skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've tried explaining this to numerous people but never thought about comparing it to starting a clone of a website with the same DB to start with. Great analogy.
I think it refers to the 30 years war:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War
My guess: it's something like a chrome stick with a connected webcam you place at the top of your tv.
It's not just protective. Snowden indicated that part of what they consider national security involves economic security. In their interpretation, their mandate includes corporate and economic espionage, and ensuring that the US maintains its economic edge.

See:

Spying on Petrobas, a a Brazilian oil company: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/09/nsa-spying-bra...

Spying on an EU Anti-trust official: https://www.cnet.com/news/nsa-spied-on-eu-antitrust-official...

And there are a number of cases where the NSA spied on payment processing companies. I haven't included those because you could argue that those may be related to tracking terrorism funding.
These things originate in hardware variations. Apparently all architectures use binary the same way so unsigned overflow just drops the MSB. But signed integers aren't always two's complement, so there is variation.

See, no tedious rules to remember, you just have to understand how computers work. But the C standards call such things "undefined behaviour" rather than "platform specific" behaviour, and then try to pretend that the compiler can abstract the underlying machine away. That is they pretend programmers can understand the standard, and don't need to know how computers work.

The result is a maze of arbitrary - but historically rational - rules about when the compiler has to do something sane, and when it is allowed to do whatever the hell it likes to squeeze some micro-improvement from a benchmark.
as someone who was involved with bitcoin since 2009. you are VERY wrong.

this article will probably cover it better than I can.
https://coingeek.com/core-think-bitcoin-cash/

but there was only ever the "big blocks" camp to begin with. Starting with Satoshi and Gavin Andresen. The "small block" movement is the newer "vision" and didn't/wouldn't exist if not for the financial interest suddenly employing the core developers.

The market has wanted bigger blocks for YEARS, and each attempt was slandered/DDoS'ed/attacked. Bitcoin Cash is the result of the market finally getting what it wants.
How about a GoFundMe to pay for crackers to accesses the politicians' personal data and distribute it?
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Rust has the capability to, and I believe the developers have expressed they are amenable to, internalizing crates that become the best solutions for a problem.

Would you rather a flawed, or later deemed incomplete internal solution be implemented and then the language is forced to support it in perpetuity, or would you rather one or more solutions get tried and the best implementation and syntax eventually accepted into core?

EcmaScript can do the same, and finally has[1], but it moves so slowly and has so many competing interests that it seems to take forever for that to happen.

1: https://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/8.0/index.html#s...
I mean, it's feasible now; plenty of folks use vector rendering: Caching the result makes the CPU rendering much easier to deal with. The GPU would really help more with animations and dynamically constructed vectors.

In any case, I suspect something like lyon (https://github.com/nical/lyon) would be a better fit than pathfinder, which is both a) not super portable and b) very focused on rendering text, which it does very well.
Right? I just got a new phone that has 128 Gb of internal storage. 334 Mb app? no problem.
Has there been consensus on whether renewables can power our society and industry on their own? Or for that matter generate more power than we currently need to drive further progress?
I estimated the cost really badly based on the go egress pricing.

Also, I was thinking that gsuite would be the cheapest option since it has "unlimited" storage.
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Nuclear power generation and agricultural GMOs definitely do have their opponents that use end-of-the-world kinds of arguments, and the uninformed that accept those.

Nuclear especially would be my go-to pristine example of this effect.
This is one reason I don't run RHEL on bare metal, but only on a VM(ware) host. I know it's not free, and not cheap, but I'd rather not hassle with issues like that.
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Unfortunately, I think the time to back up soundcloud was before anyone could have known we needed to backup soundcloud. A lot of my favorite artists that I discovered there have a third of their original catalog at best left up because of copyright claims, etc. Who decided free songs by hobbyist artists should be banned even from audibility simply because they contain a fraction of a sample of copyrighted materials?

The most egregious example to me was when Madlib released a remix of a Kanye West song that he had produced and it was taken down for copyright by UMG (a shareholder in Soundcloud). That's when I knew the sun had set on Soundcloud as the open creative community it had started as.
Yeah I see. Maybe a few funny examples would suffice.
After the 54 release, it is the better browser frankly, low latency, and not a resource hog. Plugins, extensions, privacy and security defaults all seem to be better as well.

Using firefox focus on android is pretty great too. The normal firefox on android is just slow, not sure why.
> Non-Google devices are typically infested with all sorts of vendor junk, so that's not an improvement.

Honestly, I'd don't see much making Samsung's “vendor junk” any worse than Apple's, but, sure, if you prefer Apple's software to that provides by the major Android device makers, that's a legitimate reason to prefer iOS to Android. The patently false idea that Android devices, as a class, don't have a physical home key is not.

> The flagship devices don't have a physical home button.

Many Android flagship phones do. Google's Pixel line does not, but while Pixel might fairly be called an Android flagship phone (well, two, the base model and the XL) or Google's flagship phone(s), it's clearly not the whole of the space of Android flagships.
Actually, it would be more like all of that stuff already existed, but it was a woeful and Byzantine process to get all of it lined up for your particular lightbulb.
Fuzzy reasons abound, but you do occasionally see this. One major often-complete-blocker that I've seen though has been ungood rendering, so results aren't always identical on all devices. You can't really rely on the device's possibly-weird implementation (who knows what the OEM did to it)(except on iThings probably), so you're forced to bundle an svg renderer that works reliably on all devices and has consistent behavior, and good luck finding a high quality lib that does that[1]. And, to be friendly to the designers, it has to be reasonably full-featured.

[1]: but if you know of one, I'd love to use it!
DEC had COPY on their PDP-10 operating system at least as far back as 1975 when I started using it. DOS clearly had a lineage going back through CPM to DEC.

The CR-LF line endings also trace their way back to DEC.
I think it's a little more to it than that - it's not just that they made money of piracy, but also the publicity and prestige around the case. I'd liken it to what happened with Kevin Mitnick - when he eluded the FBI for so long - and the surrounding pressure to increase sentencing around unauthorized access to computer systems. The lobby powers are a bit different this time around, with copyright being the main issue - but "damages" are just as, if not way more, overblown IMNHO.

Piss off large conglomerates, and they'll in turn get the government to throw the book at you, even if they have to write a new book to get it done...
It only takes a few hours of sunlight to power humanity for a year. The amount of energy is not the question, it's scaling up collection.
I wonder if our respected peers on the Left will ever decide that their politics are the ones supported by "The System" and that they are perhaps not the rebels they thought they were?

When Google and Facebook (among others) are explicitly enforcing censorship favoring the leftist worldview it really makes me wonder who stands to benefit and whether it is done with good intentions.
You phrase it as if this is a daily occurrence, "other agencies request info & access". In Germany, when intelligence agencies merge with ordinary law enforcement, we call it Gestapo.

There should be by definition very little overlap between the two. Law enforcement works nationally, where law applies; intelligence agencies can not work where law applies, because they would be in flagrant violation of it.
That's almost as bad as the autogenerated SVG I once was sent that used hundreds of thousands of think horizontal lines to fill an area. Instead of, you know, a filled polygon.

The sheer number of vectors could make any renderer I threw at it crash.
> As a minor point, dual/triple class shares are still allowed so FB, GOOG and BRK are still ok.

No, they are also disallowed from being added to the index, but are being grandfathered in.
The default metadata pool size chosen by anaconda, at least up to RHEL 7.3, is paltry. Something like 100 MB for terabytes of data. Why they chose that is beyond me. Anaconda won't let you configure it manually during installation either. It'll get full in no time. Automatic extension is disabled by default. If you're lucky, you'll realize this by looking at your own logs. Then you'll try to extend it, at which point you'll realize that extending it won't extend the pmspare vol, and you've effectively disabled the pmspare functionality.
you laughed? I put my head through a wall...
It seems like AI is the new stem cell in terms of public attitudes towards the research. It isn't just lay people. Elon Musk seems to have no idea what a neural net actually is and he is funding a private AI lab!
If you don't hold your keys, you're subject to the decisions of those who do. Coinbase is a good enough steward of most people's bitcoins that it's a fine trade-off.
> those costs will come down as (if) we start ramping up construction and learn to avoid the cost overruns and get experience decommissioning plants.

Sorry but that's a rather naive expectation. We have plenty of other technologies, which are far more developed than nuclear, and they still end up going over budget quite often.

How long have we been building nuclear reactors? For decades, yet we are nowhere close to "avoid cost overruns", how many decades more of building overpriced and outdated designs do we need to get to that point? And how many Fukushimas, Chernobyls and Three Mile Islands are we prepared to endure until we actually reach this hypothetical point in human history?

We mostly learn from mistakes, but with nuclear, the mistakes are very pricey, not just in economic terms but especially in environmental terms.
Well, it is part of Mozilla TestPilot, whose goal is to let you test experimental functions in exchange to extensive tracking of your use of those functions.
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"I shaved off 3 bytes with eval() and a regex"
Yep, look at China and see how it only affects common people. Anybody with a minimum of knowledge is able to open a VPN out of the country.
It's been a historically valuable heuristic -- algorithms/theories that provide cognitive scaffolding allow us not only to solve related problems but reason about the limits of applicability of that theory, successively guiding discovery of new theory. Obviously our cognitive envelope doesn't just include our own brains but the tools we use, including computational ones, so it's not as if pure proof/pure prediction don't also have value for guiding discovery, but it does require a lot of ingenuity to find ways to exploit them.
And not just S&P, also FTSE Russell: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-27/index-pla...

This is a big deal (in a good way, IMO). Companies have a very real disincentive to go public with a shareholder-rights-unfriendly listing now, since a large portion of the passive investment universe will be prohibited from ever buying.

I see this as a case where everybody wins: the default option ends up being friendly to shareholder rights, but if you really want to and are in an advantageous position you still have the option to list go public with non-voting/less-voting shares if you want to gamble.
Dick's probably didn't compile this themselves.
I mean, I don't care what Google wants lol. I've moved everything except Chrome on Windows, and Google Voice because of no replacement.

I'm not complaining because I'm locked in by Google, I've switched to Safari on OS X with no issue at all - I don't miss Chrome in the slightest. Yet, on Windows, Firefox is proving to be a hurdle.

It's on Mozilla, not Google. Imo
Kite basically just invented a new spyware/malware industry that specifically targets the development community.

This kind of behavior needs to be stomped on hard and fast.
I'm not sure why you make that reference in jest. The piece is brilliant.
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Ask HN: Declarative business app language
I'm thinking there could be a language that is declarative like sql that could create a web/mobile based application that could be used to build Saas type business apps. kind of like a specification language. Does something like this exist?
I'm still waiting for you to open some security/tech risk positions =)
3X molar heat capacity difference, yes. But water is 18 g/mole, and W is about 183 g/mole. So tungsten is about 10x heavier per mole than water.

The parent post happened to pick a solid material for a nice round molar mass ratio.
Do you have a lot of space on your phone, or just not use a lot of apps or media? People might not have the same situation as you.
How centralized does 8mb blocks (the max for BCC) make bitcoin? Seems decentralized enough for me.

Blocksize should be growing at the same rate that bandwidth availability is growing, but is isnt. Why not? That wouldnt affect decentralization at all.
That wouldn't be a proof though. The article is about exhausting the problem space rather than a probabilistic approach.
pretty much 99% JS styles (react, radium, aphrodite css)
Though there was some blue dye before Homer, it was very rare. The Mycenaeans had some, but Homer was ~400 years after the Bronze Age collapse where the techniques to make most things were lost.
I might agree that for very small icons (eg: targeting a ~VGA or 800x600 to maybe 1024x76 phone screen) hand painted bitmap graphics might be best... but shouldn't it be enough to ship 16x16 (or whatever) icons along with vector graphics for high-resolution screens? And if it's too slow to live-render the graphics, how about rendering custom icon sets (etc) on install - using the gpu, and then cache on the device?
I don't think anyone is arguing otherwise. But 2x or 8x'ing the capacity would be welcome, especially a while ago when the mempool was dozens of MB.

It's silly to say it's not a permanent solution therefore not worth doing at all.
Do you like Brave? I've not done too much research on alternate browsers, but at this point as long as I trust the company I'd be willing to try it.

Cliqz is another one I thought about trying, but it is based on Firefox so I'm a bit dismayed haha.
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> And then you'll have to use software written in 50 different styles, with 50 different type and error conventions, with pieces that couple together or not at random.

All of which matters not one hoot to folks _using_ the software.
> Honestly, the popularity of C itself is due to the success of UNIX,

I beg to differ. C was a fairly obscure language until MS-DOS came out. C turned out to be ideal for programming on DOS, and DOS programming was far and away the most programmed system in the world for a decade and a half.

MS-DOS also made C++ into a major language (via Zortech C++). When ZTC++ came out the penetration and popularity of C++ went through the roof.

(Yes, I'm tooting my own horn a bit here. But I honestly believe it is ZTC++ that got C++ its critical mass.)

MS-DOS made C and C++ into the juggernauts they became.
Unfinished nuclear power plants are not uncommon and for anyone in Washington State, the Satsop plant near Olympia is worth a visit. The massive unfinished concrete containment buildings and cooling towers are awe inspiring, and on a quiet morning the place feels almost like some ancient monument. But then again, I'm a romantic.

Some photos from Satsop a few years ago:

- https://photography.mattbierner.com/Satsop-Nuclear-Power-Pla...

- https://photography.mattbierner.com/Satsop-Nuclear-Plant-Mor...
Man, I kind of bemoan the loss of the screen savers... it's a pain to get them running everywhere now. Windows 10 buried it, and seems to reset it on occasion. Ubuntu, you have to install the X screensaver, and change some settings... Mac, not even sure anymore.

I always liked the screensavers, and still do. I use a gaming-friendly 4K TV for my PC monitor at home, and without the screensaver, it shuts off, and doesn't come back on, without the remote.
Hand tweaking for specific resolutions is an art. You can't expect to just render SVG and get equivalent results.
Longer term seasonal storage would be handy too in some areas, I think using excess electricity to make hydrogen/methane/ammonia is one avenue that's being explored.
No. It's successful as a profitable product otherwise you wouldn't have so many content creators get paid a lot of money for creating videos. It's ad revenue sustains itself, and those that create on it quite well.
simple. The cost of pulling it off.

Even if I had a million dollars in funding, that would buy me mining power for oh so long. All the meanwhile, If I change the rules too much no one would even attempt to join my fork.

Even If I had another million dollars to pay developers to build services on my new fork, there'd be no users and no economic activity. The fork would die.

There SHOULD be a lot of hard forks. Why? Because they're voluntary and most will fail without doing harm (they require consensus to matter). The good ones will survive on merit and act as protocol upgrades.
That's fine but there is obviously demand for BCH trading and by not supporting it, Coinbase/GDAX is forcing otherwise happy customers onto competing platforms.
It's not just the install size, but apps which accumulate and seemingly never delete data.

For a while I tried to get by with a 16GB iPhone SE thinking I keep everything in the cloud, so why would I ever need 64GB? Well every couple of months I'd have to delete and re-install NYTimes and reddit and some magazine apps because they just grew and grew and grew in storage until I had 0 space left. Like they simply cache everything you've ever looked at.

It's dumb, because other apps are intelligent -- they'll automatically purge cache data when storage gets too low. But not NYTimes. Not reddit. It seems pretty inexcusable, really.
If anyone wants to see what the "practically empty" mempools look like over time, this is a great resource:

https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#1w

The connection between full blocks and transaction fees is here:

https://i.redd.it/ec0r495f4nny.jpg
> Special registers are just slots at specific memory addresses.

> As far as the rest is concerned, not a single language in the world will provide you with primitives for that and make them portable across a thousand architectures with a million different peripherals.

I'm well aware, that's why I said.

> When you're dealing with the hardware architecture level you need more detail than C (or any PL) can reasonably provide.

A language does not need to provide every hardware primitive, just realize that it can't and implement a sane way to support hardware features that don't require abusing a cumbersome macro system and heavy compiler modification.

> That's the role of libraries and OSes with their drivers.

A ridiculous amount of vulnerabilities and wasted effort are sunk into operating systems and their drivers because of the garbage state of tooling for low level work. It's easy to make statements such as yours until it comes time to write/maintain a multi million line kernel and a only the lord knows how many line driver/subsystem fleet.

Kernel/driver devs do their best to make due, but the situation is far from ideal.
Anyone can create infinite forks similar to BCC/BCH. Should Coinbase support them all?
This article is practically selling Zig. It has all the good stuff mentioned sans traits, and none of the bad stuff. The only new bad thing Zig brings to the table is immaturity. Zig is a much more modest incremental improvement over C whereas rust is trying to introduce this new big idea of the borrow checker.
Well, I can see why Red Hat wouldn't want to support those old cards forever. Including the driver would be easy, but actually supporting it (QA, support...) is not.

They already supported them for close to 10 years, which is much longer than most hardware lifecycles last nowadays (3-5 years).

You could still build a custom kernel but yeah.
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10x comes from weight. 1 mol of Tungsten weights 10x 1 mol of water.
I tried to rewrite the headline to address your criticism, here's my first attempt: "S&P 500 to exclude stocks without voting rights, starting with Snap." However it's longer and headlines need to be short. And it needs to have Snap in the headline or to attract interest.
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Not much is going to change. The police can do this because they are represented by a union. And those unions are allied with other unions and together they dominate the Democratic Party. So the Democrats won't do anything about police abuse of power. Of course, Republicans won't because they like to be seen as 'tough on crime.' Since neither political party is capable of challenging the police unions nothing it likely to change.
Indeed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12990346
> The result is a maze of arbitrary - but historically rational - rules about when the compiler has to do something sane, and when it is allowed to do whatever the hell it likes to squeeze some micro-improvement from a benchmark.

Which is a nice way of saying that sometimes they'll decide to elide chunks of code because they would only be reachable because of undefined behavior, and if that elided code happened to specifically be checking for and handling that undefined case as an error, too bad.[1] :/

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14163111
> We don't have toys that we hand out to toddlers and < 10yo's that encourage the emulation of lethal activities by means of turning a vehicle into a weapon

You obviously never played with your toy cars properly as a child...
For starters, packages should probably be considered non-transferable. If someone buys a package, they shouldn't keep the existing rankings and ratings.

It would be challenging to be proactive about it, but it was be a clear solution when they get caught.