skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A friend of a friend pointed out a fun demarcation problem, which is that many (most?) proposed definitions of “roguelike” would include the best-known and most popular turn-based, grid-based, procedurally generated game with permadeath of all time — Minesweeper.
For configuration management, I've found viper[1] to be quite handy.

[1]: https://github.com/spf13/viper
> This is the fantasy that fills my dreams. Not flying, being rich or anything like that.

Is it bad that I have a easier time believing that I would spontaneously develop the combined superpowers of both Superman and Batman than that society would develop the ability to make sensible and responsible decisions about topics that sociopaths and memetic diseases are attempting to subvert?
It isn't today but if you read German-speaking lit from the period, you'll notice teachers held a very different position in society. This is, of course, true of other places as well.
Boeing Appoints Jinnah Hosein to New Software Engineering Leader Role
There's a House M.D. episode about this. It's one of my favourite episodes, but if you weren't already following the show it wouldn't be the best one to start on, as it involved Wilson doing a lot of analysis on House's way of thinking which you'd lack context on.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Coma_Guy
Are there no companies out there with very old root signatures that could be acquired? It seems to me like those sigs are valuable IP just like well-known domains (like example.com) - I wonder how much one is worth.
Nope, Intel 10nm does not use EUV. Zen 3 is made on TSMC N7 (not N7+ as rumored) which also does not use EUV.
Much generalization and AI affirmation in this post.
I feel like the business models are slightly different when you're a contract foundry vs integrated though.

The latter depends on your market share. The former only depends on the total market.
Why TCP Timers Don’t Work Well (1986) [pdf]
After taking it for sleep, I think it should be researched for way more. It’s clearly rewiring things.
Erlang certainly seems very close to that description. One principle that gets flouted for convenience is exposing internal "objects" directly via accessorsor other methods. Instead, the idea behind message passing has to be clarified as passing serializable messages - i.e. they're "just data". This restriction is a powerful one and permits the kind of encapsulation being talked about.
In the filename box, press enter to save to the dir you're viewing rather than selecting one deeper.
This reminded me of the treatment of Encephalitis lethargica [i] and the temporary effect of L-dopa (as made famous in the movie Awakenings).

[i] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encephalitis_lethargica
In Florida, Spanish-language misinformation with misleading Election Day claims
That was not a debate, it was Jack Ma trying to bluff his way to the audience and Musk has to intentionally dumb down himself to not embarrass his fellow billionaire, and failed
I was transferring files to an Android device, and adb push wasn't working for some reason. It would hit an error and kill the adb connection until I re-plugged the USB.

Somehow this worked:

dd if=foo | adb shell dd of=/storage/.../foo
Go error handling is awful, but this isn't a fair.

In go, if you write code like the following:

conn, err := db.Connect()
defer conn.Close()

That defer will be run during a panic. Same thing as 'defer mutex.Unlock()'

Yes, like most of go, it's manual and painful and poorly thought out, but most people do follow these patterns, so for the most part go code will safely unwind from a panic.
In a different context, “I’m not in a position to remedy your ignorance” would be a wonderful insult
Clearview’s Faceprinting Is Not Sheltered from Biometric Privacy Litigation
Yes, I've gone through double-digit revisions of my resume at this point. Asked someone I knew to look at it, then went so far as to post it on reddit's CSCQ board, got people telling me it was fine and a student telling me to make the subtitle under my name (which is at the top of my resume) bold or something like that.

I was a SDET in my last role, but I have web projects on my github to compliment the desktop work I've done, doesn't seem to be good enough for junior roles.
I actually like instant ink. It's really cheap, I'd be much more upset if they didn't add the 99¢ plan. Most of my life I've tried fake ink, refilling ink and it's so stressful. I finally feel free by paying for what I print and don't think about it much.

I think it's a very good thing that it's pretty much pay for what you use, I would hate for set prices.
After Django, writing database code manually in Go is not fun at all.
The industry is different. Cloud is a huge force and the mega tech companies literally have more money than they can spend.

We’re going to move towards AWS, Microsoft, Apple chips. It’s really hard for a company like Intel or AMD to serve hyper scale customers.
IIRC Zig just requires an allocator as an argument to any stdlib function which can allocate.
Software glitch tallied thousands of Republican votes as Democrat
A usable and secure password policy backed by science
I take medication that results in Parkinsonism Syndrome to some extent. It sucks, and it's very frustrating when it manifests.

That said, without the medication I'd be miserable and might not even be alive.

One of these is better than the other, so it's the choice I make.
I posted pretty much every day on 4chan for like five years. While I very rarely visit the site now, I have a really hard time believing Vice is reporting this accurately.

Abusive, toxic, and vile content has been a staple running gag on 4chan for almost a decade. The site has always been populated with people who range between strange and mentally ill. While I realize there are clear and obvious links between 4chan and mass shooters, it's hard to believe that 4chan went like 8 years without "radicalizing" the "angry young men" who visit it and then suddenly they're all raving violent lunatics. I think it's much more likely that it started as a joke that went to far, and is now an extremely vile but small collection of people which can barely be called a 'movement'.

Speaking of visitors, the metrics are clearly bullshit. 4chan is anonymous and really nothing in terms of demographics polls can be trusted. I know as an absolute fact that women, trans people, and people of color post on 4chan regularly. People regularly post pretending to be other people, spam multiple threads, and false flag as people who they aren't. Infamous single trips like Accelspammer probably generated 100x the number of posts as the average user. It has been a long running conspiracy that the FBI or NSA scrapes 4chan. I also know for a fact that companies scrape 4chan: one time I posted a thread about a bad customer service experience I had and the company literally sent me an email saying "We saw your feedback on /g/..." So 22 million views a month means absolutely nothing, it doesn't tell us who is visiting 4chan or how often. 90% of it could be bot traffic.

Without naming the mods, we have absolutely no idea how credible they are or if Vice really did get leaked chats (spoiler alert, I don't trust them as far as I can throw them). There are also multiple mods, I don't think the article really explains or justifies how a single one got power over every janitor.

Really dubious reporting with a progressive slant as icing and some fearmongering as a cherry on top. Thanks again, Vice!
I've been doing this, one trash bag full a week.
The uses I know of are temperature in order to indicate when the bees have started raising brood in late winter/early spring--warmer hive temp=broodraising--and hive scales, which could theoretically tell you when the bees are about to swarm and would allow you to track how much honey the bees are bringing in in real time. Neither of these are a decent value proposition for commercial beekeepers.
I have a Jax question here - could someone explain what the PyMC developers exactly did to move their C/C++ backend to Jax ?

Because this sounds very numba-esque. I always thought Jax was just a math library, that was slightly more usable than Numpy. This article makes it seem that code written in Jax ends up being significantly faster than Numpy...almost close to C

That's NUMBA territory

Also, Tensorflow probability is moving to JAX.
I tried your imgur link again and it worked this time. What I’m seeing here is a couple of similar arbitrary locations for UI elements, similar use of colour, similar flat design popularised by Microsoft and many elements that are common among most if not all modern sequencers.

I get the frustration that arises from a competitor having a similar aesthetic but I’ve used software long enough to know that what makes software great is the details, the nuances, and everything else which distinguishes a program from a Winamp skin.
> Can someone explain what this description misses and where the harm comes from?

If they have lived somewhere a long time, one of the big losses is: Relationships.

For the people forced to move, they will not find another "3 out of 10" neighbourhood, as part of what makes it a 3 is that's where all their friends and long-lasting relationships and perhaps childhood memories are. That already makes anywhere else < 3.

They will have to move somewhere where they likely don't know anyone, or at least not the well-established friendships they had before.

If they have extended family in the area, they will have to leave those too. (Parents, children, aunts & uncles, siblings, that sort of thing).

Those friendships and relationships aren't just valuable for sentimental reasons. They form an essential practical support structure, and sometimes a financial support structure. For many people those things are a big part of what makes quality of life.

And they might be forced to move at an age where it's difficult to make new friends, especially deep friendships.

As people on the lower end of the socio-economic ladder, it's likely that they were benefitting from their friendship/relationship network in another, subtler way: By having good quality relationships with people higher up the ladder, their own circumstances are effectively lifted up as well.

For example, they might be taken out to places and introduced to opportunities and people because of long-lasting friendships with people richer than themselves. Their children get to play with children of richer friends with nicer houses to stay over in. Little things that probably translate to differences of opportunity when the children are older. That kind of uplift goes away when they move to another location.

Some people have a good relationship with a local employer too, and will lose that as well. It might be something quite treasured (even though it presumably doesn't pay well), and difficult or impossible to replace. Remember we're talking about people forced to leave, not those who want to leave.
People making choices of that sort are almost always much more afraid of something else, that "something else" being what happens if they don't treat for X. If they had better options, they would be all over them.
I'll bite, assuming good intent. (Though one's intended interpretation doesn't invalidate another's unexpected interpretation...) so here we go:

"Slither" can reasonably be associated with snakes, for which allusions are aplenty. The choice of word demonstrates a deliberate creativity that invited 6 the reader to consider whether there's deliberate underlying intent in the creative choice.

The "to life" comment takes an opinioated stance on the essence of what it means to be a living being, a controversial and deeply divisive topic for centuries.

Did you intend to inspire these interpretations? I doubt it. But is it reasonable to conclude you might have? Absolutely

No blame warranted, either way. Communication is flakey. ::shrug::
Ah, the video at the bottom of the paper is really emotional! I hope they can figure out how to prolong the effects. Still, an hour of lucidity and verbal communication and a stroll every few weeks and a visit with the family is infinitely better than nothing at all.
> The early web was a lot like the early micros -- you had to make your own entertainment as you quickly ran out of things to do, and the things you were able to make were comparable to the things built by well-founded teams.

I'd never made this connection before but it seems both obvious and profound in retrospect. Thanks.
I've read that Canadian maple syrup is the cure for post-election-anxiety.

At least that's how I figure we should market it to our friends down south!
What’s Necessary in Order to Create a Successful YouTube Channel
A lot of you want to get involved and make a difference using YouTube. So, here are some necessary steps to take to make a successful YouTube channel.
Allowing untrusted certificates for https, and showing just a warning for them, would make it impossible for websites to ensure that their traffic is not intercepted
I'd render a guess that the 'ugh' has to do with the general assessment that systemd falls prey to the same flaws that GP identified in the onion layers of orchestration and containerization systems: it's unnecessarily complicated.
A Wiser Politics: Psyche, Polis, Cosmos
> Finnish is hard just because it's too different from our Indo-European languages mental model.

What indo-european language mental model? There is no such thing. Indo-european languages vary widely. Just because these languages shares a few primitive words doesn't mean it is easy for an english speaker to learn spanish or german or russian.

> The grammar is logical, there are a few exceptions per case, it's just very different from Indo-European languages.

There is no such thing as an indo-european grammar. Once again, you are making things up.

> a good party trick.

If that's what you're after, take a few minutes and pick up a card trick, rather than wasting years learning swedish.

Is swedish really that obscure? It's a language spoken by millions of people in a major european country. Everybody's heard of swedish.
It's great that he's able to "come back" for a little while, but it must be so sad for his loved ones to see him revert to the diminished state.
China’s Social Credit System Explained [pdf]
Question: If your site certificate is signed by a chain of intermediate certificates leading to a root that your browser knows, when you browser checks all the signatures at time T does it require that all the certificates be valid at time T, or does it just require that each certificate was valid at the time it was used for signing?
FreeBSD should not adopt launchd (2015)
Thank you very much. Something that genuinely makes my computer use more tolerable.
I don't think it's a coincidence that the two least inspired, lowest quality CEOs on this list (Sundar Pichai and Tim Cook) are exactly the two who have MBAs.

I think you've made the point extremely clearly.
Several years ago I experienced a (thankfully temporary) severe reduction in brain function, for several weeks. I was shocked by the truly abysmal diagnostic capability of modern neuromedicine for anything less than large-scale physical trauma. In my case, they couldn't pin down a cause at all, except to say that the symptoms were consistent with a viral infection of the CNS. What virus? Who knows, we can only test for a handful of them.
I wouldn’t say uniquely. The ancient Assyrian’s we’re pretty into their horrific brand of terrifying their neighbors. The Cultural Revolution also seems pretty bad to cite a more recent example.
Building a software product is like building a lemonade stand that is on its way toward something bigger -- maybe a restaurant, maybe a stadium, who knows.

At every step, it needs to be usable for making money. There's no up-front blueprint, no predictable audience or revenue. You figure it out as you go.

Looking at something like a physical building, it's obvious that as you figure out what people want and where you need to build, you need to refactor. The plumbing, electrical, HVAC, etc. you need for one phase can be extended... until they can't. Everything needs to be rebuilt along the way. It's R&D, but also needs continual care if you're growing fast.
Yes. Furthermore, ensure that if JavaScript is needed or used for something, that even if the script is disabled, documentation and/or other relevant information is available (e.g. "JavaScript is needed to use IRC" isn't helpful; instead, display the host name, port number, and channel name; another example is if something uses a API, ensure its documentation is available even if scripting is disabled).

Also ensure it works fine with Lynx; if it does, then it will probably work fine with others too, even if users change the settings. Specifically, it should work well without CSS.

Accessibility is important too; use ARIA, and use the HTML commands (e.g. <H1>, <STRONG>, <TABLE>, etc) properly, rather than misusing them.

It is also a good idea to make it fast. This is done by not including too many pictures, CSS, video, etc (you will rarely need any included in the document itself).

It would be possible to do much better, but the design of HTML gets in the way.
I find the marketing spin in the title and the article unfortunate (standing on our own feet). The simple truth is they've decided getting another cross-signature not worth their trouble so now us users must expect some breakages the scale of which doesn't appear to be well understood.

Also, while the article focuses on the Android, my first thought was about all those outdated CentOS/Debian/etc boxes/VMs/containers that silently curl something from a cron job or such and that will all of a sudden stop working. So I expect a lot of infrastructure breakages.
Any anecdotes from the drug dealer conversations you wouldn't mind sharing? They must have a bit of a unique take on things.
> I don't think Plan 9 has a good "orchestration" story itself

I'm not super familiar with plan 9, but given what I do know, I'm pretty sure that could be done with an rc script. I'm pretty sure that a) you can fork processes after starting them on remote systems, and b) you can query remote systems to figure out which ones have free resources. Given that, it's just a shell / rc script away. Then you just need another script to do the management. ;)
Yes, they’re talking about how the GNOME one is poorly designed, not the macOS one.
Sounds like QBasic. C64 basic identifiers are limited to two characters.
> There is still much speculation about how the final system will actually function. Details in this chart are based on pilot schemes and plausible expert expectations

Seems like a cheap (dare I say propagandish?) poster.

I would be interested to see its sources, but in this state I don't see anything worth discussing.
Communication is far less flakey when the default is a charitable interpretation.

As for your other points, I highly doubt such a simple comment intended to touch on the complexities of what it means to be alive - any interpretation otherwise seems to be reaching hard to find a complex technical fault compared to the alternative of interpreting with hospitality and arriving at the conclusion that it was a simple colloquialism intended to describe the situation.

Also, judging by your comment you seem to believe I'm the one who made the comment that was interpreted as unkind.
They weren't even that slow. Seven years ago they didn't win in __single threaded__ applications, but for any multi-threaded workload they were great.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zolpidem#Research

treatment effective in the short term, but only in a small proportion of cases (estimated at around 5%)
Obviously severe social disequilibrium can also have an effect, but this is not relevant the vast majority of the time.
Georgia election official: Machine glitch caused by last-minute vendor upload
Well there is a startup which is exactly for this problem. Checkout https://www.bangthetable.com/engagementhq-community-software
My wife has a mac and it just has a terrible experience with our brother laser. The print queue just says "cannot connect to printer" but I can open up the printer's web server, use the printer setting to check toner level &c. Then a few hours or days later it prints spontaneously.

I thought it might be bonjour not working well over wifi, but the problem persists even when I assign the printer an IP address manually. I'm stumped.
Why would you want to serve a 200 with an error message in a JSON response body?
Just a sidenote, this is probably the fastest way to copy lots of tiny files across a high latency link (but without -v [1]). Most protocols transfer files individually, waiting for the server to finish writing it - adding a tiny delay for each file transferred. The tar above simply pushes the files across the pipe as fast as it can without waiting, while the receiving tar can write them as soon as the data is received. Recommended to pair with lzop for fast compression.

Second sidenote, using this with pv is a great way to view total progress. http://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml

1. With -v every filename is written to the terminal, which causes context switches and IO waits. This can significantly slow file copies with lots of tiny files.
Trump compared to Mugabe amid looming election defeat
L-Dopa by chance?
I’m down voting because of that very reason, yes. And the needless edits to complain about the down votes; this isn’t reddit.
> unless there is some super secret NatSec exception to securities law that we don't know about.

Did you not hear about the phonetapping business [0]? There is no way that a government-sponsored secret hardware backdoor would get any executives in trouble.

SEC rules are not a reasonable protection - or even consideration - when dealing with the US spying apparatus. If there was a hardware backdoor program:

(1) There would be a secret exemption to SEC rules.

(2) There would probably be a secret "we will end you" threat if the execs revealed details. Snowden & Assange would be mentioned.

(3) Even ignoring those two points, the rules would be ignored and changed later if there were any legal difficulties.

[0] https://www.cnet.com/news/senate-endorses-retroactive-fisa-i...
Erlang Creator Joe Armstrong Interviews Alan Kay
> The Beginnings (1993)

NetHack, mentioned in this section, is actually the rebrand of plain ol' Hack, which I first encountered via a shareware catalogue around 1986. Completely engrossing, and very effective at teaching VI keys well before I knew that was what I was learning.

34 years later NetHack is still coming out with new releases and is great fun to play.
>What demographic changes from 2019 to 2020 explain an over 50% increase in homicide rates?

The demographic committing crimes is being released from jail in record numbers, because keeping violent offenders in jail is "racist".

Police forces being told to stand down, being reduced in force, being told not to police certain areas containing a certain demographic because it's "racist", etc.

Now the violent demographic feels emboldened and know they're not going the be brought to justice because law and order is "racist".
I agree completely. I use very dumb generalizations in hopes of keeping them easy to follow. I’ve burned myself and team members with cleverness many times with good intentions. These days I’ve calmed down a little but still find generalizations handy on a regular basis. You’re absolutely right though and I see why they were left out. For a lot of people (including myself at a times) it’s probably best to prevent cleverness.