skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Especially because a "professional" programmer should be able to get along just fine without goto. Goto is bad practice in many languages where it does exist, too, like Go.
Compiling a Mask Price Dataset with MTurk
Reading https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/alloca...., I think gcc C++ supports alloca on most systems (“There are a few systems where this is not possible: HP-UX systems, and some other platforms when the C++ compiler is used. On these platforms the alloca module provides a malloc based emulation”)

VLAs are different, I think.
Unfortunately this book doesnt seem tonbe available anywhere anymore, is it?
All these comments about metadata not being useful are missing the point. Metadata is incredible valuable and sometimes just as valuable as the decrypted data itself. Knowing what sites a target visits, access patterns, changes in behavior: all this can be fed into ML algorithms to come up with fingerprints.

You don't need to be able decrypt the data in transit if you know the endpoints and can somehow compromise the endpoints at a later date. And that is way easier. Breaking encryption is hard and time consuming. Identifying a site a user regularly visits and exploiting that is more straightforward.
This doesn't really seem to work on my OnePlus 3, but if I think about it, what part of this would emphasize React's performance characteristics? Aren't most things on the XP desktop just static images and buttons and so on?

That being said, the assets are spot on and visually it seems identical.
Is this not just Pareto of Zipf scaling?
I've heard that metadata can be very useful (sometimes more so than the actual data). I don't remember the argument very well or where I read it, but it was something along the lines of analyzing the timing of activities to connect individuals to groups and events iirc.
I didn't read the paper, but if they can measure its orbital eccentricity, they can see if it's gravitationally bound to that star. Like they did with ʻOumuamua.
Reasons you SHOULD write CSS
> I have thought about this a lot this year, especially how the bourgeois liberals, who when faced with a choice between a people’s revolution (only half realized when the fascists began to take over) and a fascist military dictatorship often sided with the fascists.

Is that really your takeaway from Homage to Catalonia?

The lesson that I take is the silliness of thinking that your political perspective has absolute validity. All of the leftist factions resisting fascism in Spain were doing something heroic. Meanwhile, in the USSR, other leftists were acting as tyrants. The USSR used its influence in Spain to declare various factions illegal (including POUM, the faction that Orwell was aligned with). The Soviets insisted on the absolute validity of their perspective and started persecuting anyone who was skeptical of Stalin in the midst of a civil war against fascists.

> Those given just enough improvements to their own material conditions no longer saw themselves as exploited by capitalism and largely ignored the working classes.

Yeah, it's almost as if human beings care about concrete, meaningful changes that affect their lives and not some all-encompassing, abstract class struggle.

edit - It's interesting that, in the linked article, Orwell says that Franco's victory was not due to disunity but rather the fact that the fascists were well-supplied (by the Italians and Germans) whereas the republicans had much less assistance.
The commits aren't gpg signed though? The verified thing seems to be some weird gitlab stuff.

eg if you clone that repo, and run

git log --show-signature 34299510b

git says the commit is unsigned.

That said, I have been able to find clones of the youtube-dl repo elsewhere with HEAD 416da574e, and the 3 commits the gitlab repo adds on top of that seem innocuous.

git log -p 416da574e..HEAD

just shows a regex fix and then version bumps.
Marvel Cancel ThunderX3 ARM64 SKU
> Dulles

One gets the impression his claim that all the CIA's successes are secret is a lie. Because there never were any. You would thing 50 years after the man kicked it that at least something would be come out. Not really surprising. If you look at how successful organizations are structured the CIA is not that.
Why does this author capitalize 'Black', but not 'white'?

I find it wrong. Acknowledge everybody equally, please.
Alot of his books were published by Dorset in the 80s. He passed away in 2018. So I'm assuming this is his estate and family re-releasing the books. I'm not sure if the Indie covers are an intentional branding approach or an indication that it's the efforts of one family member.

Absolutely fantastic books by they way.I still recommend Secrets of Consulting to every CS graduate I meet.
I’m wondering which security risks they mean. I don’t see any security risk in XML itself, maybe it’s related to some XPath or XQuery functions?
> Likewise the submodel "thinks" many sets within it are countably infinite.

I meant uncountably infinite.
Whatever works, why not. Why would canadians as a whole refuse to get richer so easily?
In my experience, it is usually passed to the client with some training. Often, the client wants to order the servers and any saas by himself, you only specify what to order or you get an account within their cloud provider.
Hauberk: Web-based roguelike written in Dart
When I got my first phone, SMS was 0.25USD per message. A few years later, a friend's daughter ran up a $800 bill in a single month.

These days it's less than a penny per message for SMS, or just unlimited depending on the plan.
That metadata is surely still useful when you know frequency and target IP addresses. In addition not everyone uses google services and browsers, and so its really narrow to say 'chrome is encrypted, so who cares?'... This metadata by the way is exactly how you can calculate correspondence and association of graphs of people and information. How is that not exactly a breach of exactly what people fear most? It doesnt matter what data you are looking at, it matters who else is looking.
Meta: can’t actually read this. There’s a half screen popover for... something, cookies maybe? Then a full screen popover to sign up for spam. I’m not willing to do work to read popsci.

Does the Wired web team think they have done a good job? I understand the incentives but are they proud of what they have created?
Standard C++ still lacks C99 compound literals, doesn't it? That's the biggest gap I've run into. It is a common and practical construct in C.
Ok, how about the number that are actually production ready?

Django CMS looks nice from what I've seen, I'll give you that.

I hadn't encountered satchmo before. Their website seems to be down now, which is not encouraging.

> Those satisfied the MVP in an afternoon criterion for a developer already familiar with them.

Which is completely missing the point. I got WordPress up in under an hour on my first attempt. How many Python solutions can claim that kind of learning curve?
Been 15 years since I did this myself. Got fed up with trying to get people to pay their bills.

Trick is to keep your costs as low as possible and charge them as much as possible for the privilege. I'd probably throw it all at AWS, probably Elastic Beanstalk now and charge them whatever that is plus 30% with a minimum retainer amount. If they want it handed over, there's an exit and handover fee and an ongoing support contract that needs to be set up.
That would be too long to implement. The way I see it is you do these exercises for every GUI frameworks you want to try.
I think the word you are looking for is "allegation."
> The metadata can’t be that useful.

Yet they are collecting it. It's almost as if it could be useful! You need to read the Snowden book.
Evaluating Expressions
You don't. Just close the site! I was curious but not that curious...

(edit: it's archived: http://archive.is/H9EYE )
I agree with your comment, but that article you linked to it seems to have a couple of odd conclusions. It seems to be calling "keeping them emotionally involved" (using alignment of incentives) to be part of the definition of a sick system.

Keeping employees emotionally involved doesn't seem to me to be a harmful thing for a workplace, or the workers themselves. Given you spend quite a lot of your waking hours working, feeling like your hard work's going to be rewarded seems like a good thing right?
I think it's more a matter of expertise/experience than size. The different platform teams have to have gelled enough to agree on the core architectural abstractions, which is a level of maturity that goes a step beyond necessity.

So the platform teams need to have shared prior knowledge of how to build with the same architectural patterns, and they need to be sold on the possibility and merits of using those same patterns and coordinating on their plans of implementation.
Why your first customer is worth $10M
Thanks, it started as a hobby project that gradually became more and more "the thing I do" as I noticed it's potential, whether it makes money or not. I'm investigating two routes right now, one is to see if I can get support through patreon, youtube ads and things like that and then eventually release it as open source. The other is to release it as a game on steam, maybe get funding first, but not necessarily. I'm leaning more towards the second one at the moment, people have pointed out that the project would have a wider impact that way.
A statement is not a scientific fact. The head of the NSA lied to the American public about their extra-legal monitoring. What has changed since the Snowden revelations? Why would Danes be more respected by the NSA than US citizens themselves? This makes absolutely no logical sense.
>The American president has always been the avatar of the American spirit. More than any other national leader, the US president actually seems to embody what the country represents, at least so far. Other countries, the president is just another politician, usually a corrupt one. Not America. Not usually. At least, not publicly.

I don't think any American feels this way at all. Many many many Americans feel that almost all their politicians are corrupt. The most popular political documentaries every year allege massive corruption on the part of representatives, senators, the president. See all of Michael Moore's films for example. When Obama was in office D'Souza had a film alleging similar widescale corruption and degradation of the office.

This is also why 1/3 of the eligible voting population actually votes. Am I wrong in this perception? My whole life I've believed that most people in the US despise politicians and the President himself very openly
Not such a bad idea. But perhaps less practical now that one use many many more applications than in the old days.

Avid (video editing) had a similar thing, but took it even further: IIRC they sold their own keyboards, with color-coded keys and stuff.
Thanks. I knew about condition code renaming from discussion with an Intel compiler engineer. I didn't know about clobbers and I'll read up on that.
> Your premise is that the manager is dishonest in his user manual, and then also incompetent and stupid.

It doesn't take any of those to reach the well-meaning conclusion that something like this is useful. The premise is that the intent of the manager is completely lost when translating a personal, context-dependent and culture-dependent feeling into words. Only someone with a very similar background to the manager will understand what is actually meant.

Rather than putting it in writing, it's important to be the person they are trying to convey that they are, and let their employees make up their own mind whether they appreciate honest feedback.
I'm not saying your overall point is incorrect but using "The Post Millennial" as a source is a very curious choice. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Post_Millennial -

>The Post Millennial is a conservative Canadian online news magazine started in 2017. It publishes national and local news and has a large amount of opinion content. It has been criticized for releasing misinformation and articles written by fake personas, for past employment of an editor with ties to white supremacist-platforming and pro-Kremlin media outlets, and for opaque funding and political connections.

>The Post Millennial has been described by Buzzfeed News as an advocacy organization for the Conservative Party operating through opaque personal connections and undeclared social media ties.

>In July 2020, The Daily Beast exposed an online network pushing United Arab Emirates propaganda against Qatar, Turkey and Iran, using op-eds placed in news outlets using fictitious authors. The Post Millennial published some of these articles. After being contacted by the Beast, it took the articles down without comment.

If you don't trust Wikipedia on this, just have a look the topics and opinion pieces run by this "news" organization. Hardly a reputable source by any stretch.
I don't disagree. But I'd offer the caveat that research (or "research") can end up being a very power form of procrastination--all the more so because it's ostensibly connected to your eventual goal.

But, as I say, I agree in general and it's one reason I like to start out in Scrivener for biggest projects. It lets me pull in research and start working on some bite-sized chunks related to that research (or other material) rather than trying to craft some grand narrative starting from a blank sheet. (The narrative hook can be the hardest thing to come up with so it may very well not be what you want to start with. (You'll probably throw it out anyway.)
Ok mom.
Here is a discussion between Donald Hoffman, Sam Harris and Annaka Harris about Hoffman's ideas on consciousness:

https://samharris.org/podcasts/178-reality-illusion/
Is it an attack vector? Can you elaborate further?
Turn it off.
No, the violence like actually killing people.
I agree with everything you state, but I think we're talking past each other a bit now. My claim is that even without any additional tooling beyond TLA+ to produce a specification and your development environment of choice, just using mathematical reasoning as you derive your program text makes it considerably easier to build systems that satisfy the specification. That mathematical method using predicate transformers is well-developed and has been for decades. This formal approach to deriving the program text results in an object that is a mathematical proof of its own correctness. The human act of writing the program is exactly the same as deriving a proof. I'm simply incapable of accepting the proposition that avoiding mathematical rigor scales better than using it.
> Yeah though when it collapses, i.e. due to foreign policy, local government will likely end up with the costs tearing down abandoned houses and a drop in real estate tax even on everything, I believe they call that phenomenon "Detroit".

That's an idea of what could happen, but it is not what is happening. Of course it would be better if the properties bought by foreigners were rented out, and the incentives to do so are very strong already (making rent money!), but even if they aren't, the worst case scenario is an eventual reposession of the property meaning again that Canada is one house-worth richer!
A Postgres feature I took way too long to discover: exclusion constraints, which is essentially "unique by some function of a column value" instead of "unique by a column value":
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/ddl-constraints.html#DDL-...
> We should make a GPT-based generator of USA secret codenames ;)

I'd read somewhere (can't remember where, unfortunately) that program code names were randomly generated by selecting words from two lists. The idea is that, if (accidentally) revealed, the name wouldn't provide any information about the program's function. The thing I read said people would often re-query the generator until they got a name that they liked.
Handwritten geometric shape detector using TensorFlow and Keras
>All of the leftist factions resisting fascism in Spain were doing something heroic.

Not really. It was not a war between democracy and fascism, it was a war between communism and fascism. The war started when a communist militia killed the democratically elected José Calvo Sotelo after a communist deputy publicly threatened him in the parliament.
Why? Aren't they rather close, and more of a language family than two distinct languages?
> (...) NSA would not betray the trust (...)

While I find the above quote hilarious, you're probably right since the article also hints that they have a similar setup in Germany and most likely also in Sweden, Norway and many other surrounding countries. And since most of their comms probably also go through those, they'll just eavesdrop on the next hop and bypass all that trust and save themselves any potential political repercussions.
Years back, the conventional wisdom seemed to be that MySQL used to be faster, and PostgreSQL more correct. Over time, according to that same conventional wisdom, MySQL got more correct than it used to be and PostgreSQL got faster than it used to be.
Perhaps. But I'm appealing to HN readers here, not to China.
How many of your users are fake or duplicates? (probably 30-60%)
> This implies memory.

Shouldn't be too surprising.

"In genetics, a promoter is a sequence of DNA to which proteins bind that initiate transcription of a single RNA from the DNA downstream of it. This RNA may encode a protein, or can have a function in and of itself, such as tRNA, mRNA, or rRNA. Promoters are located near the transcription start sites of genes, upstream on the DNA (towards the 5' region of the sense strand)."

In programming terminology, the promoter region listens for events, and is followed by a handler body. So protein concentrations can be used for state.

Regarding the calcium gradients you mentioned, I wonder... I think they are more about inter-cellular communication. Cells can use calcium to make electricity. Calcium is also used by neurons to send electric pulses.

I actually find it fascinating that neurons are not unique in using electricity to communicate - that an analog exists in the plant world.
Tencent Music and the Future of Spotify
That is exactly what I do.

Today in fact, I got my Postman to sign an affidavit that he has "a strong and nearly binding interest in my stability, security, prosperity, etc".
Why can't the NSA just force a web PKI cert provider to create a fake certificate for them?

We know from the Lavabit case that once you start keeping private keys away from the feds they start making problems for you. Prove to me that every single root your browser trusts is not compromised.
It's very important that we keep Huawei out of our 5G networks!

(what if they discovered things like this and told the citizens about it?)
Well very old languages like Tamil have a very ancient person with whom a modern speaker could have a mutually intelligible conversation. An English speaker could not speak English with someone from 1000 years ago but a Tamil speaker could.
The long story of how the boson got only Higgs's name
Hey I'm still curious about it too. Thank you again for your reply and explanation!

I don't think the field of chronobiology is snake oil. My only problem is some of SRBR's citations seem to be used to make stronger claims, stated with far greater certainty than the research actually supports. So the question, naturally, is why? You do care if the links you're posting, even as starting points, are fully true, partly true, or not true? Have you checked any of the citations I called out? (It would take no more than a few minutes.) Do you agree or disagree with my take?

> A lot of the discussion on DST seems to be "well I like later sunsets". Great. I like not having to wear a mask everywhere but do so anyway because that's what the expert consensus is.

Let's not get too carried away with analogies, there's a pretty big difference in the study, certainty, magnitude and consensus of disease prevention strategies right now than there is in the barely directly studied and marginal tradeoffs of DST. More or less all of the research you've posted talks about lack of direct study of DST time shifts and the need for more research (which is why the "strong" claims and conclusions seem especially problematic).

A lot of the research you're posting seems to boil down to "well we should wake up with the sunrise, not before", which could well be true. Abolishing DST in favor of standard time is being advocated for the reason that staying on DST pushes winter waking to before the sun comes up. I don't want that, it's a little difficult and depressing and puts the morning winter commute into darkness.

If standard time is that much more important than DST, what is happening to people in Finland, Norway, Iceland and Svalbard, where the time shift becomes irrelevant compared to the sun shift? Are they unhappy, unhealthy or dying?

Getting rid of DST means we're out of sync with the sun in the summer. If you believe it's important to rise with the sun in the winter, then it's probably not fair to characterize DST as "I like later sunsets". Is it also bad to sleep well past sunrise, and then go to bed well into darkness, or would it be better to let the sleep schedule slide to be more aligned with sunrise and sunset in the summer? It seems like all the biological reasons to advocate for winter alignment shouldn't be selectively ignored during the summer, right?

This is why I asked in another subthread whether neither daylight not standard is ideal, and we should rise with the sun. That's what animals do naturally, and what humans likely did before industrialization, right?
The fact that Danish intel has access to me just emphasizes how much of a free for all this is on that level.

(nothing against the Danish - but think about what that implies about "trusted" relationships like five eyes)
It depends what you're doing with your writing. Sometimes you just need to get words down on a page because it's your job even if it's not a topic you necessarily feel super-comfortable with or think you have great insights to offer. And, in fact, I find relatively little correlation between my "passion" for a particular topic and the popularity of the piece.
There's very little harm in making the conversion explicit. It's more verbose, but it's also more explicit, which is a good thing.

There is harm in implicit conversions catching the programmer unawares. This is a fairly significant cause of bugs in C code, and it's why C++ uses stricter rules, requiring you to always make these conversions explicit, even when using malloc.
Better would be to say that the C standard committee screwed things up by refusing to address a lot of issues over the last 35 years.
"We kill people based on metadata"
~~ General Michael Hayden, former director of the NSA
I don’t agree. Never touch a running system! I think you have no idea in how many software implementations XML plays an important role. Just because it’s not hot and fancy it does not mean it’s bad.
Isn’t Facebook evidence enough that “connecting everyone” isn’t necessarily a good thing?