skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reasons:

1. The person appears to know it's satire already.
2. What difference does it make that it has a "right wing" bias?
3. To me it looks like it's just dismissing the commentary by OP because it includes a link to a "right-wing bias" source.

4. This is precisely what's wrong with any sort of social-media policing by government or private entities. Your post is factually correct. But just as in-person conversations have non-verbal communication, likewise text has it's own subtle and implied meanings that it conveys.
Makes me think of my own duckduckgo usage. I wonder if Google is the only search engine being leaned on, or if they're just the only one with any publicity around the shared data.
No, it is a complete myth, something that virtually all sword makers across the world were doing. Japanese iron ore was actually higher quality than most, and they had plenty of iron ore for sword making (though iron was later imported during the industrial revolution).

See this answer on a subreddit dedicated to high quality answers by historians: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/77tq5r/japan...
Yeah, make it an FE and PE and we will get some stability in our lives and be allowed to focus on case studies rather than solving abstract puzzles in a hazing ritual. Early in the career the low barrier is great, later in the career, other engineers have much more reasonable career growth.
Disagree on DoH though, because it defeats DNS caching and blocking in the subnet. Plus, many people trust their own provider more than yet another US corporation.
Well, if you need `2*PI`, there’s now `f32::TAU` and `f64::TAU` :) You’re still correct though
There being many of you does not make you any more correct. I'm not making up "fringe scenarios". I have clearly (I think) explained how, given the problem as stated, switching is not necessarily beneficial, and can be harmful. You need to make an additional assumption (that Monty necessarily behaves in a certain way) that is not stated in the problem to get to the "always switch" answer.

By the way, once you make that assumption, those other scenarios you presented are also excluded.
One tip-off that you're not an infosec person is that you're comparing kernel REs to appsec people.
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I thought it was more being driven/pushed by conservatives?

Edit. Wow, this conversation is seriously devolved when a simple question gets downvoted.
Can't the Rust compiler cache the evaluated outputs?
My quick count looks like it is either 4 or 5, out of roughly 30. So they may be at nearly 20%. It is on the higher end, but it's not something we haven't seen before that then changes/swings back another way.
> Ideally the compiler figures out the types so you don't have to.

Doesn't it cause unintended API breaks because type changed from, say, a single type to union type, without changing any annotations?
Verifying that would be incredibly difficult/impossible but I've personally found that rust has on multiple occasions prevented me from making a mistake that would have cost likely hours to debug that I was instead able to fix in a few minutes.
My understanding, and I could have misread the article, but my understating is, that this is a private party that wants the data in a civil matter. Free speech has it's limits and in this case it appears that limit is libel. The governments only involvement is in the interest of that private parties case, in which a civil offense is alleged (libel). Also, I am not advocation for Twitter to make the decision to open their platform to the ills of society. I know the practicality and the ramifications of letting every troll have a voice on any platform they choose, but I do see "hypocrisy" in protecting the anonymity of a troll (generally wrapped up in free speech and association), when one engaging in censoring the spirit of free speech via their platform. I fully understand and support their right to do so, but they are doing so on the back side of this because it serves their interest, not because they are a beacon of free speech and I see it hypocritical to run to hide behind the law once you need it, when one does not subscribe to the spirit of the law, even if it cannot be applied to your entity. To be clear, I don't want any platform to be forced to accept the dregs of society, but I also don't want to see them hide behind regulation when it suits them. Especially when using a law that restrains the government, as a shield against a harmed (allegedly) private parties interest, in a case where, if true, the offending parties right to free speech legally ended at libel.

Also a point of clarity I was not trying to insinuate that the bill of rights can or should be applied to private entities. I am clear on the fact that it restrains what the government can and cannot do. I apologize if that was not clear in my post. I still contend that Twitter, the organization, is being hypocritical here.
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"Think of the ramifications in the future if everyone who searched something in the privacy of their own home was subject to interviews by federal agents," Spodek said. "Someone could be interested in how people die a certain way or how drug deals are done, and it could be misconstrued or used improperly."

The problem is most people don't think like that. Most people think "why do I care, I search google for sourdough recipes and to see what the heck sus means. The chances of me getting in trouble because I did this is really low." And then they read something like this from the same place...

"After investigators linked Williams to the arson through the keyword warrant, they sent Google another warrant specifically for his account, finding that he looked up phrases like "where can i buy a .50 custom machine gun," "witness intimidation" and "countries that don't have extradition with the United States."

And they'll say "See, see! This works, this should be legal it catches bad people, look at what this guy was doing"

Enough people think like that, and there's no pressure to make this practice illegal, no pressure from the public to get laws passed because while some people look at this practice and see their lives being made worse, many people look at this and see themselves being protected from bad guys.
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How much of this collection had decent open source packages already available?

How much more efficient are Apple’s algorithms over what was generally accepted as the best prior open source version?

Were these algos already a standard set for Apple engineers internally?

It seems like customers win if Swift apps are more efficient and less error prone.
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Thank you! Finally going to take a stab at rust, glad to have some direction in that endeavor.
How did the successor to the 6502, the 65816 handle this? At least in the Apple IIgs, high level languages like C and Pascal were very common. Did it just take the performance penalty of function calls like the 6502 did, or did it have better methods?
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Am I missing something or has a controversy been created out of nearly thin air by random politicized factors here? Facebook may be a gigantic media company with a whole social component, but it's still in many ways (especially in terms of advertising) mostly another media company with lots of eyeballs, fundamentally like so many media companies that have existed for a very long time.

Since political ads have been a part of media placement since (a very damn long time ago), what justification beyond hand wavey "it's a social danger" arguments can some of you favoring this state for such a ban or the feeling of having to pursue it?

It almost seems as if this only started being a supposed problem since the unpopular-among-educated-liberal-types Trump won an election. Prior to that I recall much less mention of anyone worrying too much about political ads on social media (my memory might be faulty on that though). So, is it a general thing or are we talking about many people now thinking there's a problem mainly because someone they happen to dislike took advantage of social media to win a major election?

Also worth noting:

1. Much of the really rabid fake news type content on platforms like Facebook doesn't even come from paid in-platform ads. It's sourced and virally spread from people (or fake accounts in many cases) posting it more or less organically, albeit in a highly coordinated way sometimes.

2. The whole argument of Russia supposedly using Facebook to "influence" the 2016 election has yet to be in any way credibly substantiated and has gone nowhere so far. Or does anyone have a piece of concrete evidence arguing the opposite to put forth?
So, I wrote a comment almost identical to yours, but here's some thing I think get lost from that perspective.

> That's not a passive thing happening to someone, it's something that people actively act like.

The way we act IMO is not a choice. Very few people would actively choose to be uncharismatic, since it would be almost purely negative. Same with intelligence, athletics, music, ect. some people are geniuses, some people have learning disabilities, and there's gray area in between.

The "incel" tendency to blame it on a birth defect is dangerous and toxic, but it's also wrong to act like people are actively deciding to do these things, and are to blame for being bad at something that comes naturally to most people. It would be like blaming a dyslexic kid for being unable to read, and telling them it's their fault they don't just read like the rest of us. Grow up and pull yourself up by your bootstraps.

> Nerds never did well in school because they're often smug as hell, think they're the brainy protagonist of some sort of TV show envied by everyone else, but in reality not even that clever

I agree, but this ignores how tolerant people are of obnoxious personalities. I've met plenty of "cool" people that are just the worst. I simply do not understand the appeal and are 10,000x the shithead the nerds are. Sometime it's baffling how they even have friends, they're so toxic, and actively harmful to be around. I get it if the person is so charming, but often times they're clearly not. That person is a toxic asshole, but nobody cares... of course we know over time less people will stick around them; yet it's still somehow a better bet than acting a bit nerdy.
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I have also felt the need multiple times.

Especially when passing a number of things to a function, and you need to pass ownership. You can't do that with a slice, because that's borrowed, so a Vec used to be the only option. Now there's a one option more that's going to be more lightweight than allocating a Vec :)
Many people who take drugs lead happy and productive life and use them as a tool and this approach doesn't seem to address why people reach for drugs in the first place. That's why I believe this policy is dishonest.
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Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah ... Let's elect somebody else. Could've just started with the election topic which is I think the real point of the article.
Yeah, that's what it's referring to. People with more points of contact are both more likely to catch the virus and have a larger impact on herd immunity once they're immune.
Kim DotCom is full of it. He claims to have evidence. That was three years ago. Since then: nothing. Seriously, Kim DotCom claiming to know anything about this makes me doubt it even more.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o_Castel-Branco_Goul%C...
I expect that DDG would make a huge stink about being compelled to do any such thing (Google, too. If people think the government is watching their internet searches, they'll go somewhere else.).
The man was shot twice in the back. Nothing was stolen and no one was arrested. There were no cameras or witnesses to confirm what happened. But the police said this was a robbery. Shouldn't the police version itself qualify as a "conspiracy theory".
> infections/recovered

This is a false binary state space.

The implication here is that having "tested positive" is equivalent to having an "infection". An infection, by definition, is an alteration of the biological state of the entity with observable side-effects (symptoms). It is patently false to assert that "testing positive" for this virus is 100% indicative of an "infection".

Further, "100M infections/recovered" implies that this infection can lead to "recovered" implying that the other alternative to recovere is a terminal/chronic condition. I guess this makes sense if we agree that many millions of "infected" immediately "recover" after testing positive, given that a substantial subset of those who "test positive" are "asymptomatic", reasonably understood as not-ill, not-sick, not-infected. Thus insta "recovery".

My overall point here is that the permitted vocabulary of speaking and reasoning about this phenomena is inexplicably illiterate. Whether this permitted simplistic vocabulary of discourse is by design or a symptomatic of the state of humanity, the inevitable consequence is a degradation of analysis and sub-optimal solutions.
Plastic is not biodegradable. Which means once plastic has come into existence, it's gonna be around pretty much forever. Considering the fact that forever is a long time and that we continue to make more plastic anyway, I don't see how it matters that we use the same plastic once or some finite number of times.

We need to find a way to destroy plastic safely or just not produce plastic at all. I imagine the politics and the economics around plastic is more complicated than we appreciate. After all it's related to oil.

Recyclable plastic is just a way to get us to buy more plastic while feeling a sense of satisfaction/pride that we are doing our part to save the planet. That's just ironic and, frankly, as consumers quite pathetic.
Nfx at work!
Because that is a fundamental part of the "Monty Hall" problem. You are correct in the case where Monty will randomly pick doors, and sometimes he will pick the winning door and ruin the game, but that is a fundamentally different problem than what is described as the "Monty Hall problem", and therefore irrelevant.

Its like saying soccer players could score more if they picked up the ball and ran with it. While true, you are no longer describing the game of soccer.
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Hi! I was working on a soccer game using Godot engine and COVID-19 came along, so I switched to building a math game to take advantage of the fact my kids were at home with me all day. It's designed for 8-11 year old children. It was a hit with my 2 boys from the start and after a lot of testing got to the point it was a hit with my friends' kids as well.
You totally can. I use pandoc regularly (though some would say it's a "utility" and not an "app").
No, though it's a better reply to my comment elsewhere in the thread where I said Trump doesn't actually condemn white supremacy.

The handful of examples in the video that are post-Charlottesville are a nice start, but they've clearly ended up being lip service. He says "I condemn white supremacy" and then goes back to race-baiting at his rally just days ago. [0]

Also, it doesn't kill the narrative. It's entirely consistent with the narrative that Trump lies when it's convenient.

[0] https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1311481175689568256?s=20
We know that coronaplague spreads through superspreading events, person-to-person transmission is wildly variable, most people don't infect anyone, but some give it to a dozen.

You'd like to know if people are wearing masks at church or if family get-togethers are now outdoors.
Crucible steel techniques were always carefully guarded and never "public", but never really "lost". This stuff popped up regularly through history in various cultures, the Wootz smelters in south India were, I believe, still in operation when European colonizers were able to document the process. And by the mid 19th century it was fairly well understood by modern metallurgy.

It's just hard to do and requires a giant furnace. The folded stuff modern hobbyists are making looks almost the same and can be done in a propane forge.
>Why has the ISS not been sandblasted after 20+ years in orbit?

While "sandblasted" might be hyperbolic, micrometeoroid and orbital debris (MMOD) is a known risk to the ISS and they have a variety of shields to try on protect it.[1]

[1]https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/E_Christianse...
First, practically nobody uses iCloud Email. I'm honestly surprised it still exists. You can confirm with Google searchs the C.W. that iCloud Mail isn't a serious contender among email platforms.

Second, you'd be a little naive if you thought Google Mail has never had XSS vulnerabilities.
The article suggests that there will be roughly 8000 cameras in Belgrade including body cams etc.

“ The latest information gathered from the second DPIA of the Ministry suggests that there will be more than 8000 different cameras and other devices in use, such as body cams, mobile cameras and vehicle-mounted cameras.”

Quite a low figure compared to the over 600 thousand CCTV cameras in London:

“ If there was one camera for every 14 people in London, that would put the number of CCTV cameras in use in the capital as 627,707.”

https://www.cctv.co.uk/how-many-cctv-cameras-are-there-in-lo...
No, split it up in 50 BabyBell-Facebooks.
I think in the physical space there's a lot of ways investigators can discover this information after the fact, whether it be interviewing witnesses, looking for forensic evidence (fingerprints, DNA), etc. Things that, arguably, are not privacy violating, but can be acquired in investigating a specific problem.

The difference in the digital space is that Twitter/Facebook/etc. have all that forensic data... and then just refuse to provide it.
Well, then add on the number of people who just don't get a test regardless. My child had a fever a few weeks ago, it was an ORDEAL finding a place to get him tested. You have to be quite motivated.

If you're not sick enough to require hospitalization, and especially if you're un-insured and poor and don't want to pay a couple-hundred bucks out of pocket, then you'll probably just ride it out and never get tested. I'm sure this is the state of things for tens of millions of Americans.
Oh, this article is not about ML (the language) It is about Machine Learning... Can we just call Machine Learning Machine Learning, to avoid confusion?
Yes. The actual number, per the CDC, is probably 5-10x higher than the current confirmed infection count.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/comm...

(fyi: they bury the lede on this page: you have to click through to their horribly slow interactive viewer widget to see the multiples.)
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I hear this "code as system is running" a lot. Doesn't it complicate our reasoning about the program as compared to simple text files? I haven't heard the other side of this claim.
I think you are misunderstanding my question. I want a site that is plastered in ads with PB enabled.
One problem is this puts a downward pressure on others who demand fair compensation for their labor. Not everyone wants to play a long game of "maybe i'll get paid in the future from the 'experience'"

This is the professional equivalent of having interns do a bunch of real work and throwing them a pizza party.
I think the word "virtuous" was used sarcastically.

And it is virtuous from the perspective of those entities profiting from the above cycle...
Launch HN: Doppler (YC W19) – Easily manage your env vars and secrets
Brian here - I am one of the creators of Doppler and I’m pumped (and kinda nervous!) to share it with HN.

Doppler is an easy way to manage and share environment variables and secrets -- things like API keys, database credentials, feature flags, and configuration like a port or a hostname. We’ve heard it's “GitHub for secrets”.

While working at Uber and small startups, managing app config via env vars really sucked. Simple options like .env files were a nightmare to keep updated. Enterprise tools like HashiCorp Vault and AWS Parameter Store felt like we were stuck using FTP instead of Dropbox!

For the past 2 years, we’ve been heads-down building a secrets manager we actually want to use. For our customers, it's now their central source of truth for secrets and app configuration. They use Doppler to quickly organize and sync secrets with teammates and across infra, from local to prod on every stack. It has the features you'd want in a secrets manager, like sharing, audit logs, versioning, and integrations with major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Heroku, Docker, Netlify, Laravel Forge, etc.).

We’re deeply committed to strong security controls and highly available infra. Best-practices like data tokenization, security driven design, and external pentests help keep us secure: https://doppler.com/security. And fully managed encrypted fallbacks in your infra means your secrets are always available, even in the rare case we aren’t.

To support our community, we’re committed to offering a community plan that's free forever for unlimited users. Paid plans start at $6/seat/month.

For visual learners like me, here's a 4-min video of us installing Doppler: https://vimeo.com/447918575.

Take a look if you're curious: https://doppler.com. Let us know what you think!
Unrelated but just had my first mouseless programming session today using Vim. Needless to say, it's something else entirely. I can't believe I only discovered it so recently when I've used the computer my whole life.
Getting an opportunity to write a case study could be worth a good discount!
It is in the context of US salaries and rember a lot of folks on hn rightly complain how badly the EU/UK pays software professionals
Experiencing physical pain can cause you to overspend
as long as its not a horse..
IBM to break up 109-year old company to focus on cloud growth
7,000 does seem REALLY high, but I can imagine them needing the TLD for every possible spelling of Apple. Maybe applesucks as well. appl3, 8ppl3 and so on. Anything close to apple. Same goes for icloud, and I anything else. I guess you get to 1k pretty quick just covering typo squatters. They must have a team of people just to manage domain names!
Yes, it has to be exactly the same original photo, because (1) most likely it contains more entropy (2) the original is the single source of truth, (3) you can still use the photo anywhere as long as it’s not the original.

Generated password is essentially

password’=hash(hash(photo)|domain|password)

Usually, you don’t have to rotate strong passwords. If you really want, that’s what I do: I just add a postfix to the password I remember. For example, I can use ziTJune1, ziTJune2, etc. They generate completely different passwords.
True for the most part. But there are unexpected consequences for this. Startups will be ill afforded to hire foreign talent now. All the immigrants will look for jobs at BigCo. because they are the ones who can pay those high salaries.
A communication platform needs open transparent democratic governance, like the Debian project.
A lawyer tried to climb everest, and instead ended up in a lawsuit.

Thats why lawyers are lawyers.
Array sizes are static and can be used for optimization, that's a very significant advantage in some situations. As an example, if I'm emulating some RAM module of a console, I'd much rather use a cheap [u8; RAM_LEN] than a Vec that would incur all kinds of runtime checks for nothing.

Unfortunately there are many limitations with arrays in Rust at the moment, which make it more annoying than it should be. Generics over the array size is one of them, although unfortunately there are others such as https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/53827