skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think wasm's memory safety is weaker than JVM. wasm's checking occurs at control flow points and the linear memory boundary, but does not extend down to individual objects. For example arrays are not bound checked in wasm.
At least MOSS is better than what I had to do for one assignment: submit code through Turnitin.
Last I checked, long ago, they were impossible to procure in France.

Pretty sure Extreme is still non-existent in Europe as of today.

For all the flaws of Cisco, well the only flaw is the price, they can deliver in any language anywhere in the world.
Hah, I should clarify that I don't think gratuitous lying is an acceptable way to fight.
What If We Already Know How to Live?
The Cluetrain Manifesto was a great inspiration to me. Thank you for your work on it.

I also still like World of Ends very much: http://www.worldofends.com/
When you tag someone their friends can see it on her wall if she chooses to.
If you look at plane crash reports, the disaster is almost always the result of a chain of events. Taken individually, each event is almost insignificant. It's the combination that makes the disaster.

In the vase of the Boeing 737 Max the sequence would be something like:

- Boeing decided to fit an oversized engine on an older airframe, which can cause a dangerous stall in some unusual configurations. It is not that much of a problem, they just reduced the flight envelope to exclude these configurations. It is not an unusual thing at all.

- In order to make sure that dangerous situation is never encountered and to limit training expenses for the pilots, they used software. Then again, not unusual.

- In order to avoid writing entirely new software, they extended the functionality of existing software (MCAS). Again, fine.

- First problem: the MCAS, now a critical piece of software wasn't properly requalified.

- Second problem: The AoA sensor, now critical, isn't properly managed.

- Third problem: The pilots weren't properly trained on what to do when MCAS starts crapping out

- Fourth problem: The pilots didn't have enough skill to deal with the unexpected situation.

- Fifth problem: Maybe some pilots dealt with the problem correctly but the report wasn't properly made and accounted for.

Anyone of these steps done right would have averted a disaster. We can't really blame a single one.
Not sure why you're being downvoted. Until recently I also thought that's what the "right to repair" movement/legislation was about.
This is probably already used for countries where Apple has no local presence. Here in Israel there are no Apple labs, so up till this year iPhones had to be shipped to Apple Ireland for repairs. (but Macs and iPads could be repaired by authorized, non-Apple labs due to a less-stringent repair policy)

Recently the news reported of a specific authorized reseller gaining the option to repair iPhones here, and sometimes even outright replace them -- all authorized by Apple. Maybe this programme made that possible.
Actually to be honest, Circles wouldn't always preventing them from learning that they were both connected to you.

After messing up badly in the nymwars, forcibly joining together YouTube accounts with Gmail accounts they actually made a heavyweight but working solution:

It was given the name Pages which was more or less meaningless IMO (in this context).

What it felt like at the time however was a powerful solution for switching between pseudonyms connected to your account.

That said: Given a large reason for why Google+ is shutting down was that they had a couple of huge data leaks maybe we should all be glad kt wasn't too widely used :-]
> The shorter the half-life of an isotope is, the more radioactive and thus dangerous it is.

> The longer the half-life of an isotope is, the less radioactive and thus dangerous it is.

> Fukushima happened in 2011, almost 8 years ago. Almost everything dangerous had since decayed.

Plutonium-239 has a half-life of 24,100 years and is pretty dangerous AFAIK [1]:

> Radioactive contaminants are dangerous for 10 to 20 times the length of their half-lives, meaning that dangerous plutonium released to the environment today will stick around for the next half a million years.

[1] https://www.livescience.com/33127-plutonium-more-dangerous-u...
> Meanwhile, in the real world, tax havens are tiny jurisdictions

Tax havens are nonsense created by governments that want to impose taxes that aren't actually on anything.

If you want to tax companies who employ workers where you are, impose payroll tax. If you want to tax companies who sell to your people, impose VAT. If you want to tax companies that operate facilities, impose property tax.

If you want to tax nothing, tax "profit" and then watch how the "profit" is promptly removed from your jurisdiction. Because if the profit is a result of something that is actually connected to your jurisdiction in some way then you're really just taxing that thing and calling it income tax, but if it isn't then the company has no reason not to just declare the "profit" as having happened somewhere else where the rate is lower.

And then the local business can't do that, which is why those types of taxes should cease to exist in favor of the ones that tax something that actually happens where you are.

> and the downward pressure on workers' rights is much stronger when multinationals can credibly threaten to relocate to one of several other jurisidictions with relevant manufacturing industries if new labour laws are passed locally rather than by a large trading bloc.

This, again, has nothing to do with multinationals, and is in fact the opposite.

If California has more stringent worker protections than Texas this benefits local businesses in Texas. It only benefits multinational businesses if they move to Texas, and only to the extent that they move to Texas -- and if they move their entire operation to Texas then they're a local business and not a multinational.

Meanwhile what a multinational company can do that a local one can't is hire people in Asia or South America, which is a serious problem for a local business in Texas who is trying to compete with that multinational and suddenly has a bunch of requirements imposed by legislators elected by California who neither the business, nor its local employees who lose their jobs, actually wanted.

> And navigating 100 sets of copyright regulations rather than two is a challenge for a startup but something Amazon has ample resources to do where there's sufficient money in it to be worth bothering.

Which is why central control is problematic. You should only have to comply with the laws in effect where you actually are, so that you only have to comply with 100 sets of copyright law if you physically have operations in 100 different jurisdictions.
Agreed.

In user space you can knock yourself out with localised search applications.

Kernel space? You have to worry about reliability, and backwards compatibility, and people trying to exploit your code.
Do you have a link to that first 20 minutes of the town hall?

I've listened to or watched a bunch of his interviews now, both one on ones and in front of crowds, and he didn't seem nervous in a single one of those interviews, nor unable to connect to an audience. I've posted links to two of those above, but there are many more I could post in front of different sorts of audiences.

> Mayor Pete's rise bubbling up based on the inside influence of one person

He's been twice elected mayor and Axelrod didn't have anything to do with that, nor obviously anything to do with Buttigieg's background or education.

> he is intelligent and I'm sure there is probably great excitement supporting the first gay

That’s a pretty dismissive way of characterizing him. That he is gay doesn't factor into my excitement for him, and he would rather that not be the reason people vote for him either.

I think he’s the only democratic candidate who’s not divisive, business as usual, lacking political experience, full of hot air, without something in their past to apologize for, or some combination there of.
It is actually illegal to beat an opponent's bot in HFT. It is regulated. One is not supposed to release a strategy on the market, which goal is "to beat an opponent's bot". There've been precedents of that (i.e. bot of a pension fund figured out and beaten by algorithmic trading company bot) and the resulting trades were reversed, fines imposed by regulators.

Source. 4 years of R&D at HFT company that traded around $10^10 during that time :)
Anti-tying provisions of the Magnusson-Moss Warranty Act.
Cookbook details ways to eat invasive species
One of the most interesting discoveries in US medicine is that there is essentially no relationship between cost and outcomes- even within the US. The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care has shown that there are wide price disparities within the US (and not necessarily in predictable ways, e.g. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/06/01/the-cost-conun... ) and that they don't correlate with improved outcomes. To some extent, prices are a random walk that is orthogonal to a different random walk that is 'quality.'

Then again, repetition helps. People who do more procedures generally get better results. In colonoscopies, studies show that the fastest doctors also have the lowest false positive/negative rates, because the way you get fast and the way you get good is to do it again and again.
It's not a false hope for autism; it's a false hope for parents of autistic kids. Autism is not a mysterious affliction that takes entire families in its hold and shouldn't be portrayed as such.
The public space is not only yours, you know that right? If you want to photograph/record strangers ask for permissions! The public space is not a free zone to abuse other people.
The US is pretty sprawled and completely disallows it.
That's the market signalling low demand, and a dying field. Im so glad I didnt get that gig out of college at altera and got diverted into software by market forces.
Yes, but they limit their delivery zone to make it happen.

I wonder if this will be the future of food, more and more smaller franchises that just do delivery for the larger restaurants.
This is so true...I believe this wholeheartedly, had to find my long-last hn login to upvote this. I've read a lot of stories where people start a diet such as one meal a day, or all potatoes...heck I even heard of a guy who was "curing" patients with only rice and sugar back in the day. The common thread among these stories is that they've stopped eating a lot of what they used to (presumably mostly junk food), and so their body can recover. It's not what you put in so much as what you've stopped putting in.
I guess the corollary would be a baker asking a potential apprentice to bake a baguette and send a photograph. Sending a photo from your blog of a baguette you cooked a year ago might still be considered disingenuous, even if it shows capability.
Show HN: Vue.js developer tool, prototype your component architecture
one example, in the US you can't just simply start selling the food that you cook from your home.

yes food safety is a nice thing to have but overly cautious food safety is not.
YC at Stanford – April 9
On the other hand, consider how rare the Enron case seems to be. Since it's implosion, how many other companies were based on total fraud? Theranos is all that comes to mind and it wasn't even public.

It seems like the system mostly prevents massive Enron style fraud.
I wrote this 10 years ago, and it’s as true as ever: Google signals every day that they don’t care about people, just money.

https://alanhogan.com/arrogance-of-google
Since you mentioned BiiN we can add its predecessor to the list. The iMAX operating system for Intel's first 32 bit processor, the iAPX432 (which Intel likes to pretend never existed), was written entirely in Ada.

https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~Brecht/courses/702/Possible-Reading...
Would we make an antifungal and spread it throughout the world? Seems like that could somehow backfire on us.
I still don't think anything beats Matt Adereth's dactyl[0]. Tweak some hand size / reach parameters and let the clojure generate the curvature and the scads. Pure bliss in terms of human->machine interface.

[0] https://github.com/adereth/dactyl-keyboard
Sounds like you just described "MoneyBall" :)

Seriously, though - thanks for the insight. Hadn't thought of comparing to a hedge fund, and after reading your description, it seems obvious.

To add some color to an ETF analogy, an ETF in the financial markets is basically just following an index, which is often created by a firm like S&P (and there are over a thousand of those indices). So, one index may just be "buy all the companies that have dividends", or "buy all companies that have a price to earnings ratio greater than average", or "buy all companies listed on the US stock market".

I guess in poker it could be "call on everything", or "fold unless you have at least a three-of-a-kind". Basically, it would be mechanical. Of course, you can have reasonably complex ETF algorithms that have multi-pass filters (such as P/E ratios, Debt/Equity ratios, Dividend minimums, etc.) all in some combination. So maybe there could be something complicated like "bet 1% of your holdings whenever you had a pair, and bet 2% if at least one player folds." This is just a made-up example, but the rules could probably get intricate based on the math and different situations.
> Given a large reason for why Google+ is shutting down was that they had a couple of huge data leaks maybe we should all be glad kt wasn't too widely used

That's the reason it's already planned shutdown was accelerated, but the leaks occurred after it was essentially abandoned to palliative care.

Had it been sufficiently used, and therefore actively maintained, they may not have occurred.
Any tips for a hobbyist who needs to do some simulations of a novel device? Much of what I've looked at requires writing a lot of the simulation code from scratch.
There comes a point when one recognizes that colors and fancy fonts impede legibility and readability of the code. Skyblue/cyan colors for code against white background is frankly annoying to read to the point where I closed the window right away.
> cook a piece of data that's organized opposite of what the UI will require

What does this mean?
It seems like pretty names are something extended attributes could deal with better than the kernel.

If we add "display" and "locale" field to the directory entry my office app would write out "bob's great spreadsheet.xls" and add some extended attributes like display="Bob's Great Spreadsheet" and locale="en-US".
>India literally can't afford to give them the surgery.

This is what's hard to conceptually grasp about nationalized healthcare. The concept of "a nation can't afford" does not make sense because a nation-state with control of its own currency can simply create and allocate the currency to serve this purpose.

I'm not sure why this is not on the table.
But they are not. She didn't control any variables. She also didn't mention that TCC published several studies that go against the thesis of China Study, after he wrote the book.

There's definitely valid criticism of the epidemiological study model but Monger's sloppy data munging is not.
Anyone else remember the "Summer of Love"? [1]

I had stopped attempting to answer or ask anything on the site due to the behavior I observed. It was pure gamesmanship for people trying to rack up their SO score and then summarily abuse it with enforcement of opaque, draconian rules. My favorite was when a question would be marked as a duplicate incorrectly, so what was the takeaway? That solution was barred from discussion on the site?

Since then I simply look at SO when it happens to come up in a search. I'm not ever logged into the site anymore. If I want to describe how I fixed something, I do it in my own space, and only reference answer when linking to SO.

1. https://stackoverflow.blog/2012/07/20/kicking-off-the-summer...
It's a redirect to: https://erik.itland.no/what-did-google-get-right (I was just checking for url shorteners)
I remember one Pizza place putting up a sign several years back that they had to raise the price of their Pizzas by $2 because wheat had gotten expensive. They even posted the article from the newspaper next to it talking about the spike in wheat prices. The last line of the article stated that the jump in price for wheat was expected to add around 4 cents to the cost of a large Pizza.
I've been building my desktop (and now servers) for 25 years. The idea of taking my computer in to a store to fix a drive or ram or worse, buying a new one because of a hardware issue is absolutely foreign to me.

I had hoped laptops would be just as easy to tweak and build by now but it seems the world favors the apple way.

I'm going to keep building. It's _far_ less expensive. I can tweak my system to fit my needs and adjust as my needs change. And I have a solid understanding of the most used tool in my life.

Also things like PC part picker make it so much simpler than it used to be that I barely even need to think about it any more.
So documentation for devs can somehow be poorer and we can throw out mobile-support for that audience too? Why? Why is it ok to sideline a group you’re presumably coveting?
There should be a report button on comments for comments like this.
I, for one, listen to everybody I'm allowed to listen to.
Kong raises $43M Series C for its API platform
I know that an airplane can make a roll that keeps the fluid in the cup, but when usual commercial planes fly, they don't do stunts, so usually there's no centrifugal force to mimic gravity. When a big jet points its nose down or up people and fluids feel it pretty much as if they were on the ground on a slanted flat surface as one of its edge is being raised or lowered.

Sure, this would probably worth next to nothing in turbulence, but in a simple take off and landing (where MCAS is already active and depends on AoA) it might help.

And of course I might be completely ignorant of most of the relevant problems with using any kind of gyroscopic or acceleration based sensor.
I think the primary motivation is more efficient SMB and NFS serving to systems which prefer case-insensitivity - macOS and Windows. Samba doing this in userspace is less efficient (and maybe racy) since it has to list the whole directory to check for case-insensitive match.

I'll agree though, having the filesystem do case folding according to some locale is ... bad in general. But as a rarely-enabled option on linux systems just for this purpose, maybe it's not that bad.
White and male means Buttigieg is going to have a major problem in the primaries. Asian and male is almost as bad.

Unless the Democrats suddenly decide to stop playing identity politics they're going to choose someone based on gender/race (female/not white).
Back when Google+ launched, we weren't yet at the "Google is evil" stage. Social Media was just taking off.

What really killed it was no public API. It launched in the era of Tweetdeck and the like being major tools for consolidating social media interaction. There was no API. So to send a message to Google+, one had to specifically go across to the only application capable of talking to it, theirs. When you're already in/using Tweetdeck to post messages to Twitter, Facebook etc, why would you want to go to a whole new client to post a message?

While it seems like mostly people have moved away from using such catch-all clients for interacting (in no small part because Twitter have made it hard by their various API antics), this missed the zeitgeist at the time, and never got that critical mass going to sustain it.

If you're moving late in the market, you've really got to go where people are and bring them to you, or you've got to fundamentally solve problems to a mind blowing degree that other platforms have and can't. It did neither, even though the features like circle were really good.
Atreus creator here. It doesn't happen often, but occasionally I have customers run into trouble putting their kit together, and I'm committed to always stepping them thru the process of troubleshooting and walking thru the fix. The last thing I want is for you to buy a keyboard and never get it working properly.

Here's an instance where someone damaged their kit's microcontroller and was walked thru the repair process: https://old.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/5clvio...
Alas they'll attempt to justify it by saying they want your capability now, not X years ago. Maybe it's not entirely unjustified -- I have some old mathematical code on github that I don't think I could explain the technical details of without many hours of review, I wouldn't want to be hired to produce more code of that sort without an understanding that ramp up will be needed to return to my previous level. Given something like quicksort, though, I'd just get the feeling of "dance, monkey, dance".
Lyft prices IPO at $72 per share, making their valuation $24 billion
this is true in SF.

further stratification of eating out as a luxury into premium of being at the restaurant and cheaper version of getting it delivered
Reverse chronological list of all posts that I am interested in with no 'helpful' filtering/automated curation/suggested content.

Oh wait, I don't think Google+ had that..
Dobsonian telescopes are great for general observation. You get a lot of aperture for your money. But they are bad for astrophotography. Schmidt Cassegrain and Newtonian style scopes offer a good middle of the road for functionality. Having said that if you want to get serious about photography then its a money pit.

You need a quality mount and a good CCD. Some of the best photo setups I've seen use use refractors with a quality CCD. Search for Atik 414EX. The example photos on their sight tell you what hardware was used. Might give you some idea.
I just think it’s absurd that @Sir_Cmpwn is using the rhetoric of peace and war in a discussion about a programming language.
Lack of redundancies on Boeing 737MAX system baffles some of its developers
I don't think this really holds water. I bought a Thinkpad L380 recently, it was a great computer with upgradable ram and ssd. I ended up returning it because of the lack of a ThunderBolt 3 port, but if it had one of those I think it would have been near perfect.
> The public space is not only yours, you know that right?

Yes, of course. That is why I have no right to tell you that you can't photograph what you can see in the public space. You have just as much right to use it as I do.

> The public space is not a free zone to abuse other people.

Taking a photograph of someone in a public space is not "abuse".
the <receiver>'<method> syntax killed me as a student, killed me hard. That's half the reason I went deep into Lisp.
Kosher – Automated Testing Without Coding
This is a sciency-sounding position that actually misrepresents science. Since scientists are not gods, just as with macroeconomics and astrophysics and paleontology, climate science cannot readily “test to falsify a hypothesis.” We are restricted to observing the universe and hoping to come across useful data we can compare and contrast. Thus to imply that the inability to regularly cleanly isolate and test variables in these disciplines is unscientific is itself a disservice to science.
> actually bother to be part of the neighborhood

I'm guessing this solely means paying rent?
That's only a very small leap to 'documents' ("its obvious what I mean!") though. I don't think the kernel should start trying to handle that.
Functionally test your web application through simple, readable Gherkin scripts. No programming required!
Looks like this has the potential to be used as a way to domain squat. Or maybe even hijack?