skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The link seems a bit old, modern day development has added many new and exciting methods for making unmaintenable code:

- Use exceptions for control flow. With different exceptions leading to entirely different flows. On C you can use setjmp/longjmp + globals for a similar effect. This will help the maintenance programmer develop thinking in multiple dimensions.

- To save space, do not declare separate constants for every magic number/string. Instead use one large constant pooling all the constants, and then deduce the other constants from parts of the one large constant. You'll be teaching the maintenance programmer an advanced optimization technique.

- Abuse localization rules whenever a case-insensitive operation is operated (e.g. Turkish i, German eszett, etc.). You'll be broadening the mind of the maintenance programmer, teaching cultural differences.

For extra points, when dealing with fixed string constants in the code, abuse Unicode's right-to-left rules to make the shown data rather different than the actual data the compiler sees, and zero width characters the make the shown length different than the actual length. This is particular useful with the "one large constant technique" from above.

- Do use locals when the locals shadow the global variable. This will teach the maintenance programmer to pay attention.

- Supply more precise overrides in files/projects included in partial compilation as to make code that will behave differently depending on compilation order, included files/projects, etc. This will help teach the importance of a build system.

Bonus points if the included code is actually similar, but relies on subtle differences in the behaviour of a previous version of the framework or included packages.
Great!

We are rushing the coronavirus vaccine and it'll only kill 1% of the population. This has far more potential for good.

Not sure why this has so many upvotes for such a heavy pay-walled article though, a cynic might say people are just voting on the headline twitter style.
> I told my wife that it was very possible that we would be millionaires by the time we hit 40.

Are you being colloquial?

Being a millionaire by 40 (in 7 years or less) is quite likely for anyone with the talent to launch a startup, by working at a regular big conpany.

Launching a startup lowers those odds by quite a bit (but increases the small chance of being a manymillionaire).
Short-range air defense (SHORAD) is going to be a huge growth area for defense contractors over the next several years.
I hear this argument come up a lot and frankly it's just misleading to even bring it up. When a company controls an open source project, the project follows their vision–regardless of whether there are a couple other groups with slightly-more-than-nominal contributions. Ask yourself whether any one group could prevent a commit from going in that Google corporate had decided they wanted in Chromium–the answer is of course no. It'd be like saying Apple doesn't have essentially full control over WebKit's direction, even though this page lists a bunch of people who aren't from Apple: https://webkit.org/team/
I get that. I was just reading John Hempton's long blog post in defense of it, and someone in the comments pointed out that the bulletin board behind some people he photographed, was all about classes on MLM, not about health club type activities.

So I'm saying, yes, at some level it checked out for him and the FTC, but I'm still left wondering if it is what it seems, ironically due to reading the long defense and feeling it had gaps.
in my experience QAnon is the political arm of 4Chan.

certainly its roots a and strength is/was 4chan based.

The fact that people who's social and even fiscal success is based in the circles of the evangelicals, are finding themselves very comfortable in the QAnon world just seems like a natural fit.

But it stretches much further than that. I know people that are Deep QAnon consumers that are non religious, living in very secular countries and have logic based (read IT), white collar type jobs.

Don't let yourself forget that gullible and willfully misled comes from all shapes and sizes and from all sectors in society.
I spotted a few straw man's in that post. To think it would be hard to find out when the sun comes up in Australia is pretty ridiculous in the information age. I'm constantly meeting across time zones and it's no less difficult (moreso with DST).

An interesting comparison would be dates. January in Sydney is summer time, and you just have to know that you aren't booking a beach vacation there in July.
Maybe. I'm guessing health insurance is still going to be cheaper to buy in any country outside US. A lot of time it's not worth to get insurance at all and just pay out of your pocket (because you aren't ripped off by hospitals).

But going back to point - why would anyone get this permit when they can stay on tourist visa. I guess complacency is one reason.
I believe you’ve just shed light on a twelve year old bug in creating bootable USBs under Windows XP.
I would just pstree and see what the parent of pstree is. Or top/htop.
Immortal Beloved (1812)
The causal chain is obvious: the documentary surfaced interest in the game; this led to a call to try to locate the lost game; it was located and uploaded on archive.org (a library) for preservation's sake. You can consume the game with or without watching the documentary or subscribing to Netflix and no one was compensated.

Of course the documentary and the release of the game are connected, but in precisely the opposite way from what you propose.
Heh there was that killerbot video back in the day, swarm of small bomb drones hunting via facial recognition. Cartels are quite innovative when it comes to killing
Ask the 5 out of the 8 founding scientists why they left..
This seems a strange take.

Half the argument is "Google is taking too much control over the web by forcing people to use AMP" and the other half is "Google is to blame for companies using non-Google related services when they don't use AMP because they created the platform for it (??)".

I can understand the first half of the argument. The second half seems to blame Google for creating the web or something?
Thanks Ryan. I really enjoyed working together on Pion. All the relationships/experiences are what make it :) we still need to finish ffmpeg/desktop capture example.

https://pion.ly/slack if people want to join! If you are interested in RTC/VoIP/P2P it’s a great channel to be in. Lots of people working on many interesting projects in it.

I got the KVS job thanks to Pion! It was fun to have a second shot and not make the same mistakes.
I frequently find conversations with Googlers with regards to privacy and trust always end this way. The assumption is if you were just a Googler, if you knew what working at Google was like, you'd also believe it is a good thing.

But since you don't have that inside Google knowledge, just trust them.
Bullshit doesn't have as much to do with it as you might think. These people are often in it because its a part of who they think they are. Also socially applied beliefs are often just acquired and accepted based on their immediate surroundings.
Instead you should push down a single argument which is an untyped key value map which may or may not contain the variables you want?
I quite like the Wordpress Multisite model which deploys a separate set of tables for each blog in a single MySQL database. Then you can add on the HyperDB plugin which lets you create rules to split the sets of tables into different databases. This gives a lot of flexibility.
I saw a version of this dating back to 1997, so that's why it probably seems old.
In the US, credit card companies don't allow sellers to disclose credit card fees or charge separately for them. You do sometimes see a discount for cash, which is probably due to lax contract enforcement, and, of course, many sellers only accept the subset of credit cards with the lowest fees.
This calculus, which I often share, needs to at least be tempered with a checking of privilege.
So in your opinion, does this thought experiment can be translated to a "real" experiment now or in a not-so-distant future, like in our lifetimes?
> You think Google could get away with stripping or editing commercial pages by default? Be serious.

No one said anything about default. It can be opt in like amp but the difference is here simply that they don't require a new standard.

Other ways they could solve is just disincentivise slow loading pages. They have said speed is a factor and tried to introduce some features such as showing how fast a page is on chrome as an experiment.

They could have pushed that more.
In the sense that there are courses like Physics for future presidents, it must be possible to at least attune peoples bullshit receptors to some degree - even if that is without going into the mathematics.

We now live in a time when media algorithmically shows you what you want to see, and politicians have effectively worked out that truth is almost totally unnecessary. Society will adapt, but it could end in disaster.
Law firms seek $93M in fees in Apple class action suit [pdf]
Wasn’t Chrome also the start of browsers keeping each tab in its own process? I remember the Chrome “comic” mentioning this.

I remember when IE got tabs, a crash would bring down the whole instance. After all, there’s no point segregating the tab from the chrome (no pun intended) when it was single “tab” only.
It's an order of magnitude better at specific tasks compared to Nvidia.

And this isn't that impressive in the slightest.
Not sure how old you are, but even in 2010 when I was in high school our boy scout troop played smear the queer and the first time I learned the word gay was as an insult. Didn't really help with the whole growing up gay thing.
I'm not at all surprised your comment has been downvoted to oblivion.

Such arrogance. Faith (of any kind) increases humanity.
this man helped to keep me entertained for years.

I wonder if I can get Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri going on Linux again due to this mans great work?
Elon Musk leaves a trail of destruction with the early employees of his companies but the results are tremendous and have huge implications for humanity. I'll give Musk the benefit of the doubt at this point.
Way too many typos to bother continuing to read this. Very confusing.
> If you consider all the Chrome derivatives and WebKit as one single browser.

WebKit has a very different direction from Chromium and it is usually not very useful to model them as being related anymore in most cases.
I firmly believe that new technology will always empower more positive change than negative.

I would love to have some sort of cybernetic implant, but I suspect mature commercial applications will only be developed after my lifetime
all browser engines suck in specific enough circumstances, though
> But knowledge is understanding.

Yes, at some level both are just memorising something. But in the way I like to think about it, they are different things.

For example, you could figure out if someone is overweight by memorising a whole pile of weight & height stats. If someone height 170cm and they are over 75kg, they're overweight. If they are 180cm and over 81kg they're overweight, and so on. That's knowledge.

But if you understand being overweight is a statement about height versus weight, and memorise the formula for BMI you've compressed all that knowledge into a few bytes worth. That's understanding. Both are just memorising something.

Taken a bit further, what AI's turn the knowledge encoded in whole pile of specific examples (the training data) into a understanding (ie, a formula encapsulating the knowledge).
Obviously, they are not willing on the face of it.

My point is, they may very well be willing if they could understand the material value of it.

Don't call it 'SaaS' - call it by whatever problem/enhancement it is creating ie 'we need software to increase traffic flows by 10%' etc..
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If this kind of thing keeps up it wouldn't be much of a stretch for drones to be banned from civilian ownership in many parts of the world.
So you're expecting 70x more people to die from the vaccine than from the virus itself.

Makes sense.
i gotta say, every time i see a bay area python meetup on youtube, it's always super high quality. as someone who doesnt live in the bay area, i am very jealous. please pass along my compliments to organizers and i wish i could replicate it in my city.
Ok the freeway, my Model 3’s autopilot is amazing. It’s not 100% on surface streets, but it’s impressive given all the edge cases and the scale of the problem.
She might have just gotten on their "annoying-persons" list

This is the Juarez-El Paso border crossing, not a reenactment of "The Comedians" with Richard Burton and Liz Taylor. First rule of government interaction: if it can be used against them it can also be used against you. Police shitlists should never be used as an explanation, rather they should serve as a call for savage consequences.
Nah. I don't buy it. I don't think that future will ever come to pass in any democratic country, even a sham democracy like the US. The evil forces haven't even managed to get an encryption-backdoor law passed, and most policymakers don't even understand that issue.

What you're describing is so far beyond any social issue of today in terms of egregious and horrifying threats to society that it would just get voted out of existence so hard you'd barely know it was ever a risk.

Nobody will ever let thought intrusion come to pass.
200 years / 5 gives about 40 years useful life. Some technologies (thorium MSR) remain unproved, so there's R&D lead time which is likely prohibitive --- we're going to go into this with the designs we have now.

Construction and planning still takes 10--20 years, and commercial viability remains dicey. (Illinois is looking to shut down two nuclear plants not for political/public opposition but economic reasons: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/environment/ct-exelon-nu...)

Meantime wind and solar keep getting cheaper. They carry few long-time-horizon risks, and are as safe as nuclear within measurement error, a fact nuke boosters tend to omit. Even hydro, as horrific as past incidents have been, is safe when well-managed, and again lacks nuclear's civilisation-spanning risk time horizons.

If presently proven nuclear technologies can smooth the path, then maybe there's a role, but we're still looking at swapping out all but a minuscule fraction of nuclear within a generation (which will mean trying to smoothly phase out an entrenched, powerful, politically-connected, but dying industry, much as today's coal industry), bearing resulting near-term risks, addressing (all but certainly via government subsidies) unfavourable economics, and creating a long-term risk liability spanning millennia.

Meantime, nuke boosters generally continue to paint renewables as the enemy, misconstrue risks, and lowball opportunities, none of which does much for engendering institutional trust in the nuclear community itself.

Don't get me wrong: the challenges are huge, there's plenty of bullshit and opportunism on all sides, and we're going to need to make some really unpleasant decisions and trade-offs here. The Democratic party platform announcement is probably a good thing: it's another option on the table.

But this isn't smooth sailing, and going in with a very realistic view and eyes wide open is critical.
Thanks! When you said you learned Go to use Pion it made my day. It felt great to make something people actually wanted.
I'd beg to differ. Really good Chinese restaurants in China tend to specialize ruthlessly, selling only a few items.

If anything, the "matrix menu" where you have X proteins in Y sauces for X*Y stir-fry combos is usually a "restaurant smell" indicating that they don't really care about the end product (satay salmon, anyone?).
could i ask about more details on shipping this? what made you start working on it? how long did you work on it to an initial state? have you had any practical work-related side benefits of doing something like this, or is it pure hobby?
There's an argument that, (like everything else), it's securities fraud, as Uber distorted the books to manipulate the stock price for the IPO.

Capital losses are deductible against future gains, though, I think for 5 years?
I wouldn't call Chipotle junk, but you're otherwise correct.

Eating at a really really good restaurant is about trusting the chef to know what he's doing.

If he says there's one soup, just trust him. If it's bad, don't go back.
The Igalia team maintains WebKit for GTK+ (among many other platforms). They are certainly smaller and more resource-starved than Apple, but they do a fairly decent job of keeping it running.
Except those have been happening longer than renewables have been a meaningful provider of energy.
I wish nuclear advocates would stop selectively quoting to try to hide things. Almost no one wants to continue with fossil fuels, and instead the competition is renewable. "This comparison" mentioned in that quote doesn't include renewables (it was from 2007) but from the very same page, in the very next section:

> Modern renewables are about as safe as nuclear energy

https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy#modern-r...
Well, unlike sci-fi universes, this universe has sci-fi books so people are adequately terrified of that possibility¹. I don't believe this will come to pass.

¹ We are https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GenreSavvy
Pretty misleading to omit ", but fortunately he’s a good guy" in the title
You already have a cellphone tho
On the flip side, everyone is now walking around with an internet connected camera, microphone, and location tracker in their pocket. Most of us are livestreaming their location to cloud services.

I don't think this will come to pass as a mandate from on high, but it might come to pass as a practical device that everyone needs to function in modern society.
> I don't know all about this PC Master Race stuff.

It comes from a 10-second throwaway line in a gaming review from 2008 that's actually taking a dig at PC gamers liking overly-complicated RPGs [0], at about 0:53 to 1:03 [1]:

> While quickly it becomes obvious is that Witcher is very much a PC-exclusive game which are typically designed to be as complex and unintuitive as possible so that those dirty console-playing peasants don't ruin it for the glorious PC-gaming master race.

Then there's about 20 seconds more of him listing out the ways this game is overly complicated.

[0] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-glorious-pc-gaming-master...

[1] https://youtu.be/P0dXtOVi2yo?t=52
I'm on Android, using Firefox 79.0.5 (Build #2015758619) - which is like freshest bits for GP - it's where they moved the address bar to the bottom.

So, go to a long URL, like paging through a forum. Then edit the URL. Place cursor at end and hit bksp. As you continue to delete chars the purple-phantom highlight where it tries to autocomplete goes crazy and flickers the heck out of the UI. It's definitely a regression.

I don't know the best way to capture screen on this device tho, and I don't have time to spin up any emulators and go through those steps
Podcasting Needs Cognitive Hooks to Manage Conversational Complexity
As far as I know C4 isn't for civilians either..
If they can establish the supply and demand for recycling using non-revolutionary methods, revolutionary ideas can be developed and progressively swapped in as they become feasible.
Wow, crazy timing! You'll love what I just posted haha

I really like the sounds too - are they original and/or free to use?
> open-source engine

An open-source engine that is under majority control by one company.

> Not gonna happen

It is already happening!

> So much that they won't entertain any adjustments to permit adtech.

The WebKit team has created special features to essentially restore things lost with ITP, and really has no other purpose to exist: https://webkit.org/blog/8943/privacy-preserving-ad-click-att...
Looking for the vulture assist with Neolithic burials
Like all new technologies, environmental and health hazards are usually learned in a hard and painful way. For example, I love the history of semiconductor development, but simultaneously, I also recognize that a large number of semiconductor fabs in the 1970s operated by Intel, AMD, Fairchild, HP, National, Commodore, etc, are now superfund sites. At many sites, cleanup works are still ongoing today. And usually it was not a result of malice, but inexperience - many operational and regulatory safeguards were simply not established - in fact, many leaks were only discovered decades later. I summarized some of these incidents in a HN commment at [0] if you are interested.

Following the same line of thought, I wonder how dangerous dust-scale computing is, biologically and environmentally. In general, there are a lot of ongoing research projects on the safety of nanomaterials, and have already showed the potential hazards cannot be ignored [1]. In the particular case, it appears to be just a relatively conventional MEMS chip that we are familiar with, not some radically new and different nanomaterials, so [1] doesn't apply here, but the question of "what will happen if these chips enter the environment (air, soil, water) and biosphere" remains, especially if these are going to be used at an industrial scale, and will be intentionally introduced to the environment for remote sensing. The worse case scenario - as bad as plastic in the 20th century?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23186842

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_and_safety_hazards_of_n...
I consider lack of choice in a restaurant a good thing, and I am not the only one.

And it is not just the paradox of choice.

Simply, if a restaurant offers 20 different dishes, it means each dish gets 20x less attention than if you had only one choice. Less fresh ingredients, less time perfecting the recipe and preparation. Serving only one dish makes things simpler and the restaurant is going to spend more energy making sure it is worth it.

About choice. When I go to a restaurant, I just want to eat something good. But I don't know what's good, it's not my specialty. But the chef is a specialist, he knows what's good, so I want to rely on his judgment as much as possible. Like everyone, I have personal tastes, but a good chef can easily make me change my mind about things I don't like.

Usually, what I think is the best is a 3 choice menu:

The specialty, the one that gets the most love and ideally the one everone should take.

The alternative, a completely different dish for those with different personal tastes.

And another, simpler dish for the picky eater. For example, it can be vegan if none of the other two are, free of allergens, kosher,... The idea is to not let that person down if part of a group.
Even if that’s the case (it’s not necessary at all), net change is a terrible metric, because the negatives are externalized often onto those that are already oppressed/marginalized
And once you have large scale, revolutionary techniques can follow.