skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We didn't have anything of the sort here in Australia. But hey, at least we learnt how to calculate the inverse of a matrix...
> Every once in a while, and with great fanfare, the BBC announce what new words have been deemed appropriate to add to the language.

Citation needed. BBC News report when OED release new words, so do ITN, Sky, and the papers.
X/1999 ftw!
True and I don’t claim that musk is right always. He is human, makes mistakes, that doesn’t mean he is a criminal, which is what the shorts are implying with these smear campaigns.
The EU Commission launches hundreds of Consultations, which the vast majority never hear about: https://ec.europa.eu/info/consultations_en

I'm not sure if they actually pretend these are representative of the general public opinion.
It's not science if you only work on things you know in advanced will succeed. Just like there's no such thing as a "failed" experiment.
Great and informative paper, really liked reading it! Their findings on how data errors caused by lowering supply voltage even further, vary within different regions of the chips is super interesting.

You know there is a good read ahead when "References" alone takes 5 pages.
I wish there was something pointing readers to the next step to take to remediate this. I read through the article and thought the author's iterative approach made sense. There are a lot of tutorials out there for say processing something with a quick script in either ruby or node - but harder to find resources aimed at processing/parsing a log file in GB/sec. It's definitely a topic I'd like to research/write about further.
You don't know anyone who works a night shift?
I hear you but it sounds like the concern was that no one onsite with the refrigerators could be considered responsible for monitoring for possible tampering with the food.
It hinges on how plausible the scenario is that you can be a board member with a history of effortlessly mastering complex technical concepts, and all around you are whistleblowers asserting that the technology is a fraud, in which case your equity is worthless, and you decide that the best course of action is to abuse the legal system to intimidate them into silence. It's documented in the book that the family of one whistleblower ran up massive debts defending themselves, and a key scientist was hounded into committing suicide. It's not mentioned in the book that any of the lawyers ever wondered if maybe there might be something in all these reports.

Anyway, read the book and draw your own conclusions about the characters involved.
Nobody’s Cellphone Is Really That Secure
No I am not an expert in the field. Should the experts have seen these questions? Yes. But did they? I don't know. We don't have the data presented to us. Often, the right questions are asked by those who are not experts in that field.

Any gap in my knowledge can well be a reflection of the science. The question I asked about the removal of water vapour figures and why is simply not answered here. As a matter of course for publicly disseminated information, the reasoning for this removal should be explicitly available as well as all the graphs related to having the information included as well as what they presented. That is their responsibility if they want buy-in by the general public.

As far as calling someone a troll for stating about non-political cooperation, I have worked for many different kinds of companies and organisations over the decades, private, public and government. In all of them, politics was a normal mode of life, except where certain people were able to protect their staff from it. When politics was not involved, we could achieve much and did achieve much. You demonstrate that politics is alive and well by using the word troll.

I don't care about consensus, I care about the data and what it indicates for me and all the generations that follow. I am not interested in strategies that will be ineffective. Without the data we just don't know. If you want to believe the experts without them providing their full reasoning and assumptions, fair enough, you are entitled to that. But I want more, a lot more. I want the data so that it can be analysed by many people so that we can see what it shows. I want to know the assumptions made in the data collection and analysis done. I want to see what interactions are occurring that we can measure. I don't expect consensus, I don't expect agreement as to what it means. But I do expect enough people of different persuasions to get together to hammer out possible strategies for moving forward.

If all we have is name calling, then we are not going to develop any effective beneficial strategies for moving forward. If questions are asked then they need answered, clearly and in detail. If these questions are not answered then a major problem exists. You don't build confidence in your expertise if you disparage those who are asking difficult or annoying questions.

The important thing here is the collection of data and across a very broad range of fields. Without that publicly available data, with many eyes looking at it, do you really think somebody, anybody can come up with the appropriate strategies for the future?

Climate change is inevitable, it is very real. What we can do to mitigate the effects effectively is dependent on much more knowledge than is currently available. We need to get that comprehensive data across all sorts of fields and get it fast.
Is there any API for this data? I couldn't find it any, sadly.
You probably use it indirectly. It's a fair percentage of the git source tree. It's also used in other places you might not expect, like Proxmox, Bugzilla, SpamAssassin, MRTG, and Gnu Parallel. It's also the main language for booking.com.
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Yeah but the way to stop robbing at the supermarket is police or similar, not you restraining yourself and hoping the bad guys will follow your example.
That's such a stupid argument. What's next? Make car seats uncomfortable so people don't commute? You vent about Apple not making a small phone, and I too think they should. But don't try to push that argument on the back of phone addiction, that's pathetic.
http://archive.is/VWgV3
Good, please everyone do this, time, date, and life are chaotic enough without DST.

And now drop the leap second crap and insert a leap hour every 7200 years, OK?
Who gets paid for finding and promoting "disorders" and has learned "disorders" from a multiple choice app in med school.
I’m still amazed by how much faster transpiling from Reason is compared to TypeScript or JavaScript is via Babel.
Well, 10 years is the same order of magnitude as 20.
You can’t eat PR.
Thank you. It also implies that DST is politiced in Germany the way I did not expected, it is interesting.
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I truly enjoyed programming in PostScript. I actually like it better than Forth because it had some really nice constructs. If you did Forth programming and enjoyed the paradigm then PostScript is actually pretty good compared to JavaScript.
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The mods routinely put a penalty score on stuff that doesn't fit that.
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That's how Bill Gates started
The article isn't really about the bug but about the (lack of) quality in the code. Spoiler alert: He doesn't like it.

"This code has no redeeming features. It must be thrown away and rewritten yet again. This time by an experienced programmer who know what error codes mean, how to use asserts properly, and most of all, who has experience at network programming."
If expecting an unbroken Internet is "entitled", then I'll gladly wear that label.
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Yes, and think about it, how concise it was. I got the same out of reading this 10-minute article as if he had a 250 page autobiography.
Let me ask you a question. Do you ask those who have done the study those questions and if so, what were their responses? Did they answer and if they did not, what do you draw from that?

I work from the basis of there are no stupid questions. Some are difficult, some are annoying, some of them challenging and some are unanswerable, but none of them are stupid.
Then by your standards bayonets have long gone extinct, as they are now regular knives that can technically still be attached to some rifles, but rarely are. See my link.
Given thing today where a hero jpeg is bigger than most Smalltalk’s VM images, it would be fine. The problem is we are in a Unix / Windows world and getting popular now is a lot harder.
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There are amusing signs all over midtown declaring a $350 honking fine. There’s NYPD Traffic often directing when people should enter box junctions (apparently people are incapable without auch instruction). And yet all the cars are honking, all day long.
Apparently for younger doctors, access to patients.

That is, joining an existing practice is more immediately rewarding than trying to establish an independent one.
Doesnt sound like a negative for the article. This is one of those things that we knew would happen, even as systemd was forced into distros.

Edit: after reading the article, i do have to say yhat its a bit ranty.
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The medium is the message.

Go read a book or some studies about attention. It's not mindless fear-mongering.
I apologise for the generalisation. That was too broadly and absolutely worded. But I would stand by the idea that "people on the spectrum are more likely to have difficulty intuitively learning social conventions".

Is that still a nebulous statement?
Huh, you're right. I must've misremembered, since I was previously aware what a disaster the CE->NT move was on Windows Phone.
If like me you are looking for the CVE and not for commentary about the affected code, here it is: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-15688

FWIW, from https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=912008 it looks like the vulnerable code is not enabled by default on Debian.
I still have fond memories of the various BASICs. I first used BBC basic at school (unofficially), and it seemed like magic. I had an Atari ST and a got a copy of STOS at home.

Whilst BASIC encourages all kinds of spaghetti, I'm still convinced it is a better language than Python to start on. Control flow is so obvious to non-programmers when it has line numbers.
Literally in the video on which you're commenting, the creator states: "Right now, the main source of income that pays for this, is Youtube ads"
Wonder why less words are being added over time?
Above the way random numbers are generated now think the best mathematicians of the world.
If the rest of the code looks anywhere near similar to the examples he shows he’s right, this is terrible code and it should never have been allowed in a serious project in this day and age.
Could someone that has the ability to compile this check the output of

PRINT 3+4*5

please?
So it's your position in space (3 numbers), your orientation (another 3 number vector), except instead of 6 numbers it can be reduced to 4? Stargate was wrong?
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"Progressive" generally goes along with the mentality there's no problem that is not solvable by government, which is usually the least efficient and cost effective mechanism for most problems.

This undoubtedly causes a ripple effect through the economy as all costs proceed to rise over time if not in check. Never mind how many preferred policies like rent control and micromanaged environmental laws that accumulate like technical debt and paralyze development have wrecked the housing market and soak the tech industry like a huge transfer tax that benefits those who got in the right place at the right time in the 80s/90s and shut everything down.

"Affordable housing" is another misnomered policy that is shooting oneself in the foot. Instead of just having market pricing and allowing the city to grow as demanded you let a few poor people stay because they win a lottery and still drive the bulk of people far out.

The syringe, shit laden road to hell is paved with good intentions still holds true today, and why I call myself a liberal but not a progressive in the political sense. There's a definite distinction, and certainly not unreasonable to hope that voters driven out by those policies take a moment to think of how things got there.
Because a dictionary is something to asymptotically nears completeness and languages only get expanded with new words for new concepts. The bulk of the increase is in the long dead past, then it slows down until finally only a small trickle of new words are added every year.
While I can appreciate your argument, particularly how some climate change activism can appear to be bullying, you lost me at your last paragraph:

>You want me to support your political campaign to regulate the gas that I exhale, because otherwise there will be a doomsday, and if I don't agree I'm either stupid or evil? Ehhhhh, no thanks.

The fact that you exhale co2 is just not relevant. It's not your exhalation that is menacing the future of humans and other animals. It's the "exhalations" of industrial-scale energy generation (and also industrial-scale agriculture, etc) that are the problem. Surely you see that, yes?

> stupid or evil

I'm not accusing you, but there absolutely are some evil people at work here. These are people who know (and in many cases have known for decades) that what they're doing - large scale atmospheric dumping of co2 - is going to cause real harm and suffering to fellow humans, but choose to do it anyway because they personally profit from it and their wealth insulates them from the consequences within their lifetime.
Yep I mistaken Security groups with Network Acl. Thanks. It's in the best practices to not track dns for big systems.

From powerdns
https://doc.powerdns.com/recursor/performance.html
isn't that an artifact from how new words are found: it takes time?
So it's true what some-of-you'all been saying all along about systemd!

;-D

One question: any smell of intentional obfuscation for this vulnerability, or is it impossible to tell?
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In his classic, must-read article, "Worse is Better", Richard Gabriel explains why. The victory of the C ecosystems has had a profound impact on computing. One small example is that it produced the need for scripting languages like Perl and Python. The Lisp and SmallTalk based systems had no such need.

Also, I think the author somewhat misses the point with his emphasis on end-user programming. The pioneers of the late 1960s and the 1970s saw the computer as a means to elevate and enhance human abilities. The computer would be an intelligent collaborator; teaching us, helping us think more clearly and more creatively, helping us communicate, and so on. Programming was the means not the end. Imagine, for instance, running R and it actively helps you clean, organize, explore, and analyze your data (with the knowledge of a master statistician) instead of just sitting there passively waiting for you to type some cryptic commands. It is this original vision that, sadly, has not survived.
Not only that, but the “Western Canon”, is most certainly not written by one culture.
> Provide support for Apple products

and now many people have found out they are not doing that instead they have resorted to fleecing their customers.
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Yes, because I will enjoy more day time. I never wake up early enough to be dark outside, so that was never a problem for me, but there are days in the winter when the sunset is just a few hours after I wake up.
I confess I haven't read the whole thing but that figure 4 looks more like a set of approaches, rather than a continuum as in the periodic table.

Their figure 1, which appears to describe fundamental design tradeoffs, makes me think of CAP theorem "maps", like this:

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/CAP-Theorem_fig4_2214620...

But the whole idea of figuring out first principles and "fundamental" design choices is quite appealing. They have a section saying that a big goal here would be automatic design of optimal data structures. They talk of machine learning techniques (they mention Bayesian optimization and reinforcement learning).

That seems a very interesting research direction. In the same vein there's this talk by Jeff Dean about how they use ML at Google to replace all sorts of heuristics in data structure design (bloom filters etc.) with machine learning to optimize performance, though from what I recall it doesn't automatically change the algorithm itself:

http://learningsys.org/nips17/assets/slides/dean-nips17.pdf

(discussed on HN previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15892956)

EDIT: I think they cite a paper by Dean and others which was part of that talk
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In The Netherlands a restaurant owner want's to get rid of it's three stars because he feel it lays too much preasure on him.

Unfortunately Michelin doesn't want to drop them.
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I think that’s not the best defense.

I believe if I had a slot machine that paid out in free vacations instead of cash, there would be no doubt playing it is a form of gambling.

I think it’s that the micropayments don’t get a random return. When someone buys to complete a level it is a predictable outcome, not a gamble.

People get variable return on item drops, but you don’t generally pay with money for item drops, just time.

There is a one-step-removed way in which I think video games could be regarded as a kind of indirect or obscured gambling.

1-I pay to receive an in game item like a weapon

2-I use that investment to go out and kill monsters for treasure drops

3-I end up with some randomly variable items of value that are by definition valuable, because people will pay me for them, TOS doesn’t establish a thing’s market value.

But I think this would really require us rethinking or redefining a number of concepts.
The web is replacing cable TV. Therefore the thought allowed here is being pushed into the same box where it will be as bland, premeditated, and uninteresting as cable tv.
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Is anyone that speaks of likely consequences an activist?
I agree with most of the critique, but I don't quite get the part about the use of assert.

The code in question quite clearly doesn't use C's standard assert macro, but a custom macro called assert_return (which I guess checks for a condition, and returns from the function instead of aborting the program).

So basically:

if (!condition) {
return err;
}

How else would one check for invalid input to the function?
I absolutely disagree. It is all about the screen time and only a little bit about the content.

Screen time modifies your behavior. That modification is compounded as the quantity of access time increases. This change is determinate and quantifiable.

You can quickly validate this with a simple experiment. Take any child and take away access to screens. Look at what they do to fill their time and how they respond to people in the first 30 minutes after screen loss and against after 2 hours. Also notice the longer term modifications to behavior after screens are removed for a week.

Part of this is a component of addiction, missing social stimulus, and lack of physical activity.
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Well it's not exactly rocket science, is it?
You just need to work with the hardware in a vaguely sympathetic way and not do insane things.

If your goal is GBs/sec then first look at your I/O speed. It's probably less than that off a standard single SSD => you need to compress the data with an algorithm which offers very rapid decompression. A quick Google would find you things like zstd and lz4. You may infer that to get to GB/sec you might need multiple threads, and therefore to chunk your data somewhat.

Beyond that, it obviously depends what you're doing with your data. Assuming it's plain text/JSON, but you want to extract dates and numbers from it, you'll need to parse those fast enough to keep up. (Naive datetime parsing can be slow, but is fairly easy to make fast, especially if your timestamps are sequential, or all for the same date. Lookup tables or whatever.)

You'll want to avoid storing your records in some serialisation format that requires you read the whole file in at once. (E.g. Use one line per JSON object, or whatever.)

If you do all that, it's hard not to be fast, even with a GC'ed language and all the rest of it.
I usually use T4 for such tasks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_Template_Transformation_T...

Unlike macros, T4 includes a fully-featured programming language (C#), with all the goodies like collections, cryptography, globalization, etc..
$ echo 'PRINT 3+4∗5' > test.bas
$ go run main.go test.bas
34

$ echo 'PRINT (3+4*5)' > test.bas
$ go run main.go test.bas
23

$ echo 'PRINT (3+4)*5' > test.bas
$ go run main.go test.bas
35

No idea where it's getting 34 from though.
Why pressure? Just keep cooking. He can put up a sign saying: "Don't expect Michelin stars adherence. I cook what I want to cook"
An interesting case, I have never heard of this type of fraud
Let's say you know the feelings of 100 coworkers on this issue. That's still 100/85000 employees, or 0.1%. Not exactly a representative sample size.

Now, it's entirely possible 60% of the employees actually are outraged, but we have no way of knowing outside a survey.

Hence the NYT is cherry-picking an opinion based on anecdotal data (that just so happens to positively reflect on their earlier coverage), when it's also entirely possible that 80% of Googlers don't really care.

The headline and story imply the NYT has a firm handle on how the bulk of 85,000 people think, which is not the case.
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Imagine if we permitted apartments in Forrest Hills.
What would you train it on, without already having an algorithm you consider 'good'?
Will be nice when JS gets the Elvis operator and you’ll be able to do ‘if (typeof user?.name === “string”)’ which will have the added value of type narrowing/interaction with ‘never’ if name is expected to be something else.
They released their own PLEX clone ("Wow Tokens") a few years ago.
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If you start reading this, pause and think "is this my sort of thing"....I strongly encourage you to go back and keep reading.

Wonderful article, but easy to jump by if you're in Hacker News skim mode like I was.
The issue is with how the NYT framed it. The headline says, "Google Workers Fume..." which implies a plurality or majority when we have no idea what a collective of 85,000 think.

A more accurate headline would be something like, "Alphabet CEO Confronted about Sexual Harassment Policy" instead of characterizing "Google Workers" as if they were one, single-minded Borg-like entity.
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One point about abandoning DST is that it does re-open these questions. It seems a bit crazy that Madrid and Warsaw are on the same time zone, and perhaps they will get around to fixing this while they're fiddling.