skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went for this option. My top of the line Tern GSD cost ~$6,000. A rain shell / completely rainproof outfit, mostly from Showers Pass, cost ~$700.

A top of the line PEBL would cost ~$13,000. Still roughly double the price, although mass production could probably reduce the price of the PEBL.

That said, I've made an alarming/annoying discovery: rain gear doesn't stay rainproof forever! Gore-tex style rainproof gear eventually must be refreshed using e.g. Nixwax at ~$20 a pop plus your washing labor, and it doesn't always work, meaning you have to junk the clothes or accept that they are no longer rainproof. It seems prudent to have multiple redundant rain shells since you can't always tell when your rain gear is going to stop being rainproof until you go out in the rain and get wet. This means that you may have to do significantly more maintenance and replacement for rain gear than you would have to do for the enclosure of the PEBL. In other words, the cost/hassle may depend on how often you have to travel in the rain.
A good example might be 1's complement signed integers. They were dead weight in the standard for a long time.
at this point they should send him $250 for having to deal with their atrocious bureaucracy
any other sources?
>'ve personally found that saying critical things about the Chinese Communist Party on this website results in people quickly conflating said attacks on a government with a non-existent ethnic group

Been banned for it under the guise of flamebait. Didn't say anything inflammatory.

What's worse is that we know the CCP employs a "troll army" for astroturfing all over the web, but on every major platform a pro China post would simply never be silenced - so the CCP in short is playing our own institutions against us because we increasingly cannot separate criticism from intolerance.
This sounds like a cousin to existing technologies like Steve Gibson's SQRL. Considering there are free and open alternatives, how did they manage to raise $30 million?
Hi there, data is coming from Yahoo Finance. I'll add a note regarding privacy, but rest assured your email will only ever be used on Bullish. Thanks for the feedback.
How is this a vulnerability?
> And you still haven't answered my questions. Because it's inconvenient.

No, you just made that up.
>my first clue should have been that it’s in the department of “Social Sciences”, doh!

Because judging a subject based on it's faculty classification is oh-so-scientific. Economics is a scientific study of social phenomenon; where else would you like it to be placed?
Machine Learning and Vodka
(Not OP) I would appreciate any references you can provide. An LLVM __attribute__((secret)) would be a great place to start.
Towards understanding glasses with graph neural networks
So in German the number “21” is spelled “einundzwanzig” which means “one and twenty” compared to “twenty (and) one” in English. If you were to say “einundzwanzig” to me I’d most likely write down the 1 immediately and then put the 2 in front of it, if it’s utmost important to get the number right. This is really common also among the Dutch (they have the same thing) as well.

And one of our most common mistakes when speaking English is saying the number wrong. For example, 85 is pronounced fünfundachtzig, five and eighty, but it would not be uncommon for a German to misspeak in English and say fifty-eight.

I wonder if this has anything to do with what you wrote?
Hi, I've actually tried to run a similar (and now completely shut down) service a few years ago. If you look at my github I have several public iMessage-related projects. The biggest thing I ran into was getting my services rate limited or even blacklisted from iCloud for large periods of time when attempting to scale up. At low scale things worked fine and I am still running some iMessage bots (similar to classic IRC bots) for group chats with some friends without issue.

The only way I was able to mitigate rate limiting and black listing was to use actual physical Macs, only host a low number of users on each Mac, and put each Mac on its own physical internet connection. I also had to rate limit users and prevent them from sending the same message to many recipients as that would cause the machine to get blacklisted. Because of this I determined it would be nearly impossible to scale up without charging exorbitant amounts of money, which you seem to have avoided with your $20/mo rate which seems very reasonable.

Can you share answers to any of these. Totally understand if some of these are secret sauce and you can't answer:

- how you are preventing or mitigating blacklisting and rate limiting?

- what are you doing to detect when you are blacklisted?

- what is your remediation once you've detected that you are blacklisted?

- how are you handling scaling up your numbers of users?

- how are you sending/receiving the messages? (I'm curious: did you write your own solution that talks to iCloud services or are you abusing Messages.app and its corresponding SQLite database?)

- has anyone from Apple contacted you? are they okay with it?

Anyways, cool service, good luck!
No built-in remote state backend storage (s3, gcs, etc) locking except their proprietary hosting. Obviously they need to make money, but this makes driving migration from terraform to pulumi a lot more difficult.
Except that not all binary data is valid UTF-8 so you also need functions that check if a binary buffer is valid UTF-8.
Just a recent iPhone camera would be about 10x better than most USB cameras. I don’t think anyone is suggesting a full on studio rig.
Weinstein isn't far right. You have no idea what far right is if you think he is. He is centre-right maybe centre. His brother and his sister-in-law are both lefties. There is nothing far right about Weinstein or his family.

> He's clearly very popular with the Breitbart crowd, and about as anti-establishment as any billionaire politician with the backing of a media arm and an attitude of suing everyone who challenges his views. School of Thiel and all.

Actually I do talk to the people you are talking about, and again most of them aren't far right. The actual far-right don't like Weinstein or his brother (they tend to not like Jewish people on the far right).
I'm curious what best UX practices are around vertical alphabets, or if there even are any.

Handling left-to-right localization is "easy" enough with translations and making sure you can handle a little extra text overflow. And right-to-left is fairly "trivial" in simply mirroring the UX wireframe. Extra work, sure, but nothing too conceptually complicated.

But what are best practices for handling vertical scripts? Is it basically just rotating the UX 90° and working around the fact that images (like photos) are going to fit into your layout with a reversed aspect ratio? Because while it seems like that might work OK for some webpages, it won't for apps that are designed specifically for portrait or landscape mode on a phone/tablet...

Also, is Mongolian the only script that can only be written vertically? I can't find any others on Wikipedia. (Chinese was originally vertical, but is easily adapted to horizontal.)

Culturally I celebrate diversity, but from a UX localization standpoint the additional layer of complexity is... yikes.
Basically by having promises which can resolve to existing resources or new resources.
Obesity is much more about eating too much than it is about exercising too little. A quick snack to reward yourself for going to the gym can easily contain more calories than the exercise burned.
Not reading per se, but I've listened to Marketplace podcast [0] almost daily for years at this point, and I find it invaluable for economic news and interpretation -- especially now.

Also recommend Marketplace's podcast Make Me Smart [1], which is an informal deep dive on a single subject. It's nominally a weekly podcast, but they're now releasing a 10-minute daily version.

Finally, NPR's Planet Money [2] and their daily podcast The Indicator [3] are entertaining and education as well.

[0] https://www.marketplace.org/
[1] https://www.marketplace.org/shows/make-me-smart-with-kai-and...
[2] https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510289/planet-money/
[3] https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510325/the-indicator-from-plane...
> theoretical physics is dead

I'm genuinely not sure why you believe this especially as we live in an era when theoretical physics and experimental physics are becoming so entwined and the product is a fairly successful testing of our models of physics.
Of course you can.

Like life you just need to take some time to think about who you choose to belive.

I find people's description of "the news" or "the media" are often absurdly broad and sometimes they take exception for what IMO are minor issues.

I might find a clickbait title unseemly, but that alone is hardly a reason to not read the article.

Also some garbage media outlet sucking is not a reason for me to not belive anything from far better sources.

And even just being "wrong" now and then is not a reason to just quit on any sense of truth or reporting.
> ...when you use a WebRTC data channel, you're using SCTP over DTLS over UDP!

https://orchid.com VPN does tunnel the traffic over webrtc.

Ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21952887
Trying to put myself in the shoes of the Valve employee: I don't think they were trying to save their company money, but it still wasn't a smart move.

As a security team employee, I think it's easy to react defensively to every vulnerability report, to take them as critiques of the quality of your work.
So it's natural for the first reaction to be jumping to "this is not a real report" or "this is a dupe".

But people in this position should think about the upside/downside of their actions.

ACCEPT - Upside: You show that your security team is responsive, you build trust with an active security community member. Downside: Your company pays out some fee (so tiny in big picture)

DENY - Upside: Your company doesn't pay out a fee. Downside: Usually a net negative for your company's reputation in security community, some chance you cause PR issues for your company.
How Apple and Google coronavirus contact tracing will work
Did they fake it? Or were they mistaken?
Why I stopped using Microservices
My eyes have been open to China’s influence in US media, especially with covid-19 outbreak, where they’re rallied various institutions to change the narrative around the name and origin of the virus.

For example, Dreamworks carrying water for the CCP government by including the 9-dotted line prominently on a map in their movie[1].

Who thinks this inclusion was by accident? Their influence in US media and politics is out of control.

1. https://www.businessinsider.com/abominable-dreamworks-movie-...
I know barely anything about encryption, but this reads to me like the parties involved don't understand that public key cryptography defeats MITM attacks (at least as I understand it)?
I feel like this sums it up pretty good for me. Even today when I get challenged and have to come up with a clever solution, I'm enjoying it but 90% of work is fetch data, show on front end, user edits, save in database.

I have been working on a large project for over 6 months now, 30k lines of code.....it still feels like I have not done much.
> rseacord 22 minutes ago [-]

> The C Committee has taken two votes on this, and in each case, the committee has been equally divided. Without a consensus to change the standard, the status quo wins.

The fact that it has only survived on status quo is a pretty crass hint that things aren't well with Annex K.
Building an App for Eye Filters with PoseNet
This is an overall problem at bigger companies. The machinations that decide priorities often do not understand engineering things and thus never prioritize the fixes. It's not uncommon to see engineering items that would take 30 minutes to fix get hours of engineering man hours in discussion about "should we fix it?" and "when?" .

I tend to sneak these little things into my PRs cause I cant stand to see them linger w/o cause
I think it would be because most browsers are made by US based companies. These different modes should be options out of the box, and should have been now for a long time considering the web is international.
Thanks for your answers. A related question: this article [0] appears to single out memcpy and memmove as being special regarding effective type. Is it accurate? It seems to be at odds with your suggestion that there's nothing stopping me writing my own memcpy provided I'm careful to use the right types.

[0] https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/object#Effective_ty...
WikiDigraph: Tool to find something interesting to read in Wikipedia
I mean I would expect a company doing food delivery to have an uptick when people are trying to avoid going to the grocery store.
Yeah, the BSD socket API is kind of terrible like that. You could consider it an unspecified union type, or use memcpy() exclusively to access it safely.
Sure. The problem here is that exactly the ideas he's proposing to explore have already been explored. I've slightly edited my previous comment to point this out.

The problem, in the very particular case of this blog post, is that the cost for lacking intellectual humility is spending time reinventing other people's wheels. And those wheels won't get him as far as he thinks they will. We know because they've already been built by others.
Doctors come under attack in India as coronavirus stigma grows
It's often forgotten that the only real benefit of blockchains is that they are distributed; one can implement all the same functionality using centralized databases.

What I find really surprising is that the government hasn't created a set of standardized APIs for financial transactions, flowing through traditional web/cloud/mobile tech. From a tax collection/enforcement perspective, it would seem to be in their interest to make "smart money" with convenient P2P digital transactions. Given the transparent corruption between Washington and banking institutions, I wonder if they don't want to risk being disinter-mediated, or if no politicians have even tried to pursue such a thing (the closest being Warren's plans to add banking services to USPS, which I think is a great idea).
I think it is quite the opposite. Having worked in startups that were VC funded it seems they consider VC money free money and just spend a lot of it in infrastructure without the need to.

I know for a fact our bill was around 15-20k USD per month for running a webapp that could be ran in digital ocean 40 dollars/month.

For a lifestyle business without VC money to burn it makes all the difference.
I noticed that string about the additional settings disappears when those high precision location settings are disabled. Maybe you already have the precision location via WiFi/BT disabled?
I'd say the strong version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis applies, but the subject is the computer, not the human.
C is a great low-level language to write the engines/runtimes of other languages.
Everything does something but it's hard->impossible to directly map cause to effect. The problem is there are numerous causes and effects all playing out at once and they all interact.

Or to put it another way: it's the three-body problem extended to millions->billions of bodies which use psychology+perception as the main force instead of gravity.
I believe it because it seems to be the consensus I gather whenever I read articles about theoretical physics' hunt for the unified theory. I'm talking about that problem specifically. The search for the unified theory sounds basically dead, and we have a generation of physicists who have spent their careers going down dead ends. The meme seems to be for the field to move past it and focus on more "productive" areas of physics that can have practical use.

I can only gather this from 2nd hand accounts in pop-sci articles and mainstream physics books, but the lack of falsifiability and experimentalism for these things, combined with a large surface area of failed attempts, seems to have left physics in a rut.
I think that there is no reason why contract tracing apps can't be designed with privacy in mind (in fact, several privacy experts agree on that) and that there is some danger of governments ignoring that (even though, at least in Europe, they should be bound by the GDPR and sometimes more stringent national laws).

But there are a lot of knee-jerk "but muh liberties" reactions in this thread and I think this is very dangerous, as it fails to see that sometimes individual rights must be weighed against each other.
The sequel already landed. It's here https://tenthousandsu.com

And it uses blockchain. And it actually comes with instructions and customer support that you can email.

It is a great first crypto asset, since we walk you through it. And it is just the same gimmickyness as the original.
Only anecdotal, I once tried to report a persistent XSS issue on the game "hub" pages. After weeks of going back and forth with support (this was before the likes of hackerone) the ticket was closed and the issue was ignored.
I feel the same way. His book A New Kind of Science (the first chapters) have been revolutionary.

I think his work will lay down the foundations of science for centuries to come.

It is curious though. Nearly every criticism I’ve read hasn’t grappled with his ideas—just the man, out of insecurity and ego.

And he’s a lovely writer. I don’t sense ego from him. Just honesty about the work he’s done and contributed. You read him and get the sense his prose is calm—like light particles flowing down a river.

His stories about the remarkable scientists he’s met is some of the best writing I’ve ever read.
I personally never trust anything that says lifetime guarantee. It just can't happen except in very unusual circumstances.

I do have an anecdote that disproves my theory, however. My grandmother used to be an AT&T telephone operator, before they were broken up. As a retiree, she has "free lifetime AT&T", which they have been honoring even as the new company is not the company she retired from. She literally dials 0 and asks the person to connect her call for her. It costs her nothing.
Tests have false positive and false negative rates of ~20%. Start testing millions and not only do you waste tons of money but inadvertently put millions of people in danger.
> In general, how is one supposed to approach wg14 with ideas or need for clarification on the standard's wording / interpretation?

I'm currently working on an update to the committee website to clarify exactly this sort of thing! Unfortunately, the update is not live yet, but it should hopefully be up Soon™.

Currently, the approach for clarifications and ideas both require you to find someone on the committee to ask the question or champion your proposal for you. We hope to improve this process as part of this website update to make it easier for community collaboration.
At least say why you are downvoting.
Disagree. Gasoline is perhaps the quintessential example of disaster price "gouging". Ask anyone in a hurricane zone.

Personally I have mixed feelings: If the prices don't go up, the incentive to ramp up production is pretty weak. It does, though, seem inhumane that increased prices can have an outsized bad effect for the very poor in disaster situations.
But this isn’t about ‘idealist techies’ or ‘people with big bucks’. It is not their domain of expertise. Only their influence. The ones whose input must be taken are farmers.

Like me. This is my domain of expertise but I have no influence. I am a farmer. Why isn’t my opinion valid when I ask for automation to save my sector? But everyone’s opinion is considered from engineers to VCs to politicians to the public. But I am the one who is going into debt and scrambling for labour and making agonizing decisions about what to do without..but when I ask for automation, it falls on deaf ears. It’s very depressing. And frustrating. And beggars belief.
The USSR believed the same thing

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatr...
What is sbt?
Can you give us a sense of scale and what issues you faced by elastic?
Sounds kind of like Alec Guinness becoming best known for playing Obi Wan Kenobi.
> Arabic numerals originated in right-to-left languages

But I thought they originated in India, where left-to-right scripts were in use, which is why Arabic is bidirectional with the digits written left-to-right.
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I wish more developers understood this very basic concept instead of introducing layers of unnecessary complexities in the specs and plumbing that don't necessarily improve a sink or shower "for the better".

If you're installing lots of sinks and showers, it's OK if you make the pipe fittings, materials, and plumbing a bit easier to work with. Coming up with dozen of all all new sets of pipe fittings, materials and plumbing designs every other week doesn't make installing sinks and showers easier.

Imagine walking into Home Depot and discovering there are about 100 'standard' styles of sinks, faucets, fixtures, pipes, fittings, etc. all with varying degrees of support from none to complete for interoperability. Not only that, every other month, 10 of each of those pieces are no longer manufactured or supported and 20 complete new designs are created with all the same cavets as before.

Meanwhile, you install these sinks daily and the customer really doesn't care at all about how elegant the back pieces are from a mathematical or structural view, they just want a functioning sink that they can assume is easy to fix or replace parts on when it breaks. Not only that, they want to be able to call any plumber and have that done without the plumber spending 2 weeks just figuring out what the hell the previous plumber did before they figure out just how to fix it. At which point they decide its easier to just rip everything out, set it on fire, and pick the latest sets of pipes and fittings for no necessarily justifiable reason than it will cost more in time and effort to deal with the previous sink install than to start from scratch.
Yes, we have discussed adding this feature at scope level. A not entirely serious proposal was to implement it as follows:

#define DEFER(a, b, c) \
for (bool _flag = true; _flag; _flag = false) \
for (a; _flag && (b); c, _flag = false)

int fun() {
DEFER(FILE *f1 = fopen(...), (NULL != f1), mfclose(f1)) {
DEFER(FILE *f2 = fopen(...), (NULL != f2), mfclose(f2)) {
DEFER(FILE *f3 = fopen(...), (NULL != f3), mfclose(f3)) {
... do something ...
}
}
}
}

We are also looking at the attribute cleanup. Sounds like you should be involved in developing this proposal?
> The compiler assumes that the loop will alwasy terminate and that assumption is wrong, because in reality there is the possibility that the loop will not terminate, since the hardware WILL overflow.

The language is not a model of hardware, nor should it be. If you want to write to the hardware, the only option continues to be assembly.
This assumes that people actually behave rationally.

Indeed. Just the idea that TP is the topic of interest and not, say, food or medicine proves this. You don't need TP. A lot of the world don't even use TP. You can, instead, wash.

But there's not much you can do to replace eating.
> "Cyberspace, as described in Neuromancer, is nothing at all like the Internet that we live with, which consists mostly of utterly banal and silly stuff."

That is the story of all technology. The horse was the super weapon used by kings and warriors. It ended up being something that farmers used to plow their fields. Same with ships, cars, telephones, radios, televisions, computers.
One thing makes two

leads to

one thing making another thing
pushing back on
one thing making another thing.

Group them together. Allow groups to connect back to themselves.

Run them in very high numbers. Try to find shortcuts. Relate shortcuts to real world.
And clang!