skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US intelligence community actually keeps a clone of Stack Overflow that is updated every 12 hours and copied to servers on the classified version of the Internet so that people developing classified software can use it without needing to turn around to their unclassified workstations. I'm sure they're not alone in this, so the entirety of the answers there could be restored from mirrors or just used from the mirrors if the main site disappeared.

Nearly all of the information there is also available in the public documentation of whatever the question asker is asking about anyway. Forcing developers to use real documentation instead of Stack Overflow would not likely hurt everyday work. It might become harder to find literal worked examples, but even those are mostly duplicated elsewhere and SO is just making it easier on search engines to find it.
They tried a retaliatory ban against the UK yesterday over the AstraZeneca situation (vaccines in EU plants were exported to the UK last month because the UK were readier to rollout sooner, the UK is not allowing exports from UK plants in return, leaving the EU with a shortfall on vaccines), but because of the way it involved the Northern Ireland border rules agreed in brexit they faced strong opposition from Ireland, also an EU member and I think they've backed down for now
That's true, the article does not cover that! I should note however, that you can also mouselessly select any input field and paste :-)
A form of denial of service (DoS) against spreading knowledge: flood the system with 'requests'.
Dealing with a Qanon family member is something that would've sounded funny to me a few years back, but things like those are on my mind every day and it's not getting better. It's a serious and very depressing thing.
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>>> professionals who have stepped back into the indie world

This immediately reminded me of Notch and the birth of Minecraft. What's amazing is that the private alpha launch is recorded for posterity in the TIG forums:

https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=6273.0

The gameplay mechanic is everything. On day one, players were mining rocks, building castles. And a decade later, that same intuitive territorial need, that taps into primitive desire is still alive. Players are mining rocks, building castles (and much more)!

I also think about the classic card game Uno. We've now got like four generations of fiercely competitive players in my family. There's decks in the kitchen, the living room, even in the car. It's so simple to start a game. Infinite replayability. And the latest innovation: blank cards. So you can literally draw an "Eat my Underwear" for infinite expansion.

That endless replayability in gameplay mechanics can then be considered to be the crux. Headshots in FPS are just as satisfying in Valorant as they were two decades ago in Counter-Strike. Perfect information, turn-based strategy games are all variants of millennia old Chess, which is experiencing a renaissance. One of the best things on the web today is the 3000+ Stockfish superhuman lichess.org WASMX real-time analyzer with 8-ply depth search. It's a portend of things to come for the coming era of AI-mediated design.

So what we are really talking about is an exhaustive exploration of the gameplay mechanic space. With the criterion that if it is endlessly replayable, it will be "fun" forever.

Great discussion all around, I really enjoyed reading everyone's comments. Welcome counter-programming to all the noise in the current noosphere ;)
Why should Apple care about downstream apps not being coded properly?
Serbia is actually doing pretty well. Both in controlling Covid and vaccination.

Take a look at their cases and deaths. Unlike many countries in Serbia you are actually recommended to visit a doctor when you have any signs of Covid and not wait for severe symptoms. They established separate small Covid centres. Take a closer look at how they are handling this. Pretty interesting.
Abella an interactive theorem prover based on lambda-tree syntax
Tutorial for newfriends on how to join Matrix federation.

https://glowers.club/wiki/doku.php?id=wiki:newfriends
This is often no longer an issue thanks to Flatpak & Steam Proton built-in Windows emulation.
>"Compiler bug? But how…
Looking at the code, the only things that could create the bug were the operators and pow() call. These are part of the C++ standard offering so it’s highly unlikely that either of these would have an error. What next? Off to GodBolt to try some other compilers to see if I get wonky results on them. MSVC++… nope, Clang… nope, GCC-Trunk on Linux… nope. I am only getting this weird behaviour in TDM-GCC. Time to try some other MingW64 compilers. Nuwen… Yes, Mingw64.. yes, TDM-GCC… yes.

Confirmed: It’s a bug in MinGW64.

When I create a new thread and run floating point operations in that thread, I get slightly different answers."

Interesting!
How is that a solution to the problem? Of course there's other ways to install software, just like you could build your own iOS app and sideload it with a certificate. If an app is gone from the store it's basically dead.
Cannabidiol==CBD

Synthetic cannabidiol == synthetic CBD (i.e. just CBD)
We also do have a (in my opinion) quite special link hinting functionality: https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/article/element-hints.org
The UK should be the same color as Russia and Turkey. Either they're all red, or they're all grey
And all messengers that support E2E encryption. I just wrote some abusive content on WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger in end to end encrypted chats so I expect Google to remove those now also.

And I used google chrome to access 4chan. So google must ban google chrome also.
> What you're missing in your time line is that the first AZ vaccines that fulfilled UK orders were produced in Europe, namely in Germany and Netherlands.

First, that was only the initial vaccines. All vaccines since then were produced entirely within the UK. Second, the UK paid for the development of those vaccines, the EU did not. Without the UK funding and the collaboration with Oxford, AZ was not even planning to develop its own vaccine variant, and so those facilities would not have been producing any vaccine at all.

> While the UK and USA have their production capacity only for themselves AND still get production from Europe.

As mentioned, the UK and USA paid to develop these products. The EU is expecting everyone else to pay the cost of development, and then just get the vaccine at cost when it arrives, and still have priority?

> So something isn't adding up here, and yes, it fucking stinks. I hope they block all vaccines exports until EU deadlines/stock is replentished.

Good luck with that. All the vaccine manufacturers are suffering shortfalls, and the UK is not reliant on exports from the EU. I hope that further vaccine production goes to countries that didn't have the economic means to build their own vaccine supply, rather than those too short-sighted to build one.
There probably is (less infection) due to the more broad vaccines they receive compared to developed countries, which as a second effect create a little more broad immunity.
this is because fallacies deal with deduction, not inference. still useful tools though.
We know the FAA's existing approval system is terrible, and they've developed a new streamlined set of launch approvals - development is complete but the rollout is delayed until later this year.

I think it's safe to assume that the regulatory body that's openly struggling to keep up is the party at fault until shown otherwise.
Agreed. I work on a solution for extracting data from random documents ( invoices, payslips, you name it ) for natives pdf in the wild ( not scans) we gave up : and just rasterize to send to an OCR software... It's also probabilistic, but way more reliable.
This is what I don't get, they are a hedge fund, even balanced book as you say, 200% gross exposure.

By your calculations they lost 0.5-1b from GME. That means 2b from somewhere else in the market.

Questions I'd have:

- even balanced book in my mind means they hedge risk and shouldn't lose across the board 30% in a week otherwise they are incompetent... and they seem far from that.

- with that in mind, how would they lose 2b in the rest of the market?, that means they dont hedge properly.

- As for GME, they didnt do proper risk management but that seems the only place they got blindsided. (Still surprising they had no insurance for a short squeeze...)

- Overall the stated losses were 30% of portfolio in a week... with only GME moving... you can see why I assume it was more then 14% and your logic seems flawed.
> Depending on the net of buys/sells, RH is on the hook to pay or recieve that net cash. That’s credit risk.

Except in RH case, their customers have already transferred money from their bank account to RH. RH should have 100% of the money they need for normal buys. The reasoning given doesn’t actually make sense.

(unless it was margin accounts that were the problem, in which case RH should stop issuing margin. or the “instant deposit” feature. They could just disable that until they could afford it again.)
How to stop your roommate from slamming doors
That's amazing. So they basically found a legal protocol to do things that would otherwise be illegal, and institutions like judges and the SEC just let that happen?
The other aspect is that Google is now jeopardizing many people who now enable "other sources", making them more susceptible to malware. (Not saying you shouldn't enable "other sources", but many people don't understand what they are doing).
Is that something I can do to my phone to make updates via F-Droid more seamless?
There needs to be a term for otherwise libertarian-minded people, who also understand that the platform should revolve around correcting the power imbalances between large wealthy organizations and individuals, whether those large organizations are governments or corporations. I don't see why we can't restrict the ultra-rich billionaires while still protecting the small-to-medium rich who actually did bust their ass to gain their fortunes.
The fuck?

I guess I know now why every other website pegs my CPU to 100% to slowly display static text and break the browser's back button - professional software engineers are "bored to death" when doing their job so they have to make things "interesting" in order to entertain themselves.
The institutional design of the EU is unique in its setup as a supranational entity - it's neither an international organisation nor a state, it's something in between. Usually it mainly acts on 'market stuff' and the institutional structures are designed for careful compromise finding, especially to balance out any excess weight of the big countries. But since 2005 or so it has been pushed more and more in the geopolitical and criss-reaction realm where these careful but slow processes struggle. The UK gov can take an important spending decision on its own authority (or at most involving the commons and lords) but where it doesn't have the ultimate authority itself (e.g. some trade deals) the EU has to get agreement from the European parliament and 27 national governments.
I stand to be corrected here (I'm sure crypto experts on HN can weigh in on this point with far better detail), but I think a "ban" in this context means that they won't allow conversion of Bitcoin to the local Indian currency and vice versa.

So for example, whilst nothing can be done about Indian miners / holders of Bitcoin continuing to trade Bitcoin for other currencies in other jurisdictions (and by extension, nothing can be done to stop them from continuing to exchanging bitcoin for services and products online), Indian citizens won't be able to buy bitcoin using local Indian exchanges, nor will they be able to sell bitcoin using local Indian exchanges, nor will they be able to buy or sell products and services in India using Bitcoin.
Please familiarise yourself with the HN Guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please don't dismiss comments for grammar or spelling mistakes. These are not substantial criticisms of the argument being made, and are IMO a form of ad-hominem.
See e.g. https://blog.westerndigital.com/risc-v-swerv-core-open-sourc...
I pointed this out not long ago. When will it comes to Email? How is mailing list any different?

And what about Chrome or Web Browser? Or they going to have built in Filter for website? Although without the reach of Google Search Engine having a filter or not makes no difference anyway.

But it is great they are doing it, the more the better. People were extremely supportive on HN not long ago about banning speeches they dont like on Internet. Hopefully they finally learned something here. They opened the Pandora Box and there is nothing anyone could do until the Pendulum swing to its limit before swinging back.
Any idea how I could find text of the launch license? I tried googling but didn't have any luck.
I was thinking specifically about PWA on Android. I don't think you can change the browser used in that case, and I could see Google decide that you cannot open a PWA if the website is on the blacklist.
Depends. General language questions are amazing on stack overflow. Once you starting getting into the quirks and bugs of individual frameworks, GitHub issues can start to be more helpful.
That's less than 1 MB.
Locomotion Vault: The Extra Mile in Analyzing VR Locomotion Techniques
Thank you for the kind words. You've nailed it: we can only do so much with typical extensions, they are limited. As per your quesiton: I'll do my best to answer.

1. Lisp is what enables any part of Nyxt to be reprogrammed at any time (even whilst running).

2. Lisp enables us to easily program DSL's for different bits of functionality. For example, we could easily write/interpret a DSL for describing uBlock matrix rules.

3. We try to insulate users who don't know Lisp a little bit by providing graphical configuration interfaces (like emacs), we are working on improving these to make them almost as effective as writing your config by hand.

We're working on it. Big projects like this take time. Hopefully with time our vision will crystallize into something more obvious :-)
So weirdly I have this book, its the one thing I kept from my spectrum days. Does anyone want it?
And do you know where the web got invented? At one of the biggest cathedrals ever built to the idea that bringing lots of scientists into close proximity to work on hard problems tends to produce neat stuff.

Sure, on some level he could have done the same work in his garage, in some quiet seaside town full of retired people. But he didn't.

Reducing the friction in long-range interactions obviously has its upsides. But these hairless primates still pick up lots of stuff from being around each other.
If you only go long on options, theta is eventually going to catch up with you.
So you think GameStop is a solid company with a great future? And short selling completely unreasonable?
> It is a valuable skill, literally, companies are ready to pay good money to people who can do that.

I totally agree that it's a very valuable skill, but just wondering, how would you demonstrate that skill in an interview? I personally find it pretty hard to demonstrate these "soft" skills, and even when I act as an interviewer in those rare cases, I find it hard to tell if a person is equipped with such skills.
We don't compute per-example gradients, so in your second code snippet there would not be a loop across examples. We compute the batch-averaged gradient in the same time it would take to compute a single example's gradient, so it's much more efficient than your proposal, which is equivalent to using a batch size of 1.
Python vs JavaScript–Key Differences Between the Two Popular Programming Langs
True, but a singular example does not save the continent.
I mean Twelve Angry Men is a movie that is just one long meeting and it is deservedly a classic.
>Vaccine delivery, like pretty much everything else, is just-in-time delivery. They haven't been building stocks. They've been manufacturing vaccines and shipping them straight out as they have signed contracts with many other countries other than the UK. Demand is outstripping supply.

Vaccine production started before any country gave any approval, it's well documented that it started in 5th JUNE 2020, so I don't quite get what you're saying. If it took Europe 4 more weeks to approve a vaccine all the stock produced until that point should have been flushed to countries who approved it before, even though the production started way before anyone approved - so they take advantage of stock build up, but Europe doesn't because?

>The EU's argument, which is well documented in the press, is that they've promised about 300 million Euros to AZ to build up capacity, only a small amount of which they've paid AZ. It is also well documented that it takes time to get a vaccine manufacturing plant working at close to 100% yield, something even the UK plant hasn't achieved. It's simply the case that the EU should have agreed and paid sooner so that AZ could have invested that money in the EU plants sooner. All of this is covered in the 'best reasonable efforts' parts of the contract.

Again, something doesn't add up - it's well documented that it was EUROPEAN factories in the Netherlands and Germany that produced the first batches of AZ vaccines for the UK. So even before UK has any production capacity they are already taking advantage of Europe capacity of production financed by EU.

Basically the UK took advantage of EU capacity, and EU didn't get anything out of their investment? And now that UK has some capacity, all of it will be for UK, and EU should keep investing to make vaccines for UK and the rest of the world, while AZ is failing to fulfill orders.

This is weird, no?

>Evidence? As far as I can see in the press, the AZ doses in the UK are coming from the AZ manufacturing plants in the UK, and it is vdL / the EU that is demanding that AZ doses in the UK are diverted to the EU to make up the current shortfall in EU manufacturing.

It's well documented in the media, quote:

"Ian McCubbin, the manufacturing lead for the UK's Vaccine Taskforce said that the “vast majority” of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine will be manufactured in the UK.

AstraZeneca also has some plants in Europe, with sites in Germany and the Netherlands producing the jab - these were the first to be rolled out in the UK."

Source: https://www.business-live.co.uk/manufacturing/uk-factories-m...
Thanks for sharing F-Droid. Don't know how I've missed this so far
> Forcing developers to use real documentation instead of Stack Overflow would not likely hurt everyday work.

For beginner-level stuff maybe, but there's so much on StackOverflow about bugs, pitfalls, caveats, breaking changes, rationales, use cases, background, etc. that you can't find easily (if at all) in software documentation, if the documentation even pops up in your searches.
If you're willing to go to a virtualized Linux in order to switch to Windows, why wouldn't you do the same on MacOS?
It’s probably a bad idea to use analogies in a combative argument where participants are more interested in winning than establishing the truth. But analogies are useful cognitive ratchets; they help people to begin to understand difficult abstract concepts, so they are useful when participants are more cooperative than competitive.
How do you know that info in the first paragraph?

On top of that security, it'd also be interesting to monitor what someone (based on their IP and browser fingerprint) was looking up on SO, you could probably figure out what they were working on that way.

Although I guess when you work for the spooks, they could figure out how to mask your IP that each query would come from a different IP from the world (basically I'm describing Tor, I wonder if they have their own Tor network).
That’s not what I was replying to. There are legit uses is terms and conditions... so where should they go?

The GP said software should be bought like everything else... but everything else can’t be easily duplicated and shared... so how will that work?
EEVblog #1369 – Xiaomi Mi Air Wireless Charging Busted
Not breaking userspace is the first rule of Linux kernel development, but macOS has never had that policy as far as I know. Apple care much more about being able to move fast and clean up bad interfaces in their software, which is a priority I value.

I’m not saying that’s what happened here, but I do know that Apple ultimately expects developers to pay attention to new releases and make sure their software behaves properly with them.

As for standard utilities being broken, I’ve never experienced that on macOS. I do know that Macs get their standard utilities from FreeBSD and not coreutils by default.
We don't have any evidence that there was any safety concern here; the FAA has not said that.

The FAA already admits that their existing license system doesn't work properly for reusable rockets, and they're long delayed implementing their new license system. I don't think we should assume they're in the right here.
tl;dr: financial stability suffices to ensure academic freedom; rich financial rewards are not necessary.
How to Get Your First Dev Job: Insights from Reviewing Career Switchers' Résumés
The Little Printf (2015)
Thank you for contextualizing this I was really trying to think about fitting an operating system into 12 pages...
> Nearly all of the information there is also available in the public documentation of whatever the question asker is asking about anyway.

In the absolute that may be true, but even if a low percentage of those are not available elsewhere, they are absolutely crucial. At least, they have been crucial to me.

I'm too young to know if it's a recent development, but documentation this day ain't worth much.
He won the breakthrough prize, so he literally has been paid millions.
Analogies are usually not a proof, but they can help understanding things.

If humans were infinitely smart, analogies wouldn't be needed. But since we aren't, we often understand things better by seeing a comparison to something that is more visceral, or that we already know.
Making it illegal for businesses to transact in a cryptocurrency may be technologically impossible, but most transaction volume in a country is likely to be accounted for by large institutions and the government itself, which are going to follow the law even if technical controls forcing them to are impossible to implement.

I mean, mostly. Obviously, plenty of large banks still launder money even though it's illegal. The practical end goal of any legal ban is to make the banned activity occur less than it would otherwise even if can't be stopped completely.
It does seem like a lot more work though with eggs.
The year of the virtual Linux desktop – FOSDEM 2020
Yes Legen is a bit like an EU prime minister, but she doesn't have the same prerogatives. The EU has the ultimate authority only on a narrow number of economic issues, but e.g. on borders and health it needs to get the agreement of 27 goverents to act.

The EU is a compromise machine designed to manage the expectations and needs of 27 countries, not a presidential system where a Trump or Putin can sign executive decisions changing laws with the stroke of a pen. So Johnson or Trump as heads of the commission would likely manage to do better publicity-wise but I doubt they could get much faster results.
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What's most hilarious about this situation is that the EU getting cheaper vaccines than the UK was advertised as a major "Aha you shouldn't have left, see?" a month ago, but now the UK has already vaccinated almost as many people as the entire EU.

Both the EU and its member countries fucked up so badly there aren't words strong enough to describe it. Reminds me of last spring when EU countries were blocking exports of medical supplies to eachothers.
The EU appears weaker than ever with the corona crisis ; political cohesion between countries is low, economics are bad, and there's going to be a lot of resentment among the population.