skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a marketer and haven't done a lot of research, but my informal impression is that the logic works out something like this:

Because I have the entire book online, people are much more likely to reference and point other people to it because it's a complete useful web resource. If, say, someone on Reddit asks about learning some architectural pattern, it's natural for someone to say "Oh, check out this book here." It's less likely they would say, "Oh, check out this page which just describes a book that you have to buy to actually answer your question."

So my book is much higher profile than it would otherwise be. A lot more people are discovering my book and coming into the funnel. The fact that they can read the whole thing without paying probably means a smaller fraction of people buy it, but the increase in the total number outweighs that.

Also, giving it away for free gives people a lot of gratitude towards me and that in turn can cause some to buy it. It feels less transactional to them because they don't have to. In fact, I've had a lot of people email me saying they had already read the entire book online but bought a print version just to show thanks.
You really don't need to know all that to do parallel programming, and if you ever are using any significant number of those in one program, you're going to be in a world of pain.

You're much better off just picking a paradigm and sticking with it. I'd say it doesn't matter which one, but there are a few paradigms that are clear winners in my experience: immutability always wins, and Erlang-style messaging seems to work very easily. If you have the opportunity to determine the architecture of a parallel project, most languages can imitate Erlang-style parallelism with builtin libraries. But what I will say is that which paradigm you pick doesn't matter so much that you should switch paradigms mid-project.

A word of caution: concurrency and parallelism are not the same thing. Cooperative multithreading is a way of gaining some of the benefits of parallelism in a single process. If you come from an environment where this is the norm (read: JavaScript) it's quite possible that you've never written a line of parallel code. If you try to apply the same paradigms from this sort of environment to parallel programming, they will not work.
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Well played.
I’ll admit I am actually not sure if those claims are real. How did you hear about them?
Besides that it can help with startup time. If the script that needs to be executed is a one-off thing the removal of compilation time might be save more time than a JIT could save during execution.
Nancy Pelosi will net $130K on Facebook call options expiring this week [pdf]
It's not a scientific process if they can't make testable predictions. I'm a quant, and anyone in this field will quickly realise it's super easy to build all kind of fancy models that look perfect when looking at the past but fail completely at predicting the future. Predictions that haven't been tested and survived falsification are no more scientific than astrology.
Samsung Shipped More Than 6.7M Galaxy 5G Devices in 2019
> macOS and probably iOS has an undocumented set of filesystem calls which require a "cookie." You call open() and provide a large integer of your choice (probably random); to close the file you need to provide the same integer.

I want to learn more. Is there anything I can read about this? (I tried searching but I just keep on getting stuff about HTTP cookies not this.)
As the article itself says (contradicting the implications of the headline), fire management practices based upon those of aboriginals have indeed been adopted.

The problems are that (1) Aboriginal practitioners of these techniques did not have to take into account the risk and impact upon houses, farms, towns and interruptions to peoples lives; and (2) with the effects of climate change, there is now almost never a good time to perform hazard reduction burn operations, and certainly not long enough periods to cover the huge areas at risk. I would agree that increasing the applicable manpower and budget (as noted in the article) would certainly help, and should be given a higher priority.
Request a Firefox version. It might not be hard to port.
Denmark's net worth is only 3 years worth of its GDP?!?
Revolutionary ‘Robotic Blacksmithing’ Technology Could Revive US Manufacturing
It seems there was a large (unconscious?) religious dimension to SETI. Michael Shermer:

[David Swift in his 1990 book SETI Pioneers] asked each of the SETI pioneers about their parents’ religiosity... most were raised in a religious household but that not one believes in anything like the traditional Judeo-Christian God... Astronomer Frank Drake, ostensively the SETI pioneer if there was one (and creator of the infamous “Drake equation” for computing the probability of ETIs), who was raised “Very strong Baptist. Sunday school every Sunday,” made this observation: “A strong influence on me, and I think on a lot of SETI people, was the extensive exposure to fundamentalist religion. You find when you talk to people who have been active in SETI that there seems to be that thread. They were either exposed or bombarded with fundamentalist religion. So to some extent it is a reaction to firm religious upbringing”. Similarly, John Kraus recalled: “We were very strong churchgoers, members of the Methodist church. I was brought up in a very religious atmosphere…there was never any thought of conflict between science and religion in my thinking or in my upbringing. Science and religion were simply both seeking ultimate truth but using different ways of going at it”. ...

... One might speculate that SETI, as a highbrow, elitist revolution, contains within it quasi-religious and spiritual overtones, in the sense that these scientists, while not believing in God, do believe in ETIs, uniformly portrayed as higher intelligences who, having survived what might be a tendency in species toward self-destruction once advanced technologies are created, must also be morally superior. To the extent that religion involves belief in and hope for transcendence or transcendent beings, SETI is a high-cultural form of religion, and UFOs a low-cultural form of religion.

The Measure Of A Life: Carl Sagan and the Science of Biography http://www.theeway.com/skepticc/newsworthy06.html

P.S. I was very much a child of Sagan and SETI! I was 15 when Cosmos aired, and read every Sagan book I could get my hands on, got a large telescope, became obsessed with astronomy for years... Reading about this religious dimension years later surprised me, it had never occurred to me. (My family was atheist)
So cool, you can find anything you search for: https://libraryofbabel.info/bookmark.cgi?concernedcoder0001 about 1/2 way down the page you can find: "concerned coder is a programmer living in the
sourthern usa, playing a game called eve online while reading hacker news on a
sunday night in january"
You have a point.
But with a “the right” AI (presuming humans can cause it to be made), you would instead patent the essential building blocks. Like patenting the arrangements of atoms that make up proteins instead of patenting every single possible arrangement.
Science is about being falsifiable. You can prove many things with a battery, several magnets, and a coil of wire. Non-organic chemistry is similarly easy to demonstrate, even the most ardent of science-deniers would hesitate to dip their fingers into aqua regia, should you tell them what it is. But when it comes to biology and organic chemistry, things are completely different. Let's not talk about controversial scientific questions like microwave radiation effects on DNA. Simple stuff like "catching a cold". How many people do you know believe that it's a function of the weather? Sure, there may be a correlation with cold temperatures which has been proven, but the existence of viruses and the fact that they cause colds is basic science. We teach children the ideas behind splitting the atom and unleashing the metaphorical Death of the Bhagavad Gita. In other words, your average high school kid has a decent idea of what may cause Armageddon, the difference between a compressive and a "gun" type. But how many can tell you how influenza viruses work? There is a huge problem with our current approach to biology, bioengineering, and biotechnology education. Influenza kills a lot more every year, regardless of how often blog.nuclearsecrecy.com shows up and gets upvoted on HN.
How do one become an audience of a Supreme Court (or federal courts) trial in the U.S?
That’s not true. You could require a list of say 50 parameters, and then it determines what needs to be sent to each site and in which format, adjusting for each site.
I don't know why you're getting so defensive as I'm simply providing an anecdote from a documentary I just watched. I'm happy that your experience at the factory wasn't dangerous. In the documentary some of the workers suffered serious injurious, and many were justifiably greatly concerned with the safety of their working conditions. Working any hard labor job like construction is extremely grueling and involves coming home sore everyday in a way that no office job entails. Meanwhile the worst I've ever had to deal with as a software engineer is avoiding carpel tunnel and eye strain.

Great, if you like working in a factory, then all the power to you. Personally I'd probably be contemplating suicide if I had to work on an assembly line in a work environment similar to how the film portrayed the factory in China, working 12 hour days with only 4 days off per month for crap money.

I never claimed that all programming benefits society.

> the idea that automating these jobs is a good thing demonstrates how out of touch you are

The fact that you'd write such a dumb baseless insulting comment shows how out of touch you are. Since you didn't provide an argument, I'm not going to waste my time trying to decipher whatever your reasoning was and respond to it. Also it doesn't even really matter if it's a good or bad thing because it's happening, and there's nothing you can do to stop it (unless you're suggesting some kind of ludditism movement of breaking machines for the sake of preserving jobs, which is just flat out stupid).
Your side projects don't need scale :D :D
They are being brought up more and more because they are starting to become as much if not more powerful than your examples?
If you liked this, you might enjoy reading up on Graham Allison's "Bureaucratic Process" model of government:
https://cesran.org/the-bureaucratic-politics-approach-its-ap... (this is an intro though the original paper is available in JSTOR and/or can read his book "Essence of Decision")
I hope the bomb squad in Dortmund is smarter than the one in Munich...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwabinger_7#Underground_bomb...
and some people need to get above a certain GPA to hold on to their merit scholarship
The Horsewomen of the Belle Époque
I came across some interesting tech for disarming these old bombs: Raketenklemme https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raketenklemme

It's a tool that will super quickly unscrew the detonator before it can fail and lead to detonation.
So is "undue hardship", but it's not so squishy that it hasn't stymied many attempts to discharge student loans in the past.
this is why https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/08/1...
That they live in a pretty shitty country in their lifetime. First two groups weren’t very successful in evading that fate either, despite it was no cams back then.

How on earth a country turns into an genocide state by simply implementing a surveillance? Why doesn’t South Korea oppress/kill anyone, having surveillance virtually everywhere except toilets? (Yes, there is an organization that prevents this.)
1. Some platforms do not have wasm JITs available, because nobody has written one.

2. Some platforms prohibit creating new executable pages, which prevents JITing.

3. Memory savings!
I don't deny that you started from a disadvantage. And because our time is finite it strongly affects your ultimate probabilistic outcome. However those with the right mix of ability and character are able to better their lot, and the growth is potentially exponential, especially if maintained over generations.

Imagine how much better your lot as a poor person immediately becomes if you spend months or years saving for your first computer. Now you have internet access and somewhere to learn and maybe program. Just an example.

You did it, didn't you? So did my family, who came to the U.S. with nothing and is now comfortable upper middle class.

Wealth inequality alone is an inappropriate metric for social conditions when even your poor can afford smartphones.
This ignores the fundamental insight of economics that people can cooperate motivated entirely by self interest. Poor person needs food and housing to survive, so they cooperate by working for someone. Rich person needs people to work their factories, so they cooperate by hiring poor people. From this traditional perspective the "common good" is a result of insufficient property rights: if everything is owned by something, then by everyone looking after their private good, everything will be looked after (because all "common good" is somebody's "private good").

It also ignores that redistribution results in less "private good" (GDP) for everyone, because by definition it's taking wealth from people who on average have demonstrated more ability to grow wealth and giving it to people who have demonstrated less ability to grow wealth. Imagine two otherwise identical people, one who's capable of generating 5% returns on his wealth and the other who's capable of generating 2% returns. If they both start with the same endowment, after 100 years the total amount of wealth they've generated will be much greater if they're allowed to keep their own wealth than if the 5% guy's is continuously redistributed to the 2% guy (because every dollar redistributed will earn only 2% return instead of 5%, meaning it's been used to produce less value for society).

More practical example: imagine if after Paypal, Elon Musk's entire wealth had been redistributed to all Americans. Assume generously he had 50 billion (pretty sure he had less than that). 50 billion / 300 million is around $166 per person. So now every person in America is $166 richer, and the world has no Tesla or SpaceX.
Yikes

> We tested this malformed audio packet dispatch at various points during a voice call and consistently watched all malformed audio packets dropped by the server, which means that Discord servers are actively decrypting and inspecting all audio/video communications in real-time and not just some.
Its probably due to Destiny 2 being one of two free titles at launch.
Notice that there are entirely no NSFW images on DDG. This is a big hole right where content should be, and basically voids all claims to anti-censorship street cred.
This doesn't make any sense to me whatsoever. Of course, I don't understand what you mean, but I think there's tremendous unrealized value in arguing over seemingly minor thins such as this, so if you're willing to elaborate, I'm more than willing to consider your ideas.
Might also be worth reading into fuzzy logic.
Yeah, you can basically automate WebExtensions porting. There used to be a browser extension that did it for you.
> sad that the better approach is getting hit by the regulation stick.

It’s not sad, it just doesn’t make sense. This isn’t logical - Apple should be getting hit worse for being more restrictive
Cuz some of us are safe drivers and want to see what is up ahead instead of blindly (literally) following the car in front like a lemming
I'm asking for something in the middle — basically pause a new law from coming into effect because enough residents have given signatures for a proposition that would invalidate it. What I think you're describing is invalidating it after it comes into effect. It would seem reasonable to have an avenue for pre-empting a very unpopular law (passed by legislators and signed by the governor) from coming into effect, given that the proposition system already gives residents a way to later overturn it.
Thank goodness I'm not the only one who thinks this way. I "search" too.... I don't get why people like to get behind some brand.
> The last straw was me sitting down to get paying work done and spending half my day trying to recover my work environment.

Maybe don't pacman -Syu before work or if you're working the next day? It's not strictly necessary to update every day.

And no one said Arch never breaks, I just provided anecdotal counterevidence that it's really not that bad.
The loans are from private lenders and gauranteed by the government. If it was just a government program they wouldn't have had to have the draconian anti bankruptcy provisions which were put in place to attract the private lenders.

That's also why Obamacare had to be this rube goldberg public/private complication.
A corresponding framework in Julia - Turing[1][2].

https://turing.ml

https://github.com/TuringLang
DDG for personal devices, Google for work. Don't care if they track my stackoverflow results.
The first thing I see on DDG is the Wikipedia page describing their site. They must be reading this.
I don't get this. I do not think she is being corrupt in any way by why invest/trade on such a high-profile stock (or allow your investment team to trade on such a high-profile stock) when you are arguably the most powerful Democrat in the country? She (and her team) must know that it would create a headline at some point so why not just invest in index funds or general tech index funds?
the philips screw head was patented.

By all accounts thats an “interface” for a screw to be driven in by a screw driver.

However i hope the court doesnt rule in Oracles favor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_F._Phillips
I appreciated these images during recent wildfires. They answered questions like, "is this smoke from something local or is it more likely from that fire that's 50 miles away," and you could also compare sets of imagery yourself which was kind of empowering.
Really cool tool. Honestly the catalogue sort alone on the site was useful for finding which shows on Netflix even have Korean subtitles.
The past tense of DuckDuckGo is DuckDuckWent, as in "I DuckDuckWent my name and discovered my high school yearbook has been digitized."
D. Fire bloated administration and maybe get rid of tenured professors who aren't pulling their weight.
What would be needed to make this off-line capable with supplied media? Just a bunch of well-formatted SRT subtitle files?

Obviously some kind of lookup between languages too, but what i'm asking is : is this just a fancy srt/language api parser?

I want to use this, but I don't use Netflix. It looks very cool.
Touché. Plenty of successful apps are just a better interface to existing functionality.

Good luck with it!
I would like to upvote this comment at least a few thousand times.
Paul Graham ?
Isn't "FAANG" specifically about Silicon Valley's labor market and local politics, but hardly relevant outside California ?
I asked for this on HN a few weeks back.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21853163

I really hope it supports Hanyu Pinyin.
So excited.
Sandboxing is trivial, because you can cover all paths to the outside world.
Haskell.

I'm at almost fifty years of programming (APL was an early highlight; punched cards weren't) in many languages. Haskell isn't the be all / end all of languages, but when I want to add ten lines to a program and have it use every core, I don't know a better choice than Haskell. Nothing else comes close.
Somewhat offtopic; I wish extensions would work on mobile browsers... I watch Netflix on iOS or streaming from iOS to chromecast.

I see it is recently somewhat possible to run extensions on Android via a custom Chrome install. Does that work well?
All web APIs are designed to be secure in the context of the web.

Needs to be memory safe otherwise a wasm program can execute arbitrary code, access memory that it should not, etc.
Likely targeting c89, which doesn't have the fixed-size ints (nor size_t, as the sibling suggests).
(Finance isn't my primary job, so happy to be corrected)

Firstly, leverage. A lack of rules and enforcement allowed unreasonable amounts of capital to amass around mortgage bets. Without the crazy leverage via derivatives, the mortgage crisis would have been "A lot of loans go bad and some people get fired." Limit via regulation.

Secondly, capital requirements. My understanding is that mortgage-backed securities are treated preferentially in terms of where a bank legally can allocate capital. Consequently, as they had to find returns somewhere, they constantly needed to plow huge amounts of money into the market. Inflows of money >> smart money meant that price discovery broke down: those who cared were drowned out. You'd need to avoid structuring taxes, etc to artificially force capital into this scheme.
I think having subtitles in your native language can hurt learning because it tends to be easier to just follow the subtitle than actually trying to understand the target language. You can't read both at the same time.

But I agree that Netflix is a great resource for learning a foreign language. I went from zero to being able to understand a normal TV show in the target language in one year, mostly by watching children's videos in YouTube and Netflix. In my opinion, what's more important is (1) the ability to order/group videos by simplicity after filtering it by target language (even children shows vary a lot in difficulty and for learning it's very important to choose the right difficulty for you) and probably (2) the ability to slow down the playback speed like YouTube.
They will if it's large enough.

Cars avoid obstacles. They don't need to identify individuals.
This is pretty exciting if real:

> Bytecode/opcodes are translated into more efficient "operations" during a compilation pass, generating pages of meta-machine code

WASM compiled to a novel bytecode format aimed at efficient interpretation.

> Commonly occurring sequences of operations can can also be optimized into a "fused" operation.

Peephole optimizations producing fused opcodes, makes sense.

> In M3/Wasm, the stack machine model is translated into a more direct and efficient "register file" approach

WASM translated to register-based bytecode. That's awesome!

> Since operations all have a standardized signature and arguments are tail-call passed through to the next, the M3 "virtual" machine registers end up mapping directly to real CPU registers.

This is some black magic, if it works!
One would hope that calendar time paying post-graduation >> time paying pre-graduation. ;)
Is this[1] your source about the browser fingerprinting in Qubes?

It’s the only thing I could find on the subject.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Qubes/comments/ai5obg/my_whonix_fin...
You don't define your use case, so it's really impossible to answer.
You do understand that releases made from -STABLE are considered release quality, not development branches?
Which excludes Microsoft because it was a stock-market term for hot tech stocks, at a time were Microsoft already was "established and boring".
I use all chrome extensions via Kiwi browser on android.

It's so sad that Google has deliberately disabled the support for it on their own browser (they don't want adblock maybe?) even though and independent dev has seamlessly enabled the same in his browser.
I edited my earlier comment to remove the sandboxing part thinking this may be embedded specific, so not sure you saw that, so ask again how is this special?
would you rather inspect potentially malicious wasm or js?