skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft leaned in hard to videogame support, but never did improve DOS emulation to a point where you could practically play much of anything in a window. In fact, I seem to recall NT did a little better at this at times. You'd think they could have managed it under 9x, and that they would have considered it worthwhile, but perhaps it's a harder trick than I think.

That's actually something handled by the video driver, or more precisely, the VXD responsible for virtualising the GPU; and although MS did write a few of their own, that is typically supplied by the GPU vendor.

The whole DOS-based Windows product line, from Windows/386 onwards, are better thought of as thin bare-metal hypervisors, like Xen, rather than a traditional OS. The main difference is that instead of contemporary virtualisation that denies guests access to the host hardware by default and requires specific "passthrough" configuration otherwise, Windows allows guests to access the hardware by default, and traps and virtualises only the bare minimum necessary for itself.

I recently experimented with writing a minimal VESA video driver ("framebuffer") for Windows 9x, and it was a very interesting experience; there's a usermode component (running in 16-bit protected mode, basically a DLL) which is called by GDI for the various drawing calls, and you can either implement acceleration if you can, or pass it on to the DIBENG ("DIB engine") to have it do all the drawing in software. This component is actually surprisingly easy to write, since all you need to do is set the video mode and pass DIBENG the framebuffer to draw into; I was able to get Windows to boot with the driver and graphical Win16/32 apps using it with around a weekend of work.

Trying my driver on various physical and emulated hardware revealed that with some GPUs, although Windows applications worked perfectly, opening just a DOS prompt window would corrupt the screen, yet full-screen DOS worked fine. I discovered that although Windows' built-in VXDs virtualised a standard VGA, if the video BIOS or DOS apps accessed the hardware beyond the standard VGA registers, it would not be trapped by the VXD and thus the state would "bleed out of the VM". A lot of super-VGA hardware is "hidden" inside the same interface as a regular VGA, which explains how my user-mode-only driver didn't encounter this issue; but others have more registers and I/O ports which Windows didn't know about.

I have yet to find the time to write the VXD component, but I think it's definitely possible to get graphical, even high-resolution, DOS graphics to work well in a window.
While we are on the subject, does anyone know of a way of having required variable declarations in PHP, similar to the way Perl's "use strict" works?

This is one of my most common sources of bugs, and it is frustrating not having this be available, when it makes my life so much easier in Perl.

Lately I've been thinking about doing something crazy like implementing my own variable system...
Amazon does not care, and various reports have shown them actively suggesting it at times.

All Amazon cares about is sales. Nothing else.
Hey! DVC maintainer here. I would say they overlap to some extent, but mostly complement each other for now. And that's what we see across our user base. MlFlow is used mostly as a ML logger - you insert some Python code into your scripts and log to MlFlow everything related to an experiment. While DVC is strong is managing and versioning data and models with a Git-like experience.
Australia do well with biosecurity, but it requires a lot of vigilance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosecurity_in_Australia
> Strict typing mode. In PHP the declare(strict_types = 1); directive enables strict mode. In strict mode, only a variable of exact type of the “type declaration” will be accepted, or a TypeError will be thrown. The only exception to this rule is that an integer may be given to a function expecting a float.

https://www.brainbell.com/php/strict-type.html
Sounds like a seedy operation
Should we care about a monoculture around a local used/hosted, open source tool?

I might worry about a monoculture around a hosted service like github, but not git itself.
> plus then you can consider different graphics cards

I can't speak for Nvidia but modern midrange AMD cards support 6 4K monitors (you'll typically need a DisplayPort MST hub).
It may seem like flexing to you but to me it is a carefully thought out business decision.

I’m very well-off now but in the early part of my career we were very frugal except in computer hardware. I did a lot of freelancing, and the logic was simple. Anything that makes it easier for you to spend extra time doing work is worth it. I have never ever regretted hardware purchases made on those terms. If Troy makes a conservative hundred dollars per hour and works an extra hour or two a day because of the ergonomics, he makes out like a bandit.

Conversely, if inadequate hardware leads you to a repetitive stress injury or simply not feeling motivated to work, the resulting cost can be substantial.
Or read The Triffids -- if we're going there!
Well their government already sent out coronavirus to the world (by not closing down wet market, by carelessly releasing the virus from the Wuhan lab, whichever) that killed our grandparents and destroyed our economy.

I doubt these seeds can do worse. Unless they are radioactive seeds.
Pumpkins grow well anywhere!
That's a longstanding Amazon bug. As I understand it, a seller can "hijack" the reviews of another product that's no longer available by registering their product as a variant of the existing one.
An Intel 8080 Assembler and Online Simulator
They didn’t even change the description, lol
I got some in the mail a few weeks ago and thought about planting them. I've ordered seeds from the internet in the past and so I just assumed that I must have ordered these at some point and forgot about it.
I don't exactly know why you are being downvoted, you are absolutely right, albeit a bit snarky.

Microsoft is currently embracing open source and people wonder why that is. Their history around FOSS is worrying and some question if it's part of "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish".

Plus it's very ironic that Microsoft is now the hoster of Java's source code after their failed proprietary Java implementation (J++) which eventually lead to the creation of C# after being sued by Sun.
> if you tile windows into two halves, they're a little too big; if you tile into thirds, they're a little too small.

This depends on what you mean by "ultrawide". I have a 49" widescreen and thirds are perfect for almost everything - though occasionally it's necessary to use a 2/3-1/3 split. Six terminals side by side provides more than 80 columns per terminal.

Most operating systems make it unnecessarily difficult to use a large display effectively out-of-the-box, though. On macOS, Magnet is the saviour, I'll have to try the tool mentioned in the article for Windows.
While you are right, there is more than just the code. In general one should be wary for lock-in when sculpting their development processes around the features that GH offers, i.e. the Issue tracker, Projects & Teams, Discussions and not to forget GH Actions. And besides that there is FOMO for many projects to leave GH due to its popularity. Does your contributor base move with you to another platform? Is it as easy to find new contributors, or even to find the project itself?
Or it's not the food and people have just adopted a lifestyle where all energy expenditure is minimized.

That is self evident in social behavior. Your theory is just an easily trotted out bogeyman.
In the Sports Group SG ‘We avoided combined arm and leg movements in order to keep coordinative demands low.’
I seem to recall that common practice for playing games in the 3.1 and 95 eras was to exit windows and just run DOS.

A few games, but hardly all, worked in the virtualized full screen mode. It was rare that any decent game would run windowed.

By the time 98 rolled around it was less common to want to play a game that wasn't already targeting Win32/DirectX.
This, basically: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos_954

In this case, it was reentry of a reactor that had been running for a few months. If a rocket carrying a reactor blew up, it would probably cause less damage since the reactor would have fewer (if any?) hours on it.
Or closer to many people here, yellow star thistle (yes, that annoying spiky plant you’ll often see in the California grass).
Thank you. It's incredibly obnoxious when a website says I have 3 free articles left to read this month and 10s later pops up a non-dismissable pop-up that forces registration.
This has privacy implications and is ripe for abuse. What then? The gov't forcibly quarantines those people? Displays the info on a public web page so neighbours can bolt their doors shut like it happened in Wuhan? Maybe it's just me but I can already think of a Minority Report kind of scenario.
I only know them from books of his that are now out of print, such as Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Own Head.
I'm sorry because both the ui and the underlying model of Mercurial is factually Better than git
Conflicting objectives, if you're trying to use the moon to block earthborn interference.
>>IMO the catch and release is because they're fishing for the ones they can make the strongest legal case for federal jurisdiction.

or maybe its just a subterfuge. maybe the catch and release was to disguise interaction with confidential informants or undercover agents...
So is SNAP.
Well, depends on whether you consider an Electron client to be native, but Jitsi Meet is definitely great.
which "policy making" hasn't turned out to be terrible?

why not call it "50 years of statism"? let the state make the policy and before you know crony capitalists and corrupt state employees (in healthcare, insurance and politics) create a mess that results in high costs, poor quality or shortages. why is anyone surprised?

the NYT has contributed to this mess by supporting increased role of government in healthcare (and not just in healthcare)
Video editing and streaming would be the main things driving his hardware needs - the computer, camera, lighting, etc.

I edit video on the side and without touching much 4K, I already need a new laptop ($5k or so). I am self-employed and have three screens at the office and three at home. I looked into the same 49" he got but ended up getting a colour-calibrated 24" instead. I have a curved 34" at the office which is great. He's included some of his recording gear which pushes out the cost. If I included drone, two gimbals, camera, GoPro, etc in my list it would ramp up as well.

He also explains that tax write-offs are a factor. Plus, I imagine he has some cash stockpiled and burning a hole in his pocket. Upgrading his tools for the first time in years isn't that outrageous if he'd been running into issues with much of his gear just prior to that.
The way I see it, this isn't really about capacitors. You could do the same thing, not practically but conceptually, with a rechargeable battery.
I'm sorry for your immuno-depressed wife. I also have family members over 60 that would be at higher risk if they contacted Covid-19. And I'm an asthmatic and asthmatics are at higher risk.

But that's still not a reason to have my privacy traded away.

And if you're going to treat me like the enemy, willing to trade my freedoms away, for your safety, then don't be surprised if I'm going to treat you like an enemy too.

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I'm totally fine with vaccination btw. That's a really poor analogy b/c vaccination is the best evidence-based strategy we have for fighting viruses and it's a one time cost to pay.

To be honest, even if contact tracing apps had evidence that they work somewhat, I'd still not trade my privacy away. I only pointed out the lack of evidence because it is absurd to give up your freedoms on something that may or may not work.

In any case, I'd rather catch the virus.
While we are on tumbleweed, I suggest this video on tumbleweed by the excellent GCP Grey:

https://youtu.be/hsWr_JWTZss
Apollo is very common for GraphQL based APIs.
Why Gyrocopter is not more popular today than ever is beyond me. It's probably the most efficient and effective way to air travel for short distances.

The ultralight Gyrocopter can fly with unleaded 95 Octane and with strong wind of more than 40 knots (see circumnavigation of of Iceland) and its wonderful technology [1],[2].

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmwEbjzLtDo

[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8IB-5PbL9U
>>> Most importantly though, `git` is not centralised

Not the most important thing... Basically all project I work on still relies on a "central peer" ...
Google and Facebook use mercurial over git internally.
>that kind of gate keeping is problematic on a number of levels

You know, this starts to sound like anti-vaxxers

>and started to teach myself cryptography 4 years ago

Yeaaaaah, I definitely see the parallers with anti-vaxxers.

Look, it's not about not-studying stuff. It's that you will fail and you will have side-channel attacks. You do not have the resources or the skills that multiple hundreds or thousands of people have in a) developing crypto and b) breaking it.

I've built my "novel" crypto scheme (any hash algorithm can be used to create a symmetric cipher), and I like it! But I wouldn't think about using that on an actual product where there are stuff really at stake.
I don't think Trump is repeating the same tropes because he is leftwing. He just straight-out clueless, and finds a target, any target, for his attacks. China is a great target, whether the attack is right or not, it doesn't matter to him, as long as his supporters lap it up.
A vigilante is sabotaging Emotet botnet by replacing malware payloads with GIFs
but its not
Show HN: Debuild.co – Build web apps by describing what you want via GPT-3
I'd say that capturing wild animals, then keeping them in cramped unsanitary conditions, along with other species, is the worst possible option for disease. Industrial farming only does one of those three.
Lost World: Schieks Cave (2009)
You're right, I'm sure farming practices could be improved to help prevent pandemics. But it is false to say that all animals carry the same level of risk, and forgoing meat entirely is far from the only option to reduce risk.
> As long as you are using C...

These things mentioned are what frustrate me with crypto implementations in pure Rust, the attempts at constant time operations aren't that solid and everyone is going to war with the compiler to simply get basic functionality. Replacing pointer arithmetic where it's needed with array indexing stands out the most but there's other issues.

Honestly think just using C bindings and calling it day is the best way for anything going into production.
Not huge but libsdl was one of the ones I ran into recently. (I’ve seen a couple of Subversions too, since I’m visiting a lot of open source projects these days.)
I think they are going for something more than a simple RTG. I read a few years ago about Stirling engines in zero/low gravity. I think that is what they are going for, something with moving parts, rather than a relatively inefficient static RTG.
According to Wikipedia it is called prosopagnosia [1]. I have never been formally diagnosed, but I cannot even recognize the faces of my own family members to save my life. Having software that sorts faces will be great. Given that I only use open source software, I am quite excited for this new release.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia
He explained that shifting from more smaller screens meant that he could remove the bezel from right in front of his face. Those big, curved screens are brilliant to use IMO. He might have passive income from Pluralsight courses, have his mortgage paid off and figure he might as well use the surplus cash to treat himself. Others might spend more than that upgrading a car they're suddenly using less than ever before.
you're not wrong that the FB brand doesn't guarantee success, but the challenges are completely different.

having experience at FB as a PM is not the only qualifier for starting a start-up. it takes a lot more than that to be successful
Google doesn't use mercurial they use perforce.
Problems you will deal with by having a healthy lifestyle
Well, that and an actually effective isolation program.
Eventually, the US government will prop-up Intel. For the Security Apparatus, is inadmissible to use chips made in China or Taiwan.
Thanks, yeah it's an ambitious project. It's cool but has no real gain immediately. Maybe if I was a student/used a tablet everyday.
Canada Got Better. The United States Got Trump
Research mostly but now I like teaching too.
https://wondermark.com
> Well as a POC

That right there.
A headphone adapter that has "PIEZO ignition" and "Adjustable flame"... I've come across things like that but assumed they were weird database glitches. Didn't think they were deliberate.

I wonder if that's also what happened to this one, although it's only the picture that's out of place (but also amusingly relevant): https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07FLGZD46
It may be a failure of imagination but it is far from extraordinary unfortunately. It is a rare situation which receives little training, thought, or societal institutions. For millenia following was largely the only viable defeat essentially. Even nobility who became divorced from occupying duties had the same issues with use of idle time. The "Gentleman Scientest" or successful activist/reformer or similiar people who used their time wisely were the extraordinary ones even among the already extraordinary very small pool of privledged idle rich.

I can only conclude that failure of imagination is unfortunately not only ordinary but the default.
I had the misfortune of eating one of these bitter Zucchini flowers. It was extremely bitter and I could not even swallow the single bite I took. But it was enough to make me sick for two days. I couldn't even drink plain water since it caused instant vomit and/or diarrhea. Those were some of the worst days I had ever been through.

The plant was from my own backyard, but it was stressed due to some insect / squirrel eating many leaves and buds. Possibly that triggered the plant to make the toxins that keep predators away.
I'm not 'wolco but it should be a joke. The author of the posted link can't be let go as I believe he owns the businesses which fund his lifestyle (most notably the website "haveibeenpwned.com" although I'm not sure that's revenue generating besides donations).

The joke certainly does reference real life right now. Quite a few tech-adjacent companies have had major layoffs this quarter, so workers who have invested their own money into home-office amenities may be wishing they'd kept the cash instead. For $500-1000 it ideally shouldn't be a huge deal for most western tech workers. But it would be prudent to make sure you have a dependable revenue stream before putting $10,000 into a home office as Troy Hunt has done.
> The U.S. wants to build nuclear power plants that will work on the moon and Mars, and on Friday put out a request for ideas from the private sector on how to do that.

Stop picking fights with all the other countries. Take climate change seriously. Maybe then you can survive long enough to build things on Mars.
If I wanted to clandestinely introduce invasive species, I would of course not send seeds from whatever suspicious country to random people. A package marked as e.g. folk art piece would be used, containing seeds, maybe covered with fertilizer, as a filler of an actual e.g. animal figure, or something. The package would arrive to a package consolidation service and packaged, along with some other goods, with a US originating address.

That package would be taken by an agent who would rip it and throw it away onto some strip of farming land along a busy road, while driving there at night, reasonably far away from home. The agent would not understand that this action is the "payload" of the mission, and would never associate the incident with the seeds' country of origin.

If I can come up with this trivial plan in 5 mins, a secret service would, too.

So no, this certainly is not a clandestine operation by a serious nefarious actor, it's a silly e-commerce shtick by a small-time seed seller.
Adding a static analyzer (like Psalm [1]) to the mixture makes PHP's types much more powerful. Psalm can use docblock annotations to attach more complex types to functions and variables, including:

* A "list" type representing a non-associative array

* Types representing specific kinds of values, like numeric-string or non-empty-array, as well as exact values as types (like true and false, or string constants).

* Typing on keys and values in arrays, e.g. array<class-string,int> for an array with class names as keys and integers as values

* Complex typing on the contents of associative arrays, e.g. array{foo:int, bar:string}

* Templated types on functions, like a function which returns an instance of a class whose name is passed in as a string:

/**
* @template T
* @param T::class $class_name
* @return T
*/

[1]: https://psalm.dev/
Keep harping this point all you want. In another month it won't be true.
Whose Century?
There is a much longer (and more detailed) description of the history of the transition from DOS to Windows: https://www.filfre.net/2018/06/doing-windows-part-1-ms-dos-a...

(That's part 1 out of 9)

It has a slightly different focus: it doesn't mention PIF files, but spends time on the business relationship between IBM and MS. It also discusses OS/2.
I'd be fine with banning consumption of wild deer, for example.
Right, thanks a lot for your suggestions.

Points 2, 3 are in the to-do list.
Will definitely add 1, 4.
Swine flu came from pigs, bird flu from birds; both still eaten in backward parts of the west.
According to Larry Ellison, one of the biggest problems that Oracle discovered when they acquired Sun was that sales compensation was based solely on the value of the sale, with no requirement for the deal to make a profit. Their sales team had been merrily selling them to bankruptcy. [1]

Geniuses with tech, but maybe not so good on the business side?

https://www.barrons.com/articles/BL-TB-24039
It's definitely true anyone can be hit again. Hong Kong, Israel, parts of Australia all are examples.
Could instant asset write-offs apply?
Actually, probably quite a few, only two (at least) of whom mentioned it on the internet.
That's not a contradiction.
Can’t help draw a parallel To Boeing where both used to have a very strong engineering led culture
I suppose you could question how the current state of pharma is geared toward creating a better world beyond creating high quality well established products.

In my opinion drug design to treating illness ect will likely undergo multiple paragdim shifts that will shift beyond chemistry and blend into immunology, nanotech ect.
What a weird assertion, when you link to an article that asserts something entirely different.

The above NPR, states that a Karen is a new label, started in the 2010s (which is just last year, even). It also shows how the Karen label is different from other, prior labels.

It delineates how a Becky is different, a "Miss Ann" is different.

We've historically had labels like this for people, which are racially linked. But this is 2020, this is a NEW label, and other NEW labels keep popping up.

We need to collectively STOP this. No more racist, sexist, ageist, anything-ist labels. It's all wrong.

(Not saying you were defending label use... just clarifying my position)
Reminded me of the agroterrorist theory of the CA medfly

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_California_medfly_attac...
All you may need is to throw the biodegradable package in trash. On a landfill site, where the seeds will arrive, they will grow and possibly even prosper.
Why the Bill Gates global health empire promises more empire and less health
Ahh yes. The stock market is doing great hence we are fine.

I'm sure our president and his sycophants also completely believe this.