skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all, C/C++ can do static linking as well as dynamic linking. If static linking is preferred, people will do it. Second, dynamic linking is necessary because of how modern OSs are designed. Most GUIs are gigantic libraries that cannot be statically linked. Similarly for network code and other areas of modern OSs.
It’s literally called clubhouse, they decided to start a company with the most transparently petty toxic name. You’re not allowed in the clubhouse you’re not part of our cool club! Said Andreesen Horowitz, either a massive VC firm or a 12 year old boy not sure which.
There were two missing branches, but they also were pushed now as it seems
Bitcoin is one of a number of ways.
there's very little massive potential.
European Internet Archive Launched
With 1) database backups and PITR (from SaaS like RDS) so you don't lose customer's data 2) basic monitoring so you are alerted of downtime, even if not responding right away and 3) infra as code so you can deploy things pretty quickly will get you very close to what companies with dedicates teams do.
The version of the OS that shipped with them has an unfortunate bug when reinstalling. IIRC it doesn't brick them, but it won't get passed the final stage when you create your account.

In any case, the solution would be "download a newer version of the OS and make some installation media like a usb".

Luckily, the recovery OS can still connect to wifi, so you can skip the whole "make an installation media" step. You just download the new installer and run it.

It really doesn't seem bonkers to me.
Leak: 3.2B unique pairs of cleartext emails and passwords
You make a good point, but I can still use dollars in offline mode - i.e. the paper in my pocket - even when I am nowhere near a computer or communication device.

That feature still makes them desirable...especially in places like frozen Texas this past week.
That is simply a misuse of checksums. Checksums are for verifying that your binary matches the one you thought you were getting. The more people using them for identifying viruses, the more common polymorphic viruses will be, especially considering how trivial they are to implement.
Is the internet’s memory really this short on this band’s historical stance on copyright, RIAA, Napster, and so forth?

They’ve always been like public enemy number 1 of music pirates...
This sounds like a technicality argument - wars are in the Constitution, so whatcanyoudo?

If we should respect the views of tens of millions of people in one area, we should do it in another. If we think that life is sacred and we shouldn’t spend federal money to end it, let’s be consistent.

there are significant gaps in funding for these services, especially in underprivileged areas.

Would you support increasing WIC and other benefits for these children? Because if not, this policy decision would increase the number of people who grow up hungry.
why do you think petty theft warrants state administered violence?
I've always wondered how muc CF paid to get 1.1.1.1
>... seminar using company time.

Google is paying for the training and should be responsible for the content.
Last I checked it was only 30% faster than the normal Rust compiler. So unless that's improved significantly, it isn't much help as of yet.
That's been a problem with verification systems. If the annotations are not well integrated into the language, they're viewed as a nuisance. Especially if the compiler neither enforces them or uses them to help optimization.
On the other hand, my friend worked as CTO for a doomed blockchain startup that raised a huge amount in an ICO. They paid him handsomely and then imploded. No harm.
Social parenting through kids activities and entertainment
Those kinds of summer camps usually mimic the structure of school systems, so I don't see how you're disproving anything with that example.
I agree that this summary is a better representation of what Coke claims.

At this point, they are stuck between a rock and a hard place.

If they say "Oh that was bad and we are sorry" then a one cancel army will come for them.

If they say "We stand by that curriculum" a second cancel army will come for them.

Their only option is to say "It is part of a larger set of materials we license from a 3rd party and we continue to refine our training".

which is basically what their only viable option was.
Strictly speaking, "zero-tolerance" just means they have to deal with it. They can't just break up a fight and have that be the end of it. It doesn't mean that the individuals involved are immediately expelled or suspended or whatever, though in practice that's often how it's implemented, because it's easier.
Blue Origin. Don't do software there. They are just like FAANG but probably even worse when it comes to aerospace than Boeing or Northrop.
> So let's just allow people to lie and promote violence or even committing crimes 'cuz there's an ammendment that protects that.

Yes, rights are not up for a vote or negotiation, and the existence of bad actors does nothing to negate my rights.
Nice new projection and quantification of the improvement, but not "revolutionary".
A major use of dynamic linking is loading extensions. Without DL you'll have a hard time using languages such as Python, or creating extensions to applications.
SpaceX doesn't do self-funded science projects. I'm not really sure where you get that impression.

More to the point though, Venus is extremely inhospitable. On the surface the temperature is hundreds of degrees and the atmospheric pressure is equivalent to about 900m below the ocean on Earth. The solar flux at the surface is also too low for a lander to use solar panels.

So even if NASA or whomever wanted to spam Venus with landers, there's no real way to make them low cost as their main mission lifespan would be measured in hours at best.

Because of the surface pressure a lander would need to carry robust shielding for instruments and electronics. Because of the surface temperature the lander components will eventually overheat. Thicker shielding will delay the overheating but that eats into the lander mass budget for science payload.

Photovoltaics are out for power so the only options are chemical batteries or an RTG. An RTG isn't a realistic option since the environmental temperature is too high for it to cool and keep from melting.

Some sort of buoyant probe design isn't all that practical either. While upper parts of Venus' atmosphere are more hospitable than the surface, there's clouds of sulphuric acid and incredible winds to deal with. The density of the atmosphere is such that there's only a few kilometers of visibility so probe's floating in the lower density upper atmosphere wouldn't have any better ability to image the surface than orbiters.

So you're looking at Venus landers that look more like bathyspheres (no rovers) powered by chemical batteries. You're dropping them into an extremely high pressure furnace where they have a life expectancy of minutes to hours. I don't know how you'd expect to do such missions at a discount. Even if you somehow got the mission cost to a low tens on millions of dollars you're looking at ones of megabytes of scientific data for that price.

Space is hard and some parts of space are super hard. Funding is finite so getting the best scientific ROI is important. Littering Venus with steel spheres and parachutes for a few megabytes of data doesn't have nearly the return of a rover on Mars.
On Being Present
> for most of human history, a child who is with their parents 24/7/365 is an anomaly

Where do you get this idea? It's actually the opposite. Modern universal schooling is an aberration that only took hold in the 1800s, with some schooling for the upper classes before that.

For most of recorded history, children helped their parents around the house and field, with some going off to an apprenticeship around 12-14.
You should expect any big cloud backups provider to have full access to your files, don't expect Google, Dropbox or Yandex to be any different than OneDrive. Use something like rclone[1] to upload encrypted backups.

[1] https://rclone.org/
I see people mentioning ~/Library/LaunchAgents to look for suspicious apps. I should mention there are at least 4 other places where a launch agent could start on OSX:

~/Library/LaunchDaemons
~/Library/LaunchAgents
/Library/LaunchDaemons
/Library/LaunchAgents

Not to mention Login Items under System Settings.

Finally, I hope it's obvious if you're infected for all you know all your legitimate looking launch agents could be infected and secretly run the malware in a background process upon execution.
> Again, Metallica did not rootkit anybody.

And, to use a facile and touchy example, Donald Trump didn't revolt at the capital.

But fine:

> what is a very real dichotomy

Help me out here - why are the only two choices:
1. rampant piracy
2. automated systems that allow corporations to trivially take down content, legitimate or not, with generally no recourse unless you get e.g. Google's attention on twitter?

Why are people so convinced there's no middle ground here, and that everybody with an opinion that #2 is perhaps a little problematic must be totally pro-piracy?

> Properly implemented DRM is fine!

Perhaps the argument is that we don't yet live in the land of properly implemented IP controls. I didn't realize we'd reached utopia; I'll go back to buying ebooks and reusing them across whatever devices I please.

Spotify and Netflix are great examples of exactly proof that a convenient form of consumption will get paying customers, and I was certainly more willing to buy MP3s when they stopped coming with DRM attached to them. The fact these work does not somehow render the point that, well, the original article, occurs, as a result of these things, and that it's ironic that it happens to Metallica, who would probably prior to this have been pleased that an automated system takes down anything approximating Enter Sandman.
I like it. Although it goes against the centuries old "north is up" convention, which will probably mess with many people used to that - me included.
Swift Achieved Dynamic Linking Where Rust Couldn't – Hacker News
Hi from El Salvador :')

I haven't had packages stolen here, because if no one answers the doorbell, the delivery person will personally call you and ask if they can leave the packet with a neighbor.

Sometimes they call you before going on route and ask you if the delivery address is ok or if you would like it to be delivered to an alternate address (like your office/neighbour).
In my career I’ve been fortunate that my “entrepreneurial” interests aligned with my employer. So they have been willing to give me some time, and investment under certain conditions (still I put in a lot of my own extra hours, but shared in the upside). This is certainly easier at a small company where you’re a key contributor, but it helps tune the dial between stability and entrepreneurship.

I’ve had little interest in starting and running a business, but have successfully pioneered new markets and products outside my employers main focus and constraints, to everyone’s benefit. Entrepreneurship need not just be about a business, but a whole new model of doing business or achieving personal financial growth IMO.
Rust is certainly made simpler by not sweating ABI stability. But the main advantage of dynamic linking is to enable yesterday's app to run on tomorrow's OS (and vice-versa). It's why your apps keep working when you update your phone.

Without a dynamic linking story, Rust is just not viable for writing UIKit, Android's frameworks, etc. Which is OK, it's a reasonable choice, but it limits Rust's scope.
To be real, I'd slowly move away and look for other projects that don't involve her.

If I was her boss, then, yeah, I'd probably want her to transfer away.

She called out her boss to take a stand in public against racism. It somewhat implies that Jeff Dean may not be against racism.

It's a really toxic tweet.
Because some media pundits, intellectuals, and persons on the lecture circuits (mostly white themselves, and non representative of either minority groups or society at large) consider something blatant racism only if it's linked to historical white-on-black racism.
I don't understand this kind of perspective. You ate completely olivipus to the root of the problem: why would mail carriers even leave parcels on the porch or similar?

In most (all?) European countries the rule is that they ring the bell, if you don't answer they leave a note and either leave it with a neighbour, come back a day later, or you have to pick it up from the post office. In addition nowadays you can ask to get mail delivered to a specific kind of locker (operated by the mail service) where you can pick it up any time of day.

Really, such a weird perspective to want to reintroduce capital punishment rather than force the companies to use one of the many available solutions. You have accepted that the legal burden is on you, rather than the carrier paid to get the package to you - which is just absurd.
the solution already exists, you pick up your package from a monitored location... what the hell is the government going to do to beat that? in my neighborhood I just have to go to the local bodega to pick things up
>In NYC you MUST register with USPS, UPS, and FedEx for delivery notifications

That's just not true. As long as you have a tracking number, you can get delivery notifications without registering simply by requesting them on the relevant websites.

I do that all the time.

>You need the electronic notification to know it's there and you need to get there immediately as thieves will follow delivery trucks/personnel around the neighborhood, stealing after each delivery.

That may happen where you live, but where I live (10025), that's not even close to the truth. There are often at least a half-dozen packages in my lobby (no doorman) at any given time and package theft is rare.

We had a problem with that a few years back, but when I called the police and then loudly told the likely perpetrators (and reminded them about the video cameras in the lobby), that stopped pretty quickly.

Want to do the same? Here's a shocking idea -- talk to your neighbors. Make sure there's surveillance (not that invasive Amazon Ring stuff) where packages are left, and make sure folks know they're being watched.

What's more, it would only take one person to be arrested (because the thieves are likely people you see every single day) for this to make it stop in your building.

Having a community makes a difference. Perhaps you should try it sometime?
miners are getting payed for every transaction. if you don’t include transactions fees your transaction will spend a lot of time in limbo and may actually never be mined.

the way it works, let’s say you have A bitcoins and you want to pay someone B bitcoins. you create a transaction that say: I want to move A to B and A-B-fee
the miners see it and see the fee. it gets included (ie mined) in a block.

actual example 50BTC -> 20BTC + 29BTC

when the miner mines it, it will send the tx fee to its own wallet

also, most miners sort transactions by the most profitable to less profitable and mine only the most profitable ones
Best place I've found is into a company where I own the majority of shares.
> Do you really think the engineers at Apple are gods incapable of mistakes?

Read the comment the parent is replying to. It implies that the cruft of legacy architectures is to support these scenarios and Apple didn’t realize that. Both things are laughably wrong and the parent pointed out why the latter is so ridiculous.
I return to this essay about once a year, when I hear the siren-song of minimalism and am tempted to implement a Forth CPU. It's situated exactly in the no-mans'-land between FORTH and "C" camps and effortlessly slides between pragmatic and idealistic considerations. It emphasizes the distinction between the lure of toolbuilding (making a Forth, making a CPU) and actually solving the problems these tools are intended to solve. The comments on word sizes and problem-shifting are spot-on. It's an excellent essay, and I wish there were more like it.

By day, I'm an FPGA coder. (The ASIC situation rhymes, more or less.) From the perspective of implementing small CPU architectures: register files are not the problem in the way you'd expect. A modern FPGA has primitives that implement 32- or 64-register files with remarkable efficiency, in 2-, 4-, or 8-port varieties. Midrange FPGAs are now fast enough that a lightly pipelined RISC CPU performs well enough; there's no need to aggressively pipeline a CPU for normal clock rates (100 to 250 MHz) any more, and little motivation for exotic architectures. The MicroBlaze (Xilinx) or NIOS-II (Altera) soft core CPUs are so boringly effective they've forced ARM to license their designs for FPGAs for free. For smaller state-machine-class problems, the PicoBlaze is an interesting, minimal RISC. For most of us, CPUs are solved problems and the frontier has shifted towards cache-coherency, networking and other more interesting arenas.

I love the idea of stack machines in the right contexts (PostScript, FORTH, Java, you name it), but it's hard to disagree with the essay's conclusions.
You don't want to make that equivalence. Otherwise, you'll cause a divide-by-zero situation where seperation of church and state and non-establishment of state religion clauses negate our political process as a whole, sucking all of D.C. into a spontaneously formed logical singularity.

Seriously. Lets not go there. It is a silly place.
> How on earth can this be effective?

It's not.

> Did malware authors just forgot about all those and went back to trivial “everyone gets the same image” strategy?

No. But if you make your thing as polymorphic as possible and deliver that automated, i take 1000 samples and look what doesn't change to make a signature.

Also these things exist as webservices these days and criminals pay per use to generate fresh undetected executables.

Just makes more sense to only release a new binary once it had been detected, even if it's just a button click and could be easily automated.
These companies aren’t facing competition though. They are too big financially to begin with but also they depend on network effects which grant them further barriers to competition (like the Visa-MasterCard duopoly). Consider as well that they have more users than almost any nation and exercise influence comparable to governments as a result.

The right fix is to split them up with revised and enforced antitrust law. And where they can’t be split up they should be regulated or nationalized so that they uphold the first amendment. After all, they operate the new digital public town square and the fact that the government has outsourced our spaces for speech to private industry shouldn’t mean that we suddenly lose our fundamental rights.
I'm sorry for posting a classic "shallow dismissal"... but this press-release speaks breathlessly of revolution when similar hemispherical-type projections have been around for ages. And it doesn't mention the major downside: it may minimize the metrics, but it's not great for where most people in the world actually live! It does seem interesting for a set of front/back disks of the Solar System, but that's a pretty different use case than for general geography. Okay, now I'm ready to have my shallow opinion corrected by an expert opinion :) but I could not help but take umbrage at what appears to be a submarine piece of folks trying to sell this to educational materials publishing houses.
Why would you call out your colleague to take a public stand?

You really don't see anything wrong with it? Wut?

And if he didn't, the implication would be that he was racist, basically.

Timnit doesn't take a stand on blacks attacking Asians on twitter either. Is she racist against Asians?

Now let's go through 1000 other issues in the world!

So, yeah, this whole charade of calling out your colleague to tweet about your cause on twitter is highly toxic.
How much were you being paid 15-20 years ago and what could that buy you? It’s not just the third world that suffer from currency debasement, it’s all of us.
Data science + the return of machine learning.

I suspect this is entirely due to the fact that Python looks like pseudo code and has a claim to be beginner friendly. Beyond that, it's baffling that the data science/ML crowd picked Python of all things. Tearing apart CSV files and hammering fuzzy text data into shape is Perl's forte. So I'm surprised Perl didn't see a revival rather than Python. It's possible the entire field doesn't know there is something better, if all they know is one language I suppose. But I'm sure it's part cargo cult too. Everyone uses React because everyone uses React kind of thing. Same with Rails.
Yeah Google is unusable over a VPN. The amount of captchas is crazy. Even on corporate connections with cookies blocked it can get antsy because it can't track you well enough.
‘Amateur’ in this context means ‘requires a licence to operate but at lower tier of licence’. So no most handheld radios aren’t ‘amateur’.
Then how does he explain the existence of the FCC? Their whole job is to set limits on what can and can't be broadcast. (Just for example, there was George Carlin's famous monologue about the seven words you can never say on television...)

Greenwald may be opposed to censorship on principle, and doesn't think the government should be interfering in any way with Facebook's operations. But it seems like he's let that color his understanding of how government actually works.
>It does not mean that a PhD is a problem, though.

No, but it is often perceived as a sign that "let's skip this person, they are too researchy, older than a college graduate, and likely to ask for more too".
Why invoke caning when you're saying the perps are not punished in any way?
> We know you hate us. It's the main message we receive every time we turn on the TV

Jesus this one is whiney.
They also just listed the set of the largest expenses for a vast majority of our society (even if you don't pay for education)
> To infinity and beyond.

Buzz Lightyear said it best.
And then all of this conversation is based on the assumption of a bug someone heard about from a Best Buy employee. We’re arguing about a scenario (re-install wasn’t ever tested) based on a shitty game of telephone.
I'm one of the leads of the Rust language team, and I love seeing writeups like this. When we're designing Rust, we look carefully at other languages, to see examples of precedent, different trade-offs, and experiences; we don't design in a vacuum.

This is an extremely clear explanation of Swift making a different set of trade-offs to achieve a different goal, and it's worthy of consideration and evaluation. (I read it when it was first published.)

There are no attacks against Rust here. This is a professional write-up discussing two languages, by someone experienced with both.
You should have seen NY in the 70’s.
If you define bullying as preying on psychological and/or physical vulnerabilities, even parents, mothers included, do this. Its the quickest shortcut to addressing an anxiety or uncertainty on your part by displacing it onto the victim. Without external address, victims begin to identify with their suffering as a metaphysical certainty, something that must happen in order for the universe to keep on ticking correctly. Freud called this kind of adaptation a "secondary fixation" and can take years to peel back in order to address the core anxieties and uncertainty that's been deeply implanted.

It doesn't help that American culture has a particular distaste for empathizing with "weak people". Everybody is suppose to present some narrative of being a winner however narrowly scoped. It's no wonder "Chad or Virgin" memes are ubiquitous, people will never avow publicly to it but I suspect enough teeter on perceiving reality as if that kind of toxic binary was metaphysical in nature and therefore beyond empirical reproach.