skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I told a friend of mine, a very well respected surgeon in the UK, that I don't drink at all, he told me that I should, and that a glass of wine is good for you. Thankfully I had come across a journal which refuted that very claim about wine just a few days prior, so could offer a solid basis for my abstinence (as a non drinker, you are often under pressure to do so!). What surprised me was that a medical professional (specialising in the liver, no less) was happy to disseminate this information, believing it to be true. Clearly the marketing/propaganda campaign has been exceptionally effective in putting across their false rhetoric, having convinced even an individual that probably sees empirical evidence to the contrary during his day job!
I"ll try that, but I am in the EU, no idea if it applies.
Templates and compile-time polymorphism. This is what the STL is based upon. A forward iterator is any type for which the * and ++ operators are defined; you can use it in any template that makes use of just those syntactic forms, but will get a compiler error if you try to instantiate a template with a type that does not support those operators.

Punning on memory layouts, a la PyObject_HEAD or some of the objects in V8. With this approach, you make sure that all related types have the same memory layout for a subset of fields at the beginning of the struct. Then, a reinterpret_cast on a pointer to one member of the type will yield the same values as a different member of the type, and so can be used generically by code that depends only upon those members. (You have to be very careful with this approach, because multiple inheritance and vtables will usually break it, but if you absolutely positively must have zero-overhead runtime polymorphism it's occasionally the best option.)

#include and preprocessor magic to redefine symbols based on preprocessor defines. Used to be the old way to swap out different implementations of a cross-platform interface, but seems to have largely fallen out of favor in the last couple decades.

Linker magic to accomplish the same, where the header file defines a common interface but the linker may link with one of several different object files to implement that interface at link time. This one is still fairly commonly used; Google and Facebook both have their own custom STL & libstdc++ implementations, and this is also commonly used to swap out eg. malloc implementations.

dlopen & dlsym to do this at runtime. Header file defines the interface, dlsym gives you back a function pointer or set thereof for a plugin implementation.
I agree with your arguments. I've studied art/music most of my life, so I feel like the 'disorder' is actually just part of what 'thinking creatively' is. Yes there are consequences (poor grades, trouble holding down a job), but also great rewards (invention, art, music, etc).

I completely understand that we can't all run around without any discipline, but I have a hard time with the idea of doping kids.
I trust all governments 100% to do what is in my best interest. /s
This is a very insightful point. These models and concepts are all human created abstractions.

They contain elements of arbitrariness, describe different levels of detail, focus in on certain aspects or dynamic, leave out other information, and so on.

The skilled software developer must determine how useful and well-suited any particular abstraction is for the actual problem at hand, and judiciously move forward that.

As understanding of the problem domain grows, the abstractions should be updated and discarded to reflect this.

Pragmatism is key -- what does the system actually need to do? Supposed platonic ideals of some conceptual object are often a wild goose chase. Reality is complex. We must embrace it.
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They closed, once or twice - for all practical meanings of "closed"
Just to clear up some confusion, you are likely referring to MDM software like MobileIron, Intune, or AirWatch. MDM software CANNOT see personal messages, photos, or access your own personal apps. Schools (and companies) use MDM software to inventory devices, push profiles to simplify things like VPN access, SSO, and email configuration. It is also used to to push school related applications to the device and sometimes for remote diagnostics and support. IT departments and school districts are as uninterested in your personal information as you are in them having it. No need to worry.
Since Maxis has more or less been gobbled up by EA I don't think we will ever see SimCity4++, so I think we DO need another city sim.

There are a few in the works but I don't think any "carry the torch" of the SC4-style game.

SimCity 4 has such staying power, new mods and lots are still being created to this day! It outlived SimCity 2013 by far.

Cities: Skylines, Banished, Citybound are all fun in their own right but I don't see any as a proper continuation of the SimCity series. (ignoring SC2013)

As a bonus you can play around in Kotlin too!
Non paywalled copy: http://archive.today/DYd3k
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It must be a surreal, spiritual experience to be there all alone at 70,000 feet.
I'm also both an answerer and asker on SO, and I've been using the site off and on almost since the beginning. The larger issue for me (and what is just touched on in this article) is the change in character of SO as its grown over time.

In the beginning I found a number of open and interesting questions (occasionally some of these were closed as being too opinion-based or broad, which bugged me a bit as they were some of the most interesting and illuminating (granted, you could argue that that is not the intention of SO. Still, having an interesting conversation closed seemed, at the very least, excessively pedantic).

The larger issue, I think, is that most open questions now are either of the "How do I do obscure thing X in framework Y under rare condition Z" variety, or beginner "Please do my homework" or "I have a bunch of things in my array it's not printing" sorts of questions.

Not sure what the right answer is for this. And, even so, I often get good responses when I post.
It seems to me that could easily create a privacy issue of its own. Certainly just a link would be terribly insecure, you'd need to authenticate the user. And whatever you do, you've now created a web-facing portal to the private data you're supposed to protect. Seems risky to me.
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It may have been edited, but at least presently the comment you replied to asks for an example of inheritance.
ShortPixel on AppSumo. Deal breakdown
How is a gini coefficient relevant to higher priced products due to regulatory overhead?

It seems you have an axe to grind and derailed the conversion to compare the US with ancient Rome. Please provide a citation showing a correlation between increased privacy regulations and reduced gini coefficients.
I'm not very familiar with the legislation. Is a company receiving such requests required to respond to them individually, regardless of merit? If so, it seems blasting a few thousand requests at a small company would be a fairly simple act of sabotage. Even if the requests are fake, it would take the company time to figure out that they don't have any relevant records and to figure out whether to respond and how to respond.
I apologize for not wording my opinion well, but how am I wrong here? Did you read the article 'In Praise of ADHD'? Its saying it may not be a 'disorder'.

Quote from article:
The educational psychologist Bonnie Cramond, for example, tested a group of children in Louisiana who had been determined to have A.D.H.D. and found that an astonishingly high number — 32 percent — did well enough to qualify for an elite creative scholars program in the Louisiana schools.
People like Trump have been elected since there were elections. Keep the lame political statements elsewhere.
So? The problem is our school systems and or work environments, not our biology.

We are a VERY significant minority of the population, and our institutions are not working for us. We should organize and do something about it instead instead of letting people try to medicate away our differences.
The premise of the question is wrong. American politicians across the political spectrum are obsessed with stimulating demand for labor and equipping workers for higher-productivity tasks, which is approximately the extent to which government can "provide" more dignified private-sector wages. For all their blunders, our median incomes are among the highest in the world, higher than in countries like France and Germany with more emphasis on minimum standards.

The least dignified thing you can be in America is unemployed. So yes, we will let people have marginal jobs rather than having them subsist entirely on welfare.

The second least dignified thing you can be in America is a renter. A dignified family owns a detached house with a generous backyard. Land is a zero-sum resource, and America's productive cities have reached their horizontal scaling limits. More labor productivity / higher wages only serve to further inflate real estate markets; the number of households enjoying dignified lifestyles cannot grow.
From the same reason Obama got the Nobel prize.
Like C.S. Lewis (quoted in this article), I'm homesick for heaven, a place I've never been. Swing low, sweet chariot.
This.

And Kotlin might be the future language for Android.
Is hosting not analogous to warehouseing? I mean if you warehouse pot in the us and sell in Amsterdam you're still violating local laws based on where your warehouse is and if you host the great Gatsby in the us to deliver to Australia then you're violating local laws where you are hosting too.

You can reverse it and have pot in the Netherlands or great Gatsby in Australia to send to the US, but weve had the term smuggling to cover that situation as well
this is something that gets thrown around a lot, but its manifestly untrue, if corporations could easily charge more, they would, and they would pocket the difference as profit.

Taxes in general reduce profit, they do not increase prices.
Fair enough. Nothing to incentive full nodes.
> making people more willing to step into shops with very little prior vetting

After eleven years in Japan, it works the other way around for me too; if there are no plastic samples out front, I'll just mentally dismiss restaurant and keep looking for somewhere else.

Even the restaurants that can't afford plastic samples for whatever reason will often make popular/common dishes and just saran wrap them to put them outside to show what's on the menu.
Is it actually racist to make reparations for former wrongs that have had a direct, severely negative impact on the aggregate experiences of a group living today? Those reparations have to come from somewhere, so in most cases anyone could complain that it's "taking away" from whatever.

I don't think it is so easy to answer that question off the cuff, especially without further details.

Also, I think it is very important to remember: these situations are usually _not_ zero sum. Helping one group does not mean another group has been harmed in equal magnitude.
In the modern US political usage (and Wikipedia), neoliberalism refers to Reagan and Thatcher rather than Clinton. Yes, yes, they are "basically the same" from a revolutionary socialist perspective, but still.
I wrote a simple self-hosting compiler to showcase Niklaus Wirth's approach to writing compilers: https://github.com/lboasso/oberonc

Single pass compilers have their advantages.
I'm sorry that you've had negative consequences from ADHD.

I'm just saying, along with the author of the article 'In Praise of ADHD', that we shouldn't just label it a disorder if there are positive aspects of it as well. Our society needs to learn how to value creative individuals, and not try to get them to submit to authority.

Please understand that I didn't mean to insult you; I didn't mean to say that your struggle is not real. I just don't think its right to administer amphetamine to kids in order to 'fix' them.
Do you have any evidence that a fab, which processes many wafers per day, really has significant peak/low draw differences?
Also, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayley%E2%80%93Dickson_constru...
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Why are a large amount of people treaing access to other nations markets as a human right? I can see the argument behind saying you should have access to your local market be realtively free, you have to live somewhere, and you and your local societies interests are relatively aligned.

However,when it comes to foreign markets many people here seems to want the best of both worlds. It's a paraphrase but it seems like saying "let me work however I want in your home, but don't limit me at all", seems to be the rallying cry.

How is this not hypocritical?
Correction, it may not be under Amazon API service. Apologies.
My company (Aptible) makes a product called Gridiron that does this. All of the data that a requester is entitled to can be pre-structured and organized in a source of truth. That's what Gridiron is.
I think about it as a 2-D weighted average.

Not certain that's the correct intuition but it makes sense to me haha.
Usually, I implement state machines with mutually tail recursive functions. Each function represents one state.
> This is why we tax profit and not revenue. Different industries have radically different cost structures.

That is completely irrelevant as long as the tax is only collected once at final sale and not every time the goods change hands within a supply chain.

If Walmart has 97 cents of cost per dollar in revenue then the sum total profit within their supply chain is 97 cents. Somebody is getting every penny in the dollar.

If the government says that for every dollar in revenue you have to pay 20 cents in taxes then Walmart will either raise prices by ~20% or require their suppliers to lower prices by ~20%. In no event do they go out of business, because their customers still need what their suppliers produce.

It's possible for a tax to destroy a market, but it has nothing to do with margins of the final retailer and everything to do with how much total surplus exists. If the government demands a certain number of dollars in taxes and either the manufacturers or customers can eat that and still be willing to engage in the transaction, that's what happens. But if there isn't that much surplus in the transaction, it no longer happens. Because before somebody was spending an hour to make a certain amount of money and after they have to spend an hour to make only 80% that much money, which can cross over the threshold where they say screw it and fold up shop. That has nothing to do with whether you call it sales tax or income tax.

It's true of any tax on any product. There are products with high margins that a small tax could nonetheless destroy because the industry is high risk, so investors won't invest without high returns. If the tax makes the risk-adjusted returns fall below what it is for other investments, the product ceases to exist despite high margins, because the high margins may be entirely necessary to compensate for the risk.
With the Java interop such a high priority for the Kotlin team over at JetBrains, Kotlin is sneaking its way into all kinds of Java environments -- from LOB apps to APIs, Java Web Services, etc.

Java might be a little annoying to wield, but the JVM is actually quite nice.

Whomever at JetBrains put a premium on Java interop should get a medal, because it's a VERY low friction move to go from Java development to Kotlin. You can port your project one file at a time and the tooling is excellent.
This great interactive really helped me understand what a convolution is:

http://setosa.io/ev/image-kernels/

Highly recommended!
Rolled into the "price" of the item on the receipt, rather than being itemized like the sales tax is.
> I [showed] that the timer mitigation would not stop these vulnerabilities

Yes, that was obvious to people with some background in this class of attacks. Good on you for figuring that out independently (seriously!), but you're not going to get a bounty for something widely known.
Be aware, this article is not a list of GDPR requirements. It is, however, a good list of questions that every business processing data in the cloud should be aware of. You need to be able to answer these questions.
Its only been alluded to, a time or too, but never explicitly stated (unless I missed it). But, sleep. Getting >=7 (preferably 8+) hours is paramount. (Also, just about everything else listed in this thread).
"scrolljacking"

I couldn't agree more.
From Cities of the Red Night by William S. Burroughs:[0]

> As I study the picture I see an island in the sky, green as the heart of an emerald, glittering with dew as waterfalls whip tattered banners of rainbow around it. The shores are screened with thin poplars and cypress and now I can see other islands stretching away into the distance like the cloud cities of the Odor Eaters, which vanish in rain ...

0) https://books.google.ae/books?id=iZrqAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA216&lpg=P...
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If you ever log an email address then logs contain PII, and are therefore in scope.
You don't have to do away with the storytelling structure; just make it significantly shorter and designed for information retention. Quite a few books contain a good deal of filler to reach the 250+ page threshold for marketing purposes.

A longer book is correlated, in the audience mind, with more content, more research done, more of an investment to read it hence more of a payoff ("it's a book you have to study"), and also more time spent reading it so potentially more pleasure, even for non-fiction.

Unfortunately, when you read a lot, these propositions start to become cons, and you'd often rather have just the meat--granted, not in a plastic plate, to run the culinary metaphor, but not with the three-hour ceremonial of the (would-be) fancy restaurant either.
I was thinking about this the other day, and in the U.K. there are a lot of people who would say they are Christian if asked their religion, but really they are non-practicing or more likely atheists, but don’t want to admit it.
I suppose it's also why teaching can be so effective for learning things. Instead of things staying murky in your head, you're forced to create a narrative that not only you understand (or think you do), but another person can too.

Quite often I just get partly there by explaining something to myself as if I'm teaching myself, but it seems to have some benefit (but also with the introspection disclaimer there).
Sure, but why would you advertise to those people? There are many very talented people in parts of the world that aren't the premier market for their skills that accept much lower salaries for their skills, or are employed in other industries altogether. I wouldn't be surprised if the number of people that match that criteria and have security research experience is much higher than the number of people in Silicon Valley and the other 5-10 leading tech markets that have the requisite security experience.

The world is a big place, and I think exploring security is fairly attractive to the weekend warrior programmer that might find other work hard to come by.
For whom, and according to what value system?

The histories I've read of the early middle ages corroborate much of your intuition. Trade collapsed; many luxury goods became impossible to obtain at any price; illiteracy rose; population declined and many citizens died from famine and plague.

But there's often a trade-off between freedom and convenience, then and now. The Roman empire was built upon large-scale slavery and wealth inequality. If you were a member of the elite, then yes, the collapse was terrible; you lost access to all the privileges of the empire. If you were a slave, you probably ended up somewhat better off, becoming either a peasant or a bandit. Not being able to obtain pottery or steel doesn't matter much if you couldn't afford it to begin with, and dying at 40 from starvation is an improvement on dying at 25 in the arena.
> If the government says that for every dollar in revenue you have to pay 20 cents in taxes then Walmart will either raise prices by ~20% or require their suppliers to lower prices by ~20%. In no event do they go out of business, because their customers still need what their suppliers produce.

You are assuming there is no elasticity here. People would stop working for walmart and go work for google, in this example, so yes, the tax would destroy walmart.
I agree to an extent, but I've come to believe that the 'padding', often just examples that are variations of each other, is much more useful than it appears at first.

When I think back to books that I've read that felt like they had too much filler, I have to admit that many of the memories are the concepts via the anecdotes.
Oh rats, my mistake. It is harder to come up with s good example of mechanical inheritance. Something like the cassette tape adapter kinda feels like inheritance, in the sense that it can be substituted in for a normal cassette tape but provides its own unique functionality.
The nuance of passing down taxes is that it depends on the elasticity, which generally is about the capacity for the consumer to substitute the goods.

If you put a tax on tobacco or alcohol, it definitely gets to the consumer. If you put a tax on pork, then people switch to chicken and the producer gets hit.
Talk about walled gardens.
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Actually, that is "taking the lord's name in vain" and is quite frowned upon by a lot of Christians. I am not Christian, but I grew up in the Bible Belt and I am aware that is deemed to be a serious form of disrespect. I swear like a sailor, but I try to not take the lord's name in vain in public because I am aware it is deeply offensive to devout Christians, more so than my general tendency to use four letter words.
> worse than Chernobyl

Have you tracked the WHO assessments of the impact of Chernobyl?

It turns out that there as well, the non-radiation effects (evacuation, psychological stress, etc.) far outweighed the radiation effects.

> reason that an evacuation was necessary

Apart from a core that was certainly necessary: hysteria, fueled by the mass media and an unscientific/unproven and almost certainly wrong model of the health risks of radiation exposure.
I'm not sure where you suppose we should read the proposal (as it's not made public yet) but all summaries of journalists that have seen the document itself seem to pretty clearly indicate that it's indeed targeted at revenue generated from EU users only. Some even cite passages on how to determine location. If you have other information please share them.
GDPR's "Right of access by the data subject" (Article 15) is here: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-15-gdpr/

The right can only be enforced against a "controller," which is the entity that "determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data."

It's worth noting that GDPR does not give the data subject the right to request everything in the letter. Only a more limited set of things.

The practical effect for SaaS companies is that they should keep track of data and the systems and services where data is processed. With good preparation and a system of record for security/privacy management data, you can prepare for this kind of request very well. My company does just that - helps others prepare.