skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Steven Pinker on the Past, Present, and Future of Optimism
I'm no expert, but is lifting stuff from the deep sea not exorbitantly expensive? The word 'costs' does only appear twice in the article, and there it talks only about potential reducing costs by separating the mud with a hydrocyclone (1) on the sea floor...

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrocyclone
While I am sure for high level play every little change is a huge deal, for me as a casual CS seems much the same as it ever did. Most of the changes you list would only seem like "big changes" if you are a high level player who knows the whole thing back to front and have memorised recoil patterns and whatnot.
This has a slight air of the manganese nodule seabed mining that was propagated as cover for the Glomar Explorer expedition...
nothing more seductive than waterfront waiting to be submerged within your lifetime
"I'm not sure if EU politicians are that smart..."

They are, just in a more traditional way. They're now collecting bribes from whoever bought them to pass this law, as tomorrow they will collect other bribes to modify the law.
From the article:

> Platforms run by startups (small and micro-sized businesses) are exempted from the law.
it's amusing how they managed to make the new installer as bad as old one was
indeed Italy (and France) has some o the best food I ever bought. Germany can't compare even with what's available in a Le'clerc or Carrefour in France. yes I was mainly talking about supermarkets. In my current home I only buy stuff at the wet-market - e.g. directly from farmers because the chains just deliver crap. Even the higher prized items in supermarkets (which cost the same as Germany despite the salary differences) are terrible quality - literally nobody in Italy or France would eat those veg.
The EU maybe is functional maybe not, but one thing is for sure: The Kremlin anti-western propaganda machine is obviously highly functional. More and more people are blaming their countries poverty on the EU while being oblivious to the actual scope of the EU jurisdiction, to the detriment of both their home country and the EU. Without the EU the poor countries would be way, way worse off.
> It's a problem for Wikipedia which says a central principle is that it's the enclyclopedia anyone can edit.

Anyone can edit it, but only those with enough obsessession can meaningfully make a change (beyond fixing typos and such) that will persist. That was my impression anyway, after spending a bit of time trying to contribute and it seems to be very much inline with the message in the OP.

I don’t bother anymore.
The left has a sizable percentage of the people's minds in France -- even if they belong in non nominally leftist parties.
How did your family end up in such a situation?

As an anecdote, I saw a somewhat opposite situation: all siblings but one got their degrees and are now school teachers. The remaining one joined a railroad maintenance team and makes twice as much.
Well, a Mac is needed to develop macOS and iOS software.
But you can also use it to develop Android software;
And in general, linux or unix software (either by installing GNU tools and libraries, or via a virtual machine);
And of course, also MS-Windows software in a virtual machine.
And web applications and back-end (you can run all browsers, either natively or in a virtual machine).

All this, with virtually zero system administration overhead, and nice non-programming tools for the occasional need.

So to the professional software developper might prefer to use it.

I use emacs on mac, and x11 with xterms open to various linux boxes; basically the same as when on linux. But with nicer fonts, nicer mail UA, much less administration. Granted, linux is still better by a few percent on the development tasks, but macOS compensates on the other tasks, and by its versatility. Anyways, we keep linux boxes and VMs.
Something else that's not obvious to me: why does the fountain have to be next to a wall?
What an amazing sounding game.

I've looked at gameplay videos of EVE before and it looks so boring, but the stories that come out of it are so evidently not boring.

Strange dichotomy.
Unfortunately it's much more common for a player to leave from a losing position without resigning. It's hard to solve that problem without hurting commuters in the crossfire. I also play on the subway, but I stick to correspondence or classical depending on where I am. I usually have 10-15 correspondence games open, and long format is an amazing way to improve your game without worrying about time sensitive connection issues.
You've never lived there I guess, in the former USSR. Elbakyan is of Armenia ethnicty, who was born in Kazakhstan (hence she is Kazakhtani, not Kazakh). And her native language is Russian, so is the native language of many Kazakh people who lives in the bigger cities of Kazakhstan.
Some (most?) of the problems with c stem from not checking array bounds.

Now if you break out of an array bound in read only memory, you cant do much damage, but what happens if you could rewrite the code to do what you want?

Theres also the issue that you can have viruses that hide what they're doing until they actually run, so virus scanners cant pick them up.

I'm no expert. There maybe other classes of attack.
There’s two great reckonings coming to high tax States in the coming years.

The first is when people realize that without tax offsets the appetite for their real estate plummets. It’s already started at the high end and is working it’s way down to the standard northeast 4/3/2.5 suburbs.

The second reckoning will come after the tippping point of high income earners leave for low/no tax States like Florida and Nevada. What remains will be an eroded income tax base with decades of unfunded pension obligations. They’ll raise taxes further to compensate for the spread in a vicious cycle that will push out more of the tax base. Fun times ahead.
you mentioned "nice looking" but then linked everything that looks like homework project from some web design course instead of proper, intuitive app
Except I'm not here for votes of either variety. And I'm not going to feed some hypothetical link monster that insists on their presence. So take your [citation needed] practices somewhere else.

Reading comprehension alone will get you through what I've written so far. Nothing I've put forward requires an incredible cognitive leap, such that it simply must be backed by some credible research institution.

Just look at the circulatory systems of plants, as non-motile creatures. It's really obvious that anything growing on a vine isn't going to have biological pathways for oils that compare to how humans operate body fat.

But yeah, red flags. Whatever. I'm content in leaving you wrong and clueless.
You missed the part that the rules are BS, and the lights rigged to produce fines -- and in some cases even causing accidents rather than prevent them?

There have been lots of scandals over the years and I even gave some links...
Great Britain's longest linear walk without crossing a road – Ordnance Survey
Even if that were true, would that have reduced innovation? How many other innovators has Amazon crushed—fueled by the “top income”?
All of that stuff is changing though.

I would never ship a product today without remote signed upgrade ability.

All devices that plugs into a windows PC can use Windows Update for example to upgrade firmware. Any device that sits at a remote location probably ought to have a GSM modem in (adding only $1 to the cost of the device) for tracking uptime and firmware updates. Any device which offers an API to other devices should have 'provide firmware update' as part of that API.

Obviously security is a concern with updates, but by signing update files, and making sure downgrades aren't allowed, the security benefits of being able to patch vulnerabilities outweigh the disadvantages of the device manufacturer being able to produce evil update files.

Those who say that your lightbulb/toaster/USB hub don't need automated software upgrades are naive. Software on them will typically consist of many libraries totaling perhaps hundreds of thousands of lines of code. Security vulnerabilities will be found in that code, and even if the security of this particular device isn't of concern, it can be used as a jumping off point to attack other networked devices or for data exfiltration.
Tutorial on how to set up OAuth2 authorization on iOS with AppAuth
I Don't believe in Goldman
His type like a curse
Instant karma's going to get him
If I don't get him first...
Exploring Grin's Monetary Model
Basically, know what does and doesn't allocate heap memory, don't give the GC more work than it can handle and measure on the target hardware. Do it right at the start of development and consider things like object pooling and the new ECS, if necessary. Understand how your GC works:
https://blogs.unity3d.com/2018/11/26/feature-preview-increme...

It's not about performance in 99% of frames, it's about not dropping frames when the GC kicks in and needs more time than your budget accounts for.
For what use? It doesn't make sense to write your own FFT library buy it from NAG.
I understand that. And that's what sets it apart from the embryo-killings. Live farm animals prove no danger, live embryos (to some extend) do pose a danger to women
> I'm an EU citizen.
Honest question here: What can I do to influence this decision?

Mmm...maybe you could write to your local/nearest European Parliament Representative...I think they call them MEPs...
> So many great ideas are horrible businesses.

Maybe, but great businesses are usually based on good ideas.
Experienced editors usually create a "userspace draft", which is in a different staging area:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Userspace_draft

Userspace drafts also won't be deleted for non-notability, and they can be published whenever the editor feels that they're ready.

Neither of the draft spaces on Wikipedia are indexed by search engines, because these staging areas generally aren't proofread by other editors.
Both environmental and health were mentioned already.
It's because using tricks is one way to look younger.
> I hope my country leaves the European union, soon.

LOL...why though? By the way...which country is that?
Sort of like dwarf fortress.
If this is their intention, then the measure might be totally counterproductive. Regulations very often hit small businesses harder than big ones, because big businesses have capacities to deal with them.

In this example, Youtube or Facebook will have more resources to (automatically) detect copyright content than a small content-oriented startup.

This only increases "barriers to entry" for new companies and strengthens the position of incumbents.

According to the article, politicians initially addressed the problem:

> TBC Platforms run by startups (small and micro-sized businesses) are exempted from the law.

but this at risk of being dropped:

> This was one of the European Parliament’s main improvements to the text. Unfortunately, it is now in danger of being dropped in negotiations.
Riding in a Driverless Yandex Taxi at CES 2019
That, I agree with. It's also annoying that many of the resources that used to be freely available (datasheet, reference manual, other docs) now require a login to download.

Minor hassle, however.
This article doesn't do justice to the work Microsoft has done with combatting child pornography in an attempt to paint Bing as some intentionally neglected backwater and Microsoft as some criminally negligent monolith. Microsoft's PhotoDNA is far and away the most widely shared detection tool and is in place with a ridiculous range of organizations. More importantly, Microsoft works closely with LE and makes it easy for their partners to integrate with LE. Google avoids the problem in the article entirely by doing a nudity blacklist for image results, which nicely solves the problem of some reporter doing a hit job, but avoids actually doing anything that makes finding material more difficult.

There are plenty of problems with black-listing based approaches, and I strongly disagree with some of the technical decisions made in PhotoDNA [1], but Microsoft should be credited for their commitment to reporting and prosecuting, and bringing their processes to other companies who otherwise would be unable to dedicate the resources required to be effective.

[1] https://github.com/deveyNull/phistOfFury
All nonfront end programmers should know this and arguably the front end ones should to.
If it wasnt for Ruby and DHH, I doubt web development would be where it is today.
Self modifying code is not a security issue in and of itself, but it requires memory that is writable and executable (though, not necessarily at the same time). This is usually a bad idea because it makes arbitrary code execution much easier if your code has unrelated bugs in it, because it provides attackers a place to write shellcode and get it to run.
Well, some of us love programming, so I'm not surprised if we're in editors all day, others might be maintainers of open source / Linux projects. But there's a huge amount of users who use it like they would Mac or Windows, I am one of them, I also use both OS' I overall prefer Linux for some things since it puts me in the heart of the platform I would normally deploy production code to and it just feels right, something about being able to take apart any part of my OS feels awesome and hacker friendly, even if I never take it all apart, I know I can.

Same reason I keep Android around, now someone will say it's proprietary blah blah, but I can root my phone and install anything I want on it.

Since I've used Linux there was always a Linux gaming community for example, doubt they spend centuries on VIM or Emacs. Also remembering all the crazy Desktop Environment eye candy from the 2000's like the desktop cube, and the self-incinerating window when you'd close it. Linux just made you feel so damn cool at the fact you could have things that just did all these insanely awesome things!
What if an internet platform requires encryption of every upload? And other internet platform stores keys for such uploads, and decryption happens on user's computer.
From the post:

> The fountain is required for wishes. The wall is required to be able to offset the random state without advancing the game state – every time the character attempts to walk into a wall, it calls random() without wasting any in-game time. From the fountain, the bot ascends completely on her own.
Shame it's not very informative.
Lexers don't do strcmps, they use a finite state machine to determine tokens. For instance if we have the tokens ALTER, AND, ANY, SELECT, FROM it will compile into a state machine like this:

switch(str[i++]){
case 'A':
switch(str[i++]){
case 'L': ...
case 'N':
switch(str[i++]){
case 'D':
found token!
case 'Y:
found token!
default:
syntax error!
}
...
}
case 'S': ...
case 'F': ...
...
}

Lexers already do this, and in each place where a token is found, it can know which token it was based on the DFA state that it's in.
Should have clarified we ask to visit the cockpit after landing. Usually we wait until almost everyone has deboarded, then we ask the purser if it’s possible. If the pilot hasn’t rushed off to another flight we can almost always get a few minutes to chat.
The controllers are nice but its desperately lacking in Saturn Analog controller, NiGHTS just isnt the same without it
That's pre-GDPR (barely), and the original idea was that users should be able to opt out of cookie tracking. But instead most web sites just added that super-annoying (particularly when it covers the whole page) pop-up giving you one option: Accept cookies or else. That was not the intention of the regulation at all. So far I've seen only a single web site that actually gave you the option to not use cookies (yes/no, not just yes).
A part of the puzzle is just that it feels better. It's a bit like taking a long walk - with nice shoes you'll enjoy the views and weather, with bad shoes you'll just think about the pain in your sore back and knees.

Myself, I generally strive to find the stuff at the point of diminishing returns. Top stuff is often just expensive in comparison, bottom stuff you just have to fight all the time.
free movement should be a human right. I lived a decade in Asia before returning to EU. I'd also move to different countries even if it would require a visa. That has never stopped me. I hope to go to India next year. Has little to do with the EU "giving me the benefit". I alone make that possible not some political entity.
Would they not just write a new patched page, and swap out the original?

Seems less error prone?
They describe that in the article. To be able to bump into the wall and advance the RNG one step at a time without passing in-game time. Presumably that's to ensure that the next Wish will be successful.
It's really more of a corporate espionage and spreadsheet simulator.
Oh, I get now. You're here to walrus the conversation, and forum slide it into shrill, off-putting, discourteous exchanges. Cool.

I'm going to obviously manipulate you by ignoring the rest of your walrus questions. Have a nice life. Or don't.
Yep! I just wasn't willing to run "curl ... | bash" on a corporate computer to install markdeck. I made a note to circle back to it, I still want to try it, the slides look slicker than those generated by pandoc with beamer which is what I use now to generate PDF presentations. my first choice was GitPitch but rendering PDFs doesn't work without using their web service and this content has got to stay on the private network.
Delphi was a pretty fun thing: nice IDE and nice language (would prefer c-style, but still c++ is much less friendly), but terrible licensing made it niche (VS had completely free, including commercial use Express edition + non-comercial Pro licenses for students while Delphi was few bags of gold for personal license for whatever reason making it completely irrelevant on a global scope, freemium is the way to go with stuff like this, this is the exact reason why windows and office are so easy to crack)
and you know, C sucks, c++ sucks, every language I ever heard of sucks
but the ones that get laughed at the most: JS and PHP seems to suck much less in terms of usability
but sure, lack of proper runtime/native compilers and GUI bindings make them niche (or used to, now unfortunately we have electron to make JS based GUI apps...)
Hats off to the writer for this epic account. Made it pretty clear how this event transpired even though I've never played Eve.
This seems like it will benefit the whales more than the fish, as they can absorb copyright infringement costs into their already expansive legal departments, whereas a smaller company will likely go belly up or be chummed.
"Perfectly functioning and always has been"? That is beyond delusion.

The EU is co-ruled by an opaque system of non elected bodies, under the table deals, and backroom diplomacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_deficit_in_the_Euro...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/09/brexit...

https://www.economist.com/special-report/2017/03/23/how-to-a...

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1007/S12290-012-021...

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/30/opinion/the-euros-democra...

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/11/i-was-teenage-...

https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/books/adults-in-the-room/

And those are mostly official establishment narratives -- if you look at critiques from the left (and libertatians) the picture is much much bleaker.
The problem is that once the debt is repaid you have to provide something in exchange for that money. If it's good and services, fine, we can produce a lot of these. But if that's land and factories, the country will be owned by foreign investors pretty soon.

Not sure if it's a good thing.
> The file format you tried to write about isn't notable enough to have its own article in Wikipedia.

Grandparent said it was rejected because of the citations, not because of any supposed lack of notability. Are you implying that reviewers refuse articles for other reasons than the ones they actually give?

(Edit: from what I gather on this thread, the citations were both secondary and substantial, so the notability criterion was probably met.)
Gnome Shell and Mutter 3.31.4 Deliver Desktop Performance Improvements
D'oh. Not sure how I missed/forgot that. Thanks.
Sure that's not the point though. If you tax ideas and they are shitty businesses are you going to allow people to deduct that too?
Keep going, bro. It took me 12 years.

I try to explain my friends how fiendishly hard NetHack is but they always say stuff like 'Well I've won in Dark Souls so I know about hard games'. It's not even in the same league imho.
So.... Basically the same as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation
But it's in a website's favor to serve as many consumers as possible, won't any group that isn't willing to conform to EU standards be out competed by those that do?
Aside from K&R, you might want to look at the Modern C PDF https://gustedt.wordpress.com/2016/11/25/modern-c-is-now-fea... for an opinionated but sane guide.

Also 21st Century C has been recommended, and it goes into tooling as well.
What Is a Sidechain? Can It Change the Blockchain Network?
Yes, although at this point, Python 3 is hardly new. 12 years in IT is a long time.
Kudos for the extended, non-mixed metaphor. I think it works!
Ubuntu and openSUSE are my main installs, and they usually feel fine, my only issue is always drivers, whether it's Wi-Fi or Graphics (worse one, since at least Wi-Fi I have ways to circumvent - buy a compatible wireless usb tiny adapter for example, or connect a router to the network and connect my device over LAN). If somebody could either make a properly open GPU or get AMD or Nvidia to release proper drivers that don't break between versions, I'd be happy. Nvidias drivers used to work on my one laptop, now they've broken something in the latest incarnation of the driver, that or it's just not compatible with Ubuntu's new X.org alternative, whatever the case, it seems too easily fragile. If I can't install it due to GPU issues, I move on if I can't find a compatible distro usually.

As for the font thing, maybe I'm not a fontphile or something, but they're usually fine for me.
To whomever posted this, thank you. My father was from Turkey, and he often spoke longingly of his homeland. The images included here were transporting. I only wish he were still around so that I could sit there and thumb through them with him.
Some of the bigger microcontrollers have native hardware support for floats, and in that case they are very performant.

Without that though, performance is really really bad. The inner loop of a motor controller is no place for them...
> gameplay videos of EVE before and it looks so boring

it is boring - but the game isn't the gameplay, it's the meaning behind it and the consequences. A game like World of Warcraft has fun game mechanics. But that game has no consequence, nor does the actions in the game have meaning beyond the game's lore.

EVE is different in that any action has a direct consequence on somebody else in the game - you kill a player's ship, they really lose that ship and have to replace it with another ship, which costs resources and time to acquire. You can steal from people, betray them - and make enemies. Real enemies, not fake 'factional' enemies from the lore (like the alliance vs horde).

Playing EVE is like living a second life. That's why they say 'winning' at EVE is quitting it.
€100 extra if you also wish for Google ContentID protection
Does using a compositor really _save_ power in practice? GNOME's one certainly doesn't, in my experience. It would spin my fans up after a few moments of dragging a window around. Of course it has no configuration options so it is not possible to fix it. kwin is almost as bad last time I checked on my hardware.
looking at available bindings I guess c++ is still the least terrible choice
this or JS one
yeah, I know, there are some py lovers but I can't stand this thing