skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Folk schools in the US are great and they seem to be little known outside a small circle of enthusiasts. I encourage anyone interested in music, crafts and home economics (in the Wendell Berry sense of the phrase) to seek them out!
Does he get validation for the thousands of documents he disclosed that were unrelated to the illegal domestic surveillance or other domestic activities? He was kind of already validated in the public eye many years ago for the dragnet surveillance reveal, whether or not the letter of the law considered the NSA in violation.

I feel like he would've been much more likely to receive a pardon in the past or next few years if he had only given journalists information about their unconstitutional activities, rather than basically the whole kitchen sink of their operations across the globe.
The military budget is $700 billion, as stated in the article. They probably spend more than $15mm on toilet paper for a single Airforce base.
These can still be used with the Audacious media player! Great piece of software that I still use to listen to online radio streams.
I disagree. Cars are freedom. Freedom has upsides as well as downsides. Technological advances will continue to reduce the downsides, but the upsides are genuine and should not be thrown away. There's a reason why electric cars are a thing, as opposed to Americans just giving up cars and everyone using public transportation.
Rocket Helicopter (2010)
Most bread in England in Victorian times was adulterated with plaster of paris.
There's no consensus among scholars about how many human rights exist, how to realize them, and how to prioritize them.

For example, is healthcare a right? Is food a right? Is education a right? Is there a "right to development"?
> We exclude any projects that cannot be compiled due to unresolved dependencies.

That's weird -- I would think that static analysis would be enough for what I understand to be the scope of the analysis. I wonder if it's because CogniCrypt (which isn't linked from their paper: https://github.com/eclipse-cognicrypt/CogniCrypt ) is an Eclipse plugin, and thus has the Eclipse frame of mind that it's a "valid" project?
It is never OK, never. You just sometimes have no alternative.
Small Enzyme-Mimicking Polymers May Have Helped Start Life
for everyone.. terrible IDE that is more suited for simple scripting, than the complex client logic that exist in today's webapps.

Terrible language. End Sub as opposed to curly braces? Really?
I don't have experience on their VM's and have only used the dedicates to host personal projects/and non critical infrastructure.

However, you should be treating your VMs as disposable and not as pets.
Imgur has become a surprisingly good source of curated twitter and news content lately. It’s where I first learned of the Beirut explosion for instance.

Only the most salient news/tweet/insta screenshots make it to the top of usersub. It’s great
Source? A casual search suggests the opposite:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19919516/
And pretty terrible in my experience (tested two, one noname and one branded, unfortunately forgot the manufacturer/model number).

First, there is a fundamental constrain that it measures impedance only through legs and a little bit of belly, but no upper body (at least here in .cz, no consumer-grade scales have hand electrodes). I do road cycling as the only sport, and therefore get extremely skewed results as I have strong legs, but the rest of the body is much weaker.

Second, the measurements are almost non-repeatable. You get tens of percent difference across measurements, god forbid if you suddenly have moist feet etc. However, both scales used firmware cheating to mask this noise: once you set up a "profile", it will remember the initial value, and then change the following measurements only slightly. However, set up a second profile (preferably with a slightly modified age etc. to prevent advanced firmware cheating) and you get completely different results.
I hate this stereotype. "Hurr durr, stupid Millenials don't even know what a book is, amirite?"
Nine Inch Nails released the album "Ghosts I - IV" under the Creative Commons license (BY-NC-SA) and the banjo riff in the song "Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X was sampled from a song on this album.
Augustine and the Trials of Fallen Friendship
That's the part I completely agree with. Music is absolutely stuck. There have only been micro-genres, such as the many micro-genres of techno/EDM or hip hop. There has been nothing approaching the birth of hip hop, techno/rave, grunge, "alternative" rock, and so on. Those all came of age in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. For some reason after 2000 music died.

My personal explanation is the collapse of the record industry. I don't think it was due to piracy, though piracy didn't help. It was mostly due to the abandonment of the old practice of scouting for interesting new music in favor of producer-led manufactured pop. The suits wanted a more reliable way to produce marketable acts, and they got it... at the expense of virtually all innovation. The same thing happened to mainstream Hollywood studios who can now only make one movie. Of course it only works for a while. Now everyone is bored and nobody cares and listenership and movie attendance numbers are crashing.

(This is always what happens when the bean counters run things. You get a short term bump in profit, but what they are really doing is cannibalizing the value of the enterprise in hidden ways. The body is basically digesting its own organs. Eventually you are left with a shell with no value.)

Piracy did worsen this trend in the record industry. When the economic model starts to be threatened, a natural response is to become more conservative and cancel anything innovative. It's usually the wrong response, but it's a very normal human response to a feeling of threat or starvation.
They are still around because, through historical accident, they are what everyone knows and uses.

Making a special snowflake that fits your brain better is good for you, but not necessarily anyone else.

Making something good for everyone will, almost inevitably, become a design-by-committee monstrosity that is as problematic as the tool being replaced.

The truth is, I am skeptical that these tools can be replaced by something that requires no effort to learn. At least, for the tools we already have, if you dont want to learn them, you can roll the dice and copy / paste from google overflow.
You got me there, but I think this kind of discussion is "you know what I mean" territory: ratios aren't limited to 0..1, and the central examples the terms evoke involve small integers.
That would probably be 280 minutes of "build time" to do your build in 70 minutes. My math is: they are going to call your 8 core CPU 16 vCPUs, because it's something cloud providers can charge money for but Hyperthreading/SMT doesn't really speed up builds that much. It does do something, but 2 threads scheduled on the same core is not going to be 2x faster than one thread being scheduled on that core. (It sure will use 2x the RAM, though, while it sits there waiting to execute instructions. They will charge you for that too!) Then, because they are running on a 64 or 128 core CPU with the same TDP as your consumer chip, things are going to be really clocked down -- your desktop may boost to 5GHz during the build (assuming you got a good cooler and overrode the time limits for boosting; who doesn't, though?), this thing will be running at 2.5GHz. So you will need twice as many actual CPU cores to get the same performance.

I am being very pessimistic with these numbers, but I am continually amazed at how slow computers in the cloud are compared to my desktop. And when you're being charged by the minute, there is no incentive to make the computers faster, of course -- the business incentive is to make them slower! Buyer beware. (To be fair, they are getting a lot better Wh/build out of their system than you are. If you were paying for the electricity and cooling and got paid no matter how slow the build was, you'd make the same decision.)
Sure, but that is meant as a personal thing and not meant as a general statement. Everyone should evaluate whether the book (any book) works for their needs.

The main reason is that, it was a very dry read with various rules and syntax etc and I got bored looking at it quickly. It almost felt like I am reading an abridged version of the standard itself. The exercises didn't appeal to me much.

I didn't mean to dis the efforts of the author at all. There is no other book that covers the modern parts of the standard well. I am not aware of any other C book that covers the wide chars than this book.
I regularly work with multi-thousand line source files, but compilation speed has never really been an issue there, at least for me. The issue has always been the link time afterwards (especially if you turn LTO on). I guess its probably more of an issue for C++.

Is anyone working on adding parallel linking to GCC like clang has?
interesting product. atleast something I would want to use.

In my earlier job we had several repos and being new to the job, I had to search often to understand how a particular logic is handled. sometimes the search will lead to a doc or internal wiki.

I had tried getFYI but I am much faster at typing than browsing.

Also the command line looks useful too. Do you allow custom tasks? Like I do SSH often on the servers to check logs. I would love to do all of it in one go:)
You could do something similar to visual studio build config.

Good luck.
Apple postpones iOS 14 privacy update following Facebook uproar
Not with you on that one.

Soldiers and their families are, were rather, represented in print. Not any more.

What's that worth?
> Narrative fallacy at best, but mostly pseudoscience in my opinion

I think that’s the wrong heuristic to apply. I don’t
think he’s making testable
hypothesis as much as trying to create a lens through which we can consider our current events.
Or be allowed to run a firewall on your phone.

Seriously, to see what your phone is doing and who it is connecting to is a fundamental right they deny.
Just read the source to crt0 which contains the entry point called by the kernel (a symbol called _start or __start) and which finishes up by calling main(). It should be in the source of your c runtime library (just look at any of the open source ones) with different versions for each architecture and with slight variations for the os.
Hard to mourn the demise of a propaganda publication, no matter how old it is. I know they supposedly have editorial independence, but that's hard to take seriously.
That isn't ad insertion but sponsorship. What I mean is for the server to present a single video stream which does not contain markers to identify advertising content, more or less the way many netcast ads are inserted into the audio stream.
> Looked at the article, but didn't see any
> Does the Pentagon budget break out the cost of Stars & Stripes?

The answer to this question is in the eighth paragraph of the article, right before the discussion on how congress actually refunded the publication, the decision now resting with the senate and how the Pentagon ordered it to shutdown anyway which is unusual.

I will hasard that when you said you looked at the article it was to be taken literally and didn't imply that you actually read it.
I'll admit most of those topics are those I don't browse reddit for, so it may be different for them, but in my experience most "true"/"real"/"uncensored" versions of subs are just full of bigots who got banned from the main one.
And you’re gonna fall for that as the reason? And just ignore the administration’s long running campaign to undermine journalists Whenever possible?
Let's say you need to clean out your garage. It's piled full of stuff and it's going to take you a while to clean up. Do you first reach for the biggest thing in the bottom of the pile, or do you grab the small stuff on top that's closest to you first?
You should inform that environmental scientist that Veolia in France has a pilot facility that can recycle 95% of the materials recovered from retired solar panels. The other 5% can be used as feedstock for asphalt aggregate.

Keep in mind, panel longevity is upwards of 25-30 years, at which point they'll still be producing 80-90% of their rated output. Inverters (single or micro) can be recycled in traditional electronics recycling processes.

https://www.veolia.com/en/newsroom/news/recycling-photovolta...
Since it's a value in the unit interval, I call it "unance".
That is quite strange. If you don't mind me asking, what is the stream under which you have applied?
> If BSNL was mismanaged for years then why did it collapse only when Govt moved all official contracts to Jio rather than BSNL?

BSNL has been a loss making business since 2010. It's literally in their financial statements. Read it: https://www.bsnl.co.in/opencms/bsnl/BSNL/about_us/financial_....

> WHY is Modi govt not giving money to BSNL?

Last I checked they announced a Rs 74,000 crore bailout package by way of BSNL-MTNL merger. I don't know what the status of that is, but that doesn't sound like "not giving money to BSNL".
It seems there's a very simple reason.

https://www.stripes.com/news/us/trump-denies-reports-that-he...

A few days ago they also ran a story about a poll showing Trump lagging Biden among the military.
There's avant garde art; is there avant garde code?
I may be seeking parallels where none exists; but if we go by avant garde's definition, code that is new, experimental, and/or unusual, functionally, or aesthetically (yes, I think good code can look aesthetically pleasing) should fit the description.

Thinking more about it, hand optimized code that looks unusual also fits this definition perfectly.

Any good examples of avant garde code you can share?
A propos, there was a review on slatestarcodex for "Secular Cycles" effectively tracking the rise and fall of civilizations if I remember correctly. The argument is societies start to destabilize and stagnate once wealth concentrates to a certain point, after which war and strife levels the playing field once more. Except, we don't much expect that same sort of upheaval to happen today in Western society.

All of which to say, you could liken periods of high wealth concentration as lending to decadence, though I'm not sure how useful that would be as the same argument could be made of golden ages. Decadence itself doesn't seem suspect but I would expect it to be around before things go awry.

edit: here - https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/08/12/book-review-secular-cy...
Awesome to hear Kargyraa throatsinging again! Hadn’t heard this since Paul Pena / Genghis Blues. Music transcends culture...
Never heard of "firemen first"?

That's what this sounds like.

Whenever there's a budget fight, there's brinkmanship, and this is a common tactic. Government, industry - it doesn't matter. Respond to cuts or proposed cuts by putting something on the cut pile that is unacceptable.
I’m not sure fully how it works internally I’m afraid. But I was doing this in 2013-2014 if that’s any indicator of timeframe.
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> Winamp is a media player for Windows, macOS and Android, originally developed by Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev[5][6][7] by their company Nullsoft, which they later sold to AOL in 1999 for $80 million.

80M, for an MP3 player is peek 1999
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I think the main questions are:

- How fast can we respond (provide a solution) to problem <x>
- What are our dependencies, and how does it affect our ability to respond to problems <X>

Or in other words, we run out of things, or encounter problems we cannot adapt to.
Well it's pretty platform dependent, but basically all you need is to do is make sure that you're in a consistent state with regards to IRQs and other low level configuration, then clear the BSS, then setup the stack pointer, then you can jump to C.

Here's a random bootloader init code I wrote a while ago for an ARM SoC (probably heavily inspired by uboot):

https://gist.github.com/simias/c31ae83127c77519621edfb76d599...

The vectors are a table that must be placed in a specific location in memory and are used by the CPU to know what code to execute when certain events occur. Here I only fill the "reset" entry to call my init code when the CPU boots up.

Everything in my "reset" function up to line 93 is low level ARM things: making sure the CPU is in a well defined mode, disable IRQs, initialize the cache (optional, but good for perfs) etc... All that stuff is usually described in the docs for the CPU/SoC/Controller. Note that this SoC is fairly complex, if you used a smaller microcontroller it's usually much more straightforward.

Then after that you have a loop to clear the BSS (the _bss_start and _bss_end are generated automatically by the linker script, normally when you load an executable the operating system clears those regions for you, but obviously here we're on our own).

Then I set the stack pointer register SP to _stack_base which is also defined in the linker script to point at some memory location (typically the top of the RAM). And then we're good to go, we can do the rest in C with only small bits of ASM here and there for special instructions.

I think the best way to learn that stuff is by doing, get some ARM chip with an u-boot loader and dig into it, break it, see what code does etc... Obviously you need a good knowledge of C to begin with, and at least a basic understanding of assembly, so start with that if you're not there yet.
This has been exactly my experience. Even in the earliest stage startupS they’ll be looking for the fastest line to profitability rather than prioritizing to build something that’s big and important. It’s low conviction investing where the financial model matters more than traditional west coast indicators of future success.
> It smacks of a company that doesn't plan, doesn't think about the consequences of their decisions, and goes with the first idea that pops into their head.

I imagine the new design is a huge success in terms of revenue. Users now endlessly scroll through countless promotions and advertisements that seamlessly blend with the content and most likely have much higher engagement rates.

They can kill all the serious subreddits and focus on meme, porn, drama, influencer content and still be far more financially successful than the old Reddit. They'll have no shortage of users.

We might hate it and leave the site, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's sustainable in the long term for them and the right financial move.
No reason is given, so there is “no good reason”. There technically isn’t a bad reason.

The implied reason is “because its funding wasn’t included in the (non-binding) presidential budget proposal “
It bad to violate human rights to comply with local laws of a country.

But it's even worse to do that and claim that you are upholding the human rights.

What they should do is either: be honest and say that they comply with local laws of a country even if they think they violate human rights; or don't violate human rights.
Privacy.sexy (Privacy on Windows)
Music became largely teen-oriented by the late 90s and onwards. Spice Girls, Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears... fast forward to the 2010s and nothing has dramatically changed - Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande etc. Maybe it's a very profitable spot exploited by producers and songwriters.
Same here in Win10 on Firefox 80.0
ugh. and now it's too late to fix the post. thank you!
So as long as the reactor vessel is intact it absorbs 100% of the neutrons? Going out as well as coming in?

Because in a failure you’ll have only one pressure vessel between the two cores. If everything else goes right.
I agree with the sentiment, but there are legitimate changes in purchasing/budgeting that could _actually_ impact the budget (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/the-end-of-t...). Better reporting on egregious kickbacks like this might lead to more repercussions for the Congresspeople in question, that'd be one of the best ways to trim the fat on the Pentagon budget.
What is the nullish coalescing operator?
I know at least one other person who managed to adopt cats and dogs after I told them my journey. Basically, I took a lot of antihistamines and over-the-counter anti-allergy steroids regularly for the first year or so. I still get allergic reactions if I stick my face into my cat, so I don't do that. Having good air filtration helps, as does frequent vacuuming. Regular hand washing is a must. In general though it's very manageable now. I still take allergy meds regularly for seasonal allergies, so that helps too. Work pets/shots never worked well for me. Good luck!
I can also recommend Deep C Secrets. For me, a lot of C didn't really click until I read that book. In particular, having mainly done Python and other very high level languages up until that point, this book's discussion of pointers and memory were what got C to finally click for me.
They also had a directory of streaming "stations", Shoutcast
> was never going to be more than a fad IMO

That's what I said about SNAP. It seems platform stickiness is stronger than some of us might have judged. Especially considering today's tech illiterate youth. They have no idea what the implications of installing an 'app' are.
I just looked at the top 5 songs from 1985, and I will gladly take WAP or Old Town Road over Careless Whisper or Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go. Top of the billboard has mostly always sucked IMO.

Janelle Monàe may be this generations Bowie. And Kendrick Lamar can definitely hold his own in comparison to dire straights.
180+!!! Wild.
old.reddit serves you the old desktop interface, even on mobile. i.reddit serves you the very old mobile interface, even on desktop.
The problem seems to be a failing API request not a bug in the client.
What is the web scraping and how it works?
It is something the advertisers do not want to do, as it would nuke their service from Apple’s platform.
This is the correct reading. The Economist is just a bunch of young nameless writers carrying water for hardcore capitalists. Their lack of bylines is the perfect cover for those in power to push their agenda in a PR neutral way.
It's worse than you can imagine. I once witnessed a defense client creating a $5 mil project with a defense contractor out of thin air, because they didn't want to lose the money at the end of the fiscal year (which was 3 months away).

Overnight, the defense contractor assembled a team of 20 people that were on the bench, so they could bill for the project. 20 random people that had never worked together before, all to work on an experimental java project the agency didn't need until that Monday (and I'd argue, didn't need even after that Monday). I suggested in that meeting "why don't we just return the money to the taxpayer?" and got glares from at least two senior executives.

Right there is 1/3 of the $15 million that is spent on Stars and Stripes.

With a $700bn budget, based on what I've seen of the defense industrial complex, I'd suspect at least 10% of that goes to complete waste (and toilet paper isn't waste. I mean things like IT projects that don't see the light of day, etc).
> In fact the scene despises P2P (or at least used to).

I can't understand that, isn't peer to peer inherently more resistant to law enforcement than any centralized FTP server?
> For the younger readers out there: These are not USB devices and you can't text your friends or watch TikTok videos on them. I know. Crazy.

>> I know that this is a joke, but let's remember to be inclusive and kind to our younger readers and take the time to explain (reiterate even) what pieces of old tech are, and what they were used for.

Expect it's not even funny, it's just super cringey and reeks of gatekeeping and condescension.
That's just one Reaper drone. They have 200.