skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow. Growing up in Alberta I heard so much about the tar sands in my mind they were huge. Yet that link shows them to be pretty small and localized to North of Fort Mac.
Wow, this is quite surprising to me that so much of the population is employed by governments.
I was thinking of the Kingdom of the Netherlands with its constituent countries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands
https://twitter.com/ZonePhysics/status/1079768142069534720
Why are digital downloads not similarly 'forever'? Do WAVs and MP3s have DRM capabilities? Asking legitimately - for any new vinyl that I buy I use the download codes that come with albums rather than ripping them manually, as it's very convenient for e.g. listening at work.
The way I look at it is: such thinking will only take a generation to die off.
Hella useful app from a talented team! Congrats !!
How about something specific to Amazon?

Obviously those are all good, re David/Goliath. But in my experience investors dont think along those lines as much.
I don’t want to post something inflammatory or condescending, but it’s very clearly that the author does not have experience using R.
What I'm discovering is simply: that's capitalism.

You're being paid a lot and unless you work for a lossy company, you must be contributing to a profit margin that amounts to more than what they're paying you.

Writing a bunch of things on a computer is a gross simplification of whatever skill-set you've accumulated and the ultimate value you produce for your employer.

Internships are a means to an end, so if your internship seemed trivial somehow, it may have been to some degree, but the company has an interest in figuring out if they could benefit from hiring you long-term.

At the end of the day, digital technology is at the forefront of innovation and innovation is (at least one hot spot) where profits come from. You're participating in the division of labor at the frontier, so you're well paid.

Capitalism spreads wealth asymmetrically, though, so it should come as no surprise that you witness that inequality when you find yourself using your wealth to pay for bourgeois luxuries (hotel rooms, conferences, restaurants) adjacent to service industries.
Sorry what is "dark mode" and why is this important?
Sure, I won't even dispute that. What I'm disputing is that the parent poster said that ISIS did not use terrorist tactics.

That is blatantly a false statement. I can't believe the negative reaction towards pointing that out.
> Quite frankly this all stinks of 1930s European appeasement

You're comparing this to an official policy of appeasing German and Italy's annexation of territory (and various other violations of the treaty), in an era of raising fascism and communism? Really?

It's fine if you want to say that this is bad, worrisome or even evil, but lets call it what it is: the strong bully the weak. This is how the world works.

So far China has largely been about flexing its economic power. This seems completely reasonable; why shouldn't they negotiate hard? I agree it's terrifying for those in the region that they could flex their military..but that's what superpowers do.
The appeasement policy was the right thing to do. The UK couldn't win a war in 1938 (no allies, no money, no air defence etc) and the bad taste of WW1 was still in peoples mouths.

The policy did fail because Hitler was going to go to war no matter what but that is only with 20/20 hindsight.

Appeasement wasn't the right policy, it was literally the only policy available to the UK at the time.

I agree that we need to take a hard line with China though, I can't see how this is going to end given their massive increase in military size and technology plus we are all so tied together financially that we could cripple each other long before a shot is fired.

My friends seem to think that war is the only way this will end and I've got a young son so I sincerely hope not.
I'm Watching Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019) on Flixtor.to
You can now use Spotlight for calculations and the notification side bar for the widgets. Its way better
I wasn't arguing that, I was just calling out the parent for saying ISIS didn't use terrorism as a tactic.

Nice whataboutism there though.
The people still have some time to get their data, in this case.

Also, people need to realize they don't own data that's not stored on their HW. Cloud is at best a convenience, but I wouldn't trust it to make it so that it's the only place, where my data are stored.

You need to keep control of your data if you want choice in SW.
If you think 2019 China is that similar to 1930s Germany you should just come right out and say it, in my opinion. Let that argument stand on its merits.

If you didn't intend a parallel between 1930s Germany and 2019 China, there is, again in my opinion only, probably a better way of making your point.
This thing has been disabled by default for 5 years now.

Edit: and fun fact, if you hate Electron, don't go looking under the covers of Dashboard... it's tons of old-school web tech cruft. Fun, if you're into it.
My dad was a poultry pathologist. Spent some of my childhood touring chicken houses.

I feel absolutely no ethical qualms about murdering chickens from an intelligence aspect. ;)
Not OP but: Stay at the Airbnb, there’s one run by the only parole officer in Nunavut. Check out each of the restaurants and the Nunavut brewing company ^_^ check out Sylvia Grinnel Park, walk down to Apex and the old HBC outpost. I hear prices went up at the museum, but there’s a fantastic local art scene, and Janet Armstrong is a great local artist. You can always hang out at the restaurant at the Frobisher and get better deals directly from the artists.

Watch out for airfares, they’re crazy high, $1200-1600 usually round trip on Canadian North out of Ottawa, but they partner with Aeroplan and with enough advance planning Aeroplan only charges 7500mi + $30 each way, and you can transfer from AMEX Membership Rewards. [1]

[1] https://travelupdate.boardingarea.com/first-air-and-canadian...
We'll know we hit big podcast when they take away the 'skip forward 15 seconds' button. Advertisers will demand this like they did with video.
>Slow boiling frog.

I agree. All this infrastructure and support doesn't make sense if it is only used on executables that have some easily modifiable fs attribute set.

I fully expect apple to try to expand this on all executables at some point in the future. It'll be interesting to see if they will be able to pull it off.
The way Nat King Cole pronounces it in Route 66, of course.
23andMe hits the mall ahead of the holiday DNA-testing rush
as a member of 3rd rebellious country with an actual questionable human rights / economic policy i.e Zimbabwe. These things frighten me. Also I wonder why other economically powerful zones such as Europe / Asia don't produce quality software to compete with Americans. seems software talent is everywhere. & will likely be affected by the US's quasi political pettiness. hey i'm working as software engineer here in the US .
Because there's now a compelling, specific reason to. I imagine the DPRK started new activity with Sony after hearing about "The Interview".
> whereas replacing some of that demand with nuclear can't happen because of orders of magnitude less volume of much easier to handle (and reprocessable in the future) waste is somehow a show-stopper

I don't think the main issue is with the nuclear waste. It's with the fact that even though it's possible to build and operate safe nuclear plants, human nature gets in the way and prevents that from happening.
42MB is still a lot.

We went from an Electron app on macOS to a Swift app with WKWebView and it weights 4.2MB. Not a hello world, the complete production app on the Mac App Store.

Although I imagine the performance would be better with Ultralight since it's an optimized version of WebKit.
"Along with almost everyone else who texts or tweets, with the possible exception of the President of the United States, I have long relied on spell-checkers and auto-correctors"

This exactly spells out a question I have. How would the New Yorker make sure it's AI author puts the correct amount of Left-snark on what it writes? How would Fox news tune theirs to Right-snark?
Many of the bigger German podcasters earn finance their podcasts entirely without ads by their listener’s contributions. The podcasts are usually people talking about topics they really enjoy with people they like.

Why do people do open source software for free at times?
Why not a Rad Hard 8086 https://www.renesas.com/in/en/products/space-harsh-environme... or maybe a Rad Hard RCA CPD1802 https://www.renesas.com/in/en/products/space-harsh-environme... ? Those might survive a hydrogen bomb if not too close.

I've thought about this a little, and I think rebooting vacuum tube technology from scratch is possible more easily. Not trivial, but possible. Once you get reliable triodes, you're on your way.
> How is confirm shaming a dark pattern? It puts more factual detail near the yes or no options so people know what they're agreeing to or declining.

In its best form, perhaps. But more likely than not it looks something like this:

[ ] YES, I want to fight racism by subscribing to CrappyPublisher.net's twice-daily newsletter!
[ ] NO, I am a racist (and also a pedophile)!
I'm not a South Park fan, but that ban got my interested so I watched the episode (Yeah, that episode is banned in China and few "reposter"s has been warned for posting South Park related contents).

Few days ago, a guy been sent to jail for 7 days because he was complaining the National Day military parade, saying something like "A civilized nation turn machine into soldier; a rouge nation turn soldier into machine". And he's not the only one been sent to jail for similar reason.

This country is not taking any critic any more. Cultural Revolution 2.0 Global Edition anybody?

https://twitter.com/ytchui_M/status/1181289272466231296
"A donation to a Venezuela emergency appeal would go down well."

Unfamiliar with these things, I read the executive order and was pleasantly surprised to discover that this is actually possible:

---

Sec. 5. Nothing in this order shall prohibit:

(b) transactions related to the provision of articles such as food, clothing, and medicine intended to be used to relieve human suffering.

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/08/07/2019-17...
I grew up watching SNL when Eddie Murphy was playing Buckwheat.. but that’s not the same as a real comedic attempt by a foreign power at satirizing us -;) there must be something online...
Communist China has annexed territory. It also has a civilian death count much higher than that of Nazi Germany.

I often think that if Germany had won the war people today would be talking about how it wasn't pragmatic not to do business with the greater reich. "Sure they ethnically cleansed eastern europe but whataboutamerica?"
Thank you for the downvote. Much easier try to silence an opinion you don't like than leave a meaningful response. Why bother downvoting if you don't like what I said? This isn't reddit... or high school.

I just watched two history professors debate this very topic here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmyecSXOla8

A very interesting watch because unlike hit and run downvoters, I am interested in learning.

side note: I now don't know what I think - both arguments were very good.
How is it whataboutism? Your criteria for being a country also apply to Saudi Arabia, which anybody would generally accept to be a country.

If I say a square is any four sided object with equal sides, is a rhombus whataboutism?
If you drive up onto the sidewalk and break both my legs, I would certainly expect you to pay more than $100k if my medical bills came to that. Or more generally, a human life is worth quite a few times more than $100k - does that make it negligent for me to go outside?
What are you saying? What is your point?
〔Coding style〕Reasons to add the curly brackets behind if / for / while in C/C++
Agreed I think it’s a little over blown to compare.

That said, the social credit system is oddly reminiscent as well.
Social mores are part of being human. We're full of all sorts of contradictory beliefs and principles. Trying to reconcile all of them will quickly make you a crazy hermit.

On the topics of pigs, dogs, and pets; most people don't realize how intelligent and affectionate cows are. Dairy farmers often love their cows more than their dogs. And the farmers that have dairy cows and other cows have this mental barrier where one group is food and the other is family. I bet most people that have eaten a hamburger have never pet a cow.

This is not some meat-is-murder tirade - I'm not even vegetarian. It's just neat to think about the assumptions that construct our worldview.
If we compare the year with the worst nuclear accident in history so far to a completely unremarkable year of fossil fuels, nuclear comes out ahead when it comes to safety.
There's also txtplot (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/txtplot/index.html), which is low-resolution but cross-platform...
The reality that is western social media has been increasingly censorial in the last couple years on a range of issues, particularly extremism, validating the Chinese approach which any reasonable evaluation would conclude has been prescient in retrospect. Arab Spring, Jasmine Revolution, Rohingya genocide, Hindu nationalist slayings, mass shootings, that is cost of exporting unfettered social media that I also enjoy. Contrary to your assessment of my sentiment, I am perfectly happy with unrestrained freespeech, 4/8chan etc at the cost of occasional mass casualty incidents that I think would be better addressed via responsible MSM conduct.

But the fact remains, the Chinese model promises political serenity (i.e. recent revelation of TikTok guidelines against divisive politics) which is valued in unstable countries without strong institutions, and those countries are by far the majority out the ~200 countries around the world. You many not like it, but calls for Social media accountability is obviously also happening all across western liberal democracies, including the US. People are screaming for more censorship. Techniques are converging and the only reason IMO the west can't match Chinese mechanical turk censoring is labour costs, but I surmise gig economy will eventually figure out a way to source the headcount.

This is a hard pill to swallow for western minds that hedges softpower on moral superiority. Many westerners refuse to accept that the CPC is modelling it's evil development method after what has been successful in the west, i.e. all the industrial espionage and protectionism, even the current Uyghur situation (which I do not endorse) is result of 2nd generation ethnic policy directly based off US melting pot concept and not far from indigenous residential school systems that emphasis integration. Previously it was based on autonomous soviet oblasts that tried to make distinct ethnic identities work - salad bowl - that has failed after riots and terrorism caused by unrestrained western social media (hence the bans). China will happily copy outdated, evil strategies employed by the west if it provides serenity, don't be surprised when the west copies fresh, evil Chinese innovations to address their social ills as well.
What about Setun, a soviet ternary computer like in

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20080207064711/http://sovietcomp...

[3] http://www.computer-museum.ru/english/setun.htm

It is a stack machine, it has somthing like FORTH.

In which you can implement anything else, if you absolutely have to. Like some have done with another stack oriented system here:

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POP-11

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poplog

[6] http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/freepoplog...

And then have some cybernetic monks preach the advantages of
something like TRON

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_project

applied to all of the above.
You're not alone.

I'm not depressed as you but here what helped me after 3 months break between jobs.

- Shutdown your cluster
Forget about work at all, no phones, no computers max a netflix night with your partner.
- Adopt an exercise routine in your time off, things like: walk in the park, around the block, two blocks, functional training, running, jogging. The first 3 weeks are critical to creating a habit.

- Talk to friends about your condition, the better you vent out you will fill better if you can't try a therapy. I did a career coach after 18 years working in IT.

- Listen more and reduce your words by 50% a day. I listen more than I talk these days.

- Less is important, donate what you don't have and stay with the bare minimum.

- Read books instead of social media.

These things helped me get out from a coma after burnout feeling.

Hope this helps.
You can hit Amazon with niche categories. For example they have shoes and clothing, but there is no "Amazon for nurses scrubs or school uniforms" or other niche categories. They also do not serve many countries (e.g. Philippines). A startup that served these needs would not have Amazon as a competitor at all.
They're also a big proponent of bothsideism. For some topics that makes sense (because there are two legitimate or legitimately absurd sides). For other topics it just pollutes discourse by elevating an illegitimate side.
I believe iWork '09 was the final lineup of the original Mac codebase. After that, they basically back-ported the iOS versions to the Mac and from then on had a shared codebase, file format, and feature updates were pretty much in lockstep across Mac and iOS.
Explaining is not endorsement.
'South Park' creators issue a mocking 'apology' to China
Also, in the image caption ...

> Because of Windows Defender automatic sample submission, Beacon binary was uploaded to Redmond and Beacon called Home from there.

... and below ...

> They run the executable in an environment where network connectivity is available.

Why would they do that? To see what happens?

And it's not just Microsoft. Many anti-malware apps (now, probably most) upload binaries. And I'm guessing that many run them. Maybe even with network access.

SensorFu might want to repeat this test using other anti-malware apps.
Courage is in short supply.
Huh, I'm surprised that manufacturers of cheap android even bother providing downloadable firmware,I might pick up a cheapo android and play around with it.
Unless the cell towers have also backup generators, when their backup batteries have gone flat, there will be no cell service.
This exists, several times over. I use Podcast Addict.
I don’t follow. How can the curve itself be insecure? Isn’t the security generated by the random points on the curve?
4GB is plenty for an ARM-based computer. It's rare to find a phone or a SOC with more than 4GB ram, and I think the reason is that you're more likely to max your CPU than your RAM on these limited chips. You're unlikely to be running VMs on these, and you shouldn't be expecting this to be your work primary machine at $200.

For $200 on a limited CPU, I think 4GB RAM is plenty.

My Chromebook runs 4GB (upper end of that product range, at least at the time), and it works fine for everything we have needed it to do (video streaming, Google Docs, etc). That's the type of device I expect this to replace.
I’d think any developer would want at a bare minimum two test machines: one representing the minimum system required by your application including minimum targeted OS version, and a higher end machine running the latest.

Judging my the reaction to my comment, Today I Learned it’s acceptable to release software with only cursory testing on a friend’s computer. Explains a lot about recent software quality actually...
Ah ok. I had read his post as being a total of 12 hours (5+2+5). 4+2+4 seems more manageable.
It wouldn't load for me, even after dis-abling my ad blocker. You can download it with youtube-dl, however, and view it that way.
I thought this made the rounds a long time ago. It sounds familiar
Show HN: StarGaze Social Movie Reviews – Goodreads for Movies
I was amazed to see that with Catalina, zsh is now the default shell on MacOS. Then it occurred to me that this is probably more about Apple's great GPL purge than anything else.
Not sure why you're being downvoted. You're right.
it's considered bad form to discuss votes. the link itself would have been enough
My bingo card:

- return of scripting, alright maybe not AppleScript, but JS, Python, anything: I want to automate my UI meanderings, what the hell

- return of services: make this a reminder, make this a note, send this as email, etc. come on

- a chat app with windows: why is it exactly that every Telegram and Twitter and whatnot has me clicking back and forth and back and there and back and here, why? also why can't I open a chatroom with these three WhatsApp peeps and this one Twitter dude and my mom on Skype? this is backwards

- return of managers: at some point iTunes stopped being my 90+GB music library manager, and became hell knows what. same with Photos, Safari, Mail. all full of cloud and gotchas and eye-candy that keeps me away from my stuff by making me wait.

- the return of self-published dashboard widgets. they are awesome. I'll be where they are, thank you very much.
Google can probably provide this kind of map with much higher resolution thanks to android. I'd love to see a zoomable world map with stats of what language people set on their devices. Even info about how many percent is set to English would be interesting.
Also me - My Jukebox 20 and building a computer were my first introductions to open source and hardware development.
People really don't care.
"I like the style when it fits my beliefs, but this comedy show is polluting discourse when I disagree with it"
I hate to suggest a web search but there are a lot of examples online if you search, e.g., https://www.viva64.com/en/a/0004/

One of the big ones is that integer constants are 32-bit on LP64 / LLP64 systems unless they are large enough, so e.g.

// Equal to 0x80000000 on ILP32
// Undefined behavior on LP64 / LLP64
size_t max = 1u << (sizeof(size_t) * CHAR_BIT - 1);

// Correct version
size_t max = (size_t)1 << (sizeof(size_t) * CHAR_BIT - 1);

This can also happen with e.g. multiplication

#define K 1024
#define M (1024 * K)
#define G (1024 * M)
#define T (1024 * G)
// Undefined behavior, on both 32-bit and 64-bit.
size_t max_object_size = 10 * T;
// Correct version (#1)
size_t max_object_size = 10995116277760;
// Correct version (#2)
static const size_t K = 1024;
static const size_t M = 1024 * M;
... etc ...

Or if you need to align your pointers for some reason, so you do the cast correctly (with uintptr_t) and get

void *align_ptr(void *p) {
// Mask is 0xfffffff0 on 32-bit (correct)
// Is also 0xfffffff0 on 64-bit (mistake)
return (void *)(((uintptr_t)p + 0xf) & ~0xf);
// Correct version
return (void *)(((uintptr_t)p + 0xf) & ~(uintptr_t)0xf);
}

Consider that you might do some pointer alignment e.g. to work with SIMD. This stuff isn’t so crazy and if you haven’t been targeting 64-bit, a lot of it can creep into your code base over the years. Legacy projects may not compile even remotely cleanly with warnings enabled, it’s just a fact, so even though warnings / static analysis will catch some of the errors above you’re not safe.

This is why so many languages have stricter rules about converting integers to narrower / wider types.
I think there's an error in the first bit of example code:

float fbm( in vecN x, in float H )
{
float t = 0.0;
for( int i=0; i<numOctaves; i++ )
{
float f = pow( 2.0, float(i) );
float a = pow( f, -H );
t += a*noise(f*x);
}
return t;
}

Shouldn't "float a = pow( f, -H );" be "float a = pow( i, -H );"?
Passive safety makes it sure that clueless operator can only result in a safe shutdown of the core and that it is physically impossible to maintain supercriticality in a core, basically by making it melt and separate into several sub-critical components.