jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'll go with the first one, because it is as you said: the authoritarian security industry, and the corporate types in general, love centralised control, and HTTPS-everywhere is their attempt at grabbing more of it.

Honestly, as another commenter here noted, I don't think this is that big of a problem --- and is comparable to all the other open webcams out there.
I imagine they are referring to endotoxin testing.

(and then horseshoe crabs and recombinant factor C)

The FDA should figure out if fFC works and then mandate use of it if it works.
This app is why I root my phones.
They haven't found the virus in bats. The closest known relative to SARS-CoV-2 found in the wild was a different virus found in bats, RaTG13. As you wrote above yourself, there's no known animal reservoir for SARS-CoV-2. Laboratory attempts to infect bat cells (e.g. [1]; but there have been many others) with SARS-CoV-2 have been unsuccessful.

This was the significance of the pangolins, which were initially proposed to be the proximal animal host. But while it initially seemed that multiple infected pangolins from different sources had been found, it later turned out multiple seemingly independent papers had been written based on the same pangolins[2]. This means it's much more likely that something else infected those pangolins, in the same way e.g. that some housecats have been infected by their owners.

Nature has added an editor's note[3] to one of the pangolin papers, and even Daszak and the Chinese have pretty much abandoned the pangolins. So for now, there's no known animal host for SARS-CoV-2, unlike for the original SARS-CoV (palm civets) or MERS-CoV-2 (camels). Perhaps the animal reservoir just hasn't been found yet; but it's also possible that animal reservoir doesn't exist, because SARS-CoV-2 originated from serial passaging in a WIV lab. That's just natural evolution under unusually fast selective pressure, so any arguments that SARS-CoV-2 shows no evidence of genetic engineering are inapplicable to that theory.

1. https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/12/20-2308_article

2. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.07.184374v2

3. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2313-x
Nice! I am very much looking forward to seeing these everywhere.
I’d say that “standard procedure” would be to do it the same way as it would be done in C: define a struct, allocate one somewhere, then pass a pointer to it as the data pointer. Using the anonymous struct which represents the closure itself seems like skipping a step, the user doesn’t need to spell out which values are stored in the struct.
You should also enable ICMP (or at least some of it) - see http://shouldiblockicmp.com/ for explanation on why this is important for IPv6

ip6tables -A FORWARD -p icmpv6 -j ACCEPT
The the absolute knuckledraggery of extrapolating data over 100 years + without accounting for all the fat tail of all other events.

IF I had told anyone 10 years ago that a large mob is going to attack Congress and Senate will have to evacuated and a guy dressed up as Viking and shirtless would seat in Speaker
s chair people would call me stupid. More such surprises exist in history and in future.

Climate change is a non issue if we humans invents a far cheaper and cleaner source of energy. We can use that energy to literally suck and filter out CO2 from air.
I remembered that famous gaming journalist in Japan wrote that portable gaming console like DS is getting unpopular in the US so Nintendo designed Switch and Sony never released Vita2. Anyone have thoughts?
“I’m smart enough to program a computer and that’s really hard so anything else would be easy for me to do.”
Either he’s serious and just deluded, or he’s acting in bad faith. In both cases you just shake your head and move on because no minds will be changed.
I apologize in advance if I am not understanding you, but the process of fission generates new radioactive daughter nuclides and neutron activated material. The radioactivity in a nuclear reactor isn't simply a concentrated aggregate of the original fuel. It is a heterogeneous mixture of transmuted elements that is quite different from the original in its radioactivity.
My impression in this case is that some people like to feel superior to other people
seriously, what a bunch of dinosaurs
Finally, a website that caters to my beekeeping fetish.
You can just venmo your friends.
Moving with a pickup truck sounds miserable. Why not just rent a uhaul?
I feel like if you can even ask that question then the answer is probably yes. This would make for a rare exception to Betteridge's law though.
I hope they fix it! lol
I've always wondered why browser's don't let you know that you're using a certificate of dubious origin.

Certainly it would make employees more aware to not log into their personal stuff at work.
Is that worse than them shooting up in the middle of the street?
Don't get me wrong, I hope that little to no consideration was given to mars in the design. But if we happen to get to mars on Elon's most aggressive time tables (2025 iirc) it would make sense to base the vehicles on mars after this rather than designing from scratch. And it would make sense to keep the modifications reasonably minimal if possible.
Most legal plans offered, even through third parties, explicitly do not cover employee-employer disputes. This has been the case at both Microsoft and Amazon that I have seen.
"fact I just saw a room full of people cheer for the censorship of politicians."

That was his point I think. I think this was just a performance to point out exactly THAT behaviour. How easy the people cheer for censorship.

He even explained his doing in the beginning when he told about his other characters and what he did to the audiences.

If that is true, I think its genious. He is my favorite trickster hero now.
Damn pitty, but as long as you weren't hurt who really cares about a car? They are getting rare, looked them up the other day. But then I realized one 82 car is the max I might be allowed!
For apple :- a farm, cattle station, cement factory, brick maker, carpets, upholstery, chicken farm the list goes on
Discussed yesterday.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26246435

Fry's Electronics is closing all stores (https://twitter.com/bill0004/status/1364407906192424964)

472 points | synack | 1 day ago | 298 comments
What I am saying is that this obsession was normal to us also. I didn't know any Googlers (whether in support or engineering) who didn't care about customers.

We did whatever it took to resolve a support case in the quickest yet most satisfactory manner, even if it meant doing some crazy research, meanwhile we got of course overloaded with more support cases coming in.

I had 100% customer satisfaction from all surveys. That was definitely hard to achieve because happy people usually don't complete surveys. :)

These were the early days of many GCP services. I worked there when Compute Engine and Big Query GA'd. This was just before and possibly during the time the paid support tiers were launched (I don't recall). I left mid 2013. No idea what their support is like now.

And those technical account managers just bounced customer questions to us 3-5 support engineers (technical solutions engineer)

Anyways, your AWS comparison may apply to the GCP support culture now (I have no idea) but back then we were all extremely customer obsessed - by choice.
This right here except a mil is an understatement
I can't find any student:teacher ratio statistics anywhere. Are you sure it's different by race?
Firefox keeps making blunders that are killing it.
Manish_chhabra I have activated your account for you. You should be good to go now
This whole article was light on hard content, but had some great ideas expressed well. For example:

Professional managers—MBA CEOs—are not very creative or adaptable, and their skills don't suit a startup. Business is like a multidimensional probabilistic chessboard. The rules aren't set, and the same moves don't always make you win. A lot of people can be really good in a set-piece battle; my biggest differentiating skill is I can invent new pieces.

expresses an idea that most can't articulate well, but seems intuitively true.
>You're defending caffeine use. Please show me one place where I suggested he should stop or sad that using caffeine was bad

At the beginning of this thread, you wrote:

>That's quite an addiction you have. Have you considered kicking it?

Which I interpreted to mean that you thought this caffeine addiction was a bad thing, and that he should try to kick it. Of course, it's possible that you were asking if he had withdrawal symptoms when he stopped or perhaps something else entirely, but that's why I was defending caffeine use.

>I am curious now though, when you say "heavy users tend to have long-term loss of productivity", is that even when at work, not high? Is that even after they've stopped smoking for long periods of time?

Honestly, I don't know if the people I've known with those problems were high at the time or not; Either there was some sort of lasting effect, or the people in question chose to continue using when it was clear that they were damaging their career.

I mean, like I said, I know far more people who use every now and then and seem to be fine with it, but for some people, it can be (or, at least contribute to) a problem.
> They sure knew how to engineer stuff then.

Arguably, the current generation of engineers aren't too shabby themselves. Spirit and Opportunity were designed to last 90 sols, with their actual missions lasting some 25 times that, and Opportunity is still knocking about up there.
>> or it has just been posted two seconds ago, and is thus the top comment.

you can always see how much time has passed since that comment was posted.
You don't even need 50 photos – this was done some time ago using a single photo. See http://vision.ucsd.edu/~blaxton/sneakey.html for an overview.
VCs are making financial risk decisions based on many factors, and they aren't obligated to research before they buy any more than I am obligated to research stocks. Not only that, but they are certainly aware that most of their investments won't pan out - they just want to make sure they've invested when the next facebook comes along.

Therefore, I think startups should put little weight on how much investment was given to them (or others) - it's not the same as "validation" that the product is going to be useful. That comes from actual customers buying the product.
source for this statement?
Totally agree that #5 is deliberate.
The package manager in Julia is great, but the process of making a package needs much better documentation.

It looks like Bindeps is the intended way of building packages that have external dependencies, but last time I checked the "documentation" for bindeps was another Julia package called Cairo, which apparently did a good job.

The other problem is that when Googling around to find the standard way of putting together packages, almost all the results that come back are list posts or things from the issue tracker which tell you the old way of doing things (which no longer works).

Things like how to build things differently for Windows, Linux, OSX, Unix, how to deal with paths, how to use the OpenSUSE binary production system, etc., all need documentation, with examples.

Also needed is documentation on linking against external libraries that have their own dependencies. Where should libraries be canonically installed. How does the linker resolve dependencies (this is especially difficult to work out on Windows).

Including all the .h files for Julia's own shared library dependencies in the repo would also be useful, along with documentation of which versions of external libraries Julia currently uses.

I also find the documentation on how to peg to a commit or tag difficult to understand, as is the documentation on the path to becoming an official Julia package, with explicit examples of what needs to be done at each step.

Finally, I find it annoying that you can do Pkg.update("Mypkg") and Pkg.build("Mypkg") but not Pkg.test("Mypkg") (or is it the other way around, I always forget). One should be able to selectively update, build and test any particular package, without having to do so for every package you currently have installed.

Some of my comments might be out-of-date by now. I'm simply trying to recall some of the issues I had with building a package when I last put effort into that part of my development cycle.
The tl;dr is: use libsodium: http://doc.libsodium.org/
Go and Rust and included in the Computer Language Benchmark game: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/

Nim, and many of the other interesting languages mentioned in this thread are not.

I'm not sure if this is a cause or effect.
(Too late to edit, but, in the last line, s/always/also).
And stage for that was set by those laughable red lines in Syria. Remember that?

US resolve is non existent that much is true. It has little to do with Trump or Biden for that matter. When Obama let Assad use gas Putin took notice, everything else comes from that.

About Afghanistan.. it was not the withdrawal it was the laughable way it was done. Abandoning Bagram.. what dumbfuck thought of that? We DO know what idiot approved it though.
I would recommend a lisp (scheme is beautiful) if you're looking to see things a different way, and grow. I found its depth of history and its elegant simplicity inspiring.

If you want types, I'd check out Haskell, or OCaml or F#.

So I guess what my advice is decide how you want to grow and choose a language at that extreme.

If you've learned a mainstream get it done language you wont get much out of learning another one.
Obligatory comment: Modern Atari is nothing to do with Atari. It's a french games company called Infogrames that bought the name when Atari went bust.
If you read the complaint it is pretty clear they were at least heavily involved. Their personal accounts and businesses were tied up into it.
Do we know what is the expected lifespan of a Starlink satellite? I wonder how well this event factored into their cost calculations, like is this a "once-a-decade" event that actually happens every couple years, or was it in-line with their actuaries?
Both apparently good for the future of space debris, and a publicity opportunity... Despite losing probably millions of dollars... Good job SpaceX.
Virtual background doesn't work in the browser.
At least some had LIDAR for a while, but it's all disabled on recent updates because Musk wanted to save some money and trim LIDAR from production.
It's simple: they don't like the conclusions.
Encoding videos across consoles in h.264 is a pain and unreliable. I did it, and so I can see why a big budget title would use blink. Each console has its own odd and undocumented requirements for the encoding specification. Think 1079p at 29.99fps pm one console while vannila 1080p 30fps on another. Get it wrong and your video is blank with only a "failed to decode" in the logs.
The article is from 2017 and Signal added backups in 2018.
>outside of hobbyists playing with weird architectures for fun

These are also the most likely people to be able to remove dependency on your project making it less relevant. That's what happened with Gentoo. They didn't bother forking. They found an alternative and python-cryptography is now dead to them.

This doesn't even get into what a bad idea it is to build crypto code with mystery binaries like rustc in the first place. Yes, you can bootstrap rust from source if you are really brave/stupid. Nearly nobody does it though, because rust seems purpose built to make you dependent on the official binaries. Building rust version N requires building version 1-N. Latest version is something like 50, which makes bootstrapping it absurd.

Memory safety is nice, but Java has been around for decades. Memory safety didn't solve everyones' problems. People still use C for good reasons. Breaking distros won't win Rust lots of friend.
Real Bitcoin, on the blockchain, yes. Many "transactions" however are just on exchanges, never touch the blockchain, and are little more than database entries. Look at places like Robinhood - you can't even withdraw the Bitcoin.
My mom went to the Apple store (a physical one) and explained the situation but still didn't get her money back.
> If I'm a sophisticated investor, I may want to invest in funds which hedge against tail-risk

Do tail-risk-targeting hedge funds have a better incentive than 2-and-20? Honest question, I have no idea. I assume 2-and-20 drives shooting for the moon and closing the fund if it doesn’t work out.
Namebase is one in a long series of amateur projects (AlterNIC, OpenNIC, Namecoin...) which have aimed to create their own DNS roots.

Every single one of them has the exact same problem: the purpose of a domain name system is to agree upon naming. Alternate roots break that model, and any attempt to use them seriously immediately runs into massive interoperability problems (e.g. cannot send/receive email, cannot obtain SSL certificates, etc).
Yes, csky is mcore derivative. It's not entirely compatible, like m68k and ColdFire.
Sort of. You'd be able to define

double fprime(double (*f)(double), double x);

but you wouldn't be able to define

double (*deriv(double (*f)(double)))(double);

as C does not support closures.

Meanwhile, in C++ you might use

std::function<double(double)> deriv(std::function<double(double)> f);
"...it calls Linux "GNU/Systemd""

Yeah, it would have taken less bits to use GNU/POS instead, because it ain't Linux anymore.

Poettering Operating System.
My boss Lenny at the Innis Film Library at the University of Toronto ( also T1 internet in '94 ) told me his meeting of Francis Bacon: Lenny was walking down the stairs at MOMA and someone walking with a cane was coming up the stairs. The man walked past Lenny and smacked him withe the cane. Lenny looked up and saw that it was Bacon. Bacon saw that Lenny was looking at him and told him to fuck off.
The sscanf issue was not obvious: it looks linear. And should be, on a better sscanf implementation.

The duplicate checking on the other hand is a classic "accidentally quadratic" case that is obvious.
My family (rural SE US) uses Wildblue (now Exede) satellite internet. It works better than the dial-up alternative surely, but it falls flat in terms of speed, cost, reliability (you must maintain LOS, so rain, tree growth, and sometimes very thick cloud cover will kill it) and latency (~1000ms ping) compared to my mediocre cable plan. There is also a rolling 30-day bandwidth limit. Another common satellite provider is HughesNet, they have similar plans but do data limits differently IIRC. If satellite is your only choice, it's workable, but do check other options.

Another common rural option is a Wireless ISP (WISP), but they have limited coverage so it will entirely depend on where you are. Also check if DSL is available, it's not the most common thing but it can pop up in strange locations.
There are some very high quality German self build companies that use timber frame and glass construction. HufHaus and Weber Haus are two but there are others.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/grand-designs/episode-gui...

> Revisit: Walton, 2008

> Kevin revisits David and Greta Iredale, who replaced their original house which they designed and built themselves with a German built, precision engineered Huf Haus.

> Esher, 2004

> Kevin McCloud follows a couple who have built houses before, but never on this scale. Their new 'Huf Haus' is designed and made in Germany but delivered for assembly in Surrey.
> There is no metric by which Whatsapp is worth 19B, except for the fact that Facebook can spend that much money. Any attempt to monetize those users will result in decreased users.

I hate to pick on you, but anyone who says WhatsApp is not worth $19 bil has not seen the Chinese version of WhatsApp, WeChat. WeChat is a combination of WhatsApp and Facebook. Everyone in China uses WeChat as messenger and as a pseudo-Facebook. The risk of WhatsApp becoming the WeChat for the rest of the world was a HUGE risk for Facebook. It has a very strong hold in the middle east and was gaining a ton of traction every where else. WeChat is a less-invasive version of Facebook that many people would gladly flock to.
I suspect the reason was: "They need to start with something and go from there".

So they started with the use cases likely to be the most popular.

Additionally, there are definitely cases where the implementations of rules at Google are a morass, and rather than dump it on the open source community, it makes more sense to clean them up when they get rebuilt.
"While the summer of 2020 experienced 100 days of violence and destruction in cities, according to the the U.S Department of Homeland Security, the most recent CCC study of 7,305 separate events in May and June suggests that 96.3% of events involved no property damage or police injuries"

So 270 violent protests in that 2 month span then? Not trivial.
From a practical standpoint, if a private space company were to move its center of operations to outer space it may end up as its own "state". As long as it has people loyal to the company owners, it could create its own rules and fend off any nation that tries to take jurisdiction. This would be similar to a feudal lord enforcing his own rules with a small army of private retainers. Realistically though, this would only happen on an independent base on Mars or the Moon, or a fully self-sufficient space station. Otherwise, Earth-dependence would allow nations to influence space operations and push their jurisdiction into outer-space, similar to European colonial endeavors. Maybe the solution is to create a new, separate state that has jurisdiction and military control over the entirety of outer space not tied to any particular nation?
>There is a clear distinction between malware (virus, trojans, and worms) and adware in the antivirus community. As this is neither drive-by nor malware, it's no stretch; it's an outright lie.

To a user who has their machine slow to a creeping halt or behave in unexpected ways because of these "opt-in" daemon adware suites, that "distinction" breaks down very quickly.

If you use those kinds of tactics, you are taking CPU cycles from people who did not want them taken. Where I come from , we call that stealing - and it makes you something less than an honorable individual if you do it. I spent years working in tech support, so I have the understanding necessary to make that statement.

I am also a developer and I know there are more honest - and proven - ways to make a living with OSS that don't fall on that side of the "shady" line.

I repeat my charge of Shenanigans.
So, okay, how do you determine it then? If those things listed each happened once, it wouldn't be authoritarian. (Would it?) What about twice? Three times? There has to be some threshold. I couldn't think of a better threshold than some kind of consensus, because it's essentially a value judgment. But, it's a good point about group-think. Maybe there has to be a consensus among people outside of the marginalized group? Maybe the fact that people are even openly questioning whether we have an authoritarian regime in the US means that we don't?

Perhaps things are authoritarian when a wide range of people expect abuse from the people in power, whether or not they recognize it as such.

Or, maybe it's more sinister than that, and we only truly recognize authoritarianism in retrospect.
As much seriously, how a 2-5 year old can use the command line beyond mimicking what dad shown ?

I mean if you can't read nor write how can you __learn__ command line ?