skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These require user-mode round trips for path traversal, so comparable to FUSE, I believe.

So it is relatively easy to add hooks of your own that get called as if they were file reads; NTFS calls these "Reparse Points". Linux would do this with named pipes.

I am just a user of these things, haven't dug into any implementation details recently, but I guess that the stacks to support these features in Linux and Windows each have their cache etc design decisions that have led to current state of filesystem performance under typical use-cases these days.
Elon musk seems to have digital advertising figured with a spend with goog/facebrick/etc of precisely $0. Why is this so seldom mentioned when digital advertising is mentioned?

He sells a crapload of stuff with fantastic advertising campaigns with no paid spots at all.
This is terrific! The UI is very clever. I may have to steal some ideas from this.
I agree that there's a problem of people (even the people who rave about how enlightening it is) misunderstanding that a toy Scheme interpreter is what Lisp is, but I don't think that's an issue with Scheme. Introductory FP classes that use Common Lisp don't leave any better a taste in students' mouths, and real world Scheme is a lot more capable than a toy implementation designed for pedagogical purposes. I don't think the standard's conservatism is very much a factor.
Software maybe, but that has precious little to do with AV.
I would argue there are more actors who do their own stunts than spies who risk their own lives (albeit I can't comment on those of others). It seems closer to being a reporter, where you cultivate sources and relationships for access to information and better sources. Very similar personality type, hence why they recruit people with marketing and PR backgrounds, where instead of being earnest and civic minded or ideological like a reporter, they apply those same journalistic skills strategically.
Software Peter Principle
> So common that there is not one reliably documented case of it ever happening.

Not exactly full of examples up to this very minute, but the history of false flag operations is long and well documented. I see no reason to think that it isn’t in the playbook for modern world powers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag
Overcommit is a very deliberate feature, but its time may have passed. Keep in mind this is all from a time when RAM was so expensive swapping to spinning disks was a requirement just to run programs taking advantage of a 32-bit address space.

You can tune the overcommit ratio on Linux, but if memory serves (no pun intended) the last time I played with eliminating overcommit, a bunch of programs that liked to allocate big virtual address spaces ceased functioning.
There is something personally poetic (is that a thing? it's poetic to me, but maybe not to you?) about a C feature I was unaware of despite working in the language for 25 years being yet another way in which the keyword "static" is overloaded.

It's as if they go around looking for places in the grammar they can unambiguously stick "static" and then back-rationalize a meaning for it.
Growing up in Malaysia, we students made the transition from mechanical pencils to using pens in high school. I pretty much hated ballpoint pens due to the increased force needed to make ink stay on paper (lots of fatigue when you write 700 word long essays). I grew up using Pilot G1 and G2 gel pens. I finally caved and bought myself a Pilot Kakuno fountain pen while I was back in the motherland a week ago. I doubt I can move back to ballpoint again, but still keep one in the travel backpack just in case I need it to fill up customs forms in the plane.
He’s using a 209 shotshell primer, not a “blank”.

A .22 blank and a 209
Shotshell primer are not significantly different in volume.
But it's excessive to jump to that conclusion so early in situations like this without evidence that it's even a nation state or that it's not a foreign power if it is.
In media you roughly have 3 segments:

1) High end (HBO, Disney, ...)
2) Medium end (TV, Netlix, ...)
3) Low end (Youtube, Facebook, Instagram)

The supply of (1) and (2) are limited. There's only so many shows that can be produced at the quality of Sopranos, and only so many sports people are willing to sit though commercials to watch (in the US it's NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, UFC).

The supply of (3) (mostly user generated content) is nearly infinite because the curation is low touch and automated with software.

Ultimately the big constraint for media is the amount of time people are willing to spend watching either high end content with no ads, or low end content with ads. Time is precious.

In the long term there will probably be a backlash against tech addiction and people will spend less time on low end user generated content. But even that is hard to predict.
EU to fund bug bounty programs for open-source projects
I imagine it's not so much about how exposed it is in the moment (because evolutionarily we didn't have to worry about things like guns), but rather how quickly you can move to protect it when you're starting off vulnerable and someone has suddenly moved to attack you.

Protecting your genitalia, when standing/sitting, is as simple as bending forward slightly and pinching your thighs together. Protecting your neck requires, at the very least, rotating your whole upper body and leaning to interpose your shoulders between you and your attacker. Much harder to do in a third of a second when you see a kick flying at you.
I'm not sure if it qualifies as lying when both involved parties are aware of it. Escapism isn't the same as deception, as one entails a person willfully relinquishing reality and the other entails a person subversively creating a false reality for another.
Catholic Church Used Bankruptcy for Sexual-Assault Cases. Others Following Suit
It's more nuanced than that. I've spent 13 years working for two successful healthcare/biotech companies, both having attained FDA clearance (one class I and two class III devices) while I was there. I was brought on as the 21st employee and then the 17th employee. At no time could these have ever been considered large companies.

Products like LIMS and hospital systems are hard to replace because of vendor lock in and the cost to replace it all, not regulatory hurdles.
I am wary of A People's History myself, as he tends to pick his conclusions first, then cherry-pick anecdotes to support those conclusions. These articles are good overviews of some of the issues:

Howard Zinn's History Lessons: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/howard-zinns-history...

Undue Certainty: Where Howard Zinn's A People's History Falls Short: https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/periodicals/Wineburg...

While it may be interesting to pair A People's History with A Patriot's History, it is like watching a news network interview where they pull in the "person from the left" and "person from the right" to argue at each other. One is usually better off hearing a single person who acknowledges both sides of the issue.
This seems to be more a benchmark for ClosureScript rather than "the web"
"But don’t let that distract you; it was designed to kill people."

https://www.calebthompson.io/talks/dont-get-distracted/
I see lots of exotic hypothesis being tossed around, but none of them fit Singapore, which is only slightly behind Spain/Japan. The Singaporean lifestyle is one of the most stressful, competitive and insecure in the world. The cuisine isn't particularly healthy... any more so than the cuisine you would find at most Chinese/Thai/Fast-Food places.

My armchair hypothesis is that the quality and availability of medical care trumps most other factors. Singapore is known to have a great medical system, even for those not well off.

This is probably also the reason USA is doing so badly. If you're in the bottom quintile, the quality and availability of medical care is awful. If we ever instituted medicare-for-all, I expect average lifespan would shoot up by a couple years at least.
Scott Adams’ Financial Advice (2014)
This is the largest factor by far. I am convinced I could write a better LIMS than exists today. I am not convinced I could sell it.
> other services can easily be replaced

I agree with you regarding services that are entirely technology-based (GDocs, Drive, etc.) but so much of Google is the definition of a monopoly (in the sense of "hard to enter the market"):

- You can't replace Gmail without keeping your Google account open so that any old emails get forwarded to your new address (although this is a problem with any old mail server)

- Google Maps is by far the most dominant maps service, besides Apple Maps (but only on iOS) and I don't see OpenStreetMap implementing turn-by-turn directions.

- Youtube content creators already have dedicated fanbases on Youtube, and the vast majority of those subscribers don't care enough about the content creator to download another app just to watch their content.

Also:

> easily be replaced by paid equivalents

There's a reason Google is so big right now: everything is free. If you had to pay for any of Google's services I can guarantee they would have a small fraction of the usage they do today.
Do you really, honestly, truly believe they don't track you if you pay them not to? Genuine question.
I've heard that the South still do
There's always tension between simplicity and necessary complexity

I have used a lot of Linux distros from Yggdrasil onwards via say Mandrake. My first kernel was 0.something. Back then we only had Miguel's method for init scripts. (I think). I use Debian, Redhat, Ubuntu, Arch, Gentoo, Centos and others at least these days. I now have only one initscript language to worry about.
I have yet to work for a company that doesn't value time spent learning the domain. I'm not impkying these places don't exist, but your comment enters the realm of trope (e.g. all managers are spiky haired, know nothing MBA's).

If you work in a place like that, I'm sorry, that sucks.
Um, yeah, I do, unless there's evidence to the contrary. Do you really honestly truly believe Google is outright lying?
Huh, I found it very easy to do almost everything on foot in MV. I guess there are some parts that are less accessible.
Here's one that people don't think about until it's too late. Insurance, I plan to review my coverage and act where needed.
> If a class is so gargantuan as to require multiple files

IMHO anything that doesn't fit in one screen is "gargantuan"

> If you import in a namespace (`from foo import module`, `from bar import other_module`), you can have `module.module`, `other_module.module`

Which looks ugly and feels a nasty headache if you want to maintain intuitive vision of your code and dependencies structure.

> It's also possible to, generally speaking, have private submodules within one larger module. You can do this with `__init__.py` by importing the various submodules, explicitly re-exporting

I know but even reading this paragraph hurts. Too much mess to manage manually.
Focused on learning AWS Lambda & serverless generally and plan to do much more with it (IT noob). Wave of the future for small scale SaaS & microservices.
“I’m a Goner”: Inside the Sinking of the El Faro
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18786613
Point taken, but my point wasn't about adding humor as some form of default - just something that's amusing to come across when you find it as a developer and where others have struggled/suffered. You are reading too much into it, but appreciate I wasn't clear enough in my initial description.
Not at all. Core logic can be shared. Single-platform frameworks usually have large libraries of well-tested controls. You can often get good performance, OS integration, and accessibility without really trying.
Now here is an actual example of a very, very common strategy

> Hyperbolic statement to push a narrative

> "Please back that statement up"

> Silence, or "Not exactly full of examples up to this very minute"
Getting rejected from a single company does not constitute having trouble finding employment.
For those commenting it's the oil or the wine, I suggest this resource: www.nutritionfacts.org

It's an excellent non-profit to get educated on evidence-based nutrition.

In short, what all blue zones have in common is 80-95% whole foods plant-based diets, moving around throughout the day, and good social support systems.
At work we make a program which essentially makes and sends electronic declarations, which fall under government rules and regulations.

I had zero domain knowledge when I joined. However the majority of our support team were hired from our customers, and they know the domain very well. We include them when we need to implement new rule changes and other features, to make sure we don't miss things.

After a few years of working here I of course have a lot more domain knowledge, but it's always helpful to be able to quickly run some questions past someone who knows the domain well should I happen to get some doubt in the middle of coding.
To be fair: I am only theorising.
I am not sure what that means :)
If you're looking for a UI font that's non-specific to your design (ie. you're not designing a poster) then I recommend the following:

font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol";

Everything else is less user friendly. This loads instantly, looks perfect on the user's screen, and is guaranteed to look exactly as it's supposed to.
The thing about unpaid content is that you have no market signal about its true value.

We know Avengers can bring in X ticket sales + Y movie purchases + etc. But what's a million YouTube view video worth?

The actual content value is important because it tells you what people are willing to do to watch it.

If you over-ad something that people are only watching because it's free and doesn't have ads? I'm guessing that doesn't end well.
I got given a mall voucher eight years ago and decided on a whim to get a Lamy Al-Star with it. I’ve been using it ever since as my daily pen. I keep a paper diary in an a5 notebook using it and have filled almost 10 volumes. In recent years I have de-emphasised verbose writing and started sketching small maps etc in it as well.

Nothing I do is particularly groundbreaking or interesting, but I like the exercise!
By that metric, so does Trump. Twitter doesn't send them a bill because they make money for Twitter by existing, so maybe it's really Twitter that has it figured out. The big names work for Twitter for free!

It's true that for certain kinds of people and circumstances you can sell your own brand. But generally people cannot be Musk or Trump (least of all want to take any risks) so they have to pay for eyeballs.
This is a terrific vsauce video on transfinite numbers, which assumes almost no background:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrU9YDoXE88
No, I dont think the medical care is that much of a big factor. I think what matters for countries involved is "family care". I.e. how much are your siblings/relatives/kids going to take care of you as you get old. Compare this with the survival of people who are left alone in nursing homes, they lose many years of their potential lives.

Medical care will only take care of your biology, but that's only half of the battle.
The link between social tension and literal muscular tension is interesting.

Listen to Steven Pinker on Darwin's 'Principle of Antithesis':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPN2717RMLY
What's the difference between 2:34, FE—X and 12:34, FE—X, 4.2	and 4.2, (SEMI)PERMANENT and (SEMI)PERMANENT? I can see no difference.
Malls are hated because they create car dependence. They kill off all local stores and require you to drive for 30 minutes to get to a shop. They also take up massive amounts of space for parking.
> 1. Over the past 13 years world GDP per capita has grown about 3% per year. So it's reasonable to think that the people who are currently connected to the internet will on average be 30% richer in 10 years

A bit more from compounding, but ya. However, that's priced into every company's multiple.

> 2. The average amount of time that people spend on the internet could grow 20% in 10 years

And you think Google will capture all of that?

> 3. The amount of advertising Google can show per hour might be 20% higher in 10 years

Why?

> 4. Google might improve its ad algorithm 10% per year - ie. 160% over 10 years.

10% more profitable every year for 10 years? I'm not going to say that can't possibly happen, but you'd have to walk me through the physics of exactly how you think that's possible. Do keep in mind that Google makes money by showing people ads. They can increase their profits by:

1. Showing more ads per user

2. Getting more users

3. Charging more for ads (to do this, they'd have to improve efficacy, which, by the way, they don't capture all of because part of the surplus efficiency the advertisers will want for themselves)

4. Reducing their costs

I don't really see room for 160% growth no matter how you divide it amongst these things, unless, as the author of the original article pointed out, Google captures brand advertisers.
1. Search - doesn’t make any money if people aren’t viewing ads.

2. Chrome - doesn’t make any money except for having Google as the home page - see #1

3. Android is the “most popular” but Android users are far less affluent and valuable to advertisers than iOS. On top of that, the largest market in the world is China and Google has no presence.

And according to information that came out during the Oracle lawsuit (that Google didn’t dispute), Android has only made Google $31 billion since its inception.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-oracle-google-lawsuit-idU...

4. Play Store - even though the Play Store is on more phones. Again, Android users are not as affluent on average and spend much less than iOS users

https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/16/apples-app-store-revenue-n...

5. As far as ad blockers - again since the most affluent users in development countries are using iOS devices where there is a native ad blocking framework, ad blocking is being used by the most coveted demographics.

https://martechtoday.com/state-mobile-ad-blocking-200622
> Less work to generate more money as an industry compared to Disney, that's why they have better valuations.

That speaks to margins, not moat. Margins are already incorporated in the 'earnings' number. High margins do not factor into your multiple.
Size is not insurance against failure. Go ask Novell.
Your point only highlights my own. The Netflix strategy is to try new things out, largely sans data, and then turn the dial up on things that perform well.
void SetColour (const double rgb[static 3])
The recording is not available yet but they put their own talk up already: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLPlxPXoIUQ
Anyone know about the original banana phone song? Ring ring ring ring ring ring banana phone, boop boop be doop be doop. With a video that had someone going crazy listening to it.

Oh. After trying to find it with google before, too many times, DDG found it in one go: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UqWwsUhrFBw
Also true for EdTech startups who have never talked to students or teachers.
No, it's exactly the opposite. They, with data, identify niche markets that don't currently have programming, and create programming to fill those voids.
> Software developers are incredibly poor at gathering requirements.

Customers are also often incredibly poor at defining their requirements, at least in my experience. Like having undocumented routines which are only recalled by that one employee once they have to actually perform them, once a year or so.

Of course it's usually a really critical, time-sensitive issue when they discover that the routine they never told us about hasn't been implemented and thus cannot be done... almost never fails that.
> don't care enough about the content creator to download another app just to watch their content.

The HTML5 video tag exists - you don't need "another app", though you might need another video host. There's very little inherent difference between YT and any other popular, large site. They host videos? Video is not that much more bulky than other website content anyway. (At least if you avoid gold-plating the service with 720p, 1080p, even 4K video streaming, which is just silly when the "content" is some cats doing whatever.) Websites come and go.

(And of course OSM data can be used to provide turn-by-turn routes, even with on-device processing. What makes you assume that this is not a thing?)
Here is an answer from Gravitee dev: https://dev.to/brasseld/comment/25kb

NB. There are more open source alternatives: API Umbrella and Tyk.
If you like that, there is yet another seldom seen feature of c99, the use of '' in an array declarator:

echo 'int my_func(int i, int arr[*]);' > main.c
gcc -c -std=c99 main.c
-- * observe that there are no errors * --

See 6.7.5.2 Array declarators for details
http://port70.net/~nsz/c/c99/n1256.html

Edit: I can't figure out how to escapse an asterisk, so the above might not read correctly but I tried.
Where's it going to come from? Here's the options I see:

1. More users. This is pretty tapped out for Google. Yes, more people will come online in developing countries, but those people will also gain access to say Disney content. So, world GDP growth is already largely priced into the multiple's of other companies too.

2. Higher ad density. I don't see a lot of opportunity for Google to substantially increase it's ad density. Reasonable people might differ here, but I think they're already fairly dense.

3. Higher ad quality / spend efficiency. This cuts both ways for them. Right now advertisers spend a lot of money on AdWords inefficiently. If Google can optimize their spend, they'll pay less in aggregate, but they may be willing to pay more per ad. Which, in turn, will allow the ad density to be more globally efficient, if Google can replace the lost volume with other advertisers who will also pay more. There is probably room here, but it's speculative, and I don't think the growth potential is enormous.

4. Reducing costs. Google's gross margins are already tremendous (63%), you could cut their costs to zero and you wouldn't even double their profit.
Fascism and Narcissism in the Programming Community – Podcast with Zed Shaw
I'm sorry, but by "this article" you mean ... ?