skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Improve your American pronunciation".

Search term : Aluminium

Result : American saying Aluminum

Search term : Solder

Result : American saying "sodder"
This is a really good example of the kind of safety benefit you get when using Rust: this is a fairly low-level piece of software (not a kernel, but I'd say it's lower-level than at least 80% of what's usually written) and yet, only 76 lines of codes are located inside unsafe blocks for the whole code-base. To be safe from memory vulnerabilities, all you need is audit theses 76 lines. It can still be a tough job, and bugs may slip past the review, but it's a huge improvement over having to audit thousands of lines.
Quoting the article:

> In May, the leaders of the Senate Banking Committee wrote to Facebook seeking information on rumors of its cryptocurrency project, and how it would protect consumer information.

Perhaps Facebook rushed an announcement because of the government inquiry.
IRC is missing a LOT of the features that make Slack actually useable for its purpose. IRC just isn't a replacement for Slack in most situations, due to its lack of things people take absolutely for granted.

One massive one being keeping history. Another is not being limited to text only, something people absolutely expect in this day and age.
Nowadays, browser development means rebasing your changes on top of Chromium periodically.
Are you sure? Wouldn't it be a direct connection, just between two NAT gateways? With each using the ports to track which connection belonged to the host behind the NAT?
>In the meantime, it should be illegal to operate a social network

So what about the countless number of people whose livelihoods depend on social media in some capacity? They're supposed to just be fine with being irrevocably fucked over until the moral panic about social media subsides? (or, in your words, "we decide what is good for us all")

Where does the small business owner who depends on a social network factor in as a "stakeholder"?

Drugs, sugar, cigarettes are measurably and objectively harmful to your health and that's why they are regulated (or should be).

There isn't similar comparable scientific evidence that social media is nearly as harmful except for questionable non-reproducible psychology studies, so I don't think it's comparable at all.
Interesting, as Sony is usually very bad at UX (PlayMemories, choppy PS4 dashboard etc).
I've used JapanTaxi (mentioned in the article) a fair number of times, and while there's nothing wrong with the experience of the app, oftentimes the biggest competitor to these ride-hailing apps is the fact that Tokyo's roads are so densely populated with taxis cruising everywhere that it's often faster to just hail one passing by than to open an app on your phone.

I feel the Uber service itself has a sort of a 'premium' feeling around it in Japan, with the cars/staff/pricing being higher-class than the run-of-the-mill taxis you can hail. As such they don't seem to be used too often. I only use Uber/Lyft when traveling to the US; In Japan I come into contact with the brand much more often from the context of Uber Eats.
Think about thousands very small customers you simply take the money from and have no effort but they are not the target of your sales team.
The numbers sound good to me.
I agree with opposition to ad hominem attacks and doxxing, but the first is just a manifestation of public protest, which is well established as a valid expression of free speech. If (to use a straw example) someone is free to vote to deny rights to a group of people I consider fundamental (or, conversely, to give them rights I don't consider valid) I should be free to vote (through collective action) to deny them employment.

To claim otherwise would seem to place business and company culture beyond the reach of the public interest and the scope of society, which is a position not even free governments enjoy.
It would cost around about as much spent on the pointless military genocides/cash grabs in Middle East to return CO2 to pre-Industrial levels (290 ppm ± 10). CCS at scale is proven. There's no political will and omnicide/suicide is the de-facto majority policy.
Exactly, why are we so ok with businesses trying to manipulate us into buying things that we don't ask for? I mean I understand that a business needs to make money, but that shouldn't excuse you for doing this manipulation. You can't excuse unethical behavior just "because I needed to make money". And if it was only about buying things, but this whole industry has become a mass manipulation machine for politicians with bad intententions.
MS Teams works well enought for me at work. All I want is having a chat window with the old messages on top to be able to send copy pasted variable names and chat abit.

Skype for Business doesn't save the conversation and is useless (it mails it to you ...), for example.
> 40% of their revenue is concentrated in <1% of their paid customers. Is this normal in the corporate SaaS market ?

Speaking from my experience of 6 months at a SaaS company this is about the norm.

Besides the usual 80/20 rule it gets more skewed at the top. And so even the product development was optimised to keep the top 1% happy. A ton of custom built features with hundreds of feature flags..
How is that even legal and how nvidia gets away with that type of shit?
It may be an issue with their linux client (pretty much all developers I work with are on linux), though I have heard complaints from windows users as well (but it's windows and the users are from the design team, so who knows what their computers do).
Please. Large tech companies are happy to have their Ivy Leaguers show up in flip flops while ridiculing anyone making an effort. All they have to do is not actively ruin the chances of outsiders and hire some of those contractors as equal employees.

No focus group is going to tell you something obvious you don't want to hear. Walk into any library and see what you find in terms of computing from all those companies saving the world. Most likely, very little. Is that because you can't make a billion dollars selling computers to libraries, hotels and airports? Or that it wouldn't be a good marketing opportunity? Probably not. More likely because people don't give a shit and that tech companies are perfectly happy to live in their own bubble of superiority.

This isn't a "blindspot" it's arrogance, and ignorance, and incompetence. Large tech companies can't makes things that are primarily useful to other people. They are busy capturing markets with touch bars and clones of one of their own service that will be shutdown as soon as it grants someone a promotion. Then their employees can go on Hacker News, or their own internal forums, out of view of any opinion that is slightly uncomfortable and fault political correctness for how everyone else just don't understand that the state of computing is their own fault. Because $500k salaries, sophisticated tax planning and probably the least amount of regulation of any market just isn't enough to not see the world through a straw.
I just want him to set aside a fund for remaking glitch. The most ambitiously cooperative mmo I ever played. I miss it everytime I think about it :(
If it was a simulation, could you build a recursive-interacting-thing that maxes out your local cpu core and makes your reference frame moves slower compared to the rest of the universe?
I feel that it was not "extremely misleading" within the given context which referenced older couples in larger properties. In this case, they are the ones typically paying the council tax.

I agree with you that the UK needs property taxes to be paid for by the owners. This would help reduce speculation and encourage utilisation of the existing housing stock. But as another post has mentioned, objections include "think of the old people who are worth $1m+ in property but would have to move out because they have low income"....boohoo...
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The word biopic comes from “biographical picture” and shouldn’t rhyme with myopic. I only learned this recently. But, alas, on a website for correct pronunciation...

https://youglish.com/search/Biopic/all?

Here’s forvo, for contrast:

https://forvo.com/word/biopic/
That's an implementation concern which can be addressed through data/analystics. i.e. a record can be kept of the size of your house in sq ft and property taxes adjusted for recent sales in the area.
Personally, I cannot make a comparison between Slack and IRC because I have never tried the former. From the discussion, it is clear that Slack has many features and attractions that are not available or harder to obtain with IRC.

However, for me personally, a major attraction of IRC is that I can easily use it from within Emacs, and automatically have the same Emacs key bindings available that I also use for navigating and editing files.

With IRC, I can therefore quickly copy and paste text between chats and programs, search the history etc., all in the existing Emacs session, using the same key bindings, with direct access to built-in features such as autocompletion, dynamic abbreviation and spell checking, and — importantly! — without switching applications.
254 Grails 3 plugins [1] is not enough for you?

[1] http://plugins.grails.org/
Link to current story: https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=734095998
I never understood this? Is this codified, that those big houses can not be subdivided? Imagine you have a big house in LA or SA - just build a capsule hotel in it and solve a lot of peoples problems.
Why?! NVIDIA is a police and a sovereign state now?
The same as what makes a great spouse. No one knows. It's different for everyone. Not all work out. Some will be unhappy and leave. Even the best of people.
Double exponential growth is crazy fast, but some problem grow much faster and follow the hyperoperation sequence growth rate. Knuth wrote a fun paper in Science in 1976 [1]. (Easy & interesting but sadly my link is to a paywall.)

That was the first place I saw his arrow notation to describe some of these numbers.

5↑3 = 5*(5*5)
5↑↑3 = 5↑(5↑5)
5↑↑↑3 = 5↑↑(5↑↑5)
5↑↑↑↑3 = 5(↑^4)3

These numbers get BIG, the up arrow notation can express the Ackermann function.

[1] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/194/4271/1235
Yeah, you have to consider more than just the technical aspect
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The human factors engineering might've been using a dark pattern, but the video smells of being intended to go viral.
It's amazing what they're able to fabricate to try and paint surveillance in a positive light.
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You’re don’t get to make the determination that it’s a binary thing.

You may believe that, the market doesn’t.

Boeing isn’t a defense contractor by most people’s metrics. None of the faangs are by almost any standard.
That’s the definition of Enterprise Software - the buyer is not the user. They are already paying for Office. Why pay extra for Slack? You really don’t want to go head to head with Microsoft’s Enterprise sells.
> It requires shit ton of stuff.

No it doesn't. You can build the compiler with `clang v.c`

> But the readme says that the UI package does not run on Linux, so how can Volt be written in Vlang?

The UI package is not available for everyone on Linux yet. Doesn't mean I can't use it.

> hot code reloading is not present

It will be on June 22.

Why do you spread lies and even ask to report me based on these lies? Are you the developer of Odin, who started a similar thread 3 months ago?
Are you expecting non-techies to be paying attention to an embedded TCP/IP stack, and also worrying that they think you are having too much fun?
Why is there still an irritating loudspeaker in this flooded world?
I've been deploying production .NET apps on Linux in Mono and NetCore for a few years now- Core is vastly superior to Framework even if you're not targeting Linux.

We target netcoreapp2.2 and execute the binary by using the dotnet tool pre-installed in containers but you can also just output a binary that can be executed standalone in your chosen platform.

I was able to set up a build agent for CI in a couple of hours; you really only need the SDK and you don't need to go through painful guesswork about what you need to install or copying targets that only exist in the desktop version of Visual Studio or stuff like that.

Also, you don't need to tangle with various runtimes and their licenses (like Java) because there is only one and Microsoft seem to only be interested in monetising their development tools, operating systems and cloud offerings.

I would not have believed you if you told me 5 years ago that C# development could be this good. I could not possibly imagine targeting another language (with the possible exception of front-end code and perhaps front-end web apps)
Sony is not "one company", they have tons of independent branches/divisions working separately on different projects, so the failure of one group does not infer the failure of another.
Would you really trust any messaging platform from Google? They have a new one every year.
This should be shut down. This isn't philantrophy, it's a public health hazard. And of course Andrew Wakefield is involved.
Dark Patterns Are the Brutal End of Blindly Following A/B Tests
I've been to China and lived there for 5 years and now living in India for 3 years.

The infrastructure scale in China is huge. Even in small towns electricity is offered 24/7.

In India even in the largest cities there is constant load shedding, power cuts often 1 or 2 hours daily.

Internet is slower in India, heck you can't find screws for sales on Amazon India and in china even in the smallest towns, I saw speciality stores at every few kilometres who stocked every kind of screws.

India might be able to compete in terms of population but it's decades behind china in infrastructure.

No disrespect to India but I am afraid till India has insane custom duties on foreign imported products, Indian talent will have a self imposed ceiling.

In Chinese market, you can find quality German tools but in Indian market, even tools are hard to find, I've no idea how makers deal with this shit here.

If I had to tweak one policy in India, I'd remove all custom duties so that youth is able to import quality tools and inputs from abroad and is able to produce quality output from that.

India limits what you can import and puts tariff on that, this results in using shoddy input for manufacturing resulting in shoddy output.

Garbage in garbage out.

Talent is crushed before kt gets a chance to blossom.

And whatever companies product in India do not sell buy export their stuff to other rich countries and domestic market is kinda empty.
pre movie boost article?
You could have a point with Slack but Jira is really terrible. I used it for a customer years ago and I'm so happy any other customer is using something simpler. Jira could be OK if operated by a specialized team paid to do project management and to shield developers from the complications of the tool. It's not only the design, it's the sheer amount of functionality. We don't need all of that.

I'd go with Github simplistic issues all the time instead of wresting with Jira. YouTrack from JetBrains is a reasonable compromise. Redmine is also ok.
My advice to "millenials" (well I think technically I'm one, so let's say younger ones) is to stay the hell away from London. I read these articles on the housing crisis and staggering rent amounts and wonder am I even living in the same country as these people.
For me it's one of the snappiest (on Linux mint / i7 / 16GB). I changed to Vivaldi about year ago and it's the first browser ever which isn't constantly slowing down with time and I'm not constantly thinking should I change again.
I mean, do health insurance companies mandate best health practices in order to get health insurance? Of course not, they just charge premiums commensurate with the risk they're taking on.
Remote Work Digest: June 20, 2019
On the topic of browsers, netsurf[0] (which implements its own engine, rather than being yet another webkit/chrome/gecko frontend) is close[1] to making a new release.

[0] http://www.netsurf-browser.org/

[1] https://listmaster.pepperfish.net/pipermail/netsurf-dev-nets...
sounds like the workers need a union
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> Snapshots are immutable so even if the employee machines get infected

Not really. You can easily extract data and overwrite the disk surface.
Half of Americans Are Now over the Age of 38
In all seriousness, these people seem to think their mission is noble... Imagine, for a second, that you are convinced of some "irrefutable truth," and it seems all political, government and scientific bodies are against you. Everyone has colluded together to put profit and money first, and the safety of humans last (not an unreasonable conclusion to make given the state of our medical industry). You, alone, are the thing that stands between children and suffering... (putting aside the obvious fact that having measles causes much more suffering, but bear with me here).

How does anyone convince this couple that they're wrong?
I agree with embracing hypercorrection (or at least, not getting upset about it), but it's also worth accepting that mispronounced loanwords can never really 'win' while the original language still exists, so there will always be a tension. 75m native French speakers will always win any argument about how to pronounce "grâce".
Agree - there was a lot of talk about Slack in our org, until everyone realised we had Teams already as part of O365 and it delivers on most of the use cases you set up from Day One.

It's actually pretty good for managing discreet work streams, and even for organising personal work (kind of against the "Team" ethos, but having a channel for myself keeps my work visible and tabs keep important things to hand easily).
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CPU Benchmarking Tools and Methods
I run CPU benchmarks to baseline systems on which I wish to tune my software. This is got me thinking a lot about CPU performance and proper benchmarking techniques. I want to know what is the current state-of-the-art when it comes to running CPU benchmarks. Do most performance engineers run the benchmarking software themselves on the system in question or do they use a reference performance data available from sites like userbenchmark.com, geekbench.com, cpuid.com?

These sites seem to allow users to benchmark their systems against reference implementations, in exchange for recording their scores.

I'd like to set something up like that internal to my own company, but I'd like to also know what kinds of databases are used for storing the performance data. Are there pre-existing, off-the-shelf solutions I can use which include analysis and reporting tools?

Thanks for the info!
For any particular IQ test, there can only be one population for which it is perfectly calibrated to yield an average of 100. Other populations e.g. in different countries will have different averages.

And of course the whole point of IQ tests is to be culturally biased, since it's about performing well on a particular set of tasks at the exclusion of others. If the illiterate farmer wanted to find out how smart someone is, they'd probably use completely different criteria.
Hm! Maybe it's all Windows specific then. That's a pretty polar opposite experience you got there.
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The UK has a different issue.
The size of the homes is just absolutely tiny even for the same number of bedrooms it has been shrinking and it shrinking still.

The houses in the article aren’t Victorian era detached houses that are being hogged they are fairly new built homes just big ones.

Also council tax even for a large house is often quite lower than 4K, stamp duty starts at 125K and between that and 250K it’s just 2%. So with the exception of London and a few other cities in not sure it’s what is preventing retired people form buying newer builds, the fact that the new build is likely considerably worse than the 80 year old house they live in just might be however.
I think there is alot more going on here than just some encrypted files.

The interim IT manager had to setup a new website for the city w/ new email addresses?

They lost control of DNS and registration of their domain, it seems.

SCADA systems for water pumps were inoperable.

Online payments no longer functioned.

This seems like a very premeditated attack to me.
Record Number of Honeybee Colonies Died Last Winter
What if the malware puts itself between the hardware and the filesystem?
While working as a consultant many years ago I started https://github.com/dma-ais/AisStore

It is an online high-available database (running on Cassandra) capable of archiving multiple terabytes of AIS-data with an insert rate of > 100.000 messages/minute. Besides the archiving mechanism is features an export tools, simple analytical capabilities based on time, geography and identity. In also supports simple real-time (less than 1 second) queries based on small time intervals, limited geographical areas, or single ships.

Besides AisStore there is a lot of other AIS tools in https://github.com/dma-ais Unfortunately, the department I was consulting for has been closed. So the projects are dormant.

Also happy to answer any questions.
Presumably Facebook could just reply with "our engineers are always trying out new ideas, but until they're announced, no detail is final, and we don't discuss possible future projects externally"
Many places outside of big cities are depopulating, have few decent jobs and services, and are still pretty expensive. If you are from the areas, have a family or an already decent career it might work, but for the majority it isn't a solution. And if people would actually would start moving somewhere else instead the same things would happens there.
He is the interim guy.

I wanna know what happened to the DNS records.
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I am sure you could have figured this out for yourself:

• May 5, 2019 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/android/66.0.4/release...

• May 7, 2019 (further fix that was for the master password thing) https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/android/66.0.5/release...
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There are still a lot of places in the UK outside of London that have plenty of jobs and are far more affordable.
Free for makers, 2000 validations per month. (We might increase the free tier limit, right now it's based on how many sockets we can connect to mail providers before our IP gets blocked)
Why does it need to be a major mechanic? It was a feature in Game Neverending and they used that to build Flickr.
It can be an engineering decision: write readable, easy to understand and reason about code.
you mean the nipple?
Wow, calling me a fraud and a scam artist based on these "facts"?..

The compiler has ZERO dependencies, as stated on the website. You can build it with `clang v.c`.

Do you really think the compiler needs glfw or freetype to function? It's for the graphics library to build things like the tetris.v example.

As for clang, It was made very clear that V compiles to C in addition to emitting native code, and that it's much more stable at the moment.

Hot code reloading will be available on June 22.

Cross compiling already works, and you saw this on twitter. How can you claim it's a lie? https://twitter.com/v_language/status/1137537130887077890
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> It is used in embedded systems such as the ARTIQ core device and ionpak. [1]

and

> ARTIQ (Advanced Real-Time Infrastructure for Quantum physics) is a leading-edge control system for quantum information experiments. [2]

[1] - https://m-labs.hk/smoltcp.html

[2] - https://m-labs.hk/artiq/index.html
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And they’re getting a tax break for their “philanthropy”. Quite a system we have in the US.