skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So not all his work, but his work on "cancer-prone personalities", correct? I recall reading one of his books (the title escapes me right now), but this particular theory was never discussed in that book.
Canada's Decision To Make Public More Clinical Trial Data Puts Pressure On FDA
That is, while impressive, pretty meaningless. The thing is, that sports are defined by their rules and to the best of my understanding the long distance running rules are written to prevent teamwork. (Unlike cycling, which is explicitly a team sport.) Basically, the two hour mark is important in the specific circumstances of Olympic marathon, and was broken in a different sport.

To broaden the discussion a bit, it seems reasonable to argue that the true limits of human endurance are reached running barefoot. Then we have Olympic marathon, where modern high performance shoes are used. And on the other hand of this spectrum, we have bicycles, after all it is not entirely clear why the engineering hours poured into modern running shoes should be categorically different from the engineering hours spend to construct a bike. And somewhere on this spectrum falls following an car and pacemakers, and my point is, it is a different point than Olympic marathon.

This is actually not an argument against bending the rules in general, but in this specific instance, it is bending the rules to archive something that is hard because of the rules. In particular, it is just a 2% improvement over the Olympic marathon world record.

The longer I write, the harder it gets to avoid the categorization Bullshit, however I just realized that in this instance I could quite easily cite Harry Frankfurt [0] and use the term in a technical sense. So, the bullshitters do not care about truth or beauty, they just care to produce something that vaguely looks like marathon, to those distracted by their TV dinner, while also being sub 2h. They succeeded, but they only succeeded in a game of their own invention.

[0] H. Frankfurt, On Bullshit, Princeton University Press. 2005.
Everything counts. And don't make me talk about camelia.
CEO of world’s largest e-sports firm ESL warns staff not to discuss HK protests
Guru and Shani Effect on You in 2020 – Top Best Astrologer in India
They are supposed to be readable still. If you can't then that's an accessibility issue, not censorship. Try turning up your screens contrast.
Not exactly lisps, but Carp (https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp) and Scopes (https://bitbucket.org/duangle/scopes/wiki/Home) might be worth a look. I haven't tried the former, and couldn't get the latter to do anything useful, though. (it looks like the author stopped responding to issues, sadly).
This reminds me of the “surprising” finding that ability to stand from seated partition without using your hands is associated with dramatically lower chance of dying within 5 years. Of course, this is because anyone likely to die of old age within 5 years is unlikely to be that spry.
One must take care to distinguish between the Chinese people and their government. I don't think the GP was talking about the people - he was talking about the government. (I have always been impressed with the intelligence, humor and heart of the Chinese people I've known; and yet this makes the authoritarianism of their government even more striking).
I wonder if the new signature has any effect on pointer authentication (or was related to those changes). Also, I think the title would be better served with the correct capitalization of the method name, objc_msgSend.
The DRM scheme could use some work. Here's a simple crack (run from the extension license page):

chrome.storage.sync.set({
spider_valid_license: {
key: 'No license (00000000-00000000-00000000-00000000)',
lastChecked: new Date('Jan 1 3000')
}
})
Smart TVs are data-collecting machines, new study shows
Most meaning the median person ? I doubt it
Voting cartels. That's the only way anything gets any attention anywhere these days.
The Money Behind The Climate Denial Movement (2013)
Here is what you wrote:

> encryption being off by default and only available on a few clients and not synchronizing between different encryption-supporting clients

This more than implies that Telegram sends messages in plaintext.

Which isn't true.

In your reply now you prove that you are aware of this with this little sentence at the start:

> E(nd to end)ncryption is off by default, that's not an opinion.

E2E encryption is of course better than other forms of encryption but writing in a way that makes people think that something sends data as plaintext instead of encrypted is not acceptable at all IMO.

Edit:

You are also misquoting me:

> Anyway, I guess that's just semantics. We both understand what is the case, whether you like calling it a default setting or "just not encrypted"

That's not what I call it.

I call it encrypted.

The secret chats option I call end-to-end encrypted.
With familiarity that goes away. :-)
You can get message: URLs using AppleScript which will open the mail. I paste these in my Orgmode files. This allows me to archive the mail (and keep my inbox clean) while still keeping track of tasks.
Is ‘tech addiction’ akin to drug addiction? [video]
The author of the article has, quite literally, seen all of the relevant data we have on this. Yes, I am making an argument appealing to authority.
Why does apply evaluate to itself instead of (lit prim apply)?
The Salazar scandal involves a case in which doping of athletes was very specifically not proven.
Where I come from, the formal science of psychology, is often mocked by intelligent people. This is scandal to those that put weight on it, to others, simply more of the same.
You are absolutely right, but all of this is known to Apple.

What they need to do when it's potentially about permanent loss of user data is to prove that a postcondition is met (i.e. all messages were successfully converted) and roll back if it isn't.

Instead they apparently sync the faulty data with the IMAP server and destroy what most users consider their email backup. This is breathtaking incompetence and negligence if it's actually true.

The worst thing is that it is near impossible to find out whether or not you're affected by this.

I'm so fed up with Apple and its second rate software. I have lost music playlists in this ill fated Catalina "upgrade" as well. I've been wanting to move on to a more flexible and less oppressive environment for a while. At least this finally breaks my inertia.
Baking a Better Loaf of Bread
They did a much better job apologizing to China.
https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/dfkmp1/blizzards_...

Had they not done that they might be believable, but because of the way the kowtow to china, definitely hard to find any honesty/truth in their statement.
Eliud Kipchoge smashes two-hour marathon barrier
Renewable CO2 recycling and synthetic fuel production in a marine environment
so body die
Yep very interesting to let it run for a while on different choices even though the expected value of each one is 0.95
Informative Video about Guru and Shani Effects in 2020.
Legal ICOs are STOs and not surprisingly they have a hard time getting off the ground.
I do quite often, both because my content addiction requires more than the front page provides and my vanity likes the idea that my comment will be read by a lot of people if the post makes it to the front page.
No it's a Scumm implementation. It's closer to a VM but really we just call it a game engine.
No, it was a genuine race (the 'pacemakers' were also competing, were not lapped, and had to finish the race).
I don't even know what point you're trying to make. No one is inherently against the Chinese. People are against the CCP, and their disgusting authoritarian regime.
Sorry, I thought it was about hangouts or something.

Embarrassing, sorry, and thanks for pointing it out.
I always thought that SBCL was considered high performance and for example Chicken Scheme compiles to C. Both might be slower than Rust but I always had the impression both of these were more performant than say Java, but I haven't used either in a meaningful way to really know how it would rate for your performance needs.
Is there a new tab :P
Horizontal scalability is not always easy, but it is always expensive. Startups especially tend to discover the latter the hard way when they receive surprise bills from AWS.
https://twitter.com/FiloSottile/status/987376021589692416

Here you can see a couple of people with better CVs than mine discussing this.

But I agree, it’s incredible that I’m probably the only person in the world constantly bringing this up re:telegram
So use an AR headset to put a virtual person in front of you keeping a constant pace?
The 'problem' you just described has nothing to do with crypto-currency as the 'solution'. Apple Pay is the most frictionless payment system I've used, can integrate with the browser, and attached to any of my credit cards.

Paying for 'bits' of content is already a thing, you can buy single article access on many of the newspaper websites today.
Likely the fastest human distance runner that has ever lived on this earth.
I thought the story went that the ride was an inspiration for the game, which was then an inspiration for the movie. I’ve not been on the original ride but some Pirates characters are straight out of the game.

I think it would be supercool if Lucasarts made a “Pirates of the Caribbean and the Secret of Monkey Island” game that is essentially a Monkey Island adventure, somehow incorporating Guybrush, Marley etc in the POTC universe and then giving them a cameo in the next movie.
Micropayments of this sort are one of those use cases that people have been trying to put into place forever, and they always founder on the fact that users hate them.
> Kidding aside, Curse wasn't too bad, but it wasn't where the original creator(s) intended to go with the story.

You could always go one worse with Escape [0] or Tales of Monkey Island [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_from_Monkey_Island

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_Monkey_Island
You're forgetting about networks' and data centres' energy requirements. A recent report estimates currently use of the carbon footprint of digital technologies is about 4% of global emissions, and in a worst case scenario by 2025, digital technologies may amount to 7% of global carbon emissions. For reference, global emissions as of 2018 grew to 37 billion tonnes CO2 equivalent.

>>Digital technologies now emit 4% of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), and its energy consumption is increasing by 9% a year. [...] only one form of digital use, online video, generates 60% of world data flows and thus over 300 million tons of CO2 per year. This use is far from being “dematerialized”. On the contrary, it represents 20% of the greenhouse gas emissions of all digital devices (use and production included), and 1% of global emissions, i.e. as much as Spain.

https://theshiftproject.org/en/article/unsustainable-use-onl...
Taking a few Free Tibet, Hong Kong or Taiwan flags to a game that'll be broadcast in China might be a good start

https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/daj20t/lyonnantes_w...
Climate technology primer (1/3): basics
Are there any conditions where the compiler can optimize away the call to objc_msgSend? Or is it always used for any call between 2 ObjC/Swift methods?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21232161 (washingtonpost.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21231660 (bbc.co.uk)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21231529 (theguardian.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21231503 (dw.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21231479 (nytimes.com) <-- Discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21231450 (wsj.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21231449 (sportingnews.com)
It's another implementation of the interpreter for the SCUMM language (and by now, some others). If you were to create a new JavaScript or Python interpreter, that also wouldn't be a "JavaScript emulator".

The language is bytecode based, and interpreters for bytecode are also called a "Virtual Machine".
Using heap as sole savior of stackless coroutines just doesn't scale. I'm working on a game engine, we can have 10-100k+ jobs running per frame, modern monitors have refresh rates of 144/240/300 Hz, so worst case: 30 million jobs per seconds! There is no time for heap - is just too slow.

So we need to preallocate everything for all systems, but hey, if you preallocate everything for worst case - you are out of RAM (on PS4/Xbox/etc).

What we need is a mix: scratchpad memory that lives longer than stack, but costs as cheap as stack. Tagged heap with stack/arena allocator comes close performance wise but not ergonomics wise.

Ergonomics of writing code with such constrains is very painful. Stack is the most ergonomical/fastest scratchpad you can have, and as soon as you have async/await/etc in a middle of your function - you need to think about unwind/rewind of every stack variable.
Just because he created software doesn't mean he issues BTC. Bitcoin by design doesn't grant him any control like that.

Pyramid scheme? Do you even know what does it mean? If Bitcoin is pyramid scheme, so are many others things like stocks, currencies etc.
those “worms” if real, seem pretty convincing though [1]

[1] http://www.leonarddavid.com/curiosity-mars-rover-investigate...
That is very much a Mainland Chinese World view, which is accurate to the point of only to Mainland Chinese people, and no offence intended.

>they’ve lifted hundreds or millions out of poverty

And they did, by first and foremost down to joining WTO.

Once this government starts ( and has already done so ) influence or force Rest of the world to cooperate or kowtowing to their own self interest, which fundamentally undermines everyone else basic value and principles, then it is no longer their own policy and issues.

And that is about as civilised as I can put it.
Marathon runners would run naked if they could. Certainly don’t want or need some heavy gadget on their head.
Once I saw the screenshot with wallpaper, I felt like "he's done! It looks done!"

The time commitment is impressive, and there's something reassuring in an age of consolidated power to see individuals building various levels of software, particularly where many of us probably haven't ventured due to the unknowns.

Very cool!
Ask HN: What is up with California and HAM radios?
There are a number of rumors circulating that the CA state government is no longer going to use the amateur radio community and is instead building a state funded repeater network. Is this true? If so, can anyone explain the benefit?
In some languages, like C, you don't have the full power of main language inside the macros.

In other languages, you have the whole language inside the macros, but the community and the docs discourage you about writing macros. As a related example, in rust the macros have a ! so it's easy to distinguish macros from function calls.

In the lisp family of languages, the idea is that everyone can write macros. Macros are dangerous because they can do weird things, but functions can do weird things too. Functions are more restricted, but until you look at the source code you are not sure that they will not ignore all the arguments, or format your hard disk, or something weird in between.

I know more about the internal working of racket. One of the open secrets is that it has a lot of macros that pretend to be function. They behave nicely like function, but under the hood they are macros, mostly to generate more efficient code in the common case. For example functions with keywords, of functions with contracts, or functions like `in-list` that can be used in a `for` to iterate a list. (Other macros are weird and do very complex things, in particular `for` and `match` are implemented as macros inside the language.)
Painterro – JavaScript Painting Plugin
I love the way you expressed this.
And Microsoft just announced the SurfaceX, which runs ARM and x86 apps, but not x64.
I think it's the mobs that need to be fought under Popper's thesis.

It's simpler to see if you apply the Paradox recursively. There's a reason for an exception to tolerance. It's made only in case of people who directly want to get rid of other members of society. Society needs to get rid of them first. But if, in your quest of chasing out the intolerant, you extend the meaning of intolerance to anything beyond immediate threats to people, or if you start claiming collateral damage, then you are the intolerant that the society needs to get rid of ASAP.

The groups currently wielding the Paradox as justification for their actions? If they actually believed in it, they'd dissolve.
I'm a cheap SOB so I can't read the whole article, but I am really looking forward to a time when a city center no longer allows human operated vehicles.

A time when streets have no lights, lanes or direction of traffic.

A time when during certain times of the day a street can dynamically change from one way to two way and back to one way traffic, all based on the collaborative hive mind of self driving cars.

Cars constantly talking to eachother, the network and making thousand of tiny decisions about what lane to occupy, where to turn in order to expedite their own trip and that of their nearby neighbor.
What a perfect example of a straw man argument you made! I just love when people tell me what they think I think!

No, hypothetical Ukraine will not issue fifty billion ICOs and its GDP will not exceed the rest of the world (btw it is rather ignorant to tie ICOs to bitcoin, they are completely different things).

What I think will happen in this hypothetical scenario, is that bitcoin will have a safe place in Ukraine where it can be legally turned in a very real cash USD, totally by an off-banking method. Then these USDs will be shipped to banks in Poland or Germany or Switzerland, which will accept it rather happily (as they usually do). Meanwhile, the rest of the world would continue using bitcoin for their day to day purposes, ignoring a worldwide ban. Some purposes will probably criminal [1], but many will have legal ones, especially in countries with failed fiat currency, like Venezuela or Zimbabwe. Because, you know, you can't really control a person who sells a pig to his neighbour and wants to have something REAL in return.

Should be mentioned, that if we pretend that just one country will legalize bitcoin, then it is more likely that this country will be the one least vulnerable to bank sanctions. Iran or North Korea are much more likely candidates than Ukraine.

Anyway, in reality, a worldwide ban is unlikely at this point, given the acceptance of bitcoin by too many jurisdictions already [2]. It's just a matter of time when it'll go to the moon and establish itself as the main world currency.

[1] In Russia all drug trade has moved online, facilitating sales with cryptocurrencies, check this investigation https://darknark.lenta.ru/ - and no Russian bank exchanges BTC for local currency.
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_bitcoin_by_country...
500 Years Later, MIT Proves That Da Vinci's Bridge Design Works
So from a theoretical perspective, what's the difference between an implementation (on different hardware) and emulation?

And when does a game engine, become a language, become a (virtual) machine.

As I understood it, scumm was basically an interpreter, where the instructions don't really bare any resemblance to processor instructions, so a virtual machine is impossible (or the distinction meaningless).
Yeah, this is a super-weird anti-Apple flex. There’s a lot of problems with it, mostly that damn near every tech product is manufactured in China, or using majority components manufactured in China, etc. But here’s the biggest problem I have. China deliberately wanted to focus on this type of manufacturing for decades. You don’t just decide you’re going to manufacture iPhones and then poof in 6 months you’re running world-class operations. It would take untold time and dollars to develop these capabilities in a human workforce in America. What you’re all hopped up about, has literally no chance of happening.

I too have qualms with what is going on in China, but like everything that happens in this life, I’m flipping petrified of how much damage some reactionary american screed might do.
Isn’t it the same thing? Growth in share price, not necessarily in revenue or profit. https://youtu.be/ylLTMYt24lA
When you neglect maintenance and cry fowl when a state wants to charge for your negligence.
WhatsApp Pay's trial in India has been delayed yet again: https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/whatsapp-pay-laun...

reason - 100% regulatory issues.

I would take that "2019" as "2020 or later."
What Replaces JavaScript (The Future of WebAssembly)
True, but also Clojure is not the only Lisp, just one I remembered was mentioned in a actual benchmark as being fast at some things.

Nowadays you can either chose a Lisp that does compile to a single binary and doesn't require the JVM (like SBCL or something like that), or you could use Clojure but use GraalVM to get the single binary.

Anyways, I agree with your general point, Rust being in general faster. But I don't agree with the whole "Lisps are just generally slower and use more resources" thing, while it's certainly true in some conditions.
This is complete non-sense. The 1st amendment of the U.S constitution is the freedom of speech. You can say whatever you want against the U.S armed forces and portray them however you wish, and there are plenty of examples.
AI Went Googling and Curated Celebrity Feet
That's running 42km at 21km/h… Anybody who already tried to run a sub20 5km (5km at 15km/h) knows how crazy this is.
> Escape or Tales of Monkey Island

I will not tolerate that talk in my house.

Tales did have 1 or 2 good things (I liked the French scientist) but Escape was brand assassination through and through.
Do you have one that shows the money behind climate change and who is profiting. THAT is reality.
Even if you can you re guaranteed to lose because the govt makes its own laws

How would that work with VZ?
It's ok. If you care about climate change you will not be mad.
Bitcoin, at the moment, isn't used as a currency. Nor is it very viable as one. Instead, it is a store of value, much like gold.

Using something as a store of value has much less of a scale requirement. You only need a few people that will be willing to exchange your Bitcoin into something else in order for it to work as savings / an investment. Whereas a currency requires multiple places where you buy goods to accept it. Moreover, those places only really have a reason to accept a currency if multiple customers would use that currency.
Instead of writing code on the weekend, I instead have been thinking about and visualizing the code that I would like to write. That way I can use my hands for other activities, like playing in the dirt.
5 mph, not much more than walking speed? I have doubts about keeping it up for 5 hours, though.
So, Apple has become China's bitch or was it already?

Thanks for increasing the influence of authoritarian regimes in our Western world.

Last time I checked, freedom of speech is a human right.

Thanks for not defending it.

With a gay ceo on top ( with all respect, it means they should better respect/understand Western values and freedom than other companies), these actions make clear that privacy and security are not on top of apple's list as they claim. It's profits and nothing else. They just pack innovation to have another POV and privacy and security was the easy tactic.

Screw you, crApple.
How are they bending the rules if they try to prove that a human can run a marathon distance in less than two hours? I am not arguing that he has run a marathon below 2:00, but he is the first recorded human that has achieved such a feat - which is kind of a barrier many people have tried to break or at least recognized to exist - even though it has required them to remove all possible outside factors like wind and they even re-paved parts of the route to make conditions optimal, and he got pretty lucky with the weather today.