skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "We would not let somebody use a new untested material in a bridge if it can not support the bridge just because "nobody knows how to make a bridge that works with the new material""

You might be interested to read about the Morandi Bridge collapse in Italy: https://www.engineering.com/story/italys-morandi-bridge-coll...

"When the Morandi Bridge was built, encasing a cable in concrete was innovative.", "the decision to pre-stress it was debatable", the concrete meant they couldn't check for cable rusting underneath, the concrete could have been supplied by the Mafia and under specification, "“We have used materials that are destined to deteriorate quickly, like those of the bridge in Genoa,” Bercich said in a post-collapse analysis".

"Settimo Martinello, director of bridge inspection company 4EMME Service, told CNN that there are “about 15 to 20 bridges collapsing every year” in Italy."

From another source: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/feb/26/what-caused-t...

"In the 1960s little was known about the interaction of materials, or the effects of pollution and climate on corrosion.", "Morandi himself was surprised to see the structure age faster than he had anticipated. In 1979 he issued a report detailing a number of interventions to protect the structure against pollution from nearby factories"

It's not a collapse on its first day, but it undermines your suggestion that bridges are a solved problem, designed once with traditional methods, are well understood inside and out, and therefore never collapse.

Or if that's too old, how about the celebratory Millennium Bridge in London, a footbridge opened in June 2000 and closed two days later because it couldn't withstand the footsteps? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Bridge,_London#Open...
RISC-V and QEMU
I once went to use plaid to apply for a mortgage on one of the new fancy broker platforms. It asked me to type my login credentials.. sketchy , but alright banks and mortgage companies seem to trust them? Then they asked me to disable 2FA on my account and at that point it was indistinguishable from a phishing attack to me. I noped out and changed my bank password immediately.
So... Parler is worse because there is _minimal_ moderation, but _no_ moderation is totally fine? That doesn't really seem consistent with any set of guiding principles.
The difference is that Parler considers their lack of moderation a feature and even advertises it.
The training data was so large that I don’t think a single epoch was used. I.e. it’s not a guarantee that any specific site is known by GPT-3 just because it’s in the data.

But, with the nature of random samples, it’s probably likely that it saw at least a little bit of SO.
I think you're right in that the road to MS open-sourcing Windows will be slowly starting to adopt other existing subsystems (and hopefully giving back) so that they are managing less and less proprietary code over time.
I stopped reading the article at: “Despite the impact, scientists believe that if anything survived the crash intact, it may well have been the tardigrades. The microscopic creatures were sandwiched between micron-thin sheets of nickel and suspended in epoxy, a resin-like preservative that acts like a jelly — potentially enough to cushion their landing” as I realized that I’d been duped by their very affirmative headline
What does this message mean (from both a Chromium-based browser and Firefox):

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sci-hub/ could not be resolved by HNS.to. Please try another Handshake resolver..
A programmer should not be scared by the (still) most popular programming language. What's there to be scared by, anyway? For learning, C is just like Algol, very straightforward. Well, there's pointers: very useful for linked lists and such.
I thought this was going to be about personal InfoSec ala Parler.
Do ‘elder Goths’ hold the secret to aging successfully?
"To some degree"? Surely. It could have influenced you to spend a few seconds checking whether the account was a throwaway. I think that would have been entirely reasonable.

But it didn't influence you "to some degree". We can be more specific than that. It influenced you to accuse the account of being a throwaway without spending a few seconds to check.

I do think that was mildly unreasonable. Not super unreasonable, but mildly.
> “Happy Goth” may seem like an oxymoron — but that’s the point. Bush argues that Goths’ success in aging has a lot to do with their ability to juggle opposing, seemingly paradoxical energies. Take Goths’ emotional intensity: While off-putting to some, Goths’ willingness to harnessdark feelings such as despair, gloom and hopelessness, rather than repress them, can prove healthier in the long run, Bush says.
Apologies, the original title is terrible. Matt Stoller writes very interesting pieces about markets and monopolies, and this one concerns Solarwinds specifically, which feels relevant given that's on the front page at the moment. The author gives a compelling narrative on why exactly security practices were so bad at Solarwinds, and how that related to runaway capitalism.
Why are Canadians so scared of communism then, given they haven't done this? Or Germans? Or Finns?
Huh? I’m not remotely confused, but it would seem that you are.

Without section 230, companies can carry whatever content they like, but they’re legally liable for it.

A common carrier is not responsible for the content they carry, as long as they carry it for customers without discrimination.

In exchange for serving the public good, common carriers are granted the privilege of immunity.

Section 230, however, eliminates that exchange — a government grant of privileged immunity, in exchange for nothing — while also having editorial control over what they publish.
Your landlord throwing you out of your apartment is not at all similar to AWS banning your account.
NestJS is pretty close to the best web framework I’ve found for node.

Now if only it came with all batteries included, and the DI wouldn’t be so funky, it would be even better, but it’s still lightyears ahead of express for building a comolicated application.
It makes sense, but I'm a big fan of the TL;DR approach; if you're sharing a point, get to it, then embellish all you like after that. If someone clicked through, bought your book, whatever to find out, what does 1+1 equal; start with "1+1 = 2. The following is a long and detailed account of why...".

On a tangent, I find it quite refreshing in film when they start with the punchline. You know what happens in the end before you even start; if it's a good film, it's still worth watching, even knowing the end.
'Matando' egirls em um novo game
Aqui eu matandoo as Egirls que tao com cenoura na mão asihddiahdish
rsrs
Estava 'testando' outros games parecidos com os do msm criadores de lunasfate, e esse é meu preferido até entao
Both newspapers and social networks are multicast, but a newspaper is one-to-many and a social network is many-to-many. There's a material cost to publishing a newspaper that doesn't exist with electronic social networks. I don't know if a utility is a good analogy for a social network platform, but I am confident a newspaper is not either.
Versioning: I use git to version my ledger file.

Preventing regressions: Every time I update with the latest transactions I close the last transaction with an assertion that ensures the balances are correct. (E.g. that the balance on checking is equal to the latest statement, or that outstanding VAT is 0 after paying taxes)

I’ve been using ledger for my (small) business for about 5 years now. I’ve a script that calculates all the figures for my quarterly VAT submission by the categories that the tax authority requires (I use tags to label transactions).

Importing transactions is still manual work, but given the low volumes it’s not a problem. I do find it frustrating that most banks are still so limited in providing API access to accounts.

Invoices are a bit special, I can see outstanding amounts under Assets:Receivables, but haven’t found a good way to track this easily by invoice.
The question remains unanswered: should the cloud hosting company wait for a court judgement that deems the DDOSer guilty of a crime?
> It's an analogy. None are perfect

It's more than just an analogy when the parent comment claimed that if you support one, you should support the other. I'm not disagreeing that the scenarios aren't analogous. I'm disagreeing that the same logic that makes one of those things essential to a functioning society should be tried to be wedged in as an argument for the other.
In fact, I think most companies buy Windows Server in spite of the printing subsystem. I still wake up at night mumbling “net stop spooler; net start spooler”
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Open Banking in the UK does that now.
I don't think it's unreasonable for Parler to attempt to create the same kind of mainstream platform that these other services enjoy. Their service is not criminal in nature. Regardless of what some may claim, their service is simply a social media platform. If you're a technical user you can probably figure out the 'Darkweb'. You can't blame them for not wanting to restrict their userbase to only technical users. They're trying to be a viable alternative to the Silicon Valley giants. That's a reasonable thing to do.
Should it be illegal for me to cancel a subscription because the vendor needs the money?

No one is entitled to income from their source of choosing. Government provides welfare, not whoever you want to do business with.
For $1000, I’ll let you ARP the EE prefix on my network
- and let's include 2 other compilers that aren't really even in the game so it looks like we did due diligence as opposed to just writing a rejection of GCC.
You're in an incredibly privileged position to be in to say such a thing.
I really like the concept, I look forward to seeing more diverse projects added to the index. I looked for, embedded stuff, virtual reality and high frequency trading and got 0 hits on all of em :(
It's possible, although it's worth saying that compilers are still relatively dumb when it comes to actually using their arsenal of optimizations - you can have too much of a good thing, it's quite difficult to have a usable performance/compilation-speed tradeoff.

A quick example of this: https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/4r38xv

This isn't a particularly scientific test, but if you compare the assembly for the generated factorial function, the compilers being asked for absolutely breakneck speed correctly identify parallelism in the code, but fail to recognize that the loop overflows almost immediately - it is defined behaviour, so without human intervention it can't guess where we want performance. So the end result is a pretty enormous SIMD-galore function which is not much faster or even slower than the very simple optimize-for-size output.

You may be thinking, well it's faster sometimes, that's good - that is often a good thing, however, code density is very important. The SIMD-gone-mad version is several times bigger than the simple loop. Modern x86 CPU's have a roughly 1-4k μop cache, that might be a whole load of it gone right there. It's a significant dent in the instruction cache too.

If you look down the software stack, we use programs like compilers to invariants in our data and algorithms, act on it, and then promptly throw it away - when moore's law ends this is where we can find a lot of performance, I reckon. In this case we can bully the compiler into assuming the code overflowing won't happen, or highly unlikely, which lets it schedule the code more effectively for our use-case but this requires relatively intimate knowledge of a given compiler and the microarchitecture one is using - it's not really good enough.
> putting everything the user may wish to do within their reach

Your users are human, so you can’t predict everything all of us will do. This is why we want hackable tools to reassemble, rather than sealed appliances.
Parker breached it only. AWS didn't breach; they enforced.
Up until noe, they haven't even managed to build a competitor to the Snapdragon CPUs.

But let's see what they are up to.
Looking at the maintainer’s comments on the open pull requests, I’m not surprised there hasn’t been a lot of progress on this project. Major attitude detected.
> It's not P2P. Here's a technical overview

> link describe a P2P WebRTC implementation

what am i missing?

edit: found it. they use a SFU forwarder. That's the cheap version of going full centralization (MCU) benefits. they probably have a better deal on bandwidth than CPU to justify that, or all their use cases work fine with only one person transmitting at once, which gives you the same benefit of a MCU with less cpu usage...
People who think that the AWS UI is a disaster probably didn't have to deal with IBM SoftLayer in the past :)
Goths are not into HIIT or CrossFit. This is why they will outlast everyone.
Parler (a social network or publication platform) has the right to exist. Parler (a platform to publish hate and to make threats of violence without consequence) does NOT have a right to exist.
The limitation in crossing the boundary from a data language to an executable language is mostly down to contrasts between "divisions" within and "bindings" across data.

Some Forths include an additional floating point stack, and many implement types on top, but the basic nature of the thing is not to address division of data into sizes, fields and regions of memory directly, and instead to let the user define those things. Where Forth is powerful is in allowing layers of binding to build up, since the language can flip-flop between execution and compilation easily - that's why basic control flow words like IF - THEN - ENDIF can be bootstrapped, as can any desired type checker. But in the process, the binding format - the Forth dictionary - becomes one of the core dependencies.

The "just data" formats like JSON only approach the topic of binding in limited ways like key-value structures or a defined schema. The types are static during parsing, so the data is less tangled and context-driven and more approachable through a simple divide-and-conquer.
Houses don't get DDoS attacks, or data stolen in 10ms.

It's an analogy unto it's own, and it needs new guidelines. We're seeing them made as we progress.
They get upstreamed for the most part, just very slowly. There's a lot of pointer authentication stuff shipping in their toolchains currently that isn't upstream.
> I would still happily pay $3500 to not spend hours a year entering innocuous expenses into a fucking text editor.

Fair enough. If your expenses are at the level of mine, I'd gladly take your $3500/year to do it for you. :-)

And given that several commenters have said they spend about an hour a month on it, after all automation is in place, I'm sure many would take that money from you. It comes to about $300/hour. Certainly some people are earning a lot more than I am, and paying $300/hour is worth it to them.

I'm not a hard core ledger user, but I have a simple solution: I don't enter anything into a text editor. I enter it into a fairly nice money management SW (using a GUI), that autofills a lot of stuff for me, and lets me import from my bank/CC. And then I simply run a script to convert its data format to ledger. I'm sure I spend more than an hour a month, though. I haven't automated most of my data sources.
Strong case against using proprietary software in your code base, isn't it. What a mess.
Talk was not naturally archived in the past, but I would not assume that today. There is no longer anything that is an intimate object, pretty much anything can have a microphone and some type of wireless connection. Is your desk phone at the office listening to you even though it's on the hook? Technically it can. What about your smart TV?
Kara Visits Founders Fund's Peter Thiel(2007)
Nitpick, defund the police means reduce the police budget, not get rid of police.
The derived projects need this, but in a way that attests to the currentness of the source code they are derived from, i.e. as a patch against the latest Signal release.
41 degrees in Perth the other day, it seems pretty on par on this side of the island
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How about "How Parler Destroyed Itself"?
The view of "Corporations acting like people" is an oversimplification of CU. Radiolab's More Perfect podcast did a very detailed episode.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolabmoreperfect/epi...

Did you know that the FEC argued in the CU case before the Supreme Court that they had the right to prevent the distribution of books containing certain kinds of political speech? The audio of that is in the episode and it is a wild ride.
That’s for a criminal activity. Not for doing something your landlord merely finds distasteful.
He's not a "bootlicker". He lost his faith in the US and became (more of) a fan of Russia.

(Parler is run by a CEO who married a politically prominent Russian (not Russian-American) spouse with essentially zero ties to the USA.)
I believe it was due to patents that spotify stopped P2P streaming.
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I believe him.

There is different types of privacy. Facebook takes only one kind of it seriously.
it took me a while but I migrated to Awesomewm & found it quite enjoyable for a good number of years. the model was a bit different but i got used to it & i think overall it sped me up, although i wasn't quite as in control/exacting as i once was with layouts & order.

in the past year i finally started making myself use Wayland instead of X11, & the natural/mainstream go to there is Sway. Sway is a lot like wmii or i3, much more so than Awesome, alas minus the 9P interface wmii had that i really wish i'd spent much more time learning & enjoying & scripting; definitely one of the coolest things i've ever been around, & i just chronically under-used it. had a couple play around sessions but never brought any scripting in to use the 9P interface on a regular basis to enhance my environment/do stuff.
The point is the door to higher education is not closed due to anyone due to lack of money, connections, etc. All it takes is a working brain and motivation.
do you have a family? i'm going to be prioritizing my family's safety over anyone else's
A lot of P2P things are encumbered by patent trolls.
I'd argue that Apple+Intel wasn't that far behind not-Apple+Qualcomm. And the gap was almost entirely closed from 2016 to 2018: https://www.pcmag.com/news/iphone-xs-crushes-x-in-lte-speeds...

> Between the three 4x4 MIMO phones, you can see that in good signal conditions, the Qualcomm-powered Galaxy Note 9 and Google Pixel 2 still do a bit better than the iPhone XS Max. But as signal gets weaker, the XS Max really competes, showing that it's well tuned.

> Let's zoom in on very weak signal results. At signal levels below -120dBm (where all phones flicker between zero and one bar of reception) the XS Max is competitive with the Qualcomm phones and far superior to the iPhone X, although the Qualcomm phones can eke out a little bit more from very weak signals.
You'll need to build a bot to leverage elastic search to index text and provide search via a bot (I didn't built the whole thing but providing supporting infrastructure - a host for the guy who wrote the integration to do docker-compose style deployment), it works pretty well, only problem is that running elastic search requires at least 2GB of RAM -_-z
Razer has created a concept N95 mask with RGB and voice projection
> Why weren't they dockerized and prepared to move containers and backups at the drop of a hat? Why didn't they have hot spares elsewhere?

Maybe the techies with those skills dont want to work there and so the existing employees might not have the skills to do that.
Oh man I can't believe they actually pulled this on a Canadian Bank.

I tell my founders to always always fly straight or don't fly at all because if you cut corners or deceive, it will come back to you.

Had they been honest and played by the rules they could be sitting on a massive windfall.

Unfortunately, some VCs and founders think like gangsters and get surprised when things dont plan out. Just because it worked for someone in your circle doesn't mean its gonna work for you. It is a horrible behavior to emulate.
Well, better one small company doing that garbage than Visa! It makes it easier to avoid.
"US officials say ..." - That counts for very little. Where's the evidence?

The other stories are about some of Huawei's employees having on their CV that they've worked with the PLA and other government agencies. By that metric, what major US company isn't connected to the US government?

> numerous cases of stolen code, designs, and even wholesale products.

This is a huge exaggeration. Huawei has had IP disputes with other companies, and there have been some allegations like T-Mobile's claims about its "Tappy" robot being copied, but this is all relatively minor stuff for a massive company. Compared to the IP disputes between Apple and Samsung, for example, this is peanuts.

On the other hand, Huawei is one of the largest R&D spenders in the world now.
Sadly, I suspect it's like gun control. (I know, I know. Touchy subject, but hear me out - and please accept that I'm not trying to attack gun owners here.)

In Australia, there are few enough guns that reasonably strict licensing for owning/keeping/selling guns _mostly_ works. We managed to restrict "assault style" weapons early enough to have been able to do it before the prevalence of semi automatic weapons made it impossible. Gun violence here is several orders of magnitude lower that in the US by any reasonable measure. Not zero, but rare enough that "gunshots heard" is still newsworthy here.

If the US decided to try and get to that - it'd be a multi generation process to change attitudes and perceptions, and then to remove all the weapons currently in circulation. I don't believe there's the political or social will to even consider starting that. Your solutions to gun violence are fundamentally going to be different to Australia's.

(From my perspective, the news that my nieces regularly do "active shooter lockdown training exercises" in schools was inexplicable and horrifying. I kinda understand your historical "right to bear arms" - but I can't bend my mind into understanding how that's ended up at "there's nothing we can do about disgruntled teenagers getting hold of AK47s so we'll just teach our children how to hide under school desks and not make any noise, hoping that 'playing dead' will help them avoid getting shot". Not that I'm claiming too much moral high ground here, the most recent mass shooting in New Zealand was by an Australian. We have our fair share of fuckwits here too. Our main advantage is that most of those fuckwits do not have access to firearms when they fly into a murderous rage.)