skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not true, many variants of Pascal existed, prior to Kernighan's essay. Significant ones like Apple Pascal (1979) or DEC's VAX-11 Pascal (1979).

https://vintageapple.org/apple_ii/pdf/Apple_Pascal_1980.pdf
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/vax/lang/pascal/AA-H485A-TE...

Look in the acknowledgement section of his essay, and no clarification is given to the extent of research on other variants of Pascal outside of the original Pascal of 1973, and references to documents such as "An Assessment of the Programming Language Pascal" of 1975, and "Pascal User Manual and Report" of 1978. Those documents were ISO/IEEE related, to help promote an ISO standard of Pascal, versus businesses using Pascal in the commercial space like Apple and DEC (later Compaq) were doing (both major companies).

Further damning of the type of assessment that Kernighan was engaging in, was him referencing other AT&T Bell Lab comparisons between C and Pascal.

AT&T is not an innocent 3rd party, but where C and C++ were created and having a huge interest in pushing those languages, along with Unix in business and universities (which they did).

Kernighan's essay (on 1970s era Pascal), should have been seen as biased and influenced by or promoting the commercial interests of AT&T (promoting their C and Unix). It should not have been taken seriously by anyone beyond 1989, where Pascal became Object Pascal. Apple created Object Pascal in 1986 (in consultation with Niklaus Wirth), and then Borland added Object Pascal extensions to the very successful Turbo Pascal 5.5 (allowing it to do OOP too). Nearly everything in his paper was clearly and already addressed by 1989 and even various ones when he published it in 1981.

Kernighan also had plenty of time to retract or update the statements he made in his "hit piece" paper, to reflect on the ISO 1990 Pascal or the commercially used variants of Pascal such as Object Pascal. Yet, he never did so. Comparatively, it's not like C or C++ stayed the same language as it was in the 1970s, so it shouldn't be expected that Pascal is suppose to not change.
I commented on this before, but GNOME is not preventing theming. The Solus developers have made their decisions based on missing and/or false information, and this article has unfortunately repeated that. See my longer comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28548467

Also see this longer comment from a GNOME community manager that further explains it: https://old.reddit.com/r/gnome/comments/pokint/i_themed_http...
Yeah, the server hosting their assets went down (probably), the same problem you could (I hope not) face serving requests from your client, right?
> They're not truly native to that region, they are actually from North America, specifically the northern latitudes.

These Dromedary camels, Camelus dromedarius, are very much native to the region. The Dromedary likely evolved right in the Arabian peninsula, having separated from the Bactrian of Central Asia more than a million years ago. The North American ancestor, Paracamelus, arrived in Eurasia maybe 7.5 million years ago. While North America is the home of the last common ancestor of modern camelids, it is not the native home of any modern camels.
The ruling argued that collecting funds to expand more throughout the US was not valid for their non-profit status for some reason that made no sense.

The law granting them the exception from copyright law that would have allowed them to stream in the first place strictly limited the way funds could be raised and spent by entities claiming the non-profit exemption.

The law is several decades old, and predates the internet. It wasn't the subject of regulatory capture by the cable companies, who were in their infancy when the law was first passed.

Locast chose not to operate like a non-profit, and made a profit on their streaming services, in violation of the law. It's really that simple.
Is it any different from https://zserge.com/posts/worst-vuejs-ever ?
I posted this last time this came up: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/b0so4h/how_...

This article may not be reflective of general Inuit practices. At the very least there is a lot of contradictory evidence that this is not how children are actually brought up in the Inuit community and that in fact at the very least there is a decent amount of corporal punishment when deemed necessary.

EDIT: Removed bit on physical abuse in the adult community because there are a lot of confounding factors there.
You youtube algo keeps showing me fox news. I have not once clicked but it keeps showing me them.

Also, what is the deal with mrbeast and other video always being on default? Did they pay for that exposure or what.
Im excited to see Rust use more and more for webdevelopment, certainly some interest prospects.

Im a little disappointed to see the amount of boilerplate in the examples. The Todo app is infinitely-5 longer than the Clojurescript example.
The Bucket Argument
If the older version is available in the snap repository it is is possible to install it. For example:

snap info go shows:

name: go
summary: Go programming language compiler, linker, stdlib
publisher: Michael Hudson-Doyle (mwhudson)
store-url: https://snapcraft.io/go
contact: michael.hudson@ubuntu.com
license: BSD-3-Clause
description: |
This snap provides an assembler, compiler, linker, and compiled libraries
for the Go programming language.
snap-id: Md1HBASHzP4i0bniScAjXGnOII9cEK6e
channels:
latest/stable: 1.16.7 2021-09-08 (8298) 94MB classic
latest/candidate: ↑
latest/beta: ↑
latest/edge: devel-8d2a9c32a2 2021-09-17 (8356) 99MB classic
1.17/stable: 1.17 2021-08-17 (8172) 99MB classic
1.17/candidate: ↑
1.17/beta: ↑
1.17/edge: ↑
1.16/stable: 1.16.7 2021-09-08 (8298) 94MB classic
1.16/candidate: ↑
1.16/beta: ↑
1.16/edge: ↑
1.15/stable: 1.15.15 2021-09-08 (8304) 95MB classic

...

To install an older version you can run

snap install go --channel=1.15/stable --classic
Powering Up with USB: Untangling the USB Power Delivery Standards
Right. I had read that it was still effective, but less effective than it was against the alpha variant. Effective enough that it did not justify reworking the vaccines to specifically target it.

I feel like we are on the verge of giant leaps in medical possibilities, similar to the discovery of penicillin.
China is a totalitarian dictatorship. The hard line they are taking includes making entrepreneurs disappear for months at a time, presumably into some sort of "reeducation" (torture) camp.
Some standard questions -

1. Conflict resolution
2. Hiring/Firing
3. Strategy
4. 1:1s
5. Career management of DRs

i. For Hiring/Firing - One interviewer said - she don't like to fire people :-)
ii. For conflict resolution - another interviewer has a made up story
SF Mayor violates strict mask mandate, which city has yet to soften
> You wouldn't call a building fragile just because it got destroyed by a thermonuclear bomb.

Some very few buildings are designed to withstand (all but a direct hit by) a nuclear bomb. A failure of such a building would certainly exacerbate problems that arise from the nuclear war.

Likewise, the U.S. government (and many other first-world nations' governments) was supposed to have been on the ball for a pandemic. Unfortunately it, uhhhh, failed. And it certainly exacerbated the problems that arose from the pandemic.
NPM Private registry doesn't really work for me with Yarn and NPM v7 when trying to run binaries. This is a major blocker for a lot of things.

Also the `npm install` is really flaky multiple times a day I get 404s for packages in the private registry. You need to keep retrying jobs that use that command until succeeds.
I've been playing with classic BASICs recently, especially dialects for pocket calculators. Here are some random thoughts from this exercise:

"PRINT USING" is terrible (vs. C's formatted strings).

"INPUT A" is not versatile enough. I should be able to prompt with the current value of A, so user can hit enter to keep the current value. None allow you to print the current value of A (INPUT STR$(A)+">",A does not work anywhere). Some dialects allow you to retain A: TRS-80 BASICs do it. MS-BASIC sets A to zero if user just hits Enter.

Pocket computer BASIC allows you to enter an expression as a response to INPUT, such as A+1.

Modern calculators allow you to enter equations in textbook format. I kind of think modern BASICs should support this- no reason to be stuck in the early 60s teletype world.

Pocket computer BASIC allows you to bind programs to keys (or at least entry points to keys: you can have a key jump to a line with a key-label).

Pocket computer BASIC allows you to read the last entered value (AREAD command in Sharp).

Here is a benchmark which shows why these things can be important, at least in the realm of pocket computers and calculators:

https://github.com/jhallen/calculator/wiki
Everybody likes the Rice Band.
There is not a single chance that a language like C++ or Rust become mainstream in frontend dev. The complexity of the language is at the opposite side of what webdev is about.
Kids and arduinos belong together.
It was an era of 80s software (msdos, etc) being run on 90s hardware, and the 90s hardware provided capabilities generations beyond what the software typically used. So you'd boot single task single user non-networked msdos to run a text mode eprom programmer, but that was done on early 90s hardware that could easily run multitasking, multiuser, networked GUI linux if you'd bother to install it.

Meanwhile the uni got huge donations of hardware and software licenses from now legacy unix providers. The senior EE students would do VLSI design on sunos workstations (sunos was from the oldest versions of solaris pizza box era back when Sun made hardware). Well, if my 386 desktop is 50 times faster and four times the memory of the sunos workstation, why do they have all this fabulous OS and application software and I'm stuck on singletasking msdos or sometimes windows3.11 works and sometimes it doesn't? Why not do TCP/IP and fancy GUIs on linux using the same hardware?
It's always interesting that this issue keeps coming up, whereas Islam solved it over 1400 years ago through the Zakat system.

An extremely reasonable 2.5% would be owed on money sitting in the bank for one lunar year (it's a form of "wealth tax" if you will). It has been documented that in Iraq during the Ummayad period where everyone paid their share of Zakat, there were no more poor people left to accept it.

And that's it, no income tax or messing around with it. It works.

Livestock and produce have a separate calculation, but most of us here are not in that business.
I worked at the FAANGs and a non negligible number of people either dropped out of college or have no degree.
Our entire company was on Gitlab.com for 4 years without paying a single dime to them. Unfortunately we moved off (decisions above my head) but I loved how simple everything worked. Their CI is top-notch.
Here's an even better resource backed by an extensive body of research: https://bigthink.com/the-present/gender-stereotyped-toys/, which is based on https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-021-01989-8
Most S1 on HN are companies that spend $3 to get $1 in revenue. It was explained to me that this is totally normal and very different from DotCom companies literally buying revenue.
F does have that nice comfort-zone granularity though. Swingier whole numbers around the zone of human activity. Maybe there's a way in which the numbers could be displayed side by side... Even for sheer generic number effects
This thread is supposed to be for strong contrarian opinions - stuff that you actually believe, that you think others don't. Most replies aren't really doing that. (Yes, this is my actual answer. I do expect that others will object to it.)
Well, we have to ask ourselves two things:

1. What would GitHub actually be valued at now? It's possible that all valuations have risen.

2. What does GitLab provide that GitHub doesn't? We went with it for our on-site Git hosting because of a lot of features, but also because we were able to engage their dev team and add support for some of our software to their product (above the non-free tier) so that we can do 2fa git-over-ssh using our own OTP software and API. Definitely couldn't get that with Gitlab.

On the other hand, GitLab suffers from "not the best" syndrome; GitHub is the best, and everyone everywhere supports it. GitLab is not the best, so support for it is extremely limited across the board. At this point, I'm surprised if we find software that natively supports Gitlab integration beyond just "pull a repository using a key or password".
Yet another thread about climate change on HN where ctrl+f capitalis returns zero results. It's time to say the fucking word. It's time to admit you were wrong about the free market. It's time to vote for anticapitalist regulationists whenever you can. Capitalism did some great things while destroying the planet, it now needs to be radically regulated. Solution is 100% political.
Google in the early 2000s genuinely cared about users. Now it is full of dark patterns especially in Google ads. This is what happens when you lose your founders.
Yes. Win4linux was the best way to run windows in linux for games back then. Even better than the real thing. It was better than vmware.
as @asdff noted, the point-to-point flyaway bus to ucla was a great, cheaper alternative, but limited service really hampers its utility. it's no consolation to you, but ucla will be connected to the purple (D) line in a couple years, which will make getting around LA from ucla much easier by public transit.

but even more frustrating was the decision not to extend the green (C) line train directly into LAX (due to lobbying by taxi interests and others). rather than even the flyaway, we should have a train line directly from LAX into downtown, a key regional business travel destination. there even was a historical train right-of-way for much (all?) of that route, but it's since been sold and parceled out.
> Some people include plug-in hybrids in their definition of "EV", so "BEV" was created to exclude those.

Which is really a poorly coined term because it's not as if plug-in hybrids, many of which can do people's daily commute back and forth without ever kicking the internal combustion engine on, where finding their energy from something else than an EV battery.
> the democratization of development

Like HyperCard, back in the day.
Why do you say this? Literally every Model 3 before delivered May 2021 has radar.
There are huge industries pumping money into making sure this doesn't happen. Modern advertising is one of the biggest industries on the planet, and it's only goal is to get people to consume more. One of the means of doing this is specifically convincing people that global warming is not that risky.

Not to mention, many behaviors are in fact impractical. The vast majority of people can't afford equipment and clothes that can last a few decades, as used to be the norm, for example. In much of the west, responsibly grown sustainable food is at least an order of magnitude more expensive than fast food.
Those are already accounted for in the 2.7C etc estimates, though. The CO2 forcing just accounts for 0.5C IIRC of the warming, with known positive feedbacks (most notably water vapor, but also albedo etc) driving the rest.

The question becomes, are unknown feedbacks more likely to be positive or negative? I'd lean toward negative, which is what most experts think, but definitely an unknown.
It did rely on radar when the video was taken. Tesla stopped relying on radar on models 3 and Y with April 2021 release.
Not just the government, but the people they govern. Look how many people have been unwilling to do even the most simple intervention - face masks. It's going to be hard to get these types of laggards to accept the changes we need to make so cut down on carbon pollution.
Climate change is an evidence based assertion that makes verified predictions and is widely accepted by the scientific community. God meets none of these criteria.
I don't know if I fully subscribe to this view, but a friend of mine pointed out that the age of our leadership (President, Senate, Congress, Governors...) are all very old. They are the ones most at risk, and that may have biased their response towards harsh restrictions for people at low risk.

As a thought experiment, what if the pandemic mostly hurt 20-somethings? Would our old leaders stop everything to prevent transmission of that disease? Or would young people be told to suck it up? Or would they have asked 20-somethings to just stay home while everyone else went about their business? I'm not sure...
> the 90% of the time is spent on the "last minute" customization and fighting the stack. This is why I pick widely used stacks

I am currently on a project where the initial specs worked with Adobe Captivate. Then the spec exploded and we are making tortured attempts to make it still work with Captivate.
Wow. There IS a search box, how have I missed that?
Got it. I knew Iron was kinda being phased out due to stuff like not having async/await, but I didn't know it had gone so far as being "abandoned".
Between flights canceled and this, you don't want to fly.

I drove instead of flying recently instead - except for the long drive getting there, it was far better to be in your own car.
Australia is a puppet of the US and at the same time is having a "complex of superiority" (which permeates the West as a whole, to be fair), because who are those 'Chinamen', anyway? Nothing contradictory, there are several aspects at play, but I am foolish as you say.

Considering the history of Australia the hypocrisy is grotesque, and this just shows that the bad old habits die hard.
I see your point. But that isn't what is conventionally meant by "AGI".

By the way, if the "universe is a simulation" people are correct, then we are also AGI (in your sense).
Looks like an interesting project, how complete is the OpenAPI support? It seems like most Rust web frameworks have an open issue for it/some partial implementation
It's still metric-based, just a conversion factor added. [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_yard_and_pound
I personally like the Youtube recommendation system when listening to music. I was able to find and listen songs that match my taste.
Highways are probably the best case scenario for full automation but we've seen scenarios where even that idealized environment has deadly failures in a handful of Tesla crashes.
> Social scientists won't shift the blame to Africa and Asia because their energy intensity is still a tiny fraction of the developed world

China is in Asia.
> you can only say, statistically, we should be seeing one hurricane instead of two

I was actually curious if climate change results in more hurricanes. Apparently, not so:

"Because of climate change, tropical cyclones are likely increasing in intensity, have increased rainfall, and have larger storm surges, but there might be fewer of them globally. Tropical cyclones may also intensify more rapidly, and occur further polewards. These changes are driven by rising sea temperatures and increased maximum water vapour content of the atmosphere as the air heats up."

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_cyclones_and_climate_...
https://archive.is/Fl7QS
I rarely see things I was 'in to' just a few weeks ago. Weird thing is I don't miss them.
Doing nothing is usually better than doing anything.
Operating Systems Used by Hackers
I also have FSD but not the beta and I just wanted to add that my car (a 2020 model X) does not do this. Actually I've always been very impressed with how it smoothly slows to avoid merging cars.

Is it possible you have older autopilot hardware that runs different/older software?
Terrible analogy. Building a website is not the same as learning how to build a website(or an instrument)
India Taps Amazon, Microsoft for Farm Tech as Modi Eyes Reforms
Respectfully, you may think you're developing a coherent argument, but you are jumping around between several unrelated points.

Does racism exist? Of course. It probably is even higher among rural and suburban individuals, on some kind of self-reported metric.

Does it have an appreciable, significantly negative impact on the lives of most non-white people in 2021? The evidence is pretty dubious on this point IMO, but of course it depends on your definition of impactful.

Is it related to gun violence? I don't see how.
It was the same wikipedia link that you cited.

Even using your songmeanings.com link it doesn't appear that the common interpretation is satirical in nature.
China pollutes more than the US, the EU and Canada combined https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di.... The amount of resources on Earth is limited, and doesn't increase with the population. Pollution by capita is irrelevant. I'll also let you take a look at energy intensity and see if Africa and Asia are so good at it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_intensity_by_country. China is worse than the USA, India is worse than France. What exactly do we have to deal with?

And something else, Asia consumes the most energy in the world by far: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/primary-energy-consumptio.... At some point you have to face reality, even if you don't like it.
Oh no, I do mean by train! Both the SEPTA route and the NJT route I was referring to are trains - they just don't go the whole way from Philly->NYC, so you need a transfer.

Now, frequency on SEPTA's Regional Rail lines has tanked during the pandemic, so using it may not be as practical as it once was. Haven't checked recently. Hopefully they get service back to reasonable levels.
Great letter!
>So in your argument, even smart well intentioned people who disagree with these public policies are spreading misinformation? You are asserting that everybody who disagrees is wrong and harmful to society, correct?

Whereas you're asserting that it's impossible for smart people to spread disinformation?
No. That is by far the most dangerous option, at least as likely to make the problems worse as it is to help at all.

Geoengineering is absolutely to be discarded in these discussions. Technology will kot save us this time.
If you can’t even say which catastrophes are caused by climate change with certainty, then maybe it’s not as clear cut as you think it is.
The append-only ledger is surprisingly efficient, to the point where you can process the entire thing on a decent laptop in a couple days.

And judging the costs bank are able to charge for international wires, even when comparing them to the horrendous fees for Bitcoin (Core, BTC) on-chain transactions, I'm not convinced Bitcoin is that much less efficient.
> ClojureScript is a compiler for Clojure that targets JavaScript. [1]

If ClojureScript is compiled, why can't WASM be the same?

[1] https://clojurescript.org/
VB.NET is a decent programming language.
You're missing my point completely. If a news article is targeted at a US resident, it should use Fahrenheit for maximum impact. Globally and scientifically, of course use Celsius -- or even better, mention both.
Robinhood currently has the Genentech description attached to Ginko Bioworks (DNA)!
What would be the sights to see in Philly?

I was planning on mostly wandering around aimlessly (actually, I'll probably still do that :-) ). But I'm all ears for any "must see" locations.

Liberty Bell + museums are the main thing I know about.
Definitely not GPT3
incognito mode has been the best thing for me lately! it has become my normal browser mode.