skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are comparing the number of CVEs in hundreds or thousands of low level code vs a few Rust libraries , you might want to wait until you have a few popular OSs, full browsers,drivers ,VMs made from scratch with Rust then compare or do a fair one to one comparisons.

Just wanted to let you know that your comment feels very misleading because you present the large number of bugs in say web browsers and contrast it with no Rust bugs in web browsers because nobody uses a Rust browser(I know Firefox has some parts in Rust but those parts are new so you can't compare it with years old code that had time to accumulate bugs and people to find them)
No, when setting up the TV, if you choose not to have a network connection, there is no need to link. There wouldn't be a way to link, as the TV can't reach the Roku servers.
Being looked down on by someone who voluntarily carries a state-approved surveillance appliance, I can live with that.
> technology alone is not capable to guarantee any meaningful rights when your own government is your adversary

In fact, I would argue technology has made it easier to abuse individual rights. Its so easy to build mass surveillance systems nowadays that citizens are quickly becoming a row on a spreadsheet. Technology has empowered authoritative governments to become more authoritative. China being the prime example.
From my observations, lack of sleep is typically a multiplier for another aspect and not a root cause in itself.
The quickest way to autocracy is pretending there's no difference between it and democracy.

This is civics 101: There is no "one ruler". There are parliaments, with multiple, opposing fractions. Then, there are administrations (te "executive branch"), which are separate. Then, also separate: the judiciary.

Of course you already knew that, yet you chose to double down on OP's cynical take declaring democracy dead and asking people to stop trying to save and/or improve it. Why vote, if law has no power? And, for the odd politician that happens not to be corrupt: why bother, when your constituents are just going to spit and yell conspiracy theories in your face, with absolutely no attention being paid to your actual work?
Where are these stats coming from? I'm curious to find more.
I don't see the point of the server being open source unless you're running your own instance. Otherwise it's a trust honeypot.
Right...

https://twitter.com/carterforva/status/1211098137823240193?s...
Have you checked out https://www.fairvote.org/ ?

People can and do argue about the math behind it, but it seems an improvement over our current system, and is being implemented here and there, so it's not some utopian impossibility.

Johnson would have been so much better than what we have.
Instead of creativity you will get desperate men and sugar daddies offering expensive rock/pop concert dates, and gold diggers taking advantage.

It would be more costly than even high end dinner dates, but at least your date like the same music you do?

It could work well if there is a mechanism to reduce serial abusers and moochers - maybe you can only get invited to a date after you invited someone else to one?
Angr Management
Could you share some links regarding backlash against Elsevier?
I’ve been using Day One for a while. I started using it in 2012 as a simple journal but it became a essential tool in logging my life.
I will just link to this.

https://philip.greenspun.com/bg/
Italy - and Belgium - are two of the most corrupt countries in the first batch of countries in the EU. Either of those would serve as examples that proportional representation can be messed up as well. But it's a lot harder than in fptp and similar systems and in those places where it works well (mostly: the rest of Europe) it works as long as you don't have an absolute majority that is heading for the cliffs. After that all bets are off.
> Are programmers overpaid in the first place?

Seems unlikely. Companies don't typically pay someone at a loss -- they hire folks because they expect to make a profit. Wages, almost by definition, are less than the value of the worker.

Programmers are like any other wage laborer, and should be pushing to own more of the value they produce.
The Tenure Chase Papers
No rebuttal for these that you could manage, I see, nor are you gracious enough to admit that my general point was correct.
> vsync is a latency killer

VSync, if done properly, only adds less than a single frame of latency.

That is 17ms tops for 60Hz, which nobody notices unless you are a pro-gamer on an FPS game. Certainly it does not matter for a pixel editor.
It's not the end user features. It's the admin features. You can very easily read everyone's messages, see stats on who's talking to whom the most, control who has access to what channels. The customer is the business ownership, and the product is control.
That is ignoring the cut mentioned in the article from middlemen and the like (and the environmental cost of transport).

If a publisher wanted (and some already do), they could send me a copy to my email at fractions of a penny with no middlemen. Hell, they could use something like BitTorrent to make their costs of distribution literally zero if you consider the fact that any publisher has spare bandwidth and compute from a desktop or two sitting around in their office somewhere with which to start a BitTorrent pool.
Only when trying to use Google’s proprietary auth method. The standard one works just fine, even in mutt.
Yeah, certainly. That's why I said "not really" instead of an absolute statement, to leave room for cases like that (and I probably should've been more clear). But for the most part input speed isn't the bottleneck that people get stuck at indefinitely.

And it's also possible for this to change. With programming, for example, if you lose the use of a hand, you quickly find out typing speed is the new bottleneck.
We've run this experiment several times and gotten the same result every time. Hence the forever wars. Hillbillies with guns and IDEs have shown to be pretty effective against militaries.
Like I said, my SO is a DSS and we get have copious literature on the topic lying around the house. All of the things you've outlined don't exist or are not widely 1) accepted and/or 2) not approved for use. And even if you can print an entire tooth including root structure placing these printed teeth is a challenge. I've seen crazy root structures my SO has shown me. Often times teeth need to be sectioned for removal of them which basically makes replacement impossible. With regard to steel with a composite on-lay, this is exactly what I'm talking about. While steel may last the composite on-lay will not. You're ignoring the difference in forces different teeth are subject to. Front teeth are cutting teeth and need longitudal strength. Ceramic is no comparison to the versatile strength of your original tooth which is why you'll often see total failure of an implant far more often than a shattered real tooth. While I realize you may have read a few things on the topic your comments showcase a lack of domain expertise, so kindly heed your own advice before positing inaccuracies.
I use Telegram the saved messages thread, which I have pinned to the top. You basically send messages to yourself.
Editing is still valuable, judging by the writing quality of self-published books.
I thought for sure you were the inventor of the scrabbled egg.
That's a poor example. The 200,000 people imprisoned by the secret police during their reign would not approve.

"East Germany made about 200,000 people into political prisoners." [1]

1. https://www.dw.com/en/gdrs-victims-continue-fight-for-justic...
It’s not at all obvious to me, and I wish someone had told me these things earlier in my career. They’re all very obvious in retrospect, but when you’re neck deep in the mire and carrying the world on your shoulders, sometimes it’s very hard to see any possible path out other than doing something drastic like changing jobs. (It’s OK to change jobs when appropriate, but you won’t want that to be the only tool in your toolbox.)

Until fairly recently - let’s say the last five years or so - did anyone ever tell me it’s OK to say no. To the contrary: rise to the occasion! Meet all challenges! Dazzle with your ability to do all 100 things at once! I think it’s very important that we tell people early in their careers what they can do to manage stress while still advancing.
Google has always worked with GNOME to keep things working so its not hopeless for this specific situation.
You're sliding down the slippery slope argument you've created. No one said anything about laws.
Romania...

Edit: hilarious, I'm getting downvoted for pointing out that the toppling of communism in Romania was very violent. Never expected HN to be a red block stronghold. Kind of hilarious.
The French Just Aren’t Quaffing Champagne the Way They Once Did
Israel is another example of it not working out very well.

It's not just the corruption, it's the disproportionate power that small parties get, like the time the Communist party in Italy took out the center-left government because the government wasn't giving them everything they wanted. The party that gets 10% of the vote and is in coalition with the party that got 45% can hold the much larger party "hostage". This led to yet another Berlusconi government.

Also, I do appreciate in the US having a representative that is beholden to me, in my district, rather than 'the party', as occurs in many PR systems.
> There are quite a few established democracies that have seen steady improvements in civil rights over their existence. There have been setbacks, such as World War Two. And the last five to ten years may well be similar. But it's still obviously true that "the long arch of history bends towards justice".

I’d be interested for you to cite specific example of this. During the Cold War, the threat of the Soviet domination pushed some countries in the direction of greater equality and equanimity. But they seem uniformly in retreat following its collapse, and retreating on the basis of ever shoddier premises (first the War on Terror, now ethnonationalism). While it’s true that the ranks of the elite have diversified, the material reality and civil rights protections of almost everyone beneath them have worsened in many of these countries.
Was it all 9/11, or was it the tech bubble popping as well? I don't know how to disentangle those two things, culturally.
Years ago, Tim O'Reilly made the observation that time was really the limiting factor in how many books people read (or something along those lines). That's certainly the case with me. Spending (typically) $10 for a book that will take me 8 hours or more to read is a great value for my time--and that's not even counting libraries or out of copyright works--and I'm not sure how acquiring most books could be much easier than it is.

Books could be universally free and maybe I'd browse a bit more but I wouldn't really read more.
So... you don't have an answer?
> Hobbyist programmers (who usually end up being the best ones) usually put great investment into their career by doing side projects on their free time.

Who’s to say those that went to school didn’t enjoy the learning process of their degree? They are by this definition giving up free time in order to learn something and are as well making a great investment in not only time but money as well.

I think that this needs to be reread as “Programmers who are passionate about what they do usually end up being the best at what they do” since if you think about it, they are dedicating ~40 hrs a week to their hobby. Who’s to say someone can’t excel in a hobby if they can’t dedicate more than that? What about people who have more than 1 hobby?
How a Chase Bank Chairman Helped the Deposed Shah of Iran Enter the U.S.
People have been saying there's a correction (or bubble burst) on the way for the last several years.

It's very much a "correctly predicted nine out of the last five recessions" kind of situation.
I keep hearing again and again the same argument regarding DRM. I really doubt people (not the technical ones found here) care about DRM. They didn’t care when the music industry implemented it, see how much the music pirating has fallen. I think what they care about is convenience. The convenience of instant access to hundreds of thousands of books, recommendations, ratings.
If you think 70% commission is high, you should look into the deals authors get from publishers. Typically author gets low single digits, the shop gets around 50% and the publisher gets the rest. Sometimes the author gets only a fee, then zero commission.

30% is the norm from Amazon anyway, though I agree the terms are onerous and a world in which Amazon (or any other large corp.) dominates distribution would not be a pleasant one for authors. The nice thing above the that though is that the Internet means that monopoly on digital distribution can be broken relatively quickly by a superior solution.
> didn’t manage to get past the first two scrolls

I did, but I was so distracted by the vast amount of whitespace (and 3x normal the amount of scrolling required) that I don't remember anything.
The software and the database can be downloaded. There's already a few links here to do just that.

I'm sure a few clone sites will pop up and you could always run a local copy yourself.

If Exact Audio Copy doesn't allow you to set the API to connect to, you could always use some proxy software (I use Charles) to forward freedb links to your chosen replacement.
Render React Components to Embedded LCD
It's interesting as I studied Computer Engineering which focused on the hardware and low level, with some programming on top of that. I was pretty good at that too. However afterwards the Google-style interview algorithm questions do not come naturally for me, and you'd think I'm a complete imposter by the look in some 20-something interviewers eyes, even though have been programming for 20 years...
At some point in history people would have killed for an ability to access almost any book without any problem. When we finally got to tne point, people rather watch films or scroll endlessly on Instagram.
requires a google sign-in.
At this stage there are only 3-ish modern web engines (Those plus WebKit).
Just so you know: the website is totally broken on Firefox for Android.
undefined in that sentence: almost every word. "Levying"? "War" ? "Enemies"? This is why we have both a Constitution and a body of law. The Constitution uses words, the law defines what they mean.
It might be more worthwhile to code up a llvmpipe/swrast variant with Vulkan support, and contribute it to Mesa. That way, legacy hardware will not be cut off from software that expects these "modern" features.
>Also focuses on BBN for a good chunk which is cool because the name does not come up a lot.

That makes me feel a bit old given that I knew a lot of people at BBN when I was in school although I didn't really know much about the proto-internet at the time :-)

But you're right. BBN's role has sort of faded into history.
That’s basically how they taught my computer architecture course, but they started from C (instead of Python) and worked back to assembly and then to transistors or whatever those gate things are (I studied enough to make an A and don’t care anymore unless someone pays me to).

I think it must be a reasonably normal approach.
What matters is that you found a way to sound smarter without doing anything.
Thanks for sharing this context--just a small response on polygamy...

> As an ex-mormon, we were taught deeply all about Joseph, and that he was not a polygamist that started w/ Brigham

Polygamy is taught in the Doctrine and Covenants, which almost every Mormon will carry to church on Sunday..

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-test...

> Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet ... including the eternity of the marriage covenant and the principle of plural marriage.
Against foreign militaries.

Even if you are right, that would imply that the US would enter a protacted civil war that would impoverish everyone. I have a feeling popular support would swing away from the millitias very quickly, just how long do you think millenials will survive without their avocados, yoga classes and fair trade locally brewed artisanal beer.
You should read eyes in the sky: https://www.amazon.com/Eyes-Sky-Secret-Gorgon-Stare/dp/05449...

For some background about gorgon stare and WAMI (wide area motion imagery): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon_Stare

Bizarrely enemy of the state directly provided the inspiration.
This sort of ham-fisted attempt to shove your specific fascination with a two-hundred year old food fight that became irrelevant thirty years ago at the latest is a good example of what's wrong.

FWIW there have been both communist and fascist/autocratic regimes that ended in violence and those that ended without. There have also been countries either self-identifying as socialist or being labelled as such by people sharing your convictions, which still manage to uphold civil liberties and economic success just as well as more market-oriented economies. etc. etc.
I maintain a small project and this works fine for me (though I do directly host executables). The bigger problem is crappy "anti-virus" software flagging it but those get resolved after a release is a few weeks old or so.
I hate that I need to break DRM to keep a copy of an ebook. There was that famous case where Amazon found out they didn't have a license for a book in Canada and pulled it from everyone's devices. The book? Orwell's 1984.

We have DRM free music from BandCamp, iTunes, CDBaby, AmazonMusic and others. But the only place to get DRM free books is Kobo, and it's not a huge selection.

Offer me a DRM free book where most of my money goes to the authors and I'd be all over it. This recent trend has lead me back to pirating the larger or older titles.
I could do 20,000 wpm after reading something the first time in 200wpm.
The garbage collector is a stop-the-world collector, but other than that, this implementation has great multiple core / multithread support.
As this post doesn’t explain what a DApp is, for anyone curious it seems to be a “decentralized app”. I’m not sure how they work, or what the benefit of them are, but I guess they’re like apps-within-apps, kind of like the mini apps in WeChat (someone more knowledgeable please chime in).
These are interesting stats
There are trade-offs in user experience between a centrally controlled effort and something like Matrix.

If you've listened to him talk many times before, it seems almost disingenuous that you'd believe he hasn't made this choice because mass-adoption and user experience are the first priority of his design constraints.

It doesn't mean your criticisms aren't valid wants in a messenger but there is a logical and publicly explained motivation to why Signal is the way it is. One piece of good news is that being tied to phone numbers is a problem Signal appears to be solving in the near future. [1]

[1] https://signal.org/blog/secure-value-recovery/
The Year in Tiny Video Game Text, 2019
CFSSL would be more recommended
Not Minsky, but JCR Licklider!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergalactic_Computer_Network
Only in US. In the rest of the Anglophone world, it's always plural.
The secret history of Monopoly [audio]
New GitHub Action to add labels based on the author name
I guess the very detailed imaginary persona you've invented from my short post says something about you :)
There’s plenty of room for flavor experimentation that crowd sourced wisdom hasn’t explored. For one there are simply too many combinations of ingredients, and preparation to make the assumption that everything has been tried. Secondly, with cheap air travel, refrigeration, and a more fully integrated global economy it’s possible get regional ingredients everywhere that were totally unheard of decades ago. Also cultural palates change: in the US fancy food was French and Italian until the late 90s. Period. Now days it’s not uncommon to see Asian dishes elevated to new levels. David Chang, et al have been enormously successful in melding Western flavors into Asian dishes. The US, at least knows very little about Latin American food (outside of a some well known Mexican imports, eg tacos), and African food is almost completely unheard of. Mark my words we’ll all be enjoying flavor combinations no one dreamed of in the coming decades.
Have you seen the actual coursework or just the end result?

To borrow from my graphics programming class from ~2008, we didn't actually do much. Every assignment, we were given an almost-working program, and the assignment was just to fill in a single function - the one I remember offhand was a simple linear interpolation.

Granted on the flipside, with my information retrieval and data mining courses, we weren't given any code to start with and had to implement everything completely from scratch.
The only telltale metric of software work that I know is the ratio of time spent making progress to time spent not being able to make progress because of past mistakes made and shortcuts taken.

It's reasonable to consider that the reason that software developers are saddled with such shallow process and tooling metrics is that they themselves don't have any better alternatives to offer.

If we roll over and accept the lowest possible maturity organization and process methodologies like Scrum, then we ultimately deserve what we get.

We have a roll to play, and it ultimately requires stepping up and seeing our jobs as more than mere tool-wielding. Or said otherwise, in the rush to call ourselves "engineers" we've stopped being engineers and stopped even pursuing an understanding of the body of knowledge of engineering (which leads to better grasp of the subject area that comprises process and measurement).

Velocity is a standard we're held to because we didn't step up to provide better standards. And we didn't do that because we didn't believe it was our responsibility to learn about the rest of software development. And in that vacuum, people who know even less than us are left to dictate pseudo science to people who should already be in command of the science.

We have a role to play if we wish to play it. It's not obligatory, but there are real costs to pay when we don't.

There's no requirement or expectation to go above and beyond in an effort to catch up on all the knowledge and understanding we've shed from our wheelhouse. It's totally fine and understandable if we don't. But we also have to accept that nature abhors a vacuum.
You seem to have trouble understanding even your own arguments. Above, you asked for "an example of a country that hasn't had to use violence to exit a communistic regime".

So, pray tell: how exactly were East Germany's political prisoners instrumental in...ending that very regime imprisoning them?
Different outcome, but similar cause. The high-pressure system of achievement is a cause for both high-profile burnout and hikikomori [0] [1].

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/young-people-j...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikikomori
Last time I messed with software rendering I wanted to set the base performance expectation so I blitted the same memory contents to the screen (3840x2160@120) with no sync using OpenGL and got 200-250 FPS on a 2080 Ti/3900X desktop. That means the entirety of my program logic and CPU rendering had to be less than the time it took for the CPU to hand the memory to the GPU to draw or I'd start dropping frames. I'd agree this just isn't realistic anymore going forward from a performance perspective, not to mention the power usage.

I ended up targeting 1920x1080@60 and having a shader nearest neighbor scale that up.
Unfortunately, that's pretty typical of HN nowadays. High up in the HN rules are "Be kind" and "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work," but I don't know that everyone reads the rules or cares much beyond proving they are better than the submitter :/ not sure how the community can get better about this.