skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also had some funny shower thoughts about this. I think reverse engineering in general plays an interesting part in the philosophy of science.

To what extent is something science when only one private company knows about it and the public (i.e. security researchers) need to reverse engineer it? One could say that it is like a 'simulated nature' that needs to yet reveal its secrets.

In that sense I feel that reverse engineering stuff like this is a more high fidelity type of form than simulation since there are some real world stakes/incentives on the line. At least, as far as the philosophy of science is confirmed.

Another thing was that I was quite surprised how much the reverse engineering effort just looked like a standard experiment that psychologists/medicine would use as well. I mean it almost literally is: control group, experimental group, hypothesis pans out, let's go on to experiment 2, and it's the same song over again.

I wanted to point these things out still because I like interdisciplinary comments and have the hope they could achieve something interesting.
Ironic, since Germany is maybe the only country I would trust with such facilities. From a pure not-fucking-it-up perspective. (Ahem... cough Sellafield...)
I think it's a good piece because it highlights that tech doesn't exist in a vacuum, and neither does ethical discussions. Engineers like to abstract things, such as just solving the problem of recognizing people based on their irises. But, when politics change I think you should reflect on who your customer is.
>Many compilers even expand the code inline to generate fix size divides into mult and shift.

This is what I meant when I said:

>even when the compiler gets smart about it because it's a constant.
Thailand has two "Personal Radio" services, one at VHF 78 MHz and another at VHF 245 MHz.

The 78 MHz transceivers must have a Yellow case, while the 245 MHz transceivers must have a Red case.

These radios are widely used by small businesses (taxis, guards, etc) right across Thailand. Once you start looking, you'll see them everywhere.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_radio_service#Thailan...

Thailand also has a very active Amateur Radio Community, with many expats licensed. see https://www.qsl.net/rast/

The previous King of Thailand was a Patron of Amateur radio, so access to licensing was taken very seriously by the authorities.
Not likely. Both the Cosmo and Gemini use Mediatek SoCs. You're unlikely to ever see a mainline kernel go anywhere near those things, let alone one supporting the majority of the hardware.

Odds are high you'll even be stuck with a 3.10 (or maybe 4.4 if you're lucky) fork of the kernel.

As much as I love the formfactor, it's way more likely that we'll see a mainline kernel running on one of the various Snapdragon 845 devices before the Gemini or Cosmos.
I'm pretty sure no one has done the tail analysis for pesticides, cars, nuclear or hydro, before they were introduced en masse.

I'd much rather have close to 0 deaths from all of the above guaranteed, when catastrophe happens.

I'm aware that nuclear is probably the only thing that will solve the energy crisis. But I'm wary of the long term risks. Just like I would be with the dam.
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I’m struggling to think of an example of an OLTP query where simple heuristics don’t work but I’m not an expert, can you give an example?
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Not that it's Skype's fault they're getting throttled, but I wish I had an alternative to Skype.

I haven't found a service that lets me dial worldwide (particularly USA/Canada) at anywhere near the rates Skype offers.
Did you read this?

https://www.jstor.org/stable/30226269?seq=1#page_scan_tab_co...
So the endianness answer is, from your link: "They are still byte-order dependent but almost everyone uses little-endian CPUs these days so it's not much of an issue." Which just means "we solve the problem by ignoring it completely."

And what about the limitations on the 32-bit system? Isn't there also needed to use memory space of RAM for the complete size of the database, that's how that database works if I understood? Which makes LMDB effectively unsuitable for 32-bit systems:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52862176/lmdb-open-large...

"your user will need to either enable PAE on their system, or upgrade to 64-bit CPU. If neither of these is an option in your application, then you cannot use a memory mapped file larger than your available address space"

In short it still looks that LMDB is designed effectively only for one-endianness and only for 64-bit systems, which is still limiting for many use cases.

Again, it seems that for LMDB is again "solving" the problem by ignoring it. Which is OK if it fits your use case... But shouldn't Firefox work properly on 32-bit systems? Or did they completely decide that they don't want to target any 32-bit platform anymore?

Moreover, there are use-case scenarios where the memory mapped file approach can suffer from problems of unnecessarily reading the page that will anyway be completely overwritten. My conclusion is... if LMDB "works for you" fine, but do properly your research first. I still believe SQLite covers much more use cases and is safer starting point for many of them, including Firefox use cases, until I read that they really decided to reduce these.
It’s likely you’re not exactly the target audience.
This is a country that executes drug users and jails pilots for whistle blowing. Authoritarian corruption is why this plane crashed.
It's a kingdom
He probably meant hardware keyboard. <strike>I don’t think anyone makes Bluetooth mechanical keyboards.</strike>
Ok I’m apparently totally wrong about that last thing and possibly the first as well.
Do you really still need to dial? Haven’t all the persons you call a computer (smartphone!) with free VoIP capabilities?
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Not the greatest UX here... just tap the Score/Up Arrow area. You must sign in first.
Not so.

The HF Ham bands are as busy as ever, while the Shortwave Broadcast bands are chock full of mainly Chinese stations, who incidentally play some amazing music.
Maybe they'll fix fake news, I'm assuming they have them too.
Older thinkpads have empty minipcie bays for cell modems. I think my x201 does but I haven’t checked.
Which Option lib is that?
>>But with diminishing returns. After 8-10 years. Any additional “years” of experience doesn’t matter. What you have done does.

Reckon this is when most people establish their own business
I’m just reading it but I disagree as would most mathematicians.
You can't just put all solar panels in Sahara because of so many more important reasons, mainly energy transportation. Power lines will never be that efficient, and battery storage would be prohibitively expensive (and I am not even sure there would be enough rare metals on earth to build that many batteries).

We worked hand in hand with middle east dictators for centuries now, to get their oil. Oil is interesting because it is cheap to transport (pipelines).
Why would the future point to renewables? There's tremendous progress which is still possible with nuclear technology, compare that with wind which is mostly a solved turbine technology now, I doubt I will see a 30% gain from wind in my lifetime.
>So you have to take a 5 years loan to buy a new car? 10 years if you have a low salary?

I can't speak for all of Europe but in my country we don't take loans for cars.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leuk%C3%A4miecluster_Elbmarsch
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I think that's unnecessarily angry at Microsoft. Of course they have to sell something. They offer some great tools for free (as in free speech) and you still complain that their MVPs promote their own paid services at their conferences?
Just like with the Ubuntu Phone: we just wanted a regular X11 on the phone, not a copy of Android app space on Android base.
Yes, because for this purpose they're both equivalent: they both have the potential to disable the emergency generators.

The reactor Krümmel actually had incidents in the past where the emergency generators failed, and where the connection to the grud failed. Just by sheer luck never at the same time.
I'm not sure I agree that AWS and GCP are clearly better than Azure - but I'm not been neck deep in all three so I cannot definitively say so. But Azure is moving fast.

> Visual Studio is littered with SQL server and Azure tools which doesn't even make sense. Either offer equal tools for all major tech or none, but this subconscious constant selling of their own tools sickens me slowly.

Of course they support their own tools, but you don't have to use Visual Studio, you can use VS Code if you like. But I can understand why people like Visual Studio - live unit testing alone is reason enough to use it.
> People tend to forget that the waste is dangerous for thousands of years to come

Why people always talk about that like it's the worst thing that ever happened? There's also dangerous chemical storage facilities and these products most of the time don't even degrade over time (so even longer than thousands of years), they are also stored in worse condition than nuclear waste. Despite all of that, I don't see any environmental group talking about it.
I guess I'm missing something here but I'm failing to understand why would anyone want to set up work environment using their phone? As I understand you would also need a monitor, keyboard and a mouse? Isn't it easier to just use your laptop?
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>Engineers like to abstract things, such as just solving the problem of recognizing people based on their irises. But, when politics change I think you should reflect on who your customer is.

Engineers should be educated enough to know the consequences of such technologies.
> It’s all interoperable because there is just that one syntax.

And that syntax and specification leaves open the possibility of arbitrary precision integers. From the JSON RFC[1]:

> This specification allows implementations to set limits on the range and precision of numbers accepted.

Those limits vary by implementation. The subsequent paragraphs warn, of course, that not all implementations support sending or receiving numbers outside of certain ranges, and explicitly calls out the contiguous integer range of an IEEE double as a good range for good interoperability.

> “I want to transmit non-Json strings but claim they’re json “.

Those strings are already JSON.

There are serializers out there that support arbitrary precision integers. Python, for example, will happily serialize such integers:

In [6]: json.dumps(2 ** 512)
Out[6]: '13407807929942597099574024998205846127479365820592393377723561443721764030073546976801874298166903427690031858186486050853753882811946569946433649006084096'

(This will parse in today's browsers, too, but you'll get an imprecise result, as JavaScript's Number cannot represent that value exactly. Larger numbers result in Infinity.)

[1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8259#section-6
Well, look at the Asse II, Germany has a long tradition of fucking uo everything nuclear.

The french actually are allowed to do it, and have the facilities, and don't have nearly as many issues.
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If you have an android phone try installing an X server with support for relative mouse mode. I’ve personally found most desktop apps are more usable on android this way than their native android versions (even when the android version has all the features I want which is rare.)

The battery life like this is horrible though. I’m not sure if it’s X11 or if it’s that using android’s graphics from C wastes a lot of cpu time or what.
There's currently no electricity generation technology with lower death/kwH than nuclear.
"The company has also started working with the authorities in Xinjiang, Mr. Wang said. The goal? To have a database of the irises of all Xinjiang residents within two years, he said."

But, what is the actual goal of that? How will that be used?
>This makes each one effectively as expensive as the last.

And as dangerous.
> The average .NET developer never even tries different things like AWS or the Google Cloud, TravisCI or AppVeyor, etc. They just swallow anything which so-called MVPs and conference presenters force them down the throat, primarily Azure which is by all measures inferior to the other two and they don't even know.

I've made an account because this attitude irritates me.

1. This is patently untrue. The real reason is that a large number of developers simply have more important things to do (friends / family / children etc) than learning whatever is considered in fashion. Scott Hanselman even has a name for these developers "Dark Matter Developers".

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/DarkMatterDevelopersTheUnseen...

If you have 10 years of experience working with .NET and all the parts that normally come with it, it makes more sense to keep within the ecosystem and keep up with the changes in the tooling if you want to stay up to date. There isn't much benefit for most people to look outside of it.

I've personally got sick of things changing every 3 months and build almost everything exclusively using full fat .NET because I know it isn't going to be gutted and changed in 6 months time unlike .NET core. It has also 16 years worth of development and documentation behind it. I don't need to spend half a day trawling through stack overflow posts.

2. Most software that is built in .NET is intranet software that will never be seen by the public. It is most likely hosted in a server rack in the basement. Almost 90% of the problems when developing in these places is internal politics, poor IT infrastructure spending and abhorrent legacy code. I could probably list another hundred common problems.

> Visual Studio is littered with SQL server and Azure tools which doesn't even make sense. Either offer equal tools for all major tech or none, but this subconscious constant selling of their own tools sickens me slowly.

The whole point of VS is that you shouldn't have to go outside of the IDE very often. Thus why wouldn't Microsoft offer tight integration. If you don't want to see the tooling, remove it from your VS installation or use one of the many alternatives now (Rider, VS Code or setup your editor with Omnisharp).
It says that an account is automatically created when you push to a url with an email not seen before. Then it goes on to say that there's no security, its not recommended etc...

Why not make sure the email address has been validated before allowing it to be automatically created?

Because right now someone could spam the sites servers with millions of unverified emails...
We have a secret ballot[+], so there is no requirement to actually write anything on the paper. Spoiling your ballot is not illegal (otherwise you couldn't have a secret ballot). But it is mandatory for you to show up, receive a ballot, and put it in the provided ballot boxes.

In Australian elections there are no votes on issues, it's purely deciding your representative in the Senate or House of Representatives (which are voted on separate pieces of paper so you can spoil one and not the other if you wish). Votes on issues aren't really a thing we do outside of referendums (and there hasn't been one of those for a while).

[+] Interestingly the American secret ballot system is called the "Australian ballot".
Actually there are many. I've been using this one [0] for around 2 years, with blue switches. Despite some bad reviews, I don't have any issue with it. It can be paired with up to 3 devices + wired USB, so I can swap from phone to desktop to media center with 2 keypresses.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/DREVO-Wireless-Bluetooth-Mechanical-S...
Well, it some kind of is, because small/new services cannot compete with large companies anymore.
No, not a variable resistor, but variable capacitor.

Do a google search on "Crystal Set", or go to
http://theradioboard.com/rb/index.php
Spamming the server with millions of unique but unverified email addresses, it will store anything you throw at it...
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Works? Yes. Produces energy in a self-sustained reaction? No.
I print to pdf, email them to myemail+autodidact@gmail.com, and then turn on my website blocker so that I'm not tempted to keep scrolling HN and facebook. Then, when I feel like it, I email the pdf to the email address for my kindle here: https://pdfblog.com/2012/03/12/email-pdf-kindle/
Not a pixie. They are super simple, but require considerable skill to use.

For example, they are morse code only.
Mild sciatica is kind of funny but if you get a badly pinched nerve it is excruciating.

Opiates turned off the pain for 2 hours out of three, and for a third hour I suffered. I did not get a full night's sleep for 6 weeks.

Severe pain makes your life a living hell and is responsible for a lot of suicides.

I don't take pain killers now because my back got better, but I have other needs for controversial medications. It is a life of constant anxiety as the government keeps changing the rules. You never know from one appointment to the next whether the system will throw you under the bus again.
User-defined functions in Excel (2003)
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People have vastly differing levels of cortisol response to pain and cortisol responds to many different stressors other than pain.
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That project makes me happy.

Also just looked at their computers that are beginning to resemble an actual alternative.

I remember another "libre" project some years ago which was very expensive and extremely clunky, probably because they wanted to use pre ME intel chips, which it seems they have compromised on now.

Anyway it's good to se alternatives catching up. I am so ready to ditch the big-data/fashion companies and i think many people are too, if just the design and eco-system catches up.

Personally i think we are less than 10 years from total dystopia if we don't create an "alternative" internet, which is actually just the standard internet without walled gardens, without tracking and with out corporate and state controlled ID systems that will end up imprisoning us all very soon with no escape.

I am from Scandinavia and here the state already tracks and cross references all kinds of data on you from health to taxes to criminal record, just as private big-data does in the US. Everyone has a state provisioned login card with serious sec flaws.

We are no doubt headed for china-like rating systems and pre-crime drone fuelled nightmares.

A large organisation that pushed both free hardware and software for the masses fast is sorely needed to avoid the ultimate tech nightmare that only the coming climate/resource collapse can otherwise save us from.

All hail either free private computing or a deus ex machina Carrington Event.
One crucial question when it comes to nuclear power IMO is, how to make nuclear power without profiting from A) the public and B) from future generations.

Nuclear waste is toxic, radioactive, hard to operate with, hard to contain and very often has half life times well beyond a few thousand years. The answer to the question who is going to be paying for a safe and controlled storage for a few milleniums has often been answered by the state taking responsibility (and very often the cost).

Storing anything for multiple thousand years without causing disasters or having the public take the cost is a non-trivial task, because this surpasses generations, maybe even nations. Even advancements like this one: https://www.deepisolation.com/ are not that fulfilling. Somebody has to continuosly check on these things for the future and a thousand years of guaranteed inspection is even something a nation state fails to provide. Maybe we should give it to the catholic church?

If you would have to pay the containment/inspection/insurance costs for every ounce of nuclear waste for the rest of its projected life (to be fair: lets say only while it stays dangerous), it would get uneconomical quite fast. Not to mention that this will cost money centuries after all nuclear fuel has been burned. Is there money layed back for a thousand years in the future? If not, it is profiting from future generations.

Maybe we find a better way to deal with nuclear waste than letting it rot in some underground location for centuries.
"Before 2000, researchers cheated outrageously. They tortured their data relentlessly until they found something—anything—that could be spun as a positive result, even if it had nothing to do with what they were looking for in the first place. After that behavior was banned, they stopped finding positive results. Once they had to explain beforehand what primary outcome they were looking for, practically every study came up null. The drugs turned out to be useless."

This is a ridiculous "plain English" description of what is happening here, and I say that as someone who is regularly very critical of academia, drug trials, and research science (I've lived it; check my bio).

Clinical trials and mandatory registration are great things. It does not mean that researchers were massively cheating in the past, however - it means that they were finding secondary and tertiary findings and reporting them instead of the main investigative thrust of the research. Yes, some blatant cheating happened, as did p-hacking (though this problem still exists), but to act like the clinical registration database completely stopped a massive ring of fraud is ridiculous and the data does not support that, merely a conspiratorial narrative around it.
Both of my examples were after work. So we're not talking about being at your desk answering support tickets and calculating bridge loading equations.

My point about taking a narrow view is that "the workplace" is not only at-your-desk time. Its geographic-but-after-hours, related but off-site social events.

On a related note, a lot of the discussions around software project codes of conduct are based on the fact that software projects fundamentally are human endeavours. It's not just about the code you churn out. If you want to employ humans you have to let them be human. That means some degree of socializing. If you want to employ machines you have to maintain them too.

My coffee counterexample was to illustrate that your approach seems to be binary, zero tolerance. With humans involved, I think it's just not that simple.
Other authoritarian regimes seem to not be afflicted to the same degree when it comes to airline safety.
>> In any case, don't trust every popular news article you read about science, particularly if it's written by Kevin Drum and posted on Mother Jones.

Very good advice. Over 95% of the crap posted on Mother Jones should be ignored.
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