skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there isn't usually a direct counterargument to be found. One of ST's core points is, hey, you're deluding yourself because you're not accounting for eventual repair costs of all the infrastructure you've already got. There is either no reply- because, heads in the sand- or the reply is that all the new people who will move there and the growth of the tax base will make it affordable. Which, while not exactly a classic ponzi scheme, pretty much resembles one.

It's really common, the whole "ignore future repair costs" thing. I lived in an HOA a few years ago that enjoyed low dues for many years, and everyone was always really happy about that. Guess what, the roofs and siding was ten years past due for replacement, and we had nothing in the bank. I want to say we were looking at special assessments of $30-40k/unit.
Auto adjusting would be interesting, even better (though harder) would be to do it experimentally rather than based on cache line size. Cache line size only determines the minimum block size that doesn't waste cache capacity, after all.
Well, the cutting edge topic in a field i am interested in is Translation Historiography which forms the part of Translation Studies.

In any case, translation studies is a young discipline and probably an inter-discipline. Translation history or historiography is even more recent as a development.

However, it offers fascinating avenues of research. It can shed new light on not just the translations and literature that got translated but also the historical, political and cultural context in which these translations occurred.

It is also amazing how translation is no longer an innocent process as personal agendas, patronage and other considerations shape translations as they take place. Therefore, it is interesting to unearth these aspects of a translation. The farther it is in time, the more interesting it becomes as a phenomenon and challenge.

Translation, mind you, is the backbone of knowledge transfer in the world and hence its history is as important as anything else. Take the case of all the culturally important texts we know, the Bible, the Quran, the Gita etc. History is witness to the fact the way these texts reached masses through translation. However, it is interesting to study how these translations happened and the factors that shaped them. Amazing, isn't it?
i agree, but "guarantee" is a strong word.
on the flip side, a hell of a lot more folks _without_ much security expertise have _contributed_ to the fb codebase.
Wouldn't it just be that https://s3.amazonaws.com is linked on tens/hundreds of thousands of websites and they're capitalizing on this for SEO value, rather than 'Domain authority'?
I don't think half of the people in Roguelike scene really know - or played - Rogue. It's just a genre name these days, implying permadeath, mazes and (often) ASCII art.
Universities and industry groups, esp. security folks, get full source copies of Windows and more... with big bear-trap, PMITAP NDA's. I have/had a NT5/Win2k source CD somewhere in my empire of junk.
Thanks for sharing.

What does it mean "there's always morning glory climbing the stalks"? I am not a native English speaker and some clarification would be much appreciated, thanks!
Next Gen Machine Learning, just focus on algorithm logic
Isn't that to some extent also a benchmark of gcc vs llvm?
In case anyone else was similarly curious, here's a link to his first paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10569-012-9461-8
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wouldn't the astm spec for B20 (or any other blend of biodiesel) keep the level of glycerin, soaps, methanol, water, etc. low enough for that not to be an issue?
I thought methyl-esters as a solvent would be better for the the engine anyway.
But I had a guy tell me two weeks ago that he uses B100 in his new Mercedes wagon despite its 'blue tec' technology.
This piece is mostly about the emotional side of it, and kind of romances the whole thing. I don't think you can take away much practical advice with such articles.

For example, when I read "working 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, for 4 years", that's just impossible.

And a Kotaku interview confirms this (http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2016/03/21/the-past-present-and-futu...):

>>
Kotaku: How did you avoid burning out? How did you avoid coming to hate Stardew Valley?

Eric Barone: There were periods where I had an idea or something that I was really passionate about, and in that moment I would work like crazy. I actually just literally wanted to see that thing come to life as quick as possible because it was fresh in my mind. I had this fire to create that.

Then there would be other periods where I just kind of didn’t feel like working, so while I would sit there and attempt to work I probably did a lot of alt tabbing and just browsing Reddit and stuff like that. I would waste time, and I would be a lot less productive.
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So he's human like all of us, but it's still really impressive what he was able to pull of, no question about that. He's an inspiration for all lone game developers.

I'm just saying, take all these articles with a grain of salt. It's journalists doing their journalist thing.
But why would they think the end justified the means? It's a high risk / low value move.
Interesting, all sources of MS-DOS 1.25 is just 12K lines of code, including comments.

Today, this seems like a pretty small project, and most commercial apps are significantly bigger.
>The forms' design is what gives the government unambiguous grounds to revoke the citizenship of foreign war criminals, once their crimes are discovered.

No, they are what makes the person (even if they never apply for citizenship; the form has nothing to do with citizenship applications) unquestionably a criminal under US law if they've ever done the thing asked about in the question and denied it on the form, because US law doesn't unconditionally exert universal jurisdiction over all instances of the international crimes identified, but it does over lying to the US government.
Zoning is a tool. You can use it to make anything, really. Including sprawl that looks like an absence of zoning.
It was too busy for me so I switched back to the older version. I just read need to read email. Keep it simple-er.
How do you use private key digital signatures on physical products? A signed QR code on the packaging? With a online verification that the key hasn't been reused.

Sort of like old software activation codes?
> We still fund a lot of young early stage founders

Examples from this batch?
I used to benchmark using fibonacci, but the recursive method is just awful because it does a lot of function calls and you're essentially benchmarking that. Then I switched to finding primes using the Sieve of Sundaram. It uses arrays, hashes/maps/dicts and two loops. Also wastes a lot of memory if you don't split your search domain into ranges. The surprise was that Go and D (in that order) turned out to be faster than Rust mainly due to Rust's HashMap SipHash algorithm. I gave up trying to use other hash libraries (SeaHash specifically) that are not part of the standard lib, because it was quite frustrating compared to D.
Without any Western Front at all, the Soviets would most likely have eventually prevailed and come to rule the entire continent of Europe. Britain's support for the resistance and governments-in-exile of the various European democracies also effectively prevented a power vacuum that Stalin would have exploited.

Churchill was far more distrustful of Stalin than FDR was. Even if the US sided with the USSR, they would have likely conceded to Stalin more of his goals. Also, without French, Belgian, Dutch, etc. resistance movements and governments-in-exile surviving under British support, the US would have an extremely limited capacity to occupy and rebuild continental Europe, and very little motivation to. Without the Free French movement and Charles de Gaulle, the only seemingly legitimate French leadership after the war would have been the very same government that collaborated with the Nazis, and the Soviets would have just summarily killed all of them and replaced them with their own collaborators.

It's also not entirely clear to me that the US would have joined the war against Germany at all without Britain already being in it. If Britain sued for peace with Germany, they would be unhindered in protecting their empire against Japanese aggression, while the Germans would be unlikely to cooperate with the Japanese against the British. Without Japan attacking either Britain or Russia, there's no reason for a Japanese attack against the United States to provoke American intervention against Germany. Britain's continued belligerency and the escalating American efforts to aid Britain without formally joining the war were necessary parts of joining the two wars into one.

Speaking of which, it also shouldn't be underestimated how deftly Churchill was able to convince the Americans--who had just been attacked by the Japanese, not the Germans--that Germany, rather than Japan, should be their first war priority.
Right. In C, correctness is by convention, not enforced. C++ allows "userland" enforcement via RAII. There are, however, pieces of compiler magic partially outside the type system (const, &, &&) - you can't specify such behavior within C++. Rust does more of this magic in ownership. If you just want a particular instruction soup, all of them will get you there. It's a question of ergonomics, convenience and the kinds of compiler guarantees that we want.
If you are going to force auto complete on, fine. But at least make sure those ugly yellow field backgrounds that appear on autofill can be styled... This isn't possible in chrome and in our Web application it looked really ugly.
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For us mere mortals following along... I don't necessarily understand what you guys just debated about the impact of options pools but I did grok this from the spreadsheets: In the new model,

Founder stake goes 48.8% -> 49.6%, a modest 1.63% increase.

YC stake goes 3.68% -> 4.55%, a whopping 24% increase.

Other SAFE investors stake declines 12.5% -> 10.8%, a 13% decrease.

So while the immediate impact on founders appears negligible (assuming all variables stay the same), it would seem that this new model represents a fairly large transfer of ownership from other SAFE investors to YC.

Wouldn't this be a cause of concern for founders? If SAFE investors have a particular percentage ownership in mind, wouldn't this push founders to raise more from them (or give a discount, etc.) and thus increase dilution?
Interesting legal point, does Musk have any legal duty to the Tesla shorts? If I'm not mistaken they don't officially own the shares they short so I'm thinking not.

On the other hand if the "shorts" are actively working against the interests of "long" holders of Tesla stock and Musk works against their interests (but in the interests of shareholders) how can that run afoul of the rules?

Not a lawyer so it may not be as black and white as this but I would interested to hear from those that are familiar with legal precedents on this issue.
This brings Vigil lang back to mind:

https://github.com/munificent/vigil

It's a programming language that erases any code that fails to meet contracts or throws an exception.
Probably everything that is 16-bit.
The corner store solution is so bogus. Plano has tons of under utilized commercial space. Practically every intersection has 4 corners of partially vacant huge strip centers. People here choose to frequent the newer nicer always hip and usually chain oriented strip centers near the freeways (shops at legacy, legacy west) at the expense of supporting the interior commercial districts.

So, I would say until traffic gets much worse people would not support the corner stores.
Not what he used, but I can highly recommend Aseprite as both an excellent piece of software and a really great example of software sold well.

No hidden tricks, no freemium, no download manager or account logins. Just good software as an executable. Pay the money, download the standalone exe and enjoy.
The idea of SMTPing email out from your home ISP turned out to be problematic once spam became a business model. Gmail's not the only place that categorically won't trust it.

You need a mail server. You can run it yourself if you're in to that sort of thing, but you can't run it off a residential/consumer uplink. Sorry, this one's non-negotiable. Then your home server authenticates to your mail server as a client, and send email through your mail server. Your mail server is recorded as the IP address of origin, not your home address. MTAs are already designed to do this with nearly zero effort on your part, so you don't have to change your workflow, just your config file.

Don't want to pay for a mail server? Good news! There's like a gazillion services that actually do this for free. Gmail actually turns out to be one of them. Don't want to have to use Oauth? Good news! Gmail's not the only mail service. There's ten billion others.
"That won't scale" - Sandberg
If anyone is interested in a truly decentralized git repo, check out git-ssb (git on top of secure scuttlebutt protocol).

https://git.scuttlebot.io/%25n92DiQh7ietE%2BR%2BX%2FI403LQoy...

And of course the scuttlebutt message types work on commit hashes, so leaving comments, etc. is baked in.
Uber Riders Can Now Pay for Their Rides via Google Pay
There is this guy I know in Los Altos Hills who does this in his driveway. He always has 2 gas->diesel conversions going at any one time either GMC/Caddy, VW or Merc. I'm sure the guy could convert the used petrol Cayenne my stepfather just bought, but there's really no point unless you're biodiesel-ing / out in the country / carry your own fuel / use lots of generators.
China’s Leaders Confront an Unlikely Foe: Ardent Young Communists
How do those industrial sized farms do the spraying for corn worms - is that crop dusters?

Your story reminded me of the recent reporting on the attempt to replace Mexican migrant farm workers with American high school kids in the 1960's.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/07/31/634442195/wh...
It also says you should rewrite things in rust "anyway ;)", not "because it's faster".
Maybe they can, maybe they can't. You're making some non-obvious, generally reasonable assumptions about me. Your statements are true regarding me in the present, but I don't think they've always been true of me, and I don't think they will always be true of me.
Very strongly disagree that Rust is a C++ replacement and D is a C replacement. If anything, it's the exact opposite, Rust is a C replacement and D is a C++ replacement. If you tracked communities so far, you'd see that Rust community is very sensitive on the issue of memory print, performance impact and asm implicitness of Rust. There is already a huge osdev community built around Rust, I know kernels written in Rust. Rust is the perfect language to reliably write drivers, embedded systems or system tools. I cannot think of a language semantically closer to C than Rust. Not even C++ is there. Rust is literally just C with a good type system, and that's what makes it so awesome.
>he lost his original iPhone back in 2008. That inspired him, he says, to come up with a way to locate a missing smartphone or computer.

See, this man right here invented CompuTrace, 3 years later. Oh, and he is representing himself in court.
https://outline.com/z99T8C
YouTube now suggesting independent information on misinformation videos
As has been noted in many places, Youtube some time ago began marking Voice of America, RT News, BBC, teleSUR etc. as government funded broadcast mediums.

I just noticed something on Youtube now, although in my research it seems to have been going on since at least early August, that Youtube is now linking to "authoritative" sources for some topical subjects. If you look to see why you get this click on "Why am I seeing this?" it links here - https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9004474?hl=en . That page says "Note: This feature is currently available only in the United States."

Here are searches that make it pop up on Youtube (sometimes it does not pop up until you click on the video):

space landing hoax
global warming hoax
holocaust hoax
aids hiv hoax
sandy hook hoax

Wondering what other phrases make this pop up?
Porsche has not offered any diesel models in the European market since Feb 2018. Diesel was always a minor part of their line-up and not a great fit for the brand, so this move isn’t hugely surprising.

It would be a much bigger victory for environmental campaigners if the wider VW group were to join Porsche, Toyota, Volvo, Subaru and Fiat Chrysler in announcing an end to diesel in cars.
You can get 40GbE if you buy used theses days for roughly the same price using this switch [1] and NIC [2] combo. The only downside is cables [3] are still expensive and copper cables are limited to 20' but if you're in a lab environment that shouldn't be an issue.

[1] https://www.ebay.com/itm/Arista-DCS-7050QX-32S-R-32-Port-40G...

[2] https://www.ebay.com/itm/MCX353A-FCBT-DELL-Mellanox-ConnectX...

[3] https://www.fs.com/products/30795.html
It's a vine with (very pretty, in my opinion) violet flowers. It's invasive and grows thick and quickly, so I would think that getting through it to the ears of corn would be a pain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_glory
A) Migrating UK->USA and ending up learning C/Unix at Bell labs. Still here and still use these tools 38 years later.

B) Moving to silicon valley, mostly due to the climate, but also because my house often made more than I did, and there are just so many opportunities.

C) Joining a startup - learned to be agile - didn't get rich but at least got to roll the dice.

D) Becoming a contractor - can get foot in the door more easily after the dot com bust.

E) Becoming full time again at large company. Nominal paycut but with all benefits and bonuses and stock actually earn 30% more plus more job security at the tail end of my career.
There are too many medications. What now?
If Google would introduce something like a free online version of SQLite that would be possible to query from a static site on GitHub pages - that would be cool...
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An interesting dilemma, somewhat ironic I might say.
This sounds like it might be a good candidate for a class-action lawsuit, assuming you could include anyone touched by all counterfeits on Amazon as part of the class.

I don't really care about the ~$50-100 in suspect cables, microsd cards, and batteries I've bought over the years, it just seems like something this broad would probably be the only way to get Amazon to consider fixing their inventory co-mingling issues.
How do you know your security guard is not a fake one?
Facebook can be so happy, that this always happens on Fridays... unthinkable what might happen with the stock price if things would happen on other days.
As a responsible company they would never ever postpone publication for sure.
If you created a runtime virtual machine these days, I wouldn't use stacks or registers... address virtual/virtualized memory directly and let the CPU &| compiler || LLVM sort out register placement... registers are basically another layer in the storage hierarchy, from registers/L0 file all the way down to tape, or eww, hard copy.
Me too. I always log in in incognito mode,check messages and notifications and log out.
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It definitely seems like Uber is trying hard to build a stronger relationship with Google. I wonder why? What changed?
I don't understand how this qualifies as a "painful" or "horrific" update.

It seems that most of the hate is either about (a) a slower loading screen or (b) worse design. The latter is debatable, but the former is just a ridiculous complaint. At worst, the load seems to be around 0.5 seconds slower on a mediocre internet connection, so if you can't spare an extra 5 seconds a day from refreshing Gmail 10 times a day, you should consider checking your email a little bit less often.
There's no remember me option antymore, it always remembers. You have to log out manually and/or set your browser to delete the cookies and/or use Ghostery if you don't want FB tracking you all over the web...
I'll try: Strong Towns' predictions of future maintenance-debt doom are already true today of the urbanist, transit-centric alternative. If any group of Americans had sufficient motivation and resources to maintain a good public transit system, it would be New Yorkers, and they empirically don't. The MTA is deteriorating rapidly despite the best efforts of one of the richest cities in the world. That's textbook "unsustainable." It may well be true that America's freeways will meet a similar fate in the future, but that doesn't tell you which one is better or worse.

The big roads Strong Towns despises have many lanes, road networks have many paths from A to B, and vehicles that are resilient to low-quality roads are readily available for purchase. On the other hand, the failure of any component anywhere in a rail network can ruin the whole system until it's fixed. If I have to live with a falling-apart transportation system, I'll take crumbling roads over crumbling trains.
Pretty cool. I wonder if Google will end up adding this in as a full fledged feature at some point.
How the West Was Lost: In America’s First Climate War
Hey even animals need... training... that means. Oh bollocks.

Is it one weekend where they cram too much material into 20 hours of class time or spread out over a week?

Do they get practical certifications or just course credit?
The whole Assange thing is kind of messy. No, he's not detained, but nor is he free to leave the embassy. In 2006 the UN's Working Group on Arbitrary Detention concluded he has been subject to arbitrary detention by the UK and Swedish since 2010. But in all likely hood he published leaked emails with the express intent to hurt Clinton's campaign in 2016, albeit possibly not knowing the original source. But its within mission of the wikileaks to publish that sort of information. He did seek a Russian visa, but the number of countries that have the currently political power to resist EU & US pressure for extradition is pretty limited.

So much around him seems to be politically motivated, both proponents and detractors. I think the chances that we have a full and unadulterated idea of what is going on is pretty slim.

So ultimately ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
FreeBASIC is pretty cool, qb64 isn't bad either -and might be a shade closer to the original quickbasic? (I'm not sure as I don't know enough QB arcana to test).

https://www.qb64.org/
That would not be a good idea. The amount of analysis effort to analyze something in memory is significantly higher than keeping things in (virtual) registers.
In 2006 I worked at a dry-cleaner/laundromat that had its computer system all running on DOS. I remember when the computer died one day, my boss went to the local thrift store and found a computer old enough to just move the drive over and keep things running. I thought it was odd, but it worked great! Kept us from using it to play games :)
I've seen people posting photos of counterfeits that they received, and I've made a lot of Amazon purchases, but I've never received one. I'm kind of shocked actually because I try out some of the really counterfeit-magnet stuff. The photos I've seen made it look like the counterfeits were really obvious, too.
Yes, this is my only problem with FreshRSS for the rest it is everything I want from a RSS reader. It's great!
I'd like type annotations to be used to optimise performance. After all, if it has been statically verified that a particular variable is always an instance of class X, why not use that to optimise code?

This is an argument for type annotations to be integrated into every dynamically typed language, rather than tacked on via an external tool.
The problem with this is making changes TOO small - then you can find you are testing the wrong behaviour just to make your code committable. I think there is a balance to finding the right size increment while still keeping direction