skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-shut-down-a-Windows-10-comp...

So when Windows says you have an update available, the design is that it did all the work that is possible and all that's left is (in theory) the copy bit that's left.

My completely ill-informed guess is that there are exceptions to this rule by teams that aren't fully aware of how updates work under the hood and as a result upgrading takes longer than it really should. As time goes by those teams get hit with a stick and they fix things, but the upgrade team probably plays a fair bit of wack-a-mole.
The article explains clearly that it is a thing in the Netherlands; it's a standard part of driver education there.

> “It’s just what Dutch people do,” said Fred Wegman, professor emeritus of Traffic Safety at Delft University of Technology and the former managing director of the National Institute for Road Safety Research SWOV in the Netherlands. “All Dutch are taught it. It’s part of regular driver education.”
A 'merchant account' can be had by anyone relatively quickly at almost any bank. It would only be a hurdle for the tiniest of 1-2 person operations and a minor one at that.

I think Stripe did a good job, but I don't think it's anything but a better-mousetrap here, and not one that's going to change anything fundamentally, architecturally etc.

AirBnB, Uber, Facebook, Twitter - for better or worse they really changed things. Even Dropbox lead a new kind of 'persona cloud storage' movement, which is a change. Stripe ... not so much.
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> That's just no longer something that's acceptable for a machine connected to the internet.

I'm not sure users have been finding the alternative that has been playing out any more acceptable. Does it look that way to you?
> Tech alone is never enough for anything like what we are doing.

You'd be surprised how far you can get. For example, protocol design exist that provide strong message anonymity: mixnets, DC-nets, and secure multiparty computation (MPC). Tor is great at its goals, but it accepts weaker security for low latency that Brave doesn't need. Tor is also unfortunately blocked in many companies and countries by technology and/or policy. Mixnets are freely available [0]. MPC is sold commercially [1]. (I have no personal or professional connection to either project.)

> On road, will get you links to code for randomizing time between ANONIZE sessions as soon as I can.

Looking forward to it.

Many thanks for the serious engagement. I look forward to recommending Brave to my friends and colleagues in the not-distant future!

[0] <https://katzenpost.mixnetworks.org>
[1] <https://www.unboundtech.com/>
They're not -- the common wombat is, true to its name, still very common, and it's only the northern hairy-nosed wombat that's endangered.

They are, however, all now protected from hunting, so wombat hams no longer feature on Australian menus.
I'm used to quiet and fast OS setup: Win10 doesn't goes well with me. If someone manage to find a way to strangle Cortana to death too, that'd be nice.
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Do you mean OpenShift?

https://www.openshift.com
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> Have a few, select people approve this plan before starting work.

How are these ppl selected.

This contradicts org structures where "architects" are supposed to give "guidance" and enforce a "uniform vision".
Normal or natural human longevity is ~30-35 years. You can determine that because it is essentially a function of (average) body weight. The bigger your (species) is, the longer you live.

Really interesting book on the subject:

https://www.amazon.com/Sex-Origins-Death-William-Clark/dp/01...

TLDR: 2 unchangeable sexes + death (both of those) has proven to be the most effective reproductive strategy, beating out every competitor by a huge margin. This means there is a very good reason for death to exist and death is a "new" thing. There was a very long time when animals (well ... technically multicellular bacteria colonies) just didn't ever die. Some of those are alive right now and are hundreds of thousands of years old, at least. We know about the effectiveness because there are species (none are animals) that are still alive that predate evolution's "invention" of death, that have competed to conquer the earth, and they failed dismally. And we know about the 2 unchangeable sexes because there's a lot of variation in sexes, none very successful (there even are asexual animals, and animals that can change their sex, and animals with different sex arrangements. Some have small differences (like males giving birth), and some are hugely different, like true asexual animals)
In the USA a "Dutch" is a common euphemism for a blunt (marijuana cigar) rolled in a "Dutch Masters" brand cigar wrapper. A "Dutch cruise" is basically loading up a car with people and smoking, and a "Dutch reach" transfers the blunt from a back-seat passenger to a front-seat passenger or driver.
Maybe do implicit for the first 14 years and registration required for the second.
Perhaps a different phrasing of the question (certainly my view) would be "I could go create a (not 1:1 feature) game myself, as a project, and I would learn new stuff, but would I cover all the concepts built into Minecraft?"

I would be interested in the syllabus that building a 1:1 minecraft would teach.

So for example,
"Minecraft creates the same world each time from a fixed X Byte salt, and uses these well known algorithms for generative landscape production"
Your comment doesn't add to the conversation. If your point is to call out just how disgraced MS has become (and how disgusted you are with it), you could give examples that show this kind of behavior is new and wouldn't have happened "when MS was mighty", or you could give further examples to show just how far they've fallen and use this story as further evidence of your point. All you've done is pipe in a trope without justification.

Also it's generally bad etiquette to meta-comment about being down-voted: it only exacerbates the "not contributing to the real conversation at hand" thing.

Hope this helps.
That really long greeting that says "your files are where you left them" that you can't speed up or cancel out of makes me want to kick puppies.
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Note that the author of this piece, Bruce Perens, is the founder of the open source initiative with Eric Raymond.

Sadly none of this stuff with the ARRL is new. One ham activity is contests where hams compete to talk to as many people as they can in a weekend or over multiple weekends. There are clubs consisting of multiple members who compete for the prize of top club. In the early seventies they changed the rules so that you could be a member if you lived within 175 miles of the clubs location.

I helped formed a Midwest club, the Mad River Radio Club that was based in Ohio but had members in four states. We entered and won the competition. Then after the event was finished the ARRL rewrote the rules posthumously and all of a sudden we'd been disqualified.
Ironically, current copyright laws are what made a lot of open source software possible.
I'm Scottish. There is a resurgence of Scots in the cities (I'm in Glasgow) but it's a bit hipster. Even most central belt (Glasgow or Edinburgh) Scots think it's a little bit of a joke language. So this is article is interesting even for us.

History has done a good and subtle job of ensuring Scots is thought of as a dialect of the poor - a lesser form of English.

The interesting thing here is the fact that Scots is clearly Germanic - the resemblance is uncanny.

In the cities they have started putting Gaelic place names underneath the English place names on railway station signs etc. Maybe it would have been more appropriate to put Scots versions there, since Gaelic was (and still is) the language of the North and not the lowland cities?
Given Apple's strong stance on privacy and not making backdoors for encryption, etc-- could they possibly be trying to prevent supply chain interdictions from the likes of the NSA? [1]

Or be trying to detect things like we saw this week? [2]

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2014/05/18/the-nsa-cisco-and-the-issu...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-h...
yup, can confirm, isn't really a thing here in the Netherlands. the thing is though, since we have so many cyclist, you do tend to look behind before opening the car door. if you have some sense at least ;)
but it is not even something you are taught specifically. Only cyclist specific thing I got in my driving lessons was how they can hide behind the pillar when approaching a roundabout, so you should lean forward to check.
I was a jerk the first few years I was involved in the Minecraft scene, and I'm still a jerk all too often today. I'm sorry for making you feel that way. If you want to talk, my email is in my profile.
Isn't that just reverse engineering and cleaver renaming based on what the functions/variables actually do?
A video of Banksy himself showing how he built the shredder:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BomXijJhArX/
I think it's fair to debate whether the difference between Scots and English is between two languages or two dialects, but Scots is definitely neither a pidgin nor a creole.

Pidgins are highly simplified proto-languages that emerge to smooth communication between people with no languages in common. Scots is not highly simplified - it's about as complex as English; they share most but not all of their grammar.

Creoles are full languages which arise _suddenly_, generally within a few generations, from a mixture of two or more parent languages. Pidgins often develop into creoles when children grow up speaking them. Scots and English certainly bear influences from many language families, but these influences occurred over many centuries, not a few generations.

Scots does vary geographically, having dialects of its own (just like English), but this isn't unusual.
This isn't a Minecraft renderer I'm talking about. The Minecraft renderer would be the non-trivial project I said "might end up being pretty cool" if they open source it.
Interesting, but how much of this has been reverse engineered from decompiling the Java classes already?
weird, I wasn't, never heard of anyone who has. i should ask some colleagues if they were taught it.
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As someone who’s gotten doored once or twice and nearly doored all the time on my Boosted Board I make sure to shoulder check prodigiously when driving to the point it annoys my girlfriend. I also make sure to always open passenger doors with the wrong hand when Ubering.

I don’t think it’s ever saved anyones life, but I do what I can.

Biggest thing cars can do and I always do is don’t pass a cyclist only to turn right 5 seconds later. Srsly what’s the point. Just drive slowly behind them for a bit. A little patience won’t kill you.

Also, I recently had to take the American driving test (I drove for years on my EU license coz I’m lazy). The rules actually say you have to use the bike lane as a turn lane to avoid blocking traffic when turning right. That shit’s fucked up.
Interestingly, Isabelle is the director of the INRIA institute in Paris where a lot of coq is developed. I wonder if it's named after her :)
Thank you for the clarification! Do you know how much time is lost between the time a request is handled by the kernel in C++ and the time it would trigger a callback of the web request API? In other words, what is the overhead of the JS API compared to the raw C++ API?

I understand that you are not competing with uBlock. But I’m always a bit sceptical when I read that it’s faster because it’s C++. Since it is not necessarily true and some measurement is needed before being able to reach this conclusion. I understand though that blocking from the network gives some (constant factor?) advantage compared to a JavaScript extension.
As a cyclist - just don't ride in reach of car doors. If that means taking the lane and blocking cars, do so.

At any speed trying to figure out whether or not someone is in it in time to slow down is impossible. Even if you slow down to a crawl as you pass someone sitting in the car you are still relying on them not opening it into your side. If you are right beside the cars you have no space whatsoever to swerve, because swerving towards faster traffic is suicidal.
Kijani Grows based out of Oakland has been doing work in this space for several years. I recall watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IryIOyPfTE was pretty neat.
I'd imagine anyone particularly concerned with SEO would be likely to prefer a more fully-featured method of content management anyway.
Question for people voting keep current copyright law:

How do you live modern life without violating copyright law, or do you think it should stay the way it is but not be enforced?
The missing part of your analogy is that in a safety-critical scenario like that, there's no way that the update to the car would be delivered alongside a change to make the UI go dark at night or a completely-rewritten version of the entertainment system. The second something went wrong with such a bundled update, the manufacturer would be annihilated by regulators around the world and/or by a collapse in consumer confidence.

MS could deliver security updates separately to feature changes but chooses not to.
The Tragedy of the Commons is that well-publicised incidents like this (and the trend of updates to consumer software, supposedly under the guise of enhancing security, to bring about significant changes in appearance and behaviour) make people less, not more, inclined to defer updates to all software with the result that developers feel the urge to strong-arm users into updating.
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You're right, it was set as private but it's fixed now :)
To me, a design document is something you write for yourself, once you’ve decided on the design; whereas an RFC is something you write for others, and others write for you, to communicate a potential design when a final design hasn’t yet been “selected.”

It’s effectively a way of brainstorming that doesn’t get quashed by “that’ll never work” half-way through the 1000-ft abstract, because all the details are already there on the page to prove it will work. It’s just a question of which of the proposed designs works best (and then of attempting to maybe incorporate some of the alternatives’ ideas into the winner, though not necessarily.)

Or, in short: it’s a debate where everyone is doing an “argument by constructive proof” for their POV.

The cryptographic-primitive standardization “competitions” for things like SHA, are RFC processes under another name.
What if you write a great novel? Should whoever is best able to publish and market it be allowed to get all the profits from it and leave you with nothing? I agree that the current intellectual property system has lots of problems and it favors wealthy companies that can navigate the legal system, but that doesn't mean we should get rid of all protections.
Ah, then some useful algorithms and keywords to study would be OpenGL, voxel rendering, A* pathfinding, cellular autonoma, perlin noise, etc.

Red Blob Games has a lot of good articles covering many of these subjects, here's a few:

https://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/a-star/introduction...

https://simblob.blogspot.com/search/label/noise
Say what? If the page loaded enough for someone to know it was an awesome story, then they’d know how it was refueled if they read the article. That said, GP shouldn’t have said “if you read the article” that way (I’m guilty of it too though), it’s demeaning and is called out in the rules not to do it.
With political will, the taxis could be solved in under 10 years — it's mad that they allow 15 year old taxis to operate.

The buses should be solved much earlier, the average age is about 4-5 years. (Older buses seem to end up in Northern England...)

https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/bus-fl...
Unironically, I am in control of when and if any update happens on my Mac.
Also unironically, the described bug has not happened as a result of an upgrade, it was not forced on any user and definitely was not affecting the whole desktop.

From the articles you linked:

"The images get corrupted on copies to the USB attached external drive. "

"However, as Bombich notes, ordinary APFS volumes like SSD startup disks are not affected by the problem described above, so the vast majority of users won't be affected by it – the flaw is most applicable when making backups to network volumes. "

I am not sure you have read the original article and the two articles you linked, otherwise it would have been obvious that these are not the same by volume and severity.
Democracy doesn't work even when people get an opportunity to vote (unless the vote is 2-options, one round): See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theore...

But it works even worse if voters don't get to vote. True.
And I’m sure many a proxy server hated you!

Yes it’s an old technique that worked well until I ran into a corporate proxy server that forcibly closed connections after 2 minutes - pings/heartbeats be damned :-(
In your first paragraph, if you swap Apple for John Deere, do you still believe what you wrote?

The general consensus around right to repair that was discussed during the John Deere incident favored users. But now that Apple is (planning on) doing the same thing, it's reasonable?
Edit: I misspoke. It seems that they did a very thorough comparison with Word Aligned Hybrid compression scheme. I was just searching the PDFs for 'fastbit'.

Past discussion of Roaring bitmaps[0].

I find it interesting that there is no real comparison (at least under the publications at the home page[1]) between Roaring bitmaps and FastBit[2] except for this little quote from 'Better bitmap performance with Roaring bitmaps' [3]:

Our approach is reminiscent of O’Neil and O’Neil’s RIDBit external-memory system. RIDBit
is a B-tree of bitmaps, where a list is used instead when a chunk’s density is too small. However
RIDBit fared poorly compared to FastBit—a WAH-based system: FastBit was up to 10× faster.
In contrast to the negative results of O’Neil et al., we find that Roaring bitmaps can be several
times faster than WAH bitmaps for in-memory processing. Thus one of our main contributions is
to challenge the belief—expressed by authors such as by Colantonio and Di Pietro [1]—that WAH
bitmap compression is the most efficient alternative.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8796997

[1]: http://roaringbitmap.org/

[2]: https://sdm.lbl.gov/fastbit/

[3]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.6407.pdf
No, see Eris, Sedna, Makemake, Haumea and numerous other worlds further out in the Kuiper belt
Interesting; perhaps this Traffic Safety professor does not have a realistic view of driving instruction. I.e., it's part of the official curriculum but not actually taught?
Sorry to be a party pooper, but this is a non-existing thing (and a repost, btw).

It’s true that we are taught to look over your shoulder when opening a car door, but to label it “the Dutch Reach” is really too much honor. It’s just common sense.
keep to themselves like they're stocking up for their prepper bunker

... or maybe because it's the hottest part of the day, and it's over 90F and humid... and they aren't idiots.

Maybe.
It was not a part of my dutch driver education 2 years ago. I was taught as a kid to look in the mirror before opening the door. That was more about keeping safe from cars than taking care of cyclists.
Looks interesting. Can you go into some detail on what your workflow is like? Is your dev environment pure Linux then, able to install everything in aptitude, etc?

How does using an IDE like IntelliJ work?
I don’t see how I violate copyright law in my daily life. It’s not like I acidentally pirate movies.
Yes the end result in most cases is good old CSV -

repeated variable names are bloat when getting lots of data, extra formatting is the same... CSV's are great for getting these things down.

As another poster pointed out (S)FTP is the way to go when sending CSV's, and they are compressed in most cases to save storage and data transmission on both ends.

I am old enough to remember when mailing a hard disc or a tape might be a faster way to move a LOT Of data. The practice is still alive and well, but the option is now by the "truckload"

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> "But what about disabled people!"

We already exempt them from various driving rules, such as parking restrictions. We already have special transport services just for them. No one is suggesting removing these.
You used to be able to ctrl-alt-delete to skip it. They disabled that after a while though :(
Without any forms of copyright, there would be an explosion in art, science and business... but mostly small firms/independend people would benefit from it. so, lobby does whatever it can to make people belief that only BigCorp with billions of theoretical research budget can save us.

I think the first western country (with enough economic power) that trashes the concept of copyright will dominate everything in art/science/entrepreneurship within few years. There will ne less super rich popstars or „winner Takes it all“-monopolistic companies, since the field is much more accessible for everyone - a net positive in my book.
As far as I know the container fights are done Kubernetes won even AWS admits it, now it's all about serverless technologies.
> Sometimes I see people and wonder which of these two things is true:

> 1. They have no idea what the average developer actually is.

> 2. They are lying to make it sound like they were elite when they were a freshman in college.

Concerning 1: they might really be living in some kind of filter bubble of really smart people. Smart people often attract and are surrounded by smart people.
The vast majority of use cases for every program I have ever used or written would consider silent corruption of data to be a significantly worse issue than a crash.
nothing, both these projects have been deobfuscated from the start and then recently released on Github
Tracking transactions on the blockchain with Node.js and kafka
I registered copyrights for software I wrote when I was a 12 y/o kid (a kid who was interested in intellectual property law, to be sure, but still a kid). It wasn't that difficult.
Well, thanks for the list of tools/algorithms - I hadn't heard of any of them, and they all look amazing. Fascinating stuff. Thank you!
Linux (specifically ubuntu in my case) also suffers from somewhat similar problems. Every time I update graphic drivers it's a diceroll on whether it will reboot into a black screen.

Sometimes it's recoverable from blindly pasting god-knows-what from stackoverflow. Most of the time I just have to do a complete reinstall.

(I guess it's not a complete brick on update because I have never suffered data loss, but it's similarly infuriating)