skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most updates seem to eschew security in favor of new "features" or "improvements".

And even if they say security they usually bundle it with other changes, along with not even saying what kind of security change.

Give me a vulnerability tracker and what has been fixed, and I'll actually update your app.

For me, the "added security" is just not worth it MOST of the time. Partially due to actually only installing apps that don't even have the capability to do much/any damage, due to it only having permission to access parts I don't deem dangerous.
> Unit tests are generally much harder to understand and need to be changed much more frequently.

Changed more frequently, yes.

Harder to understand is usually because they're not-quite-unit-tests-claiming-to-be.

Eg: a test for function that mocks some of its dependencies but also does shenanigans to deal with some global state without isolating it. So you get a test that only test the unit (if that), but has a ton of exotic techniques to deal with the globals. Worse of all worlds.

Proper unit tests are usually just a few line long, little to no abstraction, and test code you can see in the associated file without dealing with code you can't see without digging deeper.
So are you positing that it would be impossible for a company to make such decisions if no individual shareholder owned >50% of the shares? If so the problem is still not with millionaires.

And I'm not sure by what mechanism this will function. What will prevent a company where no individual shareholder owns >50% of shares from making a similar choice?
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In addition, the signaling protocol for WebRTC in Telegram is MTProto.

If an ISP were to really block MTProto, then the P2P functionalities would stop working as well.
Would be cool to do that a rave.
What kind of functionality are you referring to? Ad blocking at the network level? Local network of files? Wouldn't mind a weekend project for something cool.
An old-schooler printing out his emails... Why is this upvoted?
But there's always a better pen and notebook out there. At some point you have to do the work.
This is the exact reason that I started writing "posts" or "articles" even though I haven't put any on a site yet. I was putting stuff in a wiki and felt like they were unfinished ideas. I've found that the wiki is where the idea goes and the article is where I can really flesh out understanding. When you take the time to write something out with an outline and real consideration, you understand it better. It has helped me figure out my own thoughts on a subject when previously I only had surface opinions.
It would have very little effect, which is why it's not a primary threat now. Despite China's aims, their tech giants have made little headway in pushing their core businesses far outside of China. Huawei is the primary success story in that regard (the US has obviously been aggressively targeting them across the board). Baidu was supposed to conquer the world and defeat Google, it failed miserably and is largely just a China search engine today, nearly all of their revenue comes from China, so sanctions wouldn't do much. China's tech giants are, for the most part, captives within China. ByteDance did manage to build a global phenomenon in TikTok, however that too is now under threat of being turned back.

Sanctions on most parts of China's system will have little effect, similar to how China's retaliatory sanctions on US Senators are largely meaningless.

There are three primary ways to hurt China. 1) Cut them off on technology (eg semiconductors), which is an angle the US is using to an extent. There is some question over how long China will tolerate that before they just start ignoring international rules/laws/norms and start openly steal-cloning the tech they want (I'd bet they won't tolerate it for very long). 2) Humiliate them politically, through isolation & exclusion; cut them out of the global system; that requires a widespread effort from the top several dozen economies, it can be done however. 3) Target their export machine & dollar dependency, cut them off financially from the global economy (USD, Euro and Yen combined entirely dominate the global economy, along with the connected banking & financial systems); this will work for a while, however China is aware of the weak spots and is very aggressively working to build out their domestic service economy to lessen the importance of their exports to their economy, and they're always looking to lessen their dollar dependency.

All that said, China is well beyond the point where you can really restrict them in the sense that you can most nations (like Iran or Venezuela). They've accumulated enough capability, tech, wealth, productivity, infrastructure, domestic know-how, etc. that they are fully free standing now. They have $60 trillion or so in domestic wealth. They have the world's #2 military. They have the world's largest manufacturing engine, and can increasingly manufacture at or near the highest tiers (eg jet engines & planes, semiconductors, etc). They have very few real weak points that can threaten them in a serious sense. The last time it was possible to squeeze China was before the great recession, when their economy was still far smaller than the US & EU, and back then it was hoped that wouldn't be necessary.
It means it is not independent journalism.
The "Europe's last dictatorship" moniker comes from the pre-Putin era when Russia did seem to be democratising.
Abbott launches $5 coronavirus test that yields results in 15 minutes
> On the other hand, Zig makes a deliberate decision not to bother itself with memory safety too much

This is not true. Zig places a strong emphasis on memory safety, it just does so in a way that's very different from either Java's or Rust's. I wrote more about this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24293329
History of The Universe in 13,799 Dominoes (2018)
So? The issue isn't satellite/aerial imagery being censored, it's that it's being censored to cover up unsavory things. The equivalent in the US would be ICE/CBP detention camps being covered up on maps, but it doesn't look like that's happening: https://www.ice.gov/detention-facilities
Yeah when I heard about this I instantly thought of game engines, but it makes total sense for HFT too.
"Modern C++", with all its constant little mallocs and frees is so awful for anything that requires ultra low latency
This doesn’t quite answer all of your needs, but you can find quite a lot of goods through

Ten Thousand Villages

Or through

The fair trade federation and their list of suppliers.

Disclosure: I work for a non profit tied to Ten Thousand Villages and I also sit on the board of a fair trade organization.
Spaceflight wouldn't be there in the first place if astronomical observations didn't help generations of scientists (including Kepler, Newton and Oberth) evolve the concepts of astrodynamics. Astronomy is far from having given up all its secrets - many of which will surely be applied in everyday life some time in the future. Besides, nobody would be complaining if this was about making spaceflight cheaper. This is about commercial exploitation of space by destroying a scientific resource. As others mentioned, there are easier ways to bring internet to rural areas - if only there was social resolve. This is more about worldwide internet controlled by a few big corporations.
NFS is not particularly married to UDP though, unless we're talking about old timey NFSv2. There was even a WebNFS spec back in the day designed to let Java applets mount stuff over the internet.
Buying from China isn't a problem, except for concerns about product quality. The totalitarian abuse and genocide isn't caused by buying from China. (Plenty of genocides happen in countries without major exports -- Rwanda, Kosovo, Sudan, Iraq, Yemen, Turkey, USA (the Uighurs in China aren't treated worse than blacks in USA, just a different flavor) etc. If you want to rescue people from their government, you need to contribute to their war effort.
Those were the good day of Email. Pine or Elm all the way on Unix account on uni work stations only.
This article doesn't guesstimate by bandwidth, but by "use", and seems reasonably well researched.

It ends up with "somewhere between 4 and 15 percent of web use involves porn."

There's some interesting sub-stats on percentage of porn related searches, etc.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/all-about-sex/201611...
I wonder what Knuth thinks of Slack and instant messaging then!

Emails feels pretty low pressure to me. I don't need to answer it today -- or, in some cases, ever -- whereas Slack and similar messaging systems come with the expectation that you must answer ASAP. Surely you've seen the message, why aren't you typing an answer yet? It's very high pressure.

I love email. Every attempt at replacing it with something "better" upsets me.
When NYC ended Stop and Frisk, crime kept going down. It's been studied and there's many potential factors but no conclusive answers.
> Other languages -- like Nim, D, C++ and Rust also have a feature similar to Zig's comptime or are gradually getting there -- but what Zig noticed was that this simple feature makes several other complex and/or potentially harmful features redundant.

I'm curious where this impression of Zig comes from, as this is precisely what Nim has set out to do: a small core extensible via metaprogramming. Are there features that Nim implements which go against this premise? if so, what are they? :)
All I'm trying to say is that Internet (Both web and email and others) has gotten way more hostile since then.
That's called contextual targeting:
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If iOS 14 users opt out, they will still be shown ads, but they’ll be based on other methods like contextual targeting rather than based on their IDFA.
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https://clearcode.cc/blog/apple-idfa/#apple-skadnetwork

That works so poorly Facebook doesn't even bid on showing ads for those users currently:
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And Facebook doesn’t even bid on iOS users that have Limit Ad Tracking (LAT) enabled
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https://www.adexchanger.com/data-exchanges/what-do-apples-pr...
It's also part of the "second" world by the original definition.
It will get easier - there has been a significant shift of manufacturing away from China to other countries, primarily India.

That is the case for tech and some of the more crucial imports - cheap less important items will probably always be manufactured in China in high volume though.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but that's basically Inductive Progamming in a nutshell :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive_programming

The wikipedia article doesn't make it very clear but basically it's what you say. The paper accompanying the system in the article goes through a bit more detail on Program Synthesis, of which Inductive Programming is sometimes considered to be a sub-field, but in any case, Program Synthesis is generating programs from complete specifications while Inductive Programming is learning programs from incomplete specifications- i.e. input-output examples of the target program. Examples are often supplemented by constraints.

The field goes back to the 1970's and is today comprised of two sub-fields, Inductive Functional Progamming, i.e. learning programs in functional languages and Inductive Logic Programming, i.e. learning programs in logic programming languages (and, incidentally, the subject of my PhD research).

In particular, the way you describe TF-Coder reminded me of Algorithmic Debugging:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic_program_debugging

In short, this was a technique first described in 1982 by Euhd Shapiro, that assisted a programmer with finding bugs in a logic program (in Prolog) by taking in examples of true and false statements that the program should prove or disprove, respectively, and identifying program statements that made a true statement unprovable, or a false statement provable. The funny thing is that, once you can do this sort of thing, identify which parts of a program lead to coverage of true and false statements, you can go the other way and also generate those statements.

In any case, it's a huge field that goes way back and there are many pointers on more information in the wikipedia article.
Write Tracking for Nim (Part 2)
Why would they lose?
> This has already happened in web search, content recommendation, speech recognition, machine translation, and many more applications. It's simply impossible to run your own speech recognition or machine translation package that has a comparable quality to Google's.

I don't really agree with that. All of these things can be done on your own machine, and generally comparably or even in a superior fashion to Google. Bear in mind that Google has to focus on a very long tail of "serving every single user", whereas your software has to serve you.

This means your speech recognition needs to support your speech, not the speech of every accent and dialect on earth. Your content recommendation can be limited to types of content that are even peripherally of interest to you, and likely in a limited subset of languages.

Basically any amount of data and processing Google needs to do something for everyone, you can massively subset for just yourself. The biggest issue is that most of the data and code that companies like Google are using is proprietary, so good luck getting a copy to run.
I liked trump initially but I've made up my mind to vote Biden this time solely so that he can import some of this muslim control techniques from china. Pompeo can go fuck himself for regularly criticising the only thing China is doing right.
I completely agree. There should be a government agency doing this. That agency should not be the CDC.
I'd like to underscore the "mastermind group" idea, because it's been immensely helpful for my own consulting career. I've been having lunch with a close friend and consultant (now CMO) every Friday for the past few years, and it's a huge difference, albeit difficult to quantify. The benefits include accountability, refining ideas, reducing stress, exchanging consulting tips and lessons learned, motivation, and more.
2020 Firebase Emulator UI
I wouldn’t buy a smart TV for the smart parts except for those with built in Roku support. Roku is a software company that has been making streaming devices for close to a decade.

The downside of Roku is that it is an ad infested platform from the interface to the remote. They also have a “walled garden” that would make the Apple Haters cry. They won’t allow streaming apps on their platform unless you make a deal with them. Roku has blocked many third party streaming apps on their platform.

I still prefer my AppleTV4Ks that I got free via an offer for signing up with DirecTVNow, but not enough to give up the convenience of just using the Roku for the most part.
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Thanks for the article yadavrohit, i found the information very useful and interesting
Did they ask for this work or was it thrust on them because of political football?
Space based observation of objects on potential collision course with Earth is far superior to earth observatio. For example you can't really observe anything coming from the direction of the sun. Look up NEOCam project that aims to have a near Earth asteroid telescope in solar orbit.
If you want to be eased into the language, start by checking out https://ziglearn.org. Otherwise just take a look at the overview on the homepage of https://ziglang.org, then the docs.

After that you should already be in great shape and you can read the standard library for examples of useful patterns.
And it works vice versa! I don't have to learn to support my home environment... I can actually do research at work for my job and also conveniently apply that to home!
The headlined article lead me to find https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP7fiaync5E . I quite enjoyed watching GEM, running on top of DR-DOS, on a 80286, emulated by a Rasberry Pi, connected via the Tube to a BBC Master doing all of the I/O.
I'm constantly impressed by the ESP32 and have dabbled in a few project ideas.

You could even use them to talk to other ESP32 devices (in other dresses!) using WiFi/UDP, Bluetooth LE or Espressif's own 'ESP-Now' mesh networking (which recently blew my mind).

I've done a few RGB LED Matrix based ESP32 projects now. This project has given me a few ideas.

Thanks!
I’m sure AppleTV’s will slow down when the batteries get older and they won’t tell you to replace the battery,..
Aspen seems like a likely destination for this kind of craft. Is an 8000' runway at 9000' of elevation sufficient?
Being Data Driven – Analysis the Lost Discipline
In which parts of the world, and from which kinds of socioeconomic backgrounds?
There is a saying in mathematics that the fastest way to a solution is through the complex plane. This was discovered because a lot of proofs are nicer by doing analytical continuation and analyzing the properties of the continued function. Complex-step differentiation is another example of this.

In some sense, something similar applies to neural networks in this context. Have you done a lot of fitting of classical basis methods inside of differential equations? They are very prone to local minima, so direct training of polynomials inside of a differential equation is rather hard. But through neural network magic, somehow related to [1], which essentially state that local minima are the global minima on large enough neural networks. So this lets you get pretty lazy and just do local optimization to find missing functions, and then sparsify to polynomials later, in a way where the optimization is better behaved than going directly to polynomials. The DiffEqFlux library has both approaches available, so you can try both side by side and see the difference. From years of experience doing the former, the latter is quite a breath of fresh air.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.0233
If, in Europe, if people decided to pave over every natural area within 100 miles of where you lived because they want to live far away while, you paid to make it cheaper for them to do this, would you still be ok with that?

If this caused all of the water (streams, lakes etc) in the area to be polluted and unsafe to swim in and drink without heavy treatment, would you still be ok with this? I can't think of a single body of water where I live that doesn't have excessive algae growth from fertilizer runoff from the massive number of suburban/exurban lawns. I was exploring in my favorite nature preserve that has a nice size stream (well, one of the few over 10ft that hasn't been culvertized) and one of the park rangers told me to be mindful that there was a septic system a mile upstream leaking E. coli in to the stream. In a city that has a "township" designation literally so they can get tax breaks and grants for roads meant for farmers. There isn't a single farm in this city, nor in any of the other "townships" in the area.

I can go on and on, do you still think subsidizing this life for people is reasonable? It certainly isn't done to this level over in Europe. Why not?
Band-Limiting Procedural Textures
Machine learning and education: Behind the scenes
Here is my layout for people who wonder how it is implemented.

https://gist.github.com/renke/e08a6822df0e26b314288378db9d77...
How many of those things are choices? Can you not think of other alternatives to this "problem"?

This seems wholly different to the point of making the analogy laughable.
Why not embed a PDF viewer into the webpage? I’ve seen some sites do that.
> You lose soundness, but we don't have sound guarantees for functional correctness, anyway

This sounds like "we can't guarantee the most important thing, so it's unclear whether it's useful to guarantee this other thing," but that's a bizarre statement, so am I misinterpreting?
I personally think there ought to be better way to fund Anonymous developers like through Monroe or something similar.

Patreon after the recent incident make me trust less and less centralised players. Seems like a power corrupt symptom
> Weeks before Radvinsky purchased the OnlyFans holding company in the United Kingdom, he received a $250,000 tax credit from the state of Illinois. “The purpose of the Angel Investment Tax Credit Program is to attract and encourage the placement of investment dollars into early-stage, innovative companies throughout Illinois.”

Your tax dollars at work.
wiby.me - a search engine for websites similar to what OP is looking for
Thank you! So often, I've credulously consented to an 'upgrade' only to find that the new software refuses to work without malware-level access to my system (looking at you, Palo Alto Networks globalprotect[1]) or turns around and demands that all kinds of other software be updated for no reason (looking at you, homebrew), or just randomly perturb the user interface, seemingly only for the purpose of forcing users to pay for training to learn how to use the new one (looking at you, Microsoft and adobe), or being a bug-ridden half-baked mess (looking at you, Apple). DEVS, STOP IT.

This happens with hardware too. My building upgraded its (collectively paid for) cable internet from 100mbps to 250mbps. The cable company showed up and replaced the perfectly functional old modem/router with a "new" one theoretically capable of faster speeds, except that it runs blazingly hot and drops the wifi connection constantly; I suspect because 5mhz is actually overheating. I actually regret accepting free extra speed, and will probably end up ponying up 400 bucks for an eero mesh setup to fix the free upgrade that screwed over my whole network.

[1] this VPN software is malware. It demands the right to snoop on every system folder it can get its hands on and all kinds of admin details, for the privilege of... accessing university libraries. https://twitter.com/paulgowder/status/1296932684707631109?s=...
seems Microsoft Teams just got hit: https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftTeams/comments/ihghrq/test...
5 continued. Facebook is slurping every bit they can get by trick and treat. They bring business to other app developers and businesses who in turn hand over customer data and , while not insignificant, a small amount of money for advertising, or nothing for just the free services. A lot of people never leave Facebook, or Insta. It's a part of their identity. A huge part of peoples lives are on Facebook and Facebook will not relinquish a bit or back down from their methods without existential threats to their business.
I don't recall much paid content per-se from 2000, when Yahoo ruled the roost. Now I have multiple subscription services which exist only because of the internet
If given an option between a job maintaining cloud services and a job maintaining on-premises technologies, I'd take the latter every time. You spend less time fighting support ticket queues and more time doing things.
Where can we find the code that implements this language and the wasm runtime with persistence? I couldn't find it in DFINITY's github account
Hmm interesting. I had a package I mailed to a relative stolen off their porch and subsequently did a moderately deep dive with USPS staff to try to identify the thief. Those folks told me that there is GPS on the delivery vehicle/handheld scanner such that they have the time and location of the delivery event, and the location of the vehicle at the time. That story seems inconsistent with yours.
The first Amazon Fresh grocery store