skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Big pharma is doing drugs, China is winning at solar, and every auto manufacture and major tech company are working on self driving.

Do you have any examples that aren't already flooded with funding?
Obviously nobody is about to post proof of anything on HN, but it's possible that one of the claims is true, and one is false.

Just like the fact that the media does occasionally report on valid news.
Perspective on McKinsey and Company
Pulse: DIY pendant to warn you when you touch your face
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Maybe this is because most people with cars in America (especially in the 1950's) were not worried much about the price of gas. Europe had much higher gas prices and was much poorer, so how much it would cost (how much gas would be used to get somewhere) was more important for planning than knowing when they would need to fill up again.
Can you name a person who has been "cancelled" for illegitimate reasons, and unable to find a new job in a reasonable time?

James Damore is gainfully employed. Steve Hsu is still a tenured professor, Justine Sacco had a new job within a month, George Zimmerman is able to make a better living than most by selling murder memorabilia.
Black Community Elders Shutdown and Shame Anti-Statue Protest
Remy Sharp teaching kids to code
This is the main reason why I'm thinking about not getting a MBP as my next laptop.
Apple declares a laptop "vintage" after 5 years and doing so it basically kills any possibility to get the machine repaired since they're not user-serviceable at all. Furthermore they stop updating the OS just a bit later and if you have a newer model with a T2 chip you won't even be able to install Linux on it.

(To be fair though, I'm not sure I would pay for an expensive repair on a 5+ years machine anyway)
This is interesting, thanks for sharing this. I will look at the JOE editor to see how this is implemented.

I have thought about this problem off and on. Usually the conclusion I come to is that we need a new tty interface. The old tty interface has too much legacy baggage. For example l, in addition to the buffering problem, there is also the key input problem. Ideally, a newer interface would provide scan codes instead of the escape sequences. Not having to deal with ‘escape’ like we do today would simplify things.
Part 2: https://jvns.ca/blog/2014/10/02/how-does-sqlite-work-part-2-...
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I agree that both sides have arguments that they feel the opposition cannot rebuke, but I think that one place where a discussion can be fruitful is to understand whether this allows for a slippery slope or not.

Personally I dislike the concept of ethicity-aware policies as they give legal weight to a classification that ideally should hold very little legal weight, but more that a justification of why this is necessary now I am interested in why this is not too much (now or in the future).

I don't think we understand this part yet.
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And the strategy is to do that by... outing and destroying people who are demonstrably not racist?

Outing and destroying people who are not racist makes examples of them. Examples that are to be hoped to make people too afraid to speak out against the agenda.

As http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html points out, this strategy is used by groups that believe that they have power..but only barely. The problem is that if they prove to have less power than they think, the resulting backlash hurts them.

Mark my words. That kind of backlash is part of what allowed Trump to get elected the first time. And if conflict intensifies, it will help his prospects of getting re-elected. And this is not just any election year. 2020 is census year - the state legislatures elected this year will redraw Congressional districts. We have been suffering for the last 10 years because the 2010 elections were dominated by opponents of Barack Obama and their districts favor Republicans. Do we really want the 2020s to be similarly suffering the fallout against overreach by the BLM movement?
In 2020, how could you show that someone was "demonstrably not racist"? Arguing that a particular person (especially oneself) is not racist is an activity that shows racism.
it's my resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/156_QouW7Os6iLJkc696LElf5STQ...

email: joh1989@gmail.com
As a hobbyist who likes to tinker with game and interactive media development, a sentiment I often come across is that in 2020 it makes no sense to implement a game engine, and that I should just use something which already exists to avoid re-inventing the wheel. Code like this is one thing which helps me to calmly ignore than sentiment.

I came across the same kind of thing when I was kicking the tires on the Unreal Engine, and I wanted to attempt to add a double jump. I thought surely this should be an easy task, I would just need to find where the jump occurs, add a counter, and remove the restriction which only lets a character jump when touching the ground. What I found was a monstrous tangle of indirection similar to this one.

Now that's not to say that these engines are "bad code" - when you look at all the things a modern game engine does, including supporting interactive editing for non-coders, I'm sure there is some explanation for the level of complexity seen in code like this just because of how many systems must be layered on top of each-other. But that is the thing which makes me question whether general-purpose game engines are really a good idea at all.

In most other domains of software we've long ago eschewed this type of do-everything monolithic software design in favor of more loosely coupled composible toolsets. I'm not entirely sure why it seems that game development has yet to escape this paradigm.
Whats hilarious is that the left will go on and on about how so and so needs to be shut down and canceled in America because someone somewhere said something offensive. They use words like "why is youtube/twitter/etc... giving a platform to <X>" until they get canceled. I know because my PR fundraiser for Judy Mikovits got canceled by GoFundMe when the NYT ran a hit piece on me.

My recourse is zero. I can't appeal.

Now the Indian government is censoring porn and Isis and the leftist publisher here is waxing concern about how this process is arbitrary and unappealable.

Yeah... nobody cares anymore. The left has normalized censorship so your anti-censorship articles just show that you only care about censorship of leftist topics, and fully support it otherwise.
Except the areas that are dismantling their police forces. The expression means different things to different people
cool, i'll check that, thank you!
Lenovo, maybe: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/02/lenov...
I don't think it's the best code I've ever seen, but a lot of these are surface-level complaints.

> * goto inside 3 nested for-loops.

C has no pattern for breaking out of multiple for loops at the same time. Other languages like Java and JavaScript introduced "break label;" to handle this edge case. goto is perfectly acceptable to break out of multiple loops.

> * new/delete, with no RAII

They use RAII, but it's not applicable here. In this case, the developers only want to allocate a temporary array when it needs to be resized. Since we don't want a large stack allocation (stack sizes are super small on consoles), using a delete/free to resize an array seems fine to me. Game developers have a long-seated distrust of std::vector, and for good reasons.

RAII is used for the WriteCondLock which you criticize in the next bullet point, so it's not like they were unaware of it. Just not the right tool for the job.

> * thread specific variables and locks (?)

You seem to be upset that they have code that uses locks at all? I don't really know what this bullet-point is saying, other than "I looked for 5 minutes and didn't understand the threading structure".

If I had to take an issue with this code, it's the lack of enums for e.g. iSimClass, despite it having an enum with definitions. That's the sort of stuff that's difficult to reason about and follow along with without having a mapping in my head. And it has no overhead, so why not do it?

https://github.com/CRYTEK/CRYENGINE/blob/6c4f4df4a7a092300d6...
I would recheck logs and content hosted on the website and its subdomains

Maybe one of the other users has something really out there being shared in another subdomain

(Or it might not be a customer - but someone who found a vulnerability and is hosting questionable content unbeknownst to him)
Mac Excel Update Breaks 1MB Memory Limit (1989)
I would argue that, depending on your value sytem, many better social models have been invented and flourished for thousands of years. They didn't value property or money nor care to commit genocide to further expansion and hence were basically wiped out. Just because the psycopathic murderers won does not make their world view a "better social model".
Crop sustainability developer Indigo Ag raises $300M
It’s always been $100. I spend $90 a year on my R# license. Of all things to complain about, the $100 is the least objectionable.
I think there might be a mistake in this article, or at least something requiring clarification.

> For convenience, suppose the binary tree is complete and has height H=2^K.

What is K? It's never stated. I'd usually assume H = log N, if N is the number of nodes in a balanced tree.
Take a look at the hanford site if you want to be scared. And look at where it is, note that's the Columbia river, which rolls right through northern portland. Or if you don't care about people, it also powers most of the data centers in the northwest. And is right near where most of the hops are grown (won't someone think of the beer!).

https://www.hanford.gov/page.cfm/AboutHanfordCleanup

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Hanford+Site/@46.5656811,-...

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Portland+International+Air...
Anyone looked at DuckDB [1]? Like SQLite, it's an embedded relational database with a C API. In fact, it has a wrapper which presents the same API as SQLite [2]. But it's optimised for analytical rather than transactional work - a few huge queries rather than lots of little reads and writes.

[1] https://duckdb.org/

[2] https://github.com/cwida/duckdb/tree/master/tools/sqlite3_ap...
I Cut the 'Big Five' Tech Giants from My Life. It Was Hell (2019)
I get full color, smells, taste and sensations.

I am annoyed when I get woken up from a good meal. :)

(On the flip side, I can technically breath underwater in my dreams, but I feel the water going into my lungs so it isn't pleasant!)
Well I don't really know what group I fall into because I couldn't tell you how close I was. All I know is it was the loudest noise I've ever heard and I felt the ground shake. Never been in an earthquake so it's the also the only time I've ever felt the ground shake. But 50 meters? 500 meters? No clue.
Well no not really. It’s two data points. Let’s work out what is different and work out why yours sucks :)

I run mine with default apps, couch to 5k, nutracheck, YouTube, eBay, Santander, OS maps, prime video, Netflix, slack, PayPal, Uber eats, duo mobile TOTP and that’s it. No social crap.
Just out of curiosity, would you prefer 24” 4K multi-monitor setup, or a giant single 50” 4K TV with good input lag and latency?

As for the post, IMHO the danger of using your phone to access these is that you’re constantly thinking of the media you’re consuming without any breaks. For example, at universityvI was extremely proficient in distracting myself for hours on end by reading every single comment on HN submissions. I started the day with mindless wikipedia readings and HN and didn’t have much energy/mental capacity to do anything else.
Maker of app here. Thanks for posting! That's precisely one of the goals.

SLEEP is a massive musical landscape and there is so much to explore. I hope this app will allow me to hear more of SLEEP while they meditate, focus or ... sleep.
that’s speculation. i could be a horse, it could be a bear, a moose, you name it
In the body, the coronavirus is even more sinister than scientists realized
I think I may be looking for you or other articles to hand me the easy way out to help with connect myself. It may be that I need to spend more time with myself in solitude and figure it out.
I’ve developed with JS for a few years, toying with vanilla JS (and doing some small bootcamp assignments/projects with it) but for actual projects I’ve used jQuery, Ember, React, etc. I feel like I was productive and there was little I “couldn’t” do without going too far off the rails.

I know how to do an AJAX request, delegate an event listener, and update the DOM, all with vanilla JS. I guess it’s useful knowledge if you’re going to build a library/framework or hand-tune a critical part of your app, but honestly I have no desire to get too comfortable with low-level JavaScript. There’s too much weird syntax and too many gotchas, although ES6+ has improved things a little.

Personal preferences aside, I have some experience as a programming tutor and think pushing people to learn plain JavaScript from the start is setting them up for frustration to the point that many will quit before ever becoming proficient.

Also, I learned Python before I learned JavaScript, but actually started toying with Django before I understood even a decent chunk of Python syntax. Being able to build something less trivial than “Hello World” almost right away gives positive reinforcement and encourages people to keep learning.

My advice for people starting out with any language is to ask around and see if there is a framework that is 1) popular and well-supported; 2) easy to learn; 3) will get you a lot of mileage and grow with you. In the case of JavaScript, that’s React. In the case of Python, that’s Django. I’m still fairly new to Swift, but SwiftUI seems like a great way to start out with the language.

Before people can become programmers, you have to get them interested in programming.
I wish I could upvote this more than once. Metastasized is the appropriate word.
If only the New York Times had interviewed the person who took the photo and spread the false narrative, we would knew who it was, and then we could go harass them...

/s
https://www.apple.com/iphone-se/
At first I was assuming this was using streetview.
I realise not everywhere is included on streetview, but when it is, it would be nice to have the option of using that instead of having to shoot your own video.
> The article was about people who were accused of beliefs they didn't hold, so this example is different.

Is it?

I may be misremembering, but my impression was that Eich was pushed out because people interpreted his political donation as being indicative of a larger belief. I don’t recall Eich ever making a statement on the issue.

I’m not defending him here, so please don’t get me wrong. I’m only pointing out that there seems to be some level of inferring someone’s “true beliefs” in both cases. There’s a lot more of it in the article, granted, but it leads me to ask: where is the bar?
Tencel brand is a closed-loop version of the lyocell rayon process.
It not a typo, it's a (single) incorrect test result, probably due to contamination, operator error, noise, or expected defects in testing supplys. (It might be some other coronavirus (there are plenty). It theoretically might be COVID-19, but as you note, that's incredibly unlikely.)
There are plenty of upsides. Patents are assets that cost much less to obtain than their value. Even small companies should be able to afford one patent application per quarter.

Put IP protection in the budget just like any other cost-of-doing-business expense.
Joshua Conner Moon.
https://warosu.org/g/thread/S61710346?__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=e0...

Read this whole thread.

He has been defamed as a pedophile by a stalker, and has been denied several six figure paying jobs 3-4 interviews into the hiring process explicitly because one guy decided to cancel him. The stalker says he monitors court records to prevent Josh from restarting his career by changing his name. Josh is now unemployable and living in Serbia.

Bio on the stalker:

Samuel Collingwood Smith is a yellow journalist who specializes in defamation and stalking. After a brief stint as a British council member, he publicly embarrassed himself by claiming his political enemies were sexual abusers of children. Without a job, he indulged in an obsession with Evanescence and attempted to become ring leader of Internet fan clubs about Amy Lee. In his quest to become her #1 fan, he would bully, harass, and stalk underage girls who held forum moderator positions above him. More than five years later, he threatens them legally if they speak on what abuse he submitted them to. After a falling out with Evanescence staff, he accused the band of being child pornographers and was forced into a permanent contract which requires he never speak of Amy Lee or Evanescence again. Despite parliamentary petitions to invalidate the non-disclosure agreement, he is legally bound to this day.

Since then, Samuel Collingwood Smith has trailblazed the Internet leaving behind countless smear campaigns purporting anyone he does not like to be involved in child pornography somehow. An emotionally unstable adult-child who focuses much of his time on GamerGate and relevant topics, he is well known as a public menace to local constables and courts. Writing under multiple pen names, including Vordrak and Matthew Hopkins, the Witchfinder General, he romanticizes the English witch hunter by the same name. He hides behind this intimidating Internet persona and openly calls himself a terrorist. His mission statement is "to expose corruption and terrorise the guilty without worrying too much about due process."
Warning–Apple Suddenly Catches TikTok Secretly Spying on Millions of iPhone User
If you read and want to refute the article, how do you counter the accusation that most of these loans are used for daily necessities and not for starting a business?

Why would a desperately poor person use a loan to start a business when they can't get enough for their children to eat?

Just in theory, a loan is only useful for someone who is already stable enough to think about long-term investments like starting a business. It doesn't help the hundreds of millions of people who don't have daily necessities.

> Looking at interest rates in isolation is meaningless.

Untrue. No one claiming to benefit the poor should ever charge, for example, 50% interest.

You might argue that the risk profile of these loans demands 75% interest, and 50% is a big discount by a nonprofit. That may be true, but it's still unbearable for people struggling to buy food and it still highlights the fact that loans are not a solution to systemic poverty in mismanaged countries.

> Capital is what turns poor people into middle class people.

Citation needed. Is capital fixing the poverty, or is capital arriving because something else has already started fixing the poverty?

The US and India have waged wars on poverty with success. These may have been boosted by capital, but they were not initiated or driven by it. As in all cases where poverty is alleviated, they were driven by grants and social programs.

In fact, the political interests of the holders of capital have reversed some of this progress.
Police unions are very different from ordinary labour unions. So, that is not a counter point, really.

(You could argue that I'm engaging in a "True Scotchman", but see this article [1]:

> Police unions make it nearly impossible to fire bad cops and incentivize protecting them to protect the power of the union. A police union is not a labor union; police officers are powerful state agents, not exploited workers.

)

[1] https://medium.com/@OfcrACab/confessions-of-a-former-bastard...
My first guess is their nuclear powered torpedo, 'Poseidon', aka STATUS-6, or Kanyon:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status-6_Oceanic_Multipurpose_...

I'd sooner expect it in the Arctic Ocean, but who knows.

Edit: Some supporting evidence from twitter: https://twitter.com/FrankBottema/status/1276930424170844162
There is short term and long term crime prevention. Long term, you are absolutely, 100% right about how to decrease crime. In the short term though, it would be nice if my friends bikes would stop getting stolen and if aggressive drunk people on the local train couldn’t steal someone’s hat and then ask everyone on board “you gonna do something about it?” (neither are gang issues, I wanted to choose non-extreme but real examples).

Ideally we could spend 100% on the long term but that is impractical.
That’s a fascinating idea, but in practice I think we Americans have completely messed it up. Some U.S. states like Georgia centralize investigative responsibilities (often when municipalities are too small to budget these services). This strategy hasn’t lead to great results. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is notorious for falsely indicting and imprisoning minorities. I suspect the same is probably true in other states.

We do still have the FBI and federal Dept of Justice that is supposed to provide some semblance of oversight. However, as we have seen over the last 4 years, they are equally susceptible to political influence as local law enforcement agencies.
Damore has a job? That's kind of news. I thought he was living off the settlement.
What better tool do you suggest that can handle logout? It's 2020 and there are none.

OpenID Connect with JWT handles logout just fine if you really want it. Call the /oidc/tokeninfo to check the token is valid instead of verifying the signature offline. Of course this doesn't have the benefits of a decentralized token anymore. Can't have the cake and eat it too.
The Anti-Defamation League (a group that tracks hate groups) disagrees.

https://www.adl.org/blog/how-the-ok-symbol-became-a-popular-...

They attribute it to 4chan.
It's even more than that. I always thought we should fight for justice to make a better world for us to live in, and we should not hurt any group of ordinary people in the name of justice. Then, how is it right for a professor to tweet that "white lives don't matter"? I mean, the lives of hundreds of millions of people don't matter? They are all privileged? They are all sinned? They are all evil? They should all perish? They should all suffer injustice? Their skin color, which they can't change, makes them so despicable that their lives don't matter? Isn't this the very definition of racism? Yet the professor is lauded as a true hero.

Something is horribly wrong.
You really should make an attempt to reply to comments as they are, rather than insisting on quoting sentences removed.

Here is some video evidence to assist in adjusting your views as requested.

Personally, I advise you (and other readers) not to watch them; this sort of thing isn't psychologically healthy. But it exists and its as appalling as the police brutality - but you don't seem to see so much of this in the mainstream media for some reason.

https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1275104256643792901

https://twitter.com/SamParkerSenate/status/12734446560475136...
The anti-defamation league (a group that tracks hate groups) says it was 4chan.

https://www.adl.org/blog/how-the-ok-symbol-became-a-popular-...
Well it is preferable than getting a bunch of emails with filenames like (Copy)(Copy)_final_(11)__27th June.

Git should not be limited to few folks who understand version control, there is a lot value for people who can just it linearly for collaborative history tracking
Introduction to the Theory of Games (1952)
Embedded KV stores are as comparable to SQLite as Cassandra is to Postgres (i.e. lacking joins or other data modelling essentials), but I agree that embedding a database directly inside your app is interesting and opens up a world of possibilities for efficiently blending N+1 code and queries. It gets even more interesting to take it a step further and embed a networked-replica of a database à la Datomic Peers.
Xi-Editor Retrospective
We don't disagree :)
To be honest, elitism in such places keeps them awesome. Not everything is for everyone, despite how much modern movements want to believe so.