skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“I felt I was learning the keys to the universe in college.”

I am currently pursuing a PhD in mathematics and studied computer science and mathematics in college, so I certainly don’t intend to disparage science majors, but I have a vague sense that attitudes about engineering degrees are different nowadays.

Out of interest I recently sat in on a graduate class which was supposed to be about complexity theory. On the first day the professor, who is an expert in the field, essentially told us “Complexity theory is trivial, you have a problem and you reduce it to another problem with an algorithm. Now, let me tell you what you have to do to get a software job at Amazon... You have to submit a paper every other semester to such and such conference etc...”

Whereas I wanted to read through the Knuth books, and learn compiler theory, and learn category theory and algebraic geometry etc..., but the climate didn’t seem to support that; outside of a small group of friends I found (and the math graduate students). The climate felt like what this guy’s YouTube channel projects: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=27C-TuJceeI

My friends at a different major public technical university bragged about attending career fairs and studying for coding interviews. It just feels almost devoid of what I imagined the academic spirit to be.
The questions simply state the scope of the debate.
So facebook is going to keep a file on you. And instead of letting you edit it for free they are going to charge some users a fee to update the file for facebook.

All I can think is that J Edgar Hoover must would feel so ripped off right now.
Seems like an odd thing to mention. They are arguing that records are better than data classes, but part of their argument is "maybe, in the future, at some point, I don't know, it will be as easy to do this thing with records as it already is with data classes, we'll only need to add new syntax and a new keyword to the language".
Currently, your scripts have to use the .mjs syntax to work because zx uses import() to actually execute the script.
If their breaking the speed limit would result in 3M human deaths plus the loss of 4% of the world's GDP with no offsetting benefit, then I think they probably should? So I agree that the equivalences aren't too helpful.

The point is that we should consider both the cost and the benefit of any regulation, in an expected value sense. Cars do kill people, but they also provide transportation that we've judged is worth that cost. But there's little indication that the WIV's (USA-funded!) risky research has delivered any significant benefit--the predicted coronavirus pandemic has indeed occurred, whatever the cause, and has anything from the WIV's work help us deal with that? On the other hand, even a small chance that their work caused this pandemic is a hugely negative expected value.

Long before the pandemic, there was obscure, academic debate over whether certain types of research with potential pandemic pathogens were worth the risk. Even with the evidence available at that time, I believe the 2014 ban was good, and its 2017 lifting was bad; but that debate now that takes on terrible new significance.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7097416/
That was my conclusion as well after my limited interactions with them. I no longer use it.
single reviews are fine for product features but not really about all the ways a product can fail. This becomes statistical in nature and a single reviewer wont necessarily find those issues.

I find amazon reviews are still fine. Read the worst reviews read 3* reviews to find all the worst things. Use 5* reviews to get an idea.
> I assume a full fork of the ISA isn't on the cards even for Apple.

Why do you assume this?
Over time wikipedia trends towards inequality of participation. This includes access by scholars and researchers. [1]

It also shows (seemingly regularly) political and religious bias worldwide. [2]

Wikipedia also seems to regularly be a platform of misinformation. Mass purging of sources. And delisting of accurate information. [3] [4] [5] (sources taken at random, too many to list.)

Wikipedia will always have problems, IMO. It's in it's nature. When I was a kid I would read encyclopedias like the other kids would read comics. It's clear to me that it's best to use Wikipedia as a conduit to sources, not as direct reference to fact.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26871092/

[2] https://www.wired.co.uk/article/wikipedia-culture-war

[3] https://prn.fm/wikipedia-misinformation-prejudice-case-examp...

[4] https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/02/the_wikiped...

[5] https://www.conservapedia.com/Wikipedia_prejudice_and_KAL_00...
The fact you even have to go to such lengths, and that a mainstream browser even developed such a feature is such a red flag. It's like taking Tums after ever meal. There's something wrong there, and I hope users are taking a hard look at those hoops they jump through and determining whether it's really worth it or not.
How does it compare to the flu?
What's the current version of Windows 10? Because I'm getting it on 20H2.
Reminds of Hiren boot cd
It was one of John Stuart Reid presentations.
Patents Are Not the Problem
Hiren's BootCD PE
I've always taken Zuck's infamous "dumb fucks" comment to come from a place of astonishment, more than malice. Posting tons of private info under your own name online was strongly against Web norms at the time, but all those newbies didn't know that. FB and others made it normal, but the reasons it was a bad idea to begin with didn't go away.
I brought a product from Amazon and returned it since it’s defective. Posted a 3 star review, which I thought it’s fair.

For the next two months someone from the seller company constantly sent me emails offering a $30 gift card to me to change the rating to a 5 star. So those “it’s trash...5 star” are probably people being paid to change their initial review.

I’ve thought about taking their money but added in a statement in the review that the 5 star was a paid request from the seller, just to screw their practice a bit. But stopped fearing that Amazon might ban my account.
>The other architectures that OpenBSD supports have benefited because some kinds of bugs are exposed more often by the 64-bit big endian nature of UltraSPARC.

https://www.openbsd.org/sparc64.html
+1 this. HN always writes off, and even when they have no experience, claim FB & targeted ads aren't effective even in the face of proof and examples of individual HNers

Politics is an example of this change too. The big obvious nefarious. But to your example gives big boost to small campaigns.

I think also (i can't prove obviously) allowing more progressive candidates to raise and win by growing support nationwide to win in District.
Scavangers Open API
does anyone know if there is an api or an unofficial api for that game. Thanks in advance
This is anecdotal at best, but when my grandfather passed last May from COVID, his death certificate did not record the cause of death as COVID.

He tested negative twice after his month long bought with it, but only lived for another few weeks until dying of respiratory failure. We were told that because he was not testing positive at the time of death, his cause of death could not be recorded as COVID. I thought cause of death was whatever disease or injury started the chain of events that lead to one's death, but it felt like serious statistic manipulation.

(edit - grammar)
Ah yes, the slogan used worldwide by ultra conservatives and the extreme right. Here in Denmark it is "Det skal kunne betale sig at arbejde! ("You should benefit from having a job!") Said by no-one ever who have actually had to sit on their ass with nothing to do for years. What is your dream is most people's nightmare. With no job you will live a second rate life as everyone who have been there long enough will know. In Denmark they will even have free healthcare like everyone else and yet people still would rather work then collect unemployment benefits (which is also much better and higher than it is in the States). It's a myth.
>> so this is not breaking compatibility with apps there because it was never supported.

It's not breaking GTK apps. If they want to say GNOME really only works with GTK apps that's fine and the toolkit will provide the decorations and nobody needs to care which part of the system draws them. But they want to support more than just GTK apps and rightly so.
Question...
How is this a $2M startup? They raised $2M but wouldn't that have been on a higher valuation. I feel like the norm is to report the "$N startup" with the valuation, not the finding round haul. And that's still the BS machine's version. A company that never turned a profit isn't really a such-and-such dollar startup so much as loss, bad gamble, write off, or the like - in non-BS parlance
Platitudes. Show me a country your model is functioning in. I don't see Portugal or other places just giving people free needles and letting drug addicts defecate all over tourist areas or make huge trash piles that look like spillover from a landfill. Why do we constantly waste money on these unaccountable programs instead of actually finding a working model?

I'm all for giving them public housing and I believe in universal healthcare. But at what point after we offer them an alternative to living on the street to we force them to stop leaving needles and trash and being a public health hazard to everyone else? There has to be a carrot and a stick approach otherwise it won't work. San Francisco has tried an all carrot and no stick approach and it's getting worse by the day.
It sounds like it may have been a little more specific.

> Honeywell allegedly used a file-sharing platform to inappropriately transmit engineering prints showing layouts, dimensions and geometries for manufacturing castings and finished parts for multiple aircraft, military electronics and gas turbine engines.
I think that's unlikely - Arm gradually replaced a number of in-house ISA's and designs because the economics didn't support each firm doing their own thing. I'd be surprised if in many cases - except for eg Western Digital - the economics of going RISC-V make sense.
Except for a CDN, what else do you use that you could not run directly on your VM?
Good code don't have this issue.
Hiren's BootCD 15.2 – All in One Bootable CD
Firefox and Chrome on iOS are just wrappers around Safari, so their ability to improve the web experience is limited.
When you say a protocol, do you mean in the same way http is a protocol? Like a new way to communicate that web browsers would start adopting?

Because in my opinion the browsers would need to make it as easy to use as any other website or phone app if it were ever to gain traction.
Java has the nice advantage that it works.
Most of the people trying to downplay covid aren't interested in logic and reasoning, though.
IBM mainframes also do/did hardware BCD arithmetic, starting with System/360.

And as for COBOL not lending itself to structure, how did Structured COBOL exist, then? I wrote lots of COBOL without a single GO TO anywhere in the code.
Your response comes across as needlessly antagonistic.

My work is entirely grant funded and to my knowledge, none of it comes from the government— at least not directly. I'm positive that some of those private non-profits receive government assistance to some extent for operating expenses and whatnot, but the funds themselves are not tax-sourced.

Beyond that, governments fund libraries and archives at every level and they deliberately have all sorts of collections, from completely benign to completely odious. Funding a deliberately sensationalist aggregator and monger of violence would be plainly obnoxious, but appropriately managed archives are in the public's best interest. Probably even more so for controversial content. I'm not sure how this would be any different.
My sister's a doc. Same anecdote. She had a patient who fell at home while severely weakened with COVID. Death certificate did not say COVID.
Also, during the influenza of 1918 there wasn’t widespread availability of oxygen. If we were still at that level of technology there would be significantly higher mortality. You can see a bit of this play out in India where people are dying who shouldn’t be.
> All together, the materials pertained to the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the B-1B Lancer long-range strategic bomber, the F-22 fighter, the C-130 transport aircraft, the A-7H Corsair aircraft, the A-10 Warthog aircraft, the Apache Longbow helicopter, the M1A1 Abrams tank, the tactical Tomahawk missile; the F/A-18 Hornet fighter, and the F135, F414, T55 and CTS800 turboshaft engines.

All that amounts to $13M in fines, $5M of which Honeywell is allowed to spend? Yikes.
It is not. I started taking it before pandemic.

It’s an amazing drug. I was in bed 16 hours a day unable to get up. A fews months on it and I was kayaking multiple times per week.

Unfortunately side effects grew worse over time.
I use 5* ratings to get an idea of which products to look at, but I mainly look at 1-3* reviews to see if I want to buy it.

I personally had a ton of amazon basics batteries leak in the packaging after 2 years of storage. I posted that review and amazon rejected it saying it didnt meet their community guidelines.

That made me distrust the review process and now I generally wont buy amazon branded products. However if there are bad reviews that tell the same consistent story and that go into enough detail, then they are likely not competitor plants.
Both HIV and the Spanish Flu killed young people with most of their lives ahead of them. All early loss of life is tragic, but the number of deaths alone isn't the only measure.

If you calculate the loss of lifespan, HIV would blow Covid out of the water, because the median age at death would mean ~40 or 50 years of life lost. Covid's median age at death is so high, it's often above a country's life expectancy.

It's also worth noting the US population has more than tripled since 1918 and grown by a third since 1990.

This isn't meant to downplay Covid's impact, but to make a more nuanced comparison with past pandemics.
You can't realistically keep apps from tracking users without permission unless you're rejecting apps that are discovered to be doing that. If they have network access, they can track. The behavior is too abstract to be handled with permissions alone.
They definitely have! And we had a (zones-based) public cloud through it all. On that note, Alex Wilson's description of working with Robert Mustacchi on mitigating Meltdown by adding KPTI to illumos[0] definitely merits a read!

[0] https://blog.cooperi.net/a-long-two-months
You don't have to. I don't have Facebook or Messenger app installed and do not intend to. They are not going to sneak in, unless I specifically click on the Install button in the play store.

No need to pay someone to hold my hand in not clicking that button.
If you've seen their license then happy to be corrected but typically an architecture license wouldn't permit them to do precisely what they want with the ISA with no restrictions whatsoever.
Same. Android since day 1, but my next phone will be an iphone. If it makes the reptilians angry, I'm all for it.
Oof, that interaction was uncomfortable. Definitely a very bad look for that dev.
> Between 2011 and 2015, Honeywell allegedly used a file-sharing platform to inappropriately transmit engineering prints showing layouts, dimensions and geometries for manufacturing castings and finished parts for multiple aircraft, military electronics and gas turbine engines.
Anyone else off-put by the final comment making a physical dig at Zuck for wearing a lot of sunscreen?
There is an argument for making the call/return stack a separate non-addressable region from argument passing. So a malicious app can't overwrite return addresses and execute arbitrary code. Intel considered this early on, and rejected it.

Why? Because of Fortran. There are (were?) cases where a Fortran app would reach back on the stack to retrieve values from before the last call or some such. Rather than find some other way of making that work for those folks, the separate-return-stack idea was shelved.

And we all live with this debacle for decades.
So the Chesa Boudin strategy? That seems to be working out great for San Francisco.
Sure of what? If your code is not garbage it takes two seconds to see where things change. It should be very places in the code.
Not just iso files, it'll boot vhd's as well.
Can't you just only allow reviews for purchasers with X amount minimum lifetime amazon spend? Just make the cost benefit not worth it to do 500 scam reviews. They already have verified purchase.
Until the competition publishes an app called iMessage with a surveillance backdoor (unless you’re proposing phones perform DPI?) and the helpful, inevitable “merge app stores together” app that would be necessary in that world subsequently prioritizes the bad one, or users assume the bad one is the right one, or, or, or. There’s a million threat vectors for their model that don’t dissolve down to a technical mechanism.

Much of the security gained from having a single App Store is not technical in nature but rather reflects (conscious) security policy. This should be apparent. Fundamentally server people chafe at this but look at how much security work (and failure) goes into routinely running hostile code not written by you, particularly on the hosting side. Cloud providers have armies dedicated to the exact same security problems that app stores must solve and it is very often not good enough. That’s fine when nerds are involved but more people than nerds use phones.
Indeed you can serve html content quite cheaply from your server, where you had to create and deliver physical matter to the readers before. But when you get your newspaper ads to 10k households instead of 1k, doesn't that increase the value of those ads by a factor 10 to the advertiser? The only thing I could think of would be spam prevention (you don't want someone to order 100 examples of your newspaper), but there are also other ways to combat spam.
Why do namespaces require name mangling? One could imagine just using :: in the symbol name.

Anyway, even C has name mangling: For example, on Windows, all C symbols gets prefixed by an underscore https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/error-messages/tool-err...
And even on macOS there is something about having symbols starting with \1
There's a lot of ways to look at this and I could easily write a few essays on it. At least for myself though, I don't personally view it as a bad thing. Blocking ads is the only questionable part of the story, but in my view that's just a matter of not displaying the full contents of the page so I find it hard to incriminate. Anything after that (including displaying other ads) is unrelated.

At the end of the day I hope the brave model catches on - not only are the brave ads more ethical since the ads are served locally (ie no user tracking server side), but my understanding is you can also fill up your wallet with your own money and then use that for the micro-transactions given to each site you visit, which gives you the choice to still support the ecosystem but without ads being necessary. Unfortunately brave is not easy for me to use for other reasons but if it ever got big enough maybe they'd make a Firefox extension or something so I could at least plug into the payment system without all the other blocking/brave ads features.
How GPS Weakens Memory—and What We Can Do about It
So much for all the conspiracy theories we saw last year claiming deaths attributed to COVID were being wildly inflated. Many people felt the opposite was likely true - and I think history will prove them right.
"Engagement" algorithm is like, "they are very active when nightmares are happening so they must like it". So the algorithm adds in more nightmares, engage.
It's looks great.

I think for me biggest problem with code snippets is that I encounter them with mobile device. Lines are quite long, like who uses 80 character line limits these days, more like 160. This combined with reality that most websites don't allow mobile device to zoom out.

I wish I could read full lines of code instead of trying to scroll back and forth.
> The core booster from the Long March 5B rocket that launched Tianhe-1 ended up in an uncontrolled orbit around Earth.

> It is expected to fall back to Earth this weekend, with current estimates suggesting it will begin reentry between 2:13 p.m. Eastern Time Saturday and 8:13 a.m. Sunday. That’s such an enormous window that no one has any idea where it will land.

> At 21 metric tons and 10 stories tall, the booster, CZ-5B, is huge.
Now you get to pay to be the product!
If have a bad enough migraine can't go hunt or gather food.

Though sex or orgasm can help with headaches in my experience so maybe that's a driver :)
I can just imagine me chatting with devops people:

- Hi Jeff, I know you have a todo queue from here till the next century, but please add one more item, having all our VMs, however they built, to include this set of files. I need it ASAP since without it if I log in to a server, I can't use backspace.

- What? Why? This looks like lots of work to modify each one of our 10000 deployments. It also may create some bugs and using non-standard deployment packages is time-consuming. What's wrong with plain old ssh, it works everywhere? What's wrong with your backspace, maybe I should order you a new keyboard?

- Well, ssh is fine but you see, I've got this new OpenGL super-fancy terminal emulator, and if I use it to ssh into a random server my backspace doesn't work. So if you changed every deployment we have to support it, that would be great, mmmkay? Oh and longer term I also need you to maintain a custom package for every linux distribution we might use that fixes this issue.

- Are you high? Did you check you temperature lately - maybe you have a high fever and your mental capacities are compromised?

- Hold on, Jeff, don't you think me using a fancy terminal program than can scroll 35% faster worth the effort? And it's also written in Rust! You could use it too, it's really awesome unless you need the backspace key for some weird reason.

- clickety click I've disabled all your shell access to all our servers until your mental health improves, and asked HR to issue you a week of sick days. Please get well soon.
So should you assume a linear cost (in terms of latency) in the distance in the key space ? This looks like a weird tor overlay network, to be honest, with everyone on a line…

Also: is there some white paper / RFC explaining all the rational ? It seems matrix always put the implementation before the specification, which seems a bit weird (and might be why you already have like 5 version of objects such as rooms).
It's likely that they just forgot to include the quote marks in the search. I don't think Google Scholar does behavioral targeting.
Wonder how they accounted for the gun shot victims and motorcycle crashes who are accounted as covid deaths?

Looking at Italian data going back to March/April of 2020, we knew that over 50% of deaths, the patient had 3+ serious diseases and had a median age of 79+.

The true death rate is the delta of standard deaths in a “normal” year and the ones recorded now. That and somehow account for some pull-forward that’s clearly happened.

If a person was somehow due to die (assume a God exists and it’s already planned) on January 2021 of terminal cancer, but then covid found him and he died Dec 2020, what’s the real cause of death?
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In the early days of cable television, there were no commercials. But, we know how that ended up.
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/26/arts/will-cable-tv-be-inv...
Gets manipulated in the other direction too: financial incentives nudge hospitals to assign coronavirus as a cause of death if you had it when you died, even if it wasn't what actually killed you. I don't know if it's as blatant as "died in a car crash of coronavirus," but enough of my medical friends have mentioned it that I believe there's truth to it.