skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A byte is the smallest block of memory with an address. E.g you can't take the address of 7 combined bits on x86 but you can for 8.

I think that's an anachronistic/incorrect usage. A lot of machines (including several with 36-bit words that you mentioned) supported larger basic addressable units of memory, but didn't call these larger units "bytes", and distinguished between "bytes" and "words". In fact, one of the elements of the early RISC philosophy was that CPU support for byte accesses (as opposed to word accesses) was extraneous, based on statistics gathered from real programs. Early MIPS/Alpha/etc. machines did not support byte addressing, but the people using them still called 8 bits a byte.
It's not actually been accused, has it?

The proposed rules are on the basis of hypothetical future spying capabilities.

(Personally and technically, I don't think the ban is a terrible idea. Non-audited software, from a country without an independent legal system, running on privileged network hardware seems a reasonable concern. Especially deployed by rural ISPs who can't perform security due diligence. Even if the public debate is being framed poorly)
Alarmism is becoming an art form.
What about an app that forces you to take a photo of the pillbox before and after taking the pills?

Perhaps you can skip the "before" photo, but it may help to reduce double doses.

If the contrast is high and you can calibrate the app using photos of an empty pillbox somehow, it doesn't look imposible. On the other hand https://xkcd.com/1425/
Far Cry 2 is in some ways an anti-precursor to many systems that are now standard in games of its type (especially its sequels, which go in a much safer homogeneous direction). In particular, its systems are realistic and exact to a fault in a way that often feels antagonistic to the player.
While this is a pain in the butt it also makes the game fascinating to play - you are an interloper in the space it provides and are not welcome.

For example:

* Checkpoints respawn full of enemies and you never manage to fully exert control or supremacy on the world.

* In world map that you have to look at in the game space and time continues while you do so.

* Vehicle physics are punishing and you cannot press a button to "fix" them. If you crash that jeep, it's done.

* Weapons constantly jam and are generally crap to use.

* Thrown weapons have physics - ie: grenades roll down hills (often back towards you)

* Plotline and factions are hazy and undefined. You have a core mission (hunt down an arms trader) but everything around this feels directionless and punishing.

* The game does not do much or any "fudging" of the systems to increase player enjoyment. Often games will silently assist the player to make the game more exciting (your health is not linear and goes further as you approach death, enemy and your own aiming of weapons is improved or reduced to highten tension, combat arenas will be arranged to be more "fair to the player) and Far Cry 2 ignores this.

I would hesitate to call Far Cry 2 a "fun" game but it is certainly a good one, and has spawned a lot of good discussion, like this piece and pretty much the whole of the Idle Thumbs Podcast(now on extended Hiatus, sadly).

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Hi, I mention in the article that "It is easier in general for a C++ user to use a C library than it is for a C user to use a C++ library." which is where the advice comes from.
The latest major scale dictation was Chinas 1 child policy and that lead to a bunch of different problems.

And what businesses are being exploitative?

95% of what you take for granted is made by using fossil fuels whether, tires, medicine, food, concrete, cement, steel manufactoring, computers, machines, contact lenses, textiles, pesticides, plumbing, housing, damns, solar cells, windmills, the internet and I could go on.

What are you suggesting we dictate and what price are you ready to pay for this? Are you also going to go to war with china when they won't stop pulling their population out of poverty.

You speak as if the environment was this perfect non-hostile place before we came along, but reality is it's the other way around.

Nature is hostile and dangerous and we've used fossil fuels to make it less dangerous. The positive externalities if fossil fuels far outweigh the negative.

That doesn't mean we should continue using fossil fuels but we better have a realistic alterantive IMO.
Test Fast, Fix More – Property Based Testing with Hypothesis, Alexander Hultnér
have you ever served on a jury? it really does not work this way. the defense and prosecution both get to dismiss as many people with obvious bias (eg, victim of gun violence in a murder trial) as they want. then they both get to dismiss a small number of people without giving a reason. usually there are not enough of the second type to actually "stack" a jury. plus the other side is going to use their strikes to dismiss your favorites anyway, and I believe the defense generally gets more strikes.
He has the freedom to apply to any jobs and employers have the freedom to reject him.

This is a complete strawman, the argument is that legal rights of this person is fully restored in the eye of the government, potential employers can always turn people down for almost any reason.
Thunderbird Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2019-38
But why do we need blockchain at all?
Yes. This will most likely always be profitable.

The tough part is finding clients.
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/releases/
I think they are one trick ponies (evaluting risk in insurance, pensions and medical funds) that can't appreciate why 0^0 = 1, and if they do, would rather make money for the time it takes to explain.

But, to not sound like a completely grumpy cynic, I think they are intelligent and efficient; moreover, these days people have multiple jobs or facets and the critism is more towards the idea of an actuary than the individuals who are actuaries. I guess we are all in competition and actuaries and CAs are maybe just more honest about competing for one's income.

I am actually interested in actuarial research, FWIW.
Yes. Not sure if you meant this, but I like to send a slightly random amount without informing the payee how much. Then ask them to verify the specific amount, e.g. £1.65

>Also usually the payment details are saved after the first payment so the risk of making a mistake with the second payment is low. You would reuse the saved payee.

Exactly. A twist is my bank wipes the saved payees after a few months or so.
Yea, also scaling it to a 100 person company might be challenging
but I can't tap a keyboard letter to jump down the list

Works for me: Win key, down arrow to get into list (otherwise it will search everything), typing a letter jumps to that letter.
Bonus tip, sometimes useful: Ctrl+arrows resizes start menu.

Candy Crush Slot Machine Simular Redux

That sucks, yes, but right-click + uninstall seems to get rid of it once and for all.
There’s no such thing as a former felon. A felon is a person whose been convicted of a felony. Once convicted you’re a convict. Reformed felons... sure. But not former.
I initially got hung up on the GP assertion that users are most likely better off with Firefox. It depends on the threat model. But after thinking about it for a while, I agree with GP.

Those people thinking about such topics constantly might not be the average user. I would not feel safe installing Tor on my parents computer and telling them it is safer to do all their browsing now with Tor.

Threat models matter otherwise we'll end up applying wrong security tools: *"use Signal. use tor." when the right thing would have been to meet in person wearing a fake mustache, and keep a pebble in your shoe to change your walk.

GP's advise makes sense for anyone who does not know what Tor is (most people). They are off better if we symlink their "Internet Button" from the desktop to Firefox, install uBlock and NanoDefender for them. If they're still adventurous teach them about creating/editing "multitab containers" (though I bet we've lost most of them by now).
Google doesn't have any truly idle compute.

They can turn off their unused computing power to save on electricity. And they have internal tasks that they can throw arbitrary left over computing power at to get slight benefits. (Don't remember how much I am allowed to say about those. But it includes the kind of tasks you can come up with after brainstorming for about two minutes.)

So breaking 1024-bit RSA would need to compete with those uses, not with true idling.
HBO's Silicon Valley excuses the tech industry's moral failings
One of the nice things about OpenSUSE is that you can use Yast from the gui or the console and it works identically. It's very nice.
You can hand off configuration to Network Manager, or just configure everything in Yast's Network module.
> It should put a limit on how weird or explicitly unfair the law can be.

The defense isn't allowed to tell jurors about jury nullification and there's an effort to keep out any potential jurors who are aware of it. In general there seems to be a big effort to not have jurors think to much on their own. Once during selection I mentioned how unreliable eye witness testimony can be (they were trying to weed out anyone who had problems with convicting based solely on eye witness testimony), and the prosecutor asked me "What if the judge told you to give eye witness testimony the same weight as physical evidence?"

I often see people worry that if we didn't have trial by jury a lot more innocent people would get convicted. Yet if you look at a country like Germany, it doesn't have trial by jury and it has ~1/9 the incarceration rate as the USA.
Indeed, looks like the word is a bit misplaced here.
Vim is highly customizable, the one you get on most unix systems are engines and transmission only.

The engines and transmission are incredibly powerful, the only problems is you sit on top of metal with a stick as your wheel.

But you can turn all that into a fully working luxury car/truck/whatever you like by digging in and customizing it. In the age of "don't build the wheel", you can also do that by installing component that other people have built already.
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Understanding the Hidden Powers of Curl
Trade War Update: China Cuts Tariffs, Signaling December Truce
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Read the article carefully, Oppenheimer was a target of a mad development of a self-excuse of the guy who organized the making of that document, 6 pages of which Wheeler lost:

"After being fired, Borden went back into private law practice. His initial suspicions of the AEC blossomed into an obsession with a conspiracy theory. What if the AEC had been behind the loss of the document? He began to believe that Oppenheimer himself, long an object of his suspicions, had somehow induced Wheeler to lose the document. For the rest of 1953, Borden would conspire—with help from other enemies of Oppenheimer—to bring Oppenheimer down, one way or another.

The culmination of that activity was a letter that Borden wrote to Hoover in November 1953, alleging that after years of considered study he believed “that more probably than not J. Robert Oppenheimer is an agent of the Soviet Union.” "

Insane, but so typical. Every conspiracy is easier to believe than acknowledging to oneself one is wrong.
You probably could have left out all but the last paragraph and made your point haha... but thanks for that quote. It’s almost like you need to climb the Dunning-Kruger curve at least once in a specific domain before you can realize when you’re on the wrong side of the curve in any other domain.
Though they differ only slightly, and in the concrete example in the article "insure" still fits, IMO.
Rapidly refreshing outposts were the primary source of fun to me: the fact that they respawned meant that there was nothing gained by attacking them, it was much more rewarding to plot a route on the map and sneak past.

In fact I normally printed out a map and annotated it with patrol positions to help plan my routes between missions, usually via rivers, quickly fleeing if spotted.

Most of the game for me was an exercise in navigating the map at night (sleeping until night if necessary) and getting into a good sniper position for my next target (being sure to be close enough it wouldn't reset).

I think respawning is justifiable as a mechanic, though it would be better for infinite reinforcements to arrive on an infinite stream of transports. That would probably be too harsh for the people who fight their way through the checkpoints though.
Maybe? You’re still seem to be thinking about this in anachronistic terms. Every political and economic philosophy is based upon the unspoken assumption that there will always be a climate hospitable to human life. This means that neoliberalism is flawed at its core. Every economic and social theory that does not start with addressing the external costs of carbon dioxide is incorrect at its foundation.
Boston City Hall routinely ranks as one of the ugliest buildings on earth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_City_Hall

Brutalist concrete building straight out of 1984. Really gets you mentally prepared for the labyrinth, dispassionate and uncaring bureaucracy that awaits you inside.

> The building has been subject to nearly universal public condemnation, and is often called one of the world's ugliest buildings. Calls for the structure to be demolished have been regularly made even before construction was finished.

I highly recommend anyone who visits Boston take some time to walk around it and even inside of it. It really is something to experience, unfortunately for me I experience it every day of my life.
How resource constrained is the Linux kernel when running on a modern x86_64 machine with 16 GB of RAM? Not very. So is Linux kernel development for this platform not "systems programming"?

If you're going to say something like "but the kernel should be fast when servicing syscalls", you are right, but that is not a resource constaint, it's a user requirement. LibreOffice should also be fast when reacting to my keypresses, but I hope we agree that LibreOffice development would fall into the "applications development" camp, if we have to put things into bins.

The truth is, we don't have to put things into bins. There is no need for a muddy, fuzzy term like "systems programming". If you're doing "kernel programming" or "embedded systems programming on resource constrained microcontrollers", you can just say that directly.
Very cool hacking challenge!
I solved all 12 levels with only looking at the very last hint... and "wasted" half of my Sunday :-D
Toilet paper is generally not provided in public toilets in China. You should carry your own. So in a way, this is positive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z9qws7M8q8
CVE-2019-14843 wildfly-security-manager: security manager authorization bypass
> That no matter how good a product you build as an engineer, it is all pointless if you aren't willing to hit the ground and start aggressively marketing and selling it.

You have pretty much summarized another one of his talks :
http://paulgraham.com/ds.html

(Or even two :
http://paulgraham.com/schlep.html )
Can AI Replace Programmers?-Frances Buontempo – Center Keynote Meeting C++ 2019
The title is somewhat misleading as to the scope of this project, as this looks to be a project for adding GCC backend support to the existing Rust compiler (though this isn't a criticism, that's exactly the approach that I would take!).

The (simplified) way that rustc works is that it translates Rust source code into a custom intermediate language called MIR, does a bunch of analysis and a few optimizations, and at the very end translates MIR to LLVM IR and passes that into LLVM. This project looks to add support for translating MIR to GCC's own IR instead of LLVM IR, allowing it to reuse all the other work that has been done writing rustc.

For a from-scratch reimplementation of (most of) a Rust frontend, see mrustc ( https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc ), which is written in C++, and served to demonstrate that (a prior version of) rustc did not feature a reflections-on-trusting-trust attack (via diverse double compilation).
It seems particularly bad in its surroundings, the barren concrete plaza that it looms over. The whole effect as you cross in front is of a projection of Stalinist state power.
Property taxes are a special form of BS: here's a fine for using the money you earned and we didn't seize from you in other taxes for merely parsing an asset.
Thats very cool and certainly an inventive way of playing.
When is the right time, then? I would have thought the move to the 2018 Edition should have been the perfect time to declare the 2015 Edition as stable and unchanging, no? But it is still receiving major changes like non-lexical lifetimes.
Thanks. Its shocking how many posters in that thread thought it was entirely appropriate for the state to retain the profits.
As Water Sources Dry Up, Arizona Farmers Feel the Heat of Climate Change
I hope the jury selectors are sharp.

Felons made poor decisions in the past. The opportunity for problematic behavior is present-- the poor decision making had better be confined to the past and not the present.

Proceed with caution.
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Quite true.

People can be very disingenuous when they want to. So while requiring QR codes is ridiculous, they should note that normally you’re expected to have your own toilet paper because toilets aren’t stocked with it.
I don't think they use the injectable version. I could be wrong.
Dear ImGui has a very C-style API though, it's just flat a function API wrapped in a namespace, and about the only other C++ feature that's used in the API is default function arguments.

For usage from C code, there's cimgui, which is an automatically generated C-API wrapper:

https://github.com/cimgui/cimgui
My first thought was that they should paint them with Vantablack, but then I wondered if that might be too dark?

Do they need to aim for a specific reflectivity or just aim for the lowest possible value?
FT describes an apparently escalating game of overnight "repo" borrowing, in order to meet regulatory limits, with the days at end of quarter apparently special:

https://www.ft.com/content/1374afd4-181d-11ea-9ee4-11f260415...

This suggests a systemic instability.
Isn't that what supervised release should be for? We monitor them in the general population for a short period (a few years) to determine if they're still dangerous. If not, restore their rights. I don't think anyone who goes to prison for 10 years and is observed on perfect behavior for another 3-4 is going to suddenly become dangerous again when their right to buy a gun is restored. These are pretty large timescales we're talking about.
"Dancing" may be an exaggeration considering that just looks like Brownian motion to me. Heck, if you told me that was an inert slide, I'd have believed it.
I'm not informed enough to make a reply comment, but thank you for adding clarity - it informed me.
I've had to sit in the room more than once waiting to see if any trials wanted to actually select a jury. There were only two times when I was in the room while the jury was selected. Once, when they filled up the jury before they asked me anything, and the other time when I was actually put on the jury.

I think it's very telling that the first time, the prosecutor kept asking if people would apply the law as written, and not how they would prefer it to be written. I didn't think I could answer that question without hearing the details, but she refused to provide them (she never got to me, so I never had to answer). It turned out that an inmate was caught with some drugs inside a prison, and she was charged with possession of the drugs, and possession of drug paraphernalia (the paraphernalia being a plastic bag the drugs had been kept in).

The second time, the judge asked if anybody had served on a jury before, and those who answered "yes" were asked if anything happened during that service that shook their confidence in the system. They were specifically cautioned to not go into details so that the rest of us wouldn't be tainted.

Both of those experiences feel like huge red flags for the system in general. But, again, I have to acknowledge there does seem to be some value in including regular citizens. I'm not sure if that value outweighs the negatives. But, it's an explicitly guaranteed Constitutional right in the US, so without an amendment, it isn't going away.

For the record, in the US, if you'd rather take your chances with just the judge, you can waive your right to a jury. But most people accused of crimes seem to believe the jury is a better bet.
Working on a first person shooter in Unreal Engine 4 so tasks include stuff like weapon inventory systems, bullet penetration, AI bots, server hosting, modding tools, in-game VOIP. I also do a lot of programming (~75%) but outsource modular tasks where ever I can to try to buy some time.
You are correct about HBM2 (latencies between 12 and 16ns vs 8-12ns latencies in typical DDR4 systems). My understanding was that HBM3 reduces those latencies and HBM4 potentially reduces them even further (in addition to lower latency due to closer proximity).

AMD seems considers HBM on-chip to be an upcoming reality.

https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/amd-working-on-vertical-(3...
In what concerns security, both should be nuked.

However given that at least C++ does support ways to tame C, after all the whole purpose was for Bjarne never to repeat his Simula into BCPL rewrite experience ever again, it is up for security conscious to decide what legacy they want to leave, when the option is between both those languages.

On the other hand maybe C should be used to write Skynet, so that we stand a chance.
that was quick, cool :)

Edit on the shared link is also a bit dangerous as there is no colab-collission detection. But there it really depends on the use-case.

I always wanted to set up a web renderer that I could quickly paste to (but was too lazy to actually do it), just to quickly show something to others.
In 2001 Google didn't own YouTube. Today it does.

YouTube profits from selling ads, that's true.

Yes YouTube makes all of their money from selling ads. But it's fate is highly independent from Google search. That's diversification.

Same idea goes for Other Google businesses.

As for Apple - it's less diversified than it seems: the fate of the watch, for example, is highly dependent on the fate of the iPhone.
IMHO a very well-written article with great attention to detail. I especially liked the section on paredit with its step-by-step explanation.
>And here are plenty that support the converse

Could you site sources please?
> GP's advise makes sense for anyone who does not know what Tor is

Whether or not someone knows of Tor doesn't influence her threat model or privacy requirements, and therefore doesn't influence what measures can help. Other than that, I agree that you have to be aware of the threat model and what given tools provide.
>“No one thought of this,” she said. “We didn’t think of it. The astronomy community didn’t think of it.”

That is absolutely ridiculous. The Iridium satellites were decommissioned recently and it was a big deal because, for the longest time, you had to check for "iridium flares" if you were using any type of sensitive equipment. Basically, the entire class of iridium satellites was highly reflective and they tended to create shooting star type phenomena, sometimes really really bright, bright enough to be seen during the daytime!

Maybe she didn't think of it, but to say the astronomy comunity didn't think of it is just blatantly absurd on its face.

On another note, I miss spotting iridium flares and I'm looking forward to a new class of satellites being added into my weekly observations.