skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You think a society that's been stable for tens of thousands of years is undeveloped? Interesting.

Are you sure Nigeria is as reliable as the US for those stats?

You should check out the concept of Ergodicty. In your examples the ensemble average does not = the time-series average. You're saying something like "4 out of 5 Russian Roulette players had a great time playing, so I should as well".
V UI cross-platform UI toolkit
It was a naked propaganda rag. I have no idea why people care about this.
I wonder if snake could fit in a data uri, like this:

https://bytex64.net/code/datasnake/
Actually, that's reassuring. Virtually everyone agrees we are in a state of decline right now.
If you Wikipedia List of largest companies by revenue, most seem to be headquartered in the East Coast and Midwest
I find the title of this post doesn't match the post content.

The title reads like Upwork has a plan to suspend users that live in Eastern Europe at some point in the future. But the post itself is just about Upwork's lack of transparency about suspending one user.
> events related to boxes, pallets, containers and vessels

Think about why these 4 things are of interest. What aspect of them is it you're working with?

If that aspect has a name, that might be the basis if a good name that reflects the purpose of your code.
Multiple CPU Assembly Mnemonic Table (8080/Z80/LR35902(Game Boy)/6502)
I agree. In all of the large projects I have worked on the build systems were constantly optimized under the observation is that compilation is infinitely parallelizable and the latency doesn't matter nearly as much as throughput but the link is the expensive step on the critical path.
Seems like only one account was suspended?

Also avoid upwork...
The whole point of the paper is that it IS a consumer UX for the chemical reaction. It's just analog instead of digital.
we can put underscore before the 0 so that it is a valid name
In some ways that's not terribly different than one of the traditional starch sources in Papau New Guinea, sago.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sago
Horses for courses, I guess - I thought the story wasn't great and the movie marred by miserable CGI effects.
My favorite of the older generation skins was "Classix", which was later ported to Winamp 3.x too

https://skins.webamp.org/?query=classix
Deep inside me I hold a hope that one day we can return to GUI design like this. My human soul demands more than the bleakness of material UI
I would respectfully submit that you're talking from a standpoint of utter and complete ignorance about your subject.

There are a thousand games that have an "ability to engage with some aspect of what it means to be human, in a way that is coherent, mature, and thought-provoking". I've been moved to tears by several (killing the dragon in Minecraft after literally months of effort, This War of Mine). Stupid things like "Clicker Heroes" have reminded me that all life is inherently meaningless and all endeavour is ultimately futile, given meaning only by what we feel about it.

Compare that to some of the utter crap that passes for High Art, and video games are way ahead in mature, thought-provoking exploration of what it means to be human.
> growth and progress or stagnation and extinction?

A false dichotomy, since humans are uniquely able to harmonize with any environment through observation and planning. The need to buy stuff is the only reason we think of “progress or stagnation”
I mean that you can't really have multiple people, from multiple teams, accessing the same infra with different types of rights and with centrally managed authentication/authorization/logging.
Ah the good old days where 25% of children died before 5
During the dotcom days, we hosted sites like this on a home dsl connection on a single desktop machine and got people to pay for that.
You could run it in a VM.
That's not a problem with the test; that's people being stressed out.

Taking 5 papers tests is simple.
> ... we’ve always moved in a progressive direction. Sure it sometimes takes a few life times, but we’ve never moved permanently backwards before, so it would be rather strange if we started doing that now.

I suppose it depends on what you mean by "we" here. There are plenty of societies that moved permanently backwards, and are currently quite far behind where they previously were. Iran is a regressive theocracy and used to be a very modern country. China had a beautiful intellectual culture that contributed immensely to the world and is currently a genocidal despotocracy. Egypt was the intellectual capitol of the known world. In the middle east, there were generations of people who thought that the ruins of the civilizations that came before them must have been made by gods because they couldn't fathom them being created by humans.

Civilizations backslide, and die, regularly throughout history.

Now, if you mean "we" as in humanity as a whole, it's a tougher question. I do agree that humanity as a whole makes progress forward on a long enough timelines, but there were still many stumbling blocks along the way.
> What I see is that many teens today (those who really like music) are listening to old music from the 60s-90s and very little new music.

Teens after 1990 who fancied themselves liking music and being intellectual listened to older music too. I know, because I had friends like that. They considered Nirvana and grunge repetitive crap. Emerging techno and rap too. They would listen Pink Floyd or Beatles, but those were old at that point.
> What is the alternative to drugs?
Another one is lifestyle intervention. Gut problems for example may lead to depression, as gut is an important factor in neurotransmitter production. Metabolic problems will lead to lowered levels of energy. The chronic disease epidemic is real.

Depression may come for many different reasons, and the underlying factor should be looked for
I can agree wholeheartedly for animals that are raised by breeders, and honestly I think this practice should end; there are already more animals than people want to home. but rescue cats already exist before they are adopted. the question is not "can I provide an ideal life for this animal?" but rather, "can I offer an improvement over living in a shelter and eventual euthanasia?".
Niagara: Building a Vulkan Renderer from Scratch
> certain products, while not being economically viable, can be socially necessary, so alternative models need to be found. News obviously falls in this category, similarly to public transport, healthcare and education

Totally agree. News can be paid for via government support (BBC), direct public support via donations (NPR, PBS), support from foundations (CSPAN), subscriptions (Atlantic, FT, WSJ). Advertising is the worst way — and if news is of great value, we should pay with money rather than attention AND money.
Yet if you wanted to increase it by $300B, you could still throw something unacceptable on the cut list as pressure to raise the budget further.

This is a second-derivative tactic; it can be employed even if the first-derivative is positive.
Not really, or to anything like the extent that conservative intellectualism circulated on (and argued on) the blogosphere prior to 2016. It's just not published so much any more. See https://crookedtimber.org/2018/04/05/who-has-any-use-for-con... and previously https://crookedtimber.org/2009/05/12/richard-posner-on-the-c...

Trump has destroyed conservative intellectualism because he has no use for nor respect for them.
Amid all this discussion of Rome, perhaps worth noting that the largest Empire in history was busy dissolving itself exactly at the same time it was taking huge measures to improve the quality of life of its own home citizens.
See also: https://flareact.com/
This list would have been considerably more helps with description of what each channel was about and other surrounding details
Yeah, let’s make it even easier for people to run random executables that cannot be vetted, preferably on devices tightly coupled to their identities. What could go wrong?
I too learned C from K&R and really loved it. I did not have any other thing to do and there was no internet and no one telling me that C is bad. Nor was I aware of other cool languages. I did not even have a computer at that time, so I wrote most of the exercises on paper. Later my father bought me a 486DX66 and I typed in most of the programs in the book. Those were fun times!
The work is focused on the human element, e.g. accidental and intentional misuse. Here's a summary of Section 3.2 on developer response (the team manually filed 216 github issues)

> 76 did not respond, and 140 reacted to the issues within 20 days. We evaluated all of the responses for 140 repositories in order to identify developer perceptions concerning cryptographic APIs.

Developer responses:

* 46 - It's not really a vulnerability
* 32 - Request for more explanation
* 17 - Open a PR
* 15 - Repo no longer maintained
* 10 - Oracle JCA documentation is ambiguous w.r.t. issue raised
* 7 - I will get to it later
* 5 - It's a dependency, not my code
* 3 - Repo has vulns for learning purposes

A lot of these are fair plays for an open source maintainer. IMO the quotes from the maintainer responses are quite interesting. The authors have a bit of an axe to grind in their rebuttals to each point.

The largest bullet ("It's not really a vulnerability") is a bummer, and it mirrors some of my own experiences with reporting security issues internally. With about half of my reports, the response is "because of X, this is not a problem", where X IMO boils down to "I cannot imagine how this could be abused, so I don't think it's a problem". Basically, send a proof-of-concept or GTFO. In some cases I have gone on to make a PoC just to get the issue resolved. In others I get too tired of arguing that the code is clearly broken and the fix is easy to apply and just move on.

Sometimes there is no help. For one of my customers I submitted a simple curl PoC. It broke into their stack and got sensitive data easily. They "fixed" the issue, but did not bother re-running the PoC. It still worked. I pointed out the fix was incomplete, and was told "that issue was already fixed". I re-submitted the PoC as a new issue, this time with a one-line code patch that resolved it (a broken regex that allowed partial matches). It's still pending.

It's not my intention to say "it's all bad developers" - in the work they also point out that the majority of developers trust and rely on the official Oracle JCA documentation. It was referenced commonly in the github issue responses. The authors point out that the JCA docs are quite incomplete, not mentioning typical constraints for common parameters (e.g. should "iterations" be 1, 10, or 10000? You don't know from the docs, it's just asking for an integer value).
> But it also goes to the difficulty many Chinese states experienced in maintaining large and effective cavalry arms without becoming reliant on Steppe peoples for horses. Unlike Europe or the Near East, where there are spots of good horse country here and there, often less suited to intensive wheat cultivation, most horse-pasturage in the rice-farming zone could have – and was – turned over to far more productive rice cultivation.

The bigger reason why China did not produce horses for cavalry was they couldn't. Soil in China is deficient in selenium, which is required by horses to produce strong muscles.

From

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road#Initiation_in_China_...

"The soil in China lacked Selenium, a deficiency which contributed to muscular weakness and reduced growth in horses.[40] Consequently, horses in China were too frail to support the weight of a Chinese soldier.[41]"
I don't see how this is different from a US union contract, which is approved by the majority of the local.

Generally, the union will not make the dues optional because that is how unions collapse in the US.
Cont.

I think that cultural bubbles are mostly harmless, but I’m surprised at how so many people seem to not realize they’re even in a bubble. Who seem to think that 95% of the world, or even America, lives like the average SV tech worker.
I agree. The ML Algorithms and models can run into huge sizes. I have one with half a gig of serialised model, when running takes up close to 3.5 Gigs. This approach of directly using it in the views would pose scaling issues.
Those are dramatic setups.
The only part of this I really agree with is that the music industry is harming artists more than usual. It is a meme at least as old as jazz or even older (Baroque music was so-named because it was said to be lopsided, like a misshapen pearl) that music ain't what it used to be.

There is still great music being made, and the really deep stuff has always gotten ignored by most people most of the time. Heck, I majored in music and I don't listen to Bach or Coltrane every day. That stuff is too rich for every occasion.

I'd say that innovation within genres - just people making good songs - is every bit as important as creating new genres. New genres aren't automatically created at a certain rate. They're an event, triggered by major social changes or new cultural influences most of the time. For America to invent a new genre we might need to conquer or be conquered by someone else, or have a new wave of immigration.

Some good artists currently making popular music with depth and interest off the top of my head:

St. Vincent, Dessa, Chris Thile, SquarePusher, BJ Cole, Run the Jewels, Billy Joel (I list him here because rather than just repeating his same hits forever, he went and recently released a classical-style piano album that's quite good, so he's still growing and changing as an artist), Tori Amos (she's been making music a long time but has a new style every decade or so).
Ye olde "if we don't spend it we don't get it next year" mindset certainly doesn't help.
Facebook doesn't require you to prove you have a license before posting. They just require you to have a license before posting. They will ask for that license if a copyright holder files a claim.

The first activity you describe is legal because a special copyright licensing regime applies to derivative musical works like strumming a tune in your guitar, so you could also steam your guitar cover of the popular song on YouTube without issue, even for commercial use. (And thousands of musical performers do, without issue.)

The second activity is part of the implied license granted by physically owning music on a licensed media like a CD. Unlike the first activity, there isn't a special licensing regime and so streaming that music online requires it's own manually acquired license... Even for non-commercial use. The license costs a few cents...

Facebook's rules aren't any more restrictive than they've always been. They're just letting you explicitly know what they have always been.

(I handled music licensing at my old job and we were a Facebook video partner back in the day so I'm very familiar with how the musical licensing works in the US.)
User count matters less than the amount of data and the amount of processing power required per user. Web servers are extremely efficient, so if most of that occurs within the context of requests, it's easy.
The fundamental assumption is that people will either ask how to do something, or read the documentation/manual. It's not that we'll try to figure out how something work by experimenting.

When I first started using UNIX/Linux after learning the DOS shell, I never said that using commands like rm or mkdir were not intuitive and that it should be like using del or md instead. I just learned the different commands by reading through documentation.
Me neither, but now I know where to go when COVID cools its jets.
I have been meaning to learn the Plan 9 dialect of C but haven't gotten around to it.
Linking improvements would have far-reaching benefits. I have similar observations to your comment regarding both C++ and rust.
When I first learned of OpenVMS I was incredibly confused at the name. I guess I'm so used to OpenX projects being opensourced.
>the site has become like a nerdy version of World Star Hip Hop.

Wow, this is an excellent comparison. You're absolutely right.
Yes, there are costs associated with running the App Store, but I would be very surprised if those costs came anywhere near what Apple is charging devs.

I don’t feel that Apple shouldn’t charge at all, only that what they’re charging is unreasonably high.
As a musician I wonder what would happen if I play my own music, that I own 100% of the rights and permissions for. Or do a live concert of my own music.
Shoutout to https://twitter.com/winampskins which is listed in the about section. Commenting here in case others miss it
... so long as you use a web browser which supports only Apple approved capabilities & features.
The color isn't random natural color. It's engineered specifically for the tests and it's engineered to be visible.
I didn't realize you were referring to no-strike contracts, that's not what a security clause is. That is definitely not a good practice always and not union 101.
I get your general breakdown but my issue is somewhere in between.

I never use the tiktok meme machine part of reddit anymore. As you mentioned I do have a bunch of smaller hobby subreddits that I only visit on my locked down oldreddit RES configured personal devices.

My problem comes when I'm not on my own machine/device and I'm trying to troubleshoot with "xyz question site:reddit.com" through google and get bogged down in new reddit or app reddit. It's really infuriating the way new reddit compresses threads to only a handful of magically prepicked comments out of possibly hundreds. You have to remember everytime to click to load the entire comment section just to browse the UX abomination they created.
By cutting Stars and Stripes, the Pentagon will finally afford to add a few more developers to the lean-and-mean F-35 program, which is sure to speed up the software delivery. Smart management.
Absolutely nothing, to be honest. Let's not act like soldiers and their families are suddenly persona non grata because of this decision.
A 'challenge' to HNers out there from What's the Point If We Can't Have Fun.

Try getting an 'A' on this passage. The answer, per Graeber, is in the text. But I'd love to see some other attempts from you all on here. Maybe comment down below and then look at Graeber's answer. Personally, I was unable to solve the last little bit and get an 'A'. It's a very good one to mull over:

---

Years ago, when I taught at Yale, I would sometimes assign a reading containing a famous Taoist story. I offered an automatic “A” to any student who could tell me why the last line made sense. (None ever succeeded.)

Zhuangzi and Huizi were strolling on a bridge over the River Hao, when the former observed, “See how the minnows dart between the rocks! Such is the happiness of fishes.”

“You not being a fish,” said Huizi, “how can you possibly know what makes fish happy?”

“And you not being I,” said Zhuangzi, “how can you know that I don’t know what makes fish happy?”

“If I, not being you, cannot know what you know,” replied Huizi, “does it not follow from that very fact that you, not being a fish, cannot know what makes fish happy?”

“Let us go back,” said Zhuangzi, “to your original question. You asked me how I knew what makes fish happy. The very fact you asked shows that you knew I knew—as I did know, from my own feelings on this bridge.”

---

Indeed David, it was fun.
No. You can't grant a (sub) license of rights you don't have. However, a special licensing regime applies to derivative musical works like covers of songs.
Any mention of he who cannot be named will bring out the downvoters here. Pity, isn't it?
You were downvoted, but I think you're right.

I love video games. I spend a great deal of time playing them and I think they have a lot of oppurtunities other mediums can't match. But they don't move me the way even a mediocre novel or movie can.

Video games are terrible at interpersonal relationships, for example. I find the more "interactive" relationships with NPCs the more shallow the relationshop, while "railroad" games tend to be better at it.

Maybe it's that AAA titles mostly focus on the adolescent male demographic. But we've yet to find our Tolstoy.
Maybe there is a suspicion of money laundering? In that case they are phorbidden from informing the user of that.
Tools to Compress Images
China rails against 'discriminatory' India app ban
remember https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131217/08341625587/bloom...
Oak Trees Manipulate Squirrels to Abandon Their Acorns
California’s Shift from Natural Gas to Solar Is Playing a Role in Blackouts
A segfault is really just the CPU and OS working as intended. Not always obvious, but an ill formed access should not fail silently.

The issue with C is the silent issues like buffer overruns, i.e. even if you program defensively and with a proper security model you're still opening up to the possibility of leaking your missile codes by accident because you committed bad code
I wish the WG14 would publish the TeX sources for the latest working draft. None of the pdf-to-html generators work well, and as a result the most up to date version you can conveniently view in your browser is C99.
GnuPG 2.2.23
As armchair academic I kind of understand you. People live in all sort of horrible conditions today - famine, malaria, diseases. As living person I ask myself what if my home was destroyed by flood? What if there is no water to grow food? What if person from the country which caused most of CO2 emissions [1] expects me to be contempt? Shouldn't I blow them up? Maybe all I need to commit is a good preacher.

Last mass migration caused by ISIS. COVID caused reduced oil consumption is enough to make a trouble for oil exporters. Global warming is worse - drought, flood, fires. World is extremely fragile, resources supplied from another part of the world, even today cobalt mining is horrible, what would be then? I've heard of another civilization and broken supply chains [2].

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions#cumulative-co2-emis...

[2] 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Eric Cline, PhD) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRcu-ysocX4
Video games developers employ a huge number of artists, musicians, sculptors, cinematographers and architects. All of whom produce what would on a daily basis be called "art". It is a strange kind of alchemy to put all that art in a box at which point it becomes Not Art.

(also ignoring the whole 20th century modernist questioning of "what is art, anyway" involving all kinds of installations, found art, outsider art, signed soup cans, prints, International Klein Blue, and so on)
just Google
Depends on the type of web app. https://anim8.io - a site for hobby animators could never run on a $10VPS.

The bandwidth usage is just way too high and video compression requires GPU compute.
My non-expert guess is that given the large amount of power you have in a small area in a nuclear reactor, it would be hard to reach equilibrium while keeping the fuel solid.

If the fuel is in a liquid state (as in a molten salt reactor), then you could more easily since you could have it pour into a wide container, increasing surface area. (Basically the freeze plug approach).
"I fell for a sugar daddy scam" is the dumbest quote of all time. Women go looking to get paid for naked pics and play the victim when it doesn't work? Women are fucking insane, this is just another bit of evidence for that fact.
> Making a special snowflake that fits your brain better is good for you, but not necessarily anyone else.

Yes, and that's why the parent's argument that "you can hack it together in any fashion you damn well please, and you can use it to build peer-grade native applications, typically with little more than a tip of the hat as 'overhead'" is not a convincing argument. Yes, you can learn a lot about it and tinker with it and "harness its power", as opposed to using something that's less flexible, but is already pretty damn ergonomical, and is much more accessible and easy to learn about (maybe to the point you're not even realizing you're learning).