skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I'm excited by such news, let's not jump from "things we don't understand" to "god/magic/aliens".

For now, it's "cool event we don't know how to explain". Good enough. Life is full of that and if we try to force label on it, we miss the fun of figuring out what's going on seriously.
Hmm, that's interesting. I'll give it a shot, thank you.
Target's Delivery App Workers Describe Culture of Retaliation and Fear
On emulating hypervisors: a Samsung RKP case study
So it isn't an HSM.

Calling a device an HSM comes with an expectation that it will resist tampering or intensive analysis. A standard microcontroller on an exposed PCB cannot fulfill that expectation.
That is a vile and noxious rumor. My mirrors have never been touched in the twenty years I've been driving.
I think that would be among the best ways to kill the app. With federation and multiple clients you'll never be sure what feature set the other end is using, and the service stagnates to the lowest common denominator of features.
How does this deal with spam? Feels like it would be very easy to create bots on all sorts of nodes in this "fediverse" that start spamming folks with garbage

I've been curious for a while and have tried Mastodon, but am always left with... ok, now what?
What are your issues with scope in FPC? Namespaces have been supported since 3.0.

The other things I understand though. I much prefer Pascal syntax and compilation time, but I have started reaching for c++ these days
Firstly: I liked Delphi a lot; learned it a long time ago.

Straight risk avoidance advice:-
You need to install the Delphi software on a completely dedicated system that you never plan to reset; and image back it up; and hopefully that will work.
And install the software on a Virtual Machine and back that up.
And/Or always renew the subscription if the new features make any sense to you or not.
Do these things and you will be Ok.

My experience was:

I am programming as a hobby; even so - I don't like to commit a huge amount of my personal evening and weekend time to software with a toy license that restricts what I can do with it.

In 2017; Delphi started to look good again; I got the starter edition; really liked it; found it useful; thought why not support the developers; and upgraded to the commercial version at 10.1; also purchased a number of really nice plugins; (used Delphi in my spare time project for a year or so); very happy with the results.

Stopped using it for a while; because my project was finished.
I also messed around with Delphi on a couple of my systems while playing with mobile apps and Macs; found it much less useful there.

My main focus is windows desktop not mobile; I was playing around with new pre-release versions of Windows; I had to reset those systems when they got out of hand.

I ended up unable to reinstall 10.2
(my third party components need that.)
So I contacted support; and was knocked back; with a cold email.

I guess the licensing methodology may be legal (not a lawyer); but it does not seem fair or reasonable to me.

I have written a lot of Delphi in projects I can not rebuild; I own several third party components that are now useless to me.
The current version is I think 10.3; I was subscribed up until 10.2.

Other feedback

I think Delphi is good for Windows desktop programming; especially for GUIs that connect to data bases; nothing like as exceptional for Mac or Mobile.
With respect to those databases you used to need the Enterprise version to use MySQL etc; as the lower license agreement did forbid the use of database services; only allowing local data.

I ended up spending many enjoyable hours learning or re-remembering how the database connections worked in Delphi; and figuring out how my third party components all worked; then enjoyed gluing them all together in my programs.

Where I am now:
I could purchase the latest Delphi and update all my components; for no real benefit to my project; or I can learn to like .NET core and get translating. The third party components I used; are also available for .NET; and there are thousands of open source packages for .NET as well. Not so sure about the GUI.

How do they stop you?:

To be completely clear; because that company likes to be fuzzy about it; I have a valid license; serial number; invoice; and online account (which I really need to delete); I am blocked because I re-installed the software too many times.
Where too many; was not very many; and was not even concurrent.

All the best with your project.
Last time I tried it it was so cluttered with ads I had to often force close it to get it to work. Total rubbish.
That's where Mastodon comes in.
Ironsides DNS Server in Ada Spark
Thanks for answering. If you're still in the Bay, and feel like drinking a beer to our dear departed friend the impostor syndrome, feel free to email me :) it's in my profile.
The legit stock simulator with the most efficient algorithm iOS
I really liked Tulsi Gabbar at Joe Rogan, she had similar experiences and even Google blocking her advertisement account.
As a intermediate solution between boolean and SDFs, you can also use some implicit representation defined by a neural network. It could be marched by your current algorithm.

And you can train the neural network with your mathematical boolean function by sampling the space to provide positive and negative samples.

With the neural network representation, you can also build your mesh by iteratively picking points and specifying whether they are in or outs. Or you can specify the distance or the normal. They are much more flexible. They can even do the rendering.

Various representations are always useful to have so you can pick the right one for your current problem.
Qt 5.15 Alpha
How to cut expenses by a million a year? Fire 3-4 software engineers.
"It feels good" - I think that is a really important point! Overzealous DRY'ing is like a game. Every few tokens you save by clever reuse is a small victory. So it is easy to lose sense of the big picture. Programmers often like logical games and challenges, but it is dangerous to treat development like that.

We should be weary of micro-optimizations for "elegance" which actually hurt the larger-scale maintainability of the system.
And that's all we've heard about it. I think ActvityPub definitely does not match their requirements, and also, I doubt any federation system does.

I'm saying this because their primary requirement is clearly to have strict control over their own^H^H^Huser's content.
Charging different rates for different traffic happens here in New Zealand. I generally see variation on a theme of ‘bonus free social media traffic’. It’s all very depressing. Eg: https://www.spark.co.nz/shop/mobile-plans/socialiser/
> shutdown its cloud division seems more and more likely to happen

That seems extremely unlikely, the products that Google shuts down from time to time are usually not products that make money. GCP is a whole different beast with SLAs, paying customers, huge corporations using it. It also wouldn't make sense to give up the position as one of the few big cloud hosters.
>Actually, you still need to fertilize your crops (not to mention harvest, seed, weed-out, etc.), which which need a hell of a lot of petroleum derivative and/or manure

There's zero reason why you couldn't run the Haber process using electrolyzed hydrogen and electric heat
Can you provide some examples please?
Why Japan still refuses to test everyone (or at least all Japanese passengers) on that Diamond Princess cruise ship is just strange at best.
The Obvious Reason Why Bitcoin Halving Will Skyrocket Its Price
The problem is that the training required for "proof monkeys" is higher than for programmers, so they'll be even more expensive (plus you need to know the specified C semantics to prove C code, something even many/most C programmers don't know), and second, the proving effort is not something that can usually be done separately and after-the-fact. The program needs to be written in a way informed by the proving effort. Moreover, every time the program is changed, the amount of proof that needs to be rewritten could be large, especially if the programmers are unfamiliar with the proofs.

Hopefully, there are more efficient formal methods than the one that is currently the least efficient of them all.
The actual question is : did it allow you to quickly understand the "aspect" concept by using a common graphical representation? If yes, that's a win
Well, this is one side of the discussion. While I agree to some extent, the author should also answer the question whether he honestly thinks he would have been better off 90 years ago if some cancer got detected with him in, say, 2 weeks from now (such things usually happen really fast).

You can of course take the stance that 90 years ago that cancer would have been misdiagnosed and left untreated and that 90 years ago he would have probably died of something else before that cancer would have got lethal. I personally rather prefer having the cancer cut out as soon as possible.

Also some arguments are not honest. It's right that e.g. most dead men have some form of undiagnosed prostate cancer, which they didn't notice. But screening programs usually are not designed for e.g. 90 years old people for who it probably doesn't make that much of a difference whether an early stage cancer gets diagnosed. Screening programs usually are for younger people who will most likely get old enough to benefit from an early diagnosis.
iOS update day must be pretty intense - I assume Apple stagger it?
In my experience the company treat individual customers with something akin to contempt.
I don't understand this claim: I don't know any non-tech person who has WhatsApp backups enabled and working. If I don't go through the process with them when they're changing phones they'll literally start from blank state and are ok with that.
It seems Chromium and Firefox don't come with any voices installed by default. In production I would probably just use custom server-side synthesis instead.
I’m confused how a site about learning resources is supposed to be like GoodReads, a site about books.
> (2) The 'defer' diagram is a big WTF. Couldn't even figure out which box is supposed to represent which statement in the example.

I found the defer diagram very accurate and understandable, but I already knew what "defer" does.

From the preceding examples, I understand that the little box is an instruction the developer didn't write, but was added automatically. From the graph, I understand that the instructions are executed in a different order from what it's written by the developer (and exactly in reverse order).
Check out the drop alt or Ctrl. They make a non rgb version or u can just turn off the LEDs. It allows you to hot swap switches. Trust me you will want to try out a bunch until you find the perfect option!
>> Information is basically now costless to store

I think this is part of a broader myth that personal data is valuable. Masses of people are predictable, always have been. You don't need data about individuals in order to sell them things. Those people who control the money supply are the ones who decide what we should buy and who we should elect, not the individual. And the more centralized the control of the money supply becomes, the more homogeneous and predictable individuals are going to be and the less valuable personal data becomes.

>> we can literally travel to any point on earth in a matter of days

The credit for that innovation belongs to 1903 (the Wright Brothers) and most of the key innovations for commercial flights (e.g. allowing each plane to carry many passengers) happened over the next 50 years.
I certainly can’t explain exactly what it is. However, a few facts stand out:

1. Detected object moves erratically at high speeds, with exceptionally high acceleration. Controlled translational and angular acceleration of the object occur in the footage.

2. Navy pilots in both encounters reported that the object was not visible at close range but only showed up on radar, in particular only on radar that was recently updated from a version released in the 1980s.

3. Testimonies were confirmed by multiple independent pilots, cleared by the U.S. Navy, and pilots were deemed to be mentally fit as they were later deployed to active duty in the Middle East.

Those are just facts from the case. Feel free to draw your own hypotheses or conclusions. I certainly had fun doing so. :)
What is in favor now?
The ledger between sovereign governments is the BIS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_for_International_Settlem...
Suomen Asiakastieto Oy chooses Quarkus for their microservices development
I am willing to bet every piece of equipment bound for that factory is inspected by Chinese engineers for interestingness. The plant is imaged during down time for documentation of any other interestingness.
It really sounds like a good hobby project for a very rich person.
You are absolutely right. I just wanted to point out that this is a Mastodon-specific thing and (I believe) one that will self-correct with time.
As usual, public resources are limited, so any lobby really needs to step up their game or participate in politics actively, win elections and divert some funds from elsewhere... another way is asking a patron, you have Musk, Gates, Bezos, Zuck & Cook for a cap in hand chat... the third way is to make military believe they would have some sort of unassailable advantage, which in this case may be pitched in the form of Mr Octopus from deeeeep space telepathically sending them the secret of the ultimate weapon, a bit like The Mezga Family animated series from Hungary, fifty years ago.
keep the data safe, we will move away from the cloud and back to a model where data sovereignty trumps all else.

Why not both? That’s how AWS operates in China.
> Also see PeerTube which is an attempt to provide a federated youtube based on activitypub.

Eric Buijs already wrote few articles about PeerTube and how he fully migrated from YouTube to PeerTube.[0,1,2,3]

[0] https://homehack.nl/bye-bye-google/

[1] https://homehack.nl/distributed-social-networks/

[2] https://homehack.nl/youtube-or-peertube-what-will-it-be/

[3] https://homehack.nl/welcome-to-the-new-decade/
Not knowing this myself, could someone explain the attraction in using a web scripting framework for stuff like this? I get that this particular example makes the whole thing seem fairly straightforward, but have never really heard why people like adapting Node.js and similar to non-web environments beyond "you can". Is there anything more to it than that?
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How fake news could help spread coronavirus
Also, there’s that one quote...“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” or something along those lines.
If someone giving you an interview problem isn’t mortified that the entire premise of their result is invalid because they didn’t even bother testing the code, I would not want to work with them.
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Slack definitely didn't take off because of that, and ~all messaging apps sans IRC and SMS have message deletion, sometimes editing too.
It would seem like retry is working at a different level of abstraction than logging in and that code should not live together. As such, there should be the opportunity to inject a role player that understands what it means to retry.

The base case of retrying is `zero retries` (or `one try`).
Blockchain. 2020.[0]

[0] https://xkcd.com/2267/
Disagree. Comments can add "section headers", while keeping the code flow linear, so I can skim it just like I skim an article. With methods, I have to jump backwards and forwards and have to remember my place as well as think about the code. This introduces unnecessary overhead.
Beware though, that he or she used a throwaway. Comments can be made by anyone, also a marketing company contracted by oracle who still want talent and have to shame competitors with better image.

(but the comment did seem legit and it is obvious for posting that anonymous)
On weekdays - the thought that my current job has a very good ratio of pay to unpleasantness and I should try to do a decent job there so as to not be fired in the next round of layoffs (which are coming soon).

On weekends - sometimes I don't get out of bed for most of Saturday... Just recuperating after 5 days of madness. Whenever do I have enough energy, I'm usually excited about exploring something - reading a new book, trying out a new video game, maybe cooking a new meal or finding new path for a walk around my home. But mostly, just the thought that this whole day is totally mine alone can set me into an excellent mood.
The tests have a true-positive rate of 40%. Could well be, that the tests bring more hassle than they are worth.
I use Hiya, with "Scam and fraud calls" set to "Block (send to voicemail)" in Call Settings. It's very effective in my experience: it's rare that a scammer makes it through, and I haven't noticed any false positives.
I don't think I understand what you mean by Mastodon being people's living rooms.

I mean, a user's identity is @username@domain, and I can follow local or remote users equally easy, and most of the time I don't even notice where they are posting from.

If that's my living room, it sure looks like a living room that's wide open and the size of the planet.
Are Humans OP?
Testing somebody without symptoms is not accurate. Additionally, the current tests are very expensive and remove capacity for other individuals with symptoms.
According to this article (https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/12/national/scienc...), Japan doesn’t currently have the capacity to test everyone.
Interestingly, Rust can be quite opinionated abour code organisation (it makes you keep things in bigger chunks), because some of the compiler analysis doesn't work through function boundaries.
> and you are confusing the aggregation part with the content itself

If they aren't the same, that's a bug. The lesson of Facebook et al should be that aggregation and content should be in the same place. People use these sites after a long day of work and don't have the time or energy to plug in other fragmented software to make it work--even technical people. They just want to consume and share content. They would see this fragmented ecosystem vs. the shiny all-in-one network with social proof of all their friends and celebrities.

> But this temporary and specific to Mastodon

It's endemic to all of these alternative platforms because they select for (other than curious technophiles) people who were too extreme for the mainstream platform.

Here's how to solve it and to get what you actually want:

One decentralized global network with self-directed moderation (following/friends). The problem with Facebook et al is not the UX or the quality of implementation. It's that the protocol is owned by one corporation. Why can't you just clone Facebook in every single aspect except the computers it runs on (everyone's rather than Facebook's).
Agreed, but looking at the three substances they mention in the article - Oxides of Zinc, Aluminium and Titanium, I guess there could be other considerations in terms of groundwater issues?

Also, how practical, cost-wise would this be? It's not mentioned in the article, but surely titanium would be prohibitive in terms of cost? (Even for small amounts)
Another way to step up the resolution a notch is using photoresist coated PCB and a small UV laser. It is typically a negative process (exposed photoresist dissolves in developer solution), so you'd have to invert your plot/gcode, there are two extra steps (developing the exposed photoresist so it dissolves and dissolving the remaining photoresist after etching in acetone bath).

However, that brings you closer to being able to prototype a PCB for something with 0.5mm pitch.
yeah, housing should not be a commodity and should not be subject to market forces; instead, a benevolent committee of compassionate people (well-read into marxism, of course) should decide who gets to live where
This is a great idea and I'd definitely invest in a vehicle that was making these types of investments.
It actually matches a regular expression against the URL; I don't think it looks at the IP addresses.
Ask HN: What's a company you worked at that you'd describe as TRUE meritocracy?
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But then what happens to "Your function should be doing one thing and one thing only." (The thing indicated by its name, considering the current abstraction level.)?

Perhaps it is not always a bad idea to decompose that function into 2 properly named "steps", which reside in their own functions.
How does normalization lead to recursion? Normalization is one point where DRY really is critical, because redundant data in a database can lead to data corruption when it get out of sync. And if the data is corrupt, your whole business is screwed.
Focus is a commodity. Sometimes, people just need rituals. I think,
people are slowly starting to realise this.
I think it's partly "you can", but surprisingly enough I also feel that node's single-threaded architecture makes code surprisingly easy to reason about.
This was obviously an overreaction, and 30 years on, the Secret Service looks laughably incompetent, but it isn't that outlandish in context. Blankenship was in Legion of Doom, which was deeply inside critical computer systems for most of the 80s, including banks, military facilities, telcos, and other vital infrastructure. They published and disseminated how-to guides for infiltrating systems, and they were active on underground BBS systems. Blankenship may have moved away from illicit activities, but he still communicated with the same people, and SJG's BBS was swarming with elite hackers.

Yeah, the Secret Service should have been savvy enough to figure out that it was a harmless game, but they were still playing catch-up. Given Blankenship's history and the cross-section of criminal hackers and the SJG BBS, it doesn't surprise me that they raided them.

During the glory days of 80s hacking, groups like LoD and a handful of others had access to things that would scare the hell out of the public today. Imagine what a huge news story it would be today if it was announced that a single group of hackers had access to systems that control power grids, telcos, credit bureaus, banks, military bases, and all manner of other corporate and government entities. That's really what it was like back then; a bunch of teenagers infiltrating everything plugged in.

Most hackers back then were just exploring and learning. I'm not suggesting that Blankenship or LoD did anything all that nefarious; they certainly weren't out to bring the system down, and they didn't take advantage of their access for any financial gain that I'm aware of (discounting theft of services to the tune of a few hundred thousand dollars worth of phreaked phone calls).

It's a funny story about an interesting time. I'm inclined to cut the gov't a little slack for overreacting because the potential for harm (from hackers) was high, even if few of them harmed anything. If Blankenship had been a known criminal in meatspace, and was hanging out with his criminal buddies at their social club, you might not be surprised if the feds raided them once in a while.
Bye bye Olympics. They are practically cancelled.
Yeah, I'm not sure how/why this is even in the news...reorgs are a regular occurrence.
What's the upside? Tests are effectively positive/unknown in absence of truly reliable data about incubation periods etc. You'd treat someone from a high risk group who is tested negative just the same as while untested and without symptoms.
That's a good strategy – but you have to be confident enough that when the right abstraction emerges, you will be able to squeeze necessary refactoring in between of other tasks that need to be done. It's ready to do when you're a team lead or a solo developer, but when someone else has technical leadership, you won't be able to do this without their support.