skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You are correct to note that the programming language I'm describing does not perfectly conform to any of the documents that are ever called a "C standard". But that programming language is central to our computing infrastructure

I don't agree with this. Yes, people often write code that unintentionally rely on UB/implementation-specific behavior; but are there important projects that do this intentionally? In any case, compiler authors are going to follow the C standards, not you hypothetical "C-in-practice" standards, so what good does it do to for formalize or clearly specify the latter?
State and crony capitalism at its finest
Can I bring my VPN, certificates & custom software with me too? Didn't think so.

Also not sticking confidential info on some random laptop.

Beyond playing minesweeper and watching movies I don't see this being useful.
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Like all air regulations, this one is full of holes. (Pilot can’t bring a pocketknife onboard, but has an axe in the cockpit for example).

In this case, I suppose it’d be easier for the terrorist to have a manually-triggered bomb on their lap, vs having to also rig a GPS or time-delay bomb for the cargo hold. Obviously still do-able, but one step harder.

To be clear, I’m not all that impressed by the ban or it’s effectiveness.
Financially cheaper yes. I've tried Onshape for 6 months and I didn't find it as immediate or as fast as Solidworks. Particularly when modelling multi-component assemblies.

Onshape monthly price for a pro licence is about 1/3 the price of Solidworks monthly (on finance), for me Solidworks is a clear winner here even though it costs more.

But, Onshape is a revolution in the free CAD space. Perfect for simple products like this ;)

Edit: added last sentence
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Some older operating systems used a database-filesystem or database like filesystem as storage.

I heard older IBM systems had something like this. BeOS had BeFS with inbuilt metadata index. NTFS + WinFS in user land vision was a bit like this. Office server aka MS Sharepoint (which implemented WinFS vision for intranet) stores all files in the database.
In other news, 60% wants other 40% to leave :)
I'm sure if you can do it with a `make custon-config` command, but here are the changes one makes to the parameters file:

https://github.com/glebd/Iosevka/commit/b72d75c07543b204c22a...
How about "last Friday?" Do you interpret that as "yesterday?"
That ban... just shameless. They better not whine about China manipulating its currency.
> Setting up a repeating event is a pain, if I made a mistake god help me. Once I broke something and I had to manually delete two months of repeating events one by one because the repeating nature was somehow gone

I eventually gave up and used Google Apps Script to fing and update events which lost their repeating affinity when I accessed my calendar from multiple clients.

Another one: if you have a shared calendar that you want to invite to a meeting (but you don't own the shared calendar), …? This was for the orgs office hours calendar, where copying the event onto the shared calendar means remembering to update it every time we switched rooms or times (as copies naturally wouldn't update if the source changes).

The Google Product Support pages send a strong, consistent message: "we don't care what you think and we don't fix things we can't see the personal use for ourselves"; hallmarks of deeply user-hostile products.
Most air travel by e.g. Qatar Airways is not with a final destination of Qatar - it's connecting traffic going back and forth among Europe, Africa, and East Asia. Forcing traffic to other hubs kills their business, but does not necessarily benefit American companies.
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If anything, "last" meaning "most recent" would be the most logical. However, "last January" meaning January of last year is a convention. Not everyone follows or knows it, but it does exist. Same for days of the week.
Personally I loved Bazaar before I "had to" switch to Git.
First of all, if you know how Wikileaks operates, you know that as well as the leaks they generate content and opinions. They are not merely a funnel.

Second, if they were trying to be just a funnel but realised that they were only getting information from limited sources with a known agenda, then they would also know that they are facilitating a political agenda. They could be open about this. But they are not. They are keeping critical details of their own activities secret (ie they choose to be selective), which is directly contrary to their stated philosophy.

In a more empirical sense, an organisation can only be judged by its output, not by its slogans or cheerleaders. In that sense Wikileaks is clearly an organisation promoting a political agenda.
WhatsApp has a userbase in the millions, if not billions. It may use the same protocol as Signal (I wasn't aware it does), but its existence is marketed as and understood as that of a messaging app. Signal's identity, in contrast, is predicated upon security. Based on that, along with the fact that Whatsapp is owned by Facebook and so its functionality can be changed by its owners, I would also probably advise acquaintances concerned about privacy to use Signal over Whatsapp.

(Personally, I've been using Threema for E2E encrypted communications with friends who care about privacy enough to not want to use Facebook Messenger or other Facebook-owned platforms.)
The irony here is that CASA (Australia's aviation regulatory body) bans laptops and iPads for being checked into luggage because of the batteries.

Not that these conflicting requirements should affect anyone though - Australia flies directly to the US (or via Asia or NZ), and to the UK it usually flies through Doha, Dubai (which is not impacted by the UK ban).
It's kind of cringeworthy that Google is still doing this. They're not the small, "cool" startup anymore. It's like the popular kid from high school who kept hanging out in the parking lot years after graduating
The Churninator… the Tool We Built to Kill Churn Is Now Open Sourced
Thanks. I didn’t think about it that deeply, and skimmed the relevant part of the article.

This will be a significant hit on their business.
You don't think we can "fake it" in the the vast statistical majority of cases simply by relying on a corpus containing nearly the same cases?

We can already "understand the meaning" in a latent space well enough to do machine translation between language pairs the model wasn't trained on, or do additions and subtractions in the latent space of word to vec to suggest they have picked up some semantic meaning from the text.

I don't think this is a problem that requires Strong AI in the vast majority of cases, just very large well groomed corpa and clever engineers.
Does the band cover Bluetooth keyboard? I can stumble forward on my phone with one of these.
Nope. That ship sailed so long ago, the only brand SF has now is "old busted OSS that nobody has bothered to migrate to something decent". There's nothing left to save.
Hugo 0.21 Will Get Native Conjugation Support (and Unreal Speed)
It's just the default One Dark theme from Atom, I believe.
It is pretty unbelievable, since it's not true. The actual quote:

>OpenAI researchers Dario Amodei and Paul Christiano are both technical advisors to Open Philanthropy and live in the same house as Holden. In addition, Holden is engaged to Dario’s sister Daniela.

His roommates/sister's fiancé work there. That's all.
It's better than nothing, but it certainly isn't better than rough.

Setting aside what's "average" - are you controlling for the type of advert (both what it's advertising and its format), the type of audience, etc...

Over the years I've seen plenty of examples where CTR and ROI just aren't linked at all. Right now my work doesn't involve a huge amount of this kind of advertising (though I do have experience overseeing 7 figure budgets in the past) so I don't have much great data to pull examples from, but here's one real example from a couple of months ago:

Two not-huge (sub $10k) media buys, both direct with websites (not through networks), both with websites that are well-respected by their readers and by their industry, both using the same adverts. One of the sites excitedly sent us a report about how well the ads had performed, a 5.63% CTR for banner ads, clearly we're popular! The tracking on our side showed that of the just over 15k clicks they sent, 12 converted into users for us. Meanwhile the other site was reporting a 1.32% CTR, sent just over 6k clicks (pricing and order size wasn't exactly identical between the two sites), and landed 700 new users. I know both companies well enough to not suspect click fraud, and I've seen the company that performed badly perform well on other campaigns. But if you just looked at this comparison, there's no argument that the campaign with a much lower CTR was actually hitting an audience that was more interested in what we had to sell than the one with the high CTR. There's lots of possible reasons, from accidental clicks depending on how sites are set up to the audience targeting each site did (both are big enough sites to offer specific targeting within their audience), etc.

(Edit to add that of the two campaigns I compared, both produced a negative ROI from my point of view, i.e. our CPA was far too high - just one was a lot worse than the other. I just pulled up the first spreadsheet I saw from the most recent obvious example I could think of for CTR != ROI.)

If CTR is the only metric you are able to look at, then you can do your best to make judgements on it. But the reason the adtracking solutions that annoys so many people exist is because without proper tracking, it's really hard to actually judge the value of any advertising you buy.

All that said, CTR does still have a big place in the industry, because generally speaking websites (or ad networks) are able to tell potential customers their typical CTRs, but aren't able to give data about further down the funnel (conversions, etc.) because this is data the ad buyers control, not the ad sellers. But it's really important not to think it tells the full story.
Probably old fashioned, but when I type '->', or '==', for example, I want it two be the two characters, and not become something else visually.

Maybe I should give it a try again though!
I've written CL macros. I've noticed that for me, the probability of long-term use seems proportional to the size of a macro's implementation. The more work a macro does, the less likely I'm to revert to "straightforward code".
This has absolutely nothing to do with security. Trying to retrofit security considerations into that is just a waste of time.

The US wanted to attack those state subsidies for a long time and I suppose with Trump they found the right vehicle.
Cinder 0.9.1
-FLAVOUR: Ubuntu Desktop

-HEADLINE: Native support for Adobe software

-DESCRIPTION: Please get together with Adobe and get their software working natively on Ubuntu.

I do frontend dev and need to work with PSDs supplied by designers often. Gimp is simply not good enough.

I also have a lot of designer and animator friends who would love to switch, but can't because Photoshop or After Effects.

Since Apple is serving overpriced hardware lately a lot of pros want to jump ship, Ubuntu can capture that creative market along with the growing number of discontent developers.

I have seriously considered buying a MacBook Pro just to get my Photoshop needs met. Please don't make me have to buy a MacBook Pro. :(
Of course Airstrip One will follow the national policy of Oceania
Let's say the workstation packs 64GB of RAM, and it's used for number-crunching tasks which include jobs that take as much RAM as they can get.

How often do you believe these random bitflips could happen in a year of continuous use?
It does. The ban is based on device size.
To be fair, I could absolutely understand their decision. After watching the people behind Gnome3 and Wayland pretty much run amok with their ideas and their attitude towards other, dependent projects, I can't blame Canonical for not having that much faith in a possibly unstable foundation. Especially with their plans back then of building a mobile product on it. So I really can't see how Canonical are the bad guys here. It was not so much about more control but against losing it somewhere down the road.
Typically only big vendors can afford not to change
I've been trying out lastpass for a few weeks. I downloaded the extension that their website directed me to. Because of this discussion, I did a version check and lo and behold, it defaults to NOT auto-update.

Luckily I've been using it only for a few unimportant sites. They've had two security issues disclosed since I started my trial. I'm impressed with the functionality. I'm decidedly unimpressed with the security experience.
I wonder why the BSDs haven't caught on for embedded appliances and phones while Linux did with a more restrictive and less business friendly license. Sure some companies like iXSystems and Juniper adopted BSDs, but the vast majority used Linux.
s/are comprised of/are composed of/
Government snooping (and, generally, privacy concerns) date back to at least Obama's presidency.

I always assumed that someone would be able to access my Gmail account if they really wanted to, but didn't really care - data mine my emails to deliver more targeted ads that I ignore as easily as the others, fine by me, I thought. However, I came across [0]; whether this story is true or not, it is plausible, and that has made me want to move off of Gmail.

I still use my old Gmail account for ordinary interactions which I do not feel are sensitive and whose reading by a third party would not bother me. For sensitive material, I have moved to ProtonMail [1], a privacy-first email service based in Switzerland and therefore subject to Switzerland's privacy laws, which I use with a custom domain registered under the Cayman Islands TLD. I have moved my cloud file storage from USA owned companies to a VPS hosted in Germany and therefore subject to its data privacy laws. The last step that I haven't taken is to set up a VPN on that VPS, or alternatively purchase a VPN service from a country with good privacy laws.

Overall, I am pretty happy with my shift; I do not feel that I have given anything up and feel reasonably confident that I have the privacy I want for things I want to be private.

[0] https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/

[1] https://protonmail.com/
Robinhood is just a marketing play. Anything about them selling flow or using margin offerings to become profitable is not realistic.

Traditional brokerages have a customer acquisition cost of around $400 to get someone to deposit at least $100 in an account.

They've got a million users and continue to grow quicker and quicker. For a small multiple of traditional CAC they are already close to their >$1B valuation just in terms of user acquisition.

It's not easy to get funded brokerage accounts, especially funded accounts by millennials. Their current user base might not be worth much, but the average age of a brokerage account in the US is over 20 years. That means that Robinhood's AUM is only going to grow as their user base gets older and has more money.

Frankly, the current brokerage houses have been dumping hundreds of millions into marketing to try to acquire millennial users without a ton of success. TD Ameritrade alone spent $300 million last year in ads, a lot of that targeted at the millennial market.

Robinhood is a user acquisition strategy for the millennial market and they'll get bought for $2-3 billion within a couple years by one of the existing brokerage houses.
> this is clearly motivated by economical considerations more than security.

Can you elaborate?
If it is allowed to bring USB keys, one can boot his own personalized operating system from it.
How is laptop in cargo space more secure than in cabin? I cannot get rid of feeling that this is not about security, but about making money by lending laptops or promoting payed onboard infotainment systems. Basically the same thing they've done water ban - selling more sodas on board.
Wikileaks is an organization built to destabilize the US government. Romantic and idealist stuff aside, they are playing the role of "useful idiot" for other intelligence agencies. And that is very dangerous.
Just to chime in.... I'd love to get structured data out, from messy calendar free text, with structured or NL querying.

Show me all the appointments I had with Joe Blow in 2016, exported as , for example.
Except on Android, where it requires you to use a poor custom keyboard. Which means that you have to either build your own keyboard switching functionality or go through a ridiculous dance every time you want to use it.
How is laptop in cargo space more secure than in cabin? I cannot get rid of feeling that this is not about security, but about making money by lending laptops or promoting payed onboard infotainment systems. Basically the same thing they've done water ban - selling more sodas on board. I hate when anybody tries to trick me like this.
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If you can afford one, the Ultimaker 3 is fantastic and extremely easy to use! I've been using one for two weeks. It was pre-built and after unboxing I began a complex print with water-soluble PVA support material in about 20 minutes.

Ultimaker is a supporter of open source hardware: https://ultimaker.com/en/blog/17799-releasing-our-source-fil...
Wikileaks is now 100% political and is Julian Assange's political mouthpiece. Weather you agree with his position or not it is abundantly clear it is in no way a neutral arbiter of information anymore. Just ask why DDB left years ago.
shut up and take my money
Interestingly enough, Australia is the third country after US and UK to adopt the same "security protocols"[0]. And yet they're the first one not to ban the electronics.

I suspect not because they didn't want to, but simply because they couldn't, on account of the no-checked-laptops rule you mentioned.

[0] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/australi...
Some people have unique situations and do not need the use of a kitchen at all. My diet consists entirely of bottled Soylent and protein bars. I never need to cook or utilize any other functions provided by a kitchen.
Heat (and as a result: size), power generation and cost.

There are plenty of problems where, sure, you could get an x86 or a powerful GPU and do it faster, but you'll be paying for it with power usage.

E.g. take [1] - they're making a modern M68k compatible CPU in an FPGA. They're getting performance that's beating ASIC ColdFire CPUs (Motorola/Freescale's M68k descendant) and ASIC PPCs with several times the clock, and beating the fastest "real" M68k systems by a factor of 3x-10x.

You could beat that with a software emulator on a powerful enough x86, sure. Easily. Especially if investing enough time in dynamic translation and the like.

But this thing instead fits on a far less power hungry FPGA that gives off far less heat, and fits on a board that'll fit in one of the real small case Amiga's - try to do that with a x86 with heat sink..

[1] http://www.apollo-core.com/
Completely agree. Also "would you like to login to your social/email accounts while on using this public, potentially spyware, keylogger infested machine of ours?"
Unless the bootloader is locked...
https://reviewable.io is a good upgrade from regular GitHub reviews
It's currently Saturday, if someone says "last Sunday", I assume they mean the previous Sunday that recently passed. If someone says "last Friday", I assume they mean the one a week and a day ago. This seems like a common interpretation in the UK.
and here is an example of exactly that sort of application:

http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/AccelConf/ICALEPCS2013/papers/t...
I think its more dangerous. How often are they yelling at people that gate check to not have any batteries in their luggage? So is it okay now? Are they putting all cargo in sealed metal containers to keep any fires from spreading?
This isn't a ban by Qatar Airways. They are highly opposed to the ban. And on the water ban enforced at the airport (and sometimes the gate), Qatar Airways doesn't charge for beverages (including alcohol), they'll happily give you litres of bottled water for free (although for some reason odd reason they cut the label off when you ask for a 2l bottle - and no its not tank stored potable water - i get thirsty during long flights - tis just easier this way).
Sorry for the slow reply. I'm not familiar with currently available frameworks/etc. so I can't speak to that side.

The point I intended to make is that, in my experience, there aren't site owners going "I wish I could do this if only it wasn't so technically hard", they're going "I wish I could do this if only it didn't mean people would spend less money with me". Because on the other side of the equation, ad buyers (generally, though obviously not universally) don't want to work that way, and they're the ones with the money and therefore the power.

I'm not a developer myself but I've worked with developers who created various in-house ad-tech, and while this sort of thing may be too complicated to do for Mr Random Joe Blogger without a CMS plugin, it's really not something that is too technically complicated to be feasible.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/03/2...
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I'd still not trust it. I don't even log in from other people's laptop; all they need is a keylogger.
Which it hopefully is, to protect the OS other passengers might use later.
Move along, move along...
The problem as I see it is social and solved through policing as we do with other anti-social behaviour.

All of the best online communities I've been part of have had strong moderation including here on HN. So that's one example of how people can take social responsibility at the level of the platform holder. Twitter is a great example of inadequate time and money spent on that problem.

Where things are complicated right now is in the legal sphere where we have a global entity but many fractured jurisdictions. This prevents the problem being tackled at the right level causing it to persist. This isn't even an issue unique to online harassment.

Mollifying and modifying behaviour as an individual is an admission to being in hostile territory. I'd rather we acted together to bring justice and freedom instead.