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Prof Wirth was a major inspiration for me as a kid. I eagerly read his book on Pascal, at the time not appreciating how unusual it was for its elegance and simplicity. I also followed with interest his development of the Oberon language and Lilith workstation. When I was 13, he gave a talk not too far away, I think it might have been Johns Hopkins, and my dad took me to it. It was a wonderful experience, he was very kind and encouraging, as I think the linked photo[1] shows.

[1]: https://mastodon.online/@raph/111693863925852135
It's relatively common to have pen testers attack a cloned environment w/ sanitized data. This is especially true in cases where your policies (or those you've agreed to from customers) require you to present evidence that you are having a pen test done every X years.
200 years ago 98% of humans were farmers and lived either on the farm or in a small village in walking distance of the farm. Todays cities are nothing like how people lived before modern days. If you were a substance farmer (as was your best case) you had about 5 acres of land - about what you get in the exurbs (though a modern exurb house is a lot bigger/nicer). If you were a slave (not unlikely) you lived in a very crowed boarding house with the other slaves on more land. Sure ancient Rome had 1 million people, but that was not the norm and even then most people were farmers in little villages not living in the city.
A lot of people are out there farming for the subsidies, however.

I dont know whether ethanol or oil extraction is worse for the environment, but solar panels instead of corn for ethanol seems like a huge win.
Every time you drive, you use gas
Library author here.

I didn't fork anything.

And your link just pr0n'd me in a coffee shop.

Thank you.
My sense is that storage server prices have had to come down to compete with both cloud (like S3 archival tiers) and roll-your-own solutions. The former are relatively recent and the latter have become more feasible as companies—Backblaze among them—have open sourced well-engineered designs. Storage server margin used to be insane, over 80% after COGS back in the 00s and only slightly less last decade, and there's still room to compete.
This was brought up in one of the previous discussion on HN [1], and people found out that indeed this project seem to have copied the original coreutils. There were some name of variables/constants taken from the original code [2]. Also, I am not implying that they are violating copyright (as someone else said, not doing a clean-room implementation does not necessarily imply violating the original license). However, I find it very sad that they replaced the license and are effectively damaging the GNU project. (It is also a bit sad to see your comment, which expresses a perfectly valid concern, down-voted).

I wonder what is the official position of the GNU project about this though.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26398251

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26398538
And Bezos was a finance bro at DE Shaw. Are you expecting corporate CEOs to come from a monastery?
Nice, yep it’s working well now for me on iOS, i added it via chrome, can see the new icon and it’s searchable among my apps.
Well, I would say that if your population is twice as big as that of another country, any per capita goal is naturally much harder to achieve.
Driving and parking my car in a place that was designed in a world where not every household had 2+ cars to drive and park is annoying!

To fix this we should bulldoze things and build more room for my car!

I have to be able to park my car! What else could I possibly do instead?!
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As an old-school web guy, I am kinda astonished at some of the new React-only devs I run into. I'm the dumbest programmer in the world and these guys can run circles around me when it comes to anything webapp. But then sometimes they get lost with the most seemingly basic HTML or CSS related question.

It's like watching someone masterfully use an excavator, but then seeing them use that same excavator to hang an Ikea picture frame on a wall because they don't know how to use a hammer.
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Wait how are all the flaws in the paper and all the failed reproductions of LK-99 and all the signs that LK-99 is just diamagnetism compatible with LK-99 being a proper superconductor?
Imagine the heating bill.
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They reciently released this image of these new V2 mini satellites. Quite the fascinating array!

https://twitter.com/MarcusHouse/status/1738839709508571291
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For a smaller company, [A]GPL would provide only upsides, especially in terms of protections against freeloaders, and that's why companies are using it.
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Hey, could you please edit out swipes and/or name-calling from your HN posts? This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Your comment would be just fine without the (first clause of the) second sentence.
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I can confirm I got my last job via the CTO reaching out to me on work at a startup.
Relevant excerpt of Dijkstra's own account (from EWD1308 [1]):

Finally a short story for the record. In 1968, the Communications of the ACM published a text of mine under the title "The goto statement considered harmful", which in later years would be most frequently referenced, regrettably, however, often by authors who had seen no more of it than its title, which became a cornerstone of my fame by becoming a template: we would see all sorts of articles under the title "X considered harmful" for almost any X, including one titled "Dijkstra considered harmful". But what had happened? I had submitted a paper under the title "A case against the goto statement", which, in order to speed up its publication, the editor had changed into a "letter to the Editor", and in the process he had given it a new title of his own invention! The editor was Niklaus Wirth.

[1] Transcription - https://www.cs.utexas.edu/%7EEWD/transcriptions/EWD13xx/EWD1...
PDF - https://www.cs.utexas.edu/%7EEWD/ewd13xx/EWD1308.PDF
I think Elon Musk is a very rich guy who's easily persuadable with the argument "Wouldn't it be super cool if...?"

This works well for him when the people trying to persuade him are engineers, accountants, and other professionals that have an idea that could benefit from having a lot of money thrown at it.

It doesn't work as well when he gets surrounded by people caught up in his cult of personality that are no longer trying to persuade him, but rather following his visions. And it certainly doesn't go well for him when he's trying to impress his various social media followers.
Not telling anyone you know is probably smart. _If_ you write outside of the genre your friends group usually reads and a bunch of them visit and buy your book out of curiosity on Amazon, it can negatively impact the categorization of your books.

"oh these people who usually read historical fiction are buying this new medical thriller. We will show this medical thriller to other people with the same buying habits!"

Only readers of historical fiction who aren't your friends probably won't bother picking up a medical thriller.

Regarding reviews, this is why many authors build ARC teams. Reviews are really important, so they send out advance review copies.
No shit, go see a decent therapist. This is literally the core of what they do as a profession. If they aren't helpful, just want to babble about the weather for 45 minutes, whatever, find a different one. PhD > Masters but I've met bad PhDs and good masters clinicians.

Also, if you're struggling with getting things done because you're always dopamine seeking, get checked for ADHD. There are some extremely effective treatments that can make your life way easier if that turns out to be the problem.
I mean are they popular as actual web apps? I don't know anyone who uses them like that. And I myself do use web apps on my phone.
Folks interested in this should absolutely look at the open source Cling project, which uses Clang/LLVM to JIT compile C++ in-process. https://github.com/root-project/cling

I'm using Cling, as part of jank, a native Clojure dialect on LLVM, with C++ interop. This allows me to have truly interactive, dynamic programming, while still reaching into native code. jank source compiles to C++, which is then JIT compiled by Cling. In recent benchmarks, it can be several times faster than Clojure JVM. https://jank-lang.org/
The problem with public transport is it serves too many masters. Is it a system to allow the disabled to get around? Is it a system to enable everyone in town to get around? Is it a commuting system? Should it be subsidized or revenue neutral? Trying to solve all these problems makes the public transport systems not work for any of them well.
krapp here sounds exactly like a Catholic Pope in the 16th century.

"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it," indeed.
> disseminating knowledge as early and often as possible.

"lie early, lie often", I mean, we have knowledge to disseminate. Whether it's true or not? Who cares, Gotta get grants for our department!
I have using Debian testing, since half year, as my daily driver and to play games without any issues.
Or just legalize 'neglect' (aka letting school age children be latchkey again without someone constantly lording over them).

This bizarre and historically unprecedented scenario where parents simultaneously must both work but be prosecuted for doing so will likely be a blip in history.
Or you can recommend content related to what's on the page. Same way TV & other traditional ads tend to work, since they can't track users.
Yeah, Princeton seems to have a record of choosing more academically accomplished faculty to serve as president. My point is that that's not really typical.
No, FreeBSD can very much benefit from GPL code. The choose not to use it.
Also, there are many things that I can judge to be good or bad, but that doesn't mean I can produce high quality examples myself. And getting high quality work from others isn't cheap, so it might be out of reach for self-published authors. Even if they know that the cover art isn't good, they might still use it, if they can't do better themselves and can't afford to hire someone who would do better.
If by "we" you mean the 1% of bankers and corporate executives who are the primary beneficiaries of drastically increased profit margins from outsourcing production to countries with no labor or environmental protections, then yes "we" did it for profit.

But if by "we" you mean the large portion of the US middle class whose financial security and upward mobility was obliterated, then no "we" did not do it for profit and were extremely generous, sacrificial even, in lifting hundreds of millions of Chinese out of poverty when the CCP was unable to do that on their own.

It's not like this is any surprise, Ross Perot was even explicitly warning about it back in 1992: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3LvZAZ-HV4
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I think we should encourage healthier social media practices. Forcing people feels more like a band-aid rather than a proper fix.

I don't think the problem is social media, I think the problem is people honestly.
> ... his 80th birthday symposium at ETH where he showed off his new port of Oberon to a homebrew CPU running on a random FPGA dev board with USB peripherals.

This was a fantastic talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXY78gPMvl0
I was not that cynical before, but I live in a town where any encounter outside my friends makes me grind my teeth. Taxi driver tells me how covid is fake and all (sic) doctors are there to kill you, not help you.
Doctor tells me how I need to believe in god and I will be cured.
My mum believes in all kind of stupid stuff: astrology, fake science and totally fake history.

Even my close friend speaks about cosmic energies and healthy sound vibrations that channel meridians (the only exception I have among my friends).

I can't handle this shit anymore and I am loosing faith in humanity.
Street parking should have a price attached to it in my opinion. It is a public resource that should be charged for use everywhere, including out in front of your suburban home. We push these prices on everyone when it should be the people using them that pay.
this may be true but is also a "gravity always wins" sort of statement. Some legal venues have "sunshine rules" to mitigate and dampen the inevitable. I have seen exactly as you say, and on different councils, quite a lot of involvement.
This is an interesting move. Almost like pay-to-play, but possibly actually beneficial, since contributing to the code base both helps the app, and helps the developer by having that on their CV.
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That makes managing a user's application specific data difficult though. For one you have different user's data intermingling which potentially causes new problems. But on top of that you make managing and backing up that data more difficult. As it works now with appdata you can back up a user's profile folder under C:\users and get everything they have assuming they haven't gone out of their way to save data to a strange place. If all data for an app lived in program files then backing up and restoring that data becomes much harder.
Somehow this wasn't an issue when it was everybody switching from compact hatchbacks to SUVs and pickups, which is a similar weight increase as going from an ICE to EV sedan. (In practice, what happened is that nobody bothered to pay for the increase in road maintenance and we just live with poorly maintained roads now.)
please let that be the summary, I tried to read it and didn't get far.
No chvt on OpenBSD ;)
Not only is 250 K achievable by dry ice; it's achievable with a normal home freezer!
Contract work is a good option for when you have any kind of black mark that recruiters are going to skip over you for.

I see a lot of people who got laid off / fired who ended up with the dreaded "Resume Gap", and it's very common to spin up your own consulting/contracting firm. That way - you can claim you were self-employed, and there's no obvious resume gap.

I'm sure it doesn't fool all the recruiters, but it's got to fool a lot of them who are lazy and suck at recruiting.
On the chance they were meaning to reply to me, no, I don't think a Zipcar is going to help me carry sheets of plywood or other similar large items. However, I'm not familiar with Zipcar, so I just took a look. Near me, there's a Kia Soul or a Toyota Prius. Nope, neither of those helpful for my needs. I'll continue with the "hey buddy...got another sixer-request", although, some requests become cases.
Very fair rebuttal; I concede the point!
Not OP, but I’ll take a stab.

> funny because it happened to a scientist that invented a tool.

..for transferring fluids.

I don’t think much of Freudian psychology as a whole, but he’s got a relevant quote that is pretty good on Gallows humor, from Der Humor 1927:

> "The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected by the traumas of the external world; it shows, in fact, that such traumas are no more than occasions for it to gain pleasure."

The comedy, in this light, is a result of the dissonance that someone smart and savvy enough to invent an extremely useful tool for moving liquids died in a large body of liquids not long after said invention.

My guess is that people who find the humor here relate more to the drowning scientist directly. Dying from drowning in an Alpine lake, or just drowning, isn’t that common of a risk, but if it is a risk you are familiar with you’re more likely to find the humor.

At least thats the case for me.
>The primary function of state funded K-12 is childcare to enable two parents to work.

That's the PRIMARY function, eh?
Yeah, no.

My wife has some similar autoimmune issues (thankfully less severe than GP), and these have stumped the best doctors in the world that we can find. The trips to Minnesota were to go to Mayo Clinic in Rochester for these issues.

Yes it is a burden and impact on quality of life, and No, there is no good solution yet. I wish there would be, but it's not there.

And yes, the food supply is poisoned by these monoculture and industrial food practices. While most of us are not poisoned to this degree, all of us are some. We started a garden and my diet has definitely changed, and I notice all kinds of subtle improvements. So, avoiding any kind of processed food, almost anything with a long artificial shelf life (this means using really good olive oil and no shelf mayonnaise or oils found in most products; Omega-3 vs -6), will be to your long-term benefit, and you'll feel better.
Most people dont drive these cars on tracks. They drive them in cities and motorways, which in Europe force you to drive the same way you’d drive a Corolla. It’s not just mechanics that lack. Plastics come off and have nothing to do with track driving. The spyder or the 981 equally suffer from roofs and door panels simply ungluing. Mechanics are as bad as the Cayenne’s engine blows up just by looking at it. All in all the myth is gone, these cars are not what used to be. Well the porschea boxster and cayman were infamous for ims issues, oil leaks, and various other non essential mechanics failing. Marketing is one thing, real life is another.
Thank the Lord, whoever is doing this- City Council meetings here are hardly beacons of transparency as it is
You can reliably get a young kid to come home by themselves.
You can't reliably get a young kid to go to school by themselves.
Well, there's some curses wizard called "archinstall", but yeah, I too opted for just the Garuda flavour of Arch when I chose to go non-VoidLinux (ie. when failing to get a new machine with nvidia drivered up swiftly and just-works-ly) rather than any console-driven setup.
This would be a difficult to believe coincidence if diamagnetism and superconductivity were unrelated physical properties, but they are not.
I still don't understand why just going to bed earlier is a difficult concept to grasp.
> Is there really any doubt that if we cover massive swaths of land in solar panels the soil will become useless?

To me it is obvious that the soil under solar panels will be extremely healthy and useful, which is evidenced by the abundance of growth underneath all the solar farms in Minnesota fields. But perhaps you think the answer is the other way? Where have you seen only mud under solar panels? How did they build them such that nothing grows? And mud is far far better than current monocrop farming.
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Assuming bad faith is somewhat ironic and kind of a crummy way to interact online. Do you not think it's conceivable that someone could possibly think this is a bad idea honestly?
The faculty and entire student body of Harvard are more qualified to be president of Harvard than Claudine Gay.

The only reasonable conclusion is she was hired solely for her skin color, which is both discriminatory and racist of Harvard in the first place.
When providing a huge list of technologies, structure them somehow. Alphabetically ordered, for example - I shouldn't have to Ctrl-F to find my preferred programming language.

Great idea, just needs some UX love.
Yes: the guidelines of Hacker News promote civility, good faith, and logical argument, which drastically reduces the amount of trolling, flaming, and general vitriol.

Without moderation, forums quickly become unusable. If you disagreed, you'd be on 4chan, not Hacker News.

So I think you recognize the utility of at least some level of content moderation, which is a specific type of speech restriction.
You're definitely doing the fun stuff, good luck with it.
Why even comment this?

It adds nothing but confusion to the conversation.
It still feels a bit off. I expect an expensive car to have expensive repairs. When looking at the cost of a repair I would perhaps consider the cost as a proportion of the MSRP, or resale value, not the raw cost.
There is this study where they let people sit alone in a room with the option to shock themselves. Many shocked themselves. I thinks it’s this one [0].

[0]: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1250830
The better one would probably be “Eye on your shoes”
Fun premise! I will note that the dictionary is not as complete as I might hope—it didn’t recognize “tasers,” and there was one other word it rejected that I thought it would get (forgot what it was though). Still, a fun game!
How is he not living? What would he need to do to really live? Go get drunk at a bar? Stay up until 3am playing video games?
But, if docker is running on WASM-WASI like it is here, maybe it's possible to do a full build toolchain as well?
Just curious how felony assault is not a physical violence offense. I understand there could be differences in state laws, but most felony assault charges require use of force wither resulting in an injury or involving a weapon.
Have you raised a teen?
that makes sense, I am also curious how this all translates to teslas with Yolk wheels where you don't reposition on the wheel (like pictured in the article)
I should have said zenith, not poles. The issues occur when the device is pointed up at the sky or down at the ground.
Edit: Though I would imagine it won't work too well at the poles either!
I am not seeing the connection to the Dutch Disease as described in Wikipedia:

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

My point was businesses compete with each other, and money is one of the tools used to compete.

And growth rate and profit margins are not the same.