencies in a tree can be massively parallelized, it also allows you to parallelize your builds well across machines (with some effort).

You use the one tool to compile C++, Java, Python, Go, Rust, etc.
I understand TENEX is largely a port of the Berkeley system from SDS 940 to PDP-10. So that would make Unix and TENEX siblings.
There are companies in that situation too. They live in perpetual fear of power failure or hardware crashes. It's exactly the sort of thing we're on the lookout for during technical due diligence. Anything that you are afraid of rebooting is a risk that needs mitigation while the system is still up and running.
It was mostly payed by the catalan population and this is the reason why the Spanish "judges" have to lie so much to jail Catalan politicians for misuse of public funds.
Anyway the point is we won by 90% and if we did another legal referendum we would win again and that is why the spaniards will never allow a legal referendum.
It was never methologic approaches that broke new ground but mad hatters who made wrong assumptions followingwwrong analogy and ended up finding the new. Please do not make science any slower than it is already by having a unrealistic idealized scientist in the meta sciences.
But everyday cycling around a city doesn't look anything like an organised mass bike ride. Not everyone is an experienced cyclist. There isn't a predetermined route and there are no marshals to direct the riders around it. Different riders will be going in all sorts of different directions. The roads probably won't be cleared of other traffic. Junctions and other traffic controls will be operating normally.
I've never understood all this excitement about REST. If you need a special service, just code a small shell program and register it at /etc/inetd.conf. if you need security, pipe your text file thru OpenSSL/pgp or use ssh instead.
My Windows ME with IE 5.5 supports UTF-8.
The Catalan independence movement is peaceful.
Most violence is done by payed spaniards pretending to be catalan separatists. We already know all the spanish dirty tricks.
No, same logic would be if someone funding HN threatens to cut ties if the mods didn't delete his comment.

Or the other way around, if the Chinese government would not take matters into their own hands and simply allow their citizens to boycott the NBA, then that would also be same logic.

Am I guessing correctly, that since you refer to it as "your right of speech", that you don't get to enjoy the benefits of it?
That article relies on the flawed premise that because modern CPUs do not expose their real inner workings then C is not a low level language. However this is irrelevant because as a programmer you do not have any access below what the CPU itself exposes - if the CPU exposes an API (its instruction set) that pretends to be serial then it doesn't matter if underneath the seams things happen in parallel since you simply are not given any control over that. From the perspective of someone who is working against such an instruction, C is a low level language since there is little lower level between it and what is exposed to the programmers by the CPU.

Beyond that it doesn't really invalidate anything i wrote and is only tangentially relevant to my comment (where i didn't even mentioned C as a low level language, i only said that you can have an idea of what sort of instructions a C compiler will generate for a piece of code if you study its output for a while), why did you post it without any comment of your own?