skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Technical debt is only a symptom of the larger forces affecting a code base.

Brian Foote's "Big Ball of Mud" really hits the nail on the head regarding how accumulating technical debt over time can be considered a degenerate architecture:

http://www.laputan.org/mud/mud.html

"A Big Ball of Mud is a haphazardly structured, sprawling, sloppy, duct-tape-and-baling-wire, spaghetti-code jungle. These systems show unmistakable signs of unregulated growth, and repeated, expedient repair. Information is shared promiscuously among distant elements of the system, often to the point where nearly all the important information becomes global or duplicated.

The overall structure of the system may never have been well defined.

If it was, it may have eroded beyond recognition. Programmers with a shred of architectural sensibility shun these quagmires. Only those who are unconcerned about architecture, and, perhaps, are comfortable with the inertia of the day-to-day chore of patching the holes in these failing dikes, are content to work on such systems."
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Maybe that single optimization is not particularly important. In any case, you can turn it off with - fno-delete-null-pointer-checks, although I'd recommend against accessing null pointers in any case (you are often at the mercy of the optimizer anyway: hoping it generates non-trapping code).
Many parts are completely inaccessible from abroad.
Agda might be bit borderline, but any particular reason why you consider F* less general purpose than Idris? It's own intro says

> F* (pronounced F star) is a general-purpose functional programming language with effects aimed at program verification

I haven't used either, so that's why I'm asking. Certainly going by their marketing F* seems very practical oriented, fusing common sensibilities from F# with formal methods
I'm not sure this is a reference this is relevant regardless: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4GB_NDU43Q
Microsoft Bing Suffers a huge User Data Leak
"Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water."— Zen Kōan
Same in Poland, good memories (not such good government though)
AFAIK, the original XBOX was always based on a heavily stripped-down win2k kernel, and evolved very little. The "API" games used was a jump table to kernel functions, everything ran in kernel-space. I don't know much about later consoles, but I wouldn't be surprised if they used the same generic architecture.

https://xboxdevwiki.net/Kernel that site has quite a bit of info, with ongoing reverse-engineering and clean-room reimplementation projects (reactos, xquemu)
"Habillage" (literally "dressing") in this context relates to packaging of a concept/proposition i.e. the marketing around it (or "spin"). The french word for "packaging" in the physical sense would be "emballage" (literally "wrapping"). Some would use "empaquetage" but that is less common.

So "electronics packaging" would translate to "emballage/empaquetage de composants électroniques".
I'm sure you know, you can right click or long press the back button (on desktop at least) to access the whole history for that. Still annoying.

https://i.imgur.com/CTxvExS.png
If you are a emacs user try the lesser know pdf-tools mode. Its amazing.
I would consider myself Puebloan although from southern Colorado. I think it's mildly interesting that I have a completely different understanding than an archeologist does
IntelliJ ultimate! It's the default config so idk! It happens quite a bit when editing twirl templates (scala mvc), so maybe it's that.
They state very bluntly that MS is an autoimmune disease... when did this become clear to mainstream science? I believe it is though, and I also believe that remyelination is always occurring but hampered in MS and even regular people. Taking away the inflammatory signal will result in remyelination without any stem cells in my opinion.
I honestly don't get the point of the article. Is it supposed to be a jab at the modern mindfulness wave? Or is it actually speaking of "enlightenment" as it's understood in most spiritual practices, in which case none of the questions even make sense?
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That doesn't really jive with what I've read about "enlightenment", particularly from the study summarized here:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/10/21/the-pnse-paper/

In that, it describes people as outwardly exactly the same as before, but their internal experience changed dramatically. This sounds to be the opposite of what you're describing.
Probably when you know that your neighbor was burglarized or attacked, etc., you don’t want to impede the investigation. That’s worse than not taking care of your weeds or garbage in your yard in terms of getting along with neighbors.
Are you claiming if I compile the same code with the same version of the compiler on the same platform the behavior changes from compile to compile?

Demonstrate that. If not, then it is as I stated.

Certainly compilers can change behavior between versions, listed as breaking changes in the documentation.
“Never been proved” is correct, but this proof is quite a tall order.

Remember, almost everything in the Snowden disclosures was known before snowden - but generally dismissed as “conspiracy theories”.

None if it was proved, until it was.
Apple's Security Update 2020-005 for Mojave appears to cripple installations
I'd recommend doing your experiments on a virtual machine like Hyper-V so you can spin up different version and kill or revert them if you have problems. On Windows, you can run Ubuntu (WSL) like any other app.
There seem to be a lot of adverts creeping into HN of late. Is this allowed under the submission guidelines?
Good ReactOS developers don’t have to guess anymore. They can use this code as a reference and build their own version better than hasty M$ Devs.
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Very good article. This also applies not only to "the enlightend" but especially those who think they are "enlightend" or so to say, know better. It doesn't has to be on an existential level. Even things like climate, privacy, politics... How do you establish that _your_ view is the one? Food for thought.

edit: and the biggest question is: How do you know you are right? I think t he answer is: you can't. Not you alone. You need to discuss it with others and see what works out (probably?). Therefore respect of others and their opinions is very important for me.
TPUs are pretty much the only thing in engineering I’ve ever encountered where literal absolutes actually apply.
Can you make one? Construction is non-trivial. Good construction skills are rare. Construction takes a long time. People can take a year just building a small uninhabitable building. $100/sf is not much money for a habitable building because construction materials are expensive.

The most practical solution is an old van or even a used RV because they are already weather tight, semi-insulated, and built. Good luck.
Epic Games acquires kid-tech developer SuperAwesome
They got access to the source code, but not the ability to compile themselves.... my university had such access.
Jays (another corvid) are fast, sneaky, and mostly silent until they screech. The funny part is they're great at mimicking sounds. Here's a jay mimicking a cat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=YFdO_5DgK7M
Except, sometimes a data center goes down and no one notices. So if a data center goes down, and no user around notices, is it really down?
Wow this guy has no idea what enlightenment is... #KaliYuga
Except for those which Assange embarrassed, of course.
No. If any maintainer of ReactOS evne just opens the source code, the entire project is doomed to get killed by lawyers.

The Win2k source code has been leaked before, as have several WinNT sources. These leaks pose more risks to projects like ReactOS and Wine than they benefit.
And no screenshot? That would be useful.
I agree that MacOS fonts look nice, and also that Linux can look really bad if not configured properly. But that has been less an issue with modern GUI oriented distributions which configure fonts quite well out of the box.

It is still very cool to be able to tune fonts that precisely on Linux, and it's a major feature.

Also, on many linux distribution you can modify your font configuration per user, here ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf (path may vary).
The headline's a little misleading IMO - this article isn't about making Linux render text like macOS does (hinting and anti-aliasing methods etc), it's just about replacing the default fonts

Edit: Headline's been changed, it was "Get macOS like font rendering on Linux"
Google CEO Embraces Flexible Work for Employees
Win32 is probably the biggest set of games that you can still play as abandonware.
'If anyone should think he has solved the problem of life & feels like telling himself everything is quite easy now, he need only tell himself, in order to see that he is wrong, that there was a time when this "solution" had not been discovered; but it must have been possible to live then too & the solution which has now been discovered appears in relation to how things were then like an accident. And it is the same for us in logic too. If there were a "solution to the problems of logic (philosophy)" we should only have to caution ourselves that there was a time when they had not been solved (and then too it must have been possible to live and think).' - Wittgenstein
I think perhaps I'm missing something in this whole fiasco. Many of the comments here read as if he's only charged with exercising free speech.

Has someone actually read the charges to see what Assange is accused of? Surely it's something more than "publishing secret documents." Are they accusing him of exercising free speech, or accusing him of actual crimes?
What about the QR codes approach

https://aweirdimagination.net/2020/06/14/serverless-webrtc/
I'm a little confused what this article is trying to say besides being on a peak state high doesn't mean much when it comes to really changing things. Don't get self-deluded about yourself by having a peak state experience.

If we are saying "enlightened" as in a general broad category of shift in mentality/emotions/peak state then that's one thing. If we're talking about a technical term that is used specifically within certain traditions then that's a different thing. I think it's very problematic that in a lot of people conflate the two as the same thing.

Even Buddhists who spend the decades realizing enlightenment still continue training to deepen. It's still possible to re-enter delusion after awakening.

And most real meditation masters I know do not make any claims about enlightenment meaning you're now a great ruler or CEO or something. That would be the Halo Effect.
Zen saying: "Before enlightenment chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment chop wood, carry water".

Some more from Ram Dass:

“Just because you are seeing divine light, experiencing waves of bliss, or conversing with Gods and Goddesses is no reason to not know your zip code.”

"If you see yourself as God and then you come back from this state and somebody says, "Hey, Sam, empty the garbage!" it catches you back into the model of "I'm Sam who empties the garbage." You can't maintain these new kinds of structures. It takes a while to realize that God can empty garbage."

What I get from it is that if you are considering starting a cult, creating your own government, going to war, or how to integrate your newfound knowledge into the bureaucracy of the world, you're not quite out of the woods yet.
Wake up. That could be spent on building a skill set which is the most important way to increase the chances of being continually employable.
Putin says Russia and U.S. should agree not to meddle in each other's elections
Remember when CNN said that trump retweeting a gif of a pro wrestling match with the CNN logo photoshopped into it was a threat to journalists, and then when the US was trying to prosecute a journalist who committed no crimes on US soil, they said nothing?
If a correctly remember the consensus was that font rendering is even better in Windows?
> It's very ironic that people justify imprisoning Assange for doing something for which only journalists are protected but when it comes to acts nobody is protected from (like the ones exposed by Assange) it's all crickets.

what do you mean by this? I'm not aware of any special protections for journalists. I'm not a journalist myself, but if I understand correctly, it would not be illegal for me to publish classified material if I received it second hand, since I don't myself have clearance or an obligation to protect the material. if I offered any kind of assistance to get more material, I would be headed into dangerous water. is this not correct?
How does the performance compare to running ffmpeg ad usual? I’m guessing that WASM means you don’t have access to things like hardware acceleration?
To find a job, look for a job. Building a portfolio project is not looking for a job. Good luck.
People search for enlightenment because they want peace.

No more self-doubt, no more fear etc...

IMO it's the only goal that matters, since humans in one way or another do things to "remove" fear or doubt from their lives.
Whistleblowing is not stealing (literally, in the legal sense, you’d have to prove it’s not whistleblowing in order for it to be possible to be stealing).

Jumping straight to a phrase like “stealing secrets” completely skips past due process to determine if it’s whistleblowing and presumes guilt instead of innocence.
Other fields are rarely rigorous, and often misuse science. If the dismissive attitude is present, it has foundations.

And wishing that another field used legitimate statistics is hardly 'dismissive'. Its a reasonable question. The answer might be "because they don't know how".
I've seen crows and ravens chase away buzzards, ospreys and eagles. My family keeps chickens, and the corvids like to go into the coop to eat. Not a big deal since they get plenty of food, but my uncles don't like them and think they are too noisy. Once there was a dead raven in the coop, it must have got stuck and somehow hurt itself. My uncle nailed it on a pole; I thought it was horrible and removed it. That same week, one chicken was killed by a buzzard. I figure the ravens let it happen, so I made a deal with my mother to give offerings to the ravens and crows, entrails when we kill a chicken and such, to ensure they know that they have friends as well, and that it's welcome if they chase away the birds of prey. I always greet the ravens when they fly by. Magnificent birds.
I guess after some realisations the instinct is to go out and tell everyone to make them happy. This too shall pass. Also there are so many gurus.. The answers to the questions in this post can be found by observing them.
I really want development in low-bandwidth network to accelerate, not because I want to switch ON my garden lights outside my WiFi range but I think it could deliver network access to remote location for education and communication.

Education has come to a standstill for marginalised communities in several parts of the world, online education has become a norm as access to devices/Internet has been taken for granted, but it is causing irreversible harm to those who were already at the receiving end of the inequality.

Obviously low-bandwidth network isn't going to deliver Zoom classes, but I think a combination of broadcasting educational content through traditional free-to-air television/radio and low-power computer on a low-bandwidth network for text communication with the educator can help deliver remote education for the underprivileged[1].

[1] https://needgap.com/problems/149-remote-education-for-underp...
Yeah, actually let’s not talk about Windows ME. :P
Its like this in germany
The fun of participating 100+ member organisations with a single member veto
>I know what inhaler I need and I know how to use it, but I cannot legally purchase it.

What about the thousands of idiots who would mis-use it and die, or self-prescribe whatever BS and have harmful effects?

Even if you're some hardened Ayn-Rand style "each to themselves" person, their bad decisions would then also negatively impact others who had nothing to do with their decision, not to mention wasting societal resources.
Seems I touched a nerve there. I see a pattern and say it. Don’t take it so personally.
I think most of it had to do with the security holes that he refused to fix that left a bad taste in peoples mouths. I think it had to do with https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/885027 etc.
There is a saying here in Pakistan (India too perhaps) that when crows 'crow', some guests come.

I think it originated from the observation that they started crowing whenever they saw some new person coming.
Now that the UK is not throwing spanners into the works every time the subject comes up, we can expect a Federal Europe to appear much quicker.
People die from all sorts of things. My daughter-in-law did a rotation in pathology, and investigated the death from sepsis of an otherwise healthy 30-something male. He had hundreds of filthy fragments of wire in his gut, apparently from the wire brush he used to clean his grill.
Beeing an hour behind schedule is not that uncommon.....
Why don't people just grab the San Francisco fonts off GitHub?

[1]: https://github.com/search?q=san+francisco+font
FYI: Calibre contains a program appropriately named "ebook-viewer" that allows you to view a file (like an epub) without all the library management stuff.
Agree, Windows XP was sluggish when it was released. Same applies to Win2K though when it first came out compared to WinNT 4.0. 2K was the first Windows to include a shadow effect under the mouse cursor. Oh the extra compute cycles it had to do to render that...
At-home initiative that lets you curate your own museum
It is ridiculous.

In 2015, when I had to port something to Windows, I was so frustrated by the IDE speed that I was doing “make ; make test” outside instead - only using the ide when I needed the debugger. (I had makefiles from Linux, I would probably have been to lazy to create them if I didn’t)
It is definitely slower than using ffmpeg normally, but the idea is for more non technical users it adds convenience and they don't have to use a command line.

Yeah this version doesn't have hardware acceleration, but if I am not wrong WASM has hardware acceleration in development or coming soon.
Errol Morris on the Jeffrey MacDonald murder case
There's no consensus. Cleartype is the most advanced technology out there AFAIK, because it considers many things macOS' font rendering method does ignore. However, the end result is that fonts get distorded heavily, whereas other OS such as macOS, iOS, Linux and Android do respect the fonts' original shape.
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Please edit the title to fully spell out Multiple Sclerosis. At first I thought what does Microsoft have to do with nerve coatings?
It really depends on the enlightenment, doesn’t it?
And doctors will tell you to pound paracetamol all day just to stop bothering them with a problem that is ‘just in your head’.

Why would we ever assume that another person, totally unrelated and unconnected, would ever prioritize our needs ahead of their benefit? This is the assumption of so many institutions where authority over ourselves is forcefully delegated to chosen others. This goes predictably wrong just about every time. We shouldn’t even be upset about it.
> I know tr0nscript has fallen out of favor since, don’t know the exact reasons.

Looked to what it's doing in every step [0]. It's a bit overzealous while doing what it's doing. Also, its default are not the most sensible ones so, if you're not running it after installation it may change the behavior of the system quite a bit.

Removal of metro apps, resetting IE, purging %APP_DATA% storage, removal of some VCS snapshots... It's a thermonuclear option to take. To be able to run in a milder, sensible manner needs a lot of tuning. So it's not practical.

[0]: https://github.com/bmrf/tron/blob/master/README.md#full-tron...
The article desperately tries to push all the triggers like a nerd on a party who tries to small-talk about science with a beauty queen who already has achieved inner emptiness.
It was largely the same kernel. Issue was largely because drivers for retail hardware weren’t written well enough.
The left wing media disavowed Assange and labeled him a Russian asset when Wikileaks published the DNC and Podesta emails. They painted themselves into a corner on this, so their best option is to ignore it at this point.

Also, while I despise the fact that the Trump administration is doing this, let’s not forget that the Obama and Bush administration oversaw a mass surveillance program and the Obama administration threatened Snowden’s life and painted him as a Russian asset. We have been building towards authoritarianism for 1-2 decades now.
Those are very inspiring quotes, thank you.
Memory and bandwidtg got cheap. Its probably parkinsons 5th law: a webpage will use as many resources as there are available.
Is this related to the visual puns in ASL? For example, holding "O" in one hand, and "L" in the other; have the "L" pass from behind the "O" to in front to sign "El Paso".
I live in a third world European country and I just did that for the first time a couple of months ago. Couldn't get them on the phone to request an appointment (that would have been free anyways), so I just filled out a form and got an email a day later. What a time to be alive!
personal attacks aside ... don't take _my_ word for it, ask people with skin in the game:

Vladimir Pozner: How the United States Created Vladimir Putin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X7Ng75e5gQ

> On September 27, 2018, Yale's Program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, and the Poynter Fellowship for Journalism hosted Vladimir Pozner, the acclaimed Russian-American journalist and broadcaster. Pozner spoke on the impact of US foreign policy towards Russia after the Soviet Union has been disbanded, and shared his opinions on a range of issues raised by the audience, from the alleged Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential elections, to Skripal poisoning, to the state of independent media in Russia and the US.

Vladimir Pozner Jr.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Pozner_Jr.
> Are they accusing him of exercising free speech, or accusing him of actual crimes?

They're accusing him of helping and encouraging the "stealing" of state secrets, which he then exposed.
> Legally, the question of whether Assange is a journalist is basically immaterial.

Legally, maybe so, but if he's being prosecuted based on activity that many other journalists engage in, that clearly should be seen a huge threat.

Cook and others have argued that there was a reluctance to prosecute on those grounds because the prosecution feared it would generate too much media outrage. Craig Murray in one of his pieces suggested that he thinks that due to the lack of media interest in the case, the prosecution have now been emboldened to pursue him however they like.
You can try, but Youtube videos with quality issues probably won't do very well. Django tutorials probably won't either.

But if you know the audio isn't very good, then you don't need HN to tell you that. Just fix that. That will be hard work because audio is hard. Try a lav microphone and resync the audio.

Rerecord the videos to better explain the concepts. Write a script. Shoot the videos again. You don't need HN to explain that either.

Learning means working. Good luck.
Depends on the language, ISO/ECMA ones take their time, around three years, others every year/six months.
The parent comment can only be described as trolling. Your response is valiant but probably best to just ignore that one. There’s no way to help someone if they don’t think Assange’s extradition hearing is one of the most critical legal moments of the last hundred and next hundred years.