skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice read, and I think it likely that the article describes how things will be in the future. re:

> by large margins, Americans feel dissatisfied with the course of national events—and by even larger margins, they feel satisfied with and connected to local institutions and city governments

This. Ever since the economic collapse of the Soviet Union, I have been unhappy with resource allocation by the US federal government. I am happy and proud to pay local and even state taxes. I think that the very large amount of federal taxes that I pay goes to some expenses that I don’t approve of.

Since retiring this year, I am putting much more effort into my community, mostly volunteering at our local food bank. It is difficult to overestimate the value of local networking.
One of the problems with (and arguments against) carbon taxing is that you'd have to apply it globally to maintain a level playing field.

Companies will not accept a carbon tax unless it is applied fairly.

Having the accounting in place increases trust in the fairness of the system. Also it will enable a more fertile ground for political discussion, as more information will be available.

Finally, if the problem is rephrased as "companies effectively receiving state-support to exploit the planet", it will make the problem more urgent.
Once upon a time I wrote a CVSS 2/3 library for Python[1] (more have appeared now, this[2] looks nicer).

CVSS is really complex and seemingly arbitrary. Take a look at this (rather horrible) code to calculate a CVSS score from another library[3]. Yes, the code is disgusting, but even if you abstract it away nicely it boils down to: do some maths with some arbitrary numbers[4], then perform a bunch of conditions, and you (hopefully) get 3 numbers spat out.

I don't like it. There are bugs in the 'official' calculator around floating point numbers, the spec had several typos in the calculations (one being an extraneous negative symbol!) and the naming system for the components is needlessly complex.

There are surely simpler, less magical ways to score, compare and rate vulnerabilities?

1. https://github.com/ctxis/cvsslib

2. https://github.com/skontar/cvss

3. https://github.com/toolswatch/pycvss3/blob/master/lib/pycvss...

4. https://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document#7-1-Base-M...
The 9/11 Tribute in Light Is Helping Us Learn About Bird Migration
13 Immutable Reads on Choosing What to Work On
I've done a little user training, every user (!) - including my own children - has typed in to the Google (or very occasionally Bing) search box in order to navigate to a website. Even if they know to type an address they don't use the address bar, they use Google. Drives me crazy.
Historically Intel has been found to create suboptimal code paths in its own compiler, in addition to not enabling features supported on competitor's platform, in its own compiler.

What happens if the implementation is slower but still works on AMD? Is Intel responsible for also performance testing and determining if/when to disable an implementation on a given chip? You're putting a lot of burden on Intel to do extensive testing and also not protecting them from criticism if a change is suboptimal for a competitor.

I think it's fine to submit a patch that's known to be good for a subset of CPUs and perhaps it should be tagged for another maintainer (e.g. AMD) to review and contribute to as well.
That would mean they still have most of the codebase. This sounds like they don’t have anything.
I'm not a security researcher, but I've heard your point made in a couple of places, and I've come to agree with it.

If you're going to boil everything down to a single, approximated number, you might as well make it obvious that you're approximating. Having scores like 5.8 makes people put more trust than is appropriate into the algorithm.
there's [Hackett](https://github.com/lexi-lambda/hackett) though it's more an implementation of haskell within racket
It's apples to oranges. The US rail network is optimized to solve another problem. The evidence I've seen indicates that US freight transport by rail is among the most efficient in the world. It's hard to adduce it as an example of technical failure.

Even on your terms of debate I think you need to cite evidence of overall profitability of passenger trains in other countries. Deutsche Bahn (DB) makes some money but depends on substantial subsidies from the German government. [0] Wikipedia shows that most passenger rail seems to be heavily subsidized, though interestingly not Japan. [1]

[0] https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-deutsche-bahn-investment/g...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_subsidies
Are forest fires as bad as they seem?
https://steamcharts.com/app/237870 some stats for the game if relevant..
If you want to have precise description you would have to look at how interaction with wave functions of electrons bound in atoms of the barrier reshapes wave function of incoming wave reshaping it in a way that some of it bounces off, some of it dissappears to encompass the act of potentially absorbing the photon on the barrier. And part of the wave is left undisturbed to propagate through the slits.

Completely infeasible to calculate but I argue valuable to think about. :-)
>> Easy answer: Always as much braking as possible.

Too simplified. It requires a precise definition of 'as much as possible'.

Measured answer: You have to prevent the wheels to lock, so always brake just an infinitesimal bit below this locking point: now you have invented ABS brakes.

If it was just a matter of 'slam your foot to the metal', cars would never have needed ABS brakes.
Can't wait to see someone mod this and display expletives on it.
I can’t. There’s a solidarity among the states that European countries don’t have. We all speak the same language, use the same websites, listen to the same music, and watch the same movies. We’re not just going to start killing each other.
The chemistry is explained here:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095965261...
In quoting me, you cut off my comments mid-paragraph. That is removal of context. I described several hypotheticals, the hindsight question being one.

Yes we can point at the misdeeds of Ito and others and they are awful. But there is a nonzero amount of people here that could fall into similar traps if they were in a position to accept millions from shady characters, which most of us aren't. If Ito, as bad as his acts were, had full realization of consequences (as he now does in hindsight), do you think he would have done this? I don't know the guy, but I am guessing not.

That is not to exculpate him or trivialize or distract. He screwed up majorly.
Unfortunately, you don’t have the option of not breathing in the exhaust of everyone else’s petrol cars.
Settings to declutter, emojify and prettify your terminal (iTerm2 and ZSH)
GraphQL client for minimalistic React apps
The comment in question

> zede05 [developer] 26 Jun @ 3:58am @The sap is rising! We have all of our available code backed up on our SVN server. But the programmer that wrote the lobby code back in 2014 wrote some of the code directly to the lobby server. So we don't have these, and since this programmer isn't here anymore, and probably wouldn't remember what he wrote even if he were, the entire thing doesn't work unless we rewrite.
When you say isolationist, do you mean in terms of projecting force through military means, or by promoting and upholding trade liberalization?
Is C# more performant than Java? It was my understanding that HotSpot's JIT performs significantly more optimizations, almost bordering on esoteric magic, compared to the CLR.

I can understand how value types would help a lot, but it is possible to optimize Java to avoid object headers on the heap at great pain, i.e. avoiding classes and doing index arithmetic on flat arrays of values. Value types coming to the JVM will obviously help here.

Curious to hear about other advantages the CLR has.
> Intel didn't have access to samples of enough AMD stuff, or the wrong department had it, or they couldn't get approval to take the time it would require

I seriously doubt that.
The alternative to UBI + all jobs automated away is just all jobs automated away. I don't see how UBI is the problem here.
It sounds to me like they did all their multiplayer lobby stuff using a third-party system and did all the code/config in live. I removed "all" to reduce ambiguity though.
This is a great idea, but doesn't it involve a lot of manual work? Or is there some kind of automated way to do this?
See, this is kinda what I mean. Maybe you can detect tags with regex, but maybe you shouldn't, given the widespread but subtle differences in regex engines.

Perhaps the entire approach of "why are you trying to parse X?" Needs to be traced and re-evaluated.
It definitely was aimed at architects (among others) when it came out in 2000.

I had just started architecture college then, we did everything on paper, I only learned Autocad during my 1st summer job. 'Computers' were more the realm of architectural technicians back then, I didnt know any architects who could use any 3d modelling software at all. Architects were generally quite computer illiterate, Sketchup was a program simple enough for a computer illiterate person to begin using.

Also quote from wikipedia about its intended purpose.

"
SketchUp debuted in August 2000 as a general-purpose 3D content creation tool and was envisioned as a software program "that would allow design professionals to draw the way they want by emulating the feel and freedom of working with pen and paper in a simple and elegant interface, that would be fun to use and easy to learn and that would be used by designers to play with their designs in a way that is not possible with traditional design software. It also has user friendly buttons to make it easier to use."
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The implementations of extensions on different CPU microarchitectures can vary quite a bit from the same vendor. And performance of those extensions can vary by an order of magnitude between CPU vendors, sometimes because vendors will initially add CPU extensions as microcode if they did not design the extension themselves. AMD has microcoded many Intel extensions in some of their architectures for binary compatibility but without performance benefits, and many of their native implementations behave differently in material ways for optimization. The existence of the feature does not imply you should use it for highly optimized code, it may be slower than software versions of the same thing, or that you should use the feature in the same way to optimize code.

It is quite complicated. The AMD and Intel microarchitectures are different enough in design that some low-level optimizations around many extensions really don't translate well between them. The differences can be big enough that you take them into account at the C++ level too, writing target-specific code.

Individual CPU vendors are in the best position to provide software optimization for specific implementations of their microarchitectures. Unfortunately, AMD invests relatively little in this and relies on the open source community to fill in these gaps whereas Intel is excellent at providing first-party software optimization support for their CPUs.
There is extensive evidence beyond even just writings including death records, genetic records (1 in 200 men, around the world, are direct descendants of Genghis Khan), and much more. And when you reach such a tremendous scale there is just an unimaginable amount of writing from people of all different views and values.

The argument you're making is sufficient to discount and any all records of history. And indeed not even history of the long past, but also the present. Do you know exactly what happened in Syria from falsifiable objective accounts, or are you relying on information spread by a small number of sources each with their own agenda?

I think your argument definitely deserves consideration when you get into the minutia of history, but when you're talking about the big scale (this empire ruled this land at this time) I think your argument is more about a disbelief in everything, historical nihilism, rather than justifiable incredulity.
My “Linux deployments” with C# have been Docker and Nginx with Fargate (AWS Serverless Docker) [1] and Lambda. I haven’t had to worry about performance, stability, or scalability. With either technology, you get scalability for free and with Fargate you don’t have to worry about cold starts.

I develop on Windows with Visual Studio and deploy to “Linux”. We use CodeBuild to compile and create the zip file (lambda) or Docker Container (Fargate).

CodeBuild basically is “Serverless builds”. It launches s prebuilt or custom Docker Container and you just run .net core “publish” command line and it gets all of your Nuget packages and then you run your standard packaging commands.

But Rider should be good. I’m a huge fan of R# and you can cross target Linux, Mac and Windows from either host using msbuild.
I have planted trees in my younger days. A thousand seedlings are extremely cheap to buy, but brutal to plant. The work in the hot Sun, at least in Florida, is a rough day.
I agree, and one of the examples is your use case - undocumented enterprise software. To go back to the title, brevity makes the documentation good, but I’d rather have bloated in-date documentation than no documentation.
Hard to know what is going on here. They claim that "all the code base got deleted from its server" where the server in this context is a deployment target, not a source control server. At any studio I've worked, and even on larger hobby or student projects, fixing this would involve an automated build/deployment using <insert build pipeline, maybe Jenkins>. At worst you could go back to source and build binaries for the target manually and setup whatever deployment configuration necessary to stand up the service again.

The developer says that they were using uLink for multiplayer which was a Unity plugin/framework for building services natively in Unity. It sounds like this was a binary only dependency with no source. Perhaps they didn't store the binaries in source control (or anywhere else) and would have to re-implement the networking with some other framework. For a small team and title with a small player base, it would be hard to justify the cost.

Lessons learned to always have full source for any critical dependencies or a contract with the maintainer for long term support. Also, make sure you can rebuild your deployment target from scratch and have your continuous integration process testing that early and often.
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Zero fees my hole! There is a fee, it's called the spread.

Just because the fee (or more properly, the commission) is zero doesn't me you are not paying for the service.

The spread - the difference between the buying price and the selling price for, in this case, a foreign currency - is where the money is made. You can be sure that this firm is widening the spread they get from an upstream liquidity provider before quoting you the number of Peseta they'll sell you for a Dollar.

So whether you are paying a percentage commission or not, you are definitely paying. It's just the presentation that differs.
Lol as opposed to 2019? An idiotic narcissist grifter as President, the planet on fire (southern hemisphere burning in winter), epic climate change storms, megacorp Vicodin, bikies selling crystal meth, block chain powered dark money drug markets, middle east savagery hitting new lows, internment camps in Europe and the US? China govt deploying ios 0day against their Muslim ethnic minority, and millions in camps already?

The only disappointing part is that we don't have vat grown assassins, if you want a transplant you have to go to China or Iran.
It's how people will morally justify the situation saying it's "good enough". Even though their quality of life could be much better. The alternative is no UBI which creates more glaring problems if people can't meed their physical needs and a less complacent population.
Considering that my bank (Wells Fargo) has the crappiest password policy of any site I use, I wouldn't trust them to handle my passwords. Passwords will be accepted case-insensitive, so they're losing entropy and likely have the password stored plaintext somewhere.

That being said, I do have a safe deposit box with backups of important documents and a KeePass DB. The KeePass DB isn't synced as often as my local copies, but does get synced whenever I change passwords on any crucial site. I do have a copy on onedrive, but if I lose access to my password manager I won't be able to login to onedrive to access it. It's a little bit of work, but there are certain things that are definitely worth backing up in a secure location. Plus, there's a printed copy of my KeePass credentials and access information for relatives in case I'm gone.
I mean, I guess the argument here is "well, if the gov't goes crazy we still have weapons because 2A let us amass them". But in reality, the US government is unimaginably powerful. Like they could easily take control of all energy producing facilities everywhere, every major city, port, road, railroad, airport, hospital, etc. There are probably close to a million law enforcement officials in the US. And all that's to say nothing of advanced military, surveillance, and espionage capability.

Basically, the idea that 2A would let us protect any semblance of our current way if life is fantasy. The most you could hope for is to join a resistance and dig in for a generations long, probably species destroying authoritarian regime to run its course.
Supermicro also has boards for up to 12TB DDR4... Even workstation boards that support 4TB.
The Electoral College Was Terrible from the Start
Mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20190908093705/https://caitlinjo...
Can regex engines actually process arbitrarily deep nestings themselves though?

It seems to me it would start getting computationally expensive very quickly to search for those kinds of regexes, so is 'arbitrarily deep' a practical concern for todays hardware?
Please. It's not ignoring patents. It's about ignoring patents after time limit and not allowing patents with minor modifications.

Insulin is still patented in US even though it was invented in Canada.
> The notion that anyone in Britain would ever need a deadly weapon to defend themselves is completely alien here. We just ... don't.

I'm American, and Your Country is The Sole reason why we will Not give Up our right to defend ourselves against any Government--And most Especially our own. We Just... Won't.

A quick look around the Globe at Nations that Enslave and/or Torture their Citizens because they can, because the peope are unarmed--is really the only modern day reason we need to Never give them up.
That sounds like the government is all about accounting, not accountability.
I'm very glad to see this summit is happening. I missed GDC Online after that got discontinued a few years back.
I am a Linux guy through and through, but I have an old Surface 3 that I take to meetings and coffee shops. The web version of OneNote (via Office 365) works awesome for reading OneNote notebooks and for writing typed text. From the Surface I'll usually use the pen and then type up a summary later. Search on my messy handwriting usually works pretty well too.
Watch this video, particularly the brake pressure in the last half of the lap:

https://youtu.be/eloZhdIyyv0?t=69

It is true that the braking plot-line looks a bit like an step function, but it never is, there's a huge difference between taking half a second to press the brake and it being machine-like and taking just some milliseconds.

It is even more pronounced when releasing the brake pedal. There you can always see a slope.
The L train is pretty hosed on nights and weekends until summer 2020. Yes, the countdown clocks specifically on the L are often wrong on nights/weekends during this project. It's not surprising. Do you have an example on a line that isn't undergoing a historic multi-year construction project?
Ir35?
I read up on their blogs and as much technical explanation as I could find, and by far 1Password seems to be the best with a cloud offering.

Also Apple buying into using 1Password company wide helps gain some trust (I am sure there was some serious auditing): https://medium.com/enrique-dans/apple-and-1passwords-deal-sh...
‘Get a Weapon’
I also use 1Pasword. A while back there was a bit of a hullabaloo regarding the ability to extract passwords stored in 1P (and other password managers) from a memory dump[1].

I sent an email to the support team at the time asking some technical questions that the security report raised for me, and wondering how the team was planning to evolve the product going forward. They sent back a very in depth, detailed answer that included info about some of the experiments they were doing to decrease the amount of time passwords were decrypted in memory, along with looking into Rust for better direct memory management than they could get with C# or Swift. All in all, the care and quality of the response gave me a great impression of the team and of their approach to user interactions.

[1]: https://www.securityevaluators.com/casestudies/password-mana...
Neat stuff, I've also made a few things (nursery wall decoration for my son) using my job's Trotec cutter. The machine was bought for around 30k USD I believe, so buying one for a small etsy operation sounds like a long ROI! Do you own your own laser machine?
I don't always use version control.

But I understand when I don't I'm taking the risk that this will disappear with no recovery. Most of the time that's okay, some scripts have low reusablility and somethigs I need an excuse to refactor.

To run a business without it is inviting failure. Once you involve someone else the conditions to recreate get hazy.

It sounds like only one piece wasn't in version control. That might be why that developer is no longer there.
Sites down for me, but I’m more of the feeling UBI + automation = utopia.

I guess maybe utopia + plutocracy = dystopia?
How about saying something like ‘for gods sake, make your UI experience consistent!’, would that work?
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UBI is a good idea in principle but a gateway to dystopia in practice. UBI and similar systems are an easily abused vector to create a new slave class.

Relevant reading: Manna: Two Visions of Humanity's Future
Endpoints in a network aren't all PCs :) In some industries (e.g. SCADA) Telnet is very much alive.

Also even on the Internet, Shodan has about 5.2Milllion hosts with the Telnet port exposed...
>It’s profoundly sad that preventing hundreds of people being shot to death per year in the US in mass shootings

Tell that to the MILLIONS of Unarmed North Koreans and Chinese in death camps.
How do they have the resources to write a new game but not rewrite the MP code?
See church forests in Ethiopia. These are just lands that were fenced off from grazing, and they look like random oases in the desert. So clearly trees can survive in the general area.

https://www.inverse.com/article/53851-church-forest-ethiopia...
Hey bradwood, we don't charge a single cent from fees, the spread we take is the mid-market one.

This differs from Paypal, TransferWise and such, to whom you pay hidden-fees, and conversion-fees as you refer to the spread.

In our case, we make money from API Calls to our B2B service, but not from common transaction.

If you deposit 100Euros from an account in Bahamas, and transfer it to an account in Papua Nueva Guinea, the Papuan guy's gonna receive 100Euros, then he can withdraw in the currency he prefers and get a spread at official conversion rates (Except for Venezuela, where we offer a special rate due to obvious reasons).

Thanks for the Finance 101 Class!