skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What I'm struggling to understand is why an additional layer of indirection is required to facilitate randomization in this case.

You can't randomize the integer constants without rebuilding the kernel and everything that depends on those constants. It would be very inconvenient, and the amount of randomization would likely be limited by the number of syscalls (because you want to pack them tight in a lookup table instead of having sparse numbers that are expensive to look up). If the number of syscalls is known, randomization can at best make you call the wrong one.

By contrast, address randomization means the program will probably crash (instead of executing some random syscall) unless it can figure out the address of the function it wants. Randomizing addresses can be done on the fly in the runtime linker, without rebuilding binaries. Additional randomness can be introduced by relinking binaries with a randomizing linker, which is much simpler than running a full build.

> I'm also wondering what (if anything) is being lost to this mitigation - the syscall(2) manpage (http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/syscall.2.html) seems to imply that not all system calls necessarily have matching wrapper functions in the platform's C library.

syscall(2) lives in libc.
PHP 7.4 numeric literal separator
Can someone explain this.

Numeric literals can contain underscores between digits.

<?php
6.674_083e-11; // float
299_792_458; // decimal
0xCAFE_F00D; // hexadecimal
0b0101_1111; // binary
?>

Why would you allow unsercsores in numbers?
Hmm so when a forest grows, it sequesters a certain amount. When the trees start dying, they will start releasing it. But when the trees die, new trees will start growing in their stead and sequester the CO₂ released from the dying trees. Is the point to capture CO₂ into these cycles? So as only part of the trees are dying at any given stage, only a part of the CO₂ is "available" in the air at any given moment.

Is that how it works?
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So you claim/reserve a private good, with no intention to use it. Just so others can't use it?

That said, should there be some sort of central internet registry where we all registered our unique usernames which will be the same and reserved on every platform?

This reminds me of the days of EFNet where you would fight to have a username. If you stopped using it/disconnected, it was fair game.

I don't think someone would start posting malicious messages to make you look bad. They would just use it for themselves, with their own profile pic and would be obvious it's not you.
I use Uber for almost all my transport needs, despite my own concerns about how Uber operates. Despite the higher surge prices.

My issue with using auto rickshaws are two-fold.

The first is comfort and safety. Rickshaw rides just feel crap and I can never feel safe enough to just wear earphones and relax.

The second is integrity. I don’t mind paying more. But there have been 3 auto rides out of my last five where drivers ask for one amount drive halfway there and demand 2x. I don’t know if it’s because I’m not a local or if I just look vulnerable. I just feel like I’m being used.
Are we talking about PIMCO Bill Gross here? If so, how did he wind up doing this?
Smart cities will always have a data privacy problem
I don’t know about now, but they have done in the past, mainly in the guise of paid developers.
> before 1998 or so

Yeah, it's a bit older than that. According to Wikipedia, the CGI standard is from 1993 so it probably predates Apache itself by quite a bit (which was forked from the NCSA httpd which already had CGI support).

By 1998 mod_perl and mod_php had already taken over for most people and dynamic content was generated in-process. FastCGI existed but sadly didn't really take off, and the code languished until for some reasons a decade later it had a sudden and unexpected renaissance.
> This was almost scary to read.

I second that. He even predicts touch interfaces and modern-day connected and environment-aware smart devices.
Funny story: My dad was in a play that John Simon loved, but no one else did. It closed within a week.
Are there any dangers associated with wearing the wrong lenses or no lenses at all when they are necessary?
This is a pretty nice comment from the source that explains how it works: https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/blob/11d9c7b7fa82fdfb8a...

```
// Recording and replaying works by controlling non-determinism in the browser:

// non-deterministic behaviors are initially recorded, then later replayed

// exactly to force the browser to behave deterministically. Two types of

// non-deterministic behaviors are captured: intra-thread and inter-thread.

// Intra-thread non-deterministic behaviors are non-deterministic even in the

// absence of actions by other threads, and inter-thread non-deterministic

// behaviors are those affected by interleaving execution with other threads.

```
This is how regulators wind up securing established companies. Capping commission rates favors Uber because Uber already has the infrastructure and resources at its disposal so that it may afford earning less, cutting head count as necessary, where as entrepreneurs who want to compete with Uber don't. They have many more mountains to climb and less opportunity once they've reached the market.

India is essentially planning on fortifying Uber's position. Well done. Mission accomplished, lobbyists. Go long on Uber stock.
it really may be.

it may be too late to do anything short of dramatic geo-engineering to avert catastrophic climate change.

but there is still value in even marginal improvements to the climate change outcome. you have to compound the contribution over the entire remaining history of life on this planet.

this is a horrifying situation. no one should deny how badly humanity has screwed up.
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The Grundgesetz too is written the way it is for reasons, and IMO it's generally better to go back to them.

Someone (a chief of police somewhere, IIRC) once put it like this: "We have a tradition in this country that you're sentenced by a fair court, and once you've served your punishment, you have paid your dues. Adding extra sanctions afterwards threatens the fairness of that system." That's a poor misquote on my part, but good principle on his/her, and legible in a way that the Grundgesetz doesn't try to be.
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is this like Postman ?
>Is it okay what he did?

Of course.
yeah the only problem is the useful heat is contained in a very small area/volume, so this is only a research facility.
Granted. Size and lightweightness are definitely a point - that could be emphasized as a major argument - even the ratio with size & power capacity & heat intensity.
It's called the "I never bothered to learn the actual fare from a local friend" tax. I don't agree with it, but it's pretty trivial to get around. It's definitely not exclusive to Indians.

“taking advantage of foreigners is ok because they have the money” is not something most people believe. There is a large population that lives below the poverty line and will overcharge anyone who can and will take it.

Yes, we have a big cleanliness problem, but that's an extension of our poverty problem. We have a lot of people who's concern is providing for the family instead of fulfillment. It's not hard to see why that's not a priority for them.

We are stuck here because British colonization, theft, and messy departure left us poorer, with broken politics, and a corrupt bureaucracy. Still, that's an obstacle, not an excuse. We're improving. I see no country without problems.

We have quite a few pristine and beautiful places where the locals care about their surroundings. Did you visit anywhere beyond the city you had business in?
I've had a few Indians drive me here, but it's mostly people from Ukraine, Georgia, and some of the other *stans.

The one thing that I've encountered is that multiple drivers sharing the same car.
IKEA furniture is durable and has a decent second hand marketplace on ebay, gumtree etc.
That’s interesting, since nearly all of the developers I know working full stack are using a mac. Maybe it’s a regional thing.
They are not people despite the fact they they want everyone thing that they are.

> The biggest corporations pay lots of "taxes"

You could almost say that they pay thousands.

https://lmgtfy.com/?q=corporate+taxes+paid+in+2018
Fair enough, and I don't understand why America never tried to export its Constitution and political model, they pretty much were happy with the economic model to conquer the world.

Is that covert racism (although "racism" is the wrong word, since there is no ethnical US race – maybe "exceptionalism" as in "only our superior people can actually make it work")?

I mean I understand when it comes to Germany. The de-nazification was heavily based on censorship. All newspapers were banned. They were later allowed to re-open, with a license by the military government. Freedom of speech was certainly not something that America wanted in post-war Germany. The same with Japan (whose civil law is so close to German civil law that there are multiple professorships in Germany in comparable Japano-German law studies).

But elsewhere? All those nation-building instances that were not directly related to Nazi Germany? All those new eastern-European states, the Balkan states etc.? They draw heavily on European examples, but very rarely on America. I don't feel that geographic proximity alone could explain that.
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They were just capitalising on the fact that not many people realise how strong toughened glass is.

Which is understandable as they didn’t realise it either!
The URL bar being at the bottom is what sold it to me. It's the single thing I miss the most from Edge on Windows 10 Mobile.
Mine does as well, once every three or five years or so? It's (also) so that they can see whether a cavity is forming underneath an existing filling, for example.

Mind you it's covered by my dental insurance so it's fine.
I'd be ok with it if they preserved the history, timestamped the change of ownership and made sure that from the page of the current registrant you could backtrack to the history of the account over time. That would be an acceptable middle-ground, maybe even show (#2) or so behind the name linking to the account history to indicate the nth re-incarnation of that particular account. That way all the old content would remain linked and you'd be able to find out if someone has re-purposed an account right up front.
Different Bill Gross:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_T._Gross
I dunno, I kind of like this website design. I wonder if a newer design would really help users or sites with "more shiny" visuals are just following a trend without thinking too much about it.
Please explain me why? They got a permanently free plan, and they allow you to do a catch-all rule (it's an option in the dropdown!) for receiving emails.

You can then catch all for your domain and redirect to your inbox (or blacklist as needed and such).

It's literally a feature they provide.
> Uber & co. have been a net positive to the country, the people and the economy.

Net-positive for who? Folks who can afford to pay for their services? That's probably just the top 10%. If you speak to the drivers, they have nothing but complaints about the economics of it all.

Not discounting the fact that there's increased traffic now and overall less emphasis on using/improving public transit.

> After pouring billions into creating and proving a market, the government is baselessly capping their earnings.

I don't understand this line of thinking: Pouring billions shouldn't really get you a free pass to exploit, corrupt, amend, sway, flout, transcend, overpower governance, regulations, laws, discussions, resources. As far as creating value is concerned (on-demand rides), may be you've got a point: The taxi industry was expensive before Ola and Uber set foot, but it turns out VC money is finite, and expensive is what makes it work economically on the supply-side.

> After all, every stakeholder in this vertical is an at-will participant, with no compulsion to stay if the economics do not work out.

Surely, you have heard abt the high incentives based payment structure that Uber and Ola had in 2015/16 that coerced the drivers into taking loans for their cars which they struggle to since pay, now that those incentives have been changed because IPO? It doesn't seem to me you're thinking much from the drivers' side who are really struggling to make ends meet with the current predatory commissions that Uber et al enforce. The problem here is, there's a disproportionate amount of power in the hands of aggregators which time and again they've exercised in a ruthless manner: There's a need to curb that greed that otherwise would eat up the already economically struggling populace, imho.
Daaamn that’s something I wanted to do for a very long time !
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Money quoute right here: "We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we also source from a variety of partners, including Verizon Media (formerly Yahoo) and Bing."

SO and the other 400 sources are only used for instant boxes and other widgets. The real organic search results are all from Bing.
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maybe, with high frequency radios and improperly shielded cables and chips, the most likely scenario is RF interference?
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This came from trial and error from about 6 months of trying different things in sauna. Just heating myself multiple times in hot sauna didn't work that well, but once I started to rigorously follow >1 minute cold water immersions, after 3-4x cycles I almost always ended up in a stress-less state of mental clarity (not when I felt bad/sick or didn't sleep well though). After ~4 cold immersions I also look like my skin was full of veins, connected red patches over white patches everywhere. YMMV
what you would like is for the profit motive to stop being the dominant force on this planet. that is an extremely tall order. "IKEA" as an agent in the world, despite being acted out by relatable individual human beings, is actually a mindless beast.
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It is not easy for drivers to quit given the debt that they've taken on. It is tougher to operate as an independent taxi driver than to be on a platform. Many of the drivers I have spoken to have migrated from smaller cities and I doubt it would be easy for them to operate independently.
No it is not. It is a browser feature that allows rewinding to a previous state of a webpage. There is much more to that than recording and replaying HTTP requests.
Especially as macOS users are the most likely to complain about Firefox's performance. Well, maybe that IS why
AFAIK the solar towers actually use molten salts to store the heat in tanks so they can keep going even overnight.
What exactly do you need AI for except for buzzwording? It is not as if the sun/earth trajectory or rotation speed is random. You can precalc with ease at every point which is the best position for each mirror.
Can someone explain the reason for this?

Numeric literals can contain underscores between digits.

<?php
6.674_083e-11; // float
299_792_458; // decimal
0xCAFE_F00D; // hexadecimal
0b0101_1111; // binary
?>
I think just basic reply commands might be cool like : « next », « next 3 » to get 3 pages at once ...
I wanted to do this with with sms or messenger or WhatsApp bots
You can't be the first to register on every platform out there. If you ever become successful enough, people are going to impersonate and false flag you anyway. You have to balance putting your beliefs out there, so people know an obvious fake; with not over sharing to the point you annoy people with differences from you, which I can tell you first-hand is hard to recover from.

After that, make a links/contact section on your website to list all your accounts. Post a note that anything not on the list is an imposter or someone coincidentally using the same name as you (which does happen, especially when you naively pick a four-letter name.)

Anyone still conflating a false account with you with one step to verify it as a fake will be acting in bad faith regardless.
We’ve grown to offering over 300 markets to trade – not just Forex
It's slow at 4k. I've got the 4GB variant and in 1080p it's good, I'd even say surprisingly so.
Improper shielding is an assumption with no evidence as yet. I also mentioned that the ease of verifying the explanation should be a factor. Changing software is usually very easy.
It can actually change in some cases. Liver transplants and bone marrow donations can trigger a change. Apparently kids a few weeks old can flip on their own as well.
I don't quite follow what is a Gaussian process. What do you use, node weights, node inputs/outputs, or...?
Realistically, there’s nothing the Chinese government can really do to retaliate though right?
Just wait until VR is good enough to do office work in.

Also, the Matrix would have been better had Neo woke up as a dairy cow after taking the red pill.
Yes:

https://duckduckgo.com/app

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.duckduckgo...

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/duckduckgo-privacy-browser/id6...
If someone steals from another project member or breaks other laws the police should be called.
This hasn't been true since 2015, when the software became decisively stronger than human players.

https://www.kingpinchess.net/2015/07/arimaa-game-over/
Looks interesting but too bad it only supports overpriced macs making it useless
great, expect the same socjus drivel that's right now killing hollywood's legacy IP, dressed up for a new medium with prettier art but the exact same sorry excuses for storytellers. It'll last just long enough to suck in the industry's best and brightest and push the current crop of cash-strapped studios off a fiscal cliff, only to leave everybody high and dry when the number-crunchers finally realize that the core audience - nerdy young men - would rather gouge their eyes out with a spoon than watch this shit, while the diversity pushers clamoring for it never planned to watch it in the first place.
Optometry student here. The field of optometry is trying to move towards optometrists being like "primary care providers" for the eye. To me it makes sense that while we are refracting (providing a glasses prescription) we also look at the general health of the eye. It doesn't take much longer and the signs and symptoms of pathology can be quite subtle and we are very of ten the first people to notice eye conditions. Many people come in for check-ups to follow up on common conditions such as glaucoma, macular degeneration, and diabetic retinopathy. Glasses and contact lenses are only a part of what we do.
I'm only a second year student, but the nuances that you see in the field are really quite incredible. I agree that most times a person's prescription is fairly straight-forward, but having an understanding of the optics of the eyes and lenses allows us to tailor glasses or contact lenses for an individual's personal needs. This is particularly important for higher prescriptions where the patient may experience discomfort if the glasses are not made for their particular face due to the optical centers of the lenses not being directly over their pupils (prismatic effect).
There have been a lot of disruptive new businesses in the area of optometry, but I personally am not worried. I am convinced that the services that optometrists provide are far superior to anything these new services provide. I do worry for consumers when it comes to cheap contact lenses (such as Hubble), because the materials they use are not as good at letting oxygen penetrate them as the well-known brands. I just learned that HIV patients can wear contact lenses but we must tell them to avoid these brands! Online eye exams to me seem OK but definitely a compromise on time vs quality and would not work well for people with more complex problems.
As far as money goes, I'm fairly ignorant as of now about how billing/insurance plays into all this. I know that some medical insurance plans cover glasses and contact lenses. As long as your optometrist has your insurance information they should be able to tell you how much your exam will cost!
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Of all developers I know, only 2 prefer macOS (in general). Most people are either on Windows or their favourite flavour of Linux.

These are not just web developers though, they're full stack developers; perhaps pure frontend developers are more prone to use Apple products?
A raspberry pi doesn't make a good candidate for that, as it boots into a proprietary, closed-source system before loading Linux. It's hard to beat a toughbook, or even a ruggedized tablet, for any such scenario, especially as they are still sealed when in use. The BOM cost for this project is also relatively expensive - I estimate it around $600.
While Microsoft is making great effort towards opening, it is sad to see Firefox develop a feature working on Mac OS only. This is terrible because you might argue that this is the same as a feature working on Windows only, but Windows can run on different hardware manufacturer. This is like a double closing. I am on Linux and I will uninstall Firefox as a repercussion hoping it will have an impact. Too bad for the last hope for a chrome alternative.
wrapping tinfoil around an hdmi plug/cable isn't particularly hard either :) chips are harder but at least you rule out the cable. HDMI cables are ridiculously finicky if you've ever tried to get anything more than the lowest common denominator 1080p going on them.
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> The only reason I created that account was to prevent cybersquatting over my short-and-simple username

Congratulations, you _are_ the very cybersquatter you feared so much.
China has a lot of smart people and a lot of money. I think they could do a pretty good job at applying machine learning.
Not caring at all about what I eat.
Not Linux support yet I hope :)
This is basically just endorsing Bing though. There’s nothing wrong with that mind you, but I think it’s important to realize that DuckDuckGo is effectively just a wrapper around Bing.
> Yes, we have a big cleanliness problem, but that's an extension of our poverty problem.

Pls don't blame the poor. I have seen the educated, the rich have complete disregard for public property and cleanliness.

> We are stuck here because British colonization.

Also, don't blame the political incompetence and failing governance on the imperialists. They gave Indians the freedom to change the system in any which way they wanted, and this is what they ended up with, for better or for worse. If history is any indicator, the powerful and the corrpupt always find ways to game the system, as it were.
Former White House climate adviser calls methane ‘irrelevant’ to climate
As soon as you want load balancing for high availability but I personally am not a fan of Kubernetes.
I was interested to know if I thought I could pass such a ritual. And then I was interested to know if I thought it was important for me to pass :-) Not sure I know the answer to that last one!
somehow google managed to become the best search engine with a goofy name so I don't really think it's that important.
The US could also increase the price of petrol. This would encourage the use of more fuel-efficient cars. Most European cars are way more efficient than American cars. Admittedly, this is a cultural, not a technological, problem in the US.