skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back in the usenet days it was said that 99% of users were readers and 1% were writers. The same is true for the web.

That is, I think "dark matter" developers read blogs but they just don't write them.

As for conferences, these are widely seen as a scam. I remember sitting through a presentation at the end of a conference by the platinum sponsor where I sat next to some tired defense contractors from the East Coast and then drinking in the hotel bar later with the director of marketing for the sponsor who thought that he hadn't gotten what he paid for.
I wish we'd just run out of oil already. At least then I won't have to worry about my senator pimping me out to some faceless suit in a high-rise 4,000 miles away.
re: WaitForMultipleObjects, finally something like that is likely coming to Linux:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/ck77gm/valve_propose...

> It's a shame really.

Well, yes, and of course, yet at the same time it's FOSS, so ... if someone really needed it, they should have proposed a patch. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
>"wouldn't Norway want to provide as much data as possible to help improve Lockheed's technology"

Given the article, I'd say that we know the answer to this and it is something of a resounding 'no' -

"Norway says it has become impatient with continued delays in the promised provision of a data “filter” by Lockheed Martin. So it’s started its own project to find ways to block its new F-35s from reporting back to their former US masters.

It’s also worried that it won’t be able to optimize — or protect — the extremely sensitive Mission Data Files. These data packs optimize aircraft performance under different conditions, as well as provide a database of regional challenges and conditions.

Again, Norway wants Lockheed Martin out of the loop."
Given that they got away with it for long enough to scam them for $370k worth of merchandise, I'd say their assumption of what was going to happen was more accurate than most people's assumption of what was going to happen.
A prime reason why other constellations have been deployed or are currently being deployed, such as GLONASS (Russia), Galileo (EU), and BaiDu (China). India I believe also has their own, but it's not global, just regional.
Slightly related: The "stone louse" is a trap like this, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_louse
We more or less know this concept to be a fact since the Snowden leaks. Alliances are very fluid things and it was already revealed that the US had infiltrated power and utilities companies in Europe and Japan and prepared kill switches in case they are needed in a conflict.

I imagine this is the general practice to make sure your own tech is not used against you. I am also not surprised that some people find it perfectly acceptable when coming from one side, and unacceptable when coming from another.

Reminds me of this: https://pics.onsizzle.com/nationalis-our-blessed-homeland-th...
I hope I can claim another $10,000,000/500,000,000 = jack shit from my PII being released again!
We could probably push to categorize google.com as spam/dangerous
Project North Star: Exploring Augmented Reality
Celebration of Light
>I see it increasingly more online and i wonder if one day it will seize the entire web. If it can't be stopped, that's a problem

How would it be unstoppable?

Google isn't a government. They don't own or control the web, nor do they have the force of law or men with guns pointed at web developers, forcing them to use AMP. It's no more likely to "seize the entire web" than ActiveX or Silverlight.
> You're probably not still looking for an answer

On the contrary! I think I got it, thanks.

Not sure which version is simpler though, I've certainly never hit the "Mutually referencing type parameters" issue before. I guess using concrete types and avoiding vtable lookups is an advantage that matters to Go?
I can't tell if you're joking, but I purchased a math text book as an undergrad that I needed last-minute as a Kindle ebook and it was an awful mistake, in part because of text reflow. You'd see a formula at the top of a page but days later when you went back to look for it it would now be at the bottom because the text had reflowed. It really threw things off.

There were other problems: the index was garbled and useless (it still had the page numbers of the paper book in it and the formatting was completely off), the text could be resized but the formulas were rasterized and did not scale with the text and were frankly hideous. This was form a major publisher. I'd much rather have had a PDF.

But for novels, changing font size and hence reflow of text are super nice.
i use bing and yandex for my image searches every time. google images is rubbish
> They don't own or control the web,

Really? name a long tail website that doesn't SEO for google
When Battlefield Surveillance Comes to Your Town
I cut my teeth as a teenager on an electronics assembly line by wiring up cable harnesses for marine operations, and the first 50 I made (out of about 1,000) were all rejected because I couldn't get the lacing right.

Spent a week learning to do it properly, and can still do it in my sleep. Its a very easy skill you'll never forget once you get it done (and approved on the production line..)

IMHO, the wax string in my toolbox is among the most important of devices, since it keeps things very neat and tidy.

To the point I find myself now as a grey-beard, teaching the kids how to do it.
Carlo M.Cipolla to the rescue, The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_M._Cipolla

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_M._Cipolla#/media/File:C...
I use Syncthing for this.

I have a computer that I use to play podcasts, and the subscription list (a file) is synced to my main computer, so I can edit it from there.

Syncthing is also on my Lineage OS phone (until my Librem 5 arrives) so I can have a shared Downloads folder.

In the past, I used it to sync a subset of my music collection to my work computer.

It's reasonably usable for a geek.
Do they care if the old API was working, if it didn't make them (enough) money?
Lol sounds like you know you're wrong.
Norway is way too small of a country to develop its own weapons and airplanes. It has 2% of the GDP that the United States has. The cost of the F-35 project would deplete the entire Norweigan sovereign wealth fund. Secondly, what is the likelihood that Norway gets into a war with the United States versus Russia?
Reading your comment I pictured Geohot attempting to jailbreak an f35. It made me wonder can you brick an f35?
I guess mainly the switch to 64-bit only
Given an expected normal distribution of soil dryness you can compare a given year's distribution.

> Any distribution can define a normal range relative to that distribution.

Any particular sample will always have a corresponding probability in a normal distribution. So what you're saying is kind of right- values always fall within the range of a normal dostribution. That's not what it means to be outside the normal distribution, though. If you have another year that only partly overlaps with the expected distribution, you'll have an area that does not overlap despite being within the same range. That area is the fraction of values outside the normal range.
Spanish scientists create human-monkey chimera in China
The Business of Sleep
I agree that we should move past 24fps. Panning shots judder to my eyes in a very unpleasant way, even if not panning particularly quickly. It's not just action shots that suffer at the low frame rate. If people hate it because they're used to 24fps, well, then they'll get used to a new standard soon enough.
Helsinki has a forest smack in the center going north. slightly to the east is another green corridor going northeast and ending in a National Park (Sipoonkorpi) .
There is another big national park (Nuuksio) just to the north west.

Helsinki central itself is sterile compared to actual forests.

Most of southern Finland however is deforested or wood plantations. About 5% of the area is natural state forest.
Basically why I haven't watched season 3 of The Expanse: I'm far from being an Amazon boycottist, but I refuse to enter any form of ongoing agreement that would make them a default choice or bring them closer to becoming one. I have never put even remotely as much thought into this as the author, but the central idea has been clear nonetheless: don't give away your wallet-vote in a bulk transaction, nothing good can come from this.
I agree with you about libel and slander, but the phrase “presumption of innocence” goes far beyond just watching what you claim to be objective facts.

For example, what if Alice thinks her employee Bob is dishonest, but he hasn’t been convicted of theft? Can she transfer him to a job that does not involve handling money or procurement?

I think, “yes.” Alice can decide that Bob is not a good fit for a job involving money and trust. Bob might then sue for “constructive dismissal” if the new position is not commensurate with his experience.

The lawyers are the only winners in most such lawsuits, so perhaps Alice settles with Bob. He quits and receives severance.

Bob then applies for a job with Carol. If Alice claims Bob was dishonest, Bob might sue Alice and win substantial damages.

Now what about Carol? What if she questions Bob about Alice’s clams and does not believe his explanation of events? Or if a number of people come forward during the ruckus to tell how they feel Bob was dishonest with them?

“Presumption of Innocence” for Carol would oblige her to hire Bob anyways: It means treating Bob as innocent of the accusations in every way until he is convicted in court.

I claim she has no such obligation. Perhaps it is imprudent of Alice to accuse Bob of dishonesty without being able to prove it, but nevertheless Carol has a right to decide for herself whether she wishes to hire Bob based on her own judgment.

tl;dr:

“Presumption of innocence” is a very strict standard that only applies to the state. People have a right to decide for themselves whether people are innocent or guilty, but just as you say, some actions based on those decisions come with tradeoffs and consequences.
When your game is to pick survivors, of course all your examples are going to be survivors.

In a gold rush, the objective isn't to make a ton of money. It's too keep enough of it after the bust so that you don't need to sell mine or sell shovels. I.e. to survive.
AMP itself is not the problem. It is actual one possible solution to the problem of heavy slow pages.

The problem is that it is tied to Google.

We don't need to destroy it, we need to make it into an open standard that all browsers and search engines can implement for the same benefits.
I've heard rumors of something similar about US anti aircraft systems, and this being a motivating factor in Turkey buying S-400s.
Can anyone recommend a resource that will teach me how to write a compiler for a statically typed compiled language? Pretty much every tutorial and resource focuses on dynamic interpreted languages. I want to learn how to implement a type system inside a compiler.
That's why I specifically referred to rotoscoping and compositing, not rendering. The artist has to edit frame by frame.
If you are taking into account the food consumption of the participants, why stop at one mode? What about the food consumed by the people involved in the production and fuel for cars and scooters? How much would you include? Is it the same for someone sitting at a desk vs someone working on a production line somewhere? Does the existence of a regular job on a car production line encourage larger families? It gets nuts fast which is why it doesn't really make a lot of sense to try to take into account food intake for various transportation modes.

If you do manage to convince someone to take their car rather than their bike then how can you be sure they are not going sneak off and get their daily exercise some other way? Normally exercise from walking/biking reduces the need for other exercise. In a sense the extra food cost is free.
I find having results in object form for CRUD API's most of the time is unnecessary, and this is a lot of what happens and people use ORM's for.

When I do need the data in object form I use what is probably an unpopular method for a lot of people, that is I build a serialize/deserialize solution (or use one already built). It isn't hard in either node.js or Go. It can add some fragility into the codebase, however, depending how it is implemented. Frankly though, I like this because essentially this is what an ORM would do too, just an ORM would be trying to build the query, guess on keys, indexes etc and then still serialize and deserialize my data, which again may not be ideal because of generic choices it has to make.

Also, a fairly common pattern for CRUD APIs is I do not need to map the returned data into an object ever, I simply need a json object to return. And at least when using postgres I can use jsonb_agg and to_jsonb to help make life really easy. MySQL has similar json functions. When doing updates the submitted json data is used to build the query so there is no need to really have things in native object form.

Hopefully that all makes sense.
The aggravating thing about CP/M systems in the late '70s and early '80s is that everybody ran same OS and processor and standard UART chips but each had their own floppy formats and few were interchangable. But serial ports were solid, so I wrote a simple 8080 CP/M transfer program called MFT that used simple checksums AND (drum roll!) also sent over file names and supported wildcards!

The bootstrap was that I had the 8080 assembler code formatted as debugger commands so you could push the 'source' over the link into a file and feed it into the debugger, patch in the port number for the serial UART chip, then save as an executable. It could have been a commercial product but I was too busy just using it to solve migration problems locally.
Apparently, in Austria, Eurofighter jets can't start until an NSA contractor on base types in an ignition key[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18642194

>In order for the 15 Eurofighters to start, Austria's federal army paid 1.5 million euros over three years to a private US security company. Now, the costs for those two "civilians" stationed at the Zeltweg airbase have been confirmed, who have to allow every start with the current US-"Crypto-Keys" for navigation and friend or foe identification.

The ministry of defense denies that the two Americans from a not named US company are NSA contractors. They claim the jets would fly without the keys but without encrypted navigation and communication. He also mentions the same situation for Sweden and Switzerland.
To help you, perhaps you can get the PDF from Library Genesis. Google "libgen", then enter the title or ISBN of your book.
Not every site on the web is a business that's concerned with SEO... and claiming that Google controls the visibility of online businesses is not a claim that they control the web.

And they don't even really control the visibility of online businesses, so much as have outsized influence over it. It's possible to run a business and not be the first search result on Google, and other search engines do exist, as well as other venues for advertisement and promotion.
I thought that cancer's existence was just a biological manifestation of the halting problem. Am I mistaken?
We’re pretty light touch. For an example, the biggest change a typical novel gets is amending “to-day” to “today”.
Unless specified in the contract, the US may not even get full source code for something produced by the defense industry for them.
MPEG does motion compensation for compression AFAIK, which is different to motion interpolation, which is what is being discussed.
> Well, yes, and of course, yet at the same time it's FOSS, so ... if someone really needed it, they should have proposed a patch. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It's a bit like doing I/O that doesn't throw your data away... just use O_DIRECT, bring your own I/O manager and page cache and scheduling and simply implement all the low-level compatibility stuff yourself if you need such a weird thing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
"Dark Matter Developer", what label is that for a developer doing his thing without going to conferences, doing blogs, etc..? This should not be on HN imao.
Economics is good to learn, just like other theories. My problem is when it's used to "prove" things.
The conquistadors and colonists were generally adventurers from impoverished regions of their home countries, engaged in extremely arduous military and quasi-military expeditions thousands of miles from home, so using them as a counter-example is a little odd; like using American soldiers stationed in a forward operating post in Afghanistan to judge the culture of hygiene in America.

I agree that the Internet has "amplified a certain contrarian tendency that goes too far", but I think that tendency is more evident in top-rated Hacker News comments than in the work of professional historians like the author of the article.
Genetic Endowments and Wealth Inequality [pdf]
It's just peculiar that all the director's named in that article and almost everyone I know who thinks in any depth about this issue disagrees with you.

It's conceivable I might "get used to it" but that's like telling someone who hates cilantro that that will "get used to it". They don't want to and neither do I.
Specificity is a classic sign of a a lie. In fact the inclusion of "hardwood" is one of the things that made it seem unnatural. Anyone that has a passing familiarity with woodworking expects it's a hardwood.
> The Dark Matter Developer will never read this blog post because they are getting work done using tech from ten years ago and that's totally OK

I thought I was a “Dark Matter Dev” until this. But then it’s weekend so maybe I still am.
> If the seller country have significant control on the control units of the war instruments sold to another country, and if the seller country is able to update/modify/ control/restrict devices over the air, won't that make the buyer country just an outpost of the seller country?

No. That would entail rather complete political control. Not just control over certain parts of the buying country's equipment. Still, it is clearly in the interest of the buyer to want more control over the equipment they buy, especially on such a delicate matter.
Why do developers at Google consider Agile development to be nonsense? (2016)
The second I saw this, I knew what I wanted: CSS transition to auto heights/widths.
I don’t understand this way of thinking. I despise Amazon in a variety of ways, but I think they do a great job in a variety of other ways. Wouldn’t it be reasonable for me to spend money on the parts I think are good, like Prime Video, and withold money from the parts I think are utterly stupid (anything Alexa-related)?

Assuming Amazon reacts to spending habits of its customers, wouldn’t I be more able to effect change that way (and also enjoy good services) than by a complete boycott that doesn’t tell Amazon why I am diverting money from them or which parts of their services I find deplorable?
That’s a restatement of the change not an explanation of it.

The context when religions say to kill people has changed, why?
If you look to history, this really is not the case. Part of UK military strategy from the beginning of empire to the present day, is to sell arms to the people that you end up invading.
I read a great piece of journalism a couple years ago about the miners in Potosí and the ecotourism associated with the area. Sadly I can't find a free version of it--here's a link to it for those interested: https://www.decastories.com/comeseethemountain/
Most of you who attack doctors have no idea how this complex health care system works. Doctors are UNDERpaid. A majority of the billing goes to overhead for the hospital facilities, nurses, labs, meds, administrators, etc, with doctors getting much less than 10% of the revenue even though they are responsible for generating most of it. Your resident doctor friend (who has way more qualifications than your software engineer friend - including top tier college, and medical school) gets paid about 60-70k a year for working at least 80 hours a week. Yes, the man or woman who assists in your brain surgery after your aneurysm popped gets paid less than your uber driver for 7 years time, and he sacrificed his/her best years to be a sleep deprived medical student and then brain surgeon working under constant rush and stress, as their 300k med school debt accumulated under high compound interest. Meanwhile, your mediocre software engineer friend graduates debt free, gets paid 160k out of college to build the next best sexting app, at a company with free lunch and gym.

Also, don't forget about the malpractices. 10 years down the line, your radiologist friend gets successfully sued for 11 million dollars bc the parents of a child for whom they read a chest radiograph decided to sue because lawyer convinced the parent and jury that radiologist was at fault for not saying the heart is enlarged and somehow that is responsible for all the kids ailments later on in life (the truth is much more complex than that). The radiologist probably got paid 7.50$ for that read, btw. This is actually a true story, look it up in the Boston Globe. Now all providers are on edge and overdiagnosing and overordering everything - who would want to miss a diagnosis.
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Economics is a failing discipline doing great harm – so let's rethink it
Container Networking with Vxlan, BGP and WireGuard
My question was simply about how much fun you experience using modern forums. I have never edited a post and thought it was fun.

Some people might say it's useful and others might say it encourages people to comment first and possibly focus on polishing the comment second.
Someone I knew wrote a little program that killed the ad window...
All great and admirable till you wakeup one day and find out no one read your cv because you have zero online presence.
>> interface between the management hierarchy

>> don't have time

that's your problem right there
It's not peculiar in the slightest when, as Upton Sinclair famously put it, "it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." The industry is under increasing financial pressure (e.g. see https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/01/why-hollywood-as-we-... ), so why increase costs when customers are still buying 24fps material?
They would be better served by helping to elect politicians who will preserv their civil liberties.
Any links you can share?