skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like to say that AT&T follows natural English flow and byte order of the finally assembled binary code. Intel followed the more mathematically oriented syntax. Might be a bit back duck syndrome since I learned math and Intel first, but Intel seemed more intuitive to me as well.

AT&T
ASM | English | Binary
MOVE src, dst | src -> dst | 01 src dst
ADD src, dst | src + dst -> dst | 02 src dst
or
src + dst = dst

Compared to

Intel
ASM | English | Binary
MOV dst, src | dst <- src | 01 dst src
ADD dst, src | dst <- dst + src | 02 dst src
or
dst = dst + src
dst += src

<- could be read as `loaded from`

-> could be read as `stored to`

Notice the RISC-y-ness of that.

However, ISAs developed later and are primarily MIPS-like follow Intel convention and extend it because it aligns better with 3AC [0] SSA[1] based optimizations.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-address_code

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_single_assignment_form
Some of my favorites -

Elasticsearch - https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch

Google's Guava - https://github.com/google/guava

Sourcegraph - https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph

Spectrum - https://github.com/withspectrum/spectrum

Django - https://github.com/django/django
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Just a heads up, since you seem to care about security: the strength is not in the properties (length, digits vs alphanumeric, that sort of thing) but in how you generated it. Use a secure random generator (e.g. `tr -dc 0-9 </dev/urandom | head -c 10`) and you can calculate exactly how strong it is. Think of something yourself or bash on the keyboard and all bets are off.

Also consider the attack vector: can an attacker just boot another OS and bypass the lock that way (so a super secure password won't fend off determined attackers anyway), or is it your disk encryption password? Is there a HSM that enforces a limited number of attempts (e.g. bank card)? Etc.
I'm actually hoping that ISPs start to squeeze in this direction just because it's something that might actually garner enough anger/support to force legislators to say what exactly buying "internet service" means. Businesses aren't gonna be happy when people start expensing their internet service.

So please force customers to upgrade to a $2-3x "business class" package if they want to use their internet to do any work/commercial activity.
Yes! That’s also why I don’t like to force my kids to do homework. It destroys the relationship with them and kills intrinsic motivation.
Great Idea, but there is so many alternatives right?
> Read 18 U.S.C. § 6002 it does not grant blanket immunity. If I testify truthfully and reveal perjury in the past I can be tried for that perjury now.

I think you're reading it wrong. It doesn't grant immunity for perjury committed while testifying under immunity, which is a completely reasonable exception. Without it, a guilty criminal would have no incentive not to give false testimony portraying his guilty friends as innocent.

You might want read this: https://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?re...

> Again, this violates the 5th amendment.

That's your opinion, but the Supreme Court's opinion differs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kastigar_v._United_States
The headline is: "'Dead Sea Scrolls' at the Museum of the Bible are all forgeries"

Your quoted excerpt says: "independent researchers funded by the Museum of the Bible announced that all 16 of the museum’s Dead Sea Scroll fragments are modern forgeries that duped outside collectors, the museum’s founder, and some of the world’s leading biblical scholars"

What is it that you think the headline should say?
Game development is exceptionally fun and engaging as far as software goes, so the supply/demand ratio is much more skewed. I would agree people are likely aware of the worse working conditions and pay etc, but are just passionate about it enough to do it anyway. I was an amateur game developer that always imagined a career in game dev but after learning about the economics of it went with more general commercial software as a career, but I still envy game devs for the work they get to do and their overall satisfaction with that work.

--EDIT: It's also worth noting that if you are on the digital content side of game dev like modeling and mapping there's not a ton of alternative options for practicing those skillsets professionally, unlike programming.
The main page displays prose generated by a state-of-the-art machine learning model (Open AI's GPT-2) fine-tuned on Infinite Jest, a novel by David Foster Wallace.

Part of each sequence of several paragraphs generated by the model is fed back into it as the prompt for the next original chunk of machine-generated prose.

The process repeats. The result is Entertainment.
You can also re-register an account that was deleted by someone else. Major hole in Yahoo's systems. Enables identity theft and other shenanigans
It would depend on the data set you want cached in memory I would think? And you set that in a configuration file I suppose. You can probably set it to use 128MB or RAM too.
It's a great time to increase prices if you ask me.
These aren't (all) DSLR, many are mirrorless (would be good to label which are which). I know that seems pedantic, but mirrorless cameras are better able to run unlimited video out, vs. DSLRs that may timeout after a while.
Especially when it's free money. One of the worst things the government does is take your own money only to give it back with strings attached or in the form of programs they paid more for than it would have cost you to buy in the market.

If all they were doing is giving people cash then you could just as easily call it a tax cut. And nobody turns those down either.
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This will probably only change through regulation. The only way you'll get regulation is by making politicians view this as very good PR for themselves.

(This is what happened in Israel, though it's rare to see such effectiveness here)
Arguably, it's better to hold a mix of assets that have at least somewhat uncorrelated safety characteristics (or rather, failure of safety characteristics).

This is basically what Modern Portfolio Theory is about, though that is usually invoked in the context of returns. It seems to me that the idea would be the same, though.
That's the estimated percentage of people who need some form of ICU treatment due to COVID-19. If there's no more ICU beds left, it's safe to assume that the majority of people in need of ICU treatment that can't get it will die.

You also have to add all the other patologies that will get affected by the lack of ICUs. All in all, 10% is a safe estimate. That's why flattening the curve is extremely important. The actual percentage in need of ICU will surely vary with time, but that's the important metric, because that's how many people will die when the health system saturates.
Online code collaboration tool Glitch votes to unionize
Technically correct, but irresponsible
A myth Americans believe is that you only need to form unions when there is an existing problem. That's like wanting medical coverage only after you get sick. You will not have the resources and voice if you wait until a crisis to organize. The employers relationship with unions is only antagonistic because of this waiting until crisis.

on a secondary note, there is nothing wrong with living in a democracy and wanting representation in your community. Our work is a part of our community as much as any other space, especially since we spend so much time there and center our lives around it.
Alongside a legitimate request with cookies, there is queued an evil request that uses mismatched Content-Length and chunked encoding headers to graft the body of the evil request to the envelope of the legitimate request. The evil body becomes the envelope for the entire legitimate request, and the evil envelope generates the redirect.

Skip down to the "Explanation of malicious request" section.
There's a lot of very biased entities behind CDT, which is a political lobbying organization: https://cdt.org/financials/
Verizon hasn't even waived data caps for wireless, so I doubt it.
We'd get free electricity and gas too then. Not gonna happen.
What? It’s a paid service? Based on one of the crappiest places on the Internet?

Get off my HN feed.
Hangouts/Meet already works on all devices and OSes.

This is a bit like Swift - it's really only attractive to those in the Apple ecosystem and doesn't acknowledge the world outside of it.
This was from a private email exchange, but you can look at how he's soliciting a FOSS Google Docs client as evidence that he'd be fine with a FOSS interface to a proprietary service.

Additionally, https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html makes no mention of proprietary backends being harmful to user freedom, only obfuscated (unauditable) frontend code.
Heckler's Veto
Agreed. The article is overthinking a popularity driven by movies that are just pro wrestling tropes with budgets.
There is a cottage industry in the world of archeology where people find things and then pretend they're related to biblical stories. Even otherwise honest archeologists play this game, since saying that "this is a building from the time of Solomon" has a very different perceived meaning than saying "this is a structure built by unknown people living 2600 years ago".
I called Comcast and had 2 options. Pay $50/month for unlimited or pay $25/mo for unlimited, but I would have to forgo using my own modem/router and use theirs. Decided to just pay the $50, but we'll see what happens. I could see them increasing the cap or forgiving overages for a few months.
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Most people don't even remotely understand what socialism is. Every public road, every interstate, every subsidized city train/bus system, every public park, every police department, every fire department, the CDC, the FDA, the EPA .. they are ALL examples of socialism.

You cannot have a high income country without a high level of socialism. Socialism is simply the State providing services for its people.
60% of UK population need to become infected so country can build herd immunity
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This is a similar story about automation mishaps. It was posted here and I heard the story on NPR.

https://idiallo.com/blog/when-a-machine-fired-me
Yeah, I saw this. They were specifically talking to experts at the Museum of the Bible. Good episode indeed.
I think it's worth noting that MOST Christian relics are obviously fakes, made to attract tourists and take their money. It's practically the same thing with fake Dead Sea Scrolls.

The, "Museum" of the Bible is meant to evangelize, not to educate. Give me a break about victimization.
"Museum of the Bible determine that all of their Dead Sea Scrolls are forgeries"
I want to know the entire story of how they were forged. Artistic forgeries are among the most interesting and elegant crimes.

Eric Hebborn is a brilliant example:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Hebborn
It doesn't seem to me that this is end-to-end encrypted, I would care where my conversation, video, and voice data go.
The concept that data caps are somehow uniquely unjust is dumb. Bandwidth is a scarce resource, like seats on a train. Nobody gets mad that the train company charges per ride instead of only selling monthly passes. Be mad that your ISP has a monopoly and charges too much. Don’t be mad about a pricing scheme that is completely reasonable if the prices involved are fair.
I obviously don't know the situation as well as you, but this feels more like being vindictive than greedy.

Whatever the case, I wish you luck.
Good thing nobody's asking you then.
A problem that's doubly compounded by notion that the 1918 pandemic was "the flu". The 1918 H1N1 virus, like SARS-CoV-2, was a novel virus. No one had immunity. So yeah, it was "the flu", but it was flu that everyone got all at once.

It's wasn't remotely like "the flu" that we get shots for every year. That's one of a big family of endemic viruses[1] to which we all have some immunity by virtue of having had a relative at some point in the past. A bad flu season might have a strain that infects 2-5% of the population, not the 30+% we see with pandemics.

[1] Including remote descendants of the 1918 virus which still circulate!
I usually just have a twitch programming stream running in the background. I can participate in the discussion via chat if i feel like it or just focus on my work while hearing someone typing in the background. Not sure why but it gives me a sense that I’m not totally cut off.
Donald Trump holds a news conference on the coronavirus outbreak
>In reality the office has 0 infections.

How would you know this? Many infected people are asymptomatic for over a week, and the US generally isn't testing asymptomatic people unless they were in close contact with a known infected person.

(I'm saying this just as reminder that people would do well to practice social distancing even if there is no evidence that specific persons are infected. I'm not trying to justify whoever it was who allegedly posted baseless claims to the forum.)
There are case(s) in India where potential patient(s) got around thermal scans by consuming paracetamol that suppressed their fevers.
It's shit like this that gets people to go from "Capitalism needs tweaks" to "It is rotten to the core".

It should be completely obvious that the government has an interest in providing weather details to its citizens as a whole for planning and safety. Private citizens and companies are not entitled to markets, especially when it comes to public knowledge and safety!
Over here, the parliamentary debate was streamed publicly.
The instructions issued to medical personnel are also posted public.

There were HUGE discrepancies between those 2 sources of 'information', the quotes being added for the former case.

As such I have 100% certainty. I was validated later that night when despite our health minister claiming that 'we have it 100% under control' and our prime minister stating we were NOT going to be moving beyond 'stage 2' for now, a few hours later we moved to 'stage 3' and declared a national emergency.

Now for the speculation: Among those closer and more knowledgeable than me the rumor has it the health sector threatened the government to go public with the real state of affairs in the hospitals and in first line care if they would continue to refuse to take serious action.
Museum of the Bible discovers it's Dead Sea Scrolls fragments are all forgeries

The important difference is the implication in the headline needs to be that the Museum is discovering this instead of the Museum defrauding people
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As a longtime comics fan who was overjoyed when CGI finally got good enough to show these stories (around Sam Raimi's Spiderman), I agree. But I think the article may be defining the "craze" as the entire time period from Action Comics #1 to now.
The website is outrageously unusable. Whoever designed it thinks people have power plants instead of phones or ordinary laptops. But hey, it's fancy!
Right now the best information I've heard from several epidemiologists who study pandemics is that we are still seeing the results of severity bias, in that people with absolutely no symptoms will be far less likely to get tested. Also, South Korea is not seeing anything close to an exponential increase in cases.

When those same experts see numbers coming out of Italy, they believe very strongly that the number of infected is far higher than being reported because testing is not as widespread.
This website is totally broken (renders a blank white page) with cookies disabled.

https://sneak.berlin/20200211/your-website/

Due to the spec for localStorage requiring that it throw an exception when access is denied (such as when cookies are off), many pages entirely fail to render when they assume that touching window.localStorage won't throw.
According to other famous virologists, this is a risky strategy to play. This is an RNA virus, this means that you cannot safely assume that the population will be immune after the first infection.
If it's true that the numbers you need to make the calculations do not exist and you just pulled them out of thin air to make your web app work, then you _need_ to make this crystal clear on the page itself. There is no indication anywhere on the page that the numbers are fake, so as is you are spreading misinformation.
I can think of no group of people less concerned with the true provenance of these articles than the patrons of this museum.
Every Microsoft shop I've been in for the last 5 yrs has been git, and you're right git was leaps and bounds better than TFS.

Its funny npm is one of the things I always hate. Several times a project I have to rimraf node_modules at some point due to some weird hidden state in npm.

Containers are an amazing technology, but sometimes I think they make it too easy to overcomplicate a project. Been on too many projects where we solved a similar problem 4 years ago with a web app and a service and a team of 3 devs, but now the same project is a team of 8 with 4 devops guys and 7 containers.

The last node project I was on was the MEAN stack. It seemed like it was pretty similar to the standard .NET apps I work on, you have an entry point, you make some database calls and you display them. Pros were the code re-use was nice, you could copy and paste your validation logic from back end to the front end. The cons were the lack of typing made it a little hard to navigate the back end, it looked like they basically reimplemented a poor man's relational database in mongo without any referential integrity, and it was harder to come up to speed without having a schema to look at and understand the domain.
What do you think of Looker's idea of turning SQL into a higher level analytic DSL (which can be written/implemented by data engineers)? This DSL then makes it easy for end users to do a more complicated analytics.

One issue I've had with pure SQL for analytic purposes is that a user can't build a library of higher-order functions that can be parameterized (imagine a window function to do a cumulative returns across various time periods, applied to different underlying source columns), so its difficult to build up a common business domain language without taking the typical approach of constructing SQL through glueing string fragments together typical of most programming language SQL libraries.
Looking forward to what future holds for you! The codebase is still pretty tough for me to understand given I am still a newbie, but I don't plan on stopping till I contribute to it.
You quite explicitly don't need to audit the backend to verify something is end to end encrypted. I can be confident nobody is snooping on my TLS communications without needing to audit every router along the way, this is in some ways the entire point.
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Yeah that banner is annoying and takes away lots of valuable space.
Nobody's asking you either.
Is there a way to try it without logging in?
I'm not so sure that "reasonable people who did the right thing" is an accurate characterization. The Museum of the Bible has a lot of controversy regarding their acquisition of artifacts. The company paid a large fine for trying to acquire materials looted from Iraq. Their cover-up obfuscated the origins of the material, reducing its value to archaeology by destroying context.

They put these artifacts in their catalog; it was outside researchers who declared them forgeries. How many other pieces in their catalog are also forgeries, but don't have sufficiently high profile to be forced to check their acquisition?

So I'm dubious when they claim victimhood. Scholars only want the material because of its context. The lack of context was the first clue to outsiders that they were in fact forgeries. Why didn't they know?

They seem to want to acquire these objects more as trophies than as scholarship, and are willing to cut corners on provenance to achieve that. They present themselves as scholars but act more like a cross between treasure hunters and religious fanatics.
I think that data caps aren't a good solution simply because they don't have a good connection with network capacity. Many wireless carriers have started doing "deprioritization" after a certain amount of usage which is a lot more consumer friendly. If the network has capacity, heavy users see no difference in their connection. If the network is capacity constrained, it favors lighter users so that they get their money's worth.

My school did this when I was an undergrad. The top 100 users on campus often used more than half the bandwidth. That was fine and the school was more than happy for them to use the internet heavily - the connection had already been paid for, might as well have it used. However, the school did put them at a lower priority when there was congestion. Most of the heavy users didn't even notice.

I'm really hopeful that wireless technologies will improve competition over the next decade. If three wireless companies can provide home broadband competition in the future, we won't be beholden to the single provider that most of us deal with now. AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile all bought a bunch of millimeter wave spectrum in the latest auction (in addition to their current holdings). T-Mobile is gearing up for a big home broadband push. They're hoping to have 9.5M home broadband customers in the next three years which would probably make them the third largest after Comcast and Charter who have around 26-27M I believe (and around double Fios' customer base). Having even a little competition would mean that they'd have to compete for my business rather than being able to hike prices every year.
Completely disagree. There are software solutions for bandwidth issues, such as throttling, that don't require putting the burden on customers.
I would agree with you if there were evidence to support your claim, but there is not.

Actually there is evidence to the contrary. https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2013/02/cable-companies-make-9...

The truth is fiber bandwidth is cheap.
So is this like the "Smoking kills" labels on cigarette packs and limits/warnings on beer cans or what? I'd say literally everyone ignores those.
So it's a diffraction grating. Will dig more into it.
My alcoholism (if it can be called that - it is a spectrum) is driven in part by the social interaction of fellow drinkers. The predictability of seeing each other at the bar, of hanging out and not worrying about the day.

I've talked to one or two of them about doing tea on Tuesdays, or some other thing that could get us from drinking 3-7 stouts a night.

That book may be worth a read.
I think a nice, less charged example of this was given by Tom Scott's video on being called regarding STI results - an automated system couldn't give him his results and so transferred him to a human with the delays and brief panic that entails.

https://youtu.be/LZM9YdO_QKk
I agree 100%. I worked at a telco and managed the usage metering system. We regularly had meeting with sales and marketing, and time and again there was no way on earth they were going to give up usage caps, it's just too much money to leave on the table.

They will hold onto usage caps tooth and nail until they're mandated by law to drop them, and even then they'll try to blackmail the legislators (my company did it often) with lines like "Oh OK, now we can't roll out fibre to x, y, z city". So the legislators back off, and usage caps stay!