skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yeah especially because of chimeric DNA

> the soul isn't just the heart or brain, it's every organ.

I'm sorry but this isn't some Facebook group, so, [citation very much needed]. No one is saying this procedure is without disadvantages, but for most people it outweighs ending their lives prematurely. Also it's very rare that people with only 1 faulty kidney get a transplant. Usually they get it because both kidneys are failing.
> I wonder how difficult it would be to support docker natively on OSX (BSD?) or if Apple has any intention on providing that support?

I think it would be pretty difficult. Mac would effectively have to provide a fully compatible Linux interface in its kernel. It would probably be more likely to build a better fs-event bridge to guest systems, but considering MacOS still doesn’t have ext4 support, I’m not counting on it.
I remember getting "sniffy" comments for using a GOTO in my final year project, (which was written in Pascal).

Basically, it was used to terminate the program without having to thread a return-value through very heavily nested code.

I haven't needed to use a GOTO since. But almost 35 years later, I still maintain it was the correct decision at the time: a single GOTO statement was the clearest and most efficient choice.
People who give blanket rules such as never to use `goto` clearly do not understand where this idea comes from or why it should not be used. Many years ago in my undergrad I submitted a programming assignment in C which used `goto` for cleanup, as is customarily done in the Linux Kernel and other C software and I had points taken off for using `goto`. Heh.
Isn't the key word in that statement "unconstrained"? Goto is a tool like any other that can be abused.
I could have chose a better comparison but you really are completely misconstruing the point just to be edgy, i.e haha very funny but no.

Your bank is probably running 90% Java. Every large website you use may not be written in Java but relies on mission critical systems that are etc. It's an insanely practical language, in fact probably -the- most practical language and that is why it's chosen overwhelmingly for important systems that need a large number of developers.
PHP wins because you can write a few lines of code in single file, shit it into an apache folder, and you have a fully functional front and backend of a web app. There is no other web framework / language that is easier to get started with.

I've always had this dream of writing something like "PyHP" which was the same thing, except you put python files into an nginx folder and anything sent to stdout is sent to the browser, but I've never gotten around to it. Would love if someone made this.
I suspect the success of PHP is binded to the success of BBOM architecture (http://www.laputan.org/mud/)
> Hitler-wannabe

Please provide evidence that Trump wants to eradicate all Jews from the planet? He's politics aren't for everyone, and he says some pretty idiotic things, but that's a million miles away from being a mass murderer.

I have internet points to burn, so I'll say this:

You made the dumbest comment on HN. Well done.

edit: OK I was a little harsh, it was meant in jest :)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is simply arrogant.
Ruby doesn’t have a reference counting GC, so not really applicable.
Wow. They really are creating a post truth society.
It would be halal if it wasn't from a pig I think.

https://www.islamweb.net/en/fatwa/82240/organ-transplantatio...

But it might actually be kosher.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10618731/
Most businesses care about getting stuff done and making money, not about the merits of the tools being used. In one financial firm where I worked, they were using Excel for running financial models (I am not making this up). It will often crash, users constantly complained - but when I offered to rewrite their models using databases and a programming language, I was instantly shot down. They didn't want to touch a system that has been working for a while, even with all of its problems.

So they stuck with Excel, even when they had access to a programmer.

Programmers can laugh all they want at Excel, Wordpress, PHP etc - but these are tools that get stuff done quickly and make businesses a ton of money. So businesses will continue to use them, even if there are much superior tools around.
Using a labeled block with the break keyword in JavaScript
You wouldn't care, but the niece wouldn't have any interest. I think that's the point, create another outlet for cool activities.
Dupe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28900360
The coronavirus relief stimulus checks in the US had Trump's signature on them.
Of course but that’s not the same as giving them the majority of the leading edge at the expense of Apple which is what the article implies.
“What is the Apple store employee supposed to do to not make someone feel stupid when they ask for the smallest box?”

Maybe ask the customer, “can I ask why you would like the one with the smallest box?” instead of making assumptions? Although note that this might also be classified as a question where the person asking is admitting they don’t understand why someone would want this aka “looking dumb” in the wording from the article
> The managers would simply have to trust you

Yeah, that is my point. You can make up any bullshit number, and there is no way to prove of disprove it.
Tesla made $1.6 billion in Q3, is switching to LFP batteries globally
But engineering does. We make decisions based on the best available understanding at the time, and the best available understanding right now is that greenhouse gas emissions must be dramatically reduced or else the planet will experience temperatures high enough to cause extreme disruption to critical human systems.

Is it possible that everybody has missed something and the field is totally wrong? In theory, yes. But that is almost entirely irrelevant to whether we should act. This whinging over the nature of science is just a distraction tactic.
Marckalada: The First Mention of America in the Mediterranean Area (c. 1340) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epub/10.1080/00822884.2021.1...
Off topic question: what's the current process to make extremely small "minimal" freebsd server install?
Is it NanoBSD[1], because the unfortunate downside is that the base can't change (I realize that's a feature) and for a web server or database server that might not be ideal.

[1] https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/nanobsd/
We can ban it for newer aircraft; or at least discourage it in the same way that happened with cars. That way, the market will do the rest and eventually it will be quite hard to find leaded fuel.

From an environmental point of view, a handful of historical planes still burning the stuff when they fly occasionally should not be a huge issue.

The DC3 is awesome. A few years ago, they flew a few C47s (the military version of the DC3) to Normandy that saw service in WW II. Amazing machines. Looks like a lot of fun to fly them as well.
Each to their own. I wouldn't sign something I don't understand
Well, as per my previous comment it's not subjective, either.

It's a "best practice" in the correct sense of the term. I.e. in most cases it is both not needed and clearer, more structured code may be written without using it.

Of course, as for anything, it is useful in a very few cases, emphasis on "very few".
The asymmetry in market information reduces your ability to negotiate. If you buy into the belief that it should be a taboo topic, you give more power to employers.

Salary should be public information, just like it is already in some countries and for government jobs. Here's the salary for the "Ed Smith"s in Florida - https://salaries.myflorida.com/?utf8=%E2%9C%93&by_name=Ed+Sm...

The highest paid is a state judge named "Jared Smith", pulling $165,509.04/year. The only "Edward" earns $113,300.04/year.

When I worked at a public university, my salary was public.

Remember, in many cases it is illegal for your employer to reprimand you for discussing your salary. https://www.govdocs.com/can-employees-discuss-pay-salaries/ and Colorado’s 2008 Wage Transparency Act (https://www.littler.com/publication-press/publication/colora... )
I always thought I was too quick to jump to conclusions. After reading this, I'm not so sure I am any more.

I guess the true conclusion-jumpers don't think they are.

David Dunning strikes again!
> Sunday night, I flew into LAX from San Francisco and boarded a shuttle to the airport’s newish pickup spot for ground transportation just east of Terminal 1. I found myself standing amid an unhappy crowd of restless travelers who had been waiting as long as 30 minutes to be picked up by their Lyft drivers.

Isn't this because most cities have ridiculous rules that disadvantage Uber drivers while cabs are allowed to park out in front? They have no convenient very short term parking, instead they're sometimes made to wait on the side of the highway, which makes the ride more expensive. They also charge fees. LAX charges $4 per ride [0]

Isn't the fact that people use Uber proof that they provide some value? I think the point is to have an alternative to cabs that are highly variable as per the author's own admission.

[0] https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-airport-uber-parking-...
How to convert from Celsius to Fahrenheit in your head
I've come to think the modern medical "ethics" and "Ethicist" are a huge problem.

That gatekeeping kills a lot of people.
Yes, this is pretty much how it is being used in C code. The other acceptable use-case is breaking out of nested loops.

There's also `setjmp()`/`longjmp()` but that's even more rarely used.
Air Chathams has a DC3 in their fleet, there’s a great Allplane podcast episode (incl transcript) on some of the other old planes they fly and how their operation has evolved.

https://allplane.tv/podcast/2020/6/27/the-allplane-12-air-ch...
Try making the browser window narrower.
How to Find Your Quiet Place
The operators actually contribute phase, not frequency, and there are very limited ways that they can be routed.
Here's the full article for anyone who wants to read it:

https://web.archive.org/web/20211021121804id_/https://www.ec...

I've been hearing about this coming from my nephrologist for many years. I have stage 3 kidney disease and he isn't concerned about it because by the time I need a transplant, they will be growing kidneys from my cells in pigs. Exciting to see another step forward.

NIH from March:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8004187/
I acknowledged that much, but my point is they had no idea that these “new people” had no immunity and that the sickness would tear through the population so effectively. Moreover, “they” isn’t “all Europeans”—we need to be careful who we blame or else we verge on racism ourselves.
I had exactly the same impressions as you, and initially I thought that it was my non-native English interpretation (I felt sort of stupid), happy to know I am not the only one considering those examples (more-than-a-little) self-entitling the author as the ultimate genius on earth.

It seems to me like he puts some intentionality in attempting to look stupid and a sort of satisfaction when this happens.
I judge my doctors by wait time. I found a doctor where I never have to wait in the lobby more than 10 mins past my appointment time. Unless you have a really unique health condition I don't understand the culture's behavior around patient doctor relationships. Who cares what other doctors think of him or what his Yelp review is. When I have a sinus infection does he write a prescription for z-pack. End of story.
well, a username can reasonably be limited to [a-zA-Z0-9_] but a name field should take Unicode
I'm not sure how i feel about the title. But i loved the talk.
Thank you! Not ironically— another thumbs down. All some people have to offer this world is negativity. I feel sorry for them.
I'm going to ignore the Ferrari Civic..

Real type system -> PHP has one. Static analysis is possible in PHP. Sublime, PHPStorm and VS Code are not high quality? Zend Framework, Symfony, Laravel are pretty high quality frameworks IMHO
I agree with you; and I keep a printed copy of the MISRA C document on my nightstand for serene reading before sleep (together with the JPL C rules). Yet this point 15.1 does not forbid at all to use goto, just to use goto in an unconstrained way. Thus it is more a warning than a rule.

In the same spirit, you can also enjoy Knuth's "structured programming with goto statements" for a clean programming style whose control flow is based on goto.
Yes, he clearly states he thought that the student group that thought he was stupid were stupid. And later that the only people that would think his test thing was stupid would be the incompetent ones.

So his thesis is also that stupid people assume that intelligent people are stupid. He considers himself more intelligent than those people.

I wonder if he would be as willing to look stupid in front of people that he considers as intelligent as him.

It sounded to me like he was saying: I am willing to look stupid to people that I consider inferior (dumber than me).
I can think of examples of stupid things I've done, but I have a hard time thinking of when a willingness to admit I don't know something, was itself a stupid thing to do? Can you give an example? For me, actually being stupid involves something I'm stubbornly wrong about, and willing to look stupid is openness and vulnerability to admit I don't understand something I "should" know.
Not asking stupid questions is not a function of age but conditioning. I have seen children asking all type of questions.

For adults, looking smart is more important and if asking dumb questions hinders that capability, then we tend to avoid it.

https://binaryho.me/journal/dumb-questions/
I worked on DG minis running AOS/VS, which was also inspired by Multics, as I understand Prime's PrimeOS was.
But when people on an aircraft carrier of double-vaccinated personnel get COVID, does the vaccine really work better than natural immunity?

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-57830617
It sounds simple but it really isn't.

When trying to approach sacrosanct 'truths' from a clean slate, I've met torrents of emotional resistance. Yes, from others. But also inside myself. It is quite something.

I wish I could spend my days wandering the marketplaces asking sincere and pointed questions, but I have to get back to work.
This reminds me of something I stumbled onto in grade school.

In 7th grade, a teacher upset me for some reason I can't even remember. But being a brat, I went through this phase where I decided to waste her time and constantly pepper her with just tons and tons of questions about what we were learning. Some just "stupid" questions I already could surmise but wanted her to have to frustratingly retread over. And some legitimate things too where I just wanted her to go deeper into something.

I would love to apologize to that teacher of course. I was definitely being a spiteful jerk.

But incidentally, I noticed my grades were getting better.

It dawned on me: the more time I spent coming up with questions, even ones that students would groan over how stupid they were, the better I'd do. Admittedly some of my questions probably didn't even need to be asked, but I decided to stop filtering myself on what's a good question. If there was any doubt at all in my head, from something a teacher would say, my hand would shoot up.

And so I just kept doing that through high school and college and noticed when I was vigilent at this, my grades were great. I think some of this behavior has stuck with me, maybe not perfectly though. I think getting older and being seen as an "expert" in some fields now, has probably biased me to stop asking as many questions unfortunately. But ruminating on this experience and the OPs is a great reminder of that bias, and maybe something I can keep improving in myself.
Most of that is nutrition, not genetics.
Even if it is not hard to grok it's often unnecessary complexity as users literally can not tell the diff. in most cases.
Definitely worth iｔ！ If your first read-through tended toward believing every statement as factual, make your second read a test of how well the evidence has held up.
That figure is compute workloads.

Also, those measurements are “at the wall” and include RAM, SSD, and everything else.

At the very least, you must subtract most idle power, but you also need to subtract more when DRAM/SSD kicks up from low power state.
Is this much different than asking why someone would do _any_ work on a laptop?
Our genuine joy and excitement about the minute details of subnetting or data compression or whatever; during those explanations often doesn't help either.

I scare people when im enthused about something. Its a bitch.
This might be culturally dependent, as in some cultures there is much more emphesize on competition than in others. Have you reflected on your behaviour towards your children with respect to this?
>but practically, how much influence does a person (who is not in a position of authority) have?

Surprisingly much, for the kind of people who stay quiet. They underestimate their own potential impact.
Bash and zsh have basically the same thing.

It's meant to give you a nice error message like

"foo is missing. You can install it with 'apt install foo123'"

See:

- https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Command-Execution.htm... for zsh

- https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Command-S... for bash

You could make it run arbitrary things, but then you're quite clearly misusing it and e.g. there's no way to make it return a different status, fish will still view the command as failed.
Because it’s out of the language implementors’ hands. Support in Apache, for example, requires Apache to be compiled with certain configuration, so if big Apache distributors don’t compile with support to your language, there’s nothing a language implementor can do to help. It’s like asking why Ruby doesn’t work harder to make itself included by Windows—I’m pretty sure the maintainers wouldn’t object, but they don’t have a say on that anyway.
Facebook kept its own oversight board in the dark on program for VIP users
Sometimes I was even scolded for asking too much from other people that knew me on the basis that if I did it it did not look good, it would look like I blabla... all stupid things about how you look to others.

I never stopped doing it. I will never stop. I do not care. At the end, what I want, is to know new stuff.
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INTERPOL carries out full-scale drone countermeasure exercise
> single point of failure on something that by itself generates no value in real terms. It does generate value by increasing our leverage, that is it.

This was my point of "no real value". The only value is to advance the future into the present, at the cost of interest. This value is also the critical part making the system brittle, we advance the future far enough until the pressure on the system is too large and then a single spark lights the whole pile on fire. We have a "market correction", meaning: human suffering in humongous scale because some people were too greedy and wanted the future now instead of being able to wait a few years.

And worse, the existence of this system forces everyone who is not wholly accepting it into a disadvantaged position because your competitor is going to take advantage of cheap credit if you try to be cautious, so there is no incentive to not play the game, at all.
The DFT is not trivial at all. The standard way of teaching goes over calculus (including complex numbers), introduces the original Fourier transformation and then discretization (numerical mathematics). Having a PhD in physics, let me assert you that we still have to think twice many times when we "just do a dft" of something. This is also obvious if you look into the manuals, for instance the many variants of a FFT in https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/tutorial/fft.html or https://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/doc/html/fft.html . This is not trivial.
No tooling needed to deploy code is a massive contributing factor to PHP success.

It's maddening what's needed to deploy code for other web languages.
I believe there are two or three still airworthy, as well as a few built under license in Spain as the Casa 352, and also perhaps one or two being restored to an airworthy state.

One, owned at the time by a German airline, toured the USA a few years ago after appearing at Oshkosh. The first I knew of it, I was working in my office when I heard the rumble of its engines. Looking up, I saw the silhouette of a three-engined airplane pass slowly by about a quarter mile away, and for some reason, I thought 'It looks like a pterodactyl!' At first, I guessed it was a Ford Trimotor, as I knew that, at least until fairly recently, one had still been in commercial service, flying a short hop between somewhere near Cleveland and an island in lake Erie.
I've searched the whole thread for an answer to this. I'm so curious now...
‘Democracy dies in darkness’ is a funny trope coming from the mouths of the media, which by its very nature has to focus on long tail statistically less likely events and stories (hence the’news’ aspect).

This has the unintended consequence of decoupling readers from reality, because the long trail events start seeming like the norm.

We see it in survey after survey that the more ‘news’ media you consume the less you are in line with understanding what is actually happening.
>Just calling everything a "variable" seems imprecise.

That's what they are, though, it is as precise as it needs to be. Why try to reinvent the wheel?
Martial arts are a hobby where I think this happens often. You could practice your whole life, but then you change disciplines or face a new teacher and suddenly you're doing everything wrong.
Don’t SaaS Me, Bro
Structured programming has won so thoroughly and become so pervasive that it's hard nowadays to understand the context in which Dijkstra was writing.

'Don't use goto' doesn't mean 'never ever use a goto under any circumstance', it means 'consider using this thing called a "while" loop instead'.
Why is "college kid skills" relevant for anything? Do you make tech and business decisions based on what your incoming jr people want to do?

Many people in my circles use PHP for ... lots of stuff. I just got back from a PHP conference, and saw hundreds of people there are using it.

"Python seems to have won the backend game" - I'm really curious where you get that impression from. I can't imagine it's relating to publicly available web servers. That's not a total view of everything, of course, but... absent other numbers/studies/reports, it's really hard to draw any conclusions that aren't just based on personal experience.
Only half plausible reason I can think of is for a 'Pass The Parcel' prize.
Anything else, surly the smallest laptop would be preferable and you could repackage it.
Good business for CATL...