skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Voyager 2's computer was reset in 2010:

https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/news/details.php?article_id=16

It suddenly started returning corrupted frames. So engineers had it slowly transmit a core dump, and found a single flipped bit. To fix the problem, they "reset" the computer, which I assume means they rebooted it.
ime/o aggressively short functions are painful to debug, understand, and maintain. When there's a bug in a function you need to go down the call stack to find the offending code and fix it. The files wind up being much larger and harder to navigate, and you wind up needing to use tooling to figure out what is broken and why, as opposed to seeing it on inspection.

imo splitting architecture into functions is more about reusability than some arbitrary metric of "one thing" a function is supposed to do, since you can make that "one thing" as granular as you want and leads to a lot of terrible code.
Tumblr was dying the moment they began relying on nsfw content. Like a soaking wet arctic explorer who feels warm because his body has begun shutting down bloodflow to his limbs. The sensation of thriving/warmth masks the reality; that the situation is already incompatible with survival and it's only a matter of time before he collapses, no matter how great he feels in that moment.
Anyone shaming air travel should first become carbon neutral least they be labeled a hypocrite.
Remove my password from lists so hackers won't be able to hack me (2017)
"Eye-candy" can be supportive of said malleability.

Inferring form what you wrote, I think your working definition of marketing is wrong. Maybe you can clarify what you mean by "marketing"?

I am also unsure what you mean with "signaling". If you mean communication with the user via visual cues, than I would say signaling is an important feature.

Eye-candy is important with many things made for humans, not just computer displays.
Your summary seems rather inaccurate.

The person you are responding to is merely pointing out that there is a binary distinction between those that exert editorial control over their content and those that don't and that "publisher" and "common carrier" are the legal terms that cover those two binary categories (which may not be strictly accurate.)

There is nothing about responsibility, so you are putting words in their mouth.
New Show HNs go to https://news.ycombinator.com/shownew. There's a small point threshold before they make it to https://news.ycombinator.com/show. Does that answer your question?
Indeed, local salinity would be higher. I’m not sure how easy it would be to distribute waste salt over a large enough area of water. Alternatively, land-based storage might be an option, not unlike Yucca Mountain.
There's probably an important demographic difference or two between Amazon employees and the entire population of Vermont. Like, how many 80-year-olds do you think work at Amazon?
Boeing Pilot Warned of ‘Egregious’ Issue with 737 Max in 2016
A few comments under that twitter accuse that it's actually quite UNFAIR as it grabs most immigrants from one nation.

I tried to read the whole act but God Damn it it's so difficult to understand the words...can someone explain to me what exactly is the fair act? Thanks in advance.
Startup time in any interpreted language is very quickly simply proportional to the amount of code loaded.

time python -c '' # 0.024s
time python -c 'import argparse' # 0.036s
time python -c 'import argparse, json' # 0.040s
time python -c 'import argparse, json, httplib' # 0.065s
It's probably a good idea to develop more than one commercially-viable method regardless.
Well, this is a great reason for Firefox users to remove the Google search engine from their browser and use DuckDuckGo. Better results and the bang syntax!
It reminds of the days of Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing, when everything was possible and even dogs could build websites: https://philip.greenspun.com/panda/
Yes, they were.

https://www.vox.com/2018/3/17/17134072/facebook-cambridge-an...
> The biggest issue is that every single incident is met with some extremely poor response.

Do we actually know this? My impression is that only the poor responses would be reported on for us to see.
The average corporate IT department is rubbish at doing computing. Easier and quicker to outsource than doing it in house. But nVidia sell GPU appliances (DGX) for these on-prem customers.

Basically, expertise is expensive and comes in $200k/year increments. You can use a lot of cloud GPU for that much money.
I'm really not sure why this isn't mentioned:

USA should commission a study of health care systems in other countries. Include costs, challenges, issues of bringing it to scale in US, etc.

Then we can implement something based on real world experience and data.

It seems that these highly complex topics are dealt at the ideological level only. Which is absurd, as details can make anything from any ideology horrible. It makes me think of times when other common sense issues that should be data driven were treated in such a way. In the end, the curvature of the world is really independent of any ideological constructs that were created, but the ideological constructs made discussing the data virtually impossible at the time.
Not holding my breath on that one. The current health care system is institutionalized and is going resist reform every step of the way.
In a larger sense, insurance only makes sense to cover events that are both expensive and rare.

1. If an event is not expensive, you can just pay for it yourself.

2. If an event is not rare, then pooling resources doesn't increase your ability to pay for it.

Annual physicals are neither expensive nor rare. But the larger problem is, illness isn't rare. People get sick, and we need to stop pretending that this is some unusual thing.

I really don't see myself staying in the US if we haven't switched to single-payer healthcare by the end of the next presidency. I probably want kids, and I'm simply not going to bring them up in a country where the government and increasingly, the culture itself, cares more about corporate profits than people. We work really hard in this country just to achieve the same standard of living that people in countries with fewer resources have. Healthcare is, in my opinion, the most egregious example of that. It's stupid, and I don't want to inflict it on my kids.
Attempting to immigrate out of USA. Please, list my non-traveling options, I'm interested in your perspective.
>And, our healthcare will instead be subject to the whims of the politics, rather than the profits for Shareholders.
Medicare works because it's beneficiaries are a strong voting block. There are population segments in America who aren't.

The point of Medicare for All is also to instantiate this new voting block across as much of the population as possible, to imbue them with this political power and free them from control by their employers and the profit-seeking of healthcare companies.

You have the causation backwards: government provided healthcare among the elderly is what has created their defense of the system. Medicare for All extends the possibility of this defense to everyone.
> the X server will still need to be updated since it also works as XWayland.

No, it will not. Xwayland will likely be deprecated and removed in the coming years. The rationale being that nobody uses any Athena or Motif programs anymore and all of the toolkits that matter to modern desktops will have Wayland backends already.
Ok, understood. There is a diminishing return with every additional feature. I have to have a use case for every feature, otherwise it is useless and only takes up resources. My maximum number of use cases is finite.
>It has been alleged that Hurd hired her in large part for prurient purposes.
She posed for Playboy;

This seems to imply that hiring a woman who has posed for Playboy has a higher chance of being because of prurient purposes. This seems discriminatory.
That would defeat some static analysis, so I can see it being disallowed by a careful style guide.
Make med school free in return for doctors working for the government, for a decent professional salary. This would also potentially change the mix of people who want to become doctors -- more middle class.

I don't believe that salaries tell the whole story of doctor income. Doctors are well positioned as insiders to make investments in the medical industry, ranging from ownership of clinics and diagnostic equipment, to owning entire provider networks.

An effect of the cost of doctor education is that it favors students from wealthy families, who are also positioned as investors.

Meanwhile, every interest group in the system will cry poor, and claim that someone else is gouging us, which is an almost certain sign that they're all gouging us. I've got a lot of doctors as friends, and I don't pity them.
They've been drifting apart for a while now. Reddit now has its own image hosting and Imgur has been distancing itself from Reddit and promoting itself as its own platform.
How much dry powder is left for QE? How can this be determined?
As far as I understand, the ability of the Fed to do QE (and as an aside, the kind of repo rescue operations that happened last week) is dependent on US banks holding treasuries which can be exchanged for fed reserves. When banks aren't holding any more treasuries or the Fed has bought them all then QE has to end (please correct me if I"m wrong).

Given this assumption, my question is, do we know exactly how many treasuries are held by US banks, and if so, what is that number and how is it determined?
Chick-fil-A’s first UK location to close after pressure from LGBTQ rights group
Is this any good for non-spatial stuff? The graphs look very spatial-y

Either way...nice one MS
I think part of it is the assumption that affected citizens (who might object to the new shop/cafe/…) are more likely to read such papers than government publications.

That likely still is true, but less so (fewer people subscribe to papers), and the assumption that people who read the paper would spot your advert probably only held back in the time when papers had reasonably small coverage (so that your advert wouldn’t appear in a large section of the paper, but stand on its own), and were about the only source of news (which made them much better read)
Countries that export food can be seriouslsy affected.
I know you would like to make Mu open source, which is to say, free software. What are the problems standing in your way, and how can we help to solve them?
If requiring scientific magazine citations (which itself seems like a low bar), is our standard for if submissions are accepted, then there ain't going to be much news on Hacker News since most articles here don't meet that threshold.
You basically think more things should be on-topic, right?

(FYI, duplicate isn't the top close reason. The fuzzy trio unclear/overbroad/unreproducible accounts for very roughly 50% and duplicate 20%.)
AlphaGo needs to be retrained for new games.
The breakthrough was in having a generic training algorithm that could be set loose on many games and learn them.
What about chronic diseases that require frequent treatment?
Brilliant. Thanks for sharing it with us!
Black Hole Sun
Without addressing related aspects, your statement is factually incorrect. VS Code is definitely open source (MIT licensed): https://github.com/microsoft/vscode.
It's horrible. The next sentence tells why. It's horrible because of something. That something is noise. The noise is because of indirections. No one talks like that.
Few old people become peak leaders in their respected field.
if it doesn't beat the heart has failed.
It's mainstream news outlet.

What were you expecting, exactly? And how do your expectations correspond to the reporting quality & character of said news outlet?
If You Can Ban Nipples, You Can Ban Nazis
Apple created OpenCL and donated it to Khronos.

The point of the trash can Mac Pro, was to use OpenCL to leverage two mid level GPUs as a cheaper and higher performance alternative to one high end and expensive GPU.

Developers never really adopted OpenCL, and the whole idea was dropped.
Going the whole marcus aurelius route, but marcus aurelius had some genuinely unique thoughts and viewpoints. Financiers are much less interesting than they think they are, purely because money attracts an audience regardless of value.
Good note - I missed those because the format of the text was different on the page I linked to. Fixed!
> make takes under 30ms to do nothing:

But in large code bases, make can take several seconds to do nothing, depending on the number of `$(shell find)`.

Whereas Bazel's time remains constant. Could it have been constantly 30ms instead of 150ms?

Sure. But that's nowhere near to being a problem for the usual code bases Bazel operates on.
More precisely, Monica objected to singular they (both as gender-neutral form and if chosen as preferred pronoun), insisting she would rather write without pronouns at all. But to this day neither she nor we know what exactly her alleged violations of the existing CoC were (nor which warnings she allegedly received).
> The second trap is misunderstanding network effects.

Network effects, also known as efficiencies of scale, exist in every industry. This was as true of the railroads and the telephone companies as it is of tech companies. That's the whole reason corporations tend to become monopolies in the first place.
Discriminatory in what way?

It definitely has a higher chance of being for prurient purposes if she first came to his attention for her nude modeling! Let's be realistic here.
How do DB migrations relate to the source control graph?

It seems you're implying the codebase changed as a result of a script that itself is not source controlled. I can think of style commits falling in this category, like one of the children of this comment mentions, but DB migrations don't seem to be related.
You realize the fact that the validation dataset is independent of the training dataset is a YUGE red flag right?
Google and Mozilla can (and likely would) destroy the CA that allowed an unauthorized Gmail.com (not DNSSEC-signed, by the way) certificate to be issued. They have destroyed some of the largest commercial CAs in the industry for less.

Neither Google nor Mozilla can revoke .COM, and the USG has repeatedly used its authority over .COM for public policy ends.
Yup the Jack 'o Lantern and False Chanterelle. I misremembered, I guess it is more than a mild stomach ache (but still not likely to really hurt you). But it looks nothing like the chanterelle as long as your criteria includes more than 'its orange'.
> One role is to help the criminal learn

Do you believe that punishment is an ideal way to learn? How do you imagine this `punishment` to be carried out [0]?

Assuming you're American: the primary systems prisons have been modeled after have been the Auburn system and the Separate system and both of these models have a pretty heavy recidivism.

I'm danish and our prisons are mostly built on the premise of rehabilitation and have attempted to shy away from what was perceived as "meaningless" oppression (although this is slowly changing towards a more Kantian view of punishment, something the general media portrays as being bad). In contrast to the American system ours is one of relatively low recidivism.

[0]: My question might seem snarky, it's really not. From my perspective "punishment" is rarely discussed, so I'm genuinely curious regarding, not so much the justification that much is clear, but the intended "carrying out" of said punishment is interesting to me.
> “Granted, I suck at flying, but even this was egregious,” he went on to say, according to a transcript of the exchange reviewed by The New York Times.

> “I basically lied to the regulators (unknowingly),” Mr. Forkner says in the messages.
While everyone's commenting about how foolish the author was with his choices, I think the main point point is that this is a very well written chronicle of facing certain but not immediate death and what that feels like, down to the minutiae at the hospital.
Writing Safety Critical C++ Software for High Performance AI Hardware
so do I. Although I discovered it rather late - in 2004.
It's remarkable how configurable it is. I adopted some version of what this guy did:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdSgf-IykIo
to do "manual tiling". Also can't find anything modern that even remotely can compare.
Some people just really enjoy what they're doing. Friend of mine's dad is pushing 80 and he still puts in 90 hour weeks (he's a company owner, not a regular employee putting in that kind of time). Sounds like hell to me, but he'd be dead in a week if he quit. It's what he lives for. Hasn't been great for his relationship with his kids and ex-wife, but ... I guess it's what makes him tick.
Obviously the warnings weren't loud enough
> Mantle was released before Metal.

Metal was released soon after and then as a finished "product" in iOS. It likely has had more than a year in development inside Apple before the release too.

You make it almost sound like they coughed up Metal in the few months after Mantle was shown.
CenturyLink customer details exposed online, 2.8M records leaked
So they built a model that can tell the difference between the two different sources.
Theme and tone are two different things. It's why everyone's complaining about the pictures. They set a tone that distracts from the theme.

(And, otherwise, it's a damn good article.)
It's an uncomfortable subject because the vast majority of front-line medical professionals like doctors, specialists, surgeons, nurses etc. are doing that job with passion and honesty to help people.

But it's also true, and I think well-known at least in a vague sense, that one can make a pretty good living in the medical field.

For-profit insurance companies come in for the most hate since they are in the position to deny care. But their profit margins are not sky-high. Whether or not one believes that private health insurance is a terrible idea, the facts are pretty clear that there is a lot more to the high cost of U.S. healthcare than just private insurance.

There is a lot of cost everywhere in the medical system... that's the other side of those professionals making a good living.

I'm not going to pretend I have a good answer to this.
SHA-1 was not broken until 2017.

http://shattered.io/

If you know an earlier instance, go ahead and take the crown from the shattered folks.

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The choice to use SHA-1 was a trade-off of security, size, performance. If Linux invented git today, I imagine the choice would have been different, because those parameters are now different.
Israel has been using the membrane process for some time. I think their only issue how is dealing with the brine waste water.
This will balkanize the user-base, as we see with Mastodon.

You're either going to have every node do redundant work with moderation, or they'll adopt a common blacklist, thus re-centralizing.

Operators that fail to self-moderate will be blacklisted by operators that don't, because when 1% of the content broadcast by a node is, say, CP, nobody in their right mind will think twice before blocking it outright.
The reasons are the root cause, the behaviors are the symptoms. Treating symptoms doesn't solve problems.

> I see that you really, really don't understand fascists.

If gracious violence were the essence of facism, it wouldn't have arised in the 20th century but in prehistoric times.
Never Hurd of this guy
Introduction to Parsing Grammar Expressions with LPeg
> Could you ever imagine Mozilla undermining the big players like that today?

Enhanced tracking protection[1] was turned on by default for all users recently. This is a feature that hits at Google and Facebook's bottom line.. so I guess yeah, I can imagine Mozilla undermining the big players today. Not to mention other privacy initiatives like Containers/Facebook Container.

[1]: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-prote...
>talent for writing thousands of words of speculation based on, say, two sentences in release notes is still going strong.

In fairness I'd love to have a piece of that
That is not at all the same as when they first did it. When they did it, popups (that is, ads that would open a new browser window) were a staple of online advertizing, and they disrupted it.

Google is also doing the same thing, including punishing websites that use abusive interstitials and popups[1].
It would not be all that disruptive at all, in fact it is actually helping Google and the big platforms by forcing ads to be more palatable.

I doubt that any of Mozilla's underwriters have a problem with this.

Something that would be disruptive would be if Firefox bundled uBlock by default, which Google is trying to prevent users of Chrome from using[2]. If Google wanted to, they have the means to remove and blacklist the extension from most users computers immediately, thanks to their updating mechanism. They could even push changes to Chrome that break the extension or any like it, immediately. Frankly I think the only thing that acts as a counter balance is Firefox, but they making themselves less relevant by the day.

[1]: https://searchengineland.com/interstitialgeddon-google-warns...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21233041
I don't do anything special to my initramfs, and the largest of them that I've generated over the years is 16 MB in size. For my desktop with a 3 TB drive, having the initramfs take up half a meg instead won't make any appreciable difference.

I could see it being very useful on resource constrained microcontrollers or something, though.
An API in and of itself is not going to prevent censorship if Facebook still controls the backend.
I imagine there's more than one way to build a "VCR" or a thing that replicates its purpose: to read magnetic tape.

As long as there's engineers, there will be hope ;)
Some corals ‘killed’ by climate change are now returning to life
Boeing just can't catch a break it seems
One of the key steps that needs to happen is to ditch Intellectual Monopoly laws. If you have a system that provides 100x+ the financial incentive to sell patented drugs, regardless of efficacy, then you will have many more people out hawking harmful drugs than the boring mainstream alternatives. See Purdue for a great case study on this.

Anyone who talks about "drug development cost is expensive" yadada has no clue what they are talking about. The only reason it's expensive is because people are on a fishing expedition for novelties that have at least some contrived way of demonstrating efficacy (you only need to hoodwink the public with your drug long enough for you and your reps(dealers?) to make short run monopoly profits). In the age of big pharma Americans have gotten less healthy. Time for Intellectual Monopoly laws to go.
Yes, you need to update the seed immediately after reading it and before using it.

There is no problem with a crash assuming that the seed write mechanism is crash-safe (which is achievable with block storage, but indeed I'm not sure whether firmware is properly designed and implemented).
You are right, its definitely a leadership issue, if you have really hired the right lieutenants and 100% trust them, you don't need to be pulling 70 hr weeks. Unfortunately, most "leaders" never allow that, they love to get involved in every fire - big or small, and I feel, they derive their sense of self-worth from it.
I can sue a TV station for telling lies on the air? Really? How much am I likely to win from this, because if it's true, I'm ready to start a legal crusade today.

Oh, right... I won't get a penny. Free speech also means the freedom to tell bald-faced lies, without consequence.
I'd like to live a long time, but my dad is in the process of dying right now (he's 86) and it SUCKS. One of my older brothers, on the other hand, dropped dead at 59 from a "widowmaker" heart attack. I think I'd like something like the latter, but a little closer to the former age. What I can say for sure is that in my limited experience, dying of old age is a tedious, undignified, painful affair.