skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is everyone focusing on the fact that someone spoke via Skype?

The fact is that

1. Jolovan Wham did organise a physical gathering of people
2. The gathering/assembly meets the definition as in the Public Order Act[1]
3. The venue, The Agora, meets the definition of a public place as in the Public Order Act

[1]: https://sso.agc.gov.sg/Act/POA2009

They could have been watching a recorded video and it would have been the same.
Yes, people don't seem to realise that we have a policing model that is probably among the best in the world. Better to kettle people occasionally than blind them with watercannon and tear gas - or as the Americans seem to prefer, shoot them in the back while they run away.
> "We're not proponents of complete abstinence. There probably is an amount of drinking that's OK," LoConte told NPR in June. "But from a cancer-prevention standpoint, drinking the least amount of alcohol possible would be the best strategy."

I always found defending your drinking with the "a glass of wine a day is good for your heart" study a bit lame. But advocating abstinence because no level of alcohol is safe is very narrow minded as well.
Hacking a $30 Xiaomi WiFi IoT camera to do more than it’s worth
> you can break your work in parts

You can when you can but you can't when you can't.

I 100% agree with you that we should work this way whenever possible and we should work hard to keep our code in a state that lets us cleanly divide work.
In my experience it is not always possible to split up work that way. Think of untangling dependencies of a larger part of the code as an example.
Modules that are part of your build, tests and npm scripts should be installed locally so that any contributor can run npm install/yarn and the develop your project without any other need and they will also get the correct version of the module.

Global installs are for modules that are outside your projects dev cycle. With that in mind, a module such as nodemon can be installed both globally and locally. It depends on the use case.
Heck, all they'd have to do is release the toolkit à la Bethesda. Allowing players to mod the game is the best thing that shop ever did. Skyrim has an avid following with player-made mods still trickling out to this day, and it was released 7-8 years ago.
I agree grin is more philosophically pure, and that the beam approach is more effective. Neither is a scam. I’m pretty familiar with the challenges in the nonprofit foundation/decentralized model.

I don’t think the monetary/inflation model sufficiently differs between the two to make a real difference. For a payments system, I’d rather see higher inflation, or at least a subsidiary token with higher information, but none vs linear isn’t a big difference, and any of these can probably work, as long as it is predictable.

As long as they are making decent decisions, no one deeply cares about governance (yet). Maybe they will in the future, but for going from
0 to something used by people, I don’t think it has ever been a top concern.

One of the two will probably win, but that will likely be determined by:

1) merchant/user/developer adoption (which all feeds on itself, and has a bunch of factors — marketing, toolchain, etc

2) exchange support, with three tiers — “any exchange”, a “big exchange”, and (depending on the user) “my preferred exchange” (coinbase or binance for many)

3) lack of fucking up in unrecoverable ways

4) (as yet unsubstantiated) the first really good mobile wallets on android and iOS

5) killer initial applications (which might just be regular user to user anonymous payments, but could be something new)

6) maybe: erc-20 type functionality to support other kinds of assets

The other competitor for both is if an existing base layer adopts MW. If BTC or ETH (or maybe XTZ or EOS or something) adopted it overnight, that would probably remove the market for a new MW token.
Discovering and Hacking IoT Devices Using Web-Based Attacks
x86 is x86, so I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't?
'With bloody screwdriver and flashlight in hand, I searched for the modem'[2013]
"Without censorship or restrictions."

Great so fraud is a built in feature.
Branching enables me to share unfinished work with my collaborators. Sometimes I don't want to commit to trunk yet but still share code and collaborate on a part of the code base.
I lol-ed a bit here.
Quite a lot of people don't want to facilitate this kind of thing, and certainly don't want to have their name associated with it.
My experience is that the difference in raises between an employee that got an “Exceeds Expectations” and one that “Meets Expectations” isn’t significant enough to be worth wasting the time worrying about it.

The best way to make more money is to change jobs. Google may be different.
RSA accumulators is an active area of research that will help with unlinking inputs and outputs, see the grin forum thread for more discussion:

https://www.grin-forum.org/t/benedikt-bunzs-utxo-commitments...
> Also it's useful to have utility players who can fill in gaps in any position

You end up in the "width vs depth" debate if you go along these lines. It is debatable whether it is better to know 60% of all worlds or >95% of one world. (Assumption: It is extremely rare finding people who know >95% of all worlds).

However, I agree with your point that full-stack is the way to go if you are limited on resources (small orgs).
KSP and Rimworld combined make up almost 1000 hours of my time in the last 3 years for a total cost of $35.

Now that's value for money.
You're right when you say that the quantity is important.

The UK talks about "units" of alcohol. One unit is 10ml of pure alcohol. Drinks in the UK are labled with their Alcohol by Volume (ABV) percentage. To work out how many units are in a drink you multiply the serving size in litres by the ABV number. Current UK guidelines are no alcohol at all if you're pregnant, and less than 14 units a week with some days alcohol free and don't save up the units for a binge.

In the past wine used to be weaker and serving sizes were smaller. One unit of wine is one glass at 125ml at 8%. In the UK by law everywhere selling glass by the wine has to offer a 125ml serving. That doesn't have to be a prominent offer though, it could be a footnote to the menu. UK serving sizes tend to be 175ml (for a small) or 250ml (for a large). This means there's huge variation in the quantity that people drink when they describe "5 glasses a week".

Five glasses * 125ml * 8%ABV is 5 units.

Five glasses * 175ml * 12.5%ABV is 11 units.

Five glasses * 250ml *12.5%ABV is 15.5 units.

15 units a week isn't hugely worrying, but it's a big difference. I guess we'd want people drinking 15 units a week to unwind after work to take up some exercise or mindfulness instead.

There's some cultural variation too. When a middle class couple in the UK talk about "a glass of wine" that could mean "half a bottle", and "a few times a week" could mean "most days". I used to work in a factory and people spoke about "going for a beer" after work, and that never meant one beer, it meant a drinking session where two or three beers are drunk.
Yeah I also worry this advice would make it harder to back up. I drive a large minivan and use my side view mirrors all the time to check if I’m going to hit something when backing up. That would be a lot harder if I were not able to see my own car in the mirror.

Although I guess all you would need to do to see your own car in the mirror would be to lean to the side a bit... so maybe not a big deal.
I'd rather be in a country where I get a meaningful vote.

The downvotes I'm receiving are indicative that there is a contingent of unpleasant faux-libertarians, populists, and other assorted anti-democratic trolls and scumbags on HN.

Edit: also, the EU has done a better job of modernising some of the biggest and oldest states the world has ever known over the last 50 years, and has done so at the behest of democracy.
You don't need branching for this.

If 2+ people are working on the same file which might result into a conflict, you can either:
- handle the conflict as soon as you merge your branches somewhen in the future
or
- handle it when trying to commit your change to head

Only difference is whether you handle the conflict now, or in the future.
German politicians targeted in 'mass hack attack'
Hi! It’s author here. Thank you all for your kind words! To explain why you have to run a npm command to run the downloaded project: We are developing this tool in order to speed up the work of the programmers who, in my experience, prefer to implement the final modifications in their favourite IDEs anyway. The objective of Bootstrap Shuffle is to cut the time spent on the initial stages of a project while perfecting the details is moved to IDE. I have described the philosophy I followed in the process of creating this tool in this post: https://bootstrapshuffle.com/blog/2018/12/bootstrap-builder-...
It is indeed a VCS of its own. We think superior and more complete that Git and we make a living from it. These are some of the reasons why:

https://www.plasticscm.com/git

Bur sure, if you's like to, you can work with Git repos without any trouble (Plastic SCM has the same idiosyncrasy Git has):

https://www.plasticscm.com/gitsync
Ah yes! It's not enough if you're great at your job, or even if you do other people's jobs...

Instead you have to have this checklist of your quarterly goals, on which you can go through with your engineering manager on biweekly 1-on-1 meetings! And of course you should make a nice spreadsheet and a confluence page documenting your progress, since we're data driven :)

Did you fix a major fuckup in some legacy component? Where are the numbers? Ah, then it's not visible enough for a promotion, here's your 1% raise instead. Do you see Paul over there? He made great progress this quarter! One of his goals was to write a blogpost each week, and guess what, he did! He's on a great growth trajectory, and well deserves his promotion.

Long story short: it's a great way to drive away your best talent while keeping the confluence page and blogpost writers.
That's just quirky West Village stuff. I'd actually love to find a book on the history of why they abandoned the 90 degree corner and went off the grid pattern just for that small section.
German politicians' data hacked, government cyber team in crisis meeting
How do lesbians have a baby?
I've never ever seen signs in the MRT about anything to do with pregnancy... (been here 7 years, catch the MRT to work every day, yellow and green lines)
It might be a practical thing. I've heard from a Googler (a couple of years back) that getting changes in can take ages, and by the time the change lands, there's a good chance that there are merge conflicts, and the cycle starts over. Branches would make this even more painful.
What exactly would you like Apple to do??
Yeah. Avoiding slow things like classes, threads and adding time.sleep(10) is the trick.
Make the changes smaller and more valuable and do it on trunk.
Too many game theoretic attacks with stablecoins - still unproven.
I know about this and it doesn't answer my question. This was in part my motivation to post this question here.
After reading both Apple and Samsungs recommendation they even say don't go below 20%.
How we are building a defense against the next big cyber threat with ML
Imagine the number of irresponsible people going camping or horseback riding in the wilderness increasing by 100x instead of playing a game.

My worry isn't that lots of people would die--because they would--but I worry that nature would be destroyed far faster. Seeing beautiful locations that were undiscovered suddenly become tourist hotspots, they're completely destroyed in the span of months.
I know about this but haven't found an answer to my question. This was in part my motivation to post this question here.
Icy super-Earth exoplanet spotted around nearby Barnard's Star
To my computer scientist mind this can easily be a parallel to checksum and hashing. Quantum error correction is analogous to using checksum to validate file integrity. Memory chips use similar schemes (ie parity bits) to correct errors. The same is being applied to quantum computing, ie. a sort of quantum hashing scheme based on (spacial) logic gates.

Now new research is being conducted where this quantum hashing scheme could be used to solve some of physics hardest problems. One of them could be Hawkins paradox, where "data" gets corrupted while being "processed" by a black hole. Maybe, scientists argue, error correcting data is stored at the black hole entrance so that it can be somehow applied as correcting code at the exit, ie when Hawkins radiation is released.

Or maybe the entire universe has gone through a hashing function and now there's error correcting code keeping information error-free using the "hash value". That's what the boundary stores that describes the bulk in certain theoretical universes.

Hashes have always fascinated me. The fact that a relatively short binary sequence can uniquely describe all of Shakespeare's works. What if we could completely reverse hashes, creating the most powerful compression ever? Well quantum physicists just might do that at cosmic scales!
So you can prepare a change for trunk, and share the change with your colleagues to collaborate on.

Don't see why branching should be needed for this.
Exactly. I fully support anyone’s right to say what they want. But I’m a business and if your business is racist bullshit (for example) I don’t want to do business with you.

I’m not censoring nor silencing nor putting anyone in prison. But I’m politely refusing to receive your money and work with you.

Money isn’t everything.
> The nearest single star to the sun apparently hosts a big, icy planet.

> Astronomers have found strong evidence of a frigid alien world about 3.2 times more massive than Earth circling Barnard's Star, a dim red dwarf that lies just 6 light-years from the sun. Barnard's Star is our sun's nearest neighbor, apart from the three-star Alpha Centauri system, which is about 4.3 light-years away.
It's hard to compute but only try to estimate the cost of build a subway train with it's relatives stations, depots etc and the energy it consume. If you compute well enough you'll that it require far more resources than private vehicle in a countryside are. Even if you compute "CEP" (a french index that means primary (non renewable) energy/resources consumption, I do not know correspondent metric in English) of a a groups of single family's houses, with micropoles foundations screwed on ground and the rest in wood, glass and plastic/aluminum/... built with medium/high quality and proper insulation vs a single tall building for the same number of people and similar construction quality you still see that you consume more non-renewable/recyclable resources to build the single tall building than the many individual houses and if those are really well designed and built (so they can be heated and cooled with little non-renewable energy) you'll see that even energy consumption is better in individual houses. Simply because they have enough place for solar-thermal panels, efficient double-flux VMC at today's tech and cost are far more efficient, airtightness can cheaply be superior etc.

Many do not think that simply because do not know how modern houses are built nor how modern tall building are built and do not even see the mass of steel and foundation they have.

On living: you automatically agree that cities are not sustainable by themselves so we need to be low density and in nature, of course we can discuss density and it's variation depending on natural resources place per place but that's the point. We can automatize as we want but we need nature, we can't live for now in isolated artificial environments nor cities nor boats/submarine/starships. And that's probably will remain true for centuries to came.

My personal opinion is that a low density Riviera model is the best for now, where low density means low enough to been able to "survive" with local natural resources but no more so we still need commerce and cooperation but we can life in a not-so-comfortable and not-so-terrible way without. For my actual place (French alps) it means something around 8-10 humans per square km maximum in medium. Moderately concentrated like "USA dream" (single houses with a bit of private garden around, like 5/10 time the ground occupation of the house itself) in good place with place for nature around.

You may counter-arguments that a capillary, well maintained roads network is not cheap however being Italian I see the difference on roads between few countries and french's one are definitively cheaper than many other and even cheaper than highways. We still need some kind of ground high speed network but in a Riviera scenario with enough "local" economy that need is far less important than inter-urban networks.
Ah, I was wondering how Skype played a role. So there's no reason it shows up in the title.
This should always be Plan A but in my experience it is not always possible. Think of untangling dependencies between a large number of components as an example.
Facebook tracks even those Android users who don't have the app: Study
22 years in solitary for 2 brawls, stealing $1, and driving witho a license
GNU ed 1.15
So what makes UI agnostic composition engine different from other composition engines?

Your answer means just a yes or "your question is irrelevant"? If the latter what I meant is a difference between Wayland and X. Wayland is a dumb pipe. X is mostly used as a dumb pipe, but it offers primitives to do the painting on the server side. Linux or Wayland does not have UI toolkit, but i.e. GNOME has.
Depends on the size of the change. Small changes are preferred in most trunk-based-dev companies.

FYI:
There are (multiple) tools in Facebook and Google which are an abstraction on top of their VCS.
(e.g. which feels more like git, where you can work on a stream of changes which depend on each other without actually pushing anything to head)
I concur. I used to work in a plastic factory in the 70's and at lunchtime there was a fair stream of machine operators who's make a beeline for the pub opposite. Pint or two of beer and a pie was the standard lunch.
I mean, in the sense that any plant that grows consumes carbon dioxide as long as we don't turn around and burn it, yes. Biohacking any particular species to express a particular trait isn't exactly solved yet, though.
In my experience, such games only have manual testing, done by the people who bought the game.
What Google does not find even after 20 years of scrawling
I havn't read the books, thanks for the recommendations i'll check them out.

Crimethinc/AdBusters has seem to be more about fostering counter culture rather than interesting leftist thought not to say one's more important than the other, but seeing even the most radical members of our party still consumed by selfies and starbucks makes me really dissapointed.
Crimethinc taught me to about Buy Nothing Day, how to make my own soap, and go vegan/local.
There will always be different user expectations and, unfortunately, plain bad design decisions. Reddit's new design probably belongs in that category.

I don't see how that is Safari's problem to solve. The original claim was that Safari on iOS isn't a "full" browser, which I can't agree with.
A team of full stack devs tend towards whatever they fancy when handing out JIRAs, and the separation is still usually front or back-end. It becomes an unofficial silo anyway. The full stack advantage is for sudden departures: the project doesn't completely stop because people can fill in with mediocre code. A disadvantage is that you don't have specialists and risk more technical debt that can't be enforced by linters/testing.

The reason this debate will never end is because it's never anchored to how the business sells and delivers products. Full stack is better for shorter product life cycles. Specialists are better for longer-running products and monoliths. Code quality really doesn't matter if the product disappears.

The key evidence to me that full stack is mostly BS is that it only crops up in web roles. Outside of web dev, people are still silo'd -- security people and systems developers aren't pulled off-task to go work on the company website. We're completely fine accepting their responsibilities in terms of the product. If you're a front or back-end web dev though, there's this constant pressure of "why haven't you learned to full stack yet?"
I saw this a BT where on system was rewritten in OWS (Oracle Web Services) used 15 Person Years and around a Million Quid - Not the best use of shareholders money.

But some one got to tick some boxes on there promotion track
[Thread] designing secure and privacy preserving networks is hard af
There is the underlying issue. If you don't fight for those people who you don't agree with or despise although legal you will eventually loose your freedoms too.

If you want free speech you need to protect all of it.
About the battery... Does that mean electric cars should have much better short/medium term depreciation and probably worse long term (as the batteries become too degraded for reuse)?
> I wonder if GCC has improved since then.

Yes, it has. I've written a lot of SIMD code and spent a good amount of time reading the compiler assembly output and there has been huge improvement over the last decade.

GCC register allocation wasn't great, then it got better with x86 SSE but still sucked at ARM NEON, and now it seems to be decent with both.

Clang was better at SIMD code before GCC was. It was equally good with SSE and NEON.

In my experience, compilers are much better than humans at instruction scheduling. Especially when using portable vector extensions, you don't have to write the same code twice and then tweak the scheduling for every architecture separately.
Define "works"
This is very interesting, but it's important to realize that it has only been since the late 1950's that alcoholism has been treated as a disease. It started with a program called PAR at the post office that evolved into EAP (Employee Assistance Program) available at most major employers today.

Prior to the 20th century it was generally safer to consume an alcoholic beverage than otherwise because, well, alcohol kills bacteria.

But modern advertising has transformed Alcohol and Pornography into something truly mutated from their initial purposes. I'm sorry, but tech industry workers are mostly to blame for this - downvote me all you want, but I drink all I want as long as it doesn't involve getting behind a wheel of a car or being around children.

I've been through the Silicon Valley "Microdosing" culture and I used marijuana pretty heavily most of my childhood & adult life. I can confidently say drinking, no matter the amount is generally a better bet societally with self-driving cars on their way soon.

Example: I was camping in the great north and drinking water straight out of the lake, I could have bought a kit to try and sanitize the water with chemicals - but shots of Everclear grain alcohol got the job done.