skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Executive Outcomes returned this last year, IIRC. They pulled off some extremely crazy thing in Indonesia a long time ago, and still have access to top talent.
M1racles: An Apple M1 covert channel vulnerability
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I recently discovered this and it has me totally stoked. It just works, and the author even provides a hosted API for it, zero strings. Definitely deserves more attention.
One reason is that comments get stale. People need to maintain them but probably won't. Second reason is that they think the code should be self-documenting. If it's not then you just need better names and code structure. Many books like clean code advocate this approach, and that's where I first learned the idea of don't write comments as well.

Personally now I've held both sides of the argument at different times. I think in the end it's a trade-off. There's no hard and fast rule, you need to use your best judgement about what's going to be easiest for the reader and also for the people maintaining the code. Usually I just try to strike a balance that I think my coworkers won't complain about. The other thing I've realized that makes this tricky is that people will almost always overestimate their (or others) commitment to maintaining comments, and/or overestimate how "self-documenting" their code is.
Pompeo's effort to prove lab theory shut down by Biden over quality of evidence
If I'm reading this correctly, this paper is defining excess deaths as the number of people who died in the US who wouldn't have were those people living in Europe instead of the US at that point in time? Which points to structural issues in the US system, but not to some event in 2017 that resulted in extra deaths vs. any surrounding years (just that the death rate in the US has dropped much slower than in Europe over the study timeline 2000-2017).

The US death rate didn't appreciably increase (~3 per 100k) in 2017 vs. 2016[1] and has generally been improving. That's about 10k extra deaths, not 400k, like the paper says (because the paper's usage of that term is very different than The Economist's!)

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data-visualization/mortality-trends...
There's a horrifying subtext here, which is that if people who would have died next year died this year instead, that's... "OK", and it means that their early death doesn't count?
I personally can't wait to melt the insulation off some cheap cables. This is going to be fun!
Does the base really have anything to do with 5? I can represent 5 in base 10 as 5, or I can represent it in base 2 as 101, but both encode the same information.

Using different bases, to me, is just about storing information. How many symbols do you want to create before you increase the length of your number and start re-using them.
You may like SPY27 if cobalt is what you seek. (=> new steel which just dropped <small_value> weeks ago.)

/Acey
> Are there any services like that?

Yes, lots of them. JLPCB even has a promo right now where they do SMT assembly for free.

https://support.jlcpcb.com/article/146-2-for-1-4-layer-pcbs
I don't think so. Gumroad has a product delivery platform, where stripe only handles payment. I recently evaluated stripe vs gumroad for a product, and went with gumroad because they make getting the digital product to your customer VERY easy, while stripe leaves it all up to you
On multiplication, it's better to not think of multiplication as being repeated additions, but instead to think of it in terms of areas. Taking that approach, it becomes easier to consider, e.g., (x² + 2x - 1)×(3x² -4x + c) since we can write the terms along the sides of a rectangle and divide the rectangle into the products of the terms.

One of the things I did in my math for liberal arts majors class I used to teach was also to do a fictionalized version of the expansion of the concept of numbers from *N* to the whole numbers to integers to rationals to algebraic numbers to reals to complex numbers. I say fictionalized because whole numbers and negative integers historically come after (positive) rationals, algebraic numbers and transcendental reals, but for pedagogical purposes, its easier to go in order of increasing supersets.
I love the content, but I hate when pages hijack my back button by placing page headings in my history as I scroll.
Reason is Kaczynski was actually a genius intellectual that went mad. His observations in many ways are completely accurate. His solutions are naive, as he thinks these things could have been corrected. They must take their course unfortunately.
My magazine is not going to disappear like so much content has.
Even when microchip bought atmel there are still google links to atmel stuff that is no longer there... or is there but at a different address.
In TNG most humans act like a different species altogether: almost angel-like beings who don't experience the broad range of negetive human emotions. I see no evidence that we are evolving in that direction in real life.
I would not be surprised at all if "Thousands of Chrome extensions are tampering with page content" comes next...

The use of the verb "tamper" instead of "modify" further reinforces the authoritarian spin.
What’s ironic is that on lite.cnn.com the next story is “New US intelligence has fueled calls for more studies to determine the origin of Covid-19 -- and to guard against future pandemics”

https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_53918021dfe913048a71b6a917...
Halide might consider writing up these tricks in a blog post. I'm sure a lot of your users would benefit from it while we wait for Apple.
> I don't like reading thick O'Reilly books when I start learning new programming languages. Rather, I like starting by writing small and dirty code.

Virtually every O'Reilly book starts out with small (and sometimes dirty) code examples.
My understanding is that Ho Chi Minh was agitating for French socialists to join Lenin's 3rd International in the 1910s. I don't think he was a Soviet "agent" in any way, and had his own beliefs, aligning with Bolsheviks, certainly. However, you can definitely argue Vietnam was a client state of USSR.
So, be like the guy that applied some shitty style-transfer algorithm to the Tuol Sleng concentration camp photos, which made some of the victims start smiling?
Plus, it is only short term thinking, to not write it as 000001987, for example.

And what sort of long term thinking, wants all that extra electricity used to denote pre-zeros endlessly, thus increasing data transmission, disk space usage, and even calories to type it. I bet current excess power usage, is equal to at least a bucket full of coal yearly, and that adds up when thinking over 10k years or more.
Nothing like making full use of the first time then.
Plain concrete is simply not allowed by code for many applications. So even if you could theoretically justify the design, you couldn’t get the permit to build it.

Physics, economics, and bureaucratics is a good summary of structural engineering. The last one can’t be ignored.
Now this is usually in my opinion not a good advice (it is like reintroduction of global variables) as unnecessary state certainly makes things more difficult to reason about.

I have read the book (not very recently) and I do not recall this but perhaps I am just immune to such advice.

I like his book about refactoring more than Clean Code but it introduced me to some good principles like SOLID (a good mnemonic), so I found it somewhat useful.
Funny story, i used to ask my interviewers for advice. CEOs told me to generalize and learn a bit of everything. Senior engineers told me to specialize.

It really depends on what kind of roles you want next.
Art doesn't have any natural utility. No one is spending millions on a Picasso because they get millions of dollars of value out of looking at it.

Expensive art is just as much a vanity plate as NFTs are.
I don’t think we’re in the minority. The HN crowd that is pro WFH has been extremely vocal since even before the pandemic.

For what it’s worth I was remote starting a couple years before the pandemic. I can’t wait to go back in at least a couple days a week. I can’t wait to spend time with my coworkers in some capacity.

Heck, most of the newly remote have only been doing so for twelve months; wait until your life has been one context for 3 years. It becomes quite brutal.
I agree with your theory and personally I feel that social media is a major contributor. When I was a teenager, the only place people were getting information about world politics and the economy was from the news, which I rarely watched or read, so I didn't worry about that stuff. The world has always had problems, but now we have social media feeding the news of all the world's ills to us in an easily digestible format 24/7, not even mentioning all of the other issues which come along with social media. Platforms like Twitter and Reddit have some pockets where great discussions are taking place, but I feel like 90%+ of it is just way too toxic and a waste of time to read or engage with.
They usually step forward, and not a true split step. The thing is, if you watch slow motion of penalty kicks (and I remember there was some kind of study) goalkeepers actually have to start moving before the player kicks the ball or it is pretty much impossible to reach most balls (except the ones to the center). You can see they move forward with one leg (sometimes by more than one meter) with the decision of which side already taken.
First, I made friends with most people I worked with. I still see them years after I left the company.

So who do I not see, the ones who insisted I must follow their favourite sport teams, the ones who got so drunk on the weekend they could not remember what they did but thought I should have been with them. The one (thank goodness it was only one) who keep eyeing the high school girls while we were in our 30s and 40S. And last the ones who always had to go out for a smoke, I don't want to imagine what their places were like.

You can like some people, but some people you just do not want to be around when you are not being paid to work with them.
you say this as if the covid exists
I'm actually more interested in how you started hackaday and the story behind it. Early years up to now. Cheers!
Opinion: Caste bigotry is real. And it's rampant in the Bay Area
Very curious if this comment thread can accumulate other examples. I’d be spitting mad if it were an app that I wanted to use and I now had to claw back a fee for.
“Suddenly”? This has been an obvious trend for many years. Anyone paying even cursory attention to the cost curve of renewable energy could see this was coming.
"and the folks back home lost interest in a miasma of populism"

Or, maybe they didn't like their children being draft into the army and coming back crippled?
I think that there’s a general understanding that cameras don’t match 100% what the eye sees. That’s different from a white golden gate.
And all the other software is bordering on spyware.
Real evidence of Aliens will come from a space not UFOs in our sky
> That said, Earth's biosphere is a unique system that has endured terrible degradation in the past; the fact that so-called "rational animals" would cause it,

It's only on the brink of extinction that humanity will better itself. A trauma of WWII levels may have to happen before we really change our societies. I wish it wasn't the case, but our lifestyle is just not sustainable as of now.
> 'Fight to Win Only' and 'A long grinding war will turn your population against you' are straight out of the Art of War.

That applies to the other side too. The real art of war is returning the martial to the civil. Limiting the violence, not creating it. Which one is going to put the world at ease:

Marxist, jihadi, drug cartel tyranny
Amoral, zero sum, win at all cost, identity liberalism

or

Self-evidence and inalienable rights

?

They have to stand for something. The USA does not. See the world as it is. What's the minimum needed to call ourselves a government?
> In order to get our message before the public with some chance of making a lasting impression, we’ve had to kill people.

Not all cranks are in this category, but there are a few.
Anyone looking for context of what it was like as a soldier fighting for the north in the Vietnam war, I highly recommend The Sorrow of War[0].

I read it in college in a Vietnam and the US History class and it was blown away.

This book, along with The Things They Carried[1] are worthwhile reads.

[0] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sorrow_of_War

[1] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Things_They_Carried
既存の事実に基づくと、これは明らかな陰謀です。
Ho Chi Minh was trained at Lenin's "Comintern" with the expressive goal of training foreign assets to spread Soviet communist interests. These assets would be funded and supplied by the soviets to agitate revolution in their countries. This essentially is an agent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Ringbearer
4/6

For every case, I picked the one I feel subjectively the best. Interestingly, I still prefer the 128k version from the "Tom’s Diner" example, even after knowing the "correct answer". This is amusing because according to the descriptions, this song was chosen as the "benchmark" for the algorithm, which could have resulted in some overfitting ;)
The problem is abstraction isn't free. Sometimes it frees up your brain from unnecessary details and sometimes the implementation matters or the abstraction leaks.

Even something as simple as Substring which is a method we use all the time and is far more clear than most helper functions I've seen in code bases.

Is it Substring(string, index, length) or Substring(string, indexStart, indexEnd)

What happens when you pass in "abc".Substring(0,4) do you get an exception or "abc"?

What does Substring(0,-1) do? or Substring (-2,-3).

What happens when you call it on null? Sometimes this matters, sometimes it doesn't.
It excludes people who have very good reasons to not be around alcohol, and not people who just don't like it.
Personal experience which is at the very opposite point of the spectrum from yours.

I have had the pleasurable working in a team where bonding is simply working toward a common goal. This was an extremely cohesive team. Our main motivation of working long hour was to push the company to a more beneficial position so that we are also benefited from it.

The reward is the good result of the work itself and going home/out knowing that it will benefit us in the future.

The experience was almost like playing a co-op game rather than doing typical office work.

Happy hours and additional recreational activity were a way to regulate stress rather than a main reward.

Of course this is pretty unique, and is a rare thing to happen, especially in big companies where profit and work rather detached.
Lately I’ve found decoupling to be helpful in this regard.

This is an auth layer, it’s primary charge is ensure those receiving and modifying resources have the permissions to do so.

This is the data storage layer. It’s focused on clean, relatively generic data storage abstractions and models that are relatively unopinionated, and flexible.

This is the contract layer. It’s more concerned with combining the apis of the data and auth than it is with data transformation or business logic.

This is the business logic layer. It takes relatively abstract data from our API and performs transformations to massage it into shapes that fit the needs of our customers and the mental models we’ve created around those requirements.

Etc. Etc.

Of course this pragmatic decoupling is easier said than done, but the logical grouping of like concerns allows for discoverability, flexibility, and a generally clear demarcation of concerns.
I expect the endgame here is the whole planet is a managed park. We'll still keep Yellowstone and Serengeti looking as is, but there won't be any true wilderness.

There is nothing unsustainable about this, but I agree that it is quite dull.
I'm new to Julia. I had heard of PackageCompiler, but assumed that was only for creating redistributable binaries for others. I also assumed `]precompile` was the best I could do to speed up libraries.

My suggestions: 1- please forget about the intro videos. Those are impossible to keep up-to-date, and are not a good reference resource. Sure, a future video should explain PackageCompiler, but that is not sufficient. 2- please update docs.julialang.org with all such guidelines. This is the likely the first place people look, so if there are important guidelines that everyone could benefit from, this is where they belong.
That's not how anyone who matters thinks of "winning". For the people pushing these wars, who I could name very specifically, "victory" happened when they made a boatload of money, and that's it.
War movies produced in Israel are also a distinctly different experience from American ones.

They tend to be made by veterans of those wars, after the ~20 year gap that seems pretty standard for the PTSD barrier to crack. e.g. the best ones made about the Lebanon War (what Israel calls its intervention 1982-2000 in the Lebanese Civil War) all came out within a couple of years of each other:

* Lebanon (2009)

* Waltz with Bashir (2008)

* Beaufort (2007)

And the first of the good Yom Kippur War (1973) films is probably Kippur (2000), with the long-development-time miniseries Valley of Tears (Sha'at Ne'ila) only coming out last year.

Not quite enough time has passed for films about the heaviest fighting of the 2nd Intifada to be made - the closest thing I can think of is the TV show Fauda (2015-present) but that's a somewhat different genre.
This is really neat! As someone mentioned: a more standardized format of ISO 8601 would be a great and welcome change. I'm not entirely sure whether the current code would support that, but being able to craft a timeline based not only in years, but months, weeks, and perhaps even days and a single day, would also be possible if ISO 8601 was supported.

I'm thinking this would be a really simple way to display tasks and people involved in an incident or outage that itself involves many teams, but that would require that higher level of granularity.
Poets in Myanmar Are Killed After the Coup
Vim has weapons-grade go to definition today using language server protocol, so multiple files is a non-issue for users running LSP.
When Do Programmers Retire? Is 35 the End?
It isn't a complete model, but it's the best one we've got and the most universally agreed upon.
Pretty obvious that if you have a very low variable cost to produce a product (electricity), then you can bid the lowest price to the market (so long as the fixed costs are reasonably similar in the long run).
Any luck building from source? I just gave it a shot, but I stumbled on the same issues you mentioned (webkit, gtk, qt).
I only see one other battle scene (NVA soldiers dash) aside from the Plain of Reeds photo.
If you want to study rowhammer, apply to the vrije universiteit amsterdam and follow their hardware security course. It’s a lot of fun!

They are the authors behind trrespass and smash. In their classes, when I followed them, we went into their research extensively.
Google is officially releasing its Fuchsia OS, starting with first-gen Nest Hub
Freenode now forcibly removing channel ownership from users after policy change
Plot twist: it's all just bots arguing with each other
If you went with a hotel service, you could’ve made a Hotel California reference ;)
Outside of a small list of security extensions numbering a dozen or fewer, you can't really trust much of anything in the extension webstore.
> Code doesn't tell stories, programmers do

It is like saying the books do not tell stories, writers do.
We enjoy gardening
Most of the development team of polkadot is the team that made eth.
U.S. moves to double Canadian lumber tariffs
Remember the news about Audacity getting 'acquired' by Muse group [1]? Many commenters raised question about what acquisition means for a fully free project [2]. Speculating, since we don't have the full information yet, but I think we have the answer. This may be a glimpse of the future, where long running successful community FOSS projects get 'acquired' with commercial ambitions.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27004688
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27021609
Parties with my coworkers are often far enough from the office that we all have to drive anyway. That doesn't work for these impromptu things, but it does work for things you know a priori.

When you say reward people for working hard on something, you don't mean the same night, do you? That sounds like possibly fun for extroverts and no fun at all for everyone else.
How is that different from reality?

You might buy a piece of artwork from famous artist X, but society and the market decide that art by Y is also valuable.

You might buy a painting because we all agree that paintings are valuable. But what's to stop framed original poetry, or sculptures, or photographs, becoming more valued and supplanting paintings as the preferred form of desirable art.
In California at least, the reality is it's still a luxury for the rich, i.e. landowners, property owners.

I currently rent an apartment and a car and neither are clean energy, as much as I'd like them to be. No amount of protest will get my landlord to install solar panels on the roof, considering they won't even fix a smoke detector for 3 weeks; asking property management for an EV charging solution results in no response; EVs also haven't come out with a subscription or cost-effective long term rental model yet.
Just happened to #zig as well: https://twitter.com/andy_kelley/status/1397388932367601665
How do you prove either way without a thorough investigation of the lab by relatively trustworthy parties?
This is really intriguing. Do you have any examples of what people came up with?
That sucks. If I wanted to bond with you - what could we do aside from food and drinks?

Would you go bowling with me? Could we play cricket in a nearby field? Can we sing karaoke? Would it be better or worse if our coworkers were drunk while singing?
"Scientists, and the process of science generally, who can only prove things wrong and can never be entirely sure if they are right, have produced a study revealing new details on what happened during the first microsecond of the Big Bang."

Imagine if people followed your request. How many times would you read that disclaimer before you got sick of it?
I think many commentators, including yourself, have an erroneous assumption about structural design which is roughly summarized as: the inputs are known with certainty. This is really not the case especially when considering natural hazards like wind and earthquake. What happens to your 500 year lifespan design when we discover new information about earthquakes at the site. This is happening regularly with every building code update. Our design loads change To reflect the latest research on things like seismicity. When you factor in this consideration, it may actually make a lot of sense to only design for shorter lifespans.
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I wish I could have two links: From a well-known publication of exiles, The Irrawaddy:

Myanmar’s Long History of Revolutionary Poets

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmars-long-history-o...
Did you have much banter in meetings, or were the organizers all business? Some places make it very hard to bond during work hours.
Great! I hope we do make big investments in renewable sources of electricity. But this article glosses over two biggish issues:

- we can’t rely on intermittent power source without grid scale batteries (which we don’t cheaply have)

- fossil fuel land use is exaggerated since it is double counted (e.g. you might drill for oil on a farmed field) and since it can be cheap, remote land. Solar land use is usually single purpose and near the users (so typically more expensive/useful land).