skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not entirely accurate. Some trickery is involved...

Javascript in one site can't just access another website's content. That's the Same Origin Policy.
But what you can do is dynamically link to an image on another website. You can't access its content, but you can know if it loaded correctly. So if you find some image that is only accessible to a logged-in user (non logged-in gets a redirect for example) you can determine logged in status.

Another technique uses time measurements and non-image resources. Loading them as an image will fail anyway, but if there is a substantial time difference in the error response for logged-in vs not, it can be done that way too.
> Except cars, for some reason.

The reason, in the UK at least, is the tax (and additional parking fees for some spaces) that motorists pay that covers this. Also when and where cars can be parked is highly regulated and enforced.
That's not extras, that's paying for the externalities you otherwise incur upon others.
> Why would a country want to make laws that creates a type of property which they don't have as much of?

Because, as you say yourself, it hopes to create that kind of property?
If free will did not exist, how would you ever be able to imagine such a thing?

An entity that is constrained by determinism, say a computer
program, has no room to "step outside" its own frame and imagine things running an different way.

In essence, free will and consciousness the same thing.
Ah, just looking at this. When I was looking at D back around 2005 it was a closed shop run by one guy - I had the feeling it did not take off because it simply wasn't an open enough project.

It is a shame, as since then we've had go, Swift, Rust all come along and it is a lot more competitive for mindshare in that space... not to forget the merits of modern C++ (it is a far better language post 2011)
For very small towns

For very small towns the nearest X is probably at least a 4 hour walk away, in the next town over, for many values of X. For large cities the nearest X is probably a 4 minute walk away for most values of X. The smaller the town the less chance that what you want is within walking distance and the more important it is to have a car.
It's a philosophical difference. NT doesn't do overcommit. In theory overcommit is dangerous (and if you decide that matters you can tell Linux not to do it) but in practice it's usually a huge RAM saving.

If your apparent virtual size is 2.6GB but there's actually only 240MB of resident memory, Linux will run on 256MB of RAM. NT requires enough RAM for the entire 2.6GB plus overheads.

This is especially frustrating if you have orchestration services that would have recovered from the unlikely event of OOM since avoiding OOM is literally the only reason for NT's choice.
Downvoter here!

You're arguing against about 2000 years of legal history. Theft is defined as the taking of another person's property or services without that person's permission or consent with the intent to deprive the rightful owner of it.

Note how nothing in that definition requires the property to be secured.

You also don't get to hit people over the head with a hammer only because they have turned away from you.

In general, law abhors your principle of "might is right". In fact, law and morality are entirely unnecessary in the cases where an otherwise unlawful action is successfully prevented by protections.

I guess all the moral gymnastics to justify copyright infringement are now having spillover effects. It's one way to get back to a coherent moral code, I give you that. But I hope you can afford bodyguards to accompany at all times of day, and no enemy of yours ever becomes rich enough to pay more muscle than you can.
We can imagine tons of things that don't exist. For instance I'm currently imagining a bouncy ball that instead of bouncing according to deterministic laws, bounces according to a mystic will-based system.
Sure, if there's a real medical need to wake the patient up, they should absolutely do so. But waking the patient merely to draw blood in the middle of the night when that could just as easily be done in the morning or evening, is stupid and harmful.
This. All of what I'd ever want to do to a spreadsheet Google Sheets can do, and whatever the 'power' Excel user thinks is a good idea to use Excel for I can do far more easily in R.
Fair enough, I'm happy to turn this into a Monty Python sketch. Frequency also matters. For my particular route this was roughly once an hour during business hours, and nothing after 8pm. This is not so rare [0].

[0] not where I grew up, privacy, but comparable: https://www.cumbria.gov.uk/elibrary/Content/Internet/544/931...
"C++ has a very complex ABI, and the Rust ABI is not frozen. However, both C++ and Rust support functions that use the C ABI. Therefore, interoperability between C++ and Rust involves writing things in such a way that C++ sees Rust code as C code and Rust sees C++ code as C code."

https://hsivonen.fi/modern-cpp-in-rust/
I read the article, but I still can't work out what it's talking about. What does "Intellectual-Property Theft" mean? Are we talking about trade secrets, copyrights, or what? (Surely they can't mean patents?) Are the writers stupid, or are they deliberately trying to confuse the readers?
Well.. they definitely hope to create intellectual output. I'm not sure they need to wrap it around an IP system inspired by the western one.
Agree it's about word meanings, and superimposing different meanings of the same word on each other (often in an attempt to close any cracks in our worldview that might allow religious concepts to take hold). That's probably why "free will" discussions are such a mess.

> In practice, what tends to be really relevant are questions like: are criminals responsible for their actions?

Exactly what I've landed in too, i.e. does free will have any real every-day meaning. The answer must be an unequivocal "yes", otherwise questions like these would be meaningless (which they are not):

- "did they force you to take that apple or did you do it of your own free will?"

- "was the sex voluntary or were you forced?".

- etc

The problematic word/concept here is really "force" and the different meanings of that word. The force of causality is fundamentally different from the force of coercion, and they can not be used interchangeably.

And so the question of "free will" should really be disentangled from physics, once and for all.
For small villages, the necessary infrastructure, like grocery stores, hospitals, town halls, can be 2-20km away. In the winter, the roads might be completely impassable. That has car-related consequences for the towns where those amenities are.

While I'd like for cars to be eliminated, it's not happening in sparse areas.
1. People regularly complain about inconsistent web UI.

2. Even web apps often have similar idioms and patterns to their UI that they've settled on. It's their own patterns that are different from desktop OS, it's basically another category.

3. Most web apps are used on desktop, not mobile. On mobile, it's mostly native apps that are used. So they're not substitutes.
Well, I'll take it on good faith that this was bad for you.

But lets see my last few commutes.

* Now; walk 15 minutes (mid/small-size european city; population 350k)

* 4-8 years ago: 20-50 minutes on tube (living close to work was prohibitively expensive) (this was London, so, large city)

* 8 years ago: 40 minutes (Helsinki, pop: 1.4m)

* 10 years ago: 1hr 20m (mid-size UK city; pop 1m)

So although recently, yes I have had better commute times, it's not uncommon or insane to have commutes that stretch 40 minutes.

Of those commutes, the only one that would be improved by having a car would be the 10yr one (I was going to college and couldn't have a car then, it would be impossible to pay for it barring everything else)

The others could really not improve, London traffic is insane, the Helsinki train system moves significantly faster than traffic, I walk today, and if I were to cycle it would take me even less time.
Getting increasingly cynical on this topic. Given the prevalance of introductions in popular media like, 'Professor X is a world renowned expert with O(1000) publications'. Which my brain translates as 'Professor X probably barely read everything with their name on it.'

There are precious few exceptions to this rule unless they are very old or are Paul Erdos.

I'd much rather hear 'Professor X's most important contribution was Y.'
Why there should be a why?
In game theory, you encounter situations where a player's optimal strategy is a "mixed strategy", i.e. "x% chance of choosing strategy A, y% chance of choosing strategy B, ...", with at least two nonzero values in x,y,... . For example, in rock-paper-scissors, if your strategy is anything other than 1/3 rock, 1/3 paper, 1/3 scissors, then an opponent can defeat you (in terms of expected value) by choosing the right pure strategy. People don't normally take out a die to make the choice, but... In a sport like boxing, if in certain situations you always "punch high" or "punch low" or otherwise act predictably, that will probably hurt your chances against an observant opponent. That presumably applies to real fights as well. Outside of direct combat, sometimes someone does you a small favor (or a small offense), and maybe the only favor (or punishment) you can do them in return is significantly larger than that; in that case, the appropriate response might be an x% chance of doing the thing and 1-x% of doing nothing.

So nondeterminism is a useful skill in at least some circumstances, quite likely some circumstances that existed in the environment where we did lots of evolving. Therefore I would expect us to have evolved some capability for (apparent) nondeterminism.

How often does the agent deal with lawyers in an adversarial situation? How often does the lawyer deal with people in adversarial situations like that? If an expert is able to see through and manipulate a beginner, well, I don't consider that good evidence that humans can never effectively deploy nondeterminism.
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Perhaps an unfortunate name, though. For some reason my brain involuntarily auto-corrects "WekaIO" into "WeakIO". I think advertiser sometimes even play with this auto-correct feature of the brain to make suggestions without stating them.
About half the residents in such apartments have no car.
You are vaguely remembering the Castle Doctrine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_doctrine

That's not necessary here. Taking of property requires explicit or clearly implied consent. The latter includes depositing something in a trash can. But just leaving it on the streets clearly does not.
Agreed, but their recent bootlicking of Chinese authorities stemming from a minor Dota2 drama is just sad and embarassing to be honest.
What are the difficulties looked in another relationship?
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Interesting, because here nearly everyone wealthy enough to buy a central, newly commissioned apartment (ballpark of million dollars) does own a car.
Dependency management is a tremendous quality of life improvement, but you're not wrong: deep webs of dependency suck.

The Java ecosystem is a better about this than npm, but good public libraries need to make the aesthetic choice to keep minimal dependencies.

Helper/toolkit libraries like Guava or Lodash should pretty much be end user only. Your gzip library doesn't need em.

I get they're convenient, but if you're going to use 3 helpers in 5 places just fork those little bits and add them to your own codebase. DRY is for applications not libraries.

I like to see dependencies no more than 5 deep which is usually at the edge of manageability. For Java the critical path looks like:

Internal framework -> internal client lib -> RPC lib -> serialization -> bytecode hackery lib
Is there any level of disclosure that you would regard as not full? As in, let's say the disclosure is in 6pt font at the very bottom of the page, below all the marketing material. In grey. And 50% transparent. Is it enough that the content is included somewhere in the source of the page, and however it's presented doesn't matter?
That's exactly my point. I use 1password to handle my logins, but most people I speak to use the same password for everything, so knowing how likely it is that other services could be compromised due to this is vital.
Not sure why I am getting downvotes for this. The parent proposed a language feature to support an enforced code execution when a return value was not available:

foo_t *maybe_get_foo(/*...*/) {
if (/*foo_is_available*/) {
return foo;
} else {
return NULL;
}
}

foo_t *f = maybe_get_foo();
if (!f) { /*...*/ } // REQUIRED or compile error
do_something(f->bar); // only allowed after NULL check

And I was pointing out that C++ exceptions do exactly that.

foo_t *maybe_get_foo(/*...*/) {
if (/*foo_is_available*/) {
return foo;
} else {
throw FooNotAvailable();
}
}

try {
foo_t *f = maybe_get_foo();
do_something(f->bar); // f cannot be NULL
}
catch (const FooNotAvailable& ex) {
/*...*/
}

Sorry if that wasn't the answer you wanted because C++ is not fashionable. But it is a valid option for how to avoid the use of NULL.
WPF is built on DirectX, you would probably want to port it to something like Skia.
You'd have to be a privileged user to create such high uid user.

And it's very unlikely to happen by accident, right? So can't get too excited about this.

Bit of trivia - one some older Unixes (HP-UX) the uid -1 was special - was always unprivileged 'nobody' and was equal to 65535.
I recently had a family member in the intensive care unit (ICU) for over a month in Austin, Texas. I quickly learned my main contribution would be protecting her sleep when I saw she hadn't slept in days because of the constant interruptions. She went from reasonable and compliant in taking her medication, to extremely irritated and noncompliant with the doctors. Of course I could see this was due to sleep deprivation, but when I kept bringing this up to the doctors and nurses, they gave me blank stares and didn't seem to believe or care. When they started suggesting another surgery due to her not improving, I nearly lost my sanity. Ultimately, I had to become a very vocal and unpleasant protector of her sleep - if a nurse came in, I quickly took him/her outside the room and asked what they were planning and whether it was absolutely necessary. This annoyed them quite a bit and they hinted that they could have me removed. It was one of the worst experiences of my life. Just being in the ICU for a month with a loved one is hard enough, but having to battle the staff to protect something so basic as SLEEP so she could recover, made it a true nightmare. Something is truly broken if trained medical staff see sleep as optional - the data and science behind sleep is so compelling, and they don't understand these basics? Desperately frustrating...
Sure but lets not forget the single most successful consumer product in history (iPhone) owes much of its success to it's clean, consistent UX across a suite of built-in apps. More people probably use those than downloaded apps.
HTTPS in the real world
What externalities? I pay carbon tax, ecological tax, consumption tax on fuel, income tax, VAT, municipal tax, capital gains tax, dividend tax, property tax, property transfer tax, and many other taxes - solely because the system says "you pay and we will maintain the infrastructure, clean the environment etc". There are no unexpected externalities that I would incur on anyone and most definitely no externalities that I did not pay my fair share for, since I pay much more in taxes than most people do (meaning larger percentage of my income as well as in absolute units). Now the government is trying to pull out of this social contract but isn't giving any of the tax money back.
Not in Europe. Cars aren't really practical anywhere near city centres.
Given the number of times I've seen pjmlp complain about Flutter choosing Dart. I think he/she could have learned the language in less time than writing all of those comments.
There was a Firefox thread on here yesterday. Interesting one.

My take was that 10-15 years ago, FF's feature gap was enourmous. Tabs. Extensions like firebug for web development, adblocking for browsing, various "social add-ons" that were innovative and exciting. IE 6 was a dinosaur.

The question for these is.. what more do you/we want from a word processor?
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Flutter needs jsx / xml like declarative support
Because lots of WinForms and WPF developers have been frustrated at the lack of activity on these frameworks. It holds out the promise that even if Microsoft can't be bothered to maintain them then perhaps the community will.

Personally I think it's too little and too late, Desktop development has had its day.
Not everybody uses or needs autoscaling. In fact I would venture that the vast majority of companies doing business on the internet, even those that have sunk their money into the cloud computing gold rush, do not need autoscaling.
> 3. Having a patient awake for blood draws, or an emergency, is useful. I’m not a small person; turning me over for some blood is much easier if I am awake and cooperative.

> I can imagine anyone with recent head trauma shouldn’t be allowed to sleep either.

Well, yes, it would be enormously practical in a large number of situations if we wouldn't sleep. It would also solve a lot of problems if we didn't need to eat. Problem is, those things are biological necessaries with immediate adverse effects if we neglect them. I also believe there is a solid body of research showing the importance of sleep for recovery.

I'm not a doctor or nurse and the blood flow argument does sound reasonable - however, the other two arguments sound a lot like "it's more practical and less risky for us if you're awake", which I don't see is a valid reason. Also, by what medical school is >45 minutes of uninterrupted sleep "too much"?
My grandfather had a intern - a old former professor of radioactive chemistry who hole-hearted disagrees with your attitude. 10 years is a long time, ten years after a civil war after a world war is a eternity. People do not get education in that time, the whole hierarchys of institutions have allmost disappeared and all the knowledge is dated (one of the reasons those professors - who where send to pig-farms, had to reeducate in the west).
Also the remnant of the rampage remains- aka, a youth who learned that in great masses- they can get away with anything, and have to bow to no rule.

Its hard to start a society again, if you really had a goverment supported near-anarchy for ten years.
Building a Eurorack Mechanical Sequencer [video]
Those are neat features, but our systems do not require them, and for our small team it would be unnecessary overhead.

And by in house, I presume you would mean within a cloud hosted environment, eg. AWS VDC, Google Cloud etc. in the most common case.
Peer reviewed publications would just care the paper on review is any good, they're not archivists to go and search for similarities. In fact in most cases they barely read the work with any substantial sense of "read".

But the article mentions peers might not be getting the works either: "
Bobbie Spellman, former editor of the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science, is confident “beyond a reasonable doubt” that Sternberg was not telling the truth when he said that “all papers in Perspectives go out for peer review, including his own introductions and discussions.” Unless, as Spellman puts it, “you believe that ‘peer review’ means asking some folks to read it and then deciding whether or not to take their advice before you approve publication of it.”"
I wouldn't label the algorithm as anti-porn. I'd label it "how to lose user base and drive the company to a hole" algorithm. It's not likely that it detects actual porn, it's basically failing miserably and the result is abandonment. That's what you get when you want to be PC and yet another "me too, I do cool stuff too" company. There are lessons to be learned here, and for that - thank you Tumblr :)
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Given that running a Hackintosh often still requires using random unverified kexts from the net, I find it somewhat irresponsible to push applications built on such a system to your customers/users. How can you be certain that none of the kexts is backdoored and the attacker uses this as a vector to add malware to applications?
This was a great article. Usually I get a distinct "translated from Chinese" vibe, but not here! I thought that the translation must be very good. Can Anyone who has read the original comment?
Why would it matter, models are regenerated frequently, from millions, billions of other data.
LOL, Trump is Xi’s 365-day Christmas present.
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A 700USD beamer to protect your privacy? Surely you can just broadcast your computer on to the tv?

Get a receiver with HDMI passthrough so the sound comes out your hifi speakers and the video signal gets sent on to the TV. No need for bluetooth, splitters, optical input
Not generally allowed, but there are signs allowing it almost everywhere.
It's basically essential for rural living (e.g. most of Scotland outside the cities and islands). Cars are also a mobility aid; trying to go cycle-only can come across as abilist. Not all cities have usable public transport. At best there are some cities where you can get away without a car almost all of the time.
If you need the parking spot, that's not an "extra", period. Your car has to go somewhere, either congesting the scarce street/sidewalk space, or to your private parking spot.
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Flutter needs to add support for xml styled declarations and Swift
You are basically regurgitating a bunch of points that apply more to what you are saying than what I am saying.

When you align yourself (presumably concerned about data harvesting) with people that think facebook/google are suppressing conservative speech, who is it that is just happy being in teams?

> You are concerned that this piece is wrong/misleading.

No, my concern is that by hitching the data harvesting wagon to the Tucker Carlson/Fox News clown show, you will be politicizing an issue that should be apolitical.
Australia wants to snoop on WhatsApp and other encrypted apps
I think this practical definition is quite interesting, useful, and worth discussing about, but I suspect that most people have a more nebulous, metaphisical idea of free will.