skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Browsers are far more battle-tested than just about any other web-facing application on your computer.

They also have a monstrous attack surface because they are "web-facing". A specialized client that only implements one protocol without any connection to the "web" is far easier to reason about and debug.

If you only consider the number of man-years an application has been battle-tested, you imply that design complexity and attack surface doesn't matter. If we account for complexity by using a metric like "(man-years of battle-testing)/(magnitude of attack surface)", a well-tested specialized client that hasn't had many recent bug reports is a much safer choice than anything running in a browser.

> blindly trust a client

That's even worse for the browser: you have to trust several orders of magnitude more code implementing a massive set of interdependent features. Yes, there are probably a lot more people working on fixing bugs in the browser, but there are also a lot of people adding/modifying features and thus creating new bugs.
Your thinking like a cog in a machine. It is easier to program in high level languages. So easy that the hard part becomes dealing with management, constantly rewriting for marginal improvements. You start thinking the sprint is important and you ststt choosing a language so hiring is easier. In the end we end up with bloating teams and bloated software that continues to do less use more cpu but costs more

It was more difficult to write a huge program in C. But you needed a smaller team. You are so deep in the system management is always over their heads.
Are you seriously "All Lives Matter"-ing this? Not just that, but nothing you said adds value to the conversation.
pacman-static existed already, and can be used to fix some of the most broken systems in a variety of circumstances. So, they didn't make it just for this, might as well mention it as the right tool to fix the problem should it occur.
Please don't use '+' for special purposes in email addresses without making it changeable (I recommend '_' instead).

Yes, it is "nominally" accepted--in reality there are too many website that "validate" email addresses and barf on '+'.
If you found a person 1000 years in the future from now, before you could ask them anything, you may need to teach them how to understand the concepts you're describing.
The internet tells me busybox doesn't provide a torrent client.

But you're missing the point, even if it did it wouldn't be a torrent client non-technical users can use. It's not me, a programmer, who I'm talking about here.
You can agree or disagree that it’s almost certain that there is evidence that has not been made public, that a statement from a prosecutor might look the same if they knew it was arson or really didn’t think it was, you can fully argue the difference in reasons for why that might be the case.

But... do you really not know or are you being obtuse to pretend you don’t know what he is saying? If you are pretending, don’t.

He’s already being downvoted for implying it (this site and it’s bubble mechanics; chilling effect, better not say anything that the hive will disagree with) so i wouldn’t expect him to explicitly say what we all know he said - again - agree or disagree if he’s right or not.
You got downvoted, but I upvoted you. Thanks for bringing this up. My mom abused me when I was growing up and I was traumatized. So I grew up thinking I was inferior and then superior because I became successful. Both are bad traits that I had to delete.

Many asian kids are abused, it is disgusting what happens behind closed doors. If you had a better childhood or if you overcame your hardships, it would be really nice of you to show them some love and help them recover!
I remember this being on PBS as a kid during the cold war. Terrified me. https://youtu.be/lb13ynu3Iac
If you think the way a majority of humans does something is absolute wrong and your uncommon standard is the only right way, you're wrong.
It's also largely what the DirectGov website in Britain does. They have an entire team working on maintaining the pipeline. I haven't worked for one of their competitors, though.
The difficulty increases or decreases to maintain the target block interval. The only way that impacts mining revenue is if the actual block interval deviates significantly from the target—for example, if the hash rate suddenly increased such that blocks were being solved in five minutes instead of ten, that would double the revenue rate (and thus the economical power consumption) temporarily until a difficulty increase brought the interval back to ten minutes per block.

What does cause significant changes in revenue is the periodic halving of the block reward. Absent an opposing increase in price and/or transaction fees, when the reward drops from 12.5 BTC/block to 6.25 BTC/block in May of this year the energy budget for profitable mining should be cut roughly in half.
Those numbers are shocking, but meaningless without a comparison to base rate numbers prior to Uber. I have a hard time believing that Uber isn’t relatively safer than a taxi, given that every Uber ride is tracked and the police will instantly know which driver to investigate.
Introspectable Higher level reasoning is irrelevant. Any introspectable higher level reasoning a person can do has already been automated for efficiency.
> MIT/BSD do have some legal drawbacks for certain use cases

Sure I think the OP you're replying to isn't implying that MIT/BSD is insufficient. He/she is saying that the three "AGPLv3, the LGPLv3, and Apache v2" are insufficient but these five "AGPLv3 + LGPLv3 + Apache2 + MIT + BSD" would be more sufficient.
Thank you! I added it to my reading list.
Got quite a few from here: http://worrydream.com/#!/Links

It's the book list from the guy who brought you "Inventing on Principal".
I have a hunch that this gives the poorly trained and poorly fed NK troops with poorly maintained equipment a bit too much credit. I have a hunch this underestimates the people of Seoul.
I love this stuff. It all sounds so damn easy. I have tried to go solo it's not that easy. It may be me, but I think a lot has to do with the people I've had to deal with. So many of the agency recruiter type people are incompetent idiots in terms of tech and are just there to manipulate and squeeze you. You just get numb to all of it after awhile.

I've never been good at finding my own work, either. Could be where I live.
I have an M13 made in 1994 by Lexmark. It is distinguished by having the track point built into the keyboard. I do prefer its feel over that of 'modern' mechanical keyboards.
To get it out of the way: there isn’t going to be a draft.

Nevertheless, maybe there should be.

Not mass enlistment for large scale combat, but drafting people who have critical technical skills should be considered.

The current approach of filling gaps in technical knowledge with contractors is toxic.

If people have rare, technical knowledge necessary to safeguard our country, they should be required to be in the reserves.

I believe Switzerland has a system where citizens hold a role in the military analogous to the civilian position.

That’s a great freaking idea.
Well my one medical doctor missed an important part of a medical test. I had to point out that he had missed it.
This is tort law, the worst defined laws we have. Liability is far more complex that and usually governed by irrational humans or arbitrary bureaucratic rules contrived by powerful people protecting their interests.
Parent wasn't saying that the weighting process was rational. The weights are also feelings.
Sorry to confuse the issue. I meant the keys for the Store's FDE, not the WebFS keys, which never leave the user's machine.

I was addressing jerry292's concern about access to the encrypted data in Stores.
How young are your students? Or rather, how young are your youngest students?
Strictly speaking 103 to 17 referrals is a heck of an improvement but to still have 17 referrals is a head shaker.
Cyber certification will be required for every Defense contractor
> to safeguard our country

to safeguard Dick Cheney. FTFY.
What was debunked? As a primarily "system 1" thinker the book reasonated with me in a profound way. It explained why if I know or Intuit a solution, say in an interview it comes out of me boundlessly like lightning, where if I have to work through a solution I struggle. I have to work back wards from my intuitive answer to explain it.
Hey none of your links are clickable nor they take me to relevant webpage if I copy them. The browser ends up searching the URL
In your view, it's better to answer the wrong questions optimally than the right questions suboptimally? That's not the kind of AI want putting people in jail or denying them housing or healthcare or shooting missiles at them.
True. But Tor onions are servers.
WebTorrent is a version of the BitTorrent protocol modified to work over WebRTC so that it can work in a browser.

Someone is actively working with the maintainer of libtorrent (popular implementation of BitTorrent) to get support for it into the library: https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/pull/4123
In the debate between US and non-US dates, I think this is the right answer.

I've started using it as much as possible now. But I am but one man.
The Intercept - absolutely.

Current Affairs is certainly more editorial.

Jacobin is somewhere in between.
What, that they are used to failures, expect them, and live with them?

Before Microsoft, computers crashing was not considered an ordinary, everyday occurrence. I still recall my shock, back in the '90s, when I remarked to a Windows user that Unix didn't crash all the time, and he remarked that he went months without reinstalling. I learned that "crash" had been redefined!

Microsoft really needs that emergency crew. What says more is that most people who call them don't need to call other crews.
I was a developer for about 5 years before I looked in a book for an answer on how to do something in a language I’d been using for years. Then I saw something else I didn’t know. And something else.

Ended up reading the whole thing and now, whenever I want to really learn a new topic or language I always go to a book for depth and understanding.

As a side effect, as I’ve gotten older I’ve found that history books are fascinating in the same way. Most people have very little understanding of the context around the history they know. It’s truly more interesting reading history than fiction in my opinion.
If you're micro-optimizing javascript, you're already doomed.
I recently implemented the painters algorithm in a modern-ish way: using atomic ops in a compute shader. That's one of the rendering techniques for the terrain in https://github.com/kvark/vange-rs
Evo Morales is the legitimate president? Where are the thousand dissapeared persons? Where are them? We want them alive! What about the 50 persons who died in the protest against the regime installed by USA?
German police successfully trains dogs to find hidden USB flash drives by smell
I had the displeasure of using this at a previous client. It's a good example of form over function. It looks decent, but is an absolute nightmare to use:

* No Markdown editing support, only wysiwyg. Certain Markdown control characters will start wysiwyg markup blocks but not stop them, overall making it terrible to use.

* Markdown imports are bad. Valid Markdown that renders fine in StackEdit has trouble when imported into Slab. Ended up using StackEdit to render to HTML and then pasting the HTML.

* No Markdown export, so you can't export the existing text in Markdown so you can edit it in a decent editor instead of the shit wysiwyg.

* No "save" button. It's supposed to save incrementally and I guess it also saves when you exit out of edit mode, but honestly I would not trust it on a flaky connection. Just give me a good old save button when I have real feedback when the document is saved in the form of a page reload.

* It lags. They have managed to make text lag. It's a sad but nevertheless very impressive achievement. I wonder how many NPM packages they have in their dependency graph. The entire product just feels bloated and you start being scared to click anywhere because it'll cause a good 1-second delay during which your CPU will be at 100%.

With these limitations I wouldn't take it for free, let alone 35$/month.
How convenient that the part of humanity they finger out as running the “crime of the century” is economically opposed to Quillete’s love of the american free market. In reality both these governments are just as bad. Chinese and muslim? Have your culture destroyed. Bad luck with the law in the US? Have your life destroyed, either by bullets or neglect in camps or prison.

Compare this to all the people who have been incarcerated for drug posession, if they were not originally framed. Why would china pay any attention to our LACK of morals? We have no ground to stand on.
Kernighan's compiler didn't do that, and he had puts(3) available, because he, you know, invented it at the same time. Was he just a suboptimal C programmer?
I’ve cleaned key caps with dishsoap in a plastic container and snug lid. A psyllium husk container worked really well. Could go nuts with agitation then leave them on a towel to dry. This was for a white mac keyboard though so I had to clean the body with qtips and paper towels. its kind of funny how odd cleaning a keyboard can feel. They’re not designed for it, but should be!
SEC Asks for Telegram ICO Financials Ahead of CEO’s Deposition
There are plenty of boys stuck in intergenerational poverty and dysfunction all across the spectrum of genetic attributes. You can't tell a neglected boy that statistically he is well nurtured and has good role models.
Absolutely! spinlocks is an inter-processor mechanism and mutex inter-processes. Principal difference.
I am working on a similar idea myself. Here is a video demo from a month ago:

http://mailmarkup.org/sharefile/demo1.mp4
Object recognition is firmly in the realm of Neuroscience. We've had a good idea what the eye-V1 path is doing in mammals for a few decades now. To the point where we are implanting chips into the brain to (crudely) re-establish vision in blind patients. Though the research is very much on-going, it is being better understood with each passing year.
May I suggest "How to Read a Book"?

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18600043-how-to-read-a-b...
Indeed.

But there is another aspect besides the aesthetics.

I regularly witness that especially seniors using contemporary smartphone apps or websites have real difficulty telling information apart from interface because of everything being flat.

"Oh, this is actually a button – ...? – how do you know this?"

When my ma asks me this I don't have a good answer other than: "I just know.".
Which is terribly telling from a UX perspective.

I studied UX at uni, many moons ago, when it was still called 'HCI' (human-computer interfaces).

Interestingly, how an interface was rendered was never of any consideration or part of the curriculum at the time. I wonder if it is today when people study UX?

In the 90's/early 2ks, when I was at uni, all interfaces elements on all OSs where somehow 3D. Except for menus. I guess that's why. It was accepted that mirroring a physical element, even if highly stylized, was the way to go.

But then there were also style guides for every platform.

While this is not related to the topic it is somehow connected. Best practices for any OS are regularly ignored for unified platform experience between the different incarnations of an app these days.

And so I often wonder wtf. happened to all the knowledge we accumulated in this field when I see contemporary apps or websites.

As for 'skeuomorphism' -- it still exists in it's best from (imho) from the early 2000s, in some modern apps.
For example the Soundbrenner one comes to mind [1].

[1] https://www.soundbrenner.com/themetronome/

[edited for typos]
That comes with trade-offs.

1. Having a spouse who does not have the cultural knowledge, similar interests, empathy or language skills to communicate with your family is an issue. Her choice to date a white man is in a sense a rejection of her own family.

2. She herself may not have the same experiences, mindsets and interests to be able to really connect with her spouse if the relationship is driven by her attempt to run away from the expectations of her family.

3. A white man and his family/friends have a higher chance of being racist and insensitive to race issues. Weirdly enough, it doesn't seem like racist beliefs and white supremacy preclude white men from dating Asian women or Asian women from reciprocating interest: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/06/opinion/sunday/alt-right-...
Taking Control of Your Device – Center for Humane Tech
¿Apple-led "minimalism"?

IIRC apple were the last to get off the skeumorphism train. Microsoft's metro look was the first significant player in this round of the minimalist trend
Are Runners Obsessive, Narcissistic Masochists?
These old docs are always interesting. I also love old books on archaic programming languages and operating systems. But there's usually just so much stuff to read through. It makes me wish for modern books that boil down the complexity of the old systems into a condensed manual. Something like The New Apple II User's Guide.
Awards are a great place to start. National Book Awards, Man Booker Prize, Pulitzer, etc.
I'm again and again amazed by what dogs can accomplish with their nose. If this really works (they say it does) this might have a bigger impact on cybersecurity than it appears at first. Think about dissidents, whistleblowers, etc.
Ah burn. Strange because it's working for me. Thank you so much for letting me know. Probably because they are not URL encoded. I just changed them, do you mind trying again and see if it works. Thanks!!
Remember that these are only the ones we hear about because they make the news. For every such case there are multiple more that fly under the radar and the customers get fobbed off by Airbnb support (which is what these scum companies always do until their reputation is at stake).
Heh! That is fantastic!
I've been using draw.io for this in the past... will play with your tool, just made an account, but wondering if you could clarify what the differences are (the landing page didn't make it immediately obvious to me).

EDIT: I like the concept of Scenarios a lot! Will be using this more regularly... if you can do a PDF export, would be killer for me :)
If you want that many units I'd precompute the paths with Floyd-Warshall instead of doing anything on the GPU. Probably still need to invoke the GPU to handle billions of units in the first place, though, and you'd need several gigabytes of RAM for them. Unless the entire game is happening in summary statistics.
Unfortunately, a job search aggregator assumes that companies religiously post new jobs. The reality is when a company wants to hire it 'may' post a job to cover it butt in case of an EEO complaint. Mostly they have internal candidates, internally referred candidates, retained recruiters, applicants from career website who all rank above an external job site. My guess is a very low percentage of jobs actually get filled by job aggegator sites. imho The number of applicants from these sites is just too much, far less qualified and trusted compared to other sources.
Have seen clickykeyboards.com before, seems like a great place to get a refurbished model M. They seem to take great care in making sure everything is in good working order.

Considered picking one up when I got into mechanical keyboards last year, but I went with a WASD with Cherry MX ‘Clear’ switches. Really happy with it!
Try audio books. I've just started, and more average one a week (many self help, though they aren't all good).
Give your eyes a rest is sometimes necessary
Can you guaranty at compile time that any hash you switch on is unique? Else this is just really dangerous if you don't have perfect hashing for the object you switch on.
Or someone murder him, taking the opportunity given by the chaos of circumstances. You never know.
Never said I wasn't one of those b-school idiots... it was a ghetto, full of big (shitty) ideas, five-dollar words, and a cohort that couldn't think for themselves if you stuck a gun to their head. I like to think I rose above but... sometimes I have my doubts
Nice dodge, but the question is: should the compiler emit the most efficient code possible, or not? I don't care what Kernighan's compiler did, I care what's possible. It's been 40 years. What do we got?
But how do black boxes change that? It's still the same people operating under the same laws.

A few commenters here posit that without a black box, designers might be held accountable. If there's a system where software manufacturers would be held accountable for bugs, is any judge going to say, "well, the software is bugged, but they don't know how to fix the bugs, so they're off the hook"?

If there's proof that Twizzlers are poisonous and kill people, the Twizzlers manufacturer can't say, "but we don't know why, we just threw a bunch of chemicals in a vat at random without writing down the labels. So therefore, it's not our fault."

I don't know, can they? I'm not a lawyer, maybe everything in our legal system is way more horrifyingly broken than I assume.
Note that I get a similar speedup with 6 and 8 threads on my Mac (which has 8 logical CPUs)
True, but he includes Nietzche - while Nietzche's literary status is beyond question, they are not so memarkable other than the fact that they were very influential. J.S. Mill's On Liberty is also included - not being particularly appraised for its literary status as much as its influence on all liberal thought.

Marx was arguably a literary genius in the same way Nietzche was, and influential in the way J.S. Mill was. He should be on the list by both accounts of what the list should contain. Not to mention, Bloom includes many authors who count Marx among their primary influences, like Walter Benjamin, Brecht, Orwell, Levi-Strauss, Sartre, Camus, and Bataille.
So you're a Google fanboi. We get it.
Ambitious, $5B American Dream mall brings outside experiences inside
An anecdote, but this is a criticism being aimed at YouTube currently for it's demonitisation scheme.

The argument being made is that even though the demonitisation of certain classifications of content is immoral (e.g. demonitising any and all LGBT content, even when family friendly), it is tacitly being allowed to happen due to YouTube's stance of "the algorithm" making the decision, not them.

Which may lead then to have a position of "supporting" LGBT as a company while simultaneously being able to demonitise said content, which could hurt their business in actively hostile to LGBT countries.

This isn't proven, but it's an example of how it could be used to absolve yourself of blame and point it at an inscrutable system.
That’s what I use as well! And it works perfectly when what I’m diagramming is pretty simple. It’s just that when I’m trying to diagram anything nontrivial, I can’t map it out on a one dimensional diagram without it turning into a mess. That’s why I created this!
This is the best explanation for why AI is impossible.
>Of course it's easier to fight enemies who are out in the open, distinct, and widespread. And it's harder to fight enemies that are well-camouflaged.

Thank you for answering the question.

>I take issue with your insinuation, as I tried to illustrate in my anecdote, that discrimination where black applicants are denied for "cultural fit" reasons, is widespread.

On what basis? I recognize your anecdote, and its anecdotal nature. I'd like you to look beyond your personal experience and justify your opinion with something verifiable.

>If one concludes that discrimination isn't as prevalent as it was decades ago and has diminished as time has passed while also noticing that its attributed consequences are more prevalent, then it's reasonable to assume something else is to blame

As this conclusion seems premature, it would be helpful to suggest what else there is to blame.
oh OK.