skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a lot of recreational cocaine users, and they are doing it right under our (or their) noses. They range from billionaires to your local college grad.

See The Social Network Movie, Wolf of Wall Street, etc. The drug use was not as dramatized as you might think.
Another one to the list...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12766049
> This enforced uniformity would destroy "elite" signalling.

It would definitely destroy the supply. What it wouldn't do is destroy the utility of elite signaling (humans love tribal reasoning, it's cognitively easy) and thus the desire for elite signaling would continue. Much like even in schools with a strict uniform dress code, you can still tell who has money and who doesn't.

Removing the supply of something rarely eliminates its demand. Thus, removing the supply into the reputation market is unlikely to eliminate its demand. People will find another way to signal.

Also, it might be considered that many states already have what could be considered excellent, high-quality, strong flagship public universities. Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, and Georgia all spring to mind as states with excellent public universities, and I know there are more. Some of them are larger than UC Berkeley.
Look at their own disclosures for 2019 H2 from their earnings statement - don't do your own estimate based on a linear projection of the last 3 quarters.

2019 is going to be an absolutely phenomenal year for AMD.
> Is the function well formed (Yes - functions need not return a value on all paths due to C ancestory, even if the return type has a non trivial actor - not sure if this is still considered well formed, but I think it was as least to C++11)

In C falling off the end of a function without returning is legal, as long as you don't use the return value. In C++ this is illegal.
There are some tidbits here about how he views his team and some stories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOTFE7sJY-Q
You’ve taken my response to another degree, but I wholeheartedly do not disagree with you. In fact I admire it. I think you want to remind us that we as humans are horrible when given power, irrespective of title.
Does hangouts finally work on Firefox?
Costco sends photos for free when you order from a computer. I regularly send a handful of photos to my older relatives and pay just 17¢ each. Print quality is much better than places like Walgreens, IMO.
Is that something you can use from the terminal?
You can't compare 2018 numbers to 2019 numbers without taking into account the intervening cryptocurrency crash. Setting that aside, their CPU and GPU sales have actually improved, even though both are nearing the end of a generation (and so are the console SoCs). The fact that AMD's still profitable even without cryptocurrency GPU sales is a pretty strong indicator of financial health, the likes of which they couldn't even dream of a few years ago.
> McLuhan: "The closer you get together, the more you like each other? There is no evidence of that in any situation that we have ever heard of. When people get close together, they get more and more savage and impatient with each other."

To riff on this-- I think we are too close together in a massive news feed ('timeline'). Individual blogs gave us a healthy distance.
V-280 Passes Key Agility Test: Bell
> Because every way of doing "x" has already been tried and the way we do things _right_ _now_ is hands down the absolute best way right?

Absent evidence to the contrary, yeah. Generations of hackers have been expressing designs perfectly well with traditional class syntaxes. This is a long solved problem, and a skill you can rely on when moving between C++ or Java or C# or python or Ruby or JS (though Javascript tried to get fancy in this space too and had to bolt on traditional syntax later). But to get stuff working in rust you have to learn a different metaphor. That's bad a priori unless there's a clear advantage. And be real: there isn't, it's just syntax churn.

To wit, if it ain't broke don't fix it.
>make you unlock it with your finger

https://www.zdnet.com/article/police-cant-force-us-citizens-...

Another ruling:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/05/10/the-u...
If you do nothing else, read the last sentence of the article.

Collier’s was an incredibly popular magazine and they paid well. The expense report feels hinky but wouldn’t have been completely out of line for a celebrity author like Hemingway during that era.
A link to an external site containing the checksum? Wouldn't an attacker just replace (or remove!) the link?

It wouldn't need to be an external site. You can have more than one server running a domain, with a different set of keys (entirely different architecture if you want) to make hacking both harder.
From 12 years of adtech experience, this is absolutely false.
The article mentions geographic variation as one of the easiest means to analyze animal cultures. If you hang onto that, it seems quite a bit is possible.
People whining about Electron is a pet peeve of mine for this reason. Electron exists because of the sorry mess of half-supported fragmented junk that desktop UI development has become. If you hate Electron don't blame Electron. Blame OS vendors.
Sorry, I've not seen such.

And my own stuff was so very limited and crufty, before I rather burned out on the yak shaving of it all. Though two requests for demos just this evening... sigh.

Perhaps picture the cylindrical "big screen" someone here mentioned. Run 3D programs like CAD in some of the windows. Control the window manger with keystrokes. Use a trackpad, a mouse, a 3D mouse. These inputs aren't tightly coupled to the rendered 3D space. Add a 6DOF controller. There's still no need to introduce a tight coupling - it can sit beside your mouse, or on your knee, and twitch. Discard the gaming objective of immersion, and show the outside world. Use a non-standard VR rendering stack, or AR, so that's performant. Open up the HMD horse blinders. Add some "comfort mode" tricks, and now the outside world is being used for balance, and the rendered world is freed to be bizarre. When your head moves, move the cylinder twice as fast, to reduce the need for head motion. Turn it with keys or mouse and no head motion. It's not a real cylinder - there's no reason when you turn it and turn it back, the same thing has to be there - it can be whatever you want, whatever is helpful. The motivation for a surface is coplanarity for optical scanning, and living in some hardware/wetware sweet spot. But one is a task-specific constraint, and both are local to the region currently shown, not global constraints. So punt the cylinder, and use an arbitrary aphysical topology. So now, while do you have a 3D visual display, and 3D HIDs, the contents and inputs are no more constrained to some imagined reality than in any usual window manager an apps. Choosing how much resemblance to reality to exhibit, as with scrolling "physics", is simply a UI design choice. ... Ah well - it's late - FWIW.
>what exactly are the US companies supposedly aware of?

That it's not being recycled.
They released him on bail even after he admitted to driving over to the HQ once with a firearm. YouTube better beef up security cause the nutter may think its his only chance now to act.
Our Motion Through Space Isn’t a Vortex, but Something Far More Interesting
There is no difference between alcoholism and workaholism. Both are manifestations of lack of control over self.
Puffer – watch live TV for free to assist research of streaming algorithms
Conservatives always opposed the estate tax, but it was getting liberals onboard that was special. Getting liberals to support a tax cut on the wealthiest people was quite a win for the GOP.
Security shouldn't be treated as a bonus feature.

Roles, okay. Not TLS.

Security should almost always be a baseline requirement before something goes up for public sale.
Mockery is the antithesis to a dispassionate examination of how things evolved to be the way they are, and without an understanding of that, it's not really possible to bring about change in any orderly, lasting way.
Nice, thanks for sharing! Do you have to be a member? It's free shipping with no order minimum?

NanaGram works best for people with siblings or cousins who want to send a curated pack of photos to their loved ones. The account owner can invite people to send in photos and everyone can tailor reminders (1 week, 3 days, 3 hours, etc from the monthly ship date).

The other nice thing is the interface, since most of the time there isn't one. We give you a unique phone number and all you have to do is text your photos to the number.

I'm hoping to release a couple low-priced solo-sender plans soon.
This abstract, "Newtonian explanation of galaxy rotation curves based on distribution of baryonic matter" uses an argument (not DM or MOND) I've not seen before.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.2401

(It says that 'A large number of likely galaxy mass distribution profiles should in fact produce flat or accelerating rotation curves similar to those observed in reality.')

Older (2007) abstract: Kepler's third law (works for the solar system) might not apply because of galactic mass distribution.
http://www.marmet.org/cosmology/nonkeplerian/galaxy.html

Five years old; didn't get a chance to find a counter-argument, but worth mentioning.
I think there was a number of reasons given.
I shudder at the idea of using USB connectors for important data. I have recently purchased a Kobol NAS https://kobol.io/. It is amazing because it has the following features in a good price point:

1. Open source

2. 2GB ECC ram

3. 4 x SATA

4. Hackable GPIOs
As far as I understand there is no quick magic algorithm to find them: you train the full architecture as usual the long and hard way, then you identify the right subnetwork and you can retrain faster from the architecture and initialization of just this subnetwork
Famous people with influence have existed for centuries. There's nothing new here, other than more people claiming they can do it with fake numbers and the rise of talent agencies 2.0.
> he claimed it to be a halting problem and that the compiler couldn't determine that all paths didnt return a value.

Theoretically we can't determine whether a function will return a value or not. In practice, heuristics get 99% of the way and the last 1% you can make the programmer put in a possibly redundant return statement.
SpinCycle: Bicycle-powered clothes washing for the developing world
Well-Known URIs
I enjoyed this paper. I like the idea of a “bottom up” analysis of animal culture.

Instead of assuming human culture is some kind of gold standard, we look instead at what is the smallest thing that can be called culture, across a few different axes, and build up from there.

In this minimalist view, any socially learned behavior has some cultural component. They make a pretty good case.
6B per year to figure out which cancers are malignant with one scan seems like a fairly decent price.
I don't think the parent was bashing Rust.

I think the parent was bashing the attendant hype and the resulting reinventions but worse.

There was a blog I read about the Rust Zealot Brigade (or similar name) that would reliably descend on any HN conversation.
Why Millennials Quit
I very much disagree. Firstly, the name Google chose for its new pet language wasn't even unique, effectively stealing it from a Go! language, by my understanding. With Google's track record, such as most recently attacking email, it's not surprising that Google would do this.

In any case, Google doesn't make the rules or set the stage. Gopher isn't dead and I have a Gopher hole. It's also my first thought that perhaps I'd stumbled on an interesting article, only to find it's more drivel about Google's shitty language.

In case you're wondering, here's the page where I debut my Gopher hole and the software I wrote to implement this:

http://verisimilitudes.net/2019-03-30
A service like this is more like someone giving you a ride.

And if they don't have brake pads, and negligently get into a horrible wreck, one where they walk away unharmed while you are injured? You probably have a case there.
If you own the site, feel free to ban me. You have every right to.

Apple doesn't want Gab on their platform? Well it's Apple's platform, so you have to play by their rules. If you don't like it, you can go create your own technology.

That's how this works.
I'm not sure that this is true even in software. "Professional" skills, interactions, leadership and other skills can indeed be taught, but are difficult to actually test for. There are a lot of skills in software that are invaluable and come only with time, experience and self-reflection.

Also, I find a significant divide in working with people who have come out of bootcamps, etc at a junior level. The divide is really down to those who did work outside/beyond their assigned work, and those that didn't. It's an indicator of passion and aptitude that isn't really testable because then that would become the new baseline.

I'm not saying that reform isn't needed, I think there's a significant space for it. For that matter, changing perceptions of what higher education actually is and isn't good for would be a start. In my own experience, the top performers out of a vocational program or self-taught will outperform and do better than the vast majority of those traditionally educated. The rest will stack in the middle, and those that didn't do well in the vocational setting will be at the bottom.

I think the start is to recognize that procedural differences can and do have overlapping outcomes, and to look for those secondary indicators and try to acknowledge them.
It's not just about hackers though.

The tape over my webcam has been a lifesaver when joining a business conference call using software with aggressive "everyone should be sharing their webcam" defaults.

A (male) coworker ended up sharing his webcam on a call with important clients -- while shirtless, in bed. I've had some close calls myself, and have seen some funny slip-ups.

Regardless, even against hacking scenarios, the tape costs nothing and blocks out some ugly "what if" scenarios from consideration. So it just seems like the reasonable thing to do.
> its 2019 and people in developed countries still care about (and support with their taxes) kings, queens, emperors and such?!

It's the 21st century and people still seem to consider inheritance of aristocratic levels of wealth acceptable too.
Hello, i am CS undergrad.i wish to learn about program synthesis. while researching online for courses available. i came across the one offered at univ of washington and a few more, they do not have video lectures.if possible, please provide pointers on the right place to start.
> It uses a red-black tree that keeps blocks sorted by their offsets in pair with linked list keeping the free space in order of increasing addresses.

I.e. what has been used by the regular mmap for user space allocations for like two decades.
the partial 2019 solution would be to use emoji that should work in any modern font

This usually works not by having fonts define emojis (most don't) - it's just that systems reach in and render emojis from a dedicated emoji-defining font when they encounter them. So it's not like the world is full of fonts that define 'standard emojis' or funky powerline symbols.
Never managed to switch to ripgrep over ag. Performance difference is not that much of a dealbreaker in practice, and rg is not totally backwards-compatible to ag. I don't exactly remember, what was the problem. I guess it has this annoying practice to ignore everything that's in .gitignore, while for ag I could set up an additional .agignore per-project.
I'll do both, but that naturally takes twice as long.
Sounds like "vmalloc won't be heavily churned, unlike mmap, so who cares".
> Passing a constant buffer to a fragment shader will cause it to be truncated at 64k on some graphics drivers. Not a bug, just an undocumented limitation. Doesn't happen on my computer. That was fun to figure out.

That doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of OpenGL bugs on Apple devices. Many more are documented here: https://github.com/servo/webrender/wiki/Driver-issues
I wonder if there's a sort of 'herd immunity' effect that would reduce your risk of not running the mitigations. Since the assumption is that this class of exploit is known and patched, it might be less attractive for exploit makers to target. Given that, you can actually disable the mitigation to get the performance back without suffering a breach.

I wouldn't do this at a data center or a nuclear powerplant, but for personal workloads like gaming this might be an okay tradeoff.
Except that unlike in the story, there really were wolves, and we managed to take them down.

CFCs and the ozone layer are a good example: there was a wolf, there was decisive action because people listened to the warnings, and we managed to beat the wolf.

Carbon emissions are an entirely different scale of problem though because so much of our economies is built on them.
I see the same thing in both Firefox and Safari, on a non-P3 display: the original image is solid red, but the copied image shows the logo. So it looks like a conversion did actually happen at some point.
Espressif ESP32-S2 Secure WiFi MCU Comes with an Xtensa LX7 Core 240 MHz
Is the introduction of WASM a sort of compatibility layer combining this tree of dependencies?

In the sense that all users are again able to share/create code/'apps' that are compatible on all architectures and software stacks. I can imagine a future where the OS is just the snappiest way to render a browser and nothing else. (Although my experience with the chromebook blunts this desire a great deal.)
OpenVMS/x86_64: VMSI announces first boot of VMS on x86 architecture
Privacy Rights and Data Collection in a Digital Economy
I really like this product. As others have said, Alex is excellent at customer service. He’s taken my actual phone calls, and really helped out. He’s even implemented some features that helped my sister contribute from Scotland (with no overseas SMS). I continue to recommend it constantly.
Drivers mostly allocate things from kmalloc, not vmalloc. vmalloc is only used for large allocations that exceed the maximum size that kmalloc can provide. It's traditionally not expected to "churn" either.

One use for vmalloc is for allocating loadable modules: when you insmod a driver, the space comes from vmalloc. Needless to say, there are few use cases for inserting and removing a driver thousands of times per second.
Cosmic Rays Flipping Bits
Lgcy
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With lgcy, you have one account, one profile with the ability to create multiple public or private timelines and add photos and videos. With private timelines, you can add a select few where those added can also add content.

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Most work these days is done on a temporary per project basis so really employee longevity is far less important than it used to be. Imagine code management before there was even CVS much less Git. Our practices and tools from git to agile enable us to use completely temporary teams so the leverage employees used to use to achieve longevity is largely gone unless you have some serious technical debt like you still don't use git.
This comment alone, and the lack of any comment by any Apple rep so far down the comments, makes me think that I did the right thing ditching macOS as my main web development workstation in favor of Windows.
Infosec tooling.

Why Meterpreter isn't controlled by an AI or achieving some other autonomous state, I'll never know. Its like hackers forgot that viruses and worms were ever a thing, and yet therein lies the next big leap... lateral movement without c&c. Anyway, Metasploit has been with us a long time, and is a good example.

Other much earlier tools like nmap have lived through Y2K and are still in regular use to this day.

While the software itself has progressed a lot, their initial purposes have not left us. The same names always crop up when looking through decades-worth of hacker tools.

Everything about firewalls today, other than new lingo (like clouds) is pretty much the same. That is surely a stable technology that remains ubiquitous.

Look how old ISO2700x and 17799 standards are. They (one is really an "upgrade" of the other) are here to stay for a while.
Most of the Solar System Should Be a Protected Wilderness
I wish articles like these quoted the relevant Hemingway writing rather than just summarizing it as him giving the reader the false impression he was being a hero, or whatever. Like, if you're going to accuse the guy of improper behavior, and the actual text is available, just quote it and let the reader judge for themselves.
> How, pray tell, are we actually determining which are malignant and which are not??

A biopsy? Whichever method you would normally use to find this out?

You could even ignore all the information and just train your algorithm on whether the patient died in the next 5 years (after the scan/s).

Obviously you need data before you can determine anything automatically. But I don’t think everyone would be averse to this even if you do tell them it might be more likely to kill them due to excessive testing.
Equivalent products existed before
Or the classic "burn a TSI to solve some esoteric issue that documentation might've helped with".
It may be rewritten but it is an entirely new product. The new code does not replace old code. The old code continues to live and run on/with the older product. This reduces risk of breaking things but also increases costs due to running multiple versions. It's all trade-offs.
You're probably right for corruption caused by hardware failure or filesystem bugs. I was thinking about corruption in the wider sense, e.g. caused by application bugs.
Hopefully the 4a comes with ip67 or ip68 certification; it’s really the only missing feature from the 3a that gives me pause. I don’t want to have to worry if I walk outside and it is raining, or my phone slips off the bathroom sink edge and ends up under a stream of water.
the best reason for Edge/Mac to exist is simple: developers, developers, developers.
Start with running scans using shodan.io. Dig through results, start fine-tuning your searches and automating the digging.
That parenthetical comment at the end is incorrect.

https://checkyourfact.com/2018/12/16/fact-check-percent-repu...

That ignores decades of prior history, including the 1956 act that was defeated, making "both" even more clearly incorrect.