skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I enjoyed about it was that you were always on the bleeding edge. CPUs, memory, hardware I/O were all so slow you we're always looking for hardware tricks or algorithms to make things fast enough to show your ideas.

Info came through magazines, word-of-mouth, or later BBSes/usenet newsgroups (like shared email) received a couple times a day. So we were voracious for it, hang out in game/computer stores to talk to people.

Knowing/remembering was automatic as there was no other way. Always wrote/debugged programs from your head only looking up a few memory addresses you weren't sure about. Could assemble
(small program) instructions to machine code in your head, and convert to 8-bit string. Get string address and 'call' it. Going to each others' houses to show n tell or pair program and play video games that we made, bought, or cracked.
Here is a Forth you can use on Linux and Windows

http://web.archive.org/web/20080828064920/http://ronware.org...
not an American, but I also view this very critically. In Germany the university is free, but in reality it's just hugely subsidised. I just can't justify pumping a lot of money into free (real) university education for seniors. The money is needed elsewhere. There's a huge difference between a university and other education-institutions, university-education is just such a luxury. You can take classes with highly-esteemed researchers etc. It's really unbelievable valuable, but also quite a societal investment.

There should, of course, be ways for pensioners challenge their intellectual ability, but studying at a university is just way over the top I think. There must be another way. Maybe expand the adult-education-centres with special programs for seniors, I don't know.

EDIT: this comment is not about getting a PhD. I would not lobby for any age-restricted subsidy for getting your PhD, since I think PhDs are producing an immense amount of benefit for society, regardless of whether they're in humanities or natural science.
You could make the same 4 points about Pawn, I don't know why nobody uses it. Pawn has all of lua's strengths without any of its quirks and weaknesses.
This really just sums up human nature.
Uhhh, pie charts have circles too.
Of similar historical weight, I recommend The Mysterious Cities of Gold 39-part animated TV documentary.
I'd be much more OK with this explanation about how complicated it is and how hard it is to get it right if on any disagreement with the same experts one wouldn't get yelled at as "science denier" and accused in willing to murder millions of people by his stupidity. I mean I get it, there's a complex question whether masks help (depends on which mask, in which circumstance, how long is the contact, how skilled you are in wearing masks, etc.) But isn't that why we are paying the CDC guys - to have clear guidelines about such stuff?

OK, let's say CDC guys screwed up and got caught with their pants down (oh man did they...) and now we have no clear guidelines about it. Then come down from the ivory tower and tell us what you have and let us decide without politicians yelling at us and jerking it around - one day you are an idiot murderer because you're wearing mask, next day you're an idiot murderer because you don't. It just breeds contempt for the whole setup.
Be happy to see them go. They are the wrong developers for you to employ. Their focus is all about self-indulgence and not on creating a viable long-term business. Don't ever hire anybody who calls them self a "ninja developer" or equivalent. Instead, ask them to send in their CV again when they are grown up.
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Holy Crap Batman!

Never in a million years would I have thought that printf() was Turing-Complete -- and yet, here's the proof that it is...

And then there's this related paper:

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurit...

Page 175: "Printf is Turing-complete"
Beau Gunderson, who is a creative and kind person. And has made many cool projects: https://beaugunderson.com/
You still can, this app just helps you with batch-deletion of content you've created. Single posts can just be deleted ;-)
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> it's a showcase to every one of the tens of thousands of QVC, MTV, BBC, CSPAN, Discovery Channel, networks that they don't need the big cable players to broadcast anymore

You can start your own satellite TV channel for about the price of a midsized car. IPTV is quite popular in non-Western countries and providers will basically distribute your channel for free.

What Cloudflare is trying to dop is stress test their video platform before they try and go hard to steal customers from Akamai, LimeLight, and Level3/CenturyLink.
In the past week my coding colleague (whose age is only just into double digits) and I have had to:

* insert lines of code into asciidoctor Ruby to debug how the command line interface differs from the library interface;

* read through Raspberry Pi SenseHat code to figure out that the drivers won’t load via SSH (you have to plug in an HDMI cable!);

* rummage through Python’s PY Sequence List to answer the question “what kind of sort does Python actually use?”.

The problem with shipping binaries is it lowers the standard for being able to build from source.

If a package is easier to ship as a binary because the source is hard to distribute reliably, we give up hope of end users being able to modify and build their own versions.

This is obviously bad for freedom. It’s also hard for debugging and learning.
How does AI empower a reading app to gain 50k downloads? Huawei HiAI Engine
following up on this: I signed up for a local meetup. in 8 hours I'll go to the first zoom socratic chat
good point, I didn't use it correctly
>Almost everything can be read by an OBD2 reader

Yes, read but sometimes you have to write to the ECU to update, reset or recalibrate some parameters and there's where the gotcha is since those writing operations are secured via challenge and respsonse and only available via manufacturer approved equipment.

Source: former automotive firmware engineer
Ask HN: Do SaaS founders know SQL? My app will fail, if the majority Dont
You may also like Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger. Pretty much same ideas but aligned in more memorable way. Liked it way better than Poor Charlie's Almanac.
VSC sends telemetry after first run, so there's no big sense to do it.

Also you can't block telemetry by Windows firewall.

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Why is it one cannot still register a new domain using Cloudflare? As someone who worked at a registrar before and managed ICANN compliance and registry connections, this isn’t a hard problem at all.

As a long time user, customer and promoter, this is puzzling to me to see change in direction and lack of product focus on what brought initial interest (DNS) to Cloudflare in the tech world first with the VPN stuff and now this TV stuff.
If used in a third party context, sure.
zipapp? It’s not like a self-contained solution didn’t exist for a long time. (If you mean the Python installation also needs to be contained in that self-contained binary — sorry you chose a scripting language.)

And yesterday I spent at least an hour fighting with cargo build. Without knowing exactly why we fought both our anecdotes are quite useless.
And it's worth noting that through one lens the Manson killings were an act of political violence. His stated motivations (to start a race war[1]) were certainly political.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helter_Skelter_(scenario)#Back...
"The bare facts of the matter are that nothing, absolutely nothing, has ever shown up in any New World excavation which would suggest to a dispassionate observer that the Book of Mormon, as claimed by Joseph Smith, is a historical document relating to the history of early immigrants to our hemisphere." http://mit.irr.org/book-of-mormon-archaeology-full
Byzantine and non-Byzantine distributed systems
Timsort – Python, Java, Android, Chrome’s Sort Algorithm
this looks really interesting and an awesome idea. I downloaded the app but then realized that with nobody I know using it, and nobody I can buy things from using it, I literally can't do anything with it.

any ideas how to use it for ...anything..?
I am thinking it but not saying it out loud :-)
I’ve been rewatching a lot of older movies lately given the Rona sitch...one of the scenes came to mind when reading your comment. You can’t fool me!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_Sy6oiJbEk

Ps. Watching this scene feels like almost all the employee stock option situations I OH in the Bay Area. Thankfully Carta is there to show you how little you get as an employee if and only if you go public.
Reopen borders (with appropriate controls) with other countries that have no cases. NZ is in talks with Australia to figure out what the right border controls will be. There are some obvious Pacific Island candidates too. And then Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, and so on.

I think the world's bifurcating into two blocs and there's a Viral Curtain between them. Within each bloc it makes sense that there can be free movement -- if you've given up hopes of eradicating it, then you have nothing to lose by visiting another country.

Infected people coming into a virus-free zone are a clear and present danger and will require tests and quarantine. This is what happened for the cast and crew of the Avatar sequels, who recently re-entered New Zealand to finish filming. They were tested at the border and are in hotels for a period of managed isolation.

The end-game is a vaccine, which lets us intermingle without unchecked exponential growth.
wait then how does bdist_wheel know to make platform-dependent vs platform-independent whl files?
Meaningful availability: How many nines do you need?
Point to block telemetry before first run.
It's true that custom operators aren't implemented very often, but what about templates and generics? Both are used quite frequently.
they are never going to show their proprietary code
No surprise there. Amazon doesn't pay employees much more in any benefits.
Most countries don't let random foreign students come study for free. You either have to be really good or pay your way.
nb: This project has been going for 13 years.
You are also very good at reading between the lines!

> Would it not be better to be master of your own vehicle, rather than be 'driven'?

Very deep question. As I mentioned, I don't know the answer.
Humans have only been writing software for less than a century, mostly the last 50 years

50 years ago was the beginning of Unix sure but programmable computers were already 25 years old by then, and the concepts were even older.
> the new problem that our industry is facing now is

Goddamn but that's a good observation. Upvotes to you!
> were made of wood

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ljubljana_Marshes_Wheel

Wheel & axle made of wood, for a two wheel push cart.

Spend some time using an ordinary dolly to move heavy boxes around, then try carrying them. There's just no comparison.

Besides, it's one thing to say that wheel technology is gated by metals technology, quite another to say it is gated by the existence of pack animals.
That's a good idea, so they can be utterly discredited and assigned the proportional blame for the ensuing deaths.
In other words, they're putting politics above science and should be discredited in kind.
ah sry, i am german and frequently do this wrong since it's the exact opposite in german.
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The key to understanding where aerial warfare is going is understanding that next generation fighter jets aren't meant to be soldiers, they're generals.

What do I mean by that? What I mean is that most of the time, the F-35's purpose is not to go up against MiGs or other foreign fighters. The F-35 is a flying eye-in-the-sky that can scan surfaces, oceans, mountains, etc. to identify and classify targets. It has ordinance to take out those targets, but that's secondary to its main mission of basically being a one-man Google Maps team.

Could the F-35 get into a dogfight? Sure, but a lot would have to fail for that situation to ever happen - given its sensor suite it should be able to detect and fire upon an enemy fighter before it is ever in visual sight.

You can also tell this intention from the way pilots are trained: they must first reach the rank of Officer and learn abstract combat tactics in a classroom setting before they ever step foot in an aircraft. This is not by mistake.

Personally I think the future is squadrons of autonomous drones assisting human pilots. You come in with an F-35 and a dozen Predator drones and send in the drones to do your dirty work (close air support, recon, remote bombing, etc.) while you command the battlefield and drop a few guided bombs 40,000 feet up.
I would argue that Walter Benjamin's "History is written by the winners" (rephrased) is someone a longer write-up of the same premise, albeit not in a technical area.
Indeed. A variant of the classic XY problem: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem
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It make sense. You could go online and take many of those courses or better courses for free. But you signup go in person and pay thousands per year to get a degree. That degree is a key that opens up employment opportunities and wealth. Most people your age go to school for future employment opportunities and pay the cost as an investment.
The cost reflects the demand.

Seniors have no employment goals. There is no need to limit supply because it doesn't affect the marketplace. These seniors buy books and pay for other costs and schools can get additional government money. It helps society because you have more educated people with additional knowledge who may share back with the community at little cost.
.NET core works pretty well on Linux - I have an ASP.NET Core side project and work exclusively from a Linux machine. The other two maintainers work from Macs.
The target drop zone is about the size of a parking spot, and you'll hear the vehicle coming before it drops the package. They're fun to try and catch before they hit the ground...
Don’t care. Ban away. I’ll be back.
V8 (and other Javascript JIT compilers) are written in C++. Whenever you think you run Javascript code, what you are actually running is C++ code that will emulate and compile your Javascript into machine code, update the DOM with C++ code, access sockets using C/C++ code etc. all running on an OS written in C/C++. Your code is a very small percentage of the code that runs "your" application. C/C++ runs the world. Including Javascript, Python, Java etc.
Anything artificially sweetened would be a good start, I suppose. I'm not in the "omg drugs, we can't have those!"-camp, but viewing sugar similar to caffeine makes sense to me. It seems to be addictive, it will change your state and mood, and high-dose and long-term use is bad for you.
I wonder, after a civilization collapse in some near future, would there really be that much "older hardware" like floppy disks. Wouldn't the currently modern hw (usb hdd / sdd) be overwhelmingly more present and in a usable condition?
Yes, that is called a model.

Usually people that study complexity will say that all models are wrong but some are useful.

In software, we usually prefer the term abstraction.

The trick is to remember that our model are wrong. This gap between "system-as-modeled" and "system-as-reality" can be inconsequential in a lot of time, but it is also a place in which failure mode can rise. It is important to always keep exploring it and change the model depending on situations.
Symlinks, Hardlinks and Reflinks
How is in anyway linked to EEE?
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“Why?” she added. “To combat the radiation and metals in my system and oxygenate it.”

An 80 gallon bathtub? That's double a typical bathtub. They fit right in with the CNN crowd.
Because maybe developers in your bank or hospital are using IDEs with nasty telemetry that might expose data on you? Maybe they are editing a branch called "workaround-for-mr-cachestash-bankrupcy-account-bug"?
> I know that in hard sciences, you cannot meaningfully contribute to the field without access to a lab and other such infrastructure

Well, that's not quite true I guess, because in most areas of math, or theoretical physics, you certainly don't need much beyond pen, paper, and (usually) a reasonable computer.

In physics, I suspect the value of collaboration is a major effect keeping research bound to the universities and national labs. Single-author papers are quite rare. The big experimental groups infamously have 100- or 1000-author papers, but even in theory, a 10-author paper is no longer particularly surprising.

I don't know of any (halfway-reputable) independent researchers in theoretical physics, though. I'm not sure if the above reason justifies that. The more important thing may be that's it's just impossible to get funding without a university/lab appointment.

Actually --- that's a good question. Where does your income for your lovely warm-weather travel come from? Is somebody paying you for research, outside of the strictures of universities?
Clicks to shut down Ubuntu can we reduce this?
"Make it safe. Modify your behavior so that people aren’t afraid to bring you bad news." Are they serious with this? I swear so much of HBR's recent content is so politically correct, wayward with the sun, psychobabel BS.
After my uncle retired, he enrolled in a graduate program in vulcanology. Why? Because he was always interested in volcanos!

My grandfather was a vulcanologist, too. He worked on proving the continental drift theory.
Personally, I wouldn't because there are other options. If I were in your position, probably for a short while.

I'm basing this on when I did contract work for a large student loans corp. After I learned how they work, scandalously (and usually not well for the student) in the US, I still renewed once more.

[Mind you, it was near-absurd money. I didn't claim a Lotus signing bonus and instead bought myself a Mini waiting til the GTI came out--a fine commuter.'
This hit very close to home, especially point 1. I was told recently that something was not my research topic but someone’s else in the lab despite having written about in my application for the lab and the other guy switching to that very recently. The main issue is power imbalance. I need my advisors signature graduate so I have to accept more abuse than I would otherwise. This lead to a loss-loss situation were I’m particularly dissatisfied and put more energy on my side projects and papers than on thing I’m told to do.
What Are the Effects of Catching Spawning Bass?
On the contrary. Seniors have paid taxes their whole lives so others can get their heavily subsidized goodies. I think it only makes sense that they have the same rights to education and other things that they have helped fund for others. Many seniors today simply did not have the opportunity to study because they had to go to work at an early age. It wasn't uncommon to be a provider at 17 or 18 in the past.
>I would love to see a move towards "static" binaries that package everything together into a single, self-contained unit.

You mean Docker containers? :-)
>alien eggs that they had to eat

This has ruined it all for me.
The problem is that you need to keep track of all the binaries on your system which have embedded code copies.
That would be pretty cool. I question how practical it would be in real world weather conditions, though. Also, with that much surface area to mass, I can't imagine it could go very fast efficiently. A big benefit of Zipline's vehicles is the capability for emergency just in time deliveries.
This isn't complicated at all, it's only been made to look so by governments and organizations caught with their pants down.

Not wearing a mask offers zero protection from an illness which is mainly transmitted through droplets and aerosols.

Wearing a mask offers some protection, ranging from little to very good depending on the type of mask. In the mean time we know that surgical masks offer pretty good protection in particular, but there were studies about SARS, MERS and influenza going back years showing that both FFP2/N95+ and surgical masks do help.
We even have studies comparing incorrect, partly incorrect vs correct usage.

The conclusion is inescapable: even if people on average wear masks incorrectly and even if the masks they wear aren't even close to 95% effective, they reduce the rate of transmission.
Why on Earth would you not want to reduce the rate of transmission even if by a few percent?
I am an American living in Netherlands, and policing is very different here. Think Dutch police (or at least Amsterdam police) have a much more positive impact on neighborhoods than American police (or DC / San Francisco police). I have seen more mediation and deescalation between neighbors from police in a few years in the Netherlands than decades in America.

This is a tangent, there also seems to be way, way less paperwork in routine police work in the Netherlands than in America.
If your manager blames you for any problem you bring him, you're unlikely to bring him many.
The weird thing about history is that it only makes sense backwards. Someone 500 years in the future might think of this as the Gutenberg printing press. It is often difficult to appreciate the magnitude of actions in the present.
When people talk about cheap or free, good-quality, higher education, the reason why it is so is because it is subsidized by the state. You usually have to meet several conditions to qualify.
Take the job. You'll gain extremely valuable experience and your career will be changed forever. If you don't like it, jump ship in 12 months.

Personally, I would absolutely. Preferably on Insta/WhatsApp/Video/Messenger though, I wouldn't enjoy working on Facebook's core product.
The CDC has been saying for months they don't believe surface transmission to be much of a factor in the overall spread of the virus.
I agree to that. I also do not care too much about the telemetry, but silence (on the network not the telemetry) should be the default.
There seems a fairly trivial explanation: they were talking about the effectiveness of a mask in protecting you from what you breathe in, not the communal action of everyone wearing a mask to protect other people from what you breathe out.
This is not ideological flamebait, this is historical truth.

18th-19th century trade unions, of which this union is a modern descendent, can be directly linked to Luddism and other forms of anti-progress mentality. Examples also abound throughout the 20th century and today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_union#History