skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the time I wasn't happy with that change. All of the BSD's did shared libraries with a.out just fine. The BSDs used GNU binutils, so the improvements were there to use for Linux. Linux' change away from a.out meant that binutils stopped developing a.out support, which then forced an ELF change on the BSDs.

At the time I could run an entire firewall on a 1.44 MB floppy, kernel, libs and enough userland for ipfw scripting. With FreeBSD 2.x. FreeBSD 3.x with ELF put that right out of reach.

Of course now that I spend my days parking silly stuff in random ELF sections I am pretty happy.
actual how-about-ism detected in the wild. more of a debating trick than a comment.
Almost all media coverage about my community seems to say “look, there’s this weird thing going on, isn’t that weird?!” I believe any short-form coverage of a community by someone not in that community and for people not in that community cannot accurately portray that community. Plus, media is a business and it helps to have some spin to get people to share the media.
I'm mostly with you. been here 20 years. prob last another 3-4 while the youngest wraps college then we will likely leave. the culture really has degraded..
> This does not protect a defendant who has had secret accusations against him for almost a decade.

Grand jury secrecy protects the legal rights and reputation of both the accused and third parties. It does not protect the preference of the accused to be able to decide whether or not to subject themselves to the jurisdiction of the United States based on the scope and nature of charges they may face, which is not a legal right.

Of course, that there is an indictment, or that they it has been around for a decade, is speculation (if supported by some, though not unambiguous evidence.)

> The defendant himself has demanded, for years and years, that the accusations be made public.

The allegedly indicted party (who is not a defendant until and unless prosecuted) has no legal or moral right to do so, until and unless the government chooses to prosecute the indictments which may or may not have been issued. (He could also ask to surrender and waive his fifth amendment right to indictment in the case currently before the grand jury, assuming he is the target, which would end secrecy and free Manning from any need to testify.)

> They do not want the secret accusations and secret crimes. They want the accusations of crimes to be made public, so they can defend themselves.

Until and unless charges are filed based on the indictment, which is merely permission for the government to file charges, there is no criminal accusation by the government to defend against. Once there is such an accusation, it will be public.

> It is impossible to defend yourself against secret crimes.

Most crimes are intended to be secret, and people defend against them all the time. It's impossible to defend yourself against secret accusations, but that's only relevant if something can happen based on the secret accusations. He only thing that can happen based on sealed grand jury indictments is...public criminal charges. Which aren't secret, and which you can defend yourself against the same as any other criminal defendant.

> The best way to defend yourself against politically motivated prosecution is to bring things public and win via politics.

Your basis for characterizing not only the existence but also the motivation of the supposed “prosecution” this way is...what?

And, in any case, if your argument is that the interest in getting the indictment unsealed is so that the indicted party can use it to further bolster his bid for foreign-government political support to assist in avoiding being subject to legal process...well, not assisting flight from prosecution is one of the key reasons indictments are often ordered sealed until the accused is in custody.
Tesla's plan is to replace the Nvidia chip in the car with it's own much more powerful chip. This is going to allow them to achieve autonomy. Those cars sold 2 years ago will be autonomous. That's the plan anyways.
Simultaneously benchmark many URLs with ApacheBench and GNU parallel (2015)
Not random, but not deterministic for the machine - which blocks its ability to guess your next choice.
> if the source of the data was anonymous (as in gdpr anonymous, not “we use UUID instead of your name + SSN” anonymous) would you find it cooler?

I wouldn't, unless I could be convinced that the data was actually anonymized -- and considering that effective anonymization is actually a really hard problem to solve, that's a very high bar.

Not to mention that in the end, I'd have to take the company's word for it, which requires a high degree of trust to begin with.
I'm tall and employ myself. The actual physical function improvement between coach and business is just incredible, especially for long haul flights.
It depends on the person. I personally dislike cities in the general sense and would probably never live in one. I don't like such a high population density and lack of
greenery. I'd much rather drive around a suburb or country area than around a city.

I don't find suburbs depressing unless they are impoverished like some of the small, dying towns in the US that were once strong manufacturing areas but now are falling apart both economically and literally.
Isn’t foursquare an app people used, like, 10 years ago? Ever seen anyone using it? Do they have a business model?
Actually it is.

Or rather, there's not something called "common flu" (there's something called "common cold" colloquially, but even that is a umbrella term for tons of viruses).

Now, regarding influenza (flu), the virus, as Wikipedia puts it
"Influenza (H1N1) virus is the subtype of influenza A virus that was the most common cause of human influenza (flu) in 2009, and is associated with the 1918 outbreak known as the Spanish Flu."

So, yes, the H1N1 (1918) and the influenza A (most common modern variety of flu) are closely related types of the virus.
Wouldn't that mean that Foursquare location data comes from a very limited subset of mobile users?

Data companies exist to combine information from multiple limited subsets of users in order to create large datasets of all users that they can then sell.
FWIW I didn't get that impression. Seemed to me like the author, conscious of the women's holiday today, used the concept of social awareness as a segue into ageism.
Ok, I can understand the importance of this milestone. Being able to study a brain analog that is not inside a person opens up lots of avenues for science.

That said, it also takes us down the path a bit for developing technology that can support a working brain that is not currently inside a skull. That leads to brains in jars which I find creepy as heck.
Are most people who purchase expensive cars gearheads? I would wager they're not. In which case I have every right to moralize about their poor choices.

The existence of outliers doesn't prove a rule wrong.
Yeah, who cares if a few tens of thousands of children and elderly people die, we should stop worrying about them and start worrying about your vague and unsubstantiated ideas that there might be some harmful effects.
> I think the digression to whether the concept of a safety driver is flawed from the start irrelevant. … What we have here is someone who was watching TV on the job

The fact that this particular person dealt with boredom by watching a video makes it easier to blame but that's just one of many ways in which people cope with boredom and it's not the root cause. You can blame the worker if it makes you feel better about yourself but if your goal is to reduce the number of errors the system has to be redesigned not to depend on people acting like robots rather than humans.

> Of the millions of self driving car test miles with safety drivers not once has a safety driver been looking at the road, but not able to react in time because of the monotony of the job.

Do you have any evidence supporting this claim? In particular, you'd need to prove that all of the self-driving car tests have the same one-person setup (which we know to be incorrect), every company ignored decades of well-understood risks and similarly didn't have any tasks for that person to perform and thus stay engaged, and you'd need to know how frequently incidents occur which require driver action to prevent a problem.

It's far more likely to be the case that there have been many situations where someone was distracted or focused on an area other than where a potential risk was but the other driver or the self-driving system successfully avoided it turning into an incident which made the news.
Google already has great routing technology, much better than Uber's according to their own drivers.
One interesting theory I've seen: Manning's appeal to the First Amendment might imply she's under an NSL or other gag order?

I can sort of picture an argument where Manning has been barred from speaking publicly on some topic, and so being compelled to give secret testimony would turn a legal gag order into an illegal one. 100% speculation, but it would at least fit a few of those pieces together.
Monopoly refers to being a sole provider. It is completely by definition monopolistic to take action to prevent a second provider from emerging.

Is it possible for them to have other strategic incentives for their action, such as preventing a type of competitor from emerging? Yes. And if you take the perspective that government is a uniquely troublesome competitor, it's understandable to feel extra strong about it.

But it's still monopolistic in context. A counterpoint to "competition from the government is uniquely unfair" is "having only one provider is uniquely unfair". One is from the perspective of a profitable $100B corporation, the other is from the perspective of the consumers.
I'm sorry, but you are factually wrong. It was the influenza virus. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu_research
I go through the same every time. But being tall (intrinsically by birth, with no "fix") is always considered a blessing. It will never be seen as a protected class. You will never even get much sympathy because of this.

Don't expect it to ever trigger the same reaction as obesity does, which is treated as a curse and an illness (regardless of the underlying cause and whether it can be fixed or not), and is much more likely to fall into a protected class via the "physical impairment that significantly limits your ability in one or more major areas of life" legal definition. There is no fear of public backlash, bad PR, etc. pushing companies into giving you any (positive) special treatment so you'll just have to deal with it.

To be honest I'll more than gladly live with the disadvantages of being tall (mostly related to seating situations) given the advantages. :)
I am divided on this. On the one hand straight up age discrimination is definitely a thing. A surprising number of startup types don't even know it is illegal so they are completely explicit about it.

On the other hand, companies who engage in age discrimination are probably shit companies, so are you really losing out by them not considering you?
I believe that the article itself answers all these questions.
This is on the order page for the Model 3 right now:

> Summon: your parked car will come find you anywhere in a parking lot. Really.

Except that feature hasn’t shipped and there’s no ETA. I call that a lie. I appreciate what Tesla is doing to the industry but I wish they wouldn’t be so dishonest in their marketing.
lol that's just to jump start my body before drinking coffee (which dehydrates). I drink almost a gallon a day right now outside of my jump start.
Everyone using Google Maps is constantly uploading position information which makes it possible for Google to infer traffic jams, among other things.

Except that Apple manages to do it without violating anyone's privacy. It was detailed in a recent WWDC.

If I remember correctly, instead of tracking a person throughout their journey or the day and using "traffic monitoring" as an excuse, Apple takes anonymized snippets of journeys (around a mile or less IIRC), and uses those.

It seems to me that any company not doing the same is just profiling its users for profit.
"Subdivisions" -- Rush, 1982, Signals

Sprawling on the fringes of the city
In geometric order
An insulated border
In-between the bright lights
And the far, unlit unknown

Growing up, it all seems so one-sided
Opinions all provided
The future pre-decided
Detached and subdivided
In the mass-production zone

Nowhere is the dreamer
Or the misfit so alone

...

Any escape might help to smooth
The unattractive truth
But the suburbs have no charms to soothe
The restless dreams of youth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subdivisions_(song)
It's not a main item, it's the dollar menu smallest item. Have you ever been to a mcdonalds?
It is not as simple as it looks. Some degree of globalization already existed for tens of thousands of years, whether through colonialism, Asia-MiddleEast-Europe trade and many more. Even though there are ups and downs in the cycle of regional/global trade, it has continued to move towards more integration, especially due to technological innovations seen in the past 500 years.

Nations that decide to close down in certain areas, may find themselves in a competitive disadvantage to peers making use of data, economies of scale, technology, labour, etc. This is something we have seen happen in history.
I get where you're coming from, but I didn't get the impression that GP was ignorant to new developments. In my experience the most important thing is really wrapping your head around a domain to be able to solve concrete problems in it. Whatever framework or programming language you choose to solve those problems with is peripheral, really.

Also, most coding is maintenance. So yes, an experienced developer in some language is really worth a lot when you initially start out designing your system. But most of the work spent on that system will be maintaining and extending it and to be able to proficiently do that you need to:

1. Grok the problem domain, so you can connect the real-world / problem you're trying to solve with the code in front of you

2. Have a grasp on the limitations of your own system, which will come with experience as you work longer on it
> Frugality gets a bad rap because most people, like the person you're replying to, advocate depriving themselves of as much as possible for the sake of not spending money - like dying with the highest score is the goal.

That is such a flagrant micharacterization of what I'm trying to say. Don't put words in my mouth. I was asking an honest question about whether the things you spend money on really give you happiness. If they do, awesome. If not, you blew a hole through your finances leading to even more unhappiness.
The LIDAR used for FSD will not be like the LIDAR in your vacuum. At the moment the LIDARS that car's would need are still several thousand if not tens of thousands.
Yeah I did that before. But I'm super lazy, so I found that buying a bunch of hard boiled eggs pre-packed into packets of 2 by Costco was just that little bit easier.
Totally fair skepticism. If you wanted to make it last just 30 years (standard early-retirement duration) then sure, I'd agree with you, probably even 4% would be totally safe. But 60 years? Too many things can happen, I have to be super conservative before taking the decision (forced or not) to pull the plug, hence my estimation.

Again, quite possibly I'll die much younger without even enjoying any of that freedom :-)
gas giants dont eject material as often and tend to be large gravity wells because thats the defining characteristic that maintains cohesion? (giant)
But a human brain should only falls for it once. You have your initial reaction, realise it might be the other animal and then from there you know it’s an illusion and the rotation of the picture no longer matters.
Neat -- I haven't worked at Google but wondered what they might be doing on this score.

There's probably lots of potential for modern AI to hack at programmer productivity more directly. Machine learning so far has been more of a complement than a substitute, but I'm imagining a workflow where a lot of the time you're writing tests/types/contracts/laws and letting your assistant draft the code to satisfy them. You write a test, when you're done you see there's a new function ready for you coded to satisfy a previous test, you take a look and maybe go "Oh, this is missing a case" and mark it incomplete and add another test to fill it out.

Maybe in the sci-fi future programming looks more like strategic guidance; nearer term perhaps we might see 500 cores going full blast to speed up your coding work by 20% on average. Or maybe not! But it's one idea.
I think the question is why the extension needs that particular permission.
Conan 1.13 released, a C/C++ package manager
Please see my response here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19341688

If the secret sauce is key rotation, then the best strategy is to rotate for every use. Building that strategy into the system basically results in OpenID. Take OpenID and allow the client to generate tokens offline, and that's SecurID.

And I still see value in the unique IDs, because they serve as a type of proof that key exchange has taken place. How does the bank go to court and demonstrate the the individual has validated their identity? The best way is to retain the key. Oh, but we're supposing that's illegal. So instead they'll show the unique ID and say, well then how did I get this unique ID?

I don't think you're applying enough hacker mentality to this. If we're going to approach this problem, let's approach it will the full capabilities that modern cryptography give us. There's no reason to share a secret with the company and extend trust to them; we already know how to securely share a secret between two endpoints (client and central authority) through untrusted middle men (company).
The Spider Network by David Enrich
> Everyone using Google Maps is constantly uploading position information which makes it possible for Google to infer traffic jams, among other things.

That's the kind of data collection I can get behind, because it actually provides direct value to the users providing the data that can only be had through aggregation (though I would hope that we'll someday have a regulatory framework that requires it be thoroughly anonymized).

Targeted advertising and retail foot-traffic analytics for hedge funds, not so much.
>This is despite SCOTUS constantly telling the Federal Circuit that they have it utterly wrong on patentability; they just haven't gotten the message yet.

The remedy there is for SCOTUS to make definitive rulings, is it not?
If you really are a senior technical person, you have many valuable skills that are not tied to a tech stack. Otherwise you may have a related title but you are really just a technology domain expert - which is sometimes very useful and valuable, but it's not the same the same thing at all.

So yes, it's helpful that people keep current, and obviously waiting for a new developer to get up to speed on the particular stack is always a cost (and it isn't a couple of weeks, for anyone). However, if what you really need is a senior person, it may well be worth that time.

Seeing this assumes the hiring manager understands how software is actually produced and maintained, not just what their current tech stack needs. It's surprising how often this isn't true, but a contributing factor is how mid level mangers are made - which is related to this discussion I think.
You can at run time with ubsan. At compile time it doesn't make sense, because undefined behavior is used for cases where the overwhelmingly common case you won't see undefined behavior. It'd have 99% false positives, pretty much by definition.
curious to understand how austin's traffic compares to that of NYC. i was in austin with a car rental and it seemed like no big deal (granted i wasnt driving during rush hour).
I think you should test what works best for your body.

I actually don't do strict keto, I have a lot of protein in my meals, way more than I should if I were on keto alone.

But I've tried balanced, low fat, high fat, etc. And I have found this works best for my body day-to-day. I think that if you don't feel good, then its ultimately unsustainable and bad for you and that should be your ultimate gauge.
Well we all have shit in our body does not mean we should not wash our hands after taking a dump.

India also turns out to be super dusty where people mostly walk instead of driving around in car. So the shoes are filthy too. I use to wash my sports shoes every month when I was in India. In USA I have not really washed them for years. There is simply no need.
> how does a relatively high end language feature drop down to binary format?

All high end language features drop down to binary formats -- that's what ABIs are.

In the case of things like constructors and destructors you can of course just stick them all in the text section and have the linker construct call to them in some fashion. You'd have to use some reserved name mangling to distinguish them so that the linker can even find them.

If instead you have separate sections the linker can just run through the symbol table; the dynamic loader can even do so so the compile-time linker can ignore those sections (just copy them). You can even play tricks like unloading them after running (or only load exit code upon exit) if memory games like that matter. etc etc.

It's all about how you communicate semantic issues from compile time to run time, as with all ABI issues.
WebAssembly is definitely a great example of a technology looking for a problem to solve. Java Applets are more comparable to conventional JavaScript, and the latter’s advantage (DOM integration) isn’t even in WASM yet. WASM is probably for something else.
Not which recession - you're mixing up recession and depression.
I try very hard to avoid writing clever code. Instead, I strive for maximum clarity and simplicity. But on rare occasions I do have to write something clever, because the simple and clear thing would either be less efficient, or much much longer, or involve lots of boiler plate code reuse.

In those cases I may have to explain not only why I wrote the clever part, but also how it works, because it might not be immediately obvious unless the reader digs really deep in to the code to figure it out. I'd rather save them (or me at a later date) the trouble.

Yes, this risks having the documentation drift away from the code if I ever change the code (or if I make a mistake in the documentation), but it's a risk I'm willing to take in small doses.
I don't think they're doing that anymore under Nadella.

I don't think he sees Apple as their main competitor, but is really competing with AWS for the future of business computing, and not doing that badly.
A lot of Alife is fairly ubiquitous now, but mainly known by the terms used within the specific domains applying it.

For example, Neural Networks are right out of the Alife playbook. There is also a surprising and huge crossover when it comes to quantum computing subjects. Pretty much any time you see a focus on emergent properties, you've bumped into Alife.

You may also want to look at autonomous drones, self-driving cars, and whatnot, as these also use Alife techniques for training the models. [EDIT: And I should point out that flocking and traffic algorithms are Alife models.]

You'll find way more info on the area(s) that interest you once you discover what the different domain areas are, and search them out specifically, since Alife has become such a broad subject, and the term itself falling out of use.
Interesting. Their concept seems like an extension of existing hoverbikes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dk-fiyJdvE