skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"(1) A major corporation is like a construction set. It can be used to put together the whole world. (2) Because of the growing division of labor, many people no longer recognize the role they play in producing mass destruction. (3) That which is manufactured in the end is the product of the workers, students, and engineers."

This last thesis is illustrated with an alarmingly clear image. The same actor, each time at a washroom sink, introduces himself as a worker, a student, an engineer. As an engineer, carrying a vacuum cleaner in one hand and a machine gun in the other, he says, "I am an engineer and I work for an electrical corporation. The workers think we produce vacuum cleaners. The students think we make machine guns. This vacuum cleaner can be a valuable weapon. This machine gun can be a useful household appliance. What we produce is the product of the workers, students, and engineers."

From an introduction to Harun Farocki's "Inextinguishable Fire": https://www.harunfarocki.de/films/1960s/1969/inextinguishabl...
It's very possible to resist
In the SF Bay Area, there are a lot of parts (like the entire South Bay) that have frequent inversions and usually no off-shore breezes, due to the coastal mountains. In fact we've had a big run of bad air quality days.

With a few of the recent fires to the north of SF we've also had the charming situation in the South Bay of ocean breezes blowing the smoke from the fires over us... it was blowing down the cost offshore of SF, and then inland.

SF != SF Bay Area
Like Credit Karma?
If you're mostly interested in the breakdown of time spend, rather than these animations between activities, the charts at the data source are much clearer: https://www.bls.gov/tus/charts.htm
Do you work with my coworker? Does he make little noises (sighs, hmmmms, Ohhhhs) when he wants to talk to you? Does he make the noises more frequently and louder when you ignore him? Does he stare at you, trying to catch your eye while you studiously stare at your monitor?
Over 1,100 New Arcade Machines Added to the Internet Arcade
>Nobody said that Apple no longer retains control of the keys. The point is that the Chinese government has access to Apple user data and Apple is complicit.

The Chinese government has the exact same access to Apple user data as before, which is through Apple. Who controls the keys is what matters.
They can, if the lender doesn't do a credit check, its just that most lenders won't loan to someone without first checking their credit file. Someone can run up medical debt in your name, since doctors don't do credit checks.
> Well, it shows here that you bought a truck and stopped paying. Not you, you say? Prove it!

Shouldn't the burden of proof be on them to show that you bought the truck? If their negligence actually prevented you from obtaining credit, shouldn't it be easy to get damages in small claims court?
No FPGA anymore?
You're on the right track. Rust has a type called Cell [1] (not to be confused with RefCell), which is just a wrapper around T with no overhead. Cell has what Rust calls "interior mutability", which means you can both read and write the contained value using a nominally immutable reference. This is safe within Rust's type system because it doesn't let you get a reference to the contained value (which could then become dangling), only move the whole value in and out. It's also not safe to use from multiple threads, since data races are UB in both Rust and C (to do that properly you'd need to use atomics); but Rust automatically prevents you from sharing references to Cells across threads (because Cell is marked as !Sync).

Anyway, in practice Cell can be used to wrap individual fields of basic data types, e.g. Cell<u32>, and you effectively have an aliasable mutable field. For such types, the inability to get a reference to the interior doesn't really matter, since there's rarely a reason to take a reference rather than just copying the value. However, the syntax is pessimized: you have to do field.get() and field.set(val) instead of getting and setting the field normally. In theory, this could be built into the language (rather than being mostly a library feature) and it could be quite a bit nicer; I remember seeing that proposed at least once. The reasons it hasn't happened so far are, I think, at least partly philosophical.

(edit: This can also be used for your vector example, as you can have a Vec<Cell<u32>>.)

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/cell/struct.Cell.html
I think its things like hair analysis, bite mark matching even fingerprint matching.
New intelligently designed systems/mechanisms aren't just created out of thing air like magic.

The first phase of the systems development life cycle requires you to define (and agree upon) high level goals/requirements/parameters, which is what I was doing.
Every newer sport-focused car on the planet has this. All of them. Its how many companies still make low-displacement turboed engines sound good enough to back up their performance; for example, here's an article about a 2012 Focus ST [1]

[1] https://www.autoevolution.com/news/ford-focus-st-sound-sympo...

VW calls the system Soundaktor, as another example. You'll see it implemented one of a few ways (or a combination): fake sound being piped through the speakers, real sound being piped through the speakers, a physical breach in the engine firewall to allow sound through, additional speakers in the firewall-area specially tuned for engine noises... etc.

They're very common. Startlingly common. I'd bet that you, the person reading this, has one in your car and you don't even know it.
Agreed that such setups can be simpler than multi-master replication. Yet, there's still a hard distributed systems challenge even in the active/passive setup like you describe. When a failure occurs, the clients need to agree which host is the master and which host is the slave. And in the presence of network partitions, it can be impossible to say if the old master is dead, or partitioned away, and hence still happily taking writes.

The most common way in which such systems failover is by fencing off the old master prior to failover. Which in itself can be a hard distributed problem.
An enterprise friendly way of detecting and preventing secrets in code
Defeats the purpose? There’s a lot that you cannot do with hosted software that you can do with your own custom setup. When you outgrow the hosted version the natural progression is to do it yourself.
First, please don't mix in lie detectors here. They are plain quack science, and an "interrogation technique" (read: intimidation method) at best.

Second, we have always known witness testimonies to be unreliable. That's why perjury is a crime! We wouldn't need it to be a crime if nobody was giving false testimonies. And that's assuming people don't make mistakes, which they do.

We still use testimonies.

A court case, after all, is all about probabilities. Very often we just don't know the truth 100%. It's just that compounding evidence, ideally, would convince that it is very unlikely that a particular scenario didn't happen.

E.g.: someone could have mistaken another person for you when they said they saw you hitting the old pawnbroker lady with an axe, BUT given that you were caught with an axe AND blood was dripping from it AND that blood matched the old lady's AND you wrote an article about the merits of butchering old ladies in the local newspaper - ALL those things could have been mere coincidences and mistakes, HOWEVER they establish that it's highly unlikely that you didn't commit the crime.

Same with DNA evidence. We just need to re-adjust our expectations of how foolproof it is for it to work effectively in a court system. As long as we know that the labs are not 100% reliable, we'll be fine.

And that's what the authors are trying to do here.

The next step would be punishments for quack/pseudo science being used as "expert" testimony, as well as actual experts being reckless in their work (as is the case with the DNA labs in the article) when that work is used to accuse someone of a crime.

The punishment doesn't need to be jail-time; even banning the person/lab from providing evidence again would be a good first step. But that's my view on how to solve this problem, and a subject of another discussion.
It's a little light. It reminds me of some vendor GPU documentation that explains the names of constants and layouts, but not as much how the pieces fit together, and the gotchas of the interrelated data structures. And that's what tends to be the hard part anyway.
Is there such a thing as western values? Hemispheres are pretty big diverse places.
> Considering the untold millions of killings of the past couple centuries that resulted from scientism and naturalism, the Church's concerns about the so called heretical scientists may not have been entirely unfounded.

But the Church of the day had no problem with killing - in fact, they were quite enthusiastically into it, when it came to heathens, Muslims and Jews. And eventually Protestants.

I mean, it's only because of scientism and naturalism that mass murder in the name of God is even considered immoral nowadays, much less illegal.
As long as the resulting discussions are sufficiently deep, I don't mind if the subject under discussion starts off shallow.
I love Buckminster Fuller, but doesn't a lot of this sound like pseudointellectual bullshit?

"Architect, engineer and cosmologist R. Buckminster Fuller"

I don't think any of his cosmological contributions are taken at all seriously.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synergetics_(Fuller)

"Synergetics" is in some ways a library of potential "science cartoons" (scenarios) described in prose and not heavily dependent upon mathematical notations.
Video Friday: Self-Solving Rubik's Cube, and More
This is news to me, I didn't know we _had_ to have engine noise and now I'm sad that we have to have it at all. I was hoping highways of the future would carry only the sound of tires raggedly rolling along the surface. That was my interpretation of the promise of EVs

I don't buy the safety argument either really, additionally it's incredibly wasteful. Part of the issue with ICE engines was that they were constantly trying to reduce engine noise because if it's making too much noise/heat then that's energy that's being wasted in transfer. Now we're emulating that?

I considered motorcycle engines to be excessive too, but people always defended the ear-deafening sound as being "for safety" (when really, they just liked making noise and having the vibrations rumble through their bodies)
Ok thanks, I think I misunderstood what you were saying.

I thought you meant that he went on record saying something like "I'm perpetuating gender stereotypes".

Instead, it looks like he's just confirmed that Google thought he was perpetuating gender stereotypes, and that's what he was fired for, which is no surprise.
The credit file exists as normal, it's just inaccessible by lenders (and insurance companies, cell phone companies, internet companies, etc.) for the duration of the freeze.
The Mac/Linux Firefox ports have never been good, their success was unearned and they were quickly replaced when a competitor came along.
Well in western Canada we quite often clear cut blocks of forest for lumber, and based on European perspectives it probably looks like an entire forest, but there are a few considerations:

It's almost always younger trees (-100 years old) and often second growth (not taking old growth coastal trees)

It's pretty tightly regulated in terms of ecosystem impact, sensitive locations, buffers, though lots of people disagree with what should be acceptable

They understand it's in their own self interest to replant, as some of these companies are harvesting planted trees already.

It's definitely not perfect, but on the whole is sustainable, and in some cases like our recent insect infestation (mostly caused by aggressive fire suppression) the preferable method to limited scale thinning
It's not just JoshMnem who has this, the same happens to me. Running 69 on Windows.
> I don't know why you're talking about "getting your money back," this kind of fraud doesn't involve any loss of money from anyone other than a bank.

Not correct. If someone opens a credit card (or anything else at that bank) in your name, and rings up a large balance, you can be sued and levied. It doesn't have to be the same bank; they can and will find your legit accounts in an effort to recover funds. I'm speaking from experience; the actual lawsuit was filed by a law firm that specializes in that type of collection. The protection you get from illegitimate accounts isn't automatic; you'll still have a degree of burden, depending on where you catch things.
The C in there is for "Strong Consistency"; CAP allows for lessers forms of consistency, like "Eventual Consistency", without giving up on Availability.
Postgres RDS is missing libprotobuf-c, which is a dependency for cutting MapBox Vector Tiles if you use PostGIS/Postgres that way. A small, legitimate exception to your statement.

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=277371
While the US certainly lost business because of this, it’s hard to say that they lost Africa when there’s still huge FDI in Africa [0] even compared to China the US had $50B in 2014-the last year I found both country data- vs China’s $32B. FCPA is 40 years old.

China will surpass the US in Africa, but they’ll surpass the US in everything economic, eventually.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/188594/united-states-dir...
[1] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/africa-in-focus/2018/07/25/fi...
Work doesn't have to be your everything
This is frequently asserted, but it is untrue. Close, but still not true.

https://gasprices.aaa.com/state-gas-price-averages/
>You can use your Activity controls to choose what kinds of activity are saved to your Google Account. These settings apply on all devices that are signed in to your account.
You can change these settings and view or delete your saved activity at any time.

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6139018
Reading about these people who were persecuted and murdered for advancing human knowledge, and seeing the current state of the world where even our leaders still rail against vaccination, climate change, human rights, the moon landing and other facts, is anyone else bemused by what a self-defeating species we are?

If you placed humanity next to other hypothetical species and looked at us from a detached point of view, what would be our defining characteristic?
>Even if it does (which is unclear), do you think Apple will be able to refuse if the Chinese government asks for them? I wouldn't be surprised of "the laws and regulations of China" say that Apple is required to turn them over.

Apple says that they respond to valid legal requests, but that isn't any different than when iCloud data was stored in the US. If you thought that Apple would cave to any request for data from the Chinese before, then there's no material difference by storing Chinese iCloud data in China.
nope. TBH I don't think anybody else in the class even knew who he was (it was a kind of "rocks for jocks" class).
It's cheaper and much more tuneable.
Tested on firefox and chrome and the animation is inconsistently janky. Based on a quick overview of the source code I would suggest looking at requestAnimationFrame[0] to smooth out the problems. Other than that, looks interesting.

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/window/requ...
Some people think AWS is cheaper than DIY.
"120 roll" refers to an early 20th century camera technology. I've never worked with anything near that old but I had the same thought, getting 33% keepers under the circumstances is pretty amazing.
> Because Starcraft is 1v1 and LoL is 5v5
Starcraft can also be played 5v5
> Also because Starcraft has three races, i. e. 9 matchups
But each race has 20 different units. The units are more
similar to LOL champions than the races. There are also a
tonne of different buildings and upgrades to choose from.
LOL is very similar to DOTA and given that OpenAI already
beat *human* players in DOTA, LOL is not that farfetched. The
current work, although impressive, still cannot beat *human*
players in SC2. The complexity of designing AI for a game
depends heavily on the branching factor of decision in the
game. SC2 has a much higher branching factor than LOL or any
other games played by n00bs.
>The Chinese government has the exact same access to Apple user data as before, which is through Apple.

No, the Chinese government now owns the servers with the key storage. They now have access to all the keys and user data at rest.

If the Chinese government is accessing all the user data because they requested Apple to put the user keys on their now-state-owned servers, then why does it matter if Apple controls the keys? You're still splitting hairs.
Heap uses Citus DB which is not RDS compatible https://www.citusdata.com/customers/heap

Citus has been a huge part of our scaling story from RDS (maxed out instances and did a ton of tuning) to Citus Cloud. I can only imagine that Heap has a ton more problems than we've experienced.
Go team adding a Go language server to core
No, sorry, you can't evade moral culpability like that. Congress was correct to call Yahoo's actions regarding Shi Tao "inexcusably negligent behavior at best, and deliberately deceptive behavior at worst".
Then you are saying that all the trouble Spanner goes through to actually be consistent is not needed? And by saying a AP system can be “consistent” there’s no need for a product as Spanner. Consistency is obviously a timing problem. Something that is not consistent at some time will not be consistent since it will be inconsistent at that time.
Do you really think environmentalists are the driving force behind this?
This article supports freezing: "A credit freeze is a helpful way to reduce the risk of having new credit accounts opened in your name." The article isn't against freezing; only says that you shouldn't stop there.

It's all a matter of reducing attack vectors. I can put a firewall on my network, but that doesn't mean I don't also need smart passwords.
There is zero reason to extrapolate from 20% (apparently the lowest percent seen in the study according to the figure), to a keto diet (5-10%). You won't even be in ketosis at 20%...
“Western values” is such a propaganda term. We overthrow democratic governments in S. America because it suits “our” needs and have caused nothing but chaos in the Middle East for the last.. century?

We need high tech companies to buy into “values” lie so we can continue to dominate the rest of the world and spy on all of western civilization.

EDIT: maybe you’re joking? Its hard to tell these days, if so A+ job.
The actual name is ad-Dawlah al-Islāmiyah, "Islamic State". The Arabic acronym Daesh ("D.S.") is considered derogatory by IS itself.
Where I live doctors are only allowed to give prescriptions for the generic chemical compound and are forbidden to give prescriptions for specific brands. They may suggest the use of a particular brand if they know of a benefit over others but the one who decides is the patient.
Of course this is not very useful when the drug is patented or if there is only one laboratory producing it, but none the less it seems like a sane default. And this is in a private healthcare system, it is surprising that the NHS doesn't have a rule like this when is their taxpayer's money being used.
I think the intention was that if you're gently coerced into working with a single thread, like with node, then you're also coerced into writing your code in a way that's independent from other threads. In theory, it's easier reasoning about doing parallel work when you start from this point - I've certainly noticed this effect before.

I don't think any reasonable developer would dismiss concurrency/parallelism as easy problems.
Well for me it's because i care about the environment but have no interest in a dumpster-dived vegan diet.

And since i live in a detached home and own 2 cars"environmentalists" don't want me in their tribe.

When you're labeled you get the entire reputation of the group, and the group gets all the attributes of its members. That makes broad labels either a tough sell or pretty meaningless.
I would be more surprised if the "formula" didn't include the value of pi.

Edit: I'm an idiot, and blind. It was 'n', not pi.
One of the reasons I was excited for an EV future was the prospect of quieter cities and towns, as the noise pollution from legions of internal combustion engines gave way to the quieter sound of electric cars.

The pedestrian safety argument makes some sense, but I can't help wondering if there could be a better way than to add to the noise pollution.
identity theft != credit card theft

Yes, credit card theft is not a big deal and you don't really need any protection because the CC companies are pretty pro-active about it. That is not what we are talking about. Yes, real identity theft is rare but it does happen. With a few simple steps, you can protect yourself better in the rare case that it does. Can you completely protect yourself? No, but some protection is better than none.
Censorship is not at all limited to government action. It is "the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security."

Anybody with suppressional power over information can do it.

"Filtering" is not descriptive of what is happening either, that word trivializes and even gives the action a positive connotation. Filtering removes stuff nobody wants, it cleans, it gets rid of debris and trash.

Beware of word subversion! If you try to make morally bankrupt actions harder to describe depending on the actor then you're attempting speech and thought control.
They didnt have anyone on an actual low carb diet in the study, so they made up their own definition and then drew conclusions about "low carb" diets.
Expert disclosed an unpatched #0day in all supported versions of #Windows
> obsolete resource

RWE (the big bad evil company who wants to cut down Hambach) would like to shut down a few old and unprofitable coal burning plants. They are forbidden from doing so, because these plants "are essential to the grid". Doesn't sound obsolete to me.