skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine having such a shit life that you best move on without looking back. The brain will adapt and stop feeding you that garbage that is your memories. Everything you wanted to be doing hurts when you see others do it. I don't know how scientific it is but I think woman want to have babies. Eventually just seeing one makes a painful experience. If only you could suppress association, turns out you can.
Minecraft Gets Graphics Overhaul Later This Week on PC
Really? Your reaction is, "If there's a law protecting whistleblowers, that's great! Protect them and hurt Amazon for doing bad things! But if there's no law, pff, what idiots, they deserve whatever's coming to them."??

Like...you know legality and morality are not the same thing, right?
Unmasked: International Covid-19 fraud exposed
It's extremely similar to the Japanese MacBook layout:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KB_Japanese_Mac_-_Apple_K...
I have gone from Druid to Clickhouse. At this point, I don't really know anymore.
Thank you so much for your response. You may have convinced me to have another look at Prolog. I stumbled upon it 15 years ago, but never used it for any real project. I just remember really loving its declarative style.
Warehouse workers are not highly skilled. But, even if you’re talking just say programmers they still employ less than 1% of us.
1. If you can, come prepared with a notepad and several bullet points of your thoughts/questions. Just the simple act of writing it down crystallizes your thoughts and is a practice run at speaking aloud.

2. Don't speak just to speak. Empty comments are wasteful -- minimal value in the eyes of dimwits, and negative value to those that matter.

Point 2 is related to "Law 4: Always Say Less Than Necessary" of Greene's 48 Laws of Power [1]. It would be good to read the full book ;)

[1] http://www.elffers.com/low/start/index2.html
But would a 10% worse flu worth a global recession due to global lockdown ?
I still want to write at least one sequel to that post, on the theme “Alright, can we make a Friendly C Compiler by disabling the annoying optimizations, then?”.

Obviously the people who want a Friendly C Compiler do not want to disable all optimizations. This would be easy to do, but these users do not want the stupid 1+2+16 expressions in their C programs, generated through macro-expansion, to be compiled to two additions with each intermediate result making a round-trip through memory.

So the question is: can we get a Friendly C Compiler by enabling only the Friendly optimizations in an unfriendly compiler?

And for the answer to that, I had to write an entire other blog post as preparation, to show that there are some assumptions an optimizing compiler can do:

- that may be used in one or several optimizations, but the compiler authors did not really keep track of where they were used,

- that cannot be disabled and that the compiler maintainers will not consider having an option to disable,

- and that are definitely unfriendly.

Here is the URL of the blog post that I had to write in preparation for the upcoming blog post about getting ourselves a Friendly C Compiler: https://trust-in-soft.com/blog/2020/04/06/gcc-always-assumes... . I recommend you take a look, I think it is interesting in itself.

You will have guessed that I'm not optimistic about the approach. We can try to maintain a list of friendly optimizations for ourselves, though, even if the compiler developers are not helping. This might still be less work that maintaining a C compiler.
Alternatively, a Google Web Lite shortlink https://lite.website/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/scie...
Yes, one can't exist without the other, but economically speaking, it's impossible to consume your way to prosperity. You must increase productivity, and this is done through investment.

We tried consuming our way to prosperity during the housing bubble in the early 2000s. That turned out how you might expect.
https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...

Something like this? Check if each character pushes the byte total over the limit?

I think this might fail for combining characters though.
Yes, and OP's comment was in relation to higher level computer representation of combined forms, so as interesting as your comment is, at this point it's simply picking threads for the sake of self-amusement.
Embrace, extend, and extinguish.

Microsoft is still a company, that called linux a cancer. No trust at all.
that's a gross misreading of the comment. ICE is by far not their biggest client and do not matter in the long run to funding free teams on Github
I liked their recent article on the Langlands program.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/amazing-math-bridge-extended-...
One-liner fix for all your XSS woes in legacy web applications
... and for a lot of other things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortex
Government mandated backdoors in retail software and usage of those backdoors is a more well known or suspected occurrence with the CPC government than, say, the Canadian government.

But that could just be a matter of publicity goals; of it benefiting China's goals for their citizens to know they are watching, and it not benefiting Western governments the same way.

I think it's natural (not necessarily rational) for people to be more skeptical of the goals of outside nations than of their own. Certainly, other nations with a very different and disliked form of government would engender more suspicion, however irrelevant that aspect may actually be.
Even Google and Facebook May Be Facing an Ad Slump
Nice simple idea. It would be cool to see today's current email on the sign up page so people get idea of what to expect the next day in their inbox.
This is a really cool presentation where the authors "step up the ladder" to design a really elegant API for animations as semirings (where * is used to sequence animations, and + for animations running in parallel), and then go on to implement it in Swift: https://bkase.github.io/slides/algebra-driven-design/
> You can't rewrite all existing legacy software to support encodings. You just can't. A backwards-compatible format was a huge catalyst for widely supporting Unicode in the first place.

Totally agree.

> What exactly are we delaying for decades?

Learning how encodings work and using that knowledge to write encoding-aware software.

> Engineers everywhere use Unicode today for new software. The battle has been won, moving forwards.

They do, but they're frequently foiled by on-disk encodings, filenames, internal string formats, network data, etc. etc. etc. All this stuff is outlined in TFA.

> And the vast majority of text isn't in computer code or even books. It's in the seemingly endless stream of content produced by journalists and social media each and every day

I concede I'm not likely to convince you here, but like, do you think Twitter is storing markup in their persistence layer? I doubt it. And even if there is some formatting, we're talking about <b> here, not huge amounts of angle brackets.

But think about any car display. That's probably not markup. Think about ATMs. Log files. Bank records. Court records. Label makers. Airport signage. Road signage. University presses.
Other things I assume will fall in the future: accessing GitHub Issues via API (for anyone other than paying enterprise customers), support for third-party GitHub API clients (use our first-party app with built-in spyware only, please), et c.

One need only look at what they've done with Windows and Office and Xbox to see how Microsoft approaches client software.

Here's hoping I'm wrong about all of this.
I'm pretty sure it was a joke...
Microsoft tried to put a stop to this in Vista, with having a very proactive UAC permissions popup. Folks hated it.
People choose to smoke. Nobody chooses Covid-19. (Yes, I know, people are in different cultures, and some of those cultures promote smoking while others discourage it. Still, smoking isn't an infection. You don't catch it from people around you, other than second-hand smoke.)

More: People smoked. The people who die from smoking this year are for the most part not dying from this year's smoke. They're dying from smoke from 20 or 30 years ago (or perhaps from 20 or 30 years of cumulative smoke).

Even more: They're already trying pretty hard to get people to stop smoking.

And yet one more: There are 8 billion people in the world. If we don't stop Covid-19, maybe 30% of the world's population is going to get it this year, or maybe next. Of those, maybe 1% to 3% are going to die. That's 24 to 72 million people.

That's why Covid-19 gets a bigger push than tobacco.
Its being surrounded by other poor people who produce fresh drama every day. Horrific drama.
They bought ARM. Quite a good investment I believe.
Am I missing something? I don't see any kind of roadmap in here - it's just 6 generic talking points without any actual plan or timeline.
Kissinger: The Coronavirus Pandemic Will Forever Alter the World Order
Son is a stellar example of failing upwards.
People should be praised and be judged.

But dismissing presence of companies culture is as extreme point of view as dismissing possibility of change. To name a few - Oracle, Google, Facebook, Apple, Toyota, Tesla - they are different and quite predictable.

> If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.

I am not in "Evil MS" camp but

> Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me

Same as with people - sometimes they change but sometimes they don't

And corporations are inherently dangerous - they maximize profit. Unbound by law, unchecked by people, even amazing people with nicest slogans would make dystopia.
The Postal Service Deserves a Permanent Bailout
Sorry, I should have checked.

I jumped at it because there are other things one might like to achieve with brace expansion but turn out to be impossible because it is evaluated first - you can't use them with variables.
Has the rise of AMD led to a shift in talent going their way as well? Not sure how the loyalty dynamics are in the chip engineering industry.
I don't think Amazon tries very hard to silence criticism. If you need proof, there are plenty of WaPo op-eds shitting on Amazon.

I don't think it is absurd not to want to employ someone who is an activist against you.
Yeah, I wanted to do that but I was expecting Sendgrid to provide that which they don't so I need to build something. It's on my TODO list. Thanks for the feedback.
What is significant about this release? A quick glance at the release notes does not yield much.
Presumably ICE buys light bulbs. Should we also call out light bulb manufacturers and distributors for “working with ICE”?

It’s not about politics for me, but rather the viewpoint that companies shouldn’t be the moral police of their customers.
While I agree Hong Kong would probably be more free under the British, I think Hong Kong is not a good example. They would be best off free, not a PRC colony.
Amazon didn't fire them for organizing.
The same could be said whether è é should be the same as e with different fonts. People who cares about it would complain. To those who only uses English it is only the same e.
Wet markets existed when it was a communist economy.

Cheap manufacturing cones from cheap labor, which comes from recently being a third world nation.
I wonder how this will play our on the OS X version of LoL. Apple straight killed that Zoom webserver awhile back with an OS update. I wonder if they make a similar move here against Kernel Level anti cheat? Assuming you even pull it off on OS X.
> you mean universally a bad thing to experience negative consequences for publicly trash-talking about your employer?

That is not what I mean. This conversation is about the accepted "law of nature" that if you say bad things about your employer you will probably be fired. As you point out, sometimes there are good reasons to publicly say bad things about your employer. Therefore, it is bad that firing is the accepted consequence regardless of the situation, and we should seek to change this status quo.
Process SEPA Transactions with Ruby
Are you bilingual?
They're not worth the effort in C++ because it doesn't have strictly enforced affine/dependent types. The GP is invisioning a language that does.
Yes! And it also makes for the kindest most generous people.
> The issue is that your static configs often have lots of boilerplate sections that have to be kept in sync.

Yes, I agree with this. However, its predictable. As an operations person, I value predictability and am willing to pay the price of keeping static configs in sync.

> Further, you can use an imperative language like Python, JS, etc and still write in a completely declarative fashion (or you can use a functional language which tend to be declarative out of the box). Conversely, you can model an AST in YAML (which is what CloudFormation is trending toward) and get the worst of all worlds. Bottom line: don't conflate "reusability" with "imperative" or "static" with "declarative".

Hold on, I'm not conflating anything. Saying that "you can write terrible things in any language" isn't anything new. We choose to use languages that provide certain guarantees that we need for the domain that we're working in. For infrastructure, declarative languages are a lot more suitable for the properties they provide (i.e. no surprises, limited functionality etc.). Its "possible" to use static types in Python, how many do that?
It's just bizarre to watch how once unassailable Intel is totally floundering in multiple aspects of their main business. I wanted to upgrade my aging Core i7 workstation and looked into the current Intel HEDT lineup. Only 14nm, and even without Spectre/Meltdown mitigations the chips are way slower unless you can use AVX512. Ended up buying Threadripper 3970X with a quad-GPU capable board, even though the CPU is _more_ expensive than anything HEDT that Intel currently sells.
> Where if the FBI came to Apple, (and we know they have) they can say no

I thought the point was they couldn't say no? Hence the warrant canaries and things like that. And the NSA hooking directly into Google's internal fibre etc etc.

To be clear I think your points are interesting from the perspective of "the chinese government is morally worse and I'm worried about those implications", I'm just trying to work out as someone who doesn't live there (but is clearly OK participating in their economy, I buy endless chinese goods) how that affects me concretely.
I think there probably is a lot more porn being produced on a per-person basis. We have a lot more cameras and a lot more ways to share photos/videos now.

I think there is a lot more content in general being produced too.
Quanta hires some great graphic design freelancers for the top headers as well (such as the one you linked to, less so the OPs). I like to click through their profiles and see their other work. Design + scientific papers hits a sweet spot for me for some reason.
It would be surprising (to me, anyway) if the case is that the low cognitive function of war-affected Syrian youths is the cause of their own poverty.
I’d like to see something that’s clear and doesn’t risk so much on rapid accurate testing and tracking of... everyone with significant delayed feedback. Something that could be done in rural areas or even developing countries. A reliable next step in the Hammer and the Dance.

I found this:
http://pandemicbreak.org/
He said during the press conference that exact dates might be available in two-four weeks. He wants to see a further reduction in hospitalizations, an increase in testing, and a supply chain for PPE before committing to reopening dates.
>Maybe it's just that companies went public at a much earlier stage back then.

This. My father worked for a few semiconductor startups in the 80's, e.g. Xicor. Liquidity events were trivial compared to now. Small company's with competency and focus could exit with a proprietary tech play which satisfied everyone all around (founders, vested employees, investors, industry). Rinse and repeat for two-three decades and we get the foundations for Information "Tech" startup culture.
Or that wealth is not an indicator of anything and some stupid people are rich because of a fragile broken system which doesn't reward based on meritocratic standards always.
How would that solve the "leaking employee" case?
Move Over, Unicorns. Llamas Rule the Toy Business Now
I don't remember what was the price range but it was cheat. I think we speak about it in the end of their talk in the ArduPillot unconference. Check on ArduPilot YouTube channel for their talk.

What is impressive it the integration on this drone : that give a good flight time with low weight. That is a big advantage against current weight based regulation in numerous country. And of course ArduPilot integration give hight capabilities !
If I were an EE I’d wait it out, at least for the CPU biz. AMD has been feat or famine, so a bit too unpredictable, though of late they have been crushing it.
That isn't quite right, you can can still buy these things online. This is just a temporary effort to stop the "retail tourism" that people seem to be partaking in (going to retail stores to look around as something to do).
You still need an encoding to represent non-ASCII characters like ë or 木. Base64 is no help at all there
https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1y70ej/valve_vac_an...

Here was Valve’s elevator pitch of the situation. If you click the link inside OP, you can crawl down the rabbit hole and literally see the code in question.

Again, not Chinese. Fuck China.
Yeah, it can be hard, I know for sure.

Real anxiety with potent physical symptoms is very much not "all in our heads"

Anxiety can be debilitating when it strikes. On top, it can create these crushing feedback loops.

I mentioned above the common-ish version in severe agoraphobia -- where fear of having an anxiety attack becomes powerful enough to cause them all by itself. That is the usual root cause of those stories you occasionally hear about people who lock themselves away for 10+ years, never going outside or being with anyone, except maybe one or two "safe people"

It sounds like you ended up like me with a version where the feedback loop is anxiety -> palpitations -> health-anxiety -> major panic -> health panic.

I have read hundreds of detailed descriptions of the symptoms of all manner of serious diseases over they years, looking for the clue that I might not be dying. Not because I "really thought" that I was, but because I was having self-perpetuating anxiety over it.

It's not the same as hypochondria, because I don't really rationally think that I have the condition in question, I just persistently fear that I do.

It's nice to talk to someone who understands. I'm glad you are coping OK for the moment. I am too.

We will make it, somehow.
I found joy by 3 factors:

- fear free: I worked a min wage gig and coded on the side
- due to the previous I could extend my code by small chunks, pleasure often comes from small and regular victories
- work for somebody else (makes you less tempted to postpone stuff)

ps: I repeat this often because it's one of the rare time I found balance, progress, real output

pps: also question your motives, if they're subconsciously neurotic (some deep fear or anxiety) it will lead to parasitic short term actions rather than fulfilling mid-term experiences
That's auction driven, not a set price.
Matthew Cook?
(1) There are several implementations; most are based on Knuth's "boundary tag" algorithms. As to "heap", a stack has one accessible end, a heap is essentially random-accessible. Nothing to do with the heap data structure.
(2) Stack overflow can occur even early within a program. I've campaigned for a requirement that such overflows be caught and integrated into a standard exception handler, to no avail. (3) Why not code your own, so there won't be arguments about it. (4) There are lots of tools for program development, but it's not standardized by WG14. (5) Use wider integer types. (6) Use wider floating representations. (7) Standard C doesn't specify such a facility, but it has occasionally be suggested. (8) There were a lot of books, e.g. on structured system analysis, during the 1970s trying to apply lessons learned. C isn't special in that regard, as many of the big problems don't involve syntax. (9) C++ is now a big language and it takes a lot of work to master its internals.
Without external confirmation from the firms that did the audit and the details of them, you can trust riot's statements about audits no further than you can trust any of their other statements.
Sports and politics can both give people an easy feeling of belonging to something greater than themselves. Both can give you addictive neur-ochemical rushes while interweaving the experience of victory and defeat with tribal identification and othering.

I used to have a condescending attitude towards people who took sports 'way too seriously', but now I wonder if it is a net gain for society to give people a comparatively harmless outlet for these tendencies. Real harm is done when our policy discussions are dominated by the kind of tribalism, ideological intolerance, and rush-seeking engagement that seems to happen when people bring these tendencies to politics.
256MB of L3 cache is incredible. There must be useful classes of application that can fit entirely within that, OS and data included.
SearchLight – search web and read results in text mode on Apple Watch
> Government mandated backdoors in retail software and usage of those backdoors is a more well known or suspected occurrence with the CPC government than, say, the Canadian government.

So we know (right?) that the US government put backdoors in lots of parts of the backbone of the US internet they had access to that wasn't public knowledge, and that they have data sharing agreements with 5 eyes countries so that, for example, they can use their backdoors to send information about canadian citizens to canadian spy authorities without triggering various laws that would otherwise make that information illegal to obtain, and get the reverse in return.
> I'll occasionally strap mine on for a while when suffering from a head cold

Wait, how does this help? Does this clear up stuffed nose and such?
> a really great job of managing the acquisition

I mean, if they hadn't done a thing it would have been a great job, too. Pumping in cash to fund previously paid features for free sure goes a long way, too, but the changes they've made so far I'd hardly call managing and more not touching it aside from making paid things free.
Further up in the thread you said:

> The idea is reuse. YAML (and probably Terraform, though I can't speak to it directly) doesn't give you many facilities for reusing blocks of config, especially if they vary subtly in some parameterized way.

Doesn't sound like you have been "keeping tabs on it" very well then. That comment implies you lack even basic knowledge of Terraform.
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But he's not really exploring the ideas "in the open".

He is making REALLY HUGE claims in advance of releasing the actual products of his supposed 3 decades of work. He is making these claims in popular media and creating a buzz-- first. I suppose that's his prerogative, but it doesn't seem like science to me. The scientists I admire most take ENORMOUS effort to communicate clearly, adjust to their audience, focus on making compelling arguments, and above all "show their work". This guy does the exact opposite.

One other thing he keeps on citing is this bizarre quote from Dirac:
> "... it is more important to have beauty in one's equations that to have them fit experiment...".

That's perfectly fine, for a while, but it doesn't BECOME PHYSICS until it agrees with experiment at a minimum.