skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally, I think web browsers are good examples. You see integration with various platforms, abstractions on top of them, and general algorithms, generally with a consistent code style.

- WebKit
- Chrome
Oh come on, any answer but 'no' is yes. Also 'no' is yes.
I feel that it is still too early to approve the use of this vehicle ... Not only does it need an aircraft and vehicle license, this car is a "hybrid car-plane" and its "transformation" from car to plane on the streets should also be regulated. (Imagine deploying and turning on those propellers in the middle of a narrow street, it would be necessary to take it to a heliport to transform it) apart from the control of the airspace and an endless number of other things (collisions with buildings?). It's the classic pre-"flying cars" regulation from science fiction stories.
C-Span: Facebook, Google and Twitter Execs Testify on Social Media Regulations
A basic listing for free, but a paid-for listing with additional benefits, e.g. greater control over indexing such as the ability to trigger a reindex on demand.
I have a past as a physicist, so I am a little sensitive to that phrasing. Optimally a catching title matches relevant content - probably get lower bounce rate that way too...
A better alternative is Iceland, it uses UTC the whole year round...
And we have a word for it, clickbait. It’s okay that it exists. It’s also ok for us to call it out when we see it.
Yeah this is what I was thinking. I pity the people who navigate java projects without ctrl+alt+b. What an existence that must be.
Jay Miner was a very clever engineer.
If you haven't tried Microsoft Edge then it's worth a shot. Curious to know if you have used it and how it compared to other applications.
"The tactics drew widespread attention starting in 2013, when Snowden leaked documents referencing these practices."

So this is what Snowden has done: he "drew widespread attention to these tactics". Before Snowden they would call you "paranoid" if you would allow yourself to mention it. Today they can not call you paranoid anymore.

And yes, it has hurt US industry reputation. Many don't trust Intel processors and Cisco routers anymore (among other products). They actually destroyed computers and internet as we knew them in the 1990'ies. It is not fun anymore to own a computer or a phone if you know that NSA can get access to it anytime they want... and you will never know if they accessed it...
What use-case are you envisioning where one needs to "carefully control" the allocator for STL types?

Your idea of heavenly C++ sounds like my idea of hell.
Quote from Wyden in the article

>Secret encryption back doors are a threat to national security and the safety of our families – it’s only a matter of time before foreign hackers or criminals exploit them in ways that undermine American national security
Changing Attitudes to Data Privacy
I pay $2 per day to my ISP just to get online.
Hi, does your scope have a ground that is isolated from USB ground? This would be a very useful feature.
I was curious what the maximum load would be for my own personal blog. Using ApacheBench, my static site on cheap commodity hardware can easily handle 6000 page views per minute. Seems like a pretty big performance advantage for the cost of just adding a step to render static HTML.
Scaling Probe-Based Real-Time Dynamic Global Illumination for Production
That's nice. But very expensive. For that much, you could buy a couple nice autogyros and also a nice car to drive around to the airports where they are parked.

I could see this being a little more viable if it was less than double the cost of a modern autogyro.
You don't have to "think" whether it "changes anything". You just have to observe that yes, in fact these problems did not occur on such a scale before cryptocurrencies came along, and given their obvious role in the process, Occam's razor would suggest they do change things unless proven otherwise. At which point one would want to examine the problem more deeply, which thankfully others have and which you can Google, to see exactly what role cryptocurrencies play. For example you might want to read: https://cointelegraph.com/news/the-role-of-cryptocurrencies-...
As far as I was aware it's the hospitalisation rate is driving the lockdowns more than the mortality rate.
That's not true at all. People can start reverse engineering the library right away. It should be possible to extract quite a bit of info from it, because it seems to be compiled with debug symbols.

It should be possible to start documenting what it does, start investigating how it's structured, how it interacts with the HW, etc. This would help understanding the HW, and so on.
Because it's hard to define good C++ code. Many people would consider STL and Boost code to be good C++ code, but good luck trying to read through it.
The h1n1 is a bit of a strange case though because it jumps species boundary very often and mutates very quickly. COVID-19 appears to evolve much, much slower. Based on my limited understanding of virology, I think this means it's unlikely to become a seasonal problem unless the general populations immune system does not retain immunity to the same strain for a significant period of time.
I really don't understand the idea of a C/C++-specific package manager. C is the baseline API for most systems. Your system package manager is already installing C/C++ libraries and headers. Most platforms even have standard paths for storing C/C++ headers and libraries.

Also as a C/C++ guy I could care less if the libraries are written in Brainfuck for what is worth, as long as their API stays usable from C, which is pretty much guaranteed. So the idea of a "C/C++ package manager" seems strange, and even trying to create a barrier where there was none.
My Synology DS918+ network fileserver uses BTRFS for everything. Knock on wood it has been incredibly reliable and easy to manage.
He was the one who got James Clapper to lie and state to Congress that he was "not wittingly" collecting American phone records in bulk. Though I do not believe he has ever come out and explicitly stated his views on the matter, his actions do suggest that he is against backdoors in all circumstances.

EDIT: Another reply has provided a quote that shows Wyden's views on backdoors. He appears pretty strongly against them.
Off-topic, but wanted to call out the pleasing design. Loving the miniminal/visible/crisp/high-contrast shapes and legible fonts.
That he was, but the chipset wasn't a one man job, nor was AmigaOS (to which AIUI Jay Miner didn't even contribute).
I have a friend that works for a chip company and he said he couldn’t get into details but the amount of back doors in communication companies and in chips would scare the shit out of me.
Trends and Opportunities for Building a SaaS in 2020
I think you're probably right in terms of the trend. But at the end of the day, the decision of where to live is ours (as workers living in high-COL areas), and companies don't owe us any special treatment so that we can live in cities. We benefit from the fact that we can do our jobs completely remotely, but of course from a job security perspective there are some tradeoffs (ones that I am very glad to have made, given global current circumstances).

My suggestion: join your local YIMBY group and work toward making cost of living more affordable in your area.
Personally, I heavily rely on gesture-based navigation on MacBooks. An equivalent trackpad for Windows laptops is nowhere to be found. It's a huge selling point for me, and it's a shame that there's little-to-no competition in that regard.
Yet more businesses killed off by a bad government making unconstitutional rules.
I had a mother cat who failed to move one kitten from one nook to another. Is counting a common behaviour?
I love these articles. Brings back fond memories of the BBS and public domain scene with my 1000 and 1200 baud modem.

(Kickstart 1.0/Guru Meditation crew checking in)
>Three former senior intelligence agency figures told Reuters that the NSA now requires that before a back door is sought, the agency must weigh the potential fallout and arrange for some kind of warning if the back door gets discovered and manipulated by adversaries.

Meaning that before, they were free to plant as many back doors as they pleased without any concern for the consequences. And even now, they just need to think about it a bit and warn somebody, no idea who they tell, if they notice it being used.

>NSA now asserts that it cannot locate this document

This is fairly clear proof of either corruption or complete incompetence.
Ok why do you believe this if you can't make one verifiable prediction that it will happen?

Will it happens tomorrow? In 20 years? In 5 months? It's just a feeling you have that isn't backed by data. I can't really ever disprove this because you're not really making any claim.

This is every FED conversation on HN. People totally believe hyperinflation is "just around the corner" but it never happens only standard normal levels of inflation always within FED projections.

What's your website BTW?
testing docker-ce repository contains release that support cgroupsv2
If you say "inertia" instead of "laziness", the sting is removed.

Internia is why it's hard to start working and easy to continue once started.
Memory is fundamentally limited anyway. Unless you're going to set up an Anki deck for your Zoom meeting notes, it's unrealistic to try to remember action points from every Zoom call we're on. The brain is an efficient machine, and it will naturally remember things that come up often enough. It works quite well on its own. I don't think I've ever sat down to try to remember how to write a for loop in whatever my preferred coding language is at the time - you just remember it after a few semi-regular lookups.

If you feel your memory is limited in an area you do value instant recall that doesn't inherently produce regular repetition, there are ways to steer your long term memory consolidation. For example, you can train yourself to remember everyone's names when you meet them, if you value that. If you don't value it or put any particular effort into training it, there's no reason to think you've gone senile if you forget the name of most people you meet the first few times.

For most things, I think the second brain solution is ideal. You value something enough to want to be able to recall it at a moment's notice, but you don't have any real need to instantly recall it without reference. We're not taking closed book exams outside of school [1]. This is where all the Zoom notes and book quotes are placed, where you can further digest, interpret and later recall them if and when they become relevant.

[1] https://fortelabs.co/blog/knowledge-building-blocks-the-new-...
As someone who used nano in the late 90s, it makes me nervous. I recall that you had to be careful to always use "nano -w" otherwise it would silently corrupt long lines, breaking configuration files which use one entry per line (like crontabs). Since then, I have always removed nano from every system I touch, to prevent accidents.
OpenVMS Alpha Emulation news, es40 has been forked to Axpbox (and work
tragic what they did to the real founder
Gmail favicon make the inbox counter useless.
This codebase won an Oscar:

https://pbrt.org/

https://github.com/mmp/pbrt-v3

That said, IMHO, there is no "clean" C++ code. There are C++ codebases that use different styles, and their "quality" more or less is context sensitive.

Personally I felt the best tutorial to C++ were actually two other programming languages - Scheme and F#.

Scheme drove in the concept that it's totally fine to model things based on the shape of the data and that you don't need to create type based abstractions around every thing.

F# then demonstrated how a language with type system is supposed to work.

The problem with C++ is that the language is so verbose that unless you have an abbreviated model in your head how a type based language can be used to solve problems in best way, you will get lost in trivial C++ minutiae.

So, personally, I generally think "Am I solving a Scheme like problem or Standard ML like problem" and then try to apply C++ as simply as possible.

Several academics have created a career of how to patch C++/Java/C# with concepts that make them less fragile in a collaborative context:

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

https://www.amazon.com/Design-Patterns-Elements-Reusable-Obj...

In my opinion design patterns are not a fundamental concept, but rather provide common syntax for collaboration purposes for various patterns that are parts of language and more or less invisible in e.g. Scheme or F#. But if one is diving into C++ it's probably convenient to be familiar with these concepts.
When I was working with an ESP8266 board I was really frustrated that the wifi stack was blocking. It meant I couldn't make a good user experience in the event that wifi was lost or at boot.

If that blob was open sourced, it would have been great to make changes to the wifi stack and make it truly async.
I've had a similar thought about the pursuit of AGI. If researchers are trying to create an AI sufficiently advanced enough it could pass as conscious isnt that just a roundabout way of creating slaves? But playing around with cloning to create organic computers is out of the question.
My theory is software should be architected with debugability, deployability, and developer friendliness in mind. If you can't deploy your solution on a predictable schedule, with multiple teams working on it in parallel, and keep stakeholders happy, then you are on a fast path to irrelevance no matter how "sophisticated" the architecture is.
Yes. After the Snowden leaks and Shadowbrokers/Vault7/WannaCry disasters, the agencies put a lot of effort into reassuring the public that US technology was trustworthy. This included things like making public the Vulnerabilities Equities Process [1], and other work to restore trust in cryptographic standards agencies like NIST [2]. It also included more public engagement with industry to report serious vulnerabilities [3].

The intelligence community didn't open up like this because they wanted to be nice. They did it because there was a very real concern that US industry would be damaged in the eyes of global consumers -- primarily as a result of our intelligence agencies being being too aggressive and, frankly, being sloppy. (It's bad enough to pay for and hoard backdoors, it's another thing entirely when those backdoors are repeatedly stolen and leaked for bad actors to use.)

I guess the news here is that the NSA didn't learn very much from these episodes, or at least, it no longer feels like it needs to repair the damage.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulnerabilities_Equities_Proce...
[2] https://www.nist.gov/system/files/documents/2017/05/09/VCAT-...
[3] https://www.thesslstore.com/blog/nsa-microsoft-releases-patc...
that was a sarcastic "yum". I haven't tried it, but might try it out if I can find some
Does Section 230’s Sweeping Immunity Enable Big Tech Bad Behavior?
I'm kinda curious about what some of the recent advances in differential privacy in ML could imply in the field here. Taking a look at FB's Opacus, they basically use added noise to ensure that the data "in transit" is not really the data "at rest" and I've toyed with the idea of storing working data and data at rest differently for sensitive information, with the latter being encrypted by a user's OTP so an operator breach cannot effectively do much.

The problem with this approach is the question "how much noise?" Too little and an adversarial attacker can do some kind of a regression based attack. Too much and the "anonymized" data fails to be a useful "substitute" for previous analysis/business logic previously operating on the raw data. There's also the whole field of homomorphic encryption to get into as well. It looks like there have been some interesting breakthroughs there from the crypto nut side, specifically with zk-snarks. I can't say I understand the underlying tech well enough to comment, though. Fascinating subject.

[1] https://ai.facebook.com/blog/introducing-opacus-a-high-speed...
Y'all reading into it too much. They're under no obligation to tell the truth. Might as well said "there's no backdoors" but that's not a PR happy answer.
Right, and as hospitals get overwhelmed, the mortality rate increases.
Does Maps make money for Apple? Does Siri make money for Apple? Apple has a history of not expecting software to make money. This is changing somewhat with their new push towards subscription services. Maybe this will be used to encourage Apple One adoption.
For anybody interested in diving deeper into this subject, I would recommend reading The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. It was written in 2011, but is still very applicable today. Brain plasticity is a real concept and our constant connection to the Internet affects us.

https://www.amazon.com/Shallows-What-Internet-Doing-Brains/d...
My experience is that consulting pays more, but only if you can keep yourself in it full time.
Private property requires a state.

If you were to make it so that no nation can lay claim to space, rhen it wouldn't be possible to enforce a standard of property and thus corporate claims would be empty.
Awesome write-up!
I'm not sure it's the access to weapons that makes a whole lot of difference. Certain events in the US come first to mind when you mention it, but where I live there is practically no weapons readily available, even certain air rifles being regulated. You can't even buy ammo without approval yet people still fear of being harmed from a "crazy person". People equate any issue with aggression, delusions, dark secrets while in reality in most cases it's more likely to be things like hypochondria, insomnia, family relations, coping with loss of loved ones etc.
It's not hard to find houses with incandescent bulbs in the USA.
I believe it's exactly the same problem as with a helicopter. Blade speeds near the tip can be pretty high, so rain can damage some materials. It's apparently not much of an issue with alloy blades, more of a thing with composites. I suspect it's more of a price issue -- gyrocopters are trying to hit a different price point than most helicopters.

Also, plenty of gyrocopter pilots fly in the rain.
> "Never memorize what you can look up."

I can look up all the definitions and grammar rules of English, but without memorizing them, I wouldn't be able to communicate with anyone around me.
In other words: NSA paved the way for foreign hackers and criminals...
> Can lab-grown brains become conscious?

This is about as horrific a future as I can imagine. Humanity's worst possible achievement would be the ability to sustain and manipulate a brain, outside of a body.
You learn it once and it works forever everywhere.
> Instead of spending "hours with mentally ill people" (your terminology), why not perfect the art of triage and funnel people without problems appropriately?

Because some problems are NP complete.
It was a long time ago but TCL was the only time in my career where I had to worry about nonsense like double substitution causing arbitrary code execution or numbers being passed with a 0 prefix being handled as octal. It was a pain in the backside.
One of the few good things our current US president did was get a bill passed that requires hospitals to disclose their pricing.

This is unambiguously a good thing, but it doesn't help as much as you think it would. The result is extremely complicated, but so is the entire list of services that any hospital would provide (imagine every single ICD procedure code with a dollar amount next to it - that's the level of complexity we're discussing).
JPMorgan creates blockchain unit, says the technology nears profits
0.2% mortality is the rate for people under 60. 0.1% rate for flu is considering all ages. If you remove over 60, the death rate for flu is something like 0.002%. So for an equivalent age group coronavirus is 100x more deadly.
> it is not dangerous anymore

How do you know?
I don't actually know. Some of it is to do with the material they're made of. Some gyros have an aluminium rotor and some composite - the aluminium ones are happier in the rain. It's possible something similar applies to the prop.
Many therapists don't write names in their psychotherapy notes, and instead use initials, and store them separately from records that require identifying information. It could be possible, but difficult to identify people from these records -- certainly not on a large scale like has happened here.
Wasn't that a plot point in Rainbow's End where in the future the internet is filled with fake personal information to the point of googling someone is pointless.
Look for counter examples. Have we seen this in HIV? Smallpox? It's a plausibility. It's far from a guarantee.

And the opposite, /could/ happen, too. The virus could mutate to have a longer incubation period, or be more deadly, or both.
I'm referring to cryptography as the technology you can't put back in the bottle.

By the way there's dozens of other cryptocurrencies now. EDIT: just did a check, apparently there's thousands...
Really cool! I have been using this to play old mario games and switch off with my friends like when we were kids. Enjoying the nostalgia (and making mario swim has been pretty funny)
It also vastly decreases the feasible number of attackers. Digital records means you are vulnerable to criminals globally, particularly ones from places that don’t care so much about US law. Paper records in the trash are vulnerable to an extremely localized threat.
The ethics are certainly complicated, but you could conceivably build an AI that doesn't possess pain/distress or desire for freedom in a way you could not by cloning a human.
An interesting and non-obvious attribute of autogyros is that the large propeller on the top is actually not powered.
> Most all of the games worth playing (factorio, subnautica, KPS etc) either have native linux clients or work fine via proton/wine

This is my conclusion as well. Almost everything I want to play runs on Linux one way or the other, so this has become a non-issue for me.

I agree the latest DRM'ed AAA game probably doesn't work (yet), but I wouldn't want to play it anyway.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/28/europe/coronavirus-death-...

By August, mortality rate is dropped to as low as 0.5% in the UK.

-> Each day the virus becomes less deadly.
>Only Mac users had a similarly large improvement but it was still black and white and silent.

The Mac was a clever marketing feat.

The hardware could be summarized as 68000 + unaccelerated 1bit framebuffer. The OS had an easy to use GUI, but didn't even multitask at first, and had only clunky cooperative multitasking later.

But it sold well. Despite the ask price was insane for what it was.
You could just add another kit to let the user turn it into an automotive scope.
> vote with your wallet

And that's exactly what I intend to do. If something is masquerading as free but uses that to actually sell my attention/trust to other parties, then I don't see why I can't masquerade as a client that's willing to be subjected to that but only takes the functionality. Make your cost upfront and clear and I will pay upfront and clear. If your business model involves a high degree of obscurity, my consumer behaviour will, as well.

Put it another way - is it theft to go to a company meeting where they serve pizza, just for the pizza?