skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> someone is born into a world of such legacies?

they obtain the portion that their parents purchased. Or if they are productive enough, they buy out land from somebody else less productive.

There's no natural right for somebody to be able to own land.
There are over a dozen more exotic states of matter: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_of_matter
Yes, it was just a terse way of putting it: by long running I really mean something that runs more or less indefinitely, usually serving "external" requests, like a server or daemon vs "short running" where I mean something that is triggered to do a specific job: think a compiler or compressor or whatever.

Of course you could have short running servers or long running full-CPU processes too.

Long/short probably are the
Show me how please!
If you respect other peoples decision making, then a large proportion of people thinking a thing absolutely does validate an idea. Justify and excuse maybe not, but validate absolutely. Diamonds may be artificially priced, sure, but people willingly pay the price daily. You are of course free to judge, but your judgement of value is not more or less valid than the judgements of others.

Valuation isn't objective, and it isn't a logic question that can be reduced. Value is subjective, and therefore the value anyone honestly pays for any object is _always valid_.
The EU is theoretically more representative than the US government, by the processes involved in Parliament members elections, however voter turnout is low and falling (down to 42% in 2009 and 2014). Compare with ~56% in the US during Presidential elections, and ~50% for House of Representatives elections. In the EU it climbed back to 50% in 2019 when voters massively bumped up parties not so pro-Europe (Farage, Le Pen and Salvini). It seems to me that, as the EU is less transparent and accountable than most member nations's governments, many voters lost interest then are now actively trying to (reform/destroy/escape from) it.
A VPN hiding your traffic from the websites you visit relies on substituting the VPNs IP for your own. If you're your own VPN, your VPN's IP is your IP.

I've used self-hosted VPNs running on AWS LightSail to have privacy from wifi operators I didn't trust, but it doesn't work for higher levels of surveillance than that.

For example, if your VPN runs on a server with a dedicated or at least relatively persistent IP and you're the only one using it an upsteam of the server like an ISP or a network of sites could track you cross-site and use that data to deanonymize.
That's not as weird as it might sound (perhaps you knew this). He used /bin/sh until bfox wrote bash.

But on ITS, the PDP-10 OS we mostly used until the mid 80s, DDT (the debugger) was the shell. There were no core dumps for interactive programs; if your program halted abnormally you were already in the debugger so it was no big deal. The Lispm, of course, worked this way too although the debugger was more sophisticated than DDT.
"Way?"

"Way!"

"Way??"

"Way!!"

... at least we get "rectal surgeon" rather than the almost ubiquitous "scientists"...
Not only can you, but many people have:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_motion#Patents
Ideally each airline would have their own, or they’d group up and hire an agency
Hi, you're right, I'll eliminate them.

My guts are tied in a knot half the time wondering what's going to happen; if this is the end of free and fair elections, and maybe the beginning of something worse (this is a good summary: https://twitter.com/willwilkinson/status/1219638176953839617 ), and I guess that seeps through in my comments.

As to my degenerate comment - it's actually the truth. I've started to get white hairs in the past 6 months, and while I can't prove the cause, as above, I am very worried. My wife's family lived through fascism in Italy, and I've read enough, in both Italian and English, to not feel uncomfortable using that term even if it's a strong one. But, yeah, I guess it's incendiary and not appropriate here until it's in the history books.

A question for you: housing and urbanism come up a lot here, and I think that's also something that's inherently political, but I don't see moves to keep it out. Without doubt, it towers over local politics in the Bay Area, and has repercussions up here in Oregon (and beyond) as you may have seen perusing my comments. I feel the level of discussion is generally better regarding those issues, and it's certainly not as partisan in nature. But it is certainly political.
Sure, I know how the zero page works - so for "sparse" scenarios like your diagonal matrix examples, it works great.

You can of course also implement this trick in userspace, or at least without relying on the zero CoW thig on fault, e.g., by mapping /dev/zero.

Sometimes the zero page thing comes out worse: if you first read from a zero page and then ultimately write to it, for every page, you take 2x the number of faults.
The TeX Pestilence (Why TeX/LaTeX Sucks)
Whether someone wants to fix code because they use and have a problem with it, or they just wanted to knock out a random 'good first bug', it's not really up to you.

Personally i think github shouldn't have this feature for a number of unrelated reasons, but don't start excluding one-off noob contributors. Open source is open for a reason.
Interesting that it doesn't mention Kallocain. It's a dystopian novel based on a truth serum.
>No doubt he is brilliant

How? According to the article his model without the cheat rated at ~100th place, and the article mentions him cheating the same way before (by scraping Quora for some Quora related competition).
Perhaps Mozilla should consider the ethics of taking money from those same corporations coughgooglecough or for firing a CEO because of his beliefs coughBrendan Eichcough.

Maybe they should practice what they preach
Hilarious! I have picked my favorite text from the article.
https://youtu.be/r6H14MIJRk4
i've driven for 20+ hours on 7+ occasions to avoid checking in my dog.... would never do it unless absolutely necessary 1-time thing (relocating to another continent).
The difference between Beowulf English vs modern English and say Italian vs Latin is not the same at all
That plus people are incorrectly assuming that it's bad that the charity gets leftovers. That money is still a net positive which they wouldn't have made otherwise as well as an increase in sponsors via the event. The amount of cynicism here is daft.
You don’t often get in with rich people, who likely had parents that were likely rich given her profession and location, by saying you come from a rough background. That just makes most rich people feel uncomfortable, which isn’t a useful feeling if you want said rich people’s money.
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you'd check in your dog in cargo, give it tranquilizers, and pray it comes out alive on the other end.... elderly dogs or dogs with congestive heart failure or short nose dogs with breathing problems...
The case for "forking the web"?

What if we just released a new browser that flat out refused to load any resource outside this definition?

Would sort of be like the parallel worlds of gopher and the web for a while. I think it would be interesting to have a "web fork" that was just for documents not apps.
For child survivors, drawing is therapy–and a tool of justice
Ask HN: What big sacrifices made in life for something you love that was worth?
What are some big sacrifices you have made in your life for something you love that has been worth it? Not worth it?
The Unix Pestilence
I found this bug too!
SaveDotOrg Protest at ICANN in Los Angeles this Friday Jan 24
People need to eat. Lack of money kills you this year. Some technical science-talk spread by ideologically opposed people about how you're going to get sick decades from now -- who knows if it's even true?
>Morality in the real world is complex and most of the heuristics we use in our daily lives rapidly break down when examining most anything in detail.

Not exactly. We have tools to examine the validity and soundness of arguments people use when they make a claim about morality.
> I see the real answer to this as the gTLD program: radically expand the number of domain-issuing entities and normalize companies operating on something other than .com.

However, that has another problem in that it increases the opportunity for fraud via. The benefit of a small number of tlds is that the most memorable part is typically the most unique and provides human-distinguishable identity, but that's out the window if you've normalized mybusiness.com, mybusiness.biz, mybusiness.business, mybustiness.bz, mybusiness.bus, etc. Typosquatting still exists with .com, but it's far more manageable that the above.
It seems that these devices are real:

> Despite the patents sounding extremely far-fetched, official documents show that the Chief Technology Officer of the U.S. Naval Aviation Enterprise personally attested to the reality of these inventions and their importance to national security and peer-state competition in appeals with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

Of course, the article immediately follows with:

> Meanwhile, the scientists and physicists we have talked to on and off the record have made it clear that they find the claims largely absurd and not grounded in scientific fact. At the same time, there is, in fact, many decades of government research into similar technologies that are very much alike in concept to some of Pais's work.
Kaggle Cheating – What's the best way to cheat? Ah, just look at the answers
Something I like about tldr is that tldr pages are short enough to not necessitate using a pager, so you can print the tldr of a command and read it while typing the command in the same terminal emulator.

I know you can disable the pager for man, but the typical manpage is going to be fairly long anyway so the pager is generally desired. I suppose you could pipe man through head to just print out the first section, but honestly tldr seems to fill this niche better than I see that working.
>> It will not crash.

you are wrong and you do not know history. it will crash and then it will recover and then it will crash again. real estate is cyclical.
You're required to keep the dog in the bag under the seat for the entire flight so they shouldn't really affect cleaning.

I have two issues with the fee.

1) It only covers one way. For a round trip itinerary you are looking at $250 - $400 for the pet fee. That can be more expensive than the actual ticket.

2) Your pet counts as your carry on item. I would be a little less bothered if the dog was allowed in addition to your carry on and personal items or if the airline included a free checked bag with the fee to offset the carry on. Since the dog counts as your carry on, you have to pay an additional $25+ each way to check a bag you might've otherwise carried on the plane.
A dishonest scrivener covertly changed the US Constitution’s impeachment clause
So, from 302 neurons and 7,000 connections in 1986 to 135,000 in 2020. I wonder how much things will speed up after this.
that needs a strong warning
High-precision distributed sensing using an entangled quantum network
The specific case I was thinking of was the host suffering an incident where it is not possible or practical for its software to know where it left off.

For example, you get a kernel panic, or soft-reset for some reason. When you recover, you now have a bus in an unknown state, possibly mid-transaction, and if you pick the wrong order in which to bring the bus back to idle, you might wedge it or accidentally cause a side-effect (e.g overwrite a byte in an EEPROM).
The S&P 500 has more or less, always gone up, for its entire existence. From the late 50's to today, the CAGR was 9.97%. That's including the recessions.
You don't patent these things without expecting questions... Either they're really close to produce something that the public could replicate - hence the patenting, or they're miles away from anything realistic but patenting like crazy to remain 'relevant'.
Theoretically speaking you can make a VM that is indistinguishable to a real computer. In reality most VM solutions do not attempt to do so. For example, many install specialized drivers to communicate to the host that can be readily checked.
I do appreciate the intention behind GPLv3. And it does has a lot of good updates over GPLv2.

The reason why I said it's impractical to include GPLv3 code in a system that also has secret sauce (maybe a special control loop or some audio plugins) is more about sauce protection.

If somebody has access to replace GPLv3 components with their own versions, then they effectively have the ability to read from the filesystem, and to control what's in it (at least partially).

So if I had parts that I wanted to keep secret and/or unmodifiable (maybe downloaded items from an app store), I'd have to find some way to separate out anything that's GPLv3 (and also probably constrain the GPLv3 binaries with cgroups to protect against the binaries being replaced with something nefarious). Or I'd have to avoid GPLv3 code in my product. Not because it requires me to release non-GPL code, but more because it requires me to provide write access to the filesystem.

And I guess that maybe GPLv3 is working as intended there. Not my place to judge if the license restrictions are good or bad. But it does mean that GPLv3 code can't easily be shipped on products that also have files which the developer wants to keep as a trade secret (or files that are pirateable). With the end result that most GNU packages become off-limits to a lot of embedded systems developers.
It is amazing that almost 20 years in my career I can finally use some of my more advanced math because I now have an interest in PyTorch. I've forgotten a lot of calculus but I was really surprised how quickly a lot of it came back.
That's naive way of looking at things. Do you know how many brands and trademarks exist in the world? It's over 40 million! Do you know how many brands easily gets mixed up with normal English? When someone searches for best buy, do they always want to go to best buy store? When I type subway, do I want a sandwich shop or subway station? Doing things at scale is very different. And you can't be unfair to small brands while only taking care of big brands. While I understand your issue, there is no clear cut solution here.
Inlined Defers in Go
I would have a different interpretation. If he cheated once, he has most likely done it before and since the competition in question. Usually when 'good people' cheat there is a series of escalating transgressions before they get caught.
While I like the idea I feel like it's misplaced. Hand writing documents was acceptable until we got typewriters. Black and white text was acceptable until we built color displays. Paper documents were acceptable until we built word processors. Digital documents were acceptable...until we built the Web of Applications.

I do not see documents and applications as two separate things. I think an application is the inevitable next step towards our goal of disseminating information as efficiently as possible. That's why it's called hypertext - it's meant to be a better version of plain text documents.

The author's biggest complaint is "applications pretending to be documents," such as journalism sites that implement monthly article caps. Sure, but in the old days you had to pay for the newspaper too, didn't you? Paywalls are not a result of the "Web of Applications" as much as they are a corporate attempt to adapt to a new medium. Nobody will publish documents for free unless it is a hobby or passion; in order for there to be worthwhile documents churned out every week or so, someone has to get paid. The author seems to presume that news orgs would simply publish their documents for free if the Web only enabled GET requests. I have extreme doubts about this.
USA real estate is number one market for money laundering. Very easy to setup an LLC and buy up properties through offshore entities without raising any red flags. Cartels, mafia, dirty politicians etc. invested heavily in Real estate in USA in last two decades. Specifically in San Fran, NYC, Boston and Miami.
This is complete nonsense are at the very least, localised to you and you region.

2 bedroom, shitbox, shoe-box apartments are being sold for $1,000,000 in Sydney that are being condemned less than 10 years after they were built because of the shocking quality of their construction.

ABS News: a legacy of defects:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-18/how-bad-could-the-apa...

Quantity over quality:
https://www.openagent.com.au/blog/quantity-over-quality-the-...
I'm not sure how you get from those stats cited to a first home demand peak in 2035-2040. Class of 2007 grads are ~31 now. They want to buy now, not in 2035. Did you mean to type 2025?
Systemic Risk in the Broad Economy
This is true of the whole Sotho-Tswana branch of languages. They mention it for Tswana, albeit briefly.

It is also one of the reasons why English is taking over (and in less serious cases, borrowed from). English is fully developed for social, scientific, technical, complex, specialised and precise communication to an extent rivaled maybe by only a dozen other languages.

On the Northern Sotho radio stations you often hear kids say, when asked about colours, "Ke ye blue" ("It is blue"). The radio presenter would sometimes correct the kid and say "Aowa, ka Sesotho re re ke ye tala." However, there is something deeper at play and something perhaps unassuming yet complex: the kid is more accurate.

The value of languages like these is not the ability to convey or store technical or scientific information. But if a language disappears is like losing in one shot the whole of Beethoven's work (and a bit more than that). Sotho may have less colour words (yellow=brown too) and also it doesn't have delimiters in the sense of "far, further, furthest" (having only "far", "further", and then emphasis) but it has... verb modifiers!

For example: use = to cause to work. Repair = to cause to be good. Understand = to cause to hear.

Wow, am I telling you that verbs convey and encode causality in these languages? Yup, that's right.
From that what that link says, it sounds like you could but now cannot patent perpetual motion devices, since those applications are now rejected in America and UK. Perhaps you can patent them elsewhere though.
I assume you meant to say “you can refinance the former”?
Perhaps they meant a different type of damage.
So here's this new kid, systemd, mindlessly gobbling os functionality and annoying the elders with binary log files.

And then the sleeping giants wake, Lisp and Emacs.

62-year old Lisp, based on Lambda calculus from 80-90 years ago, pretty much pioneered much of computer science.

And 44-year old emacs and 35-year old elisp, they pioneered subsuming.

I mean, there's a church of emacs.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/Richard_...

by the way, emacs has already been used as init:

http://www.informatimago.com/linux/emacs-on-user-mode-linux....
The code bloat of what exactly?

Are we talking about the kernel or the entire distro?

Let's look at one of the favorite whipping boys from uninformed folks claiming linux systems are now bloated: systemd.

In many ways the consolidation of various disparate userspace components that occurred with the advent of systemd has substantially simplified the task of contributing to anything it covers.

There's now a mono repo encompassing a huge swath of the core of userspace with far less code duplication than we used to have in the bad old days where every little component was a snowflake project managed by its own respective cabal with its own mailing lists (if you're lucky) and its own ideas of how configuration files should be parsed, services installed/enabled/run, and generally a huge snowflake pile of redundant functionality.

Anyone with basic C knowledge now can clone the well organized repo and in very little time be reading and modifying code in a DVCS, and with systems and processes like git and github in place you can have your first patch up in the form of a reviewable and upstream-mergable PR in under an hour, without anyone else's involvement!

If you don't think this is has all lowered the barrier substantially for individual contributors interested in understanding, modifying, and contributing changes to the code underpinning their systems, you simply have no idea what it used to be like.
As did its end.
But it certainly has altruistic value: if you are a carrier, wearing a mask should greatly reduce the chance of infecting others.
The "not portable" thing is actually such a weird point. Every other non-linux OS had its own pid 1, none of them identical to the sysvinit package formerly used by Linux distros. (though some of them quite similar) So I don't think you could really claim the thing systemd replaces needed to support the BSDs or anything. Because it did not.

In some cases you might reuse rc.d scripts across multiple OSs... But rc.d itself was not "a thing" everywhere.
Celebrating Christopher Tolkien’s Cartographic Legacy
32 is plenty to represent the numbers we care about, but you'll find you probably want 64 to do math with those numbers. 64 has always been enough for me to never have to care about the precision, but whenever I've used 32 to save some ram, I've ended up having to think carefully about how some operation would reduce the precision in a material way.
Yeah, skyscrapers have a lot of stairs and elevators, but I'm pretty sure switching to a bunch of smaller buildings and replacing the stairs and elevators with roads and automobiles is not going to come out ahead on environmental impact.
Ask HN: How to motivate a colleague to give the best for a project?
A delegate from India has been invited to come to Germany to develop a tool for the company.

The tool he is developing is going very slow, he has probably finished a 30% and the deadline is in two days. I’ve worked with him to defined the tool.

The quality is not so great - There are so many inconsistencies in the tool. Very different than working with German colleagues and need to keep asking how is it going.

He is just working in one thing.

He really knows what he has to do (I’m sure the tasks are clear)

He comes late and leaves early, working less that it is expected.

Not sure what to do to motivate him to do the best for the company.

Any suggestions,
Thank you
Is it ironic that the websites often involved in freeing up the knowledge ends up getting hosted in Russia?
> the distinct linguistic problems different language groups have with english sounds are notorious and very very culture/language specific

Absolutely, and not just sounds, but also grammar.

Any non-native speaker who knows a lot of non-native speakers with a similar background and likes paying attention to language will be familiar with specific errors that those speakers tend to make. If we learn the other people's native language, we can often even recognize features of their language that contribute to those errors.

I wonder if there's a standardized database that collects these and explains their origins (which seems like something that would be useful for ESL teachers).

> Doesn't matter what language you speak from childhood, what you develop appears to be part of a larger (universal) comprehension model.

Even if we suppose that this is exactly right, it's not necessarily particularly inconsistent with this research. If you damage similar parts of the language apparatus, you could expect the damage to show up differently at the surface level as its consequences propagate to the surface.
...these are your friends?