skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And the friends get benefits, that’s life as much as people here don’t want to admit it, life ain’t fair that way.
It's surely possible, I don't meant to suggest otherwise
. But still - why bother when you have nothing to say?

A personal website tends to serve as either self promotion or to voice your opinion. I don't think he needs promotion, so unless he wants to start blogging, it's only risk and timesink with no upsides.
Brazil Fires Burn World’s Largest Tropical Wetlands at ‘Unprecedented’ Scale
That too is a problem. The public shouldn't be the ones to decide whether or not we trust self-driving cars as a society. Science and hard data should decide that. Valuations should be determined accordingly, based on that science. In this particular case, the valuations of the entire self-driving industry should have been pegged by experts in the industry while the valuation of Uber should have been knocked down for negligence.

Trusting the public to set valuations on a per-trade basis directly results in the heavy hands at the likes of SoftBank scooping up full control.
That's the only practical response to a ridiculous law.

Affirmative Action for capital owners is absurd.
You can work around this limitation using stunnel.

Just search for rtmps and stunnel. Quite a few helpful results. There is even a docker container that makes this pretty simple.
This is the point the tech community needs to focus on. If we want the general public to care about these issue, we need to communicate the repercussions in ways that doesn't just allude to the ideals of "freedom" and "privacy". You need concrete examples of how this can and will go wrong in the short term for normal law-abiding citizens and they need to be scarier than "the government will know your porn searches" which clearly hasn't motivated anyone.
He’s not a robot either sometimes he will make choices that favor you over the company because overall that might be a better choice for him and that works in your favor.
Is that linkage much more energy dense compared to starch, I always wonder why so few life forms digest cellulose.
> People fish for peer reviews that paint the rosiest picture.

I found this happening when our firm used KPI metrics (key performance indicators). Whichever metric management emphasized, those would shoot way up via ... weird methods (all sorts of finagling, but not necessarily helping overall firm performance). Every time they optimized for some other lever it would have all sorts of unintended outcomes on other metrics and overall people spent more time trying to get around the system and increase their metrics than just doing a good job. System was scrapped < 12 mo later.
Yes, I don't see much serious argument on the claim in the article itself, more like a puff piece for this new translation of his stories. Also Pevear-Volkhonsky has oft received flak for their translations[0].

[0]
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/gary-morson/the-...
Why can't these be free?
Court orders are a last resort. Often, law enforcement will just ask providers to kindly share the information they want access to, and the providers comply. No warrants needed.
Ah! Thank you
As someone who's not very well versed in C, can someone please explain how I should interpret this function signature?

char *combine(s, t)
char *s, *t;
{
The energy required to deorbit Phobos is far beyond or technological means. It has a mass of 10 quadrillion kg
Why Silicon Valley is doing all it can to help the Biden-Harris ticket [video]
"Creepy policing investigates the evidence at crime scenes."
That's what the control strip is for. Use that for registration. What you really care about is the relative intensities of the control and test.
Not OP, but at least in oz we live in a representative democracy. That means that though 51% may support the current government, any one piece of legislation only needs to have the support of the majority in parliament. It could have zero support in the community.

It happens often enough when people are polled on the legislation itself, rather than party preferences, people overwhelmingly support positions which may even be antithetical to both sides of parliament. Climate change legislation has enjoyed overwhlming support in oz for years, even amongst a slim majority on the right.

People overwhelming support environmental protections. But our parliament this week, under cover of covid, pushed through a massive regression in environemntal protections without even letting their own party discuss the legislation, let alone the opposition or the media.
we used to play around with this idea. a tagline we liked was: "stream once, go nuts!" dunno why but it still makes me laugh
>Inflation for the dollar and other major currencies is not really a problem anymore because when money supply increases or money becomes less scarce that excess is now absorbed by speculative increases in asset prices rather than CPI inflation.

It's "not a problem" in the sense that you won't be struggling to buy food with your worthless dollars, but it's still problematic because it exacerbates inequality (rich people tend to have more assets that would appreciate in value).
Agiliza+tus+tests+con+Laravel+Dusk
The internet grew and so did its capacity of making people money. In a world which cares a great deal about money, it makes sense the culture would slowly get shifted by industry to keep developers focused on what makes the money, which is apparently not skins.

It’s the filter on ideas of capitalism applied at scale and it’s not unique to the internet (eg Cookie-Cutter houses). It‘s interests are aligned with maximizing access though, but yeah, I get the frustration, we lose a lot in that process. Maybe we can think up something better...
This is ugly old style C function signature.
Obsolete since a long time ago (more than 20 years)

Here is the "modern" equivalent:

char combine(char s, char* t)
{
> he just turned around and walked away

> You’re an idiot

That seems awfully rude of them. They don't sound like very pleasant people.
They are fun to argue about however! e.g. Montaigne invented the modern self. (Shakespeare was a student of Montaigne.) Bacon invented modern science – the huge enterprise of science and scientific research as we know it today is his program.
so then it's just for people starting out. not a nonstarter
Batteries are ~$3/KWH. The natural gas that hydrogen comes from is only $.50/KWH.
char *combine(char *s, char *t)
My company doesn’t fire anybody so low performers are often moved into management or get to do new green field projects. :(. Good performers are stuck doing maintenance work on the money making products.
Transparent OLED Window Announcements on Beijing Underground
It's very old news. He must have run a very old unpatched version of the software.
This is an old way of writing the type of parameters to a function. I believe the modern equivalent is

char* combine(char* s, char* t) { ... }

which means combine takes in two pointers-to-char and returns a pointer-to-char.

Opinions differ on whether the * should be next to the type or next to the identifier. I prefer putting it next to the type.
Strangely the English voice announcements sound just like the ones on The Tube, innit.
Previous discussion from a couple years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17397823
That is not my implication, just as humans are not evolved from gorillas. The likely share a common base.

That may have been 500, 1000, or more years ago and each continuously absorbed neighboring language features from trade or due to local social structures.
All evidence except actual witness testimony is circumstantial.
Invariants are essential when designing a system, to ensure the resulting system can be understood by actual humans who will be responsible to maintain it.

They are right that invariants will not be essential for your assignments, at least for the first couple of years, although they would save you from some dead ends.

You will be able to code some of your invariants as assertions, but as often not. The ones you can't are the ones you have to pay the most attention to.

If the system invariants get too complicated, or hard to express, the design is wrong--reliably. That is when they are most valuable. Millions of systems designed without invariants could have been right, but we're stuck with what we got, instead.
Peter Molydeux:

https://twitter.com/petermolydeux

https://twitter.com/PeterMolydeux/status/1287527427355410439

@PeterMolydeux: Imagine a dating sim where you answer questions about yourself but then find you’re playing as the love interest. You discover that ‘you’ are actually an amazing and wonderful person and fall in love with yourself.

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

Peter Molydeux is a Twitter account presented as a parody of the game designer Peter Molyneux. Created by game artist Adam Capone in 2009, it posts audacious game design ideas in the style of Molyneux. The account presents Molyneux as a tragicomic character with unrelenting, creative ideas that are continually received by an apathetic audience. Over time, the account evolved from a Molyneux-based persona into a list of potential game concepts. A common theme of the tweets is the untapped potential of emotional game experiences. Molyneux came to appreciate the parody, and has since met Capone in person.

I imagined him going through the supermarket with a digital recorder and coming up with ideas while shopping ... And over dinner, he's rearranging his peas and saying. 'Is this giving me a game idea?' And his wife is saying, 'Shut up, Peter. Just eat your food.'
–Capone (Molydeux) on Molyneux

Some of the parody account's proposals include:

A racing game in which the player controls the road instead of the vehicle

A Kinect game in which the player must cry to open a gate

An eight-person online multiplayer game in which each player controls one leg of an octopus

The final segment of a war game, in which the player pauses in silence at the tombstone of each KIA recruit

A 3D adventure game in which the amnesiac player awakens in a museum with a room dedicated to each year of the character's life

The player holds a radioactive baby, which acts as a torch in a dark environment; rocking the baby increases its luminescence

The player pretends to be blind and must walk into objects to avoid suspicion

A bear must hug people in order to live, but crushes the people he hugs

A pigeon carries sentimental objects to businessmen to persuade them not to kill themselves

A divorced father sneaks into his family house to help with chores without alerting them

When the player kills henchmen in one game, the player sees recurring images of those henchmen's crying children in an unrelated sports video game

A version of Street Fighter in which streets fight other streets
I want to do 360s on the managers two level up and higher. Because they are the real problem in my view. I hate snitching on my direct team members not knowing how the the feedback is used so I usually just praise them without much detail.
One of the hats I wear these days is looking through source code for security vulnerabilities. It's shocking how many SQL injection vulnerabilities I find in newly written code. I remember first reading about SQL injection back in the 90s and yet developers are still making that very basic mistake. It is also a bit scary how many of the code analysist tools miss intentional flaws I've added to the code to test the scanner. These aren't ancient lint checkers, they're ridiculously priced enterprise tools. It worries me that they're giving a false sense of security that is going to get lots of implementations burned.
I wonder how many fanfold pages of Java, complete with getters, setters, toString and hashCode, one of Nathan's examples expands into?
Everyone, everywhere, all out for: September 5
I recommend the book in general, and also his lectures.
He has a quirky sense of humour, compares his book with Harry Potter here: http://www.inference.org.uk/mackay/itila/Potter.html
I think it takes a bit more than Wiki knowledge to drain an in-ground pool... you would need to keep a large pump running for hours, under duress.
'Only' 128MB but https://groupgets.com/manufacturers/good-stuff-department/pr... is capable of running a linux capable core and it's tiny (Adafruit's Feather form factor)
I never got the after popularity that this guy enjoyed after his major accomplishments.
Look, Marrying your intern is one thing, but some of his more recent views are reflective of senility as one of my friends put it.
This is the correct advice. Management is just another arm of HR and HR is not your friend.

Nobody at any company they don't own should be under any illusions that they're viewed as anything other then replaceable labor. Your salary like everyone else's gets lumped into the expenses column, and your accomplishments don't appear on that spreadsheet next to your name at all.
I moved from the US to Mexico. I'm retired. I spend half my time in Mexico, then come to the US to visit family who are spread out over 3 states and then to take up a part-time summer job.
By "some" you mean "every stack-based right-to-left calling convention", which happens to be the norm for 16 and 32-bit x86. In contrast, varargs on 64-bit x86 is a mess: https://blog.nelhage.com/2010/10/amd64-and-va_arg/
Do we know the foundry?

I like your idea because I could see the Chinese government doing this to help prop up SMIC too. The RPi4 isn't any smaller than 16nm, and SMIC needs 14nm customers.

Shoot for the 500MHz target listed, which is achievable with Victorian era style over engineering. Next sell those more or less at cost after the government footed the bill for initial capital (probably paying back .gov.cn first). Then using the massive body of software you expect from the new ecosystem around the first wave of chips to reoptimize the cores and inch your way towards really competitive chips. All the while SMIC gets great experience at their lower node with a pretty low risk, but high volume project.

Total speculation, but fun speculation. If someone pulls that off they probably win the whole Made in China 2025 thing for homegrown computers in an interesting enough niche to have a foreign audience too.
Your numbers assume that the average case is spending 10k+ per year our of pocket? That's nonsense. My average year is a couple of hundred dollars. The year my child was born was under 5k.

Those prices are for the Obamacare exchange, pre-subsidy. Who isn't eligible?
Some people just don’t like talking and/or writing about themselves. I find the process painful even if I know I’m doing great and I know that everyone else knows too.
That is pre-ANSI C. The parameter types are declared between the end of the argument list and the start of the body, instead of inside the argument list.
Home Carbonation Setup for Unlimited Seltzer
Or disc for optical, disk for magnetic
I mean you can see from Google Trends that a ton of searches for Guccifer were happening in that time period: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...
Efficiency vs. Risk
The Arduino Uno retails for around $30 and gives you a 16MHz CPU and 2KB of RAM so I don’t think specs and price are that related, especially when looking at different architectures.
Probably referring to when something is available only in certain markets due to geoblocking. For example, one of the recent Star Treks was distributed in the US by CBS, and outside the US by Netflix.

Also they didn't say they're in the US.
Nano refers to their system as a block lattice rather than a blockchain. For just transferring value between users, a block lattice seems to be superior to a single blockchain like Bitcoin in terms of scalability, free transactions, and transaction speed. I'm not sure what a consistency guarantee is, but I've never heard of a Nano double spend if that's what you mean.

Since there isn't a single chain in Nano, I don't think Nano can be forked (in the BTC blockchain sense) by bad actors. Instead, a bad actor would need to have 51% of the online supply of Nano delegated to representatives they control. At that point, the bad actor could start blocking transactions. Of course, there are risks with any decentralized system. For BTC, this risk is about controlling hash rate (which can be done by controlling mining pools, not just mining hardware).

To get proper answers from the devs to these questions, your best bet would be to post them on the official Nano forum at https://forum.nano.org/
It may also be unclear what "reversing" means here. You have to remember that most non-technical people don't think in the programmer style "input-output" way.
Say "reversing a hash" and the may think of reversing the string like abc->cba.

Often you cannot do better in explaining it without doing a mini course. And people would have to sit down, concentrate and work through the new concepts and that's tiring, looks like school, "I was never good at math", and you lost everyone. You can't make the average person understand hashing, mainly because the don't care and will glaze over. You can dress it up with engaging stories and metaphors, and they will remember the engaging story but not actually build the right mental model if you actually poke at their understanding.
There was no evacuation for either Harvey or Laura.
"but the memory PHY, USB 3.0 PHY, GPU, and other I/Os will still be closed source"
SoftHome – So, where do you live on the Net?
i wrote that second link :) delighted to see it in the wild
There can be filters and data can be anonymized, with all access recorded and audited by an independent panel. However that is not the current state of the surveillance state in the US. I think the majority would poll for the system with the safeguards in place as opposed to the current system that relies on trusting the state. Also the damage can be more subtle like the state pushing propaganda based on the private data of the citizens.
When I was learning C a couple decades ago, pointer syntax never made any sense to me until something suddenly clicked with “put it directly next to the type name and not next to the variable name”. Ever since then I have not been able to figure out why it is commonly taught next to the variable name.

I mean, short of enabling declarations like:

char *a, *b;

But I have long since found the tradeoff to be worth the syntactic clarity.
I spend most of my free time on my homelab and figuring out self-hosted alternatives. For everyone of us that does this and tries to fix a bug, report an issue, write some tooling, or add some tutorial for open source projects, the lower the barrier for others.

For each of us that runs their own physical servers (and make your less technical friends use them!) we grow stronger.

Use matrix.org (or whatever you believe in), self-host email, promote cryptocurrency.

https://searx.github.io/searx/

I choose to hope the war is not fully lost, yet. But the borders are closing in.
Or just use bcrypt! Which generates the salt for you and stores it alongside the final hash.
Sure, but asking politely is hardly the mark of tyranny, and has nothing to do with the sort of scenario I'm replying on.
SonicBOOM, the latest of the Berkley Out-of-Order Machine from UC Berkley, was fabbed for running at 1 GHz.[0]

[0]: https://carrv.github.io/2020/papers/CARRV2020_paper_15_Zhao....
Ubuntu ppp's CVE-2020-15704 wrap-up
partly for not having the DSI/MIPI specification unless you pay upwards of thousands of dollars a year

There is a little thing called Google... ;-)
> But what about having separate auth sub-service with separate database.

Sure, my point was mainly about classic monolithic apps. If you split your app up into lots of separate micro-services, my point may no longer hold.

> Who says a SQL injection allows yourself to update your account to be admin.

I wasn't talking about a database superuser account, I was talking about an application-level admin. Usually there is some database table which stores user permissions, and an attacker can do an UPDATE/INSERT on that table to grant an ordinary user account full admin permissions, or even create a brand new user with those permissions. All this can happen within the single ordinary DB account used by the application (given most applications only use one DB account)
And for thousands of years the world languished in poverty. The modern age as we know it with industrialisation and trade started with the Renaissance and boomed with the move away from the gold standard because it meant countries has a way to actually manage their monetary policy against things that mattered.
Are the records still accessible by the NSA?
What is error correction? Hamming codes in hardware by Ben Eater [video]
FWIW, every chip I've seen with a PowerVR GPU uses a video scan out engine that's pretty much completely disconnected from the GPU.

That's one of the neat things about how programmable their cores are; you can resolve in the tile to just about any surface format since it's all done in software anyway, so it's really easy to integrate with other scan IP blocks.

TL;DR: You'll probably get a simple un-accelerated framebuffer (maybe with a few planes) with a PowerVR off to the side that you can just ignore if you want.
There aren't any formal rules that he lives and dies by, but read "Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist" by Lowenstein. Buffett -- or at least Lowenstein captures -- expresses concern for people buying before he does.
Exactly this, people complain about how many different services there are...

Most of them individually have more content than you can watch in a lifetime.

What about the concept of, picking the shows you have access to watch?

If the service barely has anything you watch, what happens if you don't get access to it?

People compare this all to cable, the problem with cable is you couldn't just pay $10 and get something. You payed $10 for a cable box, then you payed $30 for standard definition, then you added 20 dollars here and there for packages and HD, and a fee for mobile viewing.

Now you can pay $30 for one or two services and get access to more content than people were paying hundreds for!

But then the complaint becomes "yes but I can't watch literally everything"?
NICE! I found the one I made as well. Holy nostalgia. I was actually using the skin several years ago on the Linux player Audacious. I should install it again...
Cool man. Might check this out for my kombucha and all grain beer brewing setup.
> If the records exist, and you're not guilty of the crime, hope exists that you could be cleared.

But if no records exist, you will not be a suspect in the first place.
Spark Plug
Submitted with the quote:

"Polonium spark plugs were marketed by Firestone from 1940 to 1953. While the amount of radiation from the plugs was minuscule and not a threat to the consumer, the benefits of such plugs quickly diminished after approximately a month because of polonium's short half-life, and because buildup on the conductors would block the radiation that improved engine performance. The premise behind the polonium spark plug, as well as Alfred Matthew Hubbard's prototype radium plug that preceded it, was that the radiation would improve ionization of the fuel in the cylinder and thus allow the plug to fire more quickly and efficiently."
Those complaining it’s on by default are forgetting that exposing ad tracking as a setting that can be turned off is already a leap forward compared to shady practices across advertisement industry.
I read that as the HDL rather than the drivers since they call out the memory PHY.
I blew the top of a 555 once! I still remember peering into the whole in the top where I could still see bits of the die left. Most of it was gone! I never worked out what happened and my teacher couldn't shed any light on it either.

Fortunately the ejected packaging didn't hit me in the eye!
If I have a "million a month" business (which is coming from rich recruitijg fees on a trivial website, not amazing tech), no way am I sweating $171/mo in server bills.
And don't forget that Jef Raskin invented Burrell: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...