skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they wanted to counter a biological weapons attack on food crops, they would be creating a detection network, a facility to produce a specific compound to counter the threat, and a delivery network comprising of dusting aircraft.

They would NOT be creating mosquito-delivered viruses. Through public research. Now their enemies have access to the same technology too. What's the fucking point? To kickstart a biological weapons race?

IMHO the US needs to put a cap on the emerging bioweapons race right now. Academics can be part of it, please deny developing dual-use technologies like this, which is obviously single-use. The world is going to become a horrifying place to live in if this trend continuous the way it's set.
> 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

Namely? What non-von-Neumann hardware are you thinking of here? Certainly not the very-much-von-Neumann innards ubiquitous today in consumer or workstation machines, mobiles, embedded/wearable/IoT gadgets, game consoles, I reckon.. so what are you thinking of here, custom-designed ASICs / FPGAs / SoC or ...?
It is out of line. It's one thing to be angry at a person, another to wish bad things on their family/children who likely had no part is the issue.
It became an ad platform. As long as customers are OK with ads, it's not going to happen.
You could have json and a schema. VSCode for example does this, all settings is just a settings.json but it still has auto-complete inside it so you always know what settings are available.
One example:

"Don't always make this about you!"

There is no exactly matching equivalent in German. You might say something like 'this isn't about you', but there is no term for calling someone out on it so beautifully and bluntly.

But to me it makes no sense to make absolute statements on conciseness. In my opinion societies are concise in language on topics on which a great common focus lies upon.
> It's also worth noting that there are actually two ways to _say_ "the" in English (think "thuh" and "thee"). I would challenge any native English speaker to explain when you use each. ;-)

I'd be surprised if you could find any fluent English speaker who says that either pronunciation is wrong in any context where the other is correct. If I'm understanding the description of the German definite articles correctly, the aren't all valid in the same contexts, which is hardly the same thing. (I don't actually know German, but I know a bit of Spanish and Dutch, and in both of those languages the definite articles are not necessarily interchangeable, which is my understanding of German from the above description)
Supporting embedded platforms is one of the objectives of the library. Feel free to open a ticket on github if you have any further questions.
What is the economics of monetizing content with in-browser mining? How much $ can one expect from X page views lasting Y minutes?
Ikenya's Jinn-Theocracy GoK Illegal Arrest / Detention V. Jinn-Exorcisms
Sports rather than art, but this comment is vaguely reminiscent of cricket.
so what, in effect Banksy chose to shred 1.3M$? I understand he has a message etc, just curious if he really sacrificed so much for it
Yes, and I never saw Belgium.
I think I would state their hypothesis as: that the content of these journals is absurd, and by using slightly more absurd hypotheses than their normal fare, we can clearly demonstrate to other people that their content is absurd when those more obviously ridiculous ideas get accepted.
I have not seen much evidence for this idea.
... except you need to pay loads of money for the (edit: HEVC) license
Yes! Hopefully C++20 or C++25-ish will provide better alternatives for compile-time reflection.

Don't forget that libnop also has NOP_EXTERNAL_STRUCTURE (and friends) to decouple the annotation from the structure definition. This is handy when you have a C ABI with C++ internal implementation. I don't recall seeing a similar facility in other libraries.
Yeah whoever bought that has probably made a profit already, its a lot more interesting now.
> why some people seem so impossibly warm

Not to be confused with the manipulative charisma of a narcissist, these peeps are just a little bowl of Californian sunshine. I'm always downlow super jealous because as far as I can tell it's completely effortless and unforced. I can switch it on but there's a small yet infinite difference. Pheromones? Excess oxytocin? Or is it metaphysics?
They don't have to know it was false, only be reckless in trying to verify whether it was true or not (which would also be hard to prove, but not as hard).
I used their service and have been seeing ads on FB, Reddit, etc. ever since. Complete waste of advertising.
Banksy will get his money, but his artwork is now probably worth much more. So it is debatable if he succeeded with his intentions to criticise the commercialisation of art.
I still find patterns useful, I am glad I learned them and I am super glad that they are now named consistently thanks to those books. They also make it easier to think about structures. When you need undo and redo, knowing about command pattern made it easy. When I see word decorator or iterator in code I know exactly what it is.

It was useful and it is still useful if you work in object oriented language and problems that match it.
Don't remove the sticker. Most people will have the router simply rot in a corner so it's unlikely to get lost.
English pronounciation is so irregular it looks like it's written in a wrong alphabet and would benefit greatly from some Cyrillic equivalent.
> Imho, code generators and schema files are a feature.

Yes, especially if data has to be consumed by different languages. Personally, I don't see a need for yet another C++-only serialization framework.
Mexican+couple+admit+to+killing+10+women,+police+say
> In order for me to believe you have the ability to make that judgement, I must also believe that you understand the field.

I'm not asking you to believe my judgment. Judge for yourself. Evaluate the content.

> Since you're not advocating for rigorous empirical standards, I can only assume you feel the article we're commenting on was pretty pointless. And let's be real here, this article didn't effect your view either way. We're done here.

I could say the same of you, without loss of generality. You could easily have tried to make the case that the papers here weren't absurd at all, but you didn't. You never tried to do that, you simply tried to obfuscate and hide. It's easier than making a real point, I guess.

In fact, you haven't even stated your position clearly in this entire discussion. You've carefully avoided actually saying "I don't believe these papers are absurd, and I do not believe the acceptance of them by these journals should make us at all skeptical of gender studies as a field". So, go ahead. State your position. I've stated mine.
If the employer chooses any open-source license whatsoever then you can use the code with the next customer (assuming the next customer is ok with the license). There's nothing special about Copyleft licenses there. Well, except for the fact that a Copyleft license is far more likely to have customer#2 say "no you can't use that, it's GPL, are you crazy?"
Haha, thank you for this! You must forgive me ("the GP") for being bemused by the textual analysis you have written in defense of my comment!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tech_Data
I think ncmncm means “people”. The cutting edge of computational systems organization is finding ways to effectively work with the complex multiagent systems running on wetware.
Triplebyte isn't doing the hiring there afaik. It is referring you to companies that hire there, who will offer their standard salaries for those cities.
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Latin is a dead language, and we did not have a will to adopt it as a universal language

I'm not sure what you mean by this. I used to believe that "Latin is a dead language" - until I learnt more about the subject. It was spoken everywhere in the Roman Empire, and the local differences evolved into the Romance languages. They are what Latin is today. And it (the relatively fixed 'classical' version anyway) was a universal language for a long time....until the 19th C in maths and the sciences. Thousands of years is a long time in language-years, and nothing stays still for that long, but changes totally. Latin's dead in the sense every language must be after thousands of years of evolution. English will be dead in that same sense in another 2000 years, and so will every other language of today.
Sqllite is probably the easiest makeshift database. There are tons of applications for graphically viewing it and with python which comes with a built in sqllite-module programmatic access is so easy.

Otherwise nowadays with Docker almost any DB could be spun up locally within seconds.
The largest credit union in Canada is having a 48+ hour online services outage
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that's a pretty vapid statement. aren't all crimes an "artifact of human nature"? isn't everything we do and create, for that matter?

also, how would a stateless society even have the concept of legality?
On the other hand, some of their investigative articles are just long-form clickbait. I was particularly unimpressed with this one: https://www.buzzfeed.com/janebradley/scientist-who-helped-co...

They managed to write 30 breathless paragraphs about how the UK police were inexplicably treating what they claimed was the Russian murder of a key scientist in the Litvinenko investigation as a suicide, and that the police had mysteriously testified that “no-one in his family seemed particularly surprised he had taken his own life" even though some of his relatives had suggested foul play, before they thought to mention that he'd been showing signs of depression for some time, his wife said he'd tried to kill himself the week before, and there was no signs of foul play and no evidence anyone else was present. They then argued this shouldn't have ruled out foul play because he could've been given some kind of secret Russian mind control chemicals. Seriously.

To make matters worse, from what I can tell he didn't even play the key role in the Litvinenko investigation that they claim he did. He merely recalculated Litvinenko's exposure in 2010 after it was discovered he was exposed twice rather than once - several years after all the announcements and further investigation the Buzzfeed story portrayed as a direct result of that work, and well after this had been clearly pinned on Russia. The original analysis was done by different scientists who are presumably still alive.
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Patterns didn't "fail" they just became part of the background like everything else in this industry eventually does. Because we're all so busy chasing the latest shiny new fad, and once some "thing" is no longer "the new hotness" people quit talking about it, writing blog posts about it, writing books about it, etc. But if it was useful to begin with (as patterns were) people just quietly continue using $whatever like it was always there.
Wow, I did not know IDEs were making suggestions like this.
Ah ok, but HyperV is not available on Windows Home editions :( Do you know if it's possible to run Docker with high performance on Windows Home?
I’ve built an underground hideout using discarded washing machine panels for wall support when I was about 11 or 12 years old or so. Safety was a word I’d never heard of back then...
Khmer is sure to have its own oddities.

I learned Thai, which shares Khmer's refreshing simplicity, like not having tenses.

However, it has "classifiers", which are used when counting things. In English, you might say "Three children", in Thai you would say "Children three persons", where "person" happens to be the correct classifier for children. Makes sense in that case, but in general it's weird (and somewhat comedic): for instance airplanes and bamboo share the same classifier ("long hollow things").

There are about 80 classifiers, and part of learning the language is learning the correct classifier to go with each noun, much like learning genders in German. Same as with genders, if you get the classifier wrong, you'll still be understood, but considered uneducated (or badly in command of the language).

BTW, and programmers will love this: this situation means that when counting things of disparate types, you need to typecast!

Funny (to me, anyway) story: my wife was simultaneously telling off one of our sons, nicknamed "O", and one of our dogs, also nicknamed "O". Since they don't share the same classifier, she cast their classifier to the made-up-on-the-spot classifier "O" so it would both be factually and grammatically correct.

Languages are funny.
Santayana's Egotism in German Philosophy is an admirable and very readable history and diagnosis of that story, from Leibniz to the late 19th C. He has a gorgeous style and lovely understated sense of humour. And virtually explains the Nazis, although published in 1915.
That’s a nice example where English fully compounds the word while German and Dutch, languages where compounding is more usual, use a hyphen (“Orang-oetan”, respectively “Orang-Utan”).

Looking at the various translations on Wikipedia (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orang-Utans#/languages), that could be because they took the word from different languages. For example, Bahasa Indonesia has “Orang Utan”, Bahasa Banjar “Uranghutan”
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It's not trolling, the work was a performance piece.
Very nice link, thank you.

Yes, building anything on the Moon won't be easy. Let me just add here some other obstacle not mentioned elsewhere: you can't build a "spaceport" on the Moon. Every lunar landing will result in lots of debris flying at bullet speed for kilometers without any air to brake it. More precisely, some of the debris will acquire escape velocity, some less, so some will end up thousands of kilometers from the landing site.

But that doesn't mean solutions can't be found. I personally envision a telescope being covered by a dome with retractable foil layers. During the day, when you face the unobstructed Sun (and the solar wind), you cover up. You use several concentric shells, with a small pressure differential between them, so any small (or large) hole causes only a small leak, rather than a catastrophic rupture. Inside the inner shell you have some atmosphere to help you deal with dust, but it does't need to be 1 atm, it can be 0.01 atm, for example. As the foils get punctured by micrometeorites or the aforementioned particles kicked up at landings, you repair them and ultimately replace them on some rotating basis. If regular airlocks can't fully deal with the lunar just, use multi-level airlocks. Etc, etc. I think pretty much all the problems will have solutions.

The only question is what benefit we get out of it, apart from the vague desire to colonize the space? Andy Weir in Artemis only thought of tourism, and (no spoiler) some other application that seems quite unlikely.

I personally think telescopes are a better business proposal. I did not think of all the details, but since you ask, I think a mobile package would be a natural first step, and then if it works, a modular solution would be a second one. Many years later, we could end up building the instruments themselves on site, but until then, we'd probably need to bring them from the Earth.
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I learned about S. Pinker's book "The blank slate" here on HN. It altered the way I think about humans.
We're not talking about crimes, we're talking about desires. And yes, that's why blaming the financial system is wrong - nothing would change.

Stateless society can still have justice, courts, rules, police... It's just driven by someone else.
But the Bloomberg story says that they replaced thousands of servers. How would you get permission and funding to do that without saying anything?
Link to the Science editorial:

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/10/crop-protecting-insec...
Because non developer is able to find it at glance. And then he is able to see how related values chaged - at glance with zero effort and delay.

And non developer can easily write own formula to next cell whenever he feels like and don't need to wait for programmer, don't need to explain and don't need to fight if programmer happen to be stubborn.

Even seeing what depends on what is easier with right excel plugin then debugging scripting code.
In my opinion, patterns have failed because they were not formalized enough. You need to understand something exactly before you can successfully approximate it.

I personally find type classes (in the sense of e.g. https://wiki.haskell.org/Typeclassopedia) to be much better replacement.

Related to that, being able to describe things to computer is very useful for compilers etc. Patterns are a language intended to aid computer programming, but usable only for human consumption - inevitably it had to be a failure.
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~clamen/misc/humour/TheChaos.html
“You could argue that the work is now more valuable,” Branczik said.
>I think part of it is that Apple aquired a very smart team of chip designers.

Yes, PA micro was the place where the "last of Mahicans" of US chip industry were.

>Also, apple have pursued 2 (very) fast cores whereas other chips often have 4.

Yes, because people into app development are as web developers, and the word "mutex" gives most of them a panic attack.

Android style java should've been more multi-threading friendly, but that does nothing about people not utilising them.

> this iteration apple have beaten almost everyone else to 7nm, so the difference is much more dramatic.

Yes. I remember how Mediatek beaten Apple to 10nm thanks to them being a Taiwanese company, but nevertheless "ruined it all" with their helio x30's design being designed with more marketing considerations than engineering ones. Their marketing guys couldn't wait to announce "hey we have 2 more cores than you Qualcomm!"
Please, define worse. Number of pixels? This doesn't mean better pictures (often worse). Performance? Clearly, no. iOS camera is much faster. ML processing? Clearly iOS is much much better to preprocess your photos. On latest generation they even get several pictures with different focal points and pick a best one.
Sure, their camera is just current generation without inflated specs, but works much better.
The ultimate rebellion is rebelling against the rebellion.

Of course early believers were going to criticize him as a sell out, but Banksy's message and its embedded criticism of modern capitalism become even more powerful when monetized.

His art mocks and attacks the principles of a materialistic modern society, but strangely this makes it more attractive and valuable to that same society; this can only be described as an absurd and paradoxical logic. An example of their stupidity. The final irony.
When you drop a bomb of this size you'd better double check that. This case is exceptional and I'd like to believe it was treated accordingly by journalists.
Lol. Clicks are the metric they care about.
As hard as rust is in itself, it tries to lower most of the other barriers to entry for new programmers. I think that central package repository coupled with sane package manager and consistent documentation is must have for any new language on the market. Both Rust and Elixir have official package manager and repository with documentation hosting and it makes life much easier. This and not having to worry about another holly war later on.
eBay is not a retailer. It is a marketplace for other retailers.
> It's not trolling, the work was a performance piece.

If the buyer wasn't aware of this prior to buying it then technically Banksy ruined the buyers art, or the buy can back out because he's not getting what he paid for.
All this sounds very useful! If I ever decide to make a game I will definitely use a spreadsheet as database.
> The example given by the author seems risky to me

Ages ago I made a DNS server, and near the top of the program was a simple:

for(i=0;i<ncpus;++i)if(!fork())break;

> Most use cases seem covered by either threads or fork+exec process spawning.

Most of the use cases of threads are covered by fork+explicit mmap/vm_remap.

A "shared-nothing" will also contain less code, and having no need for lock/unlock keeps a lot of spam invalidations away from the memory controller making it for many tasks faster.

> Even if you're safe from other threads, there is a lot of other unknown state like fd's still inherited.

The problems you get with threads are bigger.

http://geocar.sdf1.org/close.html
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The HTML document alternative was a massive technical hack. It was flawed mandate from executives in order to maintain relevance in web-based world. Embedded XML and custom styles were used to implemented the format. Also, the IE team worked closely with Office to support richer text formatting. HTML was not enough. Even then, the format still could not support all the features in the product--features like versioning, simultaneous editing, ole embedding, programmability, etc.
you're actually not making any sense. you're saying that no matter what financial system we have, nothing would change, so there's no point in changing it, and there's no point in not changing it. and if courts and police exist in the way that they exist in our society, then that wouldn't be a stateless society by definition.
Is there an article showing the concrete steps/evidences on how such small chips are used to steal info?

If such a small chip can steal info, why can't the remaining other large quantity of "normal" chips on the same board?
The last time I was in Germany I noticed explicitly anti-English-language grassroot campaign signs on bus stops. They are definitely worried about losing their language and perhaps the cultural identity it confers.

I alternately love and hate German. Sometimes I have to fight through sentences with 5 clauses, and sometimes you get a beautiful and concise statement.
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Are they unusually strong? I work in government, we take these allegations really serious. The data we house in the cloud simply can’t be compromised.

We’re apparently home free by using Azure, but I think the responses are justified if the story is fake.
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Kierkegaard used to make appearances at the theatre, but never staying long, to make it look like he wasn't busy. Now that's going a bit far.

I also love Either/Or, parts of it, anyway - it's some of the funniest writing I know. So many classic bits.
Yes, the buyer should be able to retract the buy. At this point the buyer head made a verbal agreement to purchase the artwork but the details haven't been worked out. It's rare but sometimes buyers can't come up with the money or there is some other reason why a deal can't go through.
As someone who does not have a great eye for color but would like to become better, I really liked this model of color and how to create harmonious color pallette. The color wheel never made sense to me.
The Excitement of Revisiting Places: A TRAVELLERS GOAL
Except that the ultimate OS is open source, completely under my control, and not riddled with spyware and other malware.
Ah, YouTube API's do not supply ad's. Google refused to make an app for Windows Phone. MS created an app with the available API. Google didn't want to work with MS to address any issues Google had with it.
You might need to disable your adblocker.
That's a softer form of it which is fairly obviously true; a language with no words for weather will obviously limit discussion of the weather forecast. That's a bit different to whether it limits your ability to think about those things though.
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