skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would have been nice to have an executive summary. Sorry the work is too long to read in its entirety.

The problem with most of the libraries that I have visited in the last thirty years is that they seem to have forgotten about the educational aspect. I can't speak for other fields than those in which I have some expertise but I suspect that most technical subjects are less well served now than their equivalents were a hundred years ago.

Specifically topics such as computer science, practical computing at a higher level than Such and such for Dummies, electronics, physics, are all pretty much useless in most libraries except university and major reference libraries. Partly the problem is that they simply do not have enough books in those categories but another is that they are frequently well out of date.

I'd like to believe that the reason is simply because the librarians don't have any expertise in those subjects and therefore are not able to see how useless the collections are but I suspect that it probably has more to do with a kind of market orientation so that libraries are filled with books that are popular rather than books that are useful.

This of course becomes a vicious circle because the few technical works are read so rarely on account of being useless that the library concludes that the genre is even less popular than it really is and hence doesn't buy any more up to date books.

Perhaps a librarian could chip in with some actual knowledge instead of my observation and speculation.
Real-time, low latency, network-based applications.

At the pace of network events, CPU is still very fast by perhaps at least order of magnitude. However, latency introduced by system calls is significant.

This allows you to run certain classes of application in kernel space with these overheads largely mitigated.

Principally it's monitoring and "observability" applications, but apparently it's much more flexible now than it has been historically ...
> I love Facebook

Interesting, what do you think about the backlash against facebook? I guess there could be arguments in favor of facebook, after all.
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Programmers whose code can be more easily read and maintained later would be at least one metric.

Regarding the use of the apostrophe, I don't have any proof but I think it's more often native speakers rather than non-native speakers that make theses mistakes. Especially it's vs its. I would be really curious to have stats on this and more generally on the categories of errors that non-native speakers make compared to native speakers.

I think it's because a non-native speaker has to learn the grammar in a systematic way, as opposed to a more organic/phonetic way. For example we (non-native) learn "it is" before learning "it's", which I imagine is the opposite of a native speaker.
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Disney+ isn't in the market where I live. It's called Disney Life and it's utter crap.
It does work that way long term. Local employers start raising salaries to outbid remote employers. Then remote employers have to raise their offers. Rinse and repeat.

Source: remote worker for over a decade residing in a relatively cheap country
I hate to use the uber for this the airbnb for that, but.... wouldn't that have made a lot more sense for wework (sorry, riffing of AI pixie dust :)).
Mozilla removes Avast extensions from their add-on store, what will Google do?
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Is it, really, that hard? I'm not sure why the OP can't get "himself" out of the conversation.

> Did you use sshd?

Simple.
Israel does allow it in some cases, but the security conditions in Israel and Germany are very different, as is the size of their population. But I have some bad news for you: you are most likely using technology made by people who've worked for intelligence agencies. For example, if you're using Intel chips, many dozens of their designers served in Israel's military intelligence. Same goes for Google, Apple and Microsoft products. It's just that a very high percentage of engineers in Israel served in military intelligence, and a lot of technology companies do R&D in Israel. But if you use Wikipedia, it's OK: its PHP engine was made by someone who served in the Israeli airforce, not military intelligence. Although, your packets are probably routed through Cisco routers, so maybe not so OK. Oh, Akamai servers, too. Also, there could be an issue with your Qualcomm Wifi chip.
I'm very skeptical of this. A common claim that's long been floated around the medical community, most recently in the "evidence-based" medical community, is that if there isn't a hard test for a condition, then it's psychosomatic. It's an arrogant and abusive conclusion that's also ironic: we don't have a diagnostic test to prove it, so the cause is something that also doesn't have a diagnostic test.
No idea, but based on the way they returned the evidence to local authorities and claiming they couldn't find anything makes me wonder if they committed a serious breach of protocol at some point (i.e. an FBI agent or informant gave the suspect live bomb-making materials constituting entrapment, etc.)
> GUI library

https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtmodules.html

Qt has been used to build multiple OS userspaces - LG WebOS (https://github.com/webosose/luna-surfacemanager/blob/08a73ac...), Jolla, Ubuntu Phone, Plasma Mobile, AsteroidOS... and a damn high amount of embedded devices.

It's a bit more than a "GUI library"
Exploiting unpatched Android StrandHogg vulnerability demo
Sharing Code Between iOS and Android
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Here is a CNN story from 2015 making a case that they had help with the bombs: https://www.cnn.com/2015/03/05/us/boston-marathon-bombing-tr...

It doesn't speculate who helped them. Some details, though. Like their claim that they used directions from the Al Queda Inspire magazine. Some details on parts like Christmas lights and RC car parts, etc.
Ok, I just did a bit of searching for studies on hunter-gatherer use of drugs.

This paper [1] supports my characterisation of being mostly for shamanistic/ritualistic use.

And this paper [2] suggests that drug use also had medicinal benefits. But that is from a modern hunter-gatherer society that has undoubtedly been influenced by outside societies (indeed the drug they smoke has been imported from another continent), so I'm not sure how indicative of pre-historic hunter-gatherer use it is.

Where I remain dubious is the assertion that drugs have always been used for 'stress relief'. My feeling is that stress - as we understand it - was not something much experienced by hunter-gatherer societies.

[1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/05/140512155025.h...

[2] https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-06/wsu-wrs05291...
I like this. It helps show just how absurd the error handling in Async/Await and Promises in node are.
MIT engineers made a cheaper and more efficient device to trap carbon dioxide
My hope is that one day DDG can have its own crawler to improve upon search results as well. Since atm it just tries results from different engines.

I somewhat wish Microsoft would sponsor DDG but not necessarily a buyout cause people will freak out. Or if they did a buyout that they would do with it as they did with Minecraft. They didnt make things worse just provided more resources to the developers.

In an ideal world someone like Apple could take DDG even but they are so unlikely to but it would further push their privacy branding. Heck DDG now owns duck.com thanks to google... So it could have a sleek marketable name.
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I would guess the FBI has sophisticated means of tracking purchases and probably had their eyes on him for that reason. It’s possible he really did have a mental breakdown and bought all that after reading too much redpill post-attacks. Who knows.
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Orchastrated by Wall Street and championed by Uncle Sam. Again. It seems as if the USA no longer has a traditional economy, but instead its depth and breadth has been an tool in the WS financial instruments toolbox.
It's clearly supposed to be a metaphor for genitalia - with the line suggesting 'presence', and the circle suggesting absence. (Note the latin 'vagina', literally means sheath). It works better in the case of the numeral 1, which even has a glans.
Unicode has two really great features.

* It names and defines things and sets standard. This seems trivial but is incredibly useful.

* Unicode encodings, mainly UTF-8 are good storage format for text (as a data structure for editing text, not so much if you want to be universal).

Unicode has one really horrible failing.

The 'user-perceived character' (Unicode terminology) is arguably the most important unit in text. Unicode approximates user-perceived characters using set of general rules to define grapheme clusters. A Grapheme cluster is a sequence of adjacent code points that should be treated as a unit by applications. Unfortunately the ruleset and definition is inadequate. Sometimes you need two grapheme clusters to define one unit.

If you get UTF-8 encoded and normalized string from somewhere from some unspecified time and era, don't know what application wrote it, using what version of UNICODE standard and what was the locale, you may lose some information.

Unicode should have added explicit encoding for user-perceived character boundaries (either fixed grapheme cluster eoncoding or completely different encoding). Let the writing software define it explicitly. It would have been future-proof (new software in the future can understand old strings) and past-proof (ancient software can understand and edit strings written in the future).
Before talking about anti-safety culture, I observed that the real issue in a purely hardware/software-driven culture is that people focus on technology. For safety systems, this usually fails / overbudgets because there needs to be some systems thinking /before/ about why and how the proposed system can be declared safe. In the case of drones, I am afraid that the systems design to make these devices acceptably safe is yet to be formulated (Note: these are not planes, they fly close to the ground so they do not benefit from the safety of altitude to have time to react in case of failure)
I like this quote from a colleague. Talk from personal experience and just state what you did or saw done. Add a value judgement on the past -- like " It was very stable." -- if you want. The suggestion to use X here is builtin and you aren't claiming to know more about the specific application than you do.
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Wouldn't virtualization kill the perf benefit, or is this supposed to run "on the metal"?
I have something similar in mind: I want to have homoiconicity but with typed data underneath (instead of just untyped lists) in order to add some structure and let compiler help you with macros. That plus advanced type system with gradual verification. I'm in early exploration phase, but I have some ideas written down: https://github.com/krcz/zygote .
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Bees go to wild plants to pick up nectar.
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Simple, 3.5% yearly for 20 years is near double. Also note how "growing" in English is a present tense verb. In English this implies a continuous motion.

Were you trying the classic "pretend to mis-read then express outrage at your own misunderstanding" brand of nerd-sniping?
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Measles outbreak spurred by anti-vaxxers shuts down Samoan government
I’m just thinking about how in Medicine, lots of people would suffer if the helpers had trouble asking the basic questions.

“Did you submit cultures?”

“Why did you choose to ignore the liver enzymes in this case?”

“Did you ask about a family history of X?”

To a large extent, becoming professional is about becoming less sensitive to being wrong.
In what universe is that the case? Prices are going to raise by at least 10% per year from now until the end of time.

that is doubling every 7 years thereabouts, far far far higher than inflation or cost bais increases would demand
> "if this exceeds some limits or bogs down system for more than X milliseconds, disable and give error".

AFAIK indefinite loops in a BPF are not allowed: The kernel eBPF verifier will reject to load such programs. So the execution time of BPF programs will not be variable time and will be predictive.

I'm not sure if users need to care about the cases of long execution times when no loops are allowed.
I'm in a weird middle-ground.

~40 software/dev folks. Around 18 are 'remote'. There is a primary office, and most of the 'remote' are within driving distance, and we're expected to be onsite (or available to be onsite) 1 day per week - collaboration/f2f/etc. And it works for most of those 18 - they work together on some teams, and most of their colleagues are also at the main office. My 'team' is me and another guy, but we work on independent projects, and everyone we deal with is in other states - not drivable. It's hard to get support from anyone internal - they're mostly on a couple of large teams. Even when we get together f2f, no one understands the particulars of the projects we're on, so there's not as much value as for most of the rest of the teams.

I enjoy most of the setup, but it's still a bit challenging being the 'exception' at times.
It seems like it shouldn’t be too difficult to just test if it works, if the processor says it does.
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I get the feeling that the "wasted effort" in the second approach is about rewriting code.

Rewriting code is good in my experience. It's always better the second time around (or third, or fourth). It's not that my first attempt was rubbish, it's that I didn't understand the problem as well as I did the second time (and so on).

Lean is also about avoiding premature optimisation. Which is hard because it cuts against the grain of our engineer sensibilities. Doing something "good enough for now" is tough, when you know that with just a few more days' effort you could make it bulletproof. But I've had to delete "bulletproof" code so many times, because it turns out the product didn't need that feature, or it needed to work differently.

In the long term, Lean avoids more wasted effort, in my experience.
Please try to be nicer. As per the guidelines:

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine.

and

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
Debt can be paid off at any time. Dividends are paid out on a specific day.
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> This phrasing, with different terms for the army and the local population doing the exact same thing

The victorious force does own captured movable state-owned equipment and are acting within the law when they take it and are not looting - rule 49 of customary international humanitarian law, which has ancient precedence and is reinforced implicitly in both the Hague Regulations, Geneva Conventions, and pretty much any state's own military laws.

The local population have no such right - that's what makes it looting when they do it.
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He mentions that there are complaints about even that approach.
Thing is, Akamai and Cisco employ a lot of those people. Quite many of them in security research. People who were in the NSA or Israeli intelligence are the people companies seek when they want security. Israel's military intelligence is one of the places where VPNs were first used, and the idea later became commercial VPN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Check_Point#History
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The program you mention became a book named Raw Spirit. It's one of my favourite books.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/567702.Raw_Spirit
I still have to watch the presentation and/or read the book, but at first glance this looks like a nasty kludge. I hope I'm wrong.
This could be a Great GitHub Actions though.

So user can enable/disable it per account/repo as they wish.

I think it exists, I've had it enabled in some repo when figuring out new gh actions
I changed my app's pricing from recurring to once off and I'm relieved
> Principally it's monitoring and "observability" applications, but apparently it's much more flexible now than it has been historically ...

Yep: Here's a bredangregg presentation on the topic: https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/7pmXdG8-7WU
GPS is a US Military Asset, 100% owned and operated by the US Military. They allow civilian use of a part of the GPS system during peacetime

If another World War breaks out, or major conflict that the military deemed necessary they can and will cut off all Cilivian access to the GPS Network

This is why Russia has its own, and China is in the process of Deploying its own, and the EU has considered deploying their own as well.
Create bookmarks directly to those pages and ignore the news feed.
Absolutely agree. Every site should also available on the onion network. This would put some pressure on DNS operators. This would also help dissociate the onion network from criminal activity. The more sites become available as hidden services, the more legitimate the network becomes.
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EU is also in the process of deploying its own: Galileo.
When you say "weird definition", do you mean it's a strange concept, or a strange name for that concept?

Edit: Or do you mean that "polynomial progression" has an existing definition, and this definition is equivalent, but is a strange way of stating it? Or do you mean the definition as stated in the article is wrong / differs from the standard definition?
Oh nice, didn't know it had gone any further than the radio.

I'm a big fan, though a guilty one as I've never read any of the non-M stuff..
I agree with much of what you say, but it would have a much better impact if you didn't phrase it in such an angry, finger-pointing rant that doesn't really seem to fit here. Yes, a lot of people become addicted to drugs via their own "god damn agency", but it's also true that those who haven't experienced such addiction have no idea how overwhelming it really is and how insidious the addictive process is. It's also true that a lot of the people who become addicted started because
You need root to load kernel modules. While this isn't possible yet, the intention is to allow loading BPF programs without privilege.
And the alternative would be what exactly?
"All details of math rendering" probably fall squarely into "markup" territory, thus outside Unicode. At least so far any efforts trying to standardize this led to this. Math is generally nothing I'd call plain text.
Junior Qt/C++ developer here. In my opinion, the Qt community is poorly developed and not booming at all currently, which I greatly regret.

What are you thoughts about this Marketplace and it's future potential impact ? Is it gonna promote the open source and "plugin" community around Qt/QML ? It seems pretty "company" oriented.
I find it amusing that I didn't say anything for OR against, just mentioned them and that apparently someone 'disagrees.' With what, an inaccuracy? Then post a reply. Just voting says: I don't get it.
PISA: Students from China's wealthy regions rank global top in all 3 subjects
1 day later, it’s an A. I wonder how that works.
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