skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of this talk about doing it for the lulz leading to extremism may have some merit to it, since it can normalize extremist positions, even behind humour.

However, let’s not ignore that there are actual extremists right now on the knee jerk side that escalated literal bullshit to national media before discovering the ruse.

People are more worried about the potential of new extremists vs handling the ones we already have.
> I'm not sure Pascal entirely lost due to just C. Borland's Turbo Pascal was quite popular

Look at which one is being used to this day to write essentially every modern operating system, and even the interpreters and compilers for other languages. JavaScript engines are written in C, not Pascal.

I think it obviously did lose, though judging from the moderation it clearly still has some fanatical followers.

Both Turbo Pascal and Object Pascal had so many extra non-standard and un-Pascal-like features that they were barely even the same language.

As I mentioned in another comment, allowing you to write bare assembly language inline wasn't exactly a feature of the original Wirth Pascal. The analogy I used at the time was that (Wirth) Pascal was like a pair of blunt-pointed kindergarten scissors, while C was more like a chainsaw. Borland added enough non-standard features to make it more like maybe a kitchen knife, but in the long run that still wasn't enough.
The Oracle's documentation on bugs is paywalled... What is actually an improvement over others like Microsoft, that denies a bug with all their might, up to the point it is fixed, and then say the minimum possible.

Anyway the most recent pair I found on the wild was a problem that made indexes of georeferenced data fail at random, pushing your queries into a non-indexed search and breaking things like materialized views, and one that causes some inconsistency on testing clobs for null or empty string (what made them impossible to test for either when it applies). But there's a well known one that breaks optimization plans at random and goes with the last try (it doesn't matter if that it will scan that table 100000 rows 1000 times), and there's some bug where if you create some tables, populate them, drop them and repeat enough times you will lose your database. But that's just from the top of my head.

Oh, of course, that isn't including designed behaviors like the one that takes your database offline if you don't do backups often enough (where "often enough" is something that you can estimate but never be sure about its frequency).
Wirth devised P-Code, only as means to ease porting the language into new platforms, it was the UCSD Pascal that based an whole system on it.

Most Pascal compilers were actually compiled, either directly, or by converting the above P-Code into machine code via an additional pass, e.g. Corvus Systems

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corvus_Systems
Maybe there is a need for instructions so here they are.

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Download the zip

Unarchive it

Move it to apps.

Right-click on it -> Open. Do this twice
(It will say that it is not trusted as the app was not downloaded from the store)

// To be able to position the apps you will need to give it accessibility rights.
Go to Settings Security and Settings > Accessibility ->Search for Ikuna and click open.

> App Unlocked.

*Ps. It has a shortcut option in the settings.*Personal recommendation CMD + § (the symbol above tab) for ease of use.
An Austrian communications professor who hunts plagiarists
I have no inside knowledge, but just observing the business motivation. SfB is bad because Microsoft doesn’t want people to use it; they want everyone moving to Teams. They also know they have an existing installed base, mostly (probably) of large companies who have the capability of dedicating a full team of people to run it. They have already announced that SfB will no longer get updates and the on-prem software will be discontinued soon. MS is pretty much just waiting it out until all the holdouts just cave and switch to the could stuff.
I've encountered this statement before. Without reading the article, here's the argumentation I heard:

Basically, the perpetrators were already known - there basically was already (close to) enough information to foresee serious problems (in hindsight * ), just no one connecting the dots. Adding mass surveillance to this doesn't make things easier: signals were already swamped under, that's not going to improve just by getting more data. Rather the opposite.

I don't know how this argumentation squares with the facts. But if the intelligence problem was "failure to connect dots", getting more "dots" is not a solution.

* also, hindsight is 20/20.
> ACLU officials similarly reject the implication that their support of COVID-vaccine mandates is inconsistent with the organization’s opposition to past immunization requirements. They argue that COVID-19 is a more infectious and deadlier virus than H1N1, and that the vaccines are better. “What is the risk to public health? How effective is the vaccine? What are the alternatives?” asked Allie Bohm, a policy counsel for the New York Civil Liberties Union, summarizing the questions she considered. “The facts of H1N1 are different, and they lead to different conclusions. I don’t think that is inconsistent, because it is the same test being applied.”

That seems perfectly reasonable to me. A virus that has killed more people than WWII is very clearly over the line, even if I couldn't tell you exactly where the line is. (The same mushiness exists for free speech, unless you think it should be legal to shout "fire" in a crowded theater.)
At least in the US, there has been a flurry of anti-trans legislation passed in the last year: https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/15/politics/anti-transgender-leg...

And violence against trans people has also increased this year: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/14/us-trans-trans...

Two years ago, many trans people were banned from serving in the US military. The ban was reversed earlier this year, but that's kind of the point: there are ongoing attacks against trans rights that are still happening right now and need attention. So that is why it gets the focus.
Finns rarely discuss or think about benefits or reasons for taking a sauna.

Most Finns are accustomed to going to sauna weekly. It’s such an ingrained part of our live that don’t really think about it.

We’ve got 5 million people and 2,5 million saunas.

Sauna is free from distractions like electronics, it’s free of associations relating to productivity and work, so it becomes a meditation of sorts, but we usually don’t try to make it so.

Sauna is sauna. Sauna’s purpose is sauna. The benefit of sauna is sauna.
Why does 9/11 matter so much but not the many far more horrible atrocities that the US regularly supports or commits (and that 9/11 was partly a response to). Clearly some lives are considered worth far more than others.
This is especially true in modern cars with great sound deadening and NVH. As my group of riders has observed when we ferry bikes into winter storage, the only bikes we can hear at all in our cars are practically straight piped.
You can also literally just file down the plastic on any “closed” socket to make it open.
> If you don't like changes in Chrome for example, you can either modify them, accept their decision, or find another product. And Chrome is not in decline.

Yes, my point exactly. You can answer "just modify the CSS" every time someone complains about a change in Firefox, but in reality users will find another product instead.
Is there an energy efficient type of Sauna yet? It seems a huge waste of energy to heat a room to such high temperatures, using it for maybe an hour and then let it all puff away.
I do, I worked with it until a few months ago.
Oh yeah I forgot about all the confusion on what else would be attacked!

People should talk about that more. Every single piece of infrastructure in the whole country was on people’s minds and locked down!

Is there a documentary about that? There is so much possibility for an “isolation thriller” where people’s concerns in their small towns are more the focus than the outcome of what happened by the time the dust settled.
I believe you are misinterpreting that data. 5% of COVID deaths listed COVID as the only cause. The other 95% list additional causes. In some cases, those are pre-existing conditions like "hypertensive diseases" or "diabetes", but not all of them are. Some of the most common causes are things like "influenza and pneumonia", "respiratory failure" and "cardiac arrest".

Pneumonia, respiratory failure and cardiac arrest are symptoms of COVID. They aren't pre-existing conditions that make COVID worse. They are just more specific explanations about the exact mechanism by which COVID killed the person.
Sadly that person could be charged with a crime instead of being recognized as a person in need.

We should be viewing these situations as a cry for help instead of a criminal activity. This is what I hoped the "Defund the Police" movement was targeting. Sadly that phrase had good intentions but pretty bad optics.
I think in each step the choices Firefox made usually made sense. As Firefox removed or changed features at each juncture they really tried to choose what would work for the most people. A kind of utilitarian product design. And yet it declined, and the critique here isn't entirely wrong (but I think it's mostly wrong).

Neither the path Firefox took, nor the path described here, would be enough to stop that decline. A bunch of hidden and obscure features that don't make sense in totality is not a great approach.

I personally felt strongly, when I was with Mozilla, that differentiated products would help get out of that quagmire. I never had any influence at a meaningful level - probably my own fault - so the idea never went anywhere. But with multiple products you can provide niche features that are meaningful and attractive. If there are ways to use interacting features to achieve some end that is not a marketable approach: there's no story, there's nothing to attract the user to return after installation. By saying "here's a browser for research" (or studying, watching videos, managing an online store, programming, etc) you come up with an understanding between the user and product maker about purpose.

Chrome had, and still has, a lock on the kind-of-good-enough-for-everyone market. A niche approach like Vivaldi is still less successful than Firefox is today. Firefox needs to find entirely different approaches.
Thanks for clearing that up
Too many coincidences. Also we couldn't mobilize any fighter jets at all when a plane goes off course?
It's crazy how influential this event would be on years to come. It has this huge cascade of other events directly affected by it, and it caused America to dump >1 trillion dollars on a compete wasteland of a country. The US had this urge to do something about it, but not sure what exactly. There were a lot of seemingly irrational policies following 9/11.

I still can't believe Bin Laden has not been named the Times Person of the Year at the end of 2001.
https://v8.dev/blog/sparkplug

> As we turn to improving the performance of the actual initial JavaScript execution, however, we start to hit limitations when optimising our interpreter. V8’s interpreter is highly optimised and very fast, but interpreters have inherent overheads that we can’t get rid of; things like bytecode decoding overheads or dispatch overheads that are an intrinsic part of an interpreter’s functionality.
Check the chart again - ARK is native. If you run it in proton (many mods have issues with the linux-native version of the game, so many people do run it in proton), then you can't join battleye-enabled servers.
The homepage is not loading properly in my iPad
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This is correct, however you will still breathe in smoke "residue", which can be a bit uncomfortable and it will also cling to your body/hair. Even if you wash thoroughly after the sauna, you will notice a smoke smell on your hair.

A smoke sauna is just an inferior version of the modern Finnish sauna. It's a bit of a hassle to prepare and I personally dislike the "smoke effect".
> maintaining a browser is incredibly difficult and expensive. It would be the death blow to their market share, which would destroy Gecko as a viable browser engine

Assuming 100 people needed for Gecko, and $150k/year annual, world-wide, average developer expense, we come to $15M/year. Mozilla already has about ~$50M/year non-Google revenue from its products (coming from "true" users/customers).
We all knew that we were going to respond unfailingly to counter those responsible. What we didn't know was who it was, where they were, what the ripple-effects might be, or how it might end.

On the latter-two points, we don't yet know the entire story.
Sales Industry: We get them on about 3-4 group zooms a week where they learn some stuff, get acculturated and see leaderboards and get motivated. They work through self-paced online training and take a state licensing exam. We push them out the door to get some sales and ask how it went and offer some advice.
No, I mean specifically things like Optimus on dual GPU laptops. Also, even if the distros do in fact either install automatically or provide a method to install it, there is simply no need to even do this on an AMD system. And then there's the matter of AMDGPU being complete open source, while Nvidia's offering is not. And don't even start on Nvidia's slow pace to properly support Wayland.
That still reduces the number of cheaters. Having to get out a credit card even to pay a penny is a barrier to people cheating.
So mobile web was not enjoyable for users, and native apps (which use the APIs that I attribute their success to) won out.

In what way does that go against what I said? (it doesn't)
It's hit and miss. I've tried one premier producer's "vegan minced meat" in Germany (Wiesenhof) and one supermarket's "vegan minced meat".

They look okay, but they don't brown in the pan and worst of all, they smell very very foul. You open the packaging and want to immediately put in in the garbage bin.

Taste is okay-ish, if boring and bland, but the smell disqualifies it.

I understand there are brands that don't have that problem (or less of it), but after two disasters I'm currently eating real meat when I want some, but try to limit it.

Better an honest vegan/vegetarian substitute than a "it has to look like meat, no matter what" substitute.

Soy shreds can be a good substitute for some uses of minced meat, for example.
Really? I doubt that. Perhaps most buildings, as storey buildings do often have a shared sauna. As an anecdote, I have lived perhaps in 6 rented apartments, and two of them had a sauna, and I don't think I decidedly chose non-sauna option.

Here's some article in Finnish about the current trend that new apartments don't necessarily have
a sauna: https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-9393813

It could be that most households have but also I've seen an article that people use them plainly as storage rooms.
Virtue signaling at it’s finest.

Homes in Texas are cheap, if you relocate to a higher cost of living area the equivalent house you get for the money will be a downgrade. So most people won’t take the offer, and thus Salesforce doesn’t spend any resources on moving employees but gets to reap the benefit of good PR.
https://www.google.com/search?q=are+saunas+energy+efficient
If anyone is confused about the BBC not syncing up with the other news coverage, it seems like the creators did not take the time difference into account. You will need to get to 13:59 GMT.

On a personal note, that's the channel I was watching on that day 20 years ago. Watching the exact same coverage again is just ... unsettling.
It's not a dichotomy, plus you can get much hotter in a saunas then you can running. So it's not a completely analogous.
I'm very happy to pay money for it tbh. But don't forget Mozilla doesn't even take donations for Firefox. Only for their Foundation.
I help decommissioning old Windows PCs for a relative of mine. Whenever a device gets thrown in the bin I note down it's activation key.

Haven't had to pay for a Windows key in years ^^
We could have done regime change in Saudi Arabia and still had petrodollars

Sometimes its useful to think inside the box

But yeah current Saudi Arabia is a good deal for the US, hard to get others so heavily intertwined financially. Might as well not touch it.
I just installed win 10 pro on my MacBook with bootcamp. I bought a OEM license key off a sketchy site (gamers-outlet.net) for 4 Euros. It worked.

Should upgrade free to Windows 11 too.
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In the early days, if you wanted a proper C compiler you had to log into a UNIX.

C compilers available for 8 and 16 bit computers weren't even fully K&R C.
You said "almost all apple idevices", which pretty clearly indicated you were talking about more than just laptops. I replied in that context.
It generally always works in practice. Common real-world example is “External GPUs” connecting via thunderbolt: these are actually just generic PCI express 4x slots on a cable (4x is max throughout thunderbolt 3 achieves, can’t remember what cap is on new thunderbolt 4…).

Although graphics cards always generally should go in a 16x slot for best performance, they all work in the external 4x, even the latest most high end power/bandwidth hungry GPU parts. performance may suffer in some workloads though due to reduced bandwidth of the 4x slot though.

You can stick any PCI express device in an external GPU enclosure, will pretty much “just work” despite being a 4x slot - these things are really external PCIe enclosures despite the GPU focus.
Both is better than just either.
To address your edit, they still do because it doesn’t really matter. We have mitigated IPv4 exhaustion with NAT, and IPv6 adoption is still growing. No one cares enough to try to do anything about it.

If you made a list of “most popular concerns about the Internet in 2021,” the size of U.S. federal IP space would be pretty far down.
Any vendors who start selling Chinese stuff, is part of deal to not allow excluding items from search results?

Amazon do not have any options to excludes items that ship from China. https://daraz.pk, largest online shopping store in Pakistan bought by AliBaba recently, has done the same. There is only one checkbox named China to show only Chinese items but there is absolutely no way to exclude items shipping from China.
You're talking about desktops vs. laptops / mobile phones. That has nothing to do with mobile vs. web. A phone can run a web browser.
You are victim blaming, and have low standards.

I, for one, would like to live in a city where I can eat/drink outside without fear of someone stealing my food.
You are never making a mistake by not investing and instead keeping your savings.

You might be making an opportunity loss, but mistakes are when you lose all your money because you put it in something that you heard someone telling you about. Past result of an investment is not a guarantee for future returns, so if many people got rich in something in the past years, doesn't mean others will in the next years.

Arguments like 'fear of losing out' and 'making a mistake by not doing it' are absolutely the wrong ones in an investment decision. These lead to irrational choices that can result in sleepless nights and misery. These are the drivers for a mania or bubble.

Instead think of 'can I handle the loss?', 'am I comfortable with the risk/reward profile?' and 'do I understand what I am doing?'

This last point I do not mean personally, but many people and companies have burned themselves seriously with complex derivatives that they had no idea of how dangerous they were.

If you make your investments with well-thought arguments, then you will still be able to sleep at night and live with yourself if it goes bad. (Things can always go bad, no matter what people tell you with their historic charts.)
I completely buy that argument - BigTech (in particular Google) have a huge influence today on Firefox development.

Moreover, Mozilla's Firefox is deliberately hostile to the open source movement too - their code is a convulated mess by design, to discourage others from developing competing products with it. (Remember, that Firefox has provided Mozilla with 100's of millions of dollars - so the excuse of legacy code and all is just bullshit). It's no wonder that both Webkit (Safari) and Blink (Chrome / Opera) are more popular than Gecko (the browser engine of Firefox), with developers. (All that money is just wasted on them ... ).
I don't like what they do in Texas, especially their witch hunt register. That said, this is pretty tasteless without further comment.
Turbo Pascal was available for Windows.
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I never said anything about not trying new tools, I'm talking about obsession, and it's become an addiction in some people. This is younger people than me AND older people than me. To the point that they aren't USING the tools they are learning, just learning how to use it in such depth that they paralyze themselves. It's not just one tool, either, they'll learn all the tools out there, find ways to solve problems in 10-20 different ways, then not solve anything applied or practical. When it comes to debugging they are just paralyzed because they don't know how the programming language works, just the tool.

It's perfectly fine if you are using the tool and have found a happy medium, which sounds like you have. You found a tool, you used it. You didn't spend years tweaking the tool, learning how to make it look pretty, then move on to another tool and bend that tool to basically be a clone of the first one you used.

I never said anything about a "bare" setup. I'm saying you should find what works for you and use it.

I shouldn't have to teach people who know how 900+ WMs/DEs/IDEs to work what a hosts file is, why setting 777 on every file to solve any problem is a bad idea, or how software licensing works, but I have to do it regularly and it causes clusters to crash, deadlines to be missed, and bills not to be paid because they're too busy customizing their fancy redundant solutions to problems they aren't solving. Or installing a big 10 server cluster to solve something that can be done in 10-20 lines of code on a laptop instead with an off the shelf product that costs $100,000/year for one task and then ditch the product entirely.

I don't know why you took this personally...

As for editors vs OS, yeah I mean you have an OS already installed, right? Why create an overlay that does the same thing? Emacs has a web browser in Lisp, why? elinks/lynx/wget/etc exist to do exactly that on the terminal if you have to do a terminal based solution (downloading ISOs on a server, for instance). Or even just use Firefox on your desktop rather than trying 900+ browsers and never concluding which one will work for you, constantly switching back and forth and back and forth...

All I'm saying is use the tools. Customize it as needed, but don't become addicted to customization for customization's sake.
Back pressure is often useful. Slow down the pipeline from the bottleneck to the source. At some point it’s important to cause failures, informing the source. Those failures can also be intentionally delayed. These techniques are used by networking systems to keep services from falling over. Tuning the knobs for when to fail, when to delay, etc is a hard problem. That is probably why there are so many congestion control algorithms for TCP.
Upon further research, I have found an academic source, the theory unlike my 2 scenarios, it's a mix, quote:
"The complete Schwarzschild geometry consists of a black hole, a white hole, and two Universes connected at their horizons by a wormhole."

https://jila.colorado.edu/~ajsh/bh/schww.html