skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, a lot of hyperbole.

I agree the super rich bending governmental bodies to their wills is highly problematic. That isn't a billionaire problem though, it is a problem of weak anti-corruption laws in the presence of any wealth.

The biggest mistake I think the author makes is trying to classify Bill Gates (and other billionaires) as all saintly (supposedly by the press, etc.) or evil (the author's stance.)

>As former British Prime Minister Clement Attlee said, “Charity is a cold grey loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.” Bill Gates is not just some rich guy who is unsure about paying more tax: he’s a menace to society.

The assumption seems to be that the rich (or anyone?) cannot do any good with their own wealth unless it is given to governments. What an awful cynical ungrateful world view.
I took it as a reference to The Room. Isn't it? :|
Too bad Google blocked it in Android 10
I agree with this. Also, technological developments, business models, and fashions change rapidly. When the vertical part of your T starts to be in lower demand, you'll be in a difficult spot. If you go for the ∏ strategy, you have the ability to pivot your career towards the remaining leg, and hopefully start building up a new one.
The dust is still settling, so please wait. Active development and negotiations are ongoing between the Libera and Matrix.org folks. It's a tumultuous time and everyone's trying hard.

(Full disclosure I am NOT affiliated with the Matrix project in any way)
The science behind this article seems shakey. "We surveyed stack overflow..." seems a problem right away. I like (and use) SO a bunch, but the better survey for SO might be "which universities give the best homework assignments?"
There is no indication that the M1 has updatable microcode, nor any other features that might allow such mitigation. (If it did, Apple would've fixed it; I did give them a 90 day disclosure warning and they're not lazy about fixing actual fixable bugs.)
Something I would like is the ability to disable extensions on specific domains. I don't need any of my extensions on my webmail, GitHub, my bank, or local intranet dashboards.

I only install a few extensions that I need and trust but it would be very nice to be able to limit potential damages.
No paid marketing is the missing word here.
He uses his wealth to affect social policies in third-world countries. That is by definition anti-democratic. It’s corporate colonialism, plain and simple.
Several attacks on asians in the last couple of months in New York suggest that there is a problem related to Trump followers, fans, whatever you want to call them. Several were caught that’s why I drew this conclusion. If you remember Trump stirred a lot of hate in this country and while these sentiments didn’t start with Trump, he certainly brought them to the surface.
I'll take what I can get, basically. If I don't have access to good gear or good recording/compression quality, I'll use what's available. But if there's a song I like and I have the option of using good gear and lossless audio, I personally find it can optimize my enjoyment of the song.
True. And we have Hartz IV, a national shame in my opinion. My point to OP was that, besides these facts, our social system is nowhere near to collapsing. No matter how many refugees we take in. That we as a nation, and that includes myself through our representative democracy, are ok with poor and old people being squeezed out of living space by rent seeking investors and treating people under Hartz IV as second class citizens is a different story. But we have elections in September, so there is a chance to shake things up a little bit.
Isn’t it though? Holding on to a stock, and receiving stock grants are not investments. The little money that was actually has been returned a millions of times over. That money is now just sitting there. I’d they were actively investing instead of just collecting rents, they’d be selling the stock and then giving it to other businesses, but that’s not what happens. It literally sits there for points. Even purchasing a superyacht and apocalypse bunker in New Zealand is more of an investment than simplying holding onto it for points on a Forbes list.

It’s hording because the amount of wealth is long past the point of diminishing returns. Do you really think that Bezos’s life is going to change at all if he actually had to give up half his wealth to his soon to be ex-wife? I don’t. And yet, the wealth provides the same market and political warping that all monopolies (a market failure) cause.
Linux only happened because Microsoft didn't care to put much love on their POSIX subsystem for Windows NT, and BSD was busy fighting AT&T.

Looking at the pleothora of BSD/Apache/MIT OSes appearing for embeeded devices it is clear what the future of Linux will become, when the generation that gave birth to it is gone.
Could it be we create and always have the big bang by blowing shit up in a particle accelerator, and that is the great filter not just for us, but the rest of the universe since it just starts over?
AWS GuardDuty cover channel vulnerability
From what I recall about compression, the artifacts are at the high frequencies which also tend to get muted with age / sound exposure. Rather than play the game of determining if you can hear the difference, are there any diagnostics that can work backwards and determine the max bit-rate one could benefit from when listening?
> ...many functions are insufficiently explained by [naming and set of arguments] alone unless you want four-word camelcase monstrosities for names.

Come now, is four words really all that "monstrously" much?

> The code of the function should be right-sized.

Feels like that should go for its name too.

> Size and complexity need to be balanced there- simpler and easier-to-follow is sometimes larger.

The longer the code, the longer the name?
It sets the expectation for a lot of people that they should be checking and responding to messages at all hours.

I’m a night owl, I like to do thought work after the day of busy meetings. I don’t want my direct reports feeling like I expect them to reply at 11pm when I send them an email, or on Sunday if I’m working. So I schedule it to arrive in the morning or in the next work day instead.

You can tell them until you’re blue in the face, but actions speak louder than words.
Good one from last year.
I’m also an introvert but find that having relatively few friends but very strong relationships with those friends gives my life added meaning.

But the message for me is that we should work on ourselves first to be happy with who we are.
Fascinating! It looks like her books have Russian translations; will be very interested to give them a read.
Fast and Furious star John Cena apologises for calling Taiwan a country
What? I beg to differ, you’re probably confusing it with something else more recent
immudb has a website where you can visualize the Merkle tree in real time as you insert data: https://play.codenotary.com/
I'm not aware of the referenced material. :)
Honestly, I don't see that much different from a hollywood actress or NHL player being paid in millions. Which might be seen as a moral issue but a different one, of equal renumeration for work.

But it's important to point out that main source of income for B.G. (or any capitalist, for that matter) is not a reward for work, but rather reward from ownership of capital, which is essentially a share of economic decisions. It's pretty unclear to me why the society should reward ownership and not just work.
I'm not sure if that is a good defense of the actions.

"I didn't beat all of them, just the ones that I thought showed /real/ disrespect?"

It's a abuse of trust. That's it. Any (other) commercial company trying to do the same thing would be in deep trouble.
Online video platform Vimeo plunges on Nasdaq debut following spin-off
Microsoft takes another stab at a Blockchain-powered ledger service
It's naive to believe the FSB (or others) wouldn't use him however they wanted. Snowden has absolutely zero leverage. He can be deported to the US at any time, and Putin has proven he isn't above killing virtually anyone, no matter the public profile.

And I remember that fake Q&A session with Putin were Snowden asked a question about surveillance of their own people and Putin basically said that the Russian state would never ever do such a horrible thing. It's almost funny.
Agreed. I thought last week that all this was a tempest in a teapot and I wasn’t going to bother thinking about it. Today’s drama is a pretty convincing demonstration that Freenode is not a stable place to hold discussions any more. There’s plenty of other irc networks out there.
I think it’s technically fascinating. Guess it’s just perception. People say the same about bitcoin.
I was watching the whole saga as a bona-fide, albeit painful, metamorphosis of a community for the better, however this is a whole new level of ugly.
How does it compare to a vaccine ?
They never went away in the embedded space.
policies shouldn’t be able to dictated by wealth in the first place or this wouldn’t be an issue.

one solution to this is campaign finance reform. another is to not make your government powerful enough to make policies like that because they will always be corrupted

but actually bill gates isn’t very involved at all in electoral politics and as far as i know doesn’t really donate
Yeah it's quite sad. A lot of critisism in the article is valid, but why make it so personal then?

I share a lot of the critisism, but billionaires are not "sick in the head". They are playing by the rules that society gives them. They were exploiting them with luck and smarts to get where they are. This is not praise, but a counterargument to the sentiment. Society needs to set boundaries, instead of not doing it and then villifying those who take advantage of that.
To further reinforce the fact that he intends for it to be his dominion... the incident the submission refers to?

<rasengan> I apologize for the poor communication and few erroneous channels that were caught up, freenode. This was my mistake alone.

He admits fault for the targeted dissolution of 700+ channels that, coincidentally, contained "libera" in the topic.
Cunt detected.
> How would that even work?

Taxes and a democracy.

Or if you want an even more radical solution, taxes and literally a check to people.

>Leaving investment decisions to mob rule/ collectivism is even dumber.

I take it you’re not a fan of free markets, and instead throw in with command and control economies.
My read was that the controversy around the naming of the virus was a desperate attempt to attack Trump and label him as xenophobic. The economy was in great shape and Trump was very likely to be re-elected before COVID and George Floyd. So those staunchly against him, which included the activist class as well as journalist class, were happy to take any small thing and manufacture an outrage and see if it sticks. Similarly discussions about origins and lab leaks were shut down because they would shift blame away from Trump and towards the CCP.

Is it possible it was due to Chinese influence? Maybe. But it could also be entirely due to domestic influences. Propaganda doesn’t have to be foreign. That said I do think the complete lack of coverage of the concentration camps in China ARE due to Chinese influence, both politically and economically.
> Wait. Oh no. Some game developer somewhere is going to try to use this as a synchronization primitive, aren't they. Please don't. The world has enough cursed code already. Don't do it. Stop it. Noooooooooooooooo
I disagree with this comment. Real estate can provide solid 5-7% after tax returns (in parts of the US) and due to leverage and low mortgage rates, a small annual increase in price can greatly increase the value of your investment.

Most people only think of real estate as local, so if you look for returns in nyc or SF, you’ll be disappointed. But if you are willing to invest in property across the US you can find areas with much lower prices and higher rents.
Ridiculous. Clearly they want to capitalize on that sweet sweet Chinese box office money.
Another piece of shit.
I think you are conflating the power to organize resources toward meeting a market need with political corruption.

The latter is a problem, the former is not. They are not the same thing.
We have studied a substance called quark-gluon plasma that was the only matter, which existed during the first microsecond of Big Bang. Our results tell us a unique story of how the plasma evolved in the early stage of the universe...

Is this stuff at all... non-safe? I mean, could one use it to recreate the big-bang in a lab? It's hard to conceptualize how something like a "bang" happens without a catalyst, so couldn't the catalyst be scientists f**ed up?
After doing some looking behind the cover, my hunch is that "mintpressnews.com" is some sort of propaganda news platform. I guess I wasted a good 10min reading this article.

Sometimes I wish there was an overlay on website, giving a fact-check score e.g. "this website tends to be biased toward XYZ side of ABC issues".
Siemens is a bank with an affiliated electrical department.
Expect the usual banker bs.
There were a bunch of Forward Air Controllers who flew smaller, slower planes much lower to direct air strikes. In particular those flying in support of SF missions flew low routinely. Although the predominant danger is still going to be flak and large machine guns rather than rifles. Then you also have attack helicopters and troop transport helicopters are particularly vulnerable whilst loading and unloading who all fly lower and slower.
I'm constantly surprised what domains are still available. I've registered many 2/3-letter domains (with 3-4 letter TLDs) in the past year, as well as ones for very common nouns (some also 3 letters), almost always for under $40. Admittedly it's mostly for the newer TLDs, though.
Muse group appears to be owned by Russian investors, using shell companies in Cyprus.

We are trusting souls and completely trust all Russian investors hiding behind opaque shell companies in Cyprus.

If we were paranoid, we might think that this introduces interesting potential for state level surveillance, analysis of telemetry, injection of malware on potentially millions of Linux installations. Surely that has to be worth some money.

But of course, we are not paranoid are we ?
Society should reward good stewardship of owned resources, as well as good work.
... for those who like Apple a bit too much.
Why to Choose .NET Development?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdzmKwKN3n8
A short-cycled policy update to https://freenode.net/policies and a blog post espousing love and FOSS by Lee https://freenode.net/news/for-foss ("President freenode limited") feels hollow and vindictive.

Goodbye, whatever open culture remained in Freenode.
yeah somehow the guy trying to distribute mosquito nets and eradicate polio is the bad guy because he founded a company that brought computers into every home and radically improved the world and retained stock in that company
Well, they only started using R a year or so ago, so they can be forgiven.

> Until fairly recently, we were less comfortable with statistical software (like R) that allows more sophisticated visualisations.

https://medium.economist.com/mistakes-weve-drawn-a-few-8cdd8...
Oooo! Depending on your taste you're in for either a very boring movie or the experience of a lifetime. Complete with an associated rabbit hole of mystery surrounding the director: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Room

If you do end up watching and liking it, there is book and a film about the filming of the film to enjoy :D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Disaster_Artist
I imagine it's a reference to https://blogs.tedneward.com/post/the-vietnam-of-computer-sci...
I second the Brave and True book to get your feet wet and add this website to get a better grasp on where/what/how to use the different elements of Clojure, with examples. Especially the "see also" section which will point you to functions you may not have heard of otherwise.

https://clojuredocs.org/
The war powers act has been around for 50 years now, and the supreme court has not invalidated it yet. I think it's safe to say that they believe it is constitutional.

Regardless, even if you believe that authorization for use of force is unconstitutional, that does not make it secret. Only Bill Clinton's engagement in Bosnia/Kosovo could be considered a secret war... The others were done with full authorization of Congress.
> I'm not saying the solution should have been more TRR

Might as well add it. Even ignoring the fact that TRR will basically never trigger on non-malicious code, if it takes thousands of accesses to trigger and then it does a whole ten extra row refreshes that's still a negligible hit to performance.
Not sure what's the point of it though - if I am just slacking off those 3 months, what are they going to do, fire me? I see how it's good for me - I get 3 months paid vacation - but I don't see how it makes any sense for them. Looks like it's just a cost imposed on the employer, not something I have to do, but something they have to pay.
> But no one can tell the difference on laptop speakers, the idea is nonsensical, or worse, spreading the idea there is no difference between uncompressed audio and highly compressed audio.

That is the point, isn't it? The absolute vast majority in of people listen to music on anything but gold-plated pre-warmed high-end systems. They listen to music on phones, on portable speakers, in headphones, while driving, cooking, taking care of kids, working... For any practical purpose there is no difference between uncompressed and compressed audio.
I assume this is done by running 'ls' in the background and not showing the execution to the user, except as autocomplete suggestions?

if I type 'sudo cp ' will it run 'sudo ls' to offer suggestions?

this...is not good. my terminal should not be executing code on my behalf on remote servers I've SSHed to.
Well, we don't have to imagine!
his wealth is increasing because microsoft stock is increasing faster than he can give it away. but he’s given away over 50 billion so far. it actually takes a lot of work to give away that much money without it going to waste. but his will is public and you can see any remaining will be given away

99.99 of it isn’t going to his kids unlike what the poster said and you can actually openly track what happens to it when he dies
How about randomising/reset these bits from kernel whenever there is a syscall? Not a great workaround but this should limit the effectiveness of leaking. Yeah, there will be tiny perf hit due to extra register read and write.
I have a bunch of family in the Bay Area, who ended up there from North Vietnam. You're right that the accents can be recognized, but I also think you're right that resentments have faded. At least I'm pretty sure one of my cousins married a South Vietnamese lady a few years ago.

We still have a couple of stories in the family about the bombings. I wonder how accurate the details are.

One was my uncle, who was driving a truck over the last bridge to be bombed in Hanoi. He got to the bridge, it got bombed, and everyone was looking for his body for days. My grandmother was at the river every day. Luckily, he had somehow not gotten killed, and was in fact stuck on the wrong side, safe. He'd driven upriver to the next crossing, which took some time.

The other story is that my mom's neighbour had a bomb land in her house. The family was killed, apart from the girl, who was my mom's age. My grandmother took her in to live with them. I think the memory had quite an impression on my parents, as they in turn took in a girl to live with them later in life.
yeah that’s just a blatant lie. his kids don’t control the foundation
What about Jameco?
http://archive.is/jU9OJ
This. For some of my native projects I’ve resorted to building a “fat lib” or amalgamated build of all dependencies into a static library. It’s a pattern I first saw when dealing with gameplay3d. It works for me. I then include the fat lib as a dependency to my library and let the compiler prune my lib of unused while leaving the static dependency lib unchanged. CMake on the surface looks good, is easy to work with, but once you start having dependencies of dependencies (some of which you need too) you run into issues that you have to script your way out of. I’ve tried vpkg as well and it has the same kind of issues.

What does the future hold for native development when so much of your initial time is spent fighting the tools?
I believe Google is just an ad business unexpectely found itself to be a media company figuring what standards to adhere. IMO their try to be unbiased is a bit awkward.
On the other hand, this kind of prefaces often have the danger of sounding condescending or even disrespectful to the reader (and to the author). A safer bet that I've seen sometimes is to give two prefaces, exposing complementary or even contradictory views. This lets the reader approach the book without holding hands.
Can they guarantee no JIT code via static analysis as well? Or could someone sneak in a tiny bit of disguised JIT code just to get to this register?

I would assume a huge JITed VM implementation would show up easily in analysis.
Belgium interior minister system hacked (started in 2019), most likely by China
If fox, newsmax, and OAN are the only ones willing to report on certain topics earnestly, like, say patterns in black on asian violence, or other ethnically sensitive issues, then yes, their voices are critical to a functioning democracy. The way that news, entertainment, social, and "fact checking" media all effectively collude to discredit these sources for political leaning is dangerous, and in effect disenfranchises about 50% of the populace who do not lean left, in the online public sphere. This is an unstable configuration. Dismissal of these sources conflates political bias with unreliability. It's disingenuous, especially when outlets biased to the same degree but in the other direction are de facto approved on Wikipedia, reddit, stackexchange, Twitter, etc.

You notice the growing hyperpolarization in this country? This is one of the main contributors. The left has monopolized public discourse and implicitly and increasingly colludes to keep right leaning sources discredited and silenced. YouTube's removal of the video in the OP is one of many examples which consistently align with the sort of progressive policies that are now sweeping the corporate sphere - and rural Americans are losing their voice, while being slandered as ignorant bigots. Go to the talk page for any remotely political article and you'll see a minority of right leaning editors consistently bullied and their sources outright disregarded. That's on top of the chilling effect which this consistent behavior has on the expression of what have become politically taboo opinions. It's an unspoken, incestuous club, and denying this pervasive bias is gaslighting.