skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Because of the rapid succession of events during the Covid-19 crisis, the need for real-time information has never been more obvious. People working at home must be able to see what is happening in their supply chains in real-time, and to collaborate with others to view data.”

I have some hope that current events are tilting the scales towards more transparency, and away from secrecy. Or, more open discussion and tech specs, fewer NDAs and trade secrets.
Just to clarify for you because you're not getting the point:

People are getting confused because your reply is structured like you disagree with him, because your comment is written like a rebuttal and your tone is derisive.

However, in your original reply, you're not disagreeing with the above commenter. You're agreeing with them, and ALSO, you take issue with another small thing they mentioned, the comment about how this person would do the cleaning on the weekend.

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To your original point I say this- lots of parents have free time. My mother had hobbies in her free time. My aunt has hobbies has hobbies in her free time. I'm sorry you don't, but the fact that you don't does not mean much about young people that do.
What's more modular and agile than being able to link another library you didn't compile yourself without worrying about your language version or compiler?

C++ build systems are already worse than all the languages you mentioned in part because there's no module support.

I also disagree that it would hurt performance. If the logic contained in "-D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=0" was formalized to allow backwards compatibility, libraries would snap together more easily while still preserving inlining better than C ABI exports are able to.
On the other hand, people complain about Apple "sherlocking" apps when they release Sidecar for example. By your logic,

> they couldn't be creative and patient enough to compete with youtube so they gulp up YouTube

So what can they do? If they had launched "Google Videos" they would have surely been accused of squashing small companies... What option do they have?
So whats your point here?
So according to that logic, we should also stop with the lies for the current medications we use for schizophrenia or epilepsy or Alzheimer's disease because we don't know for sure the cause and we can't prove it? Even when we see many people getting effective treatments from these drugs?
These aren't the standard's committee's goals. They're Google's, NVIDIA's, and the other proposal author's goals.

As a community, we absolutely should reject this proposal and insist that the standards committee continue to support compatibility. Repeating Python3's mistake in C++ would be a nightmare!
Powershell ISE is pre-installed.
I was pretty jealous of that over here in NZ.
I struggle to see the mental leap many are making here.

Are you stating that cost of living impacts your skill level? In some cases that may be true but I think for what most are discussing here the causation would be the other way.

Growing up in a poor area may effect your skill level but moving as an adult from a high COL to low COL area should have minimal impact.

To me it makes more sense that each developer would command the salary that corresponds to their skills, and then adjust their COL in order to be comfortable.
Why stop there? Why not ask, why do we work if the government can just print money and give it to everyone?
...and there was much rejoicing
Is this a solution in search of a problem? I'm not trolling, but asking this honestly.

This is actually the article's tldr:

Exactly what is the problem?
Precisely how does UBI solve this specific problem?

There are examples of focused government programs achieving specific goals, and there are examples of programs with non-specific goals which merely become self-perpetuating.

I think from the shear scale of the federal government's power, it should be turning a profit and paying dividends to citizens. That would be UBI. But that is a way bigger issue and off topic.
You can continue working in a world without the small string optimization if you want. There is already precedent.
This case looks awesome, but great work on the marketing team selling what is basically all software upgrades. Would be a cool statement piece even without the military uses though.
Yes. Your average user knows nothing of file types. They know about pictures. Ask your average iPhone users whether their pictures are stored as JPEG, HEIC or TIFF files and you'll get a blank stare most of the time.
Fuchsia makes the list of OSes to prioritize but not *BSDs. This doc is biased toward the interests of Google. Which is Ok. They should just state that upfront rather than saying “our use cases” and leave it to the reader to figure it out.
Are you Charles Givre? I have your book!
No one rational makes absolute comments on the internet.

Maybe university IT departments are staffed by people. Maybe even at the college board it's just some IT guys trying to keep a shitty platform working. Maybe they did the best they could working within their constraints and they expected the same from students who have a vested interest in getting their results submitted. Maybe this is just much ado about nothing.
That article is about a Tweet being taken down, not about Google. Also that article says

> It is not clear whether C-SPAN or Twitter took down the video.
It is not easy, we have not yet cracked the code, plus will they even have the motivation or any interest to communicate with us?

What we do know is that they produce a variety of signals, some very complex and their communication is super fast, which is another obstacle for possible "communication". For example, we cannot generate a burst pulse with our current technology, we can only record theirs and play it back.

But many research groups are trying. We are starting Dolphin Chat citizen science project on Zooniverse in a month or so, to classify and prepare a large dataset of bottlenose dolphins' vocalizations for out deep learning model. You can check it out and even participate, it will definitely help to appreciate how complex their vocal repertoire is (and how "chatty" they are).
It's really even worse than that. The amount of money spent on medical billing is just obscene. It isn't "profit" for anyone, but it's vast inefficiency.
Lot of great comments here, just wanted to add one piece of historical context:

This had a really bad outcome the last time the UC system tried to do this 20 years ago: https://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2001/02/21_sat.html

In response to the UC's criticism the College Board added an essay to the SAT. The thinking was this would expose the softer, more human side that standardized tests missed.

What happened?

It significantly increased the cost of the test (gotta pay someone to grade it) and made it even harder for poor kids to go to rich schools because they couldn't afford the more expensive test.

Not to mention the subjectivity of grading an essay.

Standardized testing is like that Winston Churchill quote on democracy being "the absolute worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time" -- what system does the UC have that's more fair?

The NYT piece said they're planning on developing their own test -- so now prospective students have to take two tests if they plan on applying to schools outside the UC system?

The practical effect of this is Asian Americans will have to work 2x as hard as other groups to get into good schools, as was revealed by the Harvard case https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/us/harvard-asian-enrollme....
It’s called Go. The downside of having half the Pl PhDs on the planet in their employ is that they can not come to an agreement.
I always found notes and books for open book tests to just make things harder. Sure, a single well made cheat sheat could be invaluable, but in general if you didn't know the material nothing was going to help you if you had to show work, which you do on all non-bubble-sheet exams.
Ha, love this!
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Postgres core hackers are working to ease the limit on max allowable concurrent connections, for example:

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20200301083601.ew...

Maybe the proposal above by itself isn't enough, but it's going to solve some of the many problems that put a restriction on max allowable connections in the first place. For example, I am not sure if there is anything in there to reduce the baseline per connection memory consumption, but maybe that will come up as the next problem to solve and will hopefully be solved sooner than later.
The point is to compensate these vital workers properly and give them some leverage in negotiations with their employer. That's what a UBI does, it makes the life of your fruit-picking wage slave a little more bearable.
If you are opening a new window you are pretty limited. Clearly you are alerting the user that you are spawning new tabs or forcing a new popup if you provide a width or height dimension to your window.open method. Yes, I am aware of the popunder by blurring the new window the moment its created, but that is still not very clever. Even still modern browsers block popups by default, so you have to convince the user to crawl into their browser settings and turn that off, which seems like a hard sell. Then the window.open allows you to specify an address, but not page contents. If you open the same address as the current page the global WebSocket name is still null. You can open to a malicious location though, but that is a good way to get the primary domain blacklisted. You can open to about:blank, which Firefox sends restricted messaging about, but you would have to inject code into that blank page.

Perhaps there are other ways to spawn new windows with greater access control that I am not aware and don't require access to the global window object. The global WebSocket is really window.WebSocket so anything that is reliant upon the window object or inherited from the window object will continue to see that window.WebSocket is null.
Start a remote call center company.
A large part of why I (and I assume others) started with BASIC was because it was accessible. I really wanted to do "real" programming, but C compilers were expensive and there was no internet connection when I was in grade school. Now you can just download Linux and practically infinite languages.

Also, I can't help thinking of how it can be counterproductive to try to push someone in a certain direction.

A lot of times showing what you value and want for yourself tends to have more influence than what you try to get others to value.
On the other hand, my most negative impressions of WFH have come from environments where a minority of employees are doing it. When a majority is FTF, it’s much harder to manage communications and expectations because so much of the critical information makes it to the remote workers slowly, and they miss out on decision-making opportunities.

So in some ways, the current situation is actually an improvement over a more typical split environment.
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It's a play on the "You Give Love a Bad Name" song by Bon Jovi.

"Shot through the heart, and you're to blame, you give love <sic:censorship> a bad name"
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> When you speak of emergent tendencies, I find the idea compelling, but I wonder if this compatible with a constantly changing set of editors.

Crowds, for example, behave similarly even if you shuffle around who is in the crowd.

> However, it is possible to find many pages with annotations criticizing the page content for lack of references or sources. I see that as an attempt to implement fact checking.

You seem to be operating under the assumption that if we only threw more manpower at Wikipedia we could incrementally improve it to perfection. That seems implausible to me for various reasons.

From the essay I linked,

"A core belief of the wiki world is that whatever problems exist in the wiki will be incrementally corrected as the process unfolds. This is analogous to the claims of Hyper-Libertarians who put infinite faith in a free market, or the Hyper-Lefties who are somehow able to sit through consensus decision-making processes. In all these cases, it seems to me that empirical evidence has yielded mixed results. Sometimes loosely structured collective activities yield continuous improvements and sometimes they don't. Often we don't live long enough to find out. Later in this essay I'll point out what constraints make a collective smart. But first, it's important to not lose sight of values just because the question of whether a collective can be smart is so fascinating. Accuracy in a text is not enough. A desirable text is more than a collection of accurate references. It is also an expression of personality."
The narrative for UBI is strong enough, the details on its policy and implementation isn't. I think there's a couple of major initiatives that people need to take:

1) Give UBI to a small county / city for 1 year and study its economic and social impact.

Do the full 12k, $1000 a year grant to a small city. With a 30k population, that's around $500m dollars with research overhead?

One goal (among others) is to show how the money improves the local economy and gets earned back by the government / taxes, since that is a significant part of UBI's way of paying for itself.

2) Create a more robust policy for paying for it.

I want a document that is 50-300 pages long and covers EVERYTHING I can think of, like, 1) what exactly is excluded in the VAT tax? 2) Charts of consumption levels and how much you'll end up paying, with examples of actors at each level. 3) How much does Amazon, Facebook, Google, etc, actually pay for UBI? 4) What is the breakdown of where UBI money comes from in the economy? 5) What are contingency plans for if we have a deficit? Print money? Loan? 6) What are the contingency plans for if we have a permanent deficit, year over year? Inflation?

3) Find out the answer to the harder questions truthfully. The easy questions are things like, "will poor people be grateful for extra money?" The answer is obviously yes. The harder questions are things like "What % of people will spend their UBI on drugs and alcohol?"

You don't want to just brush aside the hard questions and treat them like roadblocks. If it turns out that UBI becomes people's weed stash, you have to look yourself in the eye and say "did we mess up". Of course, we could create policy to limit that behavior, but that comes from addressing the hard questions.

4) I would love personas that detail what the "average" US citizen's economic situation looks like with the population representation. Even if this is more fiction than fact, I think knowing about a Bob Smith who makes X amount of money, spends X on the following, has the following monetary problems, and by the way, is emblematic of another 2-5 million people in the US, would be really helpful for me to understand what the point of UBI is, since I'm not one of the primary users. 15+ of these kinds of profiles would be really cool to read especially if they cover the 70% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck.
Pretty much this. There's something else at play here given they haven't been left to crash and burn, and patents either resold or licensing deals inked. There's likely something actively being used or funded that can't be left to fall over as part of a wider scope of work or project. Given it's JPMC, only the board will "officially" be privy to it.

Nobody throws money into the fire unless they're trying to keep something warm.

Once that project ceases, those employees will be cut and the resulting tech or teams will be acqui-hired by an R&D arm or contractor who'll continue to pick at the bones of it.

JPMC is in the money business. Not tech. They're riding this beater until it finally conks out.

If you work for MagicLeap, get your CV out there.
> would i be able to get prototypes for say, $1000

This takes $500K+ of investment. You need expensive tooling to develop the design and license any commercial IP. You have to pay the engineers to do the design and preproduction verification work. You have to pay the fab to make the masks, make the chips, and test them. Then you have to iterate to deal with problems.
This argument gets made over and over, never with any logic attached to it.
My situation is a bit different: I have a 4K display, so space is not at such a premium, but I have 70-100 tabs open, in several large subtrees, and smaller subtrees within them, etc.

It is possible to make the tree pretty narrow if the screen is small, then the tabs begin to look more like the crowded top tab bar, but still allow for some structure.
Ars had a pretty good take on it: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/05/the-galaxy-s20-tacti...
I am from Kathmandu. Yes, technically, you could see Mt. Everest on a clear dawn from Fulchowki or Chandragiri.

But, seeing Mt. Everest sitting from my terrace at home in Kathmandu (theoretically as I am in Boston, but some of my folks in Nepal see Sagarmatha (Everest) now) would not have been possible without all this pollution throughout Nepal going away.
My university, another state school, did the same sort of thing. They have something like a 50% graduation rate, and employ the same sort of washout techniques in science classes. My freshman CS classes dropped to less than a quarter of their initial size by the end of the first semester. The math department is very selective about transferring credits too, to stop people from taking an easier Calc class at a community college.
Britain did not get what it wanted, either for itself or the people of Hong Kong. What it got was what it was able to negotiate, and, given its weak position, it wasn't just a sell-out.
Thanks for your opinion. I for one fully support UBI. Maybe because the amount of homeless people in SF is insane.
You could attach a pair of 180 degree camera modules to a single board computer and have a proof of concept prototype with no custom software to make it easy to use, but if you want a polished custom solution with compact hardware, battery power, and associated software you’re looking at six figures of NRE minimum. If you want a production ready product, it’s into the millions.

How cheap do you think engineers will work? Even if they could pull it off with 1000 man hours, do you really expect them to charge $1/hr? Your estimates are off by many orders of magnitude.

But what you’re describing (Minus LIDAR) is available off the shelf from multiple action camera vendors. We’ve been using 360 cameras in the action sport world for years now.
Oh boy. No this is not what we need to prove UBI. A lot can be done with $5M besides just giving a one time payment to some random folks.
tl;dr: 1 million units
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"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." - Edsger Dijkstra
A recent case regarding video games: in its latest update, Doom Eternal added a kernel-mode "anticheat" (which, among other nasty features, prevented the video game from working unless certain ports were open [1]). Even if you ignore the huge security risks and the total disregard for privacy, this "anticheat" prevented the game from running in Linux, therefore removing an important feature. Apparently the publishers have decided to remove the "anticheat" after the backlash, but this kind of behaviour is becoming worrisomely common in all kinds of software.

[1] https://steamcommunity.com/app/782330/discussions/0/36067658...
Sounds like a fish story.
Yeah. Literally the only thing I can think of off the top of my head that you can probably remove from C++ without significant damage is virtual base classes, and even that I'm not really sure about. (Curious if anyone here has had much of a use for them.) But anything else seems like it would just fundamentally destroy the language for various slices of its users.
This is the only reason to buy these calculators.
LOOOOOL

what country will fall into this trap

samsumg LOOOOOOOL
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in 2009 when this project was being planned housing was soooo cheap in San Diego

Existing apartments for 100k in nice areas, why even try to build for 400k on prime beach areas?

Think about it: Miguel Zamora has been living on government housing vouchers since 1992 waiting for an apartment whose cost rose from 400k to 1MM.

If he had received as settlement enough money for a downpayment (20-50k) he would own his own place and would have participated in the equity growth
It's kind of funny that whenever archaeologists find something they have no idea what it is, it's assumed to be a religious artifact, but when a fairly intelligent animal does something weird, we don't say "it must be for religious reasons"...a long time ago I read a science fiction novel that explained the lack of communication with cetaceans by their having religious sensibilities that prevented them from responding. Eventually, communication was established, but the religion was still incomprehensible to humans.
>> Be able to tell a story or two about doing it

That's a great rule of thumb for anything! Thanks for that.
>> Joining a CTF team

Thanks for that! I just submitted the registration form for OTA, looking forward to it!
C++ has been greatly reinvigorated this past decade with language and compiler modernization. Few C++ programmers decamped to Go; most of Go’s adoptees came from Python. Go doesn’t have all that much to offer a C++ programmer.
I don’t remember any examples off-hand, but we have a few town names in Indiana which aren’t even unique within the state, because one of the locations isn’t incorporated.
>> reverse engineering subreddit

Thanks for this resource, I just joined.
Paul Allen flew down to New Mexico where MITS was without ever having tested Basic on a real Altair 8800.

It was on essentially ticker-tape, which was the medium at the time (wikipedia's photo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_BASIC#/media/File:Altai...)

Paul Allen was still "writing" it on the plane which in this case meant taking careful notes, cross-checking it very carefully and then manually punching holes into the paper. This is 1975, laptops are many years away.

It'd take about 30 minutes to load into the machine. Paul Allen claims they were the longest 30 minutes of his life. The MITS people were just smiling and waiting patiently, eager to see the cool software while Allen, on the other hand, had absolutely no idea whether it would work or not (they wrote it on an emulator after all).

After the 30 minutes it was ready to go and bam, everything worked. Bill and Paul had a company. Microcomputer software was now a thing.

Maybe I should do a computer history podcast ... I just checked and I don't really like most of them ... The video game crash of 1983 for example, I'd do at least 10 30 minute episodes on. The NES came out of it. I mean yeah, at least 10 episodes. I'll pick something super small (for example the HP 9100a) and see how it goes
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>> Start a blog & track your progress.

Thanks for that.
Writing is a skill that I have failed time and again to develop. The 6 months I blogged, I still refer to those notes after 2 years. It's so valuable.
Microsoft BASIC was all over the place in the late 70's and early 80's. Before MS-DOS, Microsoft was basically a programming languages company (and they still are today). They licensed their BASIC to many other companies, even Apple.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_BASIC
Ha! Freudian Typo. Thanks!
Then you're lazy and have no sense of dignity, congrats!

Now give all these poor people a chance to prove that they're not like you, and many will.
What amount of UBI gets us to $100 toilet rolls?
Kurt Vonnegut