skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd love to see your code. In particular, I'd like to see what you did with "I could just directly assign the data I read from the SD card to the internal buffer of the LED library instance and display it."
What I don't exactly get is how the pages are assigned. It's not really a hashing algorithm in that sense, it's more like a dictionary data structure where the user has to choose the storage locations. It's only possible to work from one end or the other, or more or less randomly. Either way fragmentation will creep in. This looks like it happens in the image of Locke's index.
I hate upvoting articles posted on Medium, but this one deserves it.
If you received money in addition to paying zero in taxes, would it give you more opportunity to get a higher paying job?
> stories like this are incredibly depressing.

Don't despair. We have Greta Thundberg. Just look at https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/fund/she - it's doing well!
How do you know what CPU my HTTP requests need?!
The issue with elite university admissions is that they are gatekeepers to power, so the composition of their student bodies affects us all. That said I guess you're right that pre k is more important when it comes down to it.
You are stating a very decent, theoretical proposition I can agree with.

The problem is that this version/proposition works only in "isolated system" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolated_system) i.e. "ideal theoretical environment", green field project, if you will.

Unfortunately, it can not happen in the real-world scenario. Existing welfare programs (80% of which, strictly in my personal opinion, is a politicized misgovernance), and dependency those have promoted are already deeply rooted in the brains of our population. 1000s of bureaucrats are employed with these programs that will not step down, people's minds and dynamics is a whole differen variable: In no way single Jessy with 5 children would agree to the same benefit as Susanne with only 2.

Also when Government was any good at anything? What we will end up with is a whole new governmental branch sucking on taxes with a set of newly emerged corrupted bureaucrats.
60-80 years should do it.
Voom
infrastructure literally and figuratively underlays parts of society.

Boston has infrastructure problems to a degree Seattle doesn't experience because when the Seattle core burned to the ground, it was rebuilt in some critical areas with newer infrastructure and thinking.

If you were a Bostonian or Chicagoan in that era, you were patting yourself on the back because your town hadn't burned in 20 years, and would not again. Today Seattle residence scratch their heads at some of the problems that Chicago and Boston have.

Similarly, residents of Tokyo were 'forced' into cellphones because even the 'burbs were so dense that installing new data lines was hugely expensive. 2-4 times the cost of a cellphone for a year. We were sucking down DSL+ speeds and looking jealously at their cool phones.
What if you gain a reputation as the person who throws snakes under the bus?

That seems like it would be a very good reputation to have with non-snakes because it would signal to them that you'll defend them the need arises.
Ofcourse, expect it in a future update!
https://www.amazon.com/Windows-Kernel-Programming-Pavel-Yosi... ?
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For food especially, it is unlikely to cause inflation since we already heavily subsidize food and grow much more than we can consume.

Housing is another story.
> do we just bite the bullet and build a TON of housing all at once?

It sure worked for Harlem.
Why do we have our best solution to problems in the shower?
Why do we have our best solution to problems in the shower?
It very much is about you doing your homework. You need to have a certain level of prerequisite knowledge about history at the time of Madison et. al., and you seem to lack that.

The only reason you perceive what I've written as rudeness is because you're bringing your ego to bear on this conversation, not your intellect.

Further, what you are attempting to do is akin to a zip bomb. "Spend hours crafting a response for me so I don't have to do any research or provide any understanding of my own, please!"

Gladly, but my rates are ~$500/hr. Let me know how you'd like to proceed!
> The actual behavior is defined by the hardware, in the programming language is an abstraction on top of that.

This is a very dangerous way to understand semantics of programming languages. Programming languages are usually defined via some sort of operational semantics on an abstract machine which occasionally bears some resemblance to how processor semantics are defined. But sometimes there is a massive disconnect between processor semantics and language semantics--and perhaps nowhere is that disconnect greater than memory.

In hardware, there is a firm distinction between memory and registers. Any language which approximates hardware semantics (which includes any mid-level or low-level compiler IR) is going to mirror this distinction with the notion of a potentially infinite register set (if pre-register allocation) and use of explicit instructions to move values to and from memory. But in every high-level language, there is no concept of a memory/register distinction: just values floating around in a giant bag of them, often no notion of loads or stores. You can approximate this by annotating values (as C does, with the volatile specifier), but the resulting semantics end up being muddy because you're relying on an imperfect mapping to get to the intended semantics (don't delete this load/store). Optimization that screws up the mapping of the language memory model to the hardware memory model is anticipated, even 30 years ago--that's why C has a volatile keyword.

It is possible, if you are very careful, to write C code that exposes the underlying hardware model that allows you to reason about your program using that model. But this is not typical C code, and instead requires modifying your code in such a way that you make the intended loads and stores explicit. And if you write your code in the typical way and expect it to map cleanly to hardware semantics, you're going to have a bad time.
True story: the only ticket I've ever gotten was running a red light. Happened around 1am, on my way home from work. This was in a rural area, nobody on the road for miles, and this idiotic light would stay red for minutes. A cop was sitting in a speed trap just past the light.

Revenue generation: it's the law.
It might be a real thing, but it's still not a bug.

it's a feature that i will definitely look into adding.
I was pleasantly surprised when the Dallas public library didn’t have late fees I was used to as a kid.

They allow 99 auto-renewals which seems absurd. Unfortunately you don’t get an alert when a hold is in place you get an alert letting you know the book is due.

We did lose a book. And there is a restocking fee UNLESS you provide a new mint condition book, ANY book, to replace it.

The librarian was thoroughly confused when I insisted on paying the fee so I could check out.

Only “con” is I no longer have a real excuse for my kids to return their books so I instead just have to be honest that I don’t want to read the same Curious George story for the 100th time.
I just wanna see how this work
It always surprises me when people tell me they slept 8+ and are still tired. My wife gets 9-10 hours but wakes up refreshed. I, since before age 5 always get 4.5 to 5 hours. These last few months I’m down to 3.5-4.25 hours. I wish I knew why the change and what made my body different than others.

Edit: clarifications
Also isn't "This is such a lazy argument" like 100 times more lazy, because there's nothing backing up why it was lazy in the first place.
Probably a Volvo. https://www.volvocars.com/en-om/about/our-stories/vision-202...:

”Our founders said: “Cars are driven by people – the guiding principle behind everything we make at Volvo, therefore, is and must remain safety.” Those values have never changed, and in 2008 we set out our vision – that by 2020 nobody should be seriously injured or killed in a new Volvo car.”

They probably won’t reach this, but they worked hard towards it. For example:

- the V40 has a pedestrian airbag (https://www.media.volvocars.com/global/en-gb/media/pressrele...)

- they will cap car speed at 112mph (https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/287046-why-volvos-cappin...)

Also, Britain’s safest car is a Volvo that has sold over 50,000 units, but has seen no drivers or passengers killed inside it in the 16 years it has been on sale (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/15/britains-safest-...)
I feel confident "someone like me" is going to weather unexpected medical expenses or a kids textbook far better than someone making < $50K a year facing the same thing.
Chrome books are also very cheap, bust still no where near as popular as phones.

Also, laptops with wwan cards are a thing, but they also coat more, aren't a default, and can't just be bought at a conveniently located store. It also doesn't fit in my pocket or last nearly all day on a charge.
Surely I can't be the only one irked by the fact that they're bringing the concept of "copies" and "borrowing" to what are just bytes sitting on hard drives that can be copied and transmitted at 0 marginal cost?

I agree that it's a better user experience than the non-digital alternative, but I'd like to see digital books at libraries be available for free to anyone who wants it at any time, without any arbitrary restrictions whatsoever.
There is a search engine for that:

https://wiby.me/
Exposure to air pollution increases violent crime rates, study finds
> electric cars will doom them regardless.

Especially once highway miles are all self driving.
I understand the difference between odds and risk. The risk is high (assuming you use the harshest possible penalties) but the odds are infinitesimally long.

Google and find who has actually faced penalties from HIPAA violations and what those penalties were. How many serious fines/prison sentences have been handed down? Who was at fault? Were they random no-name startups?
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Gross doesn't mean anything beyond "it offends my sensibilities." I also don't know if the individuals in this situation feel harmed - nor do you, because that's not how harm works. What I did say was that the actions were unethical because they made discovering and communicating harms less likely.

Ethics[0] is not exactly concerned with material harms to people. You can unethically help people and ethically harm them. That said, what is considered "ethical" is generally based on ideas of what should promote the beneficence of everyone in the situation. Choosing to engage /specifically/ with a group who you think is unlikely to detect deception or tell others about your interaction is unethical.

If you aren't sure why, here are the problems I immediately think of:

- If you are misleading people, it's likely that you're worried they will perceive a harm (real or imagined) if they were fully informed.

- If you are seeking out people who are socially isolated because they are unlikely to speak to others, it suggests you are concerned about the outcome of them telling others about your actions. You can also see this in abusive personal relationships where the abusive party will socially isolate their victim.

- Both of these conditions (knowledge and social capital imbalances) make understanding the impact of a relationship (positive or negative) difficult to determine. It might be that no harm has been done, but the account in the article suggests that the contractor went out of their way to create conditions where, if the participants were harmed, they would not be aware of it or would not be able to communicate it.

Lest you think this is all bleeding heart hand wringing, you can see these same principles encoded in economics. Contract law has the notion of material misrepresentation and there's lots of economic theory around the harms of information asymmetry (you could also look into companies that are convicted for material misrepresentation in advertising).

All of which I find gross.

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ethic
Just add a little (overseas) vc money, a nebulous user agreement, and baby, you got a stew going!!
If they're worried about kids, maybe they should have asked to not enable E2E for Messenger Kids. There's already a feature to let parents see their kids' messages. I'm pretty sure they have no plans of breaking that. Government should be providing their expertise to help FB train AIs to help alert parents to suspicious chats. There are lots of good ways to protect kids. This ain't it.

Ask any woman/minority, domestic abuse victim, etc. They don't want people spying on their messages.
I'm very excited for Tensorflow for Swift, personally. The type system will make development so much more pleasant IMO. Judging by the way things have been lately though, I imagine that by the time TF for Swift is ready I'll be reaching for PyTorch at every opportunity anyways...
I already feel stupid about using P-256 a few years ago!
I think things like UBI will be much more practical if we can widely deploy decentralization technologies that will allow us to get a better handle on resource consumption and availability etc. And maybe you would even need to go further by switching to digital money that is fully integrated with resource tracking.
Yea that is possible, but i dont understand what does the last sentence contribute.

None the less, i will try to add those lower notes(which is way more complicated than it sounds for various reasons).
I hit record on my personal phone before I go into the meeting, then turn the screen off and put my phone on the table at the meeting. A lot of people put their phone on the table at meetings.
Why would anyone buy a scooter that has a geofenced governor? Scooter rental companies might do that, but then they'll have more competition from modes of transportation that don't have such restrictions (such as rental bicycles).

I couldn't see lots of people buying a car with a built in governor, especially since speed limits are a joke in many places in the US. Also, such a device would be a hazard in a life threatening situation (such as escaping a disaster or driving a family member to the hospital).
They're happy to stand up to the FBI but not the CCP?
Interesting. Yup, looks like that happened. The question then is whether it was improper.

I haven't done a huge amount of research but here's what USA Today says:

"Burisma Holdings was not under scrutiny at the time Joe Biden called for Shokin's ouster, according to the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, an independent agency set up in 2014 that has worked closely with the FBI.

Shokin's office had investigated Burisma, but the probe focused on a period before Hunter Biden joined the company, according to the anti-corruption bureau.

The investigation dealt with the Ministry of Ecology, which allegedly granted special permits to Burisma between 2010 and 2012, the agency said. Hunter Biden did not join the company until 2014."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/10/03/what...
Easily the most amusing thing I've read all day.

Was this compliant?
I'm not saying anything bad about Apple here... I'm not sure what your comment is about. I'm actually saying (as an anti-Apple person) "good job Apple".
I agree. And since I both care about minorities and don't care to deeply interrogate people's medical histories, I'm ok with calling people whatever the heck they want to be called. No skin off my elbows. It'd be pretty silly if we thought the arguably more objective sex characteristics of a person were not binary but thought that their gender had to be binary, wouldn't it?
Move jobs after a year or so for more money regardless of whether you like your employer.

Circumstances change. Your salary stays with you long after that great manager has moved on.
I believe he was making a joke (in agreement with OP)
> Your land is ours, get the fuck out, construction begins in one week

My understanding is in China the government owns all the land to begin with, you lease it from them. But I guess in this case it would be "your lease is terminated, thanks"
There are very few jobs worth believing in to be honest.
I'm sensing sarcasm, while it seems all the other comments are missing it.

I mean, this is clearly dystopian...but you know that (I hope)
Lua 5.4 has a new feature called to-be-closed variables. It is intended to allow for deterministic freeing of resources, even in the face of possible runtime exceptions. (Sort of like RAII in C++).

The canonical example is that you can mark a variable holding a file handle as to-be-closed and then as soon as you exit the variable's scope the file gets automatically closed (including if exit early due to break, return, or error).

But what is supposed to happen if you are inside a coroutine and pause the execution before reaching the end of the scope, and never resume again? If there are any to-be-closed variables their destructors will never run! Or they might only run after the containing coroutine gets garbage collected, which is not a timely solution. To cover this situation, Lua 5.4 introduced a new coroutine.close function that kills a paused coroutine and runs the destructors of any to-be-closed variables inside it, if there were any.
From the first sentence under the "What are securities" section:

> SIPC protects stocks, bonds, Treasury securities, certificates of deposit, mutual funds, money market mutual funds and certain other investments as "securities."
No. The clerical class in Iran was introduced by the Safavid dynasty. This same dynasty -- Shiite Turks -- also forced the conversion of Iran into a Shia country. It was much more tolerant before that. So their point of reference starts with the Safavids.

When they first came to power, one of the more unhinged specimens of the Mullahs, the hanging judge Khalkhali, wanted to demolish Persepolis. Iran's heritage and history threatens them.

It is also quite upsetting to the regime that every year Iranians gather at the tomb of Hafiz (Shiraz) and Persepolis (very near Shiraz).

But if you pay attention, you will note that the "Supreme Leader" likes to sit on a chair with clothing that very much resembles the iconic relief of Dariush the Great. :-)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/Darius_I...

Their supporters in the west likewise push the extremist terrorist cult of MEK as the alternative. I sometimes wonder if this is implicitly a threat to Iranians of who will come to power should they throw out the Mullahs (who clearly had and still have foreign support). What is oddly consistent across the histrionic divide is a shared interest in propaganda against the Pahlavi dynasty. No less than NYTimes is on this game.

Go figure ..
Perhaps because it prevents them from forcing a moral code on others? Like SOPA/PIPA protected the children and also penalized those immoral women who trade sex for money.
I think if you dig around you'll find that most crashes are due to poor judgement, not poor skills.
Categorically, (and this is part personal experience, so sample bias), the kind of companies I'm talking about in my parent comment are about to go public (multiple rounds of investing), recently went public, etc.

They have a good amount of process to them, but not too much. Silos aren't fortified. There's less direction, but more personal ownership. For someone like me, who doesn't have the most polished communication skills (but is technically proficient), I'm in a position where I can make an impact -- whereas at FANG-type companies, I'd just get ignored because there were too many cooks in the kitchen; too many A-type personalities.

At these slightly smaller places, you have a better chance of getting a seat at the table, and you have more opportunity to contribute to projects that play to your strengths.
It takes ~11 people to staff two 24/7 desks. That’s just having two people in desks 24/7. 10 workers per location isn’t too too wacky.
Perhaps you think at your best if you are alone, relaxing with 'unlimited time' and not under the watchful eye of the observer/interviewer/boss/etc under a tight deadline.

As one legendary greek mathematician shouted in his bath tub:

Eureka!
My problem with cron for short tasks is that pretty often I forget to add logging and/or locking. And then machine runs out of resources because of all the parallel jobs, and there aren’t even any logs.
Has anyone thought of including office perk "shower time" to help less productive teams spark up creativity? This has been really helpful for me to maintain stress level of running a startup.
> I have to rock my head back and forth before each lane change to make sure something's not hidden there.

Keep in mind some of your behavioral changes are associated with you becoming a more experienced driver and learning just what sort of evil can lurk in curious places. As much as my car's blind spot irks me, there's no way it's as bad the 1979 Crown Vic I learned in.
That's literally a provably false assumption.
The second they realize it's insecure (which
will take exactly one raid), they'll switch
to something else.

It is trivial to prove that the second a criminal realizes a given communication mechanism is insecure they do not stop using it if it is convenient.

Has every criminal in the world stopped using the phone after the first phone was ever tapped?

And ALL of the above assumes that there
are no criminal programmers and thus they
have no ability to just write their own tools

But we know there are more than 0 non-programmer criminals who will not be writing their own tools.

You need better arguments than "if we can't stop all crime with an action it has no value" because it is a silly argument.
I'm really sad to hear that. For the record, my case was in 2013.
A nice side effect of this policy is that the library's storage capacity is expanded to include the homes of people with late books that don't have holds on them. I don't know whether storage capacity is scarce these days.
> I'm not advocating that we backdoor encryption. I'm asking what's the nuance in privacy vs crime prevention. I guess your position is one of an absolute, and therefore, to me, not especially interesting.

What's your point? We can either give governments backdoor access, or we don't. It's disingenuous to suggest that there's some sort of "middle ground" and pretend to care about privacy.

> I am curious what you think are the ways we can fight child abuse. It seems to me we have some obligation as technologists to see that our works aren't used to harm the most vulnerable.

How about traditional targeted investigations requiring a warrant? I don't see any reason for technologists to enable mass surveillance.
I was pretty disappointed when I found out the late fees at my local library didn't even go to the library.
Seeking out mental health assistance more proactively, discussing mental health with their friends.