skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was at lunch with a couple friends and they were making fun of Juicero. I hadn't heard of it at this point. I didn't look it up on my phone, but at least one of my friends did. That afternoon I started seeing Juicero ads non-stop on Facebook. Was Facebook listening or did they connect the dots that my phone was in the same restaurant as friends who were Googling Juicero and figured we had been talking about it?

Another time I was on a road trip with a friend, driving through a food desert. We were talking about our food options -- stuff we never eat like McDonalds, Wendys, etc. Guess what pops up on Facebook moments later? An ad for Wendys! Were they listening? Or did they just connect the dots that it was lunch time, that we'd been driving for a long time without eating & that Wendys was one of the only options around?

In both instances, there were non-microphone explanations but creepy/impressive nonetheless.
An interesting article that claims that the US is unmatched in the undersea theatre.

http://nationalinterest.org/print/feature/nuclear-submarines...
"People seem to always bring this up but what's better?"

"Better" is a slippery term. Code doesn't exist in a vacuum, but rather in an external world that has other constraints (e.g., time and budget).

If using formal proofs means that you go through one development cycle while your competitor is iterating three, four, or five times, your milkshake is going to be drunk.
>I'm wondering, if the laws pass, can people use Tor to keep the actual site they visit hidden, and avoid caps?

I guess:

Keep sites visited hidden? Sure.

But: It will be obvious that [i]something[/i] is being kept hidden.

It would help avoiding blacklists (slowing Netflix),unless/until known tor nodes get blacklisted, then cat n mice to get non-blacklisted tor access.
It would not help avoiding whitelists (caps on everything except the "partner" sites)
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Or in other words, they are listening, just not to your voice. Their product is an intelligence-gathering apparatus that works at scale without microphones or other traditional surveillance tools.
Nah, he just wants to finish his project, and the one way he has found to fund it is to become a flat-earther and get their money.
On my end, I never actually stopped using Firefox after Chrome came out. I had Chrome installed and used it mostly for testing and validation of web code, but my day-to-day was Firefox. I had my extensions configured and setup in it and my large collection of bookmarks was there (I guess I was just too lazy to import them into Chrome). I think the main reason I stuck with Firefox was because I used Android and the Firefox browser on Android supported my extensions -- the most important being uBlock Origin, so the browsing experience was better even though the overall performance wasn't great -- and since my bookmarks were synced, it just worked out better for me that way.

I ran Developer edition, so I received the updated that killed most of my extensions earlier than most and I realized that the main reason I used Firefox was because of my collection of extensions -- many of which now didn't work. So I abandoned Firefox on all but mobile earlier this year and switched to Vivaldi (chromium based)[0].

Now that my most important extensions are available (though still haven't found uBlock Protector), I've started using Quantum again. I'm really enjoying the fact that HTML5/Flask autoplay can be disabled in "about:config" (and that it works, unlike the myriad of extensions I installed for Vivaldi claiming to do the same but which mostly broke things like gifv playback and random non-YouTube video sites that would still autoplay or would simply refuse to play). Firefox Quantum is faster and I'm back to being a (mostly) happy Firefox user, again. Last night I removed the icons for Opera and Vivaldi from my task bar to keep me from accidentally starting them due to muscle memory (and therefore adding bookmarks in a place where I will lose them).

[0] No, I don't have a thing against Google, I just preferred the high-degree of customization that Firefox/Vivaldi gave me over Chrome. I don't like Chrome's opinionated configuration panel -- I'm a developer and I like knobs to turn. Though Vivaldi lacked the conveniences of syncing things between my various machine so I ended up on Opera rather regularly.
Valid points but doesn’t address the basic idea that fb knows their code is widely scrutinized. If they process or transmit audio surreptitiously, or have done so, they’d be found out. Their app is so pervasive that it’s exceedingly unlikely that they’d be able to hide any such mechanism for long.
TR busted the trusts all those years ago, and contrary to popular belief, our plutocrats were spared the guillotine. A few decades later we got Glass-Steagall, then the New Deal, yet somehow capitalism managed to survive.

Her premise that inaction in the face of immense private, unelected, and unaccountable power is preferable to government intervention because a bunch of bureaucrats are going to turn us into a technologically stagnated eastern bloc is BS. Plain and simple.
it's not even true. ISPs have a much greater ability to unilaterally shape what americans see than google or facebook.
You probably wouldn't do that sort of processing constantly on device. Battery intensive
In America’s Heartland, the Nazi Sympathizer Next Door
NB: This is actually how people in the middle ages knew the earth wasn't flat. They could watch ships drop down over the horizon from the harbor.
And how would you regulate Google, by whom? US government? EU, China, Russia? Who is in charge of the Internet, and why would the rest of the world obey that? Do we create some UN body to regulate it? Put some international professional bureaucrats in charge of it, who would then be open to corruption and day-to-day political games of power, like we see in every other aspect of UN work. It's not enough to say "I don't like the way it is", we also need to come up with some sort of solution that has a chance of working better. And I haven't heard it yet...
Not very many buildings are that high:

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

1WTC is a little short, but the only one in the US which is close to that height.
Yeah, when you think about Chrome's being selling points - a browser that won't crash just because one tab does, sandboxing, and responsiveness - it's literally all just from their multiproc architecture. It bought them so much to have that from the state.

But, like Firefox, they now have a big codebase to maintain and it's not so easy to get massive perf improvements because changing up architecture is painful.
The government is the people. It's a particular disease of the American public to believe otherwise.

Yes, bureaucracy isn't efficient. But ultimately its decisions reflects the demos. If the people don't believe in positive government, it will be poor, like the US. But it isn't always that way (but it is usually still inefficient).

Lobby groups for minority interests are orthogonal to charity, or should be, otherwise money will buy more political influence than the demos warrants. That is, minority influence should be proportional to people involved, not money spent.
I get the impression that a lot of white supremacists specifically fetishize the legacy of colonialism, either per se or as symbolic of white superiority stabbed in the back by political correctness. I've seen them invoking defunct colonial names and symbols for now-independent nations, e.g. "Rhodesia" [1] (which I encountered "in the wild" when looking for a good recording of Warren Zevon's "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" on YouTube).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodesia
Rent component of CPI: is it all rents (lagging indicator) or just newly singed leases (current indicator)?
That's going to be really hard when the court is stacked with those sympathetic to the conglomerate because it can buy unlimited political influence.

This is not the case when there's a multitude of smaller players that have a vested interest in maintaining a competitive marketplace, or where they're all boxed in by regulations so that investors don't get wild ideas about unlimited potential profits.
SCOTUS has routinely smacked down the notion of unlimited free speech without consequence. Hate speech is legal and generally allowed on public property as with any speech. Speech that incites violence against others is not.

So for instance it's legal in the US to say "Group X is subhuman and shouldn't be allowed to marry" but it's not oka to say "We should go murder Group X now.", especially when you have the means and motivation to do it. For instance while it is very common to make threats against the US president regardless of party, it's often seriously reviewed for obvious reasons and is not considered protected speech.
That kind of thing is common when you use openssl < 1.1.0 without building it with -DPURIFY because it uses some uninitialized memory with its PRNG and this then "infects" other memory reads/writes and branches for valgrind.

https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/d8ca44ba4158a9dafe...
Making sure it’s all pro-China puppets in charge is a pretty good way to get what you want sooner.
Interesting choice. I've been using ` (backtick) for command key, which has the advantage of not requiring a control key input.

I just realized though that I don't have a mapping for last-window. And there doesn't seem to be a default.
This is highly variable based on the person involved. You can survive up to three months. Some people might die a lot sooner due to a variety of factors.
Which journalists? City papers have managed their writing/editing workflows in software specifically meant for newsrooms since long before there were GUIs. Freelancers, maybe?
From the linked Gizmodo article (https://gizmodo.com/the-last-of-the-iron-lungs-1819079169):

> When Lillard is outside of the tank, she can breathe using a positive-pressure ventilator, a smaller device that pushes air into her lungs. But that instrument doesn’t provide the same relief as when she puts her entire body into the 640-pound, 7-and-a-half-foot-long apparatus. Plus forcing air into the lungs can cause inflammation or damage the air sacs.
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Finally made it through this. Very interesting talk and it confirms my understanding that lock free is not wait free and that with hardware atomic instructions you're delegating the locking to the hardware but still relying on correctly placed memory barriers to guarantee the consistency you need.
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Canarytokens – honeypot tokens that tell you when someone used them
The article said the "study" was specific to physical threats versus other threats. Conservatives were more likely to sway towards liberal positions if their physical safety was secure.
Exactly. If you want to take peoples money what better group to pick than a group of fools?
They don't need a re-entry vehicle to cause enormous damage to a target. An atmospheric detonation would be sufficient to knock out electrical systems over multiple states in an instant.

Can you imagine the mess that Puerto Rico is on power-wise, except over all of California, Nevada, Utah and Oregon?
The lack of actual responses to your question here is a bit entertaining. "Of course they are not", "it's not possible", "iOS/Android is safe" etc. Almost like it is offensive to ask.

I can't help but remember my incredulous reaction to ECHELON in the 90s and how it turned out to be not just true, but much worse than the original "conspiracy theory".

A very relevant example: https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/36569
Windows 10 also re-enables ipv6 on major updates. It’s nice to try to explain to grandma how to turn it off again, so the pc would actually have working internet again.

Yes, turning on ipv6 should not break the net. Let me introduce you to the concept of ”shitty modems from shitty isps”.
I'd also reference Rosetta Code (http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code) to get a taste of Ada. I use it sometimes when I forget some simple stuff.

For C++ and Java practitioners : https://www.adacore.com/books/ada-for-the-c-or-java-develope... .

There's also http://university.adacore.com .

For Spark2014 you might want to start with AdaCore University also, or if you're in Paris in December there is a public training session : https://www.adacore.com/public-spark-training .

Then you might want to look up an implementation guidance : https://www.adacore.com/books/implementation-guidance-spark

And no I don't work for AdaCore :-D.
I'm currently using LastPass and their macOS app seriously annoys me (why do I have to click an OK button every time I save a new password?).

They seem to get their UI right at least. Plus, bears are cute.

Edit: No support for folders/categories it seems. That sucks a bit.
wish i could zoom the page with pinch on the trackpad like i did with chrome..
Seems like just a mismatch in organization type. A capital-B Business cares deeply about the bottom line. An organization that primarily wants to "do good" and so forth is perhaps a non-profit or charity. There's absolutely nothing wrong with being a non-profit or a charity, but that's certainly not what Etsy is.

I get the tension between impacting the world for the better and keeping an ever-increasing number of lights on. It is an interesting tension.
Did you also get in the habit of using $(<command>) instead of `<command>` for substitution? I keep falling back into using backticks if I'm not thinking too much about it.
North Korea knows that the US knows that if the US invades or attempts a "decapitation strike" there's a very good chance they'll get off at least one nuke and that nuke has a very good chance of hitting a very vulnerable target.

By having their hand on the button at all times it means the US can't pressure them militarily, and if the US can't do that, the US can't really do anything.

Is the US prepared to exchange millions of lives in exchange for bombing North Korea into oblivion and, if Iraq is any example, facing decades of anti-US terrorism? It's not something you can win with military force at this point.

The only way to fix North Korea is to try and carrot-and-stick your way out of it.
Curious, because HN discussions are mainly in English: are conversations mostly in English or Japanese?

How's the ratio of locals to foreigners?
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> "I don't believe in science," Hughes added. "I know about aerodynamics and fluid dynamics and how things move through the air, about the certain size of rocket nozzles, and thrust. But that's not science, that's just a formula. There's no difference between science and science fiction."

Tip: don't use leading spaces to quote things on HN. Instead, use either:

> The text.

or:

> *The text.*

depending on whether you want italics or not. (Italics can be helpful if you are interspersing quotes with other comments of your own; probably not needed for a simple quote like this.)

We're pretty limited in formatting options here, so those are about the best you can do.
No not the specific solution, but the concept of having to pointers moving at different speeds did be pretty clear no?

It is really not a hard problem. If you are dealing with cirular lists you will end up having to solve it sooner or later. The "open question in CS for 12 years" is probably easier explained by "nobody could be bothered" than "it is hard".
I think one of the questions at the end covers this. The speaker admits the lock choice is a gimmick and reiterates that the time sink is related to thrashing on the cache line.
Your whole thread of comments simply sounds paranoid and detached from the reality that the US maintains and funds the continued development of the most advanced strategic warfare system in the world.

The Russians and Chinese can't even deploy a reliable survivable force. Their boomers are either rusting or poorly tested and their forces underfunded.

They can't even regularly deploy attack submarines to the Atlantic Ocean -- how are they going to simultaneously fix, track, and neutralize the US boomer force?

Your entire train of thought on US/RF/PRC deterrence relationships is fantastical.
I wasn't even asking for fancy + perf. Even average website would take a second to show their tab.

I don't have a recent machine, but chrome (even stable) has no issue at all flying with my x200.

I wonder how firefox perf will evolve with more and more rewrites (rust modules etc)
Firefox is a great browser, but what bothers me:

- Design: On Windows it integrates better but on MacOS the header is just somehow ugly. Chrome just feels more stable in this point. Also the scrolling to top when Chrome goes over the 0px line and bounces back - that's just a nicer behaviour.

- Clearing history and cookies: I yet didn't manage to find a fast solution to do this in Firefox.

Please, dear Firefox team, if you read this, improve it and you got me back!
No it doesn't, however a decent few slices of meat make for a far better sandwich than what we get here in many places - a mere sliver.
We do have such languages. For example, Java has JML [1], C has the very similar ACSL, and a programming language like Idris has a type system that can express arbitrary logical propositions (there are various tradeoffs that may influence the choice between a rich type system a-la Idris or a rich contract system a-la JML, but many of the principles are the same).

The problem is that we do not yet know how to make effective use of such code-level specifications. Finding a cost/benefit sweet spot is not easy (I personally prefer the JML approach precisely because I think it allows for greater flexibility in the choice of tradeoffs vis-a-vis confidence vs. cost).

[1]: http://www.openjml.org/
Where can I buy a MiG-29 for that price?
Well, a $20000 budget can get you comfortably to any of the 1800+ft buildings, faster and safer. It's probably enough to go to all of them...
Positive pressure ventilators can damage alveoli. They also can incubate bacteria and introduce infection.

You're right that the trade off in quality of life is one that many people think is worthwhile.
Sorry for not responding sooner, but I agree with you completely that the right thing to do is not to focus on "how many" `unsafe` lines you have, but how well encapsulated they are into a module that can't be broken by outside input. And I'm glad we both see this. My "problem" is less that `unsafe` doesn't do the things I mentioned, but that whenever Rust and `unsafe` come-up there tends to be lots of people who don't understand what it is, or how it works, and I think that is a very dangerous mindset because it leads to completely pointless (and dangerous, from a safety perspective) stuff like how that paper literally measured how many lines were `unsafe` and displayed it as a percentage to prove their code was good.

With all that said, while this is a separate topic, I think that the complete lack of a spec for lots of details surrounding `unsafe` makes it still basically impossible to do correctly. I think Rust really needs some type of language spec, but it doesn't look like any work is being done on that front [0].

[0] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/30500 - I apologize for this link being a bit of a rabbit-hole, but I think the whole thing is a very interesting read. It continues on here (https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/1447), and then to a repo for a Rust Memory Model specification here (https://github.com/nikomatsakis/rust-memory-model). Unfortunately, as you can probably tell, those conversions started in Dec 2015, and any real work on this front seems to have stalled almost a year ago.
With tmux being more client/server based, it's more scriptable. You can run tmux commands inside or outside of tmux session which is really useful - for example you can use send-keys to perform actions within a session. You can pretty easily script things like initial session/window/pane configuration. I'm not sure you can do that with screen.
PSA: Add print=1 to old gamasutra articles to get a single page.

https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131577/halflife_and_t...

Also, the reason many don't use TCP is that while it guarantees ordering and packet arrival people completely forget that it's doing that by adding an indeterminate amount of latency. It's not some "packets arrive perfectly / user different pipes, because [magic]" solution.
> For example, the claim that there's "nothing illegal" about it, which is factually wrong as lots of the content on Daily Stormer would easily break a couple of German laws

This isn't an argument that an American ISP could use to censor content under our current regulation, why should a CDN be allowed to?

> I doubt what happened there was "a small number of private companies decided to exercise their considerable control over what we’re allowed to read"

In the words of Cloudflare's CEO: “I woke up in a bad mood and decided someone shouldn’t be allowed on the internet.” So I'd say your doubt is misplace, that's a pretty accurate description of what did happen.

Whether or not you consider TDS a victim of some ominous international conspiracy is up to you. But they're certainly not a beneficiary of a regulatory environment in which the internet is neutral and views can't be silence. At least not the American internet, as you pointed out, they're still up but they had to move their hosting to Hong Kong to stay up. So I think it's fair to say that American net neutrality failed them.

Now, of course, you may be of the mind: "Who cares? They're Nazis they deserve what they got." But as soon as you go down the path of "we treat sites neutrally... we just treat some sites more neutrally than others." It begins to erode your support as people wonder if they'll eventually be part of the excepted group that doesn't get net neutrality.
The story that just won't die...

It's been posted 10 times in the last 3 days, getting votes most times, flagged other times.[0]

Curious what the record is for the most-submitted story submitted.

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=flat%20earth&sort=byPopularity...
> 180mph+

That's rather excessively fast. It might end up with some tricky recursion issues where other paramedics will have to fix the first ones on even faster motorcycles.
First Past the Post voting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo

Range Voting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3GFG0sXIig

Single Transferable vote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8XOZJkozfI

Do away with voting booths, attach voting to everyone's tax forms. Give everyone a $5 tax credit for voting. People who don't do taxes can go to a public library and just pull the voting portion off of the tax forms there and mail it in.

Break up corporations in every sector of the economy and either resell the chunks back to the market or turn them all into 100% worker owned and operated co-ops.
It's close to quake 3 protocol as well.
It's not uncommon to see fake server listings with fake players and server information, some of them even allow you to connect to.
I would cost, what, $400 or so to charter a boat from Los Angeles Harbor to just head due west? The way the insanity compounds on itself is spectacular.