skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe

int getint(const char **s) {
int res = 0;
for (; **s && isspace(**s); (*s)++);
for (; **s && isdigit(**s); (*s)++)
res = 10 * res + **s - '0';
return res;
}
The legal system certainly need a change - and finally states are moving to decriminalize marijuana possession (as it should always have been).

On the other hand, there are crimes where you should certainly be in prison. Hard to argue that a child molester or murderer should be living in great conditions off taxpayer dollars.
> Thankfully, like you said, there is now Stack Overflow.

It's interesting because we can imagine a history where the docs were written much more professionally with such examples. And we can imagine that work having lowered the barrier to entry such that a critical mass of users becoming compositionally literate in shell scripting. (And perhaps shellcheck being written much earlier in this alternate history.)

But Stack Overflow not only obsoletes such an effort, it IMO obsoletes becoming literate in shell scripting, at least in the way the author describes. SO's existence is equivalent to being able to write a natural language query on the command line which "automorphs" into the relevant Stack Overflow example. At that point you just need to understand basic piping, redirection, and enough of the syntax to spot-check the magic answer in order to make small changes for a use case. That's a different kind of skill.
You need to find opposing views that are just on the edge of your current comfort zone, I think. Of course, the whole exercise of having an open mind doesn’t reward one that much, as having a sound worldview has diminishing returns.
Trump was the first president in my lifetime to even admit gutting our manufacturing base is a problem. Neither Democrats nor establishment Republicans did anything but line up for their shockingly paltry share of the loot while mouthing platitudes about efficiency.
It's good to see entropy being used as the metric to judge passwords instead of complexity rules.

As others have commented, this isn't sufficient though, and will over-estimate the complexity of worded passphrases or l33t-speak. Password crackers are wise to those generation techniques and will brute-force combinations of those with more direct generation methods instead of generating from the underlying character set at random.

Complexity rules backfire if the minimum is done to meet them, like capitalise the first letter, append a number 0 and exclamation mark. A tool like this could (and probably should) check for those special cases and discount them from entropy, assuming conservatively that it's a weak password, ie. "P4ssw0rd0!" ~= "p4ssw0rd" ~= "password" ~= 13 bits (a single English word at random).

I'd also add that while that's a cool graph, it's going to age poorly as FLOPs/Watt is still on an upward trend. I wrote a password generator* which takes into account GCloud/AWS GPU prices and wholesale energy costs, along with Hashcat metrics, to recommend the number of bits of entropy for passwords. Looking 20 years into the future you'd probably want something closer to 82 bits entropy than 76, based on my calculations.

* https://github.com/aliclark/pragmatic-password-generator
Clickspring is one of the most fascinating channels on YouTube. From a 3D modeling perspective, it's always nice to see how boolean operations are applied in real life to metal to create useful tools.
It's been a while since I read it, but I remember enjoying Before the Dawn by Nicholas Wade.
> The display isn't really buggy, it's just the debugee output messed up the terminal.

That's clearly a horrible UX bug. The point of a debugger is to debug something which is probably going horribly wrong - having it mess up the debug output is a massive pain.

Clearly GDB could prevent this by intercepting the debuggee and preventing it from overwriting the rest of the screen.
IIRC from when I heard this story on This American Life, the women in the running were already having a lot of babies and didn't exactly require much encouragement to keep on keeping on.

But I found the whole story depressing, many people take creating more people so lightly and often their belief system embraces a blanket "more is always good/better" stance.
> US is not exactly a place which has been blessed in terms of access to natural resources

I'm not sure what you are trying to say here, but that's the exact opposite of what I believe is true.
I don't know about that. Precision is something desirable in science and engineering.

My experience is quite the opposite anyways, I often felt, English sentences lacked clarity that you could have in a German sentence
My ability to comment has been restricted apparently - "I'm commenting too fast." My last post was 3hrs ago.

I have expressed an opinion that Covid is a mass hoax being perpetrated on humanity to weaken the general population and entrench those who govern us still further - that we have been living in 1984 since at least 1948. Apparently this is not an opinion that can be allowed on HN - it needs to be quashed.

(If anyone is inclined to read more, this is a good article: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/12/gary-d-barnett/the-state...)

Back to the comment.

Yeah, thanks for your 'concern', but as you feel empowered to cast aspersions on my mental health, can I ask you to please take a look in the mirror? Do you do that to people a lot, when people disagree with you? At the least, it is a pretty juvenile tactic. And you think I have a mental health issue? Ok. But then, you probably believe that people who argue against what the government and media say are mentally unwell, because? ... the government and media say so. If you think for a second, you will see how circular that reasoning is, and should even be a little embarrassed that you uncritically accept what you are told.

As I see it, you seem to have bought the idea a re-branded flu is going to kill us all. Have you seen or have any reason to believe that the virus is a real thing in your life? Have you seen people dying? Is there anything to indicate to you that this is real except for what you have seen on TV? Did you believe that Independence Day was real too?

Appealing to your reason now, do you think that wearing a mask will help you breathe better and enable you to avoid illness? That staying away from loved ones, is the way to show you care? That staying at home is the way to optimal mental and physical health? That putting something direct into you bloodstream, bypassing all your body's defences, where you have no idea of the ingredients, is a good idea? If so, why? Is it because you have been taught by Big Brother (government, military, corporations) that this is 'good'? Do you trust Big Brother over yourself and your own reasoning?
None of them. It's a constant battle. I always hear the trope that we "owe" China money because they buy bonds but the entire reason they're buying bonds is to keep the Renminbi weaker than the USD.

Germany is a weird corner case where the entire reason for the Euro is to allow them to keep their currency artificially weak by using the rest of Europe's economy as a place to dilute their export power. The DM was getting relentlessly stronger against the USD and Sterling and when the conversion to Euros happened, major holders of DMs got absolutely hosed.
The movie ET was made adult-only in Sweden, due to depictions of violence.

Some societies are simply more civilized.
> Its still such a low number.

Again, there are much more than this that should be attributed to covid, these are just the most perfectly healthy people who still died, despite medical care.

> There is no conclusive evidence that mask will reduce the death

Have you looked at any other countries handling of the pandemic?

> and even if wearing mask will avoid those 978 death, it still not worth it

Again. Much more than 978 deaths.

> That being said, I can support voluntary mask recommendation though.

How do you feel about businesses requiring masks for entry?
Who cares? Time is pretty irrelevant as a magazine, not even in the top 10 by distribution in the United States. Gamestop's Game Informer has almost 3x the circulation, and I'm pretty the majority of the people here don't really care about either of them.
Dyn DDoS that took out GitHub, Twitter, orchestrated by teen targeting PSN
Many Americans have credit cards with limits in the several thousands at least, so paying up front shouldn't be a blocker.
Confused about this illegal substances thing, can you elaborate?
I'm just curious. I like the idea to use software for things they were not originally intended for.
> you'd try to make a website backend in lean

Well, I would neither use Haskell for this purpose, and Lean is indeed supposed to also be a "programming language", not only a theorem prover.
You also get the sluggishness of Emacs, though. Slow startup and syntax coloring, compared to ViM and NeoViM.
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>I remember there was a paper that tried to compare natural language usage of common programming language keywords to see if they may come up with other constructs to create a programming language that is easier to learn as your first one.

Wasn't that the goal of Perl? It was inspired from natural language first, not inspired from another programming language first. This is why it's so quick and easy to prototype in it, arguably far easier than any other language. I believe it is the only programming language to be inspired from natural language first.
I studied with the OU too, though only a Diploma of Higher Education (equivalent of 2/3rds of a Bachelor's; I think Americans would call it an 'Associate's Degree'?).

I found the material of good quality, and the tutorials/lectures I attended were fantastic. I did, admittedly, feel that the level of support could've been greater, but for a predominantly distance learning education that's par for the course, IMO.

The debt is indeed a bummer! Still, their fees are lower than most other UK universities right now, and my study landed me my current DevOps position, so I'm very happy.
Really neat. Is there anything cheap like this that will do simple base conversion -- i.e. hex to base 10 and so on?
Naturally you can’t refute the claim that your stated belief there is delusional.
Perhaps Amiga’s flying toaster?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Toaster
The OP states elsewhere in the discussion:

>I made a tool that allows you to discover what books you are least likely to have come across or enjoyed, but are nonetheless highly rated.

I think this is a natural result of the system as designed.
There may be some value in understanding what other people like, even if you don't enjoy it yourself. Personally, I wouldn't buy any (or even check out from the library) 95% of the books it listed for me, but I think that means it is working correctly. I guess one issue is that it I really like non-fiction, so I get mostly fiction or personal memoirs -- it's a genre thing that has nothing to do with viewpoint.
Towards the bottom of the article there is a example of MAD[0] that uses something similar, and there is also the John McCarthy proposal which also uses otherwise.
I could imagine it being used in a language that had a tight connection to maths as otherwise is often used there.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAD_(programming_language)
Race is important because people tend to support more punitive policies against transgressors of other races[1]. The demographics and the history of racial tension in the U.S. means that resistance to the Norwegian criminal justice model go far beyond considerations of cost.

[1] https://nicic.gov/race-and-punishment-racial-perceptions-cri...
Completely agree - I was enrolled in the OU at the time. It seemed like they made the change to stop the OU from steamrolling traditional universities when they introduced tuition fees for regular degrees. The OU could easily run courses for the low prices they used to charge (~£4000 for a degree?), but it would banjax our new commercial university system.
There are two types of freedoms under liberalism, the "freedom to", and "freedom from". Libertarians are mostly concerned with the former (e.g., minimising laws which stop their ability to do something) whereas modern liberalism takes a more balanced approach (for example, making racial discrimination illegal reduces someone's freedom to be racist whilst improving another groups ability to partake in society without experiencing discrimination)
Unlimited storage means just that. They never said infinite inbound data transfer speeds. "If you can get it to us, we'll store it" is totally reasonable.
Out of the tarpit anyone?
What’s a good way to group isbns for various versions of the same title?

For example, searching Old Man and the Sea on isbndb returns (as you’d expect) many isbns:

https://isbndb.com/search/books/Old%2Bman%2Band%2Bthe%2Bsea

Do books have another identifier that logically consolidates editions, foreign language prints, etc.?
To be clear, they removed subsidies for people to get a degree at a level to which they already had a degree, AIUI. i.e. if you already had a masters, then they was no subsidy for getting a second.

Personally, this feels fair enough - it's not clear why this sort of education should be subsidized.
Hi! I work on Open Library. The project is entirely open source, with an active community, so anyone can contribute fixes/features on GitHub: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary

And yeah, searching needs some work! That's on my task list for this month. Just this Friday I spent most of my day working on updating our search engine, Solr, from 3.6 to 8.7 (wip!). But search is a _BIG_ pain point. We're a small team with a big long list of things to do, but we are making progress! This year we updated to Python 3, switched most of our production environments to docker-based for easier deploys and to give open source contributors more control of production infra, added reading history stats for users, added a new interface for exploring books, worked on a novel recommendation system, added text selection to the online BookReader for public domain books, added GoodReads importing, grew our community, added the ability to search by classification, and much, much more (you can see highlights from our year here: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/3891 ).

There is still _definitely_ a lot to do, but I think the biggest reason worth using/contributing to Open Library is likely its open source community. Anyone can jump in and help make improvements to the system (as they very often do!). Personally, I think it's more likely that a system with a community will survive/flourish than one maintained by a single person (I also wondered whether I should just create my own before contributing to and now working on Open Library!). And there are also loads of different tasks associated with a site like OL, which would be impossible for me to do if I was going it alone.

If you would be interested, checkout the GitHub repo: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary . It's very active, and you can get an idea of how we work :)
From Wikipedia:

"The University of Hagen is a member of the European University Association (EUA), European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU) and it is accredited by ACQUIN, FIBAA (Foundation for International Business Administration Accreditation) as well as AQAS (Agentur für Qualitätssicherung durch Akkreditierung von Studiengängen)."

I guess if Canada recognizes any European university, it will recognize this one. Hagen is only different because of its remote learning approach, legally it's exactly the same as any other German university.
> Every kid at my children's school have a Chromebook.

That's Great. What about every kid in Detroit, Flint, or Chicago?

Solutions need to make sure we don't widen the digital divide.
True, but he said he said that simply because Bernie did, and it played well against Hillary in the primaries.

He didn’t do anything that actually slowed the loss of our manufacturing base while president.
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I meant to write, "a few other statically typed functional languages".
Maybe not college, but definitely high school.
I use LineageOS with microG.
https://lineage.microg.org

I can get some apps to work, but Signal is not one of them because of GSF. Langis is an alternative. And I see Signal in the screenshots for the ROM so this caught my eye. Apps that don't work for me typically are because of my device being rooted. In fact, because I simply installed the Huntington bank app on my device, the bank claimed my device was hacked. I had to change my accounts as they closed them immediately.
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Well what I mostly experienced in my years in the field was that developers, wether senior or not, feel obliged to create abstract solutions.

Somehow people feel that if they won't do a generic solution for a problem at hand they failed.

In reality the opposite is often true, when people try to make generic solution they fail to make something simple, quick and easy to understand for others. Let alone the idea that abstraction will make system flexible and easier to change in the future. Where they don't know the future and then always comes a plot twist which does not fit into "perfect architecture". So I agree with that idea that abstraction is not always best response to complex system. Sometimes making copy, paste and change is better approach.
What is particularly interesting is the response in the elderly population, as it's this group that seem most at-risk. The earlier studies were done in a younger population without co-morbidities, but later studies included all-comers. The pfizer study included older patients, though not many by the looks of it. They allowed for those with chronic conditions, though not if they were immunocompromised as a result of it. 9% black/african-american and 28% hispanic.
https://www.igdb.com/ is the one! I do the same thing. I've got a great process built on Airtable + IGDB.
Might be a case of outdated documentation/website: https://frida.re/news/2019/05/15/frida-12-5-released/
>Business should either invest the money for growth, or release the money to investors to do as they please.

Businesses should increase shareholder value. How they get there is up to them.

You opinion on how that should be achieved is one of many possible strategies and very much your own opinion.
If you add in a term after which you could get a subsidy, I'd agree. Retraining is going to be very important.
I disagree. I was using WinDbg downloaded from the Microsoft Store (so it had the WPF or whatever UI), and it was unusable. (Note: I was using it on a very large project - 4mLOC with hundreds of first- and third-party libs; It's likely I could get some use out of it on a trivial program, but it just didn't get the "real" program; and no, I wasn't simply missing the PDBs).
How does it not make sense?

I think you are underestimating the ignorance of public. Take poll of people. Most won't know that you have to wait years to get a trial. Most won't know that the majority of cases never make it to trial and are resolved plea deals (some of which are innocent people pleading guilty to avoid sitting in jail because they can't afford bail). Most won't know their civil rights (ask them about Brady vs MD, Miranda, the 4th ammendment, etc). How many do you think understand jury nullification?

These people fund the system through their taxes. They sit on juries. They elect people who commit abuses and allow abuses to happen. Even the ones who have been a victim of the system may not know it, the extent that it is common, or the other parts of the system they have not experienced.

For example, you could have a summary offense filed against you and the officer might amend the charge at the trial. If you aren't given a continuance, then it could violate your rights. If the change was made because the officer made a mistake and you didn't realize/understand it, if he will possible lie to the judge and say the change was for leniency (concealment of exculpatory evidence). At the very least, you wouldn't witness prison conditions for most summary offenses. For reference, approximately 8% of the population has been convicted of a felony and less than half of them have served time in prison. So the people with firsthand prison experience will be quite low (guessing less than 10%, but couldn't find those numbers).
I once thought about doing an OU degree as a hobby when I got to a point in my life when I had some spare time for learning.

Wow turns out they're astronomically expensive and even a simple bachelors takes a stupid number of years.

Also maybe it's just my field but I never see any research output from the OU either, and I don't know any academics working there at all, so I don't know what kind of standard of staff you're getting.

I'm not sure who's spending money on these things?
Just because the event is true doesn't mean it's presented with the correct statistical context. For example, if, hypothetically, 2 people developed complications from the vaccine out of a treated population of 20 million, a front page headline exclaiming "Covid Vaccine Causing Complications" would be technically true, but also propaganda.
Is there a stigma that haunts former inmates upon release? In the US it seems ones career is essentially over once convicted of anything more than a traffic violation.
That's not correct. The regular prices of courses increased by large multiples.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2011/aug/08/open-unive...
Cyber criminals move to finland so of they get caught, they can live in a "prison" and continue to communicate with their coconspirators because they have internet access
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I would argue that we should do whatever it takes to get them rehabilitated, so that when they rejoin society they don't continue their life of crime.
It's somewhat ironic that this readme quotes an image that argues how counting character classes gives an incredibly distorted view of how complex a password is but then goes on to somehow completely miss the point and basically just count the character classes and the password length (which then proves the point of the xkcd comic by overestimating the ~28 bits of entropy password to have over 65 bits of entropy).

And the fact that this gives 'password123' a whole 51 bits of entropy should be a sign that it's an oversimplification. In fact if it wasn't for the fact that repeated characters are eventually ignored it would at least be guaranteed to always overestimate the entropy, as it is now it just punishes the use of long passwords using a small set of characters (again going directly against the quoted xkcd comic).
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To join like constituents, not just clauses, as per your examples.