skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like the source website shredded itself
To my eyes, Fabrice Bellard's HEVC-based 'BPG' looks even better at the same sizes, so I'd love to see it more widely supported, too. See:

https://bellard.org/bpg/
Don't want to sound ungrateful, but, if you're going to write an interesting article on good colour, the least you can do is make sure the text of the article isn't in light grey against a bright white background.

Just sayin' :)
Walked past one of his works on the upper west side of manhattan. I wouldn’t have known it was his except for the plaque put up next to the plastic barrier installed to protect it.

Kind of crazy that the art is likely worth as much as the entire building it’s on. Although, this is Manhattan so who knows.
I recommend notmuch in place of mu/mu4e and msmtp in place of a full-blown smtpd implementation.

I also recommend isync's mbsync over offlineimap
Especially when programming it's quite natural to put words together as variables can't have spaces in their names. No need for any underscores (under_scores?) as some styleguides propose, as long as it's a single noun just treat it as a single word.
I've seen that before, to "work around" locale issues, bring a European company recieving data from US companies
Shared mutable state is like goto; yes, it is sometimes necessary, but that only happens when there's a deficiency in your language's concurrency primitives.
Code generators and schema files are not a good feature, IMO. One shouldn't have to duplicate everything in yet another "neutral" language and then maintain two copies of definitions.

The header-only libraries are good. Less dependency is good. No need for build system is good. Many of the existing solutions you mentioned have tons of dependencies. When code needs to be built reliably on 3 different OS and interfaced with arcane twisted build systems, dependencies become nightmare. Boost is great overall but I rather avoid this monster if I can.
There are two different editions. The more popular runs a Linux kernel in a spun up HyperV instance, but the Windows-only solution has images built off of Windows Nano Server instead of Linux. Their docker images/apps are incompatible.
I'm not saying they can't do anything with a three pin chip, just that this was pretty short on tech details. That's (probably) not the kind of chip you'd be using to parse network traffic on a 10G link and upload secrets. Maybe a key logger, but I don't imagine apple or amazon having a keyboard plugged into very many of their servers.

If they had come out and said, this is what this chip does, this is how it interacts with the rest of the board, or it phones home to x.y.z or something, I'd be a lot more convinced. As it is, the technical evidence is a little light as are the sources. So I think I'll hold on conclusions until we get some more info about what they think the chip was doing.
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It's good to know it's come leaps and bounds since the Win7 days. What about the software installation story? Is it still a case of download then click next next next. If it is then it's definitely a superior in Linux, where yum/dnf/apt will do both OS and apps for you.

I've limited experience wihb Win10, my wife has an XPS with Win10 pre-installed, and I've literally installed 2 things on it.
I agree. I'd add that a lot of people overlook the complexity of English idioms and vocabulary. It is easy to pick up the basics of English, it is much more difficult to get to proficient level for writing a book for example.

Imho as a native German I have the impression that with German it's the other way around. In the beginning it's hard. But once people attain a basic level there is not much to learn anymore.
but we don't know what it was doing, maybe the back door is else where in the motherboard and this things job is to prop the back door open every now and then.
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As a native speaker of English and a speaker of German, I find that some things are more concise in one language and other things are more concise in the other. I don't know if this inconsistency is due to limits in my own knowledge or limits in each language, but I suspect it's a bit of both. Where things appear more concise to native speakers also probably has to do with both tacit knowledge of idioms and amount of time spent composing a deliberately aphoristic statement.
Big art has been hijacked by big money. Art as an investment vehicle, something to preen yourself with, show others you are elite.

This shows the hypocrisy. Unfortunately it will not change anything. The piece has just become more valuable, I predict.

Go Banksy. Art for the masses.
I’m not clear on whether it stopped or was stopped?
Given the impasse, I'm inclined to believe one of two things:

1. US intelligence planted & played along for this story, for a long time.

2. The story is true on all fronts: i.e. those inside Apple with knowledge about this are lying to senior executives under immunity protection from US intelligence/law

Personally, I think #2 to be a lot more likely - US intelligence has managed to sneak in backdoors into tech forever, in cahoots with sympathizers who probably have immunity agreements if outed.
Why C++14 dependency? A lot of other projects are still stuck on C++11 because of variety of reasons. It's sad to see this dependency :(.
I agree with you. I just mentioned it to set a context. Else it would have been very open to interpretation.
The same problems could cause lethal over/under-doses with much more reasonable numbers of pills, i.e. accidentally ordering 2 pills instead of 1.

The fact that 38 pills were ordered shows how crazy the problems can get, but a crazy number of pills like that should also be pretty trivial for a nurse to catch. How do you pour 38 pills down an 85-pound child's throat without considering that the consequence may be death?
I wonder if legally the buyer can retract the buy? Although I'm sure it's worth more with that.

Funny how Banksy, who was anti commercial things before as a street artist, now is obviously very torn being selling out and not. He is still selling out with this sale, but couldn't stop himself from trolling the buyer.

I feel like I'd feel in a similar way - hard not to sell when so much money is in play.
since information cannot be destroyed (at least, according to quantum physics), i argue it's transformed. And it's just as valuable transformed, if not more so.
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Moreover, what I'm interested in: what goal did they have that goes beyond Sokal and SciGen-generated papers?

It wasn't clear from the article, and those two categories have already done a number of hoax papers. So we already know that hoax papers get accepted occasionally. A new hoax study would only be interesting if you specifically at our to attack a field of study - at this point, there have been enough hoaxes that show feasibility overall.
Login_duress: A BSD authentication module for duress passwords
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For us to build it? IIRC not 2x but enough that it made a difference.
Serialization is part of the story. It would be great if someone can also write header-only dependency-free cross-platform RPC library :).
They'll pay and be happy to do so.

Banksy's art is valuable exactly because his art pushes the boundary. It wasn't just destroyed for no reason. His graffiti art is meant to be public, and he has made no secret he thinks private art collection is bullshit.
But the shredding functionality was part of the work of art all along. A feature, not a bug!
Patterns failed because they aren't patterns. But if the GoF had published a Glossary of Software Things We Find We Use, few would have bought it.

In one sense DP wasn't a failure, because it made its authors boatloads of money. That's usually considered enough, if your expectations are not unreasonable. It didn't revolutionize software development, but software development already was and still is dead in the middle of a continuous revolution, with no end in sight.

That revolution is driven by programming languages getting better at enabling programmers to capture ideas in libraries. Progress mostly happens by existing languages adopting good ideas. Sometimes the ideas have been tried out first in a new language, but as often not. If you have a good language idea, you stand an overwhelmingly better chance of people using it if you get it into a widely used language. As a consequence, C++ has, over the past 20 years, turned into a language that is enormously more fun than its first standardized version. C++11 is more fun than C++98, C++14 is more fun than 11, 17 is more fun than 14, and 20 will be more fun than 17.

The bleeding edge is discovering how to express good ways to control the non-von Neumann hardware whose computational capacity completely overwhelms the pile of cores we are handed. It's not clear that libraries will be able help very much with that.
I will say something that is completely incorrect as facts, but helpful as a thought technology:

Choosing BSD over Linux is like choosing Slackware over Elementary. The differences are there, but they're very niche and subtle in the technical side and the philosophical side.

If you've never used a BSD, you can safely think of it as just another linux distro, and use the same reasoning you'd use to choose your favorite distro.

Do you need more specifics on which are those differences? Check out [1] and my own take on [2].

[1] https://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/01

[2] https://cfenollosa.com/blog/openbsd-from-a-veteran-linux-use...
I doubt a burned, sorry, transformed, version of the Mona Lisa would be more worth than before.
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I get why you don’t feel guilty about it (I wouldn’t either), but another thing to consider is what impact it has. From Apple’s perspective, this is clear abuse (the goal of this policy is for new buyers to be able to return a product they don’t like, not a loaner service, and they take a 10% loss when they then sell the device as refurb). If too many people do it, they will make the policy more strict and everybody will loose this great escape hatchet for buying the wrong thing.

(Notice this is not EU mandated 14 day right of withdrawal, which only allows you to unpack and reasonably determine suitability, i.e. do a bit more than what you could do in a store. Heavily using the computer for 14 days is not permitted by it and is only allowed by Apple’s generous policy.)
hi i dont know what opium is
You are. 18-34 year olds in the US spend an average of 19 hours per month watching videos on YouTube.
https://www.businessinsider.com/millennials-still-watch-tv-d...
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breaking the system for judicial nominations

The "nuclear option" of changing cloture for judicial confirmations was first invoked by Harry Reid, not Mitch McConnell.
Which company was it?
it's even easier than the comment above suggests
Not referring to this specific exhibit but other pieces by a similar artist. Thousands of people can create this kind of paintings for cheap. That it still sells for more than what many people can make in a decade or a career means a stratospheric concentration of wealth in society or a bubble in the commercial art world.

If there is real scarcity because of climate change or other widespread disaster, how much can a piece of this ‘quality’ be sold for? A loaf of bread, or less?

That millions of children still starve but a piece of simplistic art is worth more than the value of food a whole village consumes in a decade is a sorry effect of the financial system we use or the way our society assigns ‘coolness’ score to people and activity.
One word, Dtrace https://wiki.freebsd.org/DTrace
You could see every trace on the board at each layer. A chip like this story talks about would standout. Also at each point on the board you could probe (traces) end to end. It’s complex. Also the is the integery testing .. a machine that has 1000s of needles that pushes down on the top and bottom of the board at each contact point and test the resistance and conductivity end to end. Put something in the board in the path and the numbers come back wrong.
What if Leonardo had very publicly transformed it before he died?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Popeye
I can't take GitLab seriously until it stops touting itself as a project management tool with its flimsy label-based 'workflow' model.
The main thing I learned by actually reading the Alexander book is exactly how far GoF missed the mark in translating "patterns" into the software domain. They're hierarchical, and span a vast range of scales. If one end of the scale is "Iterator", to match Alexander the other end of the scale would need to be set at "Ecosystem" or "International Community". Less than a quarter of the book would have anything to do with data structures or bytes in a file.

I think there's room for a proper Software Development Pattern Language book, but GoF is definitely not it.
What are some good flash games to play before it goes away?
The paper claims that only few variables are documented so reproducibility is low. I think that's not a good measure because this complexity has kept increasing and it would require significant space in pdf to document every little detail. The good measure is if paper comes with code and it reproduces the claims. If I'm reading it right, this paper says AAAI and IJCAI had only 25% of papers with code. We really shouldn't be accepting AI papers without code.
“Uber didn’t change the physical infrastructure of cars. They didn’t build their own taxis. What they did was create software that could connect excess capacity drivers,” Krakaris told TechCrunch. “Most warehouses aren’t going to be full. We are going in and filling that extra space they wouldn’t otherwise fill.”

Does Deliverr rely on the third party warehouse staff to perform fulfillment? How do you ensure SLA's are met?
Yes, Solid is something to looking forward to.

Many years ago, we face the vendor lock-in problem from the software giants, due to proprietary data formats.
Thanks to Berners Lee, W3C, XML and open source community, that is less of a problem today.

But now we face the problem of vendor lock-in, not due to proprietary formats, but due to cloud-service lock-in.
With all the software giants, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Amazon, ... offering their services primarily as cloud services,
this cloud lock-in issue is going to become more severe in years to come.

It's a new war the software industry needs to fight.
It cannot be addressed just by one person, one project, one organization.
It needs collaboration from the entire community.
You're using them wrong if you duplicate everything and maintain two copies. You should have one copy of the objects in the "neutral" language (protobuf or whatever) and compile the language-specific files out of that - but you don't maintain those any more than you maintain any other build output.
>As a native speaker of English and a speaker of German, I find that some things are more concise in one language and other things are more concise in the other.

I'm reminded of my former neighbors, who would switch between English and Spanish mid-sentence. I asked them about it once and they expressed a sentiment similar to yours.

As an English and German speaker, my kids would tell you I sometimes do the same thing. Bad drivers get yelled at in German ;-D
It’s a well established doctrine that this is a direct consequence of First Amedment: https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/933/compelled-speec...
This is exactly why I am skeptical. Every detail in this story is plausible, but at whole it is just improbable.

For a prior see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BadBIOS
I'm pretty sure US law would protect Bloomberg against any lawsuits unless Apple could prove that they definitely knew the story was false when they ran it. Short of that, nothing - not even massive journalistic failures - would make them liable.
Is there any evidence whatsoever this increases safety? In my experience driving at night, traffic with led lights are so obnoxious it's almost worse than high beams with traditional headlights.
It is not artifact of any financial system, this would happen even if we had full communism, just illegally and with barter/favor payments. It is artifact of human nature.
An urn with the ashes of the painting would not be that much worth or admired now.
You know Banksy made a film about exactly what you’re describing called “Exit Through The Gift Shop” right?
Signal integrity is really important as it can lead to grey failures down the line. It is really important to find them before you stuff the boards with $$ of components that you can not save if the board is bad.
> WSL is a continuation of the kernel ABI part of Project Astoria. Astoria also had lots of user mode code that made Android apps feel native.

https://twitter.com/benhillis/status/857094460961943552

I believe the Hyper-V based Android emulation is separate from Project Astoria and came later.
If the same thing has been done here, what's the point? Sokal already made that point long ago. There is no academic goal in repeating that experiment.

Moreover, repeating it 20-fold? That's not even ethical - either one success proves your point, or were going to need a control group and rigorous methodology.

Since the trio reject the notion of control groups, they should have understood that getting more than one paper accepted was not furthering their experiment, only their ego.
They do not have to own the car.

This is one of my top reasons why I will not willingly own a self driving vehicle.
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Yes, Solid is something to looking forward to.

Many years ago, we face the vendor lock-in problem from the software giants, due to proprietary data formats. Thanks to Tim, W3C, XML and open source community, that is less of a problem today.

But now we face the problem of vendor lock-in, not due to proprietary formats, but due to cloud-service lock-in. With all the software giants, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Amazon, ... offering their services primarily as cloud services, this cloud lock-in issue is going to become more severe in years to come.

It's a new war the software industry needs to fight. It cannot be addressed just by one person, one project, one organization. It needs collaboration from the entire community.
why wouldn't standing in front of a car to rob the driver work now? surely most people aren't going to run you over
While I understand running VMs are important for you and many developers, people like us who want to do this have to be a miniscule share of Apple's market. I wouldn't bet on them spending much time on it.
Since you mention it, check out the experimental RPC support:

https://github.com/google/libnop/blob/master/examples/interf...
https://github.com/google/libnop/blob/master/include/nop/rpc...

I haven't documented it yet since it's not fully baked, but it's quite functional nonetheless. I have a working prototype of RPC over USB between a host PC and a Cortex-M micro controller. The ability to define constexpr dispatch tables is very convenient in a micro controller environment.
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The implication is that the frame was a recent addition and that Banksy or an accomplice was in the room to trigger the shredder at the right time
I wonder if Khmer speakers are missing out on anything by not having these concepts in their language.
That seemed to match the lightbluetouchpaper description - the "hack chip" goes where the optional legacy (non-quad) SPI chip would go.
This is how you can use you smartphone without leaving trace
Yes, hardware implants would best be done by swapping out a BMC/IPMI/DRAC/ILO chip, eg, modifying it upstream in the supply-chain. This type of implant would be much less geo/politically-damaging, if discovered, and more difficult to notice (unless the client checks integrity of all Flash EEPROMs) and more difficult to track down.
> I found that some people tend to take the descriptions of design patterns as a kind of gospel and any deviation from the Right Path outlined therein is heresy.

I think the key aspect which distinguishes "dogmatism" from "reasonable" is whether the choice they're concerned with would cause a communication-error or leaky-abstraction.
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If you have an m4a file, trim it and change the extension to m4r, then import to iTunes. I did this a lot.
It's also not a case of dust settling gently on things as it does in an atmosphere, but particles can end up travelling at extreme speeds which effectively sand-blast anything they come into contact with.

Lots of engineering problems to solve here.
I tried to keep it C++11, but generalized lambdas are critical in important use cases (see nop::Variant). Besides, GCC and Clang have solid C++14 support. C++17 is another story... ;-)
"Not everything worth doing is worth doing well."
Yes, MS seems to believe having a profitable store and killing win32 everywhere are both entangled.

But Steam has proven them wrong. Win32 is still strong and Steam makes millions.
ICO jurisdictions (Israel and Switzerland)
Anonymous sources aren't usually unknown to the journalist. They can still fact check without publishing the names.
Thanks! MessagePack is one of the influences.
Average joes aren't buying macbooks anymore, iphones and ipads all the way
I'm struck by how contradictory the author's guidelines seem to be. If your documentation lives in source code and github readmes, then bam! - you automatically have permalinks to everything that are intrinsically synced to the version of the code. If you keep your docs in separate files on a separate website, you get those things iff you remember to manually generate them.
How is that ads are not in your list of reasons?

I am sure they are the top priority for Youtube.
With a different kind of accounting, people behaviors may change. The wealthy art consumers want status, prestige, and acceptance as one of the ‘cool’ crowd. Or when buying for investment, they expect some will buy from them for those effects.

If we make it much more prestigious and ‘cool’ for people to show off their equivalent donations to starving children, fewer will bid for the drawings and more will donate.
Doesn't that support GP's argument? Seems like they really don't want anyone to use it, since the beginning.
"Operation Popeye (Project Controlled Weather Popeye / Motorpool / Intermediary-Compatriot) was a highly classified weather modification program in Southeast Asia during 1967–1972. The cloud seeding operation during the Vietnam War ran from March 20, 1967 until July 5, 1972 in an attempt to extend the monsoon season." [1]

"After World War II, the U.S. military bombed dams in North Korea and North Vietnam to destroy the communist governments’ electricity and irrigation infrastructure. This was, until the Iran-Iraq War, the final occurrence of such soggy tactics. In 1977 the Geneva Conventions specifically outlawed the targeting of water infrastructure in wartime." [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Popeye
[2] https://medium.com/war-is-boring/dam-warfare-3da6ee24518a
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Vietnam%27s_dikes
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