skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My C programs always start as a few skeleton .h files with include guards, and a few .c files that are basically an ever growing list of asserts() on any pointer to a structure or variable, or on any value where it is expected to be within a certain range.

Gradually I feed my structs and typedefs into the .h files and replace the asserts with (hopefully) working code.
Sorry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shifting_baseline
The big question in the municipality as network layer only is how do companies actually compete?

They could offer certain services I guess like IPTV but then why are they an ISP/Cable service provider instead of just a streaming platform separate from being an ISP.

Could they do any better on speed by getting better interconnects to the wider internet or is that also part of the community infrastructure?

The options for differentiation seem rather slim so I'm wondering how much actual competition there would be in this model.
Yeah, that would be really helpful. I want to monitor careers pages of all local companies in the Crunchbase NYC geo in order to help candidates search for local companies by keywords (eg C#). We have an API already (syncs with Algolia) to receive the jobs, with unique key on each job’s URI; and we wouldn’t want to scrape more than once per day.
>nation state

Your diction says much about your point of view.
Even a hypersonic aircraft wouldn't be capable of the maneuvers witnessed. It was also shaped like a tic tac, which doesn't align with any known hypersonic airframe shaping technique (like a wedge or waverider).
I went from dry TP only growing up to learning to love the bidet in japan. Now I use a combo of wet/dry TP to get as clean as I can. I also don't spend much time (or any time in public) between pooping and a shower.
WiFi standard password protects encrypted networks. If the router can’t login and you don’t connect Ethernet it’s not connected to the internet.
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I guess if you're playing on social media or youtube but it's fine for Maps, Email, and Messaging. When we were in Italy for a few weeks it was more than enough as most places had free WiFi.
There’s 2 boxes from “who gives a crap” on our foyer right now. When did instagram become the product discovery platform?
Yes, the code is dense, but changes to it don't make up most of the lines of diffs, and I really doubt the XML making up the diffs is edited as text; its a tool or generator.
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God, you've got a bone to pick, don't you? I see you every time there's a HN thread about quantum computing. Scott Aaronsen posting under a sock account?
well, learning Java serves you well for C#; skills with C and C++ have huge transfer value; maybe you haven't been tasked with "figure out the cost of this algo" but I hope intuitively you've used some Big-O, linear programming, recursion and maybe graph theory; IMO those math courses have really helped you understand how a database works and costing execution plans; The practice in picking up new languages in less than a semester should give you an edge in identifying common aspects today; the list goes on...

I'd go as far as to say it's a bad sign if you can draw direct linkages between what you learned in university and what you do day-to-day in your job. That's not really the intent of a degree in comp sci.
While Realtalk OS is not open source there are open source projects that allow you to build mini subsets of Dynamicland. La Tabla[1], Paper Programs[2] and nl-datalog[3] are either prototypes of systems the eventually came together to build Dynamicland or in the case of Paper Programs an implementation loosely inspired by Dynamicland.

[1] http://tablaviva.org
[2] https://paperprograms.org
[3] https://github.com/harc/nl-datalog
> I don't know what I saw but they were not weather balloons, satellites, planes, planets, stars, or meteors.

If you don't know what they were then you can't rule out these other things.
Day or night? Quite a few of these turn out to be commercial airplanes at night.
Microservices... Instead of 1 server you have N servers to maintain and scale....

"premature optimization is the root of all evil" - Donald Knuth
Walk 20 miles twice a day? Is buying a Tesla for $50,000 really better for the environment than driving my old Volvo that gets 30 mpg? After you take into account all the environmental costs associated with constructing a new vehicle?
Nice setup. Did you make it do something security-critical like change your address or even transfer money?
Of course the largest most established carmakers would want to keep an effective form of regulatory capture in place. Byzantine and inconsistent regional compliance requirements raise the cost of market entry.
Fossil fuels in general are on their way out. If someone doesn't believe it, they should do a google search on stranded assets.
The problem with all pro-censorship platforms is that they become hivemind platforms by default, because only people who are worried about catering to the specific opinions of the site hivemind have an incentive to stay there, and it’s mostly smoothbrain dipshits who stay there.

By the way, go fuck yourself.
I don't disagree, but "engagement" does not necessarily reflect value to the user. Taking more time to accomplish one's goal (e.g., obtain information) than necessary may improve engagement metrics from the service's perspective, but from the user's perspective, that's extra time that might have been wasted and better spent on other things.
interstate highways are funded by federal tax dollars. So not wholly owned by California.

And article 1, section 8 gives feds power to regulate (normalize) interstate commerce.
My life was better IMO when it was common to call people. We had conventions like voice mail if you were on another call, or saying "now is not a good time" but I talked to way more people.

I mean I fully agree with your assessment of async vs sync but conversely I'm less connected to people than I was before. I used to call and chat with friends several times a day. Now almost never.

Another way to look at it, maybe at some point some new tech will come out so thet we don't even talk to people in the same house/building/office. I mean why talk to my sister/mom/dad/wife/son/daughter, they might be in the middle of a thought. I should choose some async method and just never talk to another human directly.

Of course that's ridiculous but if you had told me in 1995 that I'd talk less than a few hours a year on a phone because everyone just messages each other I'd have thought you were describing a dystpoia. Who's to say some new tech won't take it even further.
What net neutrality? And even when net neutrality rules were on the books, companies still got away with stuff like this.
First of all, Daniel Berlin is pretty senior at a reasonably large tech company a lot of us here have heard of.

Secondly, I know Microsoft loves it, which is presumably where your telemetry comes from, and I know a lot of security people on Twitter are fans of the technology, but I've been asking around and "love it" is not the signal I'm getting from software security blue team people. "I installed it, I guess it does some stuff, we never think about it" is the modal feedback I've seen.

I'm very interested in hearing success stories about this; the problem Semmle addresses is a huge part of the cost basis for my practice, and I'd love to hear that someone has gotten it working well.
personally I've probably spent an hour on Reddit in the last year. I used to spend a couple hours a day. After it modernized I realized it was just facebook for introverts and bailed.
It definitely does, just like so many VC funded companies, but they could afford to fix their deploys. The reddit back end is notoriously bad and, judging by their new UI, it isn't getting better.
> Separately, hopefully the UAW sees the benefit in universal healthcare, and supporting candidates backing it.

I've read in a news article that UAW workers get 95% of premium paid by the employer. I'm not sure how accurate that is but that is way better than most other plans. Most of my employers covered 90% of the premium. I doubt an universal healthcare plan could do any better (except for coverage during strikes.) Even the current medicare plans have hefty premiums and copays.
The thing I wonder about is whether this is for the auto industry or the fossil fuels lobby.

California requires a type of gasoline that is only produced at a limited number of refineries at considerable expense. California cannot export or import gasoline from other states. If the EPA fuel efficiency rollback is successful the assumption would be that this regime could be dismantled.

But I can't find any source with enough detail to be meaningful.

https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-gasoline-manipulation...

(Note: Unlike NYT, LA Times links work just fine in incognito mode.)
And people completely forget history... there were several popular variants of totalitarian socialism in europe. Russia in particular had civil-war like conflicts between the main 3 factions (iirc, red, green, white) and facism was definitely in the mix, but after WWII fell out and for some weird reason no longer considered socialist.

After WWII, there were definite anti-communist movements, though McCarthyism took things way too far. You cannot combat ideas with censorship, they'll fester.
So let's assume a 6 character alpha-numeric password with upper and lowercase. 36^6 possible passwords or about 2.1 billion.

The article linked is one guy and one machine who can do 156 bcrypt hashes per second, with salted hashes.

That's ~161 days to hash them ALL.

If you have a dump of thousands of passwords it's extremely probable to get a few of them in under a day. Which is what the article shows - common short passwords were owned.

What's funny about the additional restrictions (you must use 2 upper, 2 lower, etc.) is that they reduce the complexity of this problem so there are fewer possibilities the attacker needs to check for. So you're making it more difficult for users while decreasing actual security against this kind of attack.

Much better policy is something like, "at least 16 characters, whatever ones you want." Easier for users because then passphrases are possible, easier to implement because there's only a string length check on the client, and more secure because it doesn't completely rely on users not choosing trivial passwords.
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If you report to the city they'll fine them for that.
> Except UX is everything.

I see you haven't visited Reddit lately ;)
I (and my brother-in-law) saw something a long while back that, while I have a rational explanation for what it might have been - I still don't honestly know for certain.

It was late at night and we were in the back of a pickup getting some shuteye, heading east on the 8 outside of San Diego - if I had to make a guess we were somewhere between SD and El Centro; I can't narrow it down more.

So we're going down the freeway, and above the mountains to the south we see this bright "dot" - yellowish. It sits there, hovering above the mountains. Then it moves slowly to the west, staying above the mountain line - and instantly stops. Stays still for a bit, then at a steep angle (or what appeared to be) it instantly accelerated (like in the blink of the eye) "up" and was gone.

My best guess after the fact? Somebody aiming or messing around with an artificial star (sodium laser):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_guide_star

At least - that's what I tell myself, because I have no other rational idea as to what could move like that...
We'll crowd-source that.
Alas, Costco does just that (rearranges where things are) to improve "discoverability." Drives me nuts!
Modern internet is both good and bad. Depends on the site. Generalizations don't work. However if those technologies are to ever be popular than they'll need to be redesigned to keep pace with what the vast majority expect, which is in response to the OPs comment. Otherwise you can already go post on usenet right now.

> "Anyways, ideally you would be able to connect to services with whichever client you want."

Make it happen. This is my other point. People complain that all these fantastic legacy technologies aren't used but nobody puts in the work to modernize and use them. If it was that simple, where are all the companies doing it?
Who have you talked to about it? Outside Mozilla and Microsoft?
T-Mobile One plans include all of that in the price. The only fees are on international charges.

I'm not sure what the official stance is on tethering but I think it's just throttled. I bring my own device and I have never experienced throttling or denial of tethering thought so Idk.
It may be sending video or audio frames but it’s also possible without it. The Chromecast can send side channel data to the TV.
Yes, that's what not giving a ___ is. But I don't think it's always stress, it could also be different priorities.
would agree that while CA can ban purchasing certain cars (commerce) in CA, they could not deny people bringing in cars from other states (property)?
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The problem these sites have is that most of us don't particularly value using their service. We might appreciate the facility they offer for free, but what we truly value is the communities that are found there and the information and discussions that originate from those communities.

If Reddit died tomorrow, we'd all shrug and find somewhere else to talk, just like the countless forums we used before Reddit that are no longer with us. Such is the danger for any social media: if all you provide is a commodity platform, you're only ever as valuable as the community you can build and whatever that community is willing to contribute, and ultimately you have very little control over those things.
What net neutrality? Net neutrality was repealed over a year ago.
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US Navy confirms previously released UFO videos are real
I'm showing my youth here, but this is a legitimate question. Isn't call waiting just a thing that exists on the line? Did phones used to have a switch to toggle that? And what was the harm in keeping it on? When I had dial up, I don't recall having to consider call waiting.
Separate HTPC box that you trust?

My ideal TV has power and video in and nothing else. Basically a monitor. I have a separate box for content and another for input switching.
There's enough anecdotal material available now that I don't consider myself a scoffer. I'm curious about UFOs and don't really know what to think about them.

Also, several politicians have made curious statements about 'releasing information to the public'. If there was just nothing there, I don't think they'd be talking about it.

Looking forward to the day (I think) when we all know what's out there.
I wonder what Reddit devops is like, I find it so strange that such a trafficked website can’t handle rollouts without what appears (on the outside) to be a full reboot. And also strange that the rollout takes so long. Makes me think they are doing something naive like running on naked vms and having one guy running a script to take them down, update os, redeploy new binary, etc. all at once. Then probably encountering issues and live debugging them until it works again
Reddit is a corporation with a large amount of VC investment. Profit is a primary goal, and engagement that shows more time and thus more revenue is exactly what they want.
I consider someone lucky and fortunate if they have sick days in addition to PTO days, if either at all. Yes, American.
A monitor wouldn't have a built-in ISDB-Tb receiver. To me, that's the defining feature which distinguishes between a "TV" and a "monitor": a TV has a built-in receiver for over-the-air TV broadcasts, while a monitor doesn't.
To turn it around, if I'm going to grind for you, I had sure as hell better be properly compensated for the grind. If I hustle to get you what you need, you bet you're ass I'm going to expect a commensurate return. If there isn't a mutual benefit to my hustling, why would I put it in? What makes you so entitled to my time and effort that you can't make an equitable exchange for it?
> By May 2016, Kay was able to charm Y Combinator’s president and A-type startup whisperer Sam Altman. They created Human Advancement Research Community (HARC) inside of YC Research and absorbed the CDG researchers there. Altman generously agreed to fund HARC out of pocket while they waited for other promised funding to come through.

> That arrangement lasted a little over a year. In July 2017, just a few months after HARC moved into a beautifully renovated building in old Oakland, Altman abruptly defunded the lab.

> It’s unclear why he pulled the plug. In his Y Combinator annual letter in February 2017, he said that the work coming out of Victor’s lab “remain one of the new technologies I think most about.” But a person close to Altman told me that by July his excitement had shifted from HARC to OpenAI, another YC Research project where he is now CEO. Amidst the ashes, a burned-out Kay left for London, and the research groups disbanded.

I was so excited when HARC was first announced. It's great that they were funded for an extra year, but it's really too bad YC couldn't keep funding Bret Victor's lab :(
Just a small fraction of the industry's ongoing software development is done in C. Obvious, Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Mozilla still write a lot of it, but you don't acquire a whole company to address 4-and-change customers.
AFAICT, it is identical to what a T-Mobile subscriber would see, though I imagine as a Mint Mobile user, we are deprioritized compared to the current high-paying T-Mobile customers in a congested cell.
I'm not sure what point you are trying to make. I said amend it to make it a hardware fault of your choice, or make those sparks a bit of static.
Thanks for the thoughtful correction. I won’t make that mistake twice!
Change your WiFi password on the little bugger.
> the people who talk about USENET and IRC are people who don't want to be "updated" to what modern users demand.

IRC is objectively terrible. If you ask a question, the only way to get the answer is if you stay logged in until someone answers you. That's like buying a phone that doesn't ring unless you're already holding it up to your ear, or an email client that deletes all your email unless you happen to be looking at your inbox at the moment a new message arrives.
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Wow, thank goodness the Epstein issue came to light so we can finally put away this monster for being bad with women. Social justice priorities.
Sure, those things are a problem and my post was in no way meant to be an exhaustive list of all the problems of the modern internet.

But coming from a "traditional" publishing background, I look at the internet as just another publishing, and low-quality attention-grabbing content is nothing new in this context - just have a look at your local tabloid newspaper.

The problems that you talk about in your 2nd paragraph really stem from what I hesitantly call human nature, and no tech solution is ever going to "fix" that.
Also the "tech" of his time.
- Accessibility to flights

- A large chinese community already being there, seeded by the HK hand over to china. The HK wave did not cause a real estate crisis.

- Being known as a "good investment" in China.

- RE firms that market in china for vancouver.

- Most importantly of all, bad enforcement of money laundering and foreign income laws compared to the USA.

If money laundering and tax laws were enforced as badly as Canada in the USA, I bet many of these chinese would be in the USA. The pacific north west is not considered a good place weather wise in the USA.
Of course they would acknowledge a stain. I meant that the word Fleck encompasses both stains and intentional spots including blind spots, spots on a map or drawing, spots in an animal's fur pattern, and stains on one's shirt. [0] Just because you don't have an exact word for something, doesn't mean you can't recognize it or try to express it - but that distinction must come from context around the word.

Conversely in English stain has to be distinguished in cotext from the words for shirt stains, wood stains (Holzbeize) and stained glass (Buntglas).

Perhaps a better word to demonstrate it is Gemütlichkeit. [1]

Zeitgeist and Schadenfreude are exactly words imported into English because no words in English came close to capturing these words' meanings. You'd have to say "pleasure derived from another's misfortune" every time.

[0] https://www.dict.cc/deutsch-englisch/Fleck.html

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gem%C3%BCtlichkeit#Similar_wor...
There is also misdirection via (apparent) incompetence. Give as little information as possible, or wrong vague suggestions to the people writing the press releases.

That makes it look like you're trying to mislead/lie/coverup.

It's a good strategy to advertise new capabilities to adversaries and/or let them know you know about theirs or just to make them think rare atmospheric/sensor phenomena are scary new tech.
>> source their wood pulp from boreal forests in Canada, which are very old and take between 20 to 50 years to regenerate.

This is an oxymoron; an old tree between 20-50 years? Young lumber trees are a least twice as old as this.
Ex-spotifier here. I'm only somewhat familiar with this, it's been a while, and I'm not speaking for Spotify, but I wouldn't be surprised if the data is being sent for speaker/remote control device discovery. It's probably the same for Google and Chromecast.

Knowing what else gets collected online, this isn't a big concern for me. I'm more worried about these devices not having great security and not getting security updates for their entire life.
At least it’s scheduled so you can schedule around it
Depends on the locale. California requires two-party consent to record a telephone call; other jurisdictions do not.
On one job, I had to disable code coverage for a whole suite of tests that were simply making calls and completely ignoring the results.

I know, coverage is Yet Another Metric, but if you don't game it, it can help you track down branches you haven't written tests for.

So my hesitation is I can see people running this, gettting 100% code coverage and thinking, "hooray, it's fully tested!"
could it be one of these?

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/27185/f-35s-most-sinis...
The incoming call tone would disrupt modem traffic so you had to dial a code prior to the number you wanted to dial to disable this temporarily for the duration of your outgoing call.
Reading the data structure within the string is rather a nuisance, I think.

It’s worth noting the caveat that there is a minimum size where this trick has a noticeable effect, though.

I understand the original comment’s fear of abuse. Nice to know it’s there for huge data structures though. Huge: we’re talking about a browser, not a database server.
Not necessarily for social media where there’s an endless river of entertainment content. I doubt most people go to Reddit for any specific purpose or task they’re trying to accomplish as quickly as possible.
"When I was a teen freshman, I went to a buffet lunch at an Indian restaurant in Central Square with a graduate student friend and others from the AI lab. I don’t know if he and I were the last two left, but at a table with only the two of us, Richard Stallman told me of his misery and that he’d kill himself if I didn’t go out with him."

https://medium.com/@selamie/remove-richard-stallman-appendix...
Aerodynamic simulation is a really tough problem to take on. I'd venture to guess that it's in part due to not having a complete set of theories/equations around fluid dynamics. From what I hear, X-Plane comes really close to this. But yes, skill-transfer aside, I'd guess any airborne vehicle trained in a simulator that lacks environmental effects, ground effects, induced drag effects...etc in its physics calculation is not going to perform well in the real-world.