skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
&[T] are commonly created from stack allocated arrays, and &str are even more commonly created from read only string literals... so I don't think it's correct so say that those "usually" point to things on the heap. (But of course the definition of "usually" could vary, it wouldn't shock me to find out they did 60% of the time).

Or did you mean &T usually points to things on the heap, in which case I should just say it very very commonly points to stack allocated things as well.
Oh sure. But there's a very plausible explanation why "the obvious test" might not have caught this bug...
Any time!
They only list her first name plus the initial of the last name, as customary.
Natural selection. Sites that use this tactic would get less revenue and thus have a higher chance of dying than those that don't. Therefore, over time, sites would trend towards not having that feature.
I'm really curious if there are any plans to have an interpreter for this language? I'd love to be able to provide it in a sort of python notebook type setting to help work with data/events. Imagine using it to create an 'if this then that' type service where signals could be external api references.

I'm really excited to learn more about this language.
> That is, AT&T should be allowed to provide a service in which data bytes flowing between an operating room and a surgeon take precedence over bytes of 100 dudes Googling to find out whether Jennifer Lawrence is married

So the surgeon/operating room can pay more money for a faster link. Just like there are different tiers of internet already with different speeds. I don't see how NN affects this.
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HPwn – HP printer security research code
Apparently garbage is really routinely checked for trace contamination of radioactivity.
He's stuck inside
Packet.net, arguably the leader in api driven, on demand bare metal instances, recently blogged about this:
https://www.packet.net/blog/why-we-cant-wait-for-aws-to-anno...

I am a customer of packet's, along with other virtual and dedicated hosting providers. I don't use aws ec2.
I've been pleased with Packet, and their offerings are much more diverse than this initial offering from aws.
Elon Musk has finished building the biggest battery in the world
The second link does nothing to refute the idea that bitcoin, as an investment instrument, is purely speculative. The author simply argues that bitcoin is unique among money-like assets.

The first link describes the hypothetical utility of bitcoin, but does nothing to explain a natural reason that bitcoin should have returns or appreciation. In fact, since the author describes bitcoin as a "medium to store wealth," the assumption should be that every buying transaction has an opposite selling transaction, which means there would be little to no overall price impact from any of the described activities.

I wouldn't scramble to dismiss what Jack Bogle says. He may be 88, but he has earned a reputation as a clever, knowledgeable, and decent fellow.
The website doesn't look good on mobile. Some text is covered by a button or the title is too large for one line.
The truth is simple, many of Amazon sellers are double or even triple dropshippers.

They ordered your package from another dropshipper, and sent you a parcel with a correct tracking number to fool Amazon into thinking that the parcel was already shipped.
I have two use cases:

- General performance analysis. For this more counters is generally incrementally better.

- Running https://github.com/mozilla/rr. This requires the retired-branch-counter to be available (and accurate - sometimes virtualization messes that up)

The second one I actually care more about, because I've pretty much stopped trying to debug software when rr is not available, too painful ;). Feel free to email me (email is in my profile) for gory details.
No, by default, root has an undefined password and cannot log in from a terminal or ssh, but that doesn't mean it doesnt exist. If you make a SSH key for the root user and place it on his folder you wont need to set up a password and will be able to login just fine as UID 0. If you do 'sudo -s' as an administrator and then run 'passwd' to set the root passwd, you're not magically creating a root account, you're only changing the settings for that user, but it was already there
I think you missed the point, Scandinavian countries are closer to that perfect sphere in a vacuum, they are much more free of external pressures than those in poorer countries. They make their choices on what will make them happiest and not on some harsh economic realities.
Tensegrity
Kudos for reporting this publicly! We need this kind of stuff exposed publicly so that companies fix the issue and force an update. At the same time, consumers should be made aware of what security holes look like and what the risks are. Apple has been getting away with this stuff for a while now.

Do you think a hacker with ill-intent would have reported this issue at all?
Me too. I found *&var quite confusing.
Good point, I guess, although I was responding to the parent's post that cited meatworld-based regulations as a compensatory excuse for the need for frequent recharging.

Sure, many electric and autonomous vehicle problems go away if we "simply" re-engineer millions of miles of roads and infrastructure in the country. Now you've got two problems.
SoftBank raised $93B in equity from investors. It also issued about $5B in bonds in July, as well as a large amount of loans from Japanese and East Asian banks (over $25B). The rates are extremely favorable despite the high risk associated with SoftBank's investments.

I'm bullish on SoftBank, but it's indisputable that it's gotten a hell of a deal. The upside for the banks is they get their principal + interest back. The downside for the banks is that they lent the cash at low-risk rates for high-risk assets.
A while ago a built a little website in my spare time to help make lists like these.

Here is my personal list if its of interest to you: https://iwantdis.com/collections/jbZbqeUX
FWIW, as a mostly Android user, the latest Oreo update was pretty terrible as well. Its all about adding new "features" just for new features sake isnt it.
Normally, it isn't! Unfortunately, "good enough" is relative, and for some applications this is vitally important.

I'm not trying to knock Go's performance here; from a naive standpoint, GC'ing only some pointers is better than GC'ing all of them like you have in more traditional garbage-collected languages, but it's still easier to know what exactly is being heap allocated and what isn't in a language like Java precisely because you know that all objects are on the heap. From what I've seen of low-level optimizations in Go code, it relies heavily on techniques like generating flame graphs to analyze where allocations are occurring, which IMO isn't a very good workflow, whereas in Rust you could do this much more easily by just looking at the types that are used. I don't think this approach is necessarily incompatible with garbage collection; theoretically a language like Go could have separate vector and slice types like Rust does, and I think that would make these types of optimizations much easier!

(I'm also not sure why you were downvoted for asking this; it's a perfectly reasonable question)
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Thanks; I remember reading this in the LBL library, and just ordered a copy!
If there's anything modern along these lines which doesn't concentrate on "quantum computing" I'd love to know about it.
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Deep Work by Cal Newport
It's still the last generation of Xeons, but it's a beast.
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EC2: Simpler Access to Spot Capacity, Smooth Price Changes, Instance Hibernation
Great, a complex way to do what should just happen automatically (adjusting to changed resolution or resized terminals).

As a long time vim/tmux user, I'm just done with these powerful tools that I have to spend all my time configuring to make useful (nevermind seamless or delightful). It's masochistic. I have way better, meatier, more meaningful things to work on than my dot files.
Am I missing something, or couldn't you just merge the lists like you would in merge sort?

Begin with a pointer at the start of each list, find the minimum of the elements being pointed at and increment that pointer, until all pointers are at the end of their respective lists. You could possibly even do it in place.

That was my first thought anyway.
Updated with no problem at all.
Teenagers don't really play outside.

I was outside all the time before age 13 - after that I started going to the mall and talking on the phone and working on the computer in lieu of outdoor activities.

This was back in the early 90s. No need to panic.
I know Trey Harris. I remember when he first posted about this. I was the Sr. Internet Mail Administrator for AOL at the time, and I just about passed out from laughing so hard.
UTC FTW!
still more lackluster hype for tmux that falls sort of making me bother to even install it.

I work on ton of remote machines, and it usually goes like

tmux
command not found
screen
The title on this link is misleading. The link is notable because the posted solution by chethan177 (a week ago) describes the passwordless root login bug that gained notoriety after being disclosed on Twitter earlier today.
This lead me to think: "Parents now spend twice as much time with their children as 50 years ago" - well no wonder parents seem stressed and overworked!
Isn't it the case that the compiler allocates objects on the heap if the reference escapes the function, and allocates on the stack if the reference doesn't?
Your comment about everyone using Apple is accurate only for certain wealthy and highly educated subsets of certain western nations.
This seems like a truly amazing event. I've been given pause at the... well, gravity... of graveyards before and found myself wondering why there aren't gatherings of this nature.

Did you attend this event?

Thanks for posting.
What most forget is that making them title II was a rollback in itself back to pre-2002, 2005 internet.
AWS already had dedicated instances, but they still had a VM running on top. These are bare metal, which means you run directly on the hardware.
Do you believe that someone in sound mind will take 1,000 photos of a VHS tape to put on a low-traffic blog?
Telecom regulator in India backs net neutrality, says internet an open platform
No stores in HK accept weixin wallet, so it is kinda useless
Chuwi CoreBook gets 8 GB RAM if Indiegogo funding reaches $100k
> they like to demonize bitcoin which actually does something gold could never do

The practical utility of Bitcoin represents only a very small fraction of its price.

The price of bitcoin has climbed more than tenfold in a year - so what is causing this huge increase in demand? Compared to a year ago, are there 10 times as many drugs being purchased on the darknet with bitcoin? No. Are there 10 times as many Chinese people trying to get their money out of China? No. If anything, the utility of bitcoin has diminished as the transaction cost has risen.

The only reasonable explanation is that most people are buying bitcoin simply to sell at a higher price later. In that regard it's the same as gold, but also the same as every bubble asset in history.
Wellll, it sure is a good thing that users can just login as root now in order to fix this!
is this a canned version of apache spot?

http://spot.incubator.apache.org/
Neither have I, don't worry. Nor House of Madmen (whatever) or the latest installment on vampires. In fact, no TV at all.

My life is fine.
Looks like what casinos do when they throw cards away so they can't be scavenged and used for play.
the MOST STUPID OS bug FOREVER?
> find the minimum of the elements being pointed at

Can you describe how you would do this and talk about how it would impact the time complexity of the algorithm?
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"find the minimum of the elements being pointed at" - doing that efficiently (e.g. with a heap) is the 'trick' to the problem.
I don't see this post. What is it telling?
If your testers only test the obvious things you're screwed.
A. Hey edited „Feynman Lectures on Computation” for publication and later collected some assorted papers of guest lecturers Feynman would invite in „Feynman and computation – exploring the limits of computers”. This „It from bit” paper by Wheeler (Feynman’s advisor) is the 19th there.
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Unfortunately, the IVRs persisted. It's going to be more complex for chatbots though because they will have to compete with other automated solutions that are proven to work to some degree, including phone trees.
"Note: This solution might be specific to High Sierra"

"Solution 2 worked for me. No idea how or why. Hope this helps."

User seems to have known about it at least 2 weeks ago. Wonder if they realized that it's a glaring security issue. It's hard to tell from the comment if this something they found themselves or saw or heard about it from someone else.

It would be interesting to search other forums, maybe in different languages to see how long has this been known.
The Aeon 14 novels following Tanis Richards[1] have been a consistently good read. The Intrepid Saga and The Orion War series. Haven't ventured into the other offshoots as yet.

The Dome Trilogy[2] was also pretty good, as are the Rho Agenda series[3][4][5].

And if you prefer horror to sci-fi, the I Am Not a Serial Killer series[6] was very good overall, although I thought it lost some steam in the last two books.

And finally, The Rosie Project[7] was so completely charming I ended up reading it straight through in one night.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/6426890.M_D_Cooper

[2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25501349-unexpected-rain

[3] https://www.goodreads.com/series/61746-the-rho-agenda

[4] https://www.goodreads.com/series/142618-the-rho-agenda-incep...

[5] https://www.goodreads.com/series/175066-rho-agenda-assimilat...

[6] https://www.goodreads.com/series/49883-john-cleaver

[7] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18015965-the-rosie-proje...
Interestingly that post, with its two solutions and the note that "Solution 2 worked for me", gives an impression of being pasted from some other documentation or a conversation with a support technician. That just raises more questions!
Has it been? I was around for Bubble 1.0 and I don't recall the level of brazen lawlessness we're seeing with Uber.
I don't think it's very useful for local dev, but it is a lifesaver for SSH work on spotty connections (or any other case where you might want to leave a workspace intact despite losing connection). But if you're already using iTerm, you should just use its built in tmux integration, which lets you keep using iTerm splits and windows while iTerm handles the tmux stuff. You can do this by launching tmux with the -CC option:

tmux -CC attach || tmux -CC

This is one of my favorite things about iTerm! Combine that with custom profiles for each server and automatic profile switching (and a few other gems), and working remotely is scarcely harder than working locally!

The vim stuff is not too hard to get around IIRC. I don't remember the details, but you can have a look at my .vimrc [0] if you want an example that works on remote servers through tmux with iterm.

[0] https://github.com/stefco/dotfiles/blob/master/linkfiles/.vi...
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Great! It makes my Macbook mine with full control!
Microsoft is bringing clever tabs to every Windows 10 app
I'd have to argue it's because Bitcoin went net-positive after the BCH fork -- that shows a bit of resilience and probably would inspire false confidence in speculators.
how exactly does this happen. This has to involve protocol change or is there something in bitcoin protocol that forks around a chain when a double spend is detected. And how exactly is a double spend detected ?
This same subset is where Microsoft made its bread and butter for two decades, and still continues to earn a pretty penny.
Google will fix Pixel 2 reboot issues ‘in the coming weeks’
I see domain was registered a few days back and they already have some testimonials. Fishy ?
Uhh.... are you sure you're commenting on the right story?
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The police explicitly commented that you play with those circular cutouts and confirmed it again after confused questions by users but that could be wrong of course.
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What are the three periods of kidney failure?
Yes, this is a legitimate problem because there are both genetic and environmental contributions to intelligence. We must be wary of eugenic arguments. After all, the easiest way to raise the average IQ of a society would be to kill everyone who doesn't meet a specified minimum IQ. A more politically palatable way would be to allocate resources away from those groups.

This isn't a matter of biasing results, though, because the metric validity of intelligence testing doesn't require that we play nice with making sure everyone has equal access. These are separate problems. Intelligence research is a scientific problem, and resource allocation is a political one.

We already know that environmental contributions to IQ are important, and a reasonable and moral person who is literate on intelligence research thinks that resource allocation to lower-performing people is critically important.
Why not just use a whitelist and send all unknown callers to voicemail?

I swear that one of these days I will get around to creating such a system based on twilio. I swear.
Pretty sure they are. What other post could they be commenting on?
Does Pakistan have a similar number of dialect shifts within the nation? It's at least a far fewer number of languages right?
AWS launches new partner programs for networking and machine learning specialist
Seems extremely similar, I see no reason for Amazon to build their own wheel when one is freely available for them to resell access to as a managed service.
One would imagine that 'root' would be a ubiquitous search term, regardless of the language in question.
With the exception of S3, the services you listed require an IGW or a NAT gateway (with RDS it depends if you are talking about the control plane, or the database itself). The list of AWS services that work with PrivateLink is here [1] and we are working on adding more.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-privatelink-endpoin...
For me, the question in Rust is not, what's a reference. But how do I find all functions applicable to a given type? In C/C++, I can just grep the header files for the type name and voilà. I find header-less languages like Rust or Swift really obscure in that way.
Apple Seeds Fifth Beta of iOS 11.2 to Developers
https://twitter.com/unsynchronized/status/935656609140711426
Thanks for the dialog. Worse than AWS? What areas? I don't think Google Cloud console is amazing as far as dashboards go, but it is way better (to me) than AWS web console.
If phone trees can jump straight to a representative when you swear at them, Alexa should be able to treat an angry tone of voice as a generic undo.
You sound like the sort of guy that would certainly get an interview quickly at the place where I am now, if not a quick job offer.

But that would be in downtown Austin, and remote could be tough.
So in comparison to C++ would it be correct to say that Box<T> is like unique_ptr<T>, Vec<T> is Vector<T>, and that references are the same in both languages?
Thank you. ~/.profile is a problem because _I_ might open s terminal there! The startupconfig file was probably it.
Guarding Against CSRF Vulnerability in Redis
Dave Ditzel is no slouch. I'll be interested in seeing how this goes.
How Should I Backup MongoDB Databases?
There was a recent comment on Reddit that during the first dot-com bubble there were a lot of people who just used start-up money to have fun. That didn’t really happen a lot this time and people now in SF are super famous for their irrational belief in their company and working 130 hour weeks ala Melissa Mayer.

Anyway I think ICOs are like some start-ups in the first bubble, using the money to party because no one is looking closely. After all, if you have a great company or a shit company, you still raise the same amount of money. Why work hard when you know the upcoming bubble correction will wipe out your gains?
The project took advantage of all 9300 Intel Xeon Phi Phase II nodes on the NERSC (National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center) Cori supercomputer.

Even in HPC terms, the Celeste project is big, as it created the first comprehensive catalog of visible objects in our universe by processing 178 terabytes of SDSS (Sloan Digital Sky Survey) data[1]. Remarkably, the combination of Cori supercomputer and Julia application was able to load and analyze the SDSS data set in only 15 minutes. Thus the Celeste team demonstrated that the Julia language can support both petascale compute and terascale big data analysis on a leadership HPC system plus scale to handle the seven petabytes of data expected to be produced by the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) every year
All the password managers I know of for teams don’t have any RBAC type of controls. Either you get everything that is shared, or you don’t.

For personal stuff, I use 1Password on my Macs and all my iOS devices.

At work, they standardized on LastPass.

There are other choices in this space, but a lot depends on which other features you may need.
Once you get above a few cores, the only way to feasibly utilize them is to have data parallelism. And when you need to exploit data parallelism, programming models change and data bandwidth (both in interconnect between CPUs and to/from memory) becomes the limiting factor rather than compute bandwidth.

The only way to fit in a large number of cores on a die is to slim down the cores to remove space-hungry stuff (e.g., out-of-order). This makes the cores weak for single-threaded stuff, which means you're generally firmly in the HPC market and not suitable for personal use. It also requires pretty much developing different programming models, at which point the value-add compared to, say, a GPU seems hard to find. Note that one of the key points of the GPU model is that it oversubscribes the processors with work and swaps threads in and out while they're waiting for memory to complete, something like 16-way SMT.

I'll note that Intel did build something like this (the Xeon Phi), but they appear to be dropping it.