skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow I never heard of Robert Seacord's 'effective C'. Thank you.

Edit: Here's a short rationale for the book by the author.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9237323
> Even with some regulations, I assure you, if you choose a shady bank or a broker for stocks you can lose your money just as easily.

Can anyone even cite a single banking exit scam in the United States in recent history? The closest I can think of is Ponzi schemes like Madoff, but those were operated as businesses, not banks.

Meanwhile, we hear about multiple crypto exit scams per year. More if you include all of the suspicious coin disappearances that were blamed on hacks.

It would be nearly impossible for an actual bank owner in the United States to abscond to a foreign country with customer funds and avoid consequences, and even more unlikely that those customers wouldn't be made whole.

But with cryptocurrency banks, being able to abscond with funds and avoid traceability/consequences is almost a core feature.

I don't understand how anyone can think traditional, regulated, insured banks are in any way equivalent to unregulated, international crypto exchanges. The two couldn't be any more different when it comes to safety.
Post Office told the post masters that they were short, so many post masters made up the shortfall from their own pocket, expecting the books to eventually balance and to get repaid.

When people were unable to continue making up that shortfall this was seen as further evidence of their criminality: "they've spent the money", "they've hidden the money", and not "they never had the money".
In some older discussion [2], I linked to a 1987 article in the Scientific American [1] that explains this much more clearly, I think:

[1] https://ecee.colorado.edu/~ecen4555/SourceMaterial/DemonsEng...

(Bonus: an ad for a "letter quality daisy wheel word processor" from Brother, and one for the new Tandy 4000 ("Put a Tandy 4000 on your desk and unleash the incredible power of the 32-bit, 16-megaherz 80386 microprocessor."))

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22138224
Norwegian city announces plan to stop naming streets after men
>PlayStation 3 store?

For what little it is worth, Sony has postponed shutting down the PS3 and PS Vita stores after backlash. The PSP store will still be shutting down this summer. Your point still stands regardless
It's a bank in the EU
Kevin Zollman Talks about Game Theory on the Artists of Data Science Podcast
Kevin is a game theorist, philosopher, and author who studies the evolution of language and the mathematics of social behavior.

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE SHOW

[00:02:50] We learn about Kevin’s background

[00:05:05] What Kevin thought his future would be like

[00:06:22] We talk about Kevin’s background in programming

[00:07:18] How programming makes its way into the research and work he currently does

[00:09:14] What is a game and why do we need theories about them anyways?

[00:11:13] Is game theory evil?

[00:12:42] Game theory in poker

[00:14:00] The game theory of wearing masks in a pandemic

[00:17:13] Is wearing a mask a zero sum game?

[00:18:31] What is the prisoner’s dilemma

[00:23:37] Repeated prisoner’s dilemma

[00:25:01] Prisoner’s dilemma and engagement pods on social media

[00:27:51] Pulling the grim trigger

[00:29:23] Is game theory unique to humans?

[00:32:15] How is game theory applied to language?

[00:34:45] Do you have to know you’re in a game to be playing a game?

[00:36:48] What is a Nash equilibrium?

[00:40:44] What does fairness mean to a game theorist?

[00:44:30] What can a game theory teach us about our own sense of fairness and morality and equality?

[00:45:10] The ultimatum game

[00:47:50] “You don’t play the hand, you play the man across from you.”

[00:51:11] Is losing ever a winning strategy?

[00:52:55] How can we use everything we've just been talking about to negotiate better job offers?

[00:55:55] A hot topic of discussion in both of our households

[01:01:56] Can multiple people be playing the exact same game but have different rewards?

[01:03:28] A Game Theorist Guide for Parenting

[01:05:36] It’s 100 years in the future, what do you want to be remembered for?

[01:07:05] The Random Round
I think the real trick with the thought experiment is: which law of physics is the Demon ignoring?

The answer (spoilers) is that the demon is ignoring the entropy of the information it must learns about the particles that pass through the gate - either the Demon stores info about which particles are let through, which has entropy of its own, or the Demon erases that data, which comes with an energy cost that must subtly heat something up and again increases entropy elsewhere. Either way, the entropy of the total system still increases, even though the entropy of the gas decreases.
Noted.

The single numerical namespace, from a technical perspective, is a double-edged sword. On one hand, you need to have a single, monotonically-increasing-ish number in your model, which is annoying when trying to design a globally distributed system. On the other hand, when users are (subconsciously) taught to not look that much into the actual numbers, there's opportunities to cheat, as an extra hundred here and a few missed numbers there won't be noticed but help with technical implementation details (you can pre-allocate number ranges, encode some technical details in the number, even just use snowflake ids, etc).

With namespaced 'small numbers', as you said, per-slug numbers will be scrutinized by users - if they file FOO-223 now and FOO-105 later, they will notice and they will be confused / surprised / unhappy. However, with per-namespace numbers you're at least given an opportunity to shard and have a less contested model.

Approaching this as optional handles is probably a good future extension and would fit in the existing model. I'll keep this in mind when I get back to developing bugless. Thanks for your input!
I ran a gadget shop for years. The amount of times people would say ‘What I have must be better because it has an i7 and that is an i5’. Then I’d have to explain that their i7 is ten years old and that they aren’t even in the same realm. Confusing marketing indeed.
Depending on thtle situation, there is little to no difference between "I have no legal way to leave" and "I have no legal way to leave and be paid for my work".

The vast majority of the world's population is not in a financial situation where they can just write off months of work for no pay, so they might as well have been legally trapped there.
I used to be somewhat skeptical of the convenience claim. A former colleague argued that the attraction of Napster was more about convenience than price which I didn't really buy.

But if we look at the popularity of streaming services today versus owning even DRM-free music, that would seem to support the convenience theory. (It hasn't taken off for books to the same degree but I'd guess that's in part because the vast majority of people just don't consume enough to make an all you can eat offering work.)

As perhaps both cause and effect, there's probably also something of a generational shift in which ownership of stuff you can put your hands on may just not be as appealing to many younger people, especially if they're urban dwellers without a lot of space.
Throwing innocent people on jail based on lies (with bonus, corrupt government officials colluding with foreign entities) is the problem here, not software bugs.
We could allow natural persons to hold copyright for their natural life. Their heirs, if natural persons could get a 18 year free extension (allowing any minor child of a creator to benefit from their parents IP to pay for their upbringing)

Corporations can start paying that escalating price right away.

(Edit: misread GP and removed a paragraph)
This is a pretty extreme and entitled position. You're the one assuming that the website will offer you something of interest without any reason to do so, and that you should receive it however you want (without ads). If anything it's more reasonable to assume that you'll see ads on every page you go to.

I take the complete opposite position: if I take the effort to make a website, I'll do what I want with it. Maybe I consider your visit an attack on my bandwidth, and I compensate with ads. If you don't like it, you're free to not visit it. Unless I told you in advance that you're not going to see ads, there's no basis for assuming that there won't be ads just like there's no basis for assuming you won't see NSFW content on a random website, religious content, political content, etc
> strongarms the whole market

I see what you did there. Really casting shade on Intel!
Can I make a giro transfer without a third party intervening? Then it would be comparable, yes.
The difference is that the US homeland isn't used to feeling repercussions for it's foreign policy and aggression abroad. The US populace most certainly isn't hardy enough to suffer through extended power, water and connectivity outages because of diplomatic failures. It's not about forcing a surrender, but more about making hostilities and aggression unpalatable to the citizenry.
> We need these roots.

You might. I need friends and family, some community participation is nice, sure, but I don't particularly feel the need for gods, ancient traditions or worship, which these seem to be tied up with in the text.

> Our culture is not in danger of dying; it is already dead, and we are in denial.

This just seems like unnecessary hyperbole.
This reminds me of the widespread move to change from “private message” to “direct message” on platforms like facebook and twitter. A subtle hint in the UI as to how things really work.
Coinbase lists tether, the world's dodgiest stablecoin
14s to 583ms... call it a day :D
I feel as if it's a different question with the pardons. You can pardon a guilty person. Pardons have nothing to do with innocence. Regardless of my feelings on whether or not I'd executed if an innocent man was executed, I definitely wouldn't want to be executed for a guilty person.

So rather than being thought-provoking, it's almost thought-terminating.

And I haven't touched on whether we should execute people in my post. So engaging on that front is also going to be a short road for us. Because in another post, I can get to "the death penalty" is wrong in a much more direct fashion. It's a game you're not allowed to make mistakes in. The minute you've executed an innocent person, you've failed.
Do these private police have more authority than the private security hired by other businesses?
I ran Linux for years on laptops/desktops/servers, doing OLTP software that does millions txns/day. I adopted Linux back when Solaris was the way to go for backends.

But moved to Mac (and OSX) about 8 years ago.

I don't get the "locked down" thing. On my current macs (a 2020 iMac and a 2015 MBP) I run Macports that lets me install pretty much every bit of userland software that I want. I also get the advantages of the MacOS gui environment and the availability of most "user" software.

Yes SIP and the new sandboxes lock down the MacOS part of the system, and things like VPNs (eg Wireguard) need to get a dev cert and distribution from Apple.

But the "lockdown" is very lightweight. There's nothing I can't do on this devices that I used to do on my Linux environments.

If I truly need a "native" Linux, then there are a number of VM and container environments also available.
No DRM is not just about privacy, far from it.

The most important aspect is that as long as you have a compatible system and a good backup policy, you will never lose access to what you bought.

No DRM can help with privacy but they are mostly independent. There is DRM that doesn't violate your privacy, like hardware keys typical of arcade machines, oldschool copy protection and game cartridges. And I think Nintendo has privacy-preserving DRM for digital games too, the problem is that if you lose the console, you lose the game.

And as you have shown, you don't need DRM for privacy violations.
I haven’t really felt this way with the Surface Book. The first gen was rough, but I’ve been using an SB3 for several months now and have nothing but praise for it.
What's often overlooked and omitted from this sort of guide is a person's ability to identify the trustworthiness and usefulness of a website that shows up in search results. It's not enough to juggle operands and search hacks. You also need to know which result to click.

Another commenter suggested just searching for your error message. Try searching for "cannot read property of undefined" and scroll through the results. There are dozens of dodgy domains like asdfsdf.cornelius714.site that are just scrapes of stackoverflow or other forums.
> If the opening works on non-charged particles, it has to have mass and opening and closing it is not possible without work.

You could open the gate by pulling it up, which would require work, but you could recover the entire work by letting it sink down again.

It has been shown that the solution was not the physical work of opening/closing the gate, but the work required in information processing, in particular deleting information.
That bar is embarrassingly low. Because nobody really has working tidal energy power at scale.
Perhaps Apple has more processors in the pipeline (this almost certain, as we have seen with its mobile processors).

It may be very difficult to sell products with the same processor but different hardware forms, because the market is tuned to comparing processors.

I am not saying whether its right or wrong, just that there is a whole mindshare of the market (marketing, advertising, news articles, blogs and videos) that start comparison of two different with their core processors.
You're comparing apples to oranges.
"Ambulance chasers" (a terrible slur that looks down on weak victims pursuing justice), offer their services in a competitive market. If they charge too much, again, that should be determined by having a separate pool for fees separate from damages, and be a dispute between the perpetrator and the lawyer, not the victim and the lawyer.

The cost of the legal work is uncorrelated to the size of the damages.

Limiting legal fees just makes it not cost effective to pursue justice for smaller damages with more complex cases.

It's absurd bordering on evil to say the problem here is that people got paid too much for their excellent work (fighting against the resources of a corrupt major corporation and a corrupt major world government!) not that the perpetrators was under punished for their horrific crime.

The heroes who saved 700 people's lives deserve the money more than super-wealthy psychopathic perpetrators.
We disagree on the topic.
Thanks! This video was exactly what I was looking for.
I've been consistently impressed with the quality of the New Yorker's recent reporting on North Korea. I highly recommend this piece on Liberty In North Korea's Yale-educated Mexican founder, who is leading a militant, provisional North Korean government [1].

[1] -https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/23/the-undergroun...
How to Build Machine Learning Teams That Deliver
>"since even after the abuse was proven they are still holding innocent people on false charges."

Well, same government first destroyed immigration papers and then deported and otherwise ruined the lives of their own citizens ( Windrush scandal ). I'd love to see the perpetrators in jail but fat chance.
Damn, these are some stupid arguments. Go is open source. Even if Google went rogue, there's nothing they could do. Go would just get forked by the community and that's it. As for generics, they're just nothing more than a developer convenience, they don't matter at all regarding what a product can do. Also they're planned in Go for next year.
Now every litigious John Deere owner will also have a Case.
The warehouse workers down in Alabama? Why would you ask them? They didn't want one. It wasn't close at all, either.
By adding yet another indirection. Compiling the binaries for Linux and just shipping it with a fat "no warranty" label on top would have been 100x better. Even Linux distros do that (GPL: `THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.`)
Maxwell was a giant obviously but with his thought experiment of the Demon (which he quite casually came up with in a letter to a friend) he suspected that he had successfully poked holes in the second law - to "show that the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics has only statistical certainty" as he put it. So he thought the law was a statistical guide that could be gotten around in special circumstances. It took the thinkers of the time a long time to realise that tracking all the molecules would need energy.

Whereas if you re-state the thought experiment using todays technology - "imagine a device that tracks all the molecules and opens a hatch to only let the fast ones through" its obvious to us - with our modern conception of processing - that such a device would need a fair bit of juice.

Source: https://archive.org/details/lifescientificwo00knotuoft/page/...
Very cool.

One of the challenges about building an energy system with lots of variable inputs is that you can't just look at the lowest levelised cost and build only that, otherwise you'd just build wind and be done with it. Adding sources that are not correlated with wind makes the overall grid management problem easier, even if those sources are more expensive the system cost may decrease.

Obviously tide, while very predictable, is not dispatchable so not quite as valuable for grid management, but still shouldn't be written off just because it costs a lot per MWh.

One thing that does make it hard is that peak water flow only happens in the middle of a six hour tidal cycle. For every location you have a predictable 6 hourly cyclical power curve. There's about 75 minutes between the high tide times in the North of Scotland and Southern England so on a GB grid basis, you can spread the curve out somewhat but still have that cyclical element.
What you need to know about membership inference attacks
And will we even notice when the books are “burned”? I have so many digital titles I think it would take quite a while for me to catch on if they were removed slowly enough.

Weird to think a book burning could happen right under our noses (literally!) without us even realizing.
Any with a population and land spread comparable to the US? I imagine that would make more sense in a small country with low diversity of terrain/population/etc.
for example longevity, inventing new drugs, space industry, transportation industry.

Anything that has big invention risk and not so much market risk. It's trivial to build most of the apps, but its hard to build something users want. With invention risk, it's obvious there is a big market for cancer drug, but its hard to invent that
I agree.

Poetry is good but not good enough to use at work yet. Also - not Poetry’s fault - many Python packages are miserable at listing and versioning their dependencies correctly.

Re: everything else, you’re right but it gets really tiring writing tests that are handled by the type system in other languages.

Go has this problem too to a certain degree since multiple error subtypes can’t be expressed as an enum. Just errors.Is and errors.As everywhere.
Or in my case, a 2012 MacBook Air. I hope they'll support Catalina for another three or four years or at which point it's more than a decade old and can finally mature into a laptop's final stage of life as a Linux machine.
Idk about you, but self-driving tractors seem a bit better than 2nd tier developers. Some teams might be lower-end, which almost always happens at large companies. Many of them also integrate with the tools they're attached to. It's definitely not just line of business apps.
Wasn't Cyberpunk compiled for Linux to run on Stadia though? Not shipping the Linux binary looks like an artifical limitation at that point.
Just curious - what is the idea behind writing the title of the post in the black box a second time above the actual title?
Tell that to the person on the hook if or when they get caught.
It is googling in this generation, might be different for the next generation.

The core skill is to know how to acquire information and filter the noise from the signal.

Today yesterday it was the user manual, today its google, tomorrow its stackoverflow. And beyond that, who knows !
Yes, and oil converted to plastic sequesters CO2.

Every plastic bag, every CD, is sequestered CO2.

Of course, plastic is a problem on its own. I don't like it, its usage.

Yet I am a realist, and in as such, believe that (sadly), every drop of oil will eventually be pumped. Thus, by this logic, any use which locks that carbon up may be a net benefit.
> software engineer Richard Roll

Risky click.
Thank you for the concise write up, but I think lowly of the [] syntax as well.

And unary operators on an identifier are a different thing, though I similarly don’t think adding one at the left, another at the right is a good thing. But I have trouble with the declaration site as well.

It’s getting out of reach of my knowledge, but I believe C’s grammar being hacky is in part due to that as well.

I didn’t find exactly what I was looking for but here is some more on it:
https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/archive/l/c/roskind.html
I thought I would be going back to Ubuntu with 20.04 but SNAP put me off so I've stayed with Linux Mint. This release looks like it's another step further away from what I prefer.
Right now everyone is betting that you can solve all problems just by throwing enough hardware at the problem. It's attractive for investors because they get to use their fat stacks of cash and corner the market but if this bet doesn't work out then we will have to go back to the drawing board and figure out how to build NNs efficiently and investors are not interested in this at all. They just want to launch a product as quickly as possible.
Effective Simulation and Debugging for a High-Level Hardware Language
I use Github with clubhouse.io. Having a story for tracking the progress of work on a bug automatically move across columns on the kanban board means everyone who isn't a developer knows what the state of it is without needing to learn to use Github and development langauge. It makes talking about the progress of work much simpler.

Essentially I view integrations as a way to automating translating information between developer's focus and understanding of something, a product/project manager's understanding of it, a client's understanding of it, etc. I don't need to explain that a bug has progressed past PR and deployed to a test server if the product manger can see the story move from Development to QA on their view of a project. Also, as people are fallible, it means no one has to manually update the status of a story. Everyone is up to date by 'magic'.
In the before times, people were allowed to show their faces.
Yeah, I go back and forth.

I had a decent blu ray collection, DVD collection before that, I'm not that old and now they are all essentially outdated tech when I could upgrade to 4k.

I love the idea of saving the space that any decent film/tv collection would take up, especially living in a 1BR place. Then again usually when you watch "4k" on Netflix or whatever it's still not up to the same quality of an ACTUAL 4k disk would be played through a PS5 or whatever. That is unless you have crazy fast broadband. And even then I'd bet it's a degraded quality compared to a lossless 4k source.
The idea that the unrooted go on to unroot those around them hit hard, but I think the opposite is also true.

In the past few years I've had the good fortune to have some very kind, generous people in my life, and when I saw the positive impact they had on those around them, and on myself, I realized that things about me were magnifying the distress in people around me, and I needed to make some changes.

If you have the good fortune to be in a situation where you can work on cultivating a generous spirit, I think it could be one way to push back against the machine.