skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The researchers next conducted a randomized, double-blind clinical trial in 45 individuals with arachnophobia. Fifteen received 40 mg of propranolol after spending 2 minutes in proximity to a large tarantula, 15 got placebo, and another 15 received propranolol without exposure to a tarantula. One week later, all patients who received propranolol with spider exposure were able to approach and actually pet the tarantula.
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I believe that more than being verbose (closing tags for example) it is that the whole spec is enormous, with entities and namespaces making it even more complex. Still we see that some of that is actually needed as various json path/schema projects show.

mapping a 1-1 s-expression translation on HTML/XML/JSON/YAML etc. solves nothing. YAML has (had) code execution security problem and parser incompatibility issues. HTML/XML actually need namespaces in a few cases. JSON is abused as "compile target".

There can be no one format that works for everything. This is why I like TOML, it is really good at what it tries to do and stops there.
I think Assange on multiple occasions has said he is willing to face trial in Sweden - his issue has always been that he doesn't want to be shipped off to the USA to spend the rest of his life in a supermax in Colorado.
Oh really? Okay, I just read how two Google's top AI researchers went over to Apple so I just assume their problem was lack of AI expertise. But I can see your point since Apple isn't a software company that hoard massive amount of data like Google is doing.
Assange having raped someone in Sweden is not a reason for the USA to request extradition though.
He may belong in a prison in Sweden(or Australia?), but the USA's reasons for extradition are what's in question.
Nobel Physicist Wolfgang Pauli on Science, Spirit, and Our Search for Meaning
Incredible, amazing, wonderful -- and a bit scary.

Imagine this being used to erase more complex memories, like that person you dated for two weeks that broke your heart.
Jeremy really doesn't want to win does he.
It's interesting work but I really wonder if it's desirable. What real-world problems is this supposed to solve exactly? Making the compiler extra-clever about detecting aliasing seems like a good recipe for having broken code appear to work correctly until it doesn't or getting strange behavior that's a pain to debug. Current aliasing rules are already a significant pain point in the C standard IMO, I personally don't want them to become even more complicated.

The only concrete example given in the paper (having two contiguous objects and referencing the 2nd one through a pointer on the first one) is frankly contrived and I'm not sure how that can be considered reasonable or good code. The only time I could see myself writing code like that is when dealing with memory-mapped hardware registers at fixed addresses which would let me do funky pointer arithmetic, but in this scenario the pointer is usually tagged as volatile and sometimes accompanied by a memory barrier to make sure the compiler does the right thing.

Note that if the programmers really wanted the code given in the paper to work correctly (i.e. changing y through an offset pointer from x) they could do it by adding a memory barrier such as

asm volatile("": : :"memory");

after the *p = 11;. Is it elegant? Arguably not, but it seems like such a niche use to me that it seems like a fair compromise. It's also not standard C but if you're making such pointer gymnastics chances are you're already making assumptions about your environment that go beyond the standard.

I much prefer Rust's approach of "mutable references never alias" and if the programmer really needs to share a reference they have to manually do the work by wrapping. Of course integrating that into C in a backward-compatible fashion doesn't seem very practical.
The device can fetch a webpage from wikipedia and summarize. It doesn't have to send the original query.
I would like to make a lightweight markup language for text and data, with some concept of possible future revisions. So when you try to commit a new revision of a file, it could automatically be verified as a valid edit of a specific previous revision.
Gene-Edited Babies: What a Chinese Scientist Told an American Mentor
A hapax legomenon is a hapax legomenon with reference to a particular corpus. In this context, a "corpus" is a set of words, or more generally a set of works under consideration.

Any corpus of one word is, by construction, composed entirely of of hapax legomena. I think the wikipedia page is fairly clear on the subject, honestly. In general, they're a phenomenon which is fairly obvious and uninteresting.

Where it becomes slightly more interesting is when, in some long text, an author uses a word the no one knows, and doesn't bother to explain it, and never uses it again. It becomes particularly interesting when trying to translate important ancient texts... what the devil did this word really mean?
Ironically it is the ones that don't produce direct error messages (especially css) that anger me the most. [..] But these errors are easy for a computer to expose - so they should, so problems are fixed as early as possible.

Yes, they should. As I said elsewhere, I'm not suggesting silencing errors or having no feedback at all. That would not be the computer assisting the user in writing correct code, that would be another way of hindering it.

Your claim and comparison (to me right now, correct me if I'm wrong) seems to be that IDE error messages are just as effective on the programmers feelings as the manager coming up to look at your code and pointing a finger while bluntly saying "this is incorrect". I don't believe this at all.

Not "just as effective", but effective nonetheless. Has an effect on. A compiler is not there to reject "broken" code, it's there to run a state machine over some text and report where it got to. Reporting that state with words that humans use to describe unpleasant situations and problems turns that neutral comparison into an unpleasant state and a problem. It becomes a problem because that's how we describe it. It need not be that.
Individual change or system change is not the right question
The most recent arrests were for i) skipping bail and ii) for the US extradition process.

I think he needs to face justice in Sweden. I'm uncomfortable with the fact that the UK seems to have told the US about the arrest at the mebassy (so the US had all the extradition paperwork ready) but not Sweden.

Assange knew he would be arrested for the bail offence if he ever lost protection of the embassy. He tried, and failed, to clear that arrest warrant in 2018: https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/Misc/2018/B3.html

The Crown Prosecution Service information for "failure to surrender" is here: https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/bail#a32
What is it about "curly braces as primary delimiters" that you think is a hassle? What would you suggest instead?
They sure do have the money, but it would affect prices. Things aren’t made in China for no reason; it’s because it’s cheaper than everywhere else
Everyone’s Income Taxes Should Be Public
And a bunch of other 'dynamic' and/or 'dynmically typed' language implementations which for example compiled via C:

Smalltalk-to-C from 1986:

http://live.exept.de/doc/online/english/misc/history.html

Prolog to C

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220986213_wamcc_Com...

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/faqs/lang/prolog/prg/p...

GNU Prolog compiler: http://www.gprolog.org

APL: http://snakeisland.com/aflps90.ps

Search this page for various BASIC compilers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_BASIC_dialects
So they'll need to create a bunch of shell companies?
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp Down Globally
I see that single sentence as the default starting point for any small group. The preceding sentences serve as clarification and additional guidance/assurance of intent, but if in a small group (book club) setting you wish to explicitly disclaim the ability to boot anyone for any reason, you end up having to create a lengthy and still-gameable set of rules, itself a book-authoring exercise.
There has been a high level smear campaign run against Assange for many years so you can't really trust anything you read.

On top of this I think Julian has gone crazy - hard not to when you are locked up indefinitely and they really are out to get you.

At this point almost anything could be true.
The way I understood the article is that the knowledge is not removed. Just the learned anxiety related to the knowledge.
Maybe it’s meant to be a feature, but instead what happens is you end up with declarative configs absolutely littered with custom metadata and huge and massively complex custom engines to decipher them, where it would have been simpler to include it in the config. They suck.
Sorry, the article doesn't mention that the regional government is right-wing (my fault), but it does say this: "Sin embargo, en lugar de reforzar el servicio, como prometió hace un mes el presidente del Gobierno regional, Ángel Garrido, la frecuencia de los trenes se ha visto mermada".
a very low-tech solution: set a kind-of slow attack. holding the key for a short period of time (< the attack) gets you a "low velocity" sound because it doesn't reach the maximum volume; longer periods (>= the attack) give you the full velocity. it's dumb but it works!
HTTP Frameworks Must Die – Eran Hammer – Medium
The file is liberally annotated with explanatory comments though. It's really useful if you want to cherry-pick the things that matter to you.
Clickbaity title but I think the article makes a good point and we should invest time and thinking into expanding the capabilities of our fw instead of iterating over things that have been done to death.
How does this compare to strapi and keystone v5?
Thanks, some good points there - though I'll claim 5 as my own! I can feel a bout of Pi play nearing.
Yet I bet the exact same people would be absolutely incandescent if the government took a portion of their earnings and put it into a savings account that they can't access for six months.
It is difficult to change the environment of a hospital that may have been built 30-40 years, with planning likely taking place in the decade prior, when treatment-for-cure one-size-fits-all type of care was the design objective.

There’s also realities of laundry. Many families often bring in 2 or 3 days of clothes and launder them in between visits. Patients tend to go back into gowns when nursing staff try to find a balance between having family come in frequently (because of laundry soiled by incontinence), versus patients having available clothing to wear the next day for at least part of the day.

On a tangent, consider admissions where next-of-kin live in a rural community and don’t drive due to personal health problems. The determinants of health that likely contributed to the admitting condition are perpetuated in acute care in very subtle ways.

The issue is much more complex than “just don’t wear gowns”. There’s definitely solutions in changing workflows, but this needs the convincing of administrators to provide funding for additional staff.
The way you describe it reminds me of how I've heard video game QA testing described by friends who did it briefly. At first it sounds like you get paid to play games, but in practice it's not your favorite type, sometimes you have to do repetitive actions to try to recreate a bug, etc.
Many times the consensus has provided scientific evidence (e.g. geocentric model) and has still been wrong. For some reason, I feel that something similar is going on with the climate debate. Mix money, politics and some aspects of religion and one just might arrive to the place where we are in today.
IMF approves US$4.2B Fund for Ecuador one month before Assange had to go
Power wants to preserve its power. Chomsky is upset that Microsoft and other companies use the World Trade Organization as a weapon, but what does he expect would happen? This is what every entity does whether it be a government or corporation. They figure out ways to pull the levers of power to preserve/strengthen themselves. Europe rightfully formed the European Union to strengthen itself on the playing field with the USA.

I get his point with Lula da Silva being charged with corruption at a bad time, but has he talked with actual Brazilians? Because it's my understanding that the corruption problem was (and still is) very bad over there and has real repercussions on daily life. Would he really give da Silva immunity just because he's from a labour party? Should Brazilians just turn a blind eye because he did some good things? This is the same kind of blind infatuation he had with Venezuela and Hugo Chavez, giving him a pass until the situation is so bad that you can't look away any longer. Power also corrupts his labour movements.

I too wish that the world didn't need American military bases everywhere. I think Trump is on the right track with closing them off. But on the same hand the world is still not made of sunshine and rainbows. We do need warships patrolling the Strait of Hormuz so that Iran doesn't hold oil tankers hostage. We need warships in the Gulf of Aden so that pirates aren't hijacking cargo ships. We need military responses to events where civilians' lives are in severe peril, and UN peacekeeping is unfortunately still not up to par there yet (Rwanda, Srebrenica, Darfur, etc.).

edit: And not that I'm in favor of preserving the status quo per se, but I think we need some new ideas (and ones that aren't just proxies for existing power structures, giving the biggest entities a new cudgel to wield). Chomsky's criticism is valid and necessary but the solutions he has rallied around haven't panned out.
No knowledge is lost, just the emotional reaction.
I don't know much about Pony but glancing over the doc it seems very Scala-ish, which can already be written in very pythonic way and has ADTs. Am I missing something here?
there was a startup that addresses exactly this (findo.io) but it is dead now - I guess they didn't get enough traction.

The idea to have 'personal google' is good, however it fails as cloud/proprietary solution. If I give access to my gmail/drives/messangers I want to be sure that this data will not be tracked/used by 3rd parties (even as 'telemetry') - this is possible only with open source self-hosted software.
I really wish people would RTFA before commenting.
I have a positive experience with Turris Omnia.

It doesn't run OpenBSD, but it runs OpenWRT-based TurrisOS, and also supports LXC containers (generic ARM-based Linux distros like Debian, Ubuntu etc). By the way, it's possible to install PiHole inside such a container. Besides that, it has builtin WiFi (2.4 and 5 GHz radios) and a plenty of hardware resources (2 Gb RAM, powerful CPU).
This is only vaguely what is known in the public record so far in order to bring charges and extradite. I expect there will be more that is made known over time. It’ll be a long, slow process.
I mention this, as in his speech, Chomsky mentions Sweden in the same gang as UK and the US, without making the distinction why Sweden is interested in Assange - which made me quite disappointed in Chomsky. It is true that the preliminary rape investigation was dropped in 2017, but it may now be activated again. According to associate professor in international law Karl Jigland, this will happen if a prosecutor orders Assange arrested in absence. In accord with the regular process, Assange may then appeal against this accusation.
Yup.

This is a way any and all small-scale social interactions work, and have worked since forever. Pushing a CoC onto this is trying to override the natural way small groups of people form, replacing it with a formal structure that's not fun for anyone except people better at lawyering and - to borrow FakeComments's excellent term - social LARPing, than actual interpersonal skills.
With a deep enough JSON structure with similar enough items, the jq expressions are hard to make or maintain. This is a real world example: jq '.sourceSelectionTrees[].rootNode.children[].children' | jq '.[]? | .action.attributeMapping.attributeSources' | jq -r '.[]? | select(.type == "XYZ") | .dataRef.id'
Never heard of it. I just looked it up. I am am weary of always feeding googles manufacturing process with my behavioral data so turn of location services on my phone. Probably why i never saw it on google maps. I know about What3words though.

[1] "Nearby places have similar codes, and the code structure allows grouping areas together. The code gives the equivalent of the street name and number. Additional information like floor, suite, etc. can be provided as per the local convention. "

I love it and will look into it. in 2017 The Ghanaian government rolled out a digital address system called [2]GhanaPostgps. Unfortunately it hasn't gained widespread adoption. The app was rushed, not properly tested. I think they've fixed some of the bugs, but most people just haven't warmed up to it. To force widespread usage, the government wants to make it mandatory for residents to provide a their GhanaPostgps address when applying for certain services. So i guess it will take some time but eventually most people will use it.

Digital address systems will help accelerate economic progress. Everyone knows that. But some people don't trust the government so very reluctant to give out too much detail about themselves. We are told to pay a little bit more, and to tigthen our belts a little bit more, yet parliamentarians magically unite when it's time to increase their salaries. If people believe their hard earned monies aren't being mismanaged by corrupt politicians, they would gladly contribute.

I am aware that Nigerias postal service makes use of What3words. So digital address systems will eventually become widespread in Africa -If done right.

[1] - https://plus.codes/developers
[2] - https://ghanapostgps.com/
Please refrain from simply quoting the article, adding nothing to the conversation. It’s a blatant attempt at upvote harvesting from the TLDR crowd, and doesn’t belong on HN
I've always hated bloated PDFs that are essentially just images instead of text, but if you could release something as you describe, you could then split up the work between the whole world and have it properly retyped much faster. Maybe even get some translations out of it too. Perhaps the dreaded copyright laws may ruin this pipe dream, though.
That is a choice regarding animal welfare and food standards, though. Not because the EU doesn't know how to produce chickens efficiently.
Propanalol has been a life-saver for me as a non-narcotic anxiety and stress reliever.
My girlfriend is a nurse, and always pyjama wearing patients are her #1 thing she complains about.

"It's not a hotel, and it's not vacation!"

Followed by her other hate: patients who lose all abilities as soon as they enter the hospital. Usually wifes and girlfriends cutting food for male patients who have absolutely nothing wrong with their hands or minds.
Nope, in EU its working fine
I like how this is just a link to facebook.com --- the proof is in the pudding? Here's a link to downdetector though: https://downdetector.com/status/facebook
Just noticed this, wondering what is the cause behind a downage this serious - they rely on being constantly up and have huge investments in infrastructure to avoid this. Possible attack or a large change gone wrong?
Maybe also useful for training suicide commandos.
Chickens will eat almost anything you throw at them.
They're down here in Spain at least.
Why was the title of the submission changed? The original one was the same as the blog post's
You're totally correct, you can do pretty much anything you want in Android running in the background. But the post you replied to is referring to Stopping an app .. via the app info in settings. In this case it stops the background service component until you launch it manually again. Noone apart from power users and developers would do this though.. most people likely don't know what the stop app function does.

There are OS battery optimisations which kick in eventually though, which result in most non system apps to be stopped automatically to save battery. Once again, they won't startup in the background again until being manually launched. This is my general understanding gained from working for a couple of years on an Android app that runs in the background and receives silent notifications.
Not in Austria atm
>That's not how the legal system works and that's not how ANY legals system COULD work, because it would require the process to be finalized and the outcome known before any legal enforcing to happen).

Actually that's how many regional and "local customs" legal systems works all around the world.

And it's even part of standard roman-legacy law, to take into account the outcome (and also thinks as intentions, circumstances, and so on).
WhatsApp is Working being much more distributed.
Yes, but the caveats are not properly explained for many of these things. Playing around with settings without fully understanding what they do can lead to nasty surprises. I find it questionable to promote such things without the necessary disclaimers.
Curly braces on US Layout keyboards are fine, they just need to be balanced. On keyboards with German layout curly braces are really hard to type and on Mac keyboards with German layout they are not even marked. So I don’t think any programmer can work with such a layout, yet many people do exactly that.
Ask HN: Community for Senior Software Engineers Going Freelance
There's a community for senior software engineers aiming to learn more about freelancing/starting their own business. Their link is occasionally being posted to HN, but I can't seem to find it. Does anyone have it? Thanks! :)
So in order to prevent seeing ads we are opening ourselves up to other vulnerabilities. This might be a choice some tech minded people can make but is definitely not something for the masses.
I think i watched to much house of cards ...
This is one (dysfunctional) way that families feel that they can contribute to care in situations that they may otherwise feel loss of control.
Business class without luxuries and inflated costs is what? Economy class?
What surprises me, is that every algorithm listed here is faster (has a smaller time complexity) than its classical counterpart. Is this why “quantum computing is faster” is a common belief?
Sorry for my ignorance, but my impression was that in the native spaces the consesus is that Rust is the only reasonable choice for any new code. So I don’t understand why people are still working on a C2x standard - shouldn’t the native community work on a roadmap to migrate the existing legacy C/C++ codebases to Rust instead? Am I missing something here?
Hello, just thought you should know that you're completely incorrect. I make a decent income and have an excellent healthcare plan which costs me about 7% of my pre-tax income. My copays and out of pocket max are low enough that I can use this plan at will when I feel like I need to.

However, since my friends and family do not all have decent insurance and cannot cover their high deductibles if things go even slightly wrong, and since I personally was in a place not so long ago of delaying treatment on an ongoing health problem I've been having due to a lapse in coverage due to a job change, and since my loved ones have recently been in financial situations that disincentivize them from getting treatment to improve their quality of life, I would be happy to pay (ahem) higher taxes (what's a premium again?) in exchange for peace of mind regarding my future health and that of my loved ones.

And the health of people that I do not even know.
Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are down for users around the world