skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Interest helps a small portion of people, while harming the majority.

Would you rather that no one could get access loans? If you truly believe that position, it would very much undermines the autonomy and choice of the people without capital: businesses, individuals, start-ups, whatever.

If you think that interest is a bad thing, what is the alternative? Sharia finance? You wanna go back to times of usury laws? Or that Christians can't loan to other Christians?

What about government? You think there should only be negative interest rate bonds? What about the federal funds rate, LIBOR, T-note yields, etc? Do you have a coherent system that could replace these financial instruments?
I don’t think 16 and a half kuai is very decent, but these kids are mostly from rural areas so it might seem like a good deal to them.
That is pure nightmare fuel.
Exactly, noise can be removed or heavily in many problems and in this case you would then just upset regular customers.
I can imagine that quite a few would do this. If not at $4,600 I would guess the floor on something like this would probably be 2-3K. If you have the resources and you know that your chances are already good, why not? I would bet that you could also write this off too depending on your tax situation.

Would I pay for this? Probably not. Am I in a position to apply for a job at Amazon with a high likelihood of success, probably not.
I know the article says they can connect using Tor. But by reading that paragraph, I couldn't be sure if that allows the distributed hosting to continue working properly, or if it just allows access but defeats the distributed hosting functionality.
Good for you. But it's not appropriate
Four of the ten best performing US VCs are biotech funds
Most airlines show the same price on their site that I find on the aggregators. The exception is multi-itinerary tickets that can save money, but are risky since you are booking separate, multiple tickets.
Anyone else think this was a half-ass attempt at cheating ?
Yp! Read the news and as most of you drilled deeper. Never this device existed....
For many low-level languages, it's simply a matter of finding all malloc()s, checking the return value, and failing as appropriate. That can mean "not accepting this TCP request", "not loading this file", "not opening the new tab".

Or in the worst case, terminating the program (as opposed to letting Linux thrashing/freezing the computer for 20 minutes); but most programs have some "unit of work" that can be aborted instead of shutting down completely.

Adding those checks is some effort of plumbing, sure, but not terribly difficult work.

> Wouldn't you need to add several checks

In the case of C++, I'd say it's even easier, because malloc failure throws std::bad_alloc, and you can handle it "further up" conveniently without having to manually propagate malloc failure up like in C.

> Even Erlang with its memory safety

Memory safety is quite different from malloc-safety (out-of-memory-safety) though. In fact I'd claim that the more memory-safe a language is (Haskell, Java, or Erlang as you say), the higher the chance that it doesn't offer methods to recover from allocation failure.
From what I have gathered, it is pretty normal in America/English to call 16 years old "children" (although Guardian is from the UK), in contrast to Germany/German, where apparently they normally wouldn't be called "Kinder" but "Jugendliche". So maybe it is just a linguistic or cultural difference to your country.

Edit: I think it is also a method to differentiate K-12 schools from higher education. Although "college kids" does also appear to be used often in America (don't know about the UK). I am not sure whether "kid" and "child" can refer to different age groups.
In Haskell vs other languages, a large amount of your program is written using various forms of composition (function composition, applicative/monadic composition [sequencing of side-effects], monoidal composition [combining values], library-specific composition [e.g. Conduit =$=] etc).

The stuff you compose tend to be small functions that are easy to test & reason about.

The nice thing about composition in Haskell is that if you have correct program A & B, then the composition of A & B is also correct & easy to reason about.
At this point you are exhausting the presumption of good faith in two ways.

First, by omitting the immediately previous qualifier from your quote: "when it comes to fundamental OS services, seL4 is more than an order of magnitude faster...". This omission turns my correct claim into a plausibly false one, one which I have specifically disclaimed, in detail, in three separate comments in this thread already, in order to avoid the kind of confusion that could reasonably produce reactions like yours. The "benchmarks of software performing an actual useful task on both a mainstream OS and SeL4" you ask for are relevant to the plausibly false claim, but not to the correct claim I was actually making.

Second, you falsely claim that I am saying things without anything to back them up. This would be a legitimate criticism if I were talking about performance numbers for some kind of trade secret software, but in fact (with the exception of Microsoft Windows) all of the operating systems discussed here (seL4, FreeBSD, Linux, plausibly Fiasco.OC and Mach) are open source and have abundant published benchmarks, including many in the seL4 papers published by the dude whose blog post we are discussing. There is a very great deal of freely available evidence.

In short, you are lying about what I am saying, and you are lying about the available evidence for evaluating its veracity. Therefore I think the presumption of good faith on your part in this conversation can be soundly dismissed.
Solar Powered Raspberry Pi Camera
I hope you don't mind a couple of questions, my daughter(8) has been asking to play Roblox as a lot of her friends are on it.

Being an engineer, I know full well that "filtering and pre-reviewing content" is pure marketing BS. That said, while I'm not delighted with the possiblities of adult content and in-game currency scams, I might not let that stop her from playing.

But predators - I'm planning on 'white listing' her chat options so she can only chat with known friends. Are there any vulnerabilities there?

I also am worried about how obsessed she could get. I'm willing to keep a close eye on it - unfortunately she's probably going to start obsessing about online games sooner or later, and perhaps the best time to start talking about it is now - while she still trusts my judgment - than later when she's ( possibly ) a surly teen.
Atari ST's TOS had it's own mascot, J.R. "Bob" Dobbs, in the high ASCII range of its system font: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._%22Bob%22_Dobbs
Cloud Services Dockerflow Specification
This is a surprise?
When I commented the link in GP's comment was pointing to Adguard Home [0], the PiHole like solution. See screenshot where you set up the blocklists.

[0] https://adguard.com/en/adguard-home/overview.html which takes you to: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome
Same issue with Twitter - their golden goose sometimes lays rotten eggs. But people flock to the platform to see the spectacle.

Balancing moderation with profitability seems to be a real challenge for a lot of companies.
lol that was good
I'm not super convinced.

Wouldn't it be nicer if I can easily make it fail e.g. the current request, instead of crashing the process completely?
Acesleep+Mattress+Huge+Reduction+In+Price
I've long had a love-hate relationship with Delany's writing. He has perhaps the greatest amount of sheer verbal talent of any writer I'm acquainted with. Simply calling his work "lyrical" doesn't do it justice. He's a true poet who writes long fiction.

And he's used speculative fiction to brilliantly explore various social topics - including homosexuality - during a time when such explorations were unwelcome.

But to his detriment, he seem to be quite a. . . well, a pervert, in the most classical sense. I actually think that Delany delights in shocking his readers with detailed depictions of disgusting acts.

Reading his novel Hogg quickly becomes a kind of self-inflicted endurance test. It's just a non-stop description of graphic descriptions of murder, child molestation, incest, coprophilia, coprophagia, urolagnia, anal-oral contact, necrophilia, and rape. It's not that there's any one scene or act that's mind-blowingly horrible. It's more just the staggering quantity, and the unrelenting pace. There is literally not a single page in the book that does not describe some sexual or violent act. I found myself exhausted after each sitting, and extremely relieved when I finally reached the end of the book.

Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders, his most recent major novel, is more of the same. (With the addition, I suppose, of sexualized booger-eating.)

The Tides of Lust is a study in pedophilia and sadomasochism.

A recent long essay of his in a major online publication (I can't seem to find it now) has Delany intimately describing his attendance at geriatric sex parties in random hotels. He lingers on the scene where he kisses a toothless man, describes the taste of his semen. etc. It's not educational or poetic. Again and again his desire seems to be to shock the reader.

And he has a record of defending NAMBLA.

He's a genius, no doubt - but my totally non-professional opinion is that he has something like histrionic personality disorder. And I certainly wouldn't trust my kids around him.
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Is Behaving Strangely
The Art of Computer Programming contains all the introduction necessary for someone who has never written a computer program. It even explains the flowchart thing. A better analogy might be trying to read TAoCP without knowing algebra.
> The way to read the claims, as I understand it, is everything within a single claim is a logical AND in order to infringe the claim, and dependent claims require everything in the parent claim as well as everything in the subsequent one to hold true.

This is how it's supposed to be, but with today's courts/lawyers does it actually hold up? I remember reading that in the Apple v. Samsung lawsuit that the jury ruled Samsung violating certain claims of specific Apple patents, but not all the claims of each, in their final judgement. I think an infringing judgement was even made on some dependent claims when the independent claim wasn't deemed as infringed upon.
Once you get over the learning curve, Haskell becomes the best tool for most jobs. The main reason I've _not_ used it is ecosystem (e.g. if Go or something has a library for some API that Haskell doesn't)

For instance, you could make a video game in Haskell. It has SDL2 bindings, plenty of networking libraries, best-in-class support for DSLs (user scripting), and you can even write the music for your game itself in Haskell!
Hey there. I've read the first half of GEB at least four times. It's only the last 50% I've never read.
Don't worry, they've got a firewall so hot that no hackers can get close enough to hack it.
Sure it is. Lower efficiency means you need more panels, larger panels, and more support infrastructure. It limits where it can be deployed and makes it less competitive.
If you trace the origin of most of these low meat consumption pushes, its often vegan groups with an agenda trying to get the governments ear. Problem is, the recommendations and studies they site don't stand up to real scrutiny. For example they often say you should not exceed the RDA for meat consumption, without realizing that an RDA is the bare minimum to not be nutrient deficient. It is by no means the optimal level of protein consumption and likely a detrimental recommendations for the vast majority. When called out on it, they will pull the GHG card, but at 3% of US GHG emission even that doesn't stand up to scrutiny. Then they pull the morality card, without realized that row crop harvest kill vastly more small animals per harvest. Its all rooted in bias, plane and simple. The most vocal are the vegans and they make a convincing surface argument.
yeah its out of print. find it online or get it from a library
Consumer Reports Car Brand Reliability Rankings [pdf]
But... why? Google is refunding passengers, not the airlines. The airline already sold an expensive ticket thanks to Google.

Why in the world would you attack a business partner that brings you customers in such a strange way?
No, signatures have nothing to do with this. The ml models embedded in those products (and what is evaluated on Virustotal) can flag legit software that has had a RAT executable inserted in it by modifying the binary. The ml models are trained on thousands of features, and are pretty good at classifying malware. USCYBERCOM has been tweeting APT malware that was not seen by these models or anyone in the public, and yet was still flagged. https://twitter.com/CNMF_VirusAlert . That would be completely impossible if these products were relying on signatures. Regardless, the entire point I was making in my original comment is that this article is far from clickbait nonsense, because you have a chance, significant from what I've seen, of flagging something like the backdoored pieces of software I linked or never before seen malware like in the tweets above because the malware exists as compiled code. JavaScript is currently not evaluated whatsoever by ANY software security product, so the chances of it being flagged and blocked is 0. Signatures and polymorphism are 10 years ago quite frankly. Backdoored Slack exfilling data in steganographic images over https to giphy.com and instagram and twitter and shit is one future realm of malware. Both the binary and the network traffic are completely indistinguishable from legitimate usage.
> a real challenge for a lot of companies

You imply that the problem can be "solved", but how can it be if users and advertisers have competing interests?
this is promoting a logical fallacy in the belief that there exist a perfect system. this is the same argument that many who are trying to deregulate the government have with the ultimate intention of privatizing everything.
Linux was quite usable in 4MiB 25 years ago. Just give yourself a minimal busybox environment for rescue activities.
I also did some googling and reached broadly the same conclusion as you. However I don’t know that I’d use the word "any”. It sounds like life-threatening animal allergies are, at the very least, much rarer than life-threatening food / medicine allergies. Though I wasn’t super satisfied with any of the sources I found, so I’d love to see some data about it.
It's important to mention that the current-ish (started 10,000 years ago in the Younger Dryas) warmth of Interglacial era made us able to settle down and practise agriculture. Before that, for millions of years - we're stuck as Hunter-Gatherers, forever in the mercy of Nature.

Perhaps in the days of tomorrow, we will once again be in the mercy of Nature? Of course not, as long as we retain our technologies. Ergo, even if you (and I agree) don't think climate change will doom humanity as a whole, I'd still be sympathetic to rational campaigns reducing it's effects.
I'm sure Tony knows more, but one I've heard about is fishing. It's not legal to just fish anything anywhere. Poachers have an incentive to avoid monitoring and enforcement.
That's also partly on the airline. I recently had a similar experience with a ticket booked through I think Expedia. Bags on the return flight were supposed to be included. When we checked in, the machine wanted to charge for bags. We showed the agent the booking email, she made a quick call, and waived the bag fee. It was odd to me from the start that bags were included only on the return flight, but I attributed it to international travel.
It seems to me that CEOs are often hired specifically for their ability to cheat and get away with it.
Is Your Business a Startup?
This principal of reserving resources for OAM is also something people should really think about in the network too. Provide some dedicated resources for OAM traffic. I’ve seen too many people be anti-QoS for no real reason (it’s too complicated for them, or surprisingly common is they believe QoS is for “dumb enterprises” or for “legacy telco service providers not us cool new guys”). This includes one very large well known cloud provider that still resisted this even after traffic from multiple DOS events interrupted their monitoring and management access.
Honestly? It probably does. Much less so than learning the actual language built-ins first, but it does. I'm just biased because I consider them more of a pain than anything because of my personal experience with them.

Memorizing multiplication up to 100 will also make you faster at calculating stuff in your head, but I couldn't ever be bothered to do that either.
I’m not an expert - but I understand that while this is true (generator loss causes frequency to drop), this drop in frequency can in turn trigger actual “power outages” for users.

Automated systems respond to sagging frequency by shedding loads - reducing the demand for power, so that the frequency can increase and a new equilibrium can be achieved. The goal is to avoid an uncontrolled cascade across the power network as demand outstrips supply; this is substantially harder to manage than a short interruption.

The UK does have battery-powered frequency management services, but it looks like it was quite a large and sudden drop in generation capacity that caused this deviation, and it took several minutes before it was back to normal. Not totally sure what it was yet, but sounds like a gas turbine generator suddenly tripped, along with a nearby offshore wind farm, taking out about a gigawatt of capacity that normal frequency stabilisation couldn’t handle, resulting in load shedding.
White House proposal: FCC and FTC would police alleged social media censorship
War and drugs: Together since forever
> involves the current level of poverty worldwide

Yup - poverty has been dropping worldwide over the last 30 years and billions have been lifted out of poverty. These are the good times.
Red bots do it better: comparative analysis of social bot partisan behavior
David Stove's "what is wrong with our thoughts" is tremendous. And accessible.
>Would you rather that no one could get access loans?

If they had interest then yes.

>If you truly believe that position, it would very much undermines the autonomy and choice of the people without capital: businesses, individuals, start-ups, whatever.

Without interest the amount of capital those groups would need would significantly decrease. I'm willing to sacrifice a reasonable amount of autonomy in order to stop people burning themselves and devaluing the earnings of others.

>If you think that interest is a bad thing, what is the alternative? Sharia finance?

The alternative is a number of things working together, sharia finance yes, the end of fiat currency, guaranteed minimum income to get those without capital to a point where they can contribute to society and a restoration of trust based society so that those with close bonds will be more likely to loan to each other interest free and out of good will (this is probably the most difficult of the three but I have some ideas).
Southwest don't distribute indirectly to leisure travellers, so you won't find them in any booking tool (except corporate travel mgmt solutions)
Launching PredictEvery, which predicts sports games and stocks etc.
I agree, USA other than protecting its interests, thinks that all countries have the same attitude /laws. USA will charge you with murder for providing someone a car but thinks that top GS execs didn't know /approve deals for billions of dollars.
I was thinking it might be a domestic Canadian flight. The high average price and high variability fit the standard pattern for our domestic flights as well.
How do you want Google to show you your trips and your travel research (e.g search queries) if you disable search history?

If you don't want to see your search history (since you seem adamant on disabling it), then just use the other features on google.com/travel (destination/hotel/flight search).
I believe there was a startup that offered this as a paid service, using some sort of price prediction algorithm
You missed the point. It’s a demo doing trivial bgp stuff that hasn’t changed for 15 years.

It’s like someone doing a demo on some text processing where they use grep and the top comment is some jerk saying that map-reduce would be better because some new large systems use it and it’s being actively developed.
Nano tubes are super expensive
After a long time, I have finally launched PredictEvery. The tagline is "Disrupting probability".

It's software (running on a webserver) which can predict future results, with an algorithm that takes binary data as input (say 10101000111) and outputs a binary guess (1 or 0) which in most cases shows a good accuracy. For instance, if a guess's accuracy is 15%, it is better than a casino's roulette game (5.2% house edge). This means it's powerful enough to beat a lot of games of chance.

But also it works with many other things.

Be sure to read the 'welcome' page.
There was a case not too long ago in India where a serial rapist kept evading conviction, so the women in the town gathered together, stabbed him to death, and then all confessed to the crime together. None of them ended up being convicted.
Well, for what it’s worth, if you purchase an exploit and use it to hack phones and then trade on the info you steal, I don’t think there would be any insider trading charges involved.

Lots and lots of other charges but if no insider is giving you info then it wouldn’t be insider trading.

What would be 100% legal would be if you bought an exploit and then traded on the release of that exploit. Depending on the severity of the exploit it could move the stock price a bit. And, even though people wouldn’t like it, that’s kind of the point of the market. You get rewarded for helping with information and price discovery.
It is managed by the reptilian brain, not the neocortex. Unfortunately is the neocortex that pays bills :D
It's been a while since someone's made good use of the HN poll feature.
Highlights from Persistent Programming in Real Life 2019
They were actually in a great position until they bailed out Elon’s other company Solar City. Its one of the most blatantly unethical deals I’ve ever seen and the company has been in a perilous position since then.
"Win if you can, Lose if you must, but always cheat." Jesse Ventura via Werner Herzog.
I'm with the mob on this one. As another comment put it, he was tried by a jury of his peers... if the justice system cannot help you then you have to take things into your own hands.

Might be hard for all us city slickers on HN to fathom, particularly when these sorts of country towns are frequently mocked or derided by people like us.
I would prefer Chapoly to GCM.

https://latacora.micro.blog/2018/04/03/cryptographic-right-a...
Confirmation bias - media always reports on bad apples.
No. If a multi-billion dollar company completely overturned its revenue model, it wouldn't be the same company anymore. And the billions of people who have used their services for years wouldn't be happy with suddenly having to pay. Can some subscription services work for some people and some products some of the time? Sure. But Google has so many services, coming to so many people for free, and making them so much money from ads, that even the hypothetical is ridiculous.
Maybe my feelings here are colored by PHP being my primary lang, but I read both functions purpose as "remove the empty values from this array" with a language-level difference on what "empty" is defined as. PHP's "empty" includes both nulls and false-y values.

Whether you want to call it the "same" function or "similar" function, lodash's excellent docs reveal its functionality quite handily if someone's confused by it.
I heard they also cheat at golf
The airlines are in a very adversarial relationship with Google. They're scared that google will take away their direct distribution channel by being better than they are.