skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could imagine:

1. Mr evil uses stolen credit cards to buy game licenses.

2. Mr Evil sells those game licenses on this marketplace to Alice.

3. Alice has paid her own money for this game, starts playing it, maybe buys a few in-game items.

4. The original card owner disputes the charges.

5. Now, if the game manufacturer disables the game remotely, they will take a PR hit from Alices vocal complaints on twitter. Yet if they don't disable the game remotely, they continue to loose revenue.
Rust: Rocket will compile with stable rust from v1.45
I had a class in grad school where the textbook ran out of english, greek, and hebrew letters and subscripts and resorted to serif vs sans fonts. It was interesting.
Chrome 83: Redesigned privacy and security settings
It's all design for hordes of mediocre cheap designers
There have been research projects that have attempted to make a standards compliant "safe C" a number of different times. You either end up with a 3x execution time overhead, only support a subset, or break programs that do unsafe type punning. As a result, this is not viable.
Fair enough, I've edited it. I just tried using the Latex package with a formula typed using Unicode symbols, and it does work, but doesn't follow all the UnicodeMath rules.
In my mind, adult taste is not just fashion but integrates judgement of quality and function. The adult has specific goals which are often benefited by greater order and less noise. A child doesn't share those goals. Their focus is play and seek pure stimulation and delight in noise.

It's probably true that adulthood is increasingly playful which feeds into tricky questions about whether this is infantalisation or something more positive like increased authenticity now that we are freed from arbitrary constraints of decorum such as dress-codes, rigid hours, cap doffing etc.
They are only Windows only because one needs to completely re-the game before porting it. With the source release I am not sure exactly what will happen, but I imagine we'll get Linux versions soon :).
is there some Matrix Android app with SMS support to replace Signal?
Seems like a perfectly good idea to me; I doubt one website permitting comparison is going to suddenly instigate a dialogue extremism arms-race (more than normal). In fact if anything it's bringing us closer to the original idea of debate rather than echo chambers.

And it seems like your argument falls under plenty of its own fallacies.

Perfect solution fallacy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy

And some might argue straw-man fallacy given that op never suggested that truth would lie 5050 between the two.

Debate allows us to see two opposing views and draw our own conclusions; not perfect but a whole lot better than nothing.
Rust Analyzer: Next few years
Also: Our issues with Laravel / Symfony weren't just performance, but also statefulness and memory leaks. Circular references, etc, which persist throughout multiple network requests. In a normal PHP flow using php-fpm or apache-php-cgi this isn't an issue: The PHP process is created, used and thrown away. For a Swoole setup, these memory leaks quickly get out of control and cause performance issues, instability and very occasionally superfluous garbage collection runs.
Allowing ws connections to local addresses can be pretty useful in many cases (admittedly, many of these could be better solved with WebExtensions' native messaging) so disallowing it would not fly.

But since this is pretty rare, a message saying: "this website is trying to connect to services running on your computer - allow/deny?" would be pretty easy to implement and solve this for good. Sites that need this already require you to jump through hoops, so one more popup would be fine, but sites that do this for other reasons would probably not want to risk a popup.
No, the VCs exit when their mountains of data say to exit. It has nothing to do with the business, just valuations.

If you get in at or before Series A you are going to make money nearly every time. If you get in after that you are going to lose money nearly every time. This has nothing to do with the industry or the business model or smart people making savvy choices.
Audits normally cost a lot more than $40k. If the auditor is going to take legal liability for the audit being wrong, they will also typically want rock solid evidence, which it's likely hasn't been kept.

I'd bet that the sticking point in the negotiations was the cost of the audit.
As an undergrad I fantasized about a steel cage match between all of these practitioners to force convergence on a single set of notation.
I am disappointed that the references at the end are made up and are not the prior art in the obviously important field of non-textual languages. I'd really love to learn about that "system for aromatic computation and its applications in cheese production [7]"!
Didn’t the NT code leak more than 10 years ago already?
Is SpaceX really pioneering space exploration now or just reducing space transportation costs?
I think most people can see it is a win for GNOME but it is far short of the goal the GNOME Foundation proclaimed when it went out raising money.
And like with water and dehydration, if you get too much too quickly when you've gone without it for too long, it can be detrimental
Are mortgages, loans, taxes and fines getting Kawaiized, though?
> Mobile payment platforms have been ubiquitous in Africa

Define "Africa".
Good point: statically compiled binaries are a big problem for security updates.

This applies to Linux distributions as well as large organizations that have their internal distribution (like Amazon).
Latter, apparently.
I agree- that's why I think such a system is not capable of innovation.

In the same way, that's why I think it would be a useful tool: it promises to automate away the kind of coding that most programmers can do with eyes closed and that's the most boring and repetitive part of the job.

Like, without trying to demean it, it sounds like a great boilerplate generator.
Welcome to the world of audit. There are only 4 firms left after decades of consolidation and an Enron scandal. They are the only people they actually check the books of firms, and they all have profitable consultancy services that totally don't create conflicts of interest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four_accounting_firms
Where Have all the Gophers Gone? Why the Web beat Gopher (1999)
Understanding Facebook's Libra
> I'm really curious, how many people actually prefer WFH permanently vs. just having the flexibility to WFH when wanted.

> If I wanted to stay home forever

> most engineers just want to stay focused on their immediate work and not leave the house and minimize human interaction

Your company being a remote business, doesn't mean that you ONLY MUST work from home. It means you have the flexibility. You can work 3 days from home, 2 days from an office or co-working space, enjoy being around your friends and like minded folks or elsewhere.

Your entire response is based on false assumptions or a purposefully wrongly painted picture of WFH. Maybe your view is badly skewed because your only WFH experience is a pandemic lockdown, which is not what true WFH looks like, just like going to the grocery store with 2 metre distance and a face mask is not how normally people go to grocery stores when there isn't a pandemic.
I am not very silent about what I think is broken about programming and sometimes I find people with the same feeling. This one is from a company I bumped into; they have a db/codeless type of thing and they want to make it easier for people to use. It is particularly not an investment; maybe that comes after if it works; it is money to play around with different ideas which they give out for this type of purpose.
It's not mine, but I wanted to post it here because project is quite impressive itself but it also fits this topic
One thing that irks me is the verbosity of simply renaming file extensions of all files in a directory.

On Windows: ren ∗.js ∗.mjs

On Unix: for x in ∗.js; do mv "$x" "${x%.js}.mjs"; done

Feels like shells should have one line list comprehensions without the obtruse do/done. Are there any shell enhancements like zsh or the like, that make simple list operations less verbose?
The 20KB stripped down Windows kernel that shipped on the XBox isn't hard to emulate...emulators such as CXBX do this for many functions by calling the respective windows function on the host. Low-level emulators (XQemu) take the opposite approach by emulating well understood hardware (hdd, cdrom, usb) and then running a binary dump of the xbox firmware (which contains the kernel, it's not on disk) directly.

To my understanding the hardest problem in XBox emulation is the GPU, and unfortunately this doesn't help with that.
Reminds me of this comment from Reddit https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/5penft/parallelizing_...

Go allows characters from the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics for identifiers, so you can define structs or methods like this:

type ImmutableTreeListᐸElementTᐳ struct {

You can pretend that go has generics :)
def f() -> bool:
"""return True iff the Collatz Conjecture is true"""

def g() -> bool:
"""return False iff OpenAI correctly completes this code"""

These tricks will only work for simple things, won't work for complex things (but is likely to give obviously nonsense answers), but even worse there will be a middle swamp where it'll write something complicated, plausible, and wrong.

As usual, a video of 2 or 3 simple examples, curated beforehand so you're confident they'll work, tells a different story.

Just for the sake of curiosity, I also asked GPT-2 whether it would work. Here's what it said:

Here's why this Python code-generating AI won't work. The other
reason is that it will require you to make something that performs a
large and complex program. This, after all, is what the function
call is to do, a "simple function" that returns a function that
accepts an integer number as its result. Let's say that I say
"hello" in the code and I get the value by making a change. To do
this, I divide the value by a few. Next, I increment the value by
two. The process will fail, because I need a new function which will
return a result, but in this case I get a value by incrementing the
value by two. This gives me the answer that is most likely true. We
need to know exactly which value we want for the computation and to
implement ways to handle returning it.

You said it, GPT-2.
I think they had more metadata collection than signal mainly due to the design. They were making progress on it however, but I dont know the status of the work.
25 cents will take care of CNN anchors. Be the change. Is it time to kill propagandists?
The Circuit Song (Technical University Dresden) (2016)
They are very different. Mindustry focuses more on the waves of enemies and tower defence aspect while in Factorio the enemies are kind of a secondary thing.
Signal supports SMS, so you don't need dedicated app and can handle them all in one app
Try programming 7 Billion Humans and you'll see why.
https://tomorrowcorporation.com/7billionhumans
That's a nice, formal way of putting it, thank you :)

(Sorry I really should have refreshed my memory on Gulwani et al. I think I've even linked the paper on an HN comment before.)

Oh, btw, I doubt they're doing this with a language model nowadays. Unless FlashFill has suddendly started filling cells for email addresses with haikus etc...
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> Overall, Cessna is the Harley Davidson of the aviation world

Not in terms of safety. I mentioned below somewhere that the main feature of a Cessna 182 is probably the very slow stalling speed. Cost of operation and cost ratio of the engine is maybe where your argument is true.
Skillful Perception at the Scale of Civilization
> It's a myth that the Chinese are not innovative

I think that the self-told Western media narrative (of the Chinese not being innovative and only being copy-cats) has cut at least 5 to 10 years of the advantage that the West used to have in front of China.

Had the decisions makers in the West been more aware of the real innovative minds/processes active in China maybe those decision makers would have taken more pro-active steps earlier on, instead they chose to sleep on their laurels. I think a similar thing happened to the US car industry in relation to the Japanese car industry in the '70s and early '80s, with known devastating results for the US car industry.
> Talking of moving, Hodgson says he expects Automattic to move over from Slack to Riot following this investment.

Here's hoping Automattic has enough influence to move the WordPress.org open source and community discussions (which are currently hosted on Slack, but used to take place on IRC) to Matrix too.
The thing is the developer already knew they were stolen and resold. So this is likely just a tiny sample of what might be much higher numbers that go undetected. The burden of proof in their model is basically on the developers.
The giveaway on bias is the string "lacks biological plausibility AND". It would be more defensible if the "AND" was instead an "OR".

Plenty of approaches practiced by "alternative" medicine practitioners are biologically plausible, but haven't been tested in randomized controlled trials, because nobody has the incentive or the resources needed to conduct one. (Trials that require many millions of dollars and several years to conduct only happen if a multi-billion dollar return is likely, or if there is a clear and achievable political incentive.)

The most significant category I'm familiar with is emotion/stress-relief-based approaches for treating non-lethal but chronic and debilitating pain/fatigue/inflammatory/autoimmune conditions.

In other discussions here on this site, when I've bothered to fully articulate the basis for the notion that emotional issues and stress can cause these physiological illness, I've found the response to be something like "yeah of course, that's uncontroversial".

And sure, any good mainstream doctor, on recognising their patient is suffering a stress-related illness, will helpfully suggest reducing stress.

But if the patient wants a comprehensive program that can identify and heal all the stress/trauma/held emotion that is keeping them in chronic illness and pain, practitioners that offer this are generally of the kind that is categorised as "alternative" – or, what Wikipedia defines, unconditionally, as "biologically implausible".

Another example is naturopathy, which seeks to improve patients' health mostly through the adoption of an optimal diet and nutrition program. Not much is more biologically plausible than this, but, hey, Wikipedia knows best.

My basis for knowledge on this is over a decade researching and experimenting with approaches to overcome my own chronic illness, finding that those based on emotion and nutrition were the most effective, and finding material from highly-credentialed scientists explaining down to the fundamentals of cell biology, why it is plausible.

As a result, whilst I still turn to Wikipedia routinely as an info source for general topics, I've come to regard it as largely useless for medical topics that veer even slightly from the middle of the road.
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That would be the partial W2k and NT 4 leak mentioned in the article?

This dump seems to be full code + full build environment, which seems pretty extraordinary.
What is the recipe? — (You have written a lot of words, no recipe.)

Honestly, love research, would be happy to be wrong, but all I hear you saying is someone did it so it must be possible— that’s called survivor bias, it’s not a recipe and it would not double the global output of R&D for the next 10-1000 years.
For a small team (or individual) to evolve the code to the point where it had parity with Windows XP would be a herculean effort, never mind Windows 10.
That was NT 4.0 and 2K. There’s an awesome /. post here:
https://slashdot.org/story/04/02/12/2114228/windows-2000-win...
Delphi, Lazarus, Visual Studio - to name just a few
Traditionally, they come from ancient Greek philosophers. This one seems to be a modern variant of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox so I guess it's not "official".
The total value of keys stolen was $4k and the settlement was $40k. The big 4 audit firms won't do a custom audit operation for that kind of price.

It only really takes someone with a bit of technical expertise who both parties can trust. In this case you could probably find some enthusiast to do an excellent job for free. If Wube and G2A were able to agree the process was fair, that also seems good enough here - they don't need to satisfy a regulator or a tax authority, which are the main purposes of audits.
I know what you mean. Go's spf13/cobra will soon have working zsh/bash/fish/powershell autocomplete generation!

https://github.com/spf13/cobra/pull/1070
How does one go long on China if they believe this?
Are there problems with go on musl, then? Not a heavy go user but I’m sure I’ve built a working go setup fairly painlessly on musl VM before. (Maybe it’s a recent problem or perhaps I’m misremembering and I did something horrid like pulling in glibc too, but I don’t think I did?)
Chronicle of a Pandemic Fortold
> Imagine if Alphabet was broken up, Google search can still afford to run a research lab, as can youtube.

It is far more likely that YouTube will go bankrupt, since running a free video service where videos are almost infinite and cache hits much lower is very costly. Couple that with all the other advantages of being with Google like access to talent and infra, I don't see YouTube surviving with Google. It's possible that the tab will be picked up by Facebook video, and that is an even worse platform and more closed.

I don't see a cheap way of solving the YouTube problem. (Yes P2P exists but has too many problems like battery consumption on phones and NAT).
There are SO MANY Linux distributions that overlapping a name is hardly a big deal (and the registration is not that big a deal either...as the article points out itself, despite the registration, there is a Linux distro also named Maui).

The Microsoft employee’s response was pretty bad, but in a company with hundreds of thousands of devs, one inappropriate response by a developer hardly says anything.

Edit: He’s not even an employee. He’s a Microsoft MVP. That’s like complaining that Red Hat is evil based on what a random programmer with a RH certification says.
Visual programming is really hard to debug. Just as people tend to give the advice to limit a procedure/method to one page, because you start to lose control. You just can keep up with so much. Where does this line goes in? You just don't know. Collaboration is nearly impossible. Opening projects from others will be much worse than looking at pure code.

Also it is too verbose. The 'functions' take away a lot of screen estate (this is most obvious for mathematical stuff). If you start on just a bit more than something you could have achieved in 50 LoC, it tends to get really messy.

VP lacks referencing as well. At least most of those envs I know. Declared a variable? Too bad, you have to connect this node to everywhere you need it. Sigh.

Reusing of components is possible, and for some envs it is implemented, but mostly just per file, not in general, e.g. you can make a custom component inside one project, and if you edit it, all instances get updated, but you can't save that as a standalone component you can XREF in other files/projects, which makes it hard to make a custom library of functions.

But it depends on the industry. As others already mentioned, the more an industry is led by visuals in the first place, the more common it is to actually utilize Visual Programming (or rather Scripting), also it's quite useful in real time contexts – which is the place where the strengths are. The CG industry is one of those, but also architecture and design in general (think of McNeel's Rhinoceros with Grasshopper, THE most used visual scripting environment used as of today, especially in a professional setting).

Conclusion: VP has its merits and is used extensively, just maybe not the places you expected/hoped for.
10M accounts with 2M rooms sounds odd, any explanation?
This was a big part of the reason we built our repo https://github.com/posthog/posthog to enable first party analytics. It'll grab UTM tags all the way through to individual user behavior in your app and then provides an analytics UX on top. Disclaimer: I'm one of the founders.
Yes. The largest global-heavy, non-public, codebase you have access to.

Reading a treatise on globals if you don't already have the taste to suss out much of the cost/benefit of globals on your own is a recipe for taking the contents out of context and treating the recommendations too broadly/narrowly.
I'm a layperson with an interest so welcome input, my takeaway was this bit 'preliminary evidence suggests that exercise can improve cognitive performance intimately linked to ADHD presentations in children with and without an ADHD diagnosis' which seems to suggest you are incorrect? Given that essentially no harm would come from all children taking a good amount of exercise it would seem following the recommendations would give a good outcome, there are many other benefits to exercise, obviously the odd broken leg, but injuries aside am I missing something?
nobody has mentioned Color FORTH yet?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ColorForth
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For some mesures of 'overwhelmed'. Obviously, the standard number of ITU beds wasn't going to be able to accomodate the pandemic, so yes they converted other facilities into ITU beds. The fact is that we didn't run out of these ITU beds and we easily could have.
Under Google not so much. But you just need liquidity for R&D, the point being you will develop new concepts that will improve profits. Netflix,hulu,amazon prime all came after youtube,perhaps good R&D without Alaphapet's shackles would have let them compete in those markets and more (video conferencing for example like zoom).
Invalidating a patent does take a lot of lawyer time/money but the GNOME Foundation set a funding goal of $125k when it announced doing so was an aim of the defense fund which certainly conveys that they believe that level of funding would make it possible. Something they certainly would have conferred with their legal team regarding. They exceeded that goal by $25k.
It's a shame that they whitelisted such a small selection of titles (on 360).
You're forgetting the important bit:

> That's just a "template" file, which I use search and replace in order to generate the three monomorphized go files.

They were using a separate codegen step (really just a sed run) to actually "do generics". In fact, that was the entire reason this thing was introduced[0], the structure originally used interface{} for its items.

The "generic" part was then moved to a `go_` file from which monomorphisations on bool, ArrayT and ScalarT got generated.

Also

> Go allows characters from the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics for identifiers

I'd expect just about any language which supports unicode identifiers to allow this, as canadian aboriginal syllabics is a "normal" abugida, and its "textual" components are (properly) tagged as XID_Start and XID_Continue.

[0] https://github.com/google/enjarify/commit/55e8e65e681b15f026...
Yes, I think you would probably like Factorio. It even has a demo, which makes it easy.