skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was recently doing archaeology of my ZFS disk, and it reminded me of how I started using ZFS - With three disks in a Raid, running under FreeBSD. That FreeBSD System was running as a guest via VirtualBox, with the windows machine host having it's own disk. I then mounted that via Samba/CIFS... Good times, terrible hacks.
Ah yes, the annoying Windows message "Do not turn off your computer" when it is running updates. Why is it telling me what to do with another computer? And I can turn it off since it isn't mine?
I don't want to sound like a communist but it's not people who are holding patents and funding research. Usually research is funded by governments by subsidizing universities and research institutions or by companies.

So we can have governments continuing to subsidize research, but forbid universities and research institutions to sell the rights to only one company.
It's not that you're wrong, it's that what you write only addresses the title of and first sentences of the article, rather than anything the article is actually trying to say.

This article is about game-theoretical-ideas of how to deal with the principal-agent problem. The "greedy doctor" idea is just a motivating example. You're seemingly taking offense at a knowingly fictional setup. That's akin to not wanting to learn how to solve physics problems about objects in a world where friction is assumed away, because that's not realistic. Umm, what?
I thought useing GPL code without modifications was acceptable without any licensing, or is that a 'lesser GPL' license?
The idea is, you see something and ace-jump can jump to it. It's not a search function, so it is, as you said, limited to the currently visible text.
I didn't get on with mine, it was probably one of the least comfortable saddles I've owned.
If you wrote the code, you can refuse to relicense.
I’ve got my whole career to thank Flash for. I discovered it when I was 14 and it absolutely blew my mind. I didn’t know what variables, loops, or functions were, but still somehow figured out how to “program” games. Animate CC is still extremely capable animation software for games purposes. I wish Adobe would just sell it to some other company who could actually leverage its authoring capabilities.
Sure, but that's just a publication for this particular draft. Which seems to be maybe draft 07. And that numbering starts when it was formally adopted with a 00 draft owned by the working group, it dates back years before that.
Universe depending on all real numbers would be uncomputable, because most real numbers are uncomputable.

This follows from the fact that set of all Turing machines is countable (you can write an algorithm that lists all Turing machines), but set of real numbers is uncountable. So, by Cantor's diagonal argument you can prove that there are real numbers that can not be computed.

My guess is that universe can not depend on real numbers (i.e. real numbers are not real) because real numbers introduce infinity related breakdowns in physical models. For example, if there exist a physical state can encode arbitrary real number then that would allow to store infinite amount of information. But it is not possible to prove that something does not exist, see arguments related to Russell's teapot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_number

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor%27s_diagonal_argument

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot
It wasn't done at home. It was done in a lab by someone who majored in biology for the express purpose of finding a cure for his lactose intolerance.

It's been a bit since I watched the two videos* he made, so I don't remember the details. But it was the first time I ever felt anything positive about gene therapy. I'm too used to seeing people like me treated like Frankenstein's monster so people can do cool science and not care about the suffering of their human guinea pigs.

But most likely the short version is that he was only using this on himself. He didn't need to get FDA approval or do clinical trials.

That's an enormously frustrating process for the folks with incurable conditions who just tear their hair out over decisions to deny approval because something bad might happen down the road. We tend to feel like "Let me live long enough to have those problems, you ass!!!!"

But those processes exist for a reason. (Look up Thalidomide if you care to know how wrong things can go.)

Maybe someday there will be a readily available gene therapy for lactose intolerance. Maybe his work will be the starting point for it.

* He has made a lot more than two videos but there are two specifically about this gene therapy he administered to himself.
Without GPL, people wouldn't be enjoying their Linux distribution, but naturally this is a moot point given how the BSD distributions have taken over the UNIX world.
Scalping or Line-Sitting: The Role of Speculators
Looking forward again. The puzzles are good, but they are described so well they become a real joy to solve.
If those people are coherent I assume they are also contributing and running one of the BSDs as their main UNIX.
I did the Seattle to Portland in one day. It was 338km and around 1500m elevation change.

I started at 04:55 and ended at 20:30 - so a total time of 15 hours and 35 minutes including stops.

I was incredibly out of shape and under-trained. It’s amazing what your mind can push your body to do.
Android dev tools let you speed up UI animations. Dropping their time to 25% yielded a phone that felt like it had been given a shot of nitro, and I didn't have any trouble using it.

This "easing" crap just makes devices feel slow, and wastes energy and everyone's time.

Stuff that "moves" when you hover over it is stupid anyway - not compatible with touch screens, can't be printed. I've never looked at a site and been anything other than annoyed by stuff that moves/slides/expands.

There's an extra special place in hell for web designers who screw with the page scrolling to make it "better."
I would rephrase to "they want to take as much as possible but don't want to give back the entire codebase using the free software".
I've used Apache for over 20 years and I'm going to give you a feature it's missing: request coalescing.

My servers mostly proxy requests to a backend (PHP-FPM, but this is applicable to all other server-side languages). If m requests come in for /foo and all requests have the same cookies, Apache will pass all m requests through to the backend.

nginx instead will pass one request to the backend and then serve the response to all m requesters, reducing backend load. The setting is called proxy_cache_lock (https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_proxy_module.html#pr...)

With Apache I have to put other software in front of the web server (Varnish usually) that does this for me. So switching to a server where I can reduce installs to support by 50% is appealing.
Similar drug still on the market: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onasemnogene_abeparvovec
Apple derived OSes, the Windows TCP/IP stack before Windows Vista, PlayStation OSes, Nintendo and Playstation SDK, the BSD stuff taken into commercial UNIXes, just from top of my head, there are surely other examples.
You're thinking on the LGPL.

The GPL is the prototypical copyleft licence, designed to encourage the liberation of software, in part via its dependencies.
Everyone is blaming the company or the patent system or general greed, but really there is an extremely simple solution: pay the $1M. In Canada and Europe it's medicare, ie taxes, ie the general population that would pay for it, but they refused. In the US it's insurance companies, ie the general population (as insurance is just socialized losses), that refused. If people are uninsured then force the state, ie everyone who is feeling so bad about it, to pay for it. It's odd that being the genius inventors also means that you now also have to be the only ones to pay for it. This isn't a story of exorbitant profits - even at a million a dose they would barely make their money back. It makes no sense to isolate the group of people who are actually working on the thing to be the only ones to pay for it.

By extension, this story demonstrates how we price life. What if the cure was a billion dollars, is that worth society paying? What about a trillion? At one point a limit is reached, and it seems that one million is one of those limits that we all quietly agree upon.
And... it's gone now! (Thanks for reminding me BTW)

I prefer keeping a low profile. Because I like speaking my mind freely, which I might not do if my account was linked to my name.
Companies are using relative prime numbers to screw customers.

My former phone provider had 30 days subscription periods, not accounting for 31, 29 and 28 days long months.
>> Comparing yourself to other people is a losing game - no matter how awesome you are you'll always find people that are "better" than you

This negative mindset may actually hurt you! Your subconscious listens to this.

In they past I used to do the opposite. I was learning game programming and when I learned something cool I was imagining that by learning this or that I started being smarter than hundreds or thousands of others my age.

So instead of trying to be top-of-the world I could never be I was simply leaving those not willing to improve behind.
How Does Timecode Vinyl Actually Work? (Pt. 1)
What's custom about Python? ;)
Can you recommend some books, papers or resources on this?
That sounds amazing, is there any way to access this material right now?
Me too. If the content overspills you can't shut off the plaque because the control become unusable ('hot' or liquid on the surface displayed), which often leads to more overspills /autocatalyse.
> One of the things that causes littering is a lack of trash cans or a lack of non-filled trash cans.

Yes, surely a primary cause. There are areas without trashcans anywhere. Which is so insane. As public policy it seems obvious to maximize trashcans everywhere to make it convenient to keep it clean.

The vast majority of people aren't out to be filthy, but humans are also lazy. To keep a city clean, make sure there is a trashcan within sight at all times no matter where you are, and nearly everyone will use them and keep things clean. Remove trashcans and lots of people will give up and litter.

Same issue with public toilets. Make them available everywhere and nearly everyone will use them, everyone is happy. Take them away and the inevitable consequence is obvious, what else are people going to do.
> Desserts don't have network effects.

They absolutely do: I don’t eat a lot of deserts, and so I hang around other people who don’t eat a lot of deserts.

It isn’t a matter of I don’t like people who like cake, it’s just that I don’t want to be around the cake.

Html and HTTP are like that for some people.
the easy selection of links via keycode shortcuts really sold it for me. I use something similar with Firefox's vimium add-on, bit its nice to see something like this already baked in. It shows a good understanding of their core user base
Was this a flame "war"? It seems most (or all) comments are in agreement, that the deference of the Economist towards Kissinger is a little over the top. That was only my point.
They were Polish immigrants. I know part of the work involved the foundation but not much more. Obviously no time to expand a basement or crawlspace, if there was one. It sounds insane to me, too, but I'm the kind of person who waffles over which foundation engineering firm to call just to get an estimate.
Tried this properly for the first time last year, and very much enjoyed doing each task 'properly' with literate programming, unit tests, benchmarks for different implementations etc. It was extremely soothing, much more so than if I'd just tried to solve each problem as quickly as possibly. I'm sure some others would get a lot out of this approach, whether or not you're trying a new language.
I never use a GPS.

But this was a long time ago. I think somewhere around Metz.
The road was something like a primary road which turned into a highway. A paper map indeed confirmed the road changed into a highway.
Oooh, so excited, last year I also wrote a little discord bot that can run on a raspberry pi zero written in plain JS.
So shameless plug here: https://github.com/francisduvivier/aoc-discord-notifier-bot
My question may sound naive, but why not use BSD zero close license from the start?
Python annotations actually provide a very decent typing layer. You have to use an additional tool to do the checks, there are much fewer third party typings, and the type system is definitely not as sophisticated as TS.

But Python code is also not as dynamic as JavaScript, so you can get most of the way with what's already in the standard library. (again, disregarding the missing pervasive typings for the ecosystem)
Kids React has a similar video, https://youtu.be/XkuirEweZvM

They’ve got a lot of videos of kids interacting with old tech, they’re quite funny.
Does your team really think that WebStorm is for amateurs?
You can see any year by changing the url: https://adventofcode.com/2021

I think it started in 2015.

On the AoC website you need to provide solutions for each day in a given year to see the next day’s problem, so you can’t instantly see all the problems from a given year unless you’ve previously completed them.

You may be able to find the problems elsewhere on the net.
I would love to have a book about brain that separates the abstract guiding principles from the random details of implementation. Every book I have tried quickly devolved into "calcium pumps" and similar stuff but I feel these are just one specific evolutionary implementation of some "principle" on higher level of abstraction. Sure, it is important to understand the details if you want to be an expert. But as a curious layman I would so much enjoy a book that explains (even incompletely, based on our current knowledge) how the brain does thinking, perception, learning... in terms of networking. In terms of strengthening connection between units that fired together and changing connectivity parameters of the whole (sub)network, but without delving into chemistry of synaptic transmission and hormones. The general principles that human brains and artificial neural networks have in common. If anyone knows about such a book, please let me know.
Big Data: Why Does IT Matter for Businesses Now More Than Ever?
I don't think this article is making the point veey clearly, but it is a very important point: roads are for long distance connections at speed, streets are for local traffic: reaching houses, shops, people. These stroads try to do both and fail at both because the goals are contradictory; you can't have high speed traffic with lots of side streets and crossing traffic, bikes and pedestrians. It will be too slow for a road or too dangerous for a street, and probably both.

Separate traffic that requires different speeds.
Unfortunately it still does, they had a nice thing going with WinRT, .NET Native and C++/CX, and they just messed it all up.

Now imagine the experience porting a NeXTSTEP app into MFC back in the the Windows 98 glory days.
You spread misinformation. Any ad company can use FLoC.

Let me be very explicit for you: privacy advocates say 3rd party cookies are bad b/c they allow tracking yet the eu blocks google from removing them b/c they think it might hurt their own ad tracking companies.
> We can check if copyright even applies to the particular contribution. Very small contributions may not be covered by copyright, and hence may not need a license agreement.

This is not the case in the United Kingdom, where the threshold of creativity for copyright is basically zero.
Have you tried carnivore? Or medical keto?
I found the Sea Lion the most impressive. The only mammal able to dive 136 meters without special equipment.
Definitely. And Director, which extended to 3d! At the time it was more for interactive cds, but the potential for a Unity-like experience was there.
It’s more complicated than that. It was not a fork, they just copied some parts of FreeBSD and OpenBSD. The kernel is XNU, and descended from Mach. Also, Darwin (the base OS, which includes the BSD bits) is open source. What isn’t is the GUI on top of it, which comes from OPENSTEP.
They tried, here WebAssembly before it was even an idea, https://adobe-flash.github.io/crossbridge/

We are still catching up with 2011.
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obviously comparing my business as a consultant to a pharmaceutical company is like comparing a single raisin to a field of watermelons, but I am of the opinion based on reading that the benefits of spending money to reduce profits and taxes seems to be greater the larger the business, and thus that the principle must hold.
I recently bought a new laptop for my son. One of my main concerns was upgradeability, so I had to discard a lot of models with soldered-on RAM.

It really struck me how many laptops are still coming out with 4GB of RAM, which is simply not enough nowadays. Also, many vendors hide or make it difficult to know how much RAM you can add.
rollbacks are pretty useful when your are experimenting with boot process

everything else Is unlikely to break your system enough to prevent you from switching profiles
You can't just compile it and run it?
HN community is very small. We are conscious but average customer isn't. They will still buy HP printers, super expensive Apple products that can't be fixed easily (yeah yeah the new Self Repair), or anything they sell at BestBuy. We just need to be careful, we can't save everyone.

I am voting with my wallet and buy the right stuff. If other's don't learn from other's mistakes, so be it.
I did this last year and loved it, if you aren’t even considering it I would, it made me a better programmer and it allowed me to go from completing around 60% of in interview coding tests to maybe 90%+. I’m not scared of them like I used to be either. If people do this for fun it’s also probably worth hiring them…
All problems are available as long as their day has come even while the event is running. But the part 2 of each problem requires solving part 1 first.
For the folks taking payday loans this is even worse. The whole feature is designed to make you spent more than you can afford, especially preying on the more desperate as opposed to the ones who could just afford the thing they where buying. Essentially this is just a micro-loan that gets prohibitively expensive when you miss a payment, which you are obviously more prone to when you have issues paying back regular loans already. Actually, it's exactly like a payday loan works and abusing the same people.
Ask HN: What is your VR/AR side project?
About a year ago, I wanted to work around BIOS limitations by writing patched ACPI tables, like what was done for a long time for Hackintoshes.

So I documented in more detail my finding for the 9250/7275 on https://www.reddit.com/r/Dell/comments/kolf5f/patching_the_d...

I got in touch with a few other people, but nobody seemed very interested, so I gave up and got myself a Thinkpad instead.

If you want to work on that, on a BIOS advertising S3 support, IIRC all you need to do is keep the EC powered so it can proceed the GPE from the power power button. On S01x it's powered off to avoid spurious wakeups.

Get the schematics, disassemble the BIOS, and you'll the logic would be about as complicated as:

if (S01x) { EC_poweroff; }

else { EC_powered; EC_monitor_GPE_something; }
I agree, and the article doesn’t really explain a difference, either. Two quotes:

> Campbell’s law states that the more important a metric is in social decision making, the more likely it is to be manipulated.

> Goodhart’s Law, states that “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure”.

These are basically paraphrases if you accept that “target” = “important in decision making”, and “likely to be manipulated” = “not a good measure”.

That’s fine, important discoveries are often made multiple times independently, but let’s not pretend there’s some important difference where there isn’t any.
You can use GPL code however you want.

You have only obligations when you distribute the results. Whatever you do in your private basement is completely unaffected by that. The GPL gives you freedom to do whatever you please. That's the whole point of it!

When you distribute binaries resulting form work based on GPL code than the people receiving those binaries (and only them) are eligible to get alongside the source code which allows them to rebuild the binaries you distributed to them. That makes sure that those other people also have the same freedom as you to do whatever they please with the programs and code. So the GPL preserves freedom among users of GPL code.
Ah K. It's like someone saw regexs and thought "I wish all programming was as readable as this!"
Unfortunately since BSDs don't support the most popular way to build apps these days, a microservice architecture backed by Docker and Kubernetes, I don't think they will get much traction.

Does anyone know of some large /complex architectures using BSDs?
This just isn't true and we have entire nations to prove it like Denmark, where I live and work and in which the majority are members of unions. An adversarial relationship is not inevitable nor is it desired.

I wish this unfortunate byproduct of American anti-union campaigning would stop. The US example is far from the only one and it is fanned by its bipartisan politics that have poisoned the well of cooperation we all can take part in if we just dropped the desire to crusade in anger.

I am also American and I have seen both sides.
Is it reasonable to believe that in the event of war, space would turn into a horrific mess of space debris as nation states shot down all of each other’s military satellites? I had never thought of this scenario until I read this article.
I'll Be Writing PHP Functions in Here Just for Fun
> Germans already are having the highest income-tax and social-security costs of the developed world as well.

Having lived in a couple of Nordic countries for most[1] of my life, allow me to be sceptical about that.

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[1]: Unter fünf Johr im Ländle wo jeadas Haus a Häusle isch.
True. It takes a few years when you don't get much faster anymore but eventually the body settles into a habit of simply not running itself as deep into super low blood glucose levels anymore as it used to, thanks to shifting the threshold where fat conversion is phased out upwards. You still arrive from a 5h+ Very Hungry (which is part of the joy because everything tastes so good!) but not quite as badly as you used to from a 2h.
Is it really OK that the top of the license calls it "Apache License"?

https://foundation.llvm.org/relicensing/LICENSE.txt

You need to scroll to the bottom to see that its not.
Commenting on BSDs losing out to Linux seems like a weird dig in this context, considering that a large contributing factor to that was legal threats from AT&T.
It's also called coprime.

Usage: "10 and 9 are coprime"

Edit: removed plural
I've owned several XPS laptops.

For less than two days each.

All returned. The quality control is a joke and I more wouldn't touch Dell with a bargepole.

One XPS 15 powered off every 5 minutes. One had a high pitched whine. In one I had the keys were loose and not fitted properly. In another the hinge was screwed and another became inexplicably hot at idle to the point it was painful to touch.

When I asked to return these they didn't even care why I was returning them.
The thing is, you didn't need to learn anything "computery" to operate the Mac. No special languages or commands, nothing. You could literally walk into a computer store, sit down at the demo machine and use the thing. And it was pervasively graphical - that was completely new. Sure, that was old hat to the folks at Xerox PARC, but for the average person it was like going from a bicycle to an X-wing fighter. Nothing else was even remotely comparable.
Iodine used to power craft in space for first time
A tip is to get used to using speech to text, which enables you to switch to a phone with a small screen at some point.