skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's the developers people are mostly angry at. It's the publishers/higher level execs that people are mostly aiming their anger at.
But the way people use it is not for exact dates and deltas. If today is March and I know something will happen in August, I'll say "this will happen in 5 months from now", but I've never heard anyone add days and weeks to such a duration. If today is 31st o'March and you tell me "next month", that could mean anything between one or thirty days, i.e. the difference between 31st o'March and 1st o'April is one month.

Edit: Also the same way that "tomorrow" can be in 5 minutes.
Say it with me, Boeing is too large to fail.
After intense fighting between the catholics and loyalists in the 1969 riots, and the IRA petrol bombing and shooting at police - unprovoked. Nearly 2,000 casualties of the IRA campaign - nearly all unarmed.

Yet I don't condone the use of internment - even if I do understand how and why it happened. All it did was intensify the already high tensions.
Facebook is becoming an independent nation
> "What is the airspeed of an unladen swallow? (European or African)"

What are you expecting to get from something like that?
Yes. OS was an acquisition of Microsoft, but Basic, P-CODE, visual basic and visual basic for applications were very central in Microsoft. It enabled to develop office very quickly.
Can be done with an async-replication db like ScyllaDB. Or even CP db (just harder/slower).
> If it did, we wouldn’t be able to see stars at night from the Earth.

Ha! I love straighforward sanity checks like this. My initial reaction was to ask myself about photon-photon collisions which are im fact possible, but your comment gives a nice Fermi bound on how rare such events actually are. Cool!
> South Korea and Singapore are the only countries that went from impoverished to developed

The entire West went through this process at one time or another, along with some of the post-Communist countries.
Scaleway's data centre in the catacombs, 26 metres under Paris
The impact of SCA: Shaking up Europe’s online economy
Wellcome Global Monitor 2018 on Health
While I think SRI is a good tool to counter CDNs (with the correct deploying strategy, human-supervised semi-automatized SRI generation shall become trivial), there is a fundamental flaw with "compiled" aka obfuscated/minimized javascript code: How do you, as an author, even know that it doesn't contain malicious code in the first place? That's the fundamental problem of using software written by other people: Except you can afford expensive code audits, you never know. I expect any security-related company (like Banks) to do these source code audits. But I doubt they do it.
I don't know why you are addressing me, I can't even downvote. Your "conspiracy theory" comment is certainly valid, unfortunately I'm not willing to provide more information so I suppose it will remain a "conspiracy theory" albeit one I believe is true.
It's up to the application author in that case, unfortunately. stat() enters the kernel and resolves in one shot, so it requires a whole thread. I haven't read into it very carefully, but on Linux, perhaps the new io_uring business is going to change this state of affairs. For now, however, you need a semaphore of your own.
That's the joke - Atherton is the town of the tech billionaires.
I think you have to look very hard to find anything positive written about China or Chinese people in western establishment media.

Especially anything that gets posted on HN.
Their forum is working now:

https://opensourceleg.com/forums/topic/reducing-the-cost-of-...
Not sure there's any easy way for a society (as in building society) to do that. There's a huge water tanker on our terrace with a big surface area to capture rain water, it goes through some filtration processes and is utilised by the building for all general purposes. When there is extra water in the tank, it's diverted to the ground water via something opposite of a boring connection. I know that we often have extra water in the tank (it is rainy even as I type this) and it is diverted underground, so in my book that's a success cause something is better than nothing.
Must be true, but I would expect a bit of exaggeration there.
We're not arguing about the safety and viability of banks. Instead, we're directly comparing the safety and viability of banks vs Facebook. If you think that Facebook comes out on top in that comparison, either you really haven't been paying attention, or we fundamentally disagree about what safety and viability mean.
How? By manually ignoring the Network or by deactivating WiFi in Control Center? Or is there an option I'm missing?
You nail it: I find "Instagram" as an application interesting, because it can be approached really easy (file upload and viewer). That even you don't find it interesting anymore supports my point that it should be the kids who decide what to code. I never had an interest in developing games. When I learned JS and PHP (~15yrs ago), I created tons of dynamical websites which nobody used, but which were fun to code.
Yeah, if you don't understand how the browser has implemented lexical analysis, it surely means you only copy paste code /s
Thanks, great feedback and correct analysis! We're also protecting a few hundred organisations and a few thousand applications, BitSensor has spread mainly by word-of-mouth. I think it's time to update the website now ;)

I think any product is fine, as long as you have a kind of operational security monitoring in place covering the OWASP A7. Whether it is Apache/Nginx & ModSecurity (comes by default in K8s), Akamai, F5, Sqreen, Imperva... we all strive for that goal.

The goal of these security solutions is to enable developers to be creative, automating the daily chore of mitigation of attacks, and the compliance burden.
Egan is one of my all-time favorite SF authors. Was delighted and surprised to find his name popping up in some nitty-gritty, research-level algebra discussions recently. I haven't heard of Incadescence so it's definitely going on the list. Am also intrigued by Dichronauts too! Have you read it?
Chinese investment in US biopharma startups down over 80% in 2019
The idea is quite foreign to me so I need to fully digest - but - real sexy website!!
The most toxic, extreme and disgusting hate always seems to target developers. I don’t know if that’s a majority, but I do think that mostly milquetoast boring criticism of large publishers (yeah they suck, sure, what else is new) actually has the largest actual impact here, even if more people share that criticism.
1. Talk to former colleagues and friends; much more likely to hire you for shorter period since they already know you.

2. If you're willing to go for more like 32-30 hours, you can apply to normal jobs, then ask for shorter workweek once you get offer (https://codewithoutrules.com/2019/01/25/4-day-workweek-easy-...).

3. Staff augmentation / contracting is another option. E.g. via companies like https://www.randstadusa.com/. In some cases staffing company will hire you as employee to make things legally easier for the company you're actually working for.
Yet, billions will die. Regardless.

Setting aside snide remarks, the concern most people have for the environment is not about "life", it is about our civilization. We have seen huge advances in quality of life in the past 100 years, because of increases in medicine, trade, and mobility. These characteristics rely on a relatively peaceful coexistence across the globe.

The fear is that increased survival pressure will void most of those advances. If global trade breaks down, we might lose the technology and infrastructure that enables us to feed 7+ billion people. So regardless of whether the Earth's climate will kick us out, we still might end up returning to population levels of the 1900s.
"Blockchain vs BULLSHIT" criteria:

Is it:
- Open
- Publicly verifiable
- Neutral
- Borderless
- Censorship-Resistant.
- Immutable
- Permissionless

In case of Libra answer to all is No
Ice Breaker Questions for Teams
Hi folks, we spent hours of our time to come up with that guide. I hope it will be useful here. See a funny infographic inside the post.
If only this was true. People with unpatched software running are prime targets for inclusion in a botnet and then they are damaging other with their reckless behavior.
Why this feels like a clickbait?
That's kind of my point. They wouldn't need to cleanse the Muslim regions (or Tibet for that matter) if they weren't part of the PRC to begin with. But of course China will never give up these territories -- in fact they're busy trying to annex other places where the CCP system is not welcome.

(Not trying to imply that everything that happens within the "core" of China is awesome.)
Aside from the very slick website, I found the problem statement articulated in your description above super convincing. Really resonated with me. Congrats on building something that's really needed.
I'll be signing up for a trial now!
How to map time
> The only place I couldn’t use the 100 was in City Hall. The keyboard was too clackety-clack to take notes in that kind of environment. I did it during one meeting and the mayor put a private word in my ear letting me know that the TRS-80 was not welcome.

Start by taking notes on the Selectric and folks will appreciate the relative quiet of the 100.
I'm always wondering... Where do those city dwellers put their heavy machinery? What? You don't have heavy machinery? Well, no hardware projects for you then. Do people seriously lift a half a ton lathe to the 10th floor of their apartment building and then just go at it?
Ah, haven't seen the old calculator in years, so wasn't aware that it was in there. Then they only redid the UI.
> The Tealium iQ Tag Management System service is used by many companies to organize tags on their websites.

Tag managers are the worst. They shouldn’t even exist. When a website uses a tag manager, it means the web devs have been forced to give marketing and every other department a backdoor to insert whatever vile abominations they want.
In my experience, private schools are responsible because they say "you will make X per year when you'll graduate" and they can charge insane tuition fees because of it.
Once the student is in debt and has now graduated, he realises that he makes less than what the school advertised while being in debt. All these young people freshly graduated already took a mental toll before even beginning their career.
I applaud any actions that dodge US sanctions.
Pretty close to that was also my last experience. But having seen that before, I wasn't intimidated by all these accomplishments. In fact running a linter objectively showed the overall low code and design quality.

Anyhow, complaining doesn't help but trying out things and gradually improving. In fact it's possibly even a good opportunity because nobody else wants to touch such code so there's room for creativity (of course within the limits that the stakeholders are fine with).
A Privacy Dustup at Microsoft Exposes Major Problems for A.I
Oh, I did not know that (I was only familiar with redstone).
CGI trailers and other filler content don't build hype to nearly the same extent as gameplay does. Don't forget that the lack of gameplay shown was one of the reasons this years E3 was considered a big disappointment by most.

The reason Sony's 2016 E3 press conference is widely regarded as the best press conference ever, in addition to the live orchestra, was that they blasted the audience with long gameplay demo after gameplay demo. It had very little filler speeches by executives and few empty CGI trailers, and it made a big difference.

If you haven't watched Sony's 2016 conference recently, which you should, here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwofRzkROo4&t=1800
The hottest startups that got funded in May 2019
There's more than one mobile version.

Latest Android Nightly build is 68.0a1 from 2019-05-04.

Latest Android Beta build is 68.0beta, from May 21, 2019 (actually from APK name it's 68.0b11).

Latest iOS Release build is 16.0, from April 15, 2019.

By the way, latest Desktop Beta build is 68.0beta, from May 22, 2019, and latest Desktop Nightly build is 69.0a1, from May 20, 2019 - and there's no information about whether they affected too.
What does living equally even mean? People having the same life standard? Or all people can live a life how they want it?

Does anyone have the right to remain poor? I think propably he does. Does anyone have the right to think that he has no chance but to stay poor and thus do nothing and stay poor? Well, is there even such a right?

Now, social benefit is a good thing, but it's also a very un-capitalistic thing. Do people have to work to earn their food and clothes and residence,etc, or can people wait for the government to give them food, or money to buy food? Or, if the government is not rich enought to provide said food or money, what should the poor people do?

If a person, for any random reason, say, without the resources or willpower to work, should he/she be given a chance, or should he be left alone? If the chance requires education and training, or some other involuntary effort, is it right to demand such effort from the person?

Now, some specific group of people in some certain country on this Earth, didn't know how they could get out of the poverty they're born to. They may feel insecure around other people that look different or even speak different languages. And there are other people who may look less different and want to exploit those poor people, to turn them into terrorists. You may even have evidence. Is waiting for them to get turned and then punish them really the right thing to do?

Mind you that country may not be China.
Quantitative Easing Prevented Crisis – But We're Reaching a Physical Limit to QE
Cannot agree more. All Greek tragedies are based on hubris nemesis catharsis cycle. Unfortunately, many projects, companies nowadays skip the catharsis stage and jump to the next hubris.
If you vary the size of the opening, am I correct that that just changes the parameters on the curve?

I've known about the central limit theorem for a long time and was probably taught about it in first year, but I have never managed to sit down and understand how to prove it properly. One side effect of the theorem should be to explain least squares—if I am not mistaken then least squares was invented largely due to the central limit theorem by Gauss.

We can always do least cubes, but that does not provide us (usually) with better results.
Incidentally, my theory about the
website and product is that this
is a firmware reuse of a fleet
tracking product.

Yeah, there are already off-the-shelf products like [1] that combine GPS, battery and SMS sending. Presumably this product is a variant of one of those.

[1] https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GPS-Tracker/223443762010
i really don't see how

AlgorithmClass().WithXValue(10.0)
.WithYValue(20.0)
.WithEtc(...)
.Run();

is any better than

Algorithm(x=10.0, y=20.0, etc=...)

the argument that text books teach us algorithms in form of single function with inputs and outputs is quite weak, there's a very simple solution - break up the large function into smaller functions.

i'll always prefer a set of isolated functions with explicit argument and return declarations over a class implementation with methods because:

- argument list tells me immediately what is required and what are possible additional options as opposed to having to scan the method list for methods matching `WithFooBar` names

- methods become coupled to internal state of the algorithm object because let's face it - code rots, maintainers take shortcuts, state proliferates, everything that is allowed by a compiler/interpreter will eventually make it into the codebase; it's much more preferable to avoid/diminish most of these problems by writing isolated functions

- explicit arg/return declarations help with default static analysis/checks, much harder to do that with classes and internal state
Reminded me of NIST's digital policy guidelines (from 2017, so quite a while after this page was published):

> In order to assist the claimant in successfully entering a memorized secret, the verifier SHOULD offer an option to display the secret — rather than a series of dots or asterisks — until it is entered. This allows the claimant to verify their entry if they are in a location where their screen is unlikely to be observed.

https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html
The very first thing I see on the Sqreen landing page is an animation that gives me an idea of what the product looks like. When I scroll down I see the supported languages that tell me if my environment is supported. Images are large enough to understand, even on my phone. When I browse to their product page I get more screenshots of the product annotated with the functionality Sqreen brings. Again images are properly sized.

When I land on Bitsensor I see a bunch of text so I have to start actually parsing and understanding that text. Everything is very bright and images don't say a lot. When I browse to their product page I see a lot of white space and only a tiny actual product image that is hard to see. The remainder are not product images which make it harder for me to parse how this content is offered to me, which is a big deal when choosing a product.
> But if anything it matters more, since every minute spent idle (e.g. travelling to meet someone) has a higher associated cost due to the opportunity cost of lost productivity.

Which sounds like another vote for remote work instead of clumping and clustering. Why care about proximity and the time it takes to travel when everyone you'd want to meet, regardless of location, is a message, call or video conference away and reachable from your home, favorite coffee shop or local office?

And no, I'm not saying that this has to replace all face to face interaction, but I think it should become the default for work environments that are compatible with this approach.
> unless you think we'll suddenly lose all technology that we've developed

Which is normally what happens after a civilisation crash.

Getting back to the level of the Middle Ages is fairly easy to do - many, many people can figure out some of the basics even from first principles. Figure out a windmill, weaving, fulling, irrigation etc just from the basics people got going through school probably in just a few years.

Yet the more advanced tech? That's a system fragility. Easy to lose, hard to get back if lost. If there's mass destruction of cities, relocations, perhaps wars and huge numbers of deaths and displaced people why expect a globalised, technological and mainly online world to survive?

Could just as easily find ourselves in the same boat as those in the worlds after the Romans, Greeks, Egyptians etc. Lots of things we can see but have no idea how to recreate. It could take hundreds of years to claw our way back to creating chips. Once the first generation that remembers high school or uni is passed, it gets even harder...
The argument is that if the voters are not willing to fund those vulnerable workers then it clearly means that the voters have made the concious decision that these workers are not important to their community and therefore they think the workers should leave.

Well, there are two solutions, either make the voters less influential or change the behavior of the voters.
>Monzo is the best bank in the world

That's very subjective.
I use a decentralised exchange to both buy and sell bitcoin, all traffic is routed p2p through the tor network. Binance one of the largest exchanges in the world is building their own DEx too.

Your hypothetical situation is blown out of the water here by existing technology that is clearly very hard to stop. How are governments going with banning torrents?

https://bisq.network/
StackOverflow bans question about removing gay pride icon in SourceTree
The only additional information on that mozilla link is that the issue is "fixed in Firefox 67.0.3 and Firefox ESR 60.7.1". The only information about affected versions is that
an unspecified set of "Firefox, Firefox ESR" are vulnerable.

The report doesn't include anything about which version introduced the bug. Is this a recent bug, or has it been around for many years? If it's old, is there any information available that might indicate how long malicious actors have been exploiting this vulnerability? Apparently the answer to the last question is "yes", as Mozilla claims that "We are aware of targeted attacks in the wild abusing this flaw." For how long? How many people might be affected?; "targeted" could mean a single individual or a very large group with some specifically targetable attribute.

There is a lot more to security than "just upgrade to the latest release". Also, while fears about public malicious actors learning from disclosure rarely outweigh the important benefits gained by allowing the public to defend themselves and learn form the incident, in this particular case where malicious actors are already exploiting the bug in the wild, there is little to be gained by keeping information hidden from the public.
But then you get the (in some ways correct) result that the difference between the 15th of one month and the 15th of another month is a couple months and couple of days, instead of the intuitive whole number of months.
I think you're vastly overestimating how quickly car manufacturers are moving

> Tesla is already pre-selling, for money, full self-driving capability in their existing cars.

Has Tesla enabled FSD with no driver supervision?

That is the actual reality.
Yes, but variation due to such load balancing would surely be limited in entropy in practical non-tracking scenarios?

Approaching from the other end, it points towards anycast itself (and similar techniques) being incompatible with hard tracking resistance.

I'm glad to see that Firefox containers already mitigate this by using a separate DNS cache for each container.
This is forgivable because you can fork and edit it. Once you go from reading to editing, it is useful to see the markup. Many of us are used to reading verbatim markdown if your team uses readme.md in the git repo root of projects.
If you're implying that most science fiction hasn't almost always been "war movies or westerns just set in space," I have bad news for you. Science fiction is about the science in the same way westerns are about the horses, which is to say, it isn't.

Also, I don't see signs that people in the US no longer believe in technical progress. There may be forms of technical progress which are not given the priority in American culture that you might prefer, but it seems obvious that progress is advancing in a vast number of fields, and both science fiction and science are more mainstream (albeit, perhaps, in a watered down pop-culture sense) than they ever have been.
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I think you are right. Another possible explanation would be a big conspiracy though, and probably the government is also involved somehow.
No need to reinvent the wheel http://longbets.org/
It should be clarified in the title that it is about the UWP calc not the original Win32 calc.exe.
"Never work with children, animals, or calendar math.."
Where Has the Magic Gone?
I know some people like to comment on the headline rather than reading the content but that comment is literally the first line in the article:

> tldr; saw a Windows Calculator bug on reddit. Since calc.exe was open-sourced I thought I’d try to find the bug and fix it.
Facebook unveils their own Crypto Currency, Libra Here's the facts about it
A book is something that you can point to and say "I made that". Regardless of the content, a book is not fleeting or ephemeral. These days people will even look up to you if you are capable of reading one. So it carries weight, both in the physical and mental sense of the word. If you're not self published, a book is also a sign of approval. Someone who knows about these things thought it was good enough to print. Really, there are lots of reasons to want to write a book.