skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Mutable shared state" is precisely what the Rust compiler checks for. Mutable state (in sequential code), no problem. Shared immutable data, OK. But as soon as you inadvertently mingle both the compiler will notice, and demand that you deal with the issue (by explicitly serializing access, and/or by using lightweight runtime checks that ensure you're not "sharing" anything that shouldn't be - this is what happens when you use Rust's 'interior mutability' facilities).

And because these places are explicitly marked in the code, it's easier to audit them for bugs, same as with 'unsafe'. "Posting messages" is just another way of sharing non-mutable data, Rust has facilities to help you do that as well.

By the way, this is why the "borrowck interferes" quip is only true if you haven't internalized the things BC checks for. Once you have done so, you understand how it helps. The slow compiler is an issue unfortunately, but that only affects code generation - the static checks Rust does are quick and easy. Besides, "if it compiles it works", right?
Coase and theory of the firm? How does that turn into a risky bet? (Asking for understanding not for challenge)
Futurebook: A parody website from the Open Rights Group
If they could buy elsewhere why did they build the software to begin with?
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They pop up on DSN too - https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html
> Resale - By putting stickers on my laptop, I am either going to have to try to remove them again once I come to selling it, lowering my resale price because the laptop isn’t in near pristine condition.

Small remark, I've been rocking stickers on my macbook for years now and have "clean" periods in between, you can take stickers off the aluminum without any issue, and the few times I've had residue left it's easy to take it off with some alcohol or iso. After this it's 100% clean and you can't see there have been stickers on it, it's no issue at all
If you aim for zero downtime there will be a point where the complexity work against you. for example: load balancer goes down, corrupted state due to two different versions running simultaneous, a bottleneck causing congestion, etc.

My favorite "load balancing" for web-pages is using "DNS round robin" where you add several A records, and the browser automatically try another IP if the request fails.
>The EU laws have allowed these companies to avoid taxes

It's the lack thereof. Regulators / Lawmakers aren't paid thousands by the hour to find and cover loopholes, and also cannot see the future. Unlike a Google, who is willing to pay someone millions to find loophole. It's a one-sided battle that giant corporations will always win.

>I don't think this will workout greatly for France. France solution to everything seems to be: "Put a tax on it". The EU needs to get its crap together.

EU or France, which is it? This initiative is coming out of France, not the EU. What did the EU do wrong this time? Did you forget that the EU is what enables these corporations to easily enter and seamlessly expand within one of the largest shared economies? If it wasn't for the EU, the work companies would have to expand would exponentially increase, due to many different regulations, taxation, tariffs, etc.

You are somehow using the protectionist actions of a member of the EU to paint the EU as the roadblock/point of incompetence, when really it does the exact opposite.
Saw this live in Miami at IOHK’s conference. They had a VR version setup for the public. A beautiful interactive tech art rendering that visualizes the “living creature” an active blockchain resembles.
I'm asking because I'm considering developing an Erlang-like approach to message-passing concurrency for Rust.
The Most Clever 'Zip Bomb' Ever Made Explodes a 46MB File to 4.5 Petabytes
Well, you're free to deploy like this (but you probably know why it's a very bad idea).
I get your point and generally agree fiat is not backed by much more tangible than BTC’s math. To be fair, plenty of people trade US dollars for US political power. Lobbying, 500k speaking fees, PACs, Charity “Foundations”. You and I can’t trade in those markets because we don’t have enough dollars (or have too many scruples)
What is the Open Document Format (ODF) and how is it developed?
Fuzzing DNS Zone Parsers
You're kind of confirming a feeling I have.

I am a daily cyclist and I started strictly following the rules after being scared by an accident I had. I realized eventually that I don't feel safer by following the rules. In fact there are a lot of days when I feel even more in danger than before (namely: rain days and friday nights).

I used to think that was because of the shock from the accident.

I'd like some material on that if you happen to know about it.
I am also interested in moving to Munich at some point, could you tell me more about the state of the biking infrastructure? Is it practical to use cycling as your main transportation method around the city? What about recreationally - i.e. biking outside the city, to a nearby village?
The Swiss Army knife flat toothpick (Victorinox) is also the perfect tool to get dust out of USB-C sockets. If your USB-C cable doesn't "click" in to your phone anymore there is probably dust stuck in there deep.
Which wasn't a bad thing after all. I've had more incidents with deployment pipelines than with the actual code.
It seems like city drivers prefer that cyclists move forward in the queue rather than stop in the middle of the lane 5 or 6 cars back in line.
How to Flirt Without Being Perceived as a Creep? (Anarcho Agony Aunts)
DJB and Tanja Lange believe that Quantum Key Distribution is snake oil cryptography not based on the "law of physics" as its proponents say it is:

https://twitter.com/hashbreaker/status/689115480267816960

https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.04520
You are right, I have no idea. Would you care to elaborate?
This looks very useful. I'm currently using localtunnel.me for this but will definitely give this a try too and subdomain option sometimes doesn't work on localtunnel.
I wonder what it would take to attach a booster to an asteroid and bring it in earth orbit
Future Data Centers: Upgrade the traditional to manage future’s data scale
At least the neural networks were at some point self-assessing and self-modifying, and plausibly could be said to “learn” something. Here it seems more plausible to say that the humans learned what structure to produce than that the glass did.

But you’re right, I think many “AIs” shouldn’t really be named that either!
After 4 years of self-funded coding marathons I feel “finished” (2010)
How is the US in peak poverty? That graph clearly shows the poverty rate being way lower than in '59-65, and lower than at many points since then.
There was a nice thread about these discoveries on physics stack exchange
https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/484675/does-the-...
> If I recall correctly, the first actual interpreter was written in Haskell (by Audrey Tang).

Yup!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pugs_(programming)
> A painted bike lane provides no sense of security, and is for the most part completely ignored by car drivers.

If car drivers completely ignore a painted bike lane, that needs to be followed up by the police. So they need to be part of the experiment :) I agree that solid barriers are often better, esp. on roads with high speeds, but where I live painted bike lanes work in many cases.

> a switch to cycling needs to be systemic

I think there's room for experimentation before the systemic shift - e.g. find one residential area and one commercial that many travel between, make good, temporary bike lanes and paths between them, let those that want borrow bicycles for the duration of the experiment and see what happens. If it works, make it permanent and move on to new places.

("one area" can obviously be "a few areas", and the commute can be to a school/university/whatever, and there could be a grocery store on the way, and...)
> frankly to not look like it's working and making any advance at fixing them.

yes and no. It appears that nothing is done to prevent or fix since mainstream media do not report anything.
The US has the largest number of doctors of "functional medicine", which contrary to the rest, seek to find the root causes of disease, and many times find them and restore health with supplements, probiotics, life style changes and toxin avoidance.
For the hardliners that deny functional medicine, I recommend to read about the full story of Dr Terry Wahls. TL;DR a professor with the best treatment for MS by many top doctors deteriorated to being in a wheelchair and she cured herself by reading the scientific literature, understanding the whole body and doing a different treatment. She now treats MS patients who who has heard of her? So fixes exist but are unknown.
It’s fun and makes it recognisable easily. Same reason I do it.
Visualize team email network with new MIT tool
I think they're just thinking longer term. They're looking to better batteries down the line. With solid state batteries the weight of the battery pack will go down because they'll need fewer safer measures, the energy density will go up, and the range will increase.

They won't have to change the platform much to accommodate newer batteries, so why engineer this small city car for a physically bigger battery pack now?

The Honda e is a similar small car with low range. They're also looking ahead to better batteries to improve the range without changing the platform too much.
> Other companies to spin out businesses from internal tech efforts include Choice Hotels International Inc., which offers a cloud-based reservation system for hotelier

As if travel companies spinning off CRS systems is something new... every single train/airline/hotel reservation system out there is a direct or indirect spinoff from an internal company product
What about RAM? I bought 32GB of DDR4 ECC server RAM for the same price Apple charges for an 8GB upgrade. Nope, they still charge $200 and $400 for 8 and 16GB upgrades.
>I don't see the point of advertising companies for free. My support would be more in terms of using their services (paying, yes) than paying and also putting stickers on my laptop.

So you won't advertise for free, but you'll pay the company to advertise for them?
Y'know, it was the arrival of IoT and consumer 3D printers (and drones, etc.) that really killed the maker movement for me. After Make Magazine started devoting every other issue to consumer products that cost $500 and up, I finally conceded that the Maker movement had become a firmly upper middle class pastime, and canceled my subscription.
What was that startup called that used phrenology as a positive argument for their facial recognition software?
Welp, that explains it. I stand corrected. Thanks.
Well, it’s literally malware.
I've been remote for a long time, and this is completely normal. Not universal, but normal enough that I wouldn't complain about it.

I even strive to keep it more separate than that. I have both my work and personal laptop KVMed to the same monitor/mouse/keyboard, and I'll switch over to the personal one for most general web browsing. I use Slack to send links/files to myself if there really is a need to share something between the two, because of course we aren't allowed to put USB drives in the work system either.

It feels extreme when you start working this way, but you get used to it, and I've even grown to appreciate the complete wall between work and home.
A typical block has on the order of 1000 transactions and they occur on average once every 10 minutes.

The 30k number that the website gives in the beginning is talking about the number of transactions that have not yet made it into a block but are currently being replicated among nodes in the network. Each transaction includes a bounty to be paid to the miner that includes it in a block. Most of these 30k pending transactions have a low fee and are usually ignored by most miners, but may eventually make it into one when an altruistic miner manages to mine a block, or when a greedy miner has no better options. If they don't make it into a block relatively soon, nodes will stop replicating them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_racism

If statistics and physiognomy reveal uncomfortable truths about our society, we should be receptive to the issues and proactively work towards positive solutions, rather than sticking our heads in the sand. This is fake news.
It's wrongly titled, and a very weird "if I rant enough then that's as good as science" piece of writing mixing at least 3 distinct threads of thought in to one unholy melange.

Twice, as far as I properly read - it wasn't edifying - they used a technique of quoting a scientific researcher and then using a "summarising" sentence that was an extreme and unsupported version of what was actually said. For example:

>"This is because physiognomy is junk science — criminality is written neither in one’s genes nor on one’s face."

... except that's the contention that the science has to prove, asserting as a fake summation doesn't make it true.

There are some interesting thoughts in there however.
My development/deployment stack for freelance projects
Resetting Your GE Smart Light Bulb
- what works in Japan may not work in other countries because of culture difference. Case in point, while on the bike lane (in Paris), the kind that is at the same level as the sidewalk, just next to it, even after ringing my bell like a madman, some pedestrians just won't move off of it. They just can't grasp the fact that they are on the bike lane AND that they should move out of the way.

- the "ways of the road" you talk about is a wonderful myth that everything work correctly. When you look at the stats, countries where it's more a free for all tend to have higher road death/injuries.

- cyclist everywhere wants infrastructure that protects them against 2-tons metal boxes as much as possible, and laws that respect the fact that they are NOT 2-tons metal boxes with an engine. Absent that, only a tiny minority of people will dare take a bicycle anywhere.
That doesn't solve the problem because the webserver continues to run even if you have uninstalled Zoom.

Source: https://medium.com/bugbountywriteup/zoom-zero-day-4-million-...
My answer is usually in the error. If not I made a design flaw.
Take a look at Naomi Wu. I think he's referring to her archetype when he mentions cosplay at a maker faire.
The problem is that Apple appears to have made an exception to its own rules in this particular case. If I understand correctly, they used a first party system update mechanism to change third party software.

I don't see anything in the article that suggests this - as I read it, it pretty much says the opposite. What else have you read that outlined these rules and the exception Apple made?
Are these acceptable in the workplace?
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Perhaps so, but I was absolutely correct on the response.
The "likes/comment" notification is still chronological.
And if you follow around more than 300 accounts, then it's quite difficult to spy.
But if you follow only selected few people(say <50), then yes, it is much easier to spy.
They also published a magazine 6 times a year, many tutorial books (I have acquired a few over the years) and publishing lots of DIY project guides online.
O god yes. I went to the same NYC maker faires. It was completely absurd how many were just 3d printers rehashed.
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It’s mentioned in the article. Faceception.
Chromium doesn't include the proprietary Widevine DRM. You can patch it in though, which is what I do.
Could the olivine found on the moon be suitable for use in this application?
I love that the name for their storage room is very Indo-Germanic:

yakh-chal
ice-hole
Eis-Kuhle

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakhch%C4%81l

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%DB%8C%D8%AE%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%8...
Okay, that makes waaay more sense. Thanks for explaining.

Do I understand correctly, though? If I want to send a small amount of bitcoin, with a minimal fee, there is a possibility that that transaction won't go through, because no miner picks it up?
The index related issues themselves should be a show stopper. I couldn't believe it until I ran into other people saying the same thing, but having secondary indices on your tables slows writes down by something like an order of a magnitude.

I've yet to see an OLTP system that doesn't use secondary indices on tables. And if your workload is OLAP, there are far better relational tools.
I appreciate Apple's handling of these issues, but is there a local log or something where you can see all such "secret" updates?

Edit: Apparently there is:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20409200
Yep, free TLS and free domains.. and it is completely open source. Contributions are welcome too.
Catamorphisms are more general than reducing an array, e.g. evaluating down a tree structure (or any other recursive datastructure) is also a catamorphism.
Right, but when you try to report a busted macOS API to Apple that breaks your app, you have to walk on egg shells...
This whole saga and how it played out is the final nudge I needed in my decision to move completely from Android/PC to Apple
We don't know if they worked to begin with. That region of space is unexplored, there is no baseline to compare with to see if the instrument gives sensible data.
Practical Psychology for Data Scientists
Quote: "Then you can delete the ~/.zoomus directory to remove the web server application files."
For me the most annoying bit is how it’s impossible to do any action others than accepting or declining the call on the iPhone. It’s basicall a phone DOS.
> Original security article: briefly touches on CORS

> Follow up article: that thing about CORS is not right

> Hacker news top level comments: that article's not quite right

> First child comments: tlc is also not exactly right

I feel like I understand CORS even less now. Article title is right, I don't understand CORS.
Can containers better fit into this? Will it be better to couple it with a service discovery/publishing too (say consul, to make endpoints of multiple apps easily accessible)?

Is there something that does this already, by any chance? (I might not have come across that!)
I see a surprising lack of parenthesis for something related to Guix. What's the story behind it?
210k-year-old skull in Greece is earliest sign of modern humans in Europe, Asia
Everything is racist!
Everyone's a bigot or so it would seem,
Everything's unfair!
When you're living the American dream!
> Somehow journalists make headlines when this happens.

Journalists make the headlines because journalists make the headlines.
If you can't buy elsewhere, and don't care about keeping the software internal as your unique selling point, arguably the right thing to do is to open source it. That way you make sure it stays around, and attract third parties to support it. But there's also a lot of internal software around that wouldn't yield any benefit from either spinning off a profit-seeking business to commercialize it, or open sourcing.
1. Unscrew bulb.
2. Toss in trash.
3. Replace with ‘dumb’ bulb.
I imagine they still are, and the fact we dont really recognise it is a testament to their success.
Correct, but it needs to be said loudly in a zombie-esque manner.
There are talks by the creators presented at FOSDEM that go into the development of the workflow language.

https://archive.fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/guixworkflowm...

https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/guixinfra/
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I think you answered your own questions right there, but there is a little more juice to squeeze: legal writing had limited domain of interest and is just "the person who observes these fact commits them for transmission". Whilst the other writing (it seems from how you couched it) has a cultural aspect to it, [more] personality in the writing, broader interest and possibly for entertainment or general education.

We value our personalities, our distinctiveness, more than we value our characteristics that are shared with others. Anything that's creative in an artistic way we see as being more valuable that things we produce simply by being conduits of information -- making up a joke and telling it and getting a laugh feels much better than telling someone else's joke and getting a laugh.

You want credit for the cultural value but not the mere ability to transmit information, the later being something that's essential inherent in your physical make up, the former being creative output of your personality and more unique characteristics.

A simpler way to look at it is that if people can make money from something then it's valued by society. You seek recompense for the value you add because you've been trained to do so.
Eh, what an ignorant point of view, sorry to be blunt.

Tests and assertions can only protect you from bugs you already assumed can happen, and they can protect you from the same bug happening again under the exactly same circumstances. They are completely useless for unexpected, unreproducible bugs which only happen when the stars align the right way.

Logging is a bit more useful but has some of the same problems, you only know what to log when you know what bugs to expect.
See sibling comment for underwhelming punchline. You will be disappointed.
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No, this is not about people like Naomi Wu. She is a maker and she can dress as she likes. The German Maker Faire has actual cosplayers, and some of them have put an enormous amount of time into their costumes and so they fit well into something like Maker Faire. However, there are also these "romantic Middle Ages" people and yes, sometimes also scantily clad women. It's really no big deal, though.
That is correct, there is a maximum number of transactions that can occur on the main Bitcoin chain (it was ~7/second at the beginning, and I think it still is) so there is effectively an auction to get on the chain.

As ignaloidas explained in another comment though, this doesn't include the Lightning Network which is where most everyday transactions would occur.
I don't question the security benefit. I think you're absolutely right that the users always come first. The production system and its data was never running inside the company network and is protected additionally.

I feel it'll be a loss of usability since they want to have a one-size-fits-all laptop. The model I've seen is noisy and a bit heavy. Suddenly having to carry one every single day irks me a bit. Having to (un)plug monitors and periphery at home is going to be additional effort (but explicitly allowed). Not saying it's not worth it (and somewhat complaining on a high level), but it is a loss of comfort.
It seems that Dark is designed to allow you to wrap external APIs in easy-to-use interfaces, so it should be at home as part of a larger SOA or ecosystem, of course with the caveat that it's still being developed. See the footnote at https://medium.com/darklang/dark-residency-7dbc878a5f0a .