skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea that he has info on Trump he didn't publish is ridiculous. Assange is not the only person on the planet capable of leaking information, and the entirety of the US media establishment would have clamored for the opportunity. If the information really existed, someone else would have leaked it.

The only people "claiming" this are random people on the internet with a rage boner against Assange.
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Some high stakes pro I can't remember: "Yes, I have a gambling addiction. Fortunately, I'm good at it."
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Didn't we sorta lose our minds when they were trying to extradite a killer that ran to Hong Kong to avoid extradition?
I don't think this is true. It's a better strategy to keep bad players in the game by giving them real advice. To ensure they grow and have fun. But not so much advice that they surpass you. That's their own responsibility to seek out.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...

Summary:
"investigators found that the prevalence of COVID-19 antibodies among hospital employees was lower than what had been reported for the surrounding general community that is consistent with personal protective equipment being effective at preventing exposure of hospital workers. In addition, researchers found via laboratory testing that N95 masks with intact elastic straps or if sterilized maintained their effectiveness even if they had passed their expiration point, offering alternatives to the scarcity of N95 masks."

Conclusion:
"PPE, when available and properly used, confers protection and lower infection rates of COVID-19 among health care workers when compared with reported infection rates in the general public."
I think you've both got a piece of it. I've programmed PC software, embedded software, and mobile software, and my gut feeling (without data) is that the shipped software quality is inversely proportional to the update frequency and ease of updates. Had nothing to do with how smart or skilled the developers and testers were. Had nothing to do with management's priorities. Update frequency and ease changed immensely once we could feasibly deliver patches over the Internet. Before easy updates, you'd actually quality check every corner of the application, you'd actually fix those P2s and P3s. You'd do exploratory testing off the test plan rails to find things. There was even a concept of "done" in software, as in, you eventually stop constantly jamming features in and tweaking the UI in maddening ways.

Now, it's just "LOL just ship it, users will just deal with it until the next release!" Now, it's "Do experiments on N% in prod and use end users for A/B testing. If something's broken we'll update!"

In several industries, it's actually totally expected that v1.0 of the application simply won't work at all. It's more important for these companies to ship non-working software than to miss the deadline and ship something that works! Because who cares? Users will bear the cost and update.
I mean Epic, Spotify, and Tinder are wrong here. Apple built the hardware, and the distribution mechanism for software on that hardware platform. Apple has been a closed ecosystem from day 1. It shouldn't have come as a surprise to anyone and they all knew when they decided to create apps for iOS that they were party to a closed system where Apple are the gatekeepers. Don't like their rules? Then, don't do business on their App Store. Simple as that really.
> People have chosen something (mask wearing) that has at best weak evidence over something (physical distancing) that has much stronger evidence.

Most recommendations I've seen are to do both.
It makes sense in the context of the current administration, which has been making it harder for people to immigrate to the US, treating certain people of color less fairly and reducing access to education. This move satisfies all of this, really, and the first two were campaign promises!
VisualVM and JVM reflection/introspection depend on HotSpot, and on GC safepoints, and so on.

GraalVM uses its own GC, and has some limitations: https://github.com/oracle/graal/blob/master/substratevm/Limi... (basically it needs to statically know what will be accessed via reflection, so it can add those to the native-image).

In theory, sure it can be made to work with VisualVM. But I'd be surprised if it works out of the box.
The current title ("significantly faster") on HN is suboptimal. What is there written relating the speed is that the new implementation:

"improves responsiveness and page load performance
significantly (we're seeing 5-15% improvements on many visual metrics
tests). Speedometer is about 10% faster with Warp."

"Warp is currently slower on various synthetic JS
benchmarks such as Octane (which we will continue investigating in the
coming months) but should perform well on web content."

It seems it can in the longer term generally improve though, and simplifications are always better.
This is just the "there are children starving in Africa" argument, but across time instead of space.
It is great for the US when smart people move there permanently, but the country shouldn't ignore the fact that there are significant issues for US citizens.

The biggest may be the way that it displaces native students who've often been paying big taxes over the years to improve the schools. Yet they get bumped to a lower tier school or forced to pay for private education.

It's one thing when the incoming talent is undeniable, but in many cases schools will actively (and openly!) search for foreign students who pay substantially more in tuition.

There are also problems with language for some incoming students. I know of at least one state school that is actively turning away state residents while scolding the professors for grading foreign students for poor grammar and English writing.
Sounds like you're pretty much stuck. I don't think you will be able to get to Canada with the current pandemic rules.

Is Egypt currently at war? I understand you will be required to serve in the military but wouldn't that also allow you to receive an identity card that allows you to travel more freely?

After basic training couldn't you get a position in the IT field within the military for the 18 to 36 months you are required to serve?

I don't know much about the Egyptian military but I think you might just have to grin and bare it. It is possible that after completing your service you may even feel differently about it.

I hope you make it through and if you are really interested in immigrating to Canada to build your life, You will be welcomed with open arms once the pandemic is under control.

I would suggest focusing your studies on ML and data science, perhaps graph theory, that seems to be the most in demand skills for the current tech sector in Canada.

You might want to contact some of the department heads at Canadian universities through email. I have found most are very responsive to inquiries from potential students.
I'll humbly add myself to this list https://youtube.com/hswolff
I worked with a casion who uses BLE to track you throughout their properties that is similar to this idea. The BLE along with their own data (w/l and how much) plus their app (https://www2.mgmresorts.com/app/) gave them every detail they needed to keep you playing slots.
Headed for the front doors, boom free credit, headed to the elevators, free buffet, sitting by the pool for too long, new tables are opening, you get the idea. And of course since they own half the casions in vegas they can track you as you go to other casinos. Want to do fun stuff? Who is in your room with you? how long? where in your room? How long does it take you to get ready before heading to the show? What time did you go to bed / get up? What did you have for dinner, who did you have dinner with? Who did you chat with in the lobby and for how long? Where did they go after your chat? Where did you go? On and on. Not that they collect and use that data (see how I said collect and use?) but they could. They are only interested in your spending your money and could really care less who and how you have sex with or if you met up with a local coke dealer in the lobby, but cops might, it's all too much IMO.

Alot of you are devs, let your mind run wild with the data you could collect and sell, and then tell me if anything amzaon released yesterday isn't creppy.
I don't think that owning a house is nearly out of reach for a family making $62k/yr. Standard advice is that one can afford a house costing 2.25 times one's annual income. That means the median family can afford a $140k house.

Briefly checking my city, paying $140k for a house in my city is enough for a 3 bedroom detached house with a large yard, in the suburbs, with a 15 minute drive to downtown.
thank you!

interestingly a very similar link appears to not require a google login, but requires javascript:

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mozilla.dev.platform/1PHhx...

i wonder what's going on.
(taking devil's advocate view, not my own): Perhaps that chapter of Wikimedia should be called Wikimedia China Taipei instead of Wikimedia Taiwan
Not sure how huge an issue it is, but in the past I noticed that mingw does not support Structured Exception Handling (SEH). I think clang on Windows may have made some progress there.

Also I am not sure about certain c++ libraries that are useful for writing COM code, like ATL or its successors.
I'm kind of over the whole "Look, we killed someone far, far, far away for dubious reasons with NEW technology" articles. These folks halfway across the world aren't bothering, nor do they actually threaten my freedom in any way shape or form.
I don't get the point of your comment. Sorry. What about the flashlight?

Since the article talks about technology... Why is "technology = only software or apps or things related to a phone"?

Technology can be something that goes from fire, passing through a pencil up to whatever application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes.

Edit: flashlight instead of torchlight.
Was sarcastic.
I would highly recommend avoiding Dante Labs. I had a terrible experience with them. There were extreme delays, lasting many months. When I requested the full genome be sent to me, they insisted the only way to do it was a hard drive. This hard drive was sent from Italy to California. On its way, it was seized by customs in Mumbai, who opened it and re-sealed it. The package arrived in tatters, and based on my analysis of the genome with the appropriate reference, it appeared to be someone else's genome. Many of the SNPs disagreed with a later 23andme report I got, which I assume is more accurate.
Is there a number you suggest?
You can use it on your own computer, you just can't publish content with it that isn't iOS-related. They're not going to come knock on your door because you've set SF to be your system font.
Emotional state sounds like the way someone feels in a given moment - like whether I'm in a good mood today or I'm having a bad day. Maybe you're talking about mental health? Or personality testing? They're different things (and each of them has questionable usefulness to hiring).
How much do you know about metallurgy, plastics, concrete engineering, hydrocarbon refining, etc etc etc all the thousands of extremely specific domains of expertise that modern society is built upon?

The fact that you can possibly get more out of some tech by knowing how it works is because most of it is very new, which is basically just an anomaly that is fading. Eventually how computers work will be like those other things: expert domains that we rely on but users don't need to understand.

It's already largely like that and that is good. I get that everyone here is a nerd and grew up tinkering with their computers and this makes them sad.
YCombinator, as in this site's domain name.
But is he wrong, even if true? A Debian maintainer popped in and basically said "we're doing nothing wrong" while there's discreet evidence to the contrary, Debian has altered the upstream code based on the opinion of one person and disabled features of the software.[1]

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=640026
Which is what exactly China is doing here.
It just seems like they're fighting the inevitable. It's extremely easy to do facial recognition, and most people don't put any value on being anonymous on the street.

We're slowly getting rid of anonymity on the Internet, and it doesn't seem like meatspace lags that far behind.
No argument about the staining or taste perception. And the calculus formation isn’t too relevant on its own, if you get your teeth cleaned regularly. It chips off.

But re: this part —

> In addition, a recent investigation has reported that treatment of Porphyromonas gingivalis biofilms with CHG for 5 min did not degrade their external structure or reduce the volume of protein and carbohydrate constituents.

IIRC this isn’t a surprising finding; CHG is supposed to do its work in combination with brushing and flossing, not on its own.

Picture a biofilm like a tree. A tree is a lot more brittle when it’s dead and dried out, than when it’s living and actively keeping itself hydrated.

You wouldn’t try to uproot a live tree; that’d be hell, since all the roots would be stretchy. It’d be like trying to snap a live green branch off a tree, times a thousand. Instead, you cut the tree down; let the stump decay and dry; and then pull it out.

Same with biofilms: live colonies are elastic and emit protective mucilage around themselves, rendering them resistant to physical onslaught from brushing. Kill them, though, and they become brittle and able to be abraded away.

But, of course, just as with antibiotics, an intervention that kills 99% of a biofilm colony won’t do much if you just do it once and then immediately stop, because that last 1% can use the dead bacteria and the biofilm itself as a growth medium to come right back. With antibiotics, you need to keep the bacteriostatic effect going for long enough for your immune system to pick off the stragglers. With oral rinses, you need the effect to last long enough for the combination of brushing/flossing, saliva, rubbing from the tongue, and abrasion of fibrous food, to fully clean the biofilm away.
Very nice project!!!
When those bad players stop playing badly the games die. It is super boring to play live poker with players that don't make mistakes. I know from experience
Building and running a network that is useful (fast and reliable enough) for home internet use is a full time job, and is hard work. This is why most hacker space mesh networks have not achieved anything close to this. NYC mesh is the one notable exception, but this is because it is someone’s full time job, and it is run in a pretty professional manner, like a small wireless ISP.

The alternative, a network that is not fast and reliable enough for home internet use, is another option. But in that case, what IS it useful for? These efforts usually just end up turning into weekly hack nights / hangouts for the mesh group, since there’s no real point in putting up hardware.

A third hurdle is that if you put together 12 random nerds in a hacker space, the odds that any of them can see any of the other nerds houses from their house is basically zero. Since wireless internet radios require line of sight, it’s very hard to even create the first link in the network in this scenario. Getting critical mass to form any kind of network in a neighborhood requires door to door sales, something that most mesh networking nerds are very bad at.
So in your mind, the ideal show would be one where the guests are chosen at random? Otherwise, there is always the possibility that pernicious orthodoxy would play a role in setting the agenda. And of course it couldn't be on Spotify; the free version plays ads, which definitely push a consumerist orthodoxy. And it couldn't all be in a single language, because as we all know, each language embodies certain cultural orthodoxies. Quite the dilemma, putting together the show of your dreams. ;-)
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I'm pretty sure that most developers are not using retina screens as their second display. Maybe things are different in The Valley, though...

But I get it. From their perspective, those aren't Apple screens, so they don't need to support them.
It still creates a separate network with compose and requires the systemd-network file though ;)

imo the sidecar solution is hard to beat if you don't need the features that the separate network provides.
We probably could make gas stink less just like we could fix that bug. The ROI just isn’t there.
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I've pretty much only seen articles like these take a 'warcrimes, but even worse because technology is NEW' stance, which is honestly just as bad but at least gets the harm in it.
We have to fight them over there otherwise the alternative is armed radical militias in our streets (something that we definitely do not have anywhere in America at the moment) /s
The way you write is reminiscent of an Adam Curtis documentary and I think it's quite beautiful.
Imho, if you where a teammate and not a imposter, you should be voted out regardless if you're just lurking in security and not doing your tasks, so we can finish the game. But then there might be little incentive for you to do your tasks as ghost anyways. Or you can withhold doing tasks as ghost on purpose just to spite the crewmates that voted you out. Like I said this game has many dimensions, wheel within wheels.
Yes, consumer technology is more appropriate. Better yet consumer software/electronics, I believe.
So... just use regular expressions when working with regular expressions?
> The worst idea ever in technology is regularly scheduled updates. Innovation has never and will never happen on a schedule. This is simply greed-driven, promotion-driven, pointy-haired-boss-driven development.

this is sort of uncharitable. the development/maintenance cycle for software is incompatible with the traditional way of monetizing a product (ie, design it up front, manufacture at scale, and then the buyer gets what they get, barring severe safety defects). buyers of software expect the product to at least mostly work in the first place, but they also expect bugs to continue to be fixed after the sale, even if the bugs are introduced through unforeseeable interactions with other software.

imo, subscriptions are actually the ideal way of aligning incentives for products that involve ongoing maintenance. but buyers tend to consider this a ripoff if they don't actually see a stream of new features in development. while it introduces some unfortunate constraints in the dev cycle, bundling up features in a scheduled update is a good way to make it visible to users that their subscription dollars aren't just falling into a black hole. trickling out new features "when they're done" earns the respect of engineers, but results in the average user simply not noticing that progress is being made.
In the instance of the Manning probes and cases I can accept that he is filling the role of a journalist, he just isn't a very good one that failed to protect his sources. I can mostly accept up to the 2016 elections that he was relatively clean of any real ethical violations / legal trouble despite what journalists and the govt might say.

Around the 2016 Guccifer and DNC leaks I don't accept he was acting as a mere journalist. He was, at best, and I think this strains intellectual credulity, an unwitting Russian asset. In reality, he was likely a willing Russian asset based on the evidence. It walks and quacks like a duck based on its behavior. If he wasn't an active and willing Russian asset I would be surprised. He played a key role in the DNC hack. Here he may, possibly, be ethically clean, but his behavior and the timing of the leaks was morally bankrupt and actively trying to influence US elections in a particular direction benefitting a particular party. I don't see how anyone can support that sort of behavior. There isn't enough evidence in the public sphere to convict him of crimes, so I think that is a miscarriage of justice and the legal system, but the continued white knighting of Assange in technocratic circles continues to amuse me.
Who knows? Maybe that will happen to me too.
Netflix’s The Social Dilemma tells only half the story
Retina and other Hi-DPI displays don't generally use the RGB column layout that ClearType and other subpixel rendering algorithms abuse to provide higher luminance resolution. Using ClearType on a PenTile or AMOLED display is just going to give you color fringing with no actual increase in resolution.
“ Much of our current social polarisation and conflict is not, as The Social Dilemma suggests, between those influenced by social media’s “fake news” and those influenced by corporate media’s “real news”. It is between, on the one hand, those who have managed to find oases of critical thinking and transparency in the new media and, on the other, those trapped in the old media model or those who, unable to think critically after a lifetime of consuming corporate media, have been easily and profitably sucked into nihilistic, online conspiracies.”

...

“ The film’s first chapter makes it
sound as though social media’s rewiring of our brains to sell us advertising is something entirely new. The second chapter treats our society’s growing loss of empathy, and the rapid rise in an individualistic narcissism, as something entirely new. But very obviously neither proposition is true.”
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There is a rule variation that disables confirmation of whether the person you're voting off was a crewmate or imposter --- this variation makes the "kill, self-report, blame other person" strategy viable. It's a simple change, but it really spices things up!
Prosecution can't commit perjury - only witnesses and interpreters can, given the statutory basis for perjury which is preferred to any common law perjury.

She might've committed misconduct in public office.
Wow that's perfect. Even the plug for a mobile game lol
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Do you think Kanye West[0] could be the Paul Graham of the music industry?

On one hand he's been in the industry long enough to understand the system; he's generally respected as an artist; he has a platform to reach the masses; he has a track record of being able to organically grow a collective (organization/business/product) from the ground up (Yeezy).

On the other hand, the music industry is huge and run by conglomerates. Going against the norm would truly be David vs. Goliath.

I think if anyone could do it, it would be Kanye (with a super savvy business partner). I think he has the conviction and general anti-status-quo mindset to embark & be successful in this endeavor

[0] https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/1305977929180966913
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How long until the US is subject to this kind of targeted assassination? It doesn't seem that this tech is so inaccessible to state actors with billions to invest. There are sufficient such enemies. Is the Secret Service really confident that it can protect its charges from this kind of attack?

I think they'll find that a drone missile can also be a boomerang.

EDIT: The objections to this scenario are taking it more literally than I was. I was thinking of a few dozen launched together from a yacht or freighter or enemy safe house in a nearby suburb. That's a lot easier than reproducing the US global operation.

There was a similar sequence near the beginning of Olympus has Fallen.
3rd party applications/editors can render fonts however they'd like. VS Code's font rendering is almost certainly not native and I don't think Chrome's font rendering is either.
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This sub-thread's starting point was literally a comment on Swift's behaviour. Unless C++ has drastically changed and now abruptly aborts on overflow.
What 'is'?