skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could also mask and shift the value byte-wise just like with an endian swap. Depending on the destination and how aggressive the compiler optimizes memcpy or not, it could even produce more optimal code, perhaps by working in registers more.

Conceptual consistency is a good thing, but there is a generally higher cognitive load to using C++ over C. I've used both C++ and C professionally, and I've gone deeper with type safety and metaprogramming than most folk. I've mostly used C for the last few years, and I don't feel like I'm missing anything. It's still possible to write hard-to-misuse code by coming up with abstractions that play to the language's strengths.

Operator overloading in particular is something I've refined my opinion on over the years. My current thought is that it's best not to use operators in user/application defined APIs, and should be reserved for implementing language defined "standard" APIs like the STL. Instead, it's better to use functions with names that unambiguously describe their purpose.
Flight path of an airport? No, we live about 20 miles west from the nearest airport. But any flights from there would go north, south, or east.
This person's children are so fucked, its obvious they don't see their children as human beings with thoughts, feelings, dreams, and emotions of their own - just as a way to extend their own personal ego. It's an emotionally damaging way to be raised.
I haven't noticed the signed integer overflow, which does indeed complicate things, and I thought it was just the infinite loop UB.

> Data from Google suggesting that over 90% of all overflow is a bug, and defining wrapping behavior would not have solved the bug.

Of all overflow? Including unsigned integers where the behavior is defined?
> The infections were the result of legitimate developers writing apps using a counterfeit copy of Xcode, Apple’s iOS and OS X app development tool. The repackaged tool dubbed XcodeGhost surreptitiously inserted malicious code alongside normal app functions.

> XcodeGhost billed itself as faster to download in China, compared with Xcode available from Apple. For developers to have run the counterfeit version, they would have had to click through a warning delivered by Gatekeeper, the macOS security feature that requires apps to be digitally signed by a known developer.

Seems like a real world version of the Trusting Trust attack where the compiler is inserting malicious code.
Indeed, I don't get the article. It's like writing "C is hard because here is how hard it is to implement memcpy using SIMD correctly."

Please don't do that. Use battle-tested low-level routines. Unless your USP is "our software swaps bytes faster than the competition", you should not spend brain power on that.
At the same time you basically never have holidays, unless you have family who can look after the farm for a week. Or you say farm chickens, then it's not hard to arrange a few weeks between raising a batch.
Are there any kibbutzes that make all or some decisions using a blockchain DAO? You could even have a fully remote kibbutz that way.
(possibly) interestingly, I pased the link to this issue into a slack, which very helpfullly got one of Github's new preview links.

The image it produces can't render Zalgo either https://imgur.com/a/pOUu7m1
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That's all fine and good but reliability of delivery of 2FA data is not exactly fantastic

So don't use SMS.

TOTP authenticators don't require any data to be transmitted at the time of authentication. They're set up with an initial shared secret (typically transmitted via QR code) at which point the codes are generated independently on the two devices.

This means the TOTP device doesn't even need to be connected to the internet. As long as you can get the TOTP seed onto the device (worst case: type it in), you can use that device for 2FA.
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A phone number is already needed to create a Google account, completely independently of 2FA and a backup phone number
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My parents are using GMail and I have no idea how to explain and set up 2FA for them. Google probably won't do a good explanation either. And 2FA probably won't work on their landline telephone...
It definitely isn't a term for 'spread'. It specifically refers to meat or fish paste sandwiches. The paste comes in little tins. Meat is most common, but when I was a kid I loved crab paste.
That doesn’t explain C++’s poor tail performance, unless it’s just poorly optimized like the top comment suggested
The low latency approach is pretty much already encapsulated by the MVP approach to product design and incremental release schedule. Actually, considering the lower overhead of testing & implementation for small incremental changes vs. monolithic releases that are much harder to reverse course if there's a problem, the low-latency approach could also be the higher throughput approach.

Anyway, I am literally going to make myself one single cup of coffee now. No one in my house drinks it, so I have tried just about every method of making a single good cup of coffee. Right now, that balances towards very low latency but very low quality: instant coffee, because my tolerance for coffee latency is usually very low. (also low tolerance for cleaning up the equipment needed to make coffee-- garbage collection!) At some point the needle will swing back towards quality and I'll take the extra 5 minutes to do a pour over & deal with cleaning more stuff.
> Do they escape or they just form a cloud that gets hotter?

They escape.

yeah, having done this before, I am 100% sure that the simulation will be inexact due to numerics, and that the inexactness will be worse around these phenomena, but we are probably talking, gut feeling say, under 20% in most scenarios where you see an escape (I think the observable error is effectively unbounded because you could in theory get two particles within one ULP or even two particles that collide and cause a NaN error)... But in general I don't think that changes the qualitative nature of the phenomenon. There's probably a reasonably easily derived "starting from three particles at rest" where you can see one of them escape from the other two; if not 3 then four.
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Farming isn't any easier than software I'm afraid. However I live in the countryside and work remotely and I love it here. Just down the road from the chap in the article.
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I generally avoid browser extensions because they are even less secure than mobile apps.
Medium is blocked in Egypt, no idea why.
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Also the happy path for my save state is just flick away from the given labeled shell/emacs in tmux. Some things need a note jotted down but then I have failed to do something earlier. Sometimes he thing to save state is just put in a syntax error where I am working; that way I can afford to forgot the task altogether.

All these pending tasks bear only a light resemblance to the project tracking entities. For that project stuff, I mostly fight to reserve bandwidth among the team to work on long term projects that are experimental (and so not always plannable in advance In detail) but with a highly desirable end state.

Like now I am working to make good terraform modules that make the common use cases of change to be simpler and more concise than without the modules. We find a good use case, do a module, iterate a few times based on how it works out, then find a other use case. I refuse to “write stories” for the future tasks in this extremely valuable work because it’s a back and forth between solution space and actual work for actual customers. I don’t need giant modules that are as complex as the raw terraform, I need to solve specific problems in the specific business.
Works worse when the store closes because you don’t buy stuff there.
You have to wait for shipping, package the return, etc. That doesn't seem as convenient as trying on in the store, even with the added burden of travel to the store and sifting through sizes.
I just happened to find this 2017 article about fungi growing on the exterior of the space station. I wouldn't be surprised if extremophile fungi turn out to be widespread in space after all http://cosmology.com/SpaceFungi.html
> What's exactly capitalistic about this?

The designation that combinations of words are a form of property that can be owned, which then become assets naturally funneled towards those interested in playing the capital meta game and away from those doing the actual work.

To a scientist, the ability to copyright their paper is a vulnerability. Get rid of the concept of imaginary property and there is a lot less for Elsevier to demand from them.
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I really admire your approach to this. Making guides should not only improve your credibility but also overall help reduce the market of fakes by reducing demand.
It's hard to remember the exact timing of when I read some books, but I know that Earthsea was one of the first, if not the first book, that ended up sparking a love of reading.
You are totally right but the headline is misleading.
It’s not really a sustainable solution though is it?
Alcohol companies too are allowed and actively targeting people, kills your liver, no one bats an eye.. what gives?
My brain is trained to read little-endian in memory dumps. It's no different than the German "fünf-und-zwanzig" (five and twenty). :))
Installation also happens only a handful of times per program, versus the amount of use you get out of it.
Nice, they got volunteers to print out patterns and use them to see if/how often their cats sat in them. Great use of cat owners! And, also, probably a shoe-in for the Ig Nobel awards :-p
Parallelism of software effort is very very expensive not just in terms of people but in terms of communication. Unless you mean non-brute force, where you split the problem into complete awesome abstractions so team a need not talk to team b and developer a need not worry about the big picture, but just this nice little problem. But that takes a bit of higher latency where you have to walk around and think in a relaxed and open fashion.
> using React

and a performance profile shows absolutely insane JS overhead (in React) when simply dragging a window. compare this to something like https://nextapps-de.github.io/winbox/, and you start to wonder if "the React way" is really best-suited for everything that people use it for.
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You are replacing one privacy nightmare with another:

https://www.twilio.com/legal/privacy/authy

The only privacy friendly method is no 2FA, just long secure passwords. Which is why 2FA is pushed so hard ...
Rust gets this right. These primitives are available for all the numeric types.

u32::from_le_byte(bytes) // u32 from 4 bytes, little endian
u32::from_be_byte(bytes) // u32 from 4 bytes, big endian
u32::to_le_bytes(num) // u32 to 4 bytes, little endian
u32::to_be_bytes(num) // u32 to 4 bytes, big endian

This was very useful to me recently as I had to write the marshaling and un-marshaling for a game networking format with hundreds of messages. With primitives like this, you can see what's going on.
"But sadly it's been a long time, if ever (I haven't checked), since we saw any speculative fiction making it onto shortlists or winning prizes on say the Booker Prize[0], because it's not "literary" enough (bloody snobs)."

Yeah, snobbishness is a huge problem in literature, visual art, and music... in all culture, probably.

Some people want desperately to be the gatekeepers of taste, and unfortunately the rest of society lets them get away with it.

On the other extreme, there's a lot of trashy cultural production ("kitsch") which I find problematic myself, because it tends to be so trite and superficial.. but as a cultural relativist I have a hard time mounting any kind of serious argument against it.

I guess if someone likes something, that should be enough, and there's really not much anyone can say against it that doesn't amount to anything more than "I don't like it".

That conclusion doesn't sit very easy with me, but I can't think of a way around it.
> But humans are inventive and resourceful

What's the benchmark?
I've heard the anecdote many times that the idiomatic way of writing Rust tends to also be performant. I've spent some time fiddling with C code to reuse buffers and avoid copies, make loops amenable to auto vectorization. Many times my first try in Rust will still be faster. In C reusing memory over and over is dangerous and confusing. In Rust it's the default because you use borrowing and transfer ownership.

My guess is that little time was spent optimizing the C++ and Rust codebase, and Rust performs better because the code doesn't do copies.
The fact that people just listed 4 competing tools shows exactly why this is a problem:

2 of them are essentially community run, and could theoretically at any time be taken over by a hostile (or even just an incompetant) entity and be used to distribute malware. Not that this couldn't happen through an official channel, but it's certainly far less likely.

Since the software distribution is not even, I currently have to check choco, scoop and winget for updates. It's slow and irritating, and if I need to uninstall or check a package, I need to figure out which tool I installed it with.

The software that does crossover between package managers can cause compatability issues. Just today I accidentally broke Rider since I had the .NET Core runtime installed through choco, but the .NET Core SDK installed through scoop.

I get they're trying to finally fix this through WinGet, but I can't help feel it's too little, too late.
//People who turned their external salaries over to the kibbutz were often exploited, earning salaries that were a fraction of market rate, because they wouldn't see any of the extra.

Sure, that doesn't seem fair, but how do you price a free house, and an option for one for your children, in a country where most people live in apartments and only something like the top 10% live in houses?

And how do you price the job security a kibbutz gets you? In a country with a tough job market?
Yes, I charge $60-$90 per hour of dev time to my customers and the time saved from using simple Elastic Beanstalk deployments pays for itself in saved dev time. The architecture is also infinitely easier to reason about and scale than cramming parts in a single image.
Well, this Epic lawsuit seems to turn into a nightmare on multiple fronts for the PR guys at Apple...
For ESRGAN I would say there is still ways to go for it to be useable in realtime.
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> On Android/iOS/macOS/Windows, I can have the latest 3rd party software without having to deal with intrusive updates to the OS infrastructure all the time.

That's not really true. The .NET runtime isn't redistributable, and so has to be installed on the host OS, which usually works but not always (and pre-Windows 10, newer versions of .NET required a bunch of KBs, which meant that Windows Update was actually working and able to install those, which fairly frequently broke on Windows 7 due to the lack of Service Packs). Nowadays this is less of a problem, due to improved .NET compatibility and .NET 4.x coming pre-installed on Windows 10. Which honestly is great - you can compile and run .NET 4.x programs on any Windows 10 machine. Granted, it's some relatively outdated version by now, but it is still very nice to have a "proper" programming language out of the box, and also the ability to compile to small .exe's.

Similarly, MSVC runtimes (except the installers are redistributable, but you are still in the situation of "have to globally install it").
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> The only privacy friendly method is no 2FA, just long secure passwords. Which is why 2FA is pushed so hard ...

This is absolutely ridiculous and so clearly false I can't help but wonder if it's intentional misinformation.

There are numerous open source TOTP authenticators for both the desktop and mobile that require absolutely no data to be stored in the cloud or shared with third parties.

I myself use KeepassXC and Keepass2Android.
Right, it looks their business model is actually

1) Becoming the world's leading expert on a topic

2) Share and spread that knowledge, until you have publicly cemented your place as an expert

3) Start charging for services that require usage of your expertise
Because Sci-Hub is defending this case in court (unlike in some other cases where they ignored proceedings), so ignoring the court order to pause adding new papers would hurt their chances of winning.
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> I (and many astrophysicists) do not see that as a problem or evidence that dark matter needs to be abandoned

As I read it, and I think it was pretty straightforward, neither does she? She wants to keep it where it seems to be an appropriate model.
How true is that really? Maybe there will come a point where this is true, but there are still lots of things on Amazon that don't have next-day delivery. Many specialty items on Amazon have slow shipping, and I would gladly have bought them at a local store if I had the choice; I used to until they all closed.
I am an academic researcher (math). Unfortunately, prestige hits the mark.

Whenever I am being compared with my peers -- for raises, for possible grant funding, if I apply for a job at another university -- people will look at publication lists and see who has published in "good" journals.

And when you say that "prestigious journals are widely read" -- honestly, journals aren't really ever read as such. Researchers will look for individual papers they're interested in. The choice of journal is a signaling mechanism and little else.

It is true that universities want prestige... but, honestly, tenured faculty don't often care too much about what their employers want. What a panel at a granting agency thinks of my record, is more important than what my department chair and dean think.

Your idea that e.g. Stanford should order their faculty to publish on SciHub is an interesting one. For better or worse, university administrators don't tend to have or exercise much authority, and any attempt to order faculty to do anything is likely to be met with fierce resistance.
Maybe it's time to reread Reflections on Trusting Trust[0]

[0] https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-tho...
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i always find it surprising how in every conversation i had with friend from the far left, they always forget to mention that there was actually one successful attempt at living in the "communism" mindset, without turning into a totalitarian regime.

The thing is the hate israel gets today (especially from the left) prevents them from ever using this argument.
You appear to have had the exact same experience as I have. I work in the fresh vegetable side of things and the tools that are available are completely closed source and locked in. Even silly things like humidity controls and whatnot. there's so much potential for the ag sector to benefit from all these open data sources and systems.
I think they haven't become the dominant mode because they only work at the small scale, and are far from the densities of cities, which are often a necessity.

And they're also harder to build, socially. Cities are just easier.
Good point. IDK, it was figurative, and I may have gone back too far.
It sounds like he's saying Linux desktop DEVELOPMENT sucks, not that using Linux desktop sucks.

I've been running (mostly ubuntu based) Linux since 2014. The only major problems I've had have been driver issues, userspace applications have largely worked out of the box. Maybe the devs behind everything I use are doing an exceptional job, but I've never noticed an update break a common application due to library changes.
You should write that book. Seriously.
> No, scientists get paid (usually) by their institution

I didn't say they get paid, I'm talking specifically amount the money flow to these journals. Does the funding from the research/scientists come from the profit the journals make, or from outside funding?
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That's true of most SF. SF is primarily political, and has been since at least the late 50s. Although there is hard SF where the science leads, it's rarer - and less interesting - than SF which uses imaginary technologies to set a scene for political and social questions.

IMO Le Guin and someone like Heinlein were two sides of the same strand of SF. They're both moralists rather than technical speculators, and in their own way they have a didactic streak where the morality is confidently presented but rather heavy-handed.

Although The Dispossessed is politically ambiguous, it's not ambiguous in an unfathomable, mysterious, or unconfident way. Neither is something like Dune, or the Culture novels. Or even Asimov's Foundation.

Part of the appeal of these authors is that they seem quite sure of their political and anthropological sophistication. While their characters may struggle, there's never a sense the authors feel they could be completely blindsided by human or alien anthropology, or steamrollered by non-human influences which are incomprehensible and impossible to deal with.
Anyone can purchase currency outside of the App Store and use it in their iOS app, including Fortnite. Roblox doesn't bypass Apple's IAP requirement at all.
People occasionally post random stuff that might seem interesting to others. Sometimes they hit the mark sometimes less so.

I guess someone that has never heard of a Kibbutz might find it interesting
What's to protect? There's no secret. You send them pictures and money and they tell you if it's fake or not. There's no secret sauce beyond their personal knowledge.
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I use Authy specifically because of their backup options. That obviously requires collecting my phone number and email address. I have no problem with that because if I'm traveling and somebody steals my laptop, phone, and backup Yubikey I won't be completely shit out of luck.

If you don't want to use Authy then use something else that doesn't backup the 2FA codes for you. But don't say 2FA is inherently a privacy concern. It isn't.
Lol, I alternate between aero-press and pour over depending on the grounds I currently have. My tolerance for latency for good coffee is high regardless of how urgent other folk are for my time! Not that I'm a snob about coffee, I have instant on hand for convenience as well, and I'll happily drink a poorly brewed cup too. It's just a nice ritual and something to optimize for fun.
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For a large enough wiki, the potential non-uniformness is negligible, I guess. (Unless your RNG is wrong, see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208909)
Good luck trying to understand my NB-IoT protocol messages then. Raw sensor values, compressed, encrypted, basE91 encoded. No chance for any RL neither AI to understand that. No need to interoperate neither. IoT is a single private sensor connected to a single private receiver. The medium is not the message here.
In the "optimal latency" case you can start heating the 2nd cup immediately after the first, then it's ready after 7 time units, for average of 3 time units per cup, which is better throughput than the "optimal throughput" case (3.25 t/c).
If you're not very cost-conscious, you can get excellent instant coffee (e.g. Sightglass), but it'll cost you >$2.50/cup, much more than equivalent quality beans.

Yet another instance of fast/cheap/good, pick two.