skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
@snowden sold us out to china when he fled in 2013, by revealing details about our spying operation on them. apparently they bolstered their defenses after this, due to this information, meanwhile stepping up offensive attacks against the United States
The majority of these suggestions raise the level of effort to make (and display) posts and comments. As someone who currently rarely blogs or tweets, I'd prefer something that lowered the effort to make good posts. I freely admit that I have no obviously good ideas for that at the moment.

One of these suggestions, though:

> Even when reshared, your comment is always presented together with, and close to, the content of the original source article so it's hard to ignore the source.

...is interesting because the most prominent example of that workflow is Tumblr, which is widely expected to be near death. I like the idea in principle, but I notice that when I share an image or post from Tumblr with someone I am very likely to do it by sharing a screenshot, precisely to avoid having the bit I'm calling attention to overshadowed by its context...
If you need a good source of real facts about nutrition, I highly recommend nutritionfacts.org which is non profit and lead by a real expert in lifestyle medicine.

Regarding this topic checkout
https://nutritionfacts.org/2016/11/22/how-a-low-carb-diet-is...

How can a post that recommends bacon as a "healthy source of fat" be taken serious, when the WHO is warning us about the carcinogenic effects of processed meat?
What's the difference between learning and e-learning? Is the latter faster?
Or lets wait and see what the bug is and why it wasn't detected in the testing coverage.
Yes, that's likely the best way to solve it by tackling it locally. I grew up in a rural town in Georgia, and I am all too familiar with the "southern gentleman's pride" which is just a polite way to say my family is stubborn to a fault. I know we will need tradesmen for the foreseeable future so I always try to take that approach instead of the almost cliche "go into tech!" advice. Let's say we could change the narrative, so folks don't depend on the federal level to solve their woes. Would rural America want to change or accept the assistance?
Facebook bug exposed up to 6.8M users’ unposted photos to apps
Headphones plus a couple beers in my backpack, can never forget those.

I notice once I get a few beers in me I'm much better.
I'm not a super believer in the possibility of fusion, but you can imagine that there might be benefits from doubling the size of a reactor in terms of decreased operational costs or even decreased construction costs (less need to duplicate infrastructure).

I'm by no means an expert though.
I'm sorry, but that argument makes no sense whatsoever.

"Finite"? What matters for decisions we make now is availability within relatively short term planning horizons.

"Wasteful"? WTF? Something MORE expensive would be LESS wasteful?! What sort of doublethink is this?
> But the US might've found a way to police it effectively now... soooo why would we not?

Because IP law is morally wrong and makes the world a significantly worse place? Anything that underminds IP law is good, in my book, no matter who benefits.

There are lots of horrible things in the world that would be economicly beneficial to the offending party, that we don't do because they are wrong.
I remember from the excellent book "Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets", that the Sun C compiler also took a similar approach to using malloc, so it isn't unheard of for compilers specifically.

I disagree with your characterisation of this as bad practice and "not facing it", it is an informed decision rather than ignorance, and brings considerable benefits. With a C complier, some reasonable estimates can be made of the input data length/complexity and hence allocation sizes, and having poor performance if someone tries to feed in a million line file is perfectly acceptable, especially in a complier designed to be simple like the OP.

I think recognising the special set of circumstances that justify making an unusual tradeoff that wouldn't normally be acceptable is actually a mark of maturity as a programmer, not a bad attitude. The phrase "Don't let perfect be the enemy of good" comes to mind.

Finally, why would it bring burden to the OS if you invoke this multiple times sequentially? malloc/free is implemented in the C library, not in the kernel, it's a mechanism for sharing bigger chunks fetched/given-back from/to the kernel with sbrk(). The kernel would just reclaim the pages on program exit, as it would have to anyway, as it cannot rely on programs being well behaved enough to call free() (which rarely would give the memory back to the kernel immediately anyway). Since the kernel uses virtual memory, its not actually moving the contents about, just manipulating page tables, so it should be quite fast, and zeroing memory is not as time consuming as you think due to Zero Fill On Demand (ZFOD), and hence the kernel does about the same amount of work regardless of if the program called free() or not.

Sure it's using more peak memory than it could be, but I reckon compared to say, a web browser, it's still a very small fraction of the total.
lol there's a bug but we're not telling you
In the coming years, the number of big shot editors sensitive to the open access will grow fast because they were young researchers when the open access issue became mainstream.

Also, University committees for tenure and other promotions could start rewarding moves like Knuths more aggressively.
Maybe the rest is in healthcare.
Nuclear is being beaten by the numbers as we speak. That's why renewables are being installed worldwide and, with a few exceptions, reactors are not.
The big difference is with run-time styling changes when communicating with an API. We ship an application as a whitelabel where our customers define their theme through Contentful. With CSS-in-JS, converting the entire app's theme based upon XHR is trivial.

Easily done in Sass env but requires tooling/work:
- Automatically shipping the smallest styles per page/component.
- Automatic autoprefixing
- Hashed selectors (avoidance of conflicts)
- Tree-shaking (no unused styles)
Well, it's still better than "Google One 2.3 Tab S3 Plus 10.1 (EU ver), with stylus"
The failure of the Grocery store self-checkouts is that they are not automated enough.

The customer still has to manually scan every item. Items have to be placed one-by-one in the bagging area. Any small divergence from this, or something out of the ordinary like an Alcohol purchase triggers an exception and requires human intervention. This is enough automation/tech to be annoying but not enough to solve the real problem.

Contrast that with the Amazon Go store which is automated enough that very few would prefer the cashier route even if available.
> Relational databases are brilliant, but SQL is terrible and I don't understand how it hasn't gone the way of COBOL yet.

Having written extensive amounts of SQL and greater than zero lines of COBOL (f. you, Lawson), this really couldn't be further from the truth.

> For a start, the bizarrely English-oriented structure forces a completely different ordering of the code than what comes out, and the syntax appears to completely ignore the underlying tabular concepts.

Every language has keywords; I'm not sure how you expect to write code that doesn't involve English in some form. Is the concept of `SELECT this_data FROM this_source WHERE true_conditions ORDER BY columns` really that convoluted? Sure, it definitely gets more complicated, but is there really a significantly better way to do it that doesn't involve taking away low-level control from the programmer, in exchange for something sexier and easier to pick up?

> Not to mention that IMO joining on foreign keys shouldn't be a thing--the database should be able to figure out what you want when you write `order.customer.address.taxRegion.rate`

Why can't you have a key-value storage engine that doesn't involve using keys to look up values?! (Is that really your question?) Okay, just as an example, what if you have more than one address for a customer? You need a way to tell the engine which address(es) you want.

> There's just so much awkwardness in trying to write a SQL query that I can definitely see why people would avoid it.

While I don't claim that SQL is easy (or always intuitive), saying that it is "terrible" for the above reasons is like saying that C is terrible because it's not Pythonic.
I think (at least a few) people are starting to realize that this is what's happening. There may be a window of opportunity opening up to try new and different things. I suspect there are a fair number of folks who are looking for alternatives to Facebook/Twitter/etc. and would be intrigued by novelty.

Bumble is an example of a platform that was all about changing the rules of engagement, and it seems to be doing all right so far. Perhaps there's hope?
This is silly. If I build my bridge with equations I find on mathoverflow, the forum is not responsible for my bridge collapsing.

If you’re using OSS for mission-critical software you must either ensure that it’s fit for purpose or pay someone to do it for you. Nothing in the Linux Kernel documentation suggests that it can/should be used for flying airplanes of securing PII without doing additional due diligence.
Remember when Facebook wanted you to upload nudes so they could help keep them off of Facebook and the internet...yeahhh hopefully no one trusted them with that. Also are there even any safeguards preventing private photos like these or even nudes from not being able to be viewed by any admin? I hope there is...
Health and Human Services department halts HIV research on fetal tissue concerns
Well this sucks. I have CenturyLink for residential gigabit fiber. Honestly, they've been a fantastic ISP for me. I also haven't received the notice and I'm one of those "SOL" customers that uses non-CenturyLink DNS. We'll see what happens. I'd be surprised if they didn't stop this immediately as soon as it blew up.

I have been noticing comments from people in my area on social media over the last month with the recurring theme "Is anyone else's CenturyLink down?" This must have been it.
That is why I like using random data generators for tests. You can input some static data and then the rest is random. Every once in a while a bug pops out when you see a test fail that was previously passing.
Doesn't this company direct you to use their salt packets as well?
But here I'm talking about size for a given power output, not increasing size and power output together. The size/power of a fusion reactor is much larger than the size/power of a fission reactor, for fundamental reasons.
His indictment: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/217117-united-states...

Among other things, he was charged with the heinous crime of modifying his MAC address on his laptop's WiFi so that he could obtain a new IP address.
Would it be possible to apply ODE nets to

Universal [Solomonoff] Induction

Program [Levin] Search

Tensor Factorization

?

Bion Howard (a biologist)

medium.com/bit-pharma

bitpharma.com
Science and Nature are outliers. The overwhelming majority of scientific papers are in specific journals (as opposed to these generalistic journals) and editors are almost always professors.

By the way, the Science editorial board can be seen here, under "Board of Reviewing Editors". They are professors as well:

https://www.sciencemag.org/about/editors-and-editorial-board...
They have an app. You do not need to touch their kiosks or deal with the kid behind the counter.
Yes, universities are social constructs, so there is no monolithic construct to change.
According to the NYTimes they also killed over a 100 CIA assets in China. So we went in the dark for a while as the whole batch was compromised. We didn’t retaliate either. The Snowden thing wasn’t the cause of that but I bet the Snowden thing compromised other assets.
For a more gracious treatment of the subject of public shame, try listening to Monica Lewinsky [0]

"[I was required to] listen to my sometimes catty, sometimes churlish, sometimes silly self being cruel, unforgiving, uncouth; listen, deeply, deeply ashamed, to the worst version of myself"

[0] https://www.ted.com/talks/monica_lewinsky_the_price_of_shame
Χωρίς τους μεγάλους το Σάββατο στην Super League
I'm sure you'd agree that it's reasonable to expect all baby powder to be free of asbestos, not just brand name products. That said, I absolutely understand why you emphasized this aspect, which is a sad sort of point about how we view generic products. I remember a warning came out once about a specific store brand milk, and I remember thinking "well sure, if you buy the store brand milk what do you expect" but this is a totally ridiculous attitude, especially considering that milk (like baby powder) is essentially homogeneous, and often different brands of milk all come from the same farms anyway so, if anything, I'm stupid for not buying the cheapest milk available.
People regularly don’t respond to those emails. For older publications it might be hard to even find the email.

In the UK, you can order a photocopy of any journal paper via inter library loans. These often come from the British library, which has everything. I’d assume elsewhere similar solutions exist.

Spending money on automating that process, and you might put most journals out of business.
Fox news and CNN would beg to differ
It's a pretty silly definition; it's like saying PDF or JPEG parsers can't be vulnerable to RCE, when they are in fact major vectors for RCE attacks.
Don't forget: brake pads.

The various facets of all transportation industries probably have as much or more asbestos grinding into the air with particulate matter from vehicular brake systems on trains and automobiles, and to a lesser extent aviation.

The soot in the NYC subway is probably ripe with asbestos. Every time I smell that acrid ceramic smell of new brakes on a subway car, I figure I'm catching a whiff of asbestos, and it's a smell I encounter more than talc.

I only know the smell for what it is from changing brake pads on my car a few times, years ago.
> Aaron knew he was literally stealing, according to the law.

I am sorry to be "that guy", but sometimes laws are unfair.

Extreme counter-example: SS officials in nazi Germany were acting according to the then-in-place laws. That does not mean they can thus be exempted from any consequences.
Sadly, this is the moment that those photos stop being private. I get that this is hard for the general public to understand - but at this point, uploading anything to Facebook = obfuscated, maybe, but not private.
To be honest, I think this is hurting China more than the US, and we're seeing that reflect in the Chinese economy. The US is also the stronger global superpower of the two for now — see, for example, Canada's arrest of Huawei's CFO under the direction of the American government, whereas I doubt Canada would arrest any American citizens at the behest of China — so I think the US has more of an ability to enforce its rules than China has the ability to enforce its desired alternate set of rules. Picking a fight with the US also means picking a fight with most of the US trade allies, which are the richest countries in the world by far: nearly half of the entire world's GDP is generated by the US and the EU alone (37 trillion out of 80 trillion global GDP); and that's not counting heavy hitters like Japan, Canada, Mexico, and South Korea. I don't see a lot of win conditions for China on this one.

IP theft is illegal in pretty much the entire industrialized world. China's big, but it's not bigger than everyone else combined.
Yes, nor am I going to do your research either. The fallacy of the data point is still a thing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faulty_generalization
They have been programmed for years already. Have you seen any Christmas light displays set to music?
I'll track those accounts back if you want me to? Organised and we know where. Want that or handle it?
WordPress plugs bug that led to Google indexing some user passwords
> Edit: While we're here; may I ask how you break out of the dispatch loop? Do you test an end-condition on each iteration? ...

For what it is worth my JITter uses mprotect from other thread to change page permissions to generate an exception to break out of JITted code. Same would work for dispatcher as well.

The advantage is it's completely free performance wise while the code is running. The need for signal handler is less awesome.
SQLite is heavily subjected to fuzzing already ... maybe this vulnerability was discovered that way.
Intra-AZ latency is indeed sub-millisecond. Inter-AZ latency is in the milliseconds range. (The intra prefix means within, inter means between.) And those latencies accumulate quickly when benchmarking.

Why don't you try it yourself and see the difference? Relying on some third party website is no substitute for testing.
I agree with the bulk of your post, but I feel the need to point out your statement that you have to pay to be indexed in ISI and get an impact factor is false. I've never heard of anyone paying for getting a ranking.
NASA’s InSight Mars Lander snaps its first stunning selfie
Was that not always possible with AOL?

No. AOL was AOL, and the World Wide Web was another entity that you accessed with a GEnie, Delphi, or some other service.

Eventually mail gateways were build so you could relay e-mail from one service to another. Then later came web browsing on AOL.
Soft Actor Critic–Deep Reinforcement Learning with Real-World Robots
Sorry, I thought the answers you sought were obvious to anyone following the news.

See [1], [2], & [3] for some examples, all of which involved organized groups doing premeditated actions to stop speech or disrupt a concert, in one case with mass murder. And of course TFA, about the serious premeditated security threats to a famous performer.

It's apparent that we're talking about two different things.

In your anecdata set, a heckler is apparently an over-drunk loud-ass in a comedy club. Sure, that's a "so what?" event.

I'm talking about the much larger issue of actual premeditated and/or organized disruption, which does exist, even though you "have never heard of it".

I'll agree that there are MANY good arguments to regulate and manage use of facial recognition tech, having to do with sound security (vs. security theater), individual rights & avoiding improper discrimination, general human rights privacy protections, and even maintaining normalcy as you noted in kind of an afterthought.

However, your "spontaneity" reasoning is especially weak and unconvincing, despite your apparent feeling that it should trump all others. The ad-blocker comment was specifically a rhetorical analogy and definitely not intended as ad hominem; it is interesting to see that you took it that way (if I wanted to make an ad hominem argument, I'd say that the 'spontaneity' arg sounds like someone from a sheltered background who doesn't get out of their bubble to read news, but I don't bother with ad hominem arguments).

For the "criteria for heckling?" question, I'd refer back to the previous answer, when a known person or group would disrupt an event to the extent that it destroys the spontaneity of the rest of the audience.

Slippery slope? Likely, but there are obviously degrees, and easily recognizable ends where it's appropriate to exclude or not. I think we'd agree that shooting the performer would be very exciting, but quite out of bounds. Wearing a funny hat, as long as it isn't too tall so as to obstruct the view of those behind is in bounds. Stopping the performance, out... Stalking? out...

I'm willing to recognize that there are both valid use cases, and arguments against, and that it needs to be tuned.

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/05/22/manches....

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201....

[3] pretty much any event with Milo Yiannopoulos, some of which have nearly ended in riot. While I object to almost his entire attitude & view set & would likely agree with the protesters, when he's booked in and people want to come see him speak, they want to see him, not the protesters, and it seems to me that he ought to have the right to decide whether he wants them outside or in.
Self acceptance leads to true acceptance of other people.
https://github.com/rui314/9cc/blob/882e4b2dd8/main.c#L7

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
...

Vector *tokens = tokenize(path, true);
Program *prog = parse(tokens);
sema(prog);
gen_ir(prog);

if (dump_ir1)
dump_ir(prog->funcs);

optimize(prog);
liveness(prog);
alloc_regs(prog);

if (dump_ir2)
dump_ir(prog->funcs);

gen_x86(prog);
return 0;
}

This is wonderful.
What exactly is immoral about spying on a foreign nation state?

We do it to them, they do it to us, what exactly is the issue? Is there some no-spying gentleman's agreement that's being violated, here?
anvil.works seems awesome but its widgets selection is too humble, it doesn't even have tree view to the date (but they've said they are going to add it later AFAIK). I'll explore the others from the list. Thanks!
Gasoil mishandling loss of $150M at Shell Singapore
>But the US might've found a way to police it effectively now

eh...really? Like how?

You really think IP theft got halted because one guy was arrested?
> Does UCLA filter scihub?

I work at another UC, and we don't filter Scihub in any way.
> What is "should have been preventable"? Mandatory continuous fuzzing of all apis? Interprocedural static analysis to detect all of the owasp top ten? ...

All of the above, possibly. Other engineering disciplines seem to have defined what constitutes due diligence just fine. This isn’t a novel problem.

It’s obviously not possible to make anything perfectly safe or perfectly secure. But it’s certainly possible to define a minimum amount of effort that must be put towards these goals in the form of best practices, required oversight, and paper trails.

Edit: Even “fuzzy” disciplines like law have standards for what constitutes malpractice or negligence when representing a client.
A lot of us don't really think intellectual property is actually property and thar the notion of IP is, well, bullshit.
Consider if such a law was written in the late 80s when fax machines dominated. Suppose that the law specified "send by fax" instead of "electronic communication".
Just learned tonight that UPS will no longer insure packages containing gift certificates. When I asked why the clerk said there were too just darned many porch pirates.
Do you happen to remember how the rules were different? I'm very curious. I also want to try your variation of the rules, swapping letters already on the board adds a whole new dimension, very intriguing.
But does the sqlite3 module actually contain SQLite with it, or just a library to interface with it? The fix does not change any interface library code.
'Reverse' is quite a strong term to use in this context. I do not find 'reverse' in the medical dictionary, but when medical articles talk about reversing alzheimer's, for example, that means undoing the damage that it has already done to the central nervous system. Can a keto diet undo the damage that diabetes has already done to someone's blood vessels, nerves, eyes, kidneys, etc? Better verb for what diet can do for T2 diabetes would be 'treat' or 'control;' If 'reverse' means something more than 'treat' or 'control', what is the bonus extra? Is there any reason to think that additional damage does not accumulate atop that previously done when blood glucose increases because treatment is discontinued or control by diet is otherwise insufficient.
If you're taking street narcotics I think cancer risk is the least of your worries
Ha! I think I thought of this independently from Randall Munroe, but who knows.

Anyway, we should do this experiment, and others! What's to lose?
I still have bubble lights on my tree. My girls love them.
MS-13: Illegal Alien Gang Member Hacked Man to Death 141 Times with a Machete