skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even "true" noop instructions then ones generated by writing corresponding opcode in assembly often decode to "no side effect instruction". Something like exchanging register with itself, or adding 0 to register. Modern high performance cpu designs will probably optimize those instructions and not preform the useless no side effect operation, but on simpler cpus extra logic for detecting it and not performing anything might not be worth it. So those noops will actually try to execute the no side effect operation which matches with decoded instruction.

Wikipedia has table of them for different architectures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOP_(code)
If there's a limit on how much positive pressure a pump can generate to push water above itself, then what approximately is the value of that limit, and how would a pump capable of exceeding that limit allow you to construct a perpetual motion machine?
I think you are right, might be worth opening a bug on bugzilla.kde.org to suggest/track the feature (having it, as an option maybe, would be cool).
Another Falsehood. Food stamps don't provide enough to live on in the U.S. if buying healthy foods.

https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170907125642.htm

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/nine-out-10-peopl...

https://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/more-adequate-...
If somebody else is running the code, it likely is packaged. Every python packaging I know allows to specify version of python to use so IMHO that's what should be used.
Found an old email: Justin TV's 2007 initial interview questions still online
I just switched to an iPhone a few months ago, and it literally _always_ autocorrects “well” to “we’ll”. Why would it correct one correct word to another???
> All civilizations collapse. The challenge is how to slow it down enough to prolong our happiness.

Uh, what about India?
They were warned of this exact scenario multiple times
Was perusing some 2007 email and found an email thread I had back then with Justin TV (now Twitch) and surprisingly the link they sent me with the initial set of interview questions on weebly still happens to be live. I'm assuming that all these years later, this isn't giving anything important away.
A really great book about dreaming and inducing lucid dreams is "Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming" by Dr. Stephen LaBerge[0]. It goes through relaxation techniques, improving dream recall, and eventually how to induce lucid dreams. It's quite a process and takes some work, but I was able to use his methods to induce lucid dreams and it's quite a powerful experience.

- [0]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/316781.Exploring_the_Wor...
I have found no rhyme or reason over the huge spike in gas prices other than greed.

Granted, our current president shouldn't have been so negative towards fossil fuels.

That said, he did nothing to create this particular upswing.

My local Chevron gas station 94960 has been fluctuating from $5.50 to 6.40 every other day since Ukraine was invaded.

These oils companies, along with so many other companies, raised prices because they thought they could get away with it. "Let's blame a war. Let's blame inflation.". Oil profits have never been higher. It just smells like cronyism.

I've always wondered why gas prices in the Bay Area are the highest in the nation. While we have huge refineries across the Richmond Bridge.
Gccgo is packaged by any reasonable Linux distribution.
Meanwhile the rest of the country languishes in underfunded, underdeveloped transport infrastructure. The divide between the south east and the rest of the country becomes more stark day by day.
Chinese astronauts arrive at Tiangong space station for 6-month stay
Start Test Names with “Should”
It is seen as part of the trade-school. And interns at this point might be trained in school, but not fully trained. So their expected value is somewhat lower. And this is done for getting the qualifications.

Mostly issue is why would business accept a person for internship if they had to pay when other alternative would be to pay same or tiny bit more for someone with that experience already and possibly immediately long term employment.
It should be possible in any western system of law to defend content containing provably true statements (IANAL!).

>The thesis that it's ok that we simply not give humanity places to speak & share is ghastly.

That goes against today's mainstream ideal of de-platforming people who say provably false (allegedly) things against minorities, women, LGBTQ communities, etc. The logic there is Platform X is a private business and they can kick out anyone they want.
echo I totally made this file five years ago > filewithtimestamp.txt

This approach uses LE as a trusted third party. The date on the cert is valid if you trust letsencrypt.
Employee surveillance software is managerial bankruptcy
> my impression is that some of those problems – especially the homelessness, crime and public defecation issues – are much worse in San Francisco proper (Oakland too) than in (say) Silicon Valley

Kind of? Violent crime is always going to be higher in a city than the suburbs, that’s just life.

But homelessness…it’s rampant everywhere, although a different kind of homelessness. Think fewer tent encampments and more motor homes. There are RVs parked on El Camino for miles down Palo Alto and Mountain View.

Not, of course, on the actual residential streets, because the city made that illegal - which brings us on to the nasty politics, which I’d argue is worse in the suburbs than the cities.
Ah guess why that's why even the test runs have been impossible.
“Code is a liability”
“Don’t solve problems with code that can be solved in other ways”
“Code is grunt work, I’m an architect”
“Projects fail from people problems, not technical problems”

There’s truth to all of these, and yet the people who repeat them dogmatically are often programmers or managers with ultra inflated titles who write blog posts or emails all day ;)

They probably didn’t even like programming and saw it as a fast track to management.

I’ll take the real programmers who get stuff done, thanks.
Google cares about SBCL because their flight search software that powers Google Flights, Orbitz, Kayak, etc. is written in Common Lisp.
>>> import numpy.polynomial.polynomial.Polynomial as P

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https://i.redd.it/jsh0ut0mtm391.jpg
Sincere question: Where would you rather have that money spent, if not to provide healthy food to school children?
Well, would you expect him to say "oh we can do it, we just want to make big profits"?
Microsoft DCU disrupts Bohrium APT infrastructure
DCU legal team successfully obtained a court order that granted Microsoft control over 41 domains used by the Bohrium group in spear-phishing operations.
Hypothetically speaking, what if I don't want to ingest those feeds all by myself? What if I would like to acquire the evaluation of the posts by those who have already read them?

Facebook has votes on micro-content but doesn't publish those votes. Reddit and HN publish votes but the community only votes on already popular content. Does a place exist where votes are collected on all published content?

Micro-blogs on their own don't scale and don't have synergies. There must be some approaches to improve the situation.
I’m wondering which is more preferred if only one can be kept: remote working or four-day work week?
Please read "the dream machine" and decide for yourself :-)
Haha no, I wanted to emphasize how they are even doing the hardware different. The mobile form factor did fit my needs. Just fell short on the explanation.

BTW gamer community is fucked up and people will judge each other on every single detail so you are not far off.
Except the smaller scale programs are less funded and have to make specific concessions to exist. Most of the lunches served at my school were unhealthy and everyone had to eat the same thing regardless of allergies or other problems. So you had poor kids being stigmatized because they would get a free lunch or trade their lunch with someone else because they were lactose intolerant. You could ask pretty much anyone that grew up in that time and they'd talk about eating things like cheap hamburgers or pizza squares.

That's why this sweeping program was important because food costs money, and giving schools more money for food means better and healthier selections for kids.

I'm getting the feeling you never dealt with this problem growing up.
apple music is the best advert for spotify
I do not known enough to have a discussion about the level of resemblance to modern-day religions.

But the text shows that some aspects of modern-day religion are still present. Here are two examples from Children of Dune:

The O.C. Bible has "Maleficos non patieris vivere", from the Latin Vulgate, Exodus 22:18. In KJV this is translated as "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live", which is also the translation used in the story - https://archive.org/details/dunemessiahchild0000herb/page/26... .

And knowledge of St. Thomas of Canterbury (saint in the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion) survives:

> Leto crouched in the lee of his dune and waited for the night to settle into its own rhythms. Patience and caution—caution and patience. For a time he amused himself by reviewing Chaucer’s route from London to Canterbury, listing the places from Southwark: two miles to the watering-place of St. Thomas, five miles to Deptford, six miles to Greenwich, thirty miles to Rochester, forty miles to Sittingbourne, fifty-five miles to Boughton under Blean, fifty-eight miles to Harbledown, and sixty miles to Canterbury. It gave him a sense of timeless buoyancy to know that few in his universe would recall Chaucer or know any London except the village on Gansireed. St. Thomas was preserved in the Orange Catholic Bible and the Azhar Book, ... - https://archive.org/details/dunemessiahchild0000herb/page/43...

This implies that at least a couple current views of religion remain.
B) Fuel demand had a slump due to external factors. And as supply was also somewhat inelastic the priced dropped. Now that we are returning to normal or even increased demand price is sensibly going up. Previous 2 years were anomaly, not the normal.
This was my experience with Ruby. The language makes it easy to create DSLs, so lots of libraries are implemented that way. To work on a large project you actually need to learn dozens of different languages. No thanks.
See also with a similar concept: RoboForge[0][1] (2001), where you designed and programmed a fighting robot.

Roboforge also did another thing that I still - even two decades later in this microtransaction-laden world - haven't seen again: Paid tournaments!

You could enter your bot into online tournaments for free, or you could pay something like $5 to enter a paid tournament, and if you won you'd win a real-money prize. There's probably some huge legal issue around what pretty much amounts to gambling, but it was brilliant.

[0]http://www.roboforge.altervista.org/
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roboforge
I appreciate the recommendation to start with JS, I'm actually trying to avoid targeting the browser as much as possible with my projects, with the exception of things actually returning hypertext or that I get for free via wasm or something else.

The Book of Shaders looks quite interesting however, thank you for the link!
> Would writing a ray tracer be a good starter project?

Yes!
That's monopolitic. If there were a producer that did not participate in the price-fix, and could scale his production up, he'd outcompete the price-fixers. I wonder what keeps this setup in place. Sounds like something you'd fight wars over.
I think the usual reservation is that once you start showing how to write macros, it only follows with more questions. What's the syntax? What is quasiquoting? What is an unquote? Are arguments evaluated? Why not? What's code and what's data? How is it that a singly linked list data structure has anything to do with code that's executed?

...at which point it's almost more economical to just read a book about Lisp.

I think showing what instead of how can be instructive and motivating for some readers, but it definitely doesn't satisfy all of them.
Phoronix Turns 18 Years Old for Covering Linux Hardware
A newspaper is a carefully crafted collection of articles by the editors. 720,000 hours of video gets uploaded to YouTube every day. Equating the two is simply not reasonable. YouTube is more like a library or archive, where users themselves decide what to consume.
I wonder if anyone has tried to map scientific progress in some quantifiable way, and if so, whether or not it matches punctuated equilibrium. It does seem as if there are periods of time in which we make steady progress, and once in a while leaps and bounds improvements are made all at once.

It also reminds me of how genetic algorithms that I've written tend to work - lots of "no improvement, cull, no improvement, cull" followed by "huge improvement".

It would give the impression, during those bursts, that you're just around the corner from a wildly different world.
Definitely true! I've played around with audio a little bit before, and am a little more comfortable there (though by no means proficient).
Modafinil enhances specific kinds of performance, but not every kind. Taking Adderall for ADHD actually feels like you’re improved - taking modafinil sort of feels like you’re the same but have temporarily infinite “willpower” you can burn to make yourself do stuff. IIRC there’s quite a few mental tasks that are not changed or are slightly regressed on it though.
In other news: employees of letsencrypt have unexpected windfall due to their massive library of prior art, which they are apparently willing to nix after suitable payment has been received.
If we allowed any type of experimentation on dying patients as long as there was consent, dying patients would end up getting used as a Guineapigs by companies trying to get a lucky indication. It would certainly benefit the families left behind financially, but it would not be pretty. “Here’s a million bucks, please take these 40 drugs that will certainly kill you, but we’ll learn which one we should continue with”.
And why even do toxicity studies or phase 1 and 2 trials? It’s cheaper to pay of poor people who are on the verge of dying and just pushing them over the edge.

The decision should be just because a patient and a doctor, because the consequences of such decisions are more far reaching than just those two.
We have a well established framework for what a drug needs to prove before they can reasonable be allowed to be given to any human being, no matter their situation, and that barrier of entry is there for a multitude of good reasons. Discarding it just because a specific patient is at risk of dying or because you can get consent is not helping patients.
They are clearly trying to carefully craft their offering. Albeit with automated tools. Thus I wouldn't separate them from being publishers.

Now if they just handled DMCAs and court-orders I might accept some level of protections for them.
FWIW, IRC still has away messages. And quit/part messages.
One more thing not in the article is that sometimes, leadership or whoever is responsible for the roadmap, can FAIL to do their due diligence and you can end up a few months working on something meant to be "a great product" just to realize after it ships, that the customer just isn't buying it.
This reminds me of how people used to use machine code which exposed and tested for slight differences in processors to detect x86 processor versions before CPUID:

http://www.rcollins.org/ddj/Sep96/Sep96.html
Is My Cookie Illegal?
> other than tires and brakes

And batteries.

I'm not claiming for a second that the cadence of swapping batteries is going to be anything like all the consumable filters and gaskets, transmissions, bearings, etc but when the day comes to replace seven thousand 18650 cells in one go, it's going to sting.

On the plus side, that's another 15y on the road.
I started to meditate in 2007. Only 10-minute sessions. The change I noticed after a month, was that I woke up with a dream almost every day. Before starting meditation, the dreaming was a few times per year. Perhaps the meditation creates a relaxation that is helpful for dreaming?
Write a Script to Search the Arch Wiki (Offline) [video]
Presence of creativity is not demonstrated in SV if you go outside and look at any of the built forms. Liking of brown low slung buildings built in 1960 maybe.

It is possibly the explanation for the Flintstones House, which isn’t in SV.
Can you recommend any alternative?
The costs are also a benefit to everyone except the users: bloated software makes it easier to sell new hardware. Abandoned software means programmers get jobs writing the new version.
In old humans, the capacity of producing new blood cells becomes reduced in comparison with young people.

The study has identified as the cause why the stem cells which produce blood cells are less able to do that in old people is because they are less efficient in autophagy, i.e. they are less able to destroy the cellular components, e.g. defective proteins, which are no longer needed and which must be recycled.

After identifying this cause, they have studied a few methods by which this autophagy capability of the stem cells can be influenced.

The simplest method was a treatment with gamma-linolenic acid, a fatty acid that normally can be produced by a young human body in sufficient quantities, but in old people its synthesis rate diminishes, like also for a few other substances, e.g. for long-chain omega-3 fatty acids.

The treatment with gamma-linolenic acid was tested successfully both in mice and in human cell cultures, restoring the ability of the stem cells to make new blood cells.
The fine article mentions Michael Pollan, whose book Cooked [0] was recently given to me. The chapter on the history of wheat is great.

Pollan says that humans have been trying to make their bread whiter as long as we've been making bread. But we didn't get really good at it until the roller mill was invented in the mid-1800's. In the olden days every community had a flour mill, because milled flour only lasted 2 weeks before it became stale. At first the white flour was a modern miracle: perfectly airy/fluffy bread, flour able to be stored, transported and shipped long distances, etc. Then degenerative diseases started appearing.

Fortification started around 1940's / 1950's, after the Army noticed the recruits for WWII weren't nearly as healthy as in decades past. The joke of fortification is that they only replace some of what was removed by turning wheat into white flour.

Haven't finished the article yet, but it's great.

Besides the widespread fortification and consumption of white flour, what other science-mistakes have become endemic?

edit: [0] https://michaelpollan.com/books/cooked/
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I have high hopes.
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Is there anything you can do with macros that you can’t do with similar language features like higher order functions?
Sleep and aerobic exercise are the most effective nootropics, then balanced sunshine exposure.
> The hard part is coordinating, defining the problem, planning for the future, and communicating the current status of the problem.

This sounds more like one person doing it all rather then "being developer".
https://github.com/reportaman/arttime
arttime brings curated text-art to otherwise artless terminal emulators of starving developers (and other users who can use terminal emulators). While doing so, it blends display of art with functionality of a nifty clock/timer which is a retake on the stereotypical alarms/timers. With one line of title message under the art, it also provides one line of opportunity for developers to display their activism or just attach a functional message for themselves for usual developer activity on terminal (like "debug the failing build tonight").
Oh wow. I used this a few times back when it first launched, I’m impressed it’s still going nearly 20 years later
Just played a few games - and No, they don't, though it will tell you (for example) 'S changed to G' which means that G is now in the same place the 'S' was ... unless there were two Ss of course!
Streams API (or functional programming in general) is an abstraction over explicit loops. If you don't find that inherently useful, then you'll not have the motivation to get used to the different syntax. I've had my beginnings in functional programming, so explicit loops felt unjustifiably icky, brittle and verbose for a long time.
Mortgage credits, student loans (and there are major ethical systems that actually consider them immoral, eg. Islam generally prohibits charged interest).... Or military enlistment contracts... There are plenty of examples where you voluntarily sell your freedom away - and the agreement makes backing out rather non-trivial. It's just not called slavery - because it isn't quite that, "voluntary slavery" is a bit of an oxymoron (who's doing the enslaving?).
It seems like you should be able to make the call on what people should expect wrt your responsiveness.

I definitely know for most of my friends how they are responsive in what situation and I'm fine with their different rules. I expect them the same for me. Never told them but I have not had issues so far.

Just answer however you feel like doing this and people will have no choice to catch up anyway. It's probably fine to take hours or even wait the next day to answer a text. If someone asks you can tell them. If you feel pressure from message (notifications) to answer, that's probably something you can learn to manage and let go.

I know few people who actually expect others to be able to answer fast any time. I'm quite responsive myself usually but I fully expect most of my friends to answer in a few hours or even the next day, and if they answer fast, that's neat but not expected. Some friends take days to answer, I adapt. If they miss something, their loss at the end, but usually I think they see the message quite fast so that does not happen. If I propose something to a friend who usually answers the last minute and something else come up, I consider I can cancel with this last minute friend so I don't let their rules eat me neither.

Don't let the phone or the computer control you. That should be the reverse. If you are spending time with someone or watching a movie, just don't check out your phone. Put it away. It's going to be fine. If anything urgent happens they will call. Tell them if it's not clear for them. I do not answer non urgent stuff when I'm actually with other people in real life. They have priority. That allows me to enjoy and focus on them better. Messaging stays asynchronous and that's how it's designed.
Life is so enjoyable this way.
Extreme Fast Delivery Without Creating Tech Debt: An Agile Case-Study
Better infrastructure (so that people don’t have trouble getting to grocery stores)? Better education (e.g. pay teachers more so public schools can attract knowledgeable people instead mostly people who can’t find other jobs)? There are many nice things you can fund, but very few of us want to pay more from our own pockets, either directly in taxes or indirectly in inflation.
It is sad, because the hierarchy is not solving that problem, instead the problem is moving down the hierarchy.
> shows up everywhere in nature

Shows up "everywhere", not exclusively. For that matter, also Erlang distributions are occurring models.