skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand your comment. My point is, because you don't know the officers, inmates, or the broader situation, you shouldn't comment as to whether the officers are right or wrong - because you don't know.

There are possible worlds where the officers are justified or misunderstood and there are possible worlds where the officers hold incorrect beliefs. What evidence lets you know which possible world is more likely?

Being prejudiced against the officers strikes me as similar to the imagined (and possibly real) situation where the officers are prejudiced against the inmates. We, as readers, just don't know.
The modern web is becoming unusable
You can do it in class when you have been given a chance to reply to a direct question. It's less often that people know what they want to say straight off, there is a time and a place for it though.
This article seems to continually conflate "sources of randomness" with pRNGs. The linux entropy pool is not merely some estimation of randomness by the kernel -- it's a collection of bits accumulated from a variety of sources (including rdrand, btw) -- which are munged in such a way that any single bit of input causes a cascade in the states of all output bits -- then fed into a pRNG. Not trusting rdrand (or any other single source, including input devices, internal sensors, IRQ timings, internal clock, etc.) is a feature and does not somehow make the degree of entropy weaker. Having a broad collection of entropy sources feeding into your entropy pool simultaneously helps make the random device more secure by ensuring that if an attacker gains access to any number of these inputs, they still cannot predict outputs as long as they lack even a single one.

This is exactly the article I would have published if I were a state attacker trying to make it easier for myself to create side-channel vulnerabilities in applications relying on randomness.

If tpornin's primary concern is blocking IO (and not unpredictable, cryptographically-secure RNG) then his or her advice makes sense. However, if secure randomness is a concern, then the advice should simply be to encourage application developers to use the minimum amount of entropy needed from the entropy pool. Many, if not most applications are guilty of consuming far more randomness than they truly require.
That may be what they think they mean, but I can't recall an instance where that was accurate, including here.

Apart from that, I don't have to like people saying "it's just semantics" if they mean the exact opposite.
people simply spend a lot more time online, reading stuff. the papers feed this newfound addiction. i don't think it's fair to always accuse only the media for giving people what they asked for. after all it is people that turned their backs on their physical surroundings, first with books, then with TV , now with the internet, and in the future possibly with VR
It might not be quite that simple - people can game the system of course - but it has been my experience that the Internet is generally very good at highlighting the best ideas and best content to the fore. The most upvoted comments and most upvoted posts are usually those which are thought out and reasonable, interesting, etc. In other words, of high quality. The best podcasts and the best music, along with the most entertaining YouTube personalities are generally those which get the most attention. At least, I have almost never "discovered" content which was really good without an already sizeable following.
> I find that some lenses have a different look on-axis versus off-axis, either leading to ugly smearing, or pretty twirly bokeh.

This is indeed pretty interesting. It seems like double-Gauss lens designs like the Zeiss Planar and Biotar are especially prone to this kind of distortion. There's a Russian copy of the 58mm Biotar called the Helios 44 that's popular on eBay for this reason (lots of people use an adapter to put it on a MFT camera and shoot video with it).
Bill Mensch's memorial:

https://wdc65xx.com/in-memoriam-of-chuck-peddle/
That's interesting. Working in an organisation that switched from Gerrit to Github, I saw a decline in commit message quality. Some people will just leave whatever is filled into the textbox by GitHub. In addition, there is no way for others to review the commit message this way.
The "privacy policy" is outrageous: https://roamresearch.com/#/v8/help/page/y7wOdeUpZ

Won't even try it, sorry.
Bill Mensch's memorial: https://wdc65xx.com/in-memoriam-of-chuck-peddle/
Yeah it's not a collective either. Maybe it's a bureau?
That’s still kinda surprising, compared to Singapore or Hong Kong, I never found Taipei or Amsterdam densely populated. But stats don’t lie.
It is such a tragedy that ember did not gain more traction. It's incredibly elegant, powerful and ergonomic. Once you got into the groove, writing ember code was so intuitive.

Glad to see they are pushing through
VW says its Autonomous Braking worked flawlessly–So how’d I crash?
I think you missed the actual link to the article?
Oh cool. I stumbled across this a while back and got inspired wrote some ELFs in gas (GNU assembler). It's surprisingly straightforward and there's even a manpage elf(5), which is pretty much exactly the 32- and 64-bit specifications rolled into one.

If this kind of thing sounds fun to you then you'll probably want a System V ABI reference [0] to look up all the different relocations etc. Also, /etc/include/elf.h can be helpful.

The part I started having trouble with was getting dynamically linked binares working. At the time I didn't quite understand what the PLE amd GOT were, so set things down. Maybe it's time to pick this back up.

As always, the OS Dev wiki [1] is also a really good source for these kinds of low level implementation details.

[0]:http://www.sco.com/developers/gabi/latest/contents.html
[1]:https://wiki.osdev.org/
I know this is a low quality comment, but given I was once the guy at my last company who's job it was to make React do things it didn't want to, I really dislike React. It's a dead end for interactive UIs, and the closer you can stay to native html elements with encapsulation, the better off you'll be later down the road.
I'm not convinced that meals are the issue. Payments/kick-backs are the issue. Meals are an exchange of "please listen to me for 30 minutes talk about our {product/solution} to these problems", and anecdotally, it's a time when these groups can question/challenge their product. I work in software, and I will listen to a vendor talk about their product for a "lunch and learn". It's a time to also get your questions answered amongst your peers.

> anecdotally it's much more pervasive in those groups.

I feel like that needs a source, but I know you mentioned it's an anecdote.
> Now about a hundred million Americans are effectively athiests and we're no more rational than before.

The US has approximately 330 million people. Asserting more than 1/3 of all adults (330 million includes children) in the US are atheist is a bold and, in your comment, unsubstantiated claim.
Transferwise isn't good enough...?
> Is the author stating that _start is an interface to the OS then? It's interesting I never thought of this as being an interface.

Perhaps it's not the best term, but it's not really incorrect. I probably wouldn't phrase it that way today (20 years later).

> Is this just a long-winded way of saying _start sets up the stack for the new process? WIthout a stack you can't "set up" argc, argv etc.

Well -- to be precise, the stack is created by the kernel during the exec system call. The kernel also copies the argument and environment strings into the process's memory. However, the kernel does not create the argv array of pointers, or the envp array. Building those arrays is the job of _start(), and that is what I meant by "setting up argc and argv".

Please note: That was the case back in 1999. Things are different now -- I think it changed with the 64-bit kernel? In any case, nowadays the ELF loader in the kernel also builds the arrays.

> I would also be curious what "among other things" might include.

As before, it depends on the C runtime. The _start() function might ensure proper initialization of libc, for example. (Again, with current binaries that's usually done via an `.init` section, but in 1999 that was not the norm.)
It's also worth pointing out that there's a serious lack of talent in the defense contracting industry (not universal -- but certainly on average). The pay is typically not very impressive, the working conditions tend to be stressful (constant cost over-runs, impossible deadlines) and inflexible working arrangements (good luck with WFH). Talented people generally gravitate elsewhere with better pay and perks.
Lithium is cheap. It prob'ly has to be chilled while it's being blasted so they can do it long enough. Steering proton beams is what accelerators are for. You need a small target spot just so the detectors get things from a fixed angle.
Start by making your blog not crash android chrome.
This is a fascinating perspective I never really considered. The implications of "Spoiler Culture" on modern storytelling and consuming entertainment really are massive.

The seasonal buzz about Christmas movies has me dwelling on the paradox between the backlog vs. the new release. 21st century entertainers are competing against an entire century of modern culture available to viewers in a second.

How is it that my home has Netflix, HBO, and Hulu, and yet my wife and I are still paralyzed about what to watch every night? Why do we naturally lean towards the fresh thing on the front page?

Movies and other art forms are just bandwidth now, so Hollywood has to artificially set the value through marketing and buzz. It seems like every studio is combating this existential threat in different ways (Sunday night dramas that trigger water cooler conversations, visually stunning films that are meant for the big screen, twist-filled plotlines, podcasts and other media focused on discussing the "latest episodes").
looking at these touch controls, I am wondering how one can possibly operate them with any precision in a heavy sea, and avoid clicking the wrong thing. We evolved hands to grasp, push, pull and twist, not to point and tap a glassy surface.
https://www.earlymusicsources.com/youtube/solmization The wikipedia articles on solmization and hexachords are not very good unfortunately.
You can make broccoli couscous: https://travelcooktell.com/broccoli-rice/

Resounding successs, using this recipe: https://www.directoalpaladar.com/recetas-de-legumbres-y-verd...
Ok I’ll look more closely. The first interaction I has suggested a few odd meals and I figured it didn’t make sense to shop for them
Even inner-country money transfers between two banks accounts can take 3 days for no apparent reason. My understanding is it's a mix between risk assessment and banks trying to keep the money to work with longer.

I use https://transferwise.com/ for British Pound <=> Euro. First couple of times takes about 1 day, later (whatever scoring they use) it goes down to hours. I've seen within an hour once.
I'm curious if the prediction at the end of the essay turned out to be true:

100% of the top 20 YC companies by valuation have the .com of their name. 94% of the top 50 do. But only 66% of companies in the current batch have the .com of their name. Which suggests there are lessons ahead for most of the rest, one way or another.

It was written in 2015, so five years is a decent amount of time to measure.
BFU Extraction: Forensic Analysis of Locked and Disabled iPhones
Nope, definitely not one Markdown. Reddit uses three different engines with major mutual incompatibilities and mostly forbids all HTML (which frankly I deem enough to call it not real Markdown); Stack Overflow uses two with what used to be critical deficiencies and incompatibilities in the one used for comments, but I think they’re now mostly minor only; some things still use Markdown.pl which does many bizarre things; some, other weird engines with idiosyncrasies of their own; most more recent Markdown engines are only mostly CommonMark-compatible, regularly deviating in important places, and very often adding incompatible extensions. It’s a disaster at present, and I don’t expect it to get much better for at least a decade, if ever. (HTML got better with HTML5, but I don’t think Markdown is likely to unite so firmly, because people want more than non-HTML Markdown offers, and so will continue to extend it.)

HTML, though? Since the HTML5 spec about a decade ago, there has only been one HTML, with all browsers parsing and handling documents identically. CSS is similarly parsed and interpreted according to well-defined algorithms now. There are some visual rendering differences between browsers in how CSS is handled, but it is exceedingly rare for them to affect the content.

And for your complaints about CSS, it’s not intended as a single thing to implement in one piece—it’s deliberately designed as something that is extended over time. But if you write CSS that works in browsers now, then presuming you haven’t used vendor-prefixed stuff, it’s reasonable to expect it to work the same way indefinitely.
> antepenultimate paragraph

“Second paragraph” is a simpler way to put it.
I disagree. This wasn't a divisive issue, this was ONE troll who raised an issue. MSFT should have simply said "No" to this troll.

It's also worth mentioning that the original issue violated Code of Conduct as well, but for some reason MSFT only applied the Code to posts following it.
Sharp edged is the right phrase! I used to think appearance could get you somewhere until all the preening and signalling behaviour went online. Now it is too sharpened to be useful except for selling stuff. There's some at the tip of the blade making hay while the sun shines, with a lot of people getting cut on the way down.
From a laymens POV, it seems like half of the equation would represent the energy used in the bonds of each molecule representing smoothness (almost moving as a solid), with the other half laying out a dynamic list of finite variables that disrupt or exceed the energy forming the bonds.

Its almost like they would have to define a theoretic limit similar to 9.808175174 m/s^2 to limit the finite possibilities of outside forces acting on the molecules before the molecules themselves become the outside force, with those that exceed the limits be classified with a custom equation, and those below the threshold fitting nicely in a bow wrapped package.

And just to add more SWAG, is it going to be easier to produce these finding/understandings in space, where theoretic limits are more well defined and we'll be forced to use custom equations within our atmosphere looking for an answer from a perspective that is environmentally more complex?

Its all greek to me...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navier%E2%80%93Stokes_equati...
This isn’t true. I have Facebook on my phone and there’s no way to identify me by my phone number. It’s unlisted on my profile and not public. Searching for me by number or email does not work. I’ve check my Fb privacy settings quite often and try to find workarounds.
Meaning they said they got it from He, too, before?
I have heard this refrain from those in the west for decades about china. During those two decades China has exceeded every attempt to keep them at a certain level of development.

I do not see that stopping.
Why doesn't Facebook have an identity verification process? They literally allow anyone to sign up as any person. There is a show on MTV called Catfish that is dedicated to people who create fake profiles to trick people into relationships.
Global applications of domain-specific skills have always been fascinating to me. I'll be sure to look into this book!
It's funny because scrolling in this article is a stuttery mess (Firefox on Linux).
And indeed, size optimization is actually the least practical subject to learn from that essay.
> There are a number of things that the blog post gets wrong. First of all, it was not Jason A. Donenfeld, the author of Wiregard, which added the ChaCha20-based cryptographic random number to Linux. It was me[1], as the maintainer of Linux's random number generator.

For the avoidance of doubt: I can confirm that I didn't add chacha20 to the kernel or have anything to do with that. I did move get_random_int() and get_random_long(), which are used for things like aslr and wireguard handshake ids, from some weird md5 horror to using Ted's chacha20-based rng (when rdrand is unavailable) a few years ago, but that's different from /dev/urandom. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin... Ted is the one who added chacha20 for /dev/urandom.
People also don't want to pay for good government.

As a rule, people don't want to pay for anything that benefits them in a second-order way with non-immediate consequences - even if objectively the benefits are real.

It's a classic economic monkey trap. Holding onto something now is "better" than letting go and getting a bigger benefit later.

Which suggests that perhaps we should be doing more to eliminate monkey traps from our economic and political systems.
I think this is fresh opportunity for Ember to become mainstream again, modern Ember is so clean and productive
Crashes mobile Firefox too. Very ironic given the small portion of the article I read before it crashed.
When did ARM become Arm? It's like that on their own site, too.
If this Wikipedia user is not Pete Buttigieg, who is it?
Sounds sort of like how they found the plank constant
In SQL, how can I search all columns which contain some text?
It's interesting in the current world, prior in our "move into the world.. where anyone can make a video or photo of anyone doing anything" we're already struggling pretty badly with identifying fake news and what is considered fact vs fiction.

I don't see this as a move into a new world, but rather the increase level of hopelessness we're dealing with when it comes to good journalism. It may be time to pause and rethink our current approach to journalism since the current model is not working very well now and certainly won't be in the future.
Physicists who like to preserve their jobs. If everyone taught like grant Sanderson there would be too much understanding.
Because they're incentivized to show continuously growing subscriber numbers?
Haswell had an on-die, integrated voltage regulator. I guess it didn't work as well as expected because they removed it in Broadwell.
I call this the 'Rails Paradox'... a lot of people invested into Rails and wrote a lot of software that powers small businesses.

As people exited Rails, the cost of maintenance has gone up... since you have to pay a lot to get someone writing Rails now.
Humorous Units O' Measurement
> I am uncertain how else the visual studio code team should've responded

They should have responded "No" to the crazy person who equated a santa claus hat to a swastika.
Whether you like it or not - Political bs to one person is another persons truth.

Only through solid and level communication do we remove lies, slander, and fake news.

In 2016 - The man who ran the largest fake news website on the internet. Abcnews.com.co ran it was a joke and a means to make money. He had no ill intent. He had no skin in the game politically. He was just a dude trying to make money.

And afterwards he fell into a depression for the belief he got Trump elected.

There’s no sides to this issue than people are willing to accept.
I use Void Tools Everything to find files by name, and AstroGrep for finding information in them.
> personally I don't believe faster-than-light neutrinos exist.

You don't have to believe they they exist, they were quickly and conclusively disproven. As I recall, GPS was used as a time source and there was timer inaccuracies on Earth due to relativistic effects.
This headline is dishonest. I’m not getting my $125 because the settlement fund is dramatically too small. It looks like I’ll get about $6. If the attorneys got absolutely nothing, that number would be maybe $8. So attorney fees are <2% of the shortfall.

I’m not pumped that Equifax is getting off for less than a half billion or that the attorneys are getting a big chunk of that. (It’s hard to say how much they should get, to be honest) But when I see a bullshit headline I have to call it out.

By the way, they based the $125 on the assumption that almost everyone would take the worthless credit monitoring option.
This was tested (and confirmed) on an episode of Mythbusters: https://mythresults.com/blow-your-own-sail

Their boat went about 10% the speed of just pointing the fan backwards.
Any idea where to get it without paying an arm and a leg? I see it on Amazon for $199 and then for subscription via a few journals from a quick search
Thanks, appreciated. I get this fixed.
> The fact that you were already downvoted after zero minutes supports your thesis.

Alternative theory: multiple dissenting comments explain how GP is possibly oversimplifying the situation, and some downvoters have similar takes.
Did they stop fucking with you after that?
You can use native html elements with react. I'm curious what it is you were trying to do since I'm sure you could do anything native html supports with react.
The very premise of for-profit journalism seems questionable at best.
Class actions are broken and rarely actually directly benefit the consumers. At best you can say it is a large club that can be wielded on behalf of consumers to force large corporations to behave responsibly. At worst it's a total racket where attorneys can get very very rich by "representing" consumers and shaking down large corporations, which will eventually end up being paid for by the consumers who were meant to be protected in the first place.

I think the USA needs stronger regulators who can actually enforce the laws using fines and lawsuits rather than the legal system which does not work.
The Craftsmen–The Alternative to the 4 Hour Mindset
I understand that this looks unfair, but why is this actually bad?
The fact that you allege to interpret downvotes as censorship rather than rejection of an absurd hypothesis supports the thesis that HN is no more immune to politically-motivated spin doctors than Facebook or Reddit.
If it was simply that though - overt cash for compliance - I wouldn't feel so angry. It's the exuded sense of superiority - "The cash is because we're such great people" rather than an acknowledged payoff for socially negative duties.
The article is very light on details but at least it contains a link to an interesting story of M_PESA's origins: https://www.iafrikan.com/2017/12/04/m-pesas-origins/
The only thing here that is worse than this shitstorm of a system design is the vindictive attitude of the Navy towards the sailors who have to cope with it. Flogging and hanging from the yardarm may be gone, but the spirit lives on.
Trump Administration Backs Bayer in Weedkiller Court Fight
> When someone commits a crime, we call him a criminal and remove him from society for a while.

Wow. I've received 3 speeding tickets, and 2 right on red tickets in my life. I committed a crime. I paid fines. I was not removed from society.

That is the case with a huge number of crimes, today, otherwise we would have an even worse prison problem.

> I see no reason to abandon this tradition now.

We've already abandoned it, and we are reducing the sizes of prisons as you prattle on about the problems of vagrancy.

Let's get mental health care facilities, rehab, and more, to the levels that existed before Republicans gutted them starting in the 50's. I don't know, like institute new-deal type things so people aren't wanting for basic needs, and maybe vagrancy will go away.

Well, it did the last time we did that.

Why wouldn't we do the exact same thing that worked last time?
This is a really old-timey snipe, but...

You are not a typical computer user. The typical computer user is Karen from accounting, and Bob from HR.
Let me rephrase. $6 is what your personal information and identity is valued at by corporations.
One of these friends works somewhere Edward S worked. A building with guards and guns.

You tell me.