skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Today, an optimized build with gcc is slower than a debug build with clang.

Did you mean "an optimized build with gcc is faster than a debug build with clang"?
Ract syntax is functions + jsx. Jsx has just a smal set of additional rules compared to ordinary html, so I would not call it complex. In Vue 2 you have directives and wierd object model where you store data, getteres, watchers, etc. Each library has its own set of things which needs to be learned, and for me both basic vue and react are easy.
Pihole comes with some nice features but the core tool could be written in a single shell script (I know this because that’s exactly what I used to do for years before pi-hole even existed).

At its core, all you really need is curl / wget to pull a few text files and then reload dnsmasq.

Sure you’d miss out on the reporting side (which is actually the only reason I switched to pi-hole last year) but it would run on literally any system that runs Linux and dnsmasq.

As for DHCP, I think pi-hole uses dnsmasq for that too. However I’ve wasnt able to get pi-hole to accept my custom DHCP rules for PXE boot images (saves me hunting for USB sticks if someone hands me a trashed system and it’s been invaluable over the years) so I’ve continued to run dhcpd separately from pi-hole. But you don’t even need to do that, all you really need is your existing DHCP server to accept custom DNS resolvers and any consumer router should let you do that. Just make sure you disable DHCP in pi-hole.
Not true. The LHC kills theories at the same rate as ever. What has fallen off is hypotheses that survive testing.
Not over-qualified (see other posts). At this point in my career, a PhD has been a net financial loss even though I managed to graduate in four years. The jobs are more interesting though. I wouldn't recommend it, honestly.
> promoting eugenics

Can you provide an example?
> I think US major airline bonds are probably ok, more or less regardless of rating, since the gov't will always bail them out in the end

tbh, i think the US gov't really shouldn't be doing bailouts. Equity and bonds _should_ come with appropriate risks, and these risks should be discovered (via pricing of the interest rate for bonds, and for the expected risk-premium in equity).

The distortions happening right now is that the Feds backstopping bankruptcies is causing money to be lent out much more freely than it would've been. This means more worth businesses do not get their chance.

It's like the analogy of bushfires. Big firestorms will clean out the undergrowth, kill the weaker trees, and let the new seedlings grow afterwards. The pain is short term.

If the gov't wants to ease the pain, they need to make unemployment benefits greater, rather than bailout existing businesses. I say this, even tho i own shares, because to not do so means to entrench the moral hazard of socializing losses and privatizing gains.
It's pretty typical of apologists to pull this tone policing. Here's a comic that describes it: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DCXYRT4UwAAgdMy.jpg
Qatar Airways demands payment for training from terminated flight crew
An example is using glitter-containing nail polish to cover the screws, taking a high resolution picture and then having an app that checks whether the glitter particles are still in the same position. There are companies selling solutions along these lines.
You think the world's biggest brand and cash cow needs negative publicity. You're delusional.
From the wiki article. The first two sentences.

"Satellite babies (also called Satellite Children) refer to immigrants’ children who are temporarily sent back to their home country by their parents to be reared by extended family."

These kids are being raised by their extended family.

" Typically, the satellite babies are born in the host country and sent back as infants, returning to their parents in time to start schooling or when their parents have established financial stability."

Then they reunite.

In other words, nothing like giving your children to an orphanage.
Don't be shy, go that last extra mile and just say that frontend engineers are fraud.
What's New in Ubuntu Kylin 20.04 LTS
Is Objective-C++ really that old? For some reason I had the idea that it was from this side of the millennium…
Good point. I've recently gone from "management techniques" to cryptocurrency trading, to systems thinking, and so on.

It's a good point that a lot of the things that catch me have some promise of making me more powerful (intellectually, materially, socially, etc.) and along that path it is an intense ride of novelty. Besides constant novelty, have you noticed any other similarities amongst the areas that hook you?
This comment is just “Id in a meltdown of nationalistic rage”, to use a phrase from the parent comment.

What has China done to the US that makes you so angry?
Is it just that Americans need a punching bag to vent their anger at this moment?
Apple Leaks Reveal Radical New MacBook Pro
> There is very little, if even any way to recourse this without massive societal change. And getting such change in action is even harder.

getting water to flow up hill is massively hard. And in the foreseeable future, not possible. Until the day humanity discovers unlimited energy and move into a post scarcity society.

So play the game as much and as well as you can, and build up wealth for your family and future family. That's the only move left, unless you want to sacrifice yourself and your family's financial well-being for a cause that you nor your children will benefit from.
There is newer, second edition!

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/reasoned-schemer-second-editi...
Recent results have often depended on observations of light flashes in large bodies of water or ice. These have sometimes involved an accelerator, but present accelerators suffice.

Many people think gravitational wave observations matter.

It would not be surprising if completely new, unanticipated plasma fluid phenomena turn up, when someone looks.

People are still trying to understand superconductivity, and have not needed accelerators thus far.
This was a funny bit, ...right?
Why your company doesn’t make real progress although everyone works hard
I think the GP means steam "ecosystem".

Over the last 10 years and 1000+ of hours of gaming, I've literally never used a single "feature" or had a single positive interaction with steam other than downloading the games (for which a zipped installer would have worked just fine), yet I had many cases where I couldn't play because steam forced update but couldn't download it due to slow connection/really wanted to go online on the plane because offline mode used to be buggy/had the update install and completely break steam/couldn't login/connect to valve servers, etc.

They were fixing these but new stuff always comes up (and is 0% justified), and some stuff is by "design" e.g. "offline" mode still installs steam updates. At this point I have steam completely firewalled out and I turn that off only when I want to get a specific game or a DLC.

Steam is malware (so are Win10 ads, forced updates, etc.)
> If nothing else, LCR contains probably the most elegant and surprising application of vector clocks I've seen (they are used to establish a total order on messages, rather than the usual partial order, with no sequencer required!).

Very interesting! I'll definitely have to check this out. Thanks for the references/links.
That's a bit off-topic, but what do you think is happening? I'm considering buying some s&p500 based stock, but I'm a bit afraid. What do you, anonymous stranger on the interweb think?
> they can also flash the BIOS SPI

Boot Guard makes that impractical in most cases. The point here is that on machines that don't implement kernel DMA protection, you're able to drop the Thunderbolt config to the lowest security level and then write-protect the Thunderbolt SPI so the system firmware can't re-enable it, making it easier to perform a DMA attack over Thunderbolt and sidestep the Boot Guard protections.

This isn't a world-ending vulnerability, but it's of interest to anyone who has physical attacks as part of their threat model.
> How does one even jump from tech to humanities anyways???

Why would that be impossible or shocking? Most people are able to learn multiple different things and have interest in multiple different things.

Universities typically allow you to take courses from different topics too.
??? He doesn’t sound right to me
They’re fairly allergic to copyleft these days; I can’t recall them adopting a new project with any version of GPL for quite a while.
The only sensible way to define experimental guidance is by plausibility of the theories being falsified. (Otherwise, I rule out lots of theories every day on my walk to work because I don't witness the heretofore laws of physics melting down.) Post-Higgs and post-natural-SUSY, there are no theories that have much a priori credence. And just getting to Higgs and no-natural-SUSY, compared to the previous accelerator, took multiple decades.

This slow rate is to be compared to vastly faster rate at which new experimental input was rolling in in the '30s, '40s, '50s, and '60s.
Wouldn't that lead to hitting a local maximum / minimum and getting stuck there?
> Individual assassinations don't change the system.

Franz Ferdinand’s assassination changed a whole lot of systems.
Societal breakdown is what happens when you can't trust institutions. When that happens, your neighbours are the ones you help and that help you. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jan/30/egyptians-make...

As far as I can tell, the extreme versions that turn into warlordism occur mainly in response to outside threat.
Presumably full length of career is ~40 years. Presumably “mid” is ~half, so 20YOE? There is a claim that SV culture is biased against older people so this might cut effective max age to... idk, 50? So mid career is then ~10-15 YOE?
How does coronavirus kill? Clinicians trace a ferocious rampage through the body
Notion.
Comment from there: “The guy was a 10x engineer. He was looking into medical tourism to have a feeding tube put in so he could fuel w/ Soylent.”

That was a joke right?
You can't?

https://www.imore.com/how-block-ads-your-iphone-or-ipad
The plants are already mobile and constrained to a regular structure. A robotic pollinator wouldn't be much of a stretch.
Congratulations on your launch. Not really feedback but I realized when I clicked through that I would have signed up if I could use one of the federated login services (Google most likely, GitHub maybe, Facebook probably wouldn't have helped) and I didn't want to go through the mail, password, confirm cycle so much I actually just hit back.

I think you can still get someone's email for follow up if you use them.
Just look around your government systems. They have had decades to fix themselves but are they fixed yet? Are they faster, less bloatier, less user hostile and privacy invasive?
> they don't understand them and view them as very risky investments.

which is a shame. Stocks (or owning businesses in general) is the real way to get out of the rat race.

I wish that financial education is part of the standard school curriculum. Financial education such as what stocks are, what bonds are, and how do you "save" money and budget, and what it means to invest and what risks "mean" etc

Most people are scared of stocks because they think it's "risky" - they'll lose all their money if the company bankrupts.

While that's true, the other factors not considered is inflation risk (of bonds or, of bank savings account). The risk of not investing for the long term is just as bad.
What you want is for web authors to follow progressive enhancement. No JS should be required to load the contents of the page. If JS is included it should be to replace what would otherwise require a full page reload.
It would be handy. I wonder if it is possible to create one that opens the file in your default OS way, and embeds that window inside a VSC tab. Can dream!
But IntelliJ is open source?

https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community
Impossible to understand from the front page what is it.
Wow I didn't know about draw.io. That thing in itself is amazing.
I’ve found that it’s much worse on Linux for whatever reason. On macOS the build usually fits within 20 GB.
> The article assumes that the location data must have been collected because he gave an app permission to access his location. I bet they couldn’t figure out which app it was because it wasn’t an app.

I worked on this story (and the others, we're still publishing [1] [2]).

The dataset we bought from Tamoco didn't contain an app name for most of the data. So instead of guessing, we're open about the fact that we don't quite know. Which is sort of the issue here – there's not a lot of transparency around what is collected and by whom.

The Norwegian Data Protection Agency (DPA) has opened an investigation into Tamoco [2] after our first story, and they want to cooperate with the UK DPA.

[1] https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&...

[2] https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&...
v5.0 image was released minutes after the main v5.0 release. I've personally not tried :latest, but I am told that works. I prefer to use named tags
We have elections. I'll vote according to my beliefs that small taxes is better and you and others vote for the opposite. And we see who wins in US.
If you're comparing optimizations, I'd also want to see the runtime of a reference program.
High interest savings accounts are still beating bonds.
His Is How Much Medium Paid Me for My 200k+ Viewed Post
Show HN: Experimental Artifical Life system running in a browser
Interesting. Did not realize people moved their towers that much. Perhaps it's a thing people do in art studios or wherever Mac Pros are used.
The conspiracy theorist in me thinks that Google deliberately makes Chrome's offline spell check be as poor as possible, to give people incentive to give all text to them under the guise of spellchecking. It seems like every day or so, there will be some common word that is marked as misspelled, usually a plural or possessive form of a word that is in their spellcheck dictionary.

The developer in me thinks that this is because nobody at Google cares about the experience if the user chooses incrementally slightly more privacy, and so it simply gets no attention.
Minecraft Earth and Cosmos DB: Extending Minecraft into Our Real World
> Someone would have to maintain the (likely ever changing) list of IPs used

What if the ad-network is domain-fronting via a CDN? Either ways, can't block IPs since http-domain <-> IP isn't supposed to be a one-to-one mapping, each belong to different layers of the TCP/IP stak.
Heh I had to look up what a wedding set was. Upgrade... wedding rings? Isn’t a big part of the symbolism the permanence factor of the rings? The symbolism of upgrading the ring seems a bit unfortunate...

Anyway, sorry to hear, that probably gets really old.
Ron Gilbert Release a Thimbleweed Park Mini-Adventure
90 hour a week means that the person is either not sleeping enough. Sleep deprivation means you cant be performant fully. Or the person did not had a single free day in weeks while working 12 hours a day. There are the people who do stupid decision just out of being tired.

Just about the only way I have seen people work this much and not be overly tired drag was when significant bulk of time was spent socializing and playing around. Otherwise said, it was not actually work, but it was clocked in as work.

And at this point, there is enough evidence that crunch is productive for few weeks and then productivity fails.
Two reasons.

False positives and the medical interventions that result aren't without risk.

Some cancers are just a death sentence. They start out virulent and spread quickly. And are immune to treatment. Detecting them early buys you nothing.

Flip side is some cancers progress slowly. Screening tends to catch the slow indolent cancers and miss the nasty ones. But because they progress slowly catching them early may provide not much benefit.
CloudFormation has an escape hatch via custom resources,
which can call Lambda functions do create/update/destroy resources.
It's ugly, but it works.
In Word, if you save the doc as 'filtered HTML' you get much cleaner HTML.
I'm currently stranded in Vietnam (country, not inside the airport).

I imagine there are many people just like me. I happen to be quite lucky because in a country of 100 million, there are zero deaths and fewer than 300 cases, most of which are treated. Lots of things are open now and there are no strict social distancing laws anymore.

It all comes down to how much money you have saved and how long you can stretch it.

This article mentions one Sri Lankan passenger being taken home. I'm a Sri Lankan citizen although I no longer live there. Sri Lanka had its borders closed from March 22, but arranged flights to bring back citizens from situations like this. I can imagine Germany did the same.

It looks like this man just didn't want to leave. An airport with wifi, some shops, bathrooms and electricity, combined with the staff being kind enough to provide him with a recliner and amenities sounds much better than going to a place that he'd be eventually in trouble for his past crimes. If anything, the German consulate should forcefully take him if his criminal records are that severe, but it's their job and these are strange times to begin with.
The US was offered millions of masks in January. They turned the offer down
(Some specifics copied from Reddit r/alife post)

https://www.reddit.com/r/alife/comments/ger9r4/show_ralife_s...

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As you can see this is running on the browser - the possibilities of this are limitless..

What I have planned is to have a connected universe of these running on peoples browsers with possibility for the creatures to traverse between the environments (can of course be turned off)

Any questions are welcome.

I'll probably write a blog post about this in some near future when I release this.

About my background: I'm a long-term alife enthusiast that has done lots and lots of things because some 25 years ago I got inspiration from Tierra to do some experiments of my own. This lead to trading on financial markets with genetic algorithms etc but that's totally another topic..

ALSO: I need a better name for this. Any comments?
I'm planning to set up a server to connect the world on different computers. I think I'll set up a possibility to open portals between worlds or something similar - I don't have the details though in detail yet.

The colored pixels/boxes are the "creatures" which are basically virtual CPUs that run code in a custom assembler-like programming language. I just did an improvement so now the code is a tree-like structure.

The green dots are "food" that the creatures can and must eat to survive. The food is distributed in patterns that vary over time to make the landscape "interesting" and to facilitate improvement in the creatures.

Each food gives X amount of energy, when the energy runs out or the creature gets too old (currently at 2000 command executions) it dies.

Yes the code evolves with mutations, there are various mutations that modify the structure.

Here is an example of a program from a live session:

if r0 > r1
if r0 < r2
set_reg r6 = 86
copy_reg r2 = r1
subtract_reg ro -= r5
inc_reg r0 += r5
push_stack 2
if r0 > r8
if r0 > r7
set_signal 1 r1
wait
get_creautre_reg r0 => r0
attack
push_stack 4
copy_reg r3 = r0
if r0 > r4
get_energy r0
get_creautre_reg r5 => r0
attack
wait
multiply
get_signal 0 r0
turn_left
get_signal 0 r0
eat

I do have plans to publish the details of the (experimental) programming language and maybe let the users to create programs. I think that would be very interesting.
Really that toxic dynamic is also explained by reproductive habits - everyone not desirable for having X looks bad in comparison. It is a way deeper mental flaw in humanity along with rationalizing obviously terrible things to avoid cognitive dissonance and extra effort.
Well, the problem with providing a platform for truly free speech is that there's always someone ready to find that extreme niche that is really not acceptable to even the staunchest free-speech advocate. As you say, the 'almost' is an important thing. As soon as you permit everything, someone crazy will find that niche and start overflowing your platform with it because they have nowhere else to go.

I'm not doing the demonizing, just pointing out that this inevitably happens.

PS: Who's against lesbians??? I'm pretty sure they are by law protected against discrimination, including the US?
Princeton names its first black valedictorian in the university's history
> I wouldn't be able to tell

the robot wouldn't, you'd be dead
Another short video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4bGyyaGBGA
That's a major nitpick! And accurate - Costco is the best way to source expensive high-quality meat as a mere individual consumer.
My experience with the Amsterdam Compile Kit (ACK) is that while ACK successfully managed to separate frontends, optimizers and backends using a single intermediate language, at the end it was the intermediate language that held it back.

The intermediate language was strongly stack oriented, to the extend that local CPU registers were mapped to stack locations. This worked well for pdp-11, vax, mc68k, and to some extent x86.

But when Sun's SPARC got popular it became clear that mapping stack register windows was not going to result in good performance.

One option would have been define a new register oriented intermediate language, just like llvm has now. But by that time research interests at the VU Amsterdam had shifted and this was never done.
Oh that's too bad... I suppose this has to do with their console focus (considering the Xbox doesn't do VR).

Otherwise, I don't understand why anyone would make a simulator now without VR. It makes the difference between day and night.
>Besides constant novelty, have you noticed any other similarities amongst the areas that hook you?

They're difficult. Challenging.
No, it's not "zero sum bet". There are real market fundamentals which you can take advantage of.
What I Learned Being President of Schindler India
Nested stacks are a pain: use imports and exports and keep your stacks small to lessen the pain.
I created quotations with OpenOffice / Google Docs for the last 10 years. It doesn't matter whether the quotation is beautiful or not. Talking about branding, the portfolio of the company is more important.

My company was providing design and development services. The quotation is just a document to confirm a deal from the customer. The content should fully cover the service scope, deliverables, the price & terms very clear.

I just set up a template from OpenOffice writer & google docs and create a quotation from there.
IMO it's the best side of Microsoft. It's something Apple would never do because the result might be too unpredictable and messy.
it has a huge market and every small business outside of food&beverage/hospitality has to solve this problem.
When I was in college I put off a lot of things, because I was waiting to get out into the 'real world'. Which when I got out into the 'real world' realized was just stupid. Life is as you live it. It's all the real world.
Some JavaScript developers know the theory, but not all of them. At least you should know how it practically works.

So when you ask "What is the JavaScript event loop?", most will stare at you not knowing what it is. So then I jump to the practical side. They at least should have worked with either setTimeout, async/await and/or events. So then you start asking for practical consequences of the event loop, such as what happens with an infinite loop after setTimeout or await, or during handling of an event. That is a real practical example that they should know. If you don't then you don't know neither theory nor practice.
You don't need an SPA to use XHR, and your description of the SPA experience for the end user is a fantasy - there's a reason pretty progress bars are popular in SPAs, and it's not because of fast state changes, quite the reverse.