skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What does this offer that couldn't be accomplished with well placed goto's like in this example https://vilimpoc.org/research/raii-in-c/ (yes I get that defer > raii, but the question is meant to be more general)
This is what the MP4 format calls the "moov atom".

Writing metadata at the end, instead of periodically interleaving it inside the file, is not only useless for web playback, but also for any creation process (i.e., live recording) which intends to call itself robust. Imagine recording a 1-hour long video, only to have some unrelated issue abruptly stopping it all (e.g. the application crashes, or the video camera suddenly loses power), thus rendering an unplayable file because the damned metadata didn't get to be written at the end of the file...

(luckily there are post-process methods that in some cases are able to restore such broken files, but still, a priori the file will be unplayable)
Anyone else remember Utterz from around 2008?
Well, doing something like this right would obviously be a big discussion.

But IMO, if we can figure out how much time/money was stolen and who benefitted the most from it, we can start to have some idea of what's fair.

I'm a big fan of UBI as well, and it'd make a lot of sense to have the ancestors of slaves be the first to get onto UBI. But, obviously, this is a group decision and should be based off logic and records; not feelings.
Good OPSEC, soldier! You must be a former marine...
A blockchain doesn't make it impossible to censor.

To be honest, I wonder why western governments don't ban cryptocurrencies.

They make tax collection harder and help criminals collect money.
Plus that would be a blow for countries that are investing tons of money in it eg China, which is destroying the rest of the world, economy-wise.

There is the possibility that western governments are already under Chinese influence, I guess, but I wasn't definitely expecting BTC to survive so long.
Especially because governments are not even benefiting from cryptos.
Supporting Exposure Notifications in iOS 12.5
if you use a laptop, no doubt. long time linux + mac os user. but now running windows on my laptop. for a laptop windows experience is better than linux - hibernate, power management. my linux workloads are all accomplished via terminal hence a vm is sufficient.
Blog post author here -- happy to answer any questions about the article.
To all those who say it is "impossible" to right the wrongs of history: My family were refugees from a war that resulted in both the Nazis and Soviet Union expropriating property in their home country. Eventually they, and other branches of my family got their property restored or compensated. After the breakup of the Soviet Union, property in many of the former Soviet Union nations was returned to rightful owners, or compensation was issued. Expropriated property is restored in many cases. Compensation for expropriation is commonplace. American slavery was a business, and businesses keep records. There are no valid excuses.
No it would not.
Plenty of native speakers too, I've been hearing it all my life. "Twice as cheap" is another.
Pretty sure this is also the reason why Anders never added macros to C# either.
I can't speak much to it, as I don't play - my girlfriend does, and finding a pad for her was difficult. There's just nothing out there. Couple of dead projects, the L-Tek, and some total junk pads.

I ended up with the L-Tek one you linked. The buttons seemed awfully futzy to me, and she says they're ok but not great - plus her toes hit against the edges of the raised non-button squares and hurt.
Weirdly BR is BD.
I think there's something to be said for putting this data in their own Wikibase instance. There are a lot of items here, including many items like 'Inventory of person X in year Y'. Adding so many items to Wikidata would not have been without its controversy. Also, i could imagine they need a lot of properties that are not available, or aren't used in the same way on Wikidata. There is a reason why all museums and other heritage institutions use their own databases and thesauri instead of putting it all in the same database.

However, the beauty of using a linked data platform is of course that it's easy to link back to other sources, like Wikidata. I could definitely see that in the future Wikidata could do an import of many of these items, or link properly to them using a new property.

I do agree that it's unfortunate that they're licensing everything under CC-BY instead of CC-Zero.
> If GPUs didn't come around when they did, and games were all CPU-based today, you wouldn't have an easy time inventing and selling a GPU.

I'm not convinced. You'd just need to show that hardware acceleration can produce worthwhile gains for computer graphics, which doesn't strike me as insurmountable. Perhaps start with an FPGA.

> People have tried approximately nothing in the last 20 years

Do you follow the 'Mill' architecture? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mill_architecture
I love the Windows UI. I hate how it's bound and determined to treat me like I'm a damned fool who can't be trusted with the computer I bought.
> But reparations should be paid, if for nothing else, at least for the unpaid hours.

You must be young to speak with such certainty.

Post-slavery, black sharecroppers basically made nothing after expenses. So how much was their time actually worth? (An economist will ask this.)

Post-slavery, norhern states, which had no slaves, paid the cost of welfare for millions of black families. So how does that factor in?

Since there's intermarriage in America, what's a quanta of African blood? How much does one get paid per 1/32? (This is referring to the heated race arguments of the 1800s and 1900s.)

Do you have any experience with the above? My family is from the Detroit area, so I'm one of few posters on HN that actually does know something about these issues.

The US paid a heavy price during the civil war, one of the biggest issues being related to slavery. Do the northern states get reparations for freeing the slaves?

That's the problem when you drag history into modern times. One of the biggest advantages that the US has over other countries is that we don't continue to fight the same battles over and over.

Even before corona, black familiies in America struggled greatly with maintaining households and educating their children. Instead of virtue signalling, why don't you contribute to solving today's enormous problems?
What difference does it make being your first, second, hundredth, or thousandth investment?

It depends on what your goals are and how you rank those goals.

You’ll probably make more money with ARK funds but you won’t learn as much about picking stocks. Instead you’ll learn about picking ETFs.

You’re pretty likely to wake in 10 years in a world you’re happy to live in with ARK funds. Even though that’s not the primary objective like performance is, it can help you sleep better at night.

If you’re afraid of a stock market correction happening soon, SHV is likely a better short term holding for you. It’s hard for any meaningful correction to last though with QE firing up the M1 and M2 supplies.

Best to only start with money you’re willing to lose so that you have the mental fortitude to ride out the INTENSE volatility you will be experiencing in Ark’s funds.
This appears to be a Windows executable. How to do this without an existing Windows installation.
This guy made the opposite conclusion from SCB's data than what SCB themselves did: https://www.scb.se/om-scb/nyheter-och-pressmeddelanden/sveri...

too long; couldn't understand moon language: November 2020, compared to 2015-2019, has a 10% higher excess mortality, and the highest figures reported since 1918, the year of the Spanish flu hitting hardest in Sweden.

Compared across the last 5 years' average (Jan-Nov 2015-2019), 4859 excess deaths in 2020 during the same monthly span (about +5.8%).

The press release also says that the numbers for November will probably be adjusted upwards, since the current figures are preliminary and Sweden is well into the second wave with hundreds of deaths attributed to Covid-19 every day now.
hm, ok, they address this in the paper. "This code [i.e. goto-error-handling] has the advantage of making the conditional error handling code explicit but at the cost of proximity; the cleanup code is removed from where its need arises. This linearization requires a naming convention for the labels [...]"
...code that works with
There are also examples of when ignoring addictive behaviour -- or just pretending there isn't a problem -- leads to disaster.

The world wide web was the new medium, social media is the attention grabbing (and addictive for some) hook that enables a couple of large corporations to charge more for advertising impressions.
I have always had trouble connecting bluetooth headphones into my Linux Mint installation.
My first job out of college was working on Fulfillment by Amazon, which was part of sellers central. The place was a huge mess technically, with like three different authoritative databases, and services constantly trying to second guess each other. Everything was in Java and there was no clear central direction. I think this is probably the main drawback to Bezos' cloud of services mandate.
Ibuprofen is terrible for other reasons.

If you're taking Tylenol, one thing you can do to help protect against liver damage is to take a milk thistle supplement.
My VO2 max score (estimate) was significantly different (54 vs 46) on my Fitbit from my Apple Watch. And it’s not telemetry problem - heart rate, resting heart rate, GPS, altitude etc were all the same. It seems that the estimation methods are different.
Did the water cooler company hire people to see if they could keep people at the water cooler longer? Did solitaire copy what’s in your copy/paste pad and secretly send it to Microsoft?

Did solitaire buy and kill FreeCell to prevent its popularity from surpassing it’s own?
I'd stick with an AMD GPU, the drivers are included with the Kernel.
This seems to be a country-specific lack of awareness. In the UK it's hard to buy large quantities of Acetaminophen/Paracetamol and pretty much everyone is aware that it's dangerous in quantity.
The 6502 has a patent on decimal addition (#3,991,307), but that's long-expired. MOS Technology got sued by Motorola for making the 6501/6502 because they violated Motorola's patents on the 6800 and took trade secret documents.

IC masks are protected as of 1984 (mask work is essentially copyright for the die), but the 6502 predates that.

Some companies (such as Intel) copyright the assembly-language mnemonics, but that wouldn't be an issue.

I can't think of other issues with the 6502 but I'm not a lawyer. Note the MOnSter 6502, a copy of the 6502 built from discrete transistors. I should also point out Ben Eater's 8-bit CPU is a simple design, not a 6502.
Income more reliably predicts frequency than intensity of happiness
Can you justify why Amazon should be covered and Apple shouldn't be? Your justification applies to both.
I’m completely out of the loop on what’s going on. Would anyone mind explaining like I’m from November and in high school?
that's one way to improve your bounce rate
Hmm, Reddit seems purpose-built for very recent and fresh discussions compared to a forum, where a thread could be active for years and years. I'm not sure I'm buying the 404 thing.
There is a pervasive fear that admitting that the US owes the descendants of slaves something could potentially validate the complaints black people have about other issues in America. See the posts about Timnit Gebru for comments depicting the demands of black people as "too disruptive".
Remember when the New York Times tried to tell us a vaccine could take much longer than expected? Scroll down to "Assume We Already Understand the Coronavirus" and check "Start trials early" and "Don't wait for academic research" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/30/opinion/coron...
I think thats what pulumi wants to be, but their pricing puts me off.
Facebook used market intelligence from its Onavo VPN app to identify up-and-coming competitors before they could become a threat:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebooks-onavo-gives-social-me...

This will be a crucial piece of evidence in the antitrust case, as it will show intent to violate antitrust laws.
There isn’t anything weird about this. A circularly linked list is a common data structure that, when empty, has a pointer pointing to itself.

Self-referential structures can be optimized in accordance with all the usual rules. If there are no other references to them, they can be optimized away. (This optimization is implemented by using a flood fill to mark everything that’s used, and then removing everything else, so that circular references need no special treatment.)
Worked fine where I worked. You know you can turn notifications off? You know you can tell a sales guy he's being annoying?
See, the issue is that most probably this person is not Amazon's customer. Their employer is.

In which case either Amazon is or isn't important to them. If it is, they can just tell the person to get over it and do their job. If it isn't then they aren't an important customer for Amazon either.

In neither case is there any incentive for Amazon to improve.

Such is life with a lot of enterprise software in my experience.
As an extreme point for comparison, Australia's annual deaths due to respiratory disease have reduced in 2020. Yes, you read that right: the net effect of COVID here has been to save people who would otherwise have died from pneumonia.

So, in the limit of effective response, COVID saves net lives, and in the limit of ineffective response, it costs net lives. The simplest explanation might be that Sweden has hit the intermediate point where it does neither.

What happened? On the one hand, few people died of COVID. On the other hand, there are other deadly respiratory diseases, especially influenza. They're all less contagious than COVID, so the measures taken to contain COVID had the side effect of pretty much eradicating them. (Looking at it the other way: if influenza is still circulating in your community, there is no way you're going to get COVID under control.)

This might not last: the psychiatrists are saying that a lot of Australian teenagers have developed eating disorders, that in ordinary times would lead to very high suicide rates, and the recession is bound to kill lots of people in various ways. No one will know the optimum response for some years, and Sweden could still turn out to be right.

The Australian response could certainly be improved. Mostly by public servants who promptly owned up and asked for help when they got out of their depth in implementing it, and made fewer and less catastrophic stuff ups for want of awkward conversations with their ministers.
Trump says Barr resigning, will leave before Christmas
There can be quite a few reasons to pull in more domains than necessary:

- Branding. Perhaps Microsoft wants a strong stamp that Sharepoint is the productivity tool and Live is the identity system.

- Using security boundaries. Web browsers respect domain differences as a primary security boundary. If live.com is security critical, they may want to make sure extras are hosted elsewhere so it can't access live.com cookies, make XHR requests to live.com etc.

- Redirects may need to jump through extra domains to make sure that logging in once works accross every property. For example, when you log in to Google Drive it redirects you through YouTube in order to set a cookie on YouTube to log you in there.

- Partners. A company may use a partner for some part of their tech stack, for example MyBiz LLC might use Trust Inc to provide DOS protection. In some cases this might be implemented by throwing up trust-mybiz.com somewhere in the mix.
This is a different SolarWinds product called Serv-U (https://www.serv-u.com/), not Orion.

(I know nothing about this hack, but the disclosures have all been about Orion)
The most puzzling Web platform bug I’ve encountered (2017)
I came here to complain that the headline is a rickroll. Not all their fault, though ... as they say, the researchers called it "a true celestial autobahn" (bottom of abstract). The article's title? "The arches of chaos in the Solar System". le sigh

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/48/eabd1313
> Some people are happy with the windows ui/ux

The Windows 10 mix of old Windows UI with the Metro UI is a horrible mix, if you ask me.
I was interested in this, then saw this in the terms:
"moral right, privacy right, right of publicity, or any other intellectual property or proprietary right; (ii) slander, defame, libel, or invade the right of privacy, publicity or other property rights of any other person; or (iii) cause Capiche to violate any law or regulation; and your User Content could not be deemed by a reasonable person to be objectionable, profane, indecent, pornographic, harassing, threatening, embarrassing, hateful, or otherwise inappropriate."

So - I will suggest that you make whatever export options a thing. If I could auto-export all my data, I might give it a whirl.

I had a similar experience looking into anchorFM - looked neat - like what I was needing exactly (like this maybe) - checked the terms and checked out.

With today's cancel culture what it is, I can't see buying into a SaaS that will punt so easily - I don't know if export is an option - I don't know if it's a lockout kind of thing like google does - or if you have time to get your content like wordpress.com does.. but I can build this and not worry about it, other people may want to know.
ER docs have, I think, been trained or conditioned to resist giving pain meds to people. I broke my foot about 6 years ago - badly. Lisfranc fracture, which is most common in football players (and is a career ending injury typically). I went to the ER in blinding pain, quite nearly passed out from that pain in the waiting room. They gave me a morphine injection, which helped a great deal while they did X rays. The doctor (mis-)diagnosed me with a severe sprain and tried to send me home without meds. I asked for some, and was reluctantly given a prescription for Tylenol w/codeine. I've heard similar stories from other people.

As a contrast, any time I've had even the most simple dental or other procedure, the doctors give me a prescription for pain meds without me asking for them (and in many cases not really needing them). So this seems to be specific to ER docs. I suspect it's a reaction to having to deal with people who are drug-seeking, but I don't really know for sure.
I wonder if something like Civil Forfeiture would be useful against police civil rights abuses. You would be able to bring a lawsuit against any police equipment that was used to violate civil rights. Thus if you get pulled for “driving while black”, you can sue the police cruiser for being involved in violating your rights. If you were a protestor that was assaulted by police, you can sue and seize the personnel carriers, cruisers, riot gear that were involved in the civil rights violation.

I think one area this would help is the over militarization. The police acquired a lot of military equipment ostensibly for fighting terrorism. However, with that equipment sitting around, the temptation is to use it for normal police work. If they knew they were risking losing the equipment, they might be less likely to use it when it should not be used.
TO be fair, it isn't really secret, if you look at any job posting for lackland, you'll see it mentioned over and over..

https://careers-salientcrgt.icims.com/jobs/11200/network-sys...'

https://i.imgur.com/d8KbSZp.png

But, wow, imagine that's a job, just walk in, look at two programs and swap out parts as needed.
what ever the medication you use, just read carefully the instructions, there's all the info in there that you need to safely use it. Paracetamol (Tylenol) is perfectly safe as long as you don't cross the recommended dosages.
I personally hadn't used Windows in a long time, and I had to switch over for work for a year or so, and was pleasantly surprised (coming from Windows 98 to 10), I was able to be functional in all of 2 minutes, there were minor annoyances, but also things I found better, I couldn't say if it was better or worse in any definitive way.

Arguments about what is "better" just seem like what I like more. I feel like I'm basically rooting for a sports team. Someone can show me "proof" that their set up is better, and I'm still going to root for my home teams.

With that being said, I wish we would collectively as the tech community be less focused on branding and software and more so on the working conditions throughout the supply chains that end up on our desks. Who cares if you have a pc/bsd/mac/linux/solaris/android/iphone set up if the pieces that go into it hurt other human beings and the environment.
The basic thesis is: As more people quit cable, advertising dollars move from cable TV to ad supported content on Roku.
Recently Joe Biden was criticized for picking a retired general as the Secretary of Defense because it is improper to dilute the civilian control of the American military, even symbolically, by having men in uniform at the top of the DoD.

Yet police departments routinely evade control and scrutiny by management that did not come up through police departments. They resist oversight boards. They hide derogatory information about individual cops. All that has to end.
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25046691

Some relevant discussion.
If this is racism, do we have evidence of other people doing the same, and being treated differently?

It could be discrimination, which may happen regardless of gender and color. Or just lack of internal credibility and authority, managers panicking, cutting losses short, internal politics, or whatever disagreement was not resolved.

Making it all about ethnicity, seems the wrong way to go about it, if one wants to avoid racism. Then it seems inevitable, any roadblock can be suggested as racism as anchor. Which ends up the entirely wrong attitude to be smart about it. Now, it's impossible to prescribe how to be smart at anything..

I would separate between the actions in that workplace, and the research itself. The latter is highly interesting as it's widely known data and parameters from data, may be highly biased and difficult to neutralize. Even to detect all kinds of biases and separate them from knowledge of the world. Actions from such data can have deeply unfair and repressing consequences, so it's important.
My OS is in dark mode, resulting in a black background. I see eight radio buttons but no text, just a sea of black, a rubix cube, four buttons, and then the eight radio buttons but no text next to them. I tried using my mouse to highlight the area so I could read the text, I also tried ctrl+a and holding down tab, but there's no way to highlight the text to read it.

This is the dark mode setting that I am using: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208976
CO2 from ancient sources doesn't have some special provenance, this is magical thinking.

Coal is just carbon that is in the ground. Grow a tree, convert most of it back to carbon, and bury it. Roman-era technology.

This is completely tractable, the fact that we aren't doing enough of it is a matter of will, not feasibility.
I've already seen people treat the vaccine as the end of the pandemic but I agree with Gates here, the next months are going to be brutal.

50% of Americans are apparently not willing to be vaccinated to begin with and rollout to significant parts of the population is going to take months.

While I'm obviously glad that vaccine development happened quickly, I really wish rather than being so focussed on vaccinations exclusively we paid more attention to the fact that some countries, Taiwan, China, Singapore, New Zealand and Australia have managed to quell the disease through correct social policy and appropriate levels of social coordination.

If every disaster will rely on us conjuring up a panacea we'll be screwed sooner or later.