skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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America = Capitalism + Elections;

China = Capitalism - Elections;

India = Feudalism + Elections;
I can subscribe to that.
We had a “halon” discharge in a data centre a few years ago. The pressure wave knocked out a whole rack of disks.
Gmail’s proxy only requests and caches the image when the user does. It does not hide anything other than the user’s IP address.
OK but this is assuming it isn’t a highly modified virulent strain of smallpox.

Which would be my main concern, because god knows what happened to Russia’s stockpile of weaponized smallpox after the fall of the USSR. It wouldn’t surprise me if some of that is still floating around somewhere in a freezer…
%20 is not HTML encoded, it is URL encoded. If it were HTML encoded, it would have been &#32; or &#x20;.
1/4 chance if you keep your original door, 3/4 chance if you switch (assuming the host opens two doors to show goats). If the host opened one door (so you have your original door and two other doors to pick from) then it's a 3/8 chance if you switch, if that's what you're asking.
I've been using Go for years, of course I know about copy.

Someone did a writeup on this which is a perfect illustration of a general theme with Go: on the surface it looks fine, but the closer you look, the stranger things get:

https://github.com/go101/go101/wiki/There-is-not-a-perfect-w...
The topic at hand was about the comparison between C and Rust in terms of memory model. Ownership policies are one restriction safe Rust uses to ensure that the user is adhering to its memory model, but Rust is not limited to safe Rust and you can op-out ownership policies if you use raw pointers.

The difference between Rust and C in terms of memory model isn't ownership, it's “mutable xor shared”.
I consider the downloaded FLAC files as equivalent to ownership of a physical item. There's only so much shelf-space available...
Well as long as they don’t break the law they’ll be fine. That’s a much stronger signal when it comes to predicting who will face criminal charges.
“Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason” --Mark Twain (b. 1835)
Outlook killed NNTP 20 years ago by virtue of not supporting it (every other mail client at the time did).

it also suffered as a discussion medium because of the decentralized unauthenticated measure, for sure - I don’t think the global hierarchy would have done much better than it did.

But two companies I was consulting for around 2000 had very effective NNTP internal servers, and both switched them off around the same time because Outlook didn’t support them (Outlook Express did, but that’s not helpful)

One just went the “reply all” route. One used a mailing list (majordomo, iirc). Neither worked remotely as well as NNTP did.
The current one
especially when there are too many such rule lists often contridicting with each other. Finding the right list becomes the key for someone (beginner to a domain) who has to follow the rules. That's just luck.
It's not bad at all. Post 9/11 I had it done as a part of a trial on diluting the vaccine (result: you could).

At the time it was just a shading tattoo needle.

5 points, 3 jabs. It was nothing.
Intel have deep pockets so why not get on board early. Some big players are getting into RISC-V so why wait and play catch-up when you can get a foot in early. I don't think it matters to Intel is RISC-V overtakes x86 so long as they're still making money.
OpenStreetMap is community maintained so will tend to change and improve with contribution of time:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Historical_Map/OHM_...
Some MFT's have plenty of physical controls (buttons/knobs). See Olympus OM-D line of cameras.
I'm not sure. Reducing necessity for trust is a worthwhile goal.

It's wonderful to not have to trust too much. Instead to rely on evidence and have a contingency if things go horribly south.
Technically, I suppose, it was Archilochus: "The fox knows many things; the hedgehog one great thing."

Tetlock seems to have a slightly different interpretation to Berlin - (paraphrased from [1]) "hedgehogs have one grand theory; foxes are skeptical about grand theories".

[1] https://longnow.org/seminars/02007/jan/26/why-foxes-are-bett...
This doesn't really matter from the point view of the victims of the bite. It should be normalised by number of man-hours worked.
Compiling rust.
> Hacker News is not readable for me. Text is too small, the button for folding the comment tree is impossible to hit on mobile. I'm reading this website with 150% zoom and the browser window that is 50% the width of my screen.

What is your monitor size, resolution and view distance and do you use any display scaling?

> Nevermind 16 or 12, fixed size is to be avoided, from 2010: https://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/font-size

I agree that using user preferences is a good idea - however then the body text should be always 100% of the user set font size, never > 100%.

The second best option is to have all sites use a consistent fixed size, and that will necessarily have to be the same as the default browser font size and the common font size of older websites - it can't change just because the average pixel has gotten smaller. Then you can get your desired font size setting a default zoom option.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27462952
>a notorious source of vaccine misinformation

Are you suggesting their information isn't the same as the CDC? Have any proof of it?

>But VAERS (the "Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System") is from the CDC, right? Great! Except that it's an open database -- anyone can submit a report and there is no verification.

Again, do you have any proof that there is a conspiracy to fill the VAERS database with fake data about covid vaccines? Or is this all just a theory of yours?

There's no evidence that what you are saying is true. There is a hospital bill that has to be paid, due to a covid vaccination in my family. That's hard evidence for me that covid vaccines are not safe.
> So far nothing we have bought based on Instagram or Facebook ads has been useful in the long run.

Why do you buy things you don't need just because you see an ad?
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Both of those are rational responses to the modern work culture.

The two extremes are:
1. Working as hard as possible to get a promotion over the next person working as hard as possible.
2. Doing the bare minimum to not get fired.

Anything in between is, logically, irrational, because you're doing more work than necessary.

Luckily, companies have found the levers for most humans and tend to get them working in between the two extremes.
How about..a salary based on the resources you need/want to survive...so that those who work less (indirectly contributing more to society by sharing their job, childcare, volunteering or just being mentally healthy enough to think of the"next big thing" and directly by ecologically diminishing consumption) get paid more ...? Tax the higher earners and subsidise the "work less" ...then suddenly wages and automation go up as businesses have to compete for a diminishing work pool...
> Today, a few people are learning more about silo safety. What’s impressive about that?

What’s not impressive?
This article is about as scientific as anything you would see on Fox news. So all of those millions of petrol/diesel cars are all going to disappear overnight are they?
It's been several years now that electric vehicles are mainstream and I still don't see any charging poles where I live.

I'm not even talking about how the electricity that goes in the cars is often far from clean, and how insane ecologically damaging it is to replace a perfectly working car with a new one. And what about the environmental impact of batteries... And so on.
Let's ban the internet
Well then Germany, you know what to do: Ban all AWS data centers!
For a syntax in a spreadsheet you would want something that is short and familiar but you can certainly toy with idea.

I remember when the geeky engineers had their calculators in reverse Polish notation:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Polish_notation
Yes, but that is almost a quarter of a millennium ago.
Users are bad at it because English is ordered left to right. The path also is. The domain is right to left. It was designed by morons.
It's not really important, but the "Grothendieck prime" is 57 according to Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/57_(number)#In_mathematics
> I know it's just being used to correlate purchases and track me, but I don't view it as creepy at all.

The creepy part is when people do things without telling you. That stores keep a record of your purchases when you swipe the card is probably not creepy. I'd assume most people assume that's what happens.

But if they then share the information they collected on you with others, without asking for your explicit permission, that's where it's starting to get creepy.

I'm not sure Chrome users are aware that their browser tracks every website they visit, create a profile on you, and then share that profile (in a supposedly privacy preserving way) with others.
https://archive.md/3U7Ot
Morocco is pretty cheap too, and is very close to europe. Tons of (even poor) French pensioners move there to retire and get a lot more for their money. Now if you are well off by western standards you can have an absolutely amazing quality of life, beyond what you can realistically achieve in a lot of western countries. The country is amazing and has lots to offer as long as you know how to, let's say... get around and not be overly naive.
And members of Congress trading on insider news (before bailout packages etc) get away with it?
Reminds me of one of the most popular radio personalities where I live. Let's just say that he's got a strong personality with some rough edges, but he's very entertaining on air. I've gravitated to whatever channel he's currently on after being fired from the last one for his behaviour or comments.

But think about it: They hired him specifically for his personality, because he's a cash cow, and then... what? Fired him for it? Did they not listen to his wildly popular show on the previous channel he was on? Did they not know what they were getting themselves into? Did they somehow miss the fact that he was available for hire only because his previous channel fired him?

Who is to blame here? The idiot that got a big cat as a pet, or the cat for being a wild animal?

PS: Jeremy Clarkson being fired from Top Gear is a similar situation. He's a fantastically entertaining TV personality precisely because of his personality.

I strongly believe that people like Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, and Linus Torvalds are necessary. You can't convince everyone to play along nicely with kind words alone. Sometimes you have to knock some heads together, and the type of people that do that, well... they're the type that will happily knock heads. It's a package deal.
Depends did Papa go to ENA with the right people.

Why do you think that serious white collar crime shouldn't involve jail time.
Do you dispute the central claim, that petrol stations will struggle over the next 20 years as electric car use rises?
I couldn't get <my.name>@gmail but was able to get the.<my.name>. That works pretty well when it's a place where you've already given your name.
Precision: if you're using Stripe checkout only. On a custom integration you do need to get the customer VAT ID and add it to your Stripe customer
How to average floating point numbers (2015)
> That's exactly right, and was my thesis; rust's type system does not allow you to prove the correctness of such a function, because it is neither correct nor incorrect without context. 'Unsafe', as a subversion of the type system which allows unsound behavior, is completely uninteresting wrt the topic at hand;

For the record, the “topic at hand” was the memory model not the type-system, nor the theorem proving capabilities of the borrow checker.

Your arguments are not wrong per se, but they are completely missing the topic.
> "The more specific and contingent the advice - the more someone says ‘it depends’ or ‘YourSQL works well in a read-heavy context with the following constraints’ the more likely they are to be leading you in the right direction. At least that’s what I have found"

This pretty much summarizes it.
The Safety of Nuclear's Future
I did my PhD in the Eöt-Wash group [0] at the University of Washington, where many of the "world's best" torsion balance experiments have be done: tests of the equivalence principle, measurement of gravity at short distances, measurement of the gravitational constant, and others. The 3 professors in the group won the Breakthrough Prize in Physics last year.

When this article came out a few months ago I was surprised it got so much press. If I'd had any idea it would get so much attention (and merit a paper in Nature) I would have pushed for us to do it :) The authors did a great job doing the experiment and addressing the possible systematics--doing torsion balance experiments the right way is difficult--but there doesn't seem to be anything too new here.

[0] https://www.npl.washington.edu/eotwash/

[1] https://www.washington.edu/news/2020/09/10/four-uw-professor...
Write a script.

1. stop service
2. copy files
3. start service
I don't need to cheat yet it makes me nervous? I call bullshit. If you don't need to bullshit, you'll feel fine.
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But String is heap allocated, right?

Can you just declare a static array and return a pointer pointing to any part of it? Like in the C example?

BUF is also visible to other parts of the program, correct? If so, it's not quite similar to the C example.
Sometimes the problem is the notation itself(divided by symbol/fraction doesn't have any meaning to kids yet, and there are at least 4 different ways you can write divided by or fraction of). It might be easier to start off by writing "1 of 8 pieces" and then teach the shorthand 1/8 and then show the connection to division. Basically it's like learning APL for the first time

Edit: typo
What happens if the host reveals the prize? Is the game repeated? I'm saying as long as he doesn't accidentally open the prize door, it doesn't matter. If you insta-loose in that case, we're talking a different game.
The reason we have to go to the trouble of making cryptocurrencies is that busybodies like this guy are endlessly trying to reduce our freedom. They're not trying to look out for people; they're trying to protect their ability to print money and steal. In crypto parlance, they want to remain the VIPs that have centralized special privileged access to create tokens, and force usage thereof. But now we have the technology to enforce currency issuance by immutable programs. That's a better way, because programs are very strong exactly where humans are very weak.
I suspect the area is being actively edited, and generating the map tiles for all scales takes a while.
They do that in the environment that the masks are designed for.
Some of them use state of the art obfuscation to make this a PIA, others are not that good[0]

The one I've taken a look at(forgot it's name) was using VMProtect and had a competently written VM detection routine.
It wasn't my exam so I recommended that they use a kvm switch instead of fumbling around with vm hiding tools.

[0]: https://secret.club/2019/05/16/exam-surveillance2.html
Do you have any examples of such 'reasonable views' that are ignored?

Because I don't. I do see a lot of reasonable objections making headlines or having a large impact. E.g. side effects halting entire campaigns for weeks, or large articles highlighting the dowsides of various vaccines, debates on particle sizes and fluid dynamics on national TV and so on.
Partly. Its mountains form a natural border and it is rich partly because it is treated as a haven for stability.
The article is using "program" more in the sense of a package -something that might contain multiple executables - rather than a single executable.

Mentioned a little after that sentence:

These privileged components generally take two forms:
- Installed services
- Scheduled tasks

So another way to put the article text might be:

When an application is installed on a Windows system, multiple executables may be installed. Some of these executables may be configured to run as part of a system service (akin to a *nix daemon) or scheduled task (similar to a cron job). Both system services and scheduled tasks may run with privileges separate from those of the currently logged on user.

Essentially, Windows services are equivalent to *nix daemons. Just like certain *nix daemons, Windows services are used to carry out more "system oriented" tasks (such as installing software updates), and can't necessarily run correctly with (possibly restricted) privileges of the currently logged in user. Furthermore, they may need to run regardless of whether a user is even logged in.

Scheduled tasks are similar to services in many aspects - they may require a static set of privileges, and may need to be run even when there is no currently logged in user. They just have the added requirement that they should be run at certain times or when certain events occur.
Thanks for this post.

As this is worth to be better known, I submitted it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27470323
If the app knows its own download address, it can just periodically check for a new version, download it, and prompt the user to install it. I have multiple apps installed that use this update mechanism, there's nothing unreliable about it.

Yes, there are warnings, but what is the alternative? You download an app once, it installs without warning and keeps updating in the background? That'd make it way too easy for malware authors.
Everything old is new again.

This is nothing revolutionary: The Hollywood Stock Exchange was a similar project
For more on the possible measurement of quantum entanglement in gravity see:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037026931...

If the BMV effect is observed it would falsify Penrose's conjecture that something unusual and nonlinear happens around the Planck mass (conversely the experiment could also begin to probe and measure that regime and find Penrose was on to something).
It's a never ending struggle to get people to create this ordered priority. I always tell my developers to say

"if you do not give this an ordered priority, I will resolve items as I see fit. Should we need to stop for one reason or another, there is no guarantee of which have been resolved".

Often times that is okay. I also tell them to always take the ones they're most uncertain about first. Better to front load hard problems and uncertainties.
Erdós is described in Hoffman's biography ('The Man who Loved only Numbers') - I can't recall, nor immediately find by whom - as only being able to count up three numbers: '1, 2, n'.
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There's a lot of evidence that masks protect against bacteria, but the jury's still out for viruses. Also, you are correct that people should be strategic, but a lot of people aren't, and they are not changing their masks regularly as they should be.
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were pushed into the job (or to teach lower grade) because they aren't as good at math?!

That's not at all what I said. No one pushes them into teaching. It gets framed as "Well, if you can't hack the math, you have an easy out. You can just go teach children. That doesn't require a strong math background."

Men get discouraged from teaching small children and get stigmatized as "possibly a child molester." Women get the message, implicitly or explicitly, that caring for and teaching young kids is what we are best suited for.

It is generally true that women fairly often get told, explicitly or implicitly, that they don't need to really have career ambition because it's really a man's responsibility to provide for the family. The teaching profession is known to be family friendly and is often considered an ideal choice for a young woman who wants a career and a family.

Women are given an "easier" answer for their life than making it on their own. They can marry well (and never mind that this leaves a lot of women out in the cold these days). In contrast, men are generally told they need to be good earners to have any hope of marriage.

I don't have any sources at my fingertips and a lot of this is common knowledge, so I don't think I need to back it up. I became aware of this as a trend at universities when I was involved with The TAG Project* years ago and regularly spoke with people in the education field or who had gone to college and women got very different messaging from counselors and staff if they were struggling with certain subjects than men typically got.

We still have a huge gender disparity in who teaches what grade levels and in how comfortable most women are with STEM subjects, so I don't have any reason to believe any of this has fundamentally changed. Judging by the stats for how many men you find in early childhood education versus women, it's clear that society as a whole still shuttles women in that direction by some mechanism and men in another direction.

* http://www.tagfam.org/
Annoys me too that a lot of tech companies are reporting in local timezones North American timezones.

Whilst in hotel quarantine I hacked a webapp together to show timezones around the world.

I did it glance at my remote colleagues local time.

https://localtime.app/
There actually is a frankfort in PDT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfort,_Washington . Don't think amazon has a datacenter there though.
Given the context, I assume it was a post nuclear attack contingency communications system. We don't have much of this type of thing anymore.
This is amazing! was looking for this exact solution :D
I think that the domain name the easiest to say is abc.xyz which is owned by Google: https://abc.xyz/

@abc.xyz is arguably even easier to communicate than @gmail.com or @yahoo.com because it's possible some people may have never heard of such and such popular mail host, but at least they know the alphabet :-)
I'm personally very sympathetic to China, and have a great deal of time for revisionism towards the world order, and like xtian, I take a pretty dim view on the way Xinjiang has been weaponized by western media in order to provide an ethical fig leaf for an essentially cynical western antagonism towards china.

However, at the same time, it could not be more blatant that the Ughyurs face persecution. However sympathetic one is towards China, nobody should forget that it is an authoritarian state, with few political or civil rights, and sometimes that can have serious consequences for groups targeted by the state.

China has historically had a great record in regards to minorities - far better than many countries in the west - but it's obvious that a combination of the war on terror and a rising form of Han nationalism has caused a drastic change in policy, first starting with fairly ordinary persecution (veil bans, etc) then escalating to acts that would be basically illegal in non-authoritarian states.

Denying this neither helps China nor anybody else. It is possible to find western behaviour cynical, and to have serious concerns about the path China is walking.
The transition away from horse and cart did not occur because governments decided it so but because the alternative was better. The push from ICE to BEVs is driven by regulation and not natural customer demand.
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I'm generally pro lockdown, but your argument there is the literal think of the children argument. It's bad enough to make me want to flip on that position.
I find surprising that Brazil, Urugay accepts US-based infrastructure between their countries. It is surrendering their data sovereignty.
In iOS15, Find My network can still find iPhones when powered off or reset