skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a ton of software out there that is riddled with bugs. Much of it is run behind closed doors, isn't exposed to attack vectors like the internet, and happily churns along because no one is trying to attack it.

Lots of other software might be exposed to the internet or to malicious users but no one has stumbled across it and tried to exploit it yet.

Code like that may be ok for now simply because of the circumstances, but I don't think that's a pass to ignore UB or to discourage folks from trying to improve the status quo.

Because some day either the developer of that code, who is used to ignoring this kind of thing, might write some code that has to be more correct or it will get exploited. Or the code itself might get changed, or exposed to attackers, or copied into some other program.

These things happen and they are preventable. And you don't even have to switch languages - turning on sanitizers when you compile and fixing issues as they are found, and encouraging others to do the same, is better (in my opinion) than categorizing folks worrying about and working on this issue - in C and in other languages - as FUD spreaders.
Yeah, I’m sure the ban on safrole had nothing to do with its use in making MDMA.

But I see that the FDA still hasn’t banned cigarettes. Not enough evidence?
Ah yes, my mistake. I'm not familiar with either, and I got them confused for a second.
I've been running Linux laptops for many years and I only use Lenovo now (if I cared more about build quality I'd probably go Dell though). I am super excited about this. Absolutely amazing development!
Hootsuite CEO terminating contract with ICE
I think it has to be viewed in the context of these two lines:

My sister killed her baby 'cause she couldn't afford to feed it / And we're sending people to the moon

He also references the Star Wars program later in the song.

I think, like a lot of good writing, he's doing multiple things:

1. Implying that the government does not care about certain people: homosexuals, the poor, the addicted, etc. but is willing to spend money on space flight and weapons.

2. Despite that, people persist, people still want to fly, and they want to make the world better as in the final lines of the song: Hurry before it's too late / Let's fall in love, get married, have a baby
While that seems possible with regard to certain interested parties, I doubt the prosecutor world be important enough to be in on any actual conspiracy.

Also the complainant (who could, with lower implausibility than the prosecutor, be part of such a conspiracy) did attempt to resume the extradition to Sweden as soon as she heard about the USA beginning the process of trying to extradite him from the UK.
It is Apache version of TimescaleDB there (right?), which stays the same. While, those, who are using TimescaleDB under Timescale license, e.g., on premise, have now right to repair, for example.
CNC-kitchen on youtube does some great experiments in unique ways to reinforce 3d prints. His latest video is a slightly more involved version of the salt method where he casts the prints in plaster and then re-melts them. I have been looking at going one step further and using a burn-off filament to make a mold for metal casting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG8dlxTX3AI&t
Microsoft Excel
Is there a list of enterprise features which are now free?
I'm using TimescaleDB for algo trading and it is performing beautifully. It's been rock solid and is handling everything being thrown at it (and in my case, it's every second of every day, yes weekends too).

edit: I have about 24,000 tables most with millions of rows. All 24,000 tables are touched at least daily. Often every few seconds.
Whenever someone says "don't bring politics into X" it's a cop-out. Doubly so for anything related to Facebook. Politics is how we solve all problems between competing interests as a society. You can't operate a business in this country (or any) which is divorced from politics. It's absurd for Zuck to suggest that his business should be immune to political forces.
> Isn't that similar?

No, what you described was a simple change in how the product was distributed. Forcing Apple to engineer a way to add 3rd party app stores on their platform would require significant engineering effort from them and changing their operating system internals significantly.
Funny thing about a site that is about fairness that doesn't let me 'not accept' the cookie popup at the bottom. Is this even GDPR compatible?
I've been thinking I wanted to incorporate it into my next powerlifting meet as a game-day PED because I can absolutely notice my blood pressure going up while eating it. Great now I need to write a grant proposal for the study…
Amazon redesigns the Echo line with spherical speakers and swiveling screens
That leak says something about the resources, not the expertise. For example both the NSA and almost every NATO equivalent of it tends to design cryptographic primitives with openly documented “weird” interfaces (key checksums, self-synchronizing remarkably slow stream ciphers...) and probably nobody outside of these agencies really knows why.
Amazon announces new cloud gaming service called Luna
Excuse my ignorance, but is this essentially like Org-mode just using Markdown?
There were desktop VAX systems. The MicroVAX II, for example:

http://gunkies.org/wiki/MicroVAX_II

The VAX ISA was implemented in a wide range of technologies, from TTL (the 1970s VAXen) up through true microprocessors:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroVAX_78032
I've seen these articles posted the last few days with a handful of upvotes, likely not enough to gain traction but with no conversation.

How do people feel about this? I'm not really sure where I fall on this.

Is the goal to remove Rogan entirely from Spotify or to edit out the controversial parts of the podcast?

I guess if there is action to take, I'd prefer an all-or-nothing approach because censoring out the bad parts seems weird and ineffective.

An aside, the tech world in general is facing moral decisions all over on who to work for or support now that the general kooliad is getting stale and people are discovering that Don't be evil PR campaigns SV companies have pushed for decades have been a ruse since the beginning. However I'm not sure either on the impact of any of that when big salaries are still the forefront topic of many.
Maybe i’m oversimplifying the issue, but this can be solved by requiring Apple and Google to allow other app stores to operate on their operating systems.
To be clear, I was trying to indicate that there would be an interaction between two modules that is not tested via mocks, but is common in production. That is the most common cause of bugs, and also the type that e2e tests tend to catch quite well.
"Standard Oil built their ecosystem and set their rules."

"AT&T built their ecosystem and set their rules."
10 years? No.

Batteries are killing hydrogen on scale and cost improvement. We may already have reached a "curve superiority" by batteries much like DRAM vs MRAM, as in MRAM may have had overall potential superiority to DRAM, but was way too late to the party to beat out DRAM's constant incremental improvements. The lead on economies of scale mean and allocation of research means that hydrogen cannot "catch up".

Even if massive investment in hydrogen started, presumably in transportation, it is probably 5-8 years from reaching the point Tesla was with the release of the first Model S.

Which cedes Tesla and battery tech another 5-8 years of "main curve" improvement. Consider that the great leap of lithium metal/solid state seems an almost guarantee in 10 years time, and likely 5 years.
Economic Recovery Tracker
Are you under the impression that Venn Diagram of "rational adults who are contributing members of society" and "crazy people" do not overlap, and that the latter cannot influence the former?

Do you believe QAnon has gone from a 4chan meme to a political movement which has gained the support of the President and seats in Congress because no rational adult or contributing member of society has ever fallen prey to them?

Human beings are not rational animals, human beings are emotional animals, we're great apes hardwired for paredolia and bigotry because it helped us survive the tall grasses of the Savannah a hundred thousand years ago. The assumption you and others like you make, that given a free (as in unregulated) market of ideas, rationality and truth will always win out, is as naive as the belief that ethics and quality always win in free market capitalism. Bad actors always dominate unless some external regulating force prevents them from doing so.

>What is the end goal? To make it impossible for crazy people to be heard online? Wouldn't a better goal be to educate ourselves on how to ignore the crazies and focus on reliable sources?

False dichotomy - we can do both. It is impossible to effectively educate ourselves or anyone else in an environment in which it is also impossible to distinguish good from bad information, or even attempt to do so, without fear of "censorship". We don't need to pretend Joe Rogan and Alex Jones are sources of truth on par with the BBC and Al Jazeera, or that evolution and the Book of Genesis are equally valid attempts to describe the natural world, or that QAnon represents a legitimate framework of political and social criticism, merely for the sake of allowing controversy, in the false belief that controversy is equivalent to freedom.
A man eats an entire bag of liquorice. This is what happened to his kidneys.

Hyperliquemia

Hyper, meaning high. liqu, referring to liquorice. emia, meaning presence in blood.

High liquorice presence in blood.

https://www.youtube.com/c/ChubbyemuGames/videos
I can believe that Quarkus uses a lot less memory than Spring!

But not simply using Graal.

JIT infrastructure, class metadata, etc are real, of course, but they are a small fraction of total memory use in every app i have ever worked on. Okay, you get a small saving by using Graal, so my original comment is not quite right. But it's not going to make the difference between an app needing 256 MB and 238 MB.
I think there's an argument for Prince as one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century. But he may not be at the top of the engineering philosophy game. I guess we all have our weaknesses.
> The iPhone is not a modular unit that can be tampered with at all, but despite even being a software developer, I do not actually care about my phone being modular. I want it to work and I want it to work well across the entire platform.

I'm precisely in this boat. I enjoy playing with electronics, but I want my microwave to just work. I also enjoy fiddling around with PCs with total freedom, but I want my phone to just work.
The condition -- not mentioned in the article -- is Apparent Mineralocorticoid Excess (AME). It is something that we read about 20 years ago in physiology textbook but I have yet to ever see in real life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparent_mineralocorticoid_exc...
10 years ago the concern was filter bubbles. Now we want invisible walls?
In practice it is a bit of a pain during the initial setup and package installation -- I was probably rebooting to recovery mode once a day or more to install some command line tool that I had forgotten about. Once the machine is configured then it is a more rare occurrence, although your usage might vary.

Something that I'm not happy about is that the snaps all live on the writable /var since they want to do automatic updates all the time. This is problematic for a locked-down configuration and might recommend against a snap based distribution.

Separating out the bootable bits from the rest of the packages might help, as would running more things in sandboxes. Another option that we're exploring is some lvm magic to create a snapshot, upgrade the snapshot, sign it, and then on the next reboot use it as the real root. This is also useful for fleet management -- the new root filesystem, kernel, initrd, etc can arrive "behind the scenes" and on the next reboot is the one that is used. Since the PCRs can be predicated as well, the PCR policy can be signed and sent along with the upgrade to make it seamless.
> The PC also had no MMU or OS overhead.

No MMU, sure, but the whole point of this was to benchmark an OS. It's all about the OS overhead.
Apparently a large amount of produced liquorice goes to flavor cigarettes, up to 4% of the weight of a cigarette's tobacco blend is liquorice[0]. So I would wager that smoking liquorice has killed more people than eating it (not that that tidbit of info helps in the case of the man in the article).

[0] https://www.dkfz.de/de/tabakkontrolle/download/PITOC/PITOC_T...
> Most of the deforestation you are mentioning happens for monocrop cultivation, from which livestock consume (mostly) the leftovers.

This is incorrect. Humans can and do eat soybean meal. About 98% of soybean meal is used for animal feed and only 1% is used to produce food for people.[0] For soybeans as a whole, only about 6% grown worldwide are turned directly into food products for human consumption.[1]

> Ahhh... No, thanks. It will also be vastly worse for my health.

The peer-reviewed science we have suggests that higher soy consumption correlates with increased lifespan and positive health outcomes. Can I hazard a guess that you think MSG is bad for your health too? These are antiquated views.

> "So far, the evidence does not point to any dangers from eating soy in people, and the health benefits appear to outweigh any potential risk. In fact, there is growing evidence that eating traditional soy foods such as tofu, tempeh, edamame, miso, and soymilk may lower the risk of breast cancer, especially among Asian women. Soy foods are excellent sources of protein, especially when they replace other, less healthy foods such as animal fats and red or processed meats. Soy foods have been linked to lower rates of heart disease and may even help lower cholesterol."

https://www.cancer.org/latest-news/soy-and-cancer-risk-our-e...

[0] https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/where_do_all_these_soybeans_go

[1] https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/soybeans
Hence why even with the other points that you’ve not quoted I am merely at the level of “well I reckon“.
> Standards that help combat vertically integrated monopolies seems like something HN readers would be in favor of.

This. You can pretty much think of schema.org as "The Semantic Web - The Good Parts". It's not a literal description of course (there's plenty of potentially worthwhile 'semantics' that isn't covered there) but it's in the ballpark. And the best part is that sites are incented to be truthful wrt. their machine readable info, because they might get banned/downranked by the major search engines otherwise. So everyone benefits.
> My question would be though, what should Facebook do instead?

What should Big Tobacco do? If your business is a net negative for the world... get out of business. This is not hard. Corporations are not precious endangered species that we have some moral obligation to keep alive.

> A recommendation engine is just an algorithm to maximize an objective function.

A cigarette is just dried leaves wrapped in paper. If the use and production of that devices harms the world, stop using and producing it.

> But now you've turned Facebook from a neutral platform into an explicit arbiter of political opinion.

Facebook is already a non-neutral platform. Humans at Facebook chose to use an algorithm to decide recommendations and chose which datasets to use to train that algorithm.

Playing Russian roulette and pointing the gun at someone else before pulling the trigger does not absolve you of responsibility. Sure, the revolver randomly decided which chamber to stop at, but you chose to play Russian roulette with it.
A free market would account for it's externalities. If it costs 80k to remove the emissions your 20k ICE causes, then once the externalities are accounted for, your free market ICE should cost 100k...
Good stuff! Reminds me of an R package [1] I developed a while ago while at DataCamp that does this specifically for R; it turns static R Markdown documents into interactive playgrounds.

[1] https://github.com/datacamp/tutorial
It causes positive effects in the form of higher profits for the company.
Even chemical dependency is more complicated than initially thought. See the rat park experiment.

https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/what-does-rat-park-tea...
Another similar one is chocolate poisoning.

Humans can handle 3 times more chocolate per KG of body mass than dogs so the risk is much smaller to us but we're still susceptible at the extremes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theobromine_poisoning
Do researchers believe that the lottery hypothesis would also apply to the ML algorithm for driverless cars?

E.g. would it be possible for some programmer at Tesla to accidentally find the initial state variables that converges to a fully functioning self-driving algorithm years in advance of the algorithm working through data acquisition?
Amazon needs to join. Can’t get books in the kindle app.
What in the world are you talking about? The whole reason Democrats are going on and on about this election year appointment is because they wanted to fill Scalia's seat in 2016 and Republicans held all the chips and said "nah, we're gonna wait until after the election." Don't take my word for it, look at what Hillary Clinton said:

> The Republicans in the Senate and on the campaign trail who are calling for Justice Scalia’s seat to remain vacant dishonor our Constitution.[0]

Yes of course there's a "you're being hypocritical" angle to everything, but to claim the Democrats wouldn't do this if they had the position Republicans currently do is laughable. They threw a fit about this exact same scenario just four years ago, just with the arguments flipped! And they would quickly brush aside any criticism of hypocrisy by saying "hey we didn't say you had to leave a SC seat empty during an election year, you guys did!" and they'd still have some claim to being logically consistent in their beliefs. This is how politics work, yes even your beloved party isn't above it.

BTW, if you want to see some real fun, wait until the Democrats have all three branches. They're gonna pack the SC.

0: https://twitter.com/hillaryclinton/status/698675522956607488...
> Where is the money?

Protocol Labs raised a bunch of money from the Filecoin ICO. Pinata has nothing to do with it.
Or bad actors can use analogies to mislead people. Or a neutral actor erroneously uses them and the result is still misinformed people. My opinion is analogies do more harm than good, at best wasting people's time, and at worst, resulting in people coming to the wrong conclusions.
Faith, I would argue includes the urge toward something on a deep/spiritual/fundamental level that you may certainly have doubts of and even contrary evidence for. I would posit that it is in the face of such doubt that faith is exercised the most. The faculty is as much one of hope in something because you know something else points to it being true in the absence of easy confirmation. Being certain of something a-priori naturally requires little faith thereafter. There are practical goods that flow from from faith that certainly bolster that sense that it is good and thus it is true. So I would not discount the value of these practical goods as motivator for faith nor would I treat that as an
indictment thereof.
evolution has armed us with a way of detecting food that is not good for us but in this case since its all blended with sugar and other dietary "desirable" ingredients it may fool us.
I think you're mostly getting downvoted for speaking in certainties. That's a reasonable take if you said "most" in front of each bullet, but claims of "no one" only take a single person for the claim to be wrong.
It's not an intentional trick to force you to keep paying.

The vast vast majority of people have access to a Windows PC or Apple product. How you ended up in this edge case I'll never know.

To take this to it's logical conclusion, what if you don't run JavaScript on your browsers. Would they also need to give you a cancelation page which doesn't require JavaScript.
SLAC invention could make particle accelerators 10 times smaller
China may veto Nvidia's $40bn bid for Arm
In the limit yes but I think this idea of making profit is a fundamental attribution error. But it is a fine line. It is better to be profitable than not but if you can raise capital it allows you to trade money for time.
In the Netflix doc they disproved it themselves (involving a laser gyroscope), and what happened next was the most interesting part.

The flat-earth people tried to explain away the result, and dismissed it
You wouldn't casually consume toxic amounts of water or table salt, but a bag and half of licorice per day doesn't sound all that excessive to me.
Huh, so it's not just me. I always wondered.
I'm sure getting people into the ovens at Auschwitz presented a fascinating logistical challenge as well. They probably got some really good enterprise architects on that effort. Likely a great career start for many.
> Yet UNIX is the same.

Use V7 Unix in an emulator and say that. Unix didn't have networking, mmap(), or job control shells back then, and that's about the level some of the benchmarked Unix variants were at.
"Developers" nowadays (except some indie shop) are just the enemy of user. They try to squeeze money out of users as much as possible.

On the other hand Apple try to squeeze money by asking consumer to pay the apple tax, but at least they try to be reasonable on the privacy issue.

Choose which side you like, or just use open source software.
I really appreciate how this theory makes testable predictions that already-planned experiments will be able to confirm or deny. Right or wrong (and most ideas are wrong), this is the gold standard of science.
As I understand it from the reports.
The case in Sweden was already cleared right from the start. There was no crime and this was clear very seen in the beginning.

The Sweden accusation was started, because Sweden can send prisoners to the US immediately. The US started this scheme after wikileaks exposed the warcrimes in Iraq.

The Uk kept the arrest on Assange, even after this all was cleared. And are still holding him against all laws.
Your logical fallacy is to believe that you will retain your everyday life freedoms that way. The lines between digital and real life are already blurring. You will lose freedom in both this way.

I hope for you that we utopians won't have to rescue you one day with our ability to build from source. If enough of your kind would exist, we might all be working for the FANGS and nobody will be there for you anymore.
Then don't install the other stores.

(That's how people who say "then don't use Apple devices" sounds like).
Oh gosh, I used to eat massive amounts of chocolate for easter when I was a kid and I would get really sick from it.
Well, maybe that, but they (Protocol Labs) also raised $200 million in 30 minutes with Filecoin which is basically just their attempt to create paid decentralized pinning.
> No-one forces anyone to be racist, homophobic, etc.

Do you believe that you hold your beliefs because of some great achievement, and not "just because"? Do you believe that you are as smart as you are because of $somethingYouDid and not because of genetic and environmental lotteries?
Yes, see: http://howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/literate-devops.html
Quid est veritas?
I like the idea from this article that basic income is a form of simplifying the government's social programs, leading to a smaller government overall. Slowly building up the basic income as those social programs are deconstructed is a wise way to do it.
Every time you post something it’s something I could have posted myself. This is truly weird as we share the same name.
> Nuclear power plants are money printing machines, not money pits.

This is a point on which nuclear advocates and the nuclear industry disagree.

I wonder which understands the economics of the situation better?