skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Turbo Pascal/Delphi/Free Pascal evolved since Pascal, and cover quite a bit of the feature set of Oberon, as far as I can tell.

The main improvement I see is the implied handling of multiple statements in an if-then-else-end. It seems like it would eliminate a lot of begin/end pairs, so I like it.

Wirth's decision to revert to Case sensitivity was a bad one.

With the exception of replacing "Uses" with "Import", it looks identical to Free Pascal/Delphi.
When I started 10 years earlier just being able to get paid to program was amazing. My first job in 2001 was for minimum wage. I wonder how many developers exist who wouldn't if pay wasn't so high.
Aircraft are pressurized to 8k feet above sea level. Denver is only 5k. La Paz, specifically, sure. It’s a lot less broadly useful than your original language made it sound.
> Can't every possible property we can conceive of a subset be constructed in a similar fashion such that the superset contains at least the same number of elements and never less?

What do you mean? A superset always contains at least the same number of elements as a subset, by definition. A superset generally has fewer or at least weaker properties; "colour is one of A, B or C" is a weaker property than "colour is A", and there's no real difference between that and saying the superset doesn't have the property at all (I could say "my subset consists of shiny marbles; my subset has the property that they're shiny and my superset does not have that property", or I could say "my subset has the property that shininess is true, and my superset has the property that shininess is true or false", and there isn't really any difference once you get down to the set-theoretic level - a property is just a boolean-valued function). The only superset that has exactly the same properties as the set itself is the set itself (since "is a member of the subset" is a valid property).
Fell due to weak guidance for next quarter.
For those who don't know (I didn't), D. B. Cooper is a 1971 hijacker who skydived out the back of a 727 with a $200,000 ransom and was never found.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper
It doesn't encapsulate the abstract goal you're trying to achieve, which might be value to the user. Heroin has many active users, but some might argue that heroin doesn't maximize value/usefulness for the user over the long run.
I am referring to the Fairtax mentioned in the article. We could design many other less bad systems, but they're not on offer at the moment.
The malformed [anything] to run unsigned code is an age old bug archetype. This is the obvious result of web browsers providing OS-level API access to JavaScript web pages.
I'd be very careful around anything that has to do with Tolkien. The Tolkien Estate are a very litigious bunch:

https://www.tolkienestate.com/frequently-asked-questions-and...
Nobody said anything about being triggered.
I tend to download PDFs for an physical book I buy, but I’d like a hybrid approach. Ctrl-F is perfect for finding excerpts when you have a specific wording, but not great for finding something worded differently or something in a section you have not read yet. AI could step in for those and not only give specific references from the book (or it’s own referenced material) but could also give the text in full.

“AI, what does this book say about integrity?”

“(answer), based on paragraphs on page 143 and page 210”

“Show me those paragraphs inline, starting with the paragraph where the author transitions in to the topic”
Ask HN: How do Sales Engineers evolve their careers?
Sales Engineers are the people that keep product reality close to the sales pitch for a customer's benefit. But (especially in Enterprise B2B) they're not coders, and they're not product managers, and they are not quite salesperson "enough" to qualify for evolving to any of those career positions.

How do you evolve SEs in your org?
The hardware supports it, but Apple only supports it on iPhone 6 and newer. So, the short answer is no.
What takes?
I have seen teams spending most of their time on working on the highest priority (by a single measure) and not spending any time on overall delivery efficiency.

So having a balanced prioritisation approach would seem to be pretty important.
> if you don't understand proof in 10 years, you will be out of a job as a programmer.

No, that's not gonna happen. Can you write a proof of an order for you go to go a fresh market to buy ingredient of a menu I want to cook? "Hey, go buy ingredients for my noodle menu whose result is my taste"
Actually they're about the financial class trying to protect the value of their wealth by pressuring the companies they own to contain salaries, in order to curb inflation.
Taxes change every few months? Anyways, yes, I expect them to reprint them if the price changes as well, which actually is liable to happen somewhat often. If you’re worried about paper waste, they make lcd labels too, which can be reprogrammed on the fly, so you can’t even make the “reprint” argument. It’s really and truly not an unsolved problem.
I love the fact that TFA essentially re-created the functionality of an oscilloscope. Except, much more interesting to look at, and clearly shows an understanding of FFT math that I sometimes think I understand but then read stuff like this and remember I don't really.

Here's an example of using the O'scope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19jv0HM92kw
There has to be some weighing for if/how they are actually used in the wild. For example, metamates is objectively horrible, but I'm not sure anyone actually uses it. Xoogler, noogler objectively are neutral, but end up sounding super douchy because of how often they get thrown around by actual google people

Also, domosapien https://www.domo.com/company
If the company is collecting the tax they owe it after the sale.

Yes it's a tax on consumption/commerce. There's no point saying it's paid by the buyer as there's no transaction without the seller either, and if there were no tax the seller were able to raise prices. (And likely the new market equilibrium would be somewhere between the two extremes, so it means both parties pay it actually.)

And as others mentioned in many places the law says the receipt has to show the applied tax, so it's absolutely not hidden.
The old dredged up Anandtech article is referring to the price of 3.5" disks, but the 360 used something smaller, probably 2.5". An off-the-shelf laptop drive would've been a bit more expensive and a bit more comparable to the $99 that Microsoft was charging.
It's not a useful/interesting to just say "you're privileged, stop having thoughts/opinions".

We'd quickly just shut down all conversation ever because none of us are 8 year old british chimney sweeps covered in soot. In which case, how is the world a better place?

We can acknowledge that there's a lens where some people have privileges ("privileged isn't a binary state") and then still have a discussion about what happened.
Amicus briefs aren’t worth diddly when they’re factually incorrect.

The judge also did not suggest Apple was on the road to monopoly. She correctly pointed out one anticompetitive practice and forced Apple to change that policy. Which they have.
Agreed. However, in the detractors' defense, self-driving cars were hyped beyond all reason by people like Musk, so it's easy to justify some very vocal pushback.

GPT wasn't hyped much at all, in comparison. It just appeared. The next couple of iterations will be interesting to watch, since right now we don't really know what the rate of improvement is going to be. We might be fighting Skynet next year, or we might be in for another 50-year-long AI winter.
Any time GERD comes up diet is one of the very first things people are told about (by doctors) to reduce symptoms.
Where's the airtight data for all the miracles and portents that are similarly said to have been performed by Western spiritual figures? These pro-West double standards and systemic biases are getting quite tiresome.
They MUST. Otherwise, how do they know how much to charge you at the register?
Well let the other 40% out and then we can start looking at the 60%.

This kind of thinking makes no sense in a world where prison sentences are finite. If you think being arrested for a “violent” offense means you are such a danger to others you have to be physically separated from society then you might as well make all prison sentences for life.

“But people can reform” — Great then let them out the moment that happens. Get rid of minimum sentencing.

The thing I care about when it comes to “violent” offenses isn’t what they did but why. If I had an oracle that could see into their soul and know with certainty they would never reoffend I wouldn’t even bother locking them up at all. And if their offense was situational I want to see that corrected first. For $100k/yr we can be a lot more creative about setting people up for success. That kind of money is at the level of send them off to college or trade school, full time caretaker, the very best psych care, rehab, full-on relocation, or pulling them entirely out of poverty.

Prison being the place where people with issues society has decided we don’t want to deal with is heartbreaking. If we have any other option we should take it.
Ha! I just retired my Mom's 5S and got her an S22 for Christmas. And a pre-paid plan too the phone company was consonantly sending texts suggesting she change to monthly.

That thing was a tank it was OK until about a year ago then the battery got noticeably worse. Not bad for someone who always let it die all the time always charge only when 0%. She almost always used it just for voice calls a few texts no web (no data plan).

No OS updates for a while too. So it was risky I thought to keep it going. Android is much easier to deal with. Although the ringtones and notifications are all different she has to now learn after almost 10 years of iPhone to new sounds by Samsung.
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If you're upset that you spend your days fighting rats and not making insane money, I think you should target your anger at your boss who keeps you in that situation, rather than at other workers who have it better than you.
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Are you looking forward to Android’s lack of security updates in, say, 18 months?
There was a conversation about this in a previous HN AI post. Short version: it’s going to be a game changer.
How much does it cost to store 1Gb and how many users does that cover? What is the markup?
And hanging: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Singapor...
> Most places in the US, the local tax is the same statewide.

Didn't quite pass my seasonally congested anecdotal sniff test. Turns out[1]:

- 74% (37 states) vary depending on a local rate
- 18% (9 states) are fixed at a state level
- 8% (4 states) don't have sales tax

> Not in Ohio, where it can vary by township, sometimes across invisible boundaries.

Ohio isn't really exceptional in this regard; a few examples that come to mind:

- San Francisco = 8.625% v. South San Francisco = 9.875% v. Oakland = 10.25%
- Julington Creek Plantation (FL) = 7.5% v. Fruit Cove (FL) = 6.5%

[1] https://www.sale-tax.com/
> What's shocking is Sony knew this from the PS2 era and gave it up!
This applies to the whole early XBox story. Microsoft learns the right lessons... Sony learns the wrong ones.

XBox vs PS2: XBox was faster, but PS2 launched earlier, was cheaper, and had more games, so won the generation.

XBox 360 vs PS3: Sony reacts to Microsoft by making the PS3 more powerful than the 360 and more expensive. Microsoft reacts by getting more games and really doubling down on Halo (the biggest draw to XBox back then). XBox wins the generation.

Note: this is from memory, didn't check sources!
Great point and examples!
There is no exception. Don't fool yourself. Nor should you fool yourself into thinking this means management is inferior/inept. Or that it is sales.

The reality is dumb people do not have a monopoly on dumb things. Nor smart on smart things. Timing and circumstance are impossible to separate from any situation. Are lucky people also skilled at taking the correct risks? Almost certainly. Is this a learned thing? I'm not sure.

My gut is it is learnable. But not if others are learning the same thing. What makes a smart choice is influenced by what everyone else is doing.
I would love to agree with you, were it not for this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34504752

https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgybq7/apple-macbook-activat...
Inside the casing, it did use a 2.5" drive.
Here's my wager: the informed will of the people would never pass laws that violate fundamental properties of liberty and equality. Thus, any law that violates them is necessarily undemocratic, because it would go contrary to the informed will of the people.

Emphasis on informed. I wouldn't trust a surprise referendum. I would trust a process where we first gather a congress of 300 randos, let them reflect on the issue for a few weeks or months, then let them explain their conclusions and decisions on national television for a couple weeks, and then do the referendum.

I mean, if this process actually results in laws that violate the fundamental principles we might as well just give up and let the world burn.
"It works surprisingly well!"

This statement demands quantification and exposition.
Sometimes I hit my rowing machine really hard to try beat a previous record, so hard that I really feel like I've "cooked myself", I feel like I need to breathe to the point where I have to remove my ear buds to get more air or else it kind of feels like I could suffocate :) It's a brutal machine. I'm now fitter and rarely get that "gassed" even when I push myself.

It's such hard work that I decided to stop drinking for a year to make it more tolerable to exercise with the rowing machine.

One of my friends tried to beat my time on the rower and was so sore for 3 nights, he had nightmares about the rower ha.

Anyway, it obviously made me question should I be doing more for my body, including breathing exercises, but what this kind of thing also makes me really think about is how stupid air pollution is. What it would feel like not to have access to fresh clean air and how bad it would be to be suffocating. What a privilege it is to be able to breathe and it makes me feel like I want to go plant trees.

Has anyone else had similar thoughts during exercise / breathe training? If anything I think it's good to become aware of the breathe and air for this reason alone, it would make the world a better place.
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What is with this thread? Why is a job being called a privilege? Are we completely discounting hard work and merit. Its not like people are inheriting jobs at Google.

If working at Google such a privilege and is the goal, work towards it. Like so many other people did, take up a student loans and put yourself through school, build your resume, take up projects, internships, work experience etc. Prep for interviews, what ever it takes. Then you can take the job and enjoy the "spoils", what ever those are.

One can't just decide not to put in the work and then look at the guy who did and say... privileged.
> On the other hand, I always thought things like anarchist cookbook and erowid type stuff is great for knowledge sharing.

I recently watched YouTube channel where a guy made phenethylamine from bitter almond oil (benzaldehyde) via the P2NP route. other videos featured anthranilic acid, steam distillation of sassafras, and GBL.

I'm astounded he hasn't been banned or raided, but it was massively cool seeing him run these synths in the middle of some forest.
What happens on page 67?

> On page 67, Billy and his father are discussing their plan to buy two pups from the coon hunter. Billy's father tells him that they will have to save up for the pups and that it will take some time. He also tells Billy that he must be patient and that he must work hard.

What happens on page 6.7x10^9?

> On page 6.7x10^9 of Where the Red Fern Grows, Billy and his family are preparing for a trip to visit the grave of Old Dan and Little Ann. Billy is sad but excited to be able to pay his respects to his beloved hounds. He remembers the time he spent with them and the adventures they shared. He also remembers the day they died and the grief he felt. He is determined to honor their memory and make sure they are never forgotten.

What happens on page 6.7x10^-5?

> On page 6.7x10^-5, Billy and his family are discussing his plan to buy two pups from the coon hunter, Old Dan. Billy's father is worried about the cost of the pups, but Billy's mother insists that he should be allowed to have them. Billy's grandmother also encourages him to get the pups, saying that she will help him pay for them.

What happens on the pages I tore out?

> The pages that you tore out are the pages that describe the events of the last chapter. In the last chapter…
Samsung promises updates to the S22 for five years after introduction (which means until February 2027 assuming we're talking about the standard version introduced in the beginning of 2022 and not a later model).
> Octave's plotting support is pretty terrible.

Wait, what?

I switched all my plotting in my thesis (5 years ago) from matlab to octave precisely because matlab plots were terrible.

Are you thinking of octave v3 from 15 years ago when it relied on gnuplot by any chance?
You can look at the standardized tests (SAT, ACT) and their respective correlations to IQ tests. I'm not claiming that colleges give IQ tests themselves, just that they care a lot about other tests which are highly correlated.

There are many studies on the correlations here, and you should do your own survey of the literature if you are curious, not trust a cherry picked study posted by some guy on HN.
As someone who has built some of this functionality into a product, it's one of those things that seems a lot less involved than it is!
When I see this, I multiply the charge by 2 and deduct it from the tip paid to the server and add a note. I don't like surprise charges, and I feel that the restaurant should charge appropriately and transparently in order to pay its employees. It isn't my responsibility as a guest to pay for the food as well as the back and front of house staff separately.
All of that is available in M365 though, it’s just off because many large IT departments optimize for ticket volume as opposed to quality or security.
Cats don't do well with anaesthetic.
Big companies are all about politics, all the time, in my experience. Smart business/product decisions require many quarters, sometimes years, of discipline and commitment to pay off. Whereas a shorter term focus results in less headache, possible promotion, and guaranteed bonuses. If/when the company craters, you can just bail. The sign of a great executive is somebody who empowers their organization to think ahead of the next earnings report, and backs it up (and doesn't get fired themselves in the process). They're an endangered species.
would highly recommend https://hckrnews.com/ to make your experience even better.
Because WebKit is written in C so malformed anything has the ability to run arbitrary code. As far as I know there is no current work being done to fix this.

Google has been making significant efforts to replace insecure C components in Android with Rust though.
My favorite drip pricing technique is when you are asked for a tip while picking up carry-out pizza. Just ridiculous.
I guess the difference is that being an antivaxer can potentially harm society whereas trying a high fibre, probiotic rich diet can’t hurt anyone. And I completely understand the skepticism, which is why I couched my comment with “it may not work for everyone”.

> Did she at least tell the doctor "hey no worries my kid fixed it"? What did they say?

The answer is no: I told her not to tell her doctor under any circumstances that she got armchair advice from her “kid” that actually worked because if I was a doctor who went through 10 years of med school + training, I would definitely be rolling my eyes if some senior came in and told me this story.

The point is, I haven’t dropped any probiotic brand names, I’m not hawking anything, I don’t gain anything by posting my little anecdotal experience. I’m just happy that I found a solution to a problem that has been torturing someone I care about for 10-15 years and wanted to share it so that it might help others in the same situation.

Edit: to be clear, there were other things too that helped clear up her symptoms that I omitted because my post was getting too long and because out of everything, probiotics seemed to be the biggest gamechanger. For example: first few months she also took DGL (Deglycyrrhizinated Licorice, to promote mucus secretion) 15 minutes before every meal, followed by a digestive enzyme taken with the meal (she doesn’t actually need these anymore and only takes it as a precaution if the meal is particularly starchy or high protein). Cutting out LES relaxers like caffeine, mint and chocolate helped. Also lifestyle changes were made in terms of physical activity. She still needs to sleep at an incline on a wedge block, but at least she’s not vomiting all over the carpet anymore.
Back around when AT&T was first making noises about killing 3G and telling me I needed a new phone, I bought a T-Mobile prepaid SIM just to try it out. When I put the SIM in, the phone lit up like a Christmas tree with features that AT&T wouldn't allow (because it was a non-carrier phone). I since switched over and haven't looked back. Course it also helps that I've now got a T-Mobile tower on the same hill as my house, 1/4 mile away, and I live in a pretty rural area. So it's as if I have my own private tower. I regularly get 700-800mbps down on my phone at my house.
Even without compiler extensions the integration with the linker system is a huge strength of C
I suspect most people tip on the after-tax amount when they calculate it themselves. I get that you don’t. I also know people who tip on the non-alcohol amount. Personally, I have always tipped post-tax.

These are also low-margin businesses. A post-tax surcharge keeps your overall bill lower than if they had raised prices, which would also raise the tax amount. The high labor costs are going to be passed on to consumers regardless. The surcharge shorts the government (which most of us are probably fine with).
Supposedly they're planned to get 5 years of security patches: https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-sets-the-new-standar...
Someone should add (2020) to title and it was pretty old one.
Well said, and I see this happening all around me at <big corp>. Every project manager "needs" their feature front and center in the UI, and "needs" to educate the user on the fact that it exists! So you end up with annoying new feature bubbles pointing to the thing. And when it comes to measuring engagement, dismissing the feature bubble counts as a win!
I've left notes on my bill explaining to "management" why I'm not returning

It's likely much more effective explaining in a review why you're not returning.
And Apple already does feature updates for about 6 years on the iPhone. The new laws really only affect android which gets on average 2 years updates.
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You have any more info on who this person is and what they were convicted of?
> Yes WordPress is bad. I should use a static site generator with nearly free hosting anyways

I operate a few blogs running Bludit[0]. I do this since WP is highly complex. I like to keep it simple. But Wordpress is handy if you're a control freak and love to tinker.

Why do you want a read-only filesystem for WP? I have several WP installs running under XAMPP, and if I want to, I could have a hundred, or...a thousand for testing purposes.

[0] https://www.bludit.com/
Is “open source” a legal definition? I thought it was a concept that described specific licenses. I haven’t seen any technical or legal definitions for “open source” unless it’s a specific license, like GPL, MIT, etc.