skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>because the players were human

It's a very compelling story, but that wasn't actually the case. The real reason was the flawed design. People just had to kill everything for the materials because of the way equipment was implemented.
It is a thing, just not in Safari
IRC, XMPP, Monero, PGP, and Tor all facilitate decentralization. I don't mention other cryptocurrencies because as far as I know, only Monero protects against surveillance. I don't want the government (or corporations) knowing everything I buy.
I mean, there is some things that Bash really shines, specially for gluing code or working with pipelines.

However, not rarely this ends in a trap: "oh, I already have this small shell script here, I will just add another feature". After sometime, you get a gigantic shell script full of lines that nobody understand anymore, since Bash lacks so many things as a programming language that you end up with multiple hacks just to support that feature you wanted.

I went with the trap above more than once, and sometimes I get myself in it again, until I decide that enough is enough and just rewrite the script in something else.
'a relatively new kind of fraud calling "SIM swapping"'
If lines of code were a useful commodity in themselves? Yes it would be reasonable. Now we know that is not the case and any attempt to do so would ens in foregone disaster.

The reason not to do things like that is if said metrics can do more harm than good. However freight is pretty commodity by definition. Aside from not doing damage to goods and people, throughput is basically the only things that matter in that context.

Employees demanding a "standby base rate" would also be sensible if they were required to wait while lacking work to do.
const something = function () {};

That is unlike any javascript function declaration I have ever seen. Why not just use the declaration syntax or the assignment/arrow syntax? It’s just a keyword and an operator that take up space.
Right.

> The trend is no longer restricted to authoritarian states.

I guess that depends on how you define "authoritarian state". It's arguable that all control is authoritarian.
Every credit card company discriminates. It is the nature of giving credit to discriminate. A private lender giving someone money is not an entitlement (at least in most societies). We build models to calculate payback. When those models work the credit lender stays profitable and afloat. When the model fails it should fail (assuming no taxpayer bailout). If the model misses out on profitable creditworthy customers then that creates opportunities for new entrants to the lending market. In fact there is already lots of competition in the credit card space and Apple card is one of so many choices available to be discriminated by.
The only way to know if the algorithm works well against losses is if this card is successful in the next economic downturn. Conversely, if new entrants are profitable with similar business models to Apple will we know if the algorithm is too conservative in giving credit.

On a side note, rejecting or limiting credit to delinquent borrowers is actually doing them a favor due to the power of compounded interest.

Albert Einstein famously said that compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe. He said, “Compound interest is the 8th wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it; he who doesn't, pays it.”
> two world-class IDEs

I can't say I've done enterprise work (so maybe these tools pay for themselves), but the idea of a project bound to its editor fails to warm me.
That would have been a particularly interesting alternative timeline, as right after Eden rejected both of Mollet's proposals France looked firmly to Europe, signed the Treaty of Rome and we know where that led...

A Franco-British Union is (probably) unlikely to have continued with the moves to progress the Coal and Steel Community toward the Treaty of Rome. The alternative play of course would have been a far more Europhile UK within the Franco-British Union.
> The next day, our flight profile was duplicated on the SR-71 flight simulator at Beale AFB, Calif. The outcome was identical. Steps were immediately taken to prevent a recurrence of our accident.

Wow! Super impressive that they could simulate that. Didn't know that was possible, especially in 1966.

Is there any current simulation software (available to the public / off the shelf) in which you could accurately simulate something like the situation from the story?
Understanding the variability of Australian fire weather between 1973 and 2017
The Day We Discovered Our Parents We’re Russian Spies (2016)
I wonder if this is where Looker succeeded with their modeling language LookML.
The internet can still be turned into something more decentralized, but it wouldn't be easy. What we could do is try to push for more simple internet-enabled devices, where the internet connectivity is truly peripheral (not a gateway into privileged memory access for instance,) and the devices are simple enough that they can be broadly manufactured without so much potential for supply chain compromise and inserted backdoors. That would allow effectively unbreakable point to point encryption to accomplish its goal.

Then somehow you need to get buyin from people in large enough numbers for this spy-on-everyone situation we're in to be impractical, and hope it doesn't result in escalation to even more dystopian circumstances.
For most decentralized technologies, we should make legal ramifications impossible. It's impossible to break PGP encryption, monitor Monero transactions, or de-anonymize Tor traffic if the user acts prudently. This is good. We're seeing a return to the "good old days" where people protect their natural rights to privacy and property.
If you would like to read some sci-fi that plays with the idea of skipping through life via cryosleep, try The Worthing Saga by Orson Scott Card.

It's one of his earliest works, so it isn't as well-produced as some of his later stuff, but it explores some very interesting ideas.

(This story began life as a different novel called Hot Sleep. Having read both, I honestly can't remember which parts are in which version, but Card himself says he considers The Worthing Saga to be the official version)

(hint: in Card's story, cryotech created a dystopian, not utopian society)
> The UK is a country full of hatred, racism and xenophobia

Sure. But where else have you lived?

I'd argue the UK both has a terrible problem with racism and xenophobia, but is also one of the least racist and xenophobic countries in the world. Both the Chancellor and the Mayor of London are brown men with Muslim roots, we had a Jewish prime minister in the 1800s, nearly 15% of the population were born abroad, and London is France's 6th biggest city.
They were kinda useless, operationally-speaking. Half the crew members were on the lower deck and surrounded by significant hull structure, and so couldn't eject. The first two shuttles were only designed around a crew of 2 where this design made more sense.

Irrespective of that, the ejection seats only work for a very limited period of the shuttle's operating envelope. IIRC it's something like only the first 2 minutes of flight where the ejection seats could be used. And in most cases where you'd be able to eject, the solid rocket boosters were still firing and it was theorized that as the shuttle passed a pilot who had just ejected, the exhaust gases would ruin the parachute and/or kill an ejecting pilot anyways.

By the time the SRBs burnt out, the shuttle was too high/fast to eject.
The lack of PVE kills it for me, but it's a really fun creative game. Build a cool thing, smash it, repeat.
All the Californians that I know who have left recently, did it mostly to escape the high cost of living. Only one of them also left for political reasons, but they moved to a state with the politics they wanted. I realize it's anecdotal, but I don't think all Californians are leaving to escape the politics.
If you are ever in Stockholm do go and see the Vasa. The picture does not do it justice. Seriously amazing.
One app form vodafone which is for account management purposes. That is all.
The industry has been really slow to move to SaaS. Avimark's primary competitor has a strong SaaS offering with Idexx Neo [0], but NVA requires the practices they buy to switch to Avimark.

[0] https://www.idexx.com/en/veterinary/software-services/neo/
How is this different than dask?
Yes, Anki’s goal of “let’s quickly hide all the cards you know and only show you cards you are forgetting or on the edge of forgetting” has never seemed overly useful. The end result is the following algorithm: “let’s present you with the toughest things you can’t remember over and over again, and ignore all the facts you’ve done so well at learning (until you have almost, or completely, forgotten those facts)”

Throwing up cards you can answer in 1 second is not wasting anyone’s time. It is more likely to be encouraging to people to remind people of what they know.
What are the different ways a hacker can hack your iPhone?
Wonder if they're considering mostly the bandwidth cost or the storage cost too?

Lets say a channel with videos does not get a lot of views, so takes up storage costing X, vs. a channel that get a lot of unmonetizable videos which take up bandwidth cost Y in addition to storage. Maybe bandwidth costs Y are much higher, so the former channels are safe?

Hopefully they give a long notice for the user to back those videos up, or there would be a lot of lost content.

If it's a great purge, it's going to be a huge mess with even Internet Archive teams and volunteers not able to keep up with the immense storage and bandwidth needed.
Top posting is the proper place for new content in an email chain to go. It means the new message is prioritized over the history, with the option to have the history of the email chain available if you really want/need it.

MS Office was designed to fit business processes, and it does that well.

It's not a surprise that Apple's mail client falls over attempting to support business functions.
This feels like a straw man. Don't normalize if it causes pain.

Similarly, don't expect that a single data model will suffice for all needs in an application. Expect to have to maintain anything that is useful.
It should be Tb/s
You can’t get far working in matters of human society if you go around dismissing things for being “artificial”.
The why is essentially density and availability. While solar is great for cheapness it has other constraints. It may still be more expensive in kWHr cost but it would certainly have its uses.
From the original 100

> 54. 'main' takes two arguments, argc and argv.

Is this a myth because you are supposed to think of them as one argument?

Or because of non-standard extension that includes envp?

Or because of some other nitpick?

I feel I have a pretty solid understanding of how processes are started for C and I think the statement is true.
There's a great blog post that I found by Camille Fournier that touches on things that you've mentioned https://medium.com/@skamille/i-hate-manager-readmes-20a0dd9a..., but I think something of note is at the end on how it can be used as a self-exercise for the manager.

tl;dr, Manager README's are more for the manager than the direct report. It's a great exercise in introspection if kept private and not used as something codified for employees to follow.
Spiking Neural Network with PyTorch Where Backpropagation Engenders STDP
The page is not loading its content for me. Maybe it was hugged to death?
I thought of this scene of his in particular, when he’s exchanging gunfire with his neighbor: ”If this son of a bitch wants to bitch about his cows over here and shoot at me, well... it's our country. It's not theirs. It's not a bunch of used car dealers from southern California.”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NHeSC_Ws5Ic
It’s hilarious how all these articles are about how to protect yourself instead of talking about why the carriers don’t better protect against this
‘I’m gonna lose everything’
I'll take a keyboard any day.

Problem is probably not just speaking software. Talking for that long is tough. Period.
I read that at least one shuttle commander thought the ejector seats would've been useless anyway b/c if you used them while the solid rocket boosters were still running you'd get burned up & lose your parachutes from the SRB exhaust - and your altitude & velocity would be too high to eject by the time you'd be safe from the SRBs
> In this case we don't even know what those inputs are, let alone the ability to control them.

Eh, not quite. It’s fairly well-understood what is used to determine a credit score and basically how all that information is compiled.

1. How much money do you make?

2. How long have you been making that much?

3. Is your income irregular?

4. Have you ever taken out a loan? When’s the last time you did so?

5. Have you ever failed to pay back a loan?

6. How many loans do you currently have open?

7. Are any loans behind?

8. Do you have a revolving line of credit (credit card)? How many?

9. How much of your revolving credit is in use?

10. Are you late in paying any of your credit lines?

And I’m sure there’s more stuff I’m missing. But broadly, if you’re looking to get credit/loans, banks prefer someone who a) makes enough money to service their debt, b) doesn’t have too much debt relative to their income, c) pays their bills on time, and d) has an established history of a, b, and c for an extended period of time.

Creditworthiness is not a mysterious algorithm that few can comprehend.
I think you need some South Park in your life.
>A big red light on the master-warning panel in the rear cockpit had illuminated just as we rotated, stating, “Pilot Ejected.” Fortunately, the cause was a misadjusted microswitch, not my departure.

"Misadjusted switch". The ejection light "just happened" to be misadjusted 2 weeks after you survived force ejection. Uh-huh. Sure mate.
interesting. But if you assume functions don't intrinsically live in files, they just do that because we have a file-based storage system, and that functions actually live in, say, scopes, then what does that do to your tools?

Can we have a Vim that understands (e.g) scopes natively rather than files?
...which has been happening for years and is well known to telcos who seem to be doing very little about it despite the fact that it's their security flaw.
This is only tangential, but I realized I never wrote this down and figured I’d take the opportunity.

Ever since Steam published their non-Windows clients, we randomly get support requests from Steam users on Linux and macOS because the (all stacks) backtrace contains references to the WFMO WIN32 events library I open sourced many, many years back [0]. Always makes me smile though, my small contribution to Linux gaming. (Somewhat ironically, even Microsoft now uses this for cross-platform projects with VS Code being the primary example.)

I think all library developers (open source or otherwise) would probably do well to adopt the etilqs hack, you never know where your code will end up.

[0]: https://neosmart.net/blog/2011/waitformultipleobjects-and-wi...
That’s not correct, it’s on the support page under “If a family member wants to use Apple Card”:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209228

I was baffled myself.
There are 2 distinct but compounding issues here:

1) Consumers are largely at the mercy of platforms (Google, Apple, FB, etc) and they don't _really_ control their data.
2) Phone companies don't care enough to perform adequate due diligence, and regulation hasn't caught up. The phone companies lean toward making changes easy to prevent customer backlash.

Issue 1 can be improved slightly by not placing your entire digital life in the hands of one or two companies. Additionally, don't link your phone with these accounts if possible (although many, if not all, now require a phone number). Even better, store your data on your own computers instead of "the cloud" (which just means giving your data to someone else).

Issue 2, I suspect, can only be resolved if there's a change in regulation. Phone companies aren't going to go out of their way unless it starts to hurt them in their pocket books, which it would if they were fined when this happens.
The complaint is not that they're leaving for politics but because of the direct results of the politics and bringing the same exact politics which created those results to other places.
Iceland seems to do pretty well on almost exclusively renewables. And this includes Aluminium smelters which are amongst the most power-intensive heavy industries.
I'm with you in that tiny minority. And fully share your perspective. Thanks to the folks making this happen!
One would presume past convictions would greatly increase the potential liability of any officer behavior involved lawsuits. Perhaps some of these municipalities will suddenly find their insurance policies dropped.
There's no such thing as normal nationalism, as nationalism is a form of extremism by itself, more accurately what the perfectly natural love everyone of us feels for his/hers own country becomes once filtered and distorted by propaganda with the purpose of making people do nasty things under the belief they're necessary for a bigger good.

Try this test with some of the less extreme nationalists you know: show them a photo of planet Earth taken from space and tell them "this is my homeland. I love it and you should too", then watch their reaction. Some of them may agree, but most won't.
The point is that planet Earth does indeed contain their entire homeland, but includes other countries too, which is what many people don't accept. This plain stupid test demonstrates how nationalism isn't about loving one's country rather than not loving other people ones.
It’s the same as the credit industry creating identity theft instead of protecting against attacks on their own systems
apparently the syringe punctures are just how they work.

https://onmilwaukee.com/movies/articles/makingamudererbloodv...

> two national experts – including the chair of the committee that writes the industry standards on drawing blood samples – told OnMilwaukee that such blood vials are supposed to have holes pierced in their rubber stoppers. According to the experts, that's how the blood gets into the vial.
That's a microswitch underneath the chair that checks for presence of that chair. If the switch is no longer depressed the chair is gone or the switch is maladjusted, which can easily happen.
The Airflow creators went on to make Prefect, I hear.
> Healthcare is VERY backwards from a tech standpoint.

This strikes me as the SAP problem.

Everybody hated their big company's <foo> system. Until SAP came along and somehow made it orders of magnitude worse.

It's what happens when purchasing decisions are driven from the top. Sadly, in healthcare, given all the regulations, I'm not sure there is another option.
Nowadays there is Minecraft education edition; a variant of the Bedrock version which has a code editor to create automations, and a classroom mode. Aimed much more at schools than at individual student-hacker-learners, but a lot more accessible IMO, and has a heap of resources/docs and communities for those teachers.
And may I so humbly request the reasoning behind it?
It’s good to spread child porn because it’s evidence of an unsolved crime and the more people who might recognize the perpetrators the better. In fact with the Epstein operation now coming to light you could very reasonably argue that CP laws were pushed by pedophiles in power such as Bill Clinton who wanted to reduce the chances they’d ever get caught. Murder contract markets aren’t really bad either, plenty of people urgently need to die for the world to become a better place.
Kind of a tangent, but Orwell wasn't an anarchist (maybe he was briefly, but I haven't read anything that confirms that), though he had a lot of respect for the anarchists he during the Civil War.

Notes on Nationalism is quite different from 1984, more focused on its effects on the individual (obsession, self-deception, etc.) than tyranny per se. He makes the distinction between nationalism and patriotism and his use of term is a bit unconventional (for example he includes pacifist rhetoric as an example of what he calls nationalism).

I think defining the nation as simply "the decisions of a group" loses a lot of subtlety. E.g. what separates the term nation from country or corporation? Drawing on Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities, I think identity, community, and mass communication play a big part in this.

An interesting contemporary example of the development of nationhood, was posted here a while back about the transformation of Taiwanese identity, from majority Chinese in the 80s to majority Taiwanese in the 10s.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21080305
Is this something that 2FA would protect against? Doesn't seem like it...
One thing weird to me about the gun debate is that it always seems to exclude police -- on duty or off, current or former -- and nobody questions that in the slightest.

For instance, California has a handgun roster. If a citizen buys a handgun, it needs to be on a special list. The last time a model was added was 2013 [1]. Supposedly it's to make sure pistols are safe. But if you are a police officer, go ahead and buy a 2019 model! In fact, go ahead and buy a 2019 model, and then sell it for 2X to a normal citizen, if you want. A good side business!

How does any part of that make sense?

I guess the theory is that officers are well-trained and responsible, but where is the evidence of that? And why can't anyone else take the same magical steps to show their worthiness?

[1] Due largely to the "microstamping" requirememt, which is impractical to meet, but required for new models (some very minor variants are still allowed without microstamping). See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microstamping
> The first two shuttles were only designed around a crew of 2 where this design made more sense.

Only the first I think, unless you're count Enterprise (which couldn't go to space.) Challenger (the second orbit-capable shuttle) never flew with less than four crew.

Incidentally, the ejection seats of questionable worth in Columbia weren't without NASA precedent; the Gemini program also used ejection seats which similarly had a pretty narrow window of usefulness at best. One of my favorite pictures ever is this shot of the Gemini capsule with both hatches open, giving a pretty clear view of how the seats would have worked: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Armstron...
> Am I missing something? How could "regulation" be a possible answer to "digital nationalism"? Are there examples of what the author is referring to as "enlightened regulation" in which regulation has had the desired impacts? Seems to me that far more often we see a mix of intended and unintended consequences.

How are net neutrality laws, a form of regulation, a safeguard to keep the internet open and free?

> I would add that web != Internet. Internet is closer to printing press. A world in which there are billions of TCP/IP stacks on personal compute with Internet access is not one which is easily controlled (for good or for bad) by regulation.

This distinction is meaningless. The author may have have conflated the terms, but most people’s primary (and often only) exposure to the internet is via a web browser. They’re clearly not concerned about the spread of nationalism via IP cameras.
I believe he lives in California.
I’m skeptical. Sounds VERY much like overfitting. Remember the Shakespeare and CS paper generators? Word2Vec isn’t real AGI, it’s a “magic trick”

EDIT: oh, it’s a Vice article
Had this happened, it makes you wonder if this UK-France union would have similar issues to what is experienced in Quebec, Canada and to the non-French speaking Canada.
And salute it in the morning, sing songs to it and act all upset when other people don't care as much about your laptop as you do. Then think of dying defending your laptop, and expecting others to die defending your laptop as well.