skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> On the other hand, if you're in a situation where your employer goes over the line (like the person at the top of the thread describes), you can generally just walk away from the job

I think this is exactly what was meant by op. Why is there so much complaining? If it sucks, just walk away. It should even be easier in the US than in Western Europe.
Non-ECC RAM bit flips are pretty common at modern densities. They can cause everything from a stray pixel on screen, to crashes, to corrupted files and file systems.

At $dayjob we only have like 200 laptops but our help desk staff find 1-3 bad non-ECC DIMMs a year causing crashes or borked files.
In a few years time, I expect we'll see a significant increase in the crime statistics in Flint.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesis
My commute is an 1.5 hrs each way, mostly by train. My industry still expects 8hr work days minimum (yes, it's archaic and annoying). I work on the train (2 hrs total) and only spend 6hrs in the office.
This isn't news. It's a background story. It doesn't pretend to be news. Newspapers have been running background stories for a long while.

I think the editors who put the "protect good news, subscribe now" copy into that yellow box assumed readers would know that not everything in a newspaper is news. Clearly they're mistaken.
But Redis was always BSD licensed. Every release of Redis was released with the full knowledge that anyone could do anything they wanted to with Redis, as long as they provided attribution and didn't claim a warranty.

Redis also continues to be BSD licensed.

For even more nuance, Redis Labs wasn't the author of Redis, they only sponsored the author. They weren't the first sponsors either, and nothing's stopping others from sponsoring Redis either, as long as it continues to be BSD licensed. That's the point of Open Source, that anyone can come with even just a brick to add to the cathedral, and everyone enjoys the benefits from the addition of that brick.

With closed source software, that freedom is gone.; all progress now has to go through (and be owned by) just one entity. I wouldn't want to contribute to a BSLed project because I'd be a second-class citizen in it. And even I did put out a BSLed patch to a BSLed project, the project owners can't use it for as long as I retain the copyrights on my patch.
I 'm assuming by now it's a lot worse that what Snowden revealed. I even assume that E2E encryption can be broken, but it probably takes them longer. I think people who started using the internet in the 90s are more wary of the tech anyway - it's a more recent phenomenon that people started sharing real names and photos etc.
I just have a hard time deciphering what the intention was with these single character things. Are you suggesting to use 'a_lifetime? What is that good reason? I usually use longer names to help the next person reading my code.
I don't understand how HN algorithm works. Sometimes, submissions like this link seem to magically pop from nowhere?
Don't let the world not understand your comment ;-)

It is a reference to La cité de la peur, a French parodic movie by "Les Nuls". Yes, the title of this post also made me think about it too. I wonder if good translations in other languages exist, but it seems pretty hard to do.
The tech crowd is really big on cutting out people when the reality is that people are 1.) Pretty versatile, even in fairly routine jobs, handling unexpected events and 2.) Often aren't that expensive in the scheme of things. Even personal transportation (taxis, etc.) drivers are only about half the cost. That's certainly not nothing. But it's also not the difference between expensive and almost too cheap to meter.
It's also important to note that we only see the end result, and not the 100 iterations before that evolved to the final, impressive version. Very few developers could just jump in and code what gets published.

That said, if you watch some Shade Showdown competitions on YouTube you'll see demosceners effectively doing exactly that. It's quite intimidating how good they are.
Everything the C64 demo scene produces is cataloged and archived at https://csdb.dk/
You can find the latest releases here: https://csdb.dk/latestreleases.php - The C64 demo scene is still very active. There are nearly 40 releases from the last 4 days.
Although I don't like the tone of the article, it does have a point.

Whether or not most of the Louvre visitors are there only for Mona Lisa, most will want to at least see it, whereas the rest of the museum is diverse enough to never be too crowded.

Moving that painting elsewhere would probably make it an immensely better experience for visitors who aren't coming for it. The entrance queues would not be that long, and past these queues, as long as you avoid that room the museum is more than large enough not to be crowded.

So let those who want to see the painting see it, and let those who want to the see the rest of the museum see it. People can do both of course, but there's no need to ask people who just want to see Mona Lisa to navigate the museum.
Supermarkets like Walmart, Coles, to ultimately uphold blockchain systems
a) It's "Life and style" not "news".

b) What specifically is wrong with it?
It's got 39 points in under an hour. That's clearly enough to push it up the rankings.

What are you confused by?
Visited the Louvre 12 years ago, and even back then it was bad. You had to fight your way to the front to even get a glimpse of the painting. And indeed, it is disappointing and an overall unpleasant experience. I am not ashamed to say that I have never even remotely understood the hype around this particular painting. Just compare it with Da Vinci's Madonna of the Yarnwinder [0] - I find it to be vastly superior to the Mona Lisa.

If you visit the Louvre, just stay out of the room the Mona Lisa is in.

[0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Ma...
> My friend’s imagination had done all the work.

Sounds a lot like how professional economics or entrepreneurship works
First US Patent (1790)
After all the help she gave all those people, she quit because someone called her a fraud and refused her help?

I think this woman needs to stop and revisit what she was doing. She wasn't a fraud. She was exactly what those people were paying for. For many, it was someone to talk to. For some, it was someone who could look past their biases and clear their minds. For some, it was a magic trick.

Her mistake wasn't the advice, but in not giving it in the accepted way: As mysticism. Tell him to go to the doctor, but have an in-character way of doing it instead of using logic. If they were willing to listen to logic, they wouldn't be there.

I'm sure it's stressful to "lie" to people all the time in this way, but all jobs are stressful in their own ways. And I see nothing in this article to indicate the author has any other options open to them at the moment.

Edited: Replaced "he" with "she". I was mislead by the image at the top and actually had to search for the author's name.
> It's a feature to me that I can't accidentally download an (potentially hostile) app from a (potentially hostile) app store, but a bug.

I don't really understand this point. It is not like Android implementation of side load is insecure.

As a user, you need to explicitly enable it in settings. After Android 8 I think, each application that tries to install a application is blocked first and need an explicitly permission too. Even with all that, you still need to explicitly consent installation and upgrade of any sideloaded application. Nothing is automatic.
It seems to work with javascript disabled.
Lower intelligence leads to more crime.

That is fine until you realise which race has the lower average IQ.
Agree. I have used the term "incrementality" to communicate the incremental benefit of a given ad compared to a control whereas the article uses "advertising effect". Measurement is also difficult because every ad platform grades their own homework (they each have analytics that attributes sales to their platforms liberally).

It is important for a brand to have their own attribution platform that measures incrementality as well as the relative contribution each ad exposure makes toward a given sale.

Both of these things are possible to measure. The problem is that the band of users that display positive ROI (when incrementality is measured) is so small that people don't believe the data.

Additionally, brand exposure is hard to measure and almost completely ignored in digital advertising. Over time I imagine that there will be more research in this area (beyond just measuring an in-view ad impression)
Why More Air Traffic Is Good for a City's Economy
It had first only 4 votes and it was already in the top submissions.
Coal and nuclear plants are slow to switch off, but gas plants are usually reasonably fast.
The Rust is practically line noise. This is just awful

let pack_simd_row = |(i, (vd_stripe, vt_stripe)): (usize, (&mut [f32x8], &mut [f32x8]))| {
for (jv, (vx, vy)) in vd_stripe.iter_mut().zip(vt_stripe.iter_mut()).enumerate() {
let mut vx_tmp = [std::f32::INFINITY; simd::f32x8_LENGTH];
let mut vy_tmp = [std::f32::INFINITY; simd::f32x8_LENGTH];
for (b, (x, y)) in vx_tmp.iter_mut().zip(vy_tmp.iter_mut()).enumerate() {

And I tend to write stuff like this in Rust too. The loops especially. It's just so easy to throw together all those iterator combinators and get some ugly blob that's going to make people's eyes glaze over.
Great talk, just finished it!
Most paywalls are defeated by disabling cookies or javascript, or both. Cookies is enough for the economist.
Would you want to be a metro driver?
Barcelona’s Line 9 – Inspiring Montreal’s Pink Line
Vaping Causes Lung Damage in Just 3 Days of Use, New Study Says
Attacking Go: VR TTPs
If you have not watched Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay on the Joe Rogan show you should. Very entertaining and shows how ridiculous these publications are.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZZNvT1vaJg
Yes, that is a well known phrase and what the Economist is alluding to here.
You do realize flint is one of the worst cities in all US for crime. I am not sure it is possible to get worse from where it is now.
On Firefox you can reopen it in container.
UK diplomatic cables shed light on Cuba 'sonic attacks' scare
I’m still learning Rust but from the “looks department” I can say so far that it “looks like” a lot more like Python etc. than the other systems languages.

It’s almost like Rust starts from a functional programmer’s perspective and adds the necessary complexity to have a “low level” language, whereas C is a simplified assembler and C++ tries to add “high level” amenities.
that's how the supernatural works
All top submissions once had 4 votes – it all depends on how fast (and maybe from whom) they came.
This behavior is not a bug much less a security vulnerability. If the camera would try to handle this in some "clever" way (and thus started to drop data), that would be a bug.
"muted small text" directly below the headline.

Could it be more prominent? Yes. But it's not like the author didn't attempt to communicate the language context, and in that I argue, this blog is still doing better than many other.
> People using the software for free may still decide to contribute code. This is not a one-sided relationship here.

If the contributor is not allowed to do something with their work that the receiver is allowed to, is that not one-sided?
Felicity who wanted a "hot boyfriend" and studied theater is probably a woman, I think.
I hear a lot about Flint's children but what about the adults? The lack of reporting on the adult population is really freaking me out. Like, I want to know if people with power, or people providing vital civil services have lead poisoning. I am really concerned that the police and teachers and postal workers and city council and parents etc. might all be mentally impaired. I imagine the Mayor of Flint with lead poisoning and I just hear a voice in back of my head quietly whispering "Caligula. Caligula."
If they wanted profits, they'd make you pay upfront.
It's time to take down the Statue of Liberty, it is a security hazard, an educational obstacle and not even a satisfying bucket-list item. It’s time New York moved it out of the way.

I'd just like to point out how ridiculous of a request it is to ask a gallery to take down the piece it is best known for, and which in addition is a source of national pride.

Not only is it not in the best interest of the Louvre to take it down, nor is it for the city of Paris or the country of France.
Leaving your Bitcoin in an exchange is not now and has never been an "effective necessity to use" Bitcoin. However, for fiat-currency transactions, it is an effective necessity to leave your fiat currency in an "exchange" called a bank, if you want instant electronic transactions. Unlike with the banking system, you can engage in instant electronic transactions with Bitcoin you hold in your own wallet — although some counterparties may prefer to wait for a number of confirmations.

> There are no such institutional protections for Bitcoin and there never really can be, by design.

This is nonsense. Bitcoin's design permits all the same institutional protections available for dollar bills or precious-metal coins, and additionally permits others that are enormously more secure than the mere incentive structures we must rely on in the case of dollar-based institutions. For example, a bank holding gold or dollars cannot produce a mathematical proof of its reserves as a Bitcoin bank can, and there is no dollar equivalent of multisig wallets.

So, in both cases, you are incorrectly imputing advantages to fiat currencies that in reality belong to Bitcoin in this comparison.
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82677 incorrect use of assembly integer division affecting all projects that have c+p code from GMP (including linux/openssl/etc)

https://github.com/fredrik-johansson/arb/issues/194 was the original exhibitor of buggy behaviour
Mystery of Napoleon's favourite general solved in Russian discovery
Disable javascript to view whole page/website for free.
I found it interesting that the article blames the behavior of these children on exposure to lead but contains no information about how much lead they were exposed to or how much lead was found in their blood, especially in the individual cases held up as examples. Of course the people responsible for the Flint Water Crisis deserve to be in prison, but if you claim that one year of lead exposure can lead to multiple suspensions and 70 unexcused absences, I want to know how much lead that is.
Mate you are mental. This simplified thought drives me nuts.

Software Engineering has a massive IQ-based barrier to entry. Not only that, your advantages are in large part, from a purely technical perspective, are reflected in your ability to consume algorithms, techniques, and hold more variables in your head at a faster rate than others.

It's an incredibly unique union of art and engineering, we are in demand as every industry needs it, and there is a genetic bottleneck.

We suffer from massive privilege because even semi-technical people have no idea what the fuck we are doing, so oversight is limited at best.

As someone who came from being a huge overachiever in a different industry, we are insanely privileged.
My pet theory is that democracy is more tolerable because it alternates between incompetent people fast enough to keep people's hopes alive.
ILP is not the correct metric, total runtime is (I was confused as well initially, but it is well explained in the article). the initial rust code had higher ILP simply because it has to execute more code for the bound checks. The C++ code stalls waiting for memory, while rust can fill up those bubbles with the checks (and that's why the checks do not cause slowdown initially). But as the code gets progressively optimized, the stalls are removed and the the C++ code can match the rust ILP, but at this point rust needs to execute more code and get penalized leading to an higher runtime. After the bounds checks are removed from the rust code, both implementations converge to the same ILP and runtime.
A demo seems like a seriously high hurdle. Maybe a 4K intro.
The NY Times comes across as snobby for trying to suggest which art should or should not be popular. Who are critics to decide what music (i.e. Kayne’s latest) or cinema we should want to watch.
I am surprised he didn't benchmark the C++ program with Clang to give a closer comparison to rust.
In my experience, despite all its other advantages, Clang still lags GCC a bit in raw performance.

Still a really useful set of comparisons. I am impressed Rust is able to compete with all the magic OpenMP is doing in the background.
It seems the consequences of 'Sokal Squared' are because the papers contained falsified data, which is very different from what Dr. Bik is doing here.
I smiled when I read the word "graphician" in the guidebook. That word doesn't really exist, or rather, it didn't exist until my scene group friend going by the handle OMG https://csdb.dk/scener/?id=2772 at the time invented the word:
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=graphician
One benefit is ultimately there would be a few million less plastic cards produced. If it successful, perhaps others states / countries rollout something similar. That could be hundreds of millions fewer plastic cards produced.

Admittedly this is unlikely a significant factor in the state governments decision making. Yet it’s a benefit all the same.
New Term: “Dark Cloud”
Definition: A company moved to a cloud provider in a rush without fully understanding its advantages and without fully understanding the company's own disadvantages. The results are a catastrophic disruption to the company and a heavy financial cost.
Example: "We tried to move to AWS and now a dark cloud is hanging over us."
"Trying to make your own private cloud with X technology is just a dark cloud."
'Landlords treat us students like we're dumb kids'
South Australian here - In South Australia keep in mind commercial scale solar is also generating against residential rooftop solar which is sold back via a feed in tarrif to the generator at a contracted fixed rate. The generators have to pay for (and take) this power. In some cases 20 year contracts where signed some time ago with feed-in tariffs much higher than what they ever should have been. This has resulted in early adapters making thousands in cash every year from residential solar (and still doing so). Everyone else is paying for it of course. Feed-in tarrifs available for contracts signed today are much lower, but some of these contracts still have a few years to run. Without more storage solar will continue to reduce reliability and add costs.
Struct in C# means type has "by value semantics", whereas class in c# means "reference type", so the keywords have a quite different usage compared to C++, where it's about whether public/private is default. Still a frivolous and "so what" blog post though.
We have the data, but can't use it for research.

As soon as you stick the data through an algorithm without getting permission from everyone in the dataset, you're getting put in prison for GDPR violations. Have fun getting consent from 100M people with only their postal address from 50 years ago.
It's trivial to hack Android apps. Please see the reverse engineering talk link I posted a few comments up that demonstrates this very app being hacked.

EDIT: Probably shouldn't single out Android. iOS apps can also be modified and resigned with a developer certificate.
Link to the github page clone : https://github.com.cnpmjs.org/
It’s any detectable amount basically.
The nuclear part of the reactor is slow to react to control input. Even when completely switched off it produces hundreds of megawatts of thermal energy. This is what doomed the Fukushima reactor. After the earthquake it was technically switched off, but required a lot of cooling as the nuclear reactions continue to go on even with the control rods completely extended. But with the failure of the power supply there was not enough cooling and the reactor eventually melted. Theoretically it should have been possible to passively cool this reactor, but due to operators mistake, one important valve was in the wrong position for that.

Beyond shutting down slowly, nuclear reactors are even slower to start up again. So after a complete shutdown it can take up to two weeks to put a reactor back into full production.

It is conceiveable to build nuclear reactors which are a bit quicker to ramp up and down - I guess more like the reactors of nuclear submarines, but our existing reactors are not suiteable for that, as this was not a requirement when they were designed. They were designed to be combined with quicker providers like gas and water plants.
A physicist on the “Lessig style” (2008)
I don’t think lead has as much of an impact on fully formed brains.
Is this an actual thing?
Rust was originally implemented in OCaml, and takes a lot of inspiration from it. The ‘a syntax is used by OCaml for generic type parameters.

Rust is in a weird spot because we have two different kinds of generic parameters: types and lifetimes. They need to be distinguished from one another somehow. Nobody loves the lifetime syntax, but nobody has ever proposed something that would end up significantly better.

I’m not proposing you should use ‘a_lifetime, I’m saying you could. In the end, it ends up obscuring more than helping.
When I was a teenager (boy), girls were into astrology and one way to be around them was to indulge them on this. But I told them I had investigated the existing sign and didn't really identify with any of them; and that I was looking into maybe creating my own sign once I got to a chart of the constellations etc. (This was pre-internet.)
Yahoo to no longer allow content to be uploaded to the Yahoo Groups site
The Big Problem with Wealth Taxes
This is reflection on modern tourism, which has changed due to digital.

I visited Louvre in September just before the painting moved. Queues were several floors long, complete with videographers following brides around to get the right shot, others having gimballed footage of every moment.

The pure embarrassment to see the line finally break after two hours of queuing to rush forward, to gain that extra half metre closer, and snap snap snap... no interest in looking at the painting but a torrent of pictures/video with quick reviews to improve shots before being told NO MORE by an exasperated staffer to then rinse and repeat.

Do you actually see the Mona Lisa if there is no stabilised moody video of you pondering to prove it?
This was always the drawback of RIs. You had to risk that your instance type would get cheaper over the term of the reservation. Now your “risk” is that your business will shrink or that your spend will get so much cheaper over three years that you lose money.

Getting a discount from a vendor if you commit to spend more over a period of years and signing long term contracts is standard practice.

And despite all of the cries of “lock-in” at a certain scale, you’re always for all practical purposes, “locked in” to your infrastructure. Very few decision makers want to take on a migration that’s not part of a merger. The rewards are too slim and the risk of regressions are too high.
You might need to seek a psychics help to figure this one out.
xD
Thousands of Facebook internal documents, emails made public in leak
>PrEP is for hiv negative people.

It's a rather academic distinction given that it's the same drugs in either case. Definitionally, it's PrEP only if those drugs are being taken as a preventative measure.