skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand the reasons. What is the actual problem in this "even-odd problem"?

How do all the other languages that have an equivalent function (Perl quotemeta, PHP preg_quote, Python re.escape, Ruby: Regexp.escape, Java Pattern.quote, C# Regex.Escape, Go QuoteMeta, Rust regex::escape) avoid or deal with this problem?
Hyperphysics is a delight. I've worked in the physical sciences for years but keep going back to refresh myself on the basics. I always learn something again for the first time.
Yes, it does. Instruction level vulnerabilities arise from execution of insecure code.

If you have to do so, your security is already compromised. Shared hosting, virtualisation, and etc are all insecure by definition.
Hi, yes unfortunately at the moment the classifier can be quite inaccurate sometimes, especially if your microphone is catching some background noise. We will work on improving this.
This has to be upvoted more!
There was already a lot of talk about LuaJit being unmaintainted last year. When Mike Pall was even more active.
The real question for our human self-interest isn't about Venus-style runaway warning, it's whether civilization can survive any of these dramatic shifts.
> contrive a scenario

pretty easy actually. car ahead swerve to avoid an obstacle. autopilot don't see the obstacle until the car ahead swerve. autopilot has to change lane to avoid obstacle.

if it has recently snow some lane will have different traction than others.

this is what happens on most of these pileup videos you see on youtube, so while not common (there are a handful a year after all) they aren't just hypoteticals
> Authoritarian control has gotten hold of both democracies and non-democracies and people are fine with it.

And how is democracy doing in places where authoritation control has gotten out of hand? After all, you are claiming that democracy is not in danger. So, have people who noticed that they weren't that keen on authoritarianism after all regularly voted the authoritarians out of office successfully, then?
Well - I’ve got a “service management” background, so it’s completely natural to talk in these terms. :)

A service have in a way two interfaces - one business (the work it’s doing), and one technical (how it does it; a port publishing an endpoint or whatever).

No business process to support, no service to manage.

The lifecycle of the technical service will consist of a bunch of actions that will be taken, perpetually, until the sunsetting/decommissioning of the business process.
Actions: init, code pushed, deploy, monitor, trace, update, decommissioning etc.

You take these actions and put then in a lifecycle circle and you have a nice powerpoint!

As much as possible, preferably everything, in this cycle have to be governed by conventions and automations.

- Automatic follow-up if a service have no upstream or downstream services for example. Why do we have a dangling service?!

- Or, you have a key service tied to an SLA, but upstreams are not matching this?

- you have services that have not been touched in a timely maner.

- etc... just drop the relevant team an automated slack message with the option to initiate whatever is required to keep the lifecycle churning.

With many thousands of assets/ci (configuration items) almost everything have to be automated or you will grind to a stop eventually.

If you can couple business process to automated technical service management - big wins!
Sure, there's no guarantee, but that's not a particularly good reason to write off SMT wholesale.

People who already have Intel CPUs in production aren't just going to turn off hyper-threading, either, regardless of what we say about whether or not future products should support it.
Don't forget the ridiculous propaganda being pushed by the fossil fuel industry, if the slew of climate denialist rebuttals to your comment are any indication...
Moving compute intensive tasks to C would speed up many programs. That is the reason that many dynamic languages have overall good performance - they rely on C libraries for the computative heavy lifting.

This has one big backdraw however. Not only do you need to write in two different languages, the rewriting in C requires a lot of care, as the language protects you much less than the high level language you implement for.

One big attraction of Go is, that it is high level and productive enough, to be the main implementation language, and for time critical stuff very efficient. So you don't have to cross language bareers to implement speed critical code and you get the full type and memory safety in the whole stack.

Interestingly, one can write Python extensions in Go, so in most cases that would be my choice these days for speeding up critical code paths in Python.
Hi, yes, unfortunately the classifier is not very good at the moment. We will work on improving it.
Yeah having worked on a mongo stack there are N problems caused due to the unstructured nature of mongo and there's so many problems with existing ORM solutions chiefly the fact that they're trying to create structure where it doesn't exist. This was a decision taken aeons ago and there's not much we can do to change it now but hope the guy who made that decision is happy cause I sure am not
Chinese people exhale less CO2. Free speech causes global warming.
Uncovering the Disqus data machine pt.2
Well, can you? You asked 'an expert'; since the introduction of the gdpr, there was an explosion of 'experts' (even real lawyers) who know absolutely nothing and just read the EU docs line for line to spread FUD (and get clients). And the problem is, that, while the gdpr is EU wide, there are governing bodies per country which all behave different. So your expert in Italy might be completely off the mark about the Netherlands (so, disclaimer, my experts are from the Netherlands and talk about NL).

But, in general, if you want to be 100% safe; just have a static site that collects nothing and logs nothing. No need to nag about it; it makes the internet a better place anyway imho.

In my experience, if you are not frivolously collecting user data and make sure that the personal data you do collect is something you can explain in the line of your business (even if that data is very secret data, but that usually has extra laws/rules on top). And, finally, that you make sure that data is properly stored (encrypted on properly updated servers), you have no issues.

In this case, IF the owner would get an email from the governing body of the country (I think Germany in his case), he would very easily be able to explain the reason for the input and the body can see that he is not asking nor frivolously collecting user identifiable data. If people choose to enter it, for some reason, en masse, in his site, then they would ask him to throw it away when it comes (so in his case, don't log it, but why was it being logged anyway?) in and that's it. No fines, no nothing.
In Germany in particular there exists a nasty habit of sending C&D letters to people for all kinds of minor rule violations. You can either sign these letters and pay an (often substantial) fee or get a lawyer. Or you can try to comply in advance, often to a ridiculous degree, which I do.

So I may have such a strong opinion on the GDPR because I live in Germany.
Instagram has launched a fact checking feature
>Is long-term planning incompatible with democratic elections?

Maybe, but the alternative doesn't necessarily seem to work either. China has an awful environmental record as well.

It seems that humans are incompatible with long term planning for things that extend beyond our lifetimes.
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One crime is legible to the masses, the other is not. The crimes are in no way parallel.

Agree the justice system is a farce .
>If we really want to influence politics, we need to get rid of this idea that voting is all that democracy means, and try to get people more organized, try to get many more people to participate directly in politics, get them to talk to their representatives regularly, get them to organize and pool resources together for important causes and so on.

You think people have time and energy for this? If they did they could already do it.

Usually you take the good with the bad and vote for the candidate that agrees with you on the issues that you care about the most, or the one that seems more reasonable overall.
This is unfair in my opinion. China produces more or less the whole world. Look what you have in your home and check where it is made. My guess is that 75% is made in China. So stop buying stuff from China and you do the world a favor.

It should be calculated by indirect impact per human, per country, instead of where it is made.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying_to_Survive is a good movie
Hi, yes the classifier needs some improving. We expect that it would be much more difficult to make an accurate classifier for Cantonese, although we could make a website which presents Cantonese words/phrases and lets you see your (and the teacher's) pitch contour. Would that be of interest?
Every other programming language I've studied starts off showing me how to do things. As I go through this manual, I think I am seeing a language define itself from the ground up. It's kind of like chemistry; atoms to (small) molecules to functional groups to functional group transformations and onwards to bewildering complexity. I'm getting flashforwards to what this could ultimately achieve and why LISP has stayed relevant for so long.
What would you be ready to pay for such a software?
For an article focussing on assumptions, it's rather sloppy to state the situation as

"Monty opens one of the other two doors, and there is no prize behind it."

rather than

"Monty opens one of the other two doors, one which he knows has no prize behind it."

which rules out the interpretation of Monty opening a door that by chance happens to have no prize behind it, leading to a different answer.
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>Take a look at the Australian PM. What a stick in the mud, the whole state of NSW is practically on fire, and all he can say is that isn’t not really caused by climate change, there are “other factors involved.

Aren’t there almost certainly other factors involved? Acknowledging that climate change is one factor among several doesn’t seem to me outrageous.
Obligatory bump for my project ReadableWebProxy (https://github.com/fake-name/ReadableWebProxy) that was originally intended to do this.

At this point, it does a GIANT pile of additional things most of which are specific to my interests, but I think it might be at least marginally interesting to others.

It does both full autonomous web-spidering of sites you specify, as well as synchronous rendering (You can browse other sites through it, with it rewriting all links to be internal links, and content for unknown sites fetched on-the-fly).

I solve the javascript problem largely by removing all of it from the content I forward to the viewing client, though I do support remote sites that load their content through JS via headless chromium (I wrote a library for managing chrome that exposes the entire debugging protocol here: https://github.com/fake-name/ChromeController https://pypi.org/project/ChromeController/).
Ever been to an Italian restaurant? Was it creepy? A Mexican restaurant? Chinatown? Just because you choose to not understand why people take an interest in their heritage doesn't make it creepy. But it might mean you're xenophobic.
If anything, experience from the past gave the people running these things suggestions where they can most likely cut costs without the whole thing blowing up into their faces before they retire. Same with monitoring. It's costly, nothing happened the last couple years, let's just do it less thoroughly.

Look at nuclear power. Might be the greatest and cleanest solution in theory. In practice, look at the revelations after Fukushima. Mismanagement, dramatically negligent maintenance, corruption. Would proper management have prevented the incident? Probably not, but it wouldn't have been nearly as bad. Without the tsunami, this might have continued for years to come and who knows how and when shit would've hit the fan in this alternate reality. Then the shitshow that is storing nuclear waste here in Germany. Again instead of listening to scientists and engineers in the end they dumped the metal containers inside an old salt mine. Big surprise, salt water lead to rapid corrosion and now they have to get that shit out again, but thankfully the tax payer cover that bullshit. Another example? 737 MAX. Yet again a story of a company that kept cutting costs over years and years until it blew up in their faces. It ticked pretty much all the boxes over the year. Cutting corners, saving costs, budget restrictions, ignoring concerns by engineers in charge, you name it.

It's always the same pattern. If Apple doesn't innovate, cheaps out on components, scraps QA, their products might eventually suck so much that nobody will buy them anymore and they'll just disappear, but who cares. Nuclear isn't bad. Aviation isn't bad. Landfills aren't. But these are these kinds of industries where negligence can have catastrophic results. And especially something that is as long term as a landfill is predestined for this kind of failure.
Hi, do you remember what the Windows-based software was called, by any chance? Was it PRAAT?
Climate models of decades ago have turned out to be dead on.

Denialism is fundamentally dishonest. Uncertainty does not favor inaction. The more the uncertainty, the more action is justified.
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Hi, thanks for bringing that to our attention. We will work on it. We would like to work towards giving people feedback on whole sentences. We plan to work on 2-syllable words first.
I think the real problem is that they didn't properly maintain their code. Rewriting it in Go won't prevent them from dealing with this in a few years for when this Go version reaches end of life. I would have liked to see an article on "introducing process" side of programming.
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>After adding all the uncertainties of the proxy data and our models (which we use to calculate temperature throughout Earth's history) it's not that sure change like this has never happened before, or that it is happening faster than ever before.

This is misleading. The rate of human injection of CO2 into the atmosphere has no analogue in the past, at least we've not found a similar excursion as yet. What effect this will have on the global climate system is inherently unpredictable, again, because we lack analogues from the past.

What we do know is that global climate state changes have occurred rapidly; indeed, the whole Pleistocene is distinct in that the global climate system seems to have been in a boundary state in which it flips, sometimes within 50 years, from cold to warm, or the reverse. So that can serve as an analogue for how the global climate system can respond when perturbed.

I say "have been" in the paragraph above because, in terms of atmospheric CO2 concentration, we've already exceeded any level observed during the Pleistocene. (And, not to belabor what I hope would be obvious by now, we have many lines of evidence that indicate with a high degree of certainty that it was human emission of CO2 in the last 150-200 years that has caused the spike in atmospheric concentrations.) Hence, researchers are looking to periods such as the Miocene and the Pliocene for a world that had continents in roughly the same configuration, but was much warmer, and, moreover, was warmer in a global pattern that fundamentally differs from that of the Pleistocene.

We also have paleo-analogues for the effects of large increases in atmospheric CO2 concentration, and those are: acidification of oceans, ocean basin wide anoxia, local (confined, for example, to a particular ocean basin, or to a given depth range in oceans) and global extinctions, and interruption of the global oceanic thermo-haline circulation system.

Another commenter stated that humans are as adaptable as roaches, and I'm afraid that this, too, may be a bit optimistic. In general, species resident at the highest trophic levels, with larger body sizes and habitat areal requirements, tend to be more vulnerable to change, and therefore to extinction, and thus tend to be much more ephemeral than smaller species in the fossil record.
Us Americans have an impractical revulsion to lobbying and industry groups. Most Americans simply do not have the time and, at least until recently, are not too concerned what someone a state away does. Unfortunately, like you pointed out, voting isn't a frequent enough control mechanism on the authoritarians or simply narcissistic politicians ready to hand out favors. So, what do we do if lobbying and industrial groups are automatically not an option?
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I’m more surprised that people are upset. I got cerberus maybe 8 years ago for a small sum of money (maybe $5) there is no way that’s sustainable. A service like this should be no less than $10 a year.

That said I do think the developers aren’t communicating well, which is leading to the upset customers. Seems like they should have said after some point they would be changing to yearly billing.
Well what to say. You are just throwing potential performance away if you don't use SSE when you can.

There is an idea that "renaming and reordering engine can make non-SSE code as fast as it without extra hassle." At least of X86, that can't be true as you physically can't access all execution ports with non-vector instructions.
Bushfires are frequent occurrences in Australia. We should combat climate change regardless of bushfire. To claim that bush fire is proven to be caused by climate change is disingenuous and unnecessary.
People complained about incompatible versions of the DOM between IE and everyone else, and about how awkward AJAX and DOM manipulation was, and those are the problems JQuery solved. That's providing a common API and mostly forcing Microsoft to follow spec, not a "C style stdlib," though.

I don't think many people were upset that javascript didn't natively support, say, proper integers or static types or (ugh) "classes" or what have you, at least not until people started wanting to use javascript outside of its intended purpose.
You're right - I guess it's not that hard to imagine that scenario. But how would the car know which lanes have traction? If the car can reliably detect black ice it can avoid it without ever having to slip/skid.
You could store the data in a git repo per domain, so that implicit de-duplication happens on re-visits & for shared resources.

You could have a raw dir (the files you receive from the server) and a render dir that consists of snapshots of the DOM + CSS with no JS & external resource complexity.

When the global archive becomes too big, history could be discarded from all the git repos by discarding the oldest commit in each repo, and so on.

SOLR is probably the right tool for the index but there is something undeniably appealing about staying in the pure file paradigm - you could use sqlite's FTS5 module to do that too.
For the world’s most popular language? Yes.
No, no, no. Haswell inductors are off-die, that's what that very paper says.

What Intel was saying is that they had an on-die industrors ready in labs, but never stated if they are going into production.
>> Climate models of decades ago have turned out to be dead on.

Of course, with hindsight, out of thousands of models, we cherry-picked the most accurate ones, gave those scientists medals and completely ignored the majority of other models which turned out of be wrong.

I think that renewable energy is good and will yield cheaper electricity in the future and won't produce smog so we should invest in it but there is no need to rush the implementation stage. Sometimes it's better to wait for better technology to come along and implement it once rather than keep re-implementing it every few years each time a slightly better solution comes along.

Like every time someone invents a new, less expensive, cheaper to maintain wind turbine, what do you do with all the existing wind turbines? The more you have, the more expensive it's going to be to migrate.
> how is democracy doing in places where authoritation control has gotten out of hand?

Not well, but not too bad either. Everyone is happy because of this:

https://thinkbynumbers.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/number...

Surveillance democracy is a thing, as is surveillance communism/putinism/erdoganism. The difference is that democracies have found a way to manufacture the consent of the majority, while in autocracies it's easier to pin the blame to one person.

> have people who noticed that they weren't that keen on authoritarianism after all regularly voted the authoritarians out of office successfully, then?

There are relatively few people who aren't keen on surveillance. most people are on board with UK level surveillance and most americans still think badly of Snowden. Don't expect it to be voted out soon
Hmm. They don't sell that at Lidl - and are you sure the containers are reused? I don't see the tell-tale scuff ring.
> Phones can be tracked? So can anything if the interested party is rich enough, powerful enough or dedicated enough.

In other words: Nothing is dangerous, because there is always another way to achieve the same thing if your resources are unlimited. Seriously?

> There are apps on phone with full encryption, there are mesh app that require no setup. There are custom roms for android with 100% focus security and privacy.

In other words: There are ways for individuals who understand the situation to limit their participation, therefore what is actually happening is of no concern, no matter where it actually leads. Seriously?

> Also is tracking bad? If we ignore the privacy fanatics, all the good that location tracking has given us far outways all the bad stuff.

Could you substantiate that, maybe?

> Also everyone seems to love the idea giving people a voice but does a 360 when they realize other people can have completely opposite radical ideas too.

In other words: People who want people to have a voice should be happy when people who want to shut up everyone who isn't like them are promoting their ideas? Seriously?
Merchants of Despair: Environmentalists and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism
Don't forget the 2020 roadster will actually have rocket boosters. (Elon has given his word on this more than once)
Expiring licenses, arbitrary limits, crippled functionality, troubles with moving software between computers, publishers going under... this, much more than money, is why I stick to free software as much as possible.
I really like LockPickingLawyer's videos [1]. It's no-frills, as all youtube videos should be.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm9K6rby98W8JigLoZOh6FQ
How to identify and fix open-source vulnerabilities
"The Planet is fine, the people are fucked" - George Carlin, 1992:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjmtSkl53h4
Intel i5 desktop chips don’t have hyper-threading (SMT) and haven’t for the 10 years they’ve been available. Typically the i7 variant of the same CPU has been about £100 more (roughly 50%). The point about only 5% extra die space makes no difference to the consumer, as there is/was quite a high cost premium on desktops for that feature. Now Intel has removed hyper-threading from most of it’s i7 desktop chips, and you get 2 extra cores over the i5 version instead.