skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The notion of "Programming" was mentioned and even defined in 1947 by Donald Booth. See http://bobmackay.com/Booth/Booth.html Principles and Progress in the Construction of High-Speed Digital Computers.

"The word 'programme' as used in this context may require explanation. Before a problem is ready for solution in a computing machine it must first be broken up into processes which the machine is capable of performing. Thus, as mentioned above, when using a digital machine the continuous process of differentiation must be replaced by a finite difference formula. This translating of a problem in terms of the available functions of the machine is generally known as programming."

However he did not use the word "language" as only assembler was known at the time, and he was the first to use even that.
Theoretically, could a jacket made of a hard material (resistant to water for 50 years minimum) perforated with nano-particle size holes be both breathable and highly water-resistant?
Announcing Heroku Data Services Integrations Using Mutual TLS and PrivateLink
Has it really been long enough that this is no longer common knowledge? Before it was "wikileaks founder was open source contributor", it was "open source name has wiki thing for document leaks".

Of course that all happened in the long long ago so there is no reason to dwell on it. It's not like every news story that has been trying to craft a hack narrative to explain Assange's actions and motivations to the public has fallen short of slashdot comments circa 2005.

There's no reason to know anything about the past. Back then we developed everything in COBOL using Waterfall because no big brains were around to coin the word "agile" yet and save us from ourselves. And subversion server side hooks didn't even exist because nobody had coined the phrase "continuous deployment" yet. Dark times indeed.
I'd love to see more articles exploring strategies for building apps really quick for hackathons.
DDoS botnet C2 servers recently detected
If you look at the historical record you'll find that most geniuses were awkward and eccentric people. They didn't send Christmas cards; they mostly just wanted to be left alone to do their unique, self-chosen work. The 'features' I mentioned are a symptom of that. We underestimate how much focus the average person puts into being nice and conforming to social expectations.

Btw, not advocating those behaviours nor trying to spot geniuses. Can't identify a genius except by his record of creative achievement (as judged by workers in his field).
I will write english doc.
It Looks Identical to Another with Different Genes
Advanced Computer Security Program
I always wanted to know what you would get if you developed the same thing, but forced it to deal with different FPGAs during its evolution. Would it still come up with something surprisingly inhuman?
The only way Amazon is going to fix it is if it costs more to leave it as a problem than it will cost to fix it.
Any chance you had a power meter hooked up? I find it fascinating how much less waste heat we generate per unit of computation.
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Thanks, will try to take some in the near future.
My understanding is that the old MacOS Classic "Blue box" dates back to making System 7 virtualizable on A/UX.

The issue at the time is the typical Unix/X11 graphical application was not really impressive compared to what you could get with native System 7. (Which is still mostly true with modern MacOS vs Linux.) So AU/X gave you some commandline stuff... Graphical apps you wanted Mac.

Also the story is that A/UX mostly existed because of government purchasing requirements that a computer had to be POSIX-capable. Often it was never removed from the shrinkwrap.
Climate change denialism is similar to climate change activism in that neither actually achieves very much politically. There have been countless protests and breathless professions that the world is about to end - emissions keep going up. Denialists huff and puff, but if the price of renewables drops below the price of fossil fuels they are going to disappear like snow in summer.

We have a system in the modern economy where the if there is a substantially better option from a resource-use perspective it will be used. So far neither activists nor deniers have shown any ability to affect that system and the cheapest option is still being used. When a significantly cheaper option presents it will be used instead - again in complete defiance of whatever position people want to take on climate change.

Moving away from CFCs was irrelevant to the general performance of the economy. Moving away from fossil fuels is anything but.
Maybe.

If you have 4-8 static blocks vs 16-32 attacks that would be fine, but if you need to calculate what happens when 16-32 attacks run into the same 16-32 attacks you have a combinatorial explosion problem which you then need to simplify.

One of the reasons I like going straight to the linear algebra approach is that you do a batch of basic arithmetic which the CPU does quite fast without branching, and then you do one branch to determine hit vs not-hit. Pairing zones with zones sounds like nested if/else statements, but I hadn't dived into considering that approach.
But we don't want to spend our time researching possible new products. Empirically, we just keep buying the same thing until disturbed by some outside force.
Professors, like cops, have significant power within their sphere. And tenured profs can even go to the point of calling women, gay, and black people less than human. (Indiana University Prof Rasmussen)

The key here is, surveillance shouldn't be used against the students who are of low power, but instead against those who decide if the students succeed or not - the professors.

Trusting power is how one gets to significant asymmetry and gross abuses. Surveillance against those types is how you start to counterbalance "discretion".

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/education/2019/11/24/eri...
Fun! A/UX was neat... I was always a big fan of System 7, and this was System 7 running on top of a real Unix environment. Many years ago I picked up an "Apple Workgroup Server 95", which was basically a Quadra 950, to try running A/UX on. It's definitely an old Unix, but it certainly worked. Perhaps the neatest thing Apple did with it was the "commando" interface... in the Unix shell, you could enter a command (say "ls") and hit a hotkey to pop up a Mac-style dialog box that had check marks for all of the flags, text entry boxes for all of the paramaters, etc. Perhaps one of the more usable Unix-derivatives ever! Even MacOS X doesn't have a similar capability. The only system I'm seen like that is IBM's AS/400, with the F4 prompting to help with all system commands. Nice to have a self-documenting command line interface.
The article correctly calls out the long hours (and weekends) worked by many restaurant owners, many of whom prefer their offspring get well-paid office jobs and avoid the life the parents had to live to make the restaurant business work.

However, I would like to posit that there are a couple of other points that make it impossible to operate a profitable restaurant today, especially in large cities: (a) ridiculously high rents (b) increased regulation.
At my college, the professors that took attendance were almost always the worst ones, teaching GEs to a lecture hall of a hundred students that had no reason to care, and ultimately did little to improve learning. I think if any of the upper division major-related professors tried to force attendance, they’d be laughed right out of the room. But the ones worth going to had steady attendance anyways, even if they put up lecture notes or slides, because they were often genuinely useful lectures to go to.
For governments to completely control birth rates via artificial wombs/artificial births, they'd also need to neuter/spay the human population to prevent natural births. This would be simple for children of artificial births as the government could spay/neuter them at birth. But how would a government spay/neuter the naturally born population? Government handouts, tax incentives, compulsion? Get spayed/neutered for 20 years of no income tax?

If we were to go the artificial wombs route, then human sexuality/desire/etc would no longer be needed and spaying/neutering should take care of that. But would that lead to more productivity, creativity and progress? Or would it hinder productivity, creativity and progress? The desire to mate/create is a powerful motivator for work and production. But it can also be a source of destruction and decay.

Would we be better off like our pets - spayed and neutered and without any hope and urge for mating?
You’ve obviously never raised a child. The problem isn’t a lack of wombs or the first 9 months of childbearing.
That’s Shenzhen - not all of China. Food is still a huge part of the culture, and China is still home to vast numbers of restaurants.
Serious question - do blind people play video games? How does it work?
Disappointing.

I had hoped that it was about the Z notation.
While I was at UChicago, we had courses with a participation grade - so attendance was effectively taken whether or not a teacher recorded it every class.

At LSE, they used iClickers while I was there for a few lecture hall courses. At least one (LSE100) requires attendance unless one wants to miss their chance of getting a First on the module.
YouTube deals a blow to crypto calls “harmful or dangerous” mass deletes videos
Fighting games like SF2 usually work on 2D hit boxes. [1] You have boxes which are defined as things that do hitting, boxes which are defined as areas that can get hit, and boxes that define clipping. If a do-hitting box overlaps a get-hit box, a hit occurs. It's a simple, elegant system that's ideal for a game with a fixed 2D playworld and fixed 2D attacks. It doesn't work for a system with free form 3D sword combat. If you block up and to the right, and a sword comes in from up and to the right, you should block it, but if it comes from up and to the left you should get hit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB2CvPt87X8
Just want to add that I had a somewhat similar experience under the influence of THC (I had several edibles). I took away much the same 'revelation' of the true existential terror of 'oneness'. I felt like I was stuck in a 'perception loop' where I (and all of the world) was in an infinite self-referential loop and I was identical to that loop. The true terror came from me trying to 'break out' of the loop, and being unable to. I remember continually asking the question 'who perceives the perceiver?' and then reaching for an answer, only to be kicked 'up a level' in this recursive loop and starting the process all over again. Eventually I was overwhelmed by a Sisyphean resignation; I was condemned to exist in this loop for all time, continually confused, with nothing to ground 'myself' and in a constant battle against 'myself'.

Looking back, the feeling of being 'trapped' was somewhat reminiscent of my experience of 'sleep paralysis' (and also occurred as I was falling asleep) though on an ineffably more terrifying scale. I'm not sure if other people who've experienced bad trips on weed (that are hallucinogenic in nature) have felt something similar.

When I awoke the next day, I suddenly had the distinct realization that the existence of other living beings and their eventual death (as my own) was an immense gift. Eternal existence as some monistic 'God' suddenly appeared to be the ultimate hell.
Please add a comma after "Dead". This indicates that the Baby Z is still not dead, and I'm wondering what this baby has done to deserve its fate.

Z's Still Not Dead, Baby, Z's Sill Not Dead
One thing I'm curious about- was Commando "pre-baked" with dialogs for all of the pre-installed utility commands, or did it pull from some kind of user-extensible database? Metadata stashed in the resource fork of the commands, maybe?
Yeah, sounds like this is basically by design. It's interesting that new immigrants aren't opening new restaurants to make up for the closures, but even that's not too surprising given the current state of things.
Judging purely by the computer in the included photo, I would imagine the study dates to around the year 2000. There was a Goretex XCR launch announcement Feb 2000: http://julieturns.com/goretex/news/uk0002_xcr_newgen.html September 19, 2000 is clearly called out in the paper’s references, perhaps as an “access date”?
DeepCube solver approach might go beyond cube into other research (2018)
X-mas field:
https://anvaka.github.io/fieldplay/?cx=12.9055&cy=-22.44975&...
Saying Hello to Combine Framework (API Call and Parsing) – Part-2
On standard classic MacOS, Apple's Macintosh Programmer's Workbench (MPW) IDE also had commando, which is where I got familiar with it. I wonder in which direction it was ported.
Narcissistic procreation seems like something evolution would have selected for.
Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead.
That reminds me of something John Adams, second President of the United States, wrote in a letter to his wife in May, 1780:

> The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed exclude, in a manner, all other arts. I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.
Sure. It's appropriate to say that the project is unmaintained if he doesn't plan to maintain it.
IIRC there was a ‘Sudden Stratospheric Warming’ this year that caused the ozone hole to be much smaller than usual. As a resident of the South Island in New Zealand, I find these articles of much interest.
I once undertook the task of searching for the mythical fabric that offered breathability and water-resistance.

A big issue is that as your exertion increases, you sweat more and need more breathability, compared to when you're sitting around. In addition, breathability is hampered by the fabric's pores being clogged by dirt, body oils, and just the fabric wetting out. As such, most fabrics are treated with some DWR coating. But the DWR coating wears off over time and at-home treatments never seemed to match what came from the factory.

Roughly a decade ago, eVent was supposed to be the wünderfabrik; and it did offer more breathability than Gore-Tex by omitting a PU layer. However the PU layer also prevented body oils from logging up the breathable membrane, so ultimate eVent jackets would stop being breathable if you didn't keep them clean.

Polartec Neoshell was also a runner up, but it never caught on big time; I think due to durability issues.

Right now, Gore-Tex Shakedry is the talk around town, but I haven't worn anything using it and stopped caring. The outdoor industry will always be selling folks a golden fleece.

- - -

Addendum: I am super glad about how breathability is now being addressed beyond rainshells and fleeces. Patagonia's Nano-Air and Arc'tery's Atom hoodies are two examples of light and breathable insulation layers that didn't exist 10 years ago. They're great for moderate exertion activities.

If anyone wants to geek out more, I recommend reading:

Mark Verber's What is Percent of Nakedness? - https://verber.com/mark/outdoors/stash/patagonia-testing.htm...

Andy Kirkpatrick's (formerly psycho vertical) writings; mainly focused on mountaineering. As such he has a lot of good advice for dressing for bad conditions - https://andy-kirkpatrick.com/articles

Andrew Skurka's Breathability: an explanation of its importance, mechanisms, and limitations - https://andrewskurka.com/breathability-its-importance-mechan...
Or we just find some volunteers, tell them about the risks and send them to Mars. I'd go, for example.

In the early days of flight people were taking huge risks, many died. But we went from no flight at all, to landing on the Moon in one lifetime. I think it's okay to take risks, as long as everybody involved knows about them and does it voluntarily.
Totally anecdotal but weed had sent me to psychosis to 3 times out of the 10 smoking sessions. I did it again because everyone were, not even peer pressure, but it was so common. With LSD I didn't have any problems, quite opposite, but because I've heard weed being preached by everyone as safe miracle I don't want to go to same route with lsd. It really differs so much from person to person.
I feel I’m in the sweet spot. Work for a company based across 5 time zones. Our team of 12 has optional out of hours support and people have to volunteer. But it is only for Sev 1 issues where the entire app/service is down.

Since it is paid, we end up taking turns for the extra money. In the year I’ve worked there, haven’t been pinged even once.
Interesting how multiple people can have the same idea — about 10 years ago I was working on the problem of having people on mechanical Turk label terms with meanings, and determined that applying page rank to the connected graph of nodes (where nodes where turkers, and edges were agreements in labeling) would allow me to derive a trust metric for each agent, allowing me to discard noise/bots easily from the dataset.
The MPW version of Commando relied on a 'cmdo' resource on the utility.
For something completely different, here is the non-breathable Stephenson's Warmlite Vapor Barrier "No Sweat" Shirt:

https://www.warmlite.com/product/no-sweat-shirt/

I bought one when I was into backpacking in the '70s but never really liked it that much. I would be curious if anyone knows anything about these and their "vapor barrier" idea.

I do have fond memories of their 1974 catalog (NSFW PDF):

https://www.outinunder.com/sites/default/files/Warmlite%20Ca...
It's a waste of time for people who don't need to go to the lecture. My grades in school were overall made WORSE from attendance grades. I would've gotten all As if I had just been allowed to turn in my work and show up for exams, but going to a joke school means 10% of your grade is showing up and I'm not going to show up to listen to 5 minutes of information get stretched into an hour.
Super interesting primary source with the technical details and a bit about how they built the community. Thanks and merry christmas!
I have a Soviet illustrated pop-up book about space travel, with the same title, but a different author and I think published about 1980.

It appears to be "Into Space" by V. Sevastyanov, however I could only find pictures of the cover by searching for "В космос" В. Севастьянова.

Front:
https://images.app.goo.gl/M51TCVL35gabKREH7

Back:
https://images.app.goo.gl/bdLAZTJ9iVbm1q596

I've been wondering for years if it was a valuable collector's item, but now due to the magic of Google Lens, I guess it's not.
Merry Holidays!

https://archive.org/details/Nintendo_Power_Issue001-Issue127
Caltech of a few decades ago was great... but even it isn't exempt from the infantization that's been happening everywhere. (Just talk to any of the current undergrads or recent alums -- a shift started happening with some new deans towards the late 2000s/early 2010s and hasn't stopped.)
These guys are heroes for putting their bodies throug this much testing for mankind.
So if you are selling the absolute lowest-quality stuff, you may increase the quality of your inventory by simply giving it to amazon and request them back? Now I sympathize with Amazon, knowing how shady some merchants could be.

If it's true that they do not track products by suppliers, this could be a scalable fraud. Send in absolute garbage and take it back/buy it to enrich your metarial.
Merry Christmas and Happy holidays!
Cool! A very elegant and "Classic MacOS-ish" solution.
As an example of this -- one of the comments below mentions iClickers. Those have been a thing for a few years now (mostly bio, but still).
I wonder whether smartphone software "helpfully" suggests to adjust privacy settings when it's unable to access information, as some websites do with ad blockers and JS, or desktop and server software does with root access. If so, they'd probably fix that quickly.

Funnily, I wasn't able to read the linked post easily with my web browser privacy features (well, noscript) enabled.

I think generally it's a bad idea to impose whatever one perceives as "good" on others. And if a user doesn't care and understand what's going on, merely restricting some of the spyware they currently have on an Internet-connected device with private information on it wouldn't even protect privacy much: I think (based on a couple of times I've observed the process on Android smartphones) they had to allow all that access on installation in the first place.
Heat death. Enjoy life :)
I get that on Youtube too, without blocking anything—just use Google’s privacy dashboard. The dashboard is overly complicated for sure, but they actually do respect your choices, at least in terms of what’s user-visible.
tl;dr One week out of four.

I’m an SRE on a team of 4 (incl manager). The company is about 140 people. Each of my team members participates in on-call (incl manager) and is on for a week at a time. We’ve dialed things in such that we might get paged once or twice during that week and usually the pages wind up being minor/non-issues. It’s really not bad, in my opinion.
Only truly smart technology can help the investigator
CVE-2018-13379 exploited in the wild
I've had that exact feeling of the 'dreadful alternative' of immortality under the influence of (in retrospect) way too much THC. Also, much of the perceived 'peace' and 'tranquility' some people describe feeling from a perception of being 'connected to everything' manifested the exact opposite feelings in me. All of a sudden I felt completely alone. I do not want to be 'one' with everything because that means there is nothing beyond me.

Perhaps a more positive experience might be one in which you still feel distinct but nevertheless intimately connected with everything. I've done some psilocybin, but never reached anything close to 'ego-death.' I am curious to hear other people's thoughts on how these ego-less experiences make one at peace, and not in complete existential horror (I suppose if there is no ego, there is nothing to 'feel' the horror?).
Your data and metadata stays on servers you own. PhotoStructure is software, not SaaS, in other words.

PhotoStructure is free during the beta, which will be ending early next year. There will be both free and paid subscription tiers.
For archiving purposes, should you wait until January first?
I'm not sure if the current data export features are whole yet, given that GDPR and CCPA was set to be complete on the first week of January. I also know that Google asked for the deadline to be extended, but most companies probably have already done most of the work. Will a better exporting feature be available come first week of January?
Special economic zones exist in all parts of the world.

And people are able to freely leave them, lol.
I wonder how DNA would work for this as a storage medium.
There definitely are standard sizes, but there is enough variation between manufacturers and between wearers that comfort can't be achieved at the level all can agree on. My wife has difficulty in finding the right bra and I have difficulty in getting the right shoe ( which you also would expect to be standardised)
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