skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I second that. Today, clearly BASIC can be a great "toy" language to get into programming. And being so different from "modern" languages is not a disadvantage but actually an advantage. There's another world then standard-imperative-oop-languages. Why not go to Haskell after BASIC? There is so much more to explore then Python or Processing...
Back in the day, all monitors were 4-16x less resolution than yours, and we loved them.
> Ads do their harm by being displayed.

Do you have any research to back this up? If someone owns real estate, they can put whatever they want on it. If it's a billboard with an ad, and you don't like ads, then that's a personal problem. I too had this problem, and I used an ad-blocker. Some people don't have this problem, and they don't use ad-blockers.
Nah, the ones I'm thinking of were made of native Windows text field controls, so arrow keys & all worked within them (and AFAIR transparently moved between them), and Tab/Shift+Tab behaved correctly too.
What's cool about the use-case they describe is that it's the perfect bridge between what humans are good at: improvised problem solving and movement, and what computers are good at: crunching and surfacing data. Is this the sweet spot?
I'd say the author's writing is entirely consistent with him knowing full well what corium is. This passage in particular shows he doesn't think it's an element (emphasis mine):

Of the five corium creations, only Cherobyl’s has escaped its containment. With no water to cool the mass, the radioactive sludge moved through the unit over the course a week following the meltdown, taking on molten concrete and sand to go along with the uranium (fuel) and zirconium (cladding) molecules.
On a lot of systems the fortran compiler is often named fortran and usually aliased as for and fortran in the shell. I know as well on VMS, RSX, and RSTS you, at a minimum, just need to type the first 3 chars of a command for DCL to figure out what it is.
UBI opens up the option of pursuing labor you enjoy instead of just labor that you need.
The guidelines for safe aviation have way lower Kolmogorov complexity than the guidelines for safe “everything that software can do”-iation. It’s actually close to a subset when you think about it.
I would argue that yes it does. You're right, maybe not as much complexity, but enough to make arguments for their being simpler look thin.

Also, I don't know how the 500 ARMv8 instructions was reached. If there are 500 instructions in the entire ISA, that's an unfair comparison, since there might be functionality in there not directly present in RISC-V. E.g. SIMD functionality.

Ofcourse fewer instructions to implement are fewer instructions to verify, but I disagreed with how simple the article made it sound.
Somebody asked on SO: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54660780/is-it-safe-to-c...

And while there was no hard answer and the documentation is basically on the level of POSIX (aka it says jack about the system's state on failure), the consensus seems to be "assume it's fucked":

> The answer will probably depend on the file system driver, as FlushFileBuffers is just a user-mode wrapper around NtFlushBuffersFile, and it looks to me like that function just assembles a flush IRP (IRP_MJ_FLUSH_BUFFERS) and sends it via IoCallDriver. Of course, one should eye calls to FlushFileBuffers with a great deal of suspicion.
As far as I know, PEGs work only on streams of characters. RLMeta works on streams of arbitrary Python objects. The syntax currently has support for matching characters, strings, and lists. Does that clarify it?
You could build a separate ReportService which replicates only the data that's needed for a report in RDBMS.
Right, the John Oliver portfolio was out-of-statute, meaning nobody was legally required to pay it, but if a collector can get the debtor to acknowledge or make any payments on the debt, it completely restarts (never acknowledge or agree to make payments on debt over the phone!).

Looks like one would get garnished to the max for 3-5 years after (Chapter 13) bankruptcy. If I ever get seriously ill and faced high medical bills, the first thing I would do is take most of my non-exempt (basically, not retirement accounts) assets and buy a cheap house, since in my state (Texas) the entire value of your homestead is bankruptcy exempt. This is assuming I have the health to do so, of course. I have a high enough credit score and income that the hospital would assume that I could pay, and existing lines of credit to pay for out-of-pocket stuff.

edit: you could really go nuts with the exemptions! Put in a pool, buy one of these [1], fine home furnishings etc.

[1] https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/king-james-bible/...
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That's a reasonable observation, but only loosely related to the parent post. Admin, code reviews, meetings all count towards that 2-4 hour goal
Is There a CS Self-Study Curriculum with Only Projects?
I am looking for a good and rigorous CS curriculum similar to the one here: https://teachyourselfcs.com/, but it would only involve different projects. Like each project would give you rigorous knowledge/skills of different subjects in CS (Algorithms, data structures, computer architecture, OS, networking, databases, cryptography, OO programming, languages, ML etc. etc.) Can you recommend any projects or a curriculum with such projects?
From the article:

> The part [of the comments in the released source] about the "pointer" containing authenticated, hasBKey, and hasDKey bits suggests that this code is dealing with authenticated pointers, although all the code that actually performs PAC operations has been removed from the public sources.

The researcher suspects Apple started with a version of the XNU code that supported the A12 logic, then removed the lines of code that actually performed the operations before publicly releasing it. In other words, Apple redacted security-related parts of the XNU source.

To me, at least, that's different from Apple creating a new XNU version that supports pointer authentication and not releasing it at all.
I won't be owning one. What's the point?
That may sound like a good fit for a common narrative, but it's certainly not rooted in fact. Being a superpower, America is often asked to help, and other times forced to help. There's no desire to do any of that stuff you mentioned, for the reasons you seem to think. Unfortunately, it's impossible to please everybody all the time, which creates the propaganda that leads you to think the way you do, so I certainly don't fault you for being wrong.
I am also curious. I tried asking Microsoft via Twitter and they asked me to copy the information from that Wiki page into Microsoft One Drive so they could read it, and then suggested I try asking on Stack Overflow instead! https://twitter.com/windowsdev/status/989857799994822663

Amusing social media exchanges aside, I'm quite curious to know as well. We don't have the answers for any non-open OS (though of course we can speculate about descendants of BSD except FreeBSD (probably throw away buffers on error), FreeBSD (probably keep buffers cached and dirty), and SysV systems (probably throw away buffers on error)).

EDIT: They also suggested asking on MSDN Forums, which I didn't do because I don't have an account and am not a Windows developer at all, just a humble database hacker trying to understand how our stuff works on every platform. The code we committed assumes the worst by default, so not knowing the answer here isn't damaging. I dunno if it's possible to reach actual kernel hackers via MSDN Forums, but maybe someone should follow up with that.

I think someone with the right skillset could possibly design an experiment to figure it out for Windows (several people have shown how to set up experiments on Linux and FreeBSD to test this).
How different is the actual underlying container abstraction between all those competing container "end-user experiences"?
It’s a fascinating space. I’m
Waiting for a startup, the ‘Apple’ of mixed reality, to take a fresh approach and create something for the rest of us.
You're not alone: for HN and website lightness.
I'm not sure that's the case, there are a number of the sites on this list, like Facebook and Reddit, that I definitely wouldn't categorize as document-oriented. It seems more of an issue with both how resource intensive the JS-heavy sites are, as well as the purpose of the JS- is it used to track me and invade my privacy, or does the JS have a legitimate use (as in a chat application)? Personally I LOVE JS-powered websites/webapps, as it means that as a lone developer I have the ability to create a website as powerful as a desktop application, without developing multiple versions for each OS/app store. So I, too, don't wish to see a massive backlash against JS, only against bad JS.
Yep, and GA does multi armed bandit testing.

Definitely the way to go for A/B.
That institute is probably high on the exception scale. My mother has 20minutes to eat and there's no restaurant in her company.

That said French people don't have the work 101% mentality but slacking off is not the norm either.
SimulaVR/Simula is about to release a working prototype for VR Linux Desktop with the HTC Vive. See https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula. Check it out at the end of next month.
eye strain.
Oh so you work 8 hour days then? OP is arguing for 2-4 hour work days. So what then? Your particular work situation and career are not the majority of the jobs on the market.
My cydia doesn't work it always exit its self
It doesn't even load
Sounds to me that your views could be summed up most closely as "socially liberal, fiscally/economically conservative". This is a viewpoint I see most often among the oft-mocked libertarians.

This is probably the biggest problem with our two-party system: Most people land similarly to you and I, as shown by the specific-issue poll earlier, but neither of the two major parties really fall that way, making people choose based on the issue(s) they deem most important.
As much as I want DNSSEC to be a thing, it just doesn’t seem like it ever will. Checkout this name-and-shame site and you’ll see how hopeless it looks https://dnssec-name-and-shame.com
Easier, yes, but not as easy. If your PCPartPicker-approved parts arrive and it turns out they actually don't work together, you can't call PCPartPicker and get support or replacements.

Don't get me wrong, I build my own PCs, because I enjoy choosing just the right components and then putting them all together. I just don't kid myself into thinking that, just because this stuff is fun for me, it is therefore fun for most people. It isn't. Most people consider this stuff work, and they just want to take the thing out of the box and have it all work when they press the power button. A system vendor can provide that, and most people view that service as worth spending a little more for.
Nope. It is nowhere clear and contrasty enough for that and the eye strain you get from wearing these displays for a long time would make you get the monitors back in a hurry.

It may work if all you need is playing a game for an hour or two but if you need to actually work for hours on a lot of text or graphics, the technology is not anywhere close yet.
Dogcow
Fun stuff, thanks for sharing

> You can come up with a million rules about how the colour changes, whether the colour of a new cell is inherited from its parents, whether the life algorithm is applied to each of the RGB(A?) layers separately.

Which ones have you tried so far?

Curious what simple rules do to images. For instance with a majority rule: changing the pixel color only if there is a majority of pixels with the same color. It leads to pretty color-stable patterns [1] [2] in our Twitch Plays Conways' Game of Life [3], but that's with few colors and pixels.

On an image, maybe it could just make it sparkle and not destroy it like it seems to do on John Conway's face?

Maybe a comparison of different rules in your next blog post?

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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH5RzNnamW0 (Epic Toy Store Pixel Art)

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKxKac5YHag (Epic Masterpiece Pixel Art Decoration)

[3] https://www.twitch.tv/bzh314 (there's a multicolor pattern going on right now live with an Octagon 4)
At one place I worked we got around Optimizely pricing by only sending down Optimizely code to some small subset of our users — enough to yield statistical significance but not so much to break the bank.
So if Google or Facebook write themselves a new language (or two), I'm guessing you are ok with that? I have worked at Standard Chartered and their compiler was written by a world renown former CS professor, who also wrote the worlds first Haskell compiler. The quant code written in this language is some of the best I have ever seen on the street; certainly better than the python shops (who are using forked hacked-up variants of Python anyway). Goldman Sachs also had a huge advantage for many years thanks to their proprietary technology. Sometimes an in-house language is actually a sign of innovation.
Why Facebook and Google Won’t Change
Are there any computer brands that aren't manufactured in China?
It's interesting to see the range of perspectives on work put forth in this thread. I'd only point out how strange it is that the question of what is being worked towards isn't more often in these discussions. I can only imagine that is because there is predominate perception of individuals as competitors rather than allies. Unfortunately such a perception keeps the masses grasping for their share rather than promoting a common drive towards abundance.
And that likely "hid" this issue for quite a long time, according to Tomas Vondra (https://youtu.be/1VWIGBQLtxo): data loss would just be blamed on NFS being NFS and kinda crappy, and not necessarily properly investigated in full (why waste time on NFS shitting the bed yeah?), but it's likely the incorrect checkpointing / fsync assumptions were the culprit in at least some of the issues.

Though an other factor is that people now run a lot more DBs, on a lot more environments, with a lot less reliability, and concurrently the database improved, so things which were rare and lost in the noise when run on "big iron" with expensive drive controllers become visible signal.
Courts do indeed reverse some of their rulings over time based on changing attitudes, sometimes with explicit reference to public opinion in their reasoning. So do regulatory agencies both independent and departmental.

The 14th Amendment example is about statutory/constitutional interpretation, whereas the type of ruling we're discussing here is not.

Agency regulations (and common law rulings by courts) often make policy judgments among multiple valid possibilities. Sometimes public attitudes appropriately affect the policy judgment, though of course not always.

Of course agencies and courts don't make popular opinion the primary driver of their rulings, even when they consider it. And I'm certainly not suggesting they should.

As for why the APA was created, that's a very complex question, but that seems more about systematizing the regulatory rulemaking process as delegated from Congress than about the difference between an independent agency and an executive department (both of which are governed by the APA). We're talking about the kind here that's supposedly independent.
Blasted mobile devices. I wish I could edit the link in (https://old.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/8xa97t/cult...)

And yes, I mentioned that it was bipartite, and the second part had 11 votes which is maybe not excitingly high but not extremely low either.

"Quality contributions" being barely moderated by moderators does not sound like a useful thing. How are we to know they're "quality" if the moderators don't actually test for their quality in some way?

The responses only barely disagreed, and mostly against the mandatory abortions of the mentally ill. There is maybe one comment that makes an actual attempt at most of the silly points, and the original poster of this "quality" contribution did not respond to it.
DNSSEC doesn't help when the attacker controls your DNS control panel, just like DNSSEC doesn't help in almost every other practical attack scenario.

Let's kill it off and focus on efforts that solve real problems. It's worse than pointless, the added complexity is a huge liability.
"Google has no economic interest in mapping the area"

Google has an economic interest in mapping anything as long as it's useful to some people. Google is playing a very long term game: provide free services online (Email, Maps, Search...) to entice more and more people to go online. The more Internet users there are in the world, the higher their ad revenues are. It's that simple.
That's a good summary of Xi Jinping's goals. I would just add that the BRI has an important role to play in most of them.
That would make zero sense for Hololens - Hololens is an enterprise device that will in practice run one or two applications (e.g. the company training or maintenance tool). Also most industrial networks are behind heavy firewalls, so anything that actually depends on internet access is a problem.

Hololens also doesn't really work outdoors (display contrast and tracking are the largest limitations), so there is no point of designing a system for supporting that when the hardware is not usable in such scenario.
Only if you HAVE to use the open source driver.
Running linux with the driver from NVIDIA themselves works really well these days.
> then we will continue down a path where humans are less and less valued as their skills atrophy and they can be replaced by automated systems

Have we started down this path?

Are human less valued than they were 100 years ago? 50 years ago? Based on what?

What I see is that there is plenty more work we’re not even trying to do, because we’re busy with the work we’re doing. Just in climate change-mitigating forestry and mental health services, to pick two, there are a billion jobs each waiting to be done. Programming probably also has a billion jobs available. Even cooking, we could move to a personal chef based food system and that would create a billion jobs.

I see no evidence that there is “less for humans to do” today than there was at times past.

I don’t count wage stagnation as evidence because I believe it’s the result of widespread racketeering.
Damn capitalist injuns!
Haha, there has to be a proper security system/ecosystem on Android to be interesting to break, not one that effectively needs giving every app you want to share a single photo with the entire filesystem access, for example.
Capitalism...compared to what? Feudalism? Socialism? Mixed economies? Colonialism?

China has not exactly had the lightest environmental impact, and it's Communist.

I can't help but feel that the author has an axe to grind without the substance to back it up.
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> Do you have any research to back this up?

Now I know you are not arguing in good faith. Asking for citations about things that are obvious is a classic shill tactic. I will not let you waste my time.

> If someone owns real estate, they can put whatever they want on it.

And that's derailing. Whether someone is legally allowed to show ads is not even the topic.
The "Oppo Find X" has a pop-up camera, so it sort of does this.
Am I the only one thinking that node.js is maybe not the right choice for global-wide services?
Why do you want it to be a thing? Have you ever been exposed to an attack that would have been prevented by DNSSEC?

I feel like most people who want DNSSEC just have very theoretical warm feelings about the idea of it. When they actually implement it it does nothing but consume time and energy while adding liability.
So why can't they add basic features like organizing servers?
On Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Air_Flight_3591
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If a major brand is bad at managing private keys and is in the middle of an ownership transition (speaking entirely hypothetically, of course), is there a chance that they'd just lose access to symantec.com permanently and have to pick a new brand, instead of having recourse to humans to say "Hey please get us our domain"? If there is no recourse, is this generally considered a desirable thing by domain customers?

Is there a process for trademark dispute resolution? If not, is this generally considered a desirable thing by domain customers?

If the answer is yes, who holds the override keys?
This might be specific to the MacBook Air but it seems trivial on the Mac to capture without an LED. E.g. open up Skype and go to settings and you’ll see live footage of your camera without the LED coming on. Am I overlooking something?
Watchdog permits 170k wild bird killings in five years
Where I live, it is easier to find local Elixir talent than Scala. There was a big Ruby community here and many of them have moved to Elixir.
My other pet peeve is movie trailers channels that start their videos with a 2-second mini trailer of the trailer.
What's wrong with the various reader modes that Safari and FF already have? They're great at de-formatting a page to it's base article. No cruft. It's very newspaper style.
(Chrome has reader plugins that can doing this too)

Not sure what your $2 would be doing another than adding an actor between me and the page I wish to read. For privacy purposes, I'll be keeping well clear of such "solutions".
FOV was the main problem in my opinion as well. If that's taken care of, it will be significantly more impressive than the first HoloLens.
So erh a bunch of accounts get hacked, likely due to password reuse, weak passwords or phishing. But hey, it's about DNS and security, so let's push the dead horse DNSSEC, which would've done nothing to prevent this, because... whatever.
Link, in case someone wants to dig further. https://nsa.dod.afpims.mil/
All investment analysis with future cash flows implicitly assumes a similar magic number - the PE ratio or discount rate or some equivalent. 12 is appropriate if you assume a discount rate of 8.3%.
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also using OsmAnd but just on android with Tor & NoRoot Firewall. takes a second to load the route. but allows you to download the maps and use offline. always have Play Store disabled unless there's an app i have to download briefly. once done, i uninstall the app and disable the Play Store.
>Let's kill it off and focus on efforts that solve real problems

Like what? It's pointless to distract from constructive proposals with no supporting material for what the problems are with the proposed solution, and then claim there are other things that need our attention and then not even pay lip service to them.
You can for the start use a single database as long as the different services don't use / know about each others tables. Then again you could just use separate db's.
If one uses Windows one could get hacked any time. Global pwd would be stored in RAM. But yeah if you're a security freak on Linux it's a good idea !
Thanks a lot, I should have googled it, I would have seen your previous comment mentioning it which has complementary information[1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17447355
Why? Containers are not insecure, some implementation of them have some vulnerabilities. That doesn’t mean that namespaces are insecure, it doesn’t mean that cgroups are insecure, and there is more than one container implementation (such as podman and cri-o).

That sounds like a reductionist argument, unless you have some more concrete issues than just “they are so insecure”. And having VC money is not a problem per se.
Due to techniques and services like jsdelivr, many sites will prevent you from even seeing any of the content without loading all of the JS they want you to be running.
Ask HN: Does anyone have any experience with Container OS?
Do you have any experience with a container OS? Have you used CoreOS or RancherOS? Would you recommend any of them for a production environment?