skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Polymorphic Encryption Algorithms (2016)
Seriously, hope someone is willing to tackle this hypothetical scenario:

Land owners are unaware of a buried cache of gold that was robbed from an armored car in the prohibition era...

And it has to be dug up.

The spot is marked with a stack of large rocks. The previous owners were ostensibly always deterred by the threat of blasting caps being buried on top of it.

What would you do about that? Anything?

Edit: Offer to split it with the land owners, and call the excavators? (and the bomb squad?)
ABC lead with it on its evening news program yesterday.
It's much easier to be actually honest. When you lie you have to keep track of your lies, otherwise you might slip up and get caught. It can become a huge mental burden if you're lying all the time and juggling many different stories with different people.

When you're honest, on the other hand, it's easy most of the time because you just tell people what you know to be true.
And a Marie Kondo-like strategy for determining which of your subscriptions/memberships/accounts "spark joy".
I think this is nonsense and leads to enterprise-y type patterns and hard to understand code.

Wrapping things for the sake of it is a recipe for unnecessary verbosity and a hard to learn codebase as things are obfuscated and take longer to trace through.

In C, your point 1 makes me think your code is unsafe, if you're having trouble keeping track of types and signedness. Point 2 is fair enough, but I think a lot of C headers are granular enough that it's irrelevant, especially given how fast everything is these days. Gone are the 8 hour builds of old.

Point 3 is precisely the type of premature interface-isation that's the problem here. If you're never going to change it, then it doesn't matter whether huge portions of the code rely on the library or your wrapper. It's basically the same thing. Only you've put in extra work to wrap something in another layer for no gain. 4 much the same.
Treason is giving comfort and aid to our enemies - Foreign or DOMESTIC.

Right now, the Republican Party most certainly counts as a domestic enemy.

Pay more attention in civics class next time, okay? It's this sort of ignorance that led to Republicans holding office and power in this shape and fashion.
What Is the Future of PostgreSQL
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I would like to learn postgresql. what is the future of postgresql?
the problem is not lego clones but poor quality lego clones.
however with the patents for the lego material expired the clones are now of sufficient quality that it is hard to distinguish them from the original.
Oh, you see, that's easy — a serial killer kills people. Is it maybe more moral not to think about where your meat comes from? If you are eating meat, but you can't contemplate the death of the animal that provided it, maybe you're not as morally elevated as you think.
Suggesting someone was possibly too fatigued to properly operate the aircraft is accusing someone of professional negligence at least, isn't it? Possibly criminal negligence?

I don't think it's too different from reading a story about a murder investigation and idling throwing out 'could be Bob that did it - I hear he gets angry sometimes' without knowing Bob, knowing whether he usually gets angry or not, whether or not he was angry or not at the time, or whether anyone was angry at all in the situation or even if Bob had anything to do with it in the slightest.
OneNote is the only reason I don't drop MS Office for GDocs. There's nothing else remotely as good as OneNote that I've been able to find. The outlining functions and structure just work the way my brain works.
You've not answered the question.

Car insurance gets a lot of information from past claims, age and sex/gender, they aren't going to make a bunch of money turning away a few people that go to dragstrips.

In the US, health insurers are specifically prevented from considering such things in setting their premiums, they get to consider age and smoking. Carriers that offer plans to the general public are also subject to a "guaranteed issue" provision, they are not able to refuse coverage to anyone that can pay.
You're right.

The Manhattan & Martini both derive lineage from the Old Fashioned. The Old Fashioned was so named in the late 19th century as it was trying to recreate the original cocktail, as in "Don't give me one of those drinks with all the stuff in it, give me an old fashioned cocktail".

The Martini derives from the Martinez which is a much sweeter drink. Heavy on sweet vermouth and using a heavier & sweeter style of gin. It should be clear at that point that the Martinez and Manhattan aren't super far apart.
I don't think using a vscode plugin as an example of Rust not being ready is very fair. You could always fix the issue yourself, it is open source you know.

My original point was that we shouldn't be building monolithic projects in a single language, but if there is an absolute requirement for it, Rust compile times aren't that bad. C++ also has very long compile times, it just comes with the territory. The reason Go can compile in under a second is because they purposefully keep the language specification simplistically small.

I'm not recommending Rust nonchalantly. I write rust every day professionally, and I basis my opinions on the experiences I've had with it in that environment.
Helicopters are often easier to land than planes. Landing a helicopter without power is part of learning how to fly a helicopter in the first place... https://youtu.be/pL1-QH7eQAY

Landing a 767 without power, not so much... https://youtu.be/GlkCofOyxUA
Life after harassment: ex-Silent Hill dev Tomm Hulett speaks out
I love project zeros write-ups, but I wish they published more about Android.
We obviously have no idea, but my first thought was fraudulent goods not properly labeled (batteries specifically).

Value Jet went down in the Everglades due to a similar reason
> and right next to it there are social media bubbles

Do you have the native apps or native client apps for these social media bubbles installed currently on your phone? If so, uninstalling them will go a long way to lessening your addiction since the mobile web experience of most social media apps has enough friction to make it more jerky and painful...

Think of it like having cookies at home when you were a child. Having them put on top of the cabinet by your parent out of reach (beyond your childhood height) made them practically inaccessible.
Standard Ternary Logic – Douglas W. Jones
A colleague of mine who gets confused by "all the symbols" said that they appreciated the verbose stream notation that I build throughout the article. I would recommend giving the article a earnest try up through to page 5. Then after that, jump to page 17 and read Section 5C on Set Operations. See if the standard concepts of union, intersection, difference, etc. mixed with the verbose stream notation gives you insight and ultimately, the confidence to keep trying to tackle the work.
While definitely a cool factor, I'm not sure it would be so mindblowing.
As a kid, we always called maple seeds 'helicopters', and their descent is a similar concept.
Yes, including several people who worked on game engines and whom I have frequently cursed out...
Items, not meds. See my other comments here. You clearly have no idea how close to the edge, financially and in many other ways, society pushes the disabled, nor how frequently. Society is not built for us, and genuine consideration - as the discussion here shows - is extremely scant.

I am very well aware that my health and safety are commonly at risk; therefore I don't find the suggestion that a firm might actually plan around an accident to be bizzare or antisocial.
This is what OpenID was supposed to solve - you can have one password, on a site you own, that is your master key.

The problem is that every implementation is 99% the same and 1% WTF, so the concept never caught on. So now we have FB and TWTR and GOOG and no other options.
There's also ADS-B and ACARS, both unencrypted data from the aircraft. I assume the cost/benefit to encrypt voice and data has been looked at and dismissed.
I wouldn't describe LIC (or any part of Queens) as being "built up with skyscrapers" personally. I'd say there are a handful of tall apartment buildings.
Can you be more specific in what you mean by "processing"?

- Reading from the mailbox?

- Destructuring and binding the content?

- Operating on the data by transforming, modifying, or filtering it?

etc.
Perhaps he's referring to the MITM attack from Die Hard II...?
I need you to disambiguate. What do you identify as an irrelevant "specific issue" in this thread?
Ask HN: Why is there no activity indicator when an iPhone's camera is on?
I never understood this. They indicate when your mic, location and even mobile hotspot is on, but there is no indication of whether your camera is on. Apps with permission to use the camera can use it without you knowing!
Around Seattle we say: if it's not Boeing, I'm not going.
Zealots of Programming
> I asked about a billion 'why did you/why didn't you' questions and was amazed at how many good ideas were left on the table.

Never leave anything on the table.
I hope you're not basing your reasoning purely on what the sales representative of the dealership said about EVs. Car dealerships have an incentive to undersell EVs because they require less of the routine maintenance that combustion engine cars require (oil changes, brake pad changes). Dealerships make much of their money on servicing, so this is not in their interest.

In Norway, a new electric car car is obviously better on a TCO basis, due to much cheaper fuel, no VAT or other taxes on purchase, free passage through toll roads, cheaper ferries and free parking. Most of those are political incentives, so I can't speak for countries that have no such incentives.
I don't think that it's the control of the ecosystem that affords Apple to dump x86. It's mostly that they can afford it.
Their make money from iPhones. Their computer market share is still <7%, much of which is just hipster kids browsing the web that will not be affected much by the switch. I doubt Apple is the leading vendor even in the "creatives" segment of computer market. The bottom line is that they get to screw their computer users without really jeopardising their business.
IMO this is equally short-sighted as not being honest at all.
> Recruiting new engineers was sometimes a challenge because candidates had to accept that they were joining an organization with a homegrown programming language and build system.

I got an offer from NYT in 2009, but rejected it because of the custom language thing. My interview was conducted entirely using this custom language, and the interviewers were uninterested in discussing any other technology. Even architectural questions, which I attempted to answer in terms of industry standards, were steered towards Context.
It helped that the Captain (I believe) was ex-military and an expert glider pilot. They landed at a mothballed RCAF base that was being used for drag racing. Amazing story.
The Gimli Glider:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider

the pilots were initially punished (which is outrageous), then lauded, for their skills.
I'd be interested in hearing about it applied to totally different industries, particularly software.
I don't think so because unlike physical space, virtual space is borderline free and getting cheaper. What is the cost of maintaining a database of 800 passwords? The same as one with 80 passwords.
Microsoft at Mobile World Congress 2019
What war do you imagine would mess up oil production? The only big producers that aren't nuclear powers are in the middle east and we all know how that went down last time in the gulf war.
>in round figures it cost me $13,800 (that's the on the road price of the base model, including a couple of minor extras and all applicable taxes).

Where in Europe do you live?
Video playback is inefficient.

The code uses media foundation for decode (this part is good), but then it downloads NV12 data to system RAM, then uploads back to VRAM.

Better approach is making it work entirely on GPU. The simple way to implement that is to drop Windows 7 support already, and use IMFMediaEngine interface. That object decodes video directly into D3D 11 textures, with very little work required, doesn't even need any custom shaders.

Here’s a working example: https://github.com/Const-me/vis_avs_dx/tree/master/avs_dx/Dx...
Why serverless is revolutionary for product managers
a lier has the same arguments, he also believes noone will catch him in his lies...
Improve Insert-per-Second Performance of SQLite?
How would it burn anything to the ground? What would a revolt of 3rd party analytics providers even look like, and why would Google or Apple care?
The cause analysis of how they ended up with half a tank of fuel is crazy. The crew loading the fuel mistook lbs for kg. The plane's fuel indicators were faulty and required a manual procedure before takeoff. The engineer communicated that to a pilot and the pilot misunderstood. That pilot relayed his misunderstanding to the next pilot and that next pilot misunderstood the misunderstanding. And then that next pilot misunderstood the checklist indicating whether it was legal to fly with the non-functioning fuel gauge. And the flight engineer didn't catch the lbs/kg mistake. Then during a brief stopover in Ottawa, the captain thought to re-measure the fuel with the floatstick, but still used the incorrect conversion factor.
I was briefly hoping it'd be an article about PostScript
Exactly. This is why the continued focus on "fake comments" in this process is so tiring... They didn't mean anything to begin with. Just as the comments opposing net neutrality didn't matter either. The FCC does not pass regulations by open voting and never did.
What Is the Magicverse (and Why)?
They didn't even use 'Amazon' in the headline, why would it get any clicks? They could have included a picture of a fireball or wreckage as well.

Instead, it some bullshit story involving hollywood actors
Why is it outrageous that they were punished? Yes they saved the day but they had a very important role in allowing the mistake to happen in the first place.
First and foremost Uber is disrupting social security. Not sure why that's sth. to look forward to ...
Please add a source for "few apps are downloaded each month".
The first page or so of phone books actually did use to be dominated by companies with names just like that: "AAAAA Landscaping," "AAAA A Taxi," "AAA AJ Accounting," etc.
Or WWVB.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWVB
picture I have is, should move to a digital jam-resistant spread spectrum, with certificates, encryption, and some VHF fail-safe. also, voice communication is high workload, not error free, many boilerplate communications like reading out altimeter settings can be text messages or automated. I imagine work is being done but not familiar with it.
Sudden loss due to crash = unlikely (fortunately)

Grounded for unknown timespan due to some kind of severe damage = does happen from time to time (good thing, because otherwise, crashes would become more likely...)

Since the effect on the logistics chain is identical (at least apart from that single shipment in question), you just use the contingency plan for the latter when the former happens. And for the latter, you MUST have a plan.
> “We probably over-engineered it, I guess,” Damens said.

Exactly. Also, creating a programming language for something as simple as a newspaper is pretty much a nightmare. Worrying about scalability when most of their content is static.
There's no general answer to that. For example the MPU could have a set of vector operations that use a special range of memory not mapped by the cache and that has its own path to the MPU. Those instructions could conceivably be faster (or have a different power profile) than GPU for certain tasks.

I say "MPU" rather than "CPU" because I think of the CPU in a more traditional sense (ALU+register sets) while I think of system design as encompassing a whole range of functional elements which can include computational, memory, etc. Even within the CPU these days you'll find very complex behavior including speculative execution, various shadow registers and register windows etc.
Automating Things with Python and SQL
I remember seeing more Google product related articles on their blog up until a couple of years ago. Then they stopped or slowed down, or at least they seem to concentrate a lot more on Apple and Microsoft. I guess some bugs are disclosed internally and fixed before they go public and some may not warrant blog posts.

I am sure they're working on finding bugs in Google code but just like any other company they're not going to shoot themselves in the foot by advertising these internal findings more than needed.
Maybe it's my rural background and associations...

Almost certainly. People tend to feel that however they grew up is the one right and true way to live. It can be an extremely difficult feeling to escape, even in cases where they actively very much want to leave it behind and live some other way, for example people who were abused and are in therapy and trying hard to find a better way to live.
Those are all great points.

I was not thinking about the anti-trust implications by not allowing folks to send data back but perhaps there is a middle ground.

It could also increase transparency for consumers by allowing the opt in opt out on the device for each app and letting customers know “this app is tracking your clicks on it”.

The one point about them essentially getting all data, don’t you think they are already doing this? Look at the amount of calls the iPhone is doing back to Apple or the amount of data Android is shipping to Google. I believe they literally are already doing all of it, this would just be a way to give developers access to what they want transparently and reduce the number of unnecessary calls, all the calls would still happen but server side.
My Pixel 2 is, honestly, a glorified iPod touch. I guess with a radio chip. I don't have it near me to check but I'd imagine that at least 50% of that devices usage is audio. Audiobooks, podcasts, and music. I don't really have apps on it, and I've never really used smartphones apps. For me, it's a communication device that has the storage capacity and capabilities to handle my audio library. I love it for that and it works exceedingly well.
Sysinternals Video Library – Tour of the Sysinternals Tools DVD Set on YouTube
sed is already Turing-complete (https://catonmat.net/proof-that-sed-is-turing-complete).

I'm not sure how what you are proposing is any better than sed. I said math envy since you resorted to using algebraic ring theory when there was a much simpler solution. xD
Wow. How often do I have to repeat that disabled people are not able-bodied and don't have the same choices the abled do. Disabled people rarely earn an income above poverty, they can't necessarily stock items (nor can needs always be anticipated.) They can't hire a service to shop for them. Again, what's my second source that delivers to my door?

As for ER - seriously ill disabled people simply can't go to ER every time there's a problem that might go badly wrong - they don't have the health, and will also get black-balled by the ER if they do this too often, in which case the quality of service they get becomes abysmal. This is probably the most difficult, heart-breaking choice they face. With many health conditions, symptoms are so various that if you don't they don't show up at ER falsely fairly often you're risking your life. But if you do show up at ER frequently, that too risks your life, if you're labelled as a bad patient.
Your comment blames the victim, repeatedly.
Ableism all day long.

Many health conditions include cognitive deficits, even if only from extreme fatigue. Not to mention that head injuries are a kind of disability, and social support for head injuries isn't better than for other disabilities, it's considerably worse.

Again, I'm being swatted for suggesting that it might be a good thing for Amazon to plan around accidents. I'm very willing to believe that this doesn't affect able bodied people nearly as much as it affects many of the one in five Americans with a disability. Good on ya. Now open your hearts.
In 2002 I was using well established CAD software that handled curves just fine. One of my first undergrad projects was modelling LEGO.

CAD is a different beast to game engines.

https://support.ptc.com/carezone/tutorials/files/2001update....

There was even a shareware version called Pro/Desktop.
Not much, but I suspect building and running a crypto infrastructure in a secure way for everything from tiny privately owned aircraft to international carriers isn't easy.
xnu is licensed under a combination of the APSLv2 and BSD licenses, both of which are OSI- and FSF-approved open source/free software licenses. Perhaps you’re thinking of the corecrypto source code release from a while back, which was indeed “under a license that basically only permits you to look at it”? That’s unrelated, though.
These might be too difficult but just for fun here are some ideas for mostly backend.

Personal Music Tracker - You can get new music ideas by scraping content from a community radio station playlist like KCMP (https://www.thecurrent.org/playlist). Run it against a personal database of songs you already know and have the system send you a daily/weekly/monthly list of songs you haven't heard. It's fun to build.

Phone Proxy - Set up a disposable number for yourself on Twilio that will proxy incoming calls against a whitelist of approved numbers. You could do Twilio Studio to build an IVR that prompts the caller to press one to route the call. If they stay on the line you could do fun stuff like transfer to an It's Lenny server or something. It's not difficult to program and will teach you about some phone technology.

IoT Blog Reader - Follow blogs that you like and have them read to you via common IoT devices like Alexa/Google Home. Like an RSS reader but built for speech. Use an RSS reader to pull articles, run transcriptions of the articles with trained ML TTS models, and store the data with SQL. De-dupe the transcriptions based on URL. Use pre configured ML models for text to speech like AWS Polly or GCP Wavenet. Probably way too hard...

TextToSpeech for books - Upload a book. Get emailed the audio transcription. Use pre trained ML models for TTS conversion. Maybe use a SASS company like mailgun for the email part so you can just focus on extracting text from different file formats? Could start with plain text files initially.

Story Point Estimation - Use ML (or basic statistics) to estimate how long JIRA tasks or projects will take to complete. Use a general corpus of data to train an ML model, then feed it a team's data so it can adapt accordingly. There are some whitepapers on it like https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.00489.pdf but you could look around for easier statistics algorithms to use instead so it's easier to build.
Check out Gremlin by Apache TinkerPop: http://tinkerpop.apache.org/gremlin.html It is a Turing Complete language that can be embedded in any host language that supports function composition (f.g) and function nesting (f(g)). Finally, if this resonates with you, https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.03843 .
There’s a tool, bindgen, that can read in C headers (and limited C++ support, I believe) and produce the bindings Rust needs to understand them. It’s not perfect but IIRC it’s good enough for Firefox.