skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don't need to be crooks, either, doesn't seem to stop them. They don't need to come up with childish logos combined with super cereal latin text, but they're still doing it; something like "Total Information Awareness" isn't the expression of a need, it's the symptom of serious issues. If they knew what they needed they wouldn't be doing what they're doing, and wouldn't need to circle the wagons of the "Intelligence Community" for emotional support.

Do companies that pollute the environment and obsess about environmental activists so much that their undercover people outnumber the undercover agents of intelligence agencies NEED to be so very pathetic? I'd say they "just" need to stop whatever they think they are doing and be grateful towards those giving them a hint, but nope -- they can't eat what's on their plate, so they shit in our food. And anyone even dreaming of suggesting putting first things first probably wouldn't make it past apprentice in most such orgs.
Correct me if I’m wrong but I thing GP was stating that composing two “unsafe” blocks together (both of which are manually verified to work well) might interfere with each other when run simultaneously.
You realize that statistics is capable of using very small sample sizes right?
The general population controls so little of the economic might that this just isn't true. We could pool our votes to change the course of politics. If we pooled our dollars nobody would care.
Interesting. This project is by IBM.
Hello! Long time no see - Glad to hear you guys are still in business and by the sound of it still enjoying it :)

(At the risk of blowing my HN "anonymity" I'm the person who (re)wrote large portions of the Blender plugin a few years back)

edit: typo
Unsafe Rust is a superset, not a subset, incidentally.
Whether a tool is ethical is a different question is not the same as the question of whether various activities done with the tool are ethical.
For instance when I started doing stuff in mvvm in WPF it was a bit tiring. But then I also stumbled onto knockout.js and then I used mvvm in two different ways then common patterns clicked in. If you see some improvement area maybe try it from different angle, even better from multiple angles.
I recently visited the first Five Guys franchise in germany and got really disappointed. The meat itself is better than the burgers at McDonalds or Burger King, but the rest of the burger is equally bad.

There are at least two local burger chains around the serve way better burgers for an equal or even slightly lower price.

So unless Five Guys really messed up in their first german location, I just don't understand why it is so famous in the US.
If you read a headline that the national government of a large asian economy was deploying a million cameras you would go to statist surveillence. If you read a more nuanced headline that in a large asian economy, a million privately owned cameras have been deployed, as locals chose to arm up against bad behaviour, perceived threats or nosiness, you might feel different.

I am told the latter is actually as common as the former, in the aforesaid large asian economy. The state cameras are on poles and buildings, and are at similar densities to the UK in that regard (within order of magnitude) Whereas the cheap, hackable (crackably hackable, risably simply crackably hackable) IoT IP enabled cameras are being bought and sold for $50 or less, and installed freehand by concerned locals who wonder why their pet cat keeps disappearing.

It is now routine for police to ask citizens for dashcam and other static camera footage when investigating crime. The locals with cameras are often very happy to comply.

Is this boil the frog slowly?
> The inevitable outcome is that no recorded media will be taken at face value unless there is immense proof in some way of its veracity.

Exactly the opposite happened with print media, where any old bollocks is believed if it aligns with the readers viewpoint.
How does .NET support pinned pointers with a bump pointer allocator? Does it just eagerly move pinned objects out of the contiguous heap?
That papaya might not be safe though.
Small teams can get a lot done but they can do a lot of damage too. I work in a small company now after leaving a large one. If I screwed up bad enough at the large company I'd get fired and maybe a few others would get fired too but that's about it. Screw up at a small company and it's lights out for the whole show. They key, big or small, is managing what you have to meet your goals. You can muddle your way through with brilliant engineers and mediocre management or mediocre engineers and brilliant management but to really make things sing you need brilliant managers and brilliant engineers.
Why organizing teams per microservice may be a bad idea
No. Nothing guarantees that the array is aligned within the stack frame, even if the stack frame is aligned. What if the compiler introduced a boolean flag (for instance, a drop flag) immediately before the array, in the same stack frame?
They turn into security problems in aggregate. For example, the threat to me from actors slurping up social media data to nudge/manipulate people at a large scale is much larger than the threat to me than someone reading my group chats to my friends or a lot of other personal info that is generally considered more private and more in need of high security.

If my personal twitter-style communication got out it would be worse to me than my more private messages, but it is worse to me personally if all the twitter style communication gets out than only my more private messages.

You have to account for manipulative big data risks in your analysis, thinking only about your personal data is an outdated approach.
Yeah, that has hit upstream now. It needs support in both the frontend and the backend so only some host/guest combos will enable it, but arm-on-x86 should now multithread by default for smp guests.
How is the long-term waste handled?
You get two questions, make 'em count.
I'd say Java, C or C++ depending on your niche..

https://www.roberthalf.com/blog/salaries-and-skills/what-is-...
they're getting rid of a lot of interesting and useful things.
Someone has revived 45myo yeasts: https://www.wired.com/2009/07/ff-primordial-yeast/

Mutation takes place very quickly once the revived microorganism makes contact with the outside world. I would think the outcome is highly unpredictable.
I assume you mean a performance comparison? The runtime performance cost of ASLR on Windows is zero once a binary has been loaded, since the code is relocated at load time.

Stack canaries might cause a slight performance hit, but it is usually below one percent, since it creates only a small cost per function call for a fraction of all functions.
My favorite "tea" to make is just chopping up a little ginger, a little turmeric, and some sort of citrus zest, steep in boiling water for 10 mins. You can re-steep it several times also. I drink it every day because it's delicious, as well as calming and anti-inflammatory.
Grab must have absolutely incredible internal comms and leadership.
> There is almost no chance that civilization will be destroyed.

How do you know?
I think this might be the first blog post I've read to actually explain how to use word vectors as features---good for the author!
dominant reserve currency as a sentence invites reflection on what dominant means: it means there are other reserve currencies. Its a basket. (basket case?) Inter-reserve bank settlement regime and the use of non-national settlement tokens at a denominated exchange is a thing. The reserves, and what currency they are in, becomes something of a speculative hedge (of the best kind, certainly, best for some measure of "my suit is better than your suit" best)
Now that is a brick of a cooler.
Ask HN: What are the internal repercussions of vast $$$ fines to big corps?
When Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Qualcomm gets these million/billion dollar fees, what are the internal repercussions?

Do they fire some executives in relevant area? Shut down whole departments, revamp completely, reorg?

How is the psychological atmosphere?

Have you been involved in such an experience? How was it?
TrueUSD – a USD-backed stable cryptocurrency
It's a bad habit for me. The OP said "As someone who randomly highlights words and lines when they read" which sounded more like my own tic-like random highlighting than anything useful, like yours.
"no serious physical problems" is far from "in your prime"... and you might know more things, but your ability to learn has significantly declined. That's just the nature of aging.
Which is somewhat hilarious when you realize Amazon is telling you to burn books.
But in reality not all feature dimensions are orthogonal. You can't make the same 'adjustment' for any potential trait bias. Correcting for the purple/orange thing might skew the data on square and round heads, and correcting for that might skew it on pointy and rounded ears and so on and on.
The intention is laudable, but many a road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Pinning typically just means it is left in place and exempted from compaction. This does mean that you can end up with a performance penalty and nasty holes in your heap layout. Sometimes marshaling code will opt to make a copy of the data instead (and then perhaps pin that), it depends on the type. There's not a lot of explicit documentation on this (probably because some of it is an optimization). Pinned objects can't be moved without breaking semantics - once you get a pinned-type GCHandle to an object, you can just directly get the address and it won't ever change. (I believe once the GCHandle is freed/finalized by the GC, it will automatically unpin the object.)

Typically this isn't a big problem - pinned data structures in .NET code are either pinned for short periods of time (to pass to native code), or are reusable large big buffers that stay pinned forever. Large buffers are always allocated in the large object heap right away. You can always allocate native memory directly in which case the GC doesn't care about it.

This may be changing since recent updates to C# and the runtime have introduced the concept of interior pointers to objects, where you can have a raw pointer to a field within a GCable object. Right now those are constrained to living on the stack only, so the period of time in which the object can't be moved/compacted as a result is relatively short.
There's a really good George Carlin bit in one of his stand-ups about how the earth will be fine. Something along the lines of what you're saying; earthquakes, volcanoes, solar flares, etc. She's been around for a looong time folks. It's humanity that might be in for a bad day.
I'd like to see a C equivalent of this, just for comparisons sake to zig
I do find the irony of him jumping ship to a company that's copying other ride sharing companies pretty hysterical given his complaint.

Not to say that invalidates what he's saying or anything but it's a little humorous.
> Education is not the savior.

Unless you can educate the world that the Earth has limited carrying capacity and that GDP and population growth aren't necessarily the be-all and end-all.
Watch the Doomsday Clock announcement
> In fact, there's more carbon in the permafrost, Douglas says, than all the carbon humans have spewed into the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution — first with steam trains, then with coal plants, cars and planes.

> Scientists don't know yet how much carbon will get released from thawing permafrost or how fast it will happen.

In a nutshell why not accepting anthropogenic global warming is scientific and accepting it is anti-science, not the other way around.
GM/Cruise vs. Motorcycle triggers first robocar accident lawsuit
Hopefully they bake in better MDM tools.
Herbalist Stephen Harrod Buhner advises against piperine because it tends to cause leaky gut.
Technology is degrading the value of photo and video evidence (and probably audio too) asymptotically toward that of famously unreliable testimony from memory. Criminality becomes less risky and/or innocence becomes less protective. Law becomes less effective. A bad result, to the extent that the law isn't an ass.

On the plus side artistic tools that help materialize internal life become more effective. We can interact with our dreams and fantasies more readily, to potentially therapeutic benefit.

It's hard to say whether this trend holds more danger or promise.
Rust's approach to "unsafe" is to let the programmer do whatever they want. Having to use this for UNIX-type API calls is kind of lame.

I once proposed extending C to allow talking about array sizes.[1]
You'd define "read" as

int read(int fd, char &buf[len], size_t len);

The compiler now knows that "buf" is an array with length "len", and can check calls for "buf" being the right size.
The generated code for the call is the same; this doesn't require array descriptors. It just says which parameter defines the length of the array.

All the original UNIX calls and most of the Linux ones fit into that simple model. If the size of something is hard to define simply at an API call, the API has a problem.

Rust's system for external C calls should be more like that and less about casts to raw pointers. It's technically possible to fix this in C, and have a "strict mode", but the political problems are too hard.

[1] http://www.animats.com/papers/languages/safearraysforc43.pdf
Macbook Pro, 13-inch, 2015, Intel graphics 6100. So I guess not. The 4K display is connected via displayport, and runs downscaled at 2560x1440.
seems like they suggest to put it into a water pool in the ground inside the reactor building.

http://www.nuscalepower.com/images/nuscale_smr_benefits/Righ...
So you say you don't call people who are 50 "decrepit" -- but do you call people in their middle age or in their 50s "elderly"?
It seems to me that "unsafe" Rust is a subset of Rust as a whole. Unless the Rust language does not support unsafe code at all?
Speaking as an European not used to very spicy food, it's not the turmeric I'm worried about, it's the black pepper. But a pinch or two seems fine.

I'll give it a try. If my mouth catches on fire, I know who to blame. :)
Gut biome is insanely important, I've had digestive issues for over a year and it's been depressing that they couldn't find the cause.

I finally gave up waiting and decided to experiment myself, started drinking a yakult every morning and last thing at night, within two weeks things started... Moving and now 6 weeks in its like it used to be, bloatings gone, regular as clockwork, energy levels are up and I generally feel better.

I still have other issues that are more serious but the medication handles those ok.

I started taking vitamin D a few weeks before that as well and that seemed to help as well.
all your codebase are belong to us!
With Fungi in the Mix, Concrete Can Fill Its Own Cracks
Worst. Apple. Keynote. Ever
Velociraptors have two rows of teeth in addition to a 2.5" retractable middle claw theorized to be used for slashing or stabbing attacks. Many dogs would have a size advantage, but all would have fewer teeth and generally soft padded paws with no serious claws. Even with the smaller size, the Velociraptors seemingly have the advantage. The "Fighting Dinosaurs" fossils give some credence to the claw being used to pierce the neck of a prey animal: https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/fighting-dinos/the-fighting...

Something like maybe a Rodesian Ridgeback (lion hunting dogs) might stand a good chance however.
Who's putting up the capital to replace millions of low res cameras?
Paternity leave is still 2 weeks but the recent changes mean you can curtail the maternity leave (/pay) early and both parents can take what hasn't been used as shared parental leave/shared parental pay.

i.e. by taking this option the mother (or primary adopter) will have to go back earlier. I gather the take up isn't particular high (beyond a week or two) although it's been very useful in my situation.

Statutory pay is also very low (£140/week) after the first 6 weeks, although most professional jobs tend to offer better rates.

But your right - in general the attitude to leave seems a lot healthier in the UK!
That's inherent in the problem domain. The FHIR data model is distinct from the V3 RIM but clearly influenced by it. Health care has a high degree of irreducible complexity. If we oversimplify the model then it won't support important use cases and implementers will be forced to use proprietary extensions.

As a practical matter we can't rely on low-level standards to achieve real interoperability. Since there is often more than one way to model the same clinical information we also need high-level implementation guides with comprehensive examples to show everyone exactly what to do, along with automated conformance testing tools.
How exactly would deportations help with overpopulation? That seems to be irrelevant - leading to changes in distribution, not numbers.
> But once carbon begins to percolate up through the thawing soil, it could form a feedback loop

What? This has been happening for years.
[Disclosure: I used to write for a living.]

You definitely need marketing to close the loop and get your writing to the readers, and it's a totally different skill set.

I'd there's another stage between writing and distribution, which is the editing/rewriting loop. The only kind of writing is rewriting, as a great (re)writer once said.[0] That means writing will probably take much longer than you expect, if you want it to strike the right tone and be true.

Another probably important point for aspiring writers is that in order to have something worth saying, you have to live something big, or learn something valuable, and generally observe things keenly if you want to have something new. (And if you don't plan to write something new, why are you writing at all?) So there's work to do before writing happens. You need to read and learn and ask questions of people who know more than you, so that you can distill everything you've read and bring it to the reader.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1025221-the-only-kind-of-wr...
"Scientists say New York will be Underwater by 2015"
Re: "Seriously, do the teamsters not realize that if they cripple UPS's ability to compete..."

If and when competitors have it and start hurting UPS's business, the teamsters may relax the request. What UPS should do is make sure the contract allows them to still do R&D and small-scale trials. If and when a competitor comes along that is a serious threat to UPS's business, the teamsters will probably relax the production-based automation clauses.

It's a compromise I think both sides would agree to. After all, they don't want to kill the hand that feeds them. The only actual thing UPS is sacrificing is being first-to-market with such automation. Just be ready to be 2nd.
IBM still have a lot of talented and dedicated engineers despite the questionable management decisions.

I would guess this probably started off as an unofficial endeavour by a single or small group of employees and the beancounters agreed to publish it as OSS.
Also an X-Files episode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkness_Falls_(The_X-Files)
I loved that one! He can take the form of other people but is hive-like or something so if you heat his blood the host goes nuts? Something like that anyway. Kurt Russel. The claymation was excellent: cult classic.
huh?

This has to do with how bad and how quick the feedback loops created by anthropogenic global warming will be and has nothing do with whether it exists or not.
From an economic/investment standpoint, Apple has negated the need for new product lines for the time being by its advance into untapped markets, especially China. From an innovation for the sake of innovation standpoint, they can still be criticized for that.

But not to single out Apple- as you pointed out, many startups are doing the same thing over and over again. Guess this is the consolidation and make profits stage of the tech cycle.
I've been thinking about this for a long while. I think this is good.

With face recognition, old pictures you might have posted online are very easy to find. Some ex-boyfriend shared a naked picture of you? You are screwed.

Now, you can simply say that it is a deepfake. Everyone will have naked pictures of "themselves" online, even if they are fake.
A Fight Over the Height of Portland’s Skyline Is Raging
Mike Wiacek was the manager of the Google team that worked on APT and nation state attacks in the wake of Aurora. Think of the Gmail notices about state-sponsored attacks on your account, which required new detection tools and technologies. I doubt you'll find many groups with the same experience and expertise.
Kolu – Turning Trips into Experiences (for iOS)
"Managed memory is free. Not as in free beer, as in free puppy."

Dev manager of Exchange used that line in a talk. Never were more insightful words spoken. Devs will move from C++ where they obsess about every allocation to .NET and they'll totally forget that allocation is expensive no matter what the platform or runtime.
Blog post the article is about:

https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/why-i-left-google-to-join-gr...
There is some danger here, to be sure, but I think time off is a tricky beast. People can get resentful it they think they have to shoulder the work burden for others who are taking too much time off. Also people tend not to take vacation for the same reason, that they don't have a good social excuse. I think a minimum vacation policy is a step in the right direction to rectify this. I'd certainly like to force people to take at least a week off every quarter or two, and at least 2 weeks off once a year. I think it's too valuable for employee productivity, and it has a double value of showing where you don't have enough skill/responsibility overlap as a manager.
They've also been massively cut back on, and anything that doesn't look like a sure path to profitability has been killed by the CFO, Ruth Porat.
Anti-inflammatories are in the news lots now. Low-dose aspirin, intermittent fasting, turmeric. Why are we chronically inflamed?
If you're asking for permission to clean it all away, you have it. rm -rf that sucker.
I mean they literally just announced a new company that graduated their incubator.
transferred across our roads, rails, rivers and then returned to earth with a sign that says stay out forever. These are not points to ignore when talking about the benefits of using this process. I haven't read the reports, hopefully the accounted for that extra co2 from disposal processes, clean up and recovery.
God that is hard to read. The guy might be thought a genius but I got absolutely nothing from that passage save the penguins.
The Sony Xperia Compact phones are also small but still powerful.

I'm not sure why only Apple and Sony make decent, smaller phones.
Just because emissions aren't growing doesn't mean the US should do nothing, especially considering our outsized historical contributions that have lead to current CO2 levels.

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

As one of the largest emitters per capita(more than double CO2e pp vs the EU), and at almost 15% of world emissions, there's a ton that can be done.

A few items that are huge emission sources and could use some attention:

* The reliance on single occupancy cars (94% of commuters) with poor gas mileage and long commutes

* Heavy meat and dairy consumption leading to big agriculture emissions (especially methane from cattle)

* Dominance of low quality, single family home construction that ignores local climate - poorly insulated 2x4 houses everywhere, average building is overly reliant on always on AC or furnace