skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right. The preference would be that each person has access to a single part of the black box and no access to anyone or any other part of the whole shebang. Either that or the old way of dealing with people involved in things that have to remain secret. Of course, you behead enough OS devs and soon there won't be any.

As far as my daily life, no not really. I just live a life where I grant very few people a view into the things I consider private, and ensure that every two or three people know contradictory things without knowing the parts that put them together. It leads to a robust but distant social web.
> light is being put through a translucent medium

at certain points, the light pulse seems to "leap ahead" in fits and starts on its journey. is that because of the way the medium scatters the light or something?
I think the problem is mostly in the tone of the opening paragraph and less in the list itself. By prefixing this with

"Don’t automatically assume that C++’s situation is desirable, necessary, or inevitable."

It seems to be trying to frame this as C++ having bad duplication. But many of the things listed are not actually strict duplicates at all - like pointers vs. references, since references cannot be null (yeah yeah you can force it but 'int& foo = nullptr;' doesn't compile, either). Which if you then read the explanations at the bottom tend to cover in a fairly non-biased way.
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You make it sound like Snowden is trying to flee justice, but he has made clear multiple times that he intends to return to the US if he is allowed to defend himself before a jury in an open court, something that the Espionage Act prevents him from doing. You’re not the only person who “believes strongly in the rule of law.”

And by the way, when exactly did Snowden “go beyond the limits?” As far as I’m aware, he made sure to hand over every copy of the documents he possessed to professional reporters so that every disclosure made was legitimately in the public interest.
I'm much more familiar with Node and PHP than .NET. I've only been able to use .NET on one project professionally, and while the language (C#) is missing some of the type safety I enjoy, it's much more solid. I almost never had runtime errors or found immature libraries.

Don't assume everyone is a fanboy/fangirl just because they have a recommendation.
That is a pretty logical argument. The Swedes have a legal system that is going to be quite different from the Anglophone common law systems and we can't really predict exactly what will happen. As monocasa linked, the Swedish legal system is not in a position to resist US demands backed by a threatening attitude. One incident is more than enough to establish that Sweden will likely fold if pressured.

It is reasonable to think that the Swedes have identified a different avenue that they can use to have Assange leave the country care of the US, and that they would exercise that option once they have him in custody.

That is almost certainly what Assange thinks. I don't know I've ever seen the likely penalty for what he was charged with, but I doubt it is more than a decade and he would have spent longer than that in the Ecuadorian Embassy the way things were shaping up. His actions are only rational if he is expecting the US to be involved.
Failing to distinguish between integer and floating point types is crazy. Not as crazy as TCL’s everything being a strong, but not the work of a mentally well person.
Their password would have to already be in a rainbow table, and at that point nothing can help them. But I agree it's kind of pointless, I was just arguing that there is a benefit even if negligible. If you want real security, WebAuthn is the future.
We can absolutely get ride of single use packaging. This will come at a cost, which may include things like: Expending energy to wash dishes, expending energy to transport containers around to and from being washed, and disease/death when it all goes wrong.
You mean by making it free?
Smashing a turtle is far easier than cracking a coconut.
Uber and Lyft drivers are using the companies' algorithms against them
I like this idea. I wouldn't have a problem bringing my Tide branded reusable dispenser to my local store to refill it with Tide. I like Tide, it's a good product. We have all recently been retrained to bring reusable bags to the grocery store, hell, what's one more container to bring.
great. i'm a student. i study at home with courses i pirate.
I wish grocery stores near me had better bulk goods sections. I notice the ones that exist are currently presented as upscale choices, and are often more expensive than the packaged goods.

I think consumers will widely adopt the practice when it lowers, or at least doesn't increase, their grocery bill.
Can the Vufine be used for left eye rather than right? Not seen anything that clearly states so. I’m extremely left eye dominant and almost all the wearable displays I’ve owned or tried are right eye only and I really struggle to focus on them.
Or perhaps I would leave my Tide refillable container by the curb and some dude in a Tide truck would stop by and refill it and put it on the porch. It's like Filld but not for gas. Or maybe the Filld truck could have a bunch of different liquids on it, not just fuel.
She's in jail for refusing to testify to a grand jury. This is not directly part of the leak.
I'm no expert here, but that does seem to be a logical interpretation of what was written.

OTOH, the author seems distinctly... less scientifically inclined than the bulk of commenters here. They may have simply meant "of the same genus".
This makes an important difference!
Totally get the logic, just wondering if customers would feel weird if a company they worked with didn't have an "office".
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The sad answer is that there are essentially only 3 sovereign countries left in the world. Legal reasoning only comes into play when making the justifications more plausible.
> references cannot be null

void test() {
int* p = 0;
int& r = *p;
}

compiles without complaint.
I dont know offhand if it's illegal, but it's certainly unnecessarily verbose. Likewise, every compiler I've used accepts it, but it's unnecessary. Also, maybe a difference in behavior if code is in 'extern "C"' or not. I'm not sure. I rarely directly deal with C libs and havent been doing C++ for about 6 months now.
Let it fall!
Is that still the case for new customers? Even if so, sadly YouTube Music is replacing GPM.

https://www.androidcentral.com/google-play-music
How European scientists will spend €100B
I have a request too. I’d like to see a reduction in the power and influence of unaccountable billionaires over our public policy.

I wonder if the people who write things like this have processed the fact that they are no longer insurgents, but the entrenched establishment with a very bad history of exploiting the masses for private gain.

Any sane person should instinctively distrust the idea of giving valley tech startups and private equity firms more power over the mechanics of government.
This would be funny if it wasn't so depressingly true.
Perhaps, but it really had nothing to do with it by best accounts.

Change of Government, new person is power was always anti-assange. Government changed, Assange out.
That remains to be seen. The indictment alleges yes, but it's up to a jury to decide (or a plea deal to avoid deciding).
> If he does not want to stand on principle, then no,

Well I can kinda understand the principle of not wishing to turn one's self over to be waterboarded or held in draconian isolation in a US prison. I live in Scotland, if I had worked for the UK government, discovered extra-judicial killings and exposed them then sure I'd run somewhere. But it's not home. I lived in another country for a few years, within western Europe within an hour's flight "from home" and just as a "normal mort" I got homesick. Snowden upended his life over his leaks and can't go home. Maybe it's my age, I'm in my early 50's but that's a pretty big thing.

> Part of being a martyr, is, well, being a martyr.

What, as in being double tapped in the back of the head?

We shouldn't need to be "martyrs" these days, we should be given the protection where if your government is committing acts of murder on innocent citizens in other countries (and in the US) then you should be protected. We don't live in the 50's to 80's any more. And also see above, Snowden is an exile, he will likely never be able to go home, that's plenty of martyrdom. And see above.
It was decades ago because that was before I started working with IT security and stopped using single VM for mixed purposes and treat patching seriously. It's literally part of my job to not relax about those things and keep bringing them up, and remind people that they're not easy, annual apt-get updates.

You're right that there's fewer wormable issues these days. But the question is: does your usual approach to security allow you to stay safe when (not if) the next one happens. And feel free to continue in not-super-secure way for personal, fun things. Just keep in mind that there's more to the story and the more moving parts, the more you need to work to keep things reasonably secure.
Heck, with the right plants you can see them grow over the course of minutes: https://www.brainonfire.net/blog/2018/03/29/seeing-plants-mo...
But now we have autoclaves =)
The 2014-2015 NBA season is the transition point where 3 pt attempts (3PA) started to take off among teams: https://www.basketball-reference.com/leagues/NBA_2015.html

In 2015, only 10 out of 30 teams averaged above 25.0 3PA/game. The league average was 22.4 3PA/game.

This season (2019), all 30 teams averaged above 25.0 3PA/game. The league average was 32.0 3PA/game.

The 3pt shot is becoming more common, going from 27% of all field goal attempts (FGA) in 2015 to 36% of all FGA in 2019. The Rockets, Warriors, and Cavs (until Lebron left), were among the leaders in 3PA, and they have also been top teams the last few seasons. My thought is that other teams are trying to be "fast followers" and boost their 3pt shooters in order to stay competitive against these top teams with great 3pt shooters (e.g. Curry, Klay, Harden, Gordon).

The volume of 3pt shots being taken by players today is unprecedented. For example, Ray Allen (known as a 3pt shooting specialist), had a career high of 8.4 3PA/game during the 05-06 season, which was absolutely bonkers at that time when the league average was 16.0 3PA/game for an entire team. This season, Harden's average was 13.2 3PA/game alone, which is more than what 9/30 teams averaged in 05-06.
Thank you! I'll take a look
Pay for the hbo mobile version but can’t watch GoT you know. I think music well pass the stage - got both itune music and spotify. But what they should do is to have a non-Priatebay p2p services. Would pay. Really. Have paid in fact. just the broadcasting model is not working. Many got GBit network at home. Cover those first. Not give them dark screen is a good start.

P2P
Not necessarily, I would consider an interpreter as something entirely different because there is no requirement that it abide to the syntax of the language. I feel that syntax defines the language just like spoken language. It doesn’t make sense to me to say this language english is implemented in Spanish and German.
My mom and pop butcher uses old school butcher paper to wrap my steaks which he cuts after I tell him what I want. The local chain used styrofoam, cold packs, and plastic wrap.
>How do you build "retries" into a decentralized infrastructure?

Heartbeat pings to contact list, cached at senders end until recipient is ready and offer aliased nodes as a feature so multiple devices can act as a RAID array for an identity, both at senders end and recipients.
That's a good point, and I guess I still can't blame Snowden for deciding he doesn't trust the courts to do what's IMO the right thing.
> This enables them to monopolize markets through a variety of means and subvert the political process

You mean their wealth allows them to offer people money to do services and provide goods in exchange for it? If Mark Zuckerberg or Gates were hiring hitmen, enslaving people with their private army, etc, we can have a conversation, but I won't condemn someone for asking someone else to do something for them and giving them money in return.

> Simply because Gates was in the right place and time to develop a near OS monopoly he should have a disproportionate say in society's politics?

Well I personally think the government should be doing substantially less, which reduces the efficacy of lobbying.

> Simply because Gates was in the right place and time to develop a near OS monopoly he should have a disproportionate say in society's politics?

I am not sure what the question means. I have lots of opinions on what one 'should' do, but -- unless necessary to protect someone's life, liberty, or property -- I hesitate to enforce them by law. For example, I think driving a car to work when you could take a bus is immoral, and I think no one 'should' do that, but I would refuse to make it law. I feel similarly here.

But coming back to reality, Having more wealth means you have an increased ability to influence others.

Do you think being a famous artist means you 'should' be able to have a disproportionate say in society's politics? Why or why not? But regardless of what you think, famous people always do.

Coming back to Gates, I don't like that he has that ability personally, because I disagree with a lot of his social policy, but I won't stoop to taking his money. It is ultimately his money, earned legally. If you find he did something illegal, then I think he should be prosecuted and jailed.

> These are not simple problems to solve, but then again they aren't that difficult either.

Again, I think the fundamental disagreement is that I do not believe there is a problem. There is no allegation of criminal means of money accrual; there is no allegation of using that money in an illegal fashion. The only accusation is that they ask people (and I'm not talking politicians here -- that's illegal; I mean their NGO or corporate employees) to do things they want and offer them money in exchange. That is legal, and a fundamental right.
What is the value of the society that raised him and all the research and effort that came before him?
If I call correctly sone birds do this too, using stones to break nuts. Was probably some kind of corvid.
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25 nanoseconds is much longer than a normal double-precision addition, loop counter increment, and conditional jump back to the top of a loop should take, so there's something other than the time taken by additions that's going on in your benchmark. I'm not a Node.JS expert, but I suspect it's not getting JITted properly, or getting poorly optimized if so.

I tried in C:

#include <math.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
double a = pow(2, 100);
for (double i = 0; i < 1e7; ++i) {
a += i;
}
printf("%f\n", a);
}

and timed it. The time taken was 17ms.
I see, so it uses a java interpreter but the syntax of the language is not java?
Big discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19995363
>It wouldn't make sense for your phone to be part of a P2P network. It's only connected to your radio tower, and not really anything else.

That is only a software bug.
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Agreed. I've been thinking that we need a universal deposit system for disposable items. Tag, collect a deposit, and make companies responsible for end-to-end managing the stream of waste their products create.

There was an interesting thread on reddit just recently that is related:

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/brt43t/scientist...
That does look intense. Will add it to the reading list, slot it in after https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10955059-incomplete-natu... – which has been slow-going.

However, a quick browse of the TOC and first pages suggests it wasn't quite what I was angling for with my question to you. I had in mind a discussion on the conditions required for abiogenesis, rather than subsequent evolution.

Thanks.
One day, my son was ranting about some guy who, in my son's opinion, was the death of multiple cool projects. He was like "I don't know how he keeps getting hired! He destroys everything he touches!"

And I told him "His resume lists multiple cool projects that he worked on."

(Facepalming ensued.)
I was reading a recent bug report where they were going back and forth on this. f-strings were so performant there wasn't much difference between lazy evaluation (not evaluating them) and f-strings. The sticking points seemed to be a) if your f-string variable took unreasonably long to compute or b) if evaluating your variable caused an error.

I get all of these arguments. I see formatting errors so often in error handling code I would much prefer they'd get caught during normal execution. I can't see trusting a heavy query to lazy evaluation...or see it coming up all that often.

I see both sides, but really think using f-strings in logging is the right compromise for Python...but I just don't see them dropping c-style formatting.
thanks for your comment. i didn't know about newpipe.
Ruble wasn't quite as much money as a dollar -- it's value, both relative to other currencies, and relative to goods, was completely artificial.

Also, that value was different for different people. I.e., if you were an average citizen, you could spend on bread, maybe meat, and vodka. Once a year you might get a "zakaz" (literally, it means an order, as in mail-order, but in practice a way of distributing some scarce goods to people deemed worthy; you'd still have to pay for it, of course) with maybe a piece of imported salami or a can of pineapple. If you were, say, a driver for Central Committee member, you could get into a different store, which at least had all the staples all the time. And if you were a Central Committee member, you would just shop in a store that had some pretty nice stuff, at a prices that werre set in 1930s and haven't changed since then. Obviously, your ruble would go much further in that case.
Then we need more power voting out.
There have been labs at my uni in non-deep RL or evolutionary robotics researching curiosity rewards a few years back, but I've not seen something like this until this year.

Is it just scale and more powerful NNs that is making curiosity work well now? The Montezuma and this Mario video look like a serious breakthrough to me (non-expert).
The transcript (and linked video) is only Peterson speaking.

Your feelings regarding Oz and any associated controversy are irrelevant, unless you're indirectly implying that Oz is unfit to conduct an interview, in which case, I think you've got your work cut out for you. It would be impertinent and premature to dismiss an interview simply because you dislike the host: I can easily name any number of hosts I dislike or have a general disdain for yet found the discussions interesting and/or thought-provoking.

That being said, if it's not crystal-clear at this point: it's discussion around Peterson's ideas I'm interested in, in the context of China (and the TFA). Would you care to respond to Peterson's thoughts directly?
Society's profit is cancer is cured, why wouldn't that suffice.
To see all the concern here in this community I trust to be objective and fair is heartening. Based on what you see in social and mainstream media, you'd think Assange is a demon who deserves no justice and that journalism/free speech is not a protected right.
Both of his posts are sarcastic.
Twitter Co-Founder Says More Diverse Team Might've Spotted Abuse
Could you explain the part of the desk being in the corner, not sure I completely grok what that means.
I'm really excited to see these heading into Normandy! They will fly from the UK and will have a massive parachuting contingent.

Program info at https://www.daksovernormandy.com/
>(O)r as collectors items...

Any form of serious gun control is likely to include a grandfathering clause in order to keep it constitutional (beyond simply 2nd amendment issues). A few semi-auto firearms and other assorted "naughty" items like drum magazines are likely to be some of the best investments out there if things continue down the current path. AR-15s were selling for $3k during the AWB years and although the supply is several orders of magnitude greater today, a high quality AR will still appreciate massively in value under a new AWB. There is a large quality gap between the most common ARs (PSA build kits, M&P Sports, etc) and a high end one. In a regulated market with limited supply and bureaucratic hurdles to obtaining licensure, demand shifts to value the highest possible quality.

Just look at the firearm suppressor market for example. While they are legal, the effect of a $200 tax stamp and a 6 month waiting period for approval (caused by inefficiency rather than statute) means the market is almost exclusively comprised of ~$700 options designed to last a lifetime as any replacement requires going through the whole process again. If suppressors were regulated like other common firearms-related items, there would be more sub-$30 oil filter adapters than you could shake a stick at. Since that isn't the case, incredibly durable and costly machined titanium and stainless steel rules the day.
Yes, pirated music doesn't waste mobile bandwidth, doesn't get interrupted when I lose my mobile collection, is much quicker to copy between devices, integrates better with music from local artists and gives me many much better music players to choose from.
I would guess the person who discovers a cure like this will do so on top of a bunch of preceding human labor, maybe even publicly funded.
I've gotten into arguments about this in the past.

As you've shown, references can be null, but theyre not supposed to be and are assumed nearly universally to not be.

The argument comes down to when the undefined behavior occurs: is it at the deference to create the reference, or is it on the first memory access using the reference? The language pedants will say the former, but in practice, it's the latter.

In practice, you'll likely be able to invoke a member function on a null pointer or reference, as long as that member doesn't directly or indirectly access data members, or virtual functions of the type. Obligatory, I dont recommend doing this or relying upon this behavior, it's just behavior I've seen in my 2 decades of debugging C++.
To be fair to CF, it’s really easy to write server-side rendered CRUD apps in it, and there’s a lot of functionality baked it to support it. But RoR is just as easy, and lacks the, ah, legacy aspects of the CF language and runtime that are so troublesome. To put it another way, CF is a syntactic and semantic mess by design, a holdover from late-‘90s development, and attempts to improve it largely consist of throwing increasingly baroque structures on top of it that no one really uses in practice. (And the class structure the generated Java uses is enough to make a grown person weep and reach for the whiskey.)

But it’s also a development paradigm that is easily comprehended and encompassed by a single developer, which is not something you can say about modern development architectures. You don’t need to understand front-end toolchains or VDOMs, you don’t need to figure out how to make reverse proxies and API gateways work, you never have to use OpenShift or even understand what a container, let alone Kubernetes, is, and you don’t need to stand up logging and analytics servers. You can do a lot in CF with a little. Granted, oftentimes it’s a lot of damage, but there’s definitely a lure to having such a simple development environment even if you’re trading off little things like, say, code encapsulation and separation of concerns.

Having said all that, the “70% of major companies” argument is bunk. Choose any legacy technology and you’re likely to find it in 70% of major companies just through the inertia of “if it ain’t broke.”