jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The author says:
>> "They claim it's very easy to integrate Lua into your C application, because it does not use pointer, nor references counting, nor anything that requires a minimum amount of skills to be used."
And then immediately afterwards, says that keeping track of the stack is too difficult. It sounds like there is a minimum amount of skill required.

I've done huge projects using Lua as an embedded language and I really enjoyed the experience. I found the stack API easy to grasp, and the performance was outstanding. SWIG (swig.org) made wrapper generation a snap, and having Lua objects with access to the C++ data model allowed us to write test code that used introspection and reflection very naturally.

This article strikes me as a case of "This language isn't my favorite, so I don't think anyone should use it."
do they usually let them be President for a full term of four years with no consequence aside from relentless media assault?
Well, yeah, that's Apple's standard hardware upgrade cycle.

Breaking – iPhone 13 expected to get upgraded this year with upgraded chip, more features.
Definitely stainless. Unlike the rest of the chassis.

https://www.deloreanguide.com/new-posts/frame-rustquite-poss...
As always, the one true link is this:

https://nedbatchelder.com/text/unipain.html

Read, understand, and be glad that the interpreter isn't trying to "help" any more!
>I have asked the Iranian protestors to send us their videos, photos, and information documenting the regime’s crackdown on protestors. The U.S. will expose and sanction the abuses.

https://twitter.com/SecPompeo/status/1197659285704101891
When will people start going to prison for stuff like this?
It's steel. Weld them on.
Would anyone care about discussing some 'rule' with barely greater explanatory power than flipping a coin? People aren't going to adjust their thought patterns, in practice, for such an improvement.
I can't speak to "widely used" but it is "widely supported".

It's on the specs page for most HP and Brother networked printers, and probably most others.
100% this. Original evidence found was probably planted.
My 13 year old son can no longer play a large part of our Steam library because many of the games he enjoys are 32-bit only (Geometry Dash, for one) and we've upgraded to MacOS Catalina.

My old copy of Adobe Photoshop CS6 also cannot be installed because the installer is 32-bit, although there's reports if you had it installed before upgrading you can force it to run.

I can rollback my son's laptop, but I am on the new 16" MBP which ships with Catalina. Annoyed is putting it mildly.
Perhaps these articles in mainstream media outlets are informative to people who are not bitcoin holders, and don’t know much about it yet.
Your point is that everyone who buys or sells assets is implicitly amoral? That seems a bit extreme though you are not the first to say it. One wonders how you can escape such condemnation yourself. Everything is a marketplace in some sense.
>So why is bet sizing important? This is an often overlooked concept, but it is extremely important to prevent ruin (or losing all your money).

The Kelly optimal bet for many popular investments is over 100% (not that it's a good idea to invest like that). Understanding the KC often leads to less conservative investing, not more.
I think not investing in technology was a sort of inflection point for buffet. His mantra was to understand what he was investing in, and he didn't understand most tech markets. Tech markets got too big to sit out.

5 of the top 10 most profitable companies are technology companies. The rest are financial firms (BRK is actually the most profitable). Most of these tech companies' value is related to network effects, platform control and such. These are "moats" that WB doesn't understand.

So yeah... I think times overtook the man. The space he was operating in shrank. That said, BRK is still doing fine, well run, etc. They also impact the world in ways a vanguard or softbank don't.
Here's a real example from a project I worked on in my homebrew ECS framework and later implemented in Godot: a guided missile.

In the ECS project the notion of 'thing that can run into other things and do damage' so totally separate from the notion of 'thing that is driven around by AI.' So adding guidance to an existing projectile wasn't too much of a pain. In the Godot project I'm dealing with networking as well, so the division is between fire-and-forget projectiles (derived from Bullet) which know about hitting things and doing damage, and AI driven Ships with AI or player driven movement which needs to be synced over the Network. In that case I had to copypasta the AI driven movement code into a 'guided' class under Bullet. That said, for almost every other task, Godot's composition first model has been way easier to work with, especially because it lets you test elements in isolation. Here are the two projects if you'd like to compare the code:

Homebrew ECS framework on top of the babylonjs engine: https://github.com/EamonnMR/Flythrough.Space

Godot with networking:
https://github.com/EamonnMR/mpevmvp
The article says the "former CEO" said that, not the current CEO.
That's cool, I didn't know that. I've found the presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3aieHjyNvw
In the UK, I get a little frustrated there is such a focus on an individual's income rather than a family's income - if you consider the tax paid by a pair of working parents each earning £50k vs a family where 1 person earns 100k and the other does not work, the pair earning £50k each are much better off. (Child tax credits are removed gradually as the higher earner exceeds £50k, as well as the tax bands meaning someone on £100k pays more tax proportionally than someone on £50k.)
Its the aggregation of information for no purpose. Plenty of info in "doxs" is public, doesn't make it any more seedy to do it.
Completely agree, somewhat typical Economist article, not bad, but nothing spectacular either.
This is a perfect opportunity to plug this book, on the reverse problem:

"Streetwise: How Taxi Drivers Establish Customer's Trustworthiness"

http://www.amazon.com/Streetwise-Establish-Customers-Trustwo...
I wonder if there is a huge hidden accumulation of unpaid property taxes the buyer would be on the hook for.
And possibly worse, I wonder if robberies of other places than convenience stores increased. The interesting number is whether overall crime decreased or not.
Libraries offer e-books, https://www.overdrive.com/
Sorry, what has that to do with helplessness? The claim was that the influence of iOS makes OSX less able to help themselves.
This.

There is no way to socially untangle yourself from Whatsapp in the Netherlands, unless one wishes to live as the modern version of a hermit.
Take a look at the examples first. Then choose a region (simple/detailed world, Europe or USA) and fill it with the colors and descriptions of your choice by following three easy steps. You can then save the map you created in PNG format.

Feedback/suggestions are welcome !
It's probably a function of to whom a one man band can effectively market. Consumers don't buy SaaS and a single person couldn't afford a consumer level brand ad campaign anyway. Big companies mean big company sales cycles and demands - procurement departments, compliance etc. Other SaaS companies are easier to find in places like HN, and they're maybe more predisposed towards buying from lone hackers like this one.
Seems doubtful. I thought that way too in the '90s but what happened was that anything that was a common enough use case got moved into dedicated hardware (GPU, cryptographic acceleration instructions in the CPU) and anything uncommon is too hard for the average developer to write the Verilog/VHDL to implement.
Sort of, journeys in the other direction are pushed even further north (or, actually north of the straight line) though which I believe is because of the winds. - i.e. it's a factor, isn't it?
I just want to say thank you for making this game. That's how I first learned Vim and I have been using it ever since.
> the "Cupertino Grand Unified Vision" usually syncs up better with the needs and desires or the general population
Well, hackers are hardly "the general population".

I think a meaningful comparison would be to the situation of home computers (C64, CPC, later Amiga and Atari) and consoles (NES, later SNES). If you wanted to play games, consoles offered a much better experience. In contrast, home computers could be programmed using BASIC and Assembler (and, somewhat later, C), which made them much more appealing for people who wanted to explore the possibilities for themselves.

If the general population is able to feel in control of their equipment without opening a shell on it and exploring what's in there, or being able to scratch little itches they have, that's totally fine with me.
> I'm not convinced that there is a moral ordering or ways to be happy, as long as the criteria are constrained to internal ones ...

This is an interesting and debatable matter. I'm probably not really convinced too :)

> I don't agree that hardship and/or grief are required for great achievements.

Neither do I, but I don't seem to have implied it.
Please do anyway. I'm sure he'd be gratified to know others outside the US are paying attention, care, and appreciate it. I would.
For the past 10 years you could have kept your money in a savings account or Bitcoin. One of those has been decimated by a fiat printing press, the other has been a great investment.

Bitcoin has already changed humanity for the better and it's only getting started.
If people can print money, they will.
This comment has a negative tone, but this doesn't seem to me to be a tragedy. Acquiring talent and putting them on the bench to stave off would-be competitors stifles innovation (re: Palihapitiya's criticism of Google). Acquiring talent and putting them to use on projects that achieve more scale and impact, sooner, than could happen at a small company -- that seems like innovation and the free market market at its best.

It's not like these people had their work stolen -- they were compensated!! Presumably quite well.
>Every new major release of OS X is a day or week spent disabling things

To be fair, I'm a .NET dev who has to do this in most Windows releases as well. It's a part of the customization of the OS. They don't tailor it to devs, they tailor it to normal users.
Blame Oracle for Java 7 not working on older OS releases.

Apple stopped maintaining Java at version 6.
> I disagree that releasing an exploit is, per-se, not interesting.

That isn't what I said, I believe my original point stands on its own. Please don't put words in my mouth, you don't know me that well :)

> There are many kind of vulnerabilities, and some exploits are very complicated to write.

The most complicated exploit that I can think of would require you to put the target system in "some state" before sending the triggering payload. In the most-most complicated situations, where you can't "just replay bytes" to get it into the state (dynamic handshake - think heartbleed) you just use a library to do the initialization (or whatever) for you and then use the raw socket from the lib to send the payload.

That isn't very complicated, but perhaps I'm limited by my imagination.

> ready-to-use exploits

I invited you to show a ready to use exploit on the Project Zero blog. Is there one, and I missed it?

> probably being illegal because of their non-independent position

Now you're just being silly. The burden of proof is on you for this.

> If Google wants to confirm that this is not a project to weaken competitions

Is this a popular enough opinion that Google should even know that it needs to confirm or prove anything?

The team does research, and the blog hosts writeups about public vulns. Some are even guest posts for crying out loud. The recent ntpd exploit could be applied to Linux as well. If you search for "Linux", plenty of stuff comes up. There may even be a corporate policy about not doing Android vuln writeups, but that still isn't malicious unless they're actually finding Android bugs and not patching them. If they do patch them, they'll get out. Them not having done a write-up on their blog isn't malicious.

The burden of proof for malice is on you. I'm all for tinfoil hat talk, but there has to be some substance, or it's just talk.
>If one of those units is enough for the bus, and it's on 30% ...

This is why some full time RV'ers are picky about what state they are in for a given season. If you're in Texas, or another hot climate in the summer in a large bus, you'll need two or three tons (24,000 to 36,000 BTU) of A/C capacity (sometimes more!) to keep it habitable through mid-day and late afternoon.

If you have a large (cover the roof) solar/battery/inverter system, you can run all night without having generators start (and interrupt everyone's sleep) in most cases.

Most people that I know of use LP for heat.
> It has no bearing on My enjoyment.

Exactly so. I just wanted to note that "expensive wine doesn't always – or even often – taste better" and "experts can reliably spot the difference between cheap and expensive wine" are not incompatible statements.
to orient is to face east. orientation is understanding which way is which (if you know what is east, you know others by extension). because knowing any direction gives you orientation, any known point of reference is therefore an orientation. to be orientated is to have an orientation.
Exactly. In my experience, the real bottleneck in real world websites is not pure JavaScript execution speed but DOM manipulation from JavaScript.
I agree with your entire comment with the exception of one sentence. Disagree as strongly as I can here:

I've written vigorously (in previous comments) for using cloud servers like EC2 over dedicated hosting like SoftLayer. I'm less sure about that now.

An issue at Amazon, or Rackspace, or Linode, or Slicehost need not imply failure at other providers and cloud as an alternative to dedicated is still as viable as ever. Amazon tanking does not mean everybody needs to run back to dedicated, and my pet peeve is that when one provider takes a crap everyone paints the cloud as toxic.

When ThePlanet's facility exploded a few years ago I did not hear lamenting that dedicated hosting was doomed. When an airliner crashes we do not say air travel is doomed. I do not understand why people rush to paint cloud as a toxic choice in light of a failure of a certain player. Admittedly a big one but there are others too and you can move.

Providers like Linode are almost exactly equivalent to dedicated hosting. They just administer the hardware for you and pay the remote hands bills. Same for Slicehost and Rackspace. It is simply far easier to wipe your instance and start over and for all intents and purposes it acts like a dedicated box. You need to administer it like one too. Most failures of the "cloud" are really designing your application in violation of the fallacies linked elsewhere.
If I had to, I'd guess that AWS's messaging/monitoring/control infrastructure is likely to be the SPOF, as in the 2008 outage: http://status.aws.amazon.com/s3-20080720.html It's an obvious weak spot in the independence/isolation of AWS' nodes, and it would seem to be the one most likely to cause failure to reach across more than one AZ. (Apart from a stampede from one, affected AZ to others perhaps.)
It still works if you click it twice in a row fast enough. But yes, it's annoying.
Did you try out HealPay? I'm assuming you're paying for Freshbooks now. Curious if HealPay could be a replacement for your hard earned $40/mo. :)
Would you say I'm doing math when I write down my recipe chocolate chip cookies? I'd say I'm just describing steps to be executed in order to accomplish a particular real world task. Software is the same--it is steps to execute on a machine to accomplish a task.

Software can be described in ways that sometimes make it amenable to mathematical analysis, but that doesn't make it math.

The Pythagorean Theorem is math--and you can't patent it. However, if you designed, say, a new way to truss bridges, and a key aspect of that was that certain things were of lengths that formed right triangles via the Pythagorean Theorem, it would not be patenting math if a patent were issued on your truss system.
I didn't make this very clear in the original post (which I will edit now), but the photos they want to scrape are the manufacturer's photos, i.e. those licensed for use by resellers. Scraping them would shortcut approaching the manufacturers directly. Does this change the legal situation?
> I have a T420 and have major heating issues with it playing games.

In my experience, almost no consumer laptop is designed with a gaming thermal load in mind (aka heavy cpu + max gpu for extended periods of time). I'm not even sure it's possible in a conventional laptop case.

... I know this is completely useless advice, but don't do heavy gaming on a laptop without expecting problems. There are other form factors much better thermally suited.

tl;dr: mobility/thermal-tolerance/performance, pick two
Thank you, this is exactly what I'm looking for.
Biometrics may alleviate some of these issues, but you have a lot of compliance/regulatory headaches to worry about. Not to mention privacy issues.
Your comment might not be precisely true. There is solid evidence that AA may help people with alcohol problems. Some people may not want to go to a doctor, but of course going to a qualified doctor is a good idea.

Kelly J. F., Magill M., Stout R. L. How do people recover from
alcohol dependence? a systematic review of the research on
mechanisms of behavior change in Alcoholics Anonymous.
Addict Res Theory 2009; 17: 236–59.

J.B. Kingree, Martie Thompson, Participation in alcoholics anonymous and post-treatment abstinence from alcohol and other drugs, Addictive Behaviors, Volume 36, Issue 8, August 2011, Pages 882-885, ISSN 0306-4603, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2011.03.011.
Many of the features required sign-in previously, but now they don't. Some still do (e.g. API), but good point, it need to be better documented
http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=2014...
The universe itself is the life you have, it doesn't die, just makes more conscious entities. Life itself will not die with me, but go on forever. We just need to think large when contemplating death.
Perl and XHTML <:O
Jesus H. Christ on a pogo stick, in what courtroom does a 1-sentence wikipedia definition of "currency" followed by some blogger exposition constitute what is and is not creating an alternative currency?

This is simple -- you're not allowed to compete with the US gov't when it comes to providing the currency of the land. There are a lot of good reasons for this, and some mediocre reasons to oppose it, but at the end of the day it's pretty clear that there's a difference between Liberty Dollars and casino chips.
Apple brands itself like no other tech company. It's appeal to the massive is incredible.
video of same & 2 others: https://www.themediagraph.com/blog/2013/pitching-a-startup-t...
"His detention wasn't to send a message, or intimidate the Guardian"

Miranda was held for the full 9 hours permitted under the "law" and threatened with jail time. It doesn't take that long to confiscate/image someone's drives and extract their passwords. In conjunction with the utterly pointless and symbolic destruction of computer hardware at the Guardian offices, I think it's pretty clear that intimidation is at least partly the goal here.

"The various journalists involved will not send the data over the internet for obvious reasons - even if encrypted, it allows the various agencies know who has what. Sending data by personal courier is the only way. However, it's demonstrably unsafe at this point."

You need only send a hard drive of random data by courier, which can be used as a one-time pad. If you get intercepted, no loss. If not, you can thereafter communicate completely safely through pastebin.
As long as those video feeds get stored by someone else than the police, or at least that police department, otherwise certain video feeds could easily be "misplaced" or "corrupted".
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/hk8_QomqSt4/hqdefault.jpg
Should I summarize the article, cold (low temperature) has no relation with being infected: two groups of people inoculated with a virus, one with wet suits in a cold environment, the other in a normal environment, develop a cold (the disease) at equal rate.

Being in cold weather causes the same symptoms as "having a cold": teary eyes, runny nose and chills. The article postulates this is the root of the belief that cold weather causes "common cold".
> since every half-decent software engineer, designer or project manager can be _fairly_ easily rented out for ~$300K a year.

Did you omit "provided they live in silicon valley"?
I know this is often said, but I do not think it is true.

They do not have to hold deposits in the amount they lend out, but they do have to have the money. They have to hold back a fraction of the deposits.

If money was created out of thin air (in consumer banks), any loan with any interest rate (even negative one) would be highly profitable.

I am not talking about central banks.
So are we all going to be superhuman in 100,000 years thanks to COVID or does this only happen with retroviruses?
Down to -1 now, I take that as a clear sign that someone does not want to think too much about just how bad our situation has become :) (or they're trying to sell a SaaS and therefore need me to be wrong), nice :)
All true about (mostly) peaceful transition of power in Poland. Worth noting there were casualties though - father Jerzy Popieluszko, the "Wujek" coal mine come to mind as examples.

However the reason why it happened relatively seamlessly in Poland has to do with the fact that after the transition the post-communists still held onto a lot of power and the most impactful branches of the government, like the secret services. This was part of a deal in Magdalenka.
Poland never opened their communist archives because that would compromise many active politicians. They didn't get rid of the cancer like they did in Chechoslovakia or the DDR.

A good evidence of that was the fact that my Polish grandfather who was lt colonel of secret service (going after the Solidarity freedom fighters) still enjoyed his 10x higher pension and privileges than his victims even 10+ years after Poland became a "free" country.
Mind that this was before the Facebook buy-out/the original creators leaving, so I assume strategic masterminds at FB reversed that pretty quickly.
Why would you replace one centralized system for another? Every such system gets in trouble once it's too big (in terms of money and politically). Choose Matrix instead.
I built a video calling app which is the antithesis of Zoom. It's called Reslash.

You can play with everything - backgrounds, gifs, stickers. You can recreate a bar lounge, classroom, office, 80s party and more.

It also has spatial audio - just move closer to talk to people, like you do IRL.

Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zwXL7ZJra4

You can sign up here: https://reslash.co

I would love to get your feedback on it :)
have you tried Android Studio?
Of course I don't have an answer. But I guess you'd have to ask how Bob might have become first conceived of the thought that fish oil supplements are good for heart health in the first place and ask why he puts faith in the source of that information. I think a lot of it is carried by word of mouth, which I think just innately tends to carry more weight with us as humans then the conclusions of some nameless scientists, but that's just speculation.
Slow carb worked great for me for 6 months, lost 25 lbs!

But alas I got so sick of chicken for dinner and eggs for breakfast, and I guess just got too bored with the meals. Gained it all back :-(

(I actually haven't eaten an egg since then. And I avoid chicken now. I'm wondering if some people develop an aversion to foods they eat too regularly?)