skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another good one. Herzog waxing poetic on the jungle:

https://youtu.be/ze9-ARjL-ZA

I love his work but sometimes I wonder how much he’s actually trying to be funny with these sorts of comments. Maybe just overly serious as a younger man?

“The birds don’t sing they screech in pain.”
IO isn't the problem. The issue is that a lot of code assumes that each string character is represented by a single char value, which isn't correct.
Independent of whether it's been down more frequently since the acquisition, I find Github's status page reporting to be lacking. It's also quite generous with definitions of outages and downtime.

For example, on June 22nd they had an issue whereby half of their nameservers were responding with an empty answer for queries for github.com. A very nice explanation is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23605409. So for roughly half of users (including myself) this would have manifested itself as a complete outage. It also lasted for a good couple of hours. Yet on their status page it's listed as a 46 minute degradation only.

So relying on their status page reporting to draw conclusions about availability (as Statusgator seems to) will mean that an overly optimistic picture of availability is presented.
I’ll bet that the news in the USSR was uniformly optimistic right up to the end. When it all falls apart, it will happen quickly. I don’t watch network tv but it sounds like there are going to be a lot of very surprised boomers out there.
Why Next Round of Covid-19 Aid Should Target Industries That Cant Work from Home
Yup. Windows 95 had a solid color and Windows 98 added the gradient. You could set both colors to the same one to make it solid again.
> Gitlab is written on Ruby on Rails; you should understand the security implications of Ruby on Rails before using Gitlab

Can someone ELI5 the security implications of Ruby on Rails?
Sorry, are you saying you have read the book already? I know it was released in April as a hard cover.
I am not even mad that the social status is zero to be honest, but I think you are completely correct. People do think that I am rich and can do math though, but that is about it. I think my education was horizontal enough to have an opinion to things outside my field too, but it is generally disregarded because I am just the computer guy.

I know more about medicine than the common doctor knows about computers though. Seriously, doctors in my country are selected from the best pupils and the result is mixed at best.

Judging the knowledge and context of amateurs is where most professionals fail regardless of occupation, but if you see a doctor in front of a computer you might quickly loose all faith in humanity.

That said, I don't think you need formal education in computer science, since knowledge is broadly available online. It doesn't hurt to be nudged in certain directions for a semester or two though. My university always paired physics or electrical engineering with CS. there is also a less popular option of philosophy. The latter was historically a popular combination when CS wasn't its own degree.
Steam has plenty of money and users. It also had little serious competition before Epic. While I'm a fan of well regulated markets, I don't think punishing Epic would benefit anyone except Steam shareholders.
People have heard of and will probably be at least mildly impressed by the big consumer-facing FAANGs plus maybe a few others like Microsoft, IBM, etc.. But Oracle, Salesforce, SAP (to say nothing of a myriad of other software and hardware companies)? The average person hasn't even heard of most of them.
That's just Master of Arts (MA). MSc, MEng, MLitt, etc., are not automatic.
The fourth year of an undergrad also gives an “undergraduate master’s”.
June 29 Discussion Board: America's Nursing Home Crisis
Ask HN: C debug console server recommendaiton
I am looking for a recommendation (library or technology) for a server that can run inside my program to which I can send commands from a client program running on the same machine. The approach must run on Linux and Windows and be written in C (tough I'm sure I can get C++ to work).

For example, my program is running, and I would like to change its state without going through its UI. I would like to open a telnet-type shell (or any other CLI) which connects to my program. I then would like to enter commands and see responses back from my program.

I can throw a Lua interpreter into my program and feed it commands, what I don't know how to do is let some other process attach to mine and communicate. I'm familiar with threads and know how to offload the interpreter and command handling. I know sockets are a thing, but I haven't a clew of how to use them to communicate between processes without writing both ends custom.

Security is not an issue, since this is a debug-only feature.

Thanks!
And think things through - bring Back Steve¡Bong! or Nathen Barley I say.

Steve¡Bong! was a satirical invention of The Register for those who are unfamiliar
The point is attention to details.
Their blog went down in a matter of minutes.

Can you be sure their product will not?
I just realized that I have a problem, where I think "why would I pay $50 for a PCB that I can design and make myself?" and then conclude "therefore nobody would pay".

Maybe I should start selling some of the PCBs I made.
I’ve never figured out if it’s possible to stream to anything that’s not a chromecast, e.g pc -> phone, or phone -> pc. Are these possible using ‘cast’ technologies available in iOS and Android?
Neural Network Optimal Control in Astrodynamics
stupidest move ever. for a while linux was more familiar to windows users than windows. ballmer got fired for that.
The lack of diversity in the mostly white RIA industry
Yubico has said from the very beginning that they will stick to NFC because Bluetooth is not secure.

Bluetooth is a 3000+ pages spec that's a mess and will likely always remain a mess. Maybe it's time for something better?
I think they are asking if the delirium is any more severe than what you would expect from other diseases that cause fever. They are not saying that SARS-CoV-2 is equally as bad as some other infection.
> Is the social status of computer scientists zero, or do computer scientists choose not to go into politics or other leadership positions?

Well the outcome is the same either way. And if none of the institutions have any computer scientists in them now good luck to the first few people trying because they work on social connections.

There's a social ceiling to computer scientists. I won't call it a glass ceiling even because everyone can see it.

Take an institution like the NSA - where probably some of the best computer scientists and mathematicians are working doing some of the most cutting edge work with the best resources. Who leads them? A low social status computer scientist? Of course not. They get in a high social status military officer to do that job - can't trust the computer scientists and can you blame them because they won't have any influence in society to get anything done anyway!
Good luck with that, this government is allergic to accountability. There are three references in Hansard: https://hansard.parliament.uk/search?searchTerm=oneweb&parti...

- previous reference to investing £18m in March 2019 (Chris Skidmore, under Theresa May, mentions ESA; before the "cut all ties to Europe" moment)

- same page https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2019-03-19/debates/E3F... references £92m for a "domestic alternative to Galileo", not specifically linked to oneweb

- Vicky Ford mentions them in the context of "my local company Teledyne e2v is working in Leeds, where it is making the highly engineered filters, switches and converters that are critical technology for the OneWeb group of satellites" https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2018-01-15/debates/634...

- brief namecheck from Ed Vaizey

I suspect the actual "tender" process will be resistant to FOIA under grounds of "commercial confidentiality".
Network effects make Steam a practical monopoly. And it's probably no coincidence it has lower rates for AAA studios since Epic has gained a foothold in the market.
Latex is also very old and a huge pain to debug when things go wrong.

I would love to see a complete office package based on some markdown language. It would be simple to understand and use.

Speaking of markdown, can someone please release an updated version of RST? The kernel folks use it for documentation so I'm surprised no one has yet tried to improve the spec and the tools.
The Cost of Amazon
Try skinny-dipping in the pool sometime.
Daily coronavirus cases in India near 20k as Mumbai extends lockdown
As an individual or small business I agree with you. Their free tier is amazing? And they seem to be awesome people with only the best intentions.

I hope for more diversity, for many reasons. One of which is that they are a know man-in-the-middle, that can see the plan text of what appears to be secure communication to the user. It operates in the US, it can be compelled to, and to do it silently, into using their position to spy on people.

That said we use them at work and I use them personally. I'm not doing anything "risky" at all. But there are many cases in history where suddenly the government changes and now you are. And apparently black people are always doing something "risky" in the US.
There's an irony that a western country, Germany, moved Lenin to Russia in 1917, which was a significant factor in the revolution that followed.
On a similar note, I have found on Linux that just switching to a virtual terminal and running Emacs in text mode is an absolutely wonderful way of achieving deep focus without distractions. Obviously not much use if you need a web browser on your second monitor though.
Man, I really want to say we don't because of the implications of too centralised an internet, but there's no way it isn't a transitive dependency.
[OP/article author here]

Well, that was sort of my point. If you follow the link to the ROUGOL talk on its history, it explains some of the reasons why.

It's important to consider that the history of RISC OS has an important commonality with the history of AmigaOS: in both cases, the companies were planning something far more sophisticated and clever -- CAOS for Commodore, ARX for Acorn -- but the projects over-ran and under-delivered. So, they fell back on almost-skunkworks projects that used existing tech to get something good enough out the door when the hardware was ready to ship.

In Commodore's case, they used the existing TRIPOS OS, written in BCPL:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIPOS
... and the existing Rexx language:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rexx

The result was AmigaDOS (as it was originally called, before it was renamed to AmigaOS).

In Acorn's case, there had already been a 16-bit port of the BBC Micro MOS and BASIC, for the ill-fated Acorn Communicator, based on the same 65C816 CPU as the Apple ][GS:
http://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/Computers/Communi...

So Acorn ported its existing OS and language to ARM, and wrote a fairly basic desktop GUI in BASIC. The result was Arthur:
https://everything2.com/title/Arthur+OS

Once it had shipped, it was finished and renamed RISC OS. Allegedly the name change is because of the Dudley Moore film which had just taken the name "Arthur 2":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_2:_On_the_Rocks

So, yes, it was a hasty, last-minute exercise, based on an outdated core, an early-1980s, single-user, single-tasking command-line OS for a low-end machine -- just like Windows 3 and DOS.

On the other hand, it worked and worked very well -- arguably far better than Windows 3, I'd say.
One day I hope to come to your country and travel on horseback.
I don't know if there really are forests of apple trees that grow apples I'd need two hands to hold, but if it's true I want to ride through in spring when the trees are in blossom. The few Kazakh people I've mentioned this too, have dismissed the idea with phrases like 'don't bother, it's an ex soviet strongman kleptocracy shit hole with las vegas architecture.'
But I'm hanging onto the hope that in any country, city people don't really know much about the world beyond where the paved roads end.
Let them unlock until they hit half point, but leave the rest unlockable.
> Trump’s threats to leave NATO

Yeah, it's crazy to expect other countries to pay the agreed upon amount to support the organization.

Aside from that, why does NATO need to exist? Europe can fight their own battles, they have enough money.
The Abysmal State of Macintosh Emulation
maybe this down caused by cloud migration from AWS to Azure?
> Also, Civil Engineers do learn physics as part of their course.

The analogy is apt for exactly that reason. Some knowledge in physics is fundamentally required, but for the civil engineer it's only professionally relevant to the extent that they can apply it to solve practical problems. A solid understanding of physics (and indeed how to come out wiser after reading a paper relevant to your field) is just one part of their expected skill set.
Quite the hack: https://i.imgur.com/rG0p0b2.gif
> the big companies treat you like a leper unless you went through a few chosen schools.

I was under the impression that they didnt care about your background, but you had to slave away on leetcode to have a chance to pass the interviews.
ReDoS: Regular Expression Denial of Service
This is a "technical two-pager" of my doctoral research about regex denial of service.
Eastgate Tinderbox has been doing this for 20 years.

Mark Berenstein is one of the original Hypertext pioneers and has built a fantastic tool for notes.

http://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/

This and DevonThink are the only reasons I remain on a Mac.
[OP/article author here]

RISC OS recently changed ownership and it is now fully open-source. The new owners have sponsored an improved version with more bundled software, called RISC OS Direct:
https://www.riscosdev.com/direct/
There should never be heroes in science
> The goal of REST isn't to be the RPC protocol

I'd politely disagree with that. I think most REST fanatics ACTUALLY DO claim that their beautiful arrangement of nouns and their 4 CRUD verbs are capable of replacing RPC, because they've become convinced the "procedure" part of RPC, means that RPC is inherently built around functional programming which is verbs, and they think they've found a better way than using a custom vocabulary of verbs.

So they're using REST instead of RPC, because "verbs are bad".

I'll just restate my opinion that the concepts of "functional programming" are not somehow rendered obsolete whenever the machine you're talking to happens to be remote. Sure, there are certain challenges involved with designing a 'remote' API that can arise involving latency and bandwidth considerations, but those limitations in no way imply a solution where you throw out your entire set of "verbs", like REST does.
I remember the SX-64. This was the computer I started coding (basic). Impressive graphics capabilities.

This "portable" computer was so heavy I couldn't lift it from the ground (I was 5 o 6 at that time).
Yeah but the policy proposals spelled out earn actual majority support in polls, instead of tiny-minority support. It's a terrible self-defeating name/slogan.
> It’s sickening when I have to pay $5 to send something within the US, yet the same item would cost $.50 from China.

What's sickening about this? It's different quality of service. Your $5 package will be received in a few days. With $.50 shipping, your Chinese trinket will be delivered in a couple of months.

> So while I agree with you that we don’t necessarily need a profit motive at the usps, at the same time the taxpayers don’t need to subsidize cheap crap from China.

Too late for that. China is world's manufactory. Your stuff will be shipped from China one way or another.

Given that, subsidising direct shipping from China is the reasonable thing to do. Otherwise you will be paying a 5-10x markup to middlemen for the exact same item.
I guess they might think 'that sounds like a good office job they just be smart and they must appreciate those free massages'. But they aren't going to second you to join the Pacific-Union are they?
I wonder if this is a US or global phenomenon, I would love to see numbers from the rest of the world.
And if they have heard of them it’ll be like “oh, [software], that thing the data entry guy uses? Cool, I guess...” I mean, how impressed would you be meeting a guy who works at a big office supply company? Most software, to the users, is equivalent to other basic office tools like pens and staplers (except more frustrating to use). It doesn’t exactly have that wow factor.
The UK government operates its nuclear deterrent independent of control from the U.S.: they would not share control of that capability with any other country (regardless of current defence posture), just as the U.S. would not share the keys to the GPS kingdom with another country. Hence why we keep having to launch what is effectively the same damn system into space.
Not if you have a competent devops team and a deployment pipeline.
Most Apple customers have USB-A chargers, and the phone side is Lightning, not USB, so lack of USB-C is irrelevant.
Except Intel was the behemoth in the case. Here Steam is the one with marketshare, mindshare, and no serious competition before Epic. These exclusives are also usually time limited. This isn't Facebook buying whole studios and locking up content indefinitely.
Yes, it can be worth it, but not to people who I tell this. The fact you know how to configure the Omnia or even any custom OS-based router means this wouldn't apply to you. These are basic users who needlessly waste money on something that scammy sellers tell them will fix their WiFi, but it doesn't, because the problem is not the router but the device.

It's less a geek or teenager and more your i.e. tech-illiterate parents[1] that I tell this to.

[1] not implying all parents are tech-illiterate, it's a cliche and mean stereotype, I mean "tech illiterate person", but mention this cliche to be clearer
Some atrocity propaganda, i.e. testimony in this very article:

>Tursunay Ziyawudun, said she was injected until she stopped having her period, and kicked repeatedly in the lower stomach during interrogations. She now can’t have children and often doubles over in pain, bleeding from her womb, she said.

Ziyawudun last year:

“I was taken to a hospital to undergo a [sterilization] operation, but because I have always suffered from a gynaecological condition the doctor said I could suffer complications that include death, so they spared me,” she said.

Dina Nurdbay

>camp which separated married and unmarried women. The married women were given pregnancy tests, Nurdybay recalled, and forced to have IUDs installed if they had children

Her interview with Bitterwinter 4 months ago, zero mention of any "family planning", mostly how CCP is messing with her finances.

Previously there was Sayragul Sauytbay who "did not personally see violence" at the camps in 2018 to "inmates were flayed, raped by guards in front of other prisoners, and given injections that made them infertile" in 2019.

The atrocity propaganda is synced with US movement on Uyghur legislation, this article is probably prelude to actual sanctions from passing the sanction act last week. Obviously we know Trump doesn't give a shit about the Uyghurs.

Ruser does good work. ASPI is reliably anti-China and funded by US MIC, but at least they're data oriented. They're continuing Zenz analysis, though it's kind of crazy no one has corroborated his estimates / extrapolations yet. We're still getting ranges from 180-1200 detention facilities, but basically every estimate from the media basically parrots Zenz, whose estimates went from 250K to 2-3M now. Honesty, not unfathomable for Chinese capabilities, but zero corroboration from many state level actors with the resources to :-/. To add, this is not to downplay what's happening in XJ, we know the camps are real from leaked papers, just not the scope. So far every party has demonstrated behavior that indicate they don't actually care about the truth.
Curious if the FT fails to mention this one very important fact that the Guardian mentions, or if you left it out:

> OneWeb filed for bankruptcy in March in the US, where most of its operations are located, after failing to secure new funding.
Hah! I am in the market for a standing desk and am 95% sold on the IKEA Bekant. Just waiting to move to commit to the purchase.

I wasn't keen on the crank but I figured I could live with it. This is a nice and fun addition :)
Taking the numbers at their face value this is a good exercise in some text book statistical test of hypothesis.

Incidents: Before 89. After 126. What is the chance of this happening if the 'rate' of occurrence has not changed ?

Assuming an unknown but constant Poisson rate, we get the probability of observing what has been observed to be 0.00225.

A fortuitous thing about this test is that one does not need to know what that unknown constant rate is.
I have zero evidence but I would not be surprised if they are busy absorbing Azure Devops into GitHub and that's causing some hiccups.
The fall of Quibi: how did a starry $1.75B Netflix rival crash so fast?
Science Abridged Beyond the Point of Usefulness [pdf]
It’s often not as easy as deploy -> immediate problem -> rollback. Problems can take a while to diagnose, or may cause some kind of poisoning that needs to be fixed (eg rebuild a lost or corrupt cache), or be in some part of the system that nobody knew was related (eg maybe someone deployed code that talks to a hitherto-unqueried accounting system and that worked fine at 4pm on Thursday but come 9am Monday it melts).

My point is that in big complex systems sometimes there is not a straight line between cause end effect. Sometimes there’s just effect and you need to work out the cause.
AI Patenting Pitfalls
I assume you are a brit like me? US bankruptcy (personal and corporate) is very different to our system. Its much softer on the bankrupt person. I think its a better system because you can take a risk on trying something and if it fails still have a normal life.
A decidedly non-Linux distro walkthrough: Haiku R1/beta2
I the UK really wanted blue sky thinking, why not open up a competition?
I'm sure its 'less bad' now -- but here's an example of an absolutely horrendous security-bug-as-a consequence-of-design-deeply-baked-into-rails ... https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/13420

Interestingly -- the rails developers decided to put in a really horrendous hack to mitigate the common paths through which this design-flaw might lead to unexpected security outcomes ...

In a way, one could argue that the willingness to put in a horrendous hack to 'mitigate' a security flaw provides an example which demonstrates some amount of 'security reasonableness' in rails ...

In reality tho -- I think that this example serves as evidence more for the fact that rails is deeply flawed and very unlikely to be secure in practice -- for reasons of design complexity alone.
It's been available on Kindle for some time now, I bought it on April 12th.